The hardest working man in the world is a snowplow, right?

Even in the cold winter, despite the cold weather, they can't help but praise them when they get up early in the morning to remove the thick snow accumulated on the road and keep the road clear.

Takuhisa did praise them in his heart, thanks to them, the bus was not late, and he and Nana Hashimoto did not succeed in getting on the bus to the city.

It was Takuhisa who pulled Nanami Hashimoto to the station at a speed beyond usual to wait, and it was he who pulled Nanami Hashimoto to get on the bus, and sat down in two side-by-side positions near the back door of the bus, even when he got to the bus, Takuhisa didn't care about it, and still held her hand.

Even if Nana Hashimoto didn't try to break free, she ended up failing and had no choice but to accept it.

Luckily, there won't be any of her classmates on the bus.

"Can you let me go?" she also tried to verbally ask Takuhisa to let go, but unfortunately Takuhisa didn't listen, she couldn't break free, so she could only follow and get into the car. All her eyes were on the orange cat, chubby, meowing.

The mourning is too classic to forget.

"Hashimoto, why don't you accept help?"

As the bus was moving slowly, Takuhisa suddenly asked.

"What does help mean?" Nana Hashimoto didn't react for a moment.

"When the funeral was held, my father's brother also told you, right? He told me that you refused, why?"

"There is no why. Mentioning this topic, Nanami Hashimoto's tone couldn't help but be cold, "Although my family is very poor and I have to live frugally, our dignity is still there, and we will not accept charity and mercy." ”

She is a very dignified girl, soft on the outside and rigid on the inside.

"Hashimoto, you... I really don't know if you are stupid or have a character?" Takuhisa couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he heard her answer, and shook his head directly, "Do you really think it's pity?"

"...," Nana Hashimoto bit her lip, "yes or no, I'll live on my own strength instead of relying on the help of others." ”

"Senseless self-esteem. Takuhisa let go of her hand, "Your dream is to go to Tokyo, right?"

"Hmm. Nanami Hashimoto rubbed her wrists, a little sour after being caught for so long.

"Have you calculated how you are going to live in Tokyo, and how you are going to live on your mother?"

"Isn't there a scholarship? There will always be a way to do it. ”

"Yes, entrusted with the scholarship, I believe in your strength, so how will you repay this scholarship in the future? Then, how should you live in Tokyo?

At Neon, a scholarship is not an award, it is more like a loan, which needs to be repaid.

Unable to speak, Nanami Hashimoto didn't think about it at all.

"Because you're only a freshman in high school, you feel that you're still far away from yourself, so you don't think about this?" Takuhisa smiled sarcastically, "For your own senseless dignity?"

Syllable!

How many times has this been?

was slapped without any defense, probably because Nanami Hashimoto was really angry in his heart.

"I'm sorry, but this is my own decision, and I hope you don't interfere with me. Nana Hashimoto put her hand on her knee and picked up the orange cat from Takuhisa's armpit and stroked it meekly.

The pain in her face was fleeting, and Nana Hashimoto didn't fan it hard.

"It's that I'm talking too much, I'm just sorry for your decision, I think of the experience of a girl I met in Tokyo in the past, I think I think it's quite similar to you, and I can't help but want you to think about your decision again. Takuhisa's tone was not as sarcastic and urgent as before.

"Similar to me?"

"I also lived in an internet café for a while, so I knew a girl who was fifteen years old, the same age as you, and she was a [trolley girl]. ”

"[Trolley girl]?" asked Nana Hashimoto, confused.

"Wandering around Tokyo, not working, just holding a trolley suitcase, all in a trolley suitcase, wandering around 24-hour cafes and internet cafes. ”

"Doesn't she go to school?"

"Going to school?maybe it's a luxury for her?" Takuhisa smirked dismissively, "She graduated from junior high school and didn't go to high school because her parents were gone. ”

"Gone?"

"Yes, my father committed suicide because of work, my mother abandoned her, I don't know where she ran away, a perfect family was shattered when she graduated from junior high school, she couldn't pay the house bill, she was kicked out, and she could only wander around with a trolley suitcase. ”

Takuhisa was telling the true story he saw, and Nana Hashimoto didn't see Takuhisa's eyes, so there was no possibility of faking, and she thought so subjectively, "So how does she live?" asked Nana Hashimoto.

"She works at a convenience store, and in order to save money, she uses an Internet café as a place to live, and 1,900 yen a night is really cheaper than the rent. As for why live so sparingly... Because she wants to go to university. ”

"University...," Nanami Hashimoto muttered silently.

"Yes, university, if she wants to go to university at the level of graduating from junior high school, it should be difficult to do it at her own level, but she is working hard with this goal. Takuhisa may have been moved by the girl's efforts, and he said this with an appreciative tone.

"Isn't that great? Did she succeed?" Nana Hashimoto was naturally no exception, and asked what happened next, wouldn't it be great if a hard-working girl could have a happy ending?

"I went to the convenience store where she worked a month ago to look for her, but I didn't tell her that she had left. ”

"Did she leave her job?"

"A change of place? But speaking of which, the corners of Takuhisa's mouth couldn't help but have an inexplicable meaning, "Although she didn't say where she was going to work, the store manager over there still inquired." ”

"Where did you go?..." Nana Hashimoto had no bad premonition.

I'm afraid the story won't go towards a happy ending.

"Whew... A year after telling me her goal with a fighting spirit, she became pregnant, and she didn't know whose child it was, and she didn't know who the father of the child was, but she couldn't bear to beat the child, and finally the child was born, and she became a mother, working every day, studying high school courses, and taking care of the child. She was so busy that she only had two or three hours a day to close her eyes and rest, and the rest of the day she opened her eyes. And in order to cover the children's living expenses and social security and other expenses, she only eats one meal a day, buys a loaf, and the convenience store owner turns a blind eye and asks other clerks to stuff things for her, just like that, she still doesn't give up. ”

"And then ?..."

Until one day, the child was taken away, she completely changed, she gave up her academic requirements, and finally didn't even get a certificate of high school graduation, and her work was wasted enough, and she was often thinking about other things. Finally, less than a week later, she quit her job and went to work at a nightclub near Akihabara. ”

"Nightclub?... You mean..."

"Yes, *****, she's doing this job. When I saw her in a nightclub, I almost didn't recognize her appearance..."Takuhisa also regretted, "Flowery, heavy makeup, false eyelashes, hair dyed red, not like a girl who is almost seventeen years old, but like a mature woman at twenty-five years old, maybe this is also the effect of makeup, right?"

Nana Hashimoto was not silent, and Takuhisa told the story very cruelly.

"She just gave up?" she tried to find hope for a comeback.

"Give up? ha, maybe yes. Takuhisa said, "Do you know that she said something to me that shocked me?"

She didn't speak, but her ears came to Nanami Hashimoto, obviously wondering what the girl was talking about?

[Dreams, that kind of thing has been given up, I just want to live until I am thirty years old and go to the woods to commit suicide. Until then, I spent time with my family at the nightclub.]

"These are her exact words, I can't imagine that she is only seventeen years old and can say such desperate words, and the staff in the nightclub should be her family... It really is. Takuhisa seemed to smile angrily.

There was anger at her words when they were first heard.

What kind of environment is it that allows the nightclub staff to become her relatives?

This "relative" will abandon her when she is old and decrepit, maybe this is why she will think about committing suicide at the age of thirty, right?

There's no nightclub that keeps you going forever. Continuous replacement of new talents is the standard to ensure the stable quality of the store.

"I never saw her again, but what she went through, I will never forget. ”

Finally, Takuhisa made a summary.

"After all, life is not a morning drama, and there will not be a happy ending at every moment..."Takuhisa said with a smile, "Actually, similar things happen all the time in Tokyo, but I've seen it with my own eyes, and I've heard more about it before." ”

Nanami Hashimoto, who was silent, lowered his head and stopped stroking the orange cat's hand, which made the orange cat unaccustomed to it, and meowed directly twice.

It wasn't until he stroked the orange cat's back again that he stopped, and at this time the other white cat was quiet like a chicken, silent.

"I understand what you mean by saying this to me. Nana Hashimoto said in a calm tone, "You just want me not to be so impulsive, do you?"

"It's good that you understand it yourself. I just hope it doesn't happen again, nothing else. I will not interfere with your thoughts, your life should be controlled by yourself. ”

Takuhisa didn't say much either, some words were enough to say once.

"Yes. ”

Perhaps because he was affected by what Takuhisa said, Nana Hashimoto did not agree with his statement.

The atmosphere has actually become too awkward, Takuhisa is actually very rude to say these words, and his relationship with Nanami Hashimoto is not so close after all, so he has no position to say so.

But he still said it, and he just didn't want to see the same thing happen again, especially the girl Nanami Hashimoto, a girl who was significantly different from other people of the same age.

Like snow lotus, like jasper, like white paper.

He didn't want this girl to break into Tokyo headlong and become the same girl he said she was talking about.

At that time, she should have experienced all the wind and frost on her face, just thinking about it, Takuhisa would feel sad.

The most important thing in Tokyo is dreams.

There is no shortage of people whose dreams have been shattered.

When you get up from this muddy tank, you are no longer pure.

"You have a point, you have a point, indeed... It's that I think too little about it, and I didn't think about the consequences in my original approach, just blindly satisfying my own dignity, if I had accepted, my family might not have lived so tired, and I wouldn't have to rush to buy half-price bento every day, but... I feel that what I did... Huh?"

That's right, before she could say the two words, Takuhisa covered her mouth with his free hand.

"Don't jump to conclusions so blindly, today has a day for you to think about, and tell me a clear answer when you take me to Mr. Shiina's grave in the evening," Takuhisa let go of his hand after confirming that Nana Hashimoto would not speak hastily any longer, "Really, think about your inner choice and say it in front of Mr. Shiina." ”

When Takuhisa said this, Nanami Hashimoto suddenly hesitated in his heart, so he could only nod his head.

The bus is also almost there, not far from the high school where Nanami Hashimoto studied.

"Let's get out of the car. ”

Takuhisa planned to put the orange cat in his armpit again, but was snatched by Nanami Hashimoto.

"Don't get me wrong, I just think that you are a good person, and I want to help you share it. ”

"What are you doing with tsundere, this is completely different from your personality, and I return my cold goddess. Takuhisa was amused by her.

"I just like to read, why did I become a cold goddess?

"That's the way it is!"

After getting off the bus stop, I walked a little more and finally arrived at the high school campus of Nanami Hashimoto.

"Then send it here, this place is quite lively, if you want to meet here in the evening. In front of the campus, there is no need to say Takuhisa, and the two are automatically separated by just the right distance, just so that people will not think that they are a couple.

At this time, there were already a lot of people who came to class, and if he and Nana Hashimoto were not so close, it would inevitably attract attention, and it would be bad to cause any misunderstanding at that time.

"Cat cat to you... I need to go to the doctor. Patting the orange cat's head, Nana Hashimoto handed the mourning orange cat to Takuhisa, "It's half past three, today's club activities will be pushed off because there is something at home, you can end it early, take Fingerhara-san to Uncle Shiina." ”

"Please, then. ”

Takuhisa nodded in reply and took the orange cat.

However, the orange cat is obviously unwilling to leave the warm embrace of Nana Hashimoto, and does not want to go back, but unfortunately it can't resist the strength of humans after all.

"What an ungrateful little fellow. ”

"I think so too. Nana Hashimoto did not agree more.