Today's weather is also good, and the clear sky in autumn is still as deep blue as ever.

What has always woken Kazeta Takasaka from his deep sleep is the alarm clock that has been ringing since the early morning.

Shrinking down, Takasaka Kaze, who was in the bed, trembled his eyelashes too much to make the air beat, and his noble soul that had rested on his body began to feel the cold of the distant Alpine peaks.

Then he slept peacefully like a pig for another five minutes.

Pulling open the door, he stepped out with breakfast in his stomach.

A cool autumn breeze blew through the treetops and blew on Takasaka's not strong body.

He shuddered, then closed the door, made sure it was locked, and headed for the stairs of the apartment.

This is a habit he has gradually developed over the past few weeks.

It was all the same as the usual morning, but it was as if everything had a new color and breath.

The neighbor who moved in yesterday, Kotobuki, went out earlier than Kazeta Takasaka, and I heard that she was a student at the nearby private Sakuragaoka Girls' High School, and she was in the same grade as Kazeta.

"Really, what the hell are you going to do when you go out so early, maybe the school isn't open, right?"

While complaining so quietly, Kazeta Takasaka stood on the platform of the tram stop.

"It feels so strange today. ”

He exhaled, and the noisy crisp autumn breeze hit him again, bringing him a very different feeling than usual.

"Could it be that because I was determined to do something, the wind made me feel differently?"

"Yuko hasn't come yet? ”

I just looked around with my head up, making it look like I was waiting for someone.

Kazeta Takasaka felt that if he didn't do this, it would make the other train passengers on the platform have the wrong idea of taking the train alone-

Is this high school boy riding the train alone? No, doesn't he even have friends and classmates who ride the train with him? It's pitiful, it can't be that he has some special fetish and is ostracized? No, this guy is a pervert, right?

He didn't want to do it, but he figured that if he hadn't, some of them would have a similar idea.

That's why I hate going out.

Why can't I teach the course on the Internet?

With unrealistic thoughts, Yuko's conspicuous brown hair finally appeared in Takasaka's field of vision.

Ah, Kyosuke will send the computer over today, right?

Kazeta Takasaka thought so as he stepped towards Yuko, who had a strange face.

She carried a pink messenger bag in both hands, and her steps were not very large.

Against the backdrop of the blue sky, her helpless delicate face was revealed.

"Good morning, Yuko, it's so slow. ”

Said good morning to Yuko, the wind is too quiet and waits for Yuko's greetings.

The expected good morning did not come, but Yuko's heavy sigh was ushered in.

What's wrong?

Naturally, the confused Kazeta Takasaka came up with this idea.

"Did you play the game all night last night?"

"No, I went to bed very early yesterday, what's wrong, Yuko......"

"That's a slept ......"

She seemed to say to herself, and it seemed to say to Kazeta Takasaka.

"What the hell is going on?"

She didn't answer, just stared at Kazeta Takasaka like a fool.

Then she stretched out her slender fingers and pointed to what Kazeta Takasaka was wearing.

The upper body is white with short sleeves, and the lower body is light blue trousers, which looks very normal.

"Improper color matching?" I don't know if it's right or not, but apart from that, Takasaka Futa really can't think of anything else that could make Yuko have such an abnormal attitude towards him.

"What day of the week is today?"

"Friday, tomorrow will be the holiday. ”

Answering Yuko's irrelevant question, Takasaka Futa's eyebrows furrowed, as if he had caught something important.

He raised his head suddenly and said in surprise: "No wonder I think it's so strange today, it turns out that I forgot to watch Nahoko Suzuki's morning news." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, Yuko's eyes suddenly became very terrifying, and she felt that she was going to beat Kazeta Takasaka in the next second.

Sure enough, she reached out and slammed her fist into his stomach.

Fortunately, she knew that Takasaka had just finished breakfast, so she didn't use any force, and just warned him about it.

"If you know it's Friday, why don't you go out in your uniform?"

The breeze blows, and the slippers on the feet and the thin clothes can't stop them from bringing a refreshing feeling to Takasaka Futa.

“……”

It turns out that it's different because of this......

"Let's go, while the tram hasn't come yet. ”

Yuko Kinoshita took Takasaka Futa's wrist like this, turned around and walked in the direction of his apartment.

……

The date is the 13th of September, and the time is night.

“……”

I lay down on the bed with my head suffocated under the quilt, hoping to help myself stop thinking with the help of the suffocation, so that the countless images that flashed through my mind were shattered, but they were of no use.

When was it?

began to become a person who pursues a lazy and leisurely life, and chooses to give up when he encounters more troublesome things.

Ah, doesn't it mean that everything will gradually be relieved as the years go by? Why, I can't do it......

Suddenly, the phone in his trouser pocket began to vibrate, and then a soft, rustic melody began to fill the room.

"Distant, distant, the sadness of memory is forgotten. ”

I was stunned, not because of the sudden phone call, but because of the song I set as the ringtone of my phone.

"On the road, on the road......"

Because I haven't chosen to answer yet, the phone hasn't cut corners to stop its work.

Maybe I'......

It's really going to change, right?

"Walking on a path covered with cherry blossoms......"

I hurriedly took out my phone from my pocket, and I didn't even read the name of the note displayed on my phone and chose to answer.

"Hello, is there anything wrong?"

“…… I don't call my father or my father, and I don't have any respect for my elders, so don't you even have my phone number and name note?"

Unexpectedly, from the mobile phone receiver came the father's calm and stern voice.

I thought Hideyoshi was asking me if I had finished dinner......

"Because there was something just now, I didn't have time to look at the remarks on my phone and answered it. ”

"Well, I can't blame you if that's the case. ”

"Okay, without further ado, I've already put your next month's money into the card today. ”

"Also, I bought you a laptop, and your original computer will be given to Kirino to use, and I'll ask Kyosuke to send you the computer tomorrow, remember to go home early, you don't have a club. ”

“…… Don't worry, I'm not going to get home from school and soak up the internet. ”

I don't know why my father sent the computer so suddenly, but it was good news for me, and I didn't think about it that much.

“…… Well. ”

There was silence on both ends of the phone, and neither of them knew what to say.

This strange silence was finally interrupted by my father after a while.

"If nothing happens, I'll hang up. ”

“…… Wait a minute. ”

After some hesitation, I finally made up my mind.

"Daddy......"

I remember very well that it was the first time I called him Daddy instead of Daddy.

"Isn't it useless for you to say I'm useless. ”

My father didn't speak, but he deliberately let out a heavy exhale to let me know that he was still listening to me.

"It's nothing but grades, it's not good sports, and there's no artistic talent. ”

"There's basically no motivation to do things, and there is no goal to strive for. ”

I paused, then asked, "A useless person, right?"

“…… No. ”

He seemed to be organizing the language, and after a moment he finished speaking, he spoke again, and his calm voice came out.

"It's something to be proud of. ”

"You can look up and puff up your chest and tell people that you got the third place in the city last time you took the exam, which your brother couldn't and couldn't do. ”

My father made a rare joke, which made me laugh softly, and the dark clouds that had been hanging over my heart gradually dissipated.

"You don't have the motivation to do things, but you can get it done without flaws. ”

"If you don't have a goal, you should look for a goal. ”

“…… What do you want to strive for?"

"You like, you want to do the goal, but you can't give up halfway, even if you're on your knees, you have to finish the road to achieving that goal. ”

"Really......"

"I see, thank you—"

"Dad. ”

……

PS1: Well, I didn't want to write the second half of the paragraph, but I'm afraid it's too abrupt.

PS2: There is one more shift in the afternoon