Through the familiar silhouette of Stella's face, Ellie vaguely saw the confident and beautiful Noelle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Looking back now, that scene seems to be vivid.

In between Ellie's memories, Hayato and Pegasus are staggering, and a few glasses of wine are already in their stomachs.

"Come on, come on, have another drink!"

Tenma's cheeks flushed, and he kept beckoning Hayato to drink as he picked up a side dish.

"Good!"

Hayato nodded in agreement, he was ready to get drunk.

The day after tomorrow is about to part, and when we meet again, we may have changed things. In life, how can you not get drunk when you have a friend?

Stella stood by and gracefully poured their wine.

Seeing this scene, Ellie couldn't help but ask with concern, "Stella-chan, have you eaten it?"

"Not yet. ”

Stella replied coldly with a blank face.

"Then you can eat with us. Ellie was not deterred in the slightest and continued to extend the invitation enthusiastically.

The daughter of the deceased must be taken care of.

"No, it's my duty to serve my host and guests. Stella decisively refused, and replied righteously.

"Eh~ really stubborn. Ellie pursed her lips childishly and said with some complaints, "I really don't know how your mother can feel comfortable letting you come alone." ”

"Don't underestimate me!" Stella retorted unconvinced, "Don't look at me as I'm only 12 years old, but I'm already in college." ”

"Yes, it's amazing, it's worthy of inheriting Noelle's genes. Ellie sighed.

"Do you know my mother?"

"Of course, we were high school classmates. Ellie held her head proudly, but then her tone was low and a little frustrated.

"Didn't your mother talk to you about me?"

"Are you the second girl in my mother's mouth who often makes two mistakes, loses three and four every day, and always talks nonsense in her mouth?!"

Poof, everyone present laughed all at once, this summary is really concise and to the point, straight to the essence, really in line with Noelle's style.

"That damn soul!"

Ellie stood up with a "brush" and cursed: "How can you say that about me, if you don't contact me, forget it, and slander! ”

She pulled Stella past her, pinned her to her seat, and commanded without question.

"Now listen to me and eat with us. ”

A look of embarrassment appeared on Stella's face, and she looked like she wanted to refuse.

"Listen to me, it's not okay for a child to be too mature!"

She pressed Stella on the shoulder, looked at each other, and said with a serious face, "A child should look like a child." ”

"It's like doing spring things, sowing seeds. Do autumn things in autumn and go to harvest. Swim in the summer and pile up snow in the winter. Laugh when you are happy, shed tears when you are sad. You are now at the age of innocence and liveliness, and you are so old, it is like applying a plant ripening agent, and you have lost the joy of childhood and growth early, so how can we be embarrassed by this group of adults!"

The scene fell silent for a moment, except for Ellie's vibrant voice that spread and rippled through the hall.

Tenma has always felt guilty about Stella being so precocious, and he feels that it is his fault, that children from single-parent families mature early, especially girls.

Every time I want Stella to enjoy what a child should enjoy, but it never succeeds, today could be an opportunity, he thought to himself.

After a pause, Ellie added slightly sadly: "Our eaglet is too, it's too precocious! I can't tease him now, I don't even have the only fun of being a mother, woo, woo......"

Hearing this, everyone was a little crying and laughing, a few drops of cold sweat slipped down from Kitty's forehead, and the originally touching and profound scene was destroyed at once.

At the same time, Kitty was angry about what she had just been touched, and felt as if her feelings had been deceived.

The ice in Stella's heart melted slightly, and a faint smile was faint. She turned her head to Tenma and pursed her lips as if to ask for his opinion.

Pegasus nodded, and Stella whispered back to Ellie, "Hmm." ”

Ellie happily took her in her arms, let her lean tightly on her chest, gently stroked Stella's head with her right hand, and said softly: "Good boy~What a good boy~~"

Her eyes were full of tenderness and pity.

For more than ten years, Ellie can't imagine how the mother of an unmarried daughter raised a child alone.

In the face of the white eyes of others, the severance of the family, and the hardships of life, the difficulties and bitterness are only clear to Noelle.

Stella blushed and leaned shyly into Ellie's warm arms, her inner thoughts turning over like a river.

She clutched her chest, overwhelmed, what was this complicated feeling?

It's warm, it's very happy, it's like bathing in the spring sun, warm and comfortable. For some reason, she wanted to cry, her eyes flickered slightly.

But this feeling is not bad, and a happy smile hangs on the corner of Stella's mouth.

Alas, unjust, unjust.

Touching Stella's head with pity, Ellie glared at Pegasus hatefully, as if she was looking at a **.

"What the hell is going on, Pegasas!!"

Hayato tugged at Ellie's sleeve and whispered, "Lili! ”

Noelle is not only Ellie's friend, but also his friend, and he also wants to find out the facts, but this kind of privacy cannot be forced.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he is a man, and women are more angry than men when faced with this kind of problem.

"Ahh

"Wait a minute!"

Ellie turned her head to look to the left, and was greeted by two pairs of gossip and curiosity, pricking up their ears and trying to hear the old stories of the adults.

Although the little dove didn't know why, he also learned from his brother and sister to open their big blue eyes and stare with their eyes.

She held her forehead helplessly and said, "Little Eagle, Xingna and Little Dove, we and Uncle Tianma are going to discuss national affairs, so let's go next door to play first!"

As soon as Kitty wanted to defend herself, she was glared back fiercely by Ellie, and swallowed back what she wanted to say at once.

He pouted unwillingly: "I know!"

Under Ellie's fierce gaze, Kitty looked full of regret and pulled the curious Xingna with one hand, and the ignorant dove with the other, and followed the maid to the next room.

After the children are gone, Ellie withdraws her gaze and stares sharply at Pegasus, waiting for his answer.

Tenma smiled helplessly under the pressure of Ellie's gaze, he knew that Ellie hated him to death.

"Falto, Ellie, do you two remember our high school foursome dates?"

Hayato and Ellie glanced at each other and nodded heavily, "Of course I remember!"

A distressed look appeared on Tenma's face, and he said faintly, "Maybe that's when feelings gradually began to develop between me and her......"

As he slowly spoke, the pictures of memories unfolded in front of everyone, and the once green years slowly emerged in front of him......

In a trendy café, two pairs of high school boys with unfashionable short hair sit on pins and needles and wait restlessly for about an hour.

A few minutes after the appointed time, the girl finally arrived.

"I'm sorry to be late!"

She apologized with a cheerful voice.

"Me, we've just arrived!"

Hayato's voice became a little sharper.

The president of the Santa Cronica Academy, Noelle Defeld, 18 years old.

Semi-short blonde hair with slender blue eyes makes her a beautiful woman with an awe-inspiring impression.

Wearing a bright red mini dress that fully highlights the curves of the body and is highly exposed, I am afraid that it is a slim style that is popular today!

For Pegasus, who had only seen her Santa Cronica School costume, the impact of such a fashionable outfit was too stark, and I couldn't help but feel my heart beating.

"It's all because this kid is about to set off, so he said that he still won't go!"

Noelle said as he sat down in the seat across from Pegasus.

"This kid?"

It was only at this moment that Tenma noticed for the first time the presence of another girl who had come in with her from behind Noelle.

Like Noelle, she is a blonde and blue-eyed white man, and she perfectly interprets the meaning of the word poor and cute, and she is a beautiful girl who feels weak.

What makes people even more concerned is the face - the blindfold on the left eye.

Hayato stared at the face of the girl named Ellie, motionless. He stared at the girl with his mouth half-open and his eyes wide open.

There is a flush on his face that can be seen by others at a glance.

…… The moment when someone else falls in love at first sight, you can really see it at a glance...... Tenma learns this fact for the first time.

"Love, Ellie, Miss......!"

Hayato who squeezes out a few words intermittently.

"Okay, what a great blindfold!!"

Ellie, who was in charge, lowered her eyes as if she was about to escape from Falato's sincere gaze, and then said.

“…… Yes, is it?...... Thank you, thank you......"

Some of the blushing faces, for some reason, showed a very happy smile.

…… Hey?

And even fools can see that the cute smile has captured Falato's heart even tighter.

The delicate and infinitely shy Ellie seems to be deliberately putting on a serious tone in order to hide the smile she just had.

"Hmph...... Ellie is just a pseudonym...... My real name is Xiahou Huang...... After two thousand years, it has been revived in the present world, and the heroes of the ancient times are also!"

…………

The four of them chatted for about an hour, and then broke up after making an appointment to meet next time.

From then on, Tenma and Falato, as well as Ellie and Noelle, met at a pace of about once every two weeks.

And after the tenth experience of "some kind of party that looks like a double couple dating in the eyes of others", Hayato and Ellie finally, finally, finally started a formal relationship.

As for the confession, it was so sudden and funny that there was no trace of romance, and Tenma and Noelle, who witnessed it all from close range, looked at each other and laughed.

After Hayato and Ellie date, Tenma and Noelle, who don't want to be light bulbs, no longer go on dates with the two, losing the excuse of "paving the way for their friends' love", and Tenma and Noelle have no chance to meet.

"I thought that this was the end of it, and we would never see each other again, but it was not like one day in two months...... "Everyone listened quietly, and they knew that the next point was coming.

After coming to Santa Crone Nica School Park because of something to find his father.,When I was about to go back.。

"Long time no see!

Near the school gate of the school park,Bump into Noelle.。

After asking each other about the situation, Noelle made a suggestion, "It's so cold, why don't you warm up in my room?"

Of course, outsiders are forbidden to enter and leave the student dormitory, but the "next chairman" can be said to be the most internal person in a sense, and using this title, Tenma came to Noelle's room in a dignified manner, pretending not to do anything.

This room, which I got by taking advantage of the privilege of the student president, can be said to be extraordinarily spacious and chic in the old student dormitory, and the dispatch items such as tables and chairs and ** shops are also rare and good.

After laying out the mattress on the floor, the two sat side by side, sipping Noelle's black tea and gossiping about it.

The main topic is, of course, the matter of Hayato and Ellie, and the complaints that they are blinded by their friends at school.

Of course, there is also life at school and what you want to do in the future.

After graduating from college, Tenma will inherit his father's business and become the chairman of the board of directors of Santa Cronica Academy. And before that, he was already married to a fiancée he had never met.

Noelle's dream was to go back to England to attend a university there, and then become a diplomat.

"I didn't mention these words to Ellie. She smiled a little shyly.

"What kind of school is Pegasus going to turn Santa Cronica into?"

There is no ready-made answer to this question.

The future of inheriting my father's business is something that has been decided since birth, and I thought that there was no room for my own will to intervene.

What kind of school do you want to become?,I haven't even thought about it.。

“…… What kind of school do you think is better?"

As for Tenma's rhetorical question, Noelle thought about it for a moment.

“…… Interesting school park,Bar.。 Ah, of course, I'm having a lot of fun now, and I'm also with Ellie, and I've got to know Pegasus and Falato. The work of the student council president is also quite enjoyable. But I wish it could have been a little more interesting...... If only it could become a school that could make all students spend the best youth!"

"Interesting school park...... Ahh

Her words would become an important compass for Tenma in the future.

It's no longer clear who asked for the kiss.

Unconsciously, the faces of the two were close to each other, and then their lips met.

And just like that—before they knew it, their bodies were united.

After that, Tenma and Noelle would also look for opportunities to have secret trysts from time to time.

The relationship between the two, which even their best friends didn't know, lasted for three months until Noelle returned to his home country after studying abroad.

"Until the end, we didn't once convey the word "like" that clearly meant love......"

PS: 1. Residual thoughts, the original book did not reveal any information about Xingnai's mother, if you know, please tell me.

2. Mid-term exams, mid-term exams, mid-term exams......