There was a moment of consternation, and then, Isshiki's face, which always put on a delicate smile at the right time, slowly stepped down, and she didn't try to hide what she meant, a smart person like Isshiki would not make the last stubborn resistance when he realized that he had failed.

She should be able to say goodbye at ease, I thought.

Like the diplomats in 19th-century Europe, who shuttled from court to court and no one could read their true thoughts, the Revolution gently took off their top hats and said goodbye gracefully when the tide of the Revolution knocked the aristocracy, which belonged only to court diplomacy and secret diplomacy, and told them that their time was over, even though the rotten eggs of the people's disdain for them had been literally slapped in their faces.

They may have countless resentments and resentments in their hearts, but the elegant life that begins with a smile also ends with a smile.

At that moment, I felt that Isshiki should be such a person.

I didn't hate her mask from the beginning, and I appreciated from the beginning that she always understood what she was looking for and used her own persistent means to do so. She's changed a lot since I met her, but, from beginning to end, that's the only thing, she hasn't changed.

Of course, she does not have the elegance of the so-called aristocracy, and many times the clumsy little tricks will only make people feel a little embarrassed, but it is also a kind of pride to always be careful to maintain that state.

However, this thought was only for a moment – did even the aristocratic diplomats, when the storm of the Revolution drove them out of the center of attention, did they feel a sense of ease?

I have no way of knowing about the aristocrats of the 19th century, but I can vaguely sense that Isshiki did not enjoy the process.

"Now that I have announced that I will be your backing, then at this time, I can only help to the end!"

She said this sentence with a long sigh of relief and a finished mentality.

When you find that what you are looking for is close at hand, you don't hesitate to say it, and then, as a matter of course, you will succeed.

"Sure enough, I, who am used to speaking in a mask, should not tell the truth—even if it is a lie disguised. This is the first thing Isshiki said after that, I don't know if it was with a kind of distress about failure, or a kind of calmness after failure.

"You just shouldn't be telling the truth at this point. ”

"Really?" she asked curiously, "that is, if I choose to hesitate a little at this time, you won't doubt my feelings?"

"It's not that I won't doubt, but I don't have the energy to doubt - for me, it's a gamble, and if you don't fall into this trap, I probably won't have more energy to set a trap for you, so I say you're too anxious. I'm also vulnerable, and I'm only a little stronger than you expected. ”

"Who do you think of me?" said with a slightly helpless smile, "Don't have an attitude that seems like I've predetermined your every reaction. Today, when you go to meet with Xiao Mu Yu's seniors, it is completely an unexpected situation. I sent those emails purely because I thought you might be hit hard—I didn't expect you to set a trap in the end, and I was the one who was innocent! Think about it, if your conversation with Xiao Mu Shu's seniors was sweet, you wouldn't feel anything unusual when you saw my emails, right?"

I looked into Isse's eyes, and her eyes were sincere—as sincere as usual, as sincere as usual, and as sincere as usual, so that people couldn't tell if it was a lie or a lie.

"Then do as you say!"

Whether it's the truth or not, perhaps, such a color is a normal color.

"Well, as I said. Isse's eyelids drooped.

"I have a question, and also. ”

"Huh?"

"If you had to choose, what kind of me would you prefer—the one who also had a unique mask in front of you, or the one who was willing to be honest with you and unreserved?"

"I appreciate the one before you. ”

"But that's not the answer to that question, what I'm trying to ask is, from an emotional point of view, which one do you prefer?"

"Judging from an emotional point of view, boys should like the latter - after all, it gives people a sense of superiority, doesn't it? Girls only open their hearts to themselves or something. ”

"So you said you admired the former type of me more because you didn't use your intuition to judge likes and dislikes?"

"That's pretty much it. ”

"So, why?" Isseki put down the microphone he had been holding tightly, raised his head, and looked at me, "Why did you reject me when I was telling you the truth?"

This is not a question sentence, because soon, Isshiki gave her own answer.

"So, I know, this means that you never judge me from an emotional point of view, and your perception of me is limited to taking into account "Ichiyuki is a girl" in your personality analysis of me, but you yourself have never looked at me in the same way as a real person of the opposite sex - the strategic alliance between us from the perspective of interests is really thorough, isn't it?"

Issei explained self-deprecatingly, and I listened silently, it was a cruel answer, perhaps exaggerated, but perhaps it was.

Otherwise, in the face of a girl who is really emotionally invested herself, how could I use such a cruel way to induce her to tell the truth. To explain it in a nice way, I'm asking Isshiki to let go of his baggage and stop doing this kind of thing that makes me feel tired, but, if I explain it from another angle, my approach is just to cut off a girl's hope in a malicious way, which is efficient, but lacks gentleness.

"Now, Kazuya, I hugged you, you should remember, right?" Slowly, leaning his body into a very sensitive position, Isshiki whispered.

Of course, I remember that sunny and eerie gentle and lazy afternoon, in the face of the work of the executive committee, the tired, unsupportable color feathers gently embraced me.

"At that time, you weren't worried about me at all, were you?" she said with self-deprecation as she held out her hand.

"Nope!"

"Yes, of course I know, because, you think that I was just tired and tired at that time, so I wanted to find someone to rely on, and I didn't think that I was a girl who had other ideas for you that exceeded your interests, and you knew this too well, so you wouldn't mind my hug at all," Isshiki wrapped his hands around my waist again, put his crimson face on my body, and asked, "So, this time, will you feel worried?"

"Truth or lie?"

"Honestly, of course. ”

"Sorry, still not worried. I replied softly.

"Really?" said Issei, who was leaning against my body, after a pause, and then, helplessly, "I should let you choose the answer you want to say—and not so disappointed." ”

"I'm sorry, but-"

"—Needless to say, but, I know what you're trying to say, you already know I've given up now, so, the hug now, more intense than ambiguous, just like then, is also exhausting, I'm just looking for someone I don't hate, I want to rely on to hug - it's because you know this clearly, so, you don't have to worry, because you don't have to worry about anything out of the ordinary that Ichi Yuyu will do, right?"

"—but you're wrong! Only this time, you're wrong!" Ishisei wrapped her hand around my neck tightly, and before I could react, she threw my head down, and with a fearless momentum, pressed her face close to mine.

I could only see her cherry lips getting closer and closer, and the girl's unique fragrance made me a little disoriented for a while, and I couldn't push her away.

The pressure on his neck suddenly relaxed, and Isshi's arms were retracted.

"Taken aback?" she asked, smiling.

"yes, I was taken aback. ”

Indeed, the fearless and broken posture of Isshiki for the first time was indeed taken aback by this unexpected situation.

"All night, my reactions and thoughts were as you expected, and I really need something different!"

"To be honest, if you do kiss, you really don't know how it will end. ”

"So, no!" Ichishiki's smile narrowed, "I can only scare you." I've given up, because I have given up, so I can't do superfluous things, I can't do superfluous things that embarrass you - even I admire my calmness at this time. ”

"Wouldn't it be better if I didn't have this calm?" she whispered to herself with a cry in her voice.

"But with this calm, you're yourself, aren't you?"

"What about the lines that cheat girls in the standard animation - unfortunately, this kind of line will only work in the animation, and it won't work for me. And, after all, it's a girl's first kiss, so you shouldn't be cheated away by someone who doesn't like you so casually, right?"

"For the first time?"

"yes, ah—I remember, I think I told you a beautiful story about the love story of the junior high school period - sorry, you don't think that's true, do you?"

"Uh-"

"--However, when I meet other boys, this material can come true, and I can tell you a story about how I fell in love with someone who didn't like me at all, and was severely humiliated by that person's trap, can I tell you in this way?

"Whatever you want!"

"Well, that's the agreement!" Isshiki symbolically held out his finger.

"This kind of convention or something. I reluctantly reached out my finger and grabbed hers.

Isshii's palm opened flexibly, grasped my hand, and then quickly approached my body. The girl's fragrance wafted by, and she stood on tiptoe and gently pressed her lips on my forehead.

"You can't give a first kiss, but you should be able to kiss like this, right?"

As she left my body, she said leisurely.

A color feather, until this time, was still stubbornly looking for tonight's, his own memory.