9. Traces Volume VIII
What will happen to Keigo who violates the traces?
When I'm bored, I think about this problem, and after getting along with Jibu for a short time, she also has a certain understanding of him.
Although he is known as the emperor of the Ice Emperor, he is not a tyrant and will not drag people out of the way. is not a rich second generation who is flying and domineering and does not know the height of the sky, using his own power or money to dispose of people at will.
Usually a proud and somewhat awkward teenager, with full leadership skills, people are unconsciously convinced.
Nanaya occasionally finds it amusing to watch him change his face, but she rarely doesn't follow what he says.
For example, this dinner party in the tennis club, she was a little reluctant to disturb them. After all, if she appears, she will definitely be the focus of everyone's attention. But maybe it's more trouble not to go, maybe she doesn't want to make the eldest young master angry in her heart.
Anyway, there is no harm in going, so you should appease the temper of the eldest young master.
As she expected, when she appeared, everyone's eyes were on her. Basically, with curiosity, doubt, and incomprehension, but not disgust.
"Long time no see, Asahi-san." Shinobu was stunned for a second, then lifted his glasses and smiled intriguingly.
She nodded at him and looked around, leaving only an empty seat next to the trace, which seemed to be reserved for her.
As she sat down, she heard the boys whispering.
"Hey, Gentleman, who is she?" Xiang Riyueren, who was close to his partner, said quietly.
"Classmates in the trace department, I don't know the specifics." Shinobu spread his hands. He quickly remembered that the trace department asked him to help, and I am afraid that the girl in front of him was the first to hand the anonymous card to the trace department, but he didn't know their relationship now.
The most daring of the group, Akutagawa Jiro, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and as soon as he woke up, he saw a girl next to Jibu, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Ah, Jibu, is this girl your girlfriend?" β
"What are you guessing about, ahhhh The trace is a little displeased, the girl in front of him does not meet his aesthetics in any way, how can she be his girlfriend? This group of people has a really big brain.
And this really can't be blamed on the members of the Ice Emperor Tennis Club. Their minister has never had much contact with girls, and the people in the tennis club are probably familiar with Natsu Morikawa alone, but she hasn't eaten with them either. Unexpectedly, this time the trace department came with a girl they had never seen before.
What's even more surprising is that no matter what way you look at it, the girl in front of her does not conform to the aesthetics of the trace. It's not that Qiye is bad, it's just that the vision of the trace department is no longer beyond the reach of ordinary people. Probably except for the naΓ―ve Akutagawa Yoshiro, no one else will think about it that way.
Privately, they also have speculations about the love topics related to the traces. But when the brain made up a female trace, they couldn't stand it.
It is enough to have one trace in this world, if there are two, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, wouldn't it be a mess in the future!
"Then what is your relationship with the traces?" Xiang Riyue has always been curious and baby-like, and although he denied that this girl was their minister's girlfriend at the beginning, he couldn't think of any other answer.
"Probably a bodyguard?" Nanaya turned his head and innocently dropped another bomb.
"Huh!?" At this moment, it was frozen in the moment when everyone was stunned.
Should it be said that it is worthy of the trace department, even the bodyguards are so special. But at first glance, the girl in front of her, thin and short, no one can compare her with the bodyguard who symbolizes strength.
"Uncle Ben needs your protection?" Traces squinted at Seven Nights.
Come to think of it, it's true that they can only be described as a cooperative relationship now. However, the so-called cooperation, often things are beneficial to both parties, and only then will they achieve the same goal.
There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, which the traces of the young master of the consortium have understood since childhood.
For him, the ultimate goal of nature is to expel the spirits and return to a normal life. However, they have been together for a long time, and until now he has not been able to see the purpose of the girl in front of him.
Glimpse of Nanaya shook his head, and the trace simply stopped discussing this boring topic: "Why did you come so late today?" β
He didn't want to admit that he was sitting on the sidelines and looking out of the field, consciously or unconsciously. After all, I received a text message from a girl who wanted to watch the game last night, but the other party never appeared.
Until it was his turn to play, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a familiar figure appearing outside the field, and for some reason, there was a sense of relief in his heart.
Despite being obscured by a hat, others may not notice her, but his eyesight is unmatched. Perhaps because he had been together for a while, he gradually adapted to such a weak sense of existence.
And the longer they got along, the more he felt that the other party had a sense of disobedience.
"I don't know much about tennis," Nanaya muttered silently, and when he saw the disbelieving gaze of the traces, he decided to tell the truth, "I went to watch the basketball game first." β
"You know basketball, huh?" Tracebe raised an eyebrow, he thought she didn't know anything about sports.
"I've seen a lot, but I still know the basic rules." Qiye said lightly.
The chatter between the two was interrupted by the waiter's serving.
Nanaya raised his eyes to look at the dishes on the table, and his face became a little softer than usual.
She knew about the restaurant, and she used to be a regular customer, but she hadn't been there for a long time. Standing at the door of the store again today, looking at the spotless style of the store, I felt a sense of being in a trance.
The people who dine at this restaurant are usually private rooms, and the trace is no exception. However, according to his style, he also chartered the hall while choosing the hall.
There is a transparent grand piano in the hall, and during the meal, people come to play, most of them from the conservatory, and they come to play it, which is a kind of exercise of their ability, and at the same time, it is a little more lively than a record.
Chopin's nocturne is playing, and the smooth and soothing music fills the restaurant.
It's just that today's people don't seem to be in the right state, and Nanaya heard that there was a detail that was wrong, and the hand holding the tableware paused, and when the second mistake appeared, he inadvertently frowned.
"Uh-huh, you know the piano?" Traces naturally heard the mistake, he had been learning the piano since he was a child, and his level had long exceeded the amateur level, and while he frowned, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the small movements of the girl next to him.
One is fine, and two is no coincidence.
"It's just scratching the surface." Nanaya nodded, and actually suppressed a strong surprise in his heart. The eldest young master beside him is so keen that he can even notice such subtle movements, he is really not an ordinary person.
"Uncle Ben thought you could only write supernatural novels." Traces said with a sudden smile.
It was also a coincidence that he knew she was writing supernatural novels. That day in the student union office, she was seriously writing something in her notebook, and he inadvertently asked, and learned that the other party was now serializing a certain campus supernatural novel.
Speaking of which, after knowing each other for a short time, he felt that he had never been able to see through her. Just like now, her every move looks very elegant, this kind of temperament has precipitated in the years, and shoddy pretense can't be practiced. Now we get along well, and it probably comes down to the girl's etiquette. Although there are some strange behaviors and indifferent appearances, the accident knows how to advance and retreat in many details, which has brought him to the brink of anger several times, but in the end it makes people helpless.
The trace touched the tear mole at the corner of his eye with his hand, and the corner of his mouth hooked a beautiful arc.
But isn't this kind of challenging thing fun? At least it's much more interesting than the dull and gloomy woman in my imagination, and I hope that he won't be too disappointed in the next relationship.
"Oh? Asahi-san is writing supernatural novels? "Patience and footfall interject and enter the topic at the right time. The chat between the two just now completely entered a state of selflessness, or to be precise, other people couldn't answer the conversation at all, how could they give up if they finally had something to talk about? He was very curious about the girl in front of him.
"Serialized." Nanaya turned his head to look at the dark blue-haired boy.
"Really? I wonder if you can read it? Hearing this, Shinobu couldn't help but feel a little interested.
He's a big fan of romance novels, which he doesn't miss out on by Jibu and the other boys around him, but he doesn't mind changing his taste during this time. Actually, it's still a curiosity about the girls around the trace.γ
It's a pity that Hijiruo is still in the third country, otherwise he would have been very happy to meet a like-minded person.
"Ahh Sounds amazing! When Akutagawa Jiro was half-asleep, he suddenly heard this key word, and then said with some excitement, his eyes shining.
"I can't talk about reading," Nanaya shook his head and slowly swallowed a piece of vegetables, unable to avoid the curious strong gazes of a group of people, so he had to speak, "The pen name is from time to time. β
"Huh?! You wrote that campus weird story that was serialized recently?! Xiang Ri was so surprised that he almost jumped up from the stool.
He usually likes to read juvenile comics, and some time ago due to the occurrence of some strange things, the campus weird talk is too hot, in order to follow the people around him to have a topic to talk about, more out of curiosity, he opened the supernatural books from the surrounding classmates after finishing his homework at night, and read them with relish. And there were a few that gave him nightmares for days on end.
One of the serialized articles impressed him the most. I didn't write anything bloody and violent, maybe because the story is set on campus, which is immersive, and it makes people more creepy. The recent serial happened to write about the weird story of the old schoolhouse, and it just so happened that the Ice Emperor also had a haunted old schoolhouse, and he sometimes wondered what a funny thing it would be if the Ice Emperor's old schoolhouse was like the one in the text!
And just now, he learned that the author of this article was a student at their school.
I really want to ask for spoilers! But when he thought of the weird storyline, his heart was a little hairy.
Then everyone saw his tangled expression, and wondered what he would do next, and then saw him angrily scoop a spoonful of dessert into his mouth.
The others turned their gaze one after another, deeply speechless at this fiery teenager.
Sure enough, I'm scared. The ninja on the side knew his partner no matter how well he could, and he just wanted to snicker at this time.
He looked up at the girl, who was eating with her head down, as if no one was around. That quiet appearance doesn't look like a person who can write such strange words. If you are a real person, you can't look good! He sighed in his heart.
An unfamiliar girl joined the meal, and although everyone was still chatting happily, they had their own thoughts.
In fact, Nanaya felt that she really didn't need to eat with the people in the tennis club. Not only was he swept away by curious eyes, but he was asked a lot of questions intentionally or unintentionally, and in the end, he didn't say much with the traces, let alone plan to discuss them together.
Walking out of the hotel, she once again refused to see her off.
"Then you take care of your own safety, ahhh The trace department no longer insisted, although he also thought about discussing yesterday's topic in the car, but after this period of getting along, it is not difficult for him to notice that girls have a natural resistance to cars.
The teenagers in the tennis club did not do a hitchhike on the track club alone, and it is said that they also had offline activities.
After saying goodbye to everyone, Nanaya slowly walked the streets of Tokyo alone.
At the beginning of the day, the sun disappeared into the sky, and before the sky was dyed ink, the dim light enveloped the city.
Office workers walked quickly with handbags, while two or three students were bouncing with their school bags.
Suddenly, a can rolled to Qiye's feet, she bent down to pick it up, and then looked up to see a homeless old man staggering towards her not far away.
"Thank you, girl." The old man took the can, squeezing out a kind smile on his wrinkled face.
Qiye waved his hand, not minding this kind of effort. However, her eyes widened at the old man's next sentence.
"Don't go to A-cho now, there's been a car accident." The old man sighed and limped away.
After she was stunned for a few seconds, she suddenly realized that A Town was the way home for the trace!
And the old man from a few seconds ago is long gone.
She hurriedly took out her mobile phone, broadcast the only phone number in her phone, and ran away.