"I think I can do it."

Ryoka Konoe added.

Then she held on for less than half a minute with her head half-raised, and she immediately lowered her head and looked at her toes.

She was actually scared.

I'm even more scared than when I watched the first episode of "Midnight Bell"... She was worried that she would be rejected by Tsukasa Higashino...

If you are denied... She even had the feeling that she would cry right away.

Konoe Ryoka has never cried, even if she was slapped a few times by her brother Ryoto Konoe last time, she just gritted her teeth and endured it.

But this time... She really felt like crying.

If she was rejected, she felt that she would definitely not be able to hold back her tears.

But even so, the body is completely contrary to its own thoughts, and has no intention of running away.

It was also like a root under my feet, and I couldn't move my steps.

Even Ryoka Konoe herself was a little surprised.

Have you gotten bolder?

Seeing that Ryoka Konoe lowered her head after being strong for less than half a minute, Higashino Tsukasa was stunned for a moment, and then finally couldn't help laughing.

Yes, although he was a little unfriendly to Ryoka Konoe, he couldn't help it.

Originally, I thought you were suddenly a different person... I didn't expect it to be the soft Konoe Lianghua from before.

Listening to Tsukasa Higashino's laughter, Ryoka Konoe's confidence collapsed at once.

Where does anyone laugh out loud when they hear a confession?

She bit her lower lip, her face darkened suddenly, and her eyes were misty, as if she would cry as soon as she received a reply from Tsukasa Higashino.

But soon, she heard the voice of Tsukasa Higashino.

"I think you can, too, Lianghua."

"Huh?"

When Konoe Ryoka heard this, she raised her head in disbelief.

For a moment, she thought she had misheard.

And... Cool flowers... This title...

Usually Higashino Tsukasa calls her Konoe-san.

"I said I thought you could, too." Tsukasa Higashino replied thoughtfully.

Yes, he didn't just say this just by looking at Konoe Ryoka's appearance, but he had similar thoughts before.

Ryoka Konoe likes herself... This is obvious to anyone with a discerning eye.

Several little girls in the studio are asking if they are talking about boyfriend and girlfriend with Ryoka Konoe.

So it's normal for Higashino to have this consideration.

But... It was just a matter of thinking about it.

After all, Konoe Ryoka has a really good personality, and she is also very kind and upright.

Tsukasa Higashino is also a normal man, so it's not like he hasn't thought about his girlfriend.

But taking the initiative to put things on the table like Ryoka Konoe, to be honest, this is the first time.

You must know that Konoe Lianghua is usually thin-skinned to death, and after a couple of teases, she fell into a state of 'fever', her face was red, not to mention, and even her neck was red.

She'll take the initiative to find herself and bring it up... This is indeed very courageous.

Even Tsukasa Higashino was a little teased by her unbiased straight ball.

"Uh..."

Ryoka Konoe, who was stunned by Tsukasa Higashino's sentence 'I think you can', finally came back to her senses.

She looked at Tsukasa Higashino, her face was hot, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.

Because she really likes Tsukasa Higashino...

This feeling is not sudden, but slowly ferments with time.

Teach painting, beat up Ryoto Konoe, help broaden her social circle...

Although Tsukasa Higashino said that she didn't have to care... But she had already memorized all these things.

If you like it, you like it... She can't fake it.

"Higashi, Higashino-san... Can I like you..."

Konoe Ryoka asked cautiously, her eyes a little too shy to open.

She slurred, her little hands didn't know where to put it, she could only pull the corners of her clothes crampedly, very stupid, and said very simply: "Please... Please mingle with me! ”

After saying this, even Konoe Ryoka herself couldn't help but blush more than half of her face.

God knows how she said that! Maybe it's because of the previous atmosphere, right?

Usually she would never be able to say it.

Looking at the shy and pretty appearance of Ryoka Konoe, Tsukasa Higashino couldn't help but think of the origin of the famous sentence 'The moonlight is so beautiful' by the great writer Natsume Soseki in the previous life.

It is said that Japanese people are generally shy and reserved, so they replaced 'I love you' with 'the moonlight is so beautiful'.

Because 'moonlight' has a certain degree of homonym with the romanized sound of 'like'.

But in Higashino's view, this is not the case.

It's not that the Japanese are shy and reserved, but that Konoe Ryoka is a shy and reserved person.

So he turned to look at the night sky, which had gradually darkened, and the moon that had come out of nowhere, and said softly, "The moonlight is so beautiful." ”

This sentence is actually a very ordinary sentence, and it doesn't seem to have any mood in Higashino's opinion, but it is perfect for use on this occasion.

But bar... Maybe it's the reason why girls in love are silly and naïve.

So when Ryoka Konoe heard this, she just blinked her eyes strangely and said 'oops'.

This silly...

Tsukasa Higashino was a little speechless.

It's a good atmosphere, and most of it was ruined by the simple 'hey' word of Konoe Lianghua.

So he simply pinched Konoe Ryoka's cheek and pulled her closer: "I mean, I like you." If you still don't understand, I'll explain it to you again - can you be my girlfriend, and in the future, be my wife, and give me children! You should understand by now, right? ”

The menacing appearance made the timid Konoe Lianghua immediately straighten up, and nodded in panic: "Understood!" Got it! ”

It's just that because Higashino Tsukasa pinched her cheek, she spoke vaguely.

"......" Tsukasa Higashino.

Okay... Ryoka Konoe finally had her first love, and Tsukasa Higashino originally wanted to have some romantic love stories for her.

As a result, I couldn't hold back all of a sudden, and the atmosphere collapsed all at once.

How can there be such a confession.

"It's really..."Tsukasa Higashino thought it was funny, so he let go of his hand and touched Ryoka Konoe's head again.

Seeing Tsukasa Higashino's hand stretched out, Ryoka Konoe originally wanted to hide.

But being glared at by the other party, Konoe Lianghua didn't dare to move.

"Can't I touch my girlfriend's head?" Tsukasa Higashino asked her rhetorically.

"Uh... Not... Well. Konoe Ryoka nodded confusedly.

Looking at her vague and silly appearance, Higashino Tsukasa was also a little helpless - did you understand this thing?

But it's too late now, and Higashino Tsukasa looked at the time, and it was already past seven o'clock.

He also knew that in the corner of the stairs in front of him were hiding Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi.

It's not good to keep them waiting for a long time, so Higashino just patted her on the head: "Let's go back quickly." ”

“... Ay? ”

"What?" Higashino Tsukasa pointed at her two sworn friends, inexplicably a little funny: "Do you want me to send you home?" ”

"No, no! I'll go home by myself! ”

Hearing Tsukasa Higashino's sentence of 'sending you home', Ryoka Konoe woke up from her pasty state, and she ran to Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi very cutely, with a little bit of a deserted meaning of running away.

"This Hanhan..."

Higashino sighed and expressed his anxiety about his girlfriend, who was not reliable at all.

But he didn't think much of it.

After all, Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi are by her side, and nothing will happen to her.

He waved at Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi, then turned around and returned to the room.

"It's all your fault! Dwarf! You see, you must have been exposed! ”

Seeing Tsukasa Higashino waving to himself, Yumi Takahashi immediately understood that what she was peeking at was known, so she immediately blamed Aoi Fujiwara.

"What do you mean I exposed? Isn't it that you stupid pig has grown too tall? It's easy to spot if you're big... Forget it, you don't understand it, the guy at the bottom of the exam. ”

Fujiwara Aoi replied very unhappily, and the two of them looked at Ryoka Konoe who ran back out of breath.

"Lianghua, you're so powerful... Just now, I rushed over while I wasn't looking. ”

Yumi Takahashi spoke first, with a look of admiration: "I saw Mr. Higashino's expression, and he seemed to be stunned. Belch... What happened to you? ”

She paused in the middle of speaking, and her face was full of strangeness.

Because the guard Lianghua in front of him looked sluggish, his eyes were blank, and he looked like he had nothing to love.

"Is the confession a failure?" Aoi Fujiwara, who was next to him, looked at Konoe Ryoka's expression and couldn't help but say with concern: "It's okay, Ryoka, that is, this time the confession failed, there will be a chance in the future, Higashino-san is a good boy, and it really takes some effort." ”

Yumi Takahashi also agreed, with a serious face: "Yes, yes, there is a good saying, as long as you are willing to work hard, flowers can be inserted on cow dung." ”

"Shut up!"

What is this talking about, the bull's head is not in the horse's mouth?

Aoi Fujiwara couldn't help but turn around and reprimand Yumi Takahashi.

"It's not..."Ryoka Konoe shook her head and looked at Fujiwara Aoi hesitantly, "I seem to have succeeded in confessing..."

"Hey——? Isn't that a good thing? So you're Higashino-sensei's girlfriend now, right? ”

Facing the expectant gazes of Yumi Takahashi and Aoi Fujiwara, Ryoka Konoe also shook her head in confusion: "... I don't know. ”

Yes?

You don't know?

Whether the confession succeeded or failed, you don't know yourself? Shouldn't it be?

At this moment, it was not only Yumi Takahashi, but even Aoi Fujiwara, who had always been calm, showed an expression of incomprehension when she heard these outrageous words.

And this kind of thing?

"It's just... That one... Higashino-san, he... A word to me... I don't quite understand what that means. ”

Ryoka Konoe is confused.

"What?" Aoi Fujiwara was the first to ask.

"The moonlight is so beautiful." Ryoka Konoe said.

"Huh? What the? Fujiwara Aoi looked at the moon behind her, and the night sky looked really beautiful tonight.

But that's different from what we're going to discuss, right?

"It's not... That, he said to me, 'The moonlight is beautiful'. ”

"The moonlight is so beautiful?"

Fujiwara Aoi understood what the other party meant, and began to ponder what this sentence meant.

The moonlight is so beautiful... The moonlight is so beautiful... What does this have to do with confession...?

Wait a minute.

"Isn't it possible that Higashino-san wants to express this?"

Fujiwara Aoi Guowen's grades are still good, so I just read it twice and reacted: "'Moon' and 'like' can be regarded as homonyms in a sense, which means that this is a kind of vague confession... It's so romantic..."

When it came to the end, Fujiwara Aoi couldn't help but sigh.

It's really a bit romantic.

The lover walked under the moonlight, and the man looked at the moonlight, and then at the woman, and said, "The moonlight is so beautiful." ”

The atmosphere and subtlety are instantly revealed.

This is simply a white gold sentence!

Even Yumi Takahashi, who didn't understand much next to her, nodded her head again and again when she heard it, praising Mr. Higashino for being worthy of Mr. Higashino, and he could even think of such sullen literary words.

"It's... Is that what it means? ”

Ryoka Konoe listened to Aoi Fujiwara's explanation, and then she reacted.

She had good grades in the school year, but after listening to Aoi Fujiwara's explanation, of course she understood it at once.

It turns out that the moonlight is so beautiful, and there is still such a meaning...?

Thinking back to hearing Higashino's words just now, not only did he not say anything, but he even said silly 'ah'? With a sound, Konoe Lianghua's cheeks, which had finally cooled down, began to heat up rapidly again.

It's no wonder that Tsukasa Higashino looked at himself with a very inexplicable gaze before leaving.

Truly... I'm so stupid...

......

Tsukasa Higashino didn't know that Ryoka Konoe and Yumi Takahashi were discussing the beauty of the moonlight.

When he returned home, he continued to work on the comic book "Winner is Justice".

After all, for Tsukasa Higashino, confession is confession, work is work, and the two still have to draw a clear line.

His credo is to finish the business at hand before thinking about anything else.

After yesterday's efforts, the first sentence of "Winner is Justice" has been touched out by him for four pages.

Definitely in time for next week.

"I don't know how that Shumoto-sensei drew it."

As Higashino drew and painted, he thought of the vine mentioned by Shinji Furuta, the editor-in-chief of Fuji Publishing House.

He was actually a little curious.

Because it's serialized at the same time, and Shumoto Fuji, like him, also belongs to the lawyer profession type manga.

So what kind of work will the other party come up with... This is something Higashino is actually quite interested in.

And at the same time as he was thinking.

On the other side, in a small three-story detached house near Bunkyo District-

"It's fun, it's really fun. Mr. Tsumototo, this "Lawyer Trap" is really interesting. ”

Furuta Shinji looked at the original manuscript in his hand and nodded with satisfaction.

It's really a very interesting comic.

A lost lawsuit pulled the actor of the elite lawyer down the quagmire, and in the continuous questioning and investigation, he found that the lost lawsuit was actually arranged by someone secretly, and the purpose was to drag him into the quagmire that he could not turn over.

In this situation, the actor gritted his teeth, fought to catch up, and did not forget justice and truth in the quagmire...

The overall pace is very fast, but the first sentence has buried a lot of foreshadowing, which makes the follow-up full of anticipation.

As for the setting of the lawyer actor with a full sense of justice...

It's old-fashioned, but it's still easy to use.

"Maybe I'll be able to meet that Higashino-sensei from Urashima Press..."

Furuta Shinji muttered to himself.