"You said you knew Kotomi's parents died?!"

"Well, I heard about it yesterday."

After Okazaki found out that Kotomi's parents were physicists and Mr. and Mrs. Ichinose, I told him what I knew about Kotomi.

"But that's fine if you know," Okazaki let out a long sigh as he sat back in his chair, "I don't know what to tell you." ”

"Furukawa, what are you going to do?"

Although it's hard to talk about Kotomi, they have the right to know about their best friends.

“… Find a good time to tell them, but now I'm more worried about Kotomi's situation. ”

"Then we'll go to Kotomi's house now."

With that, I stood up and proposed to Okazaki.

"No, you go back to class." Standing up and holding my shoulder, Okazaki shook his head, "If you continue to skip class like this, you will be targeted by the teacher, so I'll go alone." ”

"But I'm also worried about Kotomi's situation."

"If you and I both leave school, then who will explain the reason to Furukawa and them?"

“… Okazaki," I had to propose another plan after staring at Okazaki's unspeakable gaze, "Then I'll come and join you after informing Furukawa." ”

"You'd better come with them after school, I heard you seemed to get lost yesterday."

"Huh! That..."

It's Okazaki, and it stabbed me to the point all of a sudden.

"That's it, I'll leave it to you next."

Patting me on the back, Okazaki walked out the door.

"Hey, Okazaki!" As he was about to walk out the door, I shouted into his back, "I'll turn on my phone, you must contact me if you have anything!" ”

I don't know if he listened to me, but I saw him stretch out his hand and wave at me.

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I stayed in the department until the bell rang for the end of class, and then I walked out of it and walked towards the classroom.

Alas~ Let's not talk about what the history teacher said, how should I explain it to Xing when I go back?

Got out of the staff room and forgot your way back to the classroom? No, even if Xing believes this reason, I must not say this, first of all, it hurts my self-esteem too much; Attacked by an alien creature that suddenly appeared and only escaped now? No, the reason is too middle-class, and Xing is not stupid, maybe he will think that I have a problem with my head; So let's be honest? It's possible, but...

It's too hard.

As Okazaki said, what kind of mood should such a thing be explained to them? I'd rather find a good time to tell them, otherwise it's really hard to talk.

"Oh~ you're finally back."

"Ah, apricots."

As soon as I returned to the classroom, I was greeted by a smiling and clucking head teacher.

"Get me out for a while."

"Apricot slow, slow! My neck! ”

Xing walked straight past me, grabbed my tie and walked towards the door.

"Whew!"

I was dragged to the staircase by Apricot against the wall, and it was the head of the class with inverted triangular eyes who was glaring at me fiercely.

"You're so bold~ Don't you know that I ran all over the teaching building to find you?"

"I'm sorry."

Xing's tone is brisk, but there is no smile in your eyes.

"Tell me honestly where the first class went!"

It seems that if you don't explain it well, you might really break a rib or two.

"I'll tell you the truth, but can you wait until noon to gather Furukawa and Starling together?"

"Do you want to say that your absenteeism has something to do with Starling and Nagisa?"

"If you have to say something, you guess there is."

“… Although know that you have no talent for lying, but! After a moment of silence, Apricot finally let go of her grip on my tie and crossed her waist to warn me viciously, "If I knew your reason was just, I'd tie your tongue in your stomach and stuff it!" ”

"Hah..."

It's still the same ruthlessness to speak.

"I'll make it clear then, and I'll go back to the classroom now."

Walking behind Apricot and pushing her towards the classroom, I responded with a wry smile.

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It seemed that I had been thinking about what I was going to say, and as soon as the bell rang for the lunch break, I was dragged by the apricot with my tie and dragged to the department.

So, I explained to everyone what I knew and what Okazaki told me about Kotomi.

"Huh~! Are you telling the truth?! ”

"How so..."

"Kotomi..."

However, compared to the shock of the apricot, Furukawa and starling were quite devastated.

"This happened to Kotomi..."

"It's clear that Kotomi has been enduring such painful memories, but we..."

"Sister, Xiao Nagisa..."

"That's why we should cheer up!" Seeing everyone sighing with their heads bowed, I couldn't help but stand up and shout at them, "How can you help Kotomi even when we're all like this?!" ”

“… Spring? ”

"Now Okazaki should have arrived at Kotomi's house, so Kotomi will hand it over to Okazaki for the time being, "After all, even if we go to meet Kotomi, she may not come out to meet us, if it is Okazaki who has known her since childhood, there may be a way to meet her," and then I thought about whether we could do something else for Kotomi. ”

And I also think that the only person in this world who can get Kotomi out of the house is probably Okazaki.

"But... Kotomi didn't want to meet us. ”

That's why I say "other", in addition to verbal communication, there are also practices such as actions.

"Action?"

"Ah, I'll do whatever I can," I grinned as I looked at the muttering apricot, "Whatever I can." ”

That's the only thing I can do.

"Ha~ This kind of answer is indeed your style," shaking his head and sighing, Xing looked at me with a wry smile, "Although you are a fool, this time you are indeed right." ”

It's too much, and even if you want to praise me, you don't have to say you're "stupid".

"W-That!" Furukawa stood up with his hands in his hands, as if he had mustered up the courage to look at us, "I'm really still not worried about Kotomi, I'm going to go over and have a look in the afternoon." ”

"Furukawa, are you planning to skip school?" I'm not very reliable, but..."Forget it. ”

Because there will be a lot of troubles afterwards, but this is my advice after experiencing it firsthand.

"Xiao Nagisa is not a stupid person like you," seemed to still hold a grudge against me in the morning, Xing bumped my waist with her elbow, "I remember that Class B is self-study in the afternoon, right?" ”

"Well, so I'm going to take a look at it while I'm in self-study class."

Indeed, this is like what Furukawa said... By the way, I remember Okazaki didn't ask me before...

"Everyone, there may be a way to do it!"