Something must be wrong.

In the bathroom, when Higuchi Rokka was temporarily away, a handful of water washed away the smile on the girl's face and took away the temperature that remained in her palm.

Something must have changed.

Looking at the smile in the mirror gradually constricted, and the weak and powerless self, Izumi Nagi was unexpectedly calm.

The two of them tacitly didn't mention the last confession, as if they had gone out on a date countless times in the past, holding hands and chatting about intimate topics as before, as if they had returned to their previous relationship......

There's no going back.

Izumi Nagi looked at her palm, the hand she had been holding before made her understand.

Higuchi Rokka is afraid, afraid of her, afraid that the two will go further, afraid that the relationship between the two will go to zero.

The temperature conveyed by the palm of his hand is not deceiving, and Izumi Nagi understands that there is already something different.

Can you really go back to the beginning and let Miss Liuhua rediscover herself?

Izumi Nagi didn't know.

She couldn't imagine Higuchi Rokka approaching her in fear, and she didn't want to see it, it went against Izumi Nagi's original wishes.

[I want to be more intimate with Miss Liuhua]

surpassed friends but failed to achieve the intimacy they expected, so everything before them deteriorated.

Izumi Nagi needs to make a decision, make a decision to bring everything back to square one.

The water flowed, and the girl regained her smile again.

"Have you waited a long time?"

"Nope." Higuchi Rokka shook her head, but she had a premonition that something was about to happen.

……

"What's wrong?" Hoshino Mahiro's right eyelid began to jump again.

"What's wrong?" Sayoko placed her palm on his forehead, feeling the temperature.

"Not me."

"Something is going to happen." His hunches in this regard are always very effective, whether it is dreaming or jumping eyelids.

[The dolphin show will be performed on the outdoor stage, welcome all VIPs to come and enjoy]

"The Dolphin Show thing?"

"Perhaps." Shinhiro Hoshino continues to lead Sayoko towards the venue of the dolphin show.

How do you describe the dolphin show?

Thank you.

The dolphins who did not participate in the dolphin union were healthy, and the staff who worked overtime were very hard-working, and a bunch of older children and children were very happy to watch.

The three girls had a great time interacting with the dolphins that were constantly swimming and playing in the water, and this cute animal was always popular with girls.

When it comes to dolphins, Hoshino Mahiro has always been indifferent, but he has a lot of opinions about the dolphin specialty store where the dolphin show exports.

"Buy one?" Sayoko pointed to a large dolphin pillow that was about as tall as Hoshino Mahiro.

"Nope."

"Buy one."

"Nope." Thinking of the precarious way he walked back with the dolphin in his arms, Hoshino Mahiro couldn't help but shudder.

"If you don't want a pillow, forget it." Sayoko-sama surprisingly didn't hold on. "Next time I'll get some real dolphins back."

It's more terrifying than a pillow, and the move of smashing the wall without opening the door is too incomprehensible.

"Let's talk about the pillow." Hoshino Mahiro still compromised under the obscenity of a superpowered beautiful girl.

The future status is worrying.

……

"Let's go to my house next, I haven't finished watching the last video, and by the way, I ...... Super Mario that didn't clear the level."

After watching the dolphin show, the two girls who were eating together at the family restaurant were walking down the street in the evening, and Rokka Higuchi was still implementing this strategy of taking the initiative to attack, and she said as Izumi Nagi responded.

From side by side to one after the other, Izumi Nagi finally stayed where he was.

"Nagi-chan?"

"Miss Rokkana's home?" Izumi Nagi smiled. "Next time."

"Now there are more important things I want to talk to Miss Liuhua."

"Okay."

Izumi Nagi had a smile on her face, but her eyes were so depressed that the sorrow in it stung Higuchi Rokka and made her unable to say a word of refusal.

"I've been thinking about Miss Liuhua."

"I know."

"Miss Rokuka!"

Izumi Nagi's eyes contained a shimmering color that Higuchi Rokka had never seen before.

Beyond the past, beyond the weak, beyond all the shackles, the purest, undisguised.

The color of Izumi Nagi.

"Yes." Both of them were breathing a little faster.

"I still like you a lot."

Higuchi Rokka nodded with difficulty: "I know." ”

"I've always known that."

The scenes from childhood to adulthood resurfaced, and all the precious memories that had been forgotten by her and were lost by her, and the memories with Izumi Nagi returned to her side again.

The things I've always known, the things I've been running away from, the things I've always been afraid of, her things, Izumi Nagi's things.

A matter of two people.

"Miss Rokuka."

"I want to take back what I confessed."

"Let's be friends again."

"Okay? Izumi Nagi's begging eyes glistened with tears.

"......" Higuchi Rokuka was like a thunderbolt, and he couldn't believe what he had just heard.

"Please turn back into a friend with me once again."

"It's good for all of us." Without waiting for Higuchi Rokka to respond, Izumi Nagi gently hugged her and walked into the corner of dusk with a smile on her face.

Only Higuchi Rokka was left in place.

[At the moment of fate, after all, she will usher in the only unacceptable ending]

[Whether it's Higuchi Rokka or Izumi Nagi]

Higuchi Rokka chases another world towards dusk, but it's not the strong girl around the corner.

"Mind talking to me a little longer?" In the shadow around the corner, the gentle Miss Sayoko quietly looked at the stunned girl and couldn't help but call softly.

"Himenomiya-san...... Why is it here? Rokka Higuchi subconsciously avoided Sayoko's gaze, not wanting her to see her embarrassed appearance.

"Talk to me."

"Okay." Sayoko just looked at her quietly, and Higuchi Rokuka lost all room to escape.

The same warm family restaurant, different tables ushered in familiar and strange guests, and after Sayoko gently drove away the curious clerk with her eyes, the conversation resumed.

"How's the aquarium?"

"A lot like an aquarium aquarium." Rokuka Higuchi didn't know what she was talking about, she just kept stirring the hot milk tea in her hand.

"Where's Izumi-san today?"

"I don't know." She said.

Izumi Nagi, who has not changed much from the past, took the initiative to return to the position of a friend according to his own wishes, and it was clear that everything was developing in the ideal direction, but Higuchi Rokka was not happy.

There were some changes in Izumi Nagi's body that she couldn't understand, and the gentle and sad eyes when they parted seemed to have given up everything they had in the past.

Izumi Nagi in the past has left herself with that embrace, and all that is left is a good memory.

A Nagi Izumi who won't leave her and is by her side as a friend.

"It's as if something precious is going to leave her forever," Sayoko said for her. "Obviously, everything is back on track, but the mind and the past time will not come back."

"If you only think about Higuchi-san, you win, and if you want to think about Izumi-san, you lose."

"We all lost." Higuchi Rokka didn't know what kind of expression she was on now, she only knew that it must be ugly.

Sayoko remembered what Hoshino Mahiro said to herself when she was chatting before: "Someone told me that the so-called love is actually an irreversible relationship sublimation. ”

"Hoshino-san?"

Sayoko nodded.

"With the iron-like mind as the driving force for sublimation, all the memories and relationships accumulated in the past as fuel, the relationship between two people from strangers and friends to a new realm."

"If the mind is not pure, there is no way to reach a new realm."

"If the accumulation is not sufficient, there is nothing that can be secured."

"A good start, a good process, will bring good results."

"Offering all things and sacrifices, after a long period of transformation, you will receive things as bright and beautiful as gold."

Sayoko imitated the expression of Hoshino Mahiro one afternoon and said in a low voice: "The so-called pure love is an alchemy that gambles everything. ”

"A sublimation that can't be turned back."

Higuchi Rokka became more and more silent.

"Even if some words are retracted, the process of sublimation is already irreversible."

It is not as good as gold, and it is in an ambiguous border until one party voluntarily gives up, until one party withdraws.

"Is it a greedy mistake?"

Sayoko was silent for a while: "You're not wrong. ”

"It's just that some things are too heavy." She said.

……

With his back to Higuchi Rokka in this way, Izumi Nagi crossed the border of dusk.

Walk into that good night.

Until the 'good night' tenderly rejected all her promises.

"Master? Xiaobai and Xiaohei? Izumi Nagi, glistening with tears, couldn't believe what she was seeing.

A person, a cat and a crow are waiting for her at the last moment of dusk.

"Meow meow!" Meowdis, who was piggybacking by the [Rainbow Bridge], couldn't help it and returned to his master's arms.

"Quack, quack!" Brother Crow, who was working overtime temporarily, put his arm on Hoshino Mahiro's arm, and his voice became gentle for the first time.

"Do you want to eat? Extra-large meat buns. "Mahiro Hoshino, who bought meat buns with two pets, was almost kicked out by the clerk on duty just now, but fortunately the cashier was still the gentle lady.

"Okay." Izumi Nagi nodded heavily.

A little unfamiliar bench, a familiar two people, a cat and a crow.

Like Monday morning, at dusk, when the sun was about to lose its brilliance, they met again in a beautiful moment.

"This is it." Hoshino Mahiro takes a bite and the full gravy and minced meat will never betray him.

"Have you waited a long time? Or is it that the master is always by his side. Izumi Nagi took small bites, watching the fading sunset and figured out a lot of things.

"I originally thought there would be bears in the aquarium, but it was only my cute apprentice who came here."

"Bear?" Izumi Nagi struggled to imagine the bear swimming in the tank and nodded thoughtfully.

"Very good."

"yes, yes, bears living in the aquarium."

It's still a half-sister who can understand her own thoughts, and it's not in vain that Hoshino Mahiro specially bought the meat bun.

"Smelled."

“？”

"When I watched the jellyfish, I smelled the master."

"It smells warm."

"Is Nagi going to turn into a cat?"

"That doesn't seem like a bad thing." The girl chuckled softly.

Cats that appear in aquariums and bears that live in aquariums? Shinhiro Hoshino imagined what the master and apprentice would look like in the aquarium.

That's nice.

The two men came up with a wonderful consensus.

"Why is Xiaobai here?" Izumi noticed a blind spot.

"It looks like I ran away from home to play with the crows, and then I caught it."

"Meow Meow Meow !!" Meow Dis protested a few words very dissatisfied, and then was kneaded by his master.

"Not next time."

"Thank you, Xiaobai."

Hoshino Mahiro quietly looked at the lonely Izumi Nagi, and remembered the bright light that once flashed in the girl's eyes.

"Nagi-chan."

"What's wrong?"

"Would you like to talk to me?"

"Okay." Izumi Nagi blinked, and the tears that had not been shed returned to her eyes again.

"Maybe there's something wrong."

"Hmm."

"Although she has become intimate with Miss Rokuka, she is afraid."

"The temperature of the palm of your hand doesn't lie." It's as if holding Sayoko's hand, Mahiro Hoshino knows what Sayoko is thinking.

There are some places that can't fool people.

Izumi Nagi nodded: "I obviously want to become closer to Miss Liuhua, but in the end, something loses its original appearance." ”

"Something has changed."

"Because of me, Miss Rokka became scared."

"It's not the result I wanted." She said.

"In the process of pursuing, the things pursued deteriorate because of it." Hoshino Mahiro fed the crows with his leftover meat buns.

"The cart before the horse is inverted."

There was no response, she just lowered her head and began to pet the.

After being silent for a long time, Izumi Nagi spoke again: "I like Miss Liuhua very much, whether it is the confused side or the gentle side. ”

"I like them all."

"Hmm."

"I really want to be intimate with Miss Liuhua, I want to do something more intimate with her, and become a relationship that is even closer than friends."

"I really want to be a lover with Miss Rokkana."

"I know."

"But I've taken my confession back." Looking at the sunset that was about to disappear completely, Izumi Nagi showed a relieved expression.

"There won't be a next time."

"I seem to have caused a lot of trouble for Miss Rokuka." Izumi Nagi didn't dare to look at Hoshino Mahiro to speak, but continued to pour out on his own.

"It wouldn't be good if I lost my precious Miss Liuhua because of me."

"Before Miss Rokka fell in love with me as a lover, I wanted her to stay the way she was."

"What are you going to do in the future?"

"Close friends."

"Is it going to go on like this?"

Izumi Nagi's forced smile couldn't hold on any longer: "I like Miss Rokuka." ”

"I like it." She said.

"I know." Hoshino Mahiro didn't know what else he could say at this time, but he responded to all the thoughts that Izumi Nagi couldn't say.

He responded over and over again in place of Higuchi Rokuka until the girl's emotions calmed down.

The mood of liking can never be hidden.

It is because of this unconcealable and heavy love that the story will come to an abrupt end here.

But it's not over yet.

Until you really let go, love and love don't stop because of a moment.