The study meeting spent the day without incident.

It's Friday, and Suzu is going to record the weekend's radio voice actor talk in the afternoon, so the study club is temporarily disbanded.

Sakakihara is the kind of person who can't be idle, taking advantage of the fact that there are no club activities after school early on Friday, he changed into a sportswear and went out for a run.

Originally, she wanted to call Jiu Ruri together, but her class seemed to be still tutoring other courses, and Sakakihara had to go home first.

From Shigemu-ji Temple to Shirokane-Mizukawa Shrine, and from the shrine to Sacred Heart Women's College...... The breeze was blowing, the street trees were swaying on both sides, and the sweaty Sakakihara was running to get carried away.

He doesn't know when he started to love running.

It's just that whenever he feels an indescribable emotion in his heart, he will try to move his legs to dispel this feeling.

If there is light on the riverside path, the solid ground that is stepping step by step is as dazzling as a lighthouse on the sea, leading the way in the sometimes whistling of street vehicles.

Arrived near Sacred Heart Women's College.

From time to time, girls in sailor suits watched him on the side of the road, and when his figure flew by, they buried their heads together and whispered excitedly.

"That boy was in good shape just now!"

"The muscles in the legs also look good and shapely!"

"There must be abs."

"Lian-chan, go up and ask for contact information! If we don't take the initiative, we have no way out at all at the women's college! ”

"What, why don't you go?"

"Huh! People have long since run away! ”

When the charm reaches eight o'clock, there seems to be a class leap.

In the past, at most, girls would stare at themselves and take a second look, but now they will get together to discuss his characteristics, long legs, tall height and so on.

Sakakihara happened to see a long-haired girl wearing a Western-style school uniform at Meitoku High School in front of him.

- Black hair, pleated skirt, over-the-knee socks and small brown leather shoes.

With the running of the pace, the girl's back gradually approached, and Sakakihara Le didn't want to know what the other party looked like for the first time, but through the same school uniform, he inexplicably thought of Tianhai Jiu Liuli.

Since the day of the shopping mall, her image has been lingering in my mind, cute, kind, upright, sunny, gentle... She has flaxen-colored beautiful long hair as light as a spring breeze, and a girl like a kaolin flower.

Running against the breeze, such an indescribable emotion became more and more inspiring, and a long-lost passion swayed in his heart.

Although he only lived to be eighteen years old in his previous life, his knowledge was not much higher than that of this life.

But he knew that hesitation was never a good thing.

He decided, the monthly test is over, and he wants to fall in love!

He couldn't help but quicken his pace.

"Hey! Sakakibara! This way! ”

Fujino was waving to him across the street with a large bag of things, and in addition to Nishijima, there was a girl in a sailor suit standing next to him.

Sakakihara stopped, his gaze passing through the passing vehicles.

He walked through the traffic light and came to the trio.

"Sakakihara, you know this, my girlfriend! Kiyosawa Otoha," Fujino Yoshiyuki introduced with a smile, his expression and words revealing confidence and pride, "Usually I call her Ye Chan, or Koha!" ”

"Hello."

"Hello!"

Kiyosawa Otoha tilted his head slightly and waved his hand cheerfully at Sakakihara Raku.

She's a pretty girl, and I've heard that she and Fujino have been in the same school since elementary school.

It's just that in high school, because of the difference in family background, Fujino went to Mingtoku Juku, which has a higher tuition fee, and Kiyosawa Otoha went to the nearby Sacred Heart Women's College.

The childhood sweethearts were forced to separate, and Fujino was entangled until it exploded for a while, completely reluctant, and engraved with complete embarrassment.

In short, after overcoming a series of hardships, he took the initiative to confess, and after coming and going, it became a love relationship.

Compared with Sakakihara's ordinary nodding greeting, Kiyosawa Otoha seemed very enthusiastic:

"You're Sakakihara-kun, right?!"

"Hmm." Sakakihara nodded.

"I feel that I am much more handsome than Yixingjun said!"

Fujino Yoshiyuki interjected next to him: "Cut~ Don't say it, this is a recent change in him, I dare to pack a ticket, he was definitely not so dazzling a while ago." ”

"Really?" Kiyosawa Otoha blinked, he was a little interested in his boyfriend's handsome classmate.

My best friend has been shouting like a resentful woman every day when she gets out of class, I really want to find a boyfriend, I really want to find a boyfriend.

Maybe you can help them find one?

"Don't believe me? Xiaoye, you can ask Nishijima. ”

Nishijima Oki nodded: "It's true." ”

Kiyosawa Otoha smiled: "That must be Sakakihara-kun learning to dress up!" ”

"You just came back from Akihabara? What to buy? Sakakihara saw the store's logo on their shopping bag.

Yoshiyuki Fujino took the handbag: "Oh, just some food, potato chips, drinks and chocolate." ”

Daiki Nishijima: "The figure also has a game card. ”

"But you, Sakakibara, sweating profusely, why are you still running?"

"Exercise, people are not born great, but show their greatness in growth, and I am gradually growing."

"How long have you been running?"

"Twenty-five kilometers."

"Twenty-five kilometers?!" Fujino's eyes widened.

"It's getting more and more exaggerated, I said you, can you save a little face for people like us, just learn every day, sports are still so good... Why are you almost on the spot? And why do I feel like you've been a lot more handsome lately, it's not the same person at all. ”

Nishimura Daiki nodded with a flat expression: "Ordinary handsome and Kimura Takuya-level handsome." ”

It seems that the charm of 8 o'clock has really worked, and everyone has been saying that they have changed recently.

"Really?"

Sakakihara had a smile on his face, because he had just run, and Junxiu's face was a hearty smile.

Hey, this guy!

The more Fujino Yoshiyuki looked at it, the more wrong it became, and Sakakihara has really changed a lot in the past few days.

Running every morning, running in the morning and running at night.

He doesn't feel comfortable running 20 kilometers a day.

I usually have nothing to do after class to study and study exercises.

What is such a person who is not cash charged?

"You're going to continue?"

"Go on, there's five kilometers left, and I'll run home after the run."

"Why are you working so hard?" Nishijima asked.

"It's called keeping your charm all the time."

"Hahaha, Sakakihara-kun is interesting!" Kiyosawa Otoha hid his face and smiled.

"Cut~~ You don't fall in love, it's useless to be charming."

"Who said that? Maybe next month you'll see me start dating a high school girl. ”

"True or false?" Fujino stared at him for a moment, not thinking he was lying.

"Who knows? Okay, goodbye, I continued to complete the remaining five kilometers. ”

"Holy, Sakakihara! You don't try so hard, okay! ”

"Goodbye."

"Sakakihara-kun goodbye~" Kiyosawa Otoha beckoned cutely.

"Hmm."

After Sakakihara finished speaking, he waved his hand to the three of them and continued to set off to finish the rest of the journey.

"I think your classmate is quite interesting, is he in love?"

"Nope." Fujino shook his head and said, "You want to introduce your girlfriend?" ”

"Why don't you help me ask? They're almost annoying me all day," Kiyosawa Otoha snapped his fingers, "What do you keep saying, 'Ah~ It's good that Ye Jiang has a boyfriend', 'It's good to have a childhood sweetheart', 'What is the time to get me', and so on." ”

"Okay, but I don't know if it will work out."

"It's okay, it's okay."

"Didn't Sakakihara just say that he wanted to fall in love?" Nishijima interjected to the two.

"That means it's very likely?" Kiyosawa Otoha asked with a wink.

"Not necessarily, maybe Sakakihara's vision is very high, after all, he himself is not bad."

......

Running through the streets, finishing the last five kilometers of the journey, as the shops and neon lights around him increased, he realized that he had come to the wrong place and actually ran to Ginza.

Sakakihara rested beside a telephone pole and vending goods, bent over and bracing his knees.

"Happy!"

Cheer yourself up, then step on the ground with one foot, lift the other foot forward on the tree in front of you, press your upper body and start stretching your legs.

After completing a set of actions, he breathed a sigh of relief, took out a few coins from his purse, and bought a bottle of mineral water at room temperature in the vending machine.

Towards the end of the evening, the sun's afterglow scorched the sinking clouds, and the cascading sea of clouds contained melancholy orange and dark gold, intertwined together to form a dreamy sky like an oil painting.

As the sun sets, Sakakihara leans against a telephone pole and looks at the endless stream of pedestrians in front of him, listening to the hustle and bustle of the city in the bustling city, enjoying his own tranquility.

Merchandise stores, gift shops, jewelry stores, clothing stores, and huge fashion advertisements overhead are all reflected in his eyes, and no one notices him, he is just a spectator who silently watches the business center go by in motion.

The seclusion of being in a decent place but independent of the downtown inexplicably made him feel comfortable for a while.

[The third world is brilliant and dazzling, as vibrant as spring. There are electric lights, silver spoons, laughter, laughter, and sparkling champagne. 】

The protagonist of Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro", the country boy Sanshiro, sees Tokyo in this way.

In a sense, I guess I have something in common with him.

It's all country kids.

He rested for a while, got up and left.

Ginza is six kilometres away from Shirokane Takanawa, and Sakakihara chose to spend 10 minutes walking back.

Arriving at Don Quixote Supermarket, where he often goes grocery shopping, Sakakihara is surprised to find a large bag of potato chips coming out.

- It's really a big bag of potato chips, so large that you can only see the skirt under the potato chips and the slender legs wearing over-the-knee socks.

The aunts who went to buy vegetables around them smiled when they saw the man holding the potato chips in the back.

Sakakihara glanced at it with some curiosity, wanting to see who was so strange that he would buy so many potato chips at once, but the flaxen-colored hair showed a little from the corners, and he knew who it was.

"Qi Mingyue, let me come."

"Brother?"

Tianhai Qimingyue, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, raised her delicate little face and looked at Sakakihara Le, who suddenly appeared in front of her and helped her hold the potato chips.

"Why do you buy so much at once?" Sakakihara faces a potato chip concentration camp half the size of his own body, which looks like a microbial community.

"Because of today's supermarket promotion, buy one pack and get half a pack free."

"Half a pack?"

"Two packs get one pack, isn't it one pack and half a pack?"

"Two people give birth to one, and it can't be said that one person gives birth to half a person."

"Brother, this is stealing concepts. But brother is just in time, help your sister get something. ”

Tianhai Qimingyue put the potato chips in her hand into Sakakihara Le's arms, she carried a small bag cross-body, and she was wearing a sky blue casual dress.

"You should have called your sister out." Sakakihara said.

"My sister won't agree to me buying so many potato chips."

"So you bought it secretly?"

"Is my brother going to expose Qi Mingyue to my sister again?"

"I'm just asking."

"It's good that my brother knows it, although Qi Mingyue likes her very much and loves her sister very much, but there are some things that I still can't let my sister know."

Sakakihara knew why, because of buying so many potato chips, Jiu Ruri would definitely bounce her forehead.

Jiuliuli still has the momentum of a sister.

Divide the chips into four small bags, carry two bags for each person, and start taking the tram home.

Qi Mingyue is very quiet, when she takes the tram, she likes to sit quietly in the same place, and then stare at the constantly flashing scenery outside the car window.

There is nothing special about this, but because of her excellent face and unique temperament, she is completely different from everyone in the train.

"Brother thinks Qi Mingyue is very good-looking?"

"I'm just curious about Qi Mingyue, you and Jiu Liuli, have you been very strict since you were a child?"

"That's right." Tianhai Qimingyue nodded seriously, "Sister not only knows archery, but also calligraphy and violin, and he also knows a little about the guitar, perfect sister." ”

"What about the Seven Bright Moons?"

"I'm not as good as my sister." When Tianhai Qi Mingyue said this, his little face was buried.

"If there is no pine and cypress ambition, transcendence is not high, I think Qi Mingyue at least you know how to be humble."

"My brother will also study Chinese literature?"

Seeing that she was interested, Sakakihara continued to say, "More than that, I can also speak Chinese." ”

"Really? (The word is round)"

Sakakihara was stunned for a moment, this even has a bit of a Beijing flavor, but because the girly feeling is very heavy, it is a very cute style, "Qi Mingyue, you will too?" ”

"I learned from my mother, and I learned from my father."

Uncle Tianhai also knows Chinese?

But also, there are books from more than ten countries in his study, and they are all original.

Probably Qi Mingyue likes to read, and she is also influenced by Uncle Tianhai.

However, Sakakihara Le did not expect that Tianhai Qimingyue would have such a pure Chinese accent, and his mouth was a little rusty, and he began to be interested in chatting with her in Chinese:

"After people return to the geese, their thoughts are in front of the flowers."

"People think about returning every day, the five-word poem of the Sui Dynasty."

"After the ancient platform is shaken, the autumn is in the heart of the hometown."

"Liu Changqing, climb the Wugong Taishang Temple in autumn and overlook... This poem is still the original poem that Qi Mingyue saw in an article and went to find it. ”

"Jin Que Xiao Zhong Wan opened an account, and the Jade Rank Immortal fought to hold a thousand palaces."

Cen Shen's singing and poems are about the scene of the early Ming Dynasty; It didn't make any sense for my brother to ask so simply. ”

"Haha, indeed, it's the same as searching for knowledge." Sakakihara laughed.

After communicating with Qi Mingyue for a while, he found that she was not as strange as she imagined.

On the contrary, she is still a very knowledgeable girl.

When it comes to many interesting trivia, she will smile lightly.

"I didn't expect my brother to read a lot of knowledge."

"It's just idle, nothing to look at."

"Qimingyue, do you have any recommended books?"

""Six Tales of Floating Life", Qi Mingyue likes the sweet love in it very much."

"True or false? How does the name sound so much like narrative prose. ”

"It's autobiographical prose, and it's in the school library."

"Okay, I'll borrow it tomorrow when I go to school."

Carrying two large bags of potato chips from Shirokane Takanawa, Sakakihara and Amami Nanakizuki waited at a crossroads.

There is a newly opened bridal shop across the street, which looks like a dazzling temple under the rendering of the lights.

Sakakihara waited until the red light turned green, shouted Qimingyue, and just took two steps and found that she hadn't followed, so he turned around to look at her.

"Seven bright moons?"

Tianhai Qi Mingyue stood in place with two bags of potato chips, the night breeze brought by the vehicle caressed her face, and her sky blue gradient dress and long flaxen hair floated to the right at the same time.

The girl's sky-blue eyes reflected the white wedding dress in the opposite window.

"Seven bright moons?" Sakakihara shouted at her again, noticing the way she looked at the bridal shop opposite.

"Hmm."

Halfway through the countdown to the green light, Tianhai Qimingyue came back to her senses, and she followed Sakakihara Le's side with light steps.

Sakakihara found that she seemed to be in a strange state, not wanting to speak much, as if she was stuck in some kind of memory.

Speaking of which, no matter how smart Qi Mingyue is, her heart is just a girl.

"Excuse me, can I take a moment of your time?" It was a young lady with a leaflet in her hand and a gown in her hand.

Before she came to talk, she took a fancy to the girl in front of her with two plastic bags in her hands.

Light and dusty temperament, like a spring breeze like a face.

"What's the matter?" Sakakihara asked.

"That's right, we are from the bridal shop over there, and we mainly want to ask this young lady next to you, sir, to do a favor."