At the end of October, the leaves of the ginkgo trees on the slope in front of the college are either flying lightly or accumulating in piles.

Walking on the uphill road covered with gold in a suit and uniform, stretching out his hand to stop the bright sun in the sky, Kamihara Leku flipped the schoolbag on his shoulders and looked at the gate of the academy above Sakamichi.

Crisp white shirts without any folds, neatly groomed Western-style school uniforms, fluttering pleated skirts, or annoying trousers wrapped around their feet, all around the students were heading for the gate.

Here, it's high school.

Legend has it that it is a gathering place for one of the most magnificent times of life.

Youth, struggle, enthusiasm, and hard work can all be reflected in this time. Whenever I leave society as an adult, I always recall the precious pictures I have encountered in the past three years... Clubs, teachers, classmates, or a female classmate who has a crush on you.

Summer fireworks, New Year's visits, holiday trips, and sweet and dreamy moments with your first love.

Kamihara also looked forward to that scene.

Sit with a beautiful girl you like, talk about the little things you do, or write the same homework at the same time. On the rooftop, in the family restaurant, in front of the bench at the convenience store... Hand in hand, feed each other some snacks, feel each other's presence and smile happily.

All in all, high school is synonymous with youth.

This memory is more profound than elementary school, and more special than college.

For me as I grew up, it was definitely a time worth remembering.

But now, Kamihara is a little at a loss.

Because of the cultural festival in November, it began to be officially implemented.

"Uh-huh."

As the head teacher of their fourth class, Keiko Miyasaka, a professional female teacher, tapped the podium with the corner of her book, signaling everyone in the class to be quiet during the morning meeting.

"That's the case, so do you have any good suggestions for the activities that our class will run? You can speak up. ”

In this case, compared to the general silence of other classes, Kamihara found that everyone in his class was exceptionally positive.

"Haunted house!" A girl raises her hand.

"Pillow fight!" A boy raised his hand.

"Snack bar!

”

"Maid Cafe!

”

One by two, they raised their hands and found out.

For a while, due to everyone's overly enthusiastic performance, Keiko Miyasaka signaled quiet, and at the same time, there was already an obvious sadness on her face.

"Alright, alright, quiet—"

After everyone was a little quieter, Keiko Miyasaka looked at everyone again and said:

"That's it, at present, you all have different requirements, there are too many, and there is definitely no way for us in one class to finish it, why don't you choose a few activities with the highest voice to vote?"

In the face of the teacher's suggestion, everyone agreed very much.

Kamihara leuked his face in the last window seat, looking at the four options elected by everyone in the class.

A yakisoba restaurant.

Maid Cafe.

Haunted houses.

Anime fandom.

......

What, isn't it the classic four choices?

After a series of heated discussions, even Mr. Miyasaka brought his Chinese class to everyone to exchange votes.

In the end, everyone's eyes were still locked on the maid café and the anime fan exhibition.

The reality is wonderful.

The boy shouted at the maid café! Maid Cafe!

Girls are shouting at the anime fanfair! Anime Doujin Exhibition!

They argued fiercely and spat flew.

It's a lot of noise.

The girls accuse the boys of being a bunch of horny people and opening a maid café just to see them girls wearing maid outfits.

The boys accuse the girls of being a group of horny ghosts, and opening an anime fanfic exhibition is just to facilitate the sale of their Tanmei photo albums.

The scene was out of control.

Kamihara Le's window seat at the back of the classroom can be said to have watched a war drama comparable to a good dock level.

Fight, fight!

INTERVIEWER Why did you think this way?

Odd.

"But that's youth."

By the way, the so-called anime fandom exhibition,In addition to the general cos,You can also take out the comics、Albums、Small objects made by yourself can be sold at a stall in the class.。 The income goes to you.

The students of the Mingde School are generally not short of money, and sometimes they really don't look down on the things that the girls put out to sell, which are quite valuable.

The debate went on to the end, and finally it was the turn of voting.

From the door, the first student on the right hand side began to cast.

Kamihara was the last one.

Under everyone's attention, Kamihara folded the note in his hand and put it into the cardboard box that Miyasaka-sensei put on the lectern.

The results of the statistics are out.

As Kamihara expected, the boy won the election.

The event held at the cultural festival was decided to be a maid café.

Who calls them more boys in class four.

Compared to the boys' happiness, it is the girls who are unhappy.

Because they are the ones who wear maid costumes in the maid café! It's also their hard work!

"Miyasaka-sensei!"

"Oh? Do you have any comments? ”

"Because there are a lot of female students in the music department in our class, they will go to participate in the club performances of the music department when the time comes, and there is a high probability that there will be a shortage of manpower when the activities are carried out. I propose that if necessary, let the boys dress up as maids and receive guests. ”

Ji Nai, who stood up, propped up the table with his hands and looked at the group of boys who were obviously stunned from a condescending perspective.

There was an uproar.

It's really a bad move.

Kamihara, who was eating melons alone in the corner of the classroom, shook his head silently.

In terms of the character of Mr. Miyasaka, he would never agree to let a boy wear a maid outrageous setting.

"Yes." Keiko Miyasaka said to everyone with a smile on the podium.

“yes！

”

"Isn't it—"

Contrary to the sound of the girls' triumph, there was a wail and protest from the boys.

Even Kamihara raised his head in confusion.

Wait, why did Miyasaka-sensei agree to such an outrageous setting?

"But the specific implementation, you still need to discuss it yourself, the teacher will not force anything, the boys want to see the girls wear maid clothes, in turn, the girls want to see the boys wear maid clothes... Probably... Okay? ”

Teacher Miyasaka smiled and said very ambiguously, "The specific situation depends on your own choice, and the teacher will not interfere too much with you at the cultural festival." ”

Well.

To sum up, what Miyasaka-sensei means is that she can't be the master of the matter of whether a boy wears a maid outfit or not.

Let the students discuss it themselves.

It seems that the teacher is also a master of throwing pots.

Thinking so, Kamihara quickly ushered in the end of the first class.

The end of class is the end of class, but the argument is not over.

In short, it was the girls who went on strike.

If the boys don't wear it, they won't do it, and if the boys want to open a maid café, they will call the girls from other classes to wear maid clothes.

As the proposer of the "maid café", the boys have nothing to do with them.

For the purpose of mutual benefit, everyone reached a consensus together.

It's just that this consensus shouldn't be a question mark, and Kamihara doesn't know.

.......

"Wait, we're really going to wear maid outfits?" Fujino Yoshiyuki pinched the fast child and raised his head reluctantly.

"Fujino, it's noon dinner time, and you actually reacted?" Nishijima Oki snorted casually.

"It's so damnable, how can there be a weird incident that makes a man wear a maid's costume?!"

Nishijima Oki pushed his glasses: "If I'm not mistaken, the one who called the maid café!" Maid Cafe!

The loudest guy is you. ”

Fujino was dismantled, scratched his face in embarrassment, and then asked Kamihara Le, who was looking at his mobile phone and eating on the other side, "Kamihara, don't you have anything to say?" Look at you so calm. ”

"I won't wear it."

"Huh? Why. ”

Kamihara put his phone aside, sighed and said to him, "Didn't you listen to those girls, if you want me to be a deacon housekeeper or something like that, the maid costume is not needed, it should be a deacon service." ”

Fujino's eyes widened: "What is this again?" ”

Nishijima Oki persuaded him: "Peace of mind, peace of mind, it's not that you don't know the status of this guy Kamihara among girls, and the girls look at him with a warm gaze." ”

“......”

Kamihara continued to explain: "According to the girls, I know how to cook, and they think that since they want to open a maid café, they must open it to the best, and they have to have a little bit of everything, and compare it to other classes, and I am the cook." ”

"Oh, I see, it turns out that Kamihara is a great cook!"

Nishijima gave Fujino a "you don't have to lie to yourself" look, then patted him on the shoulder and told him to do it for himself.

At the end of the lunch time, Kamihara was a little sleepy, so he went back to the classroom first and slept on the desk.

Occasionally, a few rays of sunlight fell from the leaves of the evergreen trees outside the window, listening to the swaying of the wind, smelling the fragrance of paper and ink after the Chinese textbook was opened, Kamihara changed direction and continued to sleep......

But in his head, he remembered the picture of Tianhai Jiu Liuli holding his hands on the bed that night.

Why... Didn't kiss it?

What does it feel like?

Will it be a feeling to kiss Qi Mingyue?

That soft-scented comfort.

No, why did you think of Qi Mingyue again?

Kamihara lost his sleepiness in an instant.

He felt that Qi Mingyue had a virus in his head now, and he and Jiu Liuli could think of her whatever they were doing.

......

Afternoon.

Kamihara was standing at the door of the piano classroom, and he was deliberately half an hour late to come here.

So, he knows quite well who is inside.

Seven bright moons...

Qi Mingyue, how should I face this righteous sister?

No matter what, she looks the same as the person she likes.

It's impossible to say that I don't like her at all...

Men don't like girls' looks?

Hahaha, this is as nihilistic as normal men are not lustful.

Kamihara Raku admits that he is the kind of person who likes beautiful girls, and he is a little bit astringent.

Usually there are places like looking at the legs of Qi Mingyue and Jiu Liuli in the back, as well as the absolute field between over-the-knee socks and pleated skirts......

It can't be helped, who told them to look so bad, or twins.

There's no man who doesn't like the way they look with their fingers interlocked and face to face together, right?

If Kamihara didn't look at it, he would be embarrassed to say that he was a man.

"Nope."

Kamihara Raku lifted his face and regained his spirits.

Since he has decided that he must not be a scumbag who steps on two boats, then, when facing Qi Mingyue, he should be a little more arrogant.

What's so embarrassing to see her!

- He pushed the door open.

At this time, Tianhai Qimingyue was wearing the gold-wire glasses she gave her, holding a book in her hand, and sitting on the piano. She is still so demure, exuding an insurmountable princess aura all around her.

Miss.

The eldest lady with knowledge and aura.

- That's how Kamihara feels.

"If you come, continue to practice, today is a ninth-grade piano piece."

"Oh."

Unlike what he imagined, Qi Mingyue didn't question his tardiness.

Kamihara didn't want to say more, so he sat down directly in front of the piano and began his practice today.

After practicing all the way, of course, there have been bottlenecks, and Kamihara can solve it by himself after being a little familiar with it twice.

Fingers pressed the bone-colored keys, and the smooth notes between them were quite comforting, but Kamihara always practiced a little absent-mindedly.

From time to time, he glanced at the seven bright moons in the sky and the sea, and saw what she was doing.

"That book, is it good?" Taking advantage of the rest time after piano practice, Kamihara asked Tianhai Qimingyue.

These days, she's been reading Keigo Higashino's book "Transparent Spiral."

"Pretty good."

"What's the story?"

"Reasoning, but I don't write too much on reasoning."

"Huh?"

"You want to hear it?"

"I'm willing to be an audience, if you want to say anything in Qi Mingyue, just say it."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue didn't raise her head, but put her hand on the top of the book, and said while reading: "This book, the biggest feeling for me is the encounter of three generations, three women in marriage and love, and the relationship between men and women. ”

Tianhai Qi Mingyue glanced at him, and found that he really wanted to hear his own story, so he closed the book, straightened his body and said:

"The first woman was a grandmother. She has a good education, is an intellectual woman, has a high heart, and yearns for the big city. After leaving her family for the bustling city of Tokyo, she meets the object of her love and becomes pregnant for him. originally planned to enter the happy time of marriage, but because of the unexpected death of the man, the whole family was torn apart. can only be reduced to live in the night club.

"It was in the 60s of the 20th century, and my grandmother had a child out of wedlock, and my brother had studied history class, right? Knowing how difficult it would be for a woman to raise a child on her own back then. ”

"I know that."

"As a last resort, my grandmother could only throw her child Chizuru at the door of the orphanage."

Tianhai Qimingyue continued.

"The second woman is the mother, Chizuruko. Chizuruko grew up in an orphanage. Because he fell in love with a man with a family, he couldn't get married, so he could only give birth to his daughter Yuanxiang in the end, and live alone with children.

"It's different from my grandmother. Chizuruko was in a period of economic prosperity at that time. Although she lived a poor life alone with her children, she did not give up her children and did her best to let her daughter live a happy life.

"Yuanxiang began to grow up under the care of a thousand cranes."

When Kamihara heard this, how did he feel like he was talking about his mother?

Single-parent families pull children to grow up.

A digression... How difficult it is to be a mother in a single-parent family, Kamihara has seen it with his own eyes and knows it quite well. So when his mother wanted to find a new support, Kamihara was completely in agreement.

Because they are not far apart, Uncle Tianhai can go to his mother's restaurant to eat at noon every day.

It can be regarded as an alternative love between two workaholics.

Tianhai Qimingyue folded his hands on the book:

"The third place is my daughter Yuanxiang. Yuan Xiang grew up in a single-parent family, and her personality likes to be attached to others, to put it in layman's terms, it is a pleasing personality. ”

Nine glasses are a bit similar, but not exactly the same... Kamihara subconsciously associated.

She met a boyfriend who was gentle and elegant when she first met. , but after this boyfriend encounters a predicament in reality, he will take out his anger at Yuanxiang, be violent to her, and use words to manipulate Yuanxiang's spirit.

Yuan Xiang knew that this situation was wrong, but she was forced by the other party's threat, and she did not dare to escape from this situation. Even though her relatives and friends knew about her plight and wanted to help her, she couldn't get out of it herself.

"The story involves infant abandonment, infant adoption, blood recognition, domestic violence, and workplace bullying, and uses blood ties as a bond to connect three women and allow them to redeem each other.

"The other plots are very cumbersome for me to repeat, so I won't explain them here.

"What did my brother hear?"

"Me?"

......

Kamihara Le just inexplicably feels that the people in this place feel a bit like the people around him.

Whether it's a grandmother, a mother, a daughter... can find examples around themselves in these characters.

This is more or less scary.

Tianhai Qimingyue looked at Shen Yuan Le: "This book is much weaker than the previous reasoning, but after reading it throughout, it is still worth a little, and I also made a special note - no matter how good a child is, if he doesn't look at a man's eyes, it is a fatal flaw." ”

......

Shen Yuanle's thinking became complicated, he thought about it for a long time, and heard a little meaning in Qi Mingyue's words.

"Then, does Qi Mingyue think you have it?"

"I have," she said firmly, "so I won't give up, even if the opponent is my sister, I won't give up, even if you don't have a crush on me at all." ”

When Kamihara heard this, he was a little sad.

He even began to wonder if he should have taken care of Qi Mingyue more in the first place.

Can...

Thinking that Qi Mingyue was always reading books alone at school, and that indifferent look out the window, Kamihara Le couldn't help but say a few words to her.

Even if she speaks with self-esteem and uncomfortable pinprick in her words.

Kamihara also feels happy and relieved because "she began to respond to herself instead of sitting alone."

I want to make this cold sister happy.

That's what she thought as her brother-in-law.

I am not wrong about caring about her.

Because of her own concern, and because of what happened when she was a child, she developed a love for herself, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Jiu Liuli has a good impression of herself because of her own care, and there is nothing wrong with it.

......

This is the uncomfortable part of his brother-in-law sandwiched between twin sisters.

But there's no benefit in always thinking about uncomfortable places.

Kamihara believes that even in this environment, it is better to be happy.

It's the same as Ah Ling who is always heartless and shouting to eat whirlwind potatoes.

"What is the cultural festival of your class?" Kamihara Lezhu changed the topic and asked Tianhai Qimingyue.

"Maid Cafe."

"Maid Cafe again? Why don't you choose this, or hold it together. ”

"Brother, are you looking forward to it?"

"I... What do I expect? ”

"Looking forward to me and my sister wearing maid outfits?"

“......”

The calm eyes of the seven bright moons in the sky and the sea seem to be able to see the deep desires of people's hearts, so that people can't have the desire to refute at all.

The twins' maid outfits should be cute, right?

Tianhai Qi Mingyue retracted his gaze: "It's a pity, my sister and I don't wear that kind of clothes, it's the dress of the family, I don't understand why men like this kind of clothes." ”

"Now it's just cute?"

"Is it necessary for cuteness to call out to the master when he speaks?" Tianhai Qi Mingyue lifted her gold wire glasses and looked at him again, a pair of bright and clear blue eyes reflected the light, "Anyway, you don't have to expect this kind of thing, I won't wear it." ”

"I didn't say I expected you two to wear it......"

"Okay, after resting, continue to practice, and ask me again if you can't do anything, that's all."

......

Kamihara put his hands back on the piano, playing unfamiliar music as he felt... Today, it's not very difficult to be alone with Qi Mingyue?

She said she liked herself and wouldn't give up.

But there doesn't seem to be any actual pursuit.

Or is it...

Kamihara Le used the corner of his eye to sneak a glance at the seven bright moons of the sky and sea with long flaxen hair hanging down over his shoulders.

The girl is beautiful, demure, knowledgeable and full of fragrance that belongs to young girls.

In fact, she doesn't pursue people at all?