The birthday candle has been extinguished.

The table has been cleaned up, and the gentle governess has said goodbye. Error-free updates @

In the huge living room with the lights on, only Tetsufumi Hirakawa was left.

Even the cat is still in the pet store, so at the moment, there is only an irritating silence by his side.

Of course, this may not be true, because he knows that it is not the silence that is disturbing, but the memory of the visit that follows the silence in his mind.

Those memories that should have been pleasant can now be nothing but bitterness in retrospect.

Being away from Tokyo and away from the familiar surroundings can certainly make things feel remote and uncaring, but now that you're back, it's inevitable.

Shiori Shinohara......

The girl's covetous face still came to his mind.

Things happen that cannot be changed, he likes his students, and in the face of his own heart, he can't deceive himself.

But this kind of relationship, this kind of emotion is not normal, it is not okay to be wrong, he is not allowed to continue like this.

Mistakes should be corrected.

This is the practice that has been thought out, but ...... Thinking about seeing her tomorrow, Tetsufumi Hirakawa's heart still inevitably hesitated and hesitated.

That dream did leave an indelible impression on him.

“……”

Let's sleep.

I slept late last night, but I got up early today and went sightseeing, and I took a car for almost an afternoon in the afternoon.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who was physically and mentally exhausted, got up from the sofa, turned off the light in the living room, and walked upstairs to his room.

It's just that after lying on the bed, when he turned his head, he could see that on the desk next to him, a well-behaved pure white rabbit doll was sitting there quietly.

“……”

"Didn't Hirakawa-sensei say that Shiori is like a rabbit? Then this rabbit will be handed over to Mr. Hirakawa. ”

The words that the girl had said to him naturally appeared.

Also, on the side of her mouth, the sweet and greasy touch - at that time, it was her kiss that followed this sentence.

……

The next day, Thursday, August 21.

After a lapse of 6 days, Tetsufumi Hirakawa woke up again in his room at home.

The summer morning light filtered through the curtains as usual, filling the room with a hazy light that was clear enough.

Get up, lift the quilt, turn off the air conditioner, and get out of bed.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who had put on his slippers and changed his clothes, walked past the desk next to the bed with only a starry sky printed glass bottle, walked out of the room door, and went downstairs.

After breakfast, with a feeling that I don't know how to describe, I pushed open his door, walked out, greeted the brilliant light from the sky, and walked towards Moriya.

Along the way, my thoughts were inevitably entangled, and I even thought about whether to just turn back and continue to ask for leave.

Wait for the meeting with Shiori Shinohara, what will it be like?

How would the eldest lady react when she saw him come back after his sudden disappearance?

Angry? Weep?

Or what?

Tetsufumi Hirakawa is not clear.

——

However, the moment of meeting came even more suddenly than Tetsufumi Hirakawa thought.

After stepping out of the train stop, he walked towards Moriya with steps that made him feel heavier and heavier.

This journey was definitely the most difficult one in the more than a year he had been teaching in Moriya.

In the midst of the inner torment, the flying thoughts make the perception of time confused.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who was walking with his head down, came back to his senses, raised his eyes from the ground and looked forward, and the name of Moriya's school had already appeared in his field of vision.

It is painted with gold lacquer and reflects the light of the sun, which is very dazzling.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa stopped some distance from the school gate.

He habitually glanced at the school gate—it was clear that there was no one in the shade of the trees.

Then he himself laughed bitterly at his habitual behavior.

"What the hell are you thinking?" - I endure it in my heart. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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I can't help but laugh at myself.

It was only when the bitterness that had sprung up in his heart had gradually subsided that he had taken a new step and was ready to go into the school to face the events that had kept him away from him for a week.

It's just that he just stepped out, and at the quiet school gate during the summer vacation, he heard behind him, on the street, a sound that people couldn't ignore and the car stopped.

“……”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa's steps stopped, and he felt his heart inevitably thump.

I feel something.

As if inspired by some kind of unknowability, he suddenly had this premonition—although it was just the usual sound of a car stopping, it was Shiori Shinohara.

So he turned around.

In early and late August, the heat of summer vacation has not dissipated, the sky is bright, and the sky is still bright and beautiful blue in summer, covering the sky.

A few scattered ethereal clouds, fluttering like ribbons, scattered above.

And under this clear sky, on the side of the street at the entrance of Moriya, a black car was parked.

The rear door of the sedan was open, and a young girl wearing the uniform of a summer student in Moriya poked her beautiful legs out of the car, white legs, calf socks, and pure white shoes lightly stepping on the ground.

The girl's upper body also leaned out of the car door for a short time afterward.

But it quickly stopped.

She half-got up and stopped at the door of the car.

“……”

“……”

Slender waist, youthful and energetic chest, white uniform neckline, delicate neck, and the girl's stunning face in the light.

A familiar look.

Thin, soft lips, small noses, and eyes as pure as a clear spring.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa maintained a posture of looking back, and Shiori Shinohara maintained a posture of half-getting up from the car.

The eyes of the two met, and time seemed to freeze for a moment.

On the morning of the seventh day after the separation, at the school gate of Moriya, under the refreshingly empty sky, the two met abruptly, not completely prepared and unprepared.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa didn't know what the look on his face was at the moment, but he did see it, Shiori Shinohara's expressionless face.

Time flowed again, but the girl's expression did not change.

She calmly stepped out of the car, a sheet music in her hand, and her golden trumpet.

Instead of walking towards him immediately, she stopped where she had gotten out of the car, reaching out to gently tread her uniform, which might have been wrinkled, and her hair, which might have been disrupted.

After finishing the tidying, the dignified eldest lady still maintained the same expression, almost a desert look, and walked towards him.

“……”

“……”

Then, just when Tetsufumi Hirakawa's voice was still stuck in his throat and he didn't know how to speak, his clear voice didn't fluctuate much, and it was such a polite greeting without any emotion in his ears.

"Good morning, Mr. Hiragawa."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa opened his mouth.

"Poetry ......"

The habitual salutation, after being spoken, quickly got stuck again.

Then, under the gaze of Shiori Shinohara's flat gaze, he silently changed his words.

"Shinohara-san...... Good morning. ”

"Hmm."

This is how they met after a long separation, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

However, this is the biggest anomaly.

……

Tetsufumi Hirakawa and Shiori Shinohara walked into the campus together.

The distance is two meters, and the dialogue is in addition to the hello, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa's sentence "Shinohara-san, how are you doing?" "Not at all.

Shiori Shinohara didn't answer him.

The sound of silent footsteps stretched all the way from the school gate to the shoe cabinet, then to the club building, up the stairs, and into the concert hall.

Nothing happened.

The anger, crying, or whatever Tetsufumi Hirakawa had expected didn't happen.

As for the conversations that he had simulated in his head, "have a good talk" or something,. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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Not at all.

They seem to be strangers.

Leaning against the wall of the activity room, Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at the girl sitting in the wind seat, completely silent.

In the room where there were only the two of them, silence lingered, leaving only the sound of flipping through the sheet music.

The air also fell dull.

……

Other voices came a few minutes later.

The doorway, the golden path of sunlight that stretched through the open door, was obscured by shadows.

A petite figure stepped on the light and shadow and walked in.

"Shinohara-san, it's so early for you today."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa turned his head to see that the person who came was Ogasa Suzukiko, who had been coming in his place since he left Tokyo.

Shiori Shinohara, who was sitting in her seat, also looked away from the score, she got up, and said hello politely.

"Good morning, Ogasa-sensei."

"Well, good morning."

Ogasa Suzukiko nodded at her, and after that, she continued to walk in the direction of Tetsufumi Hirakawa.

After walking a few steps, Ogasa Suzukiko, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses but seemed to have no glasses, finally found him standing against the wall.

"Eh——?"

In a lovely tone of shock, the natural-looking teacher was unaware of the slightly eerie atmosphere that existed in the concert hall.

"Mr. Hirakawa, are you back?"

She lifted her glasses, walked over, looked at him from top to bottom, and then tilted her face back and tilted her head slightly, waiting for his reply.

“……”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa stopped leaning against the wall and stood a little straighter.

There was a slight polite smile on his face.

"Well, Ogasa-sensei, I'm back."

"Is it that Mr. Hirakawa's affairs have been dealt with?"

“…… Well, it's almost done. When he finished speaking, Tetsufumi Hirakawa vaguely saw the girl sitting there and glanced at him.

“……”

His words paused for a moment, and then he regained his attention and continued to smile at Ogasa Suzukiko's concern.

"When I'm not here these days, I'm bothering Mr. Ogasa."

"Hmm~~" is the undulating wavy tone, which is negative.

Ogasa Suzukiko shook her head: "It's okay, Hirakawa-sensei can't do anything about it, and it's not very tired." ”

"It's still hard work for Ogasa-sensei, and after that, I shouldn't have this kind of thing again."

"That's good. By the way, the Tokyo Metropolitan Race is about to start, do you remember Mr. Hiragawa ? ”

"Of course I do, number 26."

"Hmm!" Ogasa Suzukiko nodded with satisfaction and vigorously, "Mr. Hirakawa should also come on." ”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa also showed as bright a smile as possible: "Well, it will." ”

“……”

After chatting with Ogasa Suzukiko for a while, the two stopped communicating with the arrival of the students.

After the roll call was completed, Ogasa Suzukiko began to guide the voice division, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa began to patrol around idly.

During his inspection, he could hear the familiar, loud trumpet sound on the rooftop.

The sound of the trumpet he had listened to at great close.

He took Shiori Shinohara in his arms and willfully let the girl practice in his arms.

When Shiori Shinohara was still practicing, she childishly reached out to scratch the girl's waist and made her curl up in his arms.

Or, when she was exhausted, kiss her on the lips, kiss the already tired girl, so that she could not catch her breath, collapse in his arms, and then triumphantly tell her that he had won.

At that time, he still remembered the flush on the girl's fair face, the eyes that did not admit defeat, and the dissatisfied tone that said that he "took advantage of the situation".

……

On the rooftop, which is only separated by a ceiling, although it has only been a few days, there are many things that happen to the two people who are intimate and close to each other all the time.

It's just that Tetsufumi Hirakawa was in a state of mind when he heard the familiar trumpet sound again at this moment. (This chapter is not finished!) )

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It's also very different from that time.

The sweet candy coat faded, and all that was left for him was the poison that made his stomach sour.

For example-

At lunchtime, eating a bento box I bought from a convenience store, I naturally began to recall the bento that the eldest lady had made for him in those days, and it could only be said that it was "edible".

Although the bento at the convenience store is actually much tastier than the eldest lady's, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who is eating the bento again at the moment, only feels that everything is tasteless.

The reality after waking up from a dream, everything feels heavy.

……

During the afternoon practice time, Tetsufumi Hirakawa can almost be described as muddy.

He overestimated himself.

In Kyoto, far away from Tokyo, he seems to be able to easily say, "It must be over."

However, when the memories of the two drifted to his eyes as the familiar scene drifted to him, he fell into a difficult situation again.

"When it's over, will he really be able to accept it?"

This dangerous thought can even be manifested occasionally. Error-free updates @

He decided that he could not delay any longer.

Before the end of the afternoon practice time, he walked onto the rooftop.

……

When you open the rooftop door, you will be greeted by the golden sunlight with brilliant colors in the afternoon and the unobstructed blue sky.

On the familiar rooftop, the sound of trumpets resounded in my ears. And in the middle of the rooftop, the girl is so beautiful that she looks like she walked out of her back in a dream.

She held the trumpet and did not notice his arrival behind her.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa just looked at her quietly, and then, at a certain moment, there was a sudden urge in his heart that he was all too familiar with-

He walked up, took her in his arms, buried his face in her snow-white neck, and greedily sniffed at the good smell of her.

“……”

He suppressed the urge.

The "Shiori" that almost blurted out was swallowed back again and became-

"Shinohara-san."

“……”

The sound of blowing stopped abruptly.

Shiori Shinohara turned around.

The wind that passed through the rooftop blew the hair on her forehead, and a few strands of hair stained with sweat stuck to her face.

The light shone on the side of her face, and there was no superfluous look on her face - and neither did the eyes that looked at her.

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