The hour of dusk has passed, the sun has faded, the sky has gone gray, and Tokyo has entered the night.

As I walked around, a cool evening breeze blew in front of me. On his side, the figure walking slowly brings a sweet aroma in the wind.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa glanced to his right.

and Kuda Moki's gaze collided.

The darkness of the night can set off the brightness of the eyes, and the gaze of the female teacher beside her is in the slightly dim night, through the barrier between the two, and goes straight to the heart.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked away with some uneasiness.

"How?"

“…… What, how? Tetsufumi Hirakawa asked in a low voice.

"Why don't you dare to look at me, don't you have a weak heart?"

“……”

“……”

"yes." After a moment's pause, Tetsufumi Hirakawa turned around again, smiled reluctantly at Kuda, and admitted.

Kuda Moki's eyes never left him.

Sad, sad, disappointed...... Looking at the eyes that contain such emotions, how can you not have a weak heart.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa no longer knew how he should face her.

What's next?

I don't know.

In fact, until now, Hinata Moshu has not given her answer - an answer about what should happen to the next two.

However, since at this time, after arguing with three female high school students, Hinata called him out, just to talk about this topic, right?

Looking at the gentle and gentle face in front of him in the soft light, Tetsufumi Hirakawa thought silently.

Kuda Moki interrupted his musings.

"Zhewen." She called his name.

"Yes." Tetsufumi Hirakawa's attention refocused.

He is a little nervous now, like a long time ago, when he was still in school, he was suddenly called by the teacher in class.

Standing on the podium and looking condescendingly at his teacher's gaze is such oppressive.

"I'm disappointed in you." didn't beat around the bush, Kuda Moshu's first sentence was very direct.

“……”

The words that came out of my ears, the evening breeze on my face, and the eyes that were staring at me.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa nodded stiffly after being stuck on an old computer for a long time.

"Yes...... is to be disappointed. ”

"Do you remember what I said to you when I left the café?"

"Yes."

"Look at me and repeat it."

There is no escaping the eyes.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa felt his flickering gaze, and his words were dry.

“…… Anyway, I hope I don't fall like this again. ”

"yes, you remember." Kuda Moshu nodded, and then asked, "Then Tetsufumi, what is the answer you gave me?" ”

“……”

The question that could not be answered, Kuda Moshu answered it for him.

"I gave you time to figure it out, and your reply ...... But it's all such a ridiculous answer. Even, in a few days, my boyfriend, not only did not repent, but also found another girlfriend. ”

“……”

Apologizing will only seem weak at such a time, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa doesn't know what he can say at this time, except for silence.

Kuda Moshu took a deep breath and stopped talking.

I'm really tired.

Along with the silence of the two of them, the air became more and more depressed, which made the body heavy, the footsteps were sluggish, and the footsteps were dull.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa lowered his gaze and stared at the ground, and the Hisada Moshu beside him, walked forward step by step.

……

I don't know where to go, and the unchanging concrete floor in front of me is not enough for Tetsufumi Hirakawa to make a judgment.

But he heard the voice, the voice of Maki Kuda, so he finally looked up.

"Aren't you going to say something?" Kuda Moshu was asking him.

"Tell me...... What? ”

"What you think."

“……”

"What does silence mean?" Kuda Moshu looked at him.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa hesitated and shook his head: "...... I do not know. ”

"There are many meanings of not knowing, one is really not knowing, and the other is knowing that your answer is not quite appropriate, so you can only say that you don't know. Zhewen, which one are you? ”

“……”

"It seems to be the second type."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa can't deny this.

……

Hinata felt very sad.

After all, the teacher beside her could not escape the path of depravity.

The current situation is not at all something that can be changed by her speech and emotional catharsis.

He had fallen into the quagmire of depravity, and two hands on his body had seized him and prevented him from escaping.

One hand is Shiori Shinohara, and the other hand is Reya Hazuki.

His body and mind were bound by them.

Unless the two students can let go of their own initiative, then he still has a slight chance of escaping.

However, Hinata Moshu also knows that some things come to a certain point and there is no turning back.

Hirakawa can't go back, and neither can Shinohara and Hazuki.

The hand held is no longer separated.

Together, they plunged into the abyss of their common fall, to be utterly destroyed.

What could she do?

Watching this teacher, who was once proud of his identity, completely fall and degenerate?

To be honest, Jasmine Kuda didn't want that.

After all, she still can't forget the sentence "Teaching students well is the duty of a teacher...... Although this statement is a great irony for the current situation.

But she still thought about this, looking forward to the teacher next to her being able to recall his original intention, and recall the time when he stood on the podium.

They haven't broken up now, she's still his girlfriend, and she still likes him...... He used to be.

The sound of footsteps walking in the night light sounded, like a non-stop heartbeat, beating.

Kuda Moshu's heart, she is making some kind of decision.

Make up your mind to end, or ......

“……”

Kuda Moshu glanced at Tetsufumi Hirakawa again.

He stared at the ground silently, his face showing no emotion, but he followed her step by step, like a robot.

A robot waiting for someone to manipulate him makes one wonder if this robot would be scrapped like this if he had been far away.

Hinata Moshu just kept watching.

……

His perception of the passage of time became dull, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa didn't quite know how long he had been walking like this, only that there was almost no sound in his ears, just the monotonous and suppressed footsteps.

Finally, at a certain moment, Tetsufumi Hirakawa was still aware of the gaze that had been watching him.

He caught his gaze and put it in his eyes.

“……”

“……”

"Jasmine." Looking at each other, Tetsufumi Hirakawa opened his mouth.

So he saw Kuda Moki's eyes fluctuate.

The moment he called out his name, it was like a predestined coincidence, and a look called "Decision" flashed in her eyes.

Did she already think about what to do next?

Guessing, Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at such a look, like a prisoner waiting for the final trial.

Kuda Mosaki took a deep breath, the cold winter air in her mouth and nose, and she cleared herself up a little.

"Zhewen, I'll ask you one last time."

She scrutinized him, not letting go of a slight expression on her face.

"Tell me, what exactly is your idea?"

“……”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa didn't respond again, and his eyes were tangled - can he turn back now?

Go back and say to Shiori Shinohara: It's nothing, we're over, so be it.

Then, he said to Ye Yue: Ye Yue, it's okay, jokes like wrapping up are over here, and we don't have a relationship with each other anymore.

Did he do it?

The answer in his mind was so obvious that Tetsufumi Hirakawa didn't need to think about it, and the answer came to mind for the first time.

He absolutely can't do it now.

“……”

Kuda Moshu swallowed back the follow-up questions.

The answer can be known just by looking at it, and the follow-up questions, those persuasions, are useless......

- But sure enough, people are creatures who try it out even if they know the answer.

After taking a few more steps forward, he raised his face again, and met the eyes of Tetsufumi Hirakawa, and Hinata Moshu couldn't help it.

"Zhewen, do you really want to go on like this? Just getting farther and farther away from your former goal, and being indifferent? ”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa was silent for a moment, and the words he spat out were very harsh.

“…… But what can I do now? ”

"Be firm and break free from them." Kuda's words were resolute.

"Break free from their ......"

"Yes." "After all, you don't owe them anything. ”

"Maybe for them, you are a very important part of their lives, you have changed them, and it is a salvation that they cannot give up."

"But what about yourself?"

"For yourself, are they really just something you can't break free from?"

"I don't think you have that much responsibility for them."

"Before that, you have done your best to do it, you have helped them, you have a clear conscience."

"As for some unexpected ...... that happened during the period"

"It was just an accident."

"You don't have to be responsible for the rest of their lives."

"What happens to them after that, that's their own business."

"What do you think?"

“……”

“……”

"Jasmine ......"

"Okay, I got it."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa had just spoken, and Kuda Moki knew what he was going to say.

She interrupted him, her face skimming sadly.

Sure enough, since you know it's useless, don't try it, the answer is in line with the expectations in your heart, and it has no effect except to make yourself sad again.

…… It's just that everyone understands the truth.

Feeling the emotions in her heart, fluctuating, staring at the street lamp of Kuda Moshu, she slowed down.

In fact, many people understand most of the truths, so doesn't Pingchuan know what she said?

I think I know.

However, human beings are like this, individual differences, sensual existence, so that everyone faces the same thing and will make various choices.

Man is a creature that is not completely rational – on the path of reason, he finds his way according to the guidance of his senses.

The most [correct] decision of Kuda Moshu at this moment should be to leave Tetsufumi Hirakawa and turn around and leave, from now on, whether this person is degraded or whatever, it has nothing to do with her.

But she couldn't.

Sensual thinking, emotions that still exist, guide her direction.

In the night wind, the wind that can calm the mind, Kuda Moshu suddenly stopped.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa also stopped.

"Jasmine ......"

"You can't listen anymore, do you?"

Kuda Moshu didn't give Tetsufumi Hirakawa a chance to speak, she stared into his eyes.

After a slight pause, he made his own judgment.

"Yes, you don't listen anymore."

"It's too late, you're already trapped."

"Now you are not at all something I can convince with a sentence or two."

"I ......"

"No, you don't have to speak." Hinata Moshu shook his head a little lonely, and interrupted Tetsufumi Hirakawa again, "Listen to me next, okay?" ”

“……”

Hesitating, Tetsufumi Hirakawa nodded.

The sound of the wind blowing, the voice of Kuda Moshu's words, and the fluttering voice of the words, also blew into the ears of Tetsufumi Hirakawa.

This was the last thing Kuda left to him tonight.

……

"Zhewen, I know."

"The emotion you like is not just broken, you won't give up just because I say a few words. Even if it's me, I'm not that resolute. ”

"Even though I've thought a million times before I came, let's just finish it here...... But I'm really sad. ”

"I don't like you now, but I still can't let go of you before, the one who can say that you are an honest teacher with a clear conscience."

"It's always hard for me to accept that you're going to be like this."

"I'm sad."

"That's it, with the last vestiges of my affection for you...... Or rather, nostalgia for the old you. It puts me standing here, in front of you, and saying these words to you. ”

When she said this, the female teacher in front of her paused, and her tone became more and more solemn and serious.

"Zhewen, I've always believed that it's not good to make mistakes."

"No one can guarantee that they will never make mistakes, and those 'problem students' in the eyes of ordinary people may be able to have a satisfying life many years later."

"It's just that in the midst of this, you need the guidance of others."

"You need someone to pull you out."

"You also said it, the former delinquent boy has become the teacher you are today, the teacher who said in front of you that you are still saved, it is because of her that you are what you are today."

"Now, let me be her."

"I also say to you, you are still saved, or rather, I hope you are saved."

"Those who reach out and want to drag you into the mire, you can't break free from them, then let me pull you out."

"It's always you saving other people's lives, and now, it's my turn to save you."

……

"But, you know, it's just me, I can't do anything."

"In the end, you still need to be yourself, and you want to come out yourself."

"One last chance, don't let me down again."

"There's no way I'm holding you all the time."

"When I'm tired, so tired that I can't hold you and don't want to pull you anymore, it's time for me to give up."

"Remember?"

"Being a teacher is an honor, and as a teacher – as a former teacher, you should understand that."

"Think back to the first time you stood on the podium and were on a student's face, what were you thinking?"

"Don't let them ruin the life you should be proud of."

"That life where I could have puffed up my chest and said I was a teacher."

“……”

Kuda Moshu was gone, turning around with red eyes, and under the gaze of Tetsufumi Hirakawa, his back dissipated in the night wind.

(End of chapter)