"What are you doing here?"

Walking out of the station, the sky will be dark and sprinkled with light, and Kuda Moki smiled and looked at Tetsufumi Hirakawa squeezing his own arm suspiciously.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa rubbed his arm, and his tone was still a little unbelievable in the gaze of Hinata beside him.

"Is it true?"

"What's really not true?" There was a faint smile on Kuda Moki's face, as if going back in time, Tetsufumi Hirakawa was back before Christmas, and nothing happened.

"That's ......" Tetsufumi Hirakawa raised his hand, raised it high, and when he reached the gaze of the two, he gestured with a blank look.

"Just holding hands and getting carried away?" Kuda asked.

"This ......" Under the gentle eyes of Kuda Moshu, the female teacher's gaze was like a gentle lake, Hirakawa Tetsufumi breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart calmed down a little, "It's not...... Just surprised. ”

"Surprised, think I shouldn't hold hands?"

"It's a bit strange to me, though...... However, it really shouldn't be involved......"

"Looks like you're pretty self-aware." Kuda Moshu put away her smile again, and her tone was a little teasing.

“……”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa was a little embarrassed, but he was relieved, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with Hisada, and today's date was still January 16, not before Christmas last year.

"That'...... How......" Although he had already sensed the aura of danger, Tetsufumi Hirakawa asked stubbornly.

Kuda Moshu stopped looking at him, turned his head, looked ahead, and still didn't let go of his hand.

"Let's go."

"Walk, where are you going?"

"Whatever."

“…… Good. ”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa's hesitation turned firm.

I don't know what will happen, but let's just go on like this, there will be an answer.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa held Kuda Moshu's hand, a hand that he hadn't held for a long time, and the hands of the two shook gently back and forth with the pace of the two.

The back of the hand is exposed to the air, which is a little cold, but the palm of the hand, which is tightly attached to the palm, is very familiar warmth.

It's nostalgic.

"How long has it been since we've been like this?"

Walking around, the crowd on their sides still passed them and walked forward. From another angle, they retreated into the crowd.

"How long does it take to ......" Hirata Moshu whispered in the hustle and bustle of the crowd, and Hirakawa Tetsufumi paused for several seconds before he realized that this question was asked to him.

He walked out of the memories, heard the questions and then retreated into the memories.

The lights in the field of vision were out of focus, and the scene swallowed up by the evening was slightly blurred under the dimmer sky.

"It's been a long time, hasn't it?" After a moment of distraction, when Tetsufumi Hirakawa came back to his senses, he spat out such a vague answer.

"yes, it's been a long time." Kuda Moshu took Tetsufumi Hirakawa's hand and didn't correct it, in fact, it's only been less than a month since Christmas.

However, for the two of them, it doesn't really matter how long it is. Subjective perception prolongs the torment.

The emotional breakdown, the insomnia at night, the time when I don't know what to do is like losing my soul, I can't leave an exact impression in my mind, it's just a vague [long time].

Because of this, we can perceive how nostalgic the temperature passed between our hands is.

"I've been thinking about a question all these days." Immersed in nostalgia for the past, Hinata Moshu suddenly said.

"What's the problem?"

"I thought, what should I do? On the spur of the moment, after those students arguing, they make that kind of decision, saying to you, to be that teacher, to save you...... It seems to be a bit self-talking, arrogant. ”

"How so?"

Kuda Moshu shook his head: "I should say how not." To be honest, even if I say that, I don't know what I'm actually going to do, you know? ”

"This ......"

"Do you want to continue to be angry, beside you, and say to you, you are terrible, change quickly, spur you in your ears every day, like a resentful spirit, change quickly, change quickly, change quickly...... Is that so? If it goes on like this, I'm afraid it won't be long before you think, oops, this Hisada is inexplicable and just nosy. ”

In the end, Maki Kuda, who played the role of Tetsufumi Hirakawa to speak, laughed first.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa also smiled.

"Why, isn't it?"

"It's useless to say this in front of me." Kuda Moshu said, "I don't need to tell you about educational psychology and the like, I always whisper in your ear to make you change, not so much to hold you, but to continue to push you in the opposite direction of mine." ”

“……”

"Really?"

It's a very real problem, and the boredom of repetitive things, especially negative repetitive things, is engraved into the human instinct.

It's like parents always shouting in their children's ears, "Why don't you study" and "Why don't you always learn well".

Tetsufumi Hirakawa stopped talking.

Hinata Moshu smiled indifferently: "There's no need to deny this kind of thing, I naturally know it." So, I was like, what am I going to do but that? ”

"Angry? Of course I want to be angry, there should be no more legitimate reason for me to be angry like this, to stand on a high place, to reprimand you at will. ”

"But it's not the solution to the problem, it doesn't get what I want."

"So I calmed down and thought about it for a week."

"Figured it out?" Tetsufumi Hirakawa asked tentatively.

"What do you think?" Kuda Moshu looked over and raised his hand.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa stared at the hands of the two of them with their fingers interlocked.

"It's ......"

"Zhewen." Hinata Moshu's tone and eyes suddenly became serious, and the slow pace under his feet simply stopped.

She turned and stared at him.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa took a step forward by inertia, and quickly stopped.

"...... Jasmine?"

The short evening had passed, and the sunset that had fallen below the horizon had no light escaping, and the dim light had been completely swallowed up by the night.

But there are lights, so the night is not exactly the night either.

I can't see the starlight, I don't know where the moon is, and the man-made lights will brighten up the streets far under the night sky, and in the eyes of Tetsufumi Hirakawa, the face of the Kuda jasmine tree in front of him at this moment is illuminated by the street lamp with a pale yellow hue.

The warm lighting, like coming home from work, opened the door exhausted, and suddenly appeared in front of me my wife, who was waiting at home to return, standing quietly at the door, smiling and saying, "Hard work, welcome back." ”

Kuda Moshu looked at him with such a posture.

"Since getting angry is not the solution, it's better to restrain yourself from getting angry."

"Since I said that I want to hold your hand and not let you continue, then it's better to hold hands."

"Since I said that I want to save you and become that teacher, then I will treat you in the way of that teacher."

"That's it."

In front of him, the slightly illuminated face and the imaginary picture overlapped, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at it in a daze, and it took a long time to come back to his senses.

He tugged at the corners of his mouth: "The teacher's way, what is that?" ”

The night air gently caresses the cheeks and the ends of the hair, and the strands of hair slide over the soft face.

Kuda Moshu said: "Obviously you just wrote your name in the textbook, she praised you, instead of accusing you of only writing your name, but in fact, you didn't do your homework at all." Then I, too, when you make a little progress, temporarily ignore the things you didn't do well, and praise you. ”

“……”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa suddenly thought of a sentence: the orange sunset afterglow brings a touch of nostalgic warmth to everything.

Although the evening had long since passed, and at night, there was no sunset, but looking at the warm face of Kuda Moshu in front of him, which was illuminated by a man-made light with a pale yellow color, Hirakawa Tetsufumi's mind still flashed back to his memory of the teacher who changed his life in his previous life.

"Hmm...... Yes, your name is written in the textbooks. ”

"Didn't you do anything but write your name? The assignment also didn't ......"

"It's okay, things always come little by little."

"If you make progress, you have to praise it."

"I'm sure I'm right."

"I also believe you can do better."

"What do you think?" The gentle voice that leaned over in front of him and whispered to him coincided with the voice of the female teacher in front of him at this moment.

"What do you think?" Kuda Moshu took his hand and asked softly.

“……”

The hustle and bustle of passers-by on the street left him. In front of Tetsufumi Hirakawa, it seems that only Moshu Kuda is left.

He stared at her, the flow of the night air slightly chilled in the corners of his eyes, he opened his mouth and snorted: "I ......"

The voice is surprisingly harsh.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa took a breath as he tried to adjust...... For a moment, the mutilated memories of his previous life seemed to clear up in his mind, the teacher whose face he could no longer remember.

Her facial features are soft, and her eyes are always gentle, like a lake without waves...... That's Hisada's face.

In his memory, the teacher's vague appearance unconsciously changed to the appearance of Kuda Moki.

Yes, it's the same gentleness.

The attachment-like emotion crossed the barrier of time and space, and in the ghost of memory, it was projected onto the teacher in front of him.

Like the call of fate, everything is destined.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at Maki Kuda, who was waiting for his reply, and at this time, he really wanted to hug her.

"Jasmine ......"

His voice was no longer inaudible, he didn't know how to say it himself, and all that was left in his ears was the voice of Kuda Moki, like the teacher who encouraged him to "keep going".

She took his hand, and the warmth of her palm wrapped him.

"What? Think this method doesn't work? To be honest, I also think it's too good for you, I always think it'...... Do not say. What can I do, after all, I still like you...... The previous ......"

Kuda Moshu's words were not finished, and Hirakawa Tetsufumi almost couldn't wait to move forward and take Kuda Moshu into his arms with his hand.

"Jasmine, I like you."

“…… Like I still make me so sad. Kuda Moshu stopped what he hadn't said just now, and struggled slightly, "Also, don't take an inch, I only said holding hands, and I didn't let you hold it." ”

"Let me give you a hug, just a moment, okay?" Tetsufumi Hirakawa didn't want to let go.

A hug that hasn't been seen in a long time, a hug that makes people obsessed.

"Jasmine, you say, is it possible that we should have been together in the last life?"

"What strange things are you talking about?"

"No, no." Tetsufumi Hirakawa hugged Hinata and chuckled, "I'm a terrible person, all the time." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, let go." Kuda Moshu struggled again, "Just hug it when you say it." ”

"I ......"

"Don't make me angry."

“…… Good. Tetsufumi Hirakawa let go, grabbed Kuda Moki's shoulder, and looked at her narrowly, almost infatuatedly, from an arm's length away.

Kuda Moki reached out and removed the hair from her face.

"What kind of eyes are you?"

"No, no." Tetsufumi Hirakawa shook his head again and again, but he was a little inexplicably excited.

I don't know what to be excited about, because of what she does.

Kuda Moshu glanced at Tetsufumi Hirakawa and decided to pour a basin of cold water.

"Don't be too happy, no matter what, my patience is limited."

"Just because I chose this way doesn't mean I'll always pamper you."

"If you don't satisfy me, I won't care about you, I've already said that kind of thing."

"Yes, I know." Tetsufumi Hirakawa nodded quickly.

"It's not just that." Kuda added, "We set a deadline, and if you still don't give me a satisfactory answer when the deadline is reached, I will let it go." ”

“…… Good. Tetsufumi Hirakawa hesitated for a moment, but still nodded, "When?" ”

"August 20." Kuda Moshu said without hesitation, he had already thought about it.

"Your birthday?"

"Hmm." "Also, the deadline is a deadline, and it doesn't mean that I will definitely make a decision at that time. In the middle, if you disappoint me too much, I'll still let it go, you know? ”

"yes, I see." Tetsufumi Hirakawa has no reason to disagree at all.

"Alright." Kuda Moshu seemed to be a little disgusted and brushed off Tetsufumi Hiragawa the hand that was on her shoulder, and turned around, "I'm done with what I'm going to say, let's go." ”

"yes, okay." Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who was removed from his hand, immediately followed the pace of Maki Kuda, and then, stretched out his hand and took her hand.

Kuda Moshu struggled slightly, and then left it alone.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa took Maki Kuda's hand, and the two continued along the street, slowly moving forward.

Arms swinging back and forth with the pace, pedestrians around you, warm lights on the side of the road.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa stared intently at the warm side face of Maki Hida, only to feel that his hands were warmer than before.

After a long time, I saw her suddenly speak, and her soft voice came to her ears.

"You have to hold my hand tightly......"

"yes, okay."