Edogawa Ward is the easternmost special ward of Tokyo's 23rd ward. Compared to Shinjuku Ward, where the outer garden skating venue is located, this area is a little more remote.

Early in the morning, Hikaru Kurosawa arrived at Shinozaki Station by train.

"Edogawa?" After getting off the train, Hikaru Kurosawa looked at the surroundings and felt a little fresh. Because of the surname Edogawa, he was more impressed, attributed to a certain Grim Reaper elementary school student.

And it's the first time he's coming to this ward, he's coming to Tokyo to go to university, and it's basically a two-point-one-line routine.

Either in school or part-time as a tutor. He used to rarely go to places like Shinjuku and Shibuya, let alone the relatively remote Edogawa district.

After sighing, Kurosawa Hikaru just wanted to take out his mobile phone to contact, but he caught a glimpse of a white shadow.

I saw that not far away, a beautiful girl with a shoulder bag on her back was walking towards him. Even though the station is a place with a relatively high flow of people, her existence still stands out from the crowd.

Even if it is a sea of people, you can find her at a glance. As usual, Miki Hakuha was still wearing a white dress and looked plain.

"Kurosawa-senpai, good morning." Soon, Miki Hakuha walked closer, waved his hand lightly, and greeted him with a smile.

"Good morning." Hikaru Kurosawa saw the shallow smile on the corner of her mouth and nodded slightly. is different from keeping a distance before, after talking last night, Miki Hakuha's attitude is no longer to avoid him, but to be the same as at the beginning.

"You're here so early, it's only 9:10." Miki Bai Yu looked at his phone just now and couldn't help but say.

"It's still too late for you." Hikaru Kurosawa disagreed, looking down at her. If he had enough time, he would have left early.

Just like the first date with Chizuru, he also arrived at the meeting place early and waited. Because it was the first time he had a date with Miki Hakuha, the meeting place was still Edogawa Ward, where he had never been before, so he set off early, but this school girl still arrived one step earlier than him and was waiting for him.

"The rink doesn't open until 10 a.m., and it's less than 10 minutes away, so there's still a lot of time...... Senior, have you had breakfast? Although I saw him in advance, Miki Hakuha's mood was very good, but it was also a little annoyed.

"Not yet."

"Shall we go get something to eat first?" Hearing this reply, Miki Hakuha proposed.

"Okay, I haven't been here, do you have a recommended breakfast place?" Hikaru Kurosawa looked at her with a smile. In fact, he had already eaten breakfast.

Recently, he has basically made his own breakfast, because breakfast is not too particular, it is very simple to make, as long as he can fill his stomach.

Having said that, he could tell that Miki Hakuha was distressed, probably not knowing how to arrange the period before the rink opened.

"There's a breakfast shop that I think is delicious, right next to the skating rink." The trouble was solved, and Miki White Feather directly thought of a place to go.

"Then let's go." Hikaru Kurosawa followed her wishes. There was no need to be in a daze at the station, but there was a direction, Miki Hakuha nodded, and took the lead in taking steps and began to lead the way.

"It's cute." Following in her footsteps, Hikaru Kurosawa looked at her back a few steps ahead and couldn't help but think.

Maybe it's because of the previous dates, which were basically planned and arranged by him, like this, the feeling of having Miki Hakuha think about where to go, makes him quite fresh.

The most important thing is that from Miki Hakuha's words and eyes, he can feel that she wants to give him a good experience.

"Senior, go this way." Miki Hakuha, who walked in front, was very active and careful to guide the way, in order to avoid him from going wrong, and pointed out the way for him.

"Aren't you a road idiot? Can you still find the way? Seeing her show the way, Hikaru Kurosawa felt quite amused, and teased in some surprise.

If he remembers correctly, this school girl still has the attribute of a road idiot. I met by chance in Shibuya before, and this senior girl ran into the alley without paying attention in order to avoid him.

"I'm not a road idiot, but sometimes I get lost when I go to a place for the first time." Miki White Feather is very reluctant to admit this name.

"Yes, yes." Hikaru Kurosawa saw that she didn't like the name, and didn't want to fight with her.

"I mean really, no matter where it is, if I've been there a few times, I'll be able to find my way." Because his response was a bit perfunctory, Miki Baiyu suddenly became anxious and turned back to say.

"How many times will it take you to recognize the way?"

"Three times...... Five times. ”

"Then you're quite able to find the way." Hikaru Kurosawa is a bit unusual. In this way, Miki Xuemei is not a complete road idiot...... At the very least, it can't be as outrageous as Zoro.

It's normal to think about it, comic book characters usually magnify a person's characteristics for the sake of drama, and it is easier to create conflicts and highlights.

In real life, even if you are a road idiot, as long as you have been to a place a few times, you will always be able to recognize the way.

"......" Miki Baiyu looked up at him, always feeling that he was talking back, and he had the intention to refute but was speechless.

Although she is not a complete road idiot, she is indeed worse than ordinary people in terms of recognizing the road.

It can't be helped, because she is not good at observing her surroundings, and usually she decides to go somewhere, and she just goes there, and she is not attracted by strange things halfway.

"Angry?" Because she didn't answer, but walked forward, Hikaru Kurosawa quickened his pace and walked to her side, walking side by side with her, looking sideways at her expression.

"Nope." Miki Baiyu shook her head, how could she be so easily angry, just depressed about her shortcomings.

"Senior Kurosawa, your speed skating skills are so good, have you practiced before?" After thinking about it, she realized that she was misunderstood by not saying anything, and after thinking about it, she decided to change the topic.

Because she has been watching Senior Kurosawa from a distance, there are many, many questions accumulated in her heart.

For example, speed skating...... Mr. Kurosawa used to compete in speed skating with his friends in the outer garden, and his skills were really amazing.

Although she doesn't practice speed skating, she also plays ice sports, so she can see that her senior's skating skills are far beyond the level of ordinary people, at least the level at which she can participate in official competitions.

"I learned it when I was a kid." Hikaru Kurosawa nodded. Although he knows that he doesn't have an experience card for the skill of skating, which is completely at the level of ordinary people, but this school girl has seen the appearance of skating, and it is too fake to insist that she has not learned it.

"Have you ever learned figure skating?" Miki Hakuha was a little curious. The feeling that Senior Kurosawa gave her was really mysterious.

Reading, photography, playing the piano, archery, and skating, I always feel very versatile, and there is nothing he can't do.

"No, I just tried it when I was playing with my friends, and it was very poor, far worse than you." Kurosawa thought about it and shook his head.

This time the date assignment brought him skills were entry-level skating and entry-level ballet. Although these two skills are combined, they are figure skating.

After all, the essence of figure skating is actually ice dancing, using the ice surface as a stage and dancing gorgeously.

"I'm not very good at skiing......" Hearing his compliment, Miki Hakuha shook his head and waved his hand.

"Aren't you good enough to skate? I've seen your game footage, you can't fool me. Hikaru Kurosawa found that she was quite modest and teased.

"It's really not good enough, the game footage you watch is the old me, not the current me." Miki Bai Yu shook her head, her tone was very sure, her soft and ethereal voice was a few steps higher.

"......" sensed her excitement, and Hikaru Kurosawa paused. In front of him, Miki Baiyu, who has always been soft and well-behaved, was so excited.

Obviously, his words stepped on her minefield.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so loud...... It's just that I don't really skate well enough right now. After a firm rebuttal, Miki Hakuha saw his smile freeze, and immediately regretted it, and hurriedly bowed and apologized.

"I only got back on the rink this year, and I'm still recovering and rebuilding...... In the years of high school, I have been studying, and after so long, the level of figure skating has fallen far behind my peers. In order to make up for this mistake, she also added.

With that, she clutched her skirt tightly, feeling extremely anxious, worried that he would be angry.

"No need to apologize, it's my preconception, it's not your fault. Seeing that she wanted to coax herself, Hikaru Kurosawa shook her head and comforted. Although her voice was raised a few notches, what she said was not excessive, but she was more emotional, and it was not fault at all.

"I'm sorry." Miki Hakuha was even more frustrated when he heard him say this. It was not easy for the senior to be willing to go on a date with her, but her performance was so bad.

"It's okay." Seeing that she was still very discouraged, Kurosawa Hikaru thought about it and said. When someone apologizes, it is better to accept it calmly than to say something of understanding.

Because when a person apologizes, it means that she thinks she has done something wrong. Even if you think she didn't do anything wrong, saying something that I understand and comfort people will only make her feel that you are good, and this matter does not come to an end.

"Uh-huh." Hearing his reply, Miki Hakuha looked up and observed his expression, and then he was relieved.

With this little episode, the two of them walked up again. It's not far from the station to the skating rink, and although both of them walked slowly, it took about ten minutes to arrive.

However, more than half an hour before the opening time, they walked into a breakfast shop.

"Senior, do you eat so little?" When the clerk brought breakfast, Miki Hakuha was a little surprised to see his breakfast.

"Is that less?" Hikaru Kurosawa was a little puzzled. Although he had eaten breakfast, in order to match Miki Hakuha, he still ordered an egg roll and a miso soup.

"Can these breakfasts support your energy expenditure?" Miki Bai Yu nodded, very puzzled.

"Energy consumption?" Hikaru Kurosawa didn't quite understand what she was saying.

"You usually have to play the piano and practice archery, aren't they all physical and energy-consuming sports?" Once standing at the top of a field, Miki Hakuha knew very well that Senior Kurosawa was definitely the same as her in those corresponding fields, and had paid unimaginable sweat and hard work for ordinary people.

Because of this, Kurosawa's appetite should be very large, and the result is just an egg roll and a bowl of soup...... Just eat such a little, not as much as she eats.

"I'm going to skate later, eating too much will affect my exercise, so save some stomach for lunch." Discovering that she is an athlete's mind, Kurosawa explained after thinking about it.

"I see." Although Miki Hakuha felt that half an hour was enough to digest, he didn't comment much on his habits.

Immediately after, Hikaru Kurosawa took a fork, put an egg roll in his mouth, and chewed it.

"How?" Miki Hakuha looked at him with a little expectation.

"It's delicious." Hikaru Kurosawa, who was eating normally, noticed her nervousness and concern, and suddenly smiled brightly.

Although the skill of acting is not obtained from Miki Hakuha's dating mission...... But acting is a skill that is very useful in the context of interpersonal communication.