For the rest of the time, in order to calm me down, Izumi has been desperately looking for a topic. Basically, she was talking, and I just coped with a few words every now and then. But even so, she didn't blame, probably knowing that I wasn't interested, right?

"I'm sorry, I'm not very good at this kind of thing—" I thought she was going to continue, but Izumi lowered her head slightly, as if self-reflective, and apologized. "It's nothing, just willing to listen to me complain for so long, honestly I'm already happy. You don't need to feel guilty of it—"

As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly saw her covering most of her face with a book, "It turns out that you also have this kind of expression?" Suddenly aroused by my curiosity, I decided to tease her again, "Isn't it? Izumi jerked the book back on the table, and instantly made a loud noise.

At this point, she blushed like a freshly cooked octopus. "Anyway, didn't you say you were going to help me look at the exercises? Come on! To be honest, there are several formulas that I don't understand. After a while, Izumi coughed lightly and urged me to say as if in a hurry.

So, I smiled bitterly and sat down beside her, but I didn't expect this action to startle her, and her eyes widened like a brass bell and turned her head to look at me in a daze. "You, you wait a minute!" I stared at her with the same confused gaze, "Why?" ”

In an instant, a series of question marks popped up in my mind. "Is it necessary to be so close?!" After listening to her words, I couldn't cry or laugh, "Because, if you're on the other side, it's inconvenient!" Everything you see is upside down. ”

With that, I sighed and returned my gaze to her workbook. "This, so?" In an instant, Izumi let out a somewhat embarrassed wry smile, and then quickly turned his face away, desperately pretending to be looking at the scenery outside the window.

"Here, wrong, huh?"

"Where?!" After a while, she turned her gaze back as if taken aback by my voice, with a very stiff expression that she didn't want me to see, "Here—" Honestly, her expression was funny right now, but I was desperately trying not to let myself laugh.

Then, with the mechanical pencil in his hand, he pointed to the second formula in the penultimate line in the upper right corner of the workbook. "You're getting X and Y wrong—" However, her gaze instantly began to go back and forth between me and the formula......

"Please, say it again!" Slowly, his eyes gradually became confused, "Why did it become like this?" Unexpectedly, her questions gradually became like a heavy rain pouring endlessly, one after another kept rushing at me!

Asking and asking, even she herself couldn't help but hold her head with her hands, and repeated in a tone that was almost self-defeating: "I don't understand, I really don't understand!" Help, Chihiro! ”

The chaos in his eyes seemed to be bottomless. "Instead of asking me for help, you usually listen to the lectures." I perfunctory her on the one hand; While throwing the words unceremoniously in her face. "Why are you like this when you are the squad leader?"

Then, as if I couldn't help but complain to her, I couldn't help but ask her again. "It's the former squad leader—" Izumi corrected me with a broken voice as she leaned on the table, and she now looked limp.

"You say, why is there such a formula in the world that humans can't understand?" She turned the pen in her hand; While half-jokingly, he threw the question over again, "Are you serious?" ”

I was really helpless, and I couldn't help but knock her on the head, "It hurts!" What are you doing!? She didn't make much effort, but her expression was exaggerated, "What a nonsensical fellow—" In an instant, she gently stroked the place I had just knocked with her hand; while complaining unceremoniously.

"That's fine, be serious—" At my constant urging, she finally became more honest. His gaze returned to the formula just now, "Take it, you—!" "Before I could even react, he snatched the pen and eraser from my hand!

And just like that, the fight began! On the way, even though I got stuck several times, I would patiently listen to my explanation, compared to the attitude of being casual and just wanting to escape, it was like a different person. So almost elbow-to-elbow to elbow, we unknowingly quarreled countless times.

Eventually, though, just before the setting sun swallowed up the entire library, we left there.

"I didn't expect you to be so reluctant to admit defeat?"

On the way to the station, I continued to sarcastically mock Izumi, "Mutual friend, I didn't expect you to be such a relentless character—" She glared at me from the side and replied unceremoniously, "Not only do you chase after you, but you also love to use strong words!" Then, after adjusting the position of the satchel slightly with his hands, he added another sentence coldly.

As a result, until the station, we were still arguing. Several times, Izumi was so angry that he wanted to hit me.

After returning home and saying hello to Lola, we didn't give each other a good look either. "What? Did you quarrel? At this time, Aster was coming out of the kitchen with a plate full of mandarins. She placed the plate on the coffee table as she sided; He asked us without looking up.

After that, Izumi told her all about the journey as if he had found a companion," I said—" and she reached out and took a mandarin orange from her plate and put it in her mouth, chewing as she spoke. "Are you stupid?"

"How can you quarrel over such a trivial matter?" As she spoke, she swallowed the mandarin as if nothing had happened. "I'm not a schoolboy again......" and then sighed heavily. By the way, this mandarin orange is quite sweet, do you eat it? ”

After saying that, she took another mandarin orange and asked while peeling it. "Thanks—by the way, why are you here?" After I said thank you, I also reached out for a mandarin, and then suddenly raised my head as if I just remembered, and asked, "Lola called me to accompany her to the supermarket to buy some fruit, and I stopped by." ”

After speaking, she pointed to the refrigerator in the distance, "The rest is there." ”

As he spoke, he threw another slice into his mouth, and then muttered so sweet with a happy face. "That's right! Lola, this is for you—" Only then did Izumi remember the comics that Shion had instructed to hand over to her, and hurriedly handed over the bag he had been carrying.

"These are all carefully selected by Aster—"

Lola, who hurriedly reached out to take it, looked a little flustered, and she couldn't help but bow her head deeply in the face of Ziyuan when she was so happy that she didn't know what to do, "Thank you!" Even if we don't write it out in a notebook, we can all understand that what she wants to say at this moment must be this.

"I'm used to it anyway, if you're so serious, I'll honestly feel uncomfortable—" Shion waved her hand, a little embarrassed. "Alright, it's not too early, I should almost go back......"

With that, she got up from the couch and walked to the entrance. "Why don't you just finish dinner and leave—" Izumi chased after her, pulling her sleeve and telling her. Like, a little reluctant. "You, can you see you at school tomorrow?"

Unexpectedly, he was gently poked in the head by Ziyuan, and prevaricated with these words. "But—!" Then, turn your back to her and put on your shoes. "Don't worry, it's okay—" Shion, who had left such a sentence, smiled and gently closed the door in the face of Izumi, who still wanted to say something.

"What's going on? What are you worried about? ”

Seeing that Izumi returned to the living room from the entrance very lost, and even a little sad, I asked a little strangely. "Is there anything wrong with letting her go back alone?" When she sat down next to me, I couldn't help but ask again. At this point, Lola gently patted me on the shoulder and took the notebook from the coffee table—

Slowly, she told me little by little about the situation in Shion's house.

"Shion's parents separated when she was very young, and I heard that Shion was devastated when she learned the news. She felt that it was because she was not good enough that her parents would divorce. And blamed himself for this for a long time......"

I read the text and was very surprised, "But she behaves normally—?" Faced with my question, Izumi took over: "Of course, right?" Because she didn't want more people to know about it, she didn't even hide it from us at first—"

At this point, Izumi's expression somewhat calmed down, but her voice still sounded a little sad. "But in school, it's been spread for a long time. Everyone said she was a 'child that no one wants'. ”

When I heard this, I was dumbfounded. And Izumi's surprise and resentment at me at this moment didn't seem to be surprised at all, "Every day I am told such excessive things behind my back, to be honest, I don't know what method she used to persevere." ”

After saying that, Izumi sighed again, I don't know how many times it was.

"And lately—" Lola then slowly told me about Shion that she had only recently heard, "I heard that Shion's father seems to be in the habit of drinking. "After reading it, I could already guess what she was going to tell me next—

"And every time this happens, Aster is rebuked quite excessively. Today, he happened to be back from a business trip, so Izumi wanted to keep her for dinner......"

At this moment, I stood up from the couch without hesitation, and finally couldn't take it anymore? I do not know. It's just that if you can still sit honestly after listening to this, there must be something abnormal.

I don't want to be like that! So—"Let's go to her house!" ”

In an instant, Lola and Izumi were taken aback by my words, and looked at me in a daze—"Chihiro, what are you going to do?" Izumi walked up to me, stared into my eyes, and asked very seriously. Don't forget, although we are friends, we are also outsiders. This kind of thing is not something we can handle, or do you think that with your words, you can get Shion out of her current situation? ”

"But you can't just do nothing because of that!"

In an instant, my voice overshadowed hers, and at the same time clenched my fists unconvinced, "Look, although I really didn't think of any way, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge!" After listening to my words, Izumi sighed, then shook his head slightly, "Lola, what do you think?" ”

Then, he turned to Lola and asked for Lola's opinion.

"I don't feel at ease, either."

So, Izumi didn't insist anymore, and then, after going out, we ran together in the direction of Shion's house......