Naoko pulled out a tissue and wiped the mucus that had been thrown onto Naruse's face.

Feeling that she couldn't wipe it clean, she turned on the faucet next to the laboratory table again, dipped a little water, and wiped it on his face.

“……”

Naruse shrank her head from the cold, holding down the tissue and her hand, "I'll do it myself-what Hikari just said?" ”

Naoko also looked at Hikaru Takikawa and slowly withdrew her hand.

"I'm going to Kyoto with the third-year school trip."

Naruse took a deep breath, glanced at the squid in the wax plate, and wiped his face vigorously.

"What do you say suddenly?"

Hikaru Takikawa shook his head, "It's not sudden, I've been thinking about it for days, and I've had this plan before." Three days and two nights, I will be back soon, and it shouldn't be a problem for the school to take a sick leave. ”

“……”

Naruse and Naoko glanced at each other, and the latter took the crumpled tissue in his hand.

"It's still sudden." Naruse said.

Hikaru Takikawa smiled and was about to say something when Reiko Kuroda on the podium was attracted by the movement here and walked over.

"I'll talk about it after class." Naruse whispered.

"Okay."

Looking down at the squid in the dissecting wax plate, and then at the tissue in Naoko's hand, Reiko Kuroda dropped the sentence "Be careful" and walked away.

And before the end of class, Hikaru Takikawa didn't mention it again.

Naruse continued the dissection, removed the squid's internal organs, and observed absentmindedly for a while, before beginning to draw a sketch of the structure.

"Do you need to mark it?" Hikaru Takikawa asked as he painted.

"Yes." Naruse said.

Ten minutes later, the bell rang for the end of class.

After all, it is a specimen impregnated with formalin solution, which is toxic, and the squid used in the experiment cannot be dissected by students casually, so it has to be left in the biology classroom;

Reiko Kuroda stood at the door, scanning the students who had left one by one, especially the boys who were playing with the specimens before.

"How is Harumi thinking about it?" Leaving the classroom, Hikaru Takikawa talked about going to Kyoto again.

"Just serious?"

"Of course."

She nodded, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have let Chunhai go with me—there is nothing else for Chunhai these days other than class, right?" ”

"That being said, it was a bit sudden, and it wasn't in my plan."

Naruse still shook his head, "Forget it." ”

Hikaru Takikawa raised his arm and hooked his shoulder, "Let's go together." ”

Naoko immediately looked over.

Naruse couldn't get used to her kind of intimacy with girls, and while struggling, he said casually: "Next time." ”

Hikaru Takikawa paused, and suddenly remembered something.

She let him go, then pulled her phone out of her pocket and clicked it a few times.

[Recording playing]

“…… I promise Hikari will invite me out next time, and if there is no emergency, I will definitely go. ”

“……”

Listening to his own voice in the recording, Naruse pursed his lower lip, and only spoke after a while:

"It's not the same thing, is it?"

Hikaru Takikawa shook his phone and laughed, "It's the same thing." ”

"Can you go so far to Kyoto as you relax after school?"

Her eyes widened, "Chunhai has rejected me for more than a month, and it adds up to the same, and more." ”

Naruse was speechless.

Going through the connecting hallway, back to the main building, and going up to the third floor, he said, "I have something. ”

"What's the matter?"

"I have to ......," he looked left and right, "I have to accompany Naoko." ”

Naoko looked at him and nodded cooperatively.

Hikaru Takikawa smiled slightly.

"I don't plan to leave Naoko behind, let's go together."

“……”

Naoko was also stunned.

She opened her mouth, then looked at Naruse again.

With just one glance, he knew she was moved.

And the moment he realized this, he compromised in his heart, and even began to take the initiative to find a reason:

Three days and two nights is indeed not a long time, and it will not have much impact on the attendance of this semester;

And he didn't have anything else to do but go to school. Once in a while, you "betray" from your honest duty once in a while, and you should be relaxed.

What's more, there is also Naoko with him......

"Then go ahead."

opened his mouth to agree, and Naruse couldn't help but think about Nakahara Xue's expression when she received three sick leave applications at the same time tomorrow.

"yes."

Takikawa Mitsuki smiled, put his arm open, and at the same time hugged him and Shangzi, "Then let's go back early after school today to prepare." ”

Naruse turned his head to look at her, "Light's parents and Sister Yue, do you know about this?" ”

"I'll tell them."

"Would you agree?"

"Of course." She said confidently.

The three of them chatted and walked outside the E-class classroom.

Looking at the three people who were hooking their shoulders, it was not until their figures disappeared that Morimi withdrew his gaze.

"Had such a nice chat...... What are you talking about? ”

Morimi looked at the starfish again.

She looked in the same direction.

Finally stayed up until the end of school, Takikawa Hikaru picked up his schoolbag and was about to go back, but fortunately he was pulled by the person next to him.

"Light? There's also an evening shift party. ”

"Ahh

"Where are you going to play later, I seem to have been excited all day long."

Naruse turned his head at this point.

Hikaru Takikawa nodded to him, signaling him to rest assured, and then smiled mysteriously at the girl next to him: "Secret." ”

"Eh~ tell me."

After all, they were going to skip school, and they were going to Kyoto so far away, so the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

Nakahara Xue came over quickly, and as usual, explained some innocuous things.

At the end of the day, she suddenly looked at the back row of the classroom: "Takigawa." ”

Hikaru Takikawa was a little surprised, and a little nervous, "Xiaoxue? ”

"Call me teacher. You'll ...... tomorrow."

She subconsciously held her breath.

“…… Remember to bring the form you forgot at home, and you'll be left behind. ”

She breathed a sigh of relief, then hesitated again.

"I'll ...... tomorrow"

Naruse coughed incessantly.

Zhongyuan Xue looked at her: "You tomorrow?" ”

"I'm sure I'll bring it." Hikaru Takikawa said.

"That'll do."

At the end of the evening shift, Naruse and Naoko breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Although it has been decided that you want to skip school, being caught by a teacher before and during the truancy are completely two cases.

"There shouldn't be anything going on over there at the Restoration Department, right?"

"There are senior sisters Xiaochuan here, and they will send me a message if they have something."

"Then let's go back today and pack up our things."

"Hmm."

Leaving the classroom, Hikaru Takikawa went to find her sister - she was going to leave for Kyoto tomorrow, and Takikawa Moon didn't have the heart to study for school today.

"I'll come back to Chunhai in the evening to discuss the itinerary and something." She said before leaving.

"Hmm." Naruse answered and watched her go downstairs.

"—where are you going?" Suddenly, Morimi's voice sounded beside him.

“…… How are you so elusive. Naruse turned his head to look at her, "Scared me." ”

"Why wasn't Naoko scared?"

Morimi pushed his glasses, "It's you who did something wrong, you're too sensitive." ”

“……”

Naruse was stunned and looked at her without speaking.

She looked at him too, and suddenly thought of what happened more than a week ago, and her face was hot.

"I mean what you're doing now!"

The reaction of the two was a little strange, and Naoko stood aside, her gaze wandering over their faces.

"I'm going home now." Naruse pulled Naoko, "Let's go." ”

Morimi didn't have to go to the school today, and he didn't have to go to the library on duty, so he naturally followed the two of them all the way.

When there was no one beside him, Naruse still told her the plans of the three of them.

“…… Unbelievable. ”

Morimi's eyes widened, and he looked completely unacceptable. Regarding Naruse's casual suggestion of "do you want to skip school together", she refused without even thinking about it.

"Is Naoko going to skip school too? Don't be spoiled by this kind of person. ”

"'This kind of person'? Standing in front of you is the first grade of the first year of the prefectural Tsu high school. ”

“……”

Morimi gritted his teeth and sneered.

"It's fine." Naoko smiled.

Naoko was already hopelessly infatuated with him, and knew that he couldn't persuade her, so Morimi didn't bother to say anything.

As for the other person......

"Don't take the starfish away, she's only recently been interested in learning."

Interested in learning?

Naruse was a little skeptical about this, but he didn't say much about it.

"Anyway, I didn't invite you, you still expect her not to touch the light."

(End of chapter)