Tuk Tuk ......

Tuk Tuk ......

Muddy, unable to sleep steadily, but unable to wake up, in the mud of sleep, Naruse kept struggling.

Tuk tuk!

The sound of banging on the table suddenly became very clear, and he suddenly opened his eyes to find everyone in the classroom standing up.

“……”

Morimi in front of him also stood, but he just turned around, his hand still on his table, and his face was a little helpless.

"You're finally awake. It's class. ”

In the standing crowd, the voice of the chairman of the committee was heard.

As soon as Naruse was about to get up, the rest of the students in the classroom sat down, revealing unfamiliar faces on the podium.

is a trainee teacher.

Yanagisawa also came, but he was only responsible for sending people over, and he didn't mean to stay here for a long time, so he nodded, glanced around again and left.

Naruse wiped it on his face, still feeling a little dizzy in his head.

"How long did I sleep......"

Morimi was a little surprised by his initiative, but he quickly replied, "What do you think about it until now?" ”

It's only been half an hour...... And the time of real deep sleep may be less than half, no wonder the more you sleep, the more drowsy you become.

Naruse closed his eyes again, relenting slightly.

Da Da Da –

There was a clear and powerful sound of writing from the podium, and when he opened his eyes again, the young trainee teacher had already written his name on the blackboard.

"Hello everyone, I'm ......"

Naruse couldn't help but yawn.

The girl in the front seat didn't know how many times she turned around, looked at him, and turned back again, as if she was worried that he would lie down again.

He remembered that he seemed to have accosted him just now.

On the podium, perhaps to get closer to the students who are completely strangers below, the trainee teacher is introducing his origins.

“…… When I was not in junior high school, I went to Tokyo with my parents, and until high school, I returned to my hometown of Yamagata because of some things. ”

"It seems to be similar to Naruse." Kobayashi's voice came from the front.

"Naruse?"

The young female teacher first looked at Kobayashi, who could see the sound, and then lowered her head and looked for it on the seating chart.

"Naruse went to Tokyo when he was in elementary school, and then he came back here last year." Kobayashi continued.

"Is that so?"

Although I couldn't find the name on the seating chart for a while, many students at the bottom turned their heads to look at the corner of the back row of the classroom, and the trainee teacher followed their line of sight and their eyes lit up.

"Why did Naruse-san return to Tsuzen from Tokyo?"

Is he a topic to get closer......

Naruse still stood up, "The pressure on schools in Tokyo is too great, and the competition is not enough, so it is better for the countryside to bully." ”

“……”

There was a low laugh in the classroom, mixed with a few muffled coughs.

The trainee smiled and motioned for him to sit down, and then resumed the conversation without showing much nervousness.

And after tossing like this, Naruse also completely got rid of the sequelae of lack of sleep, and the whole person became much more awake.

The rookie teacher on the stage was talking, and Morimi was watching in the corner, and suddenly leaned back.

"In terms of the rhythm of speaking, I can still see a little deliberateness, I should have practiced it deliberately...... But I'm not nervous at all. ”

Naruse retracted his gaze and looked at the white shirt huddled on the edge of the desk, "Hmm. ”

"The teacher I said at noon should be her."

"Probably."

Morimi turned around, "It seems that in the first class of Class A, she will talk for half an hour first." ”

Naruse looked at the stage, "Who knows." ”

For most of the students at the bottom, as long as they don't go to class, they are happy to talk about anything.

"Aren't you tired?" Morimi asked suddenly.

"What."

"It's been tense like this."

“……”

She looked at him, "I'm not going to eat you again." ”

Seeing that she finally stopped pretending that nothing had happened, Naruse stared at her for a while and said:

"Who knows what the hell you're up to."

"My 'ghost idea' is to do nothing."

Morimi smiled, "Just wait for one day when you suddenly relented and decided to tilt your liking a little more towards me, I will be satisfied." ”

Naruse frowned deeply.

"That day will never come."

"Well, then I'll have to wait until the day you die or I die."

He stared at her, "What's the point?" ”

"If I want to make sense, this is my pursuit of love, an essential part of my life as a normal human being."

"If it's an essential part, why waste it on people who don't bear fruit?"

She tilted her head, "Can't you?" ”

“……”

"Do you care about my feelings being wasted?"

Naruse pursed her lower lip, "It's nothing to do with me." ”

Morimi leaned against his desk, "You're so awkward. ”

"Am I doing something wrong?"

"Is that right?" She asked rhetorically.

"I like Naoko, and I've dated Naoko, is it still a mistake to reject others now?"

"But you like me too."

"But I've chosen Naoko now."

Morimi pursed his lower lip and swallowed the words that almost blurted out.

"So I'm not going to do anything now."

“……”

Went around again.

He could feel that she was deliberately provoking his emotions.

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the restlessness in his heart, he said, "I won't leave Naoko, if you are willing to wait, then wait forever." ”

She nodded, as if she had taken it for granted.

"Well, I'll wait."

"-Morimi Kazuha!"

He still couldn't hold back and wanted to say something, but the rookie teacher on the podium couldn't help it.

"Naruse-san, and the ...... ahead Morimi-san, we're still in class right now. ”

Although she was also chatting here, the two students in the corner didn't pay attention to her at all, and had been chatting with themselves for a while, and the boy who came back from Tokyo still looked like he was about to get angry, so she had to open her mouth to show her presence.

The eyes in the classroom also converged on the two people in the corner at once.

“…… I'm sorry. ”

Naruse apologized and looked out the window again.

Morimi also quickly turned around and bowed his head slightly to the rookie teacher on the stage, apologizing.

Classes continue.

Or rather, the chat continues.

It was only interrupted in the middle of the way, and she had forgotten where she had just said.

"All in all...... Because of that teacher's influence, I also decided to become a teacher and help more students like her. ”

Hurriedly ending her story, she opened the textbook and began to teach the first class of her second-year class A.

"The teacher only interns here for one week, so in order not to affect everyone's original learning progress, please turn the book to the ......"

Retracting his gaze from the window, Naruse opened the textbook, his mind completely out of the classroom.

The same is true of Morimi in front.

At the end of the lesson, the two of them didn't listen to anything.

When the bell rang for the end of class, the newcomer teacher left with a smile in the neat salute of the students in class A, and the classroom suddenly became lively.

"Anyway, it's better than the old man."

"At least you won't be sleepy."

"It's also cute to suddenly get stuck and overwhelmed."

"This is a college student who is more mature than us and immature than the social people...... That's great. ”

The trainee teacher became the center of the conversation, and the small disturbance that occurred in the middle of the class has long been forgotten.

Except for the two parties themselves.

"Angry?" Morimi turned his head.

Naruse looked out the window and didn't look at her.

She leaned back again, her arm resting on his desk.

"I know why you're angry."

His eyes moved, but he didn't speak.

"You feel guilty that I am going to waste my time and my life on you, but you can't make amends by associating with me...... At the end of the day, it's because they like me. ”

Naruse looked at the clouds in the sky, and she continued.

"But for me, even if I don't get a response, as long as I can continue to like you, that's enough......"

"—how long are you going to talk nonsense?"

"Huh?"

His gaze finally fell on her face.

"If you really thought so, you wouldn't have gotten to this point, and you wouldn't be able to say it now."

Mori was speechless, looked at him for a while, and a smile flickered.

"See...... You really like me. ”

Naruse leaned back and fell on the back of the chair, feeling a little weak both physically and mentally.

"If you continue to do so, this little liking now will soon turn into hundreds or thousands of times more disgust."

"Can't you just like it silently?" Morimi asked, his face full of grievances.

He looked at her calmly, and there was cunning underneath the grievances.

"The question is, are you willing to stop at the person you like silently?"

(End of chapter)