At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Hikaru Takikawa left alone.

Passing by the café in front of the school, she didn't say hello to the starfish and went home directly.

"Welcome back. Eat ...... tonight Light? ”

Mrs. Takikawa sat on the sofa and turned her head to look at the stairs, and her daughter went straight upstairs to her room, without responding to her greeting.

My daughter's recent state has not been quite right, as if she has become mature and stable, but it is more like she is trapped in her mind.

She thought about it, got up and went to the second floor, knocking on the door of her room.

"Light?"

“…… I want to take a break. ”

"What's wrong?"

"It's fine."

Mrs. Takigawa stood at the door for a while, "I'll have a croquette tonight." ”

"yes, I see."

Hikaru Takikawa lay on the bed, with his arms on his eyes, and did not put it down until he heard the footsteps outside gradually dimming.

“……”

The blurred vision gradually cleared, and looking at the ceiling, she froze for a moment, closed her eyes again, and let out a long breath.

Before the raised hand touched his lips, the touch that had happened in the ministry came to mind.

Warm, irresistible, touched.

This isn't the first time they've kissed – if the kiss was just contact between each other's lips.

It was indeed the first time she had really felt what it was like to kiss.

How jerky she is, how skilled he is.

Slightly tough, but patient, slowly guiding her with his own rhythm,

“….”

When he came back to his senses, his face was piping hot.

Hikaru Takikawa rolled over, closed his eyes, and his mind was full of his own initiative.

She opened her eyes and stared out the window, but there was nothing outside the window, and the invisible wind could not blow away what she was trying to escape.

The sight of nowhere to put it, returned to the room.

She curled up, trying to hide herself from her vision.

She slowly closed her eyes again.

"Spring Sea ......"

It's Friday afternoon.

After school time, Yanagisawa Oka rarely didn't procrastinate, and it ended with a few casual words.

Naruse packed up his things a little, and when he turned his head, the boys in charge of making cultural festival decorations at the back of the classroom were already busy.

"It's been a bit decent these two days." Morimi said.

"Hmm."

"Thanks to my man."

He smiled and retracted his gaze, "Are you going to go over now?" ”

"Hmm." She stood up with her school bag in her hand, "Don't be too early, at least after half past five." ”

She's going to study school today, but it's Friday, and she wants to take a break, so I'll only have afternoon classes today, and I'll have dinner with them in the evening as usual.

"It's not too early, Naoko's side will get at least five o'clock." Naruse said.

Morimi nodded and left with Ogasawara.

He was also about to go to the ministry, but before he could get out of the classroom, Eguchi, a member of the executive committee of the cultural festival, blocked up.

"Naruse, do you have time to take a look for me?"

"See what?"

"This."

He handed over a form with a plan on it.

"It's a little too detailed."

Naruse glanced at it twice, and then felt that the form was full of pressure, "Such a small plan is very laborious to execute." Don't be in such a hurry, there are still two weeks. ”

"So what to do?"

"Delete what you can."

"Huh?"

"I can't bear it."

"Hmmm......"

Naruse took the pen in his hand, "Then I'll help you delete it." ”

He read and scratched at the same time, and quickly crossed out the contents of the form, and returned it to the executive committee member along with the pen.

"A plan only makes sense if it is executed smoothly." Naruse comforted.

"Okay......"

He chatted with him a few more words, and when he looked up again, Naoko was already waiting outside the classroom.

"Let's go."

The two went downstairs to the club, and Naoko said, "The matryoshka doll that I brought yesterday has been repaired." ”

"So fast?"

"Well, because it's not very broken."

"It takes time for the adhesive to dry, right?"

"I've been in the ministry all night."

When he came to the handicraft club and took over the Russian matryoshka doll that was still a pile of fragments yesterday from one of the members, Naruse looked carefully up and down, left and right, and couldn't help but be a little amazed.

"Barely visible traces of repair......"

"Mainly because the fragments are very complete. However, if you look closely, you can still find microscopic cracks on the surface. ”

"That's enough." Naruse was already satisfied, and he believed that the owner would feel the same way.

Leaving the handicraft club with a matryoshka doll, Hikaru Takikawa waited at the door of the department when he got to the fourth floor.

"Something is fixed."

She took it, and was a little surprised, "I can barely tell that it has been broken." ”

"yes." Naruse opened the door and let her in, "Contact that ...... First-grader, tell her that she can come and get it. ”

"Hmm."

Hikaru Takikawa put down the pottery ornament and sent a message to the owner, and received a reply in less than half a minute.

"She said she would come and get it right away."

"Hmm."

Before the other party came over, Naruse took a few photos of the restored matryoshka dolls.

Hikaru Takikawa watched from the side, his gaze lingering on his face for a moment before shifting to the pottery ornament.

"The people at the handicraft club are really amazing."

"yes."

"I can think of giving full play to the strengths of the members of the handicraft club to help those in need, and Naoko is also very powerful."

He looked up at her, "I think so too. ”

Hikaru Takigawa looked at the nesting doll on the table again.

About five minutes later, a first-year girl appeared at the door of the department and knocked politely.

"Come in."

Seeing the restored matryoshka dolls on the table, her face was more than just a surprise.

"How can it be repaired to this extent......"

"You've found the right person." Naruse said.

"Yes." The schoolgirl who couldn't name him bowed solemnly to him and Hikaru Takikawa to express her gratitude.

"Don't be so polite, it's the people of the handicraft club who really do the restoration." Naruse pointed to the ornament in her hand again, "And it is said that it can't be seen, in fact, there are still some traces, so it is better to put it in a higher place that is not easy to hold." ”

"Okay."

Naruse wanted to say something, but after thinking about it for a while, he swallowed the words.

The school sister thanked her again and left, and only he and Hikaru Takikawa were left in the department.

"Did Chunhai just want to say something?"

He smiled.

"A bad idea. I was afraid of teaching bad children, but I still didn't say it. ”

She sat down, "What? ”

"That matryoshka doll, isn't it repaired and you can still see a little trace, sooner or later it will still be broken before it is found......"

"—So Harumi wants her to deliberately put that ornament in a position where it is easy to fall, so that her father can break it again himself?"

“……”

It seems that she has as many bad ideas as he does.

Naruse smiled again and continued, "But after thinking about it, it's not easy to repair it to this extent, and it's a little too much to break it. If I were that dad, I wouldn't be angry if I found out that it had been broken before, and it had been repaired to that extent...... Maybe you'll be a little happy? ”

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, "Hmm." ”

The commission was satisfactorily resolved, the client was satisfied, and the two people from the restoration department were also very happy, and then they were idle again.

Naruse got up and turned around, passed by the door of the department, and closed the door with his hand.

“……”

Hikaru Takikawa's heartbeat unconsciously sped up a little.

"Where are you going to eat at night?" He said as he walked over.

"You can ...... it"

"Where do you want to go?"

She looked up at him and casually gave an answer, "Izakaya." ”

"Then Izakaya."

Naruse didn't care, raised his hand to touch her face, and slowly leaned down again.

“……”

She lowered her head, but he leaned in anyway.

"Hmm......"

A moment of evasion, as if only to be able to continue with peace of mind later, she closed her eyes, passively pandered, and actively plunged into it.

She's hopeless......

(End of chapter)