After Oriyuki Asaba's birthday, it's going to be the final week of the semester.

Because under the benign influence of Saionji Akino, most of the students in Class D have begun to pay attention to their studies.

At first, it only affected a few people on a small scale, but over time, when everyone saw that they could always discuss learning problems in harmony and smile, more and more people wanted to join in.

Even if some girls and boys come with other thoughts in mind, in the end, everyone will really focus on the study itself.

The simple reason for this is that they all received positive feedback on Saionji Akino's counseling.

First of all, it has significantly improved the efficiency and accuracy of doing questions, and when some knowledge points are integrated and connected, there will be a strong sense of achievement.

It's like fighting monsters and upgrading.

In addition to these, there is also a compliment from Saionji Akino, which is also a very good positive feedback.

He is undoubtedly a good material to be a teacher, very good at guiding students to think without talking, and also very good at grasping the psychology of students, giving encouragement when they are frustrated, and praise when they succeed, and there is no doubt that a lot of praise is needed to make learning turn from pain to happiness.

And Natsuryo Kawano, who watched him gently praise others, sat in place and was silent for a while, but she still decided to continue her actions.

She still didn't want to admit defeat like this, and she didn't want to admit what she saw last night.

So, she approached Saionji Akino again.

"Xiyuan Temple-kun, I also have a few questions, can I ask you?" The appearance of Kawano Natsu Liang once again made the discussion of the surrounding people fall silent.

To be honest, everyone is also speechless to Kawano Natsury, she is like a Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, and she can always turn over and harass Saionji Akino.

It's no wonder that Saionji-kun was emotionally affected by her...

"I said, you're almost enough..."Asada Ako and Komura Yuka have endured it for many days, and now they want to explode.

Although they will feel very happy to see Kawano Natsuyo being rejected badly, they will also feel annoyed after watching it for a long time, and Saionji Akino will indeed be different from him when he is normal recently...

I must have been affected by this guy...

"Okay, what's the problem?"

What everyone didn't expect was that Saionji Akino no longer treated Kawano Natsuryo with a bad attitude like before, but asked with a shallow smile.

Natsuryo Kawano's heart, which had been shaken, suddenly returned to normal, and she looked at Saionji Akino's face in surprise.

Sure enough, last night's must be fake, dating two people, how is it possible, he is not a scumbag, it must be the two women who are deliberately angry with themselves.

And... Is he finally going to accept me?

Natsu Kawano felt like she had fallen into a honey jar, and her heart was sweet.

It's just that when she sees the bland eyes of Saionji Akino, her heart will tremble inexplicably, and she doesn't know why...

After instructing Kawano Natsuryo, Asada Ako and Komura Yuka looked at Saionji Akino with complicated expressions, "Saionji, are you going to accept her?" ”

Both of them inexplicably felt betrayed, and their hearts instantly became extremely irritable.

"Why do you think that?" Saionji Akino asked as he felt a little strange.

"Huh? But you..."

"So you girls are stupid, Akino is just too lazy to be angry with that guy anymore." Huang Mao raised his eyebrows and asked proudly, "Am I right, Akino?" ”

Saionji Akino said with a smile: "That's what it really meant, before... Because of the anger in my heart, I said a lot of things that shouldn't be said many times, and I still regret it, and now, I don't want to break my principles for her sake. ”

"This time... I may have caused some trouble to everyone as well, so I'm really sorry. ”

"No, no, no, no, it's not a problem, it's better to see the more humane side of Akino-kun, and we still feel very kind."

"yes, because everyone you faced before was a reaction, an expression, and to be honest, sometimes we wonder if you're a real person, or if you're actually a robot or something?"

"Saionji-kun... You're still too good, you can scold her if you want to, it's not a day or two since Kawano Xia Liang was cheap..."

"Although I like the gentle appearance of Xiyuan Temple-kun, I also like it when I am occasionally fierce?"

"Wow, take advantage of the chaos to confess, right? Disgusting! ”

Seeing that everyone spoke for him and chose to forgive himself, Saionji Akino became more determined about the path he wanted to take in the future and the principles of how to behave in the world.

After passing the level of Kawano Natsuryo, there will never be anything that can anger him in the future.

…

Final exams are approaching, but physical education classes are still uninterrupted.

This physical education class is to organize everyone to play volleyball together, and Kawano Natsuryo proposed to be on a team with Saionji Akino, and Saionji Akino agreed.

It's just that in the whole game, although they will pass the ball to each other, Kawano Natsuryo didn't have any verbal communication with him, and in the second half of the game, because of her distraction, the team of Saionji Akino lost the game.

But even so, no one blamed her, she pretended to be aggrieved to apologize to Saionji Akino.

He also accepted his apology.

Can... Why.

Why do you think... What about emptiness?

Why... The way he looks at me, will he be so bland?

Even anger, disgust, any negative emotions can not be seen, only flatness.

I seem to be being treated like an ordinary passerby?

Natsuryo Kawano felt the changes very sensitively, and his heart suddenly became flustered.

As her previous logic said, if you really hate her, it shouldn't be that you don't hesitate to destroy your principles and image, and treat yourself with bad words, but you should not care about it and be bland.

It's like... Now the same...?

Natsuryo Kawano seemed to hear the sound of glass suddenly cracking, and when she looked at the others around her again, she felt that their bodies were covered with a layer of gray.

——

During the lunch break, Natsuryo Kawano sat alone on the staircase leading to the rooftop.

She had been eating alone for a long time, and the surroundings were quiet and no one would disturb her.

However, Kawano Natsuryo knows very well in her heart that she is not a quiet character. Since she was a child, she has long been accustomed to all kinds of praise, and she will feel very uncomfortable without the people around her to echo and praise her daily life.

The rice and dishes of the bento are all made by herself, and it is hard to believe that this is actually the taste that she can make by frying eggs some time ago.

The layout of the bento box is also neatly arranged, and everything is perfect.

Perfect?

Natsuryo Kawano picked up the rice, and just as she was about to put it in her mouth, she suddenly felt a hot stream on both sides of her cheeks sliding down, and she tasted the sweetness of the rice and the slight saltiness of her tears.

The great sense of emptiness made her lose confidence.

The sound of glass cracking again, this time, the cracked parts became more numerous.

…

At the end of the lunch break, she walked down slowly, and when she was about to reach the floor where the classroom was located, she saw Saionji Akino walking out in the same direction as herself.

As soon as she wanted to say hello, she accidentally stepped on the air and the whole person fell down.

I thought that Saionji Akino would just treat it as if he didn't see it, just like the last time he was at the forest school.

But...

Saionji Akino quickly straightened Kawano Natsuryo and withdrew his hands.

Seeing that he was safe and sound, Natsuryo Kawano looked up at Saionji Akino and said softly, "Thank you..."

"It's fine."

He smiled at himself again, but that smile... But it's formulaic, it's emotionless, it's like his personal habits.

Through her smile, she saw the indifferent, indifferent pupils, and suddenly felt that she might as well fall like this, at least there was a reason to make a painful sound.

But now, this pain is in her heart, and she can't vent it at all.

"Saionji-kun, after school... I have something I want to tell you, can we meet alone? Kawano Natsuryo sent out a final invitation, and she didn't confess directly to Saionji Akino like child's play as usual.

However, unlike before, Natsuryo Kawano's invitation this time was in the hope that he would decline.

It's better to refuse, if you refuse, it means that he still hates himself as before, and he doesn't even want to give him a chance to be alone.

Yes, it means that he doesn't respect me, and if he doesn't respect me, it means that he still has anger in his heart, which means that he is actually still...

You still care about me...

"Okay, where are you going to meet?"

"The gymnasium... Let's go in the rear. Natsuryo Kawano replied with a smile.

Ahhh Looks like it's going to break...

Everything is ruined.

That's not the answer I'd like to hear...

Why can't you always go my way?

You bastard...

——

Originally, it was still sunny in the afternoon, and there were no clouds, but for some reason, at the last moment near the end of school, it was raining lightly outside the window.

Kawano Natsuryo looked at the sudden bad weather, but he felt fortunate in his heart.

All right... It's nice to rain so you don't have to go to your appointment...

Obviously, she took the initiative to invite, but at this moment, she was reluctant to go.

However, Saionji Akino is a man who keeps promises.

After the last class, as soon as Natsuryo Kawano looked up, he saw the face of Akino of Saionji.

"Kawano-san, should we change places?"

“……”

"Don't change it..."Natsu Kawano's lips were a little chapped, perhaps because she had anticipated the ending, and her voice trembled slightly at this time.

"Hmm... Okay then, I'll go over first. Saionji Akino nodded, not objecting to this.

——

Rainy and rainy, humid air, gray sky, everything will make people feel extremely depressed in their hearts, like walking into a closed corridor with no end in sight, Kawano Xia Liang has been circling the teaching building many times, going around in circles, and finally reluctantly, or came to the back of the gymnasium.

There, she could see the quiet appearance of the young man standing in the rain with an umbrella.

He was crouching aside, childishly poking at the rain-soaked wildflowers with his hand, smiling as if he could melt the ice.

At this moment, how Kawano Natsuryo wished that he was that bouquet of wildflowers, not his current self.

Her black leather shoes tread on the muddy road, and she also held an umbrella, listening to the sound of the rain and listening to her inner voice.

'Get out of here, don't go to him'

'It's time for you to face it, too'

'No, maybe this confession will be successful?' ’

Do you still want to deceive yourself? ’

The chaotic inner monologue is completely consistent with her mood at the moment, Kawano Natsuryo obviously got the gentle treatment she wanted, but...

"Xiyuan Temple-kun, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's okay, Kawano-san, I have something to say to you before I start."

"Huh?"

"I'm sorry for the bad things I said to you in the past, and I won't say those things to you again in the future, I'm sorry."

“……？”

He's apologizing to me?

Kawano Natsu Liang was stunned, and she hurriedly said, "...... It's me who should apologize... I gave it to you before... It's caused so much trouble..."

"It's different." Saionji Akino shook his head.

It's not so much that he's apologizing to Natsuryo Kawano, it's more like he's apologizing to his own principles.

“…… Saionji-kun, today's rain..."

"Kawano-san, let's get to the point, I still have some things to do later."

“……”

"Saionji-kun... I..."

Natsuryo Kawano suddenly found that the word "like", which he could easily say, was so difficult to even get the note of that word out of his throat today.

She gripped the handle of the umbrella tightly, squeezed out a smile and asked, "I like you... Can we be together? ”

This confession was terrible, because Natsuryo Kawano couldn't control her expression at all, and she didn't know what her expression was at this moment.

But the tears in her eyes, her sour nose, and her choked tone all told her that she was crying.

And the crying was ugly.

Saionji Akino shook his head with a smile: "I'm sorry, I can't. ”

The same rejection, this time it is no longer any harsh, icy tone, but gentle, bland.

It's the same refusal, but it's a big difference for Kawano Natsuryo.

At this moment, the glass was completely shattered, her inner world was completely connected with the outside world, and huge messages began to pass on each other alternately, and she also began to truly recognize "reality".

She is no longer the beloved Natsuryo Kawano, she has paid the price for her bad deeds.

Everything she wants, she won't come back.

Even if she is popular with those strangers, it doesn't mean that she is not hated by the people at school.

And the Saionji Akino in front of him has never liked her.

The previous bad attitude was only his truest performance, not the crooked reasoning he thought.

The heavy punches of reality continued one after another, making Natsuryo Kawano feel incomparably painful.

Her umbrella slowly fell, leaving her whole body exposed in the rain.

But the next moment, Saionji Akino helped her pick up the umbrella and handed it to her again.

"Kawano-san, this is the last time I will respond to you, if I still have to confess in the future, I won't come to the appointment."

"Wait..."

"Xiyuan Temple-kun, wait!"

I saw Kawano Natsuryo kneeling slowly, her knees touching the muddy and dirty earth, grabbing the hem of Akino's pants in Saionji Temple with both hands, and her tears fell like this rain.

"Can't you really forgive me? I really know it's wrong... We... Is it okay to be together? Let's get along, I like you... Saionji-kun... I really like you..."

Saionji Akino looked at her painful expression, squatted down, helped her up with a smile, and then said.

"Sorry, no."

——

Now it's a brief introduction to recycling, and I'm about to finish writing this volume!

This is a plus for the XSRK alliance leader!! I forgot to mention it again.

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