33. Umbrella and Solitude

Love is the most special movie in the theater of youth.

When you choose to walk in, you never get out of this movie again.

Mai Majima was drinking boiled water in a cafΓ©, holding a second-hand mobile phone with a new shell, and scrolling through the topic she started this Tuesday - #η©·δΊΊδΉ‹ι—΄ηš„ηΎŽε₯½ζ‹ηˆ±.

As a result, the highly praised answer was all about singing and declining-

"Don't marry a poor person in this life, I regret love to help the poor."

"Poverty is justified in poverty, and the essence of the poor is inferior."

"If you are favored by a rich person, you must choose a rich person. Rich people have many choices, but they still want to be with you because they really like you. The poor are with you because they don't have a choice. ”

Mai Majima frowned lightly and kept refreshing until she saw a message with only 1 like:

"I am serious and work hard, so that when I stand next to the person I love, whether he is rich or nothing, I can open my hands and embrace him calmly. I don't have to think I'm high because he's rich, and we won't be down if he's poor. ”

Majima silently liked and quit the topic with satisfaction.

If you want to choose one thing to take to the grave from birth, Mai Majima will choose self-esteem.

She needs a lot of money, but she doesn't love it.

When she has saved enough money, she will say goodbye to the job of [renting a girlfriend] that eats her self-esteem.

"I've been waiting, Lisa-chan."

A short-haired girl in her early 20s, dressed in luxury and like a fashion model, sat next to Majima and greeted him.

"Is there something that called me out?"

"Don't be so cold. There's a big business waiting for you, Lisa, huh? ”

"Eri, didn't the company say that it is not allowed to use platform customers to make private orders?"

"This person is not a registered customer of the company, don't worry, as long as we don't say it, the company won't know."

"Not interested."

"A date, 400,000 yen."

"At this price, when you hear it, you are a person with bad intentions."

"Don't think it's too complicated, can the person I introduced hurt you? He is an executive of a foreign-funded company, and 400,000 yuan is just a small amount of money for a few bottles of wine in his eyes. ”

"But I'm not interested in that."

"Okay, okay, I'll go back and explain it to the guy.

The cold feeling of Lisa-chan is also a big reason why you are popular. ”

Majima looked seriously at the delicately dressed short-haired girl.

"Erri, it's better to be careful with those playboys, otherwise you'll suffer."

"Hahaha, Lisa is really, what is there to lose from someone like me?

Haven't we met at a plastic surgery hospital before? ”

β€œ... Hmmm......"

"I've had several knives on my face, especially my nose, and I've changed doctors a few times, but the more I've done it, the more dissatisfied I become.

Lisa, which doctor did you do the surgery? Dr. Sakai, or Dr. Takeuchi? I can't see where you're at all~"

β€œ... I... Actually, I didn't."

"Ah, we've already met in the plastic surgery hospital, so don't be too outside, it's no different from discussing makeup~

I've almost experienced all the reliable hospitals and doctors in Tokyo, and maybe I can give you a little advice~ For example, how to find a doctor to get a discount~"

"I... I went to see the skin..."

"Full body rejuvenation? No wonder Lisa, your skin is in such good condition~

I only got fillers and skin fillers last month~ Let me take a closer look at your face. ”

The girl suddenly leaned back and slapped away the hand that Eri had come over to try to pull away the hair on the side of her face.

"Ahh I'm sorry, I didn't know you cared so much. ”

"No, it's okay, I... I have an unsightly scar on my face, so I went to the hospital, and I haven't had surgery yet. ”

"I'm sorry, but it's a scar, it's very uncomfortable, isn't it? The doctor said it would get better, right? ”

"Hmm..."

"It's best to ask a few more doctors, the consultation period is the most important, don't listen to the doctors' rhetoric, don't look at the beauty cases they give you, and comprehensively identify the most reliable doctor based on the reputation on the Internet.

If there is something you don't understand, be sure to break the casserole and ask the doctor to confirm the process, risks, and precautions before and after surgery.

A doctor who can tell you about the risks of surgery is a trustworthy doctor!

Yes! I'm sorry, but I'm excited when I talk about it, I have too much to say. ”

Mai Majima, who missed the best treatment period, has long consulted major beauty and dermatology hospitals in Tokyo.

Knowing that the average cost of treatment for her scars was 8 million yen, she was not discouraged.

Although it is an unaffordable price for a young girl who lives independently in Tokyo.

Counting the mortgage of the house and the fixed cost of living, the average rental girlfriend can save about 150,000 yuan a month.

Counting the 800,000 given by Asama, the deposit in Majima's hand is about 1.2 million.

Suddenly remembering the leg of Asama with the door that day, listening to the picture of him screaming in pain, and Asama's text message, Majima was in a much brighter mood.

There is still a lot of distance from saving enough 8 million, but everything will definitely get better.

For Eri, a colleague who met in Pingshui but was very kind, Mai Majima bowed very formally.

"Thank you very much, Eri. I'll take your suggestions into consideration. ”

"Lisa-chan's polite appearance is also cute~"

The two talked for another 20 minutes about the girl, and there was a bathroom on the island.

She didn't know that at this time, a colleague from her rental girlfriend's company secretly opened the high-imitation LV bag, took out a bottle of white powder, and added it to her boiled water.

When Majima returned to her seat, the female colleague suddenly pointed to a girl in a lolita costume walking by the street.

"Lisa, look, that cosplay girl, look so good~ Did you say her nose was straight? Lisa? ”

Because of you, my customers are inquiring about you every day, and they don't dump me much, what kind of ice beauty is pretending?

When you finish drinking this glass of water, I will finish this list today, and I will earn 200,000 referral fees for nothing.

A female colleague who was proud of her income suddenly heard the screeching sound of the stool rubbing against the floor next to her.

I saw Majima suddenly stand up, take out 1,000 yen from his wallet and slap it on the table, and strode out of the coffee shop.

That courage made the female colleague frightened for a while...

By... Did you find out?

...

...

...

Why did Asama-kun go shopping with a girl he didn't know at Ochanomizu?

The music and sports equipment on this street can't match Asama, right?

Could it be, dating?!

Second sight, you've been stolen!!

Mai Majima put on her sunglasses and sneaked behind Asama and Lolita Girl, and walked to Akihabara as soon as she walked.

However, the streets were crowded, and Majima suddenly lost its purpose.

Lost?

Just when Majima was annoyed, a century confession was gorgeously displayed in front of the girl's eyes.

Looking at the Lolita girl who had just taken a walk with Asama, talking and laughing, she actually kissed affectionately with another handsome boy.

Mai Majima's mind is full of question marks.

In one day, Futami was stolen, and Asama was also stolen? Romance novels aren't so bloody!

Looking around for a friend of the big wrongs, it took about 2 minutes to finally see a back figure wearing an Yinghe school uniform.

Mai Majima decisively picked up the phone in her hand.

Asama held a transparent umbrella and thought as she walked.

The love just now, which was like a perfect finale, is not equal.

Komaba took the initiative throughout the whole process, manipulating emotions and arranging everything clearly.

Hanzawa Eirihua had no room for resistance, and fell into the script compiled by Mitsuki Komaba.

It's terrible to be in love!

[Didi... Dididi...]

Today's mobile phone is really noisy.

Looking down, Mai Majima.

This dead eye, he won't still fulfill the business of dating, right?

Click Connect.

"Moses and Moses."

"Asama-kun, is it convenient for you to go out now?"

"What's the matter, I'm just outside."

"Where are you?"

The hustle and bustle of the wind brings a familiar voice.

Asama turned around and saw the figures of about 5 people behind him, Mai Majima holding the phone and staring at herself.

β€œ...”

"Can't you see it? I'm ahead of you. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and hung up the phone together.

"I said, you saw me, can't you say hello directly?"

"If you wear high heels, you will get tired if you walk too fast."

After taking a look at Majima's dress, Asama asked.

"Just went on a date?"

"Well, with a girl with a nice personality."

"Do the girl's business too? Yours is the real thing. ”

"But what about you? Why don't you think you're a person who knows how to visit Akihabara? ”

"Helping people deliver goods, just finished delivering, ready to go home."

β€œοΌŸοΌŸοΌŸβ€

I felt that Asama was a sincere person, and suddenly found out that this person was lying without blinking his eyes.

Majima tentatively said:

"The cargo is Lolita?"

Asama looked at Majima with the eyes of "how do you have a monitor":

"Did you see that?"

"I was a little concerned, so I came along."

"You're so curious. It didn't affect your date, did it? ”

Majima exclaimed quietly and sent a text message back to her female colleague.

"Eri, I'm sorry I have something to do temporarily."

The female colleague's reply was very fast.

"Ah, it's okay, it's okay, are you free for the weekend?"

"Sorry, not yet."

"Okay, I'll make an appointment when you're free~"

Majima apologized for the faux pas just now, looked at Asama again, and the two of them tacitly walked to the side of the road with their umbrellas.

"You know that Lolita?"

"Friend's girlfriend, I went to help lead the way."

"Those two people who exaggerated their confessions just now are your friends?"

Majima would never have been able to kiss in public and was projected onto a billboard, allowing thousands of people to watch this kind of thing.

In her eyes, this kind of thing can be compared to several cruel punishments such as ancient car cracks, Ling Chi, and Guan Tie virgins.

And those two social terrorists turned out to be a friend of the famous orphan of Class A, Asama Shizumi, and Majima was stunned again.

The girl who was called the [Mysterious Girl] by Class A found that the boy in front of her was the [Mysterious Boy].

"Well, Komaba, that's the boy, who is in the same school as us, in Class D in the first year."

It's normal that you don't know each other, and you don't like to go to school.

"How did you meet?"

"It can be said that they helped each other a little, and they got acquainted with each other after coming and going."

"Asama-kun is good at making friends."

"I can only say that I am lucky."

Asama mentally counted the people he had met in Tokyo in the past few months who could be called friends.

Before you know it, there are almost 10 people?

The British anthropologist Dunbar once put forward a classic theory that the upper limit of a person's ability to maintain stable social relationships in a lifetime is an average of 150 people.

However, the Internet era has broken this logic, and the team at Stockholm University in Sweden has analyzed the human brain data and concluded that in fact, the social relationship that can be stably maintained by humans is 520 people.

This cap was not surprising in the age of the Internet as a social tool, but a hundred years ago or earlier, most of the people who could know so many people were great men of the nation.

Therefore, a person's communicative ability measures a person's strength.

People have limits, and in their lives, time, energy, and money are actually extremely limited.

This is also the reason why young people only have a few close friends in high school, rather than dozens.

As a supporting role, Asama's social skills have always been very stretched, and the communication skills lv.1 is very revealing.

There is no boundary-breaking force, and there is no sense of boundary.

I can only say that these 10 friends in Tokyo are all blown by the wind.

The two walked slowly on the side of the road, chatting as they walked.

Suddenly, the rain intensified, and a gust of wind blew.

Mai Majima's old transparent umbrella full of creases was blown far away and stopped in the middle of the road.

The two of them were running over to pick up the umbrella when a pickup truck that couldn't dodge passed by, crushing the umbrella.

The driver quickly got down and picked up the umbrella, apologized to the two Majima who came by, and took out 500 yen and handed it over.

Majima shook his head, but didn't ask for it.

In order to avoid traffic congestion, Asama walked to the 711 convenience store in the direction of Kanda Station, holding an umbrella in one hand and holding an umbrella for Majima in the other.

Seeing that Asama's clothes on the other side were wet, Majima took a step closer to Asama and stuck to it, but Asama took another step back, staggering his position, and the umbrella tilted further towards Asamajima.

Majima was just about to say something, but Asama suddenly asked:

"Majima, your umbrella feels very old."

β€œ... Well, I bought it in the first grade of junior high school, and I finally died honorably. ”

"Then give it a medal."

Majima was amused,

"And what should you give it?"

"Medal for Sticking to Your Post."

After all, in Japan, there is a fine tradition of "transparent umbrellas are shared umbrellas", and a transparent umbrella can be used for a week, which means that you are destined for it.

Majima's toothless smile shattered.

The wind and rain were heavy, and Asama, who had 6 physical strength, struggled to hold an umbrella and trotted all the way to the station to take shelter from the rain.

The two walked to the door of the 711 convenience store, and Asama shook his umbrella towards no one, and stuffed Majima's broken umbrella into the trash can next to the convenience store with plastic bottles, and folded his hands in goodbye.

Majima entered the store and bought a new transparent umbrella for 500 yen, and Asama bought two cups of hot milk coffee for 600 yen.

The rain was heavier, but fortunately it was just a drizzle before 6 o'clock, otherwise the confession of the koma farm would be really [in the soup],

The two stood at the door watching the rain, Asama looked at the time, and at 6:15, he went home after drinking this cup.

Majima took a sip of milk coffee, looked at Asama and asked:

"Asama, why did you come to me that day and act so frivolous?"

"No, I should be in the same situation as Sakuragi, Arima, and Goxingin."

Majima hooked the newly bought umbrella in the crook of his arm, rubbed the warm milk coffee cup with both hands, and smiled quietly:

"That's right, I feel very angry when I think about it now, how can there be such a strange person."

"It's better to be generous, otherwise you will lose your life."

"Asama, I'm curious. How did you find my company? I was stunned. ”

Majima smiled and looked at Asama, as if he wanted to get the answer directly from Asama's eyes.

"Can I not tell you the secret?"

"Cunning guy..."

Majima remembered Asama's conspiratorial smile this morning and asked:

"So, the frivolous and cunning shallow still water is really shallow still water?"

"Everyone is complex, as long as you don't regret your decisions and actions, then, even if it's a disguise or a performance, it's your true self."

"But I've heard that the punishment for telling too many lies is not seeing your own sincerity. If the character is too deep into the play, he can't get back his original self. ”

"I didn't expect you to be quite literary."

Majima didn't answer Asama again, sighed softly, and looked at the people of Tokyo who were hurrying.

"Alone in Tokyo, Asama, do you feel lonely?"

"Didn't you just say that [Asama-kun] is quite good at making friends?"

Mai Majima took another sip of milk coffee, this time not looking at Asama.

"I can feel that [Asama still water] is still very lonely."

"Why do you think so?"

"I think Asama is a good place to talk to everybody, you can play any role you need to play, but no one really knows you, and you don't have an interest in showing it to anyone."

"Is that so? So [Mai Majima] Are you lonely? ”

"I've always been lonely, I've always been pretentiously trapped in loneliness, but now it's much better."

"Because you and I still have the moon sea, you formed the Lone Alliance?"

Asama remembered the term invented by the Immortal River.

"Since it's called the Alliance, it's not lonely."

"Isn't that it? There seems to be a saying: we deliver each other's loneliness and fill it with trust. ”

"Trust?"

"It's okay to find a sense of security in your own kind."

Mai Majima closed her eyes, as if she was savoring the [sense of security] that Asama had just said.

"Asama. Tell you a story about loneliness. Interested in listening? ”