Rina Ishihara knows exactly what kind of person she is.

Low self-esteem and social fear, I want to reach out and embrace the light, but I am afraid of being burned to death.

She once saw a short story written by a writer on the other side of the sea, and there was a passage in it that suited her mentality:

"My emotional dullness is like a room with doors and windows closed, although the footsteps of love walk in front of the house and come and go, and I hear it, but I think it is the footsteps of passing, that is the footsteps of others."

"Until one day, this footstep stops here, and then ......."

"The doorbell is ringing!"

If she hadn't been able to get that extra memory, she might cover her ears and act as if she hadn't heard anything, and then it would have passed.

But now it's different.

Lily-chan always says that she is a melon, but in fact, she is not a melon at all.

"I'm sorry, I wanted to wait a little longer......"

She walked over to the computer desk and pulled out a small stack of white paper from a locked drawer.

There is a somewhat messy picture drawn on it, and if Kazama Asaba is here now, he should be able to see that the storyboard of this manga is very similar to the manga he drew for Rina at the time.

Or rather......

He must be able to react, this small stack of four-panel comics is the first half of the "posthumous work" left by Rina during the third simulation.

"But I really can't wait any longer, because ......"

"Actually, you can predict the future to a certain extent, right?"

She let out a chuckle, her eyes drifting away.

She didn't realize this problem at first, but when her restless heart calmed down a little and reason came up, many doubts were already deep in her mind.

"When I embrace the darkness, when my story is known, I should not be out of this world anymore, right?"

His knight had drawn her a four-panel comic strip of what she had been going through over the years, and what she longed for but couldn't ask for.

For example, open the door and run to him.

Let's say a big wedding.

Although he didn't say it, the "scene in the dream" was enough for her to see a lot of things.

Because, the first scene of this four-panel comic is actually "absolutely realistic".

No one but herself can describe the tragedy of the loss of her parents that she witnessed at the time, and her feelings, and it is extremely difficult to reproduce them.

Unless, he'd ever seen it with his own eyes, seen her paintings.

"You've actually tried to save me more than once? If you don't get close enough, you won't know all this......

The whirlpool in her eyes seemed to want to engulf everything.

"So, the memory I got wasn't the first time you tried to save me......

"It's the time you finally managed to protect me, right?"

Rina Ishihara stands in front of a portrait of Kazama Asaba on the canvas.

Her face was pressed against the portrait, as if she wanted to feel his temperature.

Her eyes gradually became hollow, and a pale but determined smile appeared on her face.

"It makes me feel loved......"

"Kazama ......"

"I've been poisoned by ...... named you"

"When you get close to me again, I will decide, in the days to come, I will follow you no matter what, and I will not retreat again."

The morning sun reflected on her soft face like a thin veil.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

She moved quickly, opened the backstage of the little blue bird, and sure enough, she saw his message in the background.

The corners of her mouth curled slightly, and she sent back a message:

"o(^')o knows."

She hugged her phone tightly in her arms, as if she wanted to hug him through it.

After a while, she slowly got up, went to the sink, and in some clumsy way, slightly straightened her hair, and cleaned her face.

She stood quietly in the doorway and observed.

"You're going to be here, aren't you? So, I don't want to wait for you to ring the doorbell."

So, when he appeared within range of the cat's eye like this, she took a deep breath and gently unscrewed the door.

When she saw his slightly stunned expression, a happy and satisfied smile appeared on her face.

"You really ...... I know everything!"

She just wanted to open her mouth to say something, such as calling him "master" directly, telling him that she wanted to add his LINE, such as saying thank you in person......

These thousand words converged in her voice at this moment.

And then......

"Pain~"

She bites her tongue and provokes!

……

Asaba Kazama looked at Rina Ishihara with a smile and whispered, "Why did my sister suddenly open the door today?" ”

Rina Ishihara looked at him with tears in her eyes.

How could he not know that she had a terrible headache on her tongue.

After all, it was a love affair in a simulation, and Asaba Kazama's body was faster than his brain, so he pulled her directly to the kitchen, skillfully took a cup, and poured her some cold water from the refrigerator.

"Rinse your mouth and spit out the blood, my sister is so stupid."

Rina Ishihara was in tears.

That's not what she wanted.

Shouldn't it be that she just pushed the door open, mustered up the courage to run straight to him, and then confessed?

Why do you bite your tongue like a fool?

However, she still enjoyed the feeling of him taking care of herself, took the cup, rinsed her mouth and spit out the blood, and she looked at Asaba Kazama pitifully.

This was the first time she had met him in reality.

Now take a look...... Sure enough, it's still good-looking.

Looking at it, his face turned red, and his legs trembled a little with nervousness.

Asaba Kazama sensed that something was wrong, but he just thought that Rina Ishihara was not so autistic during this period.

But looking at her appearance, after letting herself enter the house, she looked nervous, which really made him feel a little distressed...... Well, there is also a subtle sense of betrayal.

After all, a few hours ago, he was still enjoying his love affair with Haine Shiina in the simulator.

Now that I came to my senses, a feeling of uneasy conscience came over me.

"I didn't expect you to open the door directly, aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person, and I'll wipe your sister clean?"

Ishihara's eyes lit up, and she stepped forward slightly and said, just about to say "It's not impossible", when she found that Asaba Kazama was looking at her feet thoughtfully.

"How do you feel, Rina's feet seem to be getting a little whiter?"

Rina Ishihara didn't know what was in mind, and her face instantly flushed.

The courage that was originally mentioned was suddenly pierced by that gaze.

"I want to~ If I let him know that I started to take care of my feet in order to let him have fun, will it make people think I'm a pervert?"

Thinking about it, her body trembled.

She doesn't want to be mistaken for a pervert by him.

It's just that Asaba Kazama looks at her and seems to be a little scared (Rina who is worried about being found by maintaining her feet:? Or decided to restrain his excessive aggression a little, and directly handed her the document bag in his hand, and then said:

"Sister, this is this week's storyboard, and the original painting content of "Reincarnated Succubus" is for you."

"Ah~ good! No, no, I mean......" Rina Ishihara looked at Kazama Asaba who was about to leave with some unwillingness.

The idea of a direct showdown with him, as Fang Cai's anger was discharged, she became a cowardly little party again.

But she and her simulated self have finally changed a little.

After all...... Both of them made it to the end.

The courage brought by knowing the future, even though it couldn't make her say that loving word bravely, it also made her grit her teeth, pulled the corner of his clothes that turned away, and said:

“JUMP~”

"Huh?"

"Your comics are very ~ very good-looking, after the new issue is sold, can ~ come to my house to read it together?"

The eyes of the shallow feather Kazama somewhat revealed a look of "I've seen a ghost".

But, looking at her silver teeth clenched, looking like she was afraid of rejection, Asaba Kazama could hear her timbre of being extremely afraid of rejection.

For a while, his own hard heart was still softened by the soft and pitiful timbre of the fingers.

"It's not impossible."

Rina Ishihara's expression became cheerful.

……

After leaving Ishihara's house, he estimated the time, and the time to walk to school was enough, and after thinking about it, he planned to walk directly to school.

Rina kept secretly watching him at the door until she couldn't see him before hiding back in her room.

She opened the encapsulated file bag, looked through the storyboard, and was about to start today's work in advance, but she felt a hard object at the bottom of the file bag.

When I took it out, it turned out to be a digital pen.

She picked up the pen and looked at the morning sun for a while, and suddenly reacted:

"Ah, did he accidentally put the pen in the file bag?"

Without this thing, he wanted to supervise the original painting at night, and he didn't have the tools to control the tablet.

"No, I'll have to send it to Kazama."

She hesitated for a moment, but decided to go out and catch up with him.

As soon as I walked to the door, I remembered that I didn't have the key to my house.

People who haven't been out for a long time are like this, and they can forget to bring their keys when they go out.

It took a few minutes to find the key from the room.

She was afraid that he had gone far away, so when she went out, she began to trot hard.

She hadn't run for a while before she was out of breath and tired.

"Chase ~ can't catch up!"

Her forehead was wet with sweat, and the laces of her shoes were loosened on one side.

She lowered her head and laughed at herself, suddenly feeling that she was useless, and she couldn't even get a digital pen out.

Suddenly......

A familiar pair of shoes appeared in front of me.

She suddenly looked up, and met the clean, sparkling eyes of the light feather Kazama.

It was her who reflected it in those eyes.

She blushed.

"The number and number pens have fallen into the bag!"

was about to hand over the pen, but suddenly found a trott down, her palms were covered with sweat.

The outstretched pen was clenched tightly by him, and it was inevitable that a little sweat stuck to her palm.

She was about to cry in a hurry.

"I—I've got something dirty, I'll wipe it for you."

Kazama Asaba suddenly reached out and grabbed her hand, which was about to retract, and took the pen back.

Asa Kazama said in a deep voice, "No need to ......"

She kept her head down and didn't dare to look at him.

"Sister, it's been a hard work."

He gently lifted her sweat-soaked bangs, revealing her beautiful forehead, and said with a grin, "Moreover, it's not dirty." ”

He was very happy to see her go out for him.

"Here you go." He took out a wet tissue, wiped the sweat off her hands, then tore half of the whole wheat bread he was holding, handed it to her, and said, "I'm buying breakfast, you haven't eaten breakfast yet, have you?" ”

"Huh~" She took it carefully.

"Be careful on the way back." He told him again.

She nodded effortlessly, and he waved his hand, and then reluctantly turned his head and trotted back.

But this time, on the way back, the smile on her face became even more.

Kazama Asaba didn't say much and walked straight in the direction of the school.

As he walked, the speed of his steps suddenly slowed.

Because I'm about to pass by Shiina's house in front of me.

For some reason, he suddenly felt a little nervous.

I don't know if I'll meet her suddenly.

……

The words were divided into two ends, and on the other side, Shiina Kaiyin, who failed to block the family, got into the car with some disappointment.

She turned her head to look out the window, wanting to see him on the road.

As the car stopped at the middle stop, her eyes were suddenly drawn to a girl holding half a loaf of bread on the road.

"What a pretty girl!"

Shiina Kaiyin thought subconsciously.

When Rina Ishihara, who was taking a small bite of half a piece of bread, walked past the station, she seemed to sense the gaze of others, and looked at the bus parked next to her, meeting her eyes with Shiina Kaine.

Her good-looking almond eyes are clean and seductive, a beautiful face with a not generally good figure, and the morning light shines on her white and flawless skin, which has an almost holy beauty, which makes people look at it and look at it to protective.

"What a beautiful man!"

Rina Ishihara looked at Kaine Shiina with her hands on her cheeks and looked sideways at Kaine Shiina outside the window.

The first thing she saw was those dark and beautiful eyes, and the clean and confident face.

"I guess I'm a person who has always been able to respond to other people's expectations."

She's sensitive to that.

Because this is the person she longs for but can't become.

However, the bus did not give them much time to intersect, and as the car started, the eyes of the two people were quickly staggered.

Shiina Kaine on the bus didn't think much of it.

Tokyo has a large population, so it's normal to meet such good-looking people once in a while.

Before she could think about it, when the car drove some distance forward and was about to reach her home, her eyes were suddenly attracted by a figure.

Her heart beat faster than ever.

You can't go wrong, you can't go wrong!

It's him! It's him who hasn't grown taller than her yet!

She couldn't help but smile brightly.

As if at this moment, the illusory dream and reality completely overlapped, and as the bus stopped, she got up and got off the back door without hesitation.

Originally, she was walking slowly, but she was a little anxious, and her pace subconsciously sped up a little, but as the two got closer and closer, she chased his back, looked at his eyes to her own home, and suddenly slowed down.

"He's ...... Are you waiting for me?"

If there is an idiom to describe Shiina Kaiyin, it is probably [heart blooming].

She slowed her pace, approached him slowly, chuckled and patted him on the shoulder:

"Senior Brother Asaka, where are you looking?"

Asa Kazama frowned, and subconsciously turned around.

"When did she come over?"

His heart beat slightly, and then suddenly he felt relieved again.

"Good thing she came a little late...... Hey? Why should I use [Fortunately]?"

He gently tore off the slice of bread in his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp, and then said to Shiina Kaiyin: "Hey, Shiina-senpai, you got up so early?" ”

Shiina Kaine watched him turn around, his eyes involuntarily focused on the half slice of bread in his mouth.

And then......

I remembered the beautiful girl who looked distressing just now, carefully holding a slice of bread and was a little reluctant to bite.

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