Aakura thought for a moment and shook his head slightly.

"Let's go on a date."

"Dating?"

Shiina Kiri repeated, and he inexplicably felt that the girl seemed to have changed.

She used to like to stay at home.

He would find all sorts of reasons to take her out for a walk, such as grocery shopping, going to the square to listen to him play guitar, going to the supermarket......

But on Friday evening she waited at the door, and when she came home late, she said she thought he would come home and take her out to play.

Today it is even more obvious.

"To go or not." Asakura Otomo reconfirmed lightly.

"Go."

Shiina Kiri stepped forward to take her left hand, but she dodged her.

"Asakura, do you know that your dodging action is very shocking."

Shiina Kiri didn't get angry, but said with a smile.

"Ask me before you take me."

Aakura Yin raised his head slightly and looked directly into his eyes,

But obviously the two of them have done everything they should have done and what they shouldn't do.

Shiina Kirishi didn't understand why Aakura had been concerned about this all along.

"May I hold your hand? Shallow position. ”

Shiina Kiri stretched out his right hand with his palm facing up.

Although he didn't understand, he wouldn't deliberately correct it according to his own ideas.

This is not a disadvantage, but rather a childish trick between lovers.

However, feelings are not only the sublimation of life and death, but also the ordinary life.

"Yes."

The girl placed her left hand in the palm of his hand.

It's just a very ordinary hand-holding, but it inexplicably gives people a sense of ritual.

It's like......

The bride at the wedding gave him her hand.

Shiina Kiri grabbed her hand and walked into the distance.

"Then next time Asakura should be conscious."

"What."

"It means don't wait for me to ask every time before letting me take it."

“……”

……

When the two stood side by side on the bus stop, Shiina Kiri realized a problem.

"Where are we going?"

He had thought that the matter of publishing would be a long time wasted.

It may be rejected by multiple publishers, or the process may be cumbersome.

But today was so smooth that it took about an hour before and after, and this is still counting the time for the two of them to wait.

"Whatever." Aakura looked at the brand-new billboard across the road as if in a daze.

In fact, it's the same wherever you go, even when you go home, it's good to be next to him.

It's just that she feels that there are too few things experienced between the two, and if she leaves, will he slowly forget her.

After all, there is a girl named Gensheng Yuxia by his side.

"To the aquarium?"

Shiina Kirishi followed her gaze, and the overall color of the billboard was blue, and there were sea creatures such as manta rays and turtles on it.

Speaking of which, one of the few anime he rarely watched had an aquarium plot.

He hadn't been with the girl yet.

Since today is a rare holiday, why don't you go to a different place?

And the label that the system gives to Asakura is a cat.

Although she can't love fish.

But the aquarium or something, Shiina Kiri still felt that he should go with her once.

"Hmm."

Aakura also began to look at the billboard.

Nagata Station, Ueda Marine Aquarium.

The two took a bus for more than an hour to reach their destination, which is already considered a suburb.

Probably because of the new opening and the weekend, there is a lot of traffic at the door.

After Shiina Kirishi bought the ticket, he checked in with Aakura Tone.

The aquarium is not small, with a total storage capacity of about 4 million liters, and claims to have more than 300 species and more than 60,000 marine creatures.

The whole is divided into freshwater area, offshore area, specimen area, seabed observation area... Several large regions can be divided into many sub-districts according to biological species.

The two walked in front of the glass water tank, which was more than five meters high, and watched a large school of hazel fish slowly swim in the water tank.

There are quite a few reefs in the tank, and the fill light is also very dim.

Aakura suddenly stopped and quietly looked at the fish.

"You don't want to ask me what kind of fish this is, do you? Shallow position. ”

Shiina Kiri stood behind her.

"You know?"

Aakura Yin glanced back at him.

"I don't know, but I can search the Internet." Shiina Kirishi said that he was going to get his phone.

Aakura didn't bother to pay attention to him. "This is a single-finned fish."

"Do you really know each other?" Shiina Kiri was a little surprised, and her tone was affirmative.

He was about to compliment the girl when he saw her pointing to the standing sign in the corner.

The sign reads:

"Single-finned fish, warm-water demersal fish, hide in reefs during the day and feed at night. The body is elongated and flattened, and the dorsal and ventral margins are raised......"

Shiina fog. “……”

It must have been too dark for him to see.

The two didn't stay here for long.

During this period, Shiina Kirishi secretly took a photo of the girl's side face.

She leaned in front of the glass window, looking up at the fish, her face glittered with the fluorescent white light on the top of the tank, and her long eyelashes seemed to be shining.

When the two left, the flattened school of hazel fish continued to swim aimlessly.

There are many square and cylindrical tanks in the aquarium, and there are many types of fish in them, and Shiina Kiri is just a sight to behold, and not every one of them carefully checks the signs.

They also saw an aquarium full of jellyfish, and the overall tone was very dreamy.

The two of them stop and go, and if they come across a colorful and attractive water tank, there are usually a lot of tourists gathered next to it.

Shiina Kiri will subconsciously hold Aakura Yin's hand, so as not to scatter as he walks.

Before they knew it, they were in the deep-sea observation area.

The observation verandah has a total length of 65 meters, a width of more than 8 meters, and a height of about 5 meters.

The light is very good, from time to time there are sharks, manta rays and other medium and large carnivorous creatures swimming by, not far from the bottom of the sea there are maroon starfish and some crustacean sea creatures, and the fish are of different styles.

Aakura's face has always been calm, and it seems that there is no joy or surprise for a little girl seeing a shark for the first time.

It's as bland as watching a documentary.

"What's wrong?"

Sensing that Shiina Kiri was not looking at the creatures at the bottom of the sea, but had been looking at herself, Aakura asked suspiciously.

"Asakura, are you visiting the aquarium for the first time?"

"Hmm." Aakura nodded.

"It's my first time, too."

"Oh."

The reaction was too bland.

Although this love story sounds very earthy, it is not a love word no matter how you say it.

"I want to come to the aquarium with you in the future, the second and third ......"

After saying that, Aakura Yin walked slowly towards the depths of the tunnel with her hands behind her back, and she walked very slowly.

She should be waiting for the teenager to catch up.

If she had her hands behind her back, she probably wanted him to hold her.

……

Near noon, the two went to the restaurant on the third floor of the aquarium to eat.

About halfway through eating, Shiina Kiri's cell phone rang.

"I'm going to answer the phone."

Shiina Kiri said sorry and walked towards the bathroom.

Aakura didn't say anything, and slowly ate the sushi with his head down.

When Shiina Kiri was far away, she looked up at his back.

"Hey, hello."

"Shiina-kun."

A neutral voice rang out from the phone.

There are a lot of women in Tokyo anime who insist on the existence of men, and those character CVs are even female voice actors, but they have to be said to be male characters.

But Kazuki Kobayakawa is really a girl, which is already a tacit thing for the three of them.

"Squad leader, what's the matter?"

Shiina Kiri turned on the faucet, took a handful of water in his right hand, splashed it on his face, and then wiped it with two tissues.

I always feel like I should do something in the toilet, and I can wash my face.

"My house is a little inconvenient this evening, and I may not be able to receive guests."

Kazuki Kobayakawa said apologetically.

Shinsuke Aozora won't go back tonight, and there's a high probability that he will still live in Hanaen.

If Shinsuke Aozora was allowed to see Shiina Kiri, Kobayakawa Kazuki didn't know what would happen.

She wouldn't be with him, and Aozora was just playing with him, and she didn't feel the need to let Shiina Kirishi meet Shinsuke Aozora.

And Shiina Kirishi doesn't know about her relationship with Aokuna yet.

"That's right. It's okay, we'll go to your house next time we're free, it doesn't matter. ”

Shiina Kiri was quite worried about this.

I said before that I would go to Kobayakawa Ichiki's house to play with Gensheng Yuxia because Asakura Yin was very "free-range" him.

He doesn't offer to take her out, and she won't say anything.

But the recent events made Shiina Kiri feel that Asakura Yin had changed a little, and she seemed to take the initiative to stick to him.

At that time, Aakura heard him say that he was going to play with his classmates, what if he wanted to go together.

Now that the two have had a relationship, they will see Yuansheng Yuxia again......

Shiina Kiri still has no clue, how can he get Asakura Yin to accept Gensheng Yuxia.

She's not like a girl who wants to share a man with other girls.

She is very self-conscious, and she is now willing to be cheated by him just because she likes it.

He was delusional before, and told her that he wanted it all, but now that he thinks about it, it is really lard.

He thought about it, he didn't want to lie to her at that time, plus the abnormal factors such as blue subtitles and galgame, it was somewhat arrogant.

That is, she liked him, otherwise she would have run away a long time ago.

In modern society, when a girl is told that she wants to open a harem, this is simply what cerebral palsy dares to say.

Now he only has to upgrade his stuffy head and add more capital to himself.

In fact, not to mention Asakura, even if it was Gensheng Yuxia, he was not sure that he could do it.

Don't look at her usual submissiveness to him, he is not angry at bullying her, but she is very stubborn in some things.

It's not like a galgame, it's the real world at all.

They are very assertive, and they are not the kind of puppets who will please him in every way when they meet the conditions or have a high degree of intimacy and completion.

"Okay, I'm really sorry, next time I'll treat you and Gensheng-san well. By the way, please tell Yuansheng, I can't contact her. ”

"Yes."

Shiina Kirishi looked at it, it was past one twenty at noon, and it seemed that he couldn't stay in the aquarium for too long in the afternoon.

I said that I would pick up Gensheng Yuxia in the evening and go to Kobayakawa Ichiki's house together, and if he went late, she would probably wait at the convenience store.

It's a hassle to not have a phone, and it seems that she has to find a reason to send her a phone.

He didn't know how many hundred thousand yen he had on her, and he was embarrassed not to give some gifts.

Well, if you're really late or if it's hard to get out, call Aunt Kawase.

"I still have something to do, so I'll hang up first, goodbye Shiina-kun."

"Goodbye."

As soon as he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Shiina Kiri put the phone back in his pocket and headed back the way he came.

The girl had already eaten and was playing with her phone at the dining table.

"How's the fresh fish sushi here?"

Shiina Kirishi asked seemingly casually, and he always occasionally asked her if the food was delicious, as if he didn't know she didn't have a sense of taste.

This morning he deliberately watched Aakura Yin's special plot line mission, and it didn't show failure.

It seems that it is not necessary to eat the food she makes without interruption for a month, but for a month.

That's really good, and although he was prepared for the mission to fail last night, it was best not to fail.

His strategy points have been accumulated to 1285, and he believes that he will soon be able to redeem the second gene capsule (taste).

At that time, even if the system jokes with him, the success rate of eighty-two can fail, so the second time must be successful.

He really wanted her to be able to eat something delicious.

What will she look like when she regains her sense of taste?

He couldn't have imagined.

"It's delicious."

Aakura said after a moment of silence.

"I think it's pretty good, too."

Shiina Kirishi took the unfinished sushi in front of her in front of her and ate it naturally.

He's been running lately and feels like he's eating a little better.

Aakura watched him munch on sushi and quietly did not speak.

Didn't ask who was calling that call.

If she said that she still liked him, it would be easy to deceive.

She didn't even look through his phone, even though he slept next to her every night.

"Let's go back."

Waiting for Shiina Kiri to sweep away the sushi on the plate, Aakura said softly.

"Huh? Isn't there still an exhibition area that I haven't seen yet? ”

They only saw part of it, and there were many places they hadn't been to, such as the specimen area.

"Next time." Aakura said.

Shiina was confused, although she had told him that the two of them would come a second or third time in the future......

But isn't there still a long way to go this afternoon? Why not just visit this aquarium?

"I want to go back and hear you play guitar." Aakura explained.

The owner thinks that he has been with the kitten for a long time, but he knows it but takes it for granted.

When he was working and studying, she was always waiting for him at home.

He could see her when he got home, but she waited for him for a full day.

You think you've been with her for ten years, but have you really been together for ten years?

Actually, she will wait for you for ten years.

In that old rental house.

Your life is much more than hers, but her life is only yours.

The teenagers in her are all you.

You think you still have a long way to go, but the kittens will leave too.

I'll leave.

……

When the two returned to the rental house, it was only past two o'clock in the afternoon.

Shiina Kiri sat on the sofa after turning on the fan.

"What song do you want to hear?"

"Everything."

Aakura Yin leaned against the corner of the sofa.

Shiina Kiri thought about it, picked up the guitar and played a few songs that he had learned in college.

She listened quietly with her knees folded.

He thought it was just a microcosm of ordinary life.

That's what he thought.

(End of chapter)