Staying on the same page is easier than you think.

Maybe it's because they've accumulated enough time to develop a bond, or maybe it's because they're all athletic enough to be so athletic that they're not satisfied with sprinting like a sprint.

However, on the day of the official debut, she was partnered with real clothes with mediocre physical fitness, so I'm afraid it won't achieve such an effect, in the final analysis, because the pair is not very coordinated, mainly in terms of size.

"Xiao Wu, thinking badly is also a crime."

The girl's cold voice came from within reach, and she hit Li Wu from the side lightly.

"No, I didn't think about anything rude, but I was too suspicious."

How another mind-reading ability to appear next to him! If this continues, it may become a crime to commit a crime in the course of this process, and for the sake of the stability of human society, it is necessary to prohibit listening to the voices of others without authorization.

Doubtful of his explanation, Hikari slowed down until the two of them stopped together.

"That's it for today?"

Li Wu took the opportunity to ask.

Hikari hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

He took the initiative to crouch down to untie the bindings that were wrapped between the two of them, and she lifted her foot to remove the strip of cloth.

When he stood up, he happened to meet the eyes of the girl who was staring at him.

"Let's go."

Before they knew it, the two had run a distance along the river that was not short, and the street lamp that stood below when they set off now looked like a lighthouse in the distance, holding a hazy halo of light.

Hikari tucked the snatched strip of fabric into her trouser pocket, and walked briskly along the way she had come, a small piece of fabric poking out of it, bouncing up and down with her movements.

She suddenly stopped and grabbed Li Wu's sleeve.

"Xiao Wu, it's an invisible realm!"

"Are you imitating the heroine of an anime? You really resemble you in terms of height and never taking good care of your hair. ”

"You're saying I'm an impostor?"

"That's not what I mean...... Forget it, where? If there is just that, there must be. ”

Pleased with his sensible response, Hikaru stretched out his hand to the quietly flowing river below the embankment, "There." ”

She was really right.

The sparkling water reflects the moonlight falling from the cloudless night sky, giving it a dreamy hue that looks like a ribbon of light woven by the lights of passing traffic on the embankment.

"Let's go down and have a look."

She ran down the embankment of her own accord, standing on the edge of the flowing ribbon of light and waving at Li Wu.

He followed as if he were playing sandboarding and slid down the banks of the green banks.

His eyes lit up: "This way of appearing feels a bit handsome." ”

She ran up and skated again.

"I suddenly felt pity."

Looking at the girl who landed in a dashing manner, Li Wu suddenly said.

The light cast a look with a question mark.

"Isn't it true that you've fully awakened after the events of the last time...... What should it be called? The power of the brave? ”

He pondered the appropriate way to put it, "When it feels like just now, if it was the light from before, maybe I wouldn't have been able to stand still and fall, and then I could rush over to catch you, or at least pick you up when you fell to the ground, but now I will know in my heart that there will be no problems, but there will be some feelings similar to loneliness." ”

Light thought for a moment, revealing a frightened expression: "Xiao Wu wants to see me embarrassed?" Shake S? ”

"Hey, don't throw sewage on me."

Li Wu corrected, "I also know that this statement is really self-conscious, but it may be a bit like parents who find out that their children are independent, although they will be happy for the light, but there is also a sense of loneliness that they don't need to be." ”

He gave a warm look to the girl who was contemplating the meaning of his words.

"Parents? Parents...... Parents?! ”

Hikari took a step back even more frightened, almost fell into the water, and raised his hands to make a cross-cut shape, "No, no, no, no, it's absolutely not okay to shoot at Yuko!" ”

Li Wu almost didn't catch his breath.

"Who's going to make a move! Give me a good idea to relearn parables from elementary school! And don't call your mom by her name! ”

He took three steps and two and rushed forward, curling his fingers and striking the guy in triple combo.

"It's you who said it misleadingly!"

The light that did not dodge covered her head in protest, and Li Wu stopped beating and held her head.

"So, I think I actually relied on the light before, enjoying the feeling of being asked for help by you, and building a symbiotic relationship...... If we were to sum up the time we spent together, perhaps this would be a better place. ”

At the time of the third seal, Hikari confessed his feelings about their relationship, and he felt that there should be a corresponding response.

“…… I didn't rely on Xiao Wu. ”

The girl who was touched turned her face in embarrassment and looked at the glimmering river beside her.

That's not what you said before.

"That's my unilateral reliance on the light to take care of, thank you so much."

But now, of course, there is no need to hold on to the things and words of the past.

Because after settling the past, they are about to take steps into the future.

Li Wu let go of his hand: "As a result, in fact, Guang thought earlier than I did, that we need to change the way we get along." ”

"No, it was actually Xiao Wu who reminded me, and then also learned a lesson from the other me."

"That's why I'm finally able to make up my mind." ”

She realized why the other party was talking about the topic.

The surrounding area was so quiet that only the sound of rushing water remained, and beside the trail on the embankment, the trees that had lost their leaves were only bone-like branches, swaying slightly under the light of the street lamps.

The wind gently curled the girl's hair hanging down her forehead, making her almost nervously close her eyes.

However, Hori Rinko eventually opened her eyes wide and stared straight ahead.

"According to the previous agreement, I will listen well, Xiao Wu's answer."

The answer to the confession driven by many factors.

"Well, then I-"

"Wait a minute."

She suddenly raised her palm to stop his words, and said intermittently, "I have to make another agreement." ”

"Even if Xiao Wu gives the answer of refusal."

Hikari tried to spit out words that he didn't want to hear, and he choked and covered his chest, "I won't run away from home willfully like last time, and I won't do anything to harm Hoshikawa-san." ”

Because I saw myself after making that situation extreme, because I actually experienced that after doing this, it was not only to the people I liked, but also to other people.

She earnestly rejects the possibility of being reduced to the same individual as the other possibility of the self.

"So, there is no need to take the prevention of such a future into account."

Rinko Hori will not deviate from the current path again.

She smiled: "I won't really take Xiao Wu to the afterlife, but if I fail this time, I will still haunt you later, and then snatch the person I like from the annoying witch again." ”

This is her second confession.

Childhood sweetheart's small fist pinched the trousers she was wearing today, and brought up folds on them that seemed to represent her mood, she seemed to look forward to it, and as if she didn't want to continue to listen down, she raised her delicate and lovely face, and it was probably the first time that he was unfamiliar with that familiar face.

Despite this, Li Wu still had no way to take her as before.

"I promise you this agreement."

"Then by the way, I agreed to the lover's contract."

Hikari said jokingly.

"I can't break up with Aoi Hoshikawa."

The bright moon didn't seem to want to hear the next words, and out of nowhere, a heavy cloud was pulled out to cover her.

"She's a, often at odds, occasionally arrogant, and sometimes resorting to violence."

However, she is also kind and cheerful, and she gives her feelings wholeheartedly...... No, it doesn't make sense to say this, but more importantly, I fell in love with her, I liked her beautiful face, long black hair, and the magical girl I saw fighting monsters at first sight. ”

"No need to say any more, Xiao Wu."

The light shuddered and closed his eyes.

In the end, she still couldn't keep her eyes on the front line.

"No, I have to keep talking."

Li Wu interrupted her almost rudely, "I can't say I don't like Hikari. ”

“…… What? ”

She was stunned to suspect that she had misheard.

"Two likes are the same, or shout that you are all my wings...... This kind of beautiful word is only for those who are really single-minded about their loved ones. ”

He wants to use more vile and shameless words to describe his desires.

"In my words, I should say that I can't imagine a future separated from the light."

As long as you open the conversation, the content that follows can be said fluently, "After the last incident, I have been thinking about one thing: what if the two worlds intersected at that time, and you were really taken away, instead of splitting the light that went to another world in the form of possibility, and disappeared from now on, and never even came back? ”

"I can't imagine what I was like back then—like I can't imagine a normal human who doesn't need air to survive."

"Am I air? Sounds cheap. ”

Hikari pouted unhappily, but finally looked at Li Wu again.

"You're not just the air, but the water you boil every morning, the food you eat three times a day, the seeds we plant together in the snow in our winter yard, the baseball gloves we exchange with each other, the stars and the opera we watch together."

It would be nice to be able to simply organize logical words as if you were saying the real name of your enemy.

But now, he can only confide in a disorganized manner.

"I don't know if what emerged when I was with you at that time was the love for the opposite sex or the family affection accumulated bit by bit...... Because we first met so early, we may never know the answer to this question. ”

Li Wu recalled the girl who stepped over the balcony on a snowy day, and the memory of that time was still vivid.

"But I am now sure that if you were to be erased from my past, there would be a void that could not be filled; If I can't be with you in the future, I can't accept that kind of stagnant life when I think that the light will leave. ”

Now, he was the one who picked up the chains and tried to bind her.

"The seed planted in the snow did not sprout and take root, but what ...... could be born in the days we experienced"

He paused, clarifying his heart, "I don't think it will be confused with family love, at least for now." ”

"As a childhood sweetheart, I need you, light."

"As the opposite sex, I like you, Rin-san."

"If I could, I would like to sign the contract of the lovers you proposed and change the term to forever."

The light looked at him motionlessly, and the sound of running water seemed to come from a very distant place, leaving the two of them behind, leaving them in silent place.

She took a deep breath and suppressed the sobs.

"Scum Xiao Wu! Harem man! Prince Bo! Lokia! (Note: Pokémon series of Pokémon)"

"There's two obviously strange names mixed in here, right?!"

Even if he scolds, he doesn't know the brain circuits of his childhood sweetheart.

"Lovers' contracts don't allow for multiple parties!"

Hikari stepped forward awkwardly and grabbed his arm, "If you really like me so much, break up with Hoshikawa!" ”

"People have names...... And I can't. ”

Her teeth grinded as if she were going to bite into his hand the next moment.

"Does Xiao Wu think she will allow it?"

"I'll tell her — I should say it's already been said."

Hikari let go of his hand with some surprise.

"Can that troublesome person be justified?"

Li Wu suppressed his desire to complain about a certain two words.

She folded her arms and began to think.

"How are you going to fulfill the covenant, lovers? How can we stay together forever? ”

"Me, Aoi and you...... However, it may be counted as real clothes and Arisa. ”

The further back he goes, the more sorry he becomes, and the volume gets lower and lower.

Light looked at him with eyes cold enough to freeze the rushing river beside him.

"Xiao Ai is really too; But the president ...... Should the assassination be carried out later when the two of them are three-legged with her? ”

She muttered rather terrifying words, and Li Wu decided to remind Shiratori Makai to be ready to launch a space jump at any time when he went back tonight.

"So, what about the answer of the light?"

He first shifted the conversation to something just between the two of them.

"Didn't Xiao Wu answer me?"

"The situation is different now than it was then, so this is my confession to the light, and I should ask for your consent."

"What do you want me to say?"

"Of course I do."

Hikari reached out and touched his chest, feeling the sound of his heart beating.

"I ...... I also said the same thing to Xiao Ai before. ”

She whispered, "I also need Xiao Wu, so your request is too cunning." ”

"We grew up together, and we couldn't part with each other – and that's obviously the same for me."

She moved her palm downward, away from the other's chest, and overlapped with his.

"Even if I don't know if I will regret it in the future, but now, I have no way to refuse."

“…… I'm sorry. ”

"I don't want to apologize."

Light shook his head.

"It's like that baseball glove, the ice cream we ate together, and the proof that I want to sign a lover contract."

She smiled slyly, "Seize the time now to enjoy your rights to the fullest, this is the law by which people who cannot see this end of the border live." ”

Her face was up, her pupils shimmering with a faint light, reminiscent of fireflies flying among the summer grasses.

"I thought you had paid in advance when you were in the hospital."

"That time is that time, this time is this time, does Xiao Wu want to refuse to fulfill the contract?"

He took the girl's familiar, slender shoulders and leaned over in the face of the face he had seen so many times.

"No, I'm cute, secondary two, the best childhood sweetheart in the world."

The trees that had lost their leaves did not look like gloomy bones now, but like an umbrella on the side of the road, quietly spreading its branches swaying in the wind, sheltering the two overlapping figures.

(End of chapter)