"Jinguji-san, it's here.

"Jinguji-san?

“…… Month! ”

The voice of the childhood friend exploded in his ears, and Jingu Siyue's head slammed against the car window, finally pulling his thoughts back from his memories.

"What are you doing in a daze? Everyone's gone. Sakura Koji stood with her hands on her hips.

Jingu Terakitsuki rubbed his head and glanced at the bus he was in, only the two of them were left.

Oh yes, it's a school trip.

"It's nothing, just a little stunned."

"Let's go, everyone is waiting for us."

"It's you, not me."

"Don't say such awkward words, let's go."

I was dragged out of the car by Sakura Koji Sakura, and gathered in front of Kinkakuji Temple with other class members, and after the teacher who led the team explained the precautions, they disbanded on the spot.

Sakura Koji Sakura and several other girls acted, and no one came to take care of Jingu Terakitsuki, so he acted alone.

In Kyoto in January, the temperature was much colder than in Tokyo, and the white mist from his mouth slowly rose into the air, and the boy couldn't help but wrap the scarf around his neck.

The pine trees beside him swayed in the cold wind, and across the Mirror Lake Pond, the Kinkakuji Temple on the other side seemed to sparkle.

It was the first time he had come across a monastery that he had only seen on TV or in magazines, but in the eyes of the seventeen-year-old, it was nothing more than a beautiful monastery.

It is indeed beautiful, but it stops there, perhaps because memories influence his judgment, or maybe Yukio Mishima's Kinkakuji Temple is too magnificent and ornate to go against the scene in front of him, but in the end, personal evaluation depends entirely on personal prejudice.

Unfortunately, the seventeen-year-old Jingu Temple Moon is a teenager full of prejudice.

……

……

- I am alone, and the absolute Golden Pavilion surrounds me, and I don't know whether to say that I own the Golden Pavilion, or that the Golden Pavilion owns me. Or maybe there is a rare equilibrium there, so that I am the Golden Pavilion and the Golden Pavilion is me.

"Teacher, I don't understand this paragraph."

Sitting cross-legged in front of the coffee table in the living room, the boy asked the female teacher next to him, but the other person did not respond to him.

“…… Teacher? ”

"Jinguji classmate, let me remind you, I'm a teacher of ancient literature."

Aoyama Aoi showed a helpless expression, she seemed to have become surprised that Jingu Temple Moon appeared at her house every weekend.

Habits are really a terrible thing.

"I know."

"Kinkakuji does not belong to the category of ancient texts."

"Isn't it an ancient text, if it doesn't appear in the exam, I can't study it? There are so many books in the world, and I couldn't even know a little about them when I was young, but I was a curious person about literature, so I relied on teachers who were very knowledgeable in literature.

"Look, even a person with a withdrawn personality like me believes in Mr. Aoyama's character."

“…… It's really a sharp mouth, where is it lonely. She sighed softly.

Aoyama Aoi put down his phone, approached the boy, and took the book in his hand.

"Teacher, the smell on your body is good."

"Don't say stupid things, be serious."

"If I'm not mistaken, Aoyama-sensei is from Kyoto, have you ever seen Kinkakuji?"

"Your tone is like asking people in Tokyo if they've ever seen the Sky Tree, which makes people angry."

"I just want to know more about the teacher."

"Yes ~ yes, people are small and big, study hard, first of all, Mishima's works are ......"

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

Jingu Temple Moon didn't know how to describe this knock on the door, if everyone had their own way of knocking, then the owner who caused this sound must be a rough and reckless person.

The young man glanced at the female teacher beside her, her face was showing a puzzled expression at the moment, and she got up and walked to the door.

In this regard, Jingu Terakitsuki was silent, as if he had already anticipated what was going to happen next.

Sure enough, not long after Aoyama Aoi left, there was a sound of the door opening in the entrance, and the exclamation of the female teacher rang out.

Jingu Terakitsuki sat inside the house, covered by a partition wall so that he could not see the door, and similarly, people outside the house could not see inside, but the sound was very clear and transparent.

"Hello~~ Aoi-chan, I'm here to play with you, Sasa, open the safety chain and let me in."

Jingu Tertsuki sat in the house, silently reading "Kinkakuji", and there was such a passage in it.

- When the stammering man is anxious for the first sound, he is also like a bird desperately trying to break free from the thick slime of his inner world.

In a place where Aoyama Aoi couldn't see, Jingu Terakitsuki put away the innocent face that was obsessed with her, and his face was indifferent and did not look like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.

"Oh, it looks like a guest?"

Aoyama Aoi noticed the young man's shoes placed at the entrance, and sighed inwardly, pretending to be calm and said, "It has nothing to do with you." ”

"Hey, hey, it's so cold, how can you say that it doesn't matter, aren't we lovers in love?"

"Don't disgust me, we're not in that relationship for a long time."

"Don't be so ruthless, think back to some of the good memories between us."

She couldn't help clenching her fists, thinking that there were still her own students in the room, she forced the grief and indignation in her chest, and said coldly, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"It's not a big deal, I just want to borrow some money to spend."

Aoyama Aoi suddenly showed an expression of disbelief: "Huh? Didn't I give it to you yesterday? ”

"Ah, that's gone."

"You! That's a million! ”

"Ahh......h

She didn't hide her disgust at all, and squeezed out two words between her clenched teeth: "No money." ”

"Don't be kidding, you are an excellent people's teacher, where can you have no money."

"What does it matter to you whether I have money or not! We've broken up a long time ago. ”

"Huh? I didn't promise to break up, don't talk to yourself, stinky woman! ”

The man's palm knocked on the door with a "bang", shaking the doorknob constantly, and the thin safety chain showed signs of falling off at any time.

She was frightened and couldn't help but take a step back, and when she saw her frightened appearance, the man at the door smiled smugly.

The smile seemed to be an insult to her, and she lowered her head, and the roar was almost suppressed and squeezed out of her throat.

"I don't work all day long, and I hang out with unknown women, so I will be kicked out of my family!"

"Isn't it all your fault that I'm like this? The body is not allowed to be hugged, and the mouth is not allowed to kiss, why don't you bring other men to the house at this time, what are you pretending to be, what's wrong with taking some money from you?! ”

A Kansai girl who went to Beijing for the first time, just because she received an inconsequential help, naively believed that she had met a good person, and was stalked and difficult to refuse, so she tried to date, but found the difference between reality and imagination.

Weak by nature, he cannot do anything but endure, and if he wants to break this shackle, he gives money.

Again and again and again money is given.

He even agreed to his request to withdraw cash from ATMs in different convenience stores, so as not to leave a handle in the future.

“…… Get out of here! ”

Her cry was deafening, but it could not be conveyed in the slightest.

"What did you say?"

"If you don't leave, I'll call the police!"

It seems that he noticed that today's Aoyama Aoi is different from the past, and the man did not continue to be strong, but his attitude softened, squeezing out a smirk.

"This is guaranteed to be the last time, when you first came to Tokyo, I also helped you a lot, just as a breakup fee, I will definitely not bother you again."

"Again...... Break-up fee. She muttered softly.

"Yes, yes! Last time, I promise! ”

“…… The last time? ”

She smiled self-deprecatingly, long losing count of how many last words the man had said.

"Wait here."

Jingu Siyue silently watched her return to the house, took out an envelope in the drawer, and took out all the 10,000 yuan bills inside.

From beginning to end, she didn't dare to look into the young man's eyes.

"Do you really want to give it?" Jingu Terakitsuki sat aside and asked softly.

Aoyama Aoi's expression had long since lost its usual gentleness, and it was as cold as stagnant water, and she returned to the entrance without a word.

"Eh~~ Why is there only 100,000?

"Forget it, 100,000 is 100,000, goodbye to Aoi-chan, I'll come again, love you~"

The door slammed, and there was a long silence.

The boy got up and walked towards the entrance, where the female teacher was sitting weakly on the ground with her back against the door.

It's unbelievable that Jingu Siyue couldn't even have the slightest sympathy when she saw her.

Could it be that my heart has become numb?

Or is it that I have unknowingly lost the ability to love others?

Anything.

For Jingu Teratsuki, completing the tasks of the system is the primary goal, and nothing else matters.

In order to protect his important people, Jingu Temple Moon is willing to do anything.

Whether it's hurting others, or hurting yourself.

"Teacher, are you okay?"

What a stupid question, Jingu Terazuki mocked inwardly.

Aoyama Aoi, who was squatting on the ground, had already lost the majesty of a teacher in the face of Jingu Siyue at this time, and he could only see embarrassment all over his body.

She must not want to let her ugliness be seen by her students.

"I'm sorry, Jinguji-san, you're ...... today. Can you go back first, the teacher wants to be alone for a while. ”

"I don't want it."

“………”

In the face of Jingu Siyue's decisive refusal, she could no longer maintain her sanity, and tears suddenly flowed out of her eyes, and it was her shouts and roars that came before tears.

"I told you to go! You're really annoying! Disappear now! Disappear from my eyes! Anything! It's all gone! ”

This was the first time she had behaved so hysterically in front of a young man, as if she was a miserable beast that had lost its home and truly merged with the forest, and her heart was mourning in the hustle and bustle of the mountain stream.

The thought-provoking scream struck the young man's heartstrings endlessly.

“…… I don't want to. ”

For a moment, her eyes turned from anger to pleading, and hoarse voices piled up in her throat, squeezing and deforming.

"Why, why don't you want to listen to me......"

"Because I don't want to leave the teacher alone."

“………”

"When I'm sad, when I'm sad, when I'm losing hope in life, people always want to rely on others, even if I can't do anything for the teacher, at least it's better than no one else."

"What do you understand, just a student, how can you understand my feelings! Don't speculate on my feelings! I...... I hate you as a smart little ghost the most! ”

"Then what does the teacher know about me!" Jingu Terakitsuki shouted loudly, bringing his acting skills to the top.

“………”

"I see someone I like crying in front of my eyes, but I can't do anything for you, teacher...... Can you understand my feelings? ”

Aoyama Aoi in front of him suddenly widened his eyes, slightly opened his thin lips, and looked at the young man in front of him in a daze, one after another transparent tears rolled across his cheeks and oozed between his teeth.

"I, I really like Mr. Aoyama, I already knew that the teacher was being pestered by that man, so I wanted to be by your side all the time."

Aoyama Aoi immediately thought of something, and made a voice that couldn't hide his choked voice: "Could it be ......?"

"Yes, more than half a month ago at night, I did hang out in Shimokitazawa, and the person the teacher saw that night was me."

“………”

"Since that day, I've been so worried, that's why I'm pestering you, even if you think it's troublesome, it's okay, I'm afraid that the teacher will suffer alone in a place I can't see."

After getting the answer from the young man's mouth, she suddenly shook her head, and then realized that the little boy who had always been regarded as an annoying spirit by her had learned about her so early.

"Why...... If you want to say this kind of thing, the adult world is not as simple as you think, and you can't rely on anyone to live. ”

"But I'm a child, I need to rely on the gentleness of the teacher to live well, who told me that I have no friends in school, only the teacher will talk to me."

Inexplicably, the boy who had been treated as a child by her until now suddenly seemed to be a reliable man.

Thinking about it, he was taller than her, had more strength than her, looked a little thin, but his body was unexpectedly strong, and he was a creature of a male gender different from hers.

Sensing this, it was difficult to look at him, and he looked away a little panickedly, and retorted softly: "That's different, because I'm a teacher, and it's my duty to pay attention to every student." ”

"Sounds really jealous."

"What?" She stared blankly.

"I prefer that you only follow me."

"You!! You kid! What nonsense! I...... I'm so much older than you! ”

"I like it has nothing to do with age, but compared to these, have you calmed down?"

"Hmmm......"

"Honestly, I'd love to lecture you right now, and then I'm going to persuade you to move, away from that person, preferably near my house, so that I can go to and from school with you every day.

"Depending on the situation, I can still go to the police with you, in short, I want to be a man who can rely on you.

"But now, I have more things I want to do."

"More ...... What do you want to do more? ”

Jingu Teratsuki didn't speak, and slowly approached Aoyama Aoi, gradually closing the distance between them.

Aoyama Aoi suddenly became afraid to breathe, watching the young man's handsome face get closer and closer to her, even she couldn't tell why her heartbeat was speeding up at this time.

"No, no, Jingu...... Not! ”

"Good boy, good boy~~"

Jingu Teratsuki placed his palm on Aoi Aoyama's head and gently stroked her hair, not doing anything out of the ordinary.

“…… Huh? ”

"I just want to touch the teacher's head, huh? Could it be that the teacher is thinking about something astringent?! Ahh ”

Aoyama Aoi angrily tightened the soft flesh on the boy's waist.

After a long time, the woman in front of her seemed to have calmed down, and she couldn't help but make a somewhat hazy and ethereal voice.

"Hey, Jinguji-san...... Why, you're a Jinguji classmate......

"It's a strange question, even if my name is Tennoji, Xiyuan Temple, and Daoming Temple, I like your mood and I won't change, and I will always be by your side."

"All the time?"

"Well, it's been ......"

"People are small and ghosts are big."

In the lower right corner of the field of view, there is a number that symbolizes favorability, and it is like a car dashboard when descending the mountain, and the number keeps rising.

I hate men who lie.

I hate myself who lies without changing my face.

This false tenderness is a fire.

Burn her, and burn me.

Thanks to the reward of "August Chang'an Rain" and "Accustomed to Watching Idle Birds and Flowers".

(End of chapter)