The third day of the school trip.

In the morning, under the leadership of Ms. Akiri and Aoyama Aoi, Class 2A and Class 2B went to a nearby mountain stream for a common picnic.

Other classes are led by a different teacher, and the picnics are held in different locations.

And when Aoyama Aoi appeared in front of the students of Class A and Class B openly, smiling and waving to them, the group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old students all became incoherent in shock.

"Yikes! Everyone, long time no see. ”

"Huh!? Is it really Aoyama-sensei? ”

"Liar, why is the teacher here?"

Similar voices came and went, and Jingu Terakitsuki was always standing alone at the back of the students, silently watching the former teacher and the "touching" reunion with her students.

She seems to be the Qingshan teacher in everyone's hearts, showing a gentle and kind smile, which is not half different from Tai.

Jingu Teratsuki was always outside the students and didn't say a word.

"Aoyama-sensei, are you okay after you leave school?"

"It turns out that Mr. Aoyama was born in Kyoto."

Suddenly, a young girl came and walked quietly to Jingu Terakitsuki's side.

"I thought you'd be angry." She whispered suddenly.

"Why do you say that?"

"Of course, it's because I know you, although Yue pretends to be a person who doesn't care about anything, but I know very well that I don't want to let Aoyama-sensei have anything to do with us."

"Now that you know, how can you still make her pretend that she doesn't have amnesia."

There was no blame in Jingu Terakitsuki's words, as if he had expected it to unfold like this from the beginning.

"Because I believe in you, I believe that there must be a secret between Yue and Aoyama that I don't know, you are this kind of person."

Jingu Terakitsuki turned his head to look at Sakura Koji Sakura beside him, to this day, the boy has been able to chat with her in public calmly, and now that many things have changed, there are always some things that have never changed.

At this time, it was natural that many people in the crowd looked towards Jingu Terakitsuki.

Regarding the quarrel that took place in the boys' room yesterday, not all the boys were present at the time, and a few of them only listened to the boys present afterwards.

And the incident itself, the boy in class A doesn't seem to have revealed it to others, otherwise it would have been a different situation now.

Aoyama Aoi in the distance saw Jingu Terakitsuki hiding behind people, and shouted his name with a smile.

"Jinguji-san, come here."

“………”

Jingu Terakitsuki glanced at Sakura Koji Sakura beside her, she just smiled and didn't say a word.

After a long time, the young man sighed and made a helpless voice: "Do something superfluous." ”

"It's not superfluous."

"It's redundant for me."

"I hope that Yue can think more about herself, so that I and my senior sister can rest assured."

"This statement sounds really strange, could it be that you also want to graduate with your senior sister? It's good for you not to repeat a grade. ”

"Humph! Nasty! ”

Aoyama Aoi in the distance called out the name of Jingu Teratsuki again, and he had to rub the back of his neck and step forward with some reluctance.

"Jinguji classmate, you're the student council president, why do you keep hiding behind, cheer up some spirits, and go chopping wood with the teacher in a while."

This woman actually claimed to be a teacher.

After saying some precautions and having assigned the work of each group of students, the students of the two classes were disbanded on the spot, and several girls who had been good friends with her couldn't wait to come over and chat with her.

Jinguji Tsuki stood together expressionlessly, observing the acting skills of this adult woman who claimed to be 17 years old in spiritual age.

"Huh? Could it be that Mr. Aoyama ...... Hmm, no, haven't you interacted with Jinguji classmates? ”

Hey, classmates over there, even if you think you've lowered your voice, you can still hear it clearly.

"There's no such thing, but if he has a crush on me, that's a different story."

"I hear you." Behind her, Jingu Terakitsuki made a dissatisfied voice.

"Now, Jinguji-san, you really have nothing to do with Aoyama-sensei?"

Jingu Siyue glanced at Aoyama Aoi beside her, and the corners of her mouth smiled, as if she wanted to see how Jingu Siyue answered.

"Didn't Mr. Aoyama already say that I have a crush on her."

"Really?!" A girl in Class B in Year 2 exclaimed.

"Of course it's fake, if you have a crush on the teacher, you will be punished, Iwasaki in our class has long been ordered to drop out, and there are more than 400 high schools in Tokyo, and none of them can tolerate him."

"Hahaha! I don't understand it, but the way you speak is funny. Jingu Siyue's words made several girls laugh.

"Then why were you suspended?"

"Electric fish." The boy's lies come as soon as he opens his mouth.

"What, that's, you're the student council president, how can you do such a thing, Maji died laughing."

"So I'm out of power now."

"Poofhaha~~ I always feel that the classmates of Jinguji are different from what I imagined, and the speech is very interesting, and I have the impression that he is obviously a person who doesn't talk much."

"I don't seem to have any memory of talking to the girls in Class B."

"So everyone is wondering what kind of person you are, huh...... Mainly at that time, everyone wanted to know about you and Aoyama-sensei. ”

"What do you think now?"

"Hmm...... You must be very good at chatting with girls. ”

"It's thanks to the fact that I have a face that girls want to talk to me."

"Wow! Not modest at all. ”

Jingu Siyue showed a smile full of charm, and several girls suddenly breathless, as if a herd of deer would emerge from this mountain at any time, knocking them to pieces.

"What about Aoyama-sensei? Why did you leave all of a sudden? ”

"This hotel is owned by my family, and I will be the proprietress in the future."

"I came back to inherit the family business!"

"There's no reason to dream!"

Jingu Siyue silently glanced at Aoyama Aoi and answered: "Aoyama-sensei, it's almost time to go, didn't you say you want to chop wood?" ”

"Yes...... Let's talk about it later, everyone. ”

"Huh~~ People still have a lot to say to the teacher."

Aoyama Aoi waved his hand with a few girls, and the smile on his face was the same as in the past, and then he left with Jingu Teratsuki to carry firewood.

When there were no other students around, Aoyama Aoi secretly stuck out her tongue at Jingu Jizuki, revealing a playful expression.

"How? My acting skills? There are no flaws. ”

Jingu Siyue glanced at her when she heard this, but did not reply.

"What, it's boring."

The boy turned around and glanced at the girls who had been chatting with them before, and they came together with the other girls, and these girls gradually gathered with more other students.

Rumors spread far more quickly than ideas, and they are inherently believable.

While it was time for lunch, rumors about Jingu Teratsuki and Aoyama Aoi had already spread among these dozens of students.

Jingu Terakitsuki knows very well that this is a lie.

This is a lie concocted by someone specifically for him.

If the truth is cruel, then the lie must be gentle.

The boy wants to be a sincere person as much as possible, but if this is contrary to the gentleness that the world says.

Well, Jinguji Tsuki......

I don't want to be gentle.

……

……

"The battle has been a great success."

Sakura Koji Sakura raised her hands and gestured with a "V" on her face, her face filled with a touching smile, the smile that Jingu Teratsuki had wanted to protect her countless times, and this idea has not changed until now.

However, he could not be frankly happy about it.

"Yarn ......"

"Huh?"

"Recently, the yarn silo has become a little different."

"Oh?! Did you find out? Hey...... Actually, I've been secretly learning to dress up lately, and my hair has grown a little longer, and look, it's almost to my shoulders, and I don't know when I'll be as long as my senior sister, but that will affect running, and I'm hesitant to cut it. ”

Jingu Teratsuki looked at her quietly, listening to her broken thoughts, looking at her with eyes as if he was staring at a pool of sweet water.

"What are you anxious about?" He said.

“…… Huh? Begging, I hate it, I'm not anxious. ”

"I can see it."

“………”

"In the past, Sakura, although it was a bit acute, would never use it in this way, and you should understand what this kind of behavior means.

"Point all the unfolding in my favor, but there is always someone to pay the price, and this time it's not you, and it's not me."

Sakura pursed her lips lightly and said slowly, "I know that what I did was very selfish, and I am very sorry for Aoyama-sensei, but ...... I can't think of anything else.

"Everything that happened to Yue in school is all because of that person's business, as long as this matter is erased, Yue can live an ordinary high school life!"

"Do you want to erase the yarn?" The boy asked suddenly.

"Huh?"

"Do you want to turn this memory into something that you didn't exist?"

Sakura Koji Sakura's eyes widened suddenly, and she couldn't help but reach out and squeeze Jingu Terakitsuki's sleeve, looking like she was afraid that he would disappear.

"It's okay, I'm not blaming Sakura, I'm just thinking, we don't have the right to make decisions for her, we're all too cunning."

“…… I'm sorry. ”

"Sakura doesn't need to apologize, it's me, so I should say I'm sorry.

"I took advantage of the tenderness of the Sakura, knowing that you would do it, but not stopping you.

"I think if Aoyama-sensei remembered me, she would definitely agree with you, she is such a person."

The girl hung her head and let out a slight "um".

"Sakura is a gentle girl, gentler than anyone I've ever met, so your lies will be so gentle that I can't help myself."

There is no one in the world who does not lie, so must a liar be gentle?

No, it's not like that.

There are lies in the world that are cruel to the point of despair, and there are also lies that are gentle enough to make people courageous.

Even the same lie is worlds of difference for different people.

Even so, Jingu Terakitsuki firmly believes that Sakurakoji Sakura is gentle.

……

……

At night, the atmosphere in the boys' room of Class A of Year 2 was very awkward.

The joyous pillow fight on the first day was like an imaginary scene.

In the room at this time, Jingu Terakitsuki was sitting in the corner reading a book, and several men led by Iwasaki were sitting on the other side, forming a circle, one by one with their heads bowed and not knowing what they were thinking.

There were also a few boys who were outside the incident, looking at each other one by one, not only posing as if they had nothing to do with themselves, but also curious about this gossip.

In short, there was a very subtle atmosphere in the air.

The first to be unbearable was Jingu Temple Moon.

He whispered, and as he closed his book, he stood up and prepared to walk out of the house.

“…… Jinguji! ”

It was Yamashita who spoke.

Jinguji glanced back at him and didn't make a sound.

"Why, don't you tell the truth?"

"The truth? What truth? ”

"Why keep playing stupid."

Jingu Teratsuki shook his head and left the room without saying a word.

After coming to the courtyard, the moonlight was sultry, Jinguji Yue sat quietly on the bench in the center in a daze, until there was a sound of footsteps approaching, he glanced at the woman walking towards him, and continued to look up at the moon overhead.

"If you don't sleep at night, how can you come here to pretend to be deep, who do you want to attract?" She laughs.

"Why lie?" The young man made a slightly low voice, as if it was shrouded in a layer of moonlight, enveloping the sound in it, hazy and distant.

"Huh? Isn't it for you? ”

"Not that, I mean, why pretend to be amnesia."

He still didn't look at her, as if there was some peerless treasure on the moon above his head, and his gaze was firmly drawn.

Aoyama Aoi didn't make a sound, quietly walked up to him, and sat down on the bench.

"When did you notice it?"

"From the very beginning, I found that your movements, habits, and eyes are all in your memory, and if there is a fault line for six or seven years, a person's habits cannot be so consistent."

"Do you remember that?"

"As I said, I'm smart, smarter than ordinary people."

"Sounds a little creepy."

"Actually, it is." Jingu Terakitsuki said.

"But the traffic accident is real, I did have a car accident."

But because of the deviation between memory and reality, I chose to pretend to have amnesia...... Yes. ”

Aoyama Aoi nodded calmly: "That's pretty much it." ”

"But I don't want to pretend anymore now."

"Why?"

"Because I understand it, this kind of behavior is just an escape from self-deception, thinking that pretending to have amnesia can cut off contact with my past self, and I still have this kind of thought when I am old, it's really useless for me.

"It's not entirely a lie, though, at least I really don't remember anything about you."

Jingu Temple Moon was speechless.

"I've heard about you, and it seems like you've had a hard time since."

"It's fine."

"You are really not small, you dare to ...... Well, I'm not qualified to say you're the same, although I don't remember at all. ”

"Don't you hate me?"

"Hmm...... Why? Aoyama Aoi showed a blank expression.

"I can't be a teacher anymore."

Aoyama Aoi showed a sudden expression: "Oh, it doesn't matter, in fact, I don't want to be a teacher so much, I just want to prove myself in Tokyo, but I was deceived by bad men."

"The men of Tokyo are really hateful."

Jingu Terakitsuki suddenly didn't know what to say.

Suddenly, Aoyama Aoi turned his head to look at Jingu Siyue beside him, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

"Compared to that, I can probably guess something about leaving a child like you alone to bear the pain, I'm such an unqualified adult."

"No, I didn't pay attention to it at all, and it wasn't to the point where it was the turn of someone who had no memory to care."

"It's really a big man."

"You often say that."

Aoyama Aoi was a little stunned when she heard this, staring at the young man's face, trying to recall the memory of this face.

"Sure enough, I couldn't think of anything." She said.

Jingu Siyue raised her head and stared at the moon above her head, her tone was as gentle as water, and she didn't know who she was talking to.

"It's just a trivial memory, and one has to look forward.

"So are you, and so am I."

(End of chapter)