When he heard that Soya's first kiss was Asukiri, Akane Kirino and Akiko Yoshikawa were both stunned for a few seconds. And Asukiri didn't say anything except looking at him, obviously he was accusation.
"real?"
Yoshikawa leaned forward a lot and looked at the two of them, "When did this happen?"
"Is it time..."
Zong Gu thought about it and spoke in her expectant eyes.
"This is the second question."
Yoshikawa glared at him fiercely.
"If this is something that happened recently, then Zonggu is Lolikan!"
The misunderstanding has been around for a long time, and there is a tendency to become more and more complicated as the explanations become, so Zong Gu no longer wants to talk too much.
"You said yes."
“…”
She took the playing cards in his hand and decided to use a new round of victory to pry his mouth open.
"Next round!"
But she lost.
And the winner is Soya.
Yoshikawa silently sorted out playing cards, waiting for his tricky counterattack. Akane Kirino, who was beside him, lost to Soya, looked back and forth at the two of them, not knowing what to do.
"Let's change the punishment." Zong Gu said suddenly.
“Eh?”
Both of them were stunned for a moment.
"I'm tired and a little thirsty."
His hand knocked on the table, "Yoshikawa invites me to have a drink."
“…”
Yoshikawa stared at him for a few seconds, then nodded.
She stood up and looked at the other two again, "What are Akane and Ling drinking?"
Akane Kirino thought for a while, and soon found that she was not in the mood to choose what drinks to choose.
"Whatever."
Chaowuling is also casual.
Yoshikawa just left the room for a while, when Soya suddenly stood up.
"I'll go to the bathroom."
After giving up this sentence, he went out too.
“…”
There were only two people left in the room. Akane Kirino looked at Chao Muling, but she wanted to speak but stopped.
"Two years ago."
Outside.
In front of the vending machine in the hotel lobby, Yoshikawa bent down and took out the juice that had just fallen.
When the ostentatious glanced at someone coming, she took out the drink and stood next to her, intending to let the other party come first, after all, she was going to buy a portion of four people.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, the man was just standing. Yoshikawa turned his head and realized that the person coming was Soya.
“…What are the things that Zonggu is here for?”
She walked up again and threw a second coin in the vending machine, "I can take it alone."
Drip, Zong Gu approached and raised his hand and pressed;
Bang, a bottle of green tea fell down.
Yoshikawa bent down to take out the drink, but when he got up, he rubbed his arm.
“Hey…”
Upon looking up, Zong Gu blocked her on the vending machine with his arm.
She opened her mouth and was stunned.
Zonggu got closer.
With her back against the vending machine, she had no choice but to retreat. In amazement, her breathing became much heavier.
"Songgu..."
He stopped.
"I said..."
Soya looked into her eyes with a serious expression, "Does Yoshikawa like me?"
“…”
Plop, plop!
She almost thought she had heard it wrong.
"if……"
"ah--"
A scream of surprise suddenly came from the hotel front desk.
Zong Gu looked over and saw the front desk lady who was still in a daze just now, covering her mouth, widening her eyes, and looking at this side without moving, as if she was the one pressed on the vending machine.
Another more mature-looking service staff next to him reacted, pulled her, and bowed to him and Yoshikawa from afar to apologize.
After bowing, they straightened their backs and signaled him to continue.
“…”
It would be strange if you could continue.
Soya looked at the courtyard behind him and said that there should be no one at this time, so he pulled Yoshikawa over.
Holding the drink in her hand, she followed him through the lobby without any resistance, walked into the courtyard, and stopped at the backlight.
It was dark everywhere, and the bushes covered the light from the lanterns; the insects were sparse, and all they could hear was the sound of breathing that gradually calmed down from each other.
After a moment of silence, when Yoshikawa didn't speak, Soya had to speak by himself.
"Does Kirino know too?"
"What……"
"What I just said."
There was no vending machine here to support him, he just stood in front of her and took the green tea from her hand.
"Is what Soya said before true?" Yoshikawa asked back.
"You mean the first kiss?"
"Um."
"It's true."
"That Songu and Ling..."
"Don't think too much." Zong Gu opened the drink and took a sip. "That was just a ignorant attempt in adolescence."
Thinking of Chaowuling's actual age, he added: "Ling is just cooperating with me."
Yoshikawa was silent for a while.
The game of drawing ghost cards just now revealed a lot of past, and she also learned from it that the two lived in the same room in the children's welfare home.
Adolescent boys and girls...
She looked up at him, "The person Zonggu likes now is still the teacher Oritsugu?"
Looking at the large area of darkness behind her, Zong Gu took a moment to speak.
"It's better to say that Teacher Ju is my obsession over the past few years... but later, I found that the actual situation was completely different from what I originally thought."
He paused, "What I like is probably just an illusion called 'Orange Emperor'."
"What does it mean?" Yoshikawa asked.
Zong Gu did not explain and looked down at her.
"You haven't answered my question yet."
“…”
She suddenly became hoarse and asked a few seconds later, "Why did Zong Gu think so?"
He sighed and let out a long sigh.
"Tungno just asked so many questions related to love, but he didn't know how to cover it up. No matter how stupid I am, I can still hear some clues."
"really……"
Yoshikawa lowered his head, "Because Akane really thought I like Soya."
"'Think'?"
When she looked up again, a sly smile appeared on her face.
"Does Soya also seriously think I like you?"
"Isn't that the case?"
"No."
"I think Yoshikawa and Kirino cooperated very well just now."
Soya made his own inference, "If Yoshikawa hadn't said something to Kirino, she would probably never have noticed it based on her own words."
"Soya has observed girls too carefully." Yoshikawa exaggeratedly, "It's a bit scary."
He didn't say anything.
"All right……"
She also understood that there was no way to fool her, so she hesitated for a moment and chose to confess.
"Songya still remembers, does Akane and I have a secret?"
“…”
Zong Gu was stunned and then remained silent for a long time.
Every detail that happened over the past period of time suddenly became supportive.
"In other words, in order to create a secret with Kirino, Akiko Yoshikawa said she liked me, right?"
"I just care more about the current statement... Hey, why did I suddenly call my full name and add a respectful title?!"
"But it is, the most common secret topic among girls is love, and the general direction that Yoshikawa Hongko chose is still the right one."
“…”
"However, I shouldn't have been brought in too. Look at what you did, Yoshikawa Akiko."
“…”
When she heard him whispering "Hongko Yoshikawa" at once, she curled her lips, but she could understand his annoyance when he suddenly learned the truth.
After all, Soya didn't want to involve too much, so he suggested that she create a secret that belongs only to her and Akane Kirino.
"Let's just stop here."
He ended his complaints with this.
Yoshikawa was stunned and shook his head immediately.
"no."
"Why?"
"This is the secret between Akane and me. What should I do if it ends like this?"
Soya looked at her, "She will love Yoshikawa who was broken, and your friendship may go a step further, so there is no need for any secrets."
“…”
Yoshikawa was silent for a while, "What about Soya and me?"
"What?"
"Although it's false, Zong Gu rejected me, and I can't get along with him normally in front of Akane in the future." She looked at him, "I still want to continue to be friends with Zong Gu."
Zong Gu was also silent, and then spoke helplessly.
"Do you want this fake relationship to continue to develop?"
"So you're worried about this." Yoshikawa leaned forward and patted his shoulder, "Don't worry, there won't be more development."
"I'm just a stage of caring about it now. My plan is to have a crush on it for three years first, and then consider the confession when I graduate."
“That time…”
She looked into his eyes, not knowing how joking or serious she was in her tone.