When I came to the department of the Unnatural Research Department, I saw Akane Kirino being sorted out her recent commission with great interest. Soya spoke after a while.
“I’m going to the supermarket today.”
“Purchase ingredients?”
"Um."
"I'll go too." Akane Kirino said.
Yoshikawa also expressed the same attitude.
The four of them packed up and left the school. As they were about to reach the station, they watched a slowly starting tram go away.
"Ah, I didn't catch up..."
The platform was empty, with only a few unlucky guys, including them, and the next tram would not enter the station in twenty minutes.
"We'll have to wait a little longer."
Holding the guardrail of the platform, Akane Kirino looked out at Lake Biwa, which was only separated by a road.
On a long-lost sunny day, the lake is rippling with blue waves and birds circling. The water is connected to the sky, and the white waves are rolling, soothing the beach near you.
“I want to go for a walk by the lake.”
"Um."
Several people walked down the stairs next to the platform, crossed the sparse highway of vehicles, and stepped onto the gentle beach on the lakeshore.
Not far away, there were several pairs of students from the Tamgao wandering by the lake, basically a combination of one man and one woman. Akane Kirino walked to the water before stopping, looking at the vague shoreline opposite the lake.
"I wish I could fly over... I haven't seen the one who can fly for a long time."
After a few seconds, Zong Gu realized that the "that" she was talking about was the daughter of the underworld.
"It's a good thing not to see it."
Akane Kirino smiled, then looked up at the blue sky.
"I would have been able to fly, like a bird."
Soaring in the sky like birds is the common desire of most people. Therefore, when she asked if there were any other spirits besides the daughter of the Yellow Springs to fly, Zong Gu quickly gave the answer.
"No. At most, it can only be suspended from the ground, and the height is also very low - unless it is blown away by strong winds."
"Will you fall to death when you fall?" Yoshikawa asked.
"You can't die if you fall. You can understand the spirit body as a plastic bag that is blown into the air by the wind."
She imagined it for a moment and couldn't help but shake her head, "I can't help myself, so pitiful."
"The spirit bodies that are blown away by the strong wind have basically no ability to think. They cannot feel the pain themselves."
"Is that... it feels even more pitiful."
Zong Gu just looked at the lake and said nothing.
They were still waiting for the tram, so they didn't go too far.
Looking at the vast lake, more than ten minutes passed quickly. When Zong Gu and his friends were about to return to the platform, a student couple not far away also came over.
They didn't know each other, and both sides looked at each other openly and secretly, and then passed by.
"Is it a couple?" Akane Kirino whispered in a low voice after following.
"Holding hands." Yoshikawa stared at the place where the two were connected.
Akane Kirino narrowed her eyes, "But, it feels very ordinary."
Yoshikawa looked at the two people holding their fingers, "It's not very ordinary either..."
Akane Kirino suddenly held her hand and smiled at her again.
“…”
Yoshikawa took a heavy breath.
"It's not to mention girls... If a boy and a girl hold hands like this, they will be a couple in the eyes of others."
Zong Gu followed behind, listening absent-mindedly, not thinking there was anything wrong with this sentence.
Until Akane Kirino looked back at him and suddenly blinked her eyes.
“…”
Dingling--
The alarm ringtone of "Anti-Kuno-no" is rumbling.
It's just too late.
"If Soya and Hongzi held hands like this, would others think that you were dating and that what happened today would not happen?"
Akane Kirino said, exchanging glances with Yoshikawa beside him and Soya behind him, with different meanings.
"That is, pretending to be a couple, and they are quite shielded."
“…”
I am really afraid that the world will not be in chaos... Zong Gu sighed in his heart.
Although having a nominal girlfriend can make him quieter, this is obviously just what Kirino Akane said on the surface - her real plan is still to observe Yoshikawa's reaction to this.
"How is it?" She looked at the two of them again.
Yoshikawa pursed his lips and looked at Soya.
Zong Gu shook his head.
The secret intertwined with each other, and the relationship between the three of them was already complicated enough. If a layer of true or false disguise was added, it would only become more chaotic...
Yoshikawa: "If this works, then give it a try."
“…”
The two looked at each other.
【Don’t do troublesome things.】
【I'm just cooperating with Akane ~】
"Ah, is Soya shy?" Yoshikawa's eyes were smiling.
“…”
Zong Gu didn't say anything, and walked up and grabbed her hand.
As his palms tightened, Yoshikawa subconsciously wanted to pull away, but he couldn't break free.
His palms wrapped around her vigorously, swept her fingers, and pondered the white and smooth back of her hands.
Adjusted to the correct angle, and squeezed a few fingers a little hard and tightly clenched her.
With his fingers crossed, Zong Gu raised his hands in front of each other and stared into her eyes.
"is that so?"
“…”
From front of her forehead to back of her neck, her face turned so red for the first time that it was impossible to hide it.
Akane Kirino also stared at her in a daze.
Oops, it's too much...
Zong Gu thought in his heart that something was wrong.
He wanted to let go, but was clenched again.
“…”
When he raised his eyes again, Yoshikawa stared at him, his hands shaking tightly, but his eyes were full of persistence.
"That's it..."
......
Before crossing the lake road and returning to the platform, Yoshikawa let go of Soya's hand, because there was no need to disguise himself as a couple at the moment.
She got on the tram and quietly walked around Lake Biwa for half a circle. After arriving at the station, she suddenly said that there were still some things at home that she could not accompany them to the supermarket.
"Feel sorry!"
"Hey... it doesn't matter."
The four people separated at the intersection.
"See you tomorrow……"
Watching Yoshikawa go away and disappear on another road, Akane Kirino turns her head and looks at Soya.
"Hongzi is shy."
"Um."
"I'm really shy."
"……Um."
Such blushing is impossible to pretend...
Akane Kirino was a little confused and a little at a loss.
Does Hongzi really fall in love with Zonggu now?
Buzz —
Zong Gu's voice was a little surprised and pulled her flying thoughts back.
"Yoshikawa's news..."
She didn't ask directly, just looked at him.
Zong Gu looked at the content of the news and turned the screen of his phone to her.
Yoshikawa: How is my acting skills? I was scared? Akane stared at me all the way.
“…”
Akane Kirino opened her mouth, feeling a little disbelief, and then frowned again.
"It can't be acting."
Of course he knew it was not acting.
Soya: Shocked.
Soya: How did it do it?
“…”
How did it be done?
Because I was really shocked...
Yoshikawa pinched his cell phone and looked back.
After walking so far, I can no longer see the three companions.
My face became hot again...
She bought a can of iced juice from a vending machine on the roadside and pressed it on her cheek.
"What a ice!"
Yoshikawa: Secret~
Looking at Akane Kirino's expression, Soya understood that she was difficult to be satisfied with such a reply.
Soya: Is the secret Yoshikawa likes me?
“…”
Sure enough, there is no way to go through it vaguely like this?
Staring at the news on the screen, Yoshikawa changed his hand and held the juice on his other face.
Yes.
like.
I like Sonoya the most.
While typing, delete it.
“…”
How can I send such a reply to him?
At least not yet.
Perhaps the iced juice worked, Yoshikawa, whose cheeks were stained with water, calmed down a lot, and his face was not that hot.
"Hongzi didn't reply..."
"Um."
Akane Kirino looked at Soya, "Soya is too direct to the question."
"If this is not the case, Yoshikawa would not tell the 'secret'."
"but……"
Buzz —
Akane Kirino immediately turned her head over, but before she could see the content of the news clearly, she closed her eyes and turned her head to the side.
"If you want to see it, just look..."
Soya laughed and quickly glanced at the message from Yoshikawa.
"…I have no secrets to Kirino."
She opened her eyes and saw him turn his phone over before she looked at the content of the message carefully.
"Oh……"
Akane Kirino couldn't help laughing.
Yoshikawa: I was thinking at the time that if the person who treated me hard like this was Akane, what would I do to react...and then what Soya saw.
Yoshikawa: I have no resistance to Akane anymore.
"Hongzi is so cute...I want to really give it a try."
Aka Kirino's eyes ignited a fire that was about to try. Zong Gu was stunned and immediately dissuaded.
"Didn't Yoshikawa discover that you've read this news?"
"Ah... it's right."
She gave up this plan with some regret, but she did not give up completely.
On the other hand, Yoshikawa was still waiting for Soya's reply.