After soaking in the private hot spring pool of the hot spring hotel for about half an hour, Zong Gu and others came out one after another.
And Minami, who was in charge of driving, was worried that he would get sleepy after soaking for a long time, so he left the room first and drank coffee and milk in the hall.
"You guys are too slow, do you want to go home?"
Zong Gu looked back at the corridor connecting several rooms. He was the first to come out with his clothes.
"I've drunk two bottles of coffee milk."
"Drink so much, be careful on the way..."
Soya was only halfway through, and Noma Nan understood what he meant and came over to pinch his neck.
"If this happens, let Zong Gu get out of the car and release the water."
“…”
He struggled for a few moments, but was not relieved. "Please pay attention to the distance."
"Oh? The sense of distance?"
Noma Nan got closer, "What's going on with Soya and Yoshikawa? Flirting, the distance between you has long disappeared."
“I don’t feel much distance from cute girls.”
"You said I'm ugly, right?"
“…”
She quickly let go of Soya and said as he rubbed his neck, "Yoshikawa is very cute, but I think Kyoko is a little more cute."
"Maybe."
"Does Zonggu have any objection?"
“I mean I agree.”
Although it looks perfunctory.
Noma Nan picked up his arm, "Soutani let go of the distance to Kyoko."
"It doesn't matter if you get close to her, it doesn't matter if you are tough... No, the tougher the better! She is at a loss, blushing and soft-hearted, and opens everything to Zonggu."
"Even if you get involved with me, what you just said is very dangerous..."
“—I’m not kidding.”
Noma Nan's expression became much more serious, "Kyoko is an awkward child, keeping a distance from everyone, and all her thoughts are hidden behind this distance."
"I don't want to evaluate whether this way of dealing with people is good or bad, but obviously, she's having problems now. What's worse is that she's still pretending nothing has happened.
If Soya really cares about Kyoko, let go of the distance and break into this distance to touch her problems - and intuition tells me that the problems Kyoko is facing are inseparable from Soyako."
“…”
Zong Gu was silent for a few seconds and nodded in agreement.
"Do you want to stay here for a night? I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."
“…No. I will look for the right opportunity.”
Noma Nan looked at him skeptically, "The opportunity is what keeps passing through hesitation and waiting."
Zong Gu's expression remained unchanged.
"But I will seize it."
She didn't say much and handed her a bottle of coffee and milk.
After a while, Kyoko and Yoshikawa also came out.
"It's now 8:30 pm..."
Noma Nan glanced at his phone, "Tell your parents... family, I will send you home safely before eleven o'clock."
After hearing this, only Yoshikawa took out his cell phone and sent a message to his mother.
Back at Kawada's house, Noma Nan said goodbye to his aunt Yiyi, then picked up a few bags of fresh vegetables, fruits and melons and walked into the dark night.
"Everyone turns on the lights of your phone! Front, back, left and right, one person looks in one direction!"
......
The red coupe galloped in the dark night.
There are no street lights in the mountains, the only light is the headlights, which can only illuminate the road ahead.
Looking at the unchanging scene, Zong Gu was inevitably a little sleepy and couldn't help but yawn.
"Don't sleep."
“…”
He took a deep breath, sat up straight, "I'm awake."
"Tell me another joke."
"It's over."
"You have just reserved so much, how do you usually chat with girls?"
"Who tells jokes every day?"
"I think many boys in school are teasing girls like this."
"That's them, I don't need it."
Noma Nan turned his head and looked at him.
"How many girls did this face hurt?"
Soya ignored it and couldn't find any more jokes. Just seeing that Noma Nan was still energetic for the time being, he took a breath.
There was still darkness ahead, and he looked back and saw that the two girls in the back seat had not moved for a long time.
"Sleep?" Noma Nan asked.
In the darkness, the two of them snuggled together unknowingly. To be precise, Yoshikawa leaned against Kyoko.
After looking for a moment, Zong Gu turned back.
“Everyone fell asleep.”
“…”
Kyoko opened her eyes silently and looked ahead as before.
The two in the front seat continued to talk.
"What happened to Soya yesterday? I was drunk?"
“…Don’t mention it.”
"Tell me. I'm very sleepy now, maybe I'll be energetic after hearing it."
"The more I want to know, the less I tell you, the more I can tell you, this will make you more sober."
"…You made me angry."
"This is the effect you want. Please drive carefully."
Since the beginning of the journey, the conversation between the two has not been interrupted for too long, which is why Kyoko has been able to maintain her soberness.
The other girl's situation was completely opposite. She started to feel sleepy not long after getting in the car.
“…”
Kyoko quietly turned her head and looked at Yoshikawa leaning against her shoulder. She was sleeping soundly.
At first, when she was still half asleep and half awake, every time she woke up briefly, she would whisper sorry, sit upright again, and then turn back again within ten seconds;
Then, the sleepiness gradually became deeper and the interval between her awakening became longer and longer. It has been more than twenty minutes since she fell asleep this time.
Her hand also reached over and grabbed her arm unconsciously.
And when school is over in the afternoon, this hand is tightly clasped with the other hand, and it is very close.
“…”
Kyoko took a deep breath and suppressed the sudden impatience in her heart.
But the more I didn't think about it, the more those pictures were going to get into her mind.
When she got to the deepest point, she showed her intimacy in the form of no blind spots, and she was just a bystander.
She knew that something must have happened to her.
"... When I asked Kyoko to find you, she looked very expecting."
The sound from the front suddenly lowered a lot, but Kyoko still captured his name from it and came back to her senses.
"But after I came back, it was completely different. What did Soya do to her?"
"…I did nothing to her words."
He did nothing.
But she went to find him with some expectations without permission, and then was shocked by that scene and nothing left.
He did nothing wrong from beginning to end, it was her wishful thinking mixed with that expectation.
“…”
Kyoko tightened the corner of her clothes and stopped looking ahead. She began to regret that she did not get in the car like a junior girl leaning against her shoulders, and then fell asleep.
She didn't know what to do.
......
Noma Nan stopped at the intersection and did not drive directly to the door of Sugawara's house.
"Kyoko."
Kyoko, who was about to get off the car, paused and looked up at Noma Nan.
"If you don't want to go home, don't force it."
"……fine."
"Do you want to stay at my house for one night?"
Kyoko shook her head, "Thank you. I'm fine."
"Soya." Noma Nan's eyes turned, "You send Kyoko back, I'll wait for you here."
"Um."
He got out of the car, and Kyoko knew that she could not refuse, so she turned around and walked towards her home.
Sonoya also followed immediately.
"Sorry, Yoshikawa classmate." Noma Nan looked back at the girl in the back seat, "I'll have to wait a little longer."
She covered her mouth and yawned, looking at the two people walking away with sleepy eyes.
"It doesn't matter..."
After walking through the third street light, Sonogu caught up with Kyoko.
"Kyoko."
"What?"
"Do you want to go home?"
“…”
In no mood.
Kyoko stopped, "If I don't want to go home, I will spend some time at Miss Noma's house."
Zong Gu looked at her, "You can also consider my side."
After looking at him for a while, she continued to move forward, "That would cause trouble for many people."
"Thank you for your kindness, Zong Gu, but there is no need. Just send it here. Please be careful on the way back. Good night."
Soya stood there until Kyoko knocked on the door before turning around and leaving.