Covering her mouth, the hot breath exhaled from her nose kept blowing on her palms, her two bright eyes turned left and right, looking at him uneasily.
Just after stopping from running wildly, her chest kept rising and falling, and her body was still struggling.
Hiding in a dark alley, Sotani did not let go. He waited until the two policemen who were chasing him ran outside before looking at Kirino Akane who had been "hijacked" by him.
Taking a deep breath and waiting for his breathing to calm down a little, he said, "I'm going to transfer schools and go back to Northeast China."
"..."
Her eyes immediately opened wider, filled with disbelief.
Zong Gu slowly let go of her hand, she opened her mouth and looked straight at him.
"Why……"
"I lied to you. I was just worried that you would scream if I let go. Can we have a nice chat now?"
"Save—uh! Uh—"
It still doesn't seem to work.
Covering her mouth again, Zong Gu turned his head and looked outside, letting her struggle for a while but not letting go.
"Since you still care about my transfer of schools, why can't you just say a few words normally?"
"..."
Akane Kirino calmed down, glanced aside, and said nothing - she couldn't say anything even if she wanted to.
"Because you have been avoiding her, Hongzi has been very sad on the way back."
She raised her eyes as if she wanted to say something, but quickly lowered her gaze.
Zonggu let go of her hand, and she didn't call for help anymore.
"...Why is Hongzi sad?"
"Because she doesn't understand why Akane suddenly ignored her."
Kirino Akane bit her lower lip, and the scene she saw that day resurfaced in her mind, "Because I don't want to be friends with Anko anymore."
"Why."
"No why."
"Me too?"
She raised her gaze again, "The person I hate the most right now is Zong Gu. He is full of lies and has been deceiving me and hiding things from me."
Zong Gu smiled, feeling a little complicated.
She was right, she had always been this kind of person.
"Then let this be our last conversation."
"..."
Akane Kirino said nothing.
"Thank you for taking me in. I have been living at Kirino's house for more than half a year. It's time for me to move out now."
Letting go of her arm, Zonggu continued:
"In the past few days, I asked Mr. Noma to look for several apartments for me. Starting tomorrow, I will go look at the houses after school. If I see a suitable one, I will move out within this week."
She looked at him for a moment and said, "I don't believe it."
Zonggu smiled and said, "If you are willing, you can come and sit down then."
Kirino Akane pursed her lips, but still didn't take it seriously.
"Hongzi and I..."
"I don't want to hear it!" She immediately covered her ears.
"..."
Zong Gu sighed inwardly and turned to another topic.
"The school festival is coming soon, and because I haven't been able to talk, we don't know what your plans are. You said before that you would launch a magazine during the school festival, are you still counting? Anko and I want to talk to you.
chat."
Kirino Akane lowered her head and remained silent for a while, "If it's just this matter."
"Well, let's just talk about this."
She looked at her toes and nodded.
"Let's go back first." Zonggu walked out of the narrow dark alley, and the sky had darkened a lot.
Kirino Akane followed him out, but saw him walking to the other side.
"You go back first." Zonggu said, "I'll go over and explain to the police what happened just now."
Although it is not a big deal, it will still be troublesome when the police come to your door. It is better to take the initiative to explain.
After taking a few steps, he turned around and Akane Kirino followed.
After waiting for five or six seconds, seeing that she had no intention of following him, Zonggu turned around and walked towards Koban.
Akane Kirino continued to follow, keeping the same pace, her eyes falling on his back.
After that day, she had been hiding from them for half a month.
"fraud……"
It's obvious that Hongzi really likes him.
He must also like Hongzi.
They have probably already started dating in private, otherwise they wouldn't kiss so naturally...
And all of this was deliberately hidden from her.
She didn't want to see them, partly for that reason.
On the other hand...
"Is it true?"
"What?"
Zong Gu turned around and she also stopped.
"Said he was moving out."
"Still don't believe it... I have the photos of the apartment that Mr. Noma sent me. Do you want to see them?"
Akane Kirino walked straight over.
He took out his mobile phone, clicked on the chat box with Minami Noma, and showed her the conversation between the two.
Noma Minami: Take a look at this apartment. Although the rent is a bit expensive, you can definitely afford it.
Noma Minami: There are supermarkets around and it’s quite close to the station.
Minami Noma:[Picture]
Minami Noma:[Picture]
Minami Noma:[Picture]
"..."
Apartment near Otsukyo Station?
Is he really moving out?
Kirino Akane watched silently.
"This apartment is near Otsukyo Station. If we move here, it will be much more convenient to go to school." Zongya wanted to continue scrolling, but when he saw her looking away, he put away his phone, "I'm going to go to school after school tomorrow."
This is the house I’m looking at.”
"oh."
"Want to come and see it together?"
She didn't speak.
Continuing forward, he walked seven or eight meters away before she followed him.
"Are you going to move Suzuya?"
"certainly."
As soon as he stopped, she would also stop, so Zonggu said as he walked.
"Ling will always be with me."
"In the future too?"
"Um."
What about Hongzi?
Kirino Akane didn't understand what he was thinking.
The station was not far away, and we arrived in a short time. Soya went in first, and Kirino Akane passed after a short while.
"Ah, I just said that my colleague's description felt a bit familiar. It is indeed Ms. Kirino."
The female police officer on duty in the police station is still the same one who was on duty here before Soya. Akane Kirino still remembers her: "Miss Kawai..."
"It's not okay to make a joke like yelling 'help' at a police car... Ah, of course, when you are in danger, you still have to come to the police."
Kirino Akane moved her lips, not in the mood to explain more at this time, "I'm sorry."
"Just now, a mother-in-law came over and called the police."
Miss Kawai said as she took out a familiar note from the box next to her.
"She said she met a female high school student at the station and claimed that she was being stalked and harassed by her classmates. She also wrote a note asking her to distract the stalker. But before she left, she was discovered. Then
The stalker chased him away..."
"..."
Zonggu glanced at her.
"It should be Ms. Kirino, right?"
"sorry……"
"It's true." Miss Kawai smiled and returned the note to her, "Don't do this kind of thing again next time."
As soon as Kirino Akane raised her hand, Soya took the note.
"I'm sorry, I'm also responsible."
She glanced at him.
Miss Kawai taught them a few more words and then asked them to leave.
After walking out of Jiaofan, the two of them walked back one after the other.
"Want to come over for dinner?"
"Not coming."
When he reached the intersection, he asked again.
She still gave the same answer.
They separated at the intersection and walked to the corner before Akane Kirino turned her head and took a look.
"..."
Finding that he was still standing there looking at her, she immediately looked away, turned around and ran away.
"ha……"
I ran home in one breath, the door was closed, and my parents had already gone to the store.
After opening the door and entering the house, Kirino Akane first went to the kitchen and took a look. Her dinner was left on the dining table.
There is a note next to it:
If you have nothing to do when you stay at home, you can come to the store to help - Mom.
Throwing down her schoolbag, she sat in a daze for a while, then lay down on the dining table, feeling completely weak.
Recalling the chase and being alone in the dark alley, her heart beat faster involuntarily. Then she thought of the separation at the intersection, and she felt irritable again.
"Big liar..."
Akane Kirino stretched out her arms and pushed her dinner to the edge of the dining table little by little.
Lying on her other arm, she stared at the plate intently without blinking.
It will fall.
It's about to fall.
Half of the plate is already hanging in the air, and if you push it further, it will really fall.
Her thoughts were clear and she couldn't stop her hands from exerting force.
Bang!
With a crisp sound, the dinner plate fell and shattered into pieces.
It was only then that regret was able to squeeze out a path out of the irritability and catch up.
"..."
Looking at the mess on the ground, Akane Kirino knelt down and picked up the scattered plate fragments.
After picking up a few pieces, she suddenly sat down on the ground and buried her head between her knees.
"Ugh... I'm so annoyed..."
In the darkness, the moonlight gradually rose.
As soon as a plate of grilled food was delivered to the guest's table, Kirino Keiko caught a glimpse of someone coming in at the door, and when she looked over, she realized it was her daughter.
"Akane."
Since the last day of summer vacation, my daughter has never been to the old house again.
When Soya and the second young lady of the Yoshikawa family came to look for someone, she pretended not to be there and avoided seeing them.
Kirino Keiko could easily guess what happened between the three of them.
This vague secret love may be over, she thought.
Half a month later, her daughter still refused to see the two children. Kirino Keiko realized that the matter might be more complicated than she understood.
She just asked and was not allowed to respond. She could only try not to let her daughter stay at home alone.
"Did you see the dinner in the kitchen?"
"I saw it."
"Have you finished eating?"
Akane Kirino pursed her lower lip and walked quickly to the changing room, "That's about right."
Kirino Keiko shook her head and returned to the bar to handle the orders of the guests at another table.
With Akane Kirino coming to help, the busyness in the store has eased a lot.
By around eleven o'clock in the evening, there were finally no new guests in the izakaya. Akane Kirino had some free time and sat at the bar in a daze.
"Eat whatever you want."
Her mother brought a bowl of boiled food and put it down in front of her, "I saw that when you were carrying the plate, your saliva almost dripped onto the guests' food."
"...No way."
Kirino Akane denied it, but her body had honestly picked up the tachyon, lowered her head and started eating.
After watching her daughter eat for a while, Kirino Keiko spoke again: "You're so hungry, you haven't even eaten dinner."
"..."
Without raising her head, Kirino Akane picked up another piece of dried tofu and put it into her mouth.
"Sogu, don't you let Akane go to get food recently?"
"I don't want to go."
"Why?"
"I just don't want to go, there's no reason why."
"I thought it was because Akane fell out of love."
"……Mother!"
"Eat first."
"..."
Akane Kirino was a little annoyed and put down Taiko, "Then mom, please don't mention Soya's matter!"
"If you don't want to mention it, don't mention it."
Kirino Keiko poured herself half a glass of wine, walked outside the bar and sat down, smiling at the regular customers next to her, "My daughter has finally reached her rebellious stage."
"Then let's celebrate with two more drinks."
"Ha ha."
After finishing the remaining food in a few mouthfuls, Akane Kirino quickly put down the bowl and wiped her mouth, "I'm going back."
"Why don't you go back with your parents?"
"don't want."
"It's dangerous to be alone at this late hour. Do you want to ask the 'person who cannot be mentioned' to pick you up?"
"No! No! Don't—"
Kirino Akane turned around and went out.
"What's wrong with Xiao Qian?" asked a regular customer.
"I had a conflict with the kid who was helping here before." Kirino Keiko held her chin with one hand and raised her glass, "Honey, give me more."
Kirino Hiroyuki turned around, took down a bottle of wine, and poured half a glass for his wife.
"Ah, that handsome guy...is his name Sogu?"
"That's right."
"Have you finally come this far?"
Kirino Keiko smiled, "I hope so."
Before he finished speaking, the curtain at the door of the store suddenly opened, and Akane Kirino walked in with a sullen face. Without looking at anyone, she walked straight into the changing room of the store.
"This is……"
"I was so angry that I forgot to change my uniform." Kirino Keiko shook her head and laughed.
After a while, Akane Kirino changed her clothes and came out, but she still didn't look at anyone.
Kirino Keiko raised her voice, "Be careful on the road."
She paused.
"……knew."
When she walked out of the izakaya, her movements in lifting the curtain were much gentler.
Riding on the bicycle parked at the door, Akane Kirino glanced at the store again, stepped on it, and followed the bicycle into the night.
Halfway through September, the temperature is still high, but it gets much cooler late at night.
Riding along the deserted streets, she couldn't remember how long it had been since she rode home alone.
The street lights were left behind, Akane Kirino maintained a steady speed and glanced unconsciously to both sides.
It's still the same street, and the street lights are still dim, but things have changed.
When she reached the intersection, she stopped.
The roadside stall on the sidewalk was lit with incandescent lamps, and the old woman who ran it looked at her silently inside.
"Takoyaki..."
Akane Kirino stepped forward and rode over.
She didn't have dinner. She only ate a bowl of boiled food just now and didn't even take two sips of soup. She was not full at all.
“A piece of takoyaki.”
"OK."
"No, let's have two."
One portion may not be enough...
The old woman smiled slightly and said, "Okay."
While riding on the car and waiting, Kirino Akane looked up at the night sky again. The stars were dotted, and it should be a sunny day tomorrow.
"Pack both?"
"No...just pack one."
She planned to finish one portion here before going back.
"OK."
After handing over the money and taking a piece of takoyaki, Kirino Akane started eating in front of the stall without getting out of the car.
"Ugh!"
"It's still a little hot, so be careful."
"Hmm."
The steaming octopus balls were coated with sauce and dipped in bonito flowers, and had a very tender texture. Kirino Akane ate three balls in a row, and the stall owner's mother-in-law handed over another packaged takoyaki.
"Please take it."
"Thanks."
Hanging the takoyaki on the car handle, Kirino Akane held the toothpick, picked up another takoyaki, and looked at it for a while.
Oops……
She found that she had overestimated her appetite.
I was obviously very hungry just now, so I just ate a few octopus balls, and I was already a little full.
There's still half of the one I have, and I don't know if I can finish it...
"Zonggu, I can't eat..."
She shouted subconsciously and then reacted immediately.
"What?" The stall owner's mother-in-law didn't hear clearly.
"No, it's okay."
After insisting on eating the remaining three octopus balls, Akane Kirino stepped on the pedal again and said goodbye to her mother-in-law.
"Be careful on the road."
"OK."
So good...
Kirino Akane stepped on the pedal slowly, not at the same speed as before.
The takoyaki hanging on the right handlebar swayed back and forth, hitting her knees from time to time, emphasizing his presence.
What to do with this one...
Takoyaki doesn't taste good when it's cold, and even if it's reheated, the texture will become worse.
She couldn't eat anymore.
"..."
He should be able to eat it.
Kirino Akane was struggling as she rode forward. When she came to her senses again, she found that she had already reached the road leading to her old house.
...There is really no way.
She speeded up the car, then slowed down as she approached the old house, and stopped at the entrance of the yard.
The next question is how to give it to him.
She doesn't want to talk to a big liar.
Kirino Akane got out of the car and tiptoed into her yard. When she got to the door, she tried to pull it again.
Wow.
The door opened.
"The door was actually unlocked..."
——Are you waiting for her?
"..."
Shaking off the sudden thoughts that popped up in her mind, Kirino Akane walked into the entrance hall and put down the takoyaki without going deep.
When she walked out of the door again, she deliberately closed the door hard and ran away.
You shouldn't have slept yet, right?
It's so quiet at night, you should be able to hear it, right?
Kirino Akane didn't leave either. She rode on her car and stood guard outside the courtyard, preparing to wait for him to go downstairs to get the takoyaki before leaving.
But after waiting for a long time, she didn't see the entrance light turn on.
Didn't you hear that?
She hesitated for a while, then quietly went over and opened and closed the door vigorously again.
Snap!
"..."
In the innermost room upstairs, Tsukuyomi opened his eyes, swept his power, and frowned again.
"What is this silly girl doing..."
After waiting outside the hospital for a while, seeing that there was still no movement at the entrance, Akane Kirino was a little annoyed and a little anxious.
The takoyaki is almost cold...
She lowered her head and looked for it. There was no gravel outside the courtyard gate. She walked into the courtyard again and finally touched a small stone of medium size.
"Sogu's room...should be this."
She wandered back a few steps, took aim for a while, and then threw the stones in her hand.
Snap!
The flying pebbles hit the glass, and there was a crisp sound in the silent night.
Kirino Akane had already escaped.
Back outside the hospital, as soon as she got on the car, a car turned from the intersection, and the bright car lights made her squint her eyes.
She didn't think much about it, she just thought that he would definitely notice it now, so she got on the car and prepared to flee the scene.
The alley was narrow, so she had to wait for the car to pass by first.
The red sports car stopped outside the yard.
"Eh..."
The car lights suddenly flashed twice.
Then, the car door opened and someone got out.
"..."
Picking up the weapon in the back seat, Soya closed the car door with his backhand, feeling a little surprised.