Chapter 107 – The Game of Hearts Between Two People

Sakurajima Apricot also arrived late, and after some searching, she found Aoi Natsuki, who was staring at a book in her hand.

Holding his right hand on the bookcase, he asked in a whisper, “Did you find any clues?”

“Not yet.” Natsuki Arai thought for a moment, then turned the book in her hand face to face with her, “Is there anything distinctive about that brief history of time you returned in the first place? Can you make sure it’s the one I’m holding?”

He made a last hope.

Sakurajima Apricot stepped forward and her slender fingers took the book, a brief history of time, then flipped open the first page and after glancing at the loan code, she replied, “Yes, this is the one I returned in the first place.”

Sight glanced again at the library card inserted on the first page, which didn’t say anything about who had borrowed the book recently.

“Looks like the guy who left the book on my desk stole it from the library, interesting, all of a sudden I’m getting interested.”

Aoi Natsuki didn’t doubt her memory, Sakurajima always possessed strong memory points in certain odd places, at the same time, although she didn’t study well, it didn’t mean that she wasn’t smart, all along, Aoi Natsuki’s most wary object was her, her ability to see through appearances and analyze the essentials was truly awesome.

Sakurajima Apricot’s searching eyes glanced sideways at Aoi Natsuki again.

That was something he had expected, and if it was confirmed that the Divine Maiden wasn’t her, there was a good chance that he himself would be haunted by her on this until his doubts were put to rest.

Natsuki Aoi exhaled from the tip of his nose and shoved the book back into its original position, then turned his head to Sakurajima with a slight sense of embarrassment and said, “Can we stop there for today? It’s not really a big deal.”

Sakurajima Apricot blinked, a white sheen flickering in her eyes, and finally narrowed her eyes and smiled crookedly, “Hmm! Let’s stop there then!”

This answer undoubtedly surprised Aoi Natsuki a bit.

“That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

Sakurajima Apricot replied readily.

Natsuki Arai nodded dully, her entire neck stiffening, causing her entire upper body to sway slightly along with her.

Sakurajima apricot saw this reaction of Aoi, also could not help but reach out and patted his arm: “Everyone has their own heart secrets, do not want to let others know this is very normal, I have so planes to the bottom of it.”

Instead of answering directly, Natsuki Aoi shrugged.

“Eh …… you’re making me sad like this oh Aoi.”

Said Sakurajima apricot’s body pressed up, his right hand lightly caressed at his neck, a cold touch immediately made him clear his head at once.

“This is a school!”

“What’s wrong with school, the world’s eyes aren’t the main point I care about, Arai-kun, since I just answered your questions truthfully, can you answer some of my queries truthfully now?”

Because the lunch break had just begun, there were only a few people who came to the library, and there were only the two of them to the left and right of this row of bookshelves, Sakurajima Apricot intimately pressed up against his body, and despite her height of only 165, she revealed an ineffable sense of oppression when she looked up at Aoi Natsuki in front of her, and while it was clear that she was smiling on her lips, her eyes, however, were filled with seduction and chilling intent.

“Alright, if there’s anything you want to ask, just ask.” Aoi Natsuki compromised, she just had to keep her mouth shut about the system anyway.

Sakurajima Apricot wasn’t right all the time, and the occasional times he’d let her plans fall through because of his convenience through the system, watching her a bewildered was a nice diversion from everyday life.

“First of all …… Argh!” Sakurajima Apricot had just said two words before she lowered her head and sneezed, her right index finger and thumb tugging at his jacket to prevent him from suddenly buggering off.

Seeing this, Aoi Natsuki also took off his own jacket and draped it over Sakurajima, “With such a weak constitution, you should wear more clothes from now on, faith can’t ward off a cold.”

Sakurajima Apricot felt a wave of warmth come over her, and then pulled her jacket with both hands, her mouth still smiling lightly, “Thank you ……”

Lifting his head, his eyes became slightly gentler at this point.

“The heater in the library has just been turned on, let’s find a seat near the heater and sit down first.” Aoi Natsuki suggested, then led Sakurajima to a seat further back, and to prevent being noticed by some girls afterward, he even took a large book to cover his face.

But the table was larger than expected, and Sakurajima Apricot couldn’t even stretch her hand to touch Aoi from the opposite side of the table, and stretching her legs didn’t work just as well, much to her displeasure.

With that, he stood up, circled around, and took a seat to his right.

“Why are you sitting so close? Public place, are you planning to make me pass the meeting to be attacked by a group of other girls?” As a normal boy, Aoi Natsuki, although he was able to calmly ignore the malicious remarks on the school’s forums, but walking around the school, the gazes cast by those around him and the various pointing fingers would still make him feel uncomfortable.

It had gotten a little better recently, and he didn’t want it to get worse again.

“It’s okay, I’ll finish asking soon, leaning close so I can know if you’re lying to me or not, I don’t hate kind lies, but when lies are revealed, even if they’re kind, they’re just as likely to bring harm to someone else, so …… please be honest with me, oh.” Sakurajima Apricot’s tone became sweet again, the back and forth style change was already her norm, just that little bit of redness on the tip of her nose made Aoi Natsuki always remember the fact that she was a sixteen year old high school freshman girl.

“Try.”

“Well then, first of all, it’s about Hayakawa, you’ve been approaching Hayakawa instead since you gave up on Takahashi, then went into a period of coldness for a while, and now you’re busy again, and I did hear Hayakawa say that she’s been learning how to draw manga lately, and that this started when you took her to Ayano’s house to be a one-day manga artist’s assistant, and then it was some time ago when you found out about this whole thing about me liking to go fishing, and just Efforts were made to set up that fishing outing, again with Hayakawa in tow, and last week you made a point of teaching Hayakawa how to make some snacks, which makes it hard for me not to wonder what kind of experiments you’re doing again?”

Sakurajima Apricot’s eyes looked at the side of his face.

And Natsuki Aoi covered it slightly with a book.

“That’s not so strange, is it?”

“The simpler you are, the easier it is to see through you, I can detect that you mean well, but at the same time you do so with purpose, and isn’t that something you’ve defaulted to before.”

“……”

“It’s okay if you don’t tell me, I think I can figure it out on my own sooner or later.”

Sakurajima Apricot became even more curious about Natsuki Arai as a person, with all of his odd reactions, executing behaviors that couldn’t really be called evil, what exactly was his purpose? This is something that confuses Sakurajima every day and every night.

“……”

Aoi Natsuki still didn’t say anything.

Doesn’t mean that he is how calm at the moment, on the contrary, he more and more began to worry about being discovered by Sakurajima the truth, even though this truth is so bizarre, but Sakurajima itself is a transcendent fantasy brain hole, here we have to mention the most important rule inside the goodwill system, once someone else found out the existence of the system, then the game of love instantly regarded as a failure.

The pressure was starting to get to Natsuki Aoi now, and with Sakurajima Apricot’s unusual powers of detection, it could be next month, it could be next week, it could even be tomorrow, the next hour, the next second ……

Aoi Natsuki’s heartbeat couldn’t help but speed up.

And in this silent library, this dull heartbeat was also heard by the sharp-eared Sakurajima Apricot, and the smile on her face grew stronger, her small face came up, slightly bending her slender waistline, and she whispered:

“Are you nervous about something right now?”

“……”

This extremely seductive action, also in a flash evoked Aoi Natsuki s memory of that night when she met with Sakurajima Apricot, at that time she was only wearing a leather jacket, the tight leather jacket perfectly outlined her lines, she …… also has the same extreme body comparable to the face value.

Natsuki Arai instinctively licked her upper lip, then twisted her head away.

Sakurajima Apricot looked at him with a satisfied expression, straightened her back, and slowly stood up from her seat.

The body is much warmer and the limbs are no longer cold.

She handed the jacket back to Arai.

Speaking again:

“Alright then, let’s put this matter aside for now, I simply don’t have a clue if you’re not willing to open your mouth, oh yeah, I’ve recently discovered a new fishing spot, do you and Hayakawa want to come?”

Natsuki Aoi’s gaze was struck, “Sure, and what about the exact time?”

But when he looked up, he regretted having just agreed so quickly.

“Sure enough, Aoi you just have something up your sleeve.” Sakurajima apricot laughed out loud, “I just said to put it aside and you let your guard down, Aoi-kun, simple~”

With that, he turned in the direction of the door, raising his left hand to wave him goodbye.

As for Aoi Natsuki, he remained frozen in his seat, frowning slightly as the index finger of his right hand continuously tapped the desktop.

There’s really no letting up on her.

……

Evening.

After the meal.

Natsuki Aoi was washing the dishes in the kitchen, and in the living room Rina was watching cartoons with her arm around Yoshizou, a current agreement between the two to watch cartoons once their homework was done.

Leena, a former junior, is not heavy in school, and the English piece has not yet been studied, so she will basically take care of it before the meal.

Natsuki Arai is also working hard to take on the duties of a grandparent.

Mom and Dad’s side said they’d be home the day after tomorrow.

In her memories, her mother’s cooking was especially delicious, and Natsuki Arai missed her mother’s fried tempura a little.

Just then, a text message rang in his pocket.

He shrugged it off and clipped his cell phone out of his shirt pocket, tapping the screen; it was from Sakurajima.

“Come out, I’m coming to get you.”

Out?

Natsuki Arai stuck her left hand out of the sink as well and turned to walk out of the kitchen, wiping her hands on her apron and going straight to the balcony glass window, looking out to see a light.

“Lena, I’m going out for a bit, just stay home and don’t go out, and just don’t respond to any strangers knocking on your door.”

“Awwww!” Leigh shouted as she gave a sign language and eventually came to a salute.

Natsuki Arai took off her apron and walked quickly to the entrance door, putting on her shoes before stepping out and stepping through the garden, far away from the door she saw a helmeted man riding a shiny Kawasaki h2’s motorcycle.

That familiar tight leather jacket… It’s really Sakurajima.

Sakurajima lifted his helmet and waved him off.

Natsuki Aoi walked up and asked, “What is it that you wanted to see me about this late at night?”

“Didn’t you read the text message?”

“I came out, and I didn’t necessarily agree to get in your car.”

“So ……” Sakurajima Apricot trailed off, her eyes looking to the sky, and after a couple seconds, turned to him, “If you want me to continue teaching Hayakawa how to fish, you might as well get in the car honestly. “

This statement is certainly a secondary validation.

Aoi Natsuki was also weighing the pros and cons internally, because he had tried to have some new specialties developed with Hayakawa before, but the effect was not good, even the good feeling was trending downward, so it was obvious that the specialties developed by force were useless, and the only thing to do was to go with the flow, and let the friend’s specialties then influence her specialties, and in the case of the last time he fished, the specialty value went up by 3 points because of this, and this was undoubtedly a time when Hayakawa enjoyed and This is definitely a specialty that Hayakawa likes and is progressing quickly.

And today at lunchtime, it was pretty obvious that he himself had revealed a need for fishing.

To act like you don’t care about it now would be so contrived again that it would be better to admit it graciously.

“That ……”

Hmm?

Aoi Natsuki was just about to agree when she suddenly noticed that something was wrong, just now when Sakurajima was asking herself, she asked if you want me to teach Hayakawa properly, you’ll obediently get in the car, there was an essential difference between this questioning and the one at noon.

That’s his presence.

If one agreed to it, it would be tantamount to admitting that the beneficiary of the fishing thing was only Hayakawa, not himself, and the scope of thinking would be narrowed down once again.

Hiss ……

Is this girl even thoughtful enough to do this already!

Aoi Natsuki mentally sucked in a breath of cold air.

It’s too defensive to always ask critical questions in a very casual tone!

Aoi Natsuki reconsidered and spoke once more, “Well, it’s naturally good that you’re willing to teach Hayakawa, but don’t forget about me, I feel mediocre about fishing, but the cooking session in the back is quite interesting.”

Aoi re-added his words, while not speaking of himself as too purposeful, that would rather look fake, only with this kind of answer would Sakurajima Apricot bring her attention back to herself, and then eventually lead into the topic of cooking, whether or not that lead was useful, it was enough to make the other party wonder anyway.

His approach was correct. Sakurajima apricot after listening to his words, the whole person once again fell into silence, long time ago together, Aoi Natsuki also know that this is Sakurajima’s appearance when he is thinking, that is, there is no expression, look at it is letting go of the air, but in fact the brain is in the rapid running.

“Well, that’s certainly true, get in the car and I’ll take you …… for a ride.”

Sakurajima Apricot’s body moved forward slightly, and the scene was the same as that night back then, before her eyes was a dreamy locomotive that all boys could only dream of, as well as a delicate young girl sitting on it.

Long black hair cascaded down, and as Arai Natsuki sat in the car, he could clearly see the two outwardly convex pipa bones in Sakurajima’s back, and the further down he went the gradually inwardly tucked back spine and waistline, and finally the ……

“Is it your favorite hip shape?”

Through the rearview mirror, Sakurajima Apricot asked the question.

Aoi Natsuki instantly coughed twice, her cheeks reddening, “Hug, sorry ……”

With that, her hands took hold of the armrests on both sides, and with a smile on her lips, Sakurajima Apricot also started the vehicle and slowly drove away.