Chapter 119 – Unwavering Reasons

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Next day.

Noon.

Takahashi Mito’s eyes have been paying attention to the time of the clock on the wall from time to time, there are two minutes to go before the bell, what should I do ……

She was very torn inside, there was something about that, last night her younger sister Ayano gave her mental enlightenment that instead of wasting her time like this, she should take the initiative to invite him, there might be unexpected results happening.

But how to open her mouth, with what kind of reason she hadn’t thought of, so she had been agonizing until now, seeing the noon bell getting closer and closer, the movement of her hand turning the pen gradually accelerated.

Finally, a crisp beater bell rang.

Takahashi Midu steeply gripped his pen, and the teacher teaching from the podium didn’t drag his feet, announcing the end of the class as the rest of the students in the classroom got up one after another and left the classroom in pairs.

Hayakawa was out of the classroom for the third period in the morning because she had to go to the student council, and there were only a handful of people in the classroom who remained besides her, all of whom had brought their own bento to eat with their best friends in the same class.

Takahashi Mito stood up, and in the next moment her eyes went to the bento on the table of two of her classmates not too far away; she always remembered that the only reason she had started to learn cooking in the first place was because of that dinner at Aoi’s house.

But so far, she hadn’t even let Aoi taste her own cooking, and recently Ayano had said that her cooking was getting better, so she figured that even if she was still a bit far from Hayakawa, it shouldn’t be to the point of being unpalatable.

Find a chance to let Aoi taste his own handiwork as well.

Takahashi Mito took a deep breath, turned around and walked out of the back door of the classroom, heading straight towards the direction of the classroom where Aoi Natsuki was, but when she came to the door of the classroom and looked inside, there was no one, which instantly deflated her momentarily high mood, and she stood with her left hand holding onto the doorframe, and after standing there for seven or eight seconds, she had no choice but to leave on that note.

It wasn’t until after she had completely disappeared down the hallway that a sight around the corner not far away slowly peeked out.

She is none other than Sakurajima Apricot.

“What are you doing here again?”

Movement appeared behind them.

Turning his head, Natsuki Aoi was right behind him.

Sakurajima Apricot looked at him, her eyes slowly narrowing into slits as she smiled slightly and said, “Of course I’m helping you.”

“Help me? What the hell?”

“Didn’t Takahashi just come up to you with that kind of aggressiveness to ask you to be her dance partner for her senior night?”

“Eh?” Aoi Natsuki was a bit shocked, he had never thought Takahashi would think that way before, after all, there weren’t many chances for the two of them to be able to communicate properly, let alone have physical movements to do a social dance together.

“Aoi is really slow …… ” Sakurajima apricot fingertips across the corners of her mouth, “But it doesn’t matter, Aoi you must have your own thoughts, I think you’re planning to go to Hayakawa for this ball right? “

“Uh-huh.” Aoi replied quite directly.

“Then you don’t need to have any worries, that was just a minor hiccup, I’m just pulling you along to avoid an unnecessary Shura.”

“Shura …… you for this use of the word ……”

“Trust me, I haven’t been this accurate with words all year.” Sakurajima Apricot teased, then leaned forward with her body, her hands reaching up to his neck to straighten down his collar, and again the corners of her mouth turned up, “That’s it, then, let’s make another date for the cotillion.”

“Good.” Seeing that she was able to discontinue the topic, Natsuki Aoi immediately agreed, turning in the direction of the cafeteria and pulling out her cell phone, ready to ask Yusuke to call for a plate for herself first, and just then, Sakurajima’s voice once again rang out from the back.

“Favors ……”

Just two words.

Aoi Natsuki’s eyes were suddenly struck dumb, and she turned her head to look at Sakurajima.

A mysterious smile appeared on her face, and a gleam of white light emanated from her cunning pupils. In a flash, Aoi’s mind recalled the Divine Maiden, who had also mentioned the word “favor”, which made Aoi Natsuki’s memory of it still fresh.

“It’s so boring, Aoi, I was expecting her to make you do something more interesting? I didn’t realize that you’re still afraid to do this or that, and I just can’t watch it even after all that time.”

Aoi Natsuki’s expression became wary, and in her heart, although she was surprised, she kept her composure and asked, “Who are you talking about?”

“Who else could it be, the guy behind you of course, oh oh, and now the guy behind me too.”

The moment those words came out, a violent storm instantly erupted in Arai Natsuki’s head, listening to Sakurajima’s words, did she actually know about the existence of the godly maiden!

She has also met the Divine Maiden?

This line of thought completely shocked Aoi Natsuki, what brand new line of thought for a messenger of the gods? This was too much nonsense! He knew he couldn’t stay silent for too long, he would be seen to be broken, and after his brain spun rapidly, he was ultimately willing to believe in the rules that the Divine Maiden had previously abided by with himself.

“Why don’t I have any recollection of whether the person you’re talking about was male, or female, and what was their name?”

“It’s …… female, name wise, I didn’t ask.”

That was the answer, Aoi Natsuki immediately breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, it seemed that Sakurajima didn’t know about the divine maiden, even though she uttered that she was a female, the question itself was a trap, no matter if it was answered as male or female, this was incorrect because no one would emphasize that she was a female after meeting a deity, a deity and a human being might even be different in terms of their species, just as no one would care about whether a reindeer was male or female when meeting a reindeer or female, a reindeer is a reindeer.

The original urgency lifted all of a sudden, and Sakurajima Apricot looked at him for a long time, not waiting for the answer she wanted.

Aoi Natsuki was the first to speak, saying with a helpless expression, “Are you making some strange guesses again?”

Sakurajima Apricot, seeing that the situation was lost, slackened the state she had just maintained and leaned her body against a side wall, sighing, “Considering the wrong direction still?”

“What direction?”

Sakurajima Apricot then began to speak her analysis.

“Last night I had a private chat with Hayakawa, she told me that you had rejected her before, but later on, you obviously stayed very close to her again, as well as at the very beginning, you again had tried to find a way to get closer to Takahashi, at that time, I always thought that you were doing some kind of an experiment, but later on, I found out that it seemed that it wasn’t, until last night, when I developed a new train of thought, could you have been under the instruction of someone I’m not sure. That’s why you are close to them, I also have found in the usual time that you are particularly sensitive to some words, especially the word favor, you often listen to it and then freeze, so today I thought of making a trick out of a trick, to see if I can by the way from your mouth to set out the truth that I want, but it seems …… that the direction is still not right.”

Sakurajima Apricot let out a deep murmur, her right index finger and thumb pinching her chin, revealing a look of puzzlement.

Hiss ……

Aoi Natsuki mentally sucked in a breath of cold air, and it could be said that she was almost right in this guess.

The guy’s powers of observation are unearthly!

He had once again seen Sakurajima’s power, and if he hadn’t revealed a flaw in his target audience, there was a real possibility that he would have just believed it, and then he would have really fallen into Sakurajima’s trap.

“Don’t think too much, there’s really nothing wrong, and please don’t pull an operation like this in the future, it really kind of freaked me out.” Aoi Natsuki kept her face calm and said.

Sakurajima Apricot pursed her lips, and after two seconds of silence, said, “Well, then it looks like it’s time to switch minds again, and leaving this matter aside for now, there’s something I need to tell you, Aoi.”

“What’s there to tell me again?” Arai Natsuki was now a little afraid of another shocking statement from her, and her head instinctively flinched back.

The corners of Sakurajima’s mouth rose, and the corners of her eyes gradually lengthened, “Third period in the afternoon, you go to the activity classroom, there will be a surprise.”

With that he waved the fingers of his left hand, then turned away from the corner.

The surprise in Sakurajima Apricot’s mouth was most likely a mere shock to Aoi!

Could this be another trap ……

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Time quickly came to three o’clock in the afternoon, the second class just after class, the third class is physical education, a group of people one after another to the playground, as expected, and free activities, the previous period of time is too tense learning, and now let the students play hard.

Yusuke came running gladly holding a set of badminton balls, “Natsuki, let’s play badminton.”

“Shouldn’t you be playing basketball?”

“Don’t even get me started on basketball, balls with a diameter of more than ten centimeters kind of make my head spin right now.” Yusuke grimaced, the whole thing was training training training, itself being forced to drag himself in because of his height advantage, and now every week was a misery.

“It’s really hard for you.” Aoi Natsuki patted him on the shoulder.

“That Feather ……”

“Sorry! I remembered I have something else important to do, so you’ll have to find someone else for today for now.”

Natsuki Aoi still wanted to listen to Sakurajima and visit the activity classroom.

Yusuke was struck by lightning, and in an instant his entire face became resigned.

Amount ……

“Then I’ll go ahead.” Aoi Natsuki didn’t linger much, Yusuke was about to have a little girlfriend anyway, so let his girlfriend comfort his broken heart.

Aoi departed for the Discovery Club’s activity classroom, which was located on the third floor of the complex, Aoi Natsuki walked through the aisle in the middle of the first and second school buildings, skirted the central plaza, and later entered the complex, the whole building was quiet as usual, until he went up to the third floor, when he gradually heard some noises in his ears.

It sounded familiar to Natsuki Arai, and her pace slowed as she tiptoed up, and when she got to the door of the activity classroom, she realized that the door was pulled open a quarter of a crack, and that the music was coming from inside.

He glanced sideways inside.

First, he saw a cell phone with a waltzing video explanation playing on a desktop not far away.

Then there was Keiko Hayakawa, who was learning by imitation.

That’s when Aoi Natsuki steeply realized what the surprise in Sakurajima’s mouth was.

Hayakawa’s movements were very clumsy, which also showed that she didn’t have a talent for dancing, something that Aoi had realized long ago on the system panel, and so far her dance specialty points hadn’t gone up even a little bit.

Is that why you’re sneaking around here practicing alone.

Natsuki Aoi murmured.

Standing quietly in the doorway and looking on, Hayakawa gasped for breath, looking like she had been practicing for a while but overall not even close to what she had done yesterday, becoming a bit anxious in her movements, but she wasn’t discouraged and continued to learn from the video.

Whoa–

Natsuki Aoi finally chose to push the door open.

Hayakawa, who was holding his cell phone in constant thought, was also startled and immediately turned his eyes over.

“Natsu, Natsu, Natsu ……” Seeing that it was Natsuki, her face instantly turned flushed.

Stealing and practicing in secret has been exposed!

Aoi Natsuki let out a breath through his nose and walked into the activity classroom, the atmosphere between the two of them was a bit subtle at the moment, without realizing it he had already walked in front of Hayakawa, the two of them looking at each other.

“Want …… to practice together?”

Aoi Natsuki asked this.

The shyness in Hayakawa Keiko’s eyes slowly changed to joy as she heard it, a rolling wave of emotions flowed out from her heart, all at once inspiring courage, “Uh-huh!”

Aoi Natsuki didn’t say anything else because the two of them now had more than enough tacit understanding that had been cultivated during their weekdays when they studied and exchanged ideas together.

With that Aoi held out his left hand towards her.

Hayakawa continued to gasp for air, and now she could no longer tell if this was the result of physical exertion or mental strain.

She raised her right hand, and her small, delicate palm landed on his tiger’s mouth, and with a gentle touch, she rose to her feet.

“But don’t think I’m too stupid, I’m not a great learner.” This was said by Natsuki Aoi, and it was also a way to give Hayakawa a leg up, two people who both sucked at dancing, so let’s not bother with anything.

For the first time, Keiko Hayakawa was at such a distance from Arai that she could see his jaw with her head slightly raised.

Faint scruff.

It turns out that Aoi also has a beard? Usually do not pay attention to it, under the close distance even the looks have changed, and the clean-cut features have thus become much more refined.

The next two of them together began to learn the basic dance steps that Sakurajima had taught yesterday, learning only the left-right parallel step and the left-right change step, which apparently worked well when paired with a real person.

The two had a number of missteps along the way, but both laughed it off.

Keiko Hayakawa was deeply caught up in such a romantic atmosphere.

At this distance, she could feel his nostrils, his heartbeat, and a faint whiff of male odor.

“Hayakawa.”

“Uh, eh?” She reacted to being called, and was too busy to agree.

Aoi Natsuki lowered her head and said slowly and leisurely, “You’ve put in no small amount of effort during this time.”

As the words left his mouth, Hayakawa stopped in his tracks, looking a bit puzzled.

Aoi Natsuki’s heart also became nervous under this atmosphere, after an awkward cough, she said, “It’s the changes you’ve made over these times, starting from dressing and grooming, to contacting fresh things, you’ve really changed a lot, and I’m happy for you, but …… don’t push yourself too much, whoever likes to become a better version of himself, this is definitely true, but the premise is that one’s body should be managed well, know it?”

Aoi’s words, Hayakawa Keiko’s complexion also became different, in fact, she really worked hard, has always been as an ordinary girl, in order to be able to become better, spend a lot of time to enrich and dress up their own, the pursuit of becoming better, this kind of payment are hidden, very few people can notice, to today this way, she has forgotten to pay how much time, the system panel of the face value of this beyond the ordinary girl ten points The value on the system panel exceeds that of an ordinary girl by ten points, which is the best proof.

But, she was really a little tired.

Now that she heard these words from Natsuki, she couldn’t hold back any longer and jumped into Natsuki’s arms, crying loudly.

It was the first time she had ever hugged Natsuki.

She could feel his body heat.

Aoi Natsuki could also feel her rolling tears soaking his shirt, and raised his hand, gently stroking her head, “Hard work ……”

It was this sentiment that kept Arai steadfastly in Hayakawa’s favor.

It is now, and it will be in the future as well.