Chapter 138 – Sakurajima Apricot’s Weaknesses

Sakurajima Apricot’s eyes held a look that brooked no deception.

Also she is good at spotting lies.

A person who likes to lie is the easiest person to go to to recognize a lie.

Natsuki Arai was so caught up in her jealous question that he didn’t answer at first, but then he also missed all the options other than the correct answer.

Sakurajima Apricot’s hands were cold, and she herself wasn’t a physique that preserved body heat, so she usually looked the part of a cold beauty.

“I can still feel this temperature …… Aoi.”

Sakurajima seemed to mean that he still had the temperature that Hayakawa had just retained in his pocket.

Don’t be ridiculous. It’s been so long.

“Your sudden jealousy caught me a little off guard.” Aoi Natsuki said.

Sakurajima blinks and tilts her head, “So Aoi isn’t so wooden, he can still sense that I’m jealous.”

“Didn’t get what your point of jealousy was at all though.” Aoi tilted his head.

“What’s not to understand, a girl being jealous of another girl, people do it every minute of every second in this world.”

Because of the backstage closing, the hallway heaters were turned off and the temperature dropped a little.

Sakurajima Apricot’s physique piece is weak, with a strong aura but a very weak body.

The way things were now, Aoi Natsuki could easily get away from her by just pushing her down gently.

But he didn’t, and the other woman’s clearly defined collarbones, exposed despite the fact that she was wearing quite a bit of clothing, spoke of how cold she was at the moment.

The lips were not as blood-colored as they had been over there just now.

“Wear my jacket.” Aoi Natsuki was about to take off his jacket, but Sakurajima, who was beside him, immediately stopped him.

The gorgeous gaze fixed on him and said, “Aoi, how could you do such a thing to a girl who is getting jealous? Don’t forget that this matter hasn’t been turned over yet.”

“Didn’t turn over? …… Since when do you care about that?” Aoi Natsuki frowned slightly.

“Things between men and women are supposed to be catty sayings.” Sakurajima Apricot ran her left hand across her cheek, a strand of hair that had stuck to the corner of her mouth being smoothed down as she turned to tuck her left hand back into Aoi’s pocket.

Both hands came together and a look of enjoyment ensued on his face.

Sakurajima Apricot has a unique scent, something between jasmine and lemon mingled.

Her favorability value today stays at 51 points.

Sort of very high, but then relatively mediocre compared to other girls.

But her 51 points came even more aggressively than Hayakawa’s 90 points, no less than strong desire, and although he didn’t have a very in-depth understanding of the word so far, Aoi was seeing the other party’s constant desire to take his own behavior.

Unlike the initial -1 favorability, the current Sakurajima had an extra sincerity, a genuine desire to befriend him.

It’s true that you want to dig into his secrets, and it’s also true that you want to get in good with him.

As far as favorite dimensions go ……

The explanation that Natsuki Aoi would feel more like a prized collector’s item and that she is in love with herself because of her mystery makes the most relative sense.

Luckily Sakurajima wasn’t a sickly girl, or else he really could have been suddenly knocked out one day, sent somewhere, and forcibly dissected and studied.

“I’m still a little confused about you.”

“Which way?”

Aoi Natsuki thought for a moment and said, “First of all, this question is a bit ridiculous, I hope you won’t guess too much, I’m just purely curious, if you think of anything else, then our conversation will stop here.”

“Good.”

Sakurajima Apricot nodded her head in agreement, and Aoi Natsuki turned to throw out a question, “The other day you told me something on the rooftop of the school, just, just …… that is, you said that I have a lot of friends of the opposite sex around me! What you said at the time was that you weren’t averse to that and were happy to see it happen, but now, why would you be jealous when you see Hayakawa’s hand in my pocket for warmth? Isn’t that contradictory?”

It was a bit embarrassing to ask this question, but facing Sakurajima, Aoi Natsuki always felt that some of the more inane questions could be said to her.

After hearing that, Sakurajima Apricot really put on a serious thinking face, only with her hands still in his pockets, enjoying herself while thinking.

Five seconds later, pouted out a laugh, whispered, “What have many friends of the opposite sex, the harem on the harem, said so euphemistic ……”

Aoi Natsuki had good hearing, and instantly, she barely managed to strain herself, her eyes glancing to the other side.

It was as if Sakurajima was really seriously thinking about this question, but the time for this thinking was very fast, and not ten seconds later, she gave her answer.

Natsuki Aoi was surprisingly a little bit excited about this.

“I don’t think it’s self-contradictory.”

“Hmm?” Aoi looked puzzled.

“Seeing a favorite boy making out with another girl, it’s not normal to be jealous, even if I can accept Hayakawa being in front of me, but I have all the emotions like jealousy, anger, grumbling, etc. I’m not the kind of person who thinks that as long as I can stay beside Aoi-kun, it’s fine… what I want is more, much more… …”

The corners of Sakurajima Apricot’s eyes gradually lengthened, her vision narrowing to a slit.

Natsuki Aoi sensed her possessiveness, but she was indeed right, having always thought of Sakurajima as a girl with an alternative personality, almost forgetting that her original premise was that of a sixteen-year-old high school girl.

It’s just a matter of mistakenly liking a me who carries a secret and is cursed by the gods.

“Oh …… well, I understand.” Aoi Natsuki nodded to herself.

At that moment, Sakurajima Apricot got interested instead and said in a teasing voice, “Huh? Could it be that Aoi you’re really thinking about the possibility of a harem in your mind right now**? I didn’t realize at all that you were such a bold character!”

Having been poked and prodded at once, Aoi Natsuki knew that she shouldn’t have asked this question, and the other party was surely about to seize on it to tease herself.

“Stop! I’m just purely curious, I never thought of it that way, this kind of nonsensical fantasy, you might as well return to reality before it’s too late.” Aoi said blandly, then pulled Sakurajima’s hands out of his own pockets, “Okay, enjoyment time is over.”

“Eh~ What’s wrong.” Sakurajima Apricot was looking really frustrated, beaming with an unhappy face.

“Join me in the door before you say hello.”

“No, you go if you want to, I’m not going.”

“Why are you still angry, you were the one who put your hand in my pocket without my permission.”

“Hmph.” Sakurajima Apricot lightly grunted, then stood up and walked towards the depths of the corridor with light steps, and even though Aoi called out to her a few times, she didn’t move, and eventually disappeared around the corner.

Natsuki Aoi was confused as to what exactly she was doing here today by showing up.

Waiting for a few more minutes, the door lock of the lounge opened, and then Hayakawa and Hetty came out one after the other, Hetty specially wearing a hat, standard sunglasses and mask, changing out of a gorgeous dance outfit and wearing only this very casual casual clothes, if there were no preconceived notions, no one should be able to connect her with Kashiwagi Minami.

“It was nice talking to you, Hayakawa, so keep in touch from now on as well.”

“Aye! Non, it’s a great honor!” Hayakawa’s eyes glazed over, today had been too dreamy an experience for her, and after shaking hands with Nanjou again, she stepped aside to not impede her path of departure.

“Being an idol and having to be aware of your privacy at all times, that point is also a drawback na.” Aoi Natsuki said.

“It’s okay, being an idol is better than being a movie star, the fans are relatively otaku, less likely to affect the private life, and meeting the private life rice like this is in the minority.”

“I see.” Aoi Natsuki nodded.

“Then I’ll take my leave, we’ll meet again some other time, bye.” This time, Hetty not only waved goodbye to Hayakawa, but also froze when he turned to look at Aoi, he had thought that the other party would just ignore him, but he didn’t expect that he would then smile and wave his hand towards him as well.

Turned in the direction of the exit until he disappeared.

“That’s great nah, it’s so hard to be an idol, it’s not easy to stick it out until now.”

“Uh-huh.” Aoi Natsuki looked at the direction that Hetty left, gently answered, before coming over to watch the small theater, he also had an online query about the girl group AKB48, the number of people who still haven’t graduated before and after, counting the postgraduates, there are still a staggering one hundred or so people, among the one hundred or so people there are only about a dozen or so that can get the better resources, the other ones will even remain in obscurity until graduation, and even the incomes are all completely sky-high.

“Then let’s go too.”

“Uh-huh.”

The two of them, Aoi Natsuki, followed the direction they had originally come from and returned to the small door, and just as they pushed it open, the sound of pattering rain outside scurried into their ears.

“I… I brought an umbrella.” Seeing the rain, Hayakawa hurriedly picked up his bag and dug a small umbrella out of it, quickly unraveling it and holding it open.

“Then you go back first, I remember there’s a subway station right around here, I’ll wait until the rain subsides a bit.” Aoi Natsuki’s words were unexpected by Hayakawa.

“Not coming along?”

“My house is not directly connected to the subway, I’d better take the bus later, don’t worry about me, there’s a convenience store over there, if the rain doesn’t subside later, I’ll buy an umbrella and go to the bus stop.”

“Is that so …… that, that’s fine.” Hayakawa was very sorry, a little breathless as she hung her head, just two steps forward, stepping down the steps suddenly stood still as the rain fell on her black umbrella with a dripping sound.

“Off, about today, today, I, I just wanted to share my, my preferences, will, will it chill you out?”

This is Hayakawa suddenly thought of the problem, she realized that today is all about her own happy, perhaps Natsuki is not interested in these, in the backstage he has been sitting in the corridor bench waiting for her, obviously today to see the theater is auxiliary, and with Natsuki dating is real, in the end, how to how I have reversed this? I’m so proud of myself!

Just thinking about it made chagrin at his behavior rise up inside Hayakawa.

When Aoi Natsuki heard this, she didn’t take it personally, and immediately said, “No, I had a good time watching it today as well, so don’t think too much about it, take advantage of the weekend and go back to get some sleep, see you on Monday.”

Lift** Swinging his hand at her.

“Uhh!” Hayakawa’s mood seems to be much better, just still a little bit of fondness, this kind of time if I can stay with Natsuki for a little while longer how good it should be, really shouldn’t have proposed to go home so early, lost count.

Hayakawa’s figure gradually far away, until the end of the road, Aoi Natsuki stood outside the small door quietly waiting for the rain to stop, but did not think that the rain is getting bigger and bigger, slowly turning into a heavy rain rhythm, at the same time, the sky vaguely flashed through the lightning, tonight will not be thunderstorms again, right.

While the rain was still not completely heavy, he rushed furiously to the convenience store two hundred meters away, and then stood in the doorway, thinking in his mind whether he should just take a taxi back.

When you take a taxi in Japan, the cost of that rental is pretty horrendous, and you’d rather go to a nearby hostel for the night than take a cab home.

Hmmm ……

While thinking about it, the sensor door behind him opened, and Sakurajima Apricot, who was holding a lollipop, stepped out in a mysterious manner.

The lollipop also looked familiar, the very same creamy lollipop that Hetty had just eaten not too long ago.

Natsuki Aoi was speechless for a moment, then let out a sigh, “Are you really that jealous?”

“Hmm? Which way are you talking about?”

“Your mouth is turning purple, hurry up and throw the lollipop away.” Aoi Natsuki took the initiative to step forward and take away the lollipop from Sakurajima’s hand while she looked reluctant until the lollipop was thrown into the trash can aside, thus ending the uncontested lollipop fight.

“You’re kinda macho, Aoi.” Sakurajima beamed.

But the slight trembling of her body showed that she was holding strong.

The two stood in peers, staring in unison at the downpour in front of them, speechless for a moment.

Rain poured down the flaps on the roof of the convenience store’s shed, cluttering the area but creating a stream of quieting sound.

The sound of rain is white noise, and many insomniacs sleep exceptionally well on rainy days instead.

“Not going home yet?” Aoi Natsuki finally spoke.

“I was going to go back, but now ……” Sakurajima Apricot looked up at the sky.

Aoi Natsuki had thought it was because of the rain, but Sakurajima’s family was so wealthy that the cost of a taxi was a complete drop in the ocean, and it was only right that they could have taken a taxi home a long time ago.

Is it still because you want to wait for me?

Boom–

The sky suddenly rang with a loud clap of thunder.

The thunder was deafening.

Aoi Natsuki suddenly felt a tightness in his arm, when the ringing sound faded, he turned his head only to see Sakurajima’s right hand only gripping his arm in a death grip, a little tightness and slight redness penetrating under the white leathery skin, and for a split second, he was able to feel Sakurajima’s arm trembling.

Looking at her expression again, her whole face followed suit and became gloomy, her sight no longer looking up at the sky, instead, her head was lowered and she kept looking down at her feet.

She ……

“Are you afraid of thunder?”

Aoi Natsuki subconsciously asked.

“……”

Sakurajima didn’t answer, but still gripped his arm hard in his hand.

Not a lot of force, but look out she’s hard.

Natsuki Aoi looked at her.

Suddenly his brain recalled what happened before, not only this time, when several people together on the day of the fireworks festival to see the fireworks, see half, Sakurajima’s mysterious disappearance, and then suddenly appeared, it turned out that it was because of the fear of the loud sound ah!

All at once the thought process opened up.

What’s wrong with that? Even the most eccentric girls have weaknesses.

Just looking at the day, the lightning and thunder probably won’t stop for a while, just like that thunderstorm day a few days ago, and come to think of it, how on earth did she spend that night then? Wasn’t she renting out the place all by herself?

Aoi Natsuki then brought Sakurajima inside the convenience store first, stepping into the farthest position from the door, and Sakurajima Apricot recovered for a good while before her tense state slowly loosened up, followed closely by a long exhale.

But the hand still clutched Aoi tightly and wouldn’t let go.

“Relax, it’s just thunder, let me go get you a hot drink, you wait here.”

Natsuki Arai was just about to leave, but Sakurajima was still holding onto his arm.

“Don’t, don’t go ……,” Sakurajima Apricot said shakily.

Maybe Aoi standing next to her would give her a sense of reassurance.

Aoi Natsuki dismissed the thought and stood still slowly waiting for her emotions to recover, “So afraid of thunder, did you spend that thunderstorm day the other night hiding under the covers?”

“…… No, it’s better to hide in a cupboard for soundproofing than, than a quilt.” Sakurajima Apricot smiled bitterly.

Yes, the disappearance of Apricot Sakurajima that night wasn’t a mysterious phenomenon, it was just her hiding in the closet because she was afraid of thunder.

“Well ……” Aoi Natsuki first saw her in such a helpless state, flirting words swallowed back into his throat, followed by a hundred persuasions, and finally Sakurajima was willing to move with himself, to the front desk to buy two cups of hot beverages, and after that sat in the lounge area, the hot milk went down, and the body A warm, uneasy heart also gradually calmed down.

During this period, Aoi Natsuki noticed that Sakurajima Apricot’s favorability produced a great increase, all the way up to 65 points.

In this way, Sakurajima and Aoi keep this action to sit for an hour and a half, until the sound of the rain weakens and the thunder no longer continues, Aoi Natsuki then sent Sakurajima to the door, Sakurajima apricot at this point in time the state of the state back to the original appearance, cell phone on the call a cab.

There hadn’t been a lot of communication between the two in that hour and a half, but the atmosphere was more ambiguous than any time they’d been alone with Sakurajima before.

“See you on Monday, Aoi.”

Apricot Sakurajima waved her five fingers.

Her favorability was now up to 71 points.

Looking at her as she walked out of the convenience store with her umbrella and headed towards the street, somehow a strange thought arose within Aoi Natsuki at the moment.

If he confessed to Sakurajima at this moment, wouldn’t the goddess’s mission be accomplished straight away?

But that thought was quickly corrected.

Aoi Natsuki rubbed her eyes, it seemed that it was the ambiguous atmosphere today that had confused her thoughts, how could she possibly have feelings for Sakurajima.