Chapter 150 – Sakurajima can’t be denied

“Too Close to Call ……”

“Yes? Huh?” Sakurajima Apricot was pushed away the next second, the distance between the two of them returning to a more amicable position, followed closely by Arai Natsuki loosening her grip on her arms, letting out a long breath through her nose, and saying, “Is there anything else? Without anything else, I’m going to head back to class first.”

“Don’t you want to talk to me some more?” Sakurajima Apricot tilted her head slightly to look at him.

“……” Aoi Natsuki simply stopped looking at her, with an indescribably complicated mood, “And what do you want to talk about?”

“Hmph~” Sakurajima smiled mischievously, reaching out and tugging at his cuffs, “Let’s go somewhere where no one will bother us for a chat.”

With that, he grabbed Aoi’s wrist and took a step towards the opposite direction of the hallway.

Aoi Natsuki was feeling some inexplicable soreness in the muscles of her entire body at the moment, and it was clear that she wasn’t over-exercising and didn’t need to cover her chest with her hands, but she could still feel the pleasing beat of her heart.

……

In the active classroom.

“So that’s how it is.” Aoi Natsuki listened to Sakurajima briefly recount the process of going to the interview with Hetty last night, and the situation was just as he had imagined, Sakurajima’s character was difficult to go and integrate into the group.

Getting along with Aoi’s mom and dad was largely also about pleasing them and pretending to be a good girl, which was a lot more fun for her, but if she was put into an idol group, she’d quickly fall out of character once she couldn’t find the fun in it.

“You shouldn’t be too disrespectful to them, after all, you’re the one Hetty pulled in, even if you’re pretending, it’s best to make some good impression first.” Aoi Natsuki shrugged.

“I probably still can’t get used to it, and I’m very uncomfortable with the commanding tone of some people.” Sakurajima Apricot rested her head on the desktop, the tips of her right index and middle fingers up and moving forward like a villain.

Aoi Natsuki sighed when she heard this, “It can’t be helped, after all, idols are a commercial activity in themselves, and the more top idols there are, the fuller the schedules that tend to be arranged by their offices.”

“……” Sakurajima made a strangled sound, then raised her eyes and looked down at Aoi in front of her, a look of sadness in her eyes, “Is it necessary for us to sit so far away from each other?”

The screen was pulled, and now the two were sitting on the left and right opposite sides of the large square table, because this table was initially eliminated from the experimental classroom, the length and width of the table were far greater than the general classroom table, and for this width alone, both sides stretched out their hands, and could not touch the fingertips of the distance.

Aoi Natsuki was unimpressed when she heard that, “That’s for sure, so you won’t have to do something that crosses the line again.”

“Eh~ Aoi is petty!”

“This is a school!”

“So it’s not just school?” Sakurajima Apricot said as she continued to look at him with her longing eyes.

But Aoi had a feeling that the other party would still rely on her, whether she said yes or not.

“Stop, stop, that’s enough of the bullshit, so what happened? Was your interview considered passed?” Aoi Natsuki continued to ask.

Sakurajima Apricot’s extended arm never could reach Aoi on the opposite side of the room, and eventually had to give up, looking a bit sullen, hanging his head, saying, “Passed is passed, just a fat uncle said is my type is more suitable to go to the movie, in the akb group likewise have independent TV series, can arrange for me to play a role.”

“Whoa! Is this the time to make a movie! Your acting career s**t is so high!”

“……”

Aoi Natsuki could see that Sakurajima wasn’t interested in this, or rather, she had a flat feeling about everything in the show business, normally speaking, it would be hard for an ordinary girl to resist the temptation of fame, but Sakurajima Apricot didn’t care about it at all.

Her interests are a bit peculiar, they used to be all sorts of weird and wonderful things, like all sorts of animal bones, collections of odd objects, bottles and jars of unknown liquids, but in recent months there has been an inexplicable addition to her interests, and that is Natsuki Aoi herself.

Because of his own loathing by all the girls, after being discovered by the sharp-eyed other party, a series of investigations centered on him were launched, and it can be said that without this incident, the two sides are afraid that there will never be a point of intersection in their lives.

Aoi Natsuki pursed her lips, and when she saw that Sakurajima still hadn’t moved, she changed her tone, “Ahem, if, I mean if, you really aren’t interested in this kind of thing, it’s okay to quit.”

“Huh?” Sakurajima Apricot jerked her head up.

Sure enough, it had something to do with that.

“Well, why do you want to do unhappy things, you are promised Hetty to try, but try the effect is not good, also can be the same refusal, the world is not everyone aspires to become famous and rich, you really do not want to, go to reject away, regardless of what the idol or not, the movie or not, their own live happy is good.”

Aoi Natsuki’s remarks made Sakurajima Apricot’s eyes widen, this was the first time someone had said that to him, giving up on the theory? The people around her all the time always offered to try harder, with Hayakawa’s side being the most obvious, and it was probably also the small influence of Hayakawa that made her agree to come down and try out for the girl’s group.

But I didn’t expect Aoi to say that.

“Is it really okay to give up?” Sakurajima Apricot repeated her inquiry.

“Of course.” Aoi Natsuki nodded, then suddenly thought of something and immediately spoke, “But it’s not because of my words, it’s because you really feel that way in your heart.”

Aoi Natsuki wanted her to be able to independently think about this matter, giving up is often not a choice of degradation, but only after careful consideration towards a new direction had to do, Sakurajima slightly open small mouth, lowered his head slightly dumbfounded looking at his own long and white fingertips, after a long time, the corners of the mouth began to diffuse a smile.

“Well, I’ll think about it.”

Natsuki Aoi nodded in agreement.

Sakurajima Apricot added at this point, “By the way, as well as I have another question I want to ask?”

“Just ask.”

“Aoi you, was there a point where you asked me to give up because you were worried that I’d become too popular after I exploded in popularity and that I wouldn’t like you anymore?”

“Huh? What nonsense are you talking about again?” As Aoi Natsuki spoke, the originally seated Sakurajima Apricot began to make a move, her hands holding onto the desktop, her feet stepping onto the chair one step after the other, and finally her entire body climbing onto the desktop, getting closer to Aoi little by little.

Natsuki Arai didn’t pay attention to her for five seconds, and when it came back to him, Sakurajima was already on his heels.

Such a pose is really a bit too much.

The corners of Sakurajima’s eyes gradually lengthened, smiling like a flower, and the distance between the two was once again less than twenty centimeters, as she kissed her thin lips and uttered a slightly lazy sentence, “But no matter what follows, I will still remain by your side, Aoi ……”

The magnetic voice nearly broke down Aoi Natsuki’s inner defenses, frowning slightly and not saying a word.

“Can, can you get off the table, it’s so unsightly.”

“Oh? Then I’m going to squat down ……” Sakurajima apricot spoke and wanted to lift up her long skirt, black silk has been from the ankles a little bit extended to the knees, and still up, Aoi Natsuki saw this, panicked and verbally to stop it, to see him this anxious look, she laughed happily.

Time spent alone with Aoi was her happiest time.

She ruffled through the strands of hair that hung down and hooked behind her ear, took a deep breath, and slowly leaned down, eventually laying her entire body on the desktop, her hands folded up and down while her head rested cozily on top.

Aoi Natsuki felt meaningless, she always did something inexplicable.

“What are you doing again?”

“Nothing.” Sakurajima Apricot closed her eyes and just rested on them for two or three seconds before opening her mouth again, “Aoi, can you touch my head?”

Aoi Natsuki was stunned, his back then leaned back in his chair, naturally he wouldn’t do that, even though the other party had some mixed feelings when he said those words.

“Please ……,” Sakurajima’s apricot voice became lazy as she opened her eyes and stretched her right hand to grab Aoi’s wrist, followed by placing it firmly on her head, before the whole thing became incredibly quiet again.

“You’re a little kid ……,” Aoi Natsuki spat helplessly.

“Hmph, you can do things with impunity because you’re a kid, hmmm …… that’s nice na.”

Aoi Natsuki didn’t draw back his hand at first, just that he had spent a long time with Sakurajima, gradually getting used to a series of her maneuvers, and now he was able to feel Sakurajima’s soft hair at his fingertips, his head slightly radiating heat, and that face that anyone who looked at it would be touched by it was facing him directly in front of him.

He gulped, outside the window of the activity classroom was the playground, so he was able to hear a lot of his classmates bustling around, while the two in the classroom were enjoying the peace and quiet.

……

Weekend.

Natsuki Arai stood at an intersection in Akihabara, glancing at the time on her cell phone and looking from side to side.

It wasn’t long before Hayakawa came out from the far corner, similarly looking left and right for something, and upon seeing Aoi, immediately raised his right hand excitedly and waved in greeting towards him, before clasping his shoulder straps with both hands and shouting a word towards the corner’s location, jogging over.

Arai was a bit curious and looked around the corner, and two seconds later, Takahashi Mito appeared around the corner as well, and the two of them quickly came to him one after the other.

“How, how is it?” Keiko Hayakawa stood at a distance far enough that Natsuki could survey her entire body, her hands loosening the shoulder straps to show him what she was wearing.

White partial loose wave sleeve body shirt, the weather is gradually warming up, dressing style gradually become more free, early Sichuan also specifically with two straps, small girls are most worried about is the height of the short, so the proportion of the dress is very important, tighten the waistline show long legs, orange exposed feet strap heightening shoes are also very suitable for her today’s wear.

“It’s cute.” Natsuki Aoi smiled faintly.

Hayakawa was first a little shy, then he smiled sweetly at Natsuki, pulled aside Metu, and said, “I even called Metu along, is that okay?”

“Uh, no problem.”

Today with Hayakawa was to attend Hetty’s handshake party, like idol groups often hold street events, and after the end of the variety show akbingo, some new programs were born.

“The handshake meeting is in the afternoon, how about we go to the arcade for a while first?” Hayakawa made a suggestion.

“That’s fine too, what about you Takahashi?”

“I-I wouldn’t mind.”

Afterwards, the three of them went to the nearby arcade, Aoi Natsuki once again check Hayakawa’s current points, goodwill value came to 92 points, specialty points have just exceeded 300 points, from the S-class rating of 360 points is still a gap of 60 points, cooking, fishing and manga three specialties of the data in this half a month to improve only Liao Liao five points, it seems that almost reached a saturation, then need to open up a new specialty to be able to do so.

Arriving at the first floor of the arcade, Hayakawa went with Takahashi to catch the dolls, and many high school and college-looking young men and women could still be seen here, making it more of a dating place for couples than an arcade.

Aoi Natsuki bought fifty coins from the cashier and handed the small basket to Takahashi, Takahashi Mito looked a bit unnatural, Hayakawa on the side saw this and quickly smiled and said, “Come and play quickly.”

Then taking Medu’s arm, he urged her to take the small basket with the game coins.

Takahashi Mito froze “Oh”, the palm of the hand is heavy, so these coins are so heavy. ……

She’d barely made any friends before, so let alone come to the arcade, and thinking back to the last time, group-based playdates, other than that fireworks festival, would have to be traced back to the haunted house adventures within the club before that, when it was clear that a few of the people weren’t very well acquainted.

Aoi Natsuki stood behind the two girls, not getting involved, just watching quietly as Takahashi woodenly followed Hayakawa’s example of taking game coins from a small basket, leaning down and stuffing them into the coin slot below, and starting to catch the dolls at Hayakawa’s command.

After a few rounds, gradually from the beginning of the release, become brow stretching, when grabbed a kangaroo doll pen bag, it is bending down from the pickup point out, excited to hold it with both hands, turn your head to Aoi ……

The moment he turned back, he met eye-to-eye with Aoi Natsuki, who was wearing a faint smile.

Natsuki Arai chimes in with a smile, “Good job.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Takahashi Midori didn’t even say a word, immediately turning her head away, her face rubbing red again, and only after a long time had passed did a few words emerge from between her teeth, “Uhm …… Thank you ……”

Knowing exactly how hard it used to be to get a thank you out of her, it was as if Takahashi was a completely different person now.

At the side, Hayakawa Keiko noticed the change in Midu’s behavior and was delighted in her heart, so in order to prevent the atmosphere from becoming awkward, she hurriedly came up again and took Midu’s hand, “Midu! Let’s go look at something else! Aoi, if the game coins, I’ll trouble you, oh.”

Hayakawa’s head rested against Metsu’s right arm, and she folded her hands together, saying sweetly.

“Good, I’ll pay for all the spending in the whole place today.” Aoi Natsuki laughed, then watched as Hayakawa pulled Takahashi to go somewhere else.

In the half hour that followed, Hayakawa and Takahashi harvested a total of four dolls, exactly two for each of them, and Takahashi’s mood was no longer as formal as it had been when he first arrived at this point, and a smile grew on his face.

Natsuki Arai leaned back against the back service counter, chewing on the free gum that was being handed out, and looked over at the two girls talking and laughing, and before long, they walked back to him, with Mito Takahashi’s hands behind his back, feeling like there was something she wanted to say to him.

“Is there not enough play money? I’ll go cash in some more.”

“No, no, Aoi!” Takahashi Mito called out to him, his eyes becoming fluttering, “But, can you take a big headshot with us …… one, together ……”