Chapter 156: Sakurajima has already lived in his heart

“Eat, why don’t you eat, why are you looking at me?” Sakurajima apricot containing chopsticks, sight to the surrounding people, Hayakawa and Takahashi still can not get any comments, the topic is going to end like this? The two people’s hearts could not help but feel a little lost.

But right after that, Sakurajima Apricot smirked and looked over to Ayano beside Aoi, where Ayano and Rina were both eating with gusto.

Her eyes first fell on Ayano, followed closely by a downward movement, eventually resting on Rina’s face, “Rina~ Who do you think makes the better food between the two sisters?”

It’s a proposition!

And the question was even thrown to a small child!

Natsuki Aoi jerked her head around to look at her, it seemed like she wasn’t going to stop this fun just as easily.

Lena is still young and childish and might actually make her own comment.

Aoi stole a glance at Rina, and after a quizzical little eye roll, she actually reached out to touch the writing pad in her lap.

“It ends here! And Sakurajima, you stop messing around and eat properly for me!” Aoi chose to step in and sing in blackface, pressing his hand against Lina’s, and the little farce came to a halt, and Ryuusakura, able to sense the implications, turned the tables and changed the subject of conversation with the rest of the group as well.

Aoi Natsuki didn’t make too many comments about the bento next, but the two Hayakawa could tell from Leigh’s joyful expression on the side that it tasted really good, which made the two of them breathe a sigh of relief.

“Aoi …… is so beautiful ……”

Sakurajima leaned her back against his shoulder somewhat nonchalantly, looking up at the pink cherry blossoms with a somewhat lazy tone.

“You just realized you’re here to enjoy the cherry blossoms, I thought you were here to fight.” Natsuki Aoi spat at her as she took a sip of her stomach-warming tofu soup.

Sakurajima grinned and hammered his back sideways with a half clenched fist, still soft, “All said sorry, now start …… let’s enjoy this time.”

Sakurajima also did what she promised, and for the next long time, she didn’t say anything, and the atmosphere of the whole group gradually got out of that atmosphere of mutual competition and jealousy, and all of them began to leisurely enjoy the beautiful cherry blossoms.

This is what Aoi Natsuki has been pursuing for a long time, since he won’t leave this world even if he completes the mission, he can’t go against his heart and live each day as well as he can as this serves as his true home world, the god maiden is right, if he really wants to complete the mission, then he must find a girl he really likes before he can.

After a good meal, Natsuki Aoi switched places, choosing to go under a tree and half-squint against it while Ayano, having brought her flying chess, played with the rest of the girls, watching from afar, his mind drifting away.

Hayakawa was the goal that he had sworn inwardly to accomplish in the first place, and all along he had been moving towards that goal himself, and there were already less than 70 points before she could be promoted to S-rank, and as long as he continued to develop it, he believed that one day Hayakawa would be promoted to S-rank.

And their own mood for Hayakawa, no change, Aoi Natsuki is like Hayakawa, at first just some heartache this girl, but slowly was attracted by her simple and kind character, feelings of this kind of thing is always a mutual one thing, so there is no Hayakawa unilateral pay, so can be Hayakawa, is certainly the best.

But ……

There’s been a change in the last few months.

It still doesn’t change your original combat, but it affects the emotions in a subtle way.

Sakurajima, a girl who can’t be understood by common sense.

Actually, Ryuusakura is nice, good personality good family good value, also can take care of people, but Aoi Natsuki still rejected her outright at that time, because he chose Hayakawa, and Ryuusakura also politely expressed understanding of this response, and after that there was no more out of the ordinary behavior.

But not Sakurajima Apricot, who ……

From the quirky personality, to the various rare collections, the ability to drive himself wildly up to a hundred and eighty at night on his motorcycle, the ungodly things he keeps whispering in his ear all the time, and most of all the ease of retraction, the fact that he knows to pull back a little bit when he gets to the point of excess, and literally pinches the moods of those around him to the core.

There are a ton of drawbacks, sort of easy to catch when you’re friends, and boyfriend/girlfriends are straight up in the torture category.

Advantages well, not without, nature is kind, righteousness, there is always a kind of inexplicable “calf protection” sense of vision, often in some scenes, Aoi Natsuki will produce a kind of, even if the world ended, Sakurajima will first give himself a phone call to confirm that he is dead or not, if not, not the end of the world of the illusion.

And what’s even more messed up is that she even came up with the concept of a harem, that’s even more messed up, I really don’t know what’s going on in this woman’s head.

“Ha……” Aoi Natsuki let out a long breath out of her mouth, unconsciously feeling a little sleepy, so she squinted for a while.

When he woke up, he found that half of the people had disappeared, leaving only Ayano still sitting on the camp cloth, drawing on the tablet with a drawing pen.

Aoi Natsuki’s awakening drew a burst of surprise from Ayano, who trotted up with her tablet and showed him her work of art, drawing the very beauty of the falling cherry blossoms in front of her.

“Natsuki! I realized that drawing on a tablet is really good too eh, with the help of some drawing tools, the lines are straight, it’s true that technology is advancing and the landscape of traditional manga artists is about to change.” Ayano crouched beside him and nodded to herself.

“Really, then you have to keep up the good work.” Aoi Natsuki gradually woke up and sat up, “How’s the situation with that newcomer reward of yours? Any response?”

“Well, hey, it’s already in the second trial, we’ll know the result soon.”

“That’s nice~”

“Hmph~” Ayano was so proud that she crossed her arms.

“By the way, where are they?”

“They said they were going for a walk around the neighborhood, and they just left not too long ago, I guess.”

“Hmm.” Aoi Natsuki raised her hands and was about to stretch, when she suddenly felt something tucked in her left hand, and brought it to her face, it was a note, and when she opened it, it was from Sakurajima.

“Let’s take a walk together when you wake up and see who you’ll meet first ～Sakurajima.”

“This guy.” Aoi Natsuki’s mouth smiled, but it was a good offer, “Ayano, then I’m going to go shopping too, do you want to join me?”

“I still have a little half of the painting left to do, so why don’t you go ahead.”

“Well, that’s fine.” Aoi Natsuki stood up, then reached out to rub Ayano’s head, and softly said, “Don’t always stay at home drawing manga on your days off, and go out more often once in a while.”

“Yes yes, Natsuki you’re talking more and more like my sister.” Ayano narrowed her eyes and spoke back with some disbelief.

With that, Aoi Natsuki left this campsite, picked a direction at random, and headed off into the distance.

Stepping through the stretch of stone steps path, the left and right green bushes lush vegetation, all the way down, slowly and once again see the surface of the lake, step down, the ground here is full of fallen cherry blossoms, not only the surface of the lake, even twenty meters apart on the stone benches are also all over.

Aoi Natsuki felt his whole heart was in the right place at the moment, and kept on walking along the lake, the pink environment gradually enveloping him, not knowing how long it took for him to stop in front of a stone geocache of a stone statue.

Taking a short break, this aisle was overall rather silent, not many pedestrians could be seen coming and going, the ground felt slightly damp and the tiles were a little uneven, it was at this moment that a piece of cherry blossom fell and landed on his head, feeling the weight of it, he plucked it off the top of his head.

The first time he saw the cherry blossoms up close, they were more peachy red than he had imagined, full of color, shaped like a fan spread out, and holding them in his hand they were still moist with juice.

“Yahoo, Aoi ……”

A voice came from beside him.

Normally, he would have been shocked, but now that his state was already caught up in the atmosphere of the bout, he turned his head just slightly dumbfounded, and in his line of sight he saw Sakurajima Apricot, who was rushing at him with a beaming smile on her face.

“It’s you ……”

“What is you, aren’t you happy to see me?” Sakurajima Apricot beamed, bringing her face closer to question.

Natsuki Aoi cut her voice and twisted her head, “Anyway, you must have just been hiding, and when you saw me out for a walk, you kept following me, trying to create the illusion of a chance encounter with me, am I right?”

“I can’t tell you’re really getting smarter Arai, but how did you determine this?” Sakurajima tilted her head in curiosity.

“It’s totally a probabilistic s**t, I can’t just meet you every single time.” Aoi Natsuki frowned slightly and flirted.

“Hm……” Sakurajima Apricot’s jaw tightened and her eyebrows rose slightly, her hands behind her back, her petite frame swaying gently from side to side as she followed up, “But sometimes it really is just so unbelievable, Aoi, don’t you believe in destiny?”

“…… “At the mention of destiny, Aoi Natsuki thought of the Divine Maiden in the first second, and then let out a light laugh, “Even if it’s destiny, it’s merely intentional, not to mention that, then since we’ve so coincidentally ‘met by chance’, then let’s take a walk together.”

The two words “chance encounter” he specifically added emphasis, but I did not expect to look at Sakurajima, but her complexion did not change, instead, in the next second suddenly a happy, standing position to come up another step, his right hand pulling his cuffs, sweet smile.

“Hmm! I’m honored!”

I was clearly flirting with you with that comment ……

Natsuki Aoi felt like she still couldn’t get Sakurajima’s point, she was just too weird.

The walk with Sakurajima was easy or relaxing, both of them dropping their attention to the nearby lake, and even Sakurajima offered to go boating, which Aoi politely declined outright, the only constant being that Sakurajima always followed him within three paces of him, tugging at his cuffs, an act that was filled with a strong sense of proportion.

Walking down the entire aisle, Sakurajima Apricot suddenly stopped.

Natsuki Aoi followed suit and stopped, turning his head to look at her.

“What’s wrong?”

“Well …… it’s time to exchange.”

“Exchange?”

Looking at Sakurajima with a smiling face, Aoi Natsuki was very confused.

Immediately following that, Sakurajima slowly raised his right index finger and pointed it toward the spacious cherry blossom avenue in front of him.

Aoi looked in the direction and the first thing he saw was a familiar looking back.

Hayakawa.

She was walking there alone.

“What are you?” Aoi began to question as he became more curious about Sakurajima’s behavior.

Sakurajima Apricot lowered her eyes and followed closely, loosening Kuwabara’s grip on his cuff, a hint of playfulness spreading across her face, “I’m not that greedy of a woman, oh Aoi, something like hogging it, as wonderful as it may be, is sure to cause you to resent it, and I don’t want that.”

Sakurajima took a step forward, his body once again close, his hands resting against his chest, his head slowly leaning in, “Be thinking of me, okay? I don’t expect me to be better than Hayakawa, but I do hope that I’ll be in second place in your heart, never third, then I’ll be too sad to sleep, Aoi.”

The voice was calm and delicate, like a handful of fine sand flowing into his ears.

Aoi Natsuki was inwardly overwhelmed by the shock of hearing it.

Before he could respond, Sakurajima gently pushed him away, the familiar flirtatious smile still on her face, and raised her right hand, her index and middle fingers swinging back and forth.

Five seconds passed before Aoi Natsuki shook himself out of it, not knowing for what reason, but at this point anyway, his body was no longer controlled by his own brain, and he actually nodded to himself.

“Well ……”

“Then I’ll go back first, don’t leave it too late, you know.” Sakurajima Apricot pretended to cover the part of her chest with both hands and acted like she was in pain, this guy, he might actually be suitable to be an actor.

Sakurajima Apricot said as she retreated backward, Aoi Natsuki watched her leave, maybe he didn’t admit it on his lips, but in his heart, there was already a shadow of her.

Aoi Natsuki adjusted her mind, and with her head held high, Hayakawa was still there, so she stepped over to him, and her whole body was filled with that inexplicable feeling of soreness again… is it adrenaline? Just now I was so nervous?

Aoi walked up behind Hayakawa and realized that the reason she had been crouching there was that she was feeding a stray cat.

“Good kitty ha, now you can let me pet ……”

“Meow!”

The stray cat accepts her snacks, but won’t let her touch herself.

“That’s not how you pet a cat, you can’t think like a human.” Aoi said from the back.

Hayakawa’s body trembled, and then his body slowly twisted over, looking at him with an aggrieved expression on his face, with tears already welling up in his eyes.

额……有必要这么沮丧嘛.

“Cats see us humans as behemoths, so you petting him with one hand from the top down is actually a very dangerous behavior for him, so feeding a cat must be preceded by showing him kindness.”

Aoi Natsuki followed and crouched down as he spoke.

“But, but I’ve obviously just given it all the delicious food, isn’t that a sign of friendship?” Hayakawa said in a hurry.

Aoi didn’t answer first, but instead took the ham sausage that Hayakawa was holding, crushed it up in the palm of his own left hand, and then stretched it out to a height level with the cat’s body, quietly waiting for the cat to come over and eat it.

That stray cat did not have the slightest hostility on the food, and even reached out his right paw on his little thumb, his body weight pressed up to eat, and ate only some minced meat, the cat still licked his palm with his tongue, and just then, Aoi made a move, slightly rubbing the cat’s jaw with his hand, and then the bones on both sides of the cheeks, and the cat didn’t produce any resistance, and after that, he turned his hand to touch up its head and Stroking its back along the way, everything went very smoothly.

“See, it’s got to be right, and the cat likes it better when someone jacks its jaw meat than its head.”

“Wow! Really eh.” Hayakawa opened his eyes wide, the aggrieved look he just had swept away, his fists clenched, both eyes glowing as he rushed at Natsuki, “Let me try it too!”

“Good.” Aoi Natsuki then let go of her hand, and with a smile on her face, she watched Hayakawa begin her first “cat training history”.