Chapter 171 – Ayano’s Confession

“How cunning, what about me? Natsuki!” Ayano asked, a little jealous and busy walking up.

“And it certainly suits you.” Natsuki Arai raised her hands, palms forward in a resisting position.

“It just fits?” …… “Ayano dropped her head instantly.

And when the unknown Lina saw this, she stepped up and pointed a finger at herself, confusion written all over her tiny face.

“Stop fooling around, hurry up and drink some drinking juice, it’s still cold.” Aoi Natsuki rubbed the top of Lina’s head, Lina nodded dully, and then immediately drank it up, and as soon as the cool juice went down, she immediately squinted her eyes in a cozy manner, and put the question she just wanted to ask directly to the back of her mind.

Idle entertainment of the beach trip officially started, Aoi Natsuki lying on the lounge chair, wearing sunglasses, while enjoying the comfortable sunshine, while eating some snacks, not far away Lina is with the Dragon Sakura together with the sand stacked bunker, may be the difficulty coefficient of the castle is too high, Lina does not know where to borrow a small shovel, in short, it is constantly piling up higher and higher in the surprise to play in the joy of it all.

Ayano held the volleyball in her hands, her eyes looking at Sakurajima, who was facing the sea not far away, feeling the sea breeze, and a lot of thoughts began to bubble up in her mind.

Seriously, she was a little envious of Sakurajima, envious of the fact that Sakurajima might be so close to Natsuki, at first she thought that Natsuki would be wary of such a girl in his heart, but never thought that after one incident after another, she would instead fall more and more into the other party’s ruse, which made her who had so far stagnated in her progress with Natsuki very anxious.

Now she was slightly able to relate to her sister’s mindset.

“Sakurajima!” Ayano shouted as she jogged forward.

Sakurajima Apricot turned back to Ayano and a smile spread across her face when she saw it was Ayano, “Can I help you?”

“Let’s play volleyball!” Ayano held out the volleyball she was holding in her hand, when in fact, she was more interested in saying a showdown, right?

“Well, then I’ll go ask Dragon Sakura if they’re coming.”

“She, they’re all busy, just the two of us will try first!” Ayano’s eyes were wide open, at this point she was afraid that Sakurajima would balk, and became a little apprehensive in her heart.

Sakurajima blinked and looked at Ayano, then gently stroked his right hand over the side of his face and said, “But I’m not very good at beach volleyball eh.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m actually not very good at it, let’s both just play around.” Ayano waved her hand repeatedly.

“Well, that’s fine, just …… can’t play with you for too long, so let’s just stick to one game.”

“One game?” A question mark appeared above Ayano’s head, obviously she didn’t know what it meant.

Sakurajima still squinted and smiled, “No, nothing, let’s go then.”

“Yes!” Ayano was full of confidence, she was definitely going to get back on her feet today!

With that, he led Sakurajima to the court with the volleyball net.

Aoi Natsuki noticed the scene, while Hayakawa on the side just walked back and saw the two of them walking into the volleyball court, and couldn’t help but be a bit curious, “Are those two going to play volleyball? It’s really rare.”

Aoi can see Ayano’s excitement that can’t be suppressed quickly, this girl …… but think about it against Sakurajima, Sakurajima in his eyes physical strength and power are weaker than the average girl, in volleyball this kind of sport, should be unable to compare to Ayano right, maybe this is just a one-sided teaching game right? But looking at Ayano’s hands holding the volleyball, her body slightly trembling, she can’t be planning to give it her all, right?……

Not far away, Ryuusakura and Lina also completed the bunker, and to their surprise, turned around to see the two men on the volleyball court ready to battle it out. Ryuusakura wore a visor, and gently tipped the top of it with her fingers, and sat sideways with Lina, watching the next development.

“Ready? Sakurajima.”

“Well, no problem at all.” Sakurajima said softly as she stood across the room with a smile on her face.

“Then I’m going to serve!”

Ayano switched into battle mode, then threw the ball high in the air and leapt with her entire body!

……

Slap–

A not-so-crisp volley sounded, and Sakurajima could only manage to cross the net with the palm of her hand, but that was enough, and with a nimble motion, the volleyball descended slowly and gracefully, but Ayano, who was a good five or six meters away, obviously couldn’t catch the ball, no! She seemed to want to catch it!

Ayano mobilized her entire body’s motor cells, stomped her right foot, and sprinted, this ball she had to catch!

Slap–

A second sound came.

Ayano caught the ball, only with her forehead.

The brakes just missed.

“Mmmm twist.” Ayano let out a whimper, feeling a pain in her forehead and quickly closing her eyes.

The volleyball hits the ground and the point is lost.

“Good, so the game is over in one round, I won this time oh Ayano.” The opposite side of Sakurajima apricot chest slightly undulating, can see that the physical exertion is not small, just now the entire set of twenty-five points down, she is maintaining the minimum running distance, with excellent ball control ability to crush the opponent, the first few points in the do not understand Ayano’s playing habits will still lose points, however to the back, after discovering that Ayano’s way of catching the ball as well as the way of movement is very single, then it becomes one-sided teasing.

Knowing that she lost the match Ayano sat paralyzed in the sand, she could hardly believe that she had lost such a physical battle, and it took her a while before she slowly raised her head, pursed her lips, and looked at Sakurajima with an aggrieved face as she cried out, “It wasn’t at the level of a novice at all, okay! Sakurajima you’re so cunning!”

Sakurajima’s face didn’t change when she heard it, she just raised an eyebrow at her and turned around and walked back to Aoi’s parasol, Aoi Natsuki looked at her with a little bit of surprise but then when she thought about this happening to Sakurajima, it unexpectedly felt reasonable, she just wasn’t a guy who could speculate by common sense.

Natsuki Aoi handed her a clean towel.

“Thanks.” Sakurajima responded sweetly, took the towel, folded it and then gently wiped over the beads of sweat on her face as well as her neck, this action looked a bit regal, Aoi Natsuki immediately moved her eyes away.

Hayakawa, who was on the sidelines, saw this scene and her face suddenly blushed.

Too bold ……

Hayakawa’s gaze turned to Ayano, who was still sitting paralyzed and disoriented in the distance, “Is Ayano okay like that?”

“You should have let her.” Natsuki Aoi sighed as she shook her head.

Sakurajima grunted after hearing this, her lower jaw slightly raised, looking a little playful, raised her right index finger, said: “Is not she specifically looking for me to play volleyball, I see her face serious look, I’ll also be serious with her to play with her, however, can only be played in one set, and then another set, I guess it’s her to win.”

“Ha……” Aoi Natsuki narrowed her eyes, Sakurajima was actually telling the truth, looking at Sakurajima’s current state it was already obvious that she was getting tired, but then she looked at Ayano in the distance, and aside from being a bit skeptical of life, she was just like a person who was fine.

“Never mind, Ayano will put all this behind her and not care anyway when we have a meal later.”

Natsuki Arai chose to continue enjoying the nice afternoon sun.

He himself was a little worried that any of the girls, especially Sakurajima! Will take the initiative to look for him to say let him help to put on sunscreen, but in the end are not, a few girls are between each other to wipe a wipe on it, sure enough, the anime to help the girls put on sunscreen plot are fictional, the reality does not exist at all well.

……

At 5:00 pm, the group went to a nearby barbecue stand to enjoy a fresh seafood barbecue, which reminds Aoi Natsuki of when he used to go fishing with Sakurajima and others, also the same is the freshest fishing directly on the grill, but professionals grilled out obviously more flavorful.

Eat and drink, a few people also go back to the hotel, before leaving Ayano also specially bring a grilled autumn swordfish, look at her eat with relish, the afternoon’s events are expected to estimate that I have long forgotten all about it.

The hotel they stayed in is considered quite upscale, divided into several floors, there are accommodations, hot springs, recreation areas, food areas, etc., back to the room to get clean clothes, rest for a while, a few girls meet together to take a bath, and so on the end of the day, it’s already eight o’clock in the evening.

Ayano came to Hayakawa’s room with two pairs of board games, followed by the rest of the group arriving one after another, dressed in yukata and tied up, always inadvertently revealing their slender thighs during the rest of the game, which caused Natsuki Aoi, who was playing a game of reflexes, to repeatedly fail, her eyes unsure of which place she should look at.

Played until ten o’clock, a few people are also a little tired, discussed and decided to play again tomorrow morning, and then departed for home in the afternoon, and then a few people returned to their own rooms.

After returning to the room Aoi Natsuki did not feel sleepy, may be the afternoon to lie more, after brushing the video, the stomach and feel a little hungry, thinking of getting up to go to the supermarket area to buy some snacks, the supermarket area is in the hotel on the fourth floor, he is on the sixth floor, take the elevator down, this time is about to eleven thirty, go out to the present a passerby did not meet.

The elevator opened, the whole hall was lit only with small dim lights, he walked straight to the supermarket area, when he was about to reach the door, he heard the sound of barcode swiping coming from the automatic payment machine in his ears, it seemed that there was someone in the supermarket.

He had just walked through the front door when he came face to face with Ayano, who was holding a bowl of boxed instant noodles in her hands, with an unopened ham sausage in her mouth, and when she saw Natsuki, she was so startled that she froze directly in place.

Come to think of it, Ayano has such a good appetite, and if she doesn’t eat some rice to fill her up, she’s naturally starving by this point.

Well, in that case ……

Aoi Natsuki thought for a moment and looked to Ayano, “There’s a ramen store downstairs, I saw the sign on the door when I was passing by that says it’s open 24 hours, why don’t we go eat at that?”

Hearing that there was ramen, Ayano’s eyes lit up, then she nodded heavily, followed closely by her head bobbing up and down along with the hamachi, and when Aoi Natsuki saw this, he smiled awkwardly and reached out to remove the hamachi from her mouth, looking at her expression of disbelief.

“Take this as a midnight snack later.” Aoi Natsuki handed her the ham sausage, and then led the way, Ayano followed silently, and the two of them made their way to the food area on the third floor, and it was just as he had said, there really was a ramen store still open in the middle of it.

With a burst of surprise, Ayano was about to walk quickly into the store when Aoi stopped her.

“Don’t bring in instant noodles, some stores don’t like them.”

“Ooooh.” Ayano nodded.

Natsuki Arai took the box of instant noodles and placed it on the seat by the door before leading Ayano inside.

This ramen store was still following the tradition of ordering from a menu, with all the various hardness levels, spiciness levels, and soup choices all told to the store orally, and Ayano ordered the heavily spiced option, much to the surprise of Natsuki Aoi.

“Have you eaten?”

“It’s fine, it’s fine, eating noodles is different, eating noodles is spicy!” Ayano said as she clenched her fists.

“Oh.” Aoi ordered an order of barbecued pork noodles and chose the pork chop gumbo, and after the two of them waited for seven or eight minutes, two bowls of noodles were pushed out from in front of the partition in front of them.

Eating noodles is about drinking soup first, Aoi Natsuki scooped a mouthful with a soup spoon and drank it into his mouth, a hot stream flowed down his throat all the way to his stomach, the hotel lights are off and the heaters turned off in the evening, and he himself felt a little bit cold when he walked over here, this drinking soup, his body was warmed up all of a sudden and the taste of the thick soup was very much in line with his tastes, and then looked to the side of the ayano, who was also revealing her enjoyment expression, sitting on a high stool, with both of his feet stepping on the cushioning pole continuously. stepping on the pole that cushioned his feet.

“Yummy!” Ayano then proceeded to ruffle up a chopstick, blowing on it a few times with her small mouth before taking a big bite.

Two people eat noodles are not much talk, the whole noodle shop can only hear the sound of two people shivering noodles, Japanese custom is not quite the same, eating noodles shivering out of the sound instead of a concept that represents good food, so the Japanese people eat noodles like to out of the sound, Ayano ordered a heavy spicy, so the surface is covered with a layer of chili peppers and spicy oil, she ate while huffing, the cherry mouth quickly from the periphery of the swollen up in a circle, and the spicy oil also ate all over the mouth.

Aoi Natsuki looked at her happy face and was in a very comfortable mood, with Ayano, there was no need to deliberately cause a conversation, eating a meal in silence seemed very natural.

Halfway through the meal, Ayano was so spicy that she spat out her little tongue, wanting to take a break, and when Aoi Natsuki saw how dirty her mouth was, she pulled two paper towels out of the side and handed them over, “Wipe your mouth, what’s with this.”

“Heh heh.” Ayano giggled, then surprisingly put her face right up as she had done in the last skewer store.

Aoi Natsuki froze, slightly hesitant in his heart, but looking at the innocent Ayano in front of him, he still habitually wrapped a paper towel around his own forefinger, and little by little he helped Ayano wipe away the grease stains around her mouth.

Ayano’s mouth was so soft from the touch that he felt his fingertips sink into it without even pushing, and he folded down the tissue and meticulously wiped the corners of Ayano’s mouth as well, exposing the reddish outer ring of the mouth as the grease stains were wiped away.

“Or don’t eat it, watch out for stomach injuries.”

“Well ……” Ayano’s voice was the size of a mosquito’s voice at this point, Aoi Natsuki also noticed that her cheeks were slightly reddened and her eyes would dodge for a moment when they came into contact with his gaze, he placed the paper towel on the edge of the table and the two of them fell silent, then Ayano Adjusted her sitting position, re-grabbed her chopsticks and started eating the noodles.

The atmosphere seemed to be back to being as light as it had just been.

Only, on top of this lightheartedness, there is an additional ambiguous atmosphere.

Instead of eating the noodles again, Aoi Natsuki picked up his teacup and took a sip of tea.

On the side, Ayano, after chewing two more mouthfuls of noodles, looked down at the bowl of soup, then licked between her lips and said slowly and softly, “I think …… I still want to keep liking you now.”