Chapter 176: Please take care of Dragon Sakura

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“It’s so hot ah …… “Aoi Natsuki used her hand to shield herself from the poisonous sunlight outside the guardrail, passing through the corridor heading to the restroom on this section of the road, in the middle there was only an area less than fifty centimeters wide that wasn’t illuminated by the sunlight, and the people who walked through it were intentionally or unintentionally stepping into the area with the people in front of them The people who walked by were intentionally or unintentionally walking in this area, and when they collided with the people walking in front of them, they would step into the sunlit area at a very high speed on the side of the fewer people, and then walk around to the shaded area at the back.

It was now the middle of June, the final exams had just ended two days ago, and soon the much-anticipated summer vacation would be here, after which he would be a sophomore.

The beginning of the second year of high school will go through another class separation, hmmm …… will he or she be put in a class with Hayakawa ……

Aoi Natsuki carried the ice-cream bought from the kiosk and returned to the classroom, the classroom was air-conditioned throughout the day, but due to the configuration being a centralized air-conditioner, it resulted in the delivery of the cold air not being very strong, a group of students staying inside would still feel a bit hot, and a portion of the students were all holding their books as a fan, where they complained about this and that with their own peers.

He walked back to his seat and patted Yusuke, who was slumped helplessly on the desktop of the front table with a haggard look on his face, then pulled an ice cream out of the plastic bag and handed it to him, “Here, have an ice cream.”

“Thanks, thanks ……” Yusuke, still breathless and hunched over, took the ice-cream and tore at the outer wrapper of the ice-cream with his hand, hesitating to tear it.

This is too much.

“Yusuke, have you been training so hard lately? If your body can’t hold up, it’s better to take the initiative.”

“……” Yusuke finally ripped open the wrapper and began to eat the ice cream one bite at a time until his flushed face improved a little, his bent back straightened up then and his gaze went to Aoi, “Natsuki, I’ve been having such a hard time lately nah ……”

“What, what’s wrong?” Aoi Natsuki looked like she heard something bad.

“Remember that little devil I told you about earlier? She’s haunting me ……”

Ha ……

Aoi Natsuki’s brain recalled for a second the experience that Yusuke had told himself about some time ago, I thought that this matter had already been turned over, but I didn’t expect there to be a follow-up ah.

“You mean the redhead with the double ponytail ……”

“Ahhhhh! Don’t make me recall that person! It’s over, it’s over, there’s already a picture! Ahhhhhh!” Yusuke covered his brain with a vestigial feeling of his brain trembling, his eyes glazed over.

If it was really that Blade, being entangled by her, I’m afraid that it really must be stronger than even Dragon Sakura, after all, when they first met, she directly chose to spar with the injured Dragon Sakura, and it seemed that there was no fairness to speak of in her eyes, and it was more of only the concept of victory or defeat.

Aoi Natsuki also do not know what should be consoled, can only go forward to gently pat his shoulder, at this time the ear comes “one two one two” sound, Yusuke will be the first to look out the window, the two people are sitting by the window seat, look outside, you can see a group of athletic team, wearing short-sleeved short skirts of the girls are in the rhythm of the morning run, “really good na, youth, really good na,” muttered under his breath. Yusuke’s gaze froze, and he kept following the group of girls from the right until they disappeared to the left, muttering under his breath, “That’s great na, youth, that’s great na.”

“Yusuke, if you really can’t stand it …… maybe I can find someone to talk to about this for you.”

Hearing this, Yusuke jerked his head up, his eyes still rolling, the ice-cream he was holding in his right hand almost squeezed out of shape, “Really!”

“Well, provided you’re okay with that.”

“Of course there’s no problem! I’m beyond yearning for freedom right now! I want to fall in love!” Yusuke was already incoherent, and it wasn’t hard to hear between his lines how much Blade had harassed him; it was really hard on the boy.

Aoi Natsuki would not be able to touch Yusuke’s head, the atmosphere would be too strange, and could only stand dumbfounded, listening to some of the excited remarks in his mouth as well as the perplexed glances thrown at the duo by others in the class, Aoi Natsuki felt a bit embarrassed, Yusuke …… you go on like this, it is really likely that you will still be alone for the whole of the sophomore year of high school ah ……

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The hot sun scorched the earth, even in the evening, Aoi Natsuki took Lina and held Yoshizou out for a walk, Lina, who was holding a plastic bag and a clip in her hand, her face was red the whole time, even though she was already wearing a very light dress, she was still too hot, and the iced drinks that she had just purchased were eaten up in no time at all.

Walking on the avenue, back and forth of the pedestrians dress also with January before a big change, a glance, women are basically exposed long legs, there are some of the body confidence will wear navel dress, all kinds of open and bold clothing let a person look overwhelmed, Aoi Natsuki frequently averted his eyes, he felt into the summer after the female malice towards him again climbed to a high level, a short distance of a few hundred meters, by more than four Kind older sister stopped, squatting down to ask Lina has about his situation, fortunately Lina with a writing pad, or else he will have to go to the police station to do the registration again.

Turning around and returning to her doorstep, Natsuki Arai noticed the disgusted sense of sight disappear, which was a relief, pulling out her key and opening the door, which reminded her of Yusuke, she should also give Ryuusakura a call to see if she could step in and talk to Blade for a bit, if it was just a simple tease, let’s just hope that it would be in moderation.

Natsuki Aoi patted Rina on the back and told her to lead Jijou through the door first, while she stood in front of the iron gate, pulled out her cell phone, and dialed Ryuusakura’s number.

More than ten seconds later, the call was answered, and Aoi Natsuki didn’t beat around the bush, directly inquiring about her recent availability, hoping that she could do her a favor.

“Well …… in the near future, the time is a bit ……” On the other end of the phone, Ryuzakura spoke in a somewhat low tone, which made Aoi Natsuki couldn’t help but ask one more question.

“Yes. Did something happen?”

Up to five seconds of silence, the phone Long Cherry finally spoke, “Well, a week ago, my grandfather, just passed away, so not quite able to take time off in the near future, so ……”

Aoi Natsuki didn’t even listen carefully to the words that followed, his heart was very shocked that such an event had occurred, and Yusuke’s matter was completely put behind him at this time.

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“Come in, come in.”

In front of the God’s Heart Stream Martial Arts Hall, there are two strong men at the door who are inviting the guests who came to offer condolences one by one to enter the door, Aoi Natsuki took Lina, the two of them stood a hundred meters away, looking at the traditional layout of this family’s facade, it looks like it has been inherited from the old martial arts halls for a long time, old people died in immortal, the door is lined up with big rows of long lines of people, and there are fifty to sixty people just by eyeballing it, and the two of them, Aoi Natsuki, before they could even turn into the front of the thoroughfare that led to the martial arts hall, saw that there are quite a lot of luxury cars parked on the the road outside, everyone was getting out of their cars and coming here on foot.

Aoi Natsuki and Rina, dressed all in black, entered right behind the crowd after gazing for a moment.

At the doorway Arai recognized the strong men at the reception as the same two he had met at the hospital, and with that he walked into the courtyard, which was covered with greenery to the left and right, with a brick path in the middle that led to the hall, and from a distance, he could see a few women standing in front of the hall for the reception.

Aoi Natsuki saw Ryuusakura for the first time.

Wearing a black kimono, Long Sakura was particularly conspicuous among the several people, due to her height, coiled her hair, every guest entered, she would bow respectfully, very different from the previous one that was a wide-open image, and the female on the side of Long Sakura who resembled her, Aoi Natsuki guessed that it was her mother, and Long Sakura perfectly inherited her mother’s pretty appearance, only from the face, Long Sakura’s mother was more on the side of being cooler, the Dragon Sakura was a bit more lively.

“Ah.” Lina pointed forward and tried to say something.

Aoi Natsuki immediately bent down and made a shush at her, this is the time to keep quiet, and Rina was good enough to immediately cover her mouth with her right hand.

The two followed the man in front of them to the front of the hall.

Aoi Natsuki saw Ryuusakura up close only to realize that she was out of breath, the two of them looked at each other, neither of them said anything, but rather Aoi bowed slightly first, then her relative returned the bow.

“These two are your friends from Long Cherry, right?” The beautiful woman spoke, her voice extremely magnetic.

“Yes.”

The beautiful woman turned her head back, her eyes revealing weariness, and whispered, “Thank you for coming, please come in.”

Aoi Natsuki nodded lightly and turned to look at Lina, Lina was young but seemed to understand what should be done in this matter, and then her little head bowed at the other party, the beautiful young woman saw this, and only then did a trace of a smile come up on her face, and then Aoi Natsuki led Lina into the hall.

In the hall were rows and rows of neatly placed futons, hanging at the very front was the effigy of Grandpa Long Cherry as well as a coffin, a monk was knocking on a wooden fish in front of him, while everyone in the hall was sitting on their knees on the futons, motionless, while bowing their heads in silent mourning.

Aoi Natsuki looked at the effigy, the memory pulled him back to the scene when he met Grandpa Long Cherry in the hospital, not only tall, but also lost an arm, the whole person just standing there aura is quite enough, look at the spirit of that, had thought that it must be able to live a long life, can only say that things are unpredictable.

He pulled Lina, found a back position, kneeling down, the next time has been here to stay, followed by a number of people into the, Aoi Natsuki some worry that Lina is the first time to participate in the condolences, will be a bit unable to sit down, but did not think that she than their own imagined to be a lot of good behavior, until the end, there is not how to move, in accordance with the kinship relationship in accordance with the middle of the bow, in turn up to the front, the whole ceremony to do about three The whole ceremony was done for about three hours, after the end, the people who came have left the hall, came to the outer courtyard, a group of people talking and laughing together.

Yes, Japan doesn’t feel that death is a particularly sad event, and many people feel that the person who died just went to heaven, and a condolence service is actually more like gathering a group of relatives to come over and greet each other and talk about family matters.

Aoi Natsuki felt a bit out of place in the face of this atmosphere, and at the same time, he could hear some harsh conversations, whispering about who would be the future president of the martial arts school and so on, which were not what he wanted to hear.

Rina ended up falling asleep in his arms from sitting there for so long, and Natsuki Aoi stood in front of the hall door with nothing to do as he held her in his arms.

“Leave the child in my care if you can.”

A familiar voice rang out from the sidelines.

Aoi Natsuki turned her head and noticed that it was Ryuusakura’s mother, and immediately her state began to be restrained.

“Hello, don’t bother, I’m not tired of holding it.”

With a faint smile hanging at the corner of her mouth, the beautiful woman said softly, “Dragon Cherry is in the courtyard in the back, I would like to ask if you could take care of her for me?”

When he finished speaking, he held out his hands to him.

Natsuki Aoi froze, followed by a trance before leaving Rina in her arms in the care of Mama Ryuzura.

“Just go straight down that trail.” The beautiful woman said, pointing behind her.

“Okay, then, please.” Natsuki Aoi bowed politely and watched as Mama Ryuusakura left with Rina in her arms, while he walked towards the path after a few seconds of silence.

A path of cobblestones with some bamboo planted around it, and the sound of bamboo washing could be faintly heard in my ears, the kind of rattling sound made by filling one end of the bamboo with water on the lake and tilting it to strike the stone when it was full.

The backyard was bigger than he had imagined, in addition to a piece of artificial lake, there was also a very ancient and rustic big house, beside the stone pillars at the entrance there was also a shrine enshrined, and Long Cherry was sitting on the stone steps in front of the shrine at that moment, her hands supporting her head, silently fuming.

There is a hint of poignancy hidden on the whole picture, Aoi Natsuki takes a deep breath and walks up, Long Sakura didn’t hear him approaching at all this time, until she was close to almost three meters, she suddenly reacted, her eyes lifted up with a slight panic, and when she saw that it was Natsuki, her complexion became gentle all of a sudden again.

“Can I sit down for a while?” Natsuki Aoi asked calmly.

Ryuusakura nodded, then moved over, and Natsuki Aoi nonchalantly sat next to her.

Dragon Sakura had expected him to say something comforting, but the two sat in silence for a minute without speaking, and instead she was the first to speak, “I appreciate you coming ……”

“That was already said to me when I entered.” Aoi Natsuki pursed her lips and turned her head, “Grandpa’s effigy is really kind, and his temperament is completely different from the real person I saw before.”

Hearing this, Long Cherry lowered her eyes, her hands hugged her knees, as if recalling something, then the corner of her mouth revealed a faint smile and said, “In fact, grandpa really treats me very well, although he seems to be very serious to outsiders, in reality, he is especially concerned about his family, especially for me, teaching me to practice martial arts since I was a child, bitter is a bit bitter, but I can feel grandpa’s unique favoritism towards me, the choice of that effigy, it was my idea, compared to that thunderous God’s Heart Stream president, grandpa is more like an amiable grandfather in my mind.”

“Well …… it’s only when you face your family that you show your truest side.” Aoi Natsuki whispered despondently.

Ryuusakura looked at the ground, followed closely by Natsuki, and asked the very specific question, “So, Natsuki, have you envisioned a future for you? Thoughts on the life side of things.”

“This well ……” Aoi Natsuki really did not think carefully about this problem, pinching his chin to think on a good while, suddenly stretching his brow slightly wrinkled, replied, “I really do not have a specific plan, may be I am a person to live a Comparatively idle a bit, in my opinion, to be able to have a good meal and a good sleep every day, this is already a very good thing.”

As he spoke, he also glanced his gaze at Long Cherry, noticing that she was looking at him with a face of surprise, he hastily stopped his next words and waved his hand, “Don’t pay too much attention to my words, I’m just speaking off the top of my head.”

Ryuusakura’s surprised expression faded and she looked down in thought, then laughed out loud and shook her head gently, “It’s hard for me to go through what you’re saying, you think completely differently than the people around me.”

“So I’d say don’t take it personally, it’s just the way I live my own life, maybe I’ll change my mind in the future when I meet some of society’s poisonous beatings, but for the time being I’m still fine with it being plain as day.”

Looking at this ordinary-looking boy in front of her, who didn’t have any big ambitions in his heart, Yugiri Ryuzakura felt that the more she looked at him, the better she looked at him, what was the reason for that? What is it? It seems to be a sense of solidity, right? Being by his side, one’s life would be especially at ease.

Long cherry nose tip slowly exhaled a breath, eyes become gentle, mouth murmured: “plain and simple well ……”