Chapter 180: It has to be you, Hayakawa!

Lina flashed her a toothy grin, and Nia’s dull pupils took on an extra shine at that moment.

After the meal Aoi Natsuki, as always, accompanied the two children to sit and wait for Hetty to come back, and this time has been waiting until 9:30 p.m. also do not see movement, Aoi Natsuki is hesitant to send a text message over to ask about it, and suddenly the phone will ring, is a text message.

“I’ve finished work! I’ll be there in twenty minutes! I’m sorry!”

The consecutive exclamation points allowed him to read Hetty’s anxious mood now, and he glanced at the clock, then waited in silence for another twenty minutes.

The phone rang again, and this time Hetty finally arrived.

Natsuki Aoi got up to open the door for Hetty, and Nia, not being very sleepy today, took his hand and walked all the way outside to the metal door.

Opening the door, when he saw his sister, his face lit up with joy and he took a small step forward and jumped on her.

“Good girl~” Hetty stroked the back of Nia’s head twice and turned to Aoi, “Thank you, you’ve helped me me again.”

“No, it’s just a small thing, did you …… run all the way here?” Aoi Natsuki asked when she could see that Hetty was obviously breathing heavily and her chest was heaving.

“Uh-huh.” Hetty didn’t think twice about admitting it, taking Nia’s hand, “I won’t bother you today, get an early night, good night.”

She was about to leave, but suddenly she was stopped by Natsuki Aoi from the back.

“Wait a minute.”

“?” Hetty twisted her head in confusion.

“Something came up in passing to discuss with you.”

Aoi Natsuki then told her about Nia’s subsequent schooling, and also introduced Rina’s current elementary school, talking about the advantages of having a school bus to and from school, and the high quality of the school’s teaching.

Hetty, on the other hand, is the one who has the strange reaction of her eyes going blank when she hears it halfway through.

“What’s wrong? You might want to consider it, that way, Nia’s safety can be guaranteed as well ……”

“Aoi!” Hetty suddenly interrupted what he was saying, and Natsuki Aoi, who was also very mute, thought that she should have accepted it gladly, but then he turned to see her slightly furrowed brow, and he knew that the results might be different.

“You’re not supposed to like me, are you?” Hetty inquired with a tighter frown.

Those words directly confused Aoi Natsuki.

Subconsciously the mouth responded, “No……”

This question and answer put both of them in a whole awkward, and Hetty is still staring at him with a deadpan stare, which makes him a little heartfelt, but at this time he knows deep down that he can’t be a wimp, so he immediately meets Hetty’s eyes with a serious face, and after three or four seconds have passed, Hetty’s shoulders which are high because of her nervousness randomly fall down, and skims his mouth, and his tone of voice becomes casual: ”Scared me to death …… It’s good that you don’t like it, I was worried that you were doing all these things for Nia because you liked me, ahhhhh! It’s my narcissism alright, feel free to mock it if you want.”

Hetty kept swinging her left hand, ashamed of her misjudgment, but being as straight as she was, she would still ask even if she had to do it again.

“Hahaha, sorry for giving you that illusion.” Aoi Natsuki rubbed his head and laughed awkwardly.

“Hmm? From the way you sound, it sounds like I’m in bad shape?” Hetty narrowed her eyes and came forward.

Aoi Natsuki spread her hands out, palms forward, while taking half a step back, “No, you’re a top stream idol, the object of countless teenage boys and girls in Japan, don’t you think so?”

“Hmph! You didn’t answer my actual question!” Hetty unexpectedly showed a playfulness that she normally didn’t have.

“Maybe ……” Natsuki Arai snapped her cheeks and continued to compensate for her smile, “type …… isn’t my favorite type. “

“Eh?” Hetty, who had just been questioning, suddenly changed her demeanor, straightened her body, and only after two seconds had passed did she return to her original state, lightly nodding her head, “So that’s how it is, then I’m relieved… You don’t like me… I’m not looking for a boyfriend at all right now.”

“Yes yes yes.” Aoi Natsuki responded calmly.

“I’m going to go back and properly discuss your suggestion with Nia again, I’ll give you a reply some other day, thank you so much for today, then, we’ll leave now.” Hetty’s tone at the end suddenly became formal, it’s not like visiting a stranger’s house, why talk so formally between friends?

Although Aoi Natsuki felt strange, she didn’t think much of it and watched the two leave the corner at the doorway before turning her head and walking inside the iron gate.

……

Leave the neighborhood and walk down the avenue.

Nia turned her gaze to her sister, who seemed, well, a little bit pissed off ……

“What type? Is Sakurajima’s type even good looking? Damn it!” Hetty had a resigned look on her face, but it wasn’t because of Aoi, it was just because losing in comparison to Sakurajima had damaged her pride as a girl a bit.

On second thought, now that Sakurajima’s high popularity is soaring online and his official fanbase is skyrocketing daily, is …… cute style now out of fashion?

……

“Welcome to the next visit.” The shopgirl bowed towards Hayakawa.

“Definitely.” Hayakawa nodded solemnly, and then walked out of the store, holding the sign-in card of this organization, which already had four densely printed red seals on it, which meant that she had come to this organization for four weeks in a row to punch in.

A warm smile spread across her face as she looked at her results.

“Hayakawa? I didn’t expect to meet you here.”

A voice came from the front.

Hayakawa raised her head, only to see Natsuki standing in front of her, holding a large bag of things in her hands, her eyes flashed with surprise, “Natsu, Shu ……”

“Well, you’re here …… “Aoi Natsuki then noticed the name of the store next to him, “Bee Flower House”, with a small blackboard set up next to it with detailed descriptions, and as he glanced over it, he immediately knew that it was a place to learn flower arranging.

Speaking of flower arranging, Aoi Natsuki remembered that Hayakawa’s system panel had a “flower arranging” section in its specialty column, which was still at 2 points before, but had now become 6 points, so it seemed that she had been consistently learning it all along.

“Does Ikebana …… Hayakawa like flower arranging?” Natsuki Aoi pursued.

Hearing this, Hayakawa, what he hadn’t been actively talking about was discovered, and all of a sudden became very shy, lowering his head, his right hand squeezing the sign-in card in his hand so hard that it creased.

“Well …… likes it.”

Aoi Natsuki smirked and added, “To what extent?”

“Only, just a beginner, just, just learned for four weeks.” Hayakawa stammered, but now she had long since stopped choosing the other party to ask and herself to answer like she would have been doing before, and after her brain raced, she followed up with, “I’ve always thought that flower arranging was a beautiful thing before, the choice of branches and trunks, and the setting of the mood, it’s all very interesting, so now that I have the time, I, I’m thinking of signing up to learn how to do it, and maybe, at some point, will make a piece that will move people, don’t you think so?”

“Of course, I will always support you on this point.” Aoi Natsuki immediately replied, the heritage of flower arrangement is also a long history of years, before he had seen on TV a flower arrangement of the Kyoto famous family, with a touching once to describe, is not too much, he a layman to see that a piece of artwork, feel the body and mind to get soothed, not to mention the circle of people who understand the meaning of it, and even have to see the tears are there.

The surprise grew on Hayakawa’s face, then his attention fell on what he was holding, “Do you need help?”

“No, that’s nothing.”

“Then …… would you like to take a walk together?” Hayakawa became much more proactive and extended a direct invitation.

Natsuki Aoi smiled and nodded, and the two peers walked together towards the subway station.

During this time he also took the initiative to ask questions related to flower arranging, and naturally Hayakawa was happy to answer his questions, just like talking about fanfics and games, she showed extra excitement.

“Just like the pairing of lilies with mountain branches, which can show the moment of movement with stillness, and the use of pine to show wind, the teacher of flower arranging also said that a good flower arranging work often possesses the rhythm outside the form, and this, I still don’t understand until now, and there are still a lot of things to learn.”

Arai Natsuki seemed to understand, looking at Hayakawa’s gushy look, he was quite comfortable in his heart, the corners of his mouth kept a smile, when he looked up he froze, he realized that a hundred meters in front of him was the subway station, and that meant that the two of them were about to say goodbye.

It clearly felt like only a moment had passed, so how did we get to the station so quickly.

Aoi Natsuki couldn’t help but slow down his pace, while Hayakawa looked down at his uncoordinated pace at that moment, then turned her head to look ahead, and when she saw the subway station, the same look of pity spread across her face.

The conversation just ended abruptly.

Hayakawa tacitly slowed down his pace as well, and the two of them began to slowly go step by step to enjoy the space that the two of them had alone within this distance of a hundred meters.

At this time of two o’clock in the afternoon, there was not a single person on the platform of that station, and the atmosphere gradually became strange, Aoi Natsuki watched as she frequently had three or four times in twenty seconds to ruffle her shoulder-length curly hair around her ears, a hairstyle that he had recommended before, and which had remained unchanged thus far, despite the big changes in her dress.

Summer is the most notable is that the girls dress style is more daring, he also experienced the early Sichuan from wearing clothes very thick period slowly to long dresses, to short jeans, until today’s this dress, careful machine collar under the opening, both sides of the exposed shoulders, recently very popular to wear a shirt, will be rolled up into a ball of the shirt’s corners, a few years ago, the classic approach, and now began the renaissance, a small person, go Sports cute wind is more appropriate.

The two walked into the station and the next thing they knew, they were waiting for a train, leaning against the side guard rail, Hayakawa’s state becoming squirmy while Natsuki Arai was equally nervous inside.

The recent he felt that he was a little too relaxed, and Hayakawa’s relationship is getting better, but there has been no substantial behavior in terms of confession, sometimes he can feel Hayakawa’s anxious, and since half a year ago, Hayakawa that subtext to himself to show his affection, he refused to go through, she has been no longer to his confession, is it because of the failure of the confession of the impact of it. ……

Aoi Natsuki is holding a large bag of food, because the guardrails in Japanese subway stations are two close together, one high and one low, so it’s all about leaning, and for Hayakawa, is she waiting for him to confess his love to her on every date?

As this train of thought filled his brain, his subjective thoughts began to rise up to strongly condemn his previous scattered daily life, yes, because of his own selfishness, it turned out to have made a girl wait for him for so long? ……

Guilt festered within him.

Thump–

The bell rings before the subway arrives and a subway is speeding by in the distance.

It’s time to part again.

Aoi Natsuki pursed his lips and tried to calm his mind, holding onto the railing to get up, while he noticed Hayakawa’s face turning red, the thumbs of his hands clasping his knuckles, and the two of them walked together to the safety yellow line after the subway stopped, and with that, the doors were opened and Hayakawa stepped inside.

Aoi Natsuki wouldn’t go in, he needed to take the bus home from the rest of the place.

The palms of the two hands holding the paper bag had already been sweating, and as he watched Hayakawa leave, a sense of loss, as well as a growing voice of self-doubt, resonated in his heart.

“I’ll see you at school tomorrow then.” Hayakawa said with his head held high.

“Well …… see you tomorrow.” Aoi Natsuki felt the corners of her mouth involuntarily twitch as she tried to keep a smile on her face.

A sharp beeping bell rang.

The subway is closing.

Aoi Natsuki knew he had to go, today, and most likely for the whole night, he would be in this mood that he couldn’t let go of, and because he cared, it bothered him more, which was perhaps what the godly maiden had said, that she would be very appreciative of him because of his delicate treatment of the female gender, but at the same time, which came accordingly, there were even more difficulties to overcome.

Subway doors closing.

In his ears was the sound of the subway continuing to accelerate.

Beads of sweat on his palms soaked the bottom of the paper bag, and Natsuki Arai kept his head down as he figured he should leave.

But just then, at the rest of his eyes, he caught a familiar-looking figure.

With a start, his eyes slowly lifted until they were gazing at Keiko Hayakawa’s body.

Hayakawa stepped out of the car again at some point, her left hand was so nervous that she kept squeezing the joint of her right thumb, squeezing it until it was even completely red, and her face was also red at the moment, and Aoi Natsuki could clearly see her eyes that were a bit guilty of dizziness.

“You ……” Aoi Natsuki’s heart hung in his throat, he hadn’t expected her to get out of the car at all.

“Still wanting, still wanting ……,” Hayakawa began to speak, obviously not running, but her mouth felt like it was gasping for air, she was trying not to let her head drop, her eyes shifted downward before righting herself again, “still wanting to stay with you for a little longer of a I’d like to stay with you a little longer! Is that okay?”

The tone of his voice snapped to a higher pitch!

When Aoi Natsuki heard these words, instantly his entire heart was shaken to the point of no return, not only were his pupils dilated, even the goosebumps all over his body suddenly sprang up, and his entire body went numb directly from top to bottom, just as if he had been electrocuted.

The silence continued for more than ten seconds.

Hayakawa shouted this, then wimped out a little and followed it up with, “Maybe we can walk further to your house, I remember a place that has a shuttle that also leads to ……”

“Good.”

“Eh?” Hayakawa froze.

“I say, let’s move on then, Hayakawa.” Aoi Natsuki’s tone was very gentle.

Hayakawa was similarly surprised, but then came an inner ecstasy, nodding his head repeatedly.

The two of them resumed their pace, slowly leaving the subway station one step at a time.

Aoi Natsuki felt especially grateful that she liked Hayakawa, but also that Hayakawa liked herself.

Sure enough.

Himself, is not you, Hayakawa ……