Chapter 183 – Sakurajima Apricot was crushed to death

Takahashi Mai was crying like an ambulance, screaming “uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Aoi Natsuki was slightly embarrassed and crouched down, while the other party was crying while still reaching out and pulling on his cuffs, not letting go in death, large tears were flowing out of her eyes, her long eyelashes simply couldn’t withstand the raging onslaught, and they dripped down to the ground along the tips of her eyelashes.

“Ao, Ao, Aoi, good, good pain ……” Takahashi Midu especially aggrieved petulant voice, this sound directly Aoi Natsuki’s heart crisped, you can not be like this, this is not at all like Takahashi you will say words.

The violent woman who was brash and unreasonable at first, and now the crybaby who just scuffed her skin a little, I have to say, it’s you, Takahashi, who has changed the most over the past year.

But after all, the injured were the most important, and Natsuki Aoi didn’t move, softly comforting her.

Takahashi Mito’s vision before her eyes was foggy, tears still couldn’t stop flowing down, her gaze was fixed on Aoi’s hand that she was grasping, why ah, why is it that even when I’m crying so much myself, Aoi, you don’t even want to touch my head like you would comfort someone else! I, I’m about to die of aggravation!

Then she cried harder.

“Okay, okay, don’t cry, can you still stand up?”

Hearing this, Takahashi Midu’s crying suddenly stopped, and looking at Aoi with red eyes, she asked, “Can you carry me back?”

“Eh? Oh, that’s certainly fine, just if you can walk normally ……”

“Don’t don’t! I’ll fall like this and you won’t even carry me! Uhhhhhhh!” Takahashi Midu directly lost her face in this state and became very capricious like a small child.

Aoi Natsuki frowned helplessly, but seeing as she was indeed hurt, he didn’t say anything and simply turned around, gesturing for Takahashi Mito to get on his back, and in the next second Takahashi Mito’s face broke into a smile as she turned to pounce on his back.

“Gotta get up oh.”

“Uh-huh!”

Aoi Natsuki steadily stood up, then asked Sakurajima to push the bike home, he himself took a step home first, the wound was small, but if it got infected, it would be bad, it was better to bring it back to let grandpa take a look at it.

Hayakawa Keiko’s eyes looked at Natsuki who was leaving at a fast pace, while next to her Sakurajima came over, bent down to pick up the bike, pushed it a little bit to her side and stopped.

“So Takahashi has such a side? Did you know that before, Hayakawa?”

“No, I haven’t seen it at all either ……”

……

“The wound has been cleaned up, it’s nothing serious, but don’t try to be brave if you don’t know how to ride a bike, luckily it’s just a scrape.” Grandpa Aoi said seriously after treating the wound.

“Yes …… I’m sorry, grandpa.” Takahashi Mito expresses her apology from the bottom of her heart.

“And who’s going out of the village entrance now? Ayano?” Ryuzakura asked.

“I …… haha, I actually haven’t ridden this kind of big wheeled bike before eh.” Ayano quite frankly rubbed the back of her head and laughed.

“I’d better go then, you give me your dad’s phone number.” Sakurajima Apricot was the first to raise her hand.

“You’re good at riding a bike, Sakurajima? It’s totally hard to tell.” Ayano marveled.

“Don’t try to be brave, that, that bike is pretty hard to ride.” Takahashi Mito stammered.

“It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m not so bad that I’d fall over on a bike.” Sakurajima Apricot smirked.

When Takahashi Midu heard that, a fire had risen in her heart, her gaze immediately sharpened to Sakurajima, but when it came into contact with her even more mysterious and inscrutable smile, instantly the fire changed to more aggravation, Sakura, Sakurajima, you’re even targeting me!

When Aoi Natsuki saw this scene, she didn’t do anything but give a bitter smile, the gradually sensible Takahashi was like a crocodile losing its fangs, now even Sakurajima could bully her?

“Well …… but I’m still a little worried, I’ll tell you what, it’s better if Ayano goes, I’ll take you in the tractor.” Grandpa Aoi said.

Ayano’s eyes instantly rounded and her small mouth opened slightly, “Tractor!”

That’s a rare thing.

Then out the door, Ayano rode in Grandpa Arai’s red tractor and slowly drove forward with a roar.

……

Evening.

After a few people finished dinner, Hayakawa took the lead in offering to help with the dishes, and when she heard Grandpa Aoi compliment her, she immediately blushed, lowered her head and began to clean up the dishes.

Ayano needed to start working, coming to the countryside was all about finding better inspiration for her manga, and sooner or later, if she kept it bottled up at home, sooner or later, she was going to run out of ideas.

Lina tended to go to bed earlier at her age, and after laying against Long Sakura’s sister’s lap for a while, she couldn’t keep her eyes open a bit.

Aoi Natsuki stepped out of the house, grabbed a scythe, and helped his grandfather clear the weeds from the lower garden, even though his grandfather said it didn’t matter, he felt uncomfortable seeing this pile of weeds every time he pushed open the door, and he took the opportunity to remove them all.

He crouched down and was weeding, not a moment too soon, into the end of the day, holding the weeds in his right hand and the scythe in his left, getting rid of the grass that was exposed to the surface of the soil tonight, and then raking up the roots tomorrow and finding some dirt outside to fill it in.

Mentally calculating this, he suddenly felt someone behind him pulling on the front of his pants, a particularly sensitive position that no one would normally touch, except for …… He didn’t turn around, but slowly raised his head and mouthed, “Sakurajima… …”

Behind her, in the darkness of the night, Sakurajima Apricot slowly came out from the shadows of the moonlight, she had just been positioned right up against the wall, and now that she moved two steps forward, her entire body appeared under the moonlight, and at the same time, her right hand was gently hooked onto the trip of Aoi’s pants.

“Amazing …… this can guess it’s me?”

“Who else could it be if not you, you’re the only one who would do such a thing.” Aoi Natsuki turned her head at this time and stared at her right index finger that was hooked onto her right hand, “So, can you let go now?”

“Yes!” Sakurajima Apricot agreed with a smile before loosening her fingers.

Natsuki Arai then continued weeding.

“Aoi, how much longer do you need?”

“What do you want again?”

“Well …… I was thinking that it’s not easy to come here, it’s not bad to take a walk in the evening na.” Sakurajima Apricot asked as she leaned forward with her hands on her back.

The sly moonlight still couldn’t hide her beauty, and even filled her with another distinctive flavor.

Aoi Natsuki was attracted by her beauty blitz for a second, then she turned her head and said, “You’re still energetic, don’t you feel tired after this day?”

“I took a long nap this afternoon, and I’m full of energy now.”

“But it’s so dark now, aren’t you afraid to say that you’ll really encounter some wild dogs and wolves or something.”

“I’m not worried, with you here, I’m sure Aoi-kun will do his best to protect me.” Sakurajima also put an accent on the words “do your best”.

Natsuki Aoi narrowed her eyes, “You’re pretty confident.”

“That’s for sure.” Sakurajima Apricot hummed playfully, then reached out and gently took his hand, “Then let’s get going now.”

“Right now? I’m still weeding eh.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, I’ll do it tomorrow.” Sakurajima Apricot pouted, should have said no, it still had some effect, Aoi Natsuki was really dragged up by her.

“Just take a little walk around this road out here, five minutes, be back in five minutes.”

Five minutes? ……

After a brief mental struggle in her mind, Natsuki Arai nodded her head in agreement, dropping the scythe in her hand and walking ahead, heading out the door and turning left, intending to make a quick detour.

The night in the countryside is different from Tokyo, at night you can only see a few families still light, many families directly to the yard table, the door is open, a few old man there drinking and chattering, less of the hustle and bustle of the city, more of the countryside of the local flavor.

Natsuki Aoi doesn’t remember much about his childhood, but the road under his feet is still the same as it was a few years ago, and further on he reaches a cowshed, then a well, and after that the road up the mountain ……

Looking at the familiar surroundings, memories that had slowly faded away haunted him again, and a smile appeared on his face.

“Arai, the situation that validates my claim has happened.” Sakurajima Apricot’s voice suddenly came.

Natsuki Aoi froze.

“Watch the front!”

Aoi Natsuki instantly jumped back by reflex after hearing this sharp sentence, her gaze looking ahead, and sure enough, a huge black shadow appeared!

That!

He fixed his eyes on a …… cow?

“Huh?” Natsuki Aoi was in a false alarm.

The cow in front of her walked silently towards the two as if she hadn’t seen them, until it sidestepped past Aoi Natsuki and came to a stop beside Sakurajima, the cow’s head lowered, sniffed her shoes, then stuck out its tongue and gently rolled the weed she was stepping on under her feet into its mouth and chewed on it.

Aoi Natsuki took a close look, this cow seems to be the one seen in the morning, how could a cow be allowed to run around in the middle of the night, I’m afraid it’s not the one that got lost in that family’s house, right?

“Good boy.” Sakurajima Apricot wasn’t scared of the cow in the slightest, and actually dared to go up and stroke its head.

“Be careful.” Aoi Natsuki warned.

“Hmm.” Sakurajima Apricot agreed, her hand continuing to rub, “What a great bull’s head.”

“…… “Aoi Natsuki was speechless, dare you ……

“It’s a good thing this cow doesn’t understand human language, or you’d have just been lying there.”

“Yes?” Sakurajima Apricot kept her smile and stroked her right hand back down the cow’s body, quickly reaching the center leaning back where she felt a hole about fifteen centimeters in diameter, “Aoi, what is this?”

Aoi Natsuki came up to take a look and immediately understood, “I’ve seen this on TV before, making a hole where the cow’s stomach is, it’s to prevent it from indigestion, and if there’s a problem you can just take it out artificially, it’s kind of popular, I just didn’t realize that it’s already being utilized even in the countryside.”

“Won’t it get infected?”

“I don’t think so, I’m told it’s a more mature technology… Hey! What are you talking about!”

Aoi Natsuki’s quick eyes caught Sakurajima’s right hand as she tried to reach in, knowing that she was likely to do so!

“Just a little bit~” pleaded Sakurajima.

“No way!” Aoi Natsuki decisively refused.

“What a shame.” With a lost look on her face, Sakurajima Apricot reached out and gave the cow’s back a final stroke, “Let’s go.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, the cow that had just turned back to look at Sakurajima literally continued to walk forward until it completely disappeared into the darkness of the night.

This should be a coincidence ……

Natsuki Aoi returned her gaze, not realizing that she had been out there for quite some time, well beyond the agreed upon five minutes.

“Aoi, just now, that scared you, didn’t it?” Sakurajima’s snicker reached his ears.

“Ever heard the story of the wolf? Don’t make such jokes in the future.”

“I told you I have you to protect me~”

Aoi Natsuki skimmed his lips, and was about to retort, “Be careful of getting into trouble and getting both of us killed”, when a memory suddenly flashed in his head of a sentence Sakurajima had said to him in the activity classroom, “Have respect for death! “This is a very heavy topic, so after the memory appeared, he retracted his next words.

“Before you think about me protecting you, I hope you think more about how to protect yourself, well, let’s go back the way we came.” Aoi Natsuki said.

“Good~” replied Sakurajima sweetly.

As he walked, just twenty meters away from the entrance of his house, he saw a few familiar figures from afar, and the one leading the way was none other than Long Sakura.

Ryuusakura’s eyesight saw the two Aoi Natsuki in the darkness at first glance, and immediately raised his hand and waved.

Natsuki Arai, still out of condition, walked up, asking for information.

“Hmm? Wasn’t it Sakurajima who said there would be an event? Told us to wait outside in ten minutes.” Ayano asked as she poked her head out.

Got it.

It’s Sakurajima’s doing it again.

Aoi Natsuki turned her head to look for Sakurajima’s figure, only to find that she had already stood up on the low wall piled up next to the road, roughly thirty centimeters in length.

“Good! Looks like everyone’s here, so the Exploration Club’s camping audition will officially begin!”

“Camping!” Ayano surprised.

“Test your guts?!” Takahashi Mito panicked.

“Wait, wait a minute, you mean to go to the mountain to test your guts at this time of night? That’s too dangerous! What if we run into danger!” Takahashi Mito then asked again.

“It’s okay, there is about this point I have asked grandpa in the afternoon, grandpa said that there is nothing on this mountain, the village people also often go up the mountain, he also said that there is a very beautiful natural lake on the mountain, so …… everyone tonight …… “

A smile filled Sakurajima Apricot’s face, and her narrowed eyes had just opened when she realized that the group in front of her was returning to the house in twos and threes.

“Go back go back, messing with these things at night.” Aoi Natsuki sighed.

“Hey guys.” Sakurajima Apricot called out, originally Ryuusakura and Ayano were still a bit interested, but seeing as Natsuki had said to go inside, they naturally dismissed the idea.

“It’s going to be fun!”

“Let’s talk about it tomorrow! Let’s all get a good night’s sleep at night and go up the mountain together tomorrow with more energy.” Aoi Natsuki finished her last sentence and walked into the house.

Looks like the plan failed then.

Sakurajima Apricot, feeling bored, leapt down from the low wall and took a step towards the house, but just before she reached the fence, Takahashi Mito’s figure stood out.

“Sakura …… Island …… are you ready for what’s going to happen during the day?”

Sakurajima Apricot’s gaze was stunned, then her eyes shifted down to her injured knee, followed by a turn and a run.

Three seconds pass and Apricot Sakurajima is successfully captured.

Why? A wounded man still runs so fast!

Sakurajima was then given a good education.