Chapter 48: You’re Disqualified

Aoi Natsuki’s voice also attracted the attention of many passersby around, Hayakawa Keiko looked at him dumbfounded, in his eyes she received a certainty, suddenly her heart warmed up, slightly pursed her lower lip, gently nodded her head.

She’s the kind of body that gets so nervous at a lot of attention that she can’t speak.

But she still felt incredibly happy about what Natsuki said.

After Aoi Natsuki also said these words, his originally deep heart relaxed all of a sudden, and his eager eyes gradually became clear.

“Well, then …… we’ll make a specific appointment next week.”

Hayakawa Keiko’s face reddened and she nodded vigorously once again, still unable to say anything.

The corners of Aoi Natsuki’s mouth rose as he followed her goodbye, since it was a choice made, there was no use in staying at the specialty store, he was going to go back and buy the game disk Hayakawa had recommended and then go straight home.

“etc. …… etc. ……”

Natsuki Aoi heard a subtle sound.

He stood still and slowly turned around, and what he saw when he looked back was Hayakawa raising his head with great effort, not knowing where to glance, his eyes moving back and forth, his whole person looking very formal.

He remained silent, as he had been at the school shoe locker, waiting for her next words.

No matter how long the wait is.

“Thanks ……” As the word thanks exited her mouth, Hayakawa Keiko shook her head as if she had thought of something, and changed her words to, “Catch, the next monthly exam, do your best!”

Aoi Natsuki’s heart lit up, her eyes widened slightly, and then the smile on her face grew even stronger, “Well, I will, and you have to do your best, but I’m going to try my best to catch up with you.”

He snickered.

The atmosphere lightened up quite a bit, and then the two of them said goodbye at that, because of this short conversation, Aoi Natsuki also gave up thinking about what exactly he should do to increase his level, and went home and locked himself in his room, burying his head in his hands and starting to study, and he was also not willing to concede to his character.

……

Monday.

Tomorrow is the day of the monthly exam, but Takahashi Mito himself is always distracted until ……

“What? You and that guy are going to the fireworks festival next week?” Takahashi Mito was shocked beyond words.

Hayakawa Keiko instantly looked around, blushing and burying her head again, “Too, too loud ……”

“You and that guy, no, I mean that guy would like to go to the fireworks festival with you right?”

“……”

Being questioned like this Hayakawa Keiko immediately became nervous and could only nod her small head up and down.

Takahashi Midu’s vision emptied and she looked out the window, she was a little unable to understand that with me she wouldn’t want to eat, and with Hayakawa she could go to the fireworks festival together?

She couldn’t understand!

“You two Murphy!”

Hayakawa Keiko’s body shook, and she hastily raised her hands and waved them around, “Mi, Meto, don’t get any ideas! No, there’s no such thing.”

Takahashi Midu frowned and only gave an oh-so-subtly, and after that the conversation with Hayakawa returned to the usual, but it was obvious that Hayakawa was quite a bit happier today than on a normal day.

Is it because of that guy? ……

Every now and then, Takahashi Mito’s mind lets go again.

……

She needed someone to talk to.

After thinking about it, she ended up having to find Sakurajima Apricot.

There was nothing she could do, and with almost no friends around her either, she could only think of Sakurajima Apricot.

When it was time for the lunch break, Takahashi Mito made her way to the weekday activity classroom, having heard her speak before about how she would often be the one to be here at this hour.

Pulling the door open, I saw Sakurajima Apricot inside.

She was fiddling with some of her “little toys”.

When she heard the sound, her dangling eyes were also slightly raised, almost only the whites of her eyes could be seen, and those who saw it for the first time would definitely be startled, and even after getting along until now, Takahashi Mito would still feel terrified when she saw it.

“Takahashi ……”

“Yes, it’s me.” Slightly wary, Takahashi Mito walked into the activity classroom and made his way to the table, looking slightly embarrassed, “Are you busy?”

“Sort of.” Sakurajima Apricot wiped clean the red liquid between her fingers with a tissue and turned to show her a smile, “Was there something you wanted to see me about?”

“It …… wasn’t really anything, came over to say hi, so that’s that.” Takahashi Mito beat a retreat, feeling in her heart that she couldn’t create any common topics with the girl in front of her, and turned her head away.

But just then, Sakurajima Apricot suddenly spoke up, “Is there something about Aoi?”

Takahashi Midu stood still and turned her head in shock, she didn’t expect the other party to guess it, and the original idea of retreating faded away, after pondering for a while, she still walked back and said, “I …… have something on my mind that I want to talk to you, if you want to be busy, then I’ll leave first. “

“Ho, matters of the heart.” When Sakurajima Apricot heard this topic, a look of interest spread across her face and she nodded in agreement.

With that, Takahashi Midu also sat down on a chair at the table and slowly recounted to Sakurajima Apricot what had happened after the birthday party as well as the strange emotions she occasionally felt.

Sakurajima Apricot barely interrupted throughout, only interjecting a question in the middle sometimes.

After the narration, Takahashi Midu also eased her slightly high emotions and turned her gaze to Sakurajima Apricot.

“How, how was it?”

“How about what?” Sakurajima Apricot asked rhetorically.

“It’s how you feel when you hear it.”

“My feelings? My feelings are those of a delusional person who throws away something, and she acquiesces that she has lost it, but the next day it is picked up by a friend, and she feels that it still has value, and she begins to get more and more distracted, and isn’t that the sort of thing you are recounting.”

“Huh?” Takahashi Mito frowned slightly.

But Sakurajima Apricot was clearly in an even more perverse state than she was, and a smile appeared at the corners of her mouth, but it was a smile that was nothing like the one she had seen when Takahashi Mito had first entered the room, and it was now laced with a slight hint of insanity.

Muttering under his breath, “Is it? Is it? Is the experiment over already? ……”

Eyes flowed to look at Takahashi Midu as if they were looking at a cheap piece of salvage.

That look made Takahashi Mito very unhappy.

“Why the angry look, am I wrong? It’s obvious to everyone what kind of attitude you’ve been treating Aoi, saying and doing things far worse than some strangers, so how have you been able to keep it up? I’ll tell you today, Takahashi.”

Sakurajima Apricot stepped onto the chair with one foot, yet stood up on the table and looked down at Takahashi Midu with an increasingly open smile on her face.

“Because you’ve always been favored, and you’ve enjoyed that favoritism and continued your paranoia, but no one’s going to keep paying for your negativity, and as a friend, you’re getting out of line.”

Takahashi Mito was completely shocked by this statement, her eyes widening.

Sakurajima apricot slowly squatted down, incomparably delicate like a ceramic doll-like face slowly approached, silky saliva accompanied by the amplitude of the open mouth gradually pulled out a transparent-colored line.

“And in Aoi’s heart, you’re disqualified.”