Chapter 154 School Trip (3)
Because of class meetings, each class had different dismissal times. When Toru Watanabe stepped into the Human Observation Department's activity classroom, Rin Kiyono was already making tea.
After the weather suddenly turned cold, drinking hot tea while reading has become her habit.
Kujo Miki is not here today, or to be more precise, she is not here most of the time.
As they are still so busy in high school, Toru Watanabe is pessimistic about the couple having four children in the future.
Maybe after giving birth to a child, Kujo Miki felt it was a waste of time and gave up on it afterwards.
But this kind of thing depends on the ideas of both parties.
Thinking about all sorts of things, Watanabe Toru closed the door and sat down at the beech table.
This beech table is old and durable. The school didn't get rid of it, probably because it looks like an antique?
The table was rectangular, with the wide side against the wall. Kiyono Rin sat on the long side closest to the window, and Watanabe Toru's seat was exactly on the diagonal line farthest from Kiyono Rin.
Toru Watanabe took out "Funny Spanish Quotes" from the bookshelf and turned to the place he had last read.
"Give."
"Thank you." Toru Watanabe took the teacup handed to him by Rin Kiyono.
Blowing away the white hot air, you can see tea leaves that look like musical notes, rising and falling in the water. Through the tea, you can't tell what kind of music is being composed.
After taking two sips of tea, Toru Watanabe said in Spanish: "I have learned Spanish almost completely recently. Which foreign language should I learn next?"
"French." Qingye Rin didn't even raise her head, looked at the book in her hand, and answered in Spanish.
"Why?"
"Spanish comes from the Latin language family. If you know Spanish, you can understand about 60% of Portuguese, 60% of Italian and 40% of French. French is one of the six official languages of the United Nations."
"That makes sense." Watanabe Toru nodded, "But tell me, why did I learn so many languages? I now know Chinese, Island language, English, and Spanish. I can communicate with at least two-thirds of the world's population, if not all of them."
"What you need to do more than learn the language is how to prevent Alzheimer's disease - you have to learn it yourself."
"…I did that to surpass you. But we are friends now, the best friends in the world. There are no friends closer than us, so there is no need to compare who is better, right?"
Qingye Rin laughed contemptuously and did not answer.
"French, right? I'll start learning it tomorrow!" Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin warily, "You only know seven languages now, so don't secretly learn an eighth language while I'm learning."
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in languages."
"Then why do you learn so many different things?"
"There's someone teaching me at home, and the content is simple, so I learned it by the way." Qingye Rin pinched the footer of the book with her slender fingers and elegantly turned the page back.
“It’s nice to live in a wealthy family.”
"Aren't you living in a wealthy family now, Toru Watanabe?"
"I've told you many times that my happiest time is every month..."
The sound of knocking on the door interrupted Watanabe Toru. He turned around to look at the door and said, "Come in."
The people who came in were unexpectedly Kunii Osamu and Saito Keisuke.
"It's you, what's the matter?" asked Toru Watanabe.
Saito Keisuke spread his hands and said, "I don't know either. I was trying to show my masculine charm at the sports festival and cultural festival in order to get Shiori to confess her love to me. Kunii rushed in and brought me here."
Toru Watanabe looked at Kiyono Rin and found that she did not have any doubtful expression.
He asked her in surprise, "You also know "Tokimeki Memories"?"
"Heartbeat memory? What is that?"
It seems that Kiyono Rin is just not interested in Saito Keisuke's affairs.
"It's a game about cultivating beautiful girls." Toru Watanabe explained.
"Beautiful girl training?"
"How can I explain it to you? For example, Watanabe Toru shines at the cultural festival, is unrivaled at the sports festival, and gets first place in the country in academic performance. Kiyono Rin, who was originally indifferent to him, gradually falls in love with him and finally confesses to him at graduation."
After listening to Toru Watanabe's vivid explanation, Kiyono Rin's expression remained as calm as usual.
But I don’t know if it was Toru Watanabe’s illusion, but he always felt that there was murderous intent in her eyes.
He looked away and looked at Kunii Osamu: "What's wrong with Kunii? Can't stand the insults from the baseball coach anymore and come to us to beat him up? I suggest changing the time to the night. Beating the teacher during the day will have a bad influence."
"How is that possible!" Kunijui Osamu rejected it loudly, and then suddenly whispered, "When I was going downstairs, I suddenly saw the flyer posted by the Human Observation Department."
"What flyers?" Saito Keisuke asked puzzledly.
Kunii Shuichi said, and Watanabe Toru immediately remembered.
"We can help you achieve love. Those who need it, please go to the Human Observation Department on the fifth floor."
"We will keep your secret, and please trust our ability."
「BY: Human Observation Department」
Those were flyers that Kiyono Rin posted for no reason in order to make him fall in love with her, but from beginning to end, only Ikki Aoi was "fooled".
Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin in confusion.
'Has it not been removed yet?'
'Why withdraw it?'
Watanabe Toru nodded, indicating that he had no objection.
Kunii Osamu ignored Saito Keisuke's doubts and continued, "If it was written by another club, I would definitely think it was a prank, but Watanabe, you are a member of the Human Observation Club, and the other one is Kiyono-san, so I..."
"Wait a minute," Watanabe Toru interrupted him, "You came here, aren't you planning to confess to...her during the school trip?"
Kuniichi Osamu said 'hmm' shyly.
"Of course, Kunii!" Saito Keisuke slapped Kunii Osamu on the shoulder, "You're a man! You have backbone! I support you!"
Watanabe Toru: “…”
Kunii Osamu → Ikki Aoi → Asuka Mai, and then, it seems, there is also himself.
What's wrong with this world? Just destroy it.
Please, Lord Kiyono, this is my only request today.
"It's another love-related incident, and it's a boy against a girl, which is more valuable for reference than Kazuki-san." After Qing Ye Lin finished whispering, he raised his head and said to Kunii Osamu, "Please tell me about your story."
"Yes!" Kunii Osamu answered with the same morale as if he were answering a baseball coach.
"Please keep your voice down. I can hear you."
"...Yes." Kunii Osamu took a while to struggle out of the oppression of Kiyono Rin, "I like Aoi Ikki from Class 3, Grade 1. We played games together. During the sports festival, she was rehearsing on the playground, and I chatted with her. In short, I think she is very cute and I want to date her... Please help me!"
Looking at Kunii Osamu who was bowing, Kiyono Rin cast a puzzled look at Watanabe Toru.
'You didn't tell him?'
"That's Ichimoku Aoi's private matter, what can I say?"
Qingye Rin nodded, meaning: I understand, you can leave.
"Kunii-san, I have some unfortunate news for you."
"Huh? What?" Kunijii Osamu half raised his head, looking confused.
"Ichiki-san already has a crush on someone, and she's also planning to confess during the school trip."
Kunijii Osamu stood there in a daze.
"Sorry, we can't help you." There wasn't a trace of reluctance to 'shatter the boy's dream of love' in Qingye Rin's tone.
Watanabe Tetsuya said, "Give up, Kunii."
"How could it be..." After a long while, Kunijiro Xiu said this.
"Don't give up, Kunii Osamu!" Saito Keisuke grabbed Kunii Osamu's shoulders, "So what if you have someone you like? This isn't a marriage! Ikki Aoi is working hard for her own happiness, are you going to back down? Don't tell me that you, who can make it to Koshien, are a coward who doesn't even have the courage to confess!"
"Yes, you are right." Kunihiko's eyes brightened. "Failure and success are not important. What is important is whether you have tried your best. Thank you, coach!"
It must be the baseball team's coach who kept saying "asshole, idiot, idiot" who said something to him.
Of course, Toru Watanabe can guarantee that the coach is definitely not talking about falling in love.
Also, what's wrong with Saito? He usually prefers playing games to dating girls, but he actually said such passionate words.
Toru Watanabe looked at Keisuke Saito in confusion.
"Not bad, right? I just learned this line from a galgame." Saito Keisuke said proudly, "When the hero is discouraged and doesn't dare to confess to the heroine, another female character who has a crush on the hero encourages him."
What game is that?
I always feel that this is a story that is suitable to take place in winter, and maybe there will be a hatchet.
But, Saito, Ikki Aoi likes girls.
"I think it would be best to wait for Ikki-san to finish her confession and see if she succeeds. If she fails, Kunii, you can confess then. This way it will be safer," Toru Watanabe suggested.
Both Ikki Aoi and Kunii Osamu were doomed to fail.
Ever since he knew that Ikki Aoi liked girls, Toru Watanabe has been trying to persuade Kunii Osamu to give up, but because he couldn't say it too bluntly, it didn't have much effect.
"Love doesn't need to be safe! It's better to strike first! A heart that loves her is enough!" Saito Keisuke was as passionate as the leader of a pyramid scheme.
This is just a metaphor. After all, Toru Watanabe has never been to a pyramid scheme organization, so he naturally doesn't know what the pyramid scheme leader is like.
But in my impression, I always feel that he is a middle-aged man holding a microphone, waving his fist and shouting "I will succeed" and "I can do it! I can do it!"
"That's not wrong." Qingye Rin nodded in agreement for some reason.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Toru Watanabe looked at her in disbelief.
"Forget about Saito Keisuke, but you know whether Kazuki likes a boy or a girl!"
Qing Ye Lin ignored his gaze and said directly:
"There is this situation, in order to eliminate the rival in love, the mean girl deliberately reveals who she likes to the other party, so that the other girl is embarrassed to say that she likes that boy again, and even if the boy confesses to her, she will hesitate whether to accept it."
"Are we talking about the same thing, Kiyono-san? I think it's best to wait."
"What are we waiting for?" This time it was Kunihime himself who said excitedly, "I don't have much time left in the first year of high school. If I don't have a romantic relationship, my life will be over!
...your life is too short.
Please make sure to live well until your second year of high school. No, please keep living!
Watanabe Toru took a big sip of tea with a headache, thought for a while, and asked, "Where is the location? The location of the school trip? Even if you know where Class 3 will go, how can you guarantee that our class will go there too?"
"This is why I came to see you, Watanabe!" Kunii Osamu said, "As long as you tell Ikeda and the others where you want to go and ask them to help, they will definitely be willing to help!"
"That's right, no girl can refuse you, Watanabe!" Saito Keisuke also said.
"Isn't there one right here?" Watanabe Toru pointed at Kiyono Rin.
Qingye Rin rolled his eyes at him.
Although he was still joking, Watanabe Toru was already feeling bitter inside.
The news that he asked girls to help him vote was spread to Asu Mai in order to create an opportunity to confess his love to her; and when it reached Kujo Miki's ears, it meant that he favored Kiyono Rin.
But if you don’t help, this is a plea from a good friend.
Or he was a good friend who was planning to confess his love to a girl.
"Kunii, I misunderstood you. Our lives can only last until the first year of high school."
Just tell the truth that Ikki Aoi likes girls.
But you really can't do that, that's other people's privacy.
Telling other people's privacy to others for your own sake is really not what a handsome guy from Tokyo should do.
Aoi Ichiki herself didn't want more people, especially boys, to know about this, right? Otherwise, she wouldn't have lied to her classmates, saying that she confessed to a boy in Mai Asuka's class.
If Kunii Osamu is someone who can keep secrets, it would be fine to tell him, but he has a good relationship with the seniors of the baseball team and they usually talk about relationship issues during training breaks. The following scene might happen:
"Kunii, didn't you say you wanted to confess your feelings to Ikki Aoi?"
"Stop talking, Senior."
"What's wrong? Are you scared? Or are you rejected?"
'It's considered a rejection.'
"Why? What's the reason?"
'There's nothing to say, rejection is rejection.'
"No, what's the relationship between us? Talk to the senior, I promise not to tell anyone else!"
"...Okay, but you must not tell anyone else."
'rest assured!'
That was about it, and then the senior told the gossipy female manager, who told the female manager of the soccer team, who told everyone in the soccer team...
In the end, the whole school will know that Ikki Aoi likes girls.
Watanabe Toru doesn't care whether the whole school knows about it, but at least the secret cannot be leaked from him.
"Watanabe, please!" Kunii Osamu said, and bowed to the hesitant Watanabe Toru.
"Watanabe, just help Kunii." Saito Keisuke persuaded.
"Okay." Watanabe Toru said helplessly, "But I have to report this to my K-san when communicating with a girl. If she disagrees..."
"Watanabe! Please! This is my first time pursuing a girl!"
"That's right, I just told the girls in my class where I wanted to go, I'm sure Kujo-san will understand!"
It would be strange if you could understand it.
Looking at Kunii Osamu who was looking at him pitifully, even though he knew he was pretending, Watanabe Toru still nodded and said, "Okay, okay, for your love, I will go to hell."
"Great! I'll leave it to you, Watanabe!" Kunii Osamu excitedly pumped his fist. "By the way, there's one more thing I want to ask of you, Kiyono-san and Watanabe."
"Go ahead and tell me, tell me everything." Toru Watanabe no longer cared about anything.
"You are so smart and popular, you must have received a lot of love letters, so I would like to ask you to help me design the lines for the confession."
"Wouldn't it be better to just say 'I like you'?" Watanabe Toru asked doubtfully.
"No, no, Watanabe, you said it so well when you confessed to Kujo-san! Please help me think about it carefully."
"Where can I go to think about you in this time?"
"That's right, there's no rush for this matter. There are still three days left. Anyway, I'm counting on you two. Saito, let's go and find out where Team 3 will go!"
"Don't worry about this. There are two people from the third shift in the computer department. We can go directly to them!"
"The baseball club has it too! If that doesn't work, we can go ask other clubs! Even if it's Dogeza, we have to find out today!"
"I'll get off the throne with you!"
“Good brother!”
The two of them, arm in arm with their backs, talking to each other with great ambition, just like middle-aged brothers who are preparing to dig an ancient tomb and dream of making a fortune.
After they left, Qing Ye Lin smiled and said, "I thought you would tell them that Ikki-san likes girls."
"Am I such an unprincipled person?" Toru Watanabe took a sip of tea and accidentally ate a tea leaf.
"This is one of your few advantages." Qingye Rin affirmed in a rare tone of appreciation.
“My greatest strength is that I have countless strengths.”
Qing Ye Lin did not comment: "Regarding their confession, do you have any plans?"
"As for Ikki-san, the main thing is to find out where she likes to be confessed to, and to help create some alone time so that others don't know that she confessed to Asa... Asuna-san."
"You don't have to change your words. I vaguely guessed that you two have a good relationship." Qingye Rin blew gently into the teacup .
"...I always feel like you're scary."
"I'm not scary at all." Qing Ye Lin looked at Watanabe Toru with cold eyes, "What about Kunii-san? You are his good friend, what are his advantages?"
"Is it useful to talk about advantages? Ikki-san likes girls. As for addressing someone, the only ones I really want to call by their names are Miki and Kiyono-san."
"What's so great about it?"
"No, I just wanted to say it."
"Deputy Minister, we are in a meeting, so stop talking nonsense."
"Okay, Minister." Watanabe Toru paused, "In order to avoid wasting time and misunderstanding, I would like to ask a question."
"Ask."
"In this meeting, are we discussing the issue of addressing Asuka-senpai, or the matter of Ikki Aoi and Kunii Osamu?"
"What do you think?"
"I don't know."
"Tell me about Kunii Osamu's strengths." Qingye Rin refilled her tea.
Watanabe Toru handed over the cup. The water in it was almost empty, so he even drank the tea leaves into his mouth.
Qingye Rin had no intention of pouring it for him and just handed him the pot.
"Okay." Watanabe Toru poured himself a cup, "Kunii's strengths..."
During the following club activity time, the two discussed some strategies.
Including: how to adapt to local conditions and let Ikki Aoi realize the advantages of Kunii Osamu; the timing and lines of Kunii Osamu's confession, etc.
When it got dark and it was time to go home from school, the two of them locked the classroom door and left the school building.
Over on the playground, there were groups of wandering crows. Their gaits were steady, and they looked like the masters of a sacred river.
"It's getting colder." The cold night wind blew into the collar of Watanabe Toru's uniform.
Qingye Rin nodded and wrapped the scarf around her neck carefully.
Her snow-white and beautiful little face, wrapped in a handsome scarf, is so adorable.
"Kiyono-san, you're so cute."
"You've said this too many times."
"I've talked too much, so I don't feel anything anymore?"
"Watanabe-san, you are very handsome."
"Hmm..." Watanabe Toru pondered over this sentence, "I've heard many people say that I'm handsome, but it still makes me happy when it comes from the mouth of Seino-san who never lies... No, I can't be happy alone, I have to find a way to make you happy too."
Qingye Rin did not respond to such a boring topic.
On the way down to Yotsuya Station, the entire road is covered with red and yellow leaves, and the colorful trail looks like a carpet.
"Tamamo Yoshimi looks cute with a scarf, Hanada Asako looks cute with a scarf, Komatsu Misaki looks cute with a scarf, Sato Ritsuko looks cute with a scarf..."
Toru Watanabe listed a long list of names of girls in the wind orchestra.
"Lies, not a single word is true. What exactly do you want to say?" Qingye Rin frowned.
Watanabe Toru hadn't finished speaking yet, so he added the last sentence: "Kiyono Rin looks the cutest when she wears a scarf."
"..." Qingye Rin pulled her scarf up as if she was very cold, "Your friend is right about you. You have a talent for writing love letters."
"That depends on who I'm writing to. If I were to write a love letter, I'd definitely be thinking of Kujo Miki, and the writing wouldn't sound right."
"Really?" Qingye Rin responded uninterestedly and pushed down the scarf covering her mouth.
"R-san, you are so cute!"
"Even though what you said is true, why do I feel like you are kidding me?"
"No, I respect you..."
"lie."
"Wait, listen to my explanation. Hey, don't go! I was wrong. I was really wrong!"
