Chapter 172 Towards Winter Camping Daily (1)
At 3:30, the bell rang.
"Everyone remember to summarize the results after you go back. It is very important to study after the test papers are handed out."
"yes--"
Put away your textbooks and put your pencils and erasers into your pencil case.
"Watanabe, Kunii and I have to be on duty today, so you can go first and don't have to wait for us."
"good."
Toru Watanabe closed his schoolbag, put his chair under the desk, and walked out of the classroom.
A boy rushed out of the front door of Class 3, followed by an angry girl holding a blackboard eraser.
It seems like this man and woman are chasing each other every day after school?
You two should just go ahead and get married instead of leaving chalk all over the hallway.
Watanabe Toru waved his right hand in front of his nose, and the dust was pushed away like water, and quickly filled back.
In just a moment, Toru Watanabe saw Kiyono Rin coming out of classroom one and quickly disappearing at the end of the corridor.
Humph, a tool to open the door.
"Cough! Cough!" Toru Watanabe quickly left the area covered by chalk dust.
I went up to the fifth floor of the teaching building and walked on the elevated corridor leading to the club building. I heard the sound of musical instruments being practiced in the music classroom on the third floor.
French horn... This tone belongs to that guy Aizawa, he has really improved a lot.
Reminiscing about the past when he competed with Aizawa for the title of 'Reina's No. 1 Fan', Toru Watanabe walked into the Human Observation Department after being away for seven days.
As the sun sets, a girl sits by the window reading a book.
Toru Watanabe sat down in his seat, took out "Remembrance of Things Past" and glanced at the empty sofa.
Kujo Miki didn't show up all day today.
"I've boiled some hot water. If you want to drink tea, make it yourself." Qingye Rin said, looking at the book in his hand.
"You're not going to help me pick up girls? This is the only employee benefit, and it's also the motivation for me to come to the club every day. Don't be too capitalist, Qingye-san."
"I am the descendant of a capitalist. On the contrary, you, Watanabe, who was born in a farming family, do not have the qualities of simplicity, introversion and honesty." Kiyono Rin's eyes swept across the hardcover book line by line.
"What prejudices do you have against farmers?"
"You really are..." Qingye Rin sighed.
She put down the book, stood up and made a cup of the bitterest green tea for Watanabe Toru, saying, "I am biased against you."
"Thank you. In addition, prejudice means looking at things with subjective consciousness and emotions. So, Kiyono-san," Watanabe Toru picked up the tea and blew it gently, "what kind of subjective feelings do you have towards me? Is it love?"
Qingye Rin sat back in her seat.
"I think you are a person with an extremely excessive sense of self-awareness. This is my prejudice against you."
"You mean I'm confident?" Watanabe Toru pointed at her with his tea in his hand and said with a smile, "I'm not straightforward, but seeing that you're so beautiful..."
"Can you please keep quiet? Can't you see I'm reading? If you don't even know this basic etiquette, I suggest you..."
"Hmm? Hmm!" Watanabe Toru frowned and swallowed the tea with difficulty, "Why is it so bitter?!"
Qingye Rin looked at his slightly distorted face and the cold face behind the book and smiled.
The conversation between the two began casually and ended abruptly. From that point on, they each read their books seriously.
The sun was gradually getting dim, and when Toru Watanabe was studying how to translate "When a person is asleep, circles of time continue to form around him, year after year, the heavens, the earth, and the stars are in order (French)" there was a crisp knock on the door.
Qingye Rin stopped turning the pages and put the bookmark in place.
"Come in."
"Excuse me." Ikki Aoi walked in.
Watanabe Toru glanced at her, then looked away and continued to rack his brains over the complicated French sentence.
Ikki Aoi sat down in front of Kiyono Rin and placed a stack of papers between them.
"Kiyono-san, this is the report I promised you."
"Thank you." Qingye Rin poured her a cup of black tea.
"No, I should be the one thanking you for helping me so much."
Qing Ye Lin nodded, but did not reach out for the report. He crossed his arms and asked:
"Ichiki-san, if you were to go back to before the school trip, what would you choose to do?"
Ikki Aoi was silent for a long time, thinking about this question very seriously.
"I should still confess." She smiled bitterly, feeling helpless. "I've liked Senior Mingri for so long. If I don't do something, my life won't be able to go on."
"I understand." Qingye Rin nodded.
Then, her expression suddenly slowed down. Although it was still not gentle, it was enough to make people feel at ease.
"You've tried hard, Ikki-san," she said softly.
"…Why are you talking about this, hahaha!" Ikki Aoi scratched his head embarrassedly, but his voice was not happy, and it revealed a lonely tone.
After Ikki Aoi left, Kiyono Rin picked up the report and began to read it page by page.
After reading for a while, she put the report down, closed her eyes, and rubbed her eyebrows tiredly.
"What's wrong?" Toru Watanabe, who finally managed to get the translation done, asked.
"Struggle, hesitation, expectation, pain, hesitation, long psychological descriptions, and scenes of fantasy success and failure, it is a detailed report, but for me, this kind of love letter-like monologue is really too much to handle."
"You deserve it." Watanabe Toru taunted mercilessly, "Who asked you to take on this mission?"
Qingye Rin opened her eyes and took out the few pictures she had already read.
"Show me too." The girl said in a vicious tone.
“Why?!”
"You want to know the minister's powers?"
If she wasn't so beautiful, with an incredibly slender waist and legs that were incomparably beautiful, and if she wasn't his most important friend and indeed the director of the Human Observation Department, Watanabe Toru would definitely... pinch her proud little face and drink down the tea in front of her that was so bitter that she didn't even want to take a second sip.
…
[Yes, that's right. Even if I confess, what's the use? I'm going to college soon. There are countless excellent boys and girls there. I just hope that I can live a happy life in the future.]
【But, what if it succeeds? 】
[I went grocery shopping with my senior in my Japanese home clothes, squeezed on the narrow kitchen counter to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and slept in her arms at night...]
[In the future, when I am financially independent , I can consider moving to a bigger house. No! A smaller one is better, so that I can always be close to my senior sister.]
[Aoi, stop imagining this, this is just your wishful thinking. How could a senior like someone like you? ]
[Dazai Osamu once said in his "No Longer Human", "He came from the sea of people, just to give me a false joy."]
[But... Dazai Osamu also said, 'Try to avoid the sorrow, but also miss all the joy']
[So, even if you are destined to fail, suffer, and regret, you should still try, right? ]
[Dazai Osamu also wrote in "The Setting Sun" that "We were born to this world for love and revolution..."]
…
Toru Watanabe leaned back in his chair, looking out the window as if his limbs were weak.
The skyscrapers in Shinjuku that serve as my background every day suddenly took on a charm I had never had before - compared to the "Ikki Aoi Love Story" in my hand.
"Tear up the leaflets?" he said.
Qingye Rin sighed and nodded in agreement with a little reluctance.
After school, Toru Watanabe threw the faded flyer that said "We can help you achieve love. If you need it, please go to the Human Observation Department on the fifth floor" into the trash can.
As for "Ikki Aoi Love Story", it was placed on the bookshelf of the Human Observation Department.
Except for Rin Kiyono and Toru Watanabe who are watching it out of necessity for human observation, probably no one will go to see it.
After this day, no one visited the Human Observation Department anymore.
Time seemed to have suddenly returned to spring, the season when no one disturbed us.
When Friday came, the cold wind blew across the playground, and the leaves of the beech trees in the courtyard covered the flower beds. Asu Mai suddenly asked Watanabe Toru to have coffee with her on Saturday.
The next day, November 14th, Saturday.
It rained for a few days this week, but it started to clear up today and the temperature rose slightly.
White short-sleeved, casual jacket similar to a jacket - red with black cuffs, a cool and handsome style ;
He wore a black diving watch on his wrist and navy blue tapered khaki pants.
With Toru Watanabe's handsome and clean white face, he looks like both an idol artist and a noble young man.
These are of course all Kujo Miki's preferences. Watanabe Toru himself has no say, nor does he have the desire to speak.
The date was at a cafe in Omotesando, near the Nezu Museum.
The walls of the cafe are covered with vines, like a cabin in the forest.
Toru Watanabe sat at a white table outside the door, with a large parasol above his head blocking the falling maple leaves.
"What can I do for you?" A college student who worked part-time as a waitress came over.
"One cup..." Toru Watanabe studied the menu.
The waitress's eyes couldn't help but fall on his thoughtful profile.
"A glass of Kilimanjaro." Watanabe Toru returned the menu to the waiter, "Thank you."
"Oh, OK." The waitress came back to her senses, wrote something quickly, said gently that it would be ready soon, and turned to go into the store.
Before Asu Mai arrived, Toru Watanabe sat there alone, drinking Kilimanjaro leisurely.
At the next table, there were three high school girls, two of whom were looking at each other’s manicures, while the other was adding sugar to her coffee;
Across from the large flowerbed full of cosmos flowers, a couple was whispering to each other, with Uniqlo shopping bags at their feet.
At the entrance of the Nezu Museum, there is a notice for the exhibition "Emonogatari: From Dynasty Tales to Otogi-soushi";
The sky was clear and there was a gentle breeze.
Watanabe Toru rested his right hand on the table, gently stroked his lower lip with his index finger, tilted his face slightly, and casually looked at the passers-by.
Every move he makes is full of the demeanor of a beautiful boy.
Any girl would be fascinated as long as she sits opposite him.
The entrance of the originally empty cafe was gradually half filled with people.
The three high school girls looked at him from time to time, put their heads together and whispered, joking with each other.
Just then, a girl in a white dress came towards this side on the sunny street.
The tapping sounds of her long legs pacing on the floor, the short skirt that barely covers her knees, and her slender figure that can be seen even through the clothes.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"I don't hate waiting for people."
The waiter came over, Asu Mai didn't take the menu, but looked at Watanabe Toru and said, "Please give me the same one as his."
"Okay, wait a moment."
Toru Watanabe looked at Mai Asuka.
Unlike wearing school uniforms, she changed into casual clothes. She was almost eighteen years old, and she exuded a hint of mature charm, looking natural and elegant.
Her eyes are still crystal clear, which makes people's heart beat fast.
"I'm wearing a light pink one today. It has pretty lace."
"…Mai-san, you don't have to report everything to me."
Asu Mai tilted her head slightly and looked at him in confusion: "Don't like it?"
"The light pink lace should be very beautiful." Toru Watanabe took a sip of coffee.
Asu Mai's eyes swept across his lips pressed against the cup, and then slid across his rolling Adam's apple.
When Watanabe Toru put down the coffee, she naturally reached out to take it and took a sip.
Fortunately, after returning from Kyoto, Kujo Miki no longer sent anyone to follow him.
"Senior Mai, is there something you want me to do today?"
Asu Mai put down the coffee cup and stroked the wall of the cup with her fingers.
"I'm about to graduate, and I want to spend more time with Toru."
Toru Watanabe looked at her, feeling helpless.
"Senior, if possible, I would also like to spend more time with you, but for your own good, and because Meiji is my girlfriend, it is the right choice for us to meet less often."
"I understand." Asu Mai responded indifferently with a blank expression.
The waiter brought the coffee, looked at the cup in front of Asu Mai with confusion, and finally hesitantly placed the new coffee in front of Watanabe Toru.
"Thank you." Toru Watanabe thanked her and took a sip.
Medium roasted, it exudes sweetness and light sourness, has a unique cocoa fruit aroma, and has a strong sweetness - Watanabe Toru could not taste any of these written on the menu.
After the waiter left, Asu Mai said, "But you won't leave me, right?"
"Of course, I promise you." Watanabe Toru put down his coffee and said with a smile, "Senior, you won't allow me to leave you, will you?"
"I'd be happy if Toru volunteered."
“How scary.”
"Yeah." Asu Mai nodded and didn't deny it. "Tetsu, where do you live now?"
"Where do you live? What's wrong?"
"I'm going to move out and live on my own when I go to college. I want to be closer to Che."
"..." Watanabe Toru sat up straight and chose his words carefully, "Senior Mai, we agreed that we would date without being discovered by Miki."
"Um."
"and you?"
"I happen to live upstairs from you."
Watanabe Toru almost believed Asu Mai's matter-of-fact tone, thinking that the two of them just happened to live close to each other.
Watanabe Toru had already deeply understood her determination, and he could not stop Kujo Miki from committing murder.
Since persuasion is useless, we can only work together to find a solution.
"How about this, Senior, you go to Shinano-machi and find a house. I will give up the house I'm renting at the end of the year, and then I'll go to your place."
"Come to my place? Live together?"
"Of course not, what are you thinking?"
Asu Mai smiled as if her prank was successful, she was very cute.
Perhaps Watanabe Toru was the only one who had seen such an expression on her face.
"Then I'll wait for you, Tooru."
"Okay." Watanabe Tetsuya nodded with a smile.
Asu Mai put down the finished coffee, naturally took the cup of Watanabe Toru, and drank it quietly.
Toru Watanabe resumed his lazy sitting position, looking at her pretty face and the small white ears under her black hair.
"By the way, Senior," he remembered something, "Winter camp, will the third graders participate?"
"No, because most people have to prepare for the entrance exam. I really want to dance with Toru."
"Senior, you are also a prospective student at the University of Tokyo, how could you believe such rumors?" said Toru Watanabe.
If he really danced with other girls at the bonfire party full of people, Watanabe Toru wondered if he would be made into a specimen by Kujo Miki.
I don’t know if the formalin used by rich people smells better, or maybe it’s even drinkable.
But as a specimen, does it need to drink something?
"As for girls, no matter how educated they are, they always like romantic things."
"That's right." Watanabe Toru nodded.
"Third grade is not good at all." Asu Mai continued holding the coffee, and there was a hint of complaint in her calm tone.
"What's wrong? Is studying hard?"
"There are only cultural festivals, sports festivals, and school trips. I want to participate in more activities with Tetsu."
"There are already enough activities." Toru Watanabe thought of his fellow villagers whose buttocks were almost covered with calluses from sitting so much.
They are not my fellow countrymen from Iwate Prefecture, but my poor fellow countrymen from China.
The people in Iwate Prefecture live a much more comfortable life.
There are five people in the school. You can do whatever you want every day and wander around the ridges of the fields all day long, and no one will say anything to you.
During the busy farming season, we would even skip classes and go to the teacher's house to help with planting rice, draining water, catching crabs, etc.
Toru Watanabe looked north, in the direction of Iwate Prefecture.
November is almost over. After December, I will take advantage of the winter vacation to go back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year.
