Chapter 343 Always Looking Forward to Tomorrow
On the first Saturday of October, Toru Watanabe returned to the street where he used to rent an apartment for the first time since he moved out at the beginning of the year.
After living in the spacious apartment in Shinano-machi for a long time, the former rental house now looks increasingly cramped when viewed from the outside.
The rental house has a not-so-big window, through which you can overlook Kiyono Rin's luxury apartment.
On some evenings, he would stare at her light while reading.
Passing by the convenience store between the rental house and the luxury apartment, Toru Watanabe turned in and took a look at the bento area where he had once bought bento with Kiyono Rin.
Everything is the same as before.
After buying the latest desserts, I headed towards Kiyono Rin’s apartment.
Miki Kujo hasn't arrived yet, and Kiyono Rin is the only one in the spacious apartment with simple and elegant decoration.
"Dress like this at home?" Toru Watanabe followed Kiyono Rin into the living room.
A thin V-neck sweater and slim-fit jeans.
If you want to talk about how beautiful it is... Toru Watanabe, as an unwavering leg researcher, was forcibly twisted into a buttocks observer on the spot - it's just that beautiful.
"Occasionally." answered Qingye Rin who was walking in front.
"Does Kiyono-san want to be tied up occasionally?" The two walked into the living room, and Watanabe Toru placed the shopping bag of desserts on the table. "This hobby is a bit obscene."
"Your words are vulgar." Qing Ye Lin sighed, "What would you like to drink?"
"Whatever you like." Watanabe Toru did not consider himself a guest and sat on the sofa very casually.
Qingye Rin walked to the drinks cabinet and said as she made some tea, "Simple black tea?"
"How simple is it?"
"Fill the mug with Earl Grey tea and top it off with plenty of marmalade for a quick lady's Earl Grey."
"Earl Grey tea? Oranges have marmalade? Why ladies?"
"No need to pretend to talk to me under the pretext of asking about tea while staring at my legs."
“……” Half of Watanabe Toru was seen through—in addition to his legs, his buttocks were also visible.
"Actually, I can understand that." There was an inexplicable sense of elegance in the series of actions that Qingye Rin took to make tea.
"Understand what?"
"It's natural for men to care about women's legs, buttocks, and breasts." She paused here and continued, "On the contrary, if you are not interested, I would be a little worried."
"If I don't look at you, you're worried?"
"Don't ask when you already know the answer." Qing Ye Lin's tone was a little reproachful. "If you want to deliberately lead women to say obscene things, why not bring out the desserts?"
Watanabe Toru smiled and took out the desserts from the packages one by one. Kiyono Rin brought the black tea over and bent over to place it in front of him.
When she bent down, Toru Watanabe saw a hint of white shoulders.
Picking up the black tea and smelling its fragrance, Watanabe Toru said, "It's very sweet."
"Bergamot and orange." Rin Kiyono sat on the single sofa to his right, also holding a cup of Lady Earl Grey tea.
"Strange." Toru Watanabe commented and took a sip.
"how?"
"It tastes good," he looked at the tea carefully, "When you feel low in spirits or depressed, drinking a cup will have a very good effect."
After listening to Watanabe Toru's comments, Kiyono Rin smiled slightly, like the only flower in the vast grassland.
"What are you laughing at?" Although he didn't know what she was laughing at, a smile appeared on Watanabe Toru's lips.
"I remember last year's tea party." Kiyono Rin explained.
Regarding drinking tea, some very interesting things did happen at that time.
The two drank tea and ate desserts that Watanabe Toru bought from the convenience store.
"Breasts, buttocks, legs, which part do you like best?"
Watanabe Toru stopped eating, raised his eyes and looked at Kiyono Rin's pretty little face.
"Why are you asking this suddenly?" he said.
"Because you've been staring at me since you walked in."
"No."
Qingye Rin took her eyes off the colorful dessert in her hand and glanced at him.
"It can't be considered staring, I looked around the living room for two or three seconds anyway..." Because Kiyono Rin kept staring at him, Watanabe Toru had to change his words, "I like it the most..."
"leg?"
"For something as serious as the research direction, please let the person speak for himself."
"Please go ahead." Qingye Rin put down the dessert and picked up the tea again.
"First of all, I want to make it clear that I don't like a certain part, I just like to study that part."
"Let's just leave it at that ."
“Before, I always thought I was a staunch leg researcher until I met you… You are literally my Marquez!”
"Marquez?" Qingye Rin couldn't help but be stunned, "What kind of metaphor is this?"
"There's a quote from Marquez that I think is very appropriate to describe my attraction to you."
"As for Marquez, I only know One Hundred Years of Solitude. I haven't read it, but it certainly won't contain any topics about women."
In order to win the heart of Kujo Miki, Toru Watanabe read everything from works by Marquez to romance novels written by high school girls.
"It's not One Hundred Years of Solitude, it's Love in the Time of Cholera..."
"Then shouldn't I be your Fermina Dalla? Why Marquez?"
"Spiritual mentor." Watanabe Toru said without thinking, "Marquez said this in his book: "The love of the soul is above the waist, and the love of the body is below the waist.""
Qingye Rin nodded and said, "You mean you went from liking legs to liking Qingye Rin?"
"Research, please say research. 'Like' makes me look unprofessional ."
"Okay, research. Then I'll discuss it with you."
"What don't you understand?" Watanabe Toru brushed off the non-existent dust on his trouser legs and put on a calm attitude as if he knew everything about Kiyono Rin.
"If one day, I become disfigured, my waist becomes thicker, and my legs are broken, will you still study me?"
“…It’s too bad.”
"answer the questions."
"Not quite what you would assume."
Kiyono Rin didn't say anything. She played with a strand of hair on her shoulder with her left hand, waiting for Watanabe Toru to answer.
"People admire intimacy between hearts and believe that love should transcend everything, but I think appearance is important. I can even say that in most cases, appearance is the most important."
"So if I'm not good-looking, you won't love me?"
"Before I fell in love with you." Watanabe Toru emphasized this point, "Now, because I love you too much--"
"Don't you care whether I'm beautiful or ugly anymore?" Qingye Rin looked at him curiously with her eyes under her long eyelashes.
"——I will never let you become ugly!" Watanabe Toru said in a loud voice.
He looked like he had read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and was determined to achieve social change, which made Qingno Rin feel helpless and amused.
"I suddenly want to hit you." She said with a smile.
"The only person who hits me but is not hit by me is my mother."
Kujo Miki only liked to pull the ears symbolically, and the only way to break through the quiet flow of Watanabe Toru was to get kicked in the chest and suffocate.
"Look what this is." Qingye Rin took out his cell phone.
The mobile phone screen showed the chat history between Seino Rin and Watanabe's mother.
It was probably after Watanabe Toru went to bed last night that his mother handed over the power of "disciplining her son" to her.
"There's more." Qingye Rin handed the phone to Watanabe Toru and let him look at it himself.
Watanabe Toru flipped up.
"That kid Archer sometimes cares too much about the people around him and always sacrifices his own feelings, so someone needs to kick his ass hard and force him to care more about himself."
"Archer is a horse. Rin, what you need to do is not to be a novice who holds the horse's mane tightly and lets the horse run freely. Instead, you need to hold the reins firmly and become a skilled rider who can control the horse."
All the chat records revolve around these two sentences from Watanabe's mother: Mom, what are you doing? !
"My mother has always liked you," said Toru Watanabe.
"I can see that." Qingye Rin nodded.
"When she first came to Tokyo, she hadn't met Miki yet. When she called me, she always said, 'Can't you and Xiaolin be together? Can't you find a way?'"
"You didn't tell me."
"How can you say that? My mother isn't usually like this, but since she came to Tokyo and saw you, she's been asking me how things are going between you and me. I can't understand how excited she is. Did you make her a cup of tea and put a love potion in it?"
"This is the normal reaction of a normal person seeing me. It's strange that you didn't like me when you first met me."
Qingye Rin's tone was calm, and because of that, she sounded proud.
"It seems so." Watanabe Toru agreed, "I asked my mother, 'Do you like that guy Kiyono?' She said no, but then immediately said, 'Xiao Lin is absolutely unique, no one else can compare to her.'"
After that, Watanabe Toru smiled and said, "She has always wanted you to be her daughter-in-law."
"As long as you give up them, your mother's wish will be fulfilled immediately." Qingye Rin said with a smile.
She never lies.
After listening to Toru Watanabe's retelling, she realized why Watanabe's mother wanted her to be her daughter-in-law so much. She also remembered when she went to Iwate Prefecture during the New Year and they prepared breakfast together. She happily talked to her about Toru Watanabe's childhood. She felt touched for no reason.
"For you, I'm willing to do anything," Watanabe Toru returned the phone to her, "except this."
"So what are you going to do?"
Watanabe Toru pondered and said, "Recently, I have been thinking about the relationship between us..."
The cell phone rang.
Kiyono Rin looked at the display screen and saw it was Kujo Miki. She then looked at Watanabe Toru.
Watanabe Toru made a 'please' gesture to her.
Qingye Rin pressed the answer button.
"Open the door."
"You wait down there, we'll go down."
"'We'? Watanabe is here?" I asked subconsciously, and Kujo Miki said, "Open the door."
After saying that, she hung up.
Qingye Rin sighed: "What a troublesome person, he doesn't care about what others think at all."
Watching Kiyono Rin walk to the entrance and open the door of the apartment on the ground floor through the console, Watanabe Toru thought to himself:
"So you want Meiji to care about your opinion... Your legs are so close together... Your butt is so round..."
Halfway through the walk, Kiyono Rin suddenly turned back. Watanabe Toru quickly withdrew his gaze and calmly drank the Earl Grey tea in his hand.
It's not his fault at all.
As a normal 17-year-old high school student, it would be a problem if you didn't watch it.
"I must pursue Kiyono Rin." The temperature of the hot tea in my throat was not as high as the lust in my heart.
Sure enough, appearance is very important.
The clock hands pointed to two o'clock in the afternoon and Miki Kujo walked in.
She wore a simple T-shirt, a slim-fitting short black windbreaker, a short skirt and black tights.
She has a delicate face, full breasts, a slender waist, and long and graceful legs. The way she walks towards you with her hands in the pockets of her windbreaker looks like all the temptations in the world are waving at you.
"Are you here early?" She looked at Watanabe Toru with a smile.
"I want to meet you earlier." said Toru Watanabe.
Miki Kujo snorted coldly and stopped staring at him.
She has been in a good mood recently, and you could even say she is in high spirits. No matter what Watanabe Toru does, thinks, or plans, she can remain calm and generous.
The bottom line is of course that it is absolutely not allowed, and Toru Watanabe would never do such a thing.
After spending a long time with her, Toru Watanabe not only did not let his passion diminish due to habit, but he loved her more and more and wanted to hug her every day.
If it were in ancient times, Watanabe Toru would have been completely fascinated by her sooner or later and built the Deer Tower for her and set beacons to entertain the princes.
Kujo Miki is so charming.
"Where are you going today? Going shopping for clothes?" asked Toru Watanabe.
"No, I want to go around and walk around." Miki Kujo sat next to him.
Watanabe Toru naturally took her left hand, held it in his palm, and gently kneaded it.
"Where have you been with those two people?" Kujo Miki asked him.
"Jiyugaoka, Shimokitazawa, Daikanyama, Gotokuji Temple. Speaking of Gotokuji Temple, there are a lot of lucky cats there."
"I've been to a lot of places." Qingye Rin said with a smile.
"...I suddenly feel that you and Meiji smile alike."
"Who is prettier then?" asked Qing Ye Lin.
Miki Kujo also stared at Toru Watanabe with a smile.
This is what happens when you dare to intrude into their world.
"There are all kinds of smiles. If we talk about who has the best smile, it must be me. But that smile just now was just pretentious. Miki is better than that ." said Toru Watanabe.
"Pretending?" Miki Kujo gave a pretentious smile.
“The point is to look good.”
"He just told me that he's willing to do anything for me." Qingye Rin said suddenly.
Kujo Miki's smile was no longer pretentious, but was truly murderous.
"For you, Miki, I'm willing to do anything." Toru Watanabe quickly held Miki Kujo's slender hand.
"The same love words." Kujo Miki said slowly.
“Give me three seconds!”
"Three, go ahead."
"Nothing in the world means anything as long as I have you."
"Slippery tongue." Kujo Miki commented disdainfully, and then turned to Kiyono Rin as if she was too lazy to talk to Watanabe Toru anymore and said, "If you want to change clothes, hurry up. Let's go to Jiyugaoka first and overwrite the memories of those two people."
Watanabe Toru: “…”
"Wait a minute," Kiyono Rin walked towards the bedroom, "I changed my jeans. Watanabe-san has been staring at me since a while ago."
Watanabe Toru: “…”
When Qing Ye Lin disappeared, he turned his head and saw Kujo Miki looking at him with a pretend smile.
"Miji." Toru Watanabe put his hands on Miji Kujo's infinitely beautiful shoulders and looked at her sincerely with his eyes.
"Go ahead." Kujo Miki agreed lazily with a smile.
"You have to trust my obsession with your body."
"How obsessed?"
"Because I have you, I don't want anything, I don't need anything, because I already have everything."
"How many people have you said this to?"
"Only you." Watanabe Toru smiled, "Most of the love words in my life are dedicated to you. Can you say a love word to me too?"
"next year--"
"next year?"
"Propose to me." said Kujo Miki with a smile.
"without……"
"Meiji, come and help me discuss the matching of clothes. I have also changed my top." Qingye Rin opened the bedroom door, revealing only her lovely little face.
Miki Kujo looked at her, glanced at Toru Watanabe with a smile, then stood up and walked over.
