Chapter 36:

She staggered and fell to her knees in embarrassment.

In the darkness, Naoko could only see the sharp knife slowly approaching the side of her neck.

Suzuki-kun's low, hoarse curses rang out: "Shameless bitch, without Amemiya-kun's protection, you're nothing. Stop being so smug, understand?"

Her hair was pulled out, and she was in so much pain that she could only gasp for air.

However, Suzuki-kun was immersed in his own world and did not intend to ask her to answer. The knife slid up from her neck, passing over her cheek and nose, and finally stopped at her eyelids.

"How should I kill you? First, tear off your skin, then shave off your hair, how about that? These eyes that are always staring at Amemiya-kun must also be dug out.

Amemiya-kun is not here today, and there is no one who can save you, Kawase. Hahahahahahahahahaha."

Naoko half lowered her head and stared at the lit screen of her mobile phone.

The lock screen was a picture of Tomie Amamiya, which he had proactively changed for her, claiming that "couples always use each other's photos as wallpaper." She

wondered what was happening with Amamiya-kun?

Was he dying too?

In reality, she cared more about what was happening to him than her own impending death, stemming from a deep, subtle sense of indebtedness to him.

Perhaps her worry was too intense, but as she slowly closed her eyes, she actually heard Amamiya-kun mutter a curse.

The next moment, the sharp knife pressed against her neck loosened, falling with a click.

Suzuki-kun was also kicked out like a rag bag, landing with a muffled groan of pain, motionless.

He looked like he'd fainted.

"Kawase Naoko,"

she quickly turned around.

Amamiya was standing behind her, holding a broken baseball bat. The thinning light of the setting sun enveloped him, outlining his silhouette, dampened by the drizzle.

Wisps of hair clung to his forehead, making his face unclear.

He tilted his head slightly, lowered his eyes, and looked in her direction, seemingly staring at her face.

"Why do you always get yourself into such a mess?" He impatiently threw the bat in his hand away, and the stick fell to the ground and rolled twice in the puddle.

Saved.

Amemiya-kun is fine too.

Relief and joy mixed together, making Naoko breathless for a moment.

The resentment towards Amemiya-kun that had accumulated for some time was swept away at this moment. She couldn't help but stand up

, dragging her legs that were as soft as noodles, and took a few steps towards him. However, when they were about two meters away, he stopped her in his tracks with a cold face: "Why are you getting so close? Get away from me, two meters away from me, understand?"

It was Amemiya-kun who was even more unfamiliar than before.

Her teeth were chattering, and she struggled to see his expression hidden in the darkness: "But..."

"Get away." His tone was even colder.

"If you didn't hear me, I'll repeat it again. Stay away from me, 'Amemiya Tomie', do you understand?" "

This cold tone made Naoko feel like she was falling into an ice cave. Before she could digest his words, he said sarcastically:

"By the way, there is also breaking up. It's such a waste of life to have this kind of playful love."

"...Why?"

He became even more impatient, half turned sideways, avoiding her inquiring gaze: "Why are there so many whys? Just because I, Tomie Amemiya, want to break up, isn't this reason enough?"

Obviously, when she brought up such a thing before, he would refuse angrily.

Naoko spoke frankly: "But I don't want to. I need a reason."

He was silent for a long time, motionless. Just when she thought he was not going to answer at all, he snorted coldly:

"Whatever you want."

Amemiya, who used to be soft-hearted, was as cold as a stone this time.

Without waiting for her to ask any more questions, he took the initiative to say: "You go first, I don't want to go with you for the time being. "

What cruel words.

" "..."

The clothes were soaked, and the night wind made people shiver.

Naoko hugged herself and just staggered two steps, and his voice like ice chips came again:

"Umbrella. And, take the baseball bat over there for self-defense."

After he finished speaking, he took out an umbrella with a bear pattern from somewhere, and handed it to her from a distance.

She took it mechanically, and slowly picked up the baseball bat on the ground, but Amemiya never took her back.

The rain was still falling annoyedly, just like the bad mood of the two.

But there was only one umbrella. Naoko stood at the entrance of the alley, turned around and asked:

"Amemiya-kun, you don't have an umbrella..."

"I told you to leave me alone. "

She was exhausted both physically and mentally, dragging her sore legs out, looking back every few steps.

Amemiya stood in the shadows, motionless.

He did not come out of the darkness until the thin figure disappeared at the alley.

The moonlight shone on his pale face. Among the uneven pieces of flesh, there were irregular granulations that were wriggling violently, which was weird and creepy.

He sighed lightly.

There is an old saying among flower growers, "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. "It means that when hunting, you must also be careful not to become someone else's prey.

Now Amemiya is in such a delicate state.

Before he could figure out how to get Naoko's forgiveness the next day, a dark shadow suddenly attacked from behind him, and he fell slowly to the ground.

Blood splattered and flowed all over the ground.

Naoko stood under the street light, kicking the stones at her feet boredly.

The orange light shone through the umbrella on her eyelids, which was a bit dazzling.

She didn't actually go too far. It was raining now, and Amemiya didn't have an umbrella. She couldn't just leave like this...

No But he didn't catch up even after the rain stopped.

There was more than one way home.

Forget it, it seemed that he really didn't want to have anything to do with her anymore, so he would rather take the longer way to avoid her.

But until Naoko finished her shower, the Amemiya house was still dark, and he didn't go home.

No matter what, the cat still had to be fed, she convinced herself.

Naoko walked into the small garden with a bowl of cat food and clean water. When she saw her figure, the black cat jumped out of the window with a meow, and rubbed her trouser legs affectionately.

She squatted down and scratched its chin: "Are you very hungry?"

The black cat probably liked her more than the bowl of cat food, and circled around her non-stop.

When she was petting the cat enthusiastically, a cold voice came from behind: "Why are you here?"

She turned around and met the eyes of Amemiya with a frosty face.

He coldly stepped past Naoko, skillfully opening the door and stepping inside, pretending he hadn't noticed her at all.

"Amamiya-kun."

Hearing her call, he ignored her.

But as he turned to close the door, his cold gaze fell upon her face, a hint of impatience: "Is there something wrong?"

"..."

She nodded, then shook her head.

"Idiot. Don't bother me if there's nothing wrong."

With these terse, heartless words, before Naoko could react, the black cat leaped up and bit Amamiya's soaked ankle.

He didn't even blink, but sullenly kicked it away, glaring at it and cursing:

"I'm the one supporting you now, you know? Without me, you're nothing. So, stop trying to be so cunning."

It sounded like a subtle criticism.

He was probably using the cat as an excuse to scold her.

But thinking back to what had happened, Naoko didn't bother to argue with him: "Amamiya-kun, thank you for what happened just now. Are you okay?"

Logically, she should have called the police.

But for some reason, there was always a voice in her heart telling her that if she called the police, everything would become even more troublesome.

He blinked.

"No, I'm glad you're okay." After saying this, his pretended gentle expression changed, and his tone became sarcastic. "Is this the answer you wanted to hear? What a pity, I'm not hurt, and I don't want to see you. Go away, as far away from me as possible," "Kawase Naoko." ”

“…”

With a loud bang, she was locked behind the door.

Things became irreversible from that day on.

Compared with the slight changes before, Amemiya-kun changed completely this time.

When he walked into the classroom with a backpack, Amemiya was sitting on a chair, with his right arm vaguely hugging a girl in the class.

I don’t know what interesting things they talked about, the girl was laughing, and what was rare was that Amemiya did not suddenly change his face like before, and then pushed the person away without hesitation.

It’s hard to say whether it’s sadness or what, Naoko felt like a stone was pressing on her heart, and it hurt.

She stepped forward silently and whispered: "Amemiya-kun, can you..."

"Ha, Kawase, don’t you think you care too much?" Seeing her face, Amemiya’s face, which was relatively gentle just now, suddenly changed color, and he interrupted her weakly.

The girl next to him also joined in: "Kawase, you can’t always monopolize Amemiya-kun, right?"

What is she imagining?

She had to repeat: "Amemiya-kun, can you go to your own seat? This is my seat. "

Looking at her calm face, and then looking at the pink water cup that belonged to her on the corner of the table, Yu Gong's face turned ashen, as ugly as if he had swallowed a fly.

It should be more difficult for him to accept being ignored by her than being provoked by her.

After a while, he sneered: "Just go. "

He turned and left, followed by a large group of men and women.

They were obviously soul mates a year ago, but in the blink of an eye, they became like water and fire. This crappy relationship really shouldn't be discussed.

Logically, Naoko should be very sad.

But for some reason, when she met his completely unfamiliar eyes, she had a vague premonition:

the Amemiya-kun in front of her was not the same Amemiya-kun as before.

Naoko tried to communicate with him, but was always rejected coldly.

No one would be willing to face this green grassland, not even her.

But this guy avoided him like the plague, as if he was afraid to hear something he didn't like from her.

However, the advantage of childhood sweethearts is that no matter how they quarrel, Naoko can easily block him at the door.

Seeing her approaching with a can of cat food, Amemiya, who was sitting on the sofa, glanced over, then retracted his gaze lightly and looked at the book in his hand.

Pretentious, he usually doesn't even read the textbooks much.

"Keep the can away, don't let it get close to me. "

The black cat circled around her twice and licked the back of her hand happily, not knowing whether it was the can in her hand or her taste that it was greedy for.

"Amemiya-kun, I think you should at least keep a little distance from other people."

Hearing this, the expression on Amemiya's face became very strange, half of his face twitched, and the other half of his face maintained a kind of unhappy expression.

"Do you think I want this? It's all for..." At this point, he paused and suddenly changed to an annoying face, "...Kawase, don't you think you are selfish?"

"......?"

What Amemiya is best at is to be unreasonable and to pester people unreasonably. Unfortunately, he is in the latter bad state now.

He closed the book, his deep black pupils staring at her: "You are also preventing me from interacting with others, aren't you?"

"This is not a normal interpersonal relationship at all, right? If you must do this," she was speechless, "then let's break up. "

She didn't understand what Tomie Amamiya was doing. She wanted to push her away, but she couldn't stay away from her completely.

Sure enough, when he heard this, he walked back and forth angrily as if his tail was stepped on.

"Impossible."

"Impossible." He repeated righteously, not knowing whether he was trying to convince Naoko or himself, "This is just a normal relationship. We haven't even kissed. Besides,"

he seemed to have thought of a better excuse: "Kawase, don't you think your personality is really boring?"

Such words actually came out of Tomie Amamiya's mouth. This guy's shamelessness really has no limit.

He glared at her with his pupils as big as rice grains, and lowered his voice:

"It's still in the way. Why don't you just eat it."

"Really? Since you think I'm boring, please break up with me. I'll feel very tired if you do that." Naoko was considering whether to punch him in the face.

Hearing the word "break up", he suddenly became excited like a conditioned reflex.

"Don't even think about it. "He murmured, 'Kawase, don't even think about it.'

Or maybe just slap him twice. Naoko really couldn't stand

it anymore. He couldn't stand this bastard who was so distant and hot and cold. "I don't think I need to ask for your opinion on breaking up, you lunatic." After she finished speaking, she made an insulting gesture at him and turned and left.

After she took two steps, there was a sound of something being smashed behind him, and his broken voice: "I said, Kawase Naoko, I don't agree. I won't allow you to run away like this!"

This incident made Amemiya very angry. He became arrogant and annoying, no longer the gentle guy before. He also began to deal with female classmates and declared:

"This is the life that "Amemiya Tomie" should have lived."

Amemiya became a "shared boyfriend" in a sense.

He led a hectic, bustling life, dining with this classmate today, dating that one tomorrow, and doing everything except kissing...

Naoko despised it immensely.

But thanks to this, her classmates' hostility towards her diminished considerably, and she finally managed to live a normal school life.

But Amamiya would appear before her, intentionally or unintentionally, while she was working on her homework, eating her lunch, or even coming out of the bathroom...

When her patience ran out, she would make a sarcastic remark, and his cheeks trembled with anger.

"I was observing you. To see when you'd regret it," he snorted.

This was his mental breakdown again.

With the end of her senior year approaching, Naoko was completely focused on studying, and she checked her answers several times with the class monitor, the top student.

Once, while exchanging papers, Amamiya ran into her.

He exploded like a bomb, accusing and insulting the monitor, using a scathing vocabulary he had never used before, leaving her frozen in place.

After the nerd fled, clutching his face in despair, he finally cracked a triumphant smile: "You vile bastard, you've got absolutely no shame."

"Amamiya Tomie, can you please get out of my life?" Naoko had finally had enough. "Have you had enough?"

His smile froze at the corners of his lips, slowly falling into a mocking arc. "Really?" After a moment, as if suddenly remembering something, he said, "I'm just helping you get rid of some annoying flies in the name of friendship."

She said coldly, "You're not even friends anymore, Amamiya Tomie, please get out of my life." Amamiya froze

. "Is it just because of this? It's only been a short time, and you've already started looking at him differently?"

Of course, it wasn't just because of this. Naoko simply didn't like him intruding on her own initiative and then leaving so coldly.

After all, she was a selfish person, raised by Amamiya Tomie.

She didn't mind him controlling her life, as long as he gave her equal love.

It's fair to say that if she hadn't let him do that over the years, Amamiya's desires wouldn't have expanded so much.

She didn't dislike being controlled.

But now it was Tomie Amamiya who took the initiative to quit the game.

She was very "angry", so she decided to give up on him.

"The game is over, go away, Tomie Amamiya."

He was still yelling behind him: "I did this all for you! Kawase, you can't do this to me! Naoko!..."

In order to save this precarious relationship (?), he did not hesitate to climb into her room in the middle of the night to pretend to be a ghost to scare her, and even teamed up with Misato Kawase to persuade her, making her exhausted.

Naoko couldn't stand Tomie Amamiya like this, so she applied for a university in Tokyo without telling him, and one day during the summer vacation, she deleted and blocked him.

Amamiya should be in a university in Kyoto now, right? In order to prevent collusion, she didn't even tell her mother about the change of major.

She finally boarded the train to Tokyo.