Chapter 42: It's not just the beginning, the process and ending of this date are all wrong
Judging from the number of people, the dolphin show is undoubtedly the most popular attraction in the entire aquarium, and the stands are full of people.
But the strange thing was that there was no one sitting in the front rows all around, and everyone was crowded in the back.
"Why don't you want to sit in the front? Can't you see more clearly?" Watanabe Toru asked Kiyono Rin.
In his mind, Qingye Rin is basically equated with a know-it-all.
Qing Ye Lin looked at the dolphin with its round head in the pool. Before he could say anything, Tamamo Haomei answered:
"You don't need to buy a raincoat if you sit in the back row. I recommend the fourth row, which is the closest seat to you and won't get wet."
After saying that, she looked at Kiyono Rin provocatively through Watanabe Toru.
Kiyono Rin nodded and replied politely, "I see. Thank you, Tamamo-san."
"You don't know either?" Watanabe Toru was slightly surprised.
"This is my first time in an aquarium, but you can probably guess the reason after just one look." Qing Ye Lin looked at the dolphin with a flickering look in his eyes, "Let's go."
Although it was not very obvious, it was rare to see the literary girl Kiyono Rin being so impatient. It turned out that women cannot live without cute animals.
But Tamamo Haomei on the side was very dissatisfied: "Xiao Che, praise me."
Watanabe Toru pointed at the staff who walked to the pool and said, "It's almost time to start. Let's find a seat."
Tamamo is so beautiful that she doesn't move, and doesn't let Watanabe Toru leave: "Praise me~~"
"You're so awesome." Watanabe Toru said helplessly with a double meaning.
Tamamo Haomi glanced at Kiyono Rin arrogantly, but Kiyono Rin had already walked towards the preferred position.
"Tsk." Tamamo Haomei felt weak and even had less strength to hold Watanabe Toru's arm.
Toru Watanabe took the opportunity to pull out his arm and quickly followed.
The seat that Qingye Rin found was in the fourth row, next to the aisle. Next to her was a young mother with her child.
As she sat down, she waved cutely to the child and immediately turned her attention to the dolphins.
When the young mother saw Toru Watanabe coming over, she probably thought they were a couple, so she held the child on her lap and gave him space.
"Thank you." Toru Watanabe smiled at the child and sat down happily.
Just when he thought he could take the opportunity to avoid Tamamo Yomi, Tamamo Yomi forced herself to sit next to him, and the seat suddenly became crowded.
The young mother looked at the three people standing arm in arm, and her eyes suddenly changed.
The child on her knees was still immersed in Watanabe Toru's smile just now, opening his round, transparent eyes and stretching out his chubby little hands towards him.
The young mother grabbed the child and forcibly turned his face to the other side.
If the child was a little older, perhaps she would now give him/her a loving education of "this brother is a bad person and you should not learn from him."
Noriko Ikeda and Kazuki Kosu were not so lucky and sat in the last row, but it wasn't much different.
The performance was indeed wonderful, with dolphins jumping and swimming in the water, interacting with the staff who were as slender as fish, and the water flowing, with a full sense of rhythm and interaction!
The dolphins are very healthy and the splashes are naturally high.
Watanabe Toru might really be hated because there were so many people sitting in the fourth row, but he was the only one who was splashed by the water.
"Didn't you say the fourth row was safe?" He wiped the water off his face.
Tamamo Haomei covered her belly and giggled, "Your luck is so bad! Ahahaha~ I've been here so many times, but this is the first time I've seen people in the fourth row get splashed!"
She pulled out a beautifully wrapped tissue from her bag.
"Here, wipe it."
"Thanks."
At this time, the dolphin jumped high again, and Qingye Rin, who was concentrating, raised his head.
After this jump, the fifteen-minute performance entered a short break, and the dolphins were stroked on the head by the pool staff to restore their strength.
Qingye Rin couldn't help but want to stand up and take a closer look at the dolphin.
"Ah!" She uttered a soft cry of surprise and sat back down.
"Watanabe-san."
"What's the matter?" Watanabe Toru, who lowered his head and focused on wiping the water, responded.
She sighed helplessly, "You sat up my skirt ."
"Oh, sorry." Watanabe Toru looked and saw that part of Kiyono Rin's high-waisted white skirt was indeed sitting under his butt.
Seeing this scene, Tamamo Haomei said dissatisfiedly: "Xiao Che, why don't you sit on my skirt?"
"Ah?" Toru Watanabe was stunned, not understanding the situation.
"You sat on her skirt, which means you consider her as a close person in your heart and don't care about the distance. You didn't sit on my skirt, which means there is still a sense of distance between you and me, right?"
"Didn't you force yourself to sit down and squeeze me over?"
"What a quibble! If you and she weren't close, even if I pushed you over, you would still be careful about the distance, right? When sitting with a girl they aren't close to, boys will be gentlemanly and make sure not to touch each other."
"…I feel like what you said makes a lot of sense, but I'm not a gentleman."
Watanabe Toru originally wanted to say, "I'm not a gentleman, I'm a 'Tokyo handsome guy'," but he felt that he was not qualified, so he gave up.
Tamamo Yomi looked at Watanabe Toru speechlessly, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Kiyono Rin, who was checking that her skirt was not wrinkled, laughed and said, "Watanabe-san, have you fallen in love with me?"
"Even if I like dolphins, I won't like you, don't worry."
"You don't like dolphins?" Qingye Rin's face suddenly turned cold.
Is this the point?
Tamamo Haomei snorted proudly, "Xiaoche must like penguins. Wait, let me show you the penguin photos I just took."
"Penguin?" Qingye Rin's eyes flickered. "There are penguins here?"
"Of course." Tamamo Yomi replied impatiently.
She opened the photo album on her mobile phone and showed Watanabe Toru the picture of penguins fighting for food in the water.
Tamamo Haomi's mobile phone is just like her style, covered with various decorative stickers, beautiful and overly gorgeous.
"Look, isn't the penguin cute? The penguins are waving their arms and it makes me want to hold them!"
Kiyono Rin stared at the phone screen and said, "Tamamo-san, those are flippers."
"These are obviously hands! How can they be feet if they are growing on both sides of the body?"
"Tamamo-san, if you like it, you should spend more time to understand it."
Tamamo Yoshimi glared at Watanabe Toru.
Why are you glaring at me? Even though I've studied marine life, I don't know anything about penguins... However, Watanabe Toru believed Kiyono Rin, he nodded and said, "It's the flippers."
The beautiful scent of Tamamo suddenly intensified, and the sweet scent that Watanabe Toru was used to came over him again. He dodged slightly and smelled the very comfortable fragrance of Kiyono Rin again.
"Xiao Che, which one do you like, penguins or dolphins?" Tamamo Yomi asked in the tone of a girlfriend.
Qing Ye Lin put her hand on her chin: "It's hard to decide... But dolphins are cuter, they are more humane. "
"I didn't ask you!" Tamamo Haomei gave her a white look, then stared at Watanabe Toru with a fierce look.
"My opinion is not important, right?" Toru Watanabe glanced at the pool and wondered why they hadn't started yet.
Dolphins are really lazy animals.
"I also want to know which side Watanabe-san will choose." Qing Ye Lin showed a kind smile like a judge giving a criminal a chance, "It's time to prove your aesthetic taste, Watanabe-san."
Are these two women sick?
"I don't like dolphins or penguins," said Toru Watanabe. "I like the wild animals that roam the countryside and the oxen that chew the grass on the ridges of the fields."
"The aesthetic taste of a country bumpkin." Tamamo Haomei snorted.
"It's really bad." Qingye Rin nodded, as decisive and ruthless as a judge who said "no hope, death penalty" after listening to the statement.
"I say, you two have done enough. Especially you, Kiyono-san, you have also read The Great Gatsby, right? The first sentence of the opening, "Whenever you want to criticize others, remember that not everyone in the world has the advantages you have," didn't you learn anything from it?"
"But Watanabe, this world is inherently unfair. The only thing you can do is to work hard to change yourself, rather than trying to negotiate with the other party and force them to give up their advantages, even if these advantages are determined by birth."
"...I can't beat you." Watanabe Toru admitted defeat.
Qingye Rin smiled slightly: "You are already amazing for challenging me with the will to win."
"Winning or losing doesn't matter, but..." Watanabe Toru said sternly, "I don't allow you to say that cows are not cute. Cows are such hardworking animals. Not only can they do manual labor, but they can also be milked and their meat can be eaten!"
"Eh?" Tamamo Haomi looked confused, "Isn't the cute part too weird?"
"It's not just that, it can also help with homework."
"Have you finished your homework?" the two beautiful girls asked at the same time.
"The old cow in the village defecated a huge pile of shit on the way to school. I was deeply impressed. So when I couldn't think of what to write for my summer report during the summer vacation of my second year in junior high school, I made up a paper called "A Study on Cow's Diet, Farm Work and Feces."
Watanabe Toru spread his hands and concluded: "Look how cute cows are!"
Tamamo was so beautiful that I was speechless for a moment.
She developed a fear of Watanabe Toru's hometown, and actually pooped on the road?! Even though it was a cow.
Qingye Rin rubbed her temples. She felt a headache after hearing this.
"Watanabe-san, cuteness does not equal usefulness. I hope you understand that. Also, when it comes to research, you can't just make up stories."
When Toru Watanabe was about to continue explaining his aesthetic views, the dolphin in the pool suddenly jumped up, and no one listened to him anymore.
After the dolphin show, which was far less interesting than cows eating grass (Toru Watanabe's personal opinion), Tamamo Yoshimi suggested going to the gift shop to buy aquarium peripherals, but he left first on the pretext that he had a part-time job in the afternoon.
After leaving them, Toru Watanabe turned into a DVD store near Shinagawa Station to rent a DVD with the original English soundtrack.
As for Spanish, he has not yet started learning it and does not plan to practice listening and speaking through this entertaining method for the time being.
Toru Watanabe knew nothing about American TV series. After walking around the store, he not only failed to find any suitable TV series, but because he had some money on him, he couldn't help but buy the Blu-ray disc of the first season of "Sword Art Online".
"I should have consulted Kiyono Rin earlier."
Toru Watanabe doesn't mind asking for advice from people he hates, as long as the other person is indeed better than him and is willing to guide him.
Just as I was taking out my phone to see if there was any similar information online, a familiar figure walked into the store.
"Watanabe-san, aren't you working a part-time job?" Kiyono Rin, who had not only clothes but also dolphin and penguin stuffed animals, laughed.
At this point, this level of venomous tongue no longer makes Watanabe Toru angry.
He glanced at the two white dolls in a transparent plastic bag and said, "Thank you for not exposing me just now."
"Although I hate lying, I don't have the habit of exposing others as long as they don't lie to me."
"I see." Watanabe Toru nodded, and then said as if he remembered something: "By the way, I just want to ask you for help. Please recommend me some American TV series that can help me practice speaking and listening."
"I can practice on any American TV series if I want, but if you ask me to recommend one, I'd choose Downton Abbey and Doctor Who."
"Thanks."
Watanabe Toru was about to go find it, but Kiyono Rin said, "Here are all DVDs, and they are subtitled versions for the general public. If you need them, I can lend you mine."
"May I?"
Qing Ye Lin smiled proudly: "One moment I target you, the next moment I lend you my personal belongings. This is my sixth way to make you fall in love with me."
How come the fifth one, like the second and third, is missing again ?
But forget it, Toru Watanabe is not interested in these things, and he would be ridiculed if he asked.
Learning is still important.
He said, "If it's possible, can you lend it to me now? I want to start reading it today."
Qingye Rin thought about it for a moment and nodded: "Wait a moment."
Then she walked around the store and picked up a few Blu-ray discs.
When checking out, Toru Watanabe saw the cover, which was a documentary about dolphins and penguins.
Rin Kiyono lives in an apartment near the school, and Toru Watanabe discovered that he could see the tall building from his simple rental house .
It turns out that the two of them lived so close to each other, maybe they had bought barley tea from the same shelf in the same supermarket - Watanabe Toru could only think of barley tea, and it is possible that Kiyono Rin only drank black tea.
After a while, Kiyono Rin came down from upstairs and handed Watanabe Toru two discs, which were the Blu-ray versions of "Downton Abbey" and "Doctor Who" without subtitles.
"You lent me a book before, and now you lent me a disc. I really don't know what to say... Next time I'm free, I'll treat you to a meal. It doesn't matter if it's somewhere fancy."
Qing Ye Lin shook her head, her black hair swaying: "No, I want a drink in the future, just don't say you don't have money."
Watanabe Toru smiled: "Qingye, I find that you are actually quite good. Even if I don't like you, I am happy to be friends with someone like you."
"No." The voice of rejection was the immediate answer.
“…”
Seeing Watanabe Toru's frowning face, Kiyono Rin smiled brightly.
"Didn't I say that at the barbecue restaurant? I won't be friends with people who lie, unless you admit that you are not a human being."
"Goodbye." Watanabe Toru turned and left.
Because the rental house was not far away, Toru Watanabe chose to walk home, and ended up sweating.
After taking a shower, he poured himself a cup of iced barley tea and watched "Downton Abbey" while watching a fan.
"There can be too much truth in any relationships."
Watanabe Toru repeated it in the same graceful tone, and then translated: "When people speak the truth too much, it will backfire."
“Totally agree!”
He raised his glass to the characters on TV.
Toru Watanabe listened to this sentence three times, and only continued reading after confirming that the sentence and tone were exactly the same.
Next time I argue with Qing Ye Lin, I will use this sentence to make her “reap the consequences”.
When he thought of this scene, Toru Watanabe felt that the barley tea in his hand suddenly had the aroma of black tea.
