Chapter 68: The Name of Ikki Aoi's Love Story
Seeing the two, Toru Watanabe subconsciously asked the question in his mind: "Are the club activities of the wind band so easy?"
"Eh?" Ikki Aoi was stunned for a moment, then looked at Hanada Asako, "This..."
Hanada Asako glanced at Watanabe Toru without saying a word, then quickly lowered her head.
"Sorry, I'm just a little sensitive about club activities lately. You don't have to answer me." Toru Watanabe raised his hands and gestured that the topic ended here.
But then again, if the goal of the wind orchestra is to advance to the Kanto Competition and eventually the national competition, they should practice very hard.
In April and May, they were indeed doing so, as evidenced by the fact that practice sessions could be heard all over the campus at noon and after school.
But after June, the sound of musical instruments became intermittent.
Is the rainy season not suitable for performance?
"I have already told Senior Hanada about this." The purpose of the two coming to the Human Observation Department was self-evident.
"First of all, let me confirm, Senior Hanada, do you know Senior Asuka's sexual orientation?" asked Rin Kiyono.
"Sexual... orientation? She should like boys." Hanada Asako secretly glanced at Watanabe Toru.
Was it because Asuka Mai smiled when she mentioned the overhead corridor? Watanabe Toru guessed.
However, the two people in front of him looked like Kiyono Rin with her straight back and slim figure, more like a senior schoolmate. As for Hanada Asako, her petite figure made it completely clear that she could be a junior high school student.
Kiyono Rin looked at Ikki Aoi.
There was an obvious expression of frustration on Ikki Aoi's face. It was obvious that she already knew the answer to this question from Hanada Asako.
Hanada Asako quickly comforted him: "Ichiki-kun, I'm not sure either!"
"Yeah." Ikki Aoi responded weakly.
"Ichiki-san, do you want to continue?" asked Kiyono Rin.
Ikki Aoi fell silent for a long while before she replied softly, "I want to continue, but..."
"But you're afraid of failure?" Qingye Rin continued for her.
"If I know that I will definitely fail, I might as well maintain the current relationship so that I can continue to stay with my senior."
Although during the discussion on Monday, Ikki Aoi vowed that she would confess regardless of failure or success.
But now that I really know that the probability of failure is very high, the fear of being disliked and the worry that confessing will make the relationship worse have taken over again.
Toru Watanabe has never liked anyone, but he can understand this feeling.
"Let's stop here. Of course, you can continue to ask her out in the future. Becoming good friends is also a good option." Toru Watanabe doesn't care about other people's love affairs.
This matter had nothing to do with him. It was Qingye Rin who caused the trouble.
Compared to all these, he wanted to resolve the crisis of the abolition of the society as soon as possible, learn Spanish, and find a way to deal with Kujo Miki.
The activity room fell into deathly silence, and it seemed as if everything would end in this silence.
"Ichiki-san, is this really okay?" Kiyono Rin suddenly spoke.
“…”
"Have n't liked Asuri-senpai since elementary school? You've been holding on to your feelings for more than ten years, but you're just giving up when there's no result. Is that really okay?"
“……”Ikki Aoi lowered her head involuntarily.
Watanabe Toru glanced at the stern Kiyono-san.
"Hey, do you really want to learn about love? We can't even protect ourselves right now!"
"Just answer me, continue, or give up." Qingye Rin's obsidian eyes stared straight at Ikki Aoi.
Here comes the lie detector machine Rin!
Even Toru Watanabe, who is smart and experienced in lying, has no choice but to surrender!
"...Go on!" Ikki Aoi replied as if she had given up everything.
Qingye Rin nodded: "Then proceed as planned. Hanada-senpai, can you help us?"
"I-I'm fine."
"Well, let's continue the operation. First, in order to facilitate the observation of the progress of the relationship, Ikki-san, please tell me how your relationship with Mai Asuka-senpai is now."
Ikki Aoi thought for a moment and replied, "It's very common, right? I call her Mai-senpai, but Mai-senpai calls me Ikki-san."
"It seems that the relationship is just ordinary." Qingye Rin said to himself.
“Woo…”
So, there is a reason why there are no new members joining the Human Observation Department. Apart from the great Toru Watanabe, who else can bear such a big truth for a long time!
Hanada Asako quickly comforted her: "Don't be sad, Kazuki-kun. If the relationship is just average, it means that even if the confession fails, it won't get any worse!"
“Woo… woo…”
Please let her go.
Looking at the dying Aoi Ikki, Toru Watanabe said, "You don't have to really care about the name. Some people are very close, but they call each other by their last name; while some people hate each other to death, but they still call each other by their first name."
"Really?"
"Of course, there are people like this everywhere."
Toru Watanabe affectionately calls his girlfriend Miki, and this is the only person of the opposite sex he calls by her name.
But the two were injected with succinylcholine twice and forced to race with cars on Shinjuku Avenue, so Watanabe Toru was not lying at all.
"But shouldn't there be special meaning in calling someone by their name? Only frivolous people would just call someone by their name casually!" Hanada Asako completely disagreed with Watanabe Toru's point of view.
This person has forgotten about comforting his schoolmate.
"Well, you're right then." Watanabe Toru thought of his 'first girlfriend' Tamamo, who was so beautiful that she would casually call him Che.
"Woo..." Ikki Aoi was about to whimper like a puppy again.
"I'm sorry! I just said it casually!" Hanada Asako looked like she was about to cry because she had messed up.
I'm really worried about the IQ of her future child... Toru Watanabe observed a moment of silence in his heart for 0.1 second.
"Senior Asu Mai is not supposed to be a frivolous person. Ikki-san, please accept the fact that your relationship is just ordinary now," said Kiyono Rin.
"...Yeah." Ikki Aoi was so pitiful, "I understand. If you don't face reality, you can't really move forward."
People can always learn things that they cannot understand from pain.
Ichimoku Aoi calmed down and asked curiously, "Seino-san, among your peers, do you have any opposite sex that you call by name?"
"No." Qingye Rin answered immediately.
"What about the girls?"
"No." Still the answer.
Aoi Ichiki was a little embarrassed and turned to ask Toru Watanabe: "Where's Watanabe?"
"No same sex, but for opposite sex, it's Kujo Miki."
"I see." Ichimoku Aoi nodded, "Where's Hanada-senpai?"
"I don't have any friends of the opposite sex, but I have a few friends of the same sex." Hanada Asako answered in a low voice.
"You three can call me by my name, I don't mind." Ikki Aoi said to the three people with a smile.
"I don't need it." Qingye Rin refused without thinking.
"Eh - well, if it's Kiyono-san, you'll definitely answer like this."
"Me too, I can't do it either." Hanada Asako turned her face slightly, avoiding Ikki Aoi's expectant eyes.
“Senior~~!”
“Well, this is because,” Hanada Asako took a deep breath and said in a firm tone, “Only people who are really close to each other can call each other by their names.”
"...Okay." Ikki Aoi looked at Watanabe Toru pitifully, "Watanabe-san, you won't reject me too, will you?"
“……” If I had known earlier, I would have been the first to answer.
but……
"Feel sorry."
"..." Ikki Aoi lay on the beech table, and her hair, which had stood up because of the rain, had lost its strength.
Kiyono Rin said to Watanabe Toru with a smile, "It seems that Kujo Miki has tamed you very well."
"That's not the reason." Actually, that's part of the reason.
"Oh, Watanabe-san is telling me you're panicking again." Kiyono Rin said sarcastically, pretending to be surprised.
"..." Watanabe Toru had to tell the truth, "If you are good friends, there is no problem in calling each other's name, regardless of gender. But think about it, I didn't even do that to you, so suddenly calling Ikki-san's name, isn't it too fake?"
Kiyono Rin stared straight at Watanabe Toru.
"What's wrong?" Watanabe Toru felt uncomfortable being stared at by her.
"Fool."
"Why are you swearing?!"
Qing Ye Lin clenched her fist and put it in front of her lips, and coughed lightly in embarrassment: "Won't you make Yi Mu-san even more sad by saying this?"
"Think carefully about who told me to tell the truth!"
"Let's end this topic here." Qing Ye Lin turned her head away, "Now we should discuss: how to let Asuka Mai-senpai call Ikki-san Aoi."
"Aoi..." Ikki Aoi was already immersed in beautiful imaginations.
Qingye Rin looked around at the three people: "Do you have a battle plan?"
"Wait." Watanabe Toru raised his hand, "I won't participate."
First of all, he was not interested in this matter; secondly, he had to deal with the matter of the disbanding of the club; finally, if he went out with them again, he would definitely make Kujo Miki angry again.
"No! The only one among us who has had a relationship is Watanabe-san!" Ikki Aoi wailed.
After saying that, she suddenly seemed to remember and asked Hanada Asako: "Hanada-senpai, have you ever been in love?"
"No, no." Asako Hanada's face seemed to be congested most of the time.
But since she is very cute, it is okay for her to keep blushing.
Unlike the muscular guys in the sports club, if you keep blushing, you will only be greeted with "Classmate, are you sick? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
"Sorry, I already have other tasks. Ikki-san, let Kiyono-san and Hanada-senpai help you with your matter." Watanabe Toru firmly declined.
"Rejected." Qingye Rin said bluntly.
"Hmm? Why? Isn't it the most efficient way for you to take care of one thing and for me to take care of another?"
"That was just now." Qing Ye Lin showed a kind smile that was full of malice at first glance, "Now I have decided that the Human Observation Department is a whole, and all things should be faced together."
"Excuse me, but changing your mind every day is a big taboo, Minister!"
"Please obey orders, Deputy Minister."
