Chapter 7: Shimizu-senpai's Attack 1
"Date me!"
Two days later, during lunch break, I was standing in the hallway outside the third grade classroom. Senior Shimizu stood in front of me and placed a box of homemade cookies tied with a light blue ribbon in my hands.
"Huh? How could this be—" Suddenly, there were exclamations louder and louder coming from all around.
Not to mention these people's reaction, even I was surprised.
I was just here to return the washed clothes, but Shimizu-senpai suddenly said these words to me.
"Qing, Senior Qingshui, what did you just say?" You must be kidding. I have only met Senior Qingshui a few times so far.
Yes, it must be my illusion!
Senior Shimizu was holding a bag of clothes in his hand, and seemed to be thinking about something. After a while, he spoke again calmly: "I say, Oshima Ryu - please date me!"
More and more people gathered around to watch the fun. I was sweating profusely and had no idea what to do.
Seta had reminded me before that Shimizu Hiro's identity was unusual. His family was an elegant family with a history of thousands of years. Although his supporters were not as terrible as Hideki's, he was also sought after by girls because of his slender appearance and unique tranquil temperament.
But didn't he say he didn't like humans? What was going on now?
"Why?" I really didn't know what to say, and after thinking for a long time I could only come up with this sentence.
"Because you are my destined other half!"
“Ahhh, Shimizu-senpai is so romantic—” causing a commotion.
I looked at the girls around me who were screaming excitedly in confusion. They were shaking their fists at their mouths with strange, dreamy expressions on their faces, as if they wished they were the ones being confessed to.
"Because you are my destined other half!" What dreamy words.
I used to fantasize that the person I liked would wear a white shirt, hold my hand under the weeping willows on a moonlit night, and talk to me in a loving and gentle manner. I would immediately feel intoxicated.
However, the reality was that in a crowded corridor, I was surrounded by a group of girls with green eyes. The male protagonist was a stranger whom I had only met a few times. He spoke the most affectionate words with a cold expression and a cold tone. I suddenly felt my heart break.
I couldn't help but think of Hideki again. The boy with half-long black hair stroked my lips and said, "I like you, Yaya! I'm different from the others. I only like you."
It was the same confession, why was the mood so different? Why was the senior so sudden... eh? It didn't seem so. That afternoon before, he seemed to have said something that he wouldn't say to anyone casually.
Wait! Could it be that... I suddenly realized that this was a kind of confession!
"You don't have to give me an answer now. You just need to know that I will work hard from now on and hope that you can date me!" As soon as the senior finished saying this, he turned around leisurely and walked into the classroom in the gaze of everyone.
I was left stunned and surrounded by a group of envious and jealous girls.
"Yes, I'm sorry!" I quickly turned around and ran downstairs, my heart suddenly in a mess.
Then, the student cafeteria.
I patted my chest lightly, tried to swallow a mouthful of noodles, and said to Seta who was sitting opposite me: "Shimizu-senpai, you suddenly said that. It's really scary!"
"Tsk, Shimizu-kun..."
Seta took a mouthful of noodles and shook his head slightly.
What’s strange is that she didn’t use any honorifics. Are they very familiar with each other?
"Hey... Atsuhime, do you know something?" I asked the young lady curiously, but was glared at, so I retreated uselessly, "If it's inconvenient, just pretend I didn't ask... Hey, hey, hey, it hurts..."
The eldest lady's slender fingers suddenly pinched my cheek.
"You look like a hamster no matter how you look at it!" the eldest lady laughed.
“Wow…don’t do this…”
The longer we get along, the more I understand that Miss Seta is a person who doesn't play by the rules, and...she seems to enjoy bullying me, especially pinching my face.
"Okay, I'll let you go!" The eldest lady finally let go of my hand, and I quickly rubbed my face. My appearance was already very ordinary, and if I was given a round face, what would I do?
"In fact, Qingshui Yang has a very good relationship with our host family! So I know a lot about him. It's probably because the young master of the Amakusa family said something to Yang. Tsk tsk!"
My eyes were full of stars as I stared at the young lady stupidly, not really understanding what she was trying to say.
"Ahh - I hate explaining things like this!" Seta scratched his long hair angrily before explaining the whole story.
The Seta clan inherited by Miss Seta is a subordinate of the "Amakusa" clan, the world's largest Onmyoji. Unlike the shrine maidens who are good at spells, it is rumored that the "Amakusa" clan possesses a more powerful mysterious power that can even influence the future of a country.
"These seem to be just legends now! However, the Amakusa family has many subordinates, and most of the shrines and temples in the country belong to the Amakusa family, so up to now, the Amakusa family is also a big family... But my master - the current young master of the Amakusa clan, Amakusa Akira, and the Shimizu family's Shimizu Hiroshi have been good friends since childhood, and we have known each other since childhood."
"Oh! No wonder you didn't call him senior, Miss..."
"Help me! I don't want to call that guy senior." The eldest lady said unhappily, "Although I don't know the specific situation, Qing Shuiyang is more likely to believe what my young master says! He will say something like it's destined, so it can only be Ming's doing!"
"But, but I don't know that person at all." Who is Amakusa Akira? I have no idea! And why did he say those things to Qing Shuiyang? My brain is about to explode...
"Speaking of which, Qing Shuiyang is a guy I know well. Even if he said that, he shouldn't have confessed to you so abruptly! Could it be that he really is..."
"No, that's impossible!" I stood up suddenly. "Before this, I had only met him a few times. He doesn't even know me at all, right?"
"That's not necessarily true. Based on that guy's personality, he probably looked into your information after meeting you. Maybe it's because he took your information to find the young master of the Amakusa family that he said it was destined."
"What?" Senior Shimizu doesn't look like someone who would do this!
“Well, why don’t you go ask him…” The solution proposed by the eldest lady made me instantly dejected.
If I had dared to ask Senior Qingshui, I wouldn't have to worry about it here!
Moreover, just eating in the student cafeteria was enough to make me feel like I was piercing holes in the eyes of the girls.
Woo woo woo... Why is my life so miserable?
In the end, I still came to ask Senior Qingshui!
At this moment, I was sitting in the small garden behind the school. Because I deliberately chose the dinner time, I avoided those scary girls with scrutinizing eyes.
At the end of lunch, the eldest lady said to me, "Think about how to respond! Whether it's Yang or Hideki, one of them will definitely be rejected."
Ahhhhh — my brain is about to explode.
How did things come to this? I sighed and looked around.
In the small garden during the day, the breeze gently blows the shrubs, the roses bloom delicately, and the air is filled with the fragrance of plants and soil...
However, that night a few days ago, still here, I didn't notice any of this at all. I just felt scared and nervous.
But suddenly I realized that what I was afraid of was not the darkness, but myself.
I sighed and took out a silver duck necklace from my bag. The duck necklace in my palm was lifelike in the sunlight, and the crystals at the eyes also sparkled and reflected the seven colors of light.
"This is for you. Today is your birthday!" Hideki said this with a blush on his face, not sure if it was due to a fever or something else.
His tone was still impolite and unquestionable, but the necklace in my hand, with his body temperature, warmed my heart ...
Should I accept it or not?
Hideki remembered his birthday, which was deliberately forgotten because of his mother. What a feeling...
"Yashima!"
"Ah!" The sudden call made my hands tremble and the necklace fell to the ground.
