Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 29 Mind Reading (for further reading)
Naruse stayed at Chaoyue Antiquities Store until after four o'clock in the afternoon before he was ready to go home.

While waiting for the bus at the bus platform, he saw Hikaru Takikawa passing by on a motorcycle.

She noticed him too.

Looking at each other, before Naruse greeted her, she had turned around and came back.

"Yo."

She pushed up the mask, put one foot on the ground, hooked her hands smartly, "Get in the car."

Naruse looked at the back seat of the motorcycle, but didn't refuse.

"Let's hang things up front."

"Give."

Hikaru Takikawa took the bag and glanced casually, "Clothes?"

"Uniform." Naruse straddled behind her, "Tsudaka's."

"Ah, it's pretty fast."

Hikaru Takikawa handed over the helmet, and waited for him to put it on before turning the accelerator, "Sit down."

"Ah."

The motorcycle hummed loudly, Naruse grabbed the handrail and looked ahead against the wind.

Shangzi said that she was often taken care of by Takikawa Hikaru, and it was the first time he took her car.

"Nervous?"

Naruse smiled, "No problem."

"Haha, don't worry."

Hikaru Takikawa gave a confident laugh, twisted the accelerator, "Do you want to go faster?"

"No, that's it."

"When did Chunhai come here?" She tilted her head, her eyes were still looking at the road ahead, "When I went out, I didn't see anyone at the bus platform."

"Let's go out in the morning."

"It's so early." Hikaru Takikawa said, "A few girls asked me to go to karaoke, and then went to have a cup of coffee, tasted a few desserts, and just came back from the end."

"It's really busy." Naruse sat in the same class as her and sat close to her, so he already had a more intuitive understanding of her popularity.

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, "Isn't someone calling Haruhi to play with him every day?"

"I don't like going out much."

"Huh?" She turned around.

Naruse immediately became nervous, "Look ahead."

Takikawa Hikari looked forward again.

"Yes, I almost forgot that Chunhai is not the same as before."

"It's better to say that I found other ways to entertain myself."

"Reading?"

"Ah."

Takikawa Hikari pondered for a while inexplicably.

"What about today? Chunhai came here in the morning, not just to get the uniform."

Naruse looked at her helmet, and told her that he had spent most of the day in the second-hand shop.

"...I had a good chat with the owner of that store. I will go to the store to help when I have time later."

"Part-time job?" Takikawa Hikaru asked.

"Not really." Naruse shook his head, "It's just that he has several places to go after school."

"Really, then I will go and have a look." Takikawa Hikari said with a smile.

"Looking forward to your patronage."

"Haha."

Although they chatted while riding, the speed of the motorcycle was not fast, but it was still not comparable to the bus. It didn't take long for the two of them to return to Qingliu.

"It's so fast."

"After Yueyue graduates, I can take Chunhai to school every day."

Naruse just smiled and didn't comment.

Sending him home, looking at the closed door, Hikaru Takikawa pulled down the transparent mask, and twisted the accelerator.

"Going back. Say hello to Shangzi for me."

"Ah."

The next day, Monday morning, Naruse was waiting at the bus platform in Tsudaka's uniform, and Morimi Kazuyo came over to say hello.

"It's not bad. Although in terms of temperament, he still looks a bit like a down-and-out son who has been reduced to a rural county high school."

"Thank you." Naruse smiled, taking it as a compliment.

Mori Jian frowned, but didn't say much, and turned back to where he was just now.

"Yiye seems to have something else to say." Shangzi who was watching said.

Naruse also felt the same way, after thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "Probably not a nice thing to say."

The bus platform was just so big, she walked to the other side, obviously not wanting to chat with him.

Shangzi smiled and said, "Yiye often speaks sharp words."

Naruse looked at the literary girl who turned her face sideways, "That is, she saw some dissatisfaction in me, but she felt that the relationship between the two was not good enough to point it out casually."

What he said made Shang Zi silent for a while, and then said: "May I ask?"

Just as Naruse wanted to say it didn't matter, he caught a glimpse of the bus approaching from the corner of his eye and stopped her.

"Get in the car and talk."

The bus stopped, and the students waiting at the platform got on the bus one after another.

Naruse took a last glance before getting into the car, but he still didn't see the starfish.

Overslept?
Or did she already take the earlier bus to school?
"Starfish is on duty today."

He turned his head and took a look, but Sen Jian behind him just waved his hand, urging him to get in the car quickly.

Nariko had already taken her seat, Naruse sat beside her, and looked at Morimi who was walking behind:

"Mind reading?"

She seemed to smile, then pushed her glasses again, her gaze was deep.

"That's right. You have to be careful."

Naruse wouldn't take it seriously.

He just turned his head and saw her go all the way to the back row to sit down, far away, so he didn't say anything to her.

Speechless all the way.

To Tsumae High School Station, the bus stops.

Naruse and Shangzi got out of the car and walked in front, and Morimi followed, and had no intention of following.

When they arrived at the school, the two went up the stairs in the middle.The classroom of Class E was around the corner, and Naruse glanced in, and the starfish had indeed arrived.

She was standing on a chair, writing something on the blackboard.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of someone watching from outside, and she glanced, then quickly turned her head away, her blond ponytail swaying accordingly.

"..."

Shangzi smiled at Naruse, and at the same time confirmed that since the day the typhoon passed, the two had not communicated at all.

When I came to the classroom of Class C, Takikawa Hikaru's seat was empty, and I don't know if he was training early in the gymnasium, or he didn't come to school.

The girls said hello to Naruse, their eyes occasionally drifted to Naruse, and they whispered something to her, Shangzi always smiled at her.

Naruse put down his schoolbag, took out the survey form he had filled out, and went to the staff room alone.

"Jin University..."

Zhong Yuanxue had obviously just arrived at school, her desk was messy, and she looked in a hurry, but she couldn't care about anything else at this time.

"Narase-san, are you sure you want to take Tianjin University as your first goal of further studies, isn't it too safe?"

His reaction to being a teacher was not surprising, "It's a national university anyway."

"No, what I mean is that with Naruse's grades in Tokyo, he can definitely compete for some prestigious schools with higher rankings." Zhong Yuanyu looked at him and said.

Naruse shook his head, "I think Tianjin University is also good."

"Is there any special reason?" Zhong Yuanxue asked again.

"My friends all chose Tianjin University."

"that is it?"

Naruse nodded, "My pursuit is limited to this."

"..."

Zhong Yuanxue was silent for a while, eyes full of pity.

She didn't give up, "After the evening class meeting, does Naruse have time? Come and talk to the teacher again."

Naruse was a little helpless, but also knew that being a teacher would not give up easily, and no matter how much she said at this time, she would not change her plan, so she could only accept it.

"Ok."

"Great. Then, Naruse-san, go back to the classroom..."

"—Teacher Zhongyuan."

The dean of teaching, Kobayakawa, suddenly strode into the staff room, nodded to Naruse who still had some impressions, and turned to look at Nakahara Yuki with a serious face.

"Wait up a little time for Mr. Zhongyuan: Takikawa Hikaru, your first-year class C, was caught by me again today riding a motorcycle into school."

Naruse looked at Takikawa Hikaru who followed him in, she also noticed him very quickly, her eyes lit up, she seemed a little surprised.

"Has Chunhai been arrested too?"

Naruse shook his head.

"Riding a motorcycle to school is already specially allowed, and you only need to come down and push it when you enter and leave the school gate..." Kobayakawa was talking, turning his head and giving her a sideways glance.

"Sooner or later you'll bump into other students!"

"I see... Well, Naruse-san, let's go back first." Zhong Yuanxue's face was full of headaches, and he could no longer care about him.

Naruse nodded, looked at the three of them respectively, then turned and left the staff room.

The voice inside is still catching up with a part.

"Takikawa-san, didn't you promise the teacher before?"

"Well, I promise I won't hit anyone."

"No, I didn't mean..."

"It's too late to hit it! Although Jin's high school style is free..."

Is the school spirit free?

Outside the staff room, Naruse touched his earrings and walked to the classroom.

(End of this chapter)