Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 296 Fire
In the evening, Hikari Takikawa came to pick Naruse home.

Passing the Zhenmu Hotel, Haixing lay in front of the counter in a daze.

Passing by Morimi Kohonen, the bookstore is already open, but Yiye is not here.

By the end of the weekend, he hadn't found a chance to be alone with her.

A new week has arrived.

Drop drop drop-

Naruse pressed the alarm clock.

Get up early, wash up, prepare breakfast.

Except for more intimacy with Shangzi, the preparations before going out are no different from the old days.

At the bus stop, Morimi was already waiting there.

"Good morning."

"Good morning."

The two glanced at each other and greeted in a flat tone.

Two days passed, and the mood at that time had already cooled down.Even if there are new thoughts, they are well hidden under the calm face at this time.

Morimi pushed down his glasses and looked ahead where there was nothing.

He really doesn't care...

Naruse took Naoko's hand and interlocked his fingers.

Was it really just a whim...

He can't ask too many questions now.

"I heard that Yiye bought his own bicycle yesterday?" Shangzi asked.

"Yes."

Morimi glanced at Naruse, and smiled at her, "I just came here by bicycle from home."

"It's much more convenient."

"Yes."

"Are you able to ride proficiently now?" Naruse said.

"more or less."

Sen Jian looked at him, "I rode directly from the store yesterday, and there was no problem along the way."

"Is it tiring to ride back from the city?" Shangzi asked.

"I'm exhausted... so I also gave up my plan to ride to school in the morning."

Both girls laughed.

After a while, Starfish came over.

"I saw Yiye's car, and it was parked at the door, is it okay?"

"It's okay. Mom said she's going to use it for a while, and I'll push it in later."

"Oh oh."

After a while, Hikari Takikawa came over and took away Haixing, and then the bus that arrived took the remaining three people.

When he came to school, Naruse changed his shoes and went upstairs.

When she reached the second floor, Shangzi was suddenly stopped by two passing first-year girls.

"Minister! Good morning."

"Oh……"

Shangzi looked back at them, and quickly smiled, "Good morning, Xia Zi, Hui."

"Ah, the minister still remembers me!"

"Hehe, I am very impressed with everyone in the handicraft club."

Sen Jian's eyes stayed on her face for a few seconds, he hesitated to speak.

"By the way, Minister, we have something to ask you..."

"Is there something... just say it."

Shangzi nodded to the two members, then looked at Naruse and Morimi, "Harukai and Ichiba go up first."

"it is good."

The two went upstairs first.

Climbing up the stairs, the two of them kept a distance of two steps, one behind the other.

"Morimi seemed to want to say something just now." When reaching the third floor, Naruse suddenly said.

"……what?"

"When those two first graders came over."

She looked at his profile, then quickened her pace a little, and followed him.

"I want to say... Shangzi's expression just now is the same as that of a mother who saw the child."

"..."

"Do not you think so."

"It's just a little gentler, not to that level."

Sen Jian looked at him again and said nothing.

"Ok."

Walking into the classroom, responding to the greetings from their respective friends, the two walked to the corner and sat down back and forth.

The students of class A are coming to the classroom one after another, and a few first-year students occasionally pass by in the corridor.

The weather outside the window is fine.

Just when Naruse felt that this morning was exceptionally quiet, Morimi finally turned around.

"Feel sorry."

"……what?"

"At the haunted house that night, I was a little rough with Naruse."

"..."

He watched her for a while.

"Just a little bit?"

"My own lip was cut."

"Do you want me to apologize to you?"

"No. I just wanted to apologize and let you know about it."

Naruse pursed his lips, then nodded.

After looking at him for a while, Sen Jian turned around.

She has already spoken on her own initiative, so doesn't he have anything else to ask?

Now that she has spoken, is that all she wants to say?
"..."

The two looked out the window at the same time.

This matter, even if it is exposed like this?

Naruse felt that she still had to show her attitude, even though she already knew it in her heart.

Mori saw his back turned, and spoke first:

"There won't be a next time... the same joke, one time is enough."

Naruse looked at her back.

"That's good."

"Do you hate it?" she asked again.

Do you hate it...

"It's better to say I was taken aback."

She turned around, "If I were gentler next time."

"..."

"What expression do you have, are you kidding me?"

Naruse was silent for a few more seconds, looking out the window.

"That's good. Seriously, I won't be the one who gets hurt in the end anyway."

"..."

Mori pursed his lower lip, with an unexpectedly calm expression on his face.

"Of course I know."

She turned around again.

Naruse looked away.

As soon as he expressed his attitude, she retreated outside the cordon of his acquiescence, and put on a transparent disguise in his eyes.

Obviously, if we continue, there will be no results...

"When will you stop making such jokes?"

She was silent for a while.

"I'm just so bored...don't worry, I know what I should focus on."

Naruse let out a breath slowly.

"hope so……"

Boom!
She smashed the table, stood up suddenly, turned and stared at him: "You just—"

She didn't go on, trembling and panting, just staring at him.

The classroom suddenly fell silent.

Everyone looked at the corner here, and then gathered together in twos and threes, buzzing and discussing in low voices.

"..."

Naruse pursed his lower lip, "Calm down."

Unable to calm down, she pushed his desk away and left the classroom through the back door.

All the eyes following her focused on Naruse's face again.

"Catch up!" Ogasawara looked at him and shouted.

"..."

Naruse took a deep breath, pushed the crooked table forward, and stood up anyway.

And as soon as he walked out of the classroom, there was a loud discussion inside.

Naruse ignored him and chased after Morimi in the direction he left.

She didn't go downstairs, but walked straight along the corridor on the fourth floor, and walked into the women's bathroom before he caught up with her.

He couldn't follow in and stopped outside.

Hiding in and crying...

Taking out his mobile phone, when he was thinking about what to say to her, Morimi came out again and shook his hand.

"..."

Just going in for a bit of convenience?
And she wasn't too surprised to see him standing outside the women's bathroom.

After looking at him for a while, she suddenly said:
"You're so annoying."

Naruse also looked at her, "Then are you done getting angry?"

"It's over."

"Do you want to go back to the classroom?"

"Ah."

He turned away.

Sen Jian quickly followed.

"How can you be so annoying?"

"That's how I am."

"Especially with this mouth, there has never been a single nice word."

"That's how it is."

"I should have bitten off your tongue if I had known."

"..."

The pain from that night resurfaced in his mind again, Naruse pursed his lower lip and ignored her.

The two returned to Class A of the second year together, and the noisy classroom suddenly became quiet again.

Ogasawara didn't expect them to come back so soon.

"One leaf..."

"I'm fine, I just went to the bathroom."

"Then Naruse..."

"He went in with me."

"—don't talk nonsense."

Naruse turned his head and gave her a sideways glance, then walked straight to his seat.

After returning to his seat and sitting for a while, Morimi turned around again.

"I got angry, and I feel a lot more comfortable."

"As the object of being angry, I don't really want to hear you share this kind of experience."

"No, you'd better understand this feeling now, because I will probably get angry with you often in the future, I hope you can understand and tolerate." Mori Jian said looking at him.

Naruse glanced at her.

"I'm not your punching bag."

"I'm not someone you want to show off your girlfriend to—you look like a pervert who hasn't touched a girl before, and people will get angry when they see it."

"Then don't look at it."

"Then you bear with it."

(End of this chapter)