Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 561 Not Today
Opening the door to the club room, there were actually a few letters on the floor. Naruse bent down to pick them up and read them, frowning.

Compared to the past, these letters didn't even bother to pretend. There was no entrustment, only straightforward courtship.

Naruse flipped through the pages while walking to his usual seat, and then stuffed them all into the drawer.

"Is it another love letter?" Haixing asked.

"Yeah. I haven't shown much face in the past two days. I don't know where these people came from."

"Really shameless."

Naruse glanced at her, and Haixing's face quickly turned red.

"I'm talking about those...strangers who don't know you well at all."

"Can we just express our feelings casually once we're familiar with each other? That would be even more embarrassing. Maybe we won't be good friends anymore."

Starfish was silent for a while.

"It depends on who it is..."

Naruse didn't answer, he leaned back and looked out the window.

After sitting for a while, he flipped through the magazine he had bought from the Department of Marine Biology.

"So I went to the Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa. There should be a lot of things to write about."

Haixing sat over and asked, "Is that place famous?"

"Well, the venue is very large and contains many types of marine life. There is even a whale shark in the main aquarium 'Kuroshio Sea'."

She looked at him, "Have you been there?"

"No, I have never been to Okinawa, but I have known about it a long time ago." Naruse said, paused, and added: "When we go to Okinawa next summer, let's go there and have a look. .”

"Eh, good."

Haixing immediately agreed, but soon thought that this would be almost a year later, and the excitement in his heart cooled down a little.

He continued to look through the journal compiled by the members of the Marine Biology Department from the accommodation records. He was so absorbed that he seemed to have forgotten the key factors in his decision to come here.

But Haixing still remembers it clearly.

"Spring Sea."

"Ah."

"You and Guang..."

"If you have anything else to say, wait until I finish reading it."

"..."

Maintaining the posture of turning her head, she stared at him silently until he put down the book helplessly and slowly exhaled a long breath.

"What do you want to ask Haixing?"

"I saw it all when I was watching a movie in the morning." Haixing said, deliberately not saying clearly what he saw.

However, the person in front of her was particularly experienced in preventing this kind of thing.

Are you trying to scare children?
On the contrary, Naruse judged based on this that she did not fully see clearly at that time.

He also had the confidence to deny it to the end.

Anyway, she can't know too much right now.

——She was too reckless, and at the same time she couldn't hide her thoughts at all. There was no real difference between telling her and directly confessing to Naoko.

Naruse took a breath, "What did Haixing see?"

Haixing looked at him and said, "You understand."

"I don't understand."

"..."

She looked at him for a while and then said, "It's about kissing your face while watching a movie."

"Huh?" There was just the right amount of surprise on his face, "How come I didn't know there was such a thing?"

"what……"

Starfish immediately doubted himself.

Did she really see it wrong?

"But you were very close at that time..."

"I don't know when you are talking about." Naruse continued to deny, using forgetfulness to show that he didn't care.

"That's when you saw me seeing you." She was a little confused.

"what?"

"It's just...no...didn't you see me at that time?" Haixing became more and more anxious as he spoke, "You even looked at me for a while."

Naruse still shook his head, "I don't remember the time you mentioned, exactly when it was."

"..."

She frowned and stared at him for a while, but still couldn't see anything and could only lower her gaze.

"never mind……"

Fooled over...

Naruse just breathed a sigh of relief when Haixing spoke again: "Then what is the relationship between you and Hikari now?"

"What other relationship could it be? A friend relationship, a classmate relationship, or almost a neighbor relationship."

"Is that all?" she asked.

He looked at her, "Otherwise."

"...Isn't there a more private relationship?"

Naruse turned his eyes and said, "If it is a private matter, can I tell you casually like this?"

"..."

Starfish bit her lower lip and was silent for a while.

"Just tell me if you have it or not."

"Then can I lie?"

"..."

Starfish stopped talking again.

Naruse already regretted agreeing to her to come and sit in the clubroom for a while. He put down the thin magazine and stood up.

"It's almost time to rest. Let's go. I want to go somewhere else." She stood up silently and just looked at him.

He walked out of the department room, but she was still standing inside.

Naruse turned around. She was looking at him from inside the door, with no intention of coming out for a long time.

"Do you want to stay here alone? Then I'll leave the key to you. Remember to close the door when you leave..."

"——Are you all hiding this from me?"

"..."

Naruse took a breath and said, "What are you hiding?"

Starfish's eyes were reddish and quickly became moist, "You are secretly dating."

He glanced at the other end of the corridor. There was still no one else in the deserted and lonely place.

He returned to the door and blocked it.

"If it is true that Haixing said that I was dating them privately, do you think I can tell you now?"

Her lips moved, "But Yiye promised me..."

"What did she promise you?"

"she……"

She said she didn't care about her anymore.

Haixing opened his mouth and suddenly remembered that he had been "abandoned" by her.

She was speechless. She squatted down on the spot, hugging her knees, and tears flowed down her face.

"..."

Naruse closed his eyes, feeling vaguely dizzy.

Calm down, he reminded himself, no matter how real the tears were, they might be traps set by her unconsciously. Once she stepped into them, it would be over.

calm.

Returning to the club room again, he closed the door behind his back and squatted down in front of her.

Their eyes met, he said nothing, and she continued to cry.

"It seems like I haven't bullied you for a long time."

"..."

Starfish suddenly stopped sobbing.

"If you cry like this, if someone sees you, they will definitely think that I bullied you. If I didn't really bully you, wouldn't I be wronged in vain?"

She looked at him and sniffed.

"What do you think."

"……up to you."

Naruse raised a finger and poked her between the eyebrows.

She was squatting casually, but she couldn't be said to be stable. She didn't resist his "bullying" at all, and fell down with just one poke.

"..."

Lying on the floor, her blond hair spread all over the floor, looking at the ceiling, she began to cry again.

Naruse sat down cross-legged, followed his instinct and glanced at the bottom of her skirt, and then raised his eyes to look out the window.

Still need to calm down.

Then, let her calm down too.

"Because Haixing is an idiot, that's why I don't want to tell you anything."

Her crying stopped again.

After waiting for a long time, without hearing his next words, she got up again, wiped the tears from her face, and sat in front of him and looked at him.

Naruse continued: "That's fine if you're just a fool. You're also very impulsive and disobedient, so I can't tell you any secrets."

She immediately came over, put her hands on the ground, and looked up at him.

"I will be obedient. I will listen to whatever you say."

"..."

She was defenseless and full of expectations, and she even tacitly agreed to everything in her words. Naruse quickly looked away, for fear that he would do something to her next moment.

He looked aside and said, "I don't believe it."

"It's true!" She came closer again, and the distance was even closer, so he had to turn his head and look to the other side.

"You want me to believe your words..."

Starfish nodded and looked at him.

"Then don't ask anything now."

"..."

While she was stunned, Naruse stood up and distanced himself from her.

"When the time is right, I will tell Haixing everything."

She looked up at him, "When is the right time?"

"When I think I can handle it..." Naruse paused, "No, when I think Haixing has matured."

She was silent for a few seconds, "Tomorrow?"

"..."

Didn't listen to what he said at all.

It’s not like you don’t understand, right?

Naruse knelt down and looked at her again, "Not tomorrow, nor the day after tomorrow. The more honest you are, the sooner I will tell you."

Haixing looked at him for a while and nodded slowly.

"I see."

Naruse breathed a sigh of relief, this should calm down for a while.

Not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow, the weekend after the cultural festival, Haixing thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)