Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 73
Naoko took out a tissue and wiped the mucus that had been flung onto Naruse's face.

Feeling that it couldn't be wiped clean, she turned on the faucet next to the laboratory table, got a little water on it, and wiped it on his face.

"..."

Naruse shrank his head from the cold, pressed the tissue and her hand, "I'll do it myself——what did Hikari just say?"

Naoko also looked at Hikari Takikawa, and slowly withdrew her hand.

"Go to Kyoto, with the third-year school trip team."

Naruse took a deep breath, glanced at the squid in the eye wax dish, and wiped his face vigorously.

"What did you say suddenly?"

Hikaru Takikawa shook his head, "It wasn't sudden. I thought about it for several days, and I had this plan before. Three days and two nights, I will be back soon. It shouldn't be a problem for the school to ask for sick leave."

"..."

Naruse and Naoko glanced at each other, who took the crumpled tissue in his hand.

"It's still very sudden to me," Naruse said.

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, and just about to say something, Reiko Kuroda on the podium was attracted by the movement here, and walked over.

"Let's talk after class." Naruse whispered.

"Ok."

Looking down at the squid in the dissecting wax dish, and then at the tissue in Naoko's hand, Reiko Kuroda said "Be careful" and walked away.

And before the end of get out of class, Takikawa Hikaru didn't mention it again.

Naruse continued the dissection, removed the internal organs of the squid, observed it absently for a while, and began to draw a schematic diagram of the structure.

"Do you need to mark it?" Hikaru Takikawa asked while drawing.

"Need." Naruse said.

Ten minutes later, the bell rang for the end of get out of class.

After all, it is a specimen soaked in formalin solution, which is toxic, and the cuttlefish used in the experiment cannot be handled casually by students after dissection, and must be kept in the biology classroom;
Reiko Kuroda stood guard at the door, scanning the leaving students one by one, especially the few boys who were playing with specimens before.

"How is Harumi thinking?" Leaving the classroom, Hikaru Takikawa talked about going to Kyoto again.

"Just serious?"

"of course."

She nodded, "Otherwise I wouldn't let Chunhai go with me—except for class, Chunhai has nothing else to do these days, right?"

"That's what I said, but this incident was really sudden and not within my plan."

Naruse still shook his head, "Let's forget it."

Hikaru Takikawa raised his arm and hooked his shoulder, "Let's go together."

Shangzi immediately looked over.

Naruse couldn't adapt to her intimacy with girls, so he said casually while struggling, "Next time."

Hikaru Takikawa paused, and suddenly remembered something.

She let him go, then took out her phone from her pocket, and tapped it a few times.

【Recording is playing】

"...I promise, just invite me out to play next time, if there is no emergency, I will definitely go."

"..."

Listening to his own voice in the recording, Naruse pursed his lower lip and spoke after a while:
"That's not the same thing."

Hikaru Takikawa shook his phone and laughed, "It's the same thing."

"Going to a place as far away as Kyoto, can it be the same as relaxing after school?"

She opened her eyes wide, "Chunhai has rejected me for more than a month, the sum is the same, there are more."

Naruse was speechless.

Walking through the connecting corridor, back to the main building, and when he climbed up to the third floor, he said, "I have something to do."

"what's up?"

"I have to..." He looked around, "I have to stay with Shangzi."

Shangzi looked at him and nodded cooperatively.

Takikawa smiled slightly.

"I don't intend to abandon Shangzi either, let's all go together."

"..."

Shangzi was also stunned.

She opened her mouth, then looked at Naruse again.

With just one glance, he knew she was moved.

And the moment he realized this, he also compromised in his heart, and even began to actively find reasons:

Three days and two nights is indeed not a long time, and it will not have much impact on the attendance of this semester;
And besides going to school, he has nothing else to do.Occasionally "betray" from the honest duty once, it is considered as relaxation.

What's more, with Shangzi...

"Then go."

Opening his mouth to agree, Naruse couldn't help but think about Zhong Yuanxue's expression when he received three sick leave applications at the same time tomorrow.

"Great."

Takikawa Hikari smiled happily, and put his arms around him and Shangzi at the same time, "Then let's go back early to prepare after school today."

Naruse turned to look at her, "Hikaru's parents and Sister Yue, do you know about this?"

"I'll tell them."

"Will you agree?"

"Of course." She said to herself.

The three chatted and walked outside Class E classroom.

Looking at the three people who were shoulder to shoulder, Morimi didn't look away until their figures disappeared.

"It's such a happy chat... what are you talking about?"

Morimi glanced at Haixing again.

She was also looking in the same direction.

Finally, when school was over, Takigawa Hikaru picked up his schoolbag and was about to go back, but luckily he was held back by the person next to him.

"Light? And the evening class meeting."

"Ah, I forgot."

"Where are you going to play later? I seem to be excited all day long."

Naruse turned his head at this moment.

Hikaru Takikawa nodded to him, signaling him to rest assured, and then smiled mysteriously at the girl next to him: "Secret."

"Hey~ tell me."

After all, they were going to skip school, and they were going to a place as far away as Kyoto, so the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

Zhong Yuanxue came over quickly, and as usual, confessed some irrelevant things.

At the end, she suddenly looked towards the back row of the classroom: "Takikawa."

Hikaru Takikawa was a little surprised, but also a little nervous, "Xiaoxue?"

"Call me teacher. You tomorrow..."

She subconsciously held her breath.

"...Remember to bring the form that you forgot at home, it's just you."

She breathed a sigh of relief, then hesitated again.

"tomorrow I will……"

Naruse kept coughing.

Zhong Yuanxue looked at her: "Are you tomorrow?"

"It will definitely be brought." Takikawa Hikaru said.

"That's fine."

The evening shift was over, and Naruse and Shangko were relieved at the same time.

Although I have decided to play truant, being discovered by the teacher before truancy and during truancy are completely different situations.

"There should be nothing wrong with the repair department, right?"

"Sister Xiaochuan and the others are here, and they will send me a message if there is anything to do."

"Then just go back today and pack your things."

"Ah."

Leaving the classroom, Hikaru Takikawa went to find his sister - he was leaving for Kyoto tomorrow, and Takikawa Yue didn't have the mind to go to school today.

"I'll come to Chunhai at night to discuss the itinerary." She said before leaving.

"Yeah." Naruse replied, watching her go downstairs.

"—Where are you guys going?" Morimi's voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"...Why are you so elusive." Naruse turned to look at her, "Scared me."

"Why isn't Shangzi scared?"

Sen Jian pushed his glasses, "You did something wrong, you are too sensitive."

"..."

Naruse was startled, looked at her and said nothing.

She also looked at him, and suddenly thought of what happened more than a week ago, her face became hot.

"I mean what you're doing now!"

The reaction of the two was a bit strange, Shangzi stood aside, his eyes wandering on the faces of the two.

"I'm going home now." Naruse pulled Shangzi, "Let's go."

Seeing that he didn't have to go to school today, nor was he on duty in the library, he naturally went with the two of them.

When there was no one around, Naruse still told her the plan of the three of them.

"……incredible."

Sen Jian opened his eyes wide, looking completely unacceptable.As for Naruse's casual proposal of "Should we skip school together", he refused without even thinking about it.

"Is Shangzi going to play truant too? Don't be led astray by this kind of person."

"'This kind of person'? Standing in front of you is the first grader in the first grade of the prefectural Jin high school."

"..."

Mori gritted his teeth and sneered again.

"It's okay." Shangzi smiled.

Shangzi was already hopelessly infatuated with him, and knowing that he couldn't persuade her, Mori Jian didn't waste his time talking.

As for the other person...

"Don't drag Haixing away, she has finally become interested in studying recently."

Interested in studying?
Naruse was a little skeptical about this, but didn't say much.

"Anyway, I didn't invite you, so you should hope that she will not meet the light."

(End of this chapter)