I push the child!

Chapter 31 31. After the Rain
On April [-]th, the weather was not as good as yesterday.

When I woke up in the morning, the sky light coming in through the gaps in the curtains and walls was still a bit dark.

Mu Cuntuo glanced at the time, it was only a little after six o'clock, and the alarm clock was still ringing.

He turned off the alarm clock, opened the curtains, and the cables lay across his field of vision, with two sparrows perched on them.

He opened the window, and the bird, startled by the sound of the aluminum plate rubbing against it, chirped and flew away.

The clouds in the sky are like cotton that has been pulled by someone, and the outline is about to melt into the air.

The weather in the past few days was too comfortable. Whether it is the temperature or the scenery, it gives people a sense of transparency and pleasure between spring and summer.

That should be rare, the beginning of April should be like today, the dawn is very slow.

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Takumi Makimura sat at the dining table to finish his breakfast.

The news was broadcast on TV, Shinjuku Gyoen and Ueno Park opened beautiful cherry blossoms, and a group of pigeons flew by the Imperial Palace of Chidorigafuchi;
A new railway was being built somewhere, a fire broke out somewhere, and many fish were stranded on Yubihama Beach overnight;
Asakusa, Ginza, Akihabara, Meiji Jingu, the news in Tokyo seems to be endless.

He turns off the TV and checks to see if everything in the fridge is within its expiration date.

The big box of special milk was opened last night, and he took out all the leftovers to drink up.

In the morning when there was no work schedule, Mucuntuo originally planned to go to the library to read a book, but the weather forecast said that it would rain soon, so he remembered that he had lost his umbrella when it rained last time.

So he went to the nearby Lawson convenience store to buy a transparent umbrella, and he bought one of the mechanical pencils on the shelf.

When he got home, the hands of the alarm clock were less than [-]. He sat on the sofa and read "Pounding Heartbeat" from the beginning.

There is a line in it that he keeps firmly in mind every time:

Sometimes the setting sun has a purple afterglow, and sometimes it emits an orange fire, igniting the sunset on the horizon. In the incomparable sunset scene, I gradually realized the truth that my father said, the whole is better than the part sum.

After the movie was finished, he stopped writing, and the picture outside the floor-to-ceiling window was frozen at eight o'clock. It wasn't very dark, but it couldn't be lit at all.

At eleven o'clock, he made lunch with the leftover ingredients in the refrigerator, carrots, corn, green beans, green vegetables, curry, plus some seasonings, and stewed soup in a pot.

After eating ten minutes later, he took an umbrella and went out, got off the tram for 10 minutes, and arrived at Starbucks.

It started to rain at [-]:[-] in the afternoon, and it rained heavily all at once.

The dark clouds were in pieces, as if they were about to shake out all the water vapor accumulated in the past few days.

The ground, the roof, and the telephone poles were all black in an instant.

Cars run over the water, traffic lights flash in the rain.

The sound of splashing water, footsteps, complaints, rain, all the sounds are mixed together, and it feels like it is raining in my head.

In the isolated Starbucks store, Makimura Taku turned on the lights.

Some people ran into the store to hide from the rain, and Koizumi Huahai specially sent them tissues for wiping their bodies. The customers thanked them repeatedly, and she said you are welcome.

Hideki Nishida at the front desk was in charge of entertaining the guests, and Maki Teramoto came out from the small room at the back and asked where Taku Makimura had gone.

"Huh? He was still here just now." Nishida Hideki glanced at it and took the time to reply.

"What's the matter?" Mucun Taku, who had just turned on the lights outside the store, came back from not far away.

Teramoto Maki saw him and gestured to him to come over, and Makimura Taku did.

"Look, these are coffee beans from Kagoshima," Maki Teramoto showed him the packaged coffee beans, and said while unpacking them, "The coffee beans here are pretty good. It’s still from Tokyo, and the coffee beans produced are completely inferior to this one, either because the aroma is not enough, or the taste is not good, and it has to be from Kagoshima.”

She pours the coffee beans into a special container:
"Next, I will teach you how to make the most classic cappuccino. It doesn't matter if you have learned the others, but you must learn this one. Listen to it carefully."

"Okay." Makimura nodded.

He originally wanted to say that he had mastered what he had learned before, and it would be no problem to do it now.

But Maki Teramoto had already started the next step of making cappuccino, so he quietly followed to observe carefully.

As before, this time you will learn it once.

It wasn't until four o'clock in the afternoon that the rain outside stopped.

The faint sunlight slanted down from the stacked gray clouds, and the blackened earth reflected the golden light.

A lot of customers dispersed in the store, Maki Teramoto and Hideki Nishida relaxed at the front desk, and Hanakai Koizumi was still busy.

After wiping the table here, she has to run over there to mop the floor. When the floor is spotless, she will come back and wipe the machine, table corners, and all kinds of small things with a rag that has been rinsed several times. Once again, the tableware is scrubbed with a special table cloth.

Seeing her working so hard, Maki Teramoto asked her to rest for a while. She said she was not tired and was fine. Makimura Taku helped her at first, but then he was free.

At five o'clock, a freshly dressed girl in a blue baseball cap slipped in from the door, and Makimura Takumi was cleaning the table.

The girl walked up to him and waited for him motionless.

Feeling that the light was blocked by someone, Takumura straightened up.

In the field of vision, Ai Hoshino stood upright, with his hands folded in front of his body, smiling gently at Taku Makimura.

She smiled sweetly, her smile seemed to say that I was back, and it seemed to say welcome back.

Makimura Taku turned back and entrusted the work to Hideki Nishida. Under the eyes of the three who were questioning and questioning, he walked to Ai Hoshino, and the two found a seat and sat down.

"Is work okay?" Ai Hoshino indicated the direction of the front desk with her eyes.

Mu Cuntuo nodded: "It shouldn't matter."

"I thought the store would be very busy." Ai Hoshino looked around, then turned to Taku Makimura, and said, "It turned out to be very busy."

"It's because of the rain." Makimura guessed.

"That's right." She looked out the window and recalled, "It rained heavily in the afternoon, and I thought it couldn't stop today."

"The sun is still on."

"Theoretically, there should be a rainbow, right?" Hoshino Ai said, "After the rain, the sky clears up, and then a rainbow appears."

"It's not 100% either."

"That's it." She looked away.

Makimura Taku changed the subject: "Are you going to practice today?"

"Well, I still trained in Ochanomizu in the morning, and I didn't go there when it rained in the afternoon. The president said that I should be able to rent an indoor training room for the next two days, and I will go there for training. Today, Miss Kyoko will let us relax. half a day off."

"It's good, and it shouldn't be too hard."

"No," she shook her head, "after all, time is very tight, and our combination is not good enough, and everyone's level is still at the beginning, if we don't work harder than others, I'm afraid we will fail in the audition." She took off her hat as she spoke. , "I'm fine, but I don't want others to feel bad about this failure."

"The most important thing is to participate." Makimura Taku said.

"What is this?" Ai Hoshino smiled, "I decided to become an idol because of you. Although I don't care that much, I still hope for a good result."

A lie, Makimura Taku wanted to say, but there was no need to say it.

He rested his chin and thought for a while, then asked, "In this way, half of the success is due to me?"

"Of course~" Hoshino Ai smiled even wider.

The two chatted for a while, and Maki Teramoto brought them two cappuccinos, and by the way, she leaned into Taku Makimura's ear and asked him who the girl was.

Makimura Taku said they were friends, but she said isn't she a girlfriend?Makimura Taku answered how it was possible.

She patted Makimura Taku on the shoulder and joked that Yuki was going to be jealous, Makimura Taku smiled and didn't take it seriously.

After Teramoto Maki left, Hoshino Ai who was directly opposite took a sip of cappuccino, sticking out his tongue and saying it was too bitter.

Makimura Taku also tasted it, and it was indeed a bit bitter. It felt that it was related to the coffee beans, or the milk was added less.

Around 05:30, Mucun Taku got up and went back to work. Hoshino Ai said to sit here and wait for him to get off work. Mucun Taku nodded.

He went back to the front desk, and Teramoto Maki asked him to go on a date without waiting until six o'clock. Nishida Hideki also agreed, and Koizumi Hanakai stayed in the room and did not come out.

Takumi Makimura thought, is this how the term dating is used, and then said thank you, took off his apron and walked to Ai Hoshino, and the two walked out of Starbucks together.

"Shall we go to eat first?" Mu Cuntuo asked her.

"I want to eat, tuna sushi!"

"It's all right."

The two walked along the street, and finally Ai Hoshino stopped in front of a noodle shop.

Makimura Taku asked if she wanted to eat sushi. She smiled and said that she had changed her mind, and suddenly wanted to eat noodles. Makimura Taku didn't care.

The decoration of the store is very simple, and it looks very cheap. When you go in and pick up the menu, you can see that they are all cheap noodles.

The two ordered soba noodles and udon noodles respectively, and they were both quite happy.

Before paying the bill, Ai Hoshino's phone rang. She took out her phone and glanced at it. She signaled to Mu Cuntuo and walked to the side to answer the phone.

(End of this chapter)