Even the whole world is trying to match us up

Chapter 15 Do you like running?
Friday is the most impetuous day for students.

The peers on the tram were all happily discussing where to go on the weekend.

Unlike the students who were "looking forward to the weekend since Monday," Natsume Kiyoha, who was still sleepy, acted calmly.

To him, every day is the same because they are all new.

All he has to do is live each day to the fullest and preferably make progress.

Unfortunately, he listened carefully to the morning class and gained no new knowledge.

Just treat it as review and consolidation, he comforted himself.

That guy Hase Kaede took leave until three o'clock in the afternoon.

The reason is simple: I want to skip physical education class. After all, today's event is long-distance running.

During the lunch break, he decided to sit in the mobile classroom.

It was quiet there, even relatively remote, and few people were willing to climb to the fifth floor on a hot summer day.

Just enough to avoid a group of girls who were eyeing him.

In fact, he thought this was the best place for a lonely lunch, but considering that perhaps Minister Hatsukano thought the same, he gave up the idea.

Guessing that the minister had finished his meal, Natsume Qingha opened the door of the mobile classroom.

Amidst the sound of wind chimes, I briefly said hello to the other person, pulled out "Norwegian Wood" from the bookshelf, sat down in a familiar corner and started reading daily.

About half an hour later.

There were two consecutive physical education classes in the afternoon, and he had to go early to change into sportswear.

"Are you still watching the Asuka Collection?" Natsume Qingyu got up from the ground and brought up the topic first.

That collection of poems is beautiful, but including the translation, there are only a few sentences on one page, and the content is definitely not much.

It completely falls into the category of 'a careless guy who can read it all in about ten minutes and claim that he has finished it'.

But it’s been almost two weeks since I saw Hatsukano Suzune... Natsume Kiyoha recalled the scene of their first meeting.

It can only mean that she read it very seriously, just like he read Mr. Shi's books last night.

"Ah."

There was a brief silence.

"I really like the line 'Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves'."

"Ah."

There was another long silence.

Natsume Kiyoha is the kind of person who is good at communicating, but when facing the girl in front of him, he has to rack his brains every time he brings up a new topic, but he gets the expected feedback.

There is a sense of deja vu as if someone was deliberately trying to strike up a conversation but being rejected.

This must not be his problem.

"Can you lend me this book?" Natsume Qingyu flipped through the hardcover book in his hand and put it on the desk. This was his real purpose.

After the part-time work plan was cancelled, the nights became extremely long. While extending the reading time, it is also good to change the taste occasionally.

"can."

After receiving the reply, Natsume Qingyu prepared to leave the mobile classroom.

Before going out, he looked at the flower arrangement on the tea table, which was a few roses that had not yet bloomed.

"The flower arrangement is very unique," he commented.

"Pretty?"

"It's beautiful."

"like?"

Think with your toes, you know...

The answer that would please the other person at this moment should be - I like it, but the young man decided to pursue his own will, because the other person was not worthy of letting him distort himself.

"I admit that they have unique charm, but I don't know much about flowers, so I can't say I like them."

Why does he, a grown man, like flowers? Not to mention the bright thorny roses.

It's beautiful to look at. Natsume Qingyu believes that this kind of flower with strong emotional color should appear in more formal occasions.

Not in a bookish service club. Facing the boy who was very rational but could not find a logical answer, Hatsukano Suzune thought seriously for a minute and then said:

"Your soul is quite interesting for now."

In the afternoon, there is a youthful physical education class.

The project is a damn long-distance race, he would have said so in his previous life, but the situation is different now...

Natsume Qingyu, who insists on exercising every day, catches up to the end of the class crane from behind and walks side by side with that annoying guy.

It seems that Minister Hatsukano is not yet able to skip physical education classes.

"Do you like running?" He smiled so brightly.

Hatsuro Ye's disgusted and powerless eyes glanced at the young man's ugly face, then he came back to his senses and continued to focus on adjusting his breathing rate, trying to speed up his pace to get rid of him.

But no matter how well-proportioned her figure was, she still couldn't get rid of the follower who had the advantage of having longer legs, and was even surpassed by the opponent by several meters.

Natsume Kiyoha, who accidentally rushed ahead, gradually slowed down and ran side by side with the girl again, smiling even brighter.

"Do you like running?" He repeated the anime line from "Strong Wind Blows" again.

"I take back what I said before." Hatsugano Suzune took a deep breath, her chests rose and fell, and she caught a glimpse of the boy from the corner of her eye. "Your soul is as rotten as your nature."

"Thank you for the compliment. Everyone says I am a good person. I am always the first to help an old lady cross the road."

After about fifteen minutes, the long run ended.

In a corner of the playground, Suzune Hatsukano, who had her hair tied in a ponytail, sat alone on a shady bench. She opened the bottle of mineral water and drank it in small sips. She looked at the noisy crowd in the distance, seeming to wonder about the boundless energy of this group of people. Where did it come from.

Several boys who were obsessed with Hatsuro Ye's beauty were dissuaded by her "annoying bugs, don't get involved with her" temperament.

If Natsume Qingha didn't come over, she would probably be able to sit quietly alone for the entire break.

"Are you here to laugh at me?" Hatsugano Suzune had a cold face. To be more precise, she had always been like this.

"Not at all," Natsume Qingyu sat down about half a meter away from her, also looking into the distance, "We are the same kind of people."

At least he can get close to Director Hatsukano, and he's not considered an 'annoying bug'.

"no friend?"

"You are quite self-aware." Natsume Qingyu smiled and opened a bottle of mineral water. "Don't accuse others unfairly. You and I are different. I have many friends."

When a person has both intelligence and good looks, and a lively and cheerful personality, he must have many friends around him.

Just like flowers can attract butterflies, not to mention he is a handsome guy from Tokyo.

"That's really awesome." Hatsukano Suzune tightened the cap of the bottle, her flat tone was not a compliment at all.

The summer wind blew away the sweat from her clothes, making the girl's clothes look a little thin.

She has come here alone for so many years?

How strong that is.

Natsume Qingha held the bottle of plastic in his hand, looked at the crowd and said: "People cannot live in this world without social interaction, why don't you try to make friends with them?"

“The world is such a big place and it’s very tiring to be friends with everyone.”

The girl's voice was very thin, revealing some resistance, but the boy didn't understand.

The cicadas chirping around them faded away.

silence.

"So are we friends?" he asked.

Hatsukano Suzune got up and went to other shady areas, leaving Natsume Kiyoha sitting alone on the bench, looking a little messy in the breeze.

The bench of destiny?

He drank the mineral water in one gulp and threw the bottle into the trash can nearby in a shooting posture.

This guy deserves to have no friends and is completely unworthy of sympathy.

After replenishing water, the energy in his body soared to 100%. He stretched his muscles and decided to have another ruckus on the playground with his classmates.

The chirping of cicadas in midsummer reaches its climax at this time.

Note 1: 'You like running' comes from the sports show "Strong Wind Blows".

Note 2: The Bench of Destiny comes from "You Are the Only One Who Likes Me", which means that the turn of events encountered by the protagonist is very sudden.

　Thanks to those who have read this far! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
　　
　
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