Chapter 210 Past, present and phone calls

"What's wrong, do you feel uncomfortable?" Asai pretended to be concerned and gently held her back with one hand to prevent Amamiya Chizuru from falling directly to the ground.

"My head is a little dizzy, I feel so tired...ah..."

Yawning, a feeling of dizziness and fatigue had already hit her body. Amamiya Chizuru murmured and rubbed her eyes with her small hands. It was obvious that she was about to die.

Natsume Naoki and Izumi Mio both looked at her: "They say you only feel sleepy after you've had enough food and wine, but we haven't even started eating yet."

"I just want to sleep..." Chizuru Amamiya murmured softly: "Maybe it's because I was tired from playing during the day. It's been a long time since I've had the experience of shopping and eating all day."

At this time, the difference in physical strength became obvious. The first and second times Natsume Naoki was drugged, he persisted until the meal was finished before the attack started. By that time, about twenty minutes had passed.

Not to mention Izumi Mio's physical strength. Although the [physical strength fragments] were given to Asai, her physical fitness, which she has practiced since childhood, is unmatched by Amamiya Chizuru. She probably would have developed the disease later than Natsume Naoki.

So at this moment, the senior sister didn't show any strangeness at all, and was able to say something else.

"What should I do if I feel uncomfortable? Do you want to lie down for a while?" Izumi Mio said, "Should we go home first?"

On the one hand, she was really worried about this school girl. Although she was a love rival, the school girl was still kind-hearted. On the other hand, if Amamiya Chizuru really went back and she was alone, she would be able to ask some unspeakable questions...

...It would be best to create some opportunities for yourself and Natsume-kun to be alone.

"How can you go home if you don't go home? You haven't even eaten yet." Amamiya Chizuru shook her head: "Maybe I'm just tired and I just need to rest for a while."

Asai stood up, looked at Natsume Naoki and Izumi Mio, and said, "I'll help her go upstairs to have a rest. If Amamiya-san feels relieved, she will come down by herself."

Before you do something, you don’t just have to say it verbally. Like now, if you just say it in vain, some people may object. Even Chizuru Amamiya would say that just sitting on the sofa is fine, but once you stand up,

No one will say anything against it... some psychological hints of letting nature take its course. Psychology is included in the compulsory knowledge for maids.

Sure enough, the other two people said nothing and watched Asai helping Amamiya Chizuru go upstairs.

Izumi pursed her lips and licked the salty aroma of the meat juice on her lips with the tip of her tongue, sliding it across the inside from right to left.

Sure enough, I still have something I want to ask Natsume-kun.

"Aren't Natsume-kun and Asai-san really not childhood sweethearts?"

Natsume Naoki looked at the senior sister after hearing this and nodded: "It's true."

"Is it all made up?"

"That's right. Asai had already thought of her words when she first came here. In order to avoid causing unnecessary misunderstandings to her in school, I made it up according to her wishes."

Natsume Naoki's eyes were very sincere: "I hope senior sister can also keep this secret for us."

Izumi Mio just pursed her lips and said nothing.

Naturally, Natsume Naoki didn't think that the senior sister was the kind of girl who deliberately had a big tongue, so he was wondering why the senior sister didn't look right at the moment.

After thinking about it, he actually guessed it.

"Senior, do you think Asai and I are lying to you? In fact, we are really childhood sweethearts?"

Izumi Mio nodded subconsciously, then quickly shook her head.

"I know Natsume-kun will not lie to me."

"But?" Natsume Naoki asked tentatively. Izumi-senpai's expression at this time seemed to be hesitation written on her face.

"However, I had a chat with Asai-san in school at the end of spring. It was at the cafe in front of the teaching building of the Department of Science and Engineering. I wonder if Natsume-kun has any impression of it."

After thinking for a moment, Natsume Naoki said uncertainly: "Is it a small cafe in the northeast of the square? The one with parasols outside and ivy on the wall. There are often choirs rehearsing on the lawn next to the cafe.

, occasionally you can see men and women wearing choir uniforms drinking coffee and laughing under umbrellas.”

"That's it," Izumi Mio nodded: "The content of my chat with Asai-san that day is still vivid in my mind. Asai-san laughed when he talked about his childhood with Natsume-kun, and his smile was very sincere. I don't believe that that kind of smile can also

Fake."

Natsume Naoki thought to himself that the maid's smile was like crocodile tears. What else couldn't Rakuko make up?

However, the slight frown on the senior sister's brow at this moment showed that the communication between Asai and her at that time was really touching, so Naoki Natsume had an extra thought in her heart.

Thinking back to the time when Asai arrived and how she told the lie of "childhood sweetheart" till now, it was really perfect.

Can any lie really be so complete?

Natsume Naoki frowned and became suspicious.

"Natsume-kun seems...not to have told me anything about his childhood."

There was a hint of blush on Izumi Mio's face, as if she had drank red wine that was bitter at first and then sweet. The sweet fragrance spreading in her throat made her whole person exude a little cuteness.

That is the cuteness that belongs only to girls.

She wanted to know more about Natsume-kun, whether it was his little habit of putting his hands in his sweater pockets on the road or his dreams since childhood.

As long as it's about him, you can talk about anything.

Originally, Izumi Mio was worried that she would feel embarrassed if she and Natsume-kun were the only ones left at the dinner table, as there would be nothing to talk about.

It seems completely redundant now.

When that time comes, there is no need to deliberately search for topics. The two of them can chat wherever they want without fear of being disturbed.

"It happened when I was a kid..." Natsume Naoki frowned.

Izumi Mio saw this and said quickly: "If Natsume-kun doesn't want to say anything, just pretend that I didn't ask."

It seems that the senior sister misunderstood what he meant. In fact, she just touched the broken mirror in her mind and was scratched.

In the past ten years, every time I want to think about the memories before I was eight years old, I have always been like this. Now I am much better. When I was still young, thinking about the things last year would give Natsume Naoki a splitting headache, as if he was recovering from a serious illness.

Just like a patient who insists on strenuous activities, his whole body and mind are resisting, resisting what reminds him,

Now the pain has been reduced a lot, maybe because he has long been used to it. It's like standing in front of the mirror and touching the crack with his hand and being stung. He raises his hand to look at the injured fingertip, but he doesn't feel any pain at all.

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"Senior, I misunderstood. It's not that I don't want to talk about it." Naoki Natsume explained, "I just don't know where to start."

He spread his hands on the table and spoke slowly: "I went to elementary school in Hokkaido, and probably kindergarten as well. Unfortunately, I can't remember too much. There's nothing much about elementary school, and even the sky is in my memory.

It looked gray, without sunshine all day long, and the classmates and teachers had no color. Looking back now, it was like watching a black and white mime, with no sound and no bright spots."

"Then... Natsume-kun fell in love with games?"

The senior sister looked at Natsume Naoki with curious big eyes. This was something she had never heard of before, and it was something she had been looking forward to hearing day and night.

The story about Natsume-kun.

Natsume Naoki nodded and showed a slight smile: "How can a boy not like games? Even if he does, it is because he has experienced too many people and things later, and there are too many burdens on his shoulders and things on his mind, like the palm of his hand.

Wrinkles are small but dense. Studying, anxiety, and dissatisfaction with the status quo but being unable to change the status quo will fill up the heart and take up time. Over time, there will be no time to play games.”

"Everything, good or bad, consumes energy, and those days when boys were innocent and innocent, they would not blame themselves for their troubles, but would have some fun... playing and running around with their friends around the house.

, just sitting at home and playing video games is actually pretty much the same.”

After listening to this, Izumi Mio silently remembered it in her heart, but she thought of Natsume-kun's past days, so maybe she should find some sustenance for herself in the gloom, right?

After all, weak and sick children have few playmates, and those who are not very bright are not good at learning.

"I came to Tokyo when I was a little older, probably when I was in junior high school." Natsume Naoki said: "In my memory, elementary school actually just flashed by, and I only have a little memory of my hometown. There will be more.

It was the days in Tokyo.”

"My father asked his business partners to find me a boarding school in Tokyo. I studied in junior high school and high school consecutively, and all my food and accommodation were in the school. I only went home during the winter and summer vacations, but it didn't last long."

In the eyes of the villagers, this is no different from foster care. For five or six years, the family of three saw little and often separated.

It's just that this idea of ​​foster care somehow got into Nanami's ears, so when Asai first caught Natsume Naoki and her charming and misleading posture, she would laugh and say after Natsume Naoki left, "

It turns out that he is the youngest son adopted by the Natsume family in Tokyo."

In fact, Nanami Ye has met Natsume Naoki, but she forgot.

Natsume Naoki recalled the past, "Because my studies were getting heavier and heavier, I wanted to get into a good university to realize my ideals. Games healed my childhood, so I wanted to spend the rest of my life leaving better games to the world, so

I temporarily put down the game console and started studying day and night. Even during the holidays, I only went home for a few visits. After visiting relatives and friends for three to five days, I hurried back to school and applied to live on campus with the teacher.

Stay in the library and study room."

"I started working in the library as a handyman in the second grade of junior high school. By the time I graduated from high school, the new librarian had to ask me about all aspects of the library."

Natsume Naoki said it very proudly, which is understandable.

A person's efforts in learning are worthy of praise. Looking back at the hardships he has experienced, they are milestones that make him more fulfilled and a medal of life experience.

Izumi Mio listened to Natsume-kun telling her story as if she was dreaming.

If not, why would you feel groggy?

"Natsume-kun, it's... so... hard..."

Yawning, Izumi Mio couldn't open her eyes and murmured "Naoki-kun" in a daze.

The effects of the medicine were about to take effect. Before the coma, Mio and Izumi now regarded it as a dream. In the dream, Natsume-kun and I were sitting face to face, holding hands, and sharing a candlelight dinner.

So since this is a dream, it’s understandable to call me Naoki-kun, right?

The names have been called, should we give you a hug, or be more radical and have a first kiss...
To be continued...