"Izumi-kun?"

"Well, what's wrong?"

Jinguji Kiyohime's cheeks immediately puffed up.

"It's obvious that you have been in a daze, but you still ask me what's wrong? Don't think that you can cover it up."

Izumi Toru scratched his head in embarrassment.

"It's been seen through."

The girl walked behind him, stretched out her hands and took him into her arms.

"So, what happened? Is it related to Yuhua?"

Izumi Tetsu's head rested on a soft place.

His whole body and soul were enveloped by a clear and gentle fragrance. He relaxed and closed his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Qing Ji."

"Um?"

"There is nothing I can do for Igarashi."

The weakness in the boy's words made Jinguji Kiyohime's fingers suddenly tremble.

The only one who can make Izumi-kun do this is Ohana.

She hugged him tightly.

"Mika is the same as usual at home. It's only at school that she becomes what you see. So, it doesn't matter."

Izumi Toru was silent for a while.

"What if... Igarashi is at home and just pretends to be what you want to see just to make you feel at ease?"

Jinguji Kiyohime's breath suddenly suffocated.

He noticed that the arms around his neck were gradually tightening, but Izumi Toru just wanted her to hug him tighter.

It's so tight that you're suffocated and can't think, that's fine.

Otherwise, he will unconsciously guess and analyze.

What if Mika Igarashi lied that night?

If she is the winner of the two, it means that everything she has done is in vain.

And everyone knew that Mika Igarashi, who was destined to win, liked him.

In other words, her disguise happens to be her true character.

It's just that she abandoned her middle school side. She has been used to it recently.

That night, was what Mika Igarashi said casually on the phone really just to catch herself off guard?

Also talk about...

"No, absolutely not."

His thoughts were interrupted by the girl's sudden words.

"Why not?"

"You don't allow it, I don't allow it, so Yuka can't become like that! This is the tradition of our society, the minority obeys the majority."

Jinguji Kiyohime's unconvincing and childish reasons calmed Izumi Toru's uneasy heart.

"Yeah. The minority obeys the majority."

The shadows of the two people merged in the sunset, embraced by the warmth of the afterglow.

But they all understand that there are some things that Igarashi Mika herself cannot decide.

Whether they are deceiving themselves or unwilling to face reality, the two people in the club classroom can only reduce their fear by relying on each other's stubbornness and naivety.

No one wants to lose anyone.

"Hey, Izumi-kun."

"Um."

"Can you be more harsh on me?"

Izumi Tetsu was stunned for a moment.

Turning her head, the girl's eyes didn't have the shyness of the past, only pleading.

Today, Igarashi Mika was taken by Igarashi Shizuri to handle family affairs, and Izumi Himetsu has not been in the classroom for a while, so the relationship between the two of them was a little more unrestrained than usual.

Jinguji Kiyohime covered her mouth with one hand and grabbed Izumi Toru's hair with the other hand, lying on the sofa.

Her cheeks were so red that they were bleeding, and her amber eyes were filled with thick mist, and she looked like she was about to cry.

The red sunset in autumn made the rubies standing on the snow-capped mountains look particularly crystal clear. The light refracted by the gems made Izumi's black hair turn orange.

winter!

winter!

winter!

In the quiet classroom, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Jinguji Kiyohime hurriedly pushed Izumi Toru away and hurriedly picked up the skirt from the ground...

…

After the person in charge of returning the materials from the student union left, Jinguji Kiyohime walked out of the tea room.

The two looked at each other, and the girl's cheeks, which had just cooled down, couldn't help but feel hot again.

The shyness that she realized later made her walk a little weak, but...

"Izumi-kun... do you want to continue?" Jinguji Kiyohime bit her lip and asked.

"No."

Jinguji Kiyohime was stunned for a moment.

"Why? Difficult, don't you...don't like it?"

Izumi Toru put down the half-processed materials and stood up.

"What do you think?"

The girl couldn't help but move her gaze downwards, and suddenly her red lips slightly opened and she said "Yeah".

She turned around hurriedly, facing away from him.

"That, that..."

She hesitated, not knowing what to say.

It's really scary.

"I'm going out for a walk..."

"Hey, then I'll accompany you..."

Before the girl finished speaking, she suddenly thought that Izumi Toru was setting off now because he probably wanted to be alone and calm down...

So, she changed her tune.

"Um."

Izumi Toru walked out of the classroom and closed the door.

If he continued, he was afraid that he would cross the final boundary.

He knew that Jinguji Kiyohime would not refuse on that occasion, but Igarashi Mika said that he would definitely regret it.

Although he didn't know the reason, he was willing to believe Igarashi Mika.

That hasn't changed yet, she hates him the most.

Passing by the stadium, I could hear the shouts of the baseball team members clearly.

After stopping and watching for a while, he saw that Amakusa Narumi wanted to come over, so he quickly waved to him, then turned around and walked in the other direction.

A person was wandering aimlessly, and then he was blocked by the school library in front of him.

Speaking of quiet, isn't it very quiet here?

Thinking of this, he opened the library door.

The library member went somewhere, and the counter was empty.

As the Vice President of the Student Union, if he found such behavior on a normal day, he would frown and get angry, but today, not only was he not angry, but he felt that it was great that no one would bother him since he was not around.

Pulling out a copy of "Fine Snow" from the bookshelf, Izumi Toru found a corner and planned to read for a while before going back before sunset.

Originally, this was his plan...
To be continued...