This high emotion lasted from this moment until dinner was put on the table.
Nakamori Akina picked up the carrot cubes with chopsticks and put them on Iwahashi Shinichi's plate. She was full of energy and interest even though she was a picky eater, as if the purpose of using carrots as a side dish was just for this little game at this moment. She
He picked out a few grains, raised his head, and gave Shinichi Iwahashi a sly expression as if he was feeling guilty and trying to please.
Iwahashi Shinichi picked up a half-soft carrot and put it into his mouth to watch his girlfriend's performance. He looked at it with an indifferent expression. Nakamori Akina felt a little embarrassed, raised her elbows, and raked it upside down.
"What's wrong?"
This bit of fussiness can be regarded as a manifestation of the high emotions that continue to this day.
Nakamori Akina didn't realize it herself, but her fidgeting look told others that she was harboring something. Shinichi Iwahashi asked in return, "What's wrong?"
She raised her mouth, wanting to say that Shinichi Iwahashi would imitate her. But when the words reached her lips, she suddenly stopped. She lowered her head, waved her chopsticks again, and picked out the carrot dices.
When she was a child, in a big family with many brothers and sisters, little attention could be given to a child who was neither an eldest nor a young child. She wanted to be a lovable child and wanted to be praised, so even if it was a carrot she didn't like to eat,
, and said "I like it" while eating it.
In fact, when you grow up, if you don't like to eat carrots, don't put them in when cooking, or just pick them out. As now, stubbornly putting the carrot cubes on Iwahashi Shinichi's plate, Nakamori Akina's mentality is beyond description
Not subtle.
However, Shinichi Iwahashi ate the carrots for her, and she kept them on her own, or picked them out and threw them away. These are two completely different things.
Before meeting Shinichi Iwahashi, no one had ever eaten the carrots she didn't like for her. Even if she was considered a troublesome woman... However, someone had eaten the carrots she didn't like for her, and that made her feel...
It makes the boat enter the harbor peacefully.
It was as if after growing up, she really left her original big family and had her own home. Because of this thought, she kept putting the picked carrot cubes on Iwahashi Shinichi's plate at this moment. A kind of
The mentality of confirming something.
A new home where I don't have to bear to eat carrots I don't like...
Before meeting Shinichi Iwahashi, no one had ever stood in front of her to keep bad things away from her. Thinking of this, Akina Nakamori stopped holding the chopsticks in her hand and said, "Father..."
She spoke suddenly, and she was stunned for a moment. She raised her eyelids and saw Shinichi Iwahashi with a gentle expression on his face, waiting for her.
In the past, when talking about her family in front of Shinichi Iwahashi, she often felt ashamed. But at this moment, facing Shinichi Iwahashi, Akina Nakamori felt calm and slowly spoke out.
.
"Omoto-san told me about my father." Nakamori Akina looked at Iwahashi Shinichi and suddenly hesitated, not knowing whether to say "thank you" to him or to apologize to him.
Iwahashi Shinichi saw the way she was hesitant to speak, and he guessed to some extent what the big stone weighing on her heart tonight was. For Nakamori Akina, who valued her family and was ashamed to be told about her family scandals.
, even if the article was not published, just having her read it and knowing about it was enough to make her feel embarrassed.
He thought for a while and then took up the topic, "The weekly report has been suppressed, but the matter still needs to be resolved."
"Solve it?" Akina Nakamori asked.
Her reaction was as if she had never thought about it. Iwahashi Shinichi said "Yeah", "The report has been suppressed, but the debt problem still exists."
"I don't know." She said bluntly.
After I said it without thinking, I realized this willful gaffe. But those blunt words were more of a refutation of his absent father Akio than an answer to Shinichi Iwahashi.
Akina Nakamori showed guilt to Shinichi Iwahashi, lowered her head, and whispered: "...I don't know." This sentence meant asking him for help when she didn't know what to do.
Iwahashi Shinichi discussed with her, "After that, I will go back to Kiyose with you to see Chieko-san... okay?"
In fact, Akio Nakamori's debt problem and complicated relationship between men and women, rather than his children who have grown up, are really affected by Chieko, who is living alone in her hometown in Kiyose.
Akio Nakamori had been having sex outside the home when he was young, and in recent years, the couple had long since separated. The relationship between a man and a woman, whose husband was in name only, was outside the home. For the open-minded and cheerful Chieko, it was probably worth a boring yawn after hearing about it.
What is really likely to affect Chieko is Akio Nakamori's dangerous money problem.
At this moment, it is not even known whether Chieko herself knew about this matter.
If Akio Nakamori really sticks to his determination to run away from home, then before the creditor comes to find Kiyose, Chieko may not know about her husband's "great achievements" outside. On the other hand, if Akio Nakamori puts the blame on his wife,
, Chieko will be in trouble.
Shinichi Iwahashi mentioned Chieko, which made Akina Nakamori feel sad. In addition to the sadness, there was also a sudden surge of guilt for her mother.
Inadvertently, he picked up all the carrot cubes on Iwahashi Shinichi's plate and ate them all. Nakamori Akina couldn't help laughing when she saw him eating the carrots.
Smiling, the smile on his face faded.
She couldn't take her eyes away, and Shinichi Iwahashi asked her to watch, intently waiting for what she was going to say next.
Akina Nakamori finally spoke, and what she said was: "Actually, I don't feel angry or sad about my father." She blinked and saw Shinichi Iwahashi's slightly surprised expression.
"Did it scare you?" She looked like a mischievous child.
Iwahashi Shinichi also smiled, "It's a bit." There was no need for Nakamori Akina to lie to him about this matter. If that was the case, then he just guessed that Nakamori Akina was worried because she knew about Nakamori Akio's scandal.
It seems that I guessed wrongly.
It's rare to guess wrongly what Akina Nakamori is thinking.
Nakamori Akina herself laughed, as if whispering, to herself and to him: "I was shocked too."
Iwahashi Shinichi reacted briefly, "By yourself?"
Nakamori Akina nodded her head, "When something like this happens... you feel angry, sad, or ashamed. Isn't that more like me?"
She seemed to be laughing at herself. Shinichi Iwahashi did not laugh and listened silently.
"But, no." Akina Nakamori said as if confirming something.
There was no shame like in the past when a family scandal was publicized, or a heavy burden on her shoulders. After hearing about this incident, what I thought the most about was that Shinichi Iwahashi had done this for her.