We were sitting across from each other, yet we said these words to the person right in front of us.
However, after saying such unreasonable words, Nakamori Akina felt relieved. Suddenly there was a feeling in her heart that the troubles in the past few days, the words that she had been saying but didn't know where to start, finally had a clue.
Sitting face to face, the distance is very close. However, if the heart wants to get closer, then it is very far away.
Nakamori Akina looked at Iwahashi Shinichi. Looking at Iwahashi Shinichi who had been calmly waiting for her next words, he put away his smile because of her words and looked surprised.
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't know how to react for a moment. He looked at Nakamori Akina and slowly digested the meaning of this sentence.
The two people's eyes met, but Akina Nakamori looked openly into his eyes. The evasive Akina Nakamori seemed to have disappeared after saying goodbye for the first time tonight and looking at each other for the first time.
Iwahashi Shinichi is not an idiot and would not really think that when Nakamori Akina said "very far away", she meant that she was far away from his seat.
Tonight, the two of them have been sitting facing each other. No matter who it is, they can touch each other as long as they extend their hands. When they go out, they adjust their steps and they can walk side by side.
Just now, when I was teaching origami, the distance was so close that it seemed like I could blow her eyelashes with just one breath.
It's not physical distance. There is only one answer, which is the distance between hearts.
"Although I feel that Shinichi-kun is far away from me, but Shinichi-kun is really right in front of me... Isn't it a bit strange to say that?" Nakamori Akina smiled to herself first.
She spoke a bit childishly, but her expression and tone made it impossible for Shinichi Iwahashi to doubt the seriousness and sincerity of her tone.
"But, I don't know Shinichi-kun at all." Akina Nakamori said.
She knew very little about Shinichi Iwahashi, didn't know many things about him, and didn't know his thoughts. Although the physical distance was so close that they were face to face, the distance between their hearts was very far.
Because of this, when the heart wants to get closer to him, this face-to-face "closeness" actually becomes another source of "distant" pain.
It's not so much that the distance between our hearts is very far, it's better to say that we don't know the length of this distance.
The distance between the bodies is clear at a glance, but she cannot know the length of the distance between the hearts. How many steps does it take for her stretched out hand to touch not the air, but Iwahashi Shinichi's hand?
But when she finished saying these words, there was no doubt that she stretched out her hand.
"……really."
Iwahashi Shinichi thought for a while and replied.
Akina Nakamori blinked.
Then, I heard him say, "If you follow these words, I also feel that Akina-san is actually very far away from me, because I don't understand you at all."
Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her, "However, although Akina-san is actually far away from me, Akina-san is indeed right in front of me."
Speaking of this, he also smiled and said, "...Is this imitating your speech?"
Nakamori Akina didn't smile, she still kept looking at him.
Iwahashi Shinichi also put away his smile and continued speaking seriously, "But it is true that I imitate your words, and this idea is also true."
If the "far distance" that Akina Nakamori refers to refers to the distance between hearts, then for Shinichi Iwahashi, Akina Nakamori is also a person he doesn't understand and is very far away.
"However," Shinichi Iwahashi looked at Akina Nakamori, "Although I don't know Akina-san and I am far away from you, Akina-san is right in front of me, which makes me very happy and relieved."
"Happy, relieved?" Nakamori Akina's heart was pounding when she heard him say these two words.
Iwahashi Shin nodded, "Because Akina-san is right in front of me and I know you are there. In that case, if I want to get closer to you and get to know you, I just have to walk forward... It's better to have a direction than to have no head."
It's much better to bump around like flies, right?"
Hearing the last sentence, Nakamori Akina couldn't help but smile.
"Much better." She replied. She looked at Shinichi Iwahashi and told him, "Actually, I thought so too."
The trouble when they met for the first time was the uncertainty of not knowing how far away the heart was, but the courage of the second meeting gave her the determination to get hurt.
Probably there is no relationship in the world that will not get hurt...
However, Akina Nakamori no longer looks forward to a relationship that will not hurt her, but instead thinks about it, so what if she gets hurt?
Iwahashi Shinichi was right in front of her, so she walked towards him. If she was far away from him, she took a step closer to him. She might be hurt, and her outstretched hands and steps would be in vain.
.
However, because the target was Shinichi Iwahashi, she dared to take this step.
"If that's the case,"
Shinichi Iwahashi smiled and said to her, "Don't Akina-san and I have the same thoughts and feelings?"
If you have the same thoughts and feelings, even just a little bit. If this is the case, being far away and not understanding each other, these things seem to be easily solved.
Even if you get hurt in the process of getting closer and understanding, it doesn't matter even if it's in vain... So what if you let him hurt yourself?
Nakamori Akina now feels that her courage to think about these things at this moment not only comes from Iwahashi Shinichi, but also from her own.
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At this time, Shinichi Iwahashi pointed to the origami peacock belonging to Akina Nakamori on the table and asked her, "We will continue the exchange today, right?"
After the origami teaching, they exchanged their works. This was what he started when he taught origami kittens.
He may not be changing the topic, but rather, after the conversation just now, he naturally came to the topic of origami.
Holding Nakamori Akina's origami peacock in his hand, Iwahashi Shinichi was a little curious, "Next time, I don't know what kind of origami works Akina-san will bring."
However, from giraffes to peacocks, he guesses the difficulty of the next origami will increase.
"Well..." Akina Nakamori was in a cheerful mood and gave it a try, "We'll know when the time comes."
"Maybe I will be stumped next time." From giraffes to peacocks, Iwahashi Shinichi has already noticed her desire to see him stumped by origami.
Hearing what he said, Nakamori Akina showed a small smile.
However, when she heard him talk about it, she recalled her feeling of wanting to stump him when she was learning origami, and couldn't help but wonder, what was the reason for that feeling of wanting to stump him?
Do you want to embarrass him or see him make a fool of yourself? No, it's not like that.
If Iwahashi Shinichi asked her for help, Nakamori Akina would feel more satisfied that he was finally able to meet his needs than the joy of "finally putting him in trouble".
