When Iwahashi Shinichi heard these words, he was speechless for a moment and couldn't react. He loosened his hand and his fingers touched the warm skin, as if he had touched something he shouldn't have touched, so he subconsciously took it away.
"If I knew you well enough, I wouldn't let you have such thoughts." Iwahashi Shinichi was uneasy and felt pushed by Nakamori Akina's words. He pulled his mind out of this whirlpool and gently held his hand again.
Put it on her shoulders.
Nakamori Akina didn't notice the subtle emotion of him taking his hand away and then putting it back up. She stretched out her hand and grasped Iwahashi Shinichi's finger, "But, I'm not here to hear you say, 'Akina is not a burden to me.'
You said so."
"I think I might really be a burden to you." Nakamori Akina smiled and held his hand, "It's useless, I can't help you, and I can't do anything for you."
She showed her childish expression again, "But that's just me, that's all."
Shinichi Iwahashi felt uncomfortable in his heart. He felt ashamed in front of Nakamori Akina's frank self-revelation. Facing such a frank and pure Nakamori Akina, whatever he said, he felt that it was just clever words.
"But, it's because I like you the most." She smiled, "Even though I knew I was becoming a burden to you, I still want to shamelessly hold you tight." As she said this, she took Shinichi Iwahashi's finger and shook it.
Go, "Just like this."
Shin Iwahashi stared at her heartlessly.
"He looked very unhappy." Nakamori Akina disliked him.
He was led by the nose, "Is there any?"
"Yes, yes." She nodded vigorously and shook her head on his lap, looking serious, "She looked like she was frightened by the shamelessness of my persistent pursuit, but she couldn't open her mouth to regret it."
"How is that possible?" Shinichi Iwahashi was speechless and amused at the same time.
Nakamori Akina chased after her, "What is that?" She stretched out a finger and poked Iwahashi Shinichi's cheek, "...it's hard."
"I'm thinking about what to do."
Iwahashi Shinichi held her finger.
"What to do?" Nakamori Akina blinked.
He said with a straight face, "Understanding you, being understood by you... and also understanding myself."
Nakamori Akina was confused when she heard this, "What?"
Even if I talk about it seriously, in the end, I will still be at a level of only 2.5, and I will be confused if I don't pay attention.
Seeing her like this, Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't help but sigh.
As a result, Nakamori Akina pouted and said, "You have taken me for a fool again, haven't you?"
"No." Iwahashi Shinichi shook his head, "It's my fault. I didn't explain clearly enough." He was not good at revealing his inner feelings.
Akina Nakamori laughed angrily, "Doesn't that mean I'm stupid?"
"I'm saying I'm stupid." He said seriously.
"When a smart person says he is a fool, he is actually using it to excuse himself." Akina Nakamori taught him.
Iwahashi Shinichi also laughed, "If you can see through the prevarications of smart people, how can you be a fool?"
"Idiots have simple hearts..." Nakamori Akina hurriedly spoke, but she felt it didn't make sense and stopped talking. She blinked and looked at Iwahashi Shinichi.
The two of them just looked at each other for a while, and neither of them spoke.
While it was quiet, the puppy Kenta ran over again, wanting to jump on the sofa. The puppy couldn't understand the complex emotions between humans, and it didn't understand that even though these two people were clinging to each other, there was something separating them in their hearts.
Thinking of joining in.
If you don't pay attention, it becomes a scene where Akina Nakamori is lying on Shinichi Iwahashi's lap, and Kenta is held in Akina Nakamori's arms. Looking at this sequence from top to bottom, the status of the family is evident.
Akina Nakamori touched Kenta's head and suddenly laughed, "It's really fun to raise puppies."
Iwahashi Shinichi also reached out to touch Kenta and echoed, "Really?"
But the puppy enlivened the atmosphere, but it could not untie the knot between the two people. After teasing the puppy for a while, Nakamori Akina became a little listless. Kenta stuck out his tongue and comforted her in his dog way.
"It's weird." She smiled and talked to Kenta.
Iwahashi Shinichi hugged Nakamori Akina and put his hand on her head, "I like you very much."
Akina Nakamori was suddenly confessed to her love. The smile on her face when she was teasing Kenta disappeared for a moment and she remained silent.
"I like you very much, I want to love you well, and I want to do everything I can for you." Iwahashi Shinichi stared at the TV screen, but didn't care about the content.
The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, "But if it bothers you so much in the end, it's better not to do it than to do it."
Nakamori Akina kept a straight face and listened silently.
Iwahashi Shinichi sighed, "If that's the case, I can't actually help you, and I haven't done anything for you." Who is the burden to whom, and who is the burden to whom?
"..."
Nakamori Akina didn't answer, and Iwahashi Shinichi also kept silent. There was another silence, and suddenly, she heard her gentle laughter.
"If you want to say so..."
Akina Nakamori laughed, "Am I even with you?"
She thought it was interesting.
However, this is what love is like. Being shrewd and steady can make you successful at work, but when it comes to love, it may not mean much. He cannot get it right in his official business, but this clumsiness is the sincere and frank emotion in love.
Can this be used to "even out"?
Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't figure it out himself. But seeing her happy, he also breathed a sigh of relief. Although he probably knew in his heart that just "equalizing" was useless, there were more real problems waiting there.
"Your plan," Nakamori Akina suddenly mentioned, "I didn't agree to it."
Iwahashi Shinichi said "Yeah", "I just said it." He lowered his gaze and saw Nakamori Akina's awkward expression. He turned his head and asked her, "Is it because it's not suitable for me that I didn't agree? Or is there something else?"
What’s the reason?”
"This is it."
Nakamori Akina really started to think seriously, and sent out several of her thoughts one after another, and seriously raised her opinions. Iwahashi Shinichi was unexpected, so he listened quickly and took it to heart.
After finishing the comments I wanted to make, I added another sentence, "...I always act on my own, pretending to be nothing."
Iwahashi Shinichi lowered his head and admitted his mistake, "I won't do this next time."
Akina Nakamori looked at his face.
"In the future, I will discuss it carefully with you before doing anything." Iwahashi Shinichi spoke slowly, "Even if I mess up and fail in the end, still..."
"If you mess up, just mess up." Nakamori Akina raised her hand and touched his serious face, "It's not because you can do anything, Shinichi, that's why I like you."
"..." Iwahashi Shinichi blinked.
She muttered to herself, "You might as well tell me. Let me hear both the good and the bad... I'm really of no use, but no matter what you say, I will listen. I hope everything goes well for you."
, but if you fail and encounter setbacks, even if I can't help you, I will definitely not laugh at you, and I will still hold you in my arms."
"You can do so much for me, and it won't be 'useless'." Iwahashi Shinichi bent down, gently touched her forehead with his forehead, and leaned cheek to cheek with hers.
On the contrary, if what he did was not accepted by Akina Nakamori, it would be useless.
"Really?" Nakamori Akina pretended to be proud, "Don't underestimate me..." Even though it was a bluff, she still put up her air.
Iwahashi Shinichi agreed, wanting to make her happy, "This sentence is even more powerful than Hanako Kiryuin's."
As a result, Nakamori Akina taught him, "That line is a line from Oniryuin Matsue played by Natsume Masako-san..."
He suddenly realized, "That's it!" This perfectly exposed the fact that he had never seen the movie and mistakenly thought that Natsume Masako was "Kiryuuin Hanako" just because she starred in it.
Akina Nakamori chuckled, "Shinichi always makes a mess of things like this."
"There is always something so-so." Iwahashi Shinichi also laughed.
It was only then that Akina Nakamori finally remembered the TV drama "Yuejiu" and turned to look at the screen. After watching it mindlessly for a while, the TV started to scroll with the credits and the preview of the next episode.
This episode of the Yue Jiu TV series ended just like that, amidst the seemingly non-existent quarrel with Iwahashi Shinichi. She suddenly remembered that she was picking on him on the phone this afternoon and said, "I just watch the Yue Jiu TV series with my girlfriend occasionally."
?"
If it's like tonight every time we watch the TV series Yue Jiu together, then it's better not to watch it... Akina Nakamori felt funny for her out-of-the-box thoughts.
"I am pregnant"
In the trailer for the next episode, the character played by Shizuka Kudo announces such a bombshell to the male protagonist.
Akina Nakamori exclaimed, "It's incredible!" She commented seriously on this clip, "The triangle relationship is about to be shaken." This shouting look may not be to change the topic and cover up the subtle atmosphere just now.
It's okay if she didn't do this. If she did, Iwahashi Shinichi knew that the matter had not gone away like this.
"What should we do now..." Akina Nakamori began to worry, "Asano-san is going to face a big crisis."
She turned her brain and imagined the bloody scenes that might happen next, such as a child having a difficult birth, the hero and heroine taking care of the remaining child together, and so on. She knew she was a seasoned soap opera watcher.
Iwahashi Shinichi admired her very much.
At the end of the preview for the next episode, Akina Nakamori was so excited that she got up from his lap, stretched, and said, "I'm going to take a shower."
"So it hasn't been washed yet?" Shinichi Iwahashi felt as if the answer to the mystery had been revealed.
Nakamori Akina showed a "so what" expression, but what she said was: "You won't leave, right?"
Iwahashi Shinichi was once again confused by her off-the-cuff words and didn't know how to react. She said to herself, "Shinichi, your personality is that if you think I'm unhappy, you'll want to go back on your own."
"Have you?" Iwahashi Shinichi didn't remember.
She nodded seriously, "It's something you can do."
"..." So it's just my imagination.
Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't do anything to her. He looked at her and said, "I can't walk now even if I want to." He pointed at his legs, trying to laugh or not, "My legs are numb because of your pillow."
"Why?"
Akina Nakamori reacted and laughed. She smiled happily, and Shinichi Iwahashi became more and more speechless. This Akina Nakamori couldn't get enough of laughing, so she started to use her brain to come up with bad ideas, "So, I'll do something to you now.
Is there anything else that can be done?”
"What do you want to do?" Iwahashi Shinichi's expression was subtle, and he felt a bit like he was about to be persecuted.
Nakamori Akina arrogantly approached him
Put your hand on it and rub it for him.
He did this without using that arrogant expression. Iwahashi Shinichi stretched out his hand, tucked her hanging hair behind her ears, and gently pinched her small ears.
"How is it?" Akina Nakamori turned her head and looked at him.
Iwahashi Shinichi said sincerely, "Thank you, it's been a big help."
"Anyway, it's because of my numbness..." She muttered and worked hard with her hands.
Shinichi Iwahashi smiled at her, "Who else can rest my leg but you?"
Nakamori Akina glared at him, "If you were numb by someone else's pillow, I wouldn't be able to rub it for you."
"So, it's all mutual."
Iwahashi Shinichi used Nakamori Akina's strength to pull her up and move her body. In fact, it was not serious at first, but he used this reason to tease her.
After recovering, he looked at Akina Nakamori who was observing from the side and stretched out his hand to her.
"What?" She blinked.
"Today, after we met, I haven't given you a good hug yet," Iwahashi Shinichi said.
He whispered softly. As Nakamori Akina listened, it felt as if a small stone had been thrown into the lake of her heart. The ripples caused pushed her into the arms of Shinichi Iwahashi.
"Mingcai."
"Um?"
"I like you more and more." He lowered his eyelids.
Nakamori Akina's eyelids were sore, she patted him on the back and deliberately joked with him, "You know how strong my charm is, right?"
"I know." Shinichi Iwahashi answered questions and answers, "She is beautiful and cute, has a good heart, cooks delicious food, and is good at knitting. Moreover, she is fat when she should be, thin when she should be, and her waist is also very thin.
…”
"How annoying!" Akina Nakamori wanted to dislike him, but also found it funny.
Iwahashi Shinichi leaned forward and kissed the small patch of skin next to her ear. A thin stream of hot air penetrated into Nakamori Akina's ear. She muttered, "Now I know what you are thinking."
She was held by Shinichi Iwahashi and placed on the sofa. She reached out and pushed his shoulder, "I haven't taken a shower yet."
"Wait a moment." He said vaguely.
Different from the impatience she had experienced in the past few times, Nakamori Akina seemed to feel some kind of unnatural eagerness from him, as if she was confirming something and longing for something.
It is rare for Shinichi Iwahashi to experience such a gaffe...if this can be called a gaffe.
Tonight, the problems I feel are real, and the uneasiness in my heart is real. But the feeling of being hugged tightly and loved is also real.
She thought about it and closed her eyes.
suddenly
The elusive rescue team who always rescued the wrong person by mistake rushed out again. When the puppy Kenta saw his subdued owner, he barked and rushed forward, trying to drive away the evil man Iwahashi Shinichi.
"Kenta!"
Akina Nakamori opened her eyes and stopped.
When Kenta died down, the air fell into silence.
Two people look at each other, and neither of them can say the first thing.
Iwahashi Shinichi said, "It's really fun to raise puppies, right?"... To a certain extent, it's already funny.
"..."
Nakamori Akina was silent for a moment, then suddenly pounced on him and started beating him. After a few hits, they couldn't help laughing, and the two of them burst into laughter.
Kenta, who had no idea what role he played, was anxiously wandering aside because he couldn't participate.
