Chapter 57: Night run and chance encounter with Qimingyue
The study group spent the day peacefully.
Today is Friday, and A Ling has to record the weekend radio voice actor talk in the afternoon, so the study meeting has been temporarily disbanded.
Raku Sakakibara is the kind of person who can't sit still. Taking advantage of the fact that school ended early on Friday and there were no club activities, he changed into sportswear and went out for a run.
Originally, he wanted to ask Kuriuri to join him, but her class seemed to be still tutoring other courses, so Sakakihara Raku had to go home first.
From Juhideji Temple to Shirogane Mizukawa Shrine, from the shrine to Sacred Heart Women's College...the breeze blew in the face, the street trees swayed gently on both sides, and the sweaty Sakakibara ran until he forgot about himself.
He doesn’t know when he started to like running.
But whenever he felt an unspeakable emotion in his heart, he would try to move his legs to dispel the emotion.
The riverside path seems to have light, and the solid ground that is stepped step by step is as dazzling as a lighthouse on the sea, leading the way forward amidst the occasional whistling of vehicles on the street.
Arrived near Sacred Heart Women's College.
Girls in sailor uniforms looked at him from time to time on the roadside. When his figure flew past from the opposite side, they hid their heads together and whispered excitedly.
"The boy's figure just now..."
"Look at the muscles on your legs, Yue-chan!"
"You must have abdominal muscles."
"Lianjiang, go up and ask for your contact information! If we don't take the initiative, we will have no future at all in the women's college!"
"What, why don't you go?"
"Hey! They've run away a long time ago!"
At nine o'clock, the charm seems to have taken a class leap.
In the past, most girls would stare at him for a second, but now they would gather together to discuss his characteristics, length of legs, height, etc.
Raku Sakakibara accidentally saw a long-haired girl in front of her wearing the Western-style uniform of Akita Junior High School.
——Black hair, pleated skirt, knee-high socks and small brown leather shoes.
As the pace continued, the girl's back gradually approached. Sakakihara Raku didn't want to know what the other party looked like at the first moment. Instead, through the same school uniform, he was inexplicably reminded of Amami Kuruuri.
From that day in the shopping mall, her image has been lingering in my mind. She is cute, kind, upright, sunny, gentle... a girl with beautiful long flaxen hair as light as the spring breeze, a girl like a flower on the high mountain.<
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Running in the breeze, the indescribable emotions became more and more inspiring, and a long-lost excitement swayed in his heart.
Although I only lived to be eighteen years old in my previous life, my experience was not much higher than in this life.
But he knows that hesitation is never a good thing.
He decided that after the monthly test, he was going to have a love affair!
He couldn't help but quicken his pace.
"Hey! Sakakibara! This way!"
Fujino carried large and small bags and waved to him from across the street. In addition to Nishijima, there was also a girl wearing a sailor uniform standing next to him.
Sakakihara stopped and looked through the passing vehicles.
He walked through the traffic light and came to the front of the three people.
"Sakakibara, you know this, my girlfriend! Kiyosawa Otoha," Fujino Yoshiyuki introduced with a smile, his expression and words revealed confidence and pride, "I usually call her Ye-chan, or Xiaoye!"
"Hello."
"Hello!"
Kiyosawa Otoha tilted her head slightly and waved her hand cheerfully to Sakakibara.
She is a pretty girl, and I heard that she and Fujino have been studying in the same school since elementary school.
However, in high school, due to different family backgrounds, Fujino went to Meitoku Junior School with higher tuition fees, while Kiyosawa Otoha went to the nearby Sacred Heart Girls' College.
The childhood sweethearts were forced to separate, and Fujino was extremely conflicted at that time, reluctant to let go, but completely embarrassed.
In short, after overcoming a series of hardships, he took the initiative to confess his love, and after a while, it became a love relationship.
Compared to Sakakibara Raku's ordinary nod of greeting, Kiyosawa Otoha seemed very enthusiastic:
"Are you Sakakibara-kun?!"
"Yeah." Sakakibara nodded.
"I feel like I'm much more handsome than Yoshiyuki-kun said!"
Fujino Yoshiyuki interjected from the side: "Oh, don't talk about it. This is a recent change in him. I can guarantee that he was definitely not so dazzling a while ago."
"Really?" Kiyosawa Otoye blinked. He was a little interested in his boyfriend's handsome classmate.
My best friend keeps yelling like a resentful woman after class every day, she really wants to find a boyfriend, she really wants to find a boyfriend.
Maybe I can help them look for it?
"Don't believe it? Xiaoye, you can ask Xi Dao."
Nishijima Oaki nodded: "It's true."
Kiyosawa Otoha smiled: "That must be Sakakihara-kun who has learned how to dress up!"
"You just came back from Akihabara? What did you buy?" Raku Sakakihara saw the store's logo on their shopping bags.
Fujino Yoshiyuki picked up his handbag: "Oh, just some food, potato chips, drinks and chocolate."
Nishijima Oki: "There are also game cards for the figures."
"It's you, Sakakibara, you're sweating profusely, why are you still running?"
"Exercise, people are not born great, but show their greatness as they grow. I am growing up step by step."
"How long have you been running?"
"Twenty-five kilometers."
"Twenty-five kilometers?!" Fujino's eyes widened.
"It's getting more and more exaggerated. I said to you, can you save some face for people like us? Just study every day, and you're so good at sports... Why are you so mature? And why do I feel like you
This guy has become much more handsome recently, he is completely different."
Nishimura Oki nodded calmly: "Ordinary handsomeness and Kimura Takuya-level handsomeness."
It seems that the charm of 9 o'clock is indeed effective. Recently, everyone is saying that they have changed.
"Really?"
A smile appeared on Raku Sakakibara's face, because he had just run, and his handsome face had a hearty smile.
Hey, hey, this guy!
The more Fujino Yoshiyuki saw something was wrong, Sakakihara had really changed a lot in the past few days.
Run in the morning every day, and then run at night after the morning run.
He doesn't feel comfortable unless he runs twenty kilometers a day.
I usually have nothing to do after class to study exercises.
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What is this kind of person if not a cash deposit?
"Do you want to continue?"
"Keep going, there are still five kilometers left. After I finish running, I will run home and it will be over."
"Why are you working so hard?" Nishijima asked.
"This is called maintaining your own charm at all times."
"Hahaha, Sakakibara-kun is quite interesting!" Kiyosawa Otoye said with a smile.
"Tch~~You're not in love, so it's useless to be charming."
"Who said that? Maybe next month you will see me starting a relationship with a female high school student."
"True or false?" Fujino stared at him for a while, not thinking he was lying.
"Who knows? Okay, goodbye, I will continue to complete the remaining five kilometers."
"Damn it, Sakakibara! Please stop trying so hard!"
After Raku Sakakibara finished speaking, he waved to the three of them and continued to run the rest of the distance.
"I think your classmate is quite interesting. Is he in love?"
"No." Fujino Yoshiyuki shook his head and said, "Do you want to introduce it to your best friend?"
"Why don't you ask for me? They are annoying me to death all day long," Qingzao Yinye said with her fingers. "They kept saying, 'Ah~ Ye-chan is so good to have a boyfriend', 'It's so good to have a childhood sweetheart.
', 'When is my turn?', and other such topics."
"Okay, but I don't know if it can be successful or not."
"It's okay, it's okay."
"Didn't Sakakibara just say that he wanted to fall in love?" Ohki Nishijima interjected to the two of them.
"That means it's very possible?" Kiyosawa Otoye asked with a blink.
"Not necessarily. Maybe Sakakibara has very high standards. After all, he himself is not bad."
......
After running through the streets and finishing the last five kilometers of the journey, as more and more shops and neon lights appeared around him, he realized that he was in the wrong place and actually ended up in Ginza.
Sakakibara stood next to a telephone pole and a vending machine, bent over, propped up his knees, and stopped.
"Happy!"
Cheer yourself up, then put one foot on the ground, lift the other foot forward and place it on the tree in front of you, press your upper body and start doing leg stretching.
After completing a set of movements, he breathed a sigh of relief, took out a few coins from his wallet, and bought a bottle of room-temperature mineral water from the vending machine.
As evening approaches, the remaining heat of the sun scorches the dark clouds, and the surging sea of clouds is full of melancholy orange-red and dark gold, intertwining together to form a dreamy sky like an oil painting.
Under the setting sun, Raku Sakakihara leaned against a telephone pole and looked at the endless flow of pedestrians in front of him. He listened to the urban noise coming from the bustling urban area and enjoyed his own tranquility.
Commodity stores, gift shops, jewelry stores, clothing stores, and huge fashion advertisements above his head were all reflected in his eyes. No one noticed him. He was just a bystander silently watching the operation of the commercial center.
The solitude of being presentable yet independent from the bustling city made him feel inexplicably relaxed.
[The third world is dazzling, as vibrant as spring. There are electric lights, silver spoons, cheers, laughter, and sparkling champagne.]
Sanshiro, the protagonist of Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro", a country boy, sees Tokyo in this way.
In a sense, I think I have something in common with him.
They are all country boys.
He rested for a while, got up and left.
Ginza is six kilometers away from Shirogane Takanawa, so Sakakibara chose to jog back for more than half an hour.
Arriving at Don Quixote Supermarket, where he often buys groceries, Raku Sakakibara was surprised to find a large bag of potato chips coming out.
——It’s really a big bag of potato chips. It’s so big that you can only see clearly the skirt under the potato chips and the slender legs wearing knee-high socks.
The ladies who were going to buy groceries all around saw the man holding potato chips behind him and smiled at him.
Sakakibara looked at it curiously, wanting to see who was so weird that he would buy so many potato chips at once, but the flaxen hair peeked out from the corner, and he knew who it was.
.
"Qi Mingyue, let me do it."
"Brother?"
Wearing gold-rimmed glasses, Amami Nanamigyue raised her delicate little face and looked at Raku Sakakihara who suddenly appeared in front of her and helped her hold the potato chips.
"Why did you buy so many at once?" Raku Sakakihara faced a potato chip concentration camp that was half his body size and looked like a microbial community.
"Because of the supermarket promotion today, buy one pack and get half a pack free."
"Half a bag?"
"Two packs get one pack, doesn't it mean one pack gets half a pack?"
"Two people give birth to one person, but it cannot be said that one person gives birth to half a person."
"Brother is secretly changing the concept. But brother is just in time. Please help your sister get something."
Nanami Nanami put the potato chip cluster in her hand into Sakakibara Raku's arms. She was carrying a small bag and was wearing a sky blue casual dress.
"You should call out Kuruuri." Sakakihara Raku said.
"My sister will never allow me to buy so many potato chips."
"So you came here to buy it secretly?"
"Brother, don't you think Qi Mingyue is pitiful?"
"I don't think so at all."
"My brother is going to expose Qi Mingyue to my sister again, and then my sister will scold me again."
"No...I'm just asking."
Tianhai Qimingyue instantly returned to his normal calm appearance: "Brother, it's okay if you understand. Although Qi Mingyue likes my sister very much and loves her very much, there are some things that I still can't let my sister know."
A black belly, definitely a black belly.
Sakakihara Raku also knows why, because if she buys so many potato chips, Kururi will definitely flick her forehead.
Jiuliuli still has the aura of a big sister.
Divide the potato chips into four small bags, carry two bags each, and start taking the tram home.
Qi Mingyue is very quiet. When riding the tram, she likes to sit quietly and stare at the flashing scenery outside the window.
There is nothing special about this book, but because of her wonderful face and unique temperament, she is completely different from everyone else in the tram.
"Brother, do you think Qimingyue is beautiful?"
"I'm just curious whether Qi Mingyue, you and Jiu Liuli have been very strict in their tutoring since childhood?"
"That's right." Tianhai Qimingyue nodded seriously, "My sister is not only good at archery, but also calligraphy and violin. She also knows some guitar. She is a perfect sister - she just can't cook."
"What about Qimingyue?"
"I'm not as powerful as my sister..." When Tian Hai Qi Mingyue said this, she deliberately buried her little face.
"If there is no ambition, transcendence is not high. I think Qimingyue at least knows how to be humble."
"Brother also studies Chinese literature?"
Seeing her interest, Sakakihara Raku continued: "More than that, I can also speak Chinese."
"Really? (The word is correct and the accent is round)"
Raku Sakakihara was stunned for a moment. This even had a bit of a capital flavor, but because it was very girly, it was in a very cute style, "Do you know how to do Nanamigetsu?"
"I learned it from my mother, and then from my father."
Uncle Tianhai can also speak Chinese?
But that’s right, there are books from more than ten countries in his study, and they are all original.
Probably Qi Mingyue likes reading and is influenced by Uncle Tianhai.
However, Sakakihara Raku didn't expect that Nanami Nanami would have such a pure Chinese accent. His mouth was a little unfamiliar, so he began to be interested in chatting with her in Chinese:
"When a man returns home after the wild geese, his thoughts are in front of the flowers."
"People miss home every day, a five-character poem from the Sui Dynasty."
"After the ancient platform crumbled, autumn came into my heart and I looked back to my hometown."
"Liu Changqing, climbing to Wu Gongtai Temple in autumn and looking into the distance... This poem was originally written by Qi Mingyue after I saw it in an article."
"The golden palace opens an account at dawn, and the jade-level immortals support thousands of palaces."
"Cen Shen's song and poem are about the scene in the early Tang Dynasty. My brother's simple question has no meaning at all."
"Haha, indeed, this is the same as searching for knowledge." Sakakibara laughed.
After communicating with Qi Mingyue for a while, he found that her personality was not as strange as he imagined.
On the contrary, she is still a very knowledgeable girl.
She also smiled gently when she talked about many interesting little knowledge points.
"I didn't expect that my brother would also read a lot of knowledge."
"Just looking around when I have nothing to do."
"Qi Mingyue, do you have any recommended books?"
""Six Chapters of a Floating Life", Qi Mingyue likes the love in it very much." Tianhai Qi Mingyue clearly has no expression, but there is always an imperceptible smile at the corner of her mouth.
"True or false? Why does the name sound so much like narrative prose?"
"It's an autobiographical prose, and it's in the school library."
"Okay, I'll borrow it for school tomorrow."
Carrying two large bags of potato chips from Shirogane Takanawa Station, Sakakibara Raku and Tenkai Nanamigetsu were waiting at an intersection.
There is a newly opened bridal shop across the street. Under the lighting, it looks like a dazzling palace.
Raku Sakakibara waited until the red light turned green and called Nanamiyuki. As soon as he took two steps, he found that she was not following her, so he turned back to look at her.
"Seven bright moons?"
Tianhai Qimingyue stood there holding two bags of potato chips. The night breeze brought by the vehicle caressed her face, and her sky blue gradient dress and long flaxen hair floated to the right at the same time.
The girl's sky-blue eyes reflected the white wedding dress in the window opposite.
"Nana Mingzuki?" Sakakibara called her again, and at the same time noticed the way she looked at the bridal shop opposite.
"Hmm."
When the green light countdown was halfway through, Nanami Nanami came to her senses, and she followed Raku Sakakibara with light steps.
Sakakihara Raku found that she seemed to have entered a strange state, not wanting to speak much, and seemed to be stuck in some kind of memory.
Speaking of which, no matter how smart Qi Mingyue is, her heart is just that of a girl.
"I'm sorry, can I take up a moment of your time?" The speaker was a young lady, holding a flyer in her hand and wearing a dress.
Before she came to talk, she took a quick look at the girl in front of her who was holding two plastic bags in both hands.
A light and airy temperament, a face like a spring breeze.
She has been in the wedding industry for almost ten years...Really, I have never seen a girl with such a unique temperament.
"What's the matter?" Sakakibara asked.
"It's like this. We are from the bridal shop over there. We mainly want to ask the lady next to you, sir, for a favor."