I don’t know if this is a good habit or a bad habit, but Oda always likes to close his eyes when he sings seriously. It is also for this reason that Oda did not notice Nishino walking in.
Unlike Oda, Akimoto, who was a little nervous about singing with Oda, immediately noticed Nishino who came in through the door. Maybe he noticed that Nishino's expression was not quite right, so Akimoto slowly put it aside.
The singing voice decreases until it stops.
The whole room only echoed with Oda's singing, like the snow on the mountains, high-pitched and elegant.
Akimoto glanced at Nishino a few times and then at Oda a few times, wondering whether he should remind Oda, but Nishino's attention was entirely focused on Akimoto Manatsu.
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"Why... why are there two people?" The first thought that came to Nishino's mind was this.
The moment she saw Akimoto's presence, Nishiyomi's feelings were a bit complicated and indescribable, which made her feel that her persistence had become like a mirror in the mirror. It was clear that she had distanced herself from her best friend for a whole day after making up her mind.
For many years, I had endured not talking to Oda. I was standing at the door but still gritted my teeth and left, just waiting for the moment when I would open the door and prove myself to Oda after becoming a Terminator.
Of course, this moment has arrived, but there is no sense of satisfaction in Xi Zhiye.
When a person tries his best to do something, she will be very excited; but when she knows that another person who she thinks is much worse than herself in all aspects has also done it, and not
No matter how much effort it takes, that excitement can turn into jealousy and irritability.
After Nishino stared at Akimoto's face for a few seconds, his eyes shifted to the person who was singing. Even though he had walked in for nearly a minute, Oda still didn't notice him at all and was still singing with his eyes closed.
Song, immersed in his own world, didn't even notice that Qiu Yuan's voice gradually became quieter.
"Yes, Xiaoichi has always been like this." Nishino said to himself silently in his heart.
From the beginning, Nishino actually felt that Oda gave people a feeling of loneliness. Although his relationship with other members was pretty good and he usually participated in some group activities, he always felt that there was a distance between Oda and others.
There is only one layer of distance, and so far the only person who has been close to this layer of curtain is probably the little flying bird that has been clinging to Oda.
Before that, Nishino's happiest thing was that she was one of the people closest to Oda. Even if they hadn't communicated much for a year, the two were still close friends - the last four people shopping convinced Nishino
at this point.
But unknowingly, this girl named Akimoto Manatsu entered the battlefield like an assassin, just like the ever-victorious "Heavenly Fall" in romance comics.
Nishino thought about it, and it seemed that since Akimoto first returned, Nishino wasn't particularly interested in her. On the one hand, it might be because of her position, but this slight dissatisfaction dissipated as quickly as it came. In fact, most of them supported her.
This "dislike" may be due to the scene I saw from the window.
This is also the room where Oda and Akimoto appear to be training.
"Have they been secretly practicing here all this time?"
"Have they gone out to play many times in private?"
"Is their relationship... better than the one between me and Xiaoshi?"
At that moment, countless questions filled Nishino's mind, followed by a little jealousy of the person who was upstaged and self-blame for his timidity and cowardice.
However, what overrides these two emotions is dissatisfaction with the protagonist of the entire story, Miss Oda.
It's not that he's dissatisfied with her for rejecting his confession, or that she always likes to do things quietly without letting others know.
But he was dissatisfied that she always exuded her own charm, helped many people, taught people how to fish but always claimed that she had done nothing; dissatisfied that the choices she made were always too rational but always correct, and she always wanted to
You want to help others take the right path, but you don't take into account the other person's emotions and practical thoughts.
If Oda had hesitated at that time, if Oda had taken the initiative to talk to him during this year... Nishino believes that everything will be completely different from what it is now, and the development of the situation will definitely be worse than it is now.
Stable and happy.
What Nishino hates the most is that he has not been able to find fault with Oda's actions until now. The so-called dissatisfaction just now was just his own subjective and unilateral judgment. This feeling of powerlessness and coercion
The feeling made the dissatisfaction in Xi Zhi's mind even stronger.
Whether it's for Oda, for Akimoto, or even... for myself.
Just when Nishino was thinking, Oda finally noticed Akimoto's withdrawal. He opened his eyes and asked casually: "Manatsu, why don't you sing anymore? It's because your voice is not good..." However, he noticed in the middle of the sentence.
Nishino, who was standing at the door like that, stopped talking for a moment.
Nishino also moved his eyes from Akimoto's body to Oda's face. The two looked at each other, as if they had a lot to say but didn't know how to say it.
Miss Akimoto, on the other hand, watched the two people start to look at each other inexplicably, and their expressions were a little complicated. "It seems that something happened that I don't know about..." Combined with the rapid changes in the two people during this year,
relationship, Qiu Yuan immediately came to the conclusion, "Is it because of me..."
This idea is not the first time that this idea has appeared in Akimoto's mind. In fact, Akimoto had noticed that the chat between the two gradually became less and less, and Nishino also moved from next door to Oda. The origin of all this seems to be
It was the moment when I asked Oda to help bridge the gap between me and Nishino.
Although I felt that the relationship between the two could not have deteriorated simply because of one of my commissions, my commission seemed to be the trigger. Just like although the war would have started one day without the Sarajevo incident, everyone
Just as they gave the Sarajevo incident a very important historical status, this commission of mine must also bear responsibility for the relationship between the two.
Moreover, Akimoto really didn't like it, and the relationship between Oda and Nishino deteriorated like this.
So she worded it a little and said the first sentence.
"Well, Koichi, Na-chan, something happened..." Before Akimoto could finish his words, he was directly interrupted by Oda: "This has nothing to do with you, Manatsu."
"Why doesn't it matter?" Nishino choked back. Only then did Akimoto notice that Nishino, who was usually soft and gentle, had a rare expression on his face. What Akimoto saw from Nishino's expression was not anger, but anger.
It is a complex and calm emotion.
"Na-chan, this is a matter between the two of us. Don't let other people get involved." Oda pursed his lips, which were a little dry from singing, and said to Nishino.
"No, this is not just a matter between the two of us. It's because Xiaoshi you always think it's just a matter between the two of us and keep hiding it from other people, so things become like this." After saying this,
In a word, Nishino glanced at Akimoto, and then smiled bitterly, "It just so happens that Akimoto is here today, let's just make it clear. It just so happened that it was also because of Akimoto's incident a year ago, wasn't it?"
After hearing Nishino's words, Akimoto's feeling of self-blame increased even more. He still remembers what happened a year ago until today. It seems that something serious must have happened between the two of them.
"Are you willing to tell Manatsu this matter directly?"
"What else is there that I don't want to do?" Nishino continued with a wry smile, "Even if I didn't want to, didn't you tell others?"
"I..."
"Don't explain. When Xiaomi went to talk to Hiyaka about us, Xiaomi said that when it came to us, Hiyaxiang hesitated for a long time." Nishino interrupted Oda directly, "Oichi, you
You must have told her about this, and it must have been the next night, the day you went to stay at Riyaxiang's house."
Oda nodded silently.
"Actually, I have been working hard since that day." Nishino raised his head, not wanting tears to fall from his eyes, "I have worked hard to make myself no longer dependent on you, worked hard to build my own circle of friends, and worked hard to improve myself.
My singing and dancing abilities, I work hard to become the kind of person you want me to be." Seeing Oda open his mouth to say something, Nishino immediately continued his own words and said: "I know, Oichi, you will say
What, 'I can decide what kind of person I want to be', but... that night you clearly said that I should be such a good person. This kind of arbitrarily giving expectations to others without knowing it,
Is this your usual trick, Xiaoshi?"
"I have been working hard and finally became a Ter. I can finally stand by your side and fight alongside you..." Nishino's voice silently brought out a hint of crying, and his slender body swayed slightly, as if there was a wave on the side of a cliff.
Like a small white flower, beautiful and fragile, "Then, I suddenly realized that I no longer seem to be your only best friend."
"Why, when I'm with you, Xiaoichi, I have to meet various conditions, but she..." Nishino pointed at Akimoto, who was standing next to Oda, "Obviously she can't sing or dance as well as me, but she can be like this
I’ll train with you, Xiaoshi, go shopping together, and have fun with you.”
"Um..." Akimoto was a little confused when he was suddenly mentioned, "What happened between you two, Koichi and Na-chan?"
"Manatsu, this has nothing to do with you. You go out and wait for a while. I will explain it to you after we solve the problem." Oda turned to Akimoto and said this. Akimoto also felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere here and planned to leave, but he was leaving.
At that moment, Nishino grabbed him.
"I confessed my love to Xiaoshi in October of the year before last." Nishino's voice was choked with sobs but showed some joy of liberation, "and then he was directly rejected by Xiaoshi."
"?!" This news hit Qiu Yuan directly like a thunder. Her in-depth understanding of the idol group let her know that the so-called Lily and CP are just a way to manage popularity, but she
I never thought that something like this would actually happen to me, "Na-chan, have you confessed your love to Xiaoichi?"
"Yeah." Nishino nodded, "This is the second time."
Although Akimoto didn't want to believe it, Nishino's tearful but firm eyes made her have no choice but to believe it.
"Na-chan...have you finished saying what you want to say?" After seeing that Nishino had vented all his emotions, Oda was also ready to talk about everything here. Before Nishino could open his mouth, Oda
He said directly, "First of all, I feel that I have done nothing wrong for such a long time."
"At the beginning, Na-chan, you said you liked me, but you didn't even figure out what liking meant. I think it would be disrespectful to both of us if you agreed directly in this situation. I also said that, if you want to say it again
As for feelings, we have to wait until Na-chan calms down and figures out everything."
"However, Na-chan, you still haven't changed since then. Instead, you have become more dependent on me. In the end, you confessed your love to me again just because I told you about Manatsu."
"I feel that Na-chan, you haven't grown much. I feel that your feelings for me have not made you progress, so I rejected you again."
"I know Na-chan that you have been working hard, and I have always felt that you are my best friend, Na-chan. However, I am afraid that it will affect your growth due to my own reasons, so I do not take the initiative to communicate with you Na-chan."
"Indeed, it was my fault for talking to Hika about what happened between us. I want to apologize to you on this matter. You shouldn't have told others about the two of us, so you told Manatsu today that I
I’m not qualified to refute it, but I think it’s wrong to involve her.”
"Moreover, you just said that Manatsu doesn't work as hard as you. That's not what I think. Everyone is good at different things. Manatsu and I are just ordinary good friends. At most, we have a master-disciple relationship. You
I don’t think it’s appropriate to compare myself directly with Manatsu now.”
"Xiaoichi, you are always like this, always like this..." Nishino raised his head, his originally smooth long hair had been scattered on both sides of his head, and there were two tears on his beautiful face, and his gentle voice also
Mixed with some hysteria, "Xiaoichi, you are always like this, always looking at everything so rationally, always pursuing theoretical correctness... Do you know what I want?"
Nishino suddenly realized that the distance between him and Oda was so huge.
"Akimoto...no, Manatsu." Nishino turned his head and looked at Akimoto, whose arm was held by him. His red eyes were filled with complex emotions, "Come to my house to play tomorrow."