Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Playing Hard
To avoid embarrassment, Momozawa Airi ate up all the remaining ice cream balls in a flash.
Then he frowned slightly, enduring the rapid tingling sensation in his head.
...Eating ice too quickly can easily give you a headache.
But the pink ice cream ball seems to be cherry blossom flavor.
She rubbed her temples gently and decided to think carefully before speaking in the future.
Since there was no need to use the excuse of discussing the problem... no, there was no need to use the excuse of eating to discuss the problem, Momozawa Airi guiltily suggested that they go home.
However, Matsuda Jinpei did not leave. Instead, he nodded slightly and walked directly towards the tram station that Momozawa Airi had to pass through to go home.
Didn't wait for her.
Momozawa Airi felt that he seemed a little unhappy.
“…”
She stood there dejectedly, staring at the tall and straight back of Jinpei Matsuda.
He casually rolled up his sleeves, revealing his slender and smooth arms.
Momozawa Airi's gaze slowly shifted downwards.
Although Matsuda Jinpei seemed to be in a bad mood, he walked very slowly.
It was completely disproportionate to the walking speed he could achieve given the length of his legs.
The other person's slender and powerful hand was still holding her schoolbag obediently.
A backpack with a cute kitten pendant.
As Matsuda Jinpei moved, the kitten pendant on the schoolbag swayed.
Momozawa Airi thought about it, took a step forward, and was about to catch up with Matsuda Jinpei when Matsuda Jinpei, who was already walking slowly, suddenly stopped.
He paused for a moment, then turned his head slightly.
“…I’ve tried this route for you.”
Momozawa Airi: "?"
There was a hint of awkwardness in Matsuda Jinpei's voice: "You can go, it's safe, why don't you follow me?"
Momozawa Airi: "..."
She suddenly felt like laughing.
Although I don’t know what Jinpei Matsuda is angry about, he is very funny.
She followed him, approached Matsuda Jinpei, and said sincerely, "Matsuda-senpai, thank you."
Anyway, I already said it in the elevator, so I won’t feel embarrassed to say it again now.
So Momozawa Airi readily gave him a way out: "You are such a good person."
Comes with a big, honest and innocent smile.
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Don't want to have physical contact with him.
Pigeon him.
She flirted with him and asked him if he wanted to eat her ice cream.
Say he is a good man.
And she smiled at him so cutely.
...How can there be such complicated and capricious high school students!!
Just a little liar!
Matsuda Jinpei gritted his teeth in his heart, feeling that all the resentment he had just unnoticed had been sprinkled onto the soft cotton.
The cotton was still swaying foolishly in front of his eyes.
...but he had no choice.
I even felt a little happy when I was praised.
Matsuda Jinpei's temper lasted less than thirty seconds: "......"
Jinpei Matsuda lowered his eyes and looked at Airi Momozawa who was staring at him eagerly, feeling that he was hopeless.
He touched his nose unnaturally, his voice muffled.
"...Let's go. I'll take you to the tram station."
*
Momozawa Airi and Matsuda Jinpei walked side by side again.
She glanced furtively at Jinpei Matsuda, who was typing absentmindedly on his phone beside her.
Although Matsuda Jinpei's expression was normal, the aura he exuded was not much different from usual.
——The "pond noodle that looks tough" temperament.
But Momozawa Airi's intuition told her that she was still a little unhappy with Jinpei Matsuda.
Momozawa Airi sighed melancholy in her heart.
Alas, without relying on physical contact to read minds, she seemed unable to judge other people's complex psychological conditions.
...But today, the temperature of her cheeks was enough to boil water many times, so she didn't dare to touch Matsuda Jinpei casually.
“…”
Momozawa Airi became distracted as she watched.
She thinks Jinpei Matsuda's jawline is really nice.
The neck line is also very beautiful, which is very consistent with her aesthetic.
The lips look nice and soft too.
If you give me a kiss...
Momozawa Airi had completely forgotten her original intention of being sneaky and started to stare at others with her head tilted.
The kind that specifically targets Jinpei Matsuda.
She stared at him so hard that she blushed.
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
The gazes from those around him were too intense, and he couldn't just pretend nothing had happened.
Why is she staring at me? And it seems like she's looking at my neck. Damn it, why is she still staring at me?
“…”
Just when he felt that the base of his ear on the side closest to Momozawa Airi might be dyed the same light red as Momozawa Airi, Momozawa Airi suddenly spoke.
"Matsuda-senpai."
The tone was very solemn and serious.
It seemed as if he was about to talk about something extremely serious.
“…Wh-what happened?”
"You're so beautiful."
Momozawa Airi said sincerely.
“????”
Jinpei Matsuda was hit by a straight ball and his brain almost crashed.
He was a bit dazed and was about to confess his feelings when he heard Momozawa Airi continue to say with certainty, "Can you let me think about it? It will be quick."
She also clenched her fist very seriously.
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
He blinked blankly and was about to ask, "What are you thinking about? Is it that question?", when Momozawa Airi, who had just been walking slowly beside him, suddenly snatched the schoolbag away like a wound-up spring, and without looking back, she ran into the tram station.
Only a handsome back is left behind.
There was also a sentence "Then let's not contact each other for a while so that I can be more calm——"
The tail sound lingered in the air for a while.
The little cat pendant on the schoolbag was still shaking.
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
Matsuda Jinpei: “???”
Matsuda Jinpei: “???”
The same old flirt and run again???
…
Momozawa Airi was sitting on the train and leisurely took out her cell phone.
Found some news about Jinpei Matsuda.
The first one was posted ten minutes ago.
[Matsuda Jinpei: xxxxxxxxxx]
It's a string of numbers.
Then it was a few minutes ago.
[Jinpei Matsuda: This is my cell phone number. If you encounter any problems on your way home, please call me.]
【Matsuda Jinpei: Send me a message when you get home】
Momozawa Airi calculated with her fingers and thought that Matsuda Jinpei was probably sending her his cell phone number when he was typing on the road with his head down.
...I guess she ran away before I had the chance to warn her, hehe.
Momozawa Airi was a little delighted: "…"
She turned her head to look at the street scene outside the tram window and felt that the long tram commute had become lovely.
Come home soon.
This way she would have a reason to send a message to Jinpei Matsuda.
...even though she just said "no contact during this period".
But this is just a report of safety, it doesn’t count!!
*
When Airi Momozawa returned to the familiar neighborhood, the first thing she did was knock on Rei Furuya's door.
Furukaya Rei, who happened to be staying at home these two days, opened the door and saw Momozawa Airi with a serious face.
Momozawa Airi said nothing as she slowly and methodically looked him up and down.
Then he shook his head seriously.
Jianggu Ling: "?"
He looked at Momozawa Airi with a confused look on his face as she calmly turned around and knocked on the door of Morobushi Kagemitsu's house.
Then repeat all the actions just now.
Fūya Rei (confused version) looked at Morobushi Kagemitsu (confused version) who also opened the door from a distance.
Then they turned their heads together and watched Momozawa Airi walking towards their home.
Jiangu Ling: "???"
Zhu Fujingguang: “???”
After returning home, Momozawa Airi sent a message to Matsuda Jinpei to let him know that she was safe.
Then he thought seriously for a long time.
Thinking while eating dinner.
Thinking while feeding the cat.
Thinking in the shower.
I also think about it before going to bed.
I think while I sleep... and in my dreams.
Today's dream is very special.
It smells like strawberry.
There's also a cherry blossom scent.
In the dream, Matsuda Jinpei grabbed her when she was about to run away with the ice cream and took a big bite of it.
Then he licked the corner of his lips slowly, his voice tinged with a mischievous smile: "This pink ball is not strawberry flavored."
Momozawa Airi: "What! I thought it was strawberry flavored so I gave it to you!"
She looked pitifully at the ice cream in her hand.
"What does it smell like?"
Matsuda Jin stood up straight, instantly widening the height difference between him and Momozawa Airi, and curled the corners of his lips: "Try it yourself."
Momozawa Airi looked down at the vanished ice cream ball and said, "How can I taste it now? You've eaten it all—"
Then Momozawa Airi woke up in fright.
She didn't know whether to complain about Jinpei Matsuda being able to eat a whole ice cream cone in one bite in her dream, or complain about the fact that the first solution she thought of was to kiss him... and the second solution was to buy another ice cream cone.
Momozawa Airi looked at the dim sky outside the window with a serious expression, and felt that she might have... fallen in love with Matsuda Jinpei.
Yesterday she thought she was simply lusting after beauty, and she even went to find Furuya Rei and Morobushi Kagemitsu to experiment with her.
When she saw them, she didn't feel any fluttering in her heart.
I even felt that Rei Furuya seemed to have become a little darker.
And when she saw Matsuda Jinpei, the deer in her heart almost jumped for joy.
“…”
Momozawa Airi went to school in a trance.
Then I learned that I would have an exam in a few days.
Momozawa Airi, whose attention had been almost completely diverted during this period: “…………”
She looked at the exam date and found that the results would be released on May 20th.
Momozawa Airi's heart moved.
or……
*
Momozawa Airi didn't lie to him this time, it was indeed very fast.
The next night after returning to school from the mall, Matsuda Jinpei received a message from Momozawa Airi just after he came out of the shower.
[Momozawa Airi: Matsuda-senpai!! I might have something to say to you on XX day of XX month!!]
[Momozawa Airi: Let's not contact each other for a while! Let me focus on my sprint!]
[Momozawa Airi: For our future, I will work hard]
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Matsuda Jinpei, whose mood was very up and down today, slowly read the message over and over again.
XX day of XX month.
I have something to say.
Talk to him.
Our future.
effort.
…
Hagiwara Kenji just came back to the dormitory and opened the door: "Hey, Jinpei-chan seems to be in a good mood."
"..." Matsuda Jinpei, who had just finished showering, decisively changed into his going-out clothes again. "...Want a midnight snack? I'll treat you."
Hagiwara Kenji was shocked: "Hey!! Why are you suddenly treating us?!"
The corners of Matsuda Jinpei's lips couldn't help but curl up: "...Don't worry about it, just tell me whether you're going or not."
"Let's go, let's go have a barbecue~"
…
After sending the message, Momozawa Airi slammed her phone shut.
I received a notice today that the exam will be held soon.
After more than a day, she finally sorted out her thoughts.
She probably, maybe, there's an 80% chance that...she likes Jinpei Matsuda.
More than just caring.
It's the kind of love that makes you want to snatch the ice cream from the other person.
Momozawa Airi, vaguely aware of her own feelings, thought about it and decided to take a gamble.
This time I got a score that was good enough to get into the University of Tokyo, so I went to confess my love to Jinpei Matsuda.
The success rate can be said to be 99.99%!
If there's even a tiny chance of failure, then... study hard.
The failure rate can be said to be 0.01%!
Momozawa Airi confidently recalled her past achievements in her mind and felt that she had a good chance.
She is going to the University of Tokyo!
Career and boys! She must have them all!
Momozawa Airi angrily spread out the exercises and decided to start preparing for the exam from today.
It should be... okay... right?
...That's okay!
*
Matsuda Jinpei's good mood lasted until XX day of X month.
At noon on X/X, he was sitting in the cafeteria, waiting for the next day to pass by, when he received another message from Momozawa Airi.
[Momozawa Airi: I'm sorry, Matsuda-senpai, I failed]
【Momozawa Airi: So I can’t say anymore qwq】
[Momozawa Airi: From today on, I will study hard. I will come to see you when I go to university.]
[Momozawa Airi: [Rabbit waving.gif]]
Matsuda Jinpei, whose mood has fluctuated countless times during this period, said: "..."
He looked at it for a long time, but still didn't understand the necessary connection between "I failed", "I won't say anymore" and "Study hard".
He returned to the last chat history and found that there was a "maybe" before "I have something to tell you".
Matsuda Jinpei, who inexplicably felt like he was broken up with unilaterally, said: “…………”
He carefully recalled his memories from the day he went to the mall to the present.
The more I think about it, the more I grit my teeth.
I wish I could pull Momozawa Airi out right now and ask her about it clearly.
...Damn it, I even want to pinch her face.
Before Jinpei Matsuda could pull her, Momozawa Airi jumped out by herself.
[Momozawa Airi: Let me ask you a question, ovo, none of my classmates can do it 5555]
[Momozawa Airi: [Question with a red mark.jpg]]
[Momozawa Airi: Please, please o(^▽^)o]
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Haha, you continued to look for him right after sending the waving emoticon?
What kind of hard-to-get trick is this?
Matsuda Jinpei nodded slightly, opened the diagram and looked at it for a while, then he had a clear idea of the solution to the problem.
He deliberately left Momozawa Airi alone for a while, wanting to let her know that he also had a temper.
...It only hung for a dozen seconds.
Just when Matsuda Jinpei was about to start a fierce argument, Momozawa Airi suddenly and quickly withdrew the three messages.
[Momozawa Airi: I'm sorry!! Matsuda-senpai!! I sent it to the wrong person!!]
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
[Momozawa Airi: It wasn't sent to you!!! It was sent to two other seniors I know! Private Marseille!!]
Matsuda Jinpei: “???”
[Momozawa Airi: [Bunny bows.gif]]
Matsuda Jinpei: “???”
How many good seniors do you have?
He even used such cute emojis for these two seniors!! Even though he doesn’t use such emojis when talking to him!!
[Momozawa Airi: I'm really running away this time! Goodbye, Matsuda-senpai!!]
Momozawa Airi quickly disappeared underground, leaving only Matsuda Jinpei on the other end of the network.
He stared at his phone with a complicated expression, and subconsciously crushed the mineral water bottle on the table with one hand.
The mineral water bottle was limp in Matsuda Jinpei's hand, making a creaking sound.
Hagiwara Kenji, who was busy eating across from him, looked up at him: "Huh? What's wrong?"
Hagiwara Kenji studied his expression and jokingly said, "Why do you look so distraught? Did Jinpei-chan suffer a breakup?"
Matsuda Jinpei, who hadn't even started dating yet: "..."
The more he thought about it, the angrier Matsuda Jinpei became: “…………”
Jinpei Matsuda felt that he had been cruelly played by the little liar.
Matsuda Jinpei started eating expressionlessly: "This meal is yours."
Hagiwara Kenji: "?"
Today's after-meal fruit happens to be pears.
“…”
Matsuda Jinpei silently rubbed the juicy and round pear in his hand with his fingertips.
Then pinch it gently with your fingertips.
After pinching her, he suddenly realized that his behavior was a bit childish, and looked calmly at Kenji Hagiwara who was chatting with a girl.
“…”
Fortunately, Hagi didn't see it.
Jinpei Matsuda brought the pear to his mouth and took a big bite.
The sweet fruity aroma bloomed in his mouth.
...Tsk, that's quite sweet.
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