Chapter 29 Chapter 29 Compensation
The room was pitch dark.
Momozawa Airi, who had just ended her single status, slowly walked into the living room, trying to sneak into her room quietly.
"Stop, don't run."
I was caught red-handed by my grandma who was sitting on the sofa watching idol dramas on her mobile phone without even turning her head.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Grandma held E'e in her arms and hooked her finger at her: "Come here and stand properly. Be more alert."
Momozawa Airi moved over dejectedly.
"Grandma, why did you turn the brightness down so low? It's bad for your eyes. I thought you were asleep when I was outside the window."
Airi Momozawa flatteringly tried to take the phone from her grandmother's hand.
"Let me brighten it up for you."
As soon as grandma pressed the remote control, the same idol drama appeared on the big TV screen.
"To catch you, an active-duty JK, returning home late at night."
Grandma took a deep breath.
“I haven’t graduated yet!”
"I promised to be back soon!"
"They're actually catching criminals!"
"Can you please let me have some peace of mind?"
The sound echoed throughout the house.
Momozawa Airi paused in frustration as she was about to answer the phone: "..."
She knew she was in the wrong, so she stood there listlessly again, lowering her head obediently.
After her outburst, Grandma stared at the sweet and affectionate male and female protagonists and waved her hand distractedly, "Don't block the TV. Chasing your wife is almost a funeral procession. The male protagonist has to chase the female protagonist. I've been waiting for a long time."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
She moved away a little silently.
Grandma casually put the sleeping E'e aside, raised her hand, and turned Momozawa Airi over and over, checking her from head to toe several times.
His technique was as skillful as selecting cabbages in the vegetable market.
After a while, grandma finished examining her little cabbage and looked at it with a deep gaze: "No internal injuries, right?"
Momozawa Airi shook her head honestly, "No, I just bumped my hand."
Grandma nodded calmly, then suddenly asked casually, "What did the guy who hit you look like? Where was he imprisoned? How tall was he? Do you know his name? Do you have a photo of him or anything?"
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi hinted, "Grandma, I plan to study law in the future. As my relative, you should also be a law-abiding citizen."
Grandma slapped her thigh fiercely and said, "Don't let me see him again or I'll beat him to death with a broom."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
"Oh, right." Grandma pressed a button on the remote, and the idol drama suddenly paused. "What about that boy you just mentioned on the phone who rescued the child with you? How is he?"
Momozawa Airi blurted out, "He's a very nice guy, handsome, with a great figure and a nice voice. I'm sure you'll be satisfied, grandma!"
Grandma noticed the relevant factors: "?"
E E changed his lying position and rubbed against grandma's hand.
Grandma blinked: "...I was asking about his injuries."
Grandma's face was full of solemnity: "Do you know him well? What's his name? How tall is he? Do you have a photo?"
Momozawa Airi let the cat out of the bag: "..."
She swallowed silently, thinking quickly in her mind about how to deal with the situation.
Grandma is so smart. I've only just started dating and I don't want to tell her so soon...
Momozawa Airi tried to save the situation, making a "just a little bit" gesture with her fingers: "Not familiar, just an ordinary passerby, his injuries are just a little bit worse than mine."
As she spoke haltingly, she suddenly felt the bag containing Jinpei Matsuda's Polaroid camera was a little heavy.
Grandma changed her sitting position.
E E also changed his lying position.
In the dark living room, the light from the TV fell on Momozawa Airi's face.
“…”
For a moment she felt like she was being interrogated.
Momozawa Airi paused, then added, trying to hide her mistake: "...We're really not familiar with each other. We just met by chance. Grandma, you know, I always tend to remember good-looking people... There's nothing else to it!"
As a result, the more he talked, the more useless and flawed details he added.
grandmother:"……"
Her granddaughter's IQ is not low, but why is she always so stupid and not very good at lying?
Grandma stared at Momozawa Airi, who looked terrified, with complicated eyes.
After a while, just as Momozawa Airi was sweating profusely, her grandmother sighed and resigned herself to changing the subject: "What time is it? Why are you still standing here like an idiot? Go take a shower and go to bed!"
Momozawa Airi turned around with a sense of relief, raised her legs and moved in one smooth motion, quickly running towards the bathroom.
Grandma said in a deep voice: "Wait."
Momozawa Airi turned back in horror.
Grandma: "Remember to bring your Polaroid camera tomorrow. You'll need it to take pictures."
Grandma had already made an appointment with Momozawa Airi to go to Osaka together after the exams, and they will leave tomorrow.
...with grandma's old sisters, the senior group.
“…”
It seems that he is not going to ask her about Jinpei Matsuda.
Momozawa Airi breathed a sigh of relief and nodded vigorously, "Yeah, yeah, okay."
…
After taking her second bath of the day, Momozawa Airi leaned comfortably against the head of the bed and packed her luggage for going out.
She opened the bag and found...
I forgot to give the Kamen Rider model to Jinpei Matsuda.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
She glanced at the time in confusion and very considerately decided to wait until she woke up.
At this time, Mr. Matsuda might have already fallen asleep.
She placed the Kamen Rider model on her bedside table and continued rummaging through her bag, pulling out the Polaroid camera she was going to take with her on the trip.
By the way, I also took out the two photos I took today.
Momozawa Airi slowly fell back until her back sank into the soft quilt.
She raised her hands, holding a photo in one hand and holding it in front of her.
The first photo with Jinpei Matsuda.
She was smiling foolishly, with her neck hugged by Jinpei Matsuda beside her.
He just curled the corners of his lips slightly.
"...acting cool."
Momozawa Airi muttered to herself about Matsuda Jinpei's facial expression management.
His tone was disdainful, but an involuntary silly smile appeared on his face.
She subconsciously turned sideways and rolled on the bed.
She paused and focused her gaze on another photo.
The other is a "slightly sexy" solo photo of Jinpei Matsuda.
“…”
Momozawa Airi stared at it for a while, then suddenly blushed.
It would be terrible if grandma found out about this kind of photos!
The impact is bad...!
Guilty as a thief, she stuffed the photo of Jinpei Matsuda into the pocket of the wallet she carried with her every day, placed it on her desk, and prepared to put it in her luggage tomorrow.
There is a fish tank on the desk, and the little goldfishes caught by Matsuda Jinpei are swimming happily in it.
“…”
Momozawa Airi glanced at the little goldfish and suddenly pulled out the photo of Matsuda Jinpei.
She placed the photo next to the fish tank, pointed at Jinpei Matsuda's face, and solemnly introduced him to the little goldfish: "This is the man who fished you out and gave you to me."
The house was silent.
Of course the little goldfish ignored her.
After being silent for a few minutes, Momozawa Airi suddenly felt ashamed: "..."
She threw herself on the bed and rolled over and over several times.
...In love, in love, in love.
Momozawa Airi buried her face in the quilt and punched the pillow a few times, neither lightly nor heavily.
The series of horrific events she experienced today flashed through her mind quickly, and in the end, only the scenes of her time with Jinpei Matsuda remained.
She! Is! In! Love!
*
Jinpei Matsuda woke up early in the morning and found unread messages on his phone.
He lazily raised his hand to tidy up his sleep-messy curly hair, got up nonchalantly, and looked at his phone while brushing his teeth.
The moment he saw the news, the good mood that had accumulated until last night instantly plummeted to the bottom.
[Momozawa Airi: Senior, we are going to start a long-distance relationship]
[Momozawa Airi: I'll give it to you in two days.]
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
Countless melodramatic reasons flashed through his mind in an instant, and he ended up acting out a melodramatic drama.
Moving abroad, changing schools, relationship fading, breakup gifts——
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda wondered if he was still asleep, so he closed his eyes and then opened them again.
【Matsuda Jinpei:? 】
【Matsuda Jinpei: ? ? 】
Momozawa Airi didn't respond until he finished washing up.
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
He ate breakfast with an expressionless face, his slightly furrowed brows revealing a hint of anxiety.
Matsuda Jotaro drank the tea in his cup and glanced at him: "What's going on so early in the morning?"
When the tea was almost gone, he raised his hand to refill it.
Jinpei Matsuda responded absentmindedly and glanced down at his phone.
Still no reply.
“…”
Matsuda Jotaro glanced at Matsuda Jinpei again and suppressed what he wanted to say.
never mind.
The child has grown up.
He finished his tea in one gulp, cleared his throat, and stood up: "I'm leaving first. Remember to tell your mother that I won't be back for dinner tonight - a dinner at the boxing gym."
Matsuda Jinpei responded absentmindedly again, looking at his phone without even looking up.
Matsuda Jotaro, who was completely ignored, said: "..."
never mind.
...The child has grown up.
Jotaro Matsuda looked up at the clock and realized that it would be too late if he didn't go out.
Although I have quit drinking for several years, I still can't help wanting to drink.
He picked up the lunch box on the table, paused, and then picked up the large bottle of oolong tea next to it.
The door slammed shut and Jotaro Matsuda went out.
Hearing the sound of the door, Jinpei Matsuda looked up.
His father went to work.
Jinpei Matsuda stared at the empty entrance, and suddenly curled the corners of his lips imperceptibly.
After being mistakenly arrested, his father has been in trouble everywhere. He has been talked about and labeled as a "murderer".
So Jotaro Matsuda started drinking heavily.
But one day, Matsuda Jotaro returned home sober, scratched his head, and said, "I have to go to work tomorrow... as a coach at a boxing gym in the neighborhood."
He and his mother asked several times, but Matsuda Jotaro did not explain the reason in detail.
Just a quick remark like "I met a weird little kid."
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda gradually became distracted.
Until his cell phone rang.
Only then did he suddenly remember that his girlfriend had suddenly informed him not long ago that they were going to have a long-distance relationship.
Matsuda Jinpei quickly picked up his phone and swiped open the message page—
[Momozawa Airi: I was checking tickets just now! Hehe! It's too late to reply!]
【Momozawa Airi: We're already in the car! 】
Matsuda Jinpei: “???”
Is this off-site start too quick?
My girlfriend seems very happy???
Just as he was about to reply, Momozawa Airi bombarded him with several more messages.
[Momozawa Airi: [Outside the train window.jpg]]
[Momozawa Airi: [Heavy Bag.jpg]]
[Momozawa Airi: [making a "V" sign towards the window.jpg]]
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
...Why are you still live-streaming the progress of a long-distance relationship?
【Matsuda Jinpei: What is a long-distance relationship? 】
【Matsuda Jinpei: Please explain clearly】
[Matsuda Jinpei: Give me something in a couple of days]
【Matsuda Jinpei: Where are you going】
Jinpei Matsuda's mood plummeted.
There is a subtle emotion surging in my heart.
...Why did she run away?
Jinpei Matsuda lowered his eyes to look at the screen and typed very quickly.
After sending this long string of messages, he waited for a moment and found that Momozawa Airi did not reply.
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
He frowned and decided to clean up the dishes first.
…
The dishes have been cleared away.
My mother, who had gone out for a walk, came back.
Hagi came to ask him if he was going to the motorcycle shop this afternoon.
...and Momozawa Airi hasn't replied to him yet!!
When Jinpei Matsuda, who was looking for trouble, was dismantling the third appliance, Momozawa Airi finally responded.
[Momozawa Airi: Ouch! Sorry, sorry! I was just caught by a bunch of grandmas playing cards! They wouldn't let me use my phone qwq because they were afraid I'd cheat.]
[Momozawa Airi: I lost miserably! I was called to go on a dare! I just randomly added a line to the passenger whose seat number the grandmas had assigned to me in the train car... wuwu...]
[Momozawa Airi: When I got to that car, I realized the person was a super cool girl =w=! Her name is Fujioka Haruhi!]
[Momozawa Airi: She's also a high school senior who just finished her exams! Very easy to talk to! I happily added her contact information hehehe]
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
He was getting upset, and she was actually playing cards!!
Exchange contact information!!
[Momozawa Airi: Oh, I think I forgot to explain just now. The reason for the long-distance relationship is——]
[Momozawa Airi: I'm traveling to Osaka, hehe! I heard it's a lot of fun there! !]
[Momozawa Airi: So it's a long-distance relationship! [Rigid.jpg]]
[Momozawa Airi: I wonder if I'll speak in a Kansai dialect when I come back hehe =w=]
[Momozawa Airi: [Rabbit Fight.gif]]
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
[Momozawa Airi: The thing for you is that Kamen Rider! That was given to you by my little brother! I forgot to tell you last night, hehehe!]
[Momozawa Airi: Hehe, so you fixed your own gift last time =v=]
[Momozawa Airi: I hope that if I win the adventure again this time, I can meet a cute and handsome girl again =v=! A handsome boy would be fine too!]
[Momozawa Airi: Enough of that! I'm going to go back to playing cards! Dare is so fun hehe ovo]
Matsuda Jinpei: “………………”
【Matsuda Jinpei: Huh?】
[Matsuda Jinpei: ...Idiot, compensate me for my mental damage.]
【Momonosawa Airi:? 】
[Momozawa Airi: Enough of that! I'm busy now! I'm off to battle! Playing cards is important!]
The chat box fell silent.
Matsuda Jinpei, who is not as important as playing cards: "..."
Matsuda Jinpei switched pages speechlessly and replied to Hagi that he would go to the motorcycle shop in the afternoon.
After replying the message, Matsuda Jinpei returned to the room, leaned lazily on the chair, and picked up the lying dog doll that Momozawa Airi had given him before.
The dog doll looked at him innocently and lay on him in a simple manner.
Matsuda Jinpei patted its butt nonchalantly—
Vent anger.
"……Oh."
Looking at the dog's eager face, Jinpei Matsuda pinched it.
After a while, he pulled the corner of his mouth unhappily.
"I'll deal with you next time."
"...A great adventure."
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