Chapter 32 Chapter 32 Flexible Fingers
From childhood to adulthood, whenever Airi Momozawa played this kind of promised game with others, she was the only one who won with a smile on her face.
Never let others succeed.
The anger of "Damn it, I actually lost" overwhelmed all other emotions, and she didn't even notice that Matsuda Jinpei rarely called her name.
Love pear.
The few short syllables were blown away by the breeze along the river bank and blended into the rustling sound of green plants.
Momozawa Airi looked angrily at the smug Matsuda Jinpei, gritted her teeth, and tried to cheat her way out of it.
She pursed her lips, gathered her emotions, and slumped her shoulders: "Woo, you—"
After just beginning her taunting speech, Momozawa Airi watched helplessly as Matsuda Jinpei yawned slowly and casually said:
"Wait a minute."
Jinpei Matsuda calmly gathered all the flower petals on his body into his palm and scattered them into the bouquet wrapping paper that Momozawa Airi had placed on the ground.
Then, he pushed the bicycle again, leaned slightly closer to Momozawa Airi, and smiled at her maliciously.
"Cry louder, I can't hear you."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
It doesn't work anymore.
Obviously this skill was still usable just now!
After picking up the petals scattered on the ground, they, as environmentally friendly citizens, walked slowly on the road again.
Seeing the situation was hopeless, Momozawa Airi found a way out. "What's the punishment? The gorilla dance or lemonade?"
She always kept her promises and thought it was simple, thinking it was just a punishment like some big adventure.
When I usually play with Nozaki and the others, the common punishments are some weird things like this.
Momozawa Airi very selfishly picked out the two simplest punishments and deliberately concealed the rest of the more bizarre punishments.
With a secret thought in her mind, she looked at Jinpei Matsuda seriously.
Matsuda Jinpei calmly pointed the finger at her: "That's too good for you."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Discovered.
She struggled to say something, but Matsuda Jinpei shut her down without a second thought: "Save it for now. I'll speak later."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Hmm, Jinpei Matsuda doesn't seem like the type to remember these boring things. Maybe he will forget them after a while.
Besides, he couldn't think of anything incredible, it was impossible for his imagination to be bigger than Nozaki and the others.
...like drinking sour lemonade and doing the gorilla dance?
Momozawa Airi blinked her eyes and thought that Matsuda-senpai was so stupid. This was really a good deal for her.
She quickly went along with it, nodding her head like crazy: "Yeah, yeah, I think so too."
After a while, Momozawa Airi added, "Take your time to think about it. There's no rush."
I forgot about it as I was thinking about it, and then she got the advantage, hehe.
Momozawa Airi wants to be self-disciplined and keep her promises, but also wants to cheat secretly: ovo
Jinpei Matsuda glanced at Momozawa Airi, who was agreeing with him very attentively, narrowed his eyes slightly, and slowly forced out a chuckle.
"That's what you said."
*
I thought about this for a long, long time.
The sky cleared up, the rain stopped, the sun rose and set, and the thick clothes on her body were slowly changed into thin clothes. Matsuda Jinpei still did not tell her the specific content.
Momozawa Airi was a little nervous at first and tried it secretly a few times, but Matsuda Jinpei didn't have any special reaction.
Afterwards she was completely relieved.
Senior Matsuda must have forgotten about it, hehe.
So Momozawa Airi also forgot about it completely without any worries.
When spring came and flowers bloomed, Momozawa Airi went on to higher education.
This was her second time stepping into the gate of Todai.
Last time he had a guilty smile on his face, but this time he was beaming with joy.
Among the new classmates, she spotted Fujioka Haruhi, whose contact information she had asked for on the train before.
“It’s a small world.”
Momozawa Airi sighed.
The campus for her freshman and sophomore years was a bit far from her home, so Momozawa Airi rented a small apartment near the school.
Momozawa Airi originally wanted to live at home, but after calculating her wake-up time, she decided it would be better to rent a house.
...Sleep as long as you can.
Many people in that apartment building were students from Touto University. Momozawa Airi felt it was quite safe, and it was also very close to the coffee shop where she worked part-time.
…Well, she started working at the coffee shop again.
On the day I reported back to the store, the boss's sister was so excited that she almost held up a banner: "My favorite college student employee is finally back——"
Momozawa Airi: "Hey, thank you, sister."
Another university student employee, Ryosuke Seo: "..."
On the day of moving, her grandmother took her to the small apartment.
Momozawa Airi didn't bring anything with her, so her two suitcases were already full.
After all, she planned to go home on the weekend.
Grandma kept on telling Momozawa Airi, who was carrying a suitcase in one hand:
"Always lock your doors, draw your curtains, avoid always eating takeout junk food, memorize all the emergency numbers, and go home often."
Momozawa Airi nodded obediently: "Okay, okay, don't worry, grandma."
Feeling that she had explained almost everything she needed to, grandma, feeling lost, rubbed her hands and made small talk, "Make sure to lock it up..."
Seeing that her grandmother was about to recite the poem again, Momozawa Airi decisively changed the subject and played the emotional card: "Grandma, I will miss you."
Grandma's expression was moved and her eyes were gentle.
Momozawa Airi pursued the matter relentlessly and delivered a powerful blow: "And E-E--you are my favorite family members."
Grandma's eyes moved slightly and she opened her arms towards her.
Momozawa Airi thought her grandmother was going to hug her, so she put down her suitcase and went over to her happily: "I'm suddenly feeling so sentimental, I..."
She was about to say "I'm going home this weekend" when her grandmother grabbed her face unexpectedly.
Airi Momozawa, whose face was pulled: "?"
【Lili has really grown up.】
Although she was thinking of tender words in her heart, the words that came out of her mouth were very ruthless: "You can't bring boys here casually, especially at night, understand?"
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi replied weakly, "Okay."
She felt her grandmother pinch the soft flesh of her face.
Grandma said firmly: "If anyone bullies you, I will break all three of his legs."
Airi Momozawa, who has never told her grandmother that she is in a relationship: "..."
...Let’s continue our secret relationship for a while.
*
Jinpei Matsuda finished his last class of the afternoon.
He casually threw the textbook into his bag, slung the bag over his shoulder, and walked out of the classroom.
Kenji Hagiwara went to a social gathering, and Jinpei Matsuda planned to take the train home by himself.
Matsuda Jinpei's original words half an hour ago: "I have a girlfriend, I don't need a social gathering."
Hagihara Kenji: "..."
Hagiwara Kenji glanced at him dimly and decisively revealed his secret: "Your girlfriend and you are already in the same school, and I haven't seen you two see each other many times in the past month."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
…
Thinking of this, Matsuda Jinpei stood at the elevator door, pressed a button, and took out his mobile phone from his pocket.
He opened the chat interface with Momozawa Airi.
The content of the last chat was clearly displayed before my eyes.
Jinpei Matsuda: Let's have dinner together today. There's a cafeteria there that's pretty good.
[Momozawa Airi: No! I want to eat with my new friends hehehe!]
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda scrolled up the page.
Jinpei Matsuda: Let's go eat BBQ today. There's a new place in the mall nearby.
[Momozawa Airi: No! I'm having dinner with my old high school friends, hehehe!]
“…………”
Jinpei Matsuda swiped the page up again.
【Matsuda Jinpei: Are you going to the movies today?】
[Momozawa Airi: The course is so difficult qwq I have to study today! ]
[Momozawa Airi: [Title Image.jpg] Can you do this?]
Matsuda Jinpei: “………………”
It has been more than a month since school started, and the number of times he and Momozawa Airi have met can be counted on two hands.
Momozawa Airi is extremely excited to go to college.
As a freshman full of energy and vitality, she is busy all day long either with club activities and friends' gatherings, or with studying and working.
Overall, it is a very positive and sunny college freshman life.
"Completely ignored him" during his freshman year.
Matsuda Jinpei pondered for a moment and realized that although he and Momozawa Airi had known each other for more than a year, they had met less often than he had met the owner of the nearby convenience store.
Matsuda Jinpei became even more depressed: "..."
The elevator hadn't arrived yet, so Jinpei Matsuda boredly opened Twitter and refreshed it a few times.
boring.
boring.
Boring.
Boring.
He looked at the tweet "When raising cats and dogs, always pay attention to the companionship ☆ Ten things you don't know" with empty eyes and scrolled past it without any emotion.
At this moment, a message reminder suddenly popped up on the screen.
【Momozawa Airi: [Voice]】
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
He paused, deliberately taking a few seconds before clicking on the message page.
Then he hesitated for a few seconds before moving his fingertips to the voice bar.
Just then the elevator arrived and the door opened. The person inside saw him standing at the door and politely asked, "Excuse me, would you like to get in the elevator?"
Matsuda Jinpei waved his hand casually: "No."
The elevator doors closed and began to descend again.
Jinpei Matsuda opened the voice bar and decided that no matter what Momozawa Airi said, he would reply in a very cool way.
It started out as a normal opening.
"Senior, I'm at home."
Then let’s get to the point.
"Are you free now?"
Take it step by step.
“I want to ask…Aa ...
The voice stopped abruptly.
It sounds extremely anxious.
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
He was stunned for a moment, remembering that Momozawa Airi now lived alone.
Jinpei Matsuda quickly sent two messages.
【Matsuda Jinpei: What happened? 】
【Matsuda Jinpei: Are you okay? 】
While waiting for a reply, he glanced at the numbers on the elevator display.
I guess I'll have to wait a long time for the next one.
Jinpei Matsuda turned around and chose to go straight up the stairs.
He moved quickly up the stairs and started dialing Momozawa Airi's number.
After ringing for a while, the call was finally connected.
Before the other party could speak, Jinpei Matsuda quickly threw a lot of questions.
"What happened?"
"Is it safe?"
"Hurry up—"
His voice was drowned out by the dull sound coming from the other end of the phone.
"I'm fine."
Matsuda Jinpei didn't slow down his pace. The sudden and intense movement made him gasp slightly. "Then what did you just do—"
The sound was muffled again.
"My faucet was gushing water, and I had a hard time turning it off."
Jinpei Matsuda's footsteps stopped at the last step of the stairs.
"..." Matsuda Jinpei tilted his head and looked at the 1F sign next to him. "...What about that scream you just made?"
Airi Momozawa: "The water from the faucet sprayed all over me. Ugh, I'm completely soaked."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
A vague premonition flashed through his mind, and he said dryly: "You just wanted to ask me how to fix the faucet?"
Momozawa Airi's surprised voice came from the phone: "That's right! How did you know?! That's amazing!"
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Momozawa Airi asked curiously, "Why are you panting, Senior? What were you doing just now?"
Matsuda Jinpei gritted his teeth and walked forward: "...Go down the stairs."
Momozawa Airi suddenly realized: "Ah, you're out of breath just walking down the stairs."
Momozawa Airi pointed and said, "Matsuda-senpai, your physical strength is worse than before."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
*
Momozawa Airi opened the door and found that Matsuda Jinpei's expression looked a little strange.
It was very similar to the expression he had on the day they first met.
Momozawa Airi was a little confused and waved him in: "What's wrong? Who offended you?"
"..." Matsuda Jinpei glanced at her subtly, his gaze frozen for a moment, and he didn't continue the topic. "Where is the broken faucet?"
Momozawa Airi pointed to the bathroom: "There."
Matsuda Jinpei responded casually and walked towards the bathroom with his hands in his pockets.
Momozawa Airi looked at his back for a while, then went into the small kitchen and wanted to pour a drink for Matsuda Jinpei.
Jinpei Matsuda had repaired the faucet in her yard before, so when the faucet in her small apartment broke this time, Momozawa Airi chose to fix it herself but didn't know where to start, so she wanted to ask him for advice.
...As a result, when I was sending the voice message, I turned the faucet to some part of the faucet, and a stream of water spurted out directly.
She hurriedly restored it and then received a call from Jinpei Matsuda.
After chatting for a while, Jinpei Matsuda offered to help her fix the faucet in a complicated tone.
Momozawa Airi thought about it and happily agreed.
It's almost evening now.
And the other party came to help her fix the faucet.
It’s not like “bringing random boys here at night”, hehe.
Momozawa Airi held up the orange juice bottle and looked at the orange liquid slowly rising in the glass, and suddenly remembered something very important.
She had just taken off her soaked white dress and placed it directly on the lid of the washing machine near the sink.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Although it didn't feel like a big deal, she felt inexplicably embarrassed.
Momozawa Airi rushed to the bathroom anxiously, holding a glass filled with orange juice: "Matsuda-senpai——"
Then I saw the other person's back, slightly bent over.
Perhaps because he didn't want his clothes to get wet, Jinpei Matsuda took off his coat and only wore a thin short-sleeved shirt.
Momozawa Airi took a glance and saw that it was the one she had processed.
The little ball of curly hair and sunglasses on his abdomen folded slightly as the other person bent over.
“…”
Momozawa Airi suddenly felt a little happy.
Hearing her voice, Matsuda Jinpei still didn't raise his head. Instead, he lowered his head and fiddled with the faucet intently, and responded casually: "What's the matter?"
As he spoke, he twisted something vigorously, and a few blue veins were faintly visible on his hands.
“…” Momozawa Airi sneaked up to the washing machine and tried to block it with her body.
After standing still, Momozawa Airi quickly and unnoticeably pulled off the wet dress and threw it into the laundry basket in the corner, trying to cover it up.
"…It's okay, I just wanted to get you something to drink. Orange juice, okay?"
Matsuda Jinpei hummed casually.
Momozawa Airi quietly kicked the laundry basket into the corner, smiled, and placed the orange juice on the sink with a straw.
Then he stood by and watched Jinpei Matsuda repair the faucet attentively.
She looked serious and would occasionally humbly ask questions like "Why do we have to do this?" and "Is it enough to just tighten this?"
Jinpei Matsuda answered the question in a disjointed manner, his tone leisurely.
In the middle of the conversation, Momozawa Airi secretly glanced at Matsuda Jinpei's unusually serious expression.
The other party seemed to be completely unaware of her series of small movements just now.
Probably... didn't notice it?
The skirt she placed there.
Or it will become more transparent white after getting wet.
Momozawa Airi observed Matsuda Jinpei for a while and felt that he probably hadn't noticed.
Very good.
Just as she was about to look away, Matsuda Jinpei, who was concentrating on the faucet, suddenly asked, "Have you had enough of peeking?"
The tone is flat.
The caught Airi Momozawa: "..."
She said with a guilty conscience, "I was watching openly."
Matsuda Jinpei snorted lightly and did not respond.
Momozawa Airi pursed her lips, feeling that Matsuda Jinpei was a little weird today.
Looks like he's angry...?
Momozawa Airi pondered for a while, but couldn't think of any reason why Matsuda Jinpei was angry.
Well, since she's here, she might as well coax him.
Momozawa Airi picked up the orange juice and brought it to Matsuda Jinpei's lips: "Would you like some? This ice-cold orange juice is delicious."
She made an enthusiastic sales pitch.
"..." Matsuda Jinpei slowly raised his eyelids, looked at her, and laughed, "I'm busy now and don't have time to drink."
The laughter sounded fake.
Momozawa Airi blinked, feeling that this sentence sounded familiar.
She seemed to have said something similar before...
Momozawa Airi thought about it for a long time but couldn't remember anything, so she decided to ignore it.
She glanced at Matsuda Jinpei, who was already in the final stages of his work, and changed the subject: "You're working faster this time than last time. You're even more impressive."
Matsuda Jinpei looked very calm: "It's nothing."
He paused and continued, "Why don't you call a repairman?"
Momozawa Airi: "I want to try to fix it myself first. It will be much more convenient in the future if I can do it myself... The repairman is a stranger after all, and I'm a little scared to do it alone."
Matsuda Jinpei: "...then you could have just called me in from the beginning."
Momozawa Airi raised her cup and looked at him seriously, "But I can't always rely on you to fix it for me. I have to learn it myself and rely on myself."
Seeing that Matsuda Jinpei didn't drink, she pinched the straw nonchalantly and started drinking the orange juice in a gulp.
Momozawa Airi: "If you don't want to drink, I will. This is the last bottle of orange juice."
Jinpei Matsuda was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed softly.
It sounded much more sincere this time.
His mood suddenly improved a bit.
"I can fix it very quickly. Did you see it clearly the last time?"
Jinpei Matsuda turned on the faucet and washed his hands, then spoke in a deliberately provocative tone, drawing out his words.
Momozawa Airi looked at him, stopped drinking her orange juice, and smiled. "Not that fast, actually. I've almost memorized it all."
She added: "I was just flattering you."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Momozawa Airi held the straw in her hand, her other hand supporting the bottom of the cold glass, with a look of "I've made a profit" on her face: "If we break up later, at least I still learned a little bit of your skills."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
He suddenly grabbed the straw and walked straight towards Momozawa Airi.
Momozawa Airi: "?"
Momozawa Airi watched helplessly as Matsuda Jinpei approached her, leaned forward slightly, pinched the straw with his slender fingers, and began to lower his head—
Drink orange juice.
Momozawa Airi was full of questions: "Didn't you say you were busy and didn't have time to drink?"
Jinpei Matsuda ignored her and kept his head down.
After a while, he raised his head and said in a tone that was very annoying: "I changed my mind."
The cup is empty.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Matsuda Jin stood up straight and said lightly, "You can never learn all my abilities."
An expression that says "Ask me what I can do."
Momozawa Airi endured it for a moment, but eventually cooperated and asked, "What else can you do, Senior?"
Matsuda Jinpei answered fluently: "I can do everything, dismantle machinery, study bombs and so on."
Momozawa Airi: "…………"
Momozawa Airi forced herself to suppress the urge to complain, feeling that she couldn't complain to the person who helped fix the faucet, so she opened her eyes wide and said in admiration: "That's amazing."
Jinpei Matsuda seemed to be in a better mood.
*
After fixing the faucet, Momozawa Airi suggested that Matsuda Jinpei stay for dinner.
Momozawa Airi said confidently, "I've improved a lot since joining the cooking club! I can show it to the seniors!"
Matsuda Jinpei glanced at her and said, "...the cooking club."
Momozawa Airi nodded happily: "Yeah, I go there often. I've been having a very happy and fulfilling time every day lately."
Matsuda Jinpei's mood visibly became a little more resentful.
Momozawa Airi looked bewildered: "......?"
Boys are so hard to understand.
She turned around and was about to go to the kitchen, but paused, then suddenly stopped and moved closer to Jinpei Matsuda on the sofa.
"Hey, Senior just said he's good at disassembling machinery, so your fingers must be very nimble, right?"
Momozawa Airi blinked and recalled the state of Matsuda Jinpei that she usually saw.
"It seems he can type messages very quickly."
Matsuda Jinpei glanced at her, leaned back on the sofa and nodded nonchalantly: "Yeah."
Momozawa Airi's eyes sparkled: "I love this! The nimble fingers are amazing! I really need it!"
Matsuda Jinpei: “……?”
He seemed to have thought of something, and his expression became a little unnatural for a moment.
“…What are you talking about?”
Momozawa Airi began to bend over and toss around on the sofa: "Wait a minute, I'm looking for something."
Her long hair fell on the side of her face, swaying as she bent over.
For a moment, it seemed as if it had just brushed past Jinpei Matsuda's arm.
As the scent of shampoo lingered around him, Matsuda Jinpei felt a slight itch on his arm.
His body grew stiffer.
Even the scene I just saw in the bathroom flashed through my mind.
Before a more dangerous thought came to her mind, Momozawa Airi, who had been grunting and unaware, finally stood up.
"Then I'll leave it to you, Senior—"
She pulled out a tablet.
It clearly displays the interface of a recently popular music game.
The room suddenly filled with an extremely cheerful background music.
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
Momozawa Airi excitedly shoved the tablet into his hands. "Help me get to the top of the scoreboard! Let me get to the top!!"
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
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