Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Hot Stick
Momozawa Airi was speechless and could only stare at Matsuda Jinpei with resentment.
He did just squeeze her hand, but...
She gritted her teeth angrily, unable to find any reasonable excuse, and muttered reluctantly in a low voice.
“…Anyway, there is.”
Momozawa Airi put her hands behind her back and subconsciously tugged at the corner of her clothes.
She pursed her lips and was about to add a few more words to divert the somewhat dangerous topic when she suddenly noticed that Matsuda Jinpei, who was lazily leaning back in the chair, moved.
He stood up and walked towards her slowly.
Momozawa Airi was stunned. Looking at the tall, curly-haired young man, the scene of last night involuntarily emerged in her mind.
Jinpei Matsuda only had to lean over to contain her entire body.
She could only be forced to look into his eyes and face every word he uttered.
…
“…”
Momozawa Airi's body froze, and she instinctively stepped back, but her back hit the cold edge of the table.
Jinpei Matsuda probably just woke up not long ago. There was a hint of morning laziness between his eyebrows and his expression looked indifferent.
She watched as Jinpei Matsuda walked slowly up to her, raised his hand, and slowly bent down, getting closer and closer to her.
Getting closer.
Momozawa Airi closed her eyes tightly reflexively, and her eyelashes trembled uncontrollably.
After a while, all that could be heard was the crisp sound of dishes and chopsticks colliding.
"?"
Momozawa Airi opened her eyes in confusion and found that Matsuda Jinpei walked straight past her, leaned over the table behind her, and reached out to take another bacon and egg omelet in the pan.
Momozawa Airi: "?"
She maintained a silly expression and stood there in a daze.
Until Matsuda Jin stood up straight, picked up the bacon and eggs, tilted his head to look at her, and explained just right: "I haven't eaten yet."
A fleeting teasing smile appeared in his eyes.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Her choking expression seemed to greatly satisfy Matsuda Jinpei's evil taste. He narrowed his eyes slightly and asked in a very provocative tone, "What do you think I'm going to do?"
Momozawa Airi: "…………"
After waking up and eating a bacon and egg omelet, Momozawa Airi felt as if her whole world had changed.
...She was completely confused.
*
It's a new year again.
The new school year is about to begin and the lease on the small apartment is about to expire.
Momozawa Airi slowly began to prepare to move her things home.
She only brought two suitcases when she came, but when she left, she packed up a lot of messy things.
The amount of this mess is still increasing.
“…”
Momozawa Airi looked at the several large cardboard boxes stuffed full of things in the living room and sighed calmly.
I bought a lot of cute but useless things.
She planned to move a little bit every few days during the last period of her lease, completing the move step by step.
Jinpei Matsuda would always come to help her move the boxes and put them at her doorstep, and then Airi Momozawa would move in by herself with great effort.
That day, she went to the tram station entrance to wait for Jinpei Matsuda as usual, and then they walked together on the way to the small apartment.
On the way, Momozawa Airi discovered a newly opened crepe shop.
She excitedly tugged at Jinpei Matsuda's clothes and pulled him to the door of the crepe shop.
"I'll treat you to some crepes. Thanks for helping me move things today."
Momozawa Airi looked at the crepe menu eagerly.
"What flavor do you want?"
Matsuda Jinpei quickly glanced at the menu and jokingly said, "Guess."
Momozawa Airi: "?"
She paused and looked up at Jinpei Matsuda.
"If I guess right, what good will it do?"
Matsuda Jinpei raised his eyebrows with interest: "What benefits do you want?"
Without hesitation, Momozawa Airi made a request: "Give me back the photo of me crying as a child."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
He thought about it for a moment and nodded, agreeing very generously.
"Okay, okay, I'll take a serious guess then."
Momozawa Airi drew out her voice while secretly reaching out her hand, pretending to casually shake Matsuda Jinpei's hand.
"Let me guess what flavor you want—"
She pretended to close her eyes, held Matsuda Jinpei's hands with both hands, and held them in front of her chest, looking like she wanted to make a serious guess.
Matsuda Jinpei's thoughtful voice came from my mind.
【It’s still chocolate flavor. 】
Momozawa Airi opened her eyes confidently: "It tastes like chocolate."
She looked at Jinpei Matsuda with confidence.
Matsuda Jinpei raised the corner of his lips and shook his head slowly and deliberately: "Wrong."
Momozawa Airi: "???"
Matsuda Jinpei added seriously, "Banana flavor."
Momozawa Airi was shocked and let go of her hand: "Impossible! You just want chocolate flavor!"
She pondered for a moment and made a clear judgment: "I am definitely right. You deliberately refuted me because you didn't want to return the photo to me."
The more Momozawa Airi thought about it, the more she felt she was right. With a stern face, she solemnly denounced, "You're a scoundrel."
She thought that Matsuda Jinpei, who said one thing and meant another, would be a little guilty, but Matsuda Jinpei just put his hands in his pockets and asked calmly, "Why are you so sure I want chocolate?"
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Matsuda Jinpei added aptly: "What evidence do you have?"
Righteous words.
Momozawa Airi: "…………"
As the topic of the conversation changed, Momozawa Airi suddenly became the one feeling guilty.
She had been hesitating for a long time, but she still didn't tell the truth to Matsuda Jinpei. Instead, she was hoping for a lucky break and was fooling around with it.
...But today I got carried away.
Facing Matsuda Jin's calm and straightforward gaze, Momozawa Airi stammered for a long time before finally turning her head away in a cold sweat: "...I want both chocolate and banana flavors."
...What ingredients did Jinpei Matsuda add to the bacon and eggs he made that day?
Why did she feel like the whole world changed after eating it? !
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*
The last day of moving.
Momozawa Airi took out all the things in the cardboard box one by one and put them away neatly in the room.
By the time all the chores were done, it was already evening.
She stretched and slowly rubbed her sore waist, planning to feed E E something to eat and then have a quick dinner.
Momozawa Airi looked around the house but couldn't find Heng, who usually dozed off by the fireplace.
She scratched her head in confusion and called out "hungry" a few times, but didn't hear the usual lazy meow.
When passing through the corridor, she found that the floor-to-ceiling window had been opened a distance at some point, and the biting cold wind squeezed into the house.
"...hungry?"
...Momozawa Airi stood still for a moment, her eyes following the cat's paw prints on the thin snow in the courtyard.
The tiny cat paw prints disappeared beside the courtyard wall.
…
Hungry is gone.
Momozawa Airi searched all the places that Keke liked to play.
The small park, the grocery store on the corner where they often feed it dried fish, the bushes in the vacant lot...
There was no sign of hunger anywhere.
Momozawa Airi walked on the road in a daze, stepping on the snow on the road.
A chilling wind blew through her heart, and she couldn't help but shiver and wrinkled her nose.
...It's so cold.
It was already completely dark, and she hadn't had dinner yet.
Grandma went on a trip to Kanagawa with her old sisters and has not been at home for the past two days.
As a former stray cat, E E often sneaked out to play by himself before he died, and usually returned home the next day.
But Ke Ke never sneaked out in the winter.
Momozawa Airi exhaled a breath of white air, thought for a while, and decided not to tell her grandmother for the time being. She would look for it herself so as not to affect her grandmother's mood for traveling.
...Maybe when I wake up tomorrow I'll be hungry and it'll come back by itself.
She returned home and cooked a bowl of udon noodles.
While washing dishes, Momozawa Airi couldn't help but sneeze several times.
...Oh no, I'm probably going to catch a cold.
…
As expected, I caught a cold.
When she woke up the next day, Momozawa Airi felt as if someone had hit her head with a walnut.
Feeling drowsy and having a headache.
It's almost afternoon.
She struggled in the quilt for a while and found that her whole body was soft and she had no strength.
Momozawa Airi slowly got up, washed up, and ate something casually.
She took out some cold medicine from the medicine box and took it, then took her temperature.
...have a fever.
She put away the thermometer and looked for E E at home.
E E has not come back yet.
Momozawa Airi didn't know what to do for a moment.
...Where did you go?
The phone in my pocket rang a few times.
Momozawa Airi picked up the phone and answered weakly.
"The store we were going to this evening is temporarily closed. Can we go to the other one we mentioned earlier?"
It's Jinpei Matsuda.
Momozawa Airi recalled for a long time in a daze before she slowly remembered that she was going out to play with Matsuda Jinpei today.
She rubbed her temples with her hands and said weakly, "Sorry, Zhen Ping, I'm going to break the appointment..."
The voice on the other end of the phone paused: "Why are you so weak? What happened?"
Momozawa Airi regained her senses and thought of the still missing E'e. She said in a muffled voice, "I think I have a cold... and I need to find E'e..."
She was a little dazed and her voice became smaller and smaller.
"Have you eaten yet?"
"have eaten."
Matsuda Jinpei seemed to say something else, but she could no longer hear clearly and only responded casually.
After hanging up the phone, Momozawa Airi slowly picked up her coat and decided to look around again.
Her head was getting more and more dizzy, and her steps were a little unsteady. She moved to the door very slowly and reached out to open it.
He happened to meet the gaze of Jinpei Matsuda who was about to raise his hand to ring the doorbell.
“…Huh?”
Momozawa Airi's thinking was a little slow, and she tilted her head for a while to identify it.
"Zhen Ping...?"
Jinpei Matsuda still had a frown on his face.
She watched Jinpei Matsuda walk in.
Jinpei Matsuda still had the chill from running around outside.
He slammed the door shut and turned to look at Momozawa Airi: "Why is your face so red?"
Jinpei Matsuda frowned and raised his hand to feel the temperature of her forehead.
"...It's so hot. You're still planning to go out even though you're like this?"
He took Momozawa Airi's hand and planned to take her into the house.
"Go back and have a good rest."
"..." Momozawa Airi shook her head in resistance, "I'm going out to look for Ee Ee, it's gone."
Her face was flushed and her eyes were full of stubbornness.
Matsuda Jinpei paused, as if trying to digest what she said: "I'll find it for you."
"But you don't know where it likes to go..."
Momozawa Airi's unfinished words were interrupted by Matsuda Jinpei's action.
She felt her body lighten.
Matsuda Jinpei picked her up steadily with one hand, carried her to the bedroom without saying anything, and gently placed her on the bed.
"Lie down."
His tone sounded a little fierce.
“…”
Momozawa Airi lay dazed on the bed, feeling even more dizzy after all that torture.
The corner of the quilt was pulled up to her chin by Jinpei Matsuda, and she felt like a silkworm chrysalis.
"Have you taken your medicine?"
"……have eaten."
"Have you taken your temperature?"
"Um……"
She half closed her eyes, thinking that the medicine might be starting to work.
I'm so sleepy.
Momozawa Airi heard rustling sounds coming from beside her.
It looked like a glass had been placed on the bedside table.
"Have some water."
Momozawa Airi slowly stood up, and just as she was about to reach out to take the glass herself, Matsuda Jinpei had already raised the glass and put it to her lips.
“…”
Momozawa Airi glanced at him.
Matsuda Jinpei raised an eyebrow: "Don't you want to drink it this way?"
Momozawa Airi was picky: "I don't usually use a cup of this color. I feel like it doesn't look good enough when I drink..."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
He brought the water cup close to her mouth and said dryly, "Just make do. I'm not very familiar with where your things are placed."
Momozawa Airi lowered her eyes, feeling her head burning, and said casually, "...Yeah. If we lived together, you would know."
Jinpei Matsuda suddenly fell silent.
She leaned over to the cup and drank the water in small sips.
After a while, Momozawa Airi raised her head, looking bewildered: "Huh? Did I infect you? Your face is so red..."
"..." Matsuda Jinpei raised his hand to wipe the water stains from the corners of her mouth, and pushed her back to the bed neatly, "... Have a good rest, and don't say anything nonsense."
Momozawa Airi felt something cold touching her forehead.
It was Jinpei Matsuda's hand.
The scorching temperature was relieved, and Momozawa Airi felt very comfortable. She subconsciously rubbed Matsuda Jinpei's hand.
The hand paused for a moment, then gently stroked her forehead with its palm.
The movements were a bit awkward at first, but then they became more and more skillful.
Matsuda Jinpei's deliberately soft voice came to my ears: "How long has it been gone?"
"…missing yesterday evening."
Momozawa Airi slowly opened her eyes and met Matsuda Jinpei's somewhat gentle gaze.
...He was clearly speaking harshly just now.
I didn't hear any of their thoughts, which is so strange... Could it be that Jinpei Matsuda chose not to think about anything?
...But luckily I didn’t hear it.
Momozawa Airi breathed a sigh of relief.
If she heard too many noises at this time, she would feel dizzy.
Momozawa Airi pursed her lips and continued, "It would slip away on its own before, but it would always come back immediately..."
She has never felt safe, and her voice is now choked.
"What if it just disappears like this... E E has been with me for a long, long time..."
"If it leaves too, I'll only have my grandma..."
Momozawa Airi remembered a tweet she had seen before, which said that cats might run away and hide before dying.
She felt Matsuda Jinpei's cold fingertips caressing her face, which was stained with warm moisture.
Momozawa Airi realized belatedly that she was crying.
Tears blurred her eyes, and Momozawa Airi could only vaguely see Matsuda Jinpei's focused expression.
The hand covering her forehead still felt cool.
"No."
Jinpei Matsuda's expression was unusually gentle.
At first, all the tears can be wiped away, but later new tears will flow before you can wipe them away.
He took out a tissue and wiped her tears.
Momozawa Airi cried quietly for a while, then suddenly spoke with sobs.
"The formation is flat."
She reached out her hand and wiped away her tears with the back of her hand.
"I like you so much."
"But you won't always be with me... Couples in love are likely to break up..."
"One day you might leave me without a word."
Matsuda Jinpei was stunned, his hand movements paused for a moment, and then continued without a trace.
It was rare that he didn't complain about her nonsense, but listened calmly.
Momozawa Airi's eyes were wet and tears were welling up in her eyes.
"Then I'll learn to be a villain and turn evil, and then lock you up."
Her face flushed and she felt as if her whole body was burning.
His mind was also a little unclear.
Momozawa Airi thought she might be delirious due to fever, otherwise why would she say such nonsense.
"No... No... This is illegal..."
"Even if you leave me, there's nothing I can do... I can't keep someone who wants to leave me..."
She continued to talk to herself intermittently, and became more and more sad.
"A short pain is worse than a long one. I might as well just tell you today... Actually, I can read minds... It's a superpower."
"Every time we make physical contact, I know what you're thinking..."
"I didn't tell you before because I was afraid you'd argue and break up with me because of this... It's a childish idea, right?... But I was just afraid..."
Momozawa Airi's consciousness became increasingly dizzy, and she felt the effect of the medicine becoming more and more obvious.
She said that all her relatives except her grandmother had passed away.
She said that when she was a child she felt like an alien because of this superpower.
She said she had never felt safe since she was a child.
…
She spoke haltingly, talking about whatever came to her mind, and spilled all the secrets she had hidden in her heart.
Until Momozawa Airi felt Matsuda Jinpei's breathing suddenly become stronger in front of her.
She was stunned and instinctively raised her hand to block it: "You can't kiss...it's contagious..."
She felt her hand covering Matsuda Jinpei's lips being held gently and irresistibly by him.
Jinpei Matsuda lowered his head and placed a delicate kiss on the palm of her hand.
"So you thought of me this way and kept it from me for so long."
Matsuda Jinpei looked at her straight, his eyes sharp.
"...I'll settle the score with you when you recover."
Momozawa Airi was stunned, her brain unable to process these confusing words for a moment.
She felt her eyelids growing heavier and heavier, and she felt like she was about to fall asleep at any moment.
[I already knew about...mind reading.]
“…Huh?”
Momozawa Airi looked at Matsuda Jinpei in a daze, unable to tell where the sound came from.
In the heart or in the mouth.
She couldn't quite understand the content.
Wh, you already knew something... Impossible...
She watched helplessly as Jinpei Matsuda leaned closer, but she no longer had the strength to reach out and stop him.
...Can't kiss.
But the other party's target seemed not to be her hot lips, but a part higher up.
Momozawa Airi was getting sleepier and sleepier.
The last fragment that appeared in her memory was the low voice of Jinpei Matsuda.
"...Get some rest."
"It will be fine when you wake up."
His slightly cool lips touched her hot forehead, leaving a cool kiss.
*
When Momozawa Airi woke up, it was already the next day.
The fever has gone away.
Grandma, who had returned home from her trip, sat in the living room.
E E also lay quietly beside the fireplace.
Momozawa Airi: "?"
Her mind was in a mess, and the memories of yesterday flooded back.
...It seems like he did some very shameful things and said a lot of very shameful words.
There are even some dangerous and very childish remarks.
...You can’t do this!!
Obey the law!
“…”
Momozawa Airi looked at the other kitten beside Ee and her grandmother sitting in the living room with a confused look on her face. She felt like she had slept for ten days.
...Is it the aftereffects of her fever that caused her confusion?
Where did this other cat come from???
"Oh, you're awake." Grandma heard her movement and looked up at her lovingly. "Come here, let me see you. Are you sick or have you lost some weight? You need to eat and drink a lot to make up for it."
"..." Momozawa Airi moved over in confusion, still complaining, "I only had a fever for one day... How can there be such an effective way to lose weight..."
Grandma looked at her over and over for a while, pinched her face, and scolded her in a pretended fierce tone.
"I've only been gone for a few days, and you've already made yourself look so miserable!"
"You're full of life now! Yesterday, when I got a call from your boyfriend, I was watching a tennis match in Kanagawa. I was almost scared to death by the content of the call! I thought you were seriously ill!"
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi: “…Wait a minute!!”
What? ? ?
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