Chapter 46 Chapter 46 Valentine's Day and Meow
When Momozawa Airi woke up, she found that all her little secrets had been revealed.
...The world has changed again.
Yesterday, she spoke a lot of nonsense to Jinpei Matsuda, as if she was drunk and pouring out her heart.
When I woke up in the morning, I learned that my grandmother had been in contact with Jinpei Matsuda.
There is a new cat in the house.
“…”
Having just woken up to an astonishing amount of information, Momozawa Airi was caught off guard and felt that—
My head feels dizzyqvq.
Is the disease still not healed?
Or maybe just lie back in bed and pretend to be dead...
Suddenly I feel like it would be nice to sleep in bed forever...
Momozawa Airi hesitated for a long time, and finally picked out the most subtle and confusing words: "W-what..."
She carefully looked at the carpet behind her, wondering at what angle she should fall to pretend to faint without feeling any pain.
Grandma: "Oh, speaking of that, I have something to talk about. It's about that boyfriend you've been hiding for so long, and you haven't shown him to me yet."
Grandma glared at her in a feigned ferocity, her eyes filled with unconcealable pity.
"He's so good-looking! He's tall and has long legs! And he has curly hair! It would be great if I could show him to Grandma sooner! Seeing a handsome guy at the pool makes me feel better!"
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi struggled desperately: "What...what have you been hiding for so long..."
Grandma nodded and said casually, "I forgot to tell you, I discovered you were secretly in love a long time ago."
He had an expression that said, "You still want to hide this from me? As soon as you open your mouth, I know what nonsense you are going to tell."
Momozawa Airi: "…………"
After teaching Momozawa Airi a lesson, grandma turned around and glared at Heng.
"How dare you lie there like that! Who gave you the guts to run away from home?"
"He even learned to pick up the cat and take it home by himself!"
With a start, Hung Hung stood up at lightning speed and meowed weakly.
The little kitten next to it was not afraid of grandma's continuous attacks at all. It slowly crawled into grandma's arms and lay down safely.
Grandma stroked it and lectured E'e loudly.
From time to time, he would lower his head and kiss the kitten.
Very harmonious.
Momozawa Airi: "………………"
She couldn't have really slept for ten days.
The world has changed.
…
Momozawa Airi finally heard the complete explanation of Hungry's Adventures from her grandmother.
The timid boy E E, who originally just wanted to play in the snow, discovered that a kitten had sneaked into the yard.
The kitten was abandoned by its owner and couldn't find anywhere to go, so it crawled into the courtyard and scratched at the French window, timidly trying to come in and take a look.
Hungry: ovo
A glance for a thousand years.
I followed him out stupidly and the kitten was scared and ran away.
…Then Hungry started chasing after it, following it for a whole day.
Finally, Jinpei Matsuda tracked him down and searched for evidence and caught him under a car in the parking lot next door.
"So its name is Xuetuan. What a noble and beautiful name." Grandma stroked the abandoned kitten. "I plan to adopt it. It's a girl—E'E, don't look at it. You've been neutered."
After a moment, she looked up and added, "You can find a cat in such cold weather... Your boyfriend is really capable. He should become a policeman in the future."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
With an expression that said, "I might as well faint. Where is this? Who am I?", she left in a sickly manner and went to the restaurant to eat the meal prepared by her grandmother.
*
Momozawa Haruna held the soft kitten in her arms and looked at Momozawa Airi's slightly haggard back.
She heard the sound of dishes colliding in the kitchen, followed by the sound of Momozawa Airi muttering to herself, "Ahhhhhhh I might as well faint and not want to face reality."
Momozawa Airi seemed to beep briefly, then began to eat obediently.
“…”
Momozawa Haruna slowly smiled and gently scratched the kitten's back, hearing the kitten purring.
She remembered that when she rushed home yesterday, the two cats were lying next to the fireplace in the living room, looking like they had been educated.
When Momozawa Haruna put down her suitcase and came to Momozawa Airi's room, she happened to see a curly-haired young man putting a wet towel on Momozawa Airi's forehead.
The curly-haired young man sat on the edge of the bed, looking down at Airi Momozawa who was soundly sleeping.
After a while, he raised his hand——
He gently poked Momozawa Airi's face with his fingertips.
Poke it again.
Poke it again.
Until Momozawa Airi turned her face away in a trance and tried to avoid him, the curly-haired young man gently held her face with his palm to prevent her from moving and preventing the towel on her forehead from falling off.
After a while, Momozawa Airi rested her head on his hand, her breathing became steady, and she fell asleep again.
The curly-haired young man's previously indifferent expression now showed a hint of warmth.
He curled the corners of his lips imperceptibly, as if he was whispering "idiot".
Momozawa Haruna suddenly felt a little redundant: "..."
Just now, when she heard the other party's voice and tone on the phone, she thought he was an extremely cold person.
Momozawa Haruna coughed lightly deliberately.
The curly-haired young man tilted his head, showing no surprise.
He gently pulled his hand away, walked towards her, and closed the bedroom door.
…
They chatted about some things.
Before leaving, Momozawa Haruna called out to the curly-haired young man - she already knew his name.
Jinpei Matsuda.
Momozawa Haruna held Hung Hung, who trembled whenever he got close to Matsuda Jinpei, and rubbed Hung Hung's head from time to time.
She leaned against the doorway, looking at Jinpei Matsuda, whose coat was still covered in fallen snow.
"Lili is a little special, so don't do anything behind her back."
She deliberately kept a straight face and said something cryptic.
Matsuda Jinpei blinked slowly and nodded slightly in tacit understanding.
"If you treat her badly." Momozawa Haruna smiled lovingly, "My old bones will also--"
The tone was also very kind, with a hint of coolness.
After saying that, Momozawa Haruna calmly looked at the tall, curly-haired young man in front of her. What she wanted to say next, "I'll whip you myself," took a detour and ended up becoming—
"——Even with my old bones, I will travel thousands of miles to bring the two strong men from next door to beat you up."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
After a moment's thought, he realized that the other party was referring to the two seniors that Momozawa Airi often mentioned.
Those two people inexplicably formed... a clear yet subtle image in Matsuda Jinpei's mind.
Jinpei Matsuda shook off the snow on his coat in the courtyard, then looked up and smiled at Momozawa Haruna.
His nonchalant demeanor seemed to be brushed away along with the snow, and his expression and tone were extremely serious.
Matsuda Jinpei looked at Momozawa Haruna with his clear eyes and nodded slightly.
"Don't worry."
Momozawa Haruna gently pinched the fat flesh and complained in her heart.
...He's surprisingly mature.
The door opened and the cool air outside instantly drifted in.
"Sorry to bother you, I'm leaving now."
Jinpei Matsuda took a step forward and stood outside where the snow was falling.
Momozawa Haruna thought the conversation had come to an end, but unexpectedly, Matsuda Jinpei spoke again.
He raised his eyelids and a relaxed smile casually appeared on his lips.
"But they probably can't beat me."
Momozawa Haruna: "..."
She watched the tall figure moving farther and farther away in the snowy night, finally disappearing around the corner of the street.
Momozawa Haruna closed the door and patted Ee Ee's head with interest.
"Although you didn't do anything good today, you did allow me to meet this interesting kid in advance."
She looked at Momozawa Airi's closed door and smiled softly.
"It seems... he might have known about it, but he didn't show any special reaction."
Lili is indeed a somewhat special child.
...a child who can't keep any secrets.
Maybe Momozawa Airi can still disguise herself in front of other people, but she has no defenses in front of her family and always subconsciously reveals a lot of flaws.
Therefore, Momozawa Haruna discovered very early on that her granddaughter was different from others.
...mind reading or something.
Her granddaughter can know what other people are hiding, but she likes to hide a lot of things herself and is afraid that others will alienate her because of this.
“…”
The new kitten came over timidly and meowed softly.
Momozawa Haruna squatted down, picked it up, and walked towards the living room with a cat in each hand.
"Let me see how I can accommodate you—"
*
Grandma said that E E was a little afraid of Jinpei Matsuda.
"E'e must have been bullied by him," Grandma said seriously. "When I came back, E'e looked so pitiful. He deserved it."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi took a hot bath and spent the day in a trance. Her grandmother fed her a lot of nutritious food.
Until the evening, Matsuda Jinpei did not call her, nor did he tell her about what happened yesterday.
Momozawa Airi actually breathed a sigh of relief.
She lay on the table, staring at the little goldfish in the fish tank in a daze.
The little goldfish didn't know what shyness and regret were. It just swam happily in the water as usual.
Momozawa Airi put her face on the table in despair, wailing silently.
Although her memory of yesterday was already hazy, she still vaguely remembered that she... grabbed the other person and cried and said a lot of nonsense.
...said everything.
It seemed as if he had even forgotten the time when he cried all night because he didn't get first place in the exam when he was a child.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
That's too frank.
From one extreme to another.
So embarrassing.
So embarrassing.
How embarrassing ahhhhhhh——
As she screamed silently, the phone on the table suddenly rang.
【Matsuda Jinpei: I'm at your door】
Momozawa Airi: "..."
The phone in her hand felt as hot as a sweet potato just out of the oven. Her hand slipped and the phone fell onto the table with a clatter.
After a moment of panic, Momozawa Airi, who hadn't figured out how to respond, decided to lie first.
She grabbed her phone and started typing away.
I'm not at home
Before I could press send, the phone rang again.
【Matsuda Jinpei: Don’t say you’re not at home】
[Matsuda Jinpei: I just ran into your grandmother at the door, and she said you were there]
[Matsuda Jinpei: She also asked me to tell you that she went to chat with her neighbor]
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi: "…………"
Her little thoughts were ruthlessly exposed by Jinpei Matsuda, and Momozawa Airi could only move slowly towards the door.
Getting slower and slower.
Getting slower and slower.
The distance from the bedroom to the door is constant, and no matter how slowly you walk, you will eventually reach the end.
Momozawa Airi opened the door reluctantly.
Matsuda Jinpei leaned against the wall, bored. When he heard a noise from the door, he straightened up and asked, "Is the fever gone?"
"Um……"
Momozawa Airi's eyes were wandering and her hands were tangle with the corners of her clothes.
She looked here and there, but didn't look at Jinpei Matsuda.
Matsuda Jinpei clicked his tongue, reached out and gently pinched her chin, restraining Momozawa Airi's movements.
Momozawa Airi was forced to just look at him.
Her mind was full of the words she had said yesterday, and she had no idea how to face Jinpei Matsuda.
"I……"
"Airi."
Jinpei Matsuda lowered his eyes, and the street lights cast a warm yellow edge on his body.
He moved his other hand to Airi Momozawa's hand and placed the object in his hand into hers.
“It’s very close to school and very close to your home.”
"You can come home anytime."
“It’s not a high floor, so there’s no need to take the elevator.”
Momozawa Airi: "?"
She sensed the outline of the object that Matsuda Jin placed flat in her hand.
A...key?
"I'll move in tomorrow." Matsuda Jinpei feigned composure as he spoke his prepared words. "You can take your time to think about it. You can move in whenever you want."
Struck by the huge shock, Momozawa Airi blinked slowly.
She opened her mouth slightly, wanting to say something, but no sound came out.
So Matsuda Jin continued speaking smoothly.
"Let's live together."
*
It was snowing heavily on the night of February 13th.
Jinpei Matsuda casually brushed away the fallen snow from his hair, took out his cell phone and checked the time.
...I came back a little late today.
The weather was very cold and the breath I exhaled was white.
Still some distance from the apartment, he casually rummaged in his pocket for his keys and glanced up at the window.
The room was dark and no lights were on.
Although it was an expected result, he still couldn't help but squint his eyes.
Momozawa Airi didn't move in today either.
Jinpei Matsuda didn't care about what the other person said, such as "I can know your secret" or "Will you be angry?"
When he confirmed that Momozawa Airi could really read minds, he was only shocked for a while.
What? There are really superpowers in the world. Is Ultraman real? I was just wondering how she could predict things so well before. Have I ever thought of anything too extreme before?
…Okay, I was shocked for a long time.
Then I accepted the current situation calmly.
Some time had passed since he handed the key to Momozawa Airi.
Although he said "I can think about it slowly", the hidden emotions in Matsuda Jinpei's heart were spreading day by day.
Want to live with her.
Want to know more about her.
I want to see all of her looks.
Want to invade her life.
…
But all this must respect her wishes and cannot be done arbitrarily.
After Momozawa Airi got the key that day, she was just stunned.
After a moment, Momozawa Airi seemed to have found the voice she used when she ran away from home. She raised her head and stammered something.
"I...please give me some time...let me study hard..."
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
Matsuda Jinpei: "...Study?"
For a moment, he had the illusion that he was not inviting the other party to live together.
…Instead, it seemed like he was inviting Momozawa Airi to participate in the apartment building design competition.
Momozawa Airi hesitated for a long time, and finally took the key and ran away.
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
During the period that followed, he worked with a mentor on some research projects in his spare time, and his free time became much less.
In addition, Momozawa Airi seemed to be deliberately avoiding him, and they hardly ever met.
I just received some strange messages from Momozawa Airi.
[Momozawa Airi: Will you stay in that apartment for the next 12 days?]
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
He calculated the date in his mind and found it was around Valentine's Day.
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda instantly saw through the other party's tentative intentions.
【Matsuda Jinpei: Yes】
He thought the other party would ask him how they would spend Valentine's Day together.
However, the other party seemed to think differently from him.
[Momozawa Airi: So do you like dogs, cats, or rabbits?]
Matsuda Jinpei: “……?”
Are you going to give him a pet...?
He thought about it and randomly chose an option.
【Jinpei Matsuda: Cat Bar】
[Matsuda Jinpei: But I may not have time to keep a pet recently]
[Momozawa Airi: Eh? Do you want to have a pet?]
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
never mind.
As a result, a few days later, Momozawa Airi sent another strange question.
[Momozawa Airi: Jinpei, I want to ask you...that...]
There was no reply for a long time.
Matsuda Jinpei asked her in confusion what she wanted to ask, but Momozawa Airi remained silent and refused to tell the truth.
【Momozawa Airi: I sent this to the wrong qvq】
Jinpei Matsuda looked at the word "Jinpei" on the first line of the message with a choked expression.
……never mind.
Anyway, we have agreed to spend Valentine's Day together, so I can just catch Momozawa Airi and ask her some questions.
…
At this moment, walking in the cold snowy night, recalling what had happened during this period, Matsuda Jinpei breathed a sigh of relief.
“…”
Tsk.
It felt like I was back to the time before my girlfriend’s college entrance examination.
Matsuda Jinpei stepped on the soft snow, casually picked up some snow from the bushes beside him, and rolled it into a snowball.
Throw up.
Catch it.
Throw up.
Catch it.
…
After realizing that Momozawa Airi might be able to read his mind, he would sometimes deliberately control some of his thoughts so that she wouldn't hear them.
At this time, he was the only one walking in the snowy night, so Matsuda Jinpei calmly allowed his thoughts to wander in various subtle directions.
…
The snow water wet his palms, and Matsuda Jinpei casually threw the snowball onto the snow, shaking the key with his fingertips and walked to the door of the house.
The moment he inserted the key, Jinpei Matsuda felt something was wrong.
…It seems like someone has been here.
He calmly lowered the sound of opening the door and clenched his fists vigilantly.
The door opened, and the light from the corridor outside poured into the dark room.
A huge cardboard box was placed at the entrance.
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
With the dim light, he could clearly see two lines of words written on the white paper stuck on the cardboard box.
Happy Valentine's Day
[Matsuda Formation closes]
“…”
The tense muscles suddenly relaxed, and Matsuda Jinpei raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.
"What?... You actually came here quietly."
He turned on the light in the room and moved closer to the cardboard box.
The carton was not sealed, and the opening was loose, revealing the inside of the carton, like a courier box that had just been opened.
...There seemed to be breathing sounds.
Jinpei Matsuda paused as he reached for the cardboard box, and an incredible idea emerged in his mind.
...No, that can't be.
He paused, then completely opened the half-closed top of the cardboard box.
Furry cat ear headdress.
Long cat tail.
Exquisite dress.
Momozawa Airi, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, sat inside with her eyes closed, her chest rising and falling steadily.
...fell asleep.
Matsuda Jinpei: “………………”
The sudden brightness of the environment startled her awake.
Momozawa Airi slowly opened her eyes, rubbed them, and raised her head in a daze.
"...Huh? Is it daybreak?"
She slowed down and gradually regained consciousness.
"Oh...the light is on."
"I didn't expect you to be back so late... I fell asleep while sitting inside waiting... It must have been less than ten minutes."
She yawned, put her hands on the edge of the cardboard box, curled up inside, and looked up at Jinpei Matsuda.
"Happy Valentine's Day in advance, Zhen Ping."
Momozawa Airi glanced at the silent Matsuda Jinpei, and raised her hand awkwardly to adjust the cat ears on her head.
"You said you could move slowly... I moved myself here first."
Having figured it out already, Momozawa Airi spoke easily, covering up all the hard thinking she had been doing for a while with just one word.
...She could finally trust Jinpei Matsuda wholeheartedly.
Momozawa Airi blinked slowly.
"This is a real surprise, right? I did a great job keeping it a secret. It's much more surprising than your last birthday, eh eh eh eh—"
Momozawa Airi tilted her head and deliberately shook the cat ears on her head.
"Why don't you say anything... I asked you before, and you said you liked cats."
She wanted to say a few more words, but suddenly her body felt lighter and she was picked up by Matsuda Jinpei.
She heard Matsuda Jinpei's somewhat muffled voice.
“…Now I really like it.”
Jinpei Matsuda held her legs and buried his head in her shoulders. He had no time to control his inner thoughts and let them roar into Momozawa Airi's mind.
There was an inexplicably familiar fragrance lingering at the tip of my nose.
Matsuda Jinpei felt the person in his arms shudder for a moment, then he whispered righteously in his soft voice, "Jinpei, based on my learning results—you should go take a shower first."
Momozawa Airi added in a serious tone: "I've already washed, use your bathroom."
"And…your body wash smells so good."
*
The lingering fragrance in the bathroom soon spread throughout the bedroom.
Although it was very cold today, Momozawa Airi felt as if there was a faint heat spreading around her, making her feel dizzy.
She hugged Matsuda Jinpei's neck and smelled the same scent on him as her own.
It seemed like the whole room smelled like that.
The fragrance lingered around her nose, making her mind involuntarily fall into a sweet atmosphere.
Although no one spoke, Jinpei Matsuda's voice kept ringing in her mind - accompanied by the ambiguous sound of lips and tongues entwining, it dragged her reason into a charming abyss.
She didn't know how long it had been before she felt Matsuda Jinpei straighten up slightly and look down at her condescendingly.
Jinpei Matsuda rested his hands on her sides, his hot breath caressing her cheeks.
"Airi."
Jinpei Matsuda's voice was a little hoarse.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Airi Momozawa with tears in his eyes, his gaze moving slowly on her long hair.
"Are you really ready?"
"…What time is it now?"
Momozawa Airi asked softly.
Jinpei Matsuda took the cell phone beside him, checked the time, and told her in a calm manner.
"Then let's wait five more minutes."
Momozawa Airi suggested seriously.
"You can kiss me and that will make the five minutes go by quickly."
"..." Matsuda Jinpei did not act according to her words, but looked at her straightly, "If you haven't made up your mind, let's stop."
Momozawa Airi took a deep breath, the blush on her face faded a little, and she stared back unwillingly.
"I've made up my mind. I want to take things a step further with you."
"Think very, very clearly."
Momozawa Airi explained sincerely.
Matsuda Jinpei looked at her gravely, still without moving.
"The last tram will stop in five minutes. It's snowing heavily today, so it's not convenient to take a taxi."
Momozawa Airi pursed her lips.
“…I can’t go home.”
As if mustering up her courage, Momozawa Airi continued quickly and swiftly, "I'm ready, but I didn't know the size, so I bought a lot of different ones..."
"After all, you never told me... Oh no, I wanted to ask last time... but I didn't ask in the end..."
She pointed to her bag which she had placed aside.
"...it's all there. I bought everything from the smallest to the largest."
"I checked the averages... so I bought more medium and small sizes..."
"You're not very good at it?"
Momozawa Airi looked at him sincerely and said in an encouraging tone, "It's okay, my theoretical knowledge is pretty good."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
Matsuda Jinpei: “………………”
He was stunned for a moment, and finally reacted.
etc.
She talked about studying during this period.
What are you going to learn?
Matsuda Jinpei was rarely able to speak, not knowing what to say. His expression became complicated for a moment: "..."
"...Matsuda-senpai."
Hearing this name that he hadn't heard for a long time, Matsuda Jinpei's breathing became heavier.
A hint of embarrassment appeared in Momozawa Airi's eyes, but she forced herself to appear calm and put her somewhat cold hands around Matsuda Jinpei's neck again.
"After all, it matches the clothes... I'll also fulfill your birthday wish from last year."
She exerted a little force, forcing Jinpei Matsuda to lower his head.
Then she leaned close to his ear and whispered softly:
"Meow."
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