Chapter 58 Chapter 58 Undercurrent
Momozawa Airi blinked her eyes, looking at the slightly strange scene on the screen.
There are so many people crowded in this small dormitory.
She hadn't expected to meet Matsuda Jinpei's friends from the police academy under such circumstances. She grumbled and asked innocently, "Why are you interrogating Jinpei?"
Hagiwara Kenji quickly answered: "Because——"
"Because we are reviewing the interrogation techniques we learned."
Kenji Hagiwara had just begun his reply when he was ruthlessly interrupted by Rei Furuya.
After saying that, Furuya Rei smiled at Momozawa Airi.
“Don’t miss any details.”
Looks very sincere.
As he spoke, he stood up and calmly reached out to push the unhappy-looking Jinpei Matsuda back into his chair.
Airi Momozawa: “Oh.”
Without giving it much thought, she sincerely praised, "You guys are studying really hard. I won't bother you anymore."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Hagihara Kenji: "..."
Momozawa Airi tilted her head, signaling Hagiwara Kenji to move his phone.
Hagiwara Kenji looked like he was trying very hard to hold back his laughter: "...I understand."
The camera shifted, and Jinpei Matsuda appeared on the screen with a complicated expression.
Momozawa Airi gave him a small wave. "I'll call you tomorrow, then. Jinpei, study hard."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
…
The moment Momozawa Airi's face disappeared from the screen, Furuya Rei, who had been maintaining a proper smile, turned around and said, "Go on. Where were you just now?"
Zhu Fujingguang continued smoothly, "On xx/xx/xxxx, in front of the xx convenience store at Dongda University, you were the one holding the dog, right?"
Furuya Rei adjusted his attitude and followed up, "That was you at Airi's house on xx/xx/xxxx, right?"
Matsuda Jinpei: "...Your memory is a little too good!!"
Furuya Rei, who had previously communicated with Morufushi Kagemitsu about the cheating, snorted coldly, "You can't even remember that? It seems you don't really care about Airi."
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
Hagiwara Kenji was enjoying the fun and said, "Little Zhenping, tell me now."
Date Hang: "That's right."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
Morofushi Jingguang paused, thinking of the forced kiss scene he had seen on the train before, and felt that Airi should at least not be bullied by the other party.
There was a hint of complexity in the look he gave Matsuda Jinpei.
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda felt the veins on his forehead throbbing slightly.
“………………Is this ever going to end?!”
*
With graduation coming up next year, Momozawa Airi is slowly beginning to find her own way out.
Some of the senior students I knew before continued their studies, while others entered the workplace.
Momozawa Airi doesn't quite know what she wants to do at the moment, nor does she know what is the right thing to do.
Grandma told her, "Lili, you can do whatever you want—but don't break the law."
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi supported her chin and stared at the various recruitment pages for a long time, thinking that she might choose to further her studies and then take the judicial examination... or something like that.
…But it wouldn’t be a bad idea to experience the working world first?
In the end, she chose a well-known firm and planned to work as an intern for a while.
…
While sitting in the cinema waiting for the show to start, Momozawa Airi heard Matsuda Jinpei say that he was approached by the Mobile Police. Only then did she realize it belatedly.
Jinpei Matsuda is also about to graduate.
He is really about to become a policeman.
"Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team...?"
Momozawa Airi was stunned.
She paused in her movement to grab the popcorn.
Jinpei Matsuda naturally raised his hand, picked up a piece of fragrant popcorn from the popcorn bucket, and stuffed it into Momozawa Airi's mouth.
"Yes, the mobile team came to look for me and Hagi."
He leaned back in his chair with a cheerful look on his face, his voice hinting at anticipation.
"So do you want to go?" Momozawa Airi paused, picked up a handful of popcorn, held it in her hand and ate it slowly in small bites.
Crunch, crunch.
Matsuda Jinpei responded with a raised tone.
"...Congratulations, it shows you're really good."
Momozawa Airi munched on popcorn, trying to use the mechanical movement of eating to soothe the ripples in her heart.
The fact that the virgin class actively extended an olive branch to her shows that her boyfriend is an outstanding person.
Moreover, it is of course good for Jinpei Matsuda to have something he wants to do and is interested in. He likes to study bombs and so on.
“…”
As she thought about it, Momozawa Airi couldn't help but speed up her eating.
Click, click, click.
“…Hmm.”
but……
The work in the explosives squad seems quite... dangerous. They often have to deal with bombs and other things.
Baji, baji.
Momozawa Airi slowly lowered her head and stared at the popcorn bucket. While eating the popcorn in her mouth, she pretended to be carefully selecting the popcorn to eat next to cover up her somewhat uneasy mood.
"Of course." Matsuda Jinpei accepted her compliment confidently, reached out to hold her chin, and patted it gently, "Don't you see who I am?"
He deliberately lowered his head and looked at Momozawa Airi's plump cheeks for a while.
"Why are you eating like a hamster?"
Matsuda Jinpei smiled teasingly and spoke in a teasing tone.
When she felt a sticky touch on her chin and a sweet smell of popcorn lingered at her nose, Momozawa Airi was forced to tilt her head back and subconsciously looked into Matsuda Jinpei's eyes.
Her eyes were fixed on the Band-Aid on his cheek.
She had asked about it as soon as they met, and Matsuda Jinpei said casually that it was a wound left from a car accident.
After she questioned him angrily, Jinpei Matsuda told her honestly what he had done.
At that time, Momozawa Airi felt that the whole process was like an action blockbuster as she listened.
“…”
At this moment, Momozawa Airi stared at the Band-Aid for a while, feeling a little confused, and raised her hand to pat the other person's hand.
"...Zhenping, your hands taste like popcorn!"
Momozawa Airi found a random excuse to hide her emotions, raised her head, and looked at Matsuda Jinpei angrily.
Jinpei Matsuda's hand was slapped away unexpectedly.
He narrowed his eyes, suddenly turned sideways, and leaned over to eat the popcorn in Momozawa Airi's hand.
Before Momozawa Airi could stop him, she felt her palms go empty and a warm touch came from them.
In an instant, a slight electric current seemed to start from that point and quickly swept through her whole body.
"You you you you you lick—"
Momozawa Airi blushed and withdrew her hand, stammering for a long time without finishing her sentence.
"Your hands taste like popcorn, too."
Jinpei Matsuda leaned back in his chair again in a good mood and licked the corner of his lips inadvertently.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
The movie happened to start at this moment, and the entire theater was instantly filled with only the light from the screen.
Momozawa Airi stared at the screen absentmindedly for a while.
Well, at the beginning, the male and female protagonists are together, and what follows is definitely a lot of hilarious plots about happy enemies... and then there's the love and affection between Jiang Jiang Niang Niang...
As she watched, she secretly shifted her gaze to Jinpei Matsuda.
Matsuda Jinpei sat beside her, staring intently at the screen, his fingertips tapping the armrest of the chair from time to time.
The faint light set off his superior profile, inexplicably outlining a sharp and aloof temperament.
“…”
Momozawa Airi stared at him for a moment.
Although a comedy movie was playing on the screen, Momozawa Airi felt a little sad as she listened to the laughter coming from all around and felt the lively atmosphere in the theater.
She suddenly felt that Jinpei Matsuda seemed very far away from her.
As the picture changes, the light reflected on Jinpei Matsuda's profile appears in different colors.
When the color turned into a light red, Momozawa Airi paused, intending to withdraw her furtive gaze.
...If you don't pay attention to the plot, you won't understand it, even if it's a comedy.
Just as her eyes moved a little to the side, they suddenly met a pair of bright blue eyes.
Jinpei Matsuda suddenly turned his head and looked at her openly.
His eyes were fixed straight ahead.
At the same time, Momozawa Airi felt her hand on her leg being wrapped in a warm palm.
Matsuda Jinpei held her hand firmly and placed it squarely on the armrest.
With his palm facing up and the back of his hand against the armrest of the seat, he grabbed Momozawa Airi's hand without saying anything.
After completing all the actions, Jinpei Matsuda turned his head leisurely and continued to stare at the screen.
A slow voice came.
【If you want to hold my hand, just tell me. 】
Momozawa Airi: "..."
That’s not the case.
Momozawa Airi didn't complain out loud, but stared silently at the funny scenes on the screen.
Suddenly, she smiled gently.
The faint laughter instantly merged into the laughter in the theater.
...It doesn’t seem very far.
It's obviously very close.
"You smiled."
The drama on screen continued, with the actors delivering witty lines.
Suddenly, the voice of Jinpei Matsuda rang in Airi Momozawa's ears.
An affirmative sentence.
Momozawa Airi: "?"
She was stunned, her mind still immersed in the lines just spoken by the heroine, and she didn't react.
"I laughed for the first time since tonight."
Jinpei Matsuda's voice was not loud and was drowned out by the laughter that broke out again in the theater.
At the same time, she felt her hand being held tighter by Matsuda Jinpei.
He pressed the soft palm gently.
...it's not sticky at all anymore, and there's no popcorn smell.
Momozawa Airi thought.
It should be... He just wiped it with a wet wipe.
*
Not long after, it was Jinpei Matsuda's birthday.
Kenji Hagiwara called on everyone to have dinner together in the evening to celebrate Jinpei Matsuda's birthday.
When Momozawa Airi arrived at the agreed restaurant, everyone else had arrived except the birthday boy, Jinpei Matsuda.
She looked at Hagiwara Kenji with some confusion.
Hagiwara Kenji took a sip of tea and, before Momozawa Airi could open her mouth, he spoke sympathetically, "Jinpei's wound has split open."
Momozawa Airi: “Huh?”
She was stunned.
Jinpei Matsuda had indeed told her that he had sustained some minor injuries after being scratched by a cat, but she had not expected it to be this serious.
Hagiwara Kenji, who had the same scratch marks, added sympathetically, "When I used the class flag to catch Morobushi who jumped from the building—"
Momosawa Airi: "...?"
Catch it.
From upstairs.
Jump down.
Momozawa Airi: “…Oh.”
Ever since I heard about how they drove a Mazda to intercept a truck, I feel that hearing this kind of thing doesn't seem so outrageous.
Maybe the wound was pulled when I caught the person.
Hagiwara Kenji: "The wound wasn't torn at that time."
Momozawa Airi: "?"
Kenji Hagiwara: "He got into it yesterday when we were competing to see who could do the most push-ups—so mine is already healed."
He also showed it off ostentatiously.
Momozawa Airi: "…………"
She drank her juice wordlessly and looked around.
The shop was bustling with people talking and clamoring.
Furuya Rei and Morofushi Kagemitsu sat on her left and right.
And Date Kou - she now knew his name, was sitting and chatting with Hagiwara Kenji.
The only seat left was the one directly opposite her.
Momozawa Airi propped up her chin and listened boredly to them talking about how difficult it was to clean the bathhouse.
When Rei Furuya repeated for the third time, "I was keeping Instructor Onizuka busy outside while you guys were sleeping in the bathhouse yesterday," Airi Momozawa sensitively caught a greeting coming from not far away.
"Everyone is here."
Although the store was noisy, she recognized the voice instantly.
Momozawa Airi turned her head and looked at Matsuda Jinpei who was walking towards them slowly.
——Jinpei Matsuda, his hands wrapped in layers of bandages.
He walked to the table, slowly glanced at the seating arrangement, and leisurely looked at Furuya Rei and Morobushi Kagemitsu.
Furuya Rei smiled and opened a new can of juice for Momozawa Airi.
Morofushi Kagemitsu gently gestured to Matsuda Jinpei, "There's room across the way."
Then he stood still, as if glued to his seat.
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Hagiwara Kenji clicked his tongue twice and patted the empty seat beside him: "Come and sit down, Xiao Zhenping. There's room here."
Idahang also patted the empty seat: "I reserved this especially for you, the middle seat."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
He glared at them fiercely and sat down in the seat opposite.
Hagiwara Kenji flipped through the menu. "What kind of drinks would you like? The usual?"
The others had no objection.
Hagiwara Kenji: "But Jinpei-kun is injured and can't drink today. Sigh, I could have gotten him drunk today - he can drink much better now."
The others echoed.
Matsuda Jinpei: “…………”
Momozawa Airi, who had just finished drinking a bunch of juice, raised her hand: "I want some too."
She is very confident in her drinking ability.
After all, she was able to drink more than Jinpei Matsuda before, so she can definitely drink the wine they are drinking now.
Matsuda Jinpei said: "The alcohol content of this wine is——"
"If Airi likes it, let her drink it." Hagiwara Kenji interrupted him and marked the menu, "Add it, add it."
…
After all, it was a dinner party and they didn't sit together, so Momozawa Airi didn't have much chance to talk to Matsuda Jinpei alone.
She listened to the group's lively conversation with great interest, occasionally letting out an exclamation of joy.
Then he glanced furtively at the bandage wrapped around Jinpei Matsuda's hand.
And a Band-Aid on his face.
“…”
It seems that the wound on his face has not healed yet.
Momozawa Airi gulped down a mouthful of wine.
The taste is ok.
...it just seems like the smell of alcohol is a bit strong.
She felt as if she was floating all over.
After her last drinking experience, Momozawa Airi thought that this was still a case of being slightly tipsy.
Yeah, a little tipsy.
She put her hand to her face and felt her cheeks seemed to be burning.
While Kenji Hagiwara was talking enthusiastically about his first driving experience, Momozawa Airi caught a glimpse of Jinpei Matsuda picking up chopsticks and trying to pick up a piece of grilled meat on a plate in the distance.
But it seemed that because the plate was placed a little far away, and coupled with the wound on his finger, his movements looked a little clumsy. Not only was his chopstick holding posture a little weird, but he was unable to pick up the barbecue after trying several times.
Momozawa Airi paused, picked up the chopsticks, and picked up a piece of grilled meat.
Momozawa Airi originally wanted to put the meat into Matsuda Jinpei's bowl, but the moment she stretched out her arm, her words suddenly took a turn for some unknown reason.
"Open your mouth."
“…”
Wait, was she feeding Jinpei Matsuda in front of so many people...?
A little tipsy, probably a little tipsy.
Momozawa Airi picked up the meat with chopsticks and brought it close to Matsuda Jinpei's mouth.
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda blinked, looked at her deeply, then slowly opened his mouth and ate the piece of barbecue.
Momozawa Airi tilted her head and blinked slowly, feeling a little dizzy.
I also felt that I could see the meaning of "wanting to eat" in his eyes.
"Hey, do you still want to eat?"
She picked up another piece of barbecue and looked at it carefully. It was no longer steaming.
So, she handed it over: "It shouldn't be hot anymore."
Matsuda Jinpei continued to stare at her and ate again.
Momozawa Airi suddenly felt like they were the only two people having dinner together.
She felt that Matsuda Jinpei's eyes this time didn't seem to mean "want to eat", so Momozawa Airi put down her chopsticks.
At this moment, she discovered——
The other four people who were chatting animatedly just now seemed to have pressed the mute button, looking at her and Matsuda Jinpei with strange, complex and subtle eyes.
Momozawa Airi: "?"
She was a little confused and scratched her head: "What's the matter?"
Jianggu Ling: "..."
Zhu Fujingguang: "..."
Date Hang: “…”
Hagiwara Kenji took a sip of his wine and said to them earnestly, "I told you that you will get used to it sooner or later."
“…”
*
This wine tastes really good.
Momozawa Airi drank half a bottle and felt that she was getting more and more tipsy.
Even more drunk.
...Is that okay? Is there a way to use it like that?
Momozawa Airi thought seriously for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it, poured herself another glass of wine, and drank it happily.
Her thoughts slowly drifted to some inexplicable place, and the chattering in her ears seemed to be getting farther and farther away from her.
As she was floating, Momozawa Airi suddenly remembered the bunny skirt she had bought.
...Oh, I was planning to wear it for Jinpei Matsuda on my birthday.
Later, I got angry and never mentioned it again.
But, I bought it...
Momozawa Airi narrowed her eyes and thought for a while, then decided to make the most of this dress - to tease Jinpei Matsuda.
She picked up her phone and typed slowly.
After a while, she raised her head and saw with satisfaction that the phone that Matsuda Jin placed flat on the table vibrated.
Matsuda Jinpei was clinking glasses with Hagiwara Kenji over juice when he heard the voice and casually picked up his phone to glance at it.
Then the action of clinking glasses paused.
"Ah ...
There was a flurry of activity.
After wiping the spilled wine off the table, Matsuda Jinpei paused and picked up his phone again.
[Momozawa Airi: Actually, I bought the bunny skirt I mentioned last time =v=]
[Momozawa Airi: It's in our apartment~]
[Momozawa Airi: Do you want me to wear it for you to see? =w=]
“…”
The air was filled with noisy voices.
Jinpei Matsuda raised his head and exchanged glances with Momozawa Airi who was standing opposite him.
The other person's eyes were a little hazy, his face was flushed, and his head was tilted. It seemed that he had been waiting for his gaze to come over, and he gave him a somewhat silly smile in return.
"..." Matsuda Jinpei licked the corner of his lips and replied slowly.
[Matsuda Jinpei: You said it, don't go back on your word]
He raised his head and looked calmly at Momozawa Airi who was typing with her head down.
Kenji Hagiwara next to him urged him to clink glasses again, and Jinpei Matsuda responded and raised his glass.
A crisp collision sound and the sound of a vibrating phone rang out at the same time.
【Momozawa Airi: But you can’t do anything】
【Matsuda Jinpei:? 】
Jinpei Matsuda held his cell phone, looking a little confused.
He watched Momozawa Airi typing slowly with a slightly anxious look.
The other party lowered his head, as if he had made a mistake. He slowly pressed the delete key and retyped it bit by bit.
[Momozawa Airi: Because your hands are not good enough]
After sending the message, Momozawa Airi, whose logic was simple and clear, put down her phone contentedly.
She felt that she must be a little tipsy.
Because she was just as happy now as she was that night skiing.
Momozawa Airi drank the last bit of wine in the glass and adjusted her sitting position.
She paused, feeling as if her legs had touched someone else's legs.
The table was covered with a tablecloth, and you couldn't see under the table from your seated perspective.
Momozawa Airi was stunned for a moment, and when she was about to pull her legs back, she felt the other person's toes seemed to touch her toes lightly.
At the same time, Jinpei Matsuda, who was sitting opposite her, raised his eyebrows at her.
The alcohol slowed down Airi Momozawa's reaction speed. She thought blankly for a while before she realized——
It's Jinpei Matsuda.
To confirm, she deliberately knocked the paper ball to the ground and slowly went down to pick it up.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to pick it up, Momozawa Airi glanced at it calmly out of the corner of her eye.
...That's Jinpei Matsuda.
She straightened up and reached out angrily for a baked potato.
Jinpei Matsuda reached out his hand almost at the same time as her, also aiming for the baked potato.
At the moment when the backs of their hands just brushed against each other, a voice came clearly in Momozawa Airi's mind.
...Huh?
She was stunned in disbelief, and her movements to pick up the food froze.
However, Matsuda Jinpei, who had already seized the opportunity, did not pick up the baked potato immediately, but deliberately picked up a baked potato next to it.
The moment he picked up the dish, his wrist seemed to accidentally touch Momozawa Airi's fingertips.
Just a moment.
The voice rang out again.
Even when Jinpei Matsuda withdrew his hand, sat opposite her, and began to eat slowly with his head down, his voice was still echoing in Momozawa Airi's mind.
The voice is low and magnetic.
I even switched the content to a simpler version so that she, who has a slow mind, could understand it more easily.
“…”
When Fūya Rei was pouring wine, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Momozawa Airi's red ears beside him.
He paused, looked at her calmly, and found that her cheeks were getting redder.
“…”
It's strange, Airi's face was a little red just now, but not this red.
Maybe I drank too much...?
Or is it because I just had a baked potato?
Fūya Rei recalled the scene just now and found nothing wrong.
He very considerately picked up a bottle of water and placed it in front of Momozawa Airi: "Airi, drink some water, your face is very red."
He blinked, but found that the other person just lowered his head.
After a while, Momozawa Airi reached out and gently covered her face.
After a while, she put down her hands and raised her head with forced calmness.
"I...I'm not blushing..."
The whole person seemed to be red.
Jiangu Ling: "???"
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