45 When the beauty of youth is gone
◎When I'm unlucky, even drinking cold water will get stuck in my teeth◎
After Hanano Chiheko finished speaking in one breath, she instantly felt the air turn cold to freezing point.
During the long silence, Hanano Chiheko still knew clearly that Furuya Rei was listening.
As time passed, Chihoko Hanano's heart seemed to be tightly tightened, making her feel very uncomfortable.
Just when Hanano Chiheko thought that Furuya Rei would not speak again, Furuya Rei's voice, which lacked much emotion, came from the receiver, "I understand."
The bright moon shines through the gap in the curtains onto the sleepless man and woman in the middle of the night.
After being burned by the moonlight, something cautiously retreated into its original shell and licked the wound bit by bit.
A hint of bitterness spread from her heart, and Hanano Chihoko tightened her grip on the phone. "Then...good night."
"Well, good night."
Chihoko Hanano put down her phone, and her tense body instantly relaxed. She fell straight into the soft quilt, maintaining the same posture without moving.
"Meow?"
The orange cub wagged its tail, stood up and sniffed Hanano Chiheko, then pressed Hanano Chiheko's arm with its little paws.
Chihoko Hanano, who tried to blend in with the still life around her, felt the care of the Cat God and finally came back to life. She held the orange cub in her arms, touched the kitten's head, and no longer had to worry.
So... Hanano Chiheko thought, maybe, probably, possibly, she really wouldn't have to worry anymore.
When Chihoko Hanano woke up, Tomoaki Aida was waking up at his workstation.
Chihoko Hanano greeted them, sat down, and joined the group of people trying to wake up, supporting their head.
When Nakajima Linmei came over, she saw the two gate gods were motionless. They stepped back to check the sign on the school infirmary before coming back in. "What's wrong? Why are they so exhausted after not seeing you all night?"
Shinide Tomoaki glanced at Hanano Chiheko, whose eyes were blank, and spoke first: "I just drank a little last night and I feel a little dizzy."
Chihoko Hanano also came to her senses.
"Well...that's true, but I'm much better now and can work hard again!" Hanano Chijuko said with a struggling face.
Nakajima Hayami was touched by Hanano Chiheko's burning enthusiasm for work. After a moment of confusion, she did not investigate further.
"As for work, I haven't been busy lately. It's just that the school will be holding a sports meet next week. I just asked, and our school clinic has registration spots available. You guys..."
Nakajima Linmei knew Hanano Chiheko's tendency to "never stand if she can sit down," and when she said this, she was clearly looking at Aida Tomoaki, "Do you have any ideas..."
“Me, me, me!”
Chihoko Hanano immediately raised her hand, trying to attract the attention of Hayami Nakajima.
Nakajima Linmei was surprised for a moment, "You?"
The suspicion in his tone was so obvious that Hanano Chihoko could hardly ignore it.
Hanano Chihoko's acting addiction suddenly surged with her emotions. She pointed at Aida Tomoaki and cried to Nakajima Linmei, "Teacher Nakajima, you are partial to me!"
The inexplicably accused junior was bewildered. Nakajima Lin Meixian couldn't stand it any longer and stuffed the application form in Hanano Chihezi's arms, "Alright, alright, go ahead."
"Hehe..." Chihoko Hanano immediately took the event schedule with satisfaction and looked at it carefully.
"Which event do you want to participate in, Senior Sister?" Niide Tomoaki leaned over.
Hanano Chiheko hesitated for a moment, then said confidently, "If I want to take advantage of close combat, the only area I can improve on is..."
"This!" Chihoko Hanano pointed at Tomoaki Aida.
Nakajima Hayami couldn't help but look at the event Hanano Chiheko chose, "Sprint?"
"That's right," Hanano Chiheko said seriously, "Think about it, if someone wants to kill me, but he can't catch me within a hundred meters, then I can easily find a way to escape, right?"
This is the truth, but which good person would not consider from time to time whether someone wants to kill him?
Nakajima Hayami had completely given up on Hanano Chihoko's train of thought, and Aishide Tomoaki thought of Hanano Chihoko's previous sequelae, and looked at her with a deep expression.
"Senior Sister!"
After finishing her morning class, Chiheko Hanano was about to go out.
Tomoaki Aride caught up with Chihoko Hanano.
Hanano Chiheko stopped in the corridor and turned around. "What's wrong?"
Shinde Tomoaki thought for a moment and said carefully, "Last night at midnight... is Senior Sister okay?"
"It's okay." Hanano Chiheko said, then immediately realized something and quickly covered her mouth. "Did I disturb you when I called last night?"
Arata Tomoaki shook his head, "Just... I was hungry at night, and I wanted to ask you if you wanted to eat something, but when I heard you were on the phone, I didn't disturb you."
"I see." Hanano Chiheko understood for a moment, then sighed and said, "What a pity, I was actually a little hungry at that time."
Seeing the topic was being diverted, Arai Tomoaki was about to say something, but he heard Hanano Chiheko say, "The past cannot be retrieved. Next time you have a midnight snack, be sure to invite me along."
Shinide Tomoaki opened his mouth, then looked at Hanano Chiheko, who still looked as if nothing had happened. He subconsciously swallowed the doubts in his heart and nodded, "Okay, I'll definitely do it next time."
“So good!”
Hanano Chiheko smiled and waved to Aida Tomoaki, "Okay, I have something very important to do, so I'll leave first. Bye," then turned and ran away.
Very important...
Tomoaki Niide looked at Chihoko Hanano's hurried back with a puzzled look on his face.
"Hagiwara-san, I, I have something to tell you!"
Familiar routine, familiar protagonist Kenji Hagiwara and the girl who confessed, and familiar NPC Jinpei Matsuda with an icy face.
"Sorry, Jinpei-chan." Hagiwara Kenji smiled politely, "Could you wait for me for a moment?"
"Oh." Matsuda Jinpei put his hands in his pockets, kicked stones boredly, and walked to the edge of the woods.
A round and plump stone suddenly attracted Jinpei Matsuda's attention.
Matsuda Jinpei kicked the stone, which flew into the air and landed smoothly in the bushes at the edge of the forest.
“Yes!”
Matsuda Jinpei clenched his fist and sighed. His originally cheerful mood immediately turned gloomy when he heard a cry of "ouch" in the forest and saw Hanano Chiheko rushing out with great momentum.
"Ha, I caught you!" Hanano Chiheko emerged from the bushes and grabbed Matsuda Jinpei's collar. "Tell me, were you the one who threw the stone at me?"
As soon as the victim opened his mouth, Matsuda Jinpei instantly changed the verdict from "negligent injury" to "intentional injury".
Matsuda Jinpei felt helpless, unable to defend himself. But when he thought of the heavy weight of the stone, he lost the desire to joke with Hanano Chiheko. "Okay, I'll take full responsibility, but at least we need to confirm the injury before deciding the sentence, right?"
As he said this, Jinpei Matsuda was about to bend over to check on Chihoko Hanano.
"Hey!" Hanano Chiheko hurriedly stopped Matsuda Jinpei's action.
"Aren't you injured?" Jinpei Matsuda didn't understand what Hanano Chiheko was hesitating about, and he was determined to see where Hanano Chiheko was injured.
Hanano Chiheko's ears flushed red as she quickly stepped back, creating some distance between herself and Matsuda Jinpei. "Alright, alright, it was just a flesh hit, no bones hurt. You can compensate me with an ice cream and we can move on."
Matsuda Jinpei raised an eyebrow when he heard this. "So easy to deal with? This isn't a trick!"
"I'm a beautiful person with a kind heart!" Hanano Chiheko was afraid that Matsuda Jinpei would pester her again, so she pretended to be angry and said, "You have such a mean heart!"
Seeing that Hanano Chiheko was fine, Matsuda Jinpei breathed a sigh of relief, and then he noticed a bright spot in Hanano Chiheko's eyes.
"By the way..." Matsuda Jinpei approached as if nothing had happened, chatting with Hanano Chiheko: "What were you doing hiding in the woods just now?"
"Being a mushroom." Chihoko Hanano replied as a matter of course.
Matsuda Jinpei paused, then asked more seriously, "What's up with you?"
Hanano Chiheko shuddered and immediately stared at Matsuda Jinpei with a wary look on her face, "How do you know what I'm thinking?"
Matsuda Jinpei was speechless. He reached out to knock Hanano Chihoko on the head, but she dodged it smartly. "What do you think? You told me that yourself!"
Hanano Chiheko now remembered the quick-answer game she had played with Matsuda Jinpei at the boxing gym. She rubbed her brows in sudden realization, "Ah, I've been meeting so many people and things lately that I forgot."
Matsuda Jinpei scoffed, crossed his arms, and looked at Hanano Chihoko. "Isn't that a lot? Look at the dark circles under your eyes. You don't even need eye makeup to cosplay as a vampire."
"Hiss!" Hanano Chiheko gasped and looked at Matsuda Jinpei with a look of deep sorrow, "You are speaking such cold words in my face~"
Looking at Hanano Chihoko's slightly exaggerated acting, Matsuda Jinpei's eyes twitched silently, and then he thought that Hanano Chihoko not only did not fight back, but even tried to play the victim, and he immediately realized that something was wrong.
The next moment, as if confirming Matsuda Jinpei's premonition, Hagiwara Kenji's voice rang out behind him, "Little Jinpei, please don't bully Kowako~"
really……
Jinpei Matsuda glanced at the gloating Chihoko Hanano, and turned to his own son Junran who was taking sides.
"alright?"
"Yeah." Hagiwara Kenji approached the two of them. After Matsuda Jinpei's reminder, he also noticed Hanano Chiheko's dark circles and said with concern, "Staying up late isn't a good habit. I feel like Chiheko's skin isn't as bright as before!"
If this sentence was said by Jinpei Matsuda, Hanano Chihoko would definitely disdain Jinpei Matsuda's aesthetic taste, but...
It was Hagiwara Kenji who said that. Hanano Chihoko was struck by lightning. She covered her face and fell into anxiety about her appearance for a second. "Ah, it seems that I am getting old. After all, I am not the youthful and beautiful girl I used to be. Cry~"
"Huh? Were you like that before?" Matsuda Jinpei's question was glared back by Hanano Chiheko.
"It's not that exaggerated." Hagiwara Kenji smiled even more deeply. "I heard that delicious food can restore vitality. Do you want to try it together?"
"Great!" Hanano Chiheko raised her hands in agreement. "Matsuda still owes me an ice cream anyway. Time flies, and soon it's time to pay it back."
It's only been a quarter of an hour!
Jinpei Matsuda was too tired to complain, but he still followed the two excited people out obediently.
The world is big, but eating is the most important thing.
When Hanano Chiheko thought about the delicious food she was about to taste, she became so happy that she seemed worthless.
But the facts once again prove the scientific nature of excessive joy leading to sorrow.
When they arrived at the restaurant recommended by Kenji Hagiwara, Chihoko Hanano just sat down and, without even giving everyone time to react, she immediately shouted and started playing.
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