87 Tenderness in the Car
◎Who is heartbroken! ◎
Chihoko Hanano opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word.
Toru Amuro understood something from this long silence, and a hint of bitterness appeared in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked."
"No." Hanano Chiheko pulled a smile at the corner of her mouth. She wanted to pat Amuro Toru to comfort him, but when she stretched out her hand, it involuntarily stopped at Amuro Toru's cheek.
Toru Amuro closed his eyes slightly tiredly and silently moved towards the position of Hanano Chiheko's hand.
As her fingertips brushed against the familiar yet unfamiliar touch, Chihoko Hanano couldn't help but breathe more lightly.
Long time no see, Zero...
Maybe it was because the car was too stuffy, Chihoko Hanano felt a little breathless.
"Please take me back, Mr. Amuro." Hanano Chihoko smiled faintly at Amuro Toru.
The warmth on his cheek suddenly disappeared. Amuro Toru opened his eyes as if waking from a dream. After a moment of calming down, he said awkwardly, "Okay."
Toru Amuro then started the Mazda and took Chihoko Hanano back to the dormitory.
Hanano Chihoko got out of the car and waved to Amuro Toru. "Thank you for giving me a ride, anyway."
Amuro Toru smiled as gently as usual: "Good night."
After entering the door, Chihoko Hanano did not choose to take the elevator, but ran to the small window on the middle step of the stairwell, and glanced sideways cautiously at the body of the Mazda downstairs.
The Mazda stopped for a while, and it was dark inside the car, so Chihoko Hanano couldn't see what the people inside were doing.
After a while, the car started and drove away slowly.
Only when the car disappeared from her sight did Hanano Chihoko withdraw her gaze and go upstairs.
"call……"
When Miyano Shiho went out to throw away the garbage, she happened to see Hanano Chihoko, who was walking to the door of her house, supporting herself as if she had just finished running 800 meters.
"You..." Miyano Shiho casually handed Hanano Chiheko a tissue, then looked in the direction she came back from, "Did you come up the stairs?"
"hey-hey."
Hanano Chiheko gratefully took the paper and wiped the sweat off her face. "I haven't exercised in a long time. It feels good to sweat occasionally."
Climbing 15 floors late at night just to sweat...
Miyano Shiho tilted her head slightly, "Really?"
Hanano Chiheko blinked and said with a smile, "What else?"
"otherwise……"
Miyano Shiho stared straight at Hanano Chihoko, her tone slightly tentative, "You seem to be experiencing symptoms of a broken heart."
Hanano Chiheko's breath got stuck in her throat. She pretended to cough a few times and quickly waved her hands, "What are you talking about? Besides, you've never been heartbroken, so how do you know if I've been heartbroken?"
Speaking of this, it is indeed a blind spot in Shiho Miyano's vision.
Logically, researchers should pay more attention to quantitative indicators such as experimental data.
This time, Miyano Shiho relied entirely on her intuition.
"I don't."
Miyano Shiho seemed to remember something and said, "But my sister does. Although she never mentioned it in her letters to me, I can sense that she has a lot of anxiety."
The face of Akai Shuichi appeared in Hanano Chihoko's mind. "Are you saying that Moroboshi Dai treats her badly?"
Miyano Shiho shook her head, crossed her arms, and looked at Hanano Chihoko. "I just feel that love isn't as beautiful as society makes it out to be. On the contrary, I think it only adds to a lot of troubles and pain, and these can sometimes drain a person's already limited energy."
Hanano Chiheko thought for a moment and said, "You're right. The bitterness of love can only be tasted by those who are willing to accept it."
Miyano Shiho shook her head at Hanano Chiheko, with some helplessness in her eyes, "It seems that you are that kind of person."
That's the kind of person you are.
At night, Chiho Hanano lay in bed, with the only words of Shiho Miyano remaining in her mind.
Love?
Chihoko Hanano touched her chest, thinking of the joy and bitterness that quietly spread in the car.
Damn, how can it be so accurate!
The next day at noon, Chihoko Hanano received an assassination mission from Gin.
Task executors: Kashasa, Amuro Toru.
Mission time: 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
Mission location: Flying Bird luxury yacht.
Mission content: Assassinate Ichiro Kurokawa who is holding a 60th birthday party.
"Ichiro Kurokawa."
Chihoko Hanano looked at the relevant information that Toru Amuro had just collected.
"Proficient in ten types of dance!"
Amuro Toru turned sideways to face Hanano Chihoko, "It's indeed a rather novel hobby."
As he spoke, Toru Amuro pointed to a photo of Kurokawa Ichiro and said, "His face is rosy, and he looks to be in his early fifties."
"Young indeed."
But why does Chihoko Hanano feel that her forehead is dark?
This person... should be very suitable for the newly developed drug experiment. Hanano Chiheko was thinking while looking at the photo when she heard someone next to her ask:
"Can you... ballroom dance?"
There was obvious uncertainty in Toru Amuro's voice, which made Chihoko Hanano suddenly angry.
"Pah!" Hanano Chiheko slapped the documents and stood up: "Of course you don't believe in my professionalism!"
Amuro Toru didn't expect Hanano Chihoko to react so strongly, "I was just asking."
Hanano Chiheko inexplicably wanted to prove something, and extended her hand to Amuro Toru in an inviting gesture, "If you don't believe me, we can have a competition."
Although he didn't know when the mission preparation turned into a competition, Amuro Toru still stood up and shook Hanano Chihoko's hand, "Okay, let's just treat it as a practice."
Now that the harsh words have been spoken, Chihoko Hanano is bound to show her attitude.
However, due to the sudden change of partner, Chihoko Hanano was more or less not able to adapt.
Amuro Toru sensed something, "Who trained with you before?"
"Is Zhuxing big?"
Hanano Chihezi felt a little guilty, "Don't worry about it."
Toru Amuro didn't say anything else, but quickly adapted to Chihoko Hanano's rhythm.
With soothing background music playing, the two gradually developed a tacit understanding of each other, and their every move was able to perfectly follow each other's movements.
After the song ended, Hanano Chihoko's original desire to compete with Amuro Toru completely disappeared.
"How about it, my dancing skills are pretty good, right?" asked Chihoko Hanano.
Amuro Toru lowered his hand from Hanano Chihoko's waist and said, "Perfect."
After hearing what Amuro Toru said, Hanano Chihoko curled her lips and said, "You are pretty good too."
The unusually relaxed atmosphere between the two was as if they had returned to their police academy days.
Toru Amuro looked at Chihoko Hanano in front of him in a daze.
Over the past few years, it seems that many things have not changed, but it also feels like something has deviated unknowingly, and the deviation is getting bigger and bigger with time.
Seeing that Amuro Toru didn't say anything and just looked at her, Hanano Chiheko waved her hand in front of Amuro Toru, remembering Amuro Toru's undercover identity, "Why, do you have other plans tomorrow?"
Amuro Toru's heart skipped a beat, and he glanced around, "How could this be?"
Hanano Chihoko stepped forward and looked at Amuro Toru seriously, as if trying to determine the truth of what he said. "This is your first mission since transferring to the team. You must know how important it is even without me telling you."
Amuro Toru lowered his eyes, "Of course."
Chihoko Hanano observed Toru Amuro's expression (well, this guy hid it too deeply, and it was really hard to tell for a while).
Hanano Chiheko smiled silently, picked up the bourbon beside her, poured a glass for Amuro Toru, and handed it to Amuro Toru's lips, "I know you will do well, right?"
【Author’s words】
Oh, there's another couple's daily routine to write about [shy]
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