Chapter 24
"Research progress?" After Nakamori Akimi told him about this, Atobe Keigo pondered for a few seconds, "I understand. I'll handle that. As for matters related to the study session, I'll send it to your phone number. That's it, I'm hanging up now."
After Keigo Atobe hung up the phone, Akimi Nakamori immediately relaxed and lay down on the bed.
"5744?"
She called out tentatively.
[I'm here. What can I do for you, Ms. Nakamori?]
After hearing this enchanting wave sound, she instantly lost the desire to communicate, but she still had to ask.
"Research progress..."
She was cut off before she could finish her words.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Nakamori. I just modified the options according to the instructions above. I don't know much about this matter."
She knew she couldn't get anything out of it...
"It's nothing, go play."
[Okay, thank you for your understanding~]
Nakamori Akimi turned over tiredly, but her sore muscles made her unable to move halfway.
"If I go to a study session in this state, I'm afraid I won't even be able to pick up a pen."
Nakamori Akimi complained about himself, then lifted the quilt to cover his head and planned to sleep for a while.
Suddenly, the "ding dong" message alert sound rang again. Nakamori Akimi thought it was a message from Atobe Keigo about the study session, so he opened it without any precautions.
"Fuji Shusuke?"
[August 1: Qiushi, there's a photography exhibition tomorrow. Do you want to go? Or do you still not want to see me? ^_^]
Inexplicably, I could sense a hint of threat in this smile.
Just yesterday she was worried that Fuji Shusuke would know about her confession to Atobe Keigo, and today she received a message from him. No matter how she thought about it, it didn't seem right.
Could it be that he knew something?
Nakamori Akimi raised his cell phone worriedly.
Besides, a photography exhibition, wouldn't that mean a lot of walking and standing around? I don't want to go...
"Sister! There's a photography exhibition tomorrow, let's go together!"
There was an unexpected knock on the door, followed by Nakamori Rie's excited voice.
"Click", the frightened Nakamori Akimi slipped and the hard cell phone hit her nose.
Should she be glad that she doesn't wear glasses now?
Nakamori Akimi rubbed the place where he was hit and resigned himself to opening the door for Rie.
Photography exhibition? Could Rie be talking about the same one Fuji Shusuke was talking about?
"Rie."
As soon as Nakamori Akimi opened the door, she saw Nakamori Rie holding two tickets and looking at her expectantly.
"Sister, Miss Xiangzi's photography exhibition is here! I finally managed to get a spot. Let's go together!"
"Okay, but, does Riie mind having more people?"
"Why?"
***
"Qiushi, this way."
Nakamori Akimi, who came with Rie, saw Fuji Shusuke at the entrance of the exhibition hall at a glance, and Fuji Yuta, who looked awkward, was following him.
Because Riie gave her one of his tickets, Fuji Shusuke had an extra ticket, so he brought his younger brother along. However, according to Nakamori Akimi's guess, Fuji Yuta himself probably didn't want to come.
This was the first time that Akimi Nakamori saw Yuuta Fuji outside of photos. He seemed to be a boy with a strong personality.
"Shusuke." Nakamori Akimi walked over. "This must be Yuta-kun, right? Nice to meet you. I'm Nakamori Akimi, and this is my sister Rie."
"Ah, hello, Nakamori-senpai." Fuji Yuta greeted him a little awkwardly, then turned to Nakamori Rie, "Hello, Nakamori-san, nice to meet you. I'm Fuji Yuta."
After Fuji Shusuke delivered the same exact rhetoric, Nakamori Rie glanced at them and clutched the shoulder strap of her bag in front of her chest. "Fuji-senpai, Fuji-san, hello, I'm Nakamori Rie."
"Hello, Rie-san."
Fuji Shusuke smiled gently like a brother next door, and his deceptive appearance made Nakamori Rie temporarily put aside her dissatisfaction with the sudden appearance of two people.
After the polite introductions, the four of them finally stepped into the door of the photography exhibition.
"Wow, it's Sun Chaser!"
Nakamori Rie screamed excitedly, and Fuji Shusuke beside her was stunned for a rare moment.
As soon as you step into the main hall, you will see a huge "Sun Chaser" hanging in the center, and its warm and dazzling colors catch the visitor's attention.
Natori Kaori is worthy of being a new generation of talented photographer who has recently become famous. Whether it is composition, light and shadow or visual expression, she gives people a unique feeling.
Perhaps because they are both photography enthusiasts, Nakamori Rie and Fuji Shusuke chatted very well together, and could usually talk for a long time about a work of art, while Nakamori Akimi and Fuji Yuta, who knew little about photography, followed behind them and explained.
Rie seemed very happy.
Nakamori Akimi narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. It turned out that one can only have fun chatting with people who share the same interests.
"Sister, I want to go to the front with Fuji-senpai."
Rie Nakamori blinked her big eyes, which were full of her love for photography, and she didn't look like a vicious background board at all.
Nakamori Akimi nodded with relief, "Go ahead, sister is waiting for you here."
"Brother, I..."
This direction, is it not intended to abandon him? Seeing this, Fuji Yuta hurriedly spoke out, but Fuji Shusuke made the decision lightly.
"Yuta, you have to get along well with Akishime."
After saying that, they left, leaving the two strangers looking at each other in bewilderment.
Yuta Fuji and Akimi Nakamori looked at each other, smiled awkwardly, and pretended to be serious, staring at the works on the wall without taking their eyes off.
This was the nth time he regretted agreeing to come to this place with his brother. He should have been enjoying his youth on the tennis court at this time, but who would have thought that he would come here to be a wooden stake.
Especially since he stood up Senior Guanyue, and he doesn't know how to explain it to him next week.
"Hmm? Yuta?"
Was he hallucinating? Why did he seem to hear Guan Yue's voice?
Fuji Yuta turned his head hesitantly, and a familiar face that he didn't want to see appeared not far away.
"Guan Yue...Senior?!"
The unconsciously amplified sound attracted the dissatisfied gazes of others. Fuji Yuta immediately shut his mouth in shame and just stared at him.
"What? So you're here for the photography exhibition?" Guan Yuechu approached without a hint of surprise. After glancing at the female figure beside him, he made a guess, "Are you on a date? This is your girlfriend..."
The teasing came to an abrupt end when he saw the man's face turning around.
A strange silence spread. Nakamori Akimi raised his eyebrows and looked up and down at the guy opposite him who was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with floral roses.
Tsk, what a tasteless guy, she wouldn't even wear this kind of clothes.
"Long time no see, Guanyue, your fashion sense is still so unique."
"Ah, it's been a long time indeed, Nakamori."
The gnashing tone was drowned out by Nakamori Akimi's smiling face. Guan Yuechu took a deep breath and tried to maintain a decent smile.
"Do Guanyue-senpai and Nakamori-senpai know each other?"
Apart from being deliberately ignored by his elder brother, Fuji Yuta rarely saw Senior Kanzuki have such great emotional fluctuations.
“Not familiar.”
The answers came out almost at the same time. Nakamori Akimi and Guan Yuechu looked at each other, then turned their heads away in disgust.
In reality, they didn't have any deep hatred for each other; they only met because of a normal English competition in eighth grade. But when one was sharp-tongued and the other held grudges, the resentment built up over time, and they unknowingly developed this strange relationship.
"In that case, how did you two meet?"
Guan Yuechu asked back.
"Nakamori-senpai is a friend of my brother's. We arranged to come to the exhibition together. We just met today."
"Fuji Shusuke, he's here too? Humph, why is his judgment of making friends so different?"
Guan Yuechu's mouth is really...
"Guanyue, if I heard correctly, you just said something quite rude." Nakamori Akimi crossed his arms and kept smiling. "After all, it's quite frustrating to hear you say such things when you're not even worthy of being my friend."
Although it's a bit unethical, I can finally vent the frustration of being forced to choose Xiao Baihua's lines by the game recently.
After implying Guan Yuechu's experience of being miserably ignored by Fuji Shusuke, the fully liberated Nakamori Akimi's attack power was extremely strong.
"Nakamori Akimi!"
This sentence really hit Guan Yuechu's sore spot. He gritted his teeth and met Nakamori Akimi's provocative gaze, the veins on his forehead jumping with unusual joy.
Sparks flew between the two as they looked at each other, and Yuta Fuji, who was watching from the sidelines, never dreamed that this would be the outcome.
No, if this continues it will be disastrous.
"...Mizuki-senpai also likes Miss Natori, right? That's why you came here to see the exhibition, right?"
Trying to ease the atmosphere, Yuuta Fuji quickly changed the subject.
"The sister who has the tickets suddenly had something urgent to do, and you stood me up again. I happened to be interested in Ms. Natori's work, so I came here."
Adhering to the principle of out of sight, out of mind, Guan Yuechu turned his head away, curled his bangs in front of his forehead, and briefly explained the reason why he came here.
"That's quite a coincidence."
When the matter of standing someone up was mentioned, Fuji Yuta looked away feeling a little guilty.
"By the way, Nakamori." Fortunately, Guan Yuechu couldn't pay attention to him now, and the spearhead was directed at Nakamori Akimi again. "You should remember the English competition in two weeks, right?"
English competition?
Nakamori Akimi suddenly opened her eyes wide. With so many things happening recently, she had completely forgotten about it.
"Huh, looking at you like this, you must have forgotten."
Guan Yuechu's mocking tone was really unpleasant to listen to, but no matter what, he couldn't lose in momentum.
Nakamori Akimi shook his hair and said confidently, "How could that be? I'm waiting to see you cry bitterly after losing to me."
But strangely, in the face of such provocation, Guan Yuechu did not show any anger at all. Instead, he had the leisure to adjust his collar.
"Really? I thought you, Nakamori, had been bewitched by Atobe and forgotten who you were. To be approached by a girl from the fan club, you'd be so foolish and direct... Ugh!"
From the moment Guan Yuechu mentioned Atobe and the fan club, Nakamori Akimi felt something was wrong. She didn't care about anything else and just covered the man's mouth and dragged him away.
"Excuse me, Yuta-kun, Guanyue and I have something to talk about alone, so you can go shopping by yourself first."
Left there, completely confused about the situation, Fuji Yuta said: He really shouldn't have agreed to come here with his brother...
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