I push the kid!

"Kasumigaoka-senpai... I just want to ask you a question. Why did you get into the bed?" [Aki Tomoya] asked.

Ogura Yuki interrupted the practice and said, "Wait, wait!"

"What's wrong?" Makimura Taku asked her.

Hoshino Ai also returned to her original state: "Is there something wrong?"

"Here, here," Ogura Tomoki picked up the script on the table and flipped through a dozen pages. Then he held it up and tapped his fingers on it twice. "This part of the plot starts with 'So, Kato' and 'Ah, welcome Kasumigaoka-senpai'," she used the tone of Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kato Megumi when acting, respectively. "For all the conversations afterwards, Makimura, you should stay in bed!"

She pointed at Makimura Taku, who looked at her with some embarrassment and annoyance: "It's just practice, there's no need to reproduce the scene so realistically, right?"

Hoshino Ai also said: "Yes, as long as you practice the character's tone and state, the scene is just the icing on the cake."

"Why is it not necessary?" said Tomoki Ogura.

"It's not time for the actual shooting yet." Makimura Taku continued.

"The scene is obviously suitable, and there is a ready-made bed nearby that we can use," she patted the sheets with her hands, "and standing and talking like this, I can't get into the role at all."

Taku Makimura was a little silent after hearing what he said. He really felt that Tomoki Ogura’s acting was quite vivid.

If she could put on the uniform and black tights she used for the photo shoot, Makimura Taku might suspect that she was Kasumigaoka Utaha herself.

Although it was a bit exaggerated, she did manage to bring out that cold and jealous feeling, which might be even better than the original.

"No, no, there's nothing wrong with your acting, Youxi." Hoshino Ai said with a smile.

"...Yeah." Makimura Taku nodded.

"No," Ogura Tomoki firmly objected, "Here," she slammed the script again, "In this part, Makimura should stay in bed until 'Kasumigaoka-senpai~ why did you crawl into my bed~'," she imitated Idiot Ethics-kun here, and used a tone similar to coquettishness, and then changed her expression the next second and said, "I should have a scene where I crawl into your bed."

“Just practice.”

“Practice should also be taken seriously.”

"Do you usually take these things so seriously?" asked Taku Makimura.

"So persistent." Hoshino Ai sighed blankly.

"Stop talking," Ogura Tomoki waved his hand and said as if he didn't care about anything. "Anyway, there will be this plot at that time. What's wrong with simulating it in advance? No one will be shy, right?"

At this point, she glanced at Makimura Taku, and then said in a tone of someone who had experienced it:

"This is acting. No matter what happens, it's all arranged by the plot. Actors need to learn to adapt to this kind of plot."

Hoshino Ai and Makimura Taku looked at each other.

Ogura Tomoki was in the middle, raising his left and right eyes to look at the two people one by one: "Am I wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong with that." said Taku Makimura.

"Then let's do it again." Hoshino Ai agreed.

"Okay." Makimura Taku nodded.

The plot is the time after sunset, when night falls.

Before returning to their respective positions, Tomoki Ogura still felt that something was wrong around him.

She looked around and finally fixed her sight on the window through which light was shining.

Hoshino Ai and Makimura Taku both looked at her straight. Ogura Tomoki walked over and closed the curtains nonchalantly, then turned back and asked Makimura Taku to turn on the light switch next to him.

Makimura Taku glanced at her with a look that said, "Do you want to completely restore this too?" and pressed the switch as she requested.

The dark bedroom was immediately illuminated by white light, and after closing the curtains, the room seemed even quieter.

Originally, one could still see the passage of time from the slanting raindrops, but now even this only sight has been completely blocked.

The three of them didn't say anything, and Makimura Taku even felt like it was already late at night.

Ogura Tomoki looked around again, nodded with satisfaction, and ran back.

Hoshino Ai crossed her hands in front of her and stood motionless in the middle of the house, as if she was waiting for someone.

"Is it all right?" she said.

"Yes," Ogura Yuki replied, and she pointed at the bed again, "Makino, hurry up, you're the only one left."

Although Makimura Taku thought it was troublesome, he did not refuse, and the three of them began their second practice.

"…So, Kato, what's going on?"

"Ah, welcome, Kasumigaoka-senpai." Hoshino Ai quickly got into the mood.

……

The conversation progresses to the point where [Aki Tomoya] appears.

"Really? Then I can only ask the person himself..." As [Kasumigaoka Utaha], Ogura Tomoki crawled into Makimura Taku's bed, "Makimura... Ahem, Li Lun-san, I want you to come out and explain."

"Senior Shiyu?"

"Behave yourself, Makimura... No, Li Lun-san." In the bed, Makimura Taku had his back to Ogura Tomoki, who leaned over to him. "Since you're yelling so loudly, can't I ask you a question properly?"

"Kasumigaoka-senpai... I just want to ask you a question. Why did you get into the bed?" [Aki Tomoya] asked.

Ogura Yuki's face rested on the back of his neck, and a breath of warm air was exhaled.

"... Hara, I see," she said the wrong line, "You are indeed useless, Makimura, Mori-san." She said the wrong name several times in a row, "You should be ranked among the three most useless male protagonists in bishoujo games."

"I'm sorry. No matter what, I don't think I should be criticized like that."

"So you want to say that it's all Sawamura's fault? Do you think she deserves to be listed among the three most heartless heroines in bishoujo games?"

"Please, don't talk about bad characters!"

At this point in the plot, the two should have gotten out of bed, and the next line would be that of Tomoki Ogura.

But she stayed in bed and held Taku Makimura back.

The two of them had a quick question and answer session outside the plot in voices as light as the flapping of butterfly wings.

"like?"

"Ok?"

"This posture will make your heart flutter."

"I say you."

"Dirty things." Her foot touched Makimura Taku.

Hoshino Ai stood by and waited for a while, and her expression finally became strange.

It seems that it is completely impossible to tell whether that expression belongs to Hoshino Ai or the stranger heroine [Kato Megumi].

"Kasumigaoka-senpai, please don't stay on Aki-san's bed all the time." This line was not originally included.

"Wait." Makimura Taku wanted to correct.

"I, I understand." Ogura Tomoki said. She lifted the quilt and pulled Makimura Taku down. "But Kato..."

They both looked at her.

"But Kato..." She thought for a long time, and when Hoshino Ai was about to say "Huh", Ogura Yuki rubbed her eyes and temples with a headache, "Sorry, I forgot the rest."

"You guy."

"You can't blame me entirely, right?"

"Am I wrong too?"

"Then... do it again?"

Taku Makimura looked at Ai Hoshino and asked: What do you think?

"No problem, no problem." Hoshino Ai said, "But, isn't it a bit too forced to act this scene on the bed? Youxi has forgotten all his lines."

"No, what happened just now was..." Ogura Tomoki hesitated on how to explain.

Makimura Taku went straight over and opened the curtains: "It's very reluctant. Someone is always acting out."

"It's all because of you." The complete words are stuck to you, and it's easy to forget everything.

She didn't say it because Hoshino Ai kept looking at her.

"My problem, all right." She turned on the light.

The rain outside did not stop, the sky was still gloomy, and there was some water on the windows, blurring the mountain view in the distance.

In the evening, the plum rain stopped, the sun could not be seen on the buildings to the west, and the wind blew through the streets.

The three of them went downstairs. Hoshino Ai was gentle and held an umbrella, while Ogura Tomoki called the driver.

"Let me take you back, Xiao Ai."

"No thanks." Hoshino Ai smiled and said, "I'm going to buy some things at the bookstore near the station, and then take the train home." She paused and said, "I'll take your car next time."

"Would you like me to take you to the station?"

"Well...it's not too far, we can walk there."

Ogura Tomoki nodded and said okay, then walked to the side of the white car, opened the back door and got in: "Bye."

"Bye~" Hoshino Ai waved at her.

She glanced at Makimura Taku, who simply raised his hand and said nothing.

Tomoki Ogura didn't say anything either. She closed the car window and the driver drove away.

"Then I'll go back too." After the car drove away, Hoshino Ai turned around and said to Makimura Taku.

Makimura Taku nodded: "Pay attention to safety."

He was also about to raise his hand, but Hoshino Ai looked at him without blinking.

Makimura Taku thought there was something on his face, and he asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing," Hoshino Ai said in a ethereal voice, "But, Makimura, won't you see me off?"

Makimura Taku looked at her somewhat absentmindedly.

The ground was blackened by rain, and bare tree trunks protruded from the opposite yard.

Two crows were perched on the black telephone pole and were flying away to the east.

It was as if everything in sight was black and white, with only the girl's light blue T-shirt shining brightly, and her long purple hair as shiny and clear as a guitar string that had been polished ten times.