I have pure love with them

But when he turned around, he saw a thick envelope on the floor of the hall.

……

"Izumi-kun... where are you?"

Izumi, who was having dinner at the table, suddenly received a call from Nagasaki Soyo. He was a little surprised, but he was usually in contact with Nagasaki Soyo through Line, so he was a little surprised that Nagasaki Soyo suddenly called him. He quietly left the table, and under Aine's strange gaze, he went to a relatively secluded corner and answered her call.

"You, it sounds like you encountered something, what happened?"

"...Please, let me forget everything."

As Nagasaki Soyo's distraught voice was heard, Quan, who was standing in the living room, was a little stunned, but he immediately thought of a possibility.

"……Where are you?"

256. Nagasaki Soshi: Let me forget everything

"I need to go out for a while."

After Quan received a call from Nagasaki Soyo, he quietly returned to the dining table, looked at the others who were still eating, and told his parents that he needed to go out for a while.

Before the Chihaya couple could say anything, Aine gave Izumi, who said she was leaving, a strange look on her face.

"When are you coming back?"

"...Well, it will probably take some time. I don't know exactly how long it will take."

Chihaya Aine was about to continue speaking when Mr. Chihaya, who was sitting at the dining table, spoke first.

"come back earlier."

After the steady voice sounded in the living room, Aiyin, who wanted to ask where Izumi was going and wanted to go with him, was instantly speechless. She silently withdrew her gaze and stared quietly at the food in front of her without saying another word.

Although the head of the family did not spend much time at home and rarely interfered in the affairs of Chihaya Aine and Chihaya Izumi, when he decided to do something, Chihaya Aine did not have the courage to refute or question him.

"Ah."

Hearing his father's agreement, Quan was a little surprised, then nodded slightly and walked towards the door.

Glancing cautiously at her father, Chihaya Aine wanted to say something, but looking at her calm and old-fashioned father, she thought about it in her heart, but in the end she just ate dinner quietly and didn't dare to speak...

After talking to Nagasaki Soyo on the phone, Izumi learned that the other party was now in his apartment. The lost and intermittent speech on the phone made him sure that the other party had encountered something.

And now the only thing that can affect Nagasaki Sose's mood is the thing related to Toyokawa Shoko.

'I am coming over now. ’

Feeling that the other person was in an extremely depressed state, Quan didn't care about the dinner he was having. He informed his family, left home in a hurry, and took the tram to his rented apartment.

As soon as he entered the hall, he saw Nagasaki Soyo squatting in the corner with his arms folded.

Nagasaki Soyo, who always paid attention to her image, now lowered her head and rested it on her arms in a depressed look. Her soft long hair had lost its former smooth color and fell dejectedly on her shoulders and arms.

'Like an abandoned... puppy?'

I imagined the animal. Even though its image gives people the feeling of being more like a cat, Nagasaki Soyo's personality gives people the feeling of... indeed, being more like a loyal dog.

"Golden retriever? No... Golden retrievers are pretty smart."

While thinking, Izumi walked slowly to Nagasaki Soushi and stopped one meter in front of her.

He didn't say anything, just stood quietly in front of the other person.

Nagasaki Soyo seemed to have sensed something. He squatted in the corner and slowly raised his head. The light in his eyes had disappeared and his face was full of an expression of "nothing matters". It was obvious that he had suffered a huge setback.

Facing Nagasaki Soyo in such a state, Izumi did not show any worry or tenderness. He just looked at her with a calm gaze and expression, and slowly extended his hand.

Nagasaki Soyo, who had been waiting for a while, looked at Izumi's hand extended to her. She was silent for a moment, silently reached out and grabbed it, then stood up with her body shaking.

After squatting for too long, her legs became sore and numb, and she could no longer stand up on her own.

But even when she stood up, she had difficulty moving.

Looking at her swaying figure, Quan, who was standing in front of her, came to her side, put one hand around her waist, and helped her walk towards the elevator.

"..."

Faced with Quan's help, Nagasaki Shoyo was a little uncomfortable, but he did not refuse and staggered into the elevator.

One of them asked nothing, and the other didn't know how to start the conversation, or even wanted to. They remained silent all the way to Quan's apartment.

When I entered the entrance hall, the sensor light lit up automatically, followed by the light in the living room.

Looking at Nagasaki Soushi who was able to move with difficulty, Quan's gaze stayed on her legs.

"Do you need me to change your shoes?"

"……Need not."

With her right hand gently supporting the wall, Nagasaki Shoyo took off her shoes, put on the slippers that Izumi had placed in front of her, followed Izumi into the living room, and sat down on the sofa.

Looking at Nagasaki Soyo who sat down on the sofa without any other movements, like a puppet, Quan stared at her for a while and then went to make tea.

Izumi came to Nagasaki Soyo with a cup of tea, sat down, and then asked the girl in front of him what had happened.

“…Failed.”

After thinking for a while, Nagasaki Shoyo found that she couldn't say the name "Shoko". Countless thoughts were circling in her mind, but after she opened her mouth, she only uttered a few short sentences.

"I see it."

"..."

Nagasaki Shoyo lowered his head silently, looked at his hands, and couldn't help but clench them.

Looking at Nagasaki Sose's actions, Quan thought for a moment, then stood up, walked to her side, and sat down beside her.

"Drink something hot, and you'll feel a little better."

The teacup was placed in front of her. Nagasaki Shoyo raised his head to look at the teacup, then looked at Izumi who was sitting next to her.

Izumi looked at Nagasaki Soyo, there was no hope at all in her eyes, only confusion and pain. Looking at Nagasaki Soyo like this, Izumi became more and more curious about what happened at the scene.

"Where did you and her meet?"

"…home, she's waiting for me in the hall of my house."

When Quan heard this, his ears moved involuntarily and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

"The lobby... there should be cameras in the lobby, right? We can try, but that can wait until later. Right now, I still have to deal with her problem."

Seeing that Nagasaki Soyo didn't want to touch the teacup, Quan slowly stood up and walked to the wine cabinet in the living room. He glanced at it, then chose a fruit wine that even a novice could accept, and took two other wine glasses.

He slowly returned to Nagasaki Soyo's side and placed two wine glasses on the coffee table in front of him.

'Bo——'

He opened the bottle and, under the calm gaze of Nagasaki Soyo, poured the champagne into two glasses and handed one of them to Nagasaki Soyo.

"It smells fruity. You should feel better after drinking this."

Looking at the wine glass that Quan handed to her, Nagasaki Shoyo glanced at Quan, and there was no expression on Quan's face. She reached out to take the wine glass, and under Quan's gaze, she drank it all in one gulp.

257. Aren’t you worried that something might happen to your daughter?

"Today, school... you probably won't go, right?"

Looking at Nagasaki Soyo lying quietly beside him, Izumi sitting beside her, staring at the girl with her back to him.

[8:47]

It's not just Nagasaki Soyo, even Izumi himself is late and can't make it to the first class of the day.

If I put on my clothes now and head to school right away, I might be able to catch a class before noon, but...

Looking at Nagasaki Soyo who just had his back to her and remained silent, Izumi, who did not get any answer, silently got up from the bed, picked up her clothes, and walked out of the bedroom silently.

"…It looks a bit bad."

After walking to the bathroom and standing in front of the mirror, Quan glanced at the teeth marks on his shoulder with a slightly helpless look on his face. For the time being, he would not be able to expose his shoulders in front of others.

“I don’t know if this mark can be erased in about a week… I have to be careful at home and not let Aine see it.”

I even had to think carefully about how to explain to my family that I didn't go home all night yesterday.

"I didn't go home, and even today, Sou-shi... probably couldn't go out, which would easily arouse Aine's suspicion. If I don't agree with Sou-shi when I explain, it will be easily exposed."

His eyes drifted towards the bedroom. Thinking of Nagasaki Sose in the bedroom, Izumi was a little curious about what mood she was in.

"Maybe I can't be happy."

Looking down at the marks on his body, Quan standing in front of the mirror thought for a moment, then went into the bathroom, took a quick shower, and then returned to the bedroom. Looking at Nagasaki Sose, who was still lying on the bed with her snow-white shoulders half exposed and turning a deaf ear to his comings and goings, he picked up his mobile phone.

"Coffee? Milk?"

"..."

I asked Nagasaki Souyo.

Nagasaki Soyo, who had woken up a long time ago, lay quietly on the bed. After a moment of silence, she answered in a tired and weak voice.

"coffee."

He didn't have high expectations and didn't think Nagasaki Shoyo would answer his Izumi. After hearing the girl's answer, he was a little surprised for a moment. Looking at the girl lying on the bed, he responded softly and left the bedroom again.

"..."

When Quan's footsteps faded away, Nagasaki Shoyo, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes tiredly. Looking at the strange bedroom she was in, she bit her lip.

She didn't know if Quan had noticed.

But when everything happened last night, she was very conscious, and even now she still remembers clearly what happened last night.

Although she had never touched alcoholic beverages, a glass of champagne with an alcohol content of only 12% would not make Nagasaki Souyo lose consciousness. She just wanted to forget everything, so she accepted everything numbly.

"Have you forgotten everything?"

While asking herself this in her heart, Nagasaki Shoyo's face looked dazed, as if she had really forgotten what happened yesterday. She smiled sadly and wrapped the quilt tightly around herself.

She chose to ignore the buzzing phone beside her.

She knew who the call was from, but...