Masked Rider, but kindhearted

In fact, her family is not happy, it can even be considered incomplete...

She was an orphan and was raised by the director.

The director's surname was Ikeda, and she named her Aoiko, hoping that she would grow up to be a girl like a sunflower.

Always be confident and sunny, and bring warmth to everyone.

She continued to do so...until the year she graduated from junior high school, when the orphanage was demolished.

The director told her guiltily that she could no longer afford to run the orphanage, and she had to walk the rest of the way on her own.

......

Her name is Aoi Ikeda.

Maybe not as cheerful and sunny as everyone imagines.

After high school, she had to work part-time to save for tuition while living with a mask called "Aoi".

The dean is like her mother, and she has always been grateful to her, so she tries hard to become what she hopes she will be.

I’m so tired...I have to be a sunny and cheerful girl and warm others.

Having to balance tuition and studies...she felt her heart growing increasingly exhausted and cold.

Until one afternoon, she met the boy by chance on the rooftop.

The boy curled up in the shadows, eating the cheapest rice with soy sauce. The collar of his school uniform was askew, as if it had been grasped by someone, and his eyelashes were trembling with tear marks.

His face and hands were covered with bruises, but he seemed to be used to it and ate the not-so-delicious food with great satisfaction.

"Are you okay, Touyama-kun?"

Ikeda Aoi hesitated for a moment and put a Band-Aid on him.

Even though I live such a depressing life, I can actually smile just because I have a full meal...

Her increasingly exhausted heart once again had an idea: "I want to help him."

after that.

She took the initiative to ask the teacher to sit at the same table with him.

As expected, those who bullied Dongshan Jun no longer dared to continue this bullying.

After becoming his deskmate, Ikeda Aoi would occasionally chat with him.

She found that Dongshanjun still had scars on his body from time to time, and she couldn't help but worry about him.

The other party refused to say.

"Yu-kun," Aoi hesitated and switched to a more intimate name, hoping to get the boy to open up. "Just smile. Don't keep your heart locked up just because your name has the word 'Yu' in it~"

She couldn't tell whether she was acting out of sympathy, pity, or something even more despicable: she felt at peace when she saw someone more miserable than herself.

In short, even though she herself didn't understand what was going on, Kuizi took the initiative to chat with Yujun every day.

After a semester, he gradually became more cheerful—at least he was willing to share with her how nice the weather was today...

This idiot doesn't know how to talk to girls!

But unexpectedly, Yu Jun would remember every word she said.

For example, she might be asking about her plans after school today/exclaiming that XXX looks delicious/complaining that she forgot to do a certain homework during the holiday and that she will definitely fail in the afternoon... and so on.

Why do you always focus on appearance?

He always thinks that he is just an ordinary person who can't do anything well. How could that be possible?

The boy was always silent, maintaining his usual melancholic temperament, and handled everything for her.

Yu's eyelashes are very beautiful, but they are always foggy and weak, giving people a feeling of wanting to cry but not being able to, which makes people always want to bully him.

He may not understand what love is and what love words are...

But Kuizi admitted that this kind of obsession would inevitably have an impact in their daily interactions.

She...was a little moved.

......

Ikeda Aoi liked to sing, so the boy secretly learned to play the guitar so that he could accompany her.

But the boy had little money and didn't know much about musical instruments. After a month of hard work, he was able to confidently play for her. However, the strings of that cheap guitar, which he had played countless times, were terribly out of tune.

"If only I could tune the guitar and straighten the strings." He frowned in distress.

"Yu, it's okay~~ Wait, I'll give you a surprise tomorrow!"

Aoi said this, and the next day she gave the boy her treasured pink guitar.

Laughing and singing...the days passed one by one.

There was nothing particularly special, no life-or-death crisis, a harassed hero saving a beautiful woman, an ambiguous misunderstanding, or a misunderstanding that caused a stomachache...

With a kiss from Aoi one day, they naturally got together without even a formal confession.

On the day of graduation, she took out all the money she had saved from her part-time job and bought a brand new guitar - her original pink guitar was seriously out of tune.

To prevent Yu from having wild thoughts, she said:

"This is my living expenses."

......

During graduation season, neither of them chose to continue their studies. Instead, they entered the society to make a living and wanted to find a job as soon as possible.

They rented a small house with few furniture. After they came home from a tiring day, Yu would cook with a smile and listen to her sing.

Those days were hard, but I think they were mostly sweet.

If you see Yu smiling all day long, who would have thought that he was once such a depressed and bullied person?

Aoi's happiest moment is when she and Yu sing her favorite song, "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence."

This piece is mainly composed of piano and strings, with a sad melody.

The high-pitched piano solo at the beginning of the piece simulates the falling of snowflakes, the addition of strings adds a sense of layering to the music, and the middle and low-pitched piano and strings in the theme part highlight the cruelty of war and people's pain.

The transition section uses a wind instrument group to simulate the wailing on the battlefield. The percussion band inserted when the theme reappears makes the music reach a climax, and the silence after the climax symbolizes the death of the characters in the tragic ending of the story.

The sadness was too heavy, and they had no money to buy a piano, so the two of them worked together to modify the score to make the song more cheerful.

"When we have enough money, let's buy a piano and play the original version."

The young man at that time emerged from the darkness, full of vigor and vitality, with light in his eyes.

——"Good, Anata (dear)"

——"Well, that's something you can only call it after you get married!"

The boy and the girl squeezed into a narrow bed, hugging each other tightly, feeling each other's heartbeat and the happiness and joy of transforming into man and woman.

——"Yu, when can we get married~"

——"Aizi, wait a little longer, I want to give you a better life."

......

Romance during student days is often simple and unpretentious. There is no need to consider too many realistic factors. Just being good at studying, good looking, good at chatting, and liking to sing and dance rap...may be enough to attract the opposite sex.

And almost all of these traits can be developed (except appearance).

We are all trapped in the ivory tower called school, unaware of the more complex aspects of life, without having to worry about making a living, without having to worry too much about our parents' opinions, and without any vision of marriage or even a more distant future...

After entering society, apart from sweet love, there is the more difficult reality of life.

Food, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea all require money.

Because of their work, they spend most of their time working on their own, and then taking a short break under the same roof, exhausted.

It was like seabirds that met and rested on the same branch during flight, and then flew away after regaining their strength.

They will be happy...both of them firmly believed this.

......

"Don't try so hard, it's unnecessary."

The two were still not married at this time, but Yu's work was going well.

Aoi is good-looking, but the workplace environment in Japan is not friendly to women.

Both of them were just ordinary high school graduates, had no special skills, and did not have the physical strength of men...For tax benefits, she could only do some part-time jobs paid daily.

Later, as Yu got promoted, her lover was reluctant to let her do even a part-time job - he was worried that she would be harassed and that it was too hard, so he simply forced her to be a full-time housewife.

At that time, they already had a small home that was more spacious than the rental house. Yu also bought a car and discussed which kindergarten the child should attend and how to make it convenient to pick him up and drop him off.

Although the pressure of mortgage and car loans is great, the future looks bright.

Once they save a little more money and have their annual leave, they can get married, go on their honeymoon, do something that will make people blush, study the origin of life, and then have two adorable babies and form a family that will be even happier than their original one.

Well...it would be best if they were a boy and a girl, and I would raise them like my precious babies...

......

However, the good times did not last long.

The company where Yu worked went bankrupt, so he had to find a new job.

Neon has a strict hierarchy, and jobs are more about seniority than ability - but changing companies means that all of Yu's previous efforts will be wiped out.

Burdened with car loans and mortgages, the wedding can only be postponed indefinitely.

"We don't have to have a wedding. I just want to marry you." Kuizi said this, but was immediately rejected.

Yu, who had become much more mature, had lost the sunshine on her face and seemed to have regained her former melancholy attitude... He was very determined and would never give her a wedding that would not leave her with beautiful memories.

——"As long as it's with you, it's beautiful enough..."

He didn't listen, but continued working overtime day after day, exceeding his physical limits, and drinking with his boss...

......

Later, Yu left without saying goodbye, leaving only a letter.

The letter said that he wished her a better life and that she should not waste her time with him.

She finally understood that what was condensed on her eyelashes was not raindrops, but the youth that they did not have time to let fall... as transparent as diamonds.

The wind was so light that the young couple held hands and walked around the place in less than a week.

But it was also very big, so big that Kuizi couldn't find Yu for many years.

......

Her name is Aoi Ikeda.

He is a "patient" who has been troubled by mental illness for a long time.

Until that gentle and elegant gentleman told her the news about her missing lover.

He said that Dongshan Yu had turned into a monster and was harming the residents of the city.

He said, Ms. Ikeda, are you interested in saving your former lover?

He said all you had to do was become his "patient" and undergo a minor operation.

A doctor named Isaka Shinkuro extracted her genes for matching and selected the most compatible ones, which he called Gaia Memory.

She intuitively pulled out the darkest one.

......

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Chapter 93 Sister Control Tiandao and Girlfriends/Weird Daily Life (4K)