Comet Dragon, breaking into the gravity field

98. Appropriate sense of distance

Most adolescent boys and girls have different fantasies about physical contact.

A second before the accident happened, Shiina Riki was already having wild thoughts because of the touch of their skin rubbing against each other and the body temperature coming from each other.

Before this, even though Shiina Riki did not use clear and organized language to evaluate herself like Naruse Ritsu, she still had a clear understanding of Naruse Ritsu.

Based on what she had seen before, none of these ancient dragons transformed into humans had ordinary appearances. The sense of mystery and abnormality they possessed aroused the curiosity of those around them.

No matter how hard she tried to be tough, she had to admit that Ritsu Narusha's appearance was far better than the world's average.

As a cafe employee, Shiina Riki knew that the cafe's customer flow had been steadily increasing since Naruse Ritsu arrived. When he wasn't around, the cafe sometimes couldn't even fill up the single seats on the first floor.

If Ritsu Narose had dressed more conspicuously—like she did when she went to the shopping mall before—she would probably have a pocket full of contact information after just one walk.

As for his personality, except for being bad sometimes like now, most of the time Shiina Riki couldn't say a word to criticize him.

Just as Naruse Ritsu's initial impression of her gradually changed, Shiina Ritsu's perception of him also changed with the passage of time and day-to-day observation.

Therefore, she understood that beneath Ritsu Naruse's polite and well-mannered appearance, there was a hidden aggression that was unknown to others and revealed his instinctive nature.

A lone wolf wandering the forest alone cannot hide forever under the leaves that obscure the sky. When she is attracted by the vast grassland, she is doomed to fall into the sight of the top predator circling in the sky.

In the brief moment their eyes met, Shiina Riki thought about many things. She even forgot about the notebook she had been holding in her hand and let Naruse Ritsu take it away.

There was silence between the two of them.

When Shiina Riki grabbed the corner of Naruse Ritsu's clothes and stood up shakily, she lowered her eyes and walked towards her original position.

Putting on the headphones, she was just like she was just a few minutes ago - as if nothing had happened.

Without making any jokes, Ritsu Narose, who understood where this strange atmosphere came from, could only quietly put away his notebook.

He chose not to continue observing and left through the main gate of the camp, leaving Shiina Riki alone in the camp.

When the door suddenly closed, the girl, whose heart was pounding, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She pressed her chest and tried to focus her wandering eyes on the composition software in front of her.

On the other side, when Ritsu Naruse walked out the door and was sure that Ritsu Shiina in the camp could not hear him, he had the opportunity to vent his emotions.

The specific manifestation is banging the head against the wall like a woodpecker.

The impact-resistant head of the Tianhelong was naturally fine, and no one cared about the dumb fossil wall.

After he had smashed a noticeable dent in the wall, Ritsu Narose finally calmed himself down.

After the eye contact just now, he had to admit that he didn't hate Shiina Riki - he could even say that he had a good impression of her.

But he didn't think so much at the beginning, he really just wrote with the mentality of a recorder.

The current situation is like an academic worker who is planting plants for his graduation thesis. During a routine inspection after waking up one day, he suddenly finds a mushroom growing next to the plant in the pot!

Damn it!

Ritsu Narose felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

He just came here to help, what bad intentions could he have?

As for the matter of observing Shiina Riki and then being exposed... he didn't intend to finish writing it and then show it to the person involved complacently.

But you can't say that there's something wrong with Shiina Tachibana, right?

——Could it be that she likes me?

This humorous guess was laughed off by Ritsu Naruse as soon as it came up.

You told me that Shiina Riki had those feelings for me, that's really interesting. I wonder if the other person involved would want to arrest the person who spread the rumor after hearing this.

“I don’t understand…”

Rubbing his face again, Ritsu Narose suddenly realized that he was completely soaked by the rain.

Haha, I was so busy keeping my distance that I forgot it was still raining outside.

After finding a cave to shelter from the rain, Ritsu Narose flipped the gun wings on his back over and used them as a hair dryer, while thinking about how to deal with Ritsuki Shiina next.

However, until his hair was dry, he still hadn't figured out what he was going to do.

Suddenly, Ritsu Narose felt a cool breeze coming from behind.

Turning around, he saw the stupid rat-like face of the floating dragon.

It looked like it had just woken up, with its eyes slightly narrowed, and it poked its head out to sniff at Mingse Riku repeatedly.

This seems to be its territory - but that doesn't matter to Ritsu Narushe.

For a less aggressive creature like the floating dragon, it will rarely take the initiative to attack unless it is approached by a large monster of a similar level.

Although a carnivore that feeds on coral eggs, the Air Dragon is much less aggressive than some herbivorous creatures.

If it was the [Ceratops] known as the "Desert Tyrant", it would probably rush over the first time it saw Ritsu Narushe invading its territory.

Holding down the floating dragon's head as it got closer and closer, Mingse Ritsu sighed and still did not choose to emit the unique aura of an ancient dragon to scare away this little fool.

After all, I am the one who came.

Noticing that there were several flying walnuts growing on the top of the cave, Ritsu Narose flew over and picked a few, then picked a bunch of plants with less moisture that he couldn't name and returned to his original place.

He took out the flint he had with him to start a fire, and then threw the pterosaurs' favorite food into the fire.

With the crisp sounds like firecrackers exploding, a unique aroma of walnuts gradually filled the cave.

"Picking chestnuts from the fire" was easy. He just put his ruthless iron hand into the bottom of the flame and easily took out a few bursting walnuts.

Gently peel it open, and the originally faint fragrance suddenly becomes richer due to the high temperature inside.

Put a piece of walnut kernel in your mouth and savor the natural flavor. It is not difficult to understand why those pterosaurs are willing to be used as vehicles by hunters.

Just as he was about to take out the next one, he saw the pink head of the floating dragon popping out from the side again.

Seeing that it was completely hooked by the fragrance, Ritsu Narose had no intention of driving it away.

He took out the walnut and threw the roasted fruit to the floating dragon without peeling it, so that the original owner of this territory could also taste the flavor.

One man and one beast lived in harmony in the cave.

Only when the walnuts were almost gone did Mingse Ritsu put out the fire and leave under the floating dragon's unsatisfied gaze.

99. The three strangest words

As we all know, many things in the world can actually be done by rote.

For example, the simplest thing is to go to bed early and get up early, or get enough exercise every day or every week to stay healthy - these things have been proven to be beneficial to the body and are not difficult to do, but there are many people who cannot do them.

If students go a little deeper, they will be able to answer the questions on the test paper by rote, and they will probably have enough to get a passing score.

However, few people can do this - after all, every year there are reports of mistakes before exams, such as forgetting to bring admission tickets, entering the wrong examination room, etc.

If they can even make mistakes on such a top priority matter, it is hard to imagine that they have the ability to recite from a script.

There is no shortage of such people in the world.

Sounding easy is one thing, but being able to do it is another.

It is precisely because of this understanding that Tatsuki Shiina chose to take over the burden of composing for the band alone.

So what drove her to make such a decision?

Does it stem from her self-confidence or her distrust of other members of the band?

Ritsu Naruse has no idea about this question.

Just as he didn't know what the "DTM" in the four books of "DTM Composition from Zero" that Tatsuki Shiina had in his hands meant.

Back at the camp, Shiina Riki was still sitting there, as if he had never moved.

——"If you need to go to the bathroom, you can tell me."

When the only sound in the camp where the turning of pages was the sound, suddenly the shocking words of Ritsu Narose came out, the tip of the pen in Shiina Riki's hand immediately drew a long black line on the page.

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Any normal person wouldn't be able to ignore such harassing words. And if such words came from someone you cared about, it would feel even stranger.

"I suddenly thought of this. After all, I have to consider your physiological needs."

"Is that the reason you're out here in the rain to think about this kind of thing?!"

Suddenly, Shiina Riki felt that her previous panic-stricken behavior was really stupid. If she had known that this guy's mind was full of such things, she would not have wasted time preparing a dry towel and hot water.

As if hearing Shiina Riki muttering something in his heart, he glanced at the bucket of hot water and towels beside the stone stove. After hesitating for a moment, Naruse Ritsu slowly said, "If you want to take a shower, you can first..."

"Shut up!"

"Ok."

Putting her hand in front of her mouth and making a zippering motion, Ritsu Narose walked obediently to the other side, as if the farce they had caused before had never happened.

And this is exactly what he wants.

However, after a few minutes, he couldn't sit still and quietly walked to the side of Shiina Riki, with a bit of the charm of a teacher strolling around during students' evening study.

Just by picking up a random notebook and flipping through it, Ritsu Naruse could tell at a glance that these were the lyrics handwritten by Tatsuki Shiina.

After taking a quick look, he guessed that the lyrics were written by Takamatsu Deng.

"what are you doing?"

Naturally, Ritsu Narose's actions could not be hidden from Tatsuki Shiina who was standing next to him.

Perhaps thinking about how he had previously snatched Ritsu Narose's notebook without permission, Shiina Riki acted out of character after seeing his behavior. He just said something to him and continued to lower his head to focus on the tablet on the table.

Although the performance of a tablet cannot be compared with that of a desktop computer, it is enough to turn the inspiration in your mind into reality.

The strange device Naruse Ritsu had brought with her proved even more useful than Shiina Ritsuki had anticipated. Skipping the initial trial and error phase, she could directly reproduce her own compositions in their entirety—this undoubtedly greatly improved her efficiency in composing and revising them.

After all, Shiina Tatsuki is responsible for the guitar, bass, and drums at the same time, and the guitar has to be divided into the lead guitar to be played by Lenna and the accompaniment guitar to be played by Chihaya Aine.

No matter how harshly she talks, she will still consider someone's actual level when dealing with practical problems.

Shiina Riki is such a tsundere girl.

"Hey, have you seen enough?"

After glaring at Ritsu Naruse in annoyance, Shiina Riki pretended to take back his notebook, but Ritsu Naruse had already handed it back.

"I'm just curious about what the music Lixi would compose would be like."

Looking at the tablet screen, although she didn't know what those music tracks represented, Ritsu Narose could still feel the creator's hard work.

"If it were Li Xi, he could definitely create a song that fits the lyrics."

Turning her head slightly, Naruse Ritsu did not look directly at Shiina Riki, but said this in an affirmative tone while looking at the books and large and small equipment placed around her.

This overly direct praise and recognition undoubtedly caught her off guard.

Just as Shiina Riki was hesitating and not knowing how to react, Naruse Ritsu continued to recall the lyrics he had just read, and at the same time expressed his views to Shiina Riki.

——When I say the word "future", the first sound becomes the past.

—When I say the word “silence,” I break it.

——When I say the word "nothing", I create something out of nothing.

After quietly reciting this poem he quite liked, Naruse Ritsu did not explain the discussion of life and fate in it. Instead, he asked the girl, who did not understand the deeper meaning, another seemingly unrelated question:

"Mingming Deng looks like a solitary little creature, yet he can write lyrics that are like a cry from the soul. Has Li Xi ever thought about why this contradiction occurs?"

Faced with this question, Shiina Riki's memory of the lamp kept flashing back in her mind. But when she recalled it over and over again, she couldn't come up with an answer that could convince herself.

The more you think, the more hesitant your steps become.

Seeing this clearly, Naruse Ritsu did not choose to immediately urge Shiina Riki to express her thoughts, but continued to express his opinion:

“Words are a reflection of the soul, but it doesn’t take inner repression to write dark stories, and it doesn’t take hatred to depict violence.”

“Only emotions that have been baptized by tranquility and concentration can be called art.”

After revealing these profound truths, Ritsu Narose suddenly asked another more ancient question.

"When Li Xi first met Deng, his attitude towards her wasn't the same as it is now, right?"

"..."