The correct attacking posture of Shirai Kuroko

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Seven years later in the spring, on the rooftop of Heiqin Company...

A white-haired man was sitting at the side of the rooftop passage with a bottle of beer in his hand and a dull look in his eyes.

His expressionless face seemed as if he was thinking about something, but also as if he was not thinking about anything.

He just raised his head slightly, his eyes were distracted and he stared straight at the clear sky...

Sitting like a wax figure, with my back against the wall at the entrance of the rooftop, I can do this for dozens of minutes each time...

Click~

There was a sound of someone turning the doorknob at the entrance to the rooftop passage, and a mature woman with a pretty face, about thirty years old, pushed the door open and came out.

In front of her right hand was a cute girl with two ponytails on her head. The girl was not very old, about seven or eight years old.

The mature woman led the burgundy-haired girl with twin ponytails to the white-haired man who was leaning against the side of the rooftop corridor. She used her body to block the sky that the white-haired man had been looking up at, and her figure also entered the white-haired man's dull sight.

"...Ah~ Miss Zhou? What's the matter?"

The dazed man came back to his senses by the sudden intrusion of Miss Zhou and asked the other party in a polite tone.

However, at the same time as he asked, he suddenly noticed the little girl with beautiful burgundy hair and twin ponytails, who was about seven or eight years old and was held by the right hand of the woman he called Miss Zhou.

"Whose child is this? He's very cute. Is he your child? I remember you weren't married yet?"

When the white-haired man noticed this cute little loli with twin ponytails, the little loli with twin ponytails and burgundy hair was also looking at him curiously.

But maybe because she was not familiar with the uncle with a head full of white hair, when the white-haired man asked the woman he called Miss Zhou about the identity of the little loli with twin ponytails, the little loli with twin ponytails immediately turned around as if she was shy and hid behind Miss Zhou.

Then, a cute little burgundy head popped out from behind Miss Zhou. The little face, which seemed to be a little wary of looking at a strange uncle, widened its beautiful burgundy eyes like gems and looked at the strange white-haired uncle in front of it with full curiosity.

"As you said, I'm not married yet, so I'm just helping to take care of the child." Miss Zhou answered the question of the white-haired man. However, when she finished answering, her eyes shifted from the white-haired man's face to the little loli with twin ponytails hiding behind her, and then fell on the white-haired man's face again because of the change of topic, she couldn't help but put on a meaningful smile on her pretty face and made a not-too-bad joke with the white-haired man in front of her. "But I like children very much~ If Mr. Chen is willing, how about we have one too?"

Facing Miss Zhou's half-joking teasing, the man, who was called Mr. Chen by the other party, did not say anything, but just smiled perfunctorily and casually. From this attitude, it seemed that he just regarded the half-joking suggestion made by Miss Zhou as a complete joke.

However, at this time, only Miss Zhou knew that the joke she played on the white-haired man, whom she called Mr. Chen, today was the same joke she had played on Mr. Chen for seven years.

And in the past seven years, this man whom she called Mr. Chen has always treated this "joke" she played on him almost every day as a real joke...

"You are so busy at work, so you come up to me just to play a joke on me, right?" The white-haired man called Mr. Chen appropriately changed the topic between the two.

At the same time he said this, Miss Zhou deliberately put on an unhappy look on her face.

"Of course not. I don't have the extra time to waste on joking with you, as I have a boss like you who doesn't care about anything and just sits on the rooftop drinking and daydreaming. "

"Then...what are you doing..." A hint of confusion appeared on the white-haired man's face.

At the same time, the mature woman's gaze shifted again to the little loli with twin ponytails who was hiding behind her and staring curiously at the white-haired uncle in front of her with her wine-red eyes wide open.

He stretched out a hand and pushed the little loli hiding behind her back to the front of the white-haired man, despite the little loli with twin ponytails looking a little reluctant.

"It's about this child. Her mother is busy so she asked her to stay with me for a while. But you know, I'm busy every day and don't have much time to take care of her, so..."

"So they have no choice but to ask me, the chairman who only knows how to look up at the sky on the rooftop all day and doesn't do anything, to help take care of the children?"

"Congratulations! You can answer the questions quickly~"

The white-haired man smiled and shook his head, then used the hand that was not holding the bottle to support his knees and stood up from the ground.

He no longer paid any attention to Miss Zhou who spent the whole day sneering at the "outsiders" in the true sense of the word in his company. Instead, he bent down and put his not very handsome but very attractive face in front of the little loli with twin ponytails who was still looking at him with curiosity.

"So, little boy, what's your name? Do you want me, your uncle, to take you to Disneyland?"

"My name is Chen Zixi. Uncle, are we really going to Disneyland later?"

Although the little girl with twin ponytails named Chen Zixi was still a little shy about the kind-looking white-haired uncle in front of her, after hearing that he was going to take her to Disneyland, she couldn't help but tell her name to this uncle who didn't look like a bad guy, and confirmed with some anticipation that he would take her to Disneyland later.

After seeing Chen Zixi's cute look of shyness, worry and anticipation, the white-haired man, who originally had a kind smile on his face, couldn't help but smile even more.

He stretched out a hand and gently touched the cute little head of Chen Zixi, the little girl, who couldn't help but shrink back when she saw his hand reaching out.

"Of course~ Although I am a bit useless as a company boss, I will never break my promise to a cute little girl like you~"

Finale Midsummer (Part 2)

After handing over the little Loli Chen Zixi to the company's boss who was a "useless person", the woman called Miss Zhou by the other party returned to the company. However, she should have gone back to her own office to work after saying goodbye to the useless boss, but she did not do so. Instead, she walked to a room next to the president's office, which no one had entered for a long time.

If there weren't a hired cleaning lady to clean it every day, the door of the chairman's office would probably be covered with cobwebs due to years of dust.

Open the door, enter, close the door.

The moment the door closed, the woman called Miss Zhou quickly turned her head and walked towards a decorative cabinet about chest-high on the right side of the office.

She calmly took out a handmade coffee machine from the decorative cabinet, poured hot water and coffee beans into it skillfully, and seemed to be telling someone about her experiences over the years.

"It's been seven years~ Mr. Wang Cheng's children are said to be in kindergarten. After he got married, he seemed to have changed into a different person. He only knew how to work for his children every day. Now he is helping the company sell mobile phones in countries like the Maldives. He and Xiao Xi and their children rarely see each other. Xiao Xi has difficulty with her legs, so from time to time, as long as I have time, I will go to their house to help Xiao Xi with some housework. Although, in terms of the little time I spare, I can't help Xiao Xi too much...

Mr. Laowu has been doing well in recent years, and he runs a beef noodle restaurant. However, I heard that Sister Xu closed the gym she opened because of having a child. Now she has gained weight because of taking care of the child at home for a long time. She is afraid that her appearance will not be able to control Mr. Laowu, so Mr. Laowu will go out and have an affair. Recently, the restrictions on Mr. Laowu have become more and more strict. Every time I call Mr. Chen, I complain to him for one or two hours about being henpecked. But to be honest, I am still happy for the couple from the bottom of my heart. After all, Sister Xu was diagnosed as infertile by the doctor because of her injury in the army. It is a big surprise for everyone that they can have a child at the age of more than 30...

As for me..."

At this point, Zhou Yaxue, who was talking about pouring ground coffee powder into a coffee container filled with hot water transformed from water vapor through the siphon principle, couldn't help but sigh.

"I still can't beat you..."

"What about... him?"

A tentative but unusually unique voice came from the sofa behind Zhou Yaxue who was making coffee, proving in disguise that Zhou Yaxue was not talking to herself like a lunatic just now.

"Him~" Zhou Yaxue, who originally had a sigh on her face, couldn't help but show some emotion when she heard the female voice full of unique feeling behind her asking her.

"His hair is all white now. Although he looks a bit like a Shamatte, it is undeniable that he is more handsome than he was seven years ago when his hair was still black. As the chairman of the company, he doesn't do anything every day and just runs to the rooftop with a beer to drink and daydream. He lives a carefree life, except..."

Having said that, the woman named Zhou Yaxue couldn't help but pause.

As Zhou Yaxue paused, the unique, tentative voice behind her couldn't help but ask her a little anxiously as she paused.

"Just...just what?"

Zhou Yaxue, who was brewing coffee with her back to the other person, did not answer immediately. Instead, after finishing the work of making the coffee, she added a little milk along the rim of the coffee cup.

After finishing all the work, she turned around with her coffee and walked towards the girl who was sitting on the sofa and looking at her anxiously.

Finally, he placed the coffee on the tray in his hand on the coffee table in front of the other person.

"He still can't remember you."

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Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was afternoon.

The white-haired man called Mr. Chen in the north fulfilled his promise to the little Loli Chen Zixi, and took the little Loli who was tired of playing back to the company's rooftop.

The sunset sun made people feel dizzy. Before they knew it, after a day of fun at Disney, Chen Zixi, who had limited physical strength, fell into a deep sleep in the arms of the white-haired man.

The man held the little Loli in his arms and continued what he did in the morning, or what he did every day, sitting against the wall on the side of the corridor on the rooftop.

Looking up at the rising sun, it slowly sinks into the western sky.

Click~

The sound of the rooftop door handle being turned was heard again.

However, the woman who broke into the territory that belonged to the white-haired man again was no longer Zhou Yaxue.

It was still a girl, estimated to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a pair of cute and youthful ponytails like Chen Zixi, but the slightly kind smile on her face, which was also a little too young, was something that was impossible for a girl of this age to have.

She walked up to the white-haired man just like Zhou Yaxue who came to look for the white-haired man in the morning.

But it was different from Zhou Yaxue in the morning who did not communicate with the white-haired man at all.

Instead, she turned around in front of the white-haired man, who was looking at her with a puzzled look on his face, and then sat down next to him, leaning against the wall...

"I'm causing you trouble today."

"Is she... Xiaoxi's... mother?"

Generally speaking, as a man, saying such words to a young and beautiful woman is undoubtedly a provocation to the girl!

However, when the white-haired man said this guess, which was very rude to a woman, with a look of confusion and curiosity, the girl with twin ponytails, who he guessed was Chen Zixi's mother, did not get angry at all.

She still had that gentle smile on her face, and reached out to the man who had said rude words to her, and took over Chen Zixi, who had fallen into a deep sleep.

"Why do you make such an impolite guess? She looks very young. Don't you think that I am more like Xiaoxi's sister than her mother?"

"This..." A trace of embarrassment appeared on the white-haired man's face. He had become less able to guess people's minds than before seven years ago, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer the girl's question.

"So... you are Xiaoxi's... elder sister?"

"No~ It's my mother~"

"..."

The girl answered like this, and for a moment, the white-haired man, who was unable to determine her identity, was completely speechless...

Are simple and honest men really not very good at guessing a woman's heart? No wonder there are more and more people taking over these days...

"Well... can I ask you a question?" After a long period of silence, the silent man started the topic again.

"Excuse me, Xiaoxi's father..."

"He's a very good person~" Before the white-haired man could finish his question, Chen Zixi's mother interrupted him and gave a quick answer.

This put the white-haired man who claimed to be a idler into embarrassment again.

"I... I'm not asking this question... I'm saying... Isn't Xiaoxi's father also a busy man? His daughter is so cute, but she still needs an idle person like me to take care of her."

When the white-haired man asked Chen Zixi's mother this question with an embarrassed look while scratching his head, the other party couldn't help but turn her pretty face, which didn't look like a woman's, to look at him deeply with her burgundy eyes, which were as beautiful as Chen Zixi's.

"Didn't you ask Xiaoxi who her father is and what his name is?"

"This involves privacy, so it's better for an outsider like me not to ask about it." The man replied, scratching his head embarrassedly.

After hearing his answer, the girl, who was Chen Zixi's mother, could not help but look dark...

"An outsider~ hehe..."

"Uh...did I say something wrong?"

The white-haired man, noticing the gloom in the other person's expression, showed an apologetic look on his face, and his movements became a little flustered, as if he was afraid that his words would touch the inner pain of this young woman who had become a mother and he became at a loss.

Faced with his apology written directly on his face, the girl, who showed a hint of sadness, did not blame him at all, and of course, did not show any intention of accepting his apology.

"Tell me about yourself? As Zhou Yaxue's friend, I'm very happy to know what kind of person her idle boss is. I heard that you had an unforgettable love affair a few years ago?" The girl, who is a mother, cleverly changed the subject. However, the white-haired man, who felt that his words seemed to have touched the girl's inner pain, still hadn't recovered from his previous embarrassment.

"This... everyone else says so, but I... can't quite remember..."

"Is it because of amnesia?" the girl asked.

"Yes." The white-haired man answered the girl's question unusually fluently, so fluently that the girl's expression, which was already extremely gloomy, became even gloomier.

"Is she gone?"

"yes..."

"Have you ever thought about what you would be like now if she had stayed?"

"this..."

After thinking for a moment, the man shook his head again...

"I don't know, maybe... I won't lose my memory, and... I should become more diligent than I am now..."

"Really..."

The girl was silent, her eyes revealing a deep disappointment, and in the disappointment there was also a bit of self-blame that she seemed to be able to hide.

As for the white-haired man, he returned to his morning self as she remained silent. He raised his head slightly and stared blankly at the orange-red sky that was about to set.

a long time...

"I have to go now..."

"...Aren't you going to sit for a while?" When the white-haired man, who seemed to be a little slow to react because he was staring into the sky, heard the girl holding Chen Zixi in her arms say that she wanted to leave, he came back to his senses.

As for the white-haired man's attempt to keep her, the girl, whose eyes had already begun to avoid him, said she wanted to leave but still did not stand up from his side, and just shook her head slightly.

"Tomorrow is Monday, Xiaoxi still has to go to school."

"Is that so? Then..."

At this point, the white-haired man's words were suddenly stuck for unknown reasons. It was clearly just a farewell, but for some reason such a simple farewell was stuck in his throat at this moment, making him unable to speak any more for a while.