My girlfriend is a bad lady

When we see a tourist attraction we like, we will discuss it with each other for a while. If we all feel it is good, we will keep it for the time being.

"Arashiyama seems nice, especially this bamboo forest!"

"Are there too many people?" Qingye Rin said thoughtfully.

"We can choose the evening, when there will be fewer people!" Ikki Aoi was very excited. "Watanabe-kun, what do you think?"

Watanabe Toru looked at the familiar scene and said, "It's better not to."

"What's the reason?" asked Qingye Rin.

"I've read a lot of light novels, animations, and comics, like the very famous "Oregairu," and none of them succeeded in any confession."

"Is this true? Is it so low?" Ikki Aoi was shocked.

"But light novels are light novels, and reality is reality. You can try."

"No, no! Let's choose some other place!" Ikki Aoi quickly skipped to the page about bamboo forest in the magazine.

"By the way, Ikki-san, how did you know the location of the Grade 3 Class 2 school trip?" Watanabe Toru asked as he continued reading the magazine.

A happy expression appeared on Ikki Aoi's face: "I asked Mai directly!"

"She told you directly?"

"Yeah!" Ikki Aoi nodded excitedly, "It seems that because she got the qualification recommendation from the University of Tokyo, Mai-senpai has been in a very good mood recently. We asked her to come to the wind band to help with training and she agreed. She told me the location of the school trip as soon as I asked!"

"What about your favorite confession scene?" Qingye Rin didn't care about her mood or not, but was more concerned about the key point of the matter.

Ikki Aoi became frustrated and pouted, saying, "I did ask that, but when I mentioned that, Mai-senpai immediately stopped talking."

"Do you hate this kind of topic?" Qingye Rin guessed based on her own experience.

"No, Mai-senpai's expression was very good and she seemed to be in a good mood, but she just wouldn't say it."

Watanabe Toru tapped the white plastic table, thought for a moment, and asked, "Ichiki-san, does Asuri-senpai know that you're in the Human Observation Department?"

"Don't worry about that!" Ichimoku Aoi said proudly, "I took the initiative to tell my senior, and I used the same reason of asking for advice on playing techniques. She won't guess that I'm going to confess to her."

"..."

It’s over.

"Senior Mai has been very nice to me recently. I feel like it's not just because I got the university recommendation, it must be... hehe!"

Looking at Ikki Aoi immersed in happiness, Watanabe Toru had a complicated expression.

'Congratulations, Ichiki-san, you successfully paralyzed Tomorrow-senpai, and you were treated as my spy. '

"Ichiki-san, I have to remind you that it's better to be prepared to fail. From my point of view, this confession is almost impossible to succeed."

Even though he was disliked, told that he couldn't understand the atmosphere, and was always pouring cold water on her, Toru Watanabe still decided to prepare her for the possibility of failure.

"I know about this kind of thing." Ikki Aoi's answer was unexpected, considering she was so excited and expectant just now.

She lowered her eyes and fiddled with the hem of her skirt: "I know, but what does it matter? Mai-senpai will be going to college soon, and we won't see each other again."

No one in the trio could open their mouths to speak for a moment.

Toru Watanabe looked at her drooping face and felt sorry for her.

He had liked her since middle school, chased after Kamikawa, joined the wind orchestra, and won the national gold medal. In order to increase his chances a little bit, he even believed in the Human Observation Club, a club with unknown origins, and told others that he liked a girl.

Who has the right to laugh at her little pursuit?

Toru Watanabe wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know what to say.

The words 'come on' are so hypocritical.

"This is love." Qingye Lin whispered to himself, "Even though you know it's nothing, you still keep trying to move forward."

"R-san, let's talk about Ikki-san. Please don't use such a cold expression and suddenly start observing humans. Also, if possible, please use more concise language to summarize..."

"Shut up."

"Yes."

Watanabe Toru admitted his mistake so decisively and skillfully that Ikki Aoi, who was unhappy just now, burst out laughing.

She clenched her fist and said, "That's right, it's not time to sum up the reasons for failure, please continue to work hard with me!"

"That's right, it's just a failed confession anyway. Who doesn't fail once or twice?" Watanabe Toru agreed.

"Eh?" Ikki Aoi felt that what she and Watanabe Toru said were not the same thing.

But she was more curious about one thing.

"Watanabe-kun, can someone like you also fail in confession?"

Watanabe Toru did not answer her question, and said to Kiyono Rin: "R-san, please date me."

"I am feeling extremely physically uncomfortable right now. At least, don't say such things to me until you break up with your Meiji."

Watanabe Toru looked at Ikki Aoi and said, "Look, it failed."

"...Oh, yes." Ikki Aoi squeezed out these words from her throat.

……

After reading all the magazines and selecting a few locations, Ikki Aoi left gratefully.

Kiyono Rin and Watanabe Toru were on the same path, and the two walked together towards where they lived.

On the way, Qing Ye Lin thought of the funny thing Watanabe Toru had done just now, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be so gentle."

"That's right, I'm a gentle light novel protagonist. The world has misunderstood me too much." Toru Watanabe nodded in agreement.

Qing Ye Lin pondered for a while: "Now that you put it that way, I begin to doubt my own judgment again."

"…R-san, you are good in every way, except that you are so rude sometimes."

After separating from Kiyono Rin, Watanabe Toru walked alone on the way back to his rental house.

The sun in the distance was about to set, and the shadows of the telephone poles became lazy, as if they were about to finish get off work at any time.

It seems like I have forgotten something, but what have I forgotten?

Forget it, since it has been forgotten, it is not a big deal. I should hurry up and organize my math notes so as not to be a person who breaks his promise.

Wait, math notes…

Toru Watanabe took out his cell phone and finally remembered what he had forgotten.

He opened Line, and sure enough, the chat history with Kumiko was filled with weird geisha emoticons that could never be scrolled to the end no matter how hard he scrolled.

The pale face and weird smile are chilling.

If I received it in the middle of the night, I would probably look back even when going to the bathroom, for fear that a ghost was following me.

Just pretend you didn’t see it.

Before Toru Watanabe put his phone back into his pocket, Kumiko had already sent him a message.

"Finally 'read'! I thought you were dead!!!!"

"Kumiko, I have a serious matter to discuss with you."

"What?!!"

"What is that river called?"

"..."

Then there was another series of Kyoto geisha emoticons.

"As a high school girl, your aesthetics really worries me. Also, the location of my school trip has been decided."

"Kyoto?!"

"So what is that river called?"

"Ujigawa! Welcome!"

So it’s called Ujigawa. Watanabe Toru finally felt relieved.

Finding out the name of the reedy river was what he had forgotten.

Chapter 157 School Trip (6)

I spent Sunday at the Sophia University Library and welcomed the slightly chilly Monday morning.

Whether at school or at work, Mondays seem to be unwelcome everywhere, but today is an exception.

On the way to school at Kamikawa High School, students in winter uniforms were all smiling. The boys were pushing each other, and the girls were gathered together, making clear and pleasant laughter from time to time.

Even the morning sparrows were singing.

But Tagore once said: "God's right hand is loving, but his left hand is terrible", so whether it is a person or a thing, there are negative and positive sides.

Toru Watanabe is an absolute pessimist in this school trip carnival.

As for why I am negative...it's because things are too troublesome, and it feels like there are too many to count.

First, the first thing: find the girls in the class to canvass for votes.

He clearly didn't want to go to Kyoto, but he still asked a stranger to change his mind and vote for Kyoto - everyone, just from this one thing, you can see how negative Watanabe Toru is, right?

Toru Watanabe arrived in the class before the morning meeting began.

Most people came early today, and almost all the girls in the class were there, chatting in groups of three or five.

Toru Watanabe sat in his seat, hesitating on how to start.

How will Tamamo Yoshimi convince the boys in her class?

With her confidence in her appearance, she would probably walk up to him and say with a cute face: "Hey, XX, I want to go to Kyoto for the school trip. Can you also go to Kyoto?"

A 16-year-old high school boy is likely to agree to a request from a pretty girl in his class, right? After all, the school trip can go anywhere.

But Toru Watanabe couldn't do it so easily.

Ikeda Kazumi and the others have already said that they want to go to Nara to eat venison sashimi, so how can he have the nerve to ask for that?

Just as he was hesitating, Ikeda Kazumi came over with three girls who often played with her.

"Watanabe-kun, good morning!"

"Good morning." Toru Watanabe looked at them.

There was heating in the classroom, so they took off their scarves and suit jackets, revealing beige sleeveless sweaters worn over white shirts.

It is said that this is the favorite outfit of high school girls. Even in summer, some people deliberately wear it like this just to be cute - the news comes from Kunii Osamu and Saito Keisuke.

"Watanabe-kun," the girl on the far right named Nishimori said in a playful voice, "Can I ask you a question?"

"Of course, please."

In order to be able to say the words to canvass for votes next, Toru Watanabe decided that as long as it did not involve the mystery of the 30% and he was not asked how many he liked, he could answer anything else.

Another girl asked the question in a lively tone: "Watanabe-kun, where are you going on the school trip?"

"Kyoto. I've loved shrines and temples since I was a kid, and I'm very interested in history and culture. I heard that Kyoto's autumn maple leaves are beautiful, the water of the Kamogawa River is very clear, and the kaiseki cuisine is very delicious. I've wanted to go and see it for a long time."

This is all the Kyoto that Toru Watanabe knows.

'Please, read my meaning!'

"Kyoto!" Ikeda Kazumi nodded, and said 'thank you~' in a youthful manner, and prepared to leave with the girls smiling.

"that……"

"What's wrong? Watanabe-kun, is there anything else?" The girls turned around.

Watanabe Toru hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind: "Ikeda-san, are you still planning to go to Nara?"

The girls looked at each other and suddenly smiled mysteriously.

Ikeda Kazumi put her hands behind her back and answered with a cute and proud gesture: "No, we are going to Kyoto~"

"...Huh? Why?" Because it was so sudden, Watanabe Toru didn't even feel surprised.

The girls looked at each other again, and a restrained smile appeared on their lips, which they tried their best to suppress.

"For you, Watanabe-kun." As soon as they finished speaking, they giggled happily and left.

Toru Watanabe sat in his seat, stroking Eriri's folder on the English book with a confused look on his face.