You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

Chihaya Aine invited Toyokawa Sho to the aquarium, not out of affection, but more of a compensation mechanism made under the huge guilt and excellent family education.

In her eyes, she was the one who had troubled Toyokawa Sho for the entire day. If she hadn't been looking for trouble, he wouldn't have come in a Maybach to give her face and even act with her.

And after that, Toyokawa Sho specially accompanied them to visit the musical instrument store for most of the day. He carefully helped them explain everything from the general introduction and recommendation of the musical instrument brands to the basic knowledge of electric guitar exercises. Even she, a novice who only had a general impression of the musical instruments, could understand it.

Even Toyokawa Sho is particularly good at providing emotional value and often stimulates the atmosphere of the topic along the way.

Her three friends' impression of Toyokawa Sho is almost as high as their money, and they all envy her for having such a good relationship with such a perfect man like Toyokawa Sho.

It can be said that Chihaya Aine's vanity was greatly satisfied today, and this is why she decided to bring Toyokawa Sho to the aquarium.

She has troubled others so much, it would be very uncultured if she didn't even show some appreciation. If she really did nothing and just took advantage of others, Chihaya Aine herself would feel like she was not a human being.

So she's decided.

The aquarium is just the beginning, and we will continue to do our best to give back to Toyokawa Sho.

Although she felt that with Toyokawa Sho's family background, he might not care about her insignificant repayment, but that didn't mean she shouldn't do anything. Trying to make up for it and doing nothing are two completely different attitudes.

Chihaya Aine doesn't want to become a bad person who ignores the efforts of others and only treats others as tools. Being a good person and doing good things will definitely bring good rewards. This is the worldview she has always believed in.

"Senior, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I just went to buy you a drink. Look, it has this aquarium's exclusive dolphin design on it. I wasn't sure what flavor you'd like, so I ordered you a glass of fresh orange juice, which is the safest option."

Chihaya Aine ran to Toyokawa Sho, handed the drink cup to Toyokawa Sho, and took out two small dolphin pendants with a smile.

"The lady selling water said I looked cute and gave me two small pendants as a gift. We each got one. You can hang them on your schoolbag or phone case. If there's a hole under the pen, you can hang them there too!"

Toyokawa Sho looked at the dolphin pendant in his hand, his eyes slightly distracted.

He always thought that this aquarium only had penguin pendants. In the past episode, he was always dragged here by Takamatsu Deng to see the penguins. Because she had an annual pass, she could enter at any time.

Every time he was brought over by Takamatsu Deng, he would receive a small penguin doll pendant, just like every time he met Takamatsu Deng, the other party would give him a stone, which became a routine.

So much so that he had to buy a large storage box to store the things that Gao Songdeng gave him.

"Wearing the same jewelry is a right reserved for couples."

Toyokawa Sho pinched the dolphin doll between his fingers and looked at Chihaya Aine, "If you give someone something like this, a normal boy will misunderstand it."

"What does it matter? I have a good relationship with my senior anyway, so it's normal for us to wear the same jewelry."

Chihaya Aine tilted her head slightly, obviously she was also a master at pretending to be confused.

Of course she knew what misunderstanding meant, but she was not shy because she could tell that Toyokawa Sho was joking, so she played along and pretended to be confused and played a game of tug-of-war.

"So we have a good relationship?"

Toyokawa Sho looked surprised. "That's fictional history, right? Your friends are gone, and you still want me to continue playing the role of your childhood sweetheart who was saved by you?"

Chihaya Aine blushed immediately after being told that, but she did not react with a tantrum or yelling. Instead, her eyes reddened a little in a very girlish way, and she raised her eyes with tears in her eyes and spoke.

"I thought we had a good relationship even if we weren't acting..."

She pronounced the words tenderly, but it didn't sound coquettish. Her watery grey eyes were like a clear pool with floating fish and twinkling stars. Just looking into her eyes, I couldn't help but like her.

After all, she is very beautiful.

Her long pink hair is longer than other girls', reaching her waist, and it is well maintained. Standing next to her, you can clearly smell the faint fragrance from her hair. Her facial features and face shape are so delicate that they seem to be specially sculpted.

When a girl like this speaks with her eyes blinking in a somewhat aggrieved manner, it is like placing a big czar in a man's heart.

However, Toyokawa Sho did not react much to this. This man who grew up watching beautiful girls always had an amazing resistance when faced with beauty.

"Your deliberate cuteness won't work on me."

"Don't expose me so quickly... I thought you would be moved by such words, Senior."

Chihaya Aine stretched out her voice in frustration, biting the straw lightly with her neat and clean teeth, as if to vent her frustration.

"It's also cute when you don't."

Toyokawa Sho glanced at the lost girl next to him and added lightly.

He knew from a young age that girls always like the old routine of first criticizing and then praising. It doesn't matter if you say she is stupid or ugly at first, as long as you praise her later, she will still be happy, and happier than if you praise her directly.

These insignificant little details are all experiences summarized by Toyokawa Sho himself.

"...!"

Chihaya Aine instantly regained her spirits, "Senior, what did you just say? Did I hear correctly? You were calling me cute, right?"

"No, you heard wrong."

Toyokawa Sho pretended not to see anything as he drank the orange juice that Chihaya Aine gave him.

"How could I have heard it wrong? It's clearly there!"

Chihaya Aine came over with a grin, leaned forward and said, "Praise me more, Senior. I really like being praised. If possible, I want to hear you praise me from head to toe!"

"The dolphinarium is on the left. Do you want to see dolphins?"

Toyokawa Sho pointed to the road sign next to him.

"Look, it showed up to change the subject!"

Chihaya Aine lowered her eyebrows in dissatisfaction and bared her teeth like a puppy, but when she saw Toyokawa Sho walked into the dolphinarium to wait for her, she quickly followed him and bumped Toyokawa Sho with her shoulder. When she saw Toyokawa Sho turned his head to look at her, she turned her head away and snorted.

The temper comes and goes quickly. To be more precise, someone is not angry at all, but is just showing off her cuteness in front of someone she likes, like a little girlfriend.

The girl named Chihaya Aine, even though she has never been in a relationship, still has very powerful manipulation skills and has a terrifying talent in how to control men.

If he hadn't met a high-level player like Master Xiang, he would have been completely bewitched by her and couldn't sleep at night, starting to fantasize about life after marrying her.

"Have you ever been here with anyone before?"

In the azure corridor, Toyokawa Sho and Chihaya Aine stood side by side, looking up at the dolphins swimming in the clear water and the schools of fish with silver scales outside the glass.

"me?"

Chihaya Aine blinked and thought carefully. "I think I came here a few times with my parents when I was a child. But this is the first time for you to come out alone with a boy."

“Should I thank Aine-sama for giving me her precious first time?”

"Huhuhuhu... I would be very happy if you could say that."

"Then I'd like to thank Aine-sama for being willing to visit the aquarium with me."

Toyokawa Sho turned his gaze away from the dolphin and looked at the girl next to him. He was not an oceanographer with a platinum star and a hat that was integrated with his hair, so he was not particularly interested in what was happening in front of him.

If something looks good, then of course you think it looks good.

But compared to these beautiful and fantastic scenery.

He still preferred to focus on the girl in front of him.

"Hey hey hey! I was just kidding! Senior, please don't be so serious. I can't stand it. I'm the one who should really be thanked today."

Chihaya Aine quickly waved her little hands.

She ran her hands through her hair sheepishly, her voice a little weaker than before, "I'm not stupid... I know how bad what I did this time was. I took the liberty of using you as a topic for bragging, and even made up so many things that you never did."

"Honestly, this kind of thing is wrong no matter how you whitewash it. If Mom knew, she would definitely criticize me. She would tell me that if I want to show off, I should use my own things to show off, instead of using others' things as my own. If it weren't for the coincidence that you, senior, have a Maybach, I don't dare to imagine what would happen next..."

Chihaya Aine awkwardly bumped her index fingers together, lowered her head and blinked a few times before looking at Toyokawa Sho again.

"Please listen to me, Senior. I'm not trying to justify myself. I do have a fondness for vanity, I admit that. I just like being in the spotlight and being looked at with envy, but I would never do such a thing before. Please believe me, okay?"

Toyokawa Sho nodded. He already had his own understanding of Chihaya Aine and was naturally willing to believe her.

"Really?! Do you really believe me, Senior?"

Chihaya Aine's eyes lit up. "That's great... I thought you'd think I was a terrible person or something, thinking about this kind of thing all the time..."

"It's normal to like to show off. When I was a kid, I bought an Ultraman transformation device and I would show it off to others."

Toyokawa Sho recalled the memory of him holding Tiga's transformation device and shouting "Cha!" in front of Wakaba Mutsu.

I feel a little ashamed.

Why was I so naive when I was a child?

"Yeah, yeah. My mom also said that it's normal to like showing off. If someone isn't willing to show everyone their shining points, then that's really boring."

Chihaya Aine still has that beautiful smile. She always looks good when she smiles. Sometimes she closes her eyes and smiles, and sometimes she stretches out her fingers and makes a scissors sign and smiles.

No matter what she looks like, she always smiles with a confidence that comes from within, and it is this confidence that creates her greatest charm.

Like a little sun.

Warm, but not dazzling.

The two of them soon regained their composure. They were the only two people in the dolphinarium, and the place was very empty.

After a while.

Chihaya Aine spoke again.

"Senior, didn't I just say that I would never do this before?"

"That's it."

"I swear, I didn't lie to you about this. No matter how vain I am, I still have a sense of justice in my heart."

Chihaya Aine raised her head and looked at the school of fish in the curtain wall, which sometimes gathered into spindles and sometimes turned into quicksand. After taking a deep breath in silence, she finally decided to muster up the courage to say what she dared not say.

"But, seeing you, Senior, ah...how should I put it, it's just that I feel like I can't control my greed..."

Chihaya Aine felt more and more ashamed the more she spoke, but she still said it nicely, "I know it will seem strange for me to say this, but it's really the truth."

"When I first met you, I even saw some memories that seemed like hallucinations. I thought they were really hallucinations at the time. You see, I wasn't fully awake at the time, so my mind was probably still hazy... But now that I've met you again, I feel like what I saw wasn't an illusion, it must have been something that really happened..."

Having said this, Chihaya Aine felt too embarrassed to continue.

She silently stretched out her legs to close the distance, one point, two points, and finally she was touching Toyokawa Sho. After their arms were touching, she raised her head and looked at Toyokawa Sho and asked.

"...Are you willing to believe me?"

Looking at her serious gaze, Toyokawa Sho couldn't help but gently pinch her chubby cheek with his hand.

"Hmm? Snow, snow rising, what are you doing…?"

"I just feel like I haven't pinched it in a long time, so I want to do it."

"Too long?"

Chihaya Aine was confused by this word.

Toyokawa Sho was in no hurry to explain, but just extended his hand to Chihaya Aine.

Chihaya Aine looked left and right, but couldn't figure out what the name was. Finally, she put her little hand on it, then looked up at Toyokawa Sho, like a clear-eyed but stupid student who, after finishing a question, confirmed with the teacher whether his answer was correct.

Teacher Xiang gave an answer quickly.

Aine-san's answer is correct.

He naturally held Chihaya Aine's soft and slender hand and led her outside.

"Huh? Wait..."

Chihaya Aine was overwhelmed by this sudden development. Looking at the hands holding each other, she felt her ears burning extremely badly.

Only, only the third time we met...

Is it too fast?

However, when she thought about how she had been bragging in front of her classmates these days, Chihaya Aine felt relieved again, as if what she had done was even more excessive.

Ahhhhh…really!

Just hold it!

I'm sorry, but it was indeed my fault...

It doesn’t matter what, it’s just holding hands. Senior can hold hands if he wants, and it doesn’t matter how long he holds hands, as long as it can reduce the guilt!

Toyokawa Sho had no idea of Chihaya Aine's complicated inner thoughts at the moment.

But he could feel Chihaya Aine holding his hand just as tightly. He walked in front, his expression stunned for a moment, then he smiled with emotion and walked outside with the girl's hand.

It's already dusk.

The empty and deserted square had only a few pigeons from afar landing on the ground to rest their wings. Dusk spread from the distant horizon. Looking down, one could see a clothesline on a balcony with several white shirts hanging on it. The shirts were like bloated diners, which, after absorbing the dusk, were blown by the breeze. The hazy afterglow flowed in the folds, and every slight shake would shake off the tiny pieces of gold foil.

Toyokawa Sho pulled Chihaya Aine to a staircase.

The two of them sat down together, their sight allowing them to see the pond that was still spraying water, a stray cat that had jumped onto a rusty ladder not far away, and an orange balloon that a child had left on a tree branch.

"Um...senior..."