Lonely Rock for the Blind

"Can you, Pochi? Please."

Nekoyashiki Haru put away his blind stick, clasped his hands together and said to the place where Goto Ichiri should be.

Hurry up and refuse, Goto Ichiri! Hurry up and refuse!

This is intimate contact with the opposite sex! Not the kind of holding hands! And this person seems to be about the same age as me!

That means… the opposite sex of the same age! This "youth word" should absolutely not appear in my life!

[Youthful Words] Ah! Those words that only exist in modern life! Words full of youthful feeling!

If something like this happened to me, I would definitely die!

"Please?"

As he didn't get a reply, Nekayashiki Haru adjusted his position and continued to ask for help.

“…Okay…Okay…”

I can't refuse! How can I have such ability?

Goto Ichiri had an expression as if his soul had been sucked out of him.

I...I won't die here...

Carefully grabbing Nekayashiki Haru's arm, Goto Ichiri trembled again.

Ahhh—I really touched it! A body of the opposite sex, my own age! Just now, when we were holding hands, I felt so nervous I couldn't feel anything, but now it's so real! And there's a scent I don't usually smell! It's like the smell of a freshly opened iPhone, but a little different!

This is... This is a boy's body! This is...

"Um...Pochi?"

Feeling his arm being held tightly but unable to move forward, Nekayashiki Haru suspected that Pochi might have fallen into strange psychological activities again.

"Can we go?"

"Ah! Sorry..."

Goto Ichiri took a deep breath, then walked down the starry stairs step by step with Nekoyashiki Haru.

Come to think of it...I'm really thin.

Holding the obviously thin arm, Goto Ichiri sighed.

Did Mr. Nekoyashiki have a good meal?

Snapped.

It took the two of them 3 or 4 minutes to finally reach the door of Fanxing, and Goto Ichiri breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally... it's finally here... it's finally over...

Goto Ichiri showed a relieved expression.

Ah...Think about it carefully, this is a good person doing good things...

If Mr. Nekayashiki had come to my school to thank me afterwards, I would have been praised by the whole school.

Hehe, I will definitely be popular at that time...

No way! She'd definitely be considered a pretentious type! And then the school bullies would surround her behind the teaching building after school and beat her up!

This must not be allowed to happen!

"Mr. Nekayashiki! I'm not a student of Shuka High School!"

"Why are you suddenly saying this...?"

Nekoyashiki Haru sighed.

“I feel your idea is really…”

boom.

Before he could finish his words, the door suddenly opened.

"what…"

Goto Ichiri was suddenly stunned, staring at the girl with yellow hair and red eyes in front of him.

"Hongxia..."

"Hmm? Yili? Did you forget to pick up something?"

The girl named Ijichi Nijika smiled at Goto Ichiri, but suddenly froze when she saw the other person next to her.

“…Huh?”

"Nijiga? Excuse me, is this Ijichi Nijiga?"

"…Yes…"

Ijichi Hongxia said a little dazedly.

Nekoyashiki Haru smiled after receiving the answer.

Then he said.

"Long time no see, Hongxia."

Chapter 3 Idiot

“Ah… here it comes.”

The yellow-haired woman sitting in front of the counter, Ijichi Hoshika, turned her head to look at the boy who was tapping the ground with his blind stick, then tilted her head to look at her sister Ijichi Nikka who was still in a trance next to her, and Goto Ichiri who was cowering behind her. After sighing, she looked at Nekayashiki Haru again and greeted him.

"Xiaoqing, long time no see."

"I saw him just a few days ago."

"Tsk... who knew you'd come back so early and stayed in Shinjuku..."

"Hey…"

Nekoyashiki Haru scratched his head and seemed a little embarrassed.

Ijichi Xingge gritted his teeth in dissatisfaction and was about to say something else when Ijichi Hongxia next to him suddenly came back to his senses from his trance.

"Wait wait wait wait a minute! Sister, you call him Xiaoqing! He is...he really is..."

"Yes...your childhood sweetheart, Nekayashiki Haru..."

"But it's not right! It's not right in every sense of the word!"

Ijichi Hongxia looked at the boy beside her, her eyes trembling as she looked at his sunglasses and blind stick.

"Is this... performance art? Or some special experience for the blind?"

"... "

Ijichi Xingge sighed, put the straw of the Good Boy Juice into her mouth and sipped it.

“…Sorry, that’s not it, Hongxia.”

Nekoyashiki Haru smiled. Although he didn't know if he was facing Hongxia, the approximate position was correct.

"Two years ago, there was an accident, so... I'm sorry, I really can't see anymore."

The atmosphere suddenly froze, and Goto Ichiri had already silently crawled into the trash can beside him.

It turns out...it's Hong Xia's childhood sweetheart... Come to think of it, Hong Xia used to talk about her childhood sweetheart often.

What "kitten" once said, what "kitten" would never do this...ah, this sentence is usually used to criticize Liang Sang.

So "Kitten" is referring to Mr. Cat House?!

咔…

Ijichi Hongka clenched her fists.

“…two years ago…”

"Um…"

Ijichi Hongka's breathing gradually became heavy.

"Isn't it temporary? It's the kind that can be cured, but it takes time..."

"No, it's completely invisible."

Nekoyashiki Haru gripped his cane tightly.

"The light is gone."

"How...how could this be! Isn't this completely blind? This shouldn't normally happen!"

"It's just a bit of bad luck, don't worry about it."

"It's impossible not to care! I've been looking forward to seeing you again! But you..."

Ijichi Hongxia's voice suddenly stopped.

She bit her lower lip and lowered her head.

"I'm...sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you."

"Don't apologize, Hongxia. Even though I'm blind, my hearing has improved. That's pretty good, right?"

Nekayashiki Haru said this with a smile, but this made Ijichi Nijinka's hair explode. It's not a metaphor, she really felt like her hair was a little bit blown apart.

"Not at all!"

Ijichi Hongxia said loudly, anger in her voice.

“This kind of thing…this kind of thing…kitten…idiot kitten!!!”

After shouting loudly, Ichichi Hongxia ran out the door.

boom!

Nekoyashiki Haru was stunned for a moment, and following the sound of the door closing, he wanted to chase Hongxia, but was stopped by a hand.

"If you can't see her, don't go. Nothing will happen to her outside."

Ijichi Hoshige said while pulling on the corner of Nekayashiki Haru's clothes.

"...That's it."

Nekayashiki Haru sighed, and the smile on her face disappeared a lot.

"Ugh…"

Ijichi Xingge sighed and looked at the trash can next to her.

"Pochi, why don't you go home first."

"Thank you so much!!!!"

Goto Ichiri suddenly jumped out of the trash can, did a backflip, then landed on all fours and ran away from the stars as if he was running for his life.

boom!

As the door closed, silence fell within the stars.

"It really makes her sad."

Nekoyashiki Haru used his cane to find a chair, sat down and said.

"She misses you after all."

"Hong Xia is like that, too gentle to her friends."

Nekoyashiki Haru lowered his head.

"So, this is also the reason why you didn't look for her the first time after returning home? Are you afraid of facing Hong Xia?"

Ichichi Hoshige said.

"A little bit..."

"Yeah…"

Yidizhi Xingge tilted her head slightly and continued to ask.

"Do your parents still just send you money?"