I won't be a loser.

Even Nakano Satsuki herself didn't know why she was so unwilling to give up. Even though she knew that the other party had a girlfriend, she still came to him.

"I understand, but I don't know why. I always feel that if I give up like this, I might regret it forever. So, I will stick to my feelings without affecting your life."

The chopsticks in Nakano Satsuki's hand were placed in the center of the udon noodles in front of her. She looked down at the pale yellow soup noodles in silence. After a while of silence, she finally expressed her attitude.

Since the other party already has a girlfriend, saying such words to him will definitely cause him some trouble, but even so, Nakano Satsuki has already seriously reflected on her feelings and expressed her feelings to the boy in front of her.

The wise man sitting opposite her found that even though he had spoken so bluntly, the other party had no intention of giving up. He looked directly at the girl in front of him, was silent for a moment, and nodded slightly.

"Everyone has the right to like someone, as long as it doesn't affect your life. I won't make any comments on whether you are willing to stick with this relationship. I respect your choice, but at the same time, I also stick to my original attitude and will not date you."

He already has a girlfriend, a wife, and even one... no, two?

After thinking about it, I started from Mito Yuka, then to Futaba Rio, and then to Ogiwara Sayu.

There are more than one girl who looks like a lover in every way. There are also others with whom he maintains a distant relationship, and the mother of his children. When Xianren counted the women around him, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This is already his limit, if it's more, he won't be able to allocate his own time.

Even if he keeps saying things like 'My love for them is equal', how can time be distributed equally to everyone? Besides, his feelings towards everyone are not equal.

Even if they feel happy when you appear in front of them, there will always be times when they feel lonely, right?

An Jing lowered her head, picked up the cucumber shreds, put them into her mouth and chewed them.

The light sweetness relieves the greasy smell of barbecue.

After both of them expressed their attitudes, the two of them did not have any other communication. They sat quietly at a table and finished their lunch. Thinking of Futaba Rio who was still in the laboratory and Kento who had finished his meal, he stood up first, said goodbye to Nakano Satsuki, and left the restaurant.

The girl was left sitting in the restaurant, watching the sage leave, pursed her lips, feeling a little worried...

He walked into the laboratory, glanced towards the window, saw the somewhat yellowed leaves, and then looked at Rio Futaba standing in front of the experimental equipment. Xianren walked lightly and came to the side of the girl step by step. The other party had also finished lunch.

It may also be that he simply didn't have lunch, and he didn't come to the laboratory, so he might not have prepared anything.

He took out a rice ball from his pocket and handed it to the table in front of her, then took out a bottle of strawberry milk and handed it to the table. Seeing that Futaba Rio's movements were a little slower, Xianren stepped back a little and walked to the window.

"The rice balls are plum flavored, and the other one is strawberry milk."

Rio Futaba, who was doing an experiment, did not respond at all. After finishing the experiment, from the time Kento entered the laboratory, it was 20 minutes later that she stopped what she was doing and looked back at Kento standing at the window.

"woman?"

The experiment has ended, and there is no need to worry about disturbing Futaba Rio's experiment. I reached out and turned the window lock, moved the window, and a cool breeze blew slowly into the room, blowing on my face, making me feel much more awake.

"Not really. I just went to the cafeteria to eat. You're being too sensitive."

"You can't be desensitized."

“I try to change.”

After washing her hands, Futaba Rio wiped her hands clean, picked up the rice balls and strawberry milk on the table, and glanced at Xianren standing in front of the window.

Today, she and Xianren got up a little late. Xianren left first, and when she left afterwards, she forgot to prepare lunch boxes for both of them.

No, it’s not forgotten.

She was not in a good mood, so she did not prepare a lunch box. When she arrived at school, she did not want to eat in the crowded cafeteria. It was Xianren who noticed her situation and thought that she might not have prepared lunch, so he went out to buy rice balls and milk.

The portion is not large, but for a girl, it is enough to fill her stomach and can last her 4 hours without any problem.

"night……"

"What happened at night?"

"It might be a little late to get to your place. I have to go back to my own apartment today."

"Ah."

Futaba Rio had no objection to this. His current relationship situation required him to travel between the apartment and his 'home'. Even if it was once a week, it was considered frequent for her. In her heart, she did not have too many expectations.

'It's time to do something of your own.'

If you devote more energy to your own interests, perhaps you won’t feel lonely when wise people are not around.

Looking at the calm Futaba Rio, Xianren lowered his eyes slightly, reached out his hand, plucked a leaf from the window, stroked the withered and yellowed branches, and closed his eyes...

After school, I went to the shopping street and bought some ingredients and some Japanese sweets. After thinking about it, I bought a very special-looking desk lamp.

It looks like a book, but it has a light that glows when you open it.

Holding these items, he came to Mito Yuge's apartment alone, opened the door and entered the house. The girl's room was still in tidy order, and there was more breath of life than last time.

The ingredients were placed in the refrigerator, the sweets were placed on the coffee table, and another table lamp was placed on her desk.

He walked to her desk step by step and sat down at the desk. The sage looked out the window, watching the sunset slowly setting between the buildings, quietly waiting for the girl's return.

"Are you planning to take a day off tomorrow?"

"I want to take a day off."

"I... go to work alone and feel a little lonely."

The wise man was sitting at his desk, looking at the contents of "Lord of the Flies" in his hand, lost in thought, when he heard the sound of conversation at the door.

Familiar voices, and two familiar voices at that.

click -

"The door is unlocked?"

"Is there anyone here..."

The people at the door found that the door was not locked when they opened it. One was a little surprised, and the other was extremely calm. The door was opened, Mito Yuge walked in front and entered the house, and Ogiwara Sayu followed her quietly. The two entered the house and saw Xianren sitting at the desk.

"Yeah, you're back."

Gently waving the book in his hand, the wise man smiled at the two girls who had returned.

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"A wise man?"

Mito Yuge was not surprised to see who was in the room. As far as she was concerned, the only person who could enter the house besides herself was Xianren, who had the key.

Ogiwara Sayu, who hadn't seen Kento for a while, was even more surprised when she saw Kento sitting in the room.

"Did you, Xige, contact him?"

"No."

After hearing Ogiwara Sayu's question, Mito Yuge shook her head and denied it. She usually didn't contact Kento very often. She would just send him a message occasionally before going to bed at night to say good night, and that was all.

She has a very clear understanding of her own position, so she does not want to become a burden to the sage, and does not want to do anything that will bring trouble to the sage.

"It's not that I need to contact you to come here, it's just that we haven't seen each other for a while, so I took a little time off and came to see Xige to see if there is anything in life that I need help with. I just didn't expect the two of you to come back together."

"Since we're here to see Xige, then wouldn't it be better for me to go back for a while?"

Ogiwara Sayu came up behind Mito Yuge, stared at Kento who was sitting at the desk, slowly turned his head and looked at the two of them. She felt a little sour, and asked Kento a question half teasingly and half venting.

After exchanging a smile with Mito Yuka, they both looked at Ogiwara Sayu.

"Hmm? Hmm!"

The spring rain is drizzling on the fragrant grass path, and the weeds are flourishing.

Under the hazy night, Ogiwara Sayu followed Kento and walked towards the apartment. The girl looked at the person next to her from time to time, wanting to say something, but found that she didn't know how to start.

"The moonlight is so beautiful."

"The waves surge against the riverbank, deep in the night, in the stillness. We meet only in dreams, afraid no one will know."

"what?"

Walking under the moonlight, Ogiwara Sayu wanted to express her feelings, but was replied with a poem that she didn't quite understand. After a long while of not being able to understand what the other party meant, she started to ask directly.

"This is a song by Fujiwara Toshiyuki, one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. You can look it up yourself later and find out."

"Well……"

In response to Ogiwara Sayu's question, he looked at the wise man in front of him, turned his head slightly, looked at the girl beside him, smiled at her, and did not explain directly. Instead, he told her the author of the poem and let her find out for herself.

The two returned to Koishikawa's apartment together. While walking up the stairs, Ogiwara Sayu still wanted to say something to Kento, but before he reached the door, she saw Kento stop and look back at her.

"See you tomorrow at school."

"……Um."

All the words were choked back into his heart. He quietly returned to his room, went into the bathroom, came out of the bathroom, and lay down on his bed in his pajamas.

Before closing her eyes to rest, she thought of the poem that the wise man told her on the road.

——One hundred people wrote one poem.

Fujiwara Toshiyuki, court minister.

Quietly, quietly, the waves surge towards the coast of Sumiyoshi.

It’s late at night and everyone is asleep. I hope to meet you in my dreams, but I’m afraid of being seen in my dreams.

"...the pain of love hidden deep in my heart?"

Gazing at the explanations and annotations on the screen, Ogiwara Sayu remained silent for a moment, then closed her eyes, loosened her hand, and let the phone fall beside her pillow. She grabbed the quilt, covering her head tightly, and huddled up in the bed with the light on.

"Do you think if I ask Elliot to go out with me now, will she agree?"

"Why don't you try it and find out?"

On Saturday afternoon, after managing his time, Xianren took the time to come to Fujiwa's house. While preparing lunch with Fujiwa and his daughter, Xianren talked about some things related to Elio.

“I don’t do anything I’m not sure of.”

After a moment of silence, Xianren squeezed the dumplings in his hand and gave his own explanation.

"Afraid of rejection?"

"No, I just don't want to do anything that I'm not 100% sure of."

"That's fear."

silence.

He raised his head and glanced towards the living room. His eyes fell on his daughter. Xianren bit his lip, feeling a little complicated.

"Maybe, I am a little worried."

"Hmm~"

Seeing the hesitant look on the wise man's face, she could guess in her heart what he was worried about.

"Elliot, she should have guessed something."

"Forget it, let's wait a little longer. My stomach is a little upset."

"Your spirit is truly fragile."

In response to this, the wise man who was wrapping dumplings took a deep breath and did not make any explanation. He originally wanted to invite Elio and him to go to a place like an amusement park to relax and deepen their relationship.

But as soon as he entered Fujiwa's house, he felt his heart suddenly become depressed, and his stomach became uncomfortable. He couldn't even get to Elio's side. He could only hide beside Fujiwa and Nunu, and get some comfort and support from her.

"Doesn't that prove how delicate my mind is?"

"Is that something to be proud of?"

"Well."

After staring at Xianren carefully for a while, Fuji and Nunu, who had wanted to help Xianren, suddenly felt that there was no need for them to intervene.

Judging from the current situation, Elio does not hate or dislike Xianren. She just needs to maintain the relationship bit by bit like now. It is probably just a matter of time before the relationship between the two sides gradually becomes normal.

There's no need to add her to the mix and embellish the relationship between the two.

"take it easy."

"Ah."

Xianren nodded, feeling a little anxious inside, and thought about it seriously. What Fujihe Nunu said made some sense. He glanced at Elio who was sitting in the living room, and then looked at Fujihe Nunu who was beside him again.

"Then let's go out together this weekend."

"..."