Faced with the blackened heroine, they actually stopped time

It has lost its original meaning.

So let them make their own choices. I won’t make any effort this time.

As for whether I will be disappointed... maybe a little, but that is not important. You cannot force others to do what you want just because of your own wishes. If they fail to do so, you will think that it is a kind of disappointment to yourself.

This doesn't make sense.

After all, no one is obligated to be responsible for their own hopes.

So, that's it.

Thinking this, he got into bed and prepared to sleep.

But at this moment the phone lit up.

It's a phone call.

A call from Asagiri Ran.

This made Oreki Xian stunned for a moment.

It seemed like this was the first time that Asagiri Ran took the initiative to call...not even a text message.

He hesitated for a moment, but still answered the call.

"Hey."

"Oreki Gen...are you mad at me?"

She had a muffled voice.

It's like the feeling of a blocked nose when you have a cold.

It's a voice that seems to melt one's heart the moment one hears it.

The boy lying on the bed holding a mobile phone sat up and opened the curtains on the wall. The cold moonlight shone on his quilt, like a stream of water pouring in.

"No, why would you think so?"

"Then...why didn't you speak in the end?"

She asked.

Oreki Gen smiled.

"Didn't I tell you, good night?"

"That's not what I'm talking about... I'm talking about... why did you stop talking after that topic when we were taking a walk?"

She seemed a little aggrieved.

Oreki Xian looked at the time and it was not yet time for NetEase Cloud Music. What happened?

It seems that her mood is more sensitive than she thought...

Could it be that I was behaving really strangely at that time?

He thought for a moment.

"Nothing, don't think too much. I just thought it would be nice to take a quiet walk at that time..."

"Liar."

she whispered.

"I really didn't lie to you."

"So...what you said is true?"

"Which sentence?"

"That's it... you want to give me a gift, but you also want to know what I give you... that's probably what I mean..."

The voice became softer as he spoke further.

It was as if she was communicating with a secret agent, as if she was afraid that even an ant around her could hear what she was saying.

But Oreki Xian was still quite clear.

He couldn't help but laugh.

Why make it so cute?

She can't say such things face to face, so she can only call to confirm now?

"This sentence~"

Oreki Gen deliberately prolonged the ending of the note, but did not give a direct answer.

I could clearly hear the girl's breathing becoming rapid on the other end of the phone.

"Tell me...is this true?"

"Look, you're in a hurry."

"I'm not in a hurry!!"

"Hahaha... Okay, I won't tease you anymore. What I said is true, but I also said that I respect your choice. So there's no need to feel burdened, and you don't have to force yourself just because I want to see a certain result. There's no need. So relax, I'm not angry, and I'm not disappointed. There's no change in our relationship."

"So...what is our relationship?"

"What do you think?"

"I...I should have known not to call you!"

"But you called me anyway, didn't you? Well, I'm surprised you called me."

"What's so surprising about this..."

"At least I know you care about my feelings."

"..."

There was a sudden silence, but I could hear the slightly rapid breathing on the other end of the line.

Oreki Gen didn't say anything either. He just looked at the bright and cold moonlight outside the window, his eyes calm and distant.

"It's okay, I...I'm resting. By the way..."

"Ok?"

"Good night..."

Good night quietly.

It's like a cat gently crawling across your bedside and then falling asleep in your arms.

The phone hangs up.

Oreki Gen put down his phone and smiled.

“Is this something you get for nothing?”

And in another room.

The girl held her cell phone tightly and hid herself in the quilt as if she was fleeing, her cheeks flushed.

She opened her watery eyes wide in the darkness.

Then fall into distress.

"...What kind of gift can I give, damn it."

Chapter 92: Winter Moisture

The final day is getting closer and closer, only one week left.

Then comes the winter vacation and the New Year.

What is slightly different from the country in the previous life is that the new school term will start after the spring break, which means that it will not be until the spring of next year, after March, that Oreki Gen will be promoted to the third year of high school.

As for Sayuri Yukino.

Although she left school completely after spring break in her last semester, she probably had no reason to show up often before that.

As the holiday approaches, the damp and cold weather is becoming more and more obvious.

If it rains occasionally, the class will seem impossible to attend.

Of course, I'm not talking about Oreki Gen. After all, his physique is already quite outstanding in terms of resisting the cold.

But a young man not far away was rubbing his hands together.

Oreki Gen looked at the other person with some amusement.

"Are you that cold? Today I saw someone wearing a short skirt without long socks. Why do you look like you are freezing to death?"

Matsuyama Shouta said unhappily.

"How can that be compared with girls? They can wear long sleeves with wide-leg pants in 35-degree weather, or wear short skirts and belly-baring tops in minus 10 degrees. This kind of thing can't be compared with girls. Hiss... It's really cold. My hands are shaking when I write two words."

Oreki Gen looked over with a smile, but he didn't expect that the other person's book was filled with notes.

"So many notes? This is more than you took in two years of studying, right?"

Matsuyama Shota immediately wanted to kick Orekigen.

"It's not that exaggerated... I'm just a bit dumb and there were too many things I didn't understand, so I just wrote them down."

"That's a good attitude. Have you really changed your ways?"

Oreki Gen asked with a smile.

Shota Matsuyama rubbed his hands.

For some reason, when Oreki Xian looked at the other person's movements, he suddenly thought of a fly, a fly that he could rub off its head as he rubbed it.

"What do you mean by turning over a new leaf... I haven't committed any crime, have I? But now I realize that studying hard is really helpful. Let me tell you, last night I went home to review my books and didn't even play games. My mom pushed the door open and thought I was suffering from depression. She insisted that I go to the hospital to check my mental state."

“Hahahahaha…Zundu is fake?”

Matsuyama Shouta said unhappily: "What do you think? After all, I used to play games in my room every day when I got home... But I believe that after a while my parents will be able to see my changes!"

Oreki Gen thought that his eagerness was quite funny, and he didn't want to discourage him.

So I just gave a little reminder.

"Don't be too deliberate or try too hard. Change requires persistence, which is the most difficult thing. Don't just do it for a day or two and then say you're too tired and can't keep going, and then just play games all day long."

Shota Matsuyama sat up straight immediately.

"Absolutely not, don't worry. In fact... Miki came to see me yesterday."

"Ah? Looking for you again?"

In fact, Oreki Xian was a little surprised.

Because logically speaking, if a person of the opposite sex knows about your ugly deeds, you should hide from them no matter what.

This girl...isn't she trying anything desperate?

Or... did that kind of melodramatic plot really happen? The hero saves the beauty and then falls in love with the hero, right?

Matsuyama Shouta said in a low voice.

"She started by thanking me and saying I had helped her so much and she didn't know how to repay me, and then she said she would treat me to a meal this weekend."

"You agreed?"

"No, I refused."

Oreki Gen widened his eyes and looked at Matsuyama Shouta with an extremely unbelievable look.

And Shota Matsuyama was also stunned when he saw the other person's expression.

The scene was a little awkward and funny for a moment.

Until Shota Matsuyama said this angrily.

"You don't believe me that much?"

Oreki Xian gave a thumbs up.

"If it's true, then I'd like to call you a real man."

Matsuyama Shouta said unhappily.

"I'm just not that stupid, okay? To be honest, knowing this, can I still be good friends with her? Or even develop a relationship? Maybe this makes me seem very cliché, but I still feel that I can't get over it in my heart, so... I made it clear to her."