Faced with the blackened heroine, they actually stopped time

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Thin lips, even breathing.

Every inch of the place where the halo is emitted is so dreamy.

Of course, in this seemingly beautiful appreciation, the boy also has his own little worries. It seems that he still has to go and see Sakuraba Mitsuki before returning home.

It’s so busy, it’s just a necessity for men to become masters of time management.

As Oreki Gen was thinking, he forgot that his eyes were now on Asagiri Sang's face.

Until Asagiri's neck turned slightly red, and even spread to her cheeks like mist...she finally couldn't help but close the book and turned around to look at Oreki Gen who was still in a daze.

"Have you seen enough?"

Oreki Gen was stunned for a moment before he realized how easily his angle could be misunderstood.

But he wouldn't be nervous about apologizing.

Instead, he smiled and said, "Today's sunshine is so beautiful, I can't get enough of it."

Asagiri Ran couldn't help but roll her eyes, put the book back into her bag, and stood up.

"Then you take a good look, I'm going back."

The moment she stood up, the hem of her skirt rippled like a lotus leaf, revealing the girl's thigh skin that was not covered by her over-the-knee socks.

Crystal clear.

It must have a very smooth taste... no, it must have a very smooth feel.

Oreki Gen stretched and stood up.

"Let's go, I just happened to be going home."

Asagiri Ran frowned.

"Who wants to go home with you?"

The girl said this as she walked to the door, but did not close it at all.

By the time the boy packed up his things and left the classroom, Asagiri Ran was squatting on the ground tying his shoelaces.

Seeing this scene, Oreki Xian couldn't help but want to laugh. Why was he being so cute... But should he do a vaulting move? Jump directly over the other person's head?

Forget it, World War III could easily break out.

When Oreki Gen walked to the girl, Asagiri Some stood up just right and glanced at the boy.

Just as she was about to open her mouth to say something, Oreki Gen spoke.

"I know you're not waiting for me, but don't waste time. The sun is about to set."

After saying that, the boy walked ahead.

Looking at the other person's tall and thin back, Chao Wu Ran frowned and clenched her fists a little, but finally let go helplessly.

Forget it, let him show off a little.

We went downstairs together and walked in the campus which seemed quiet and deserted at this moment.

Sure enough, after the final exams, everyone seemed eager to go home, and not many people were still concentrating on club activities. They had already started enjoying their vacation from the moment the exams were over.

The girl next to him walked slowly, and Oreki Xian slowed down his pace to match hers.

Walking side by side always seems to have a special meaning, which makes Asagiri Ran next to him a little absent-minded.

She doesn't like to be with boys, or anyone to be exact.

But one thing that must be admitted is that this young man next to me always seems to have magical powers. I want to hate him very much, but in the end I can't really hate him.

"Do you like Kawabata Yasunari very much?"

Oreki Gen looked at the pile of fallen leaves along the road leading to the school gate.

Chao Wu Ran raised his head.

"It's okay. As long as it's a good book, I'll read it."

"I see... I thought you particularly liked that kind of beautiful and sad style. It suits you very well."

Oreki Gen said with a smile.

Asagiri wrinkled her nose.

"I'm not such a pessimistic person. In fact, I don't agree with many opinions. But just like the existence of philosophy, everyone has his or her own opinions and reasons, which are contradictory compared to others, but everyone has to find their own way through them."

"It's a very rational judgment. I also think that many of these truths are just self-consolation and self-deception."

"For example?"

Asagiri Ran looked at the boy as if provoking him, as if she wanted to see if he was pretending to be artistic.

Oreki Gen shrugged.

"For example, the sentence in the distant travel you read: We go on alone throughout our lives, looking for love and being looked for by love."

Chao Wu Ran frowned: "You don't agree with this statement?"

Oreki Gen shook his head: "It's not that I completely disagree, but I mean, we can't believe this statement."

The somewhat strange statement made Asagiri Ran look at the other person's face curiously. They had already walked to the school gate, but Oreki Gen stopped. Under Asagiri Ran's gaze, he turned around and looked at the campus.

"You see, when you were a kid, you had your kindergarten friends, when you were in junior high school, you had your junior high school classmates, when you were in high school, you had your senior high school friends, and when you went to college, when you went to work... you would always have many people in your life who would go with you."

Looking back at the campus, it is quiet and peaceful, with a faint warmth exuding under the soft sunset.

"But with every step we take we are moving away from the old people. People are always disappearing into the past. This sentence is correct."

Oreki nodded: "Yes, there is nothing wrong with this sentence... But we cannot deny that everyone really exists in our lives and in our past. As long as we remember, they will not disappear and will always exist. We will continue to persevere and move forward with the strength and warmth they give us. How can you say that we have always walked alone?"

Oreki Gen's face was glowing orange as he said this.

The ends of his hair were ruffled by the evening wind.

His gaze seemed very far away, extending to the sky, to the horizon. Even Asagiri didn't seem to understand how far into the future he saw at this moment.

This light is a bit dazzling.

She lowered her head slightly.

"I don't need any friends. I can keep going on my own."

Oreki Gen smiled, turned around again, and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter, at least Asagiri-san should remember me, and I also remember Asagiri-san."

The look he gave her made Asagiri's ears instantly feel hot.

The bright light in his eyes was too much for the girl to bear.

She quickly turned her head away.

"The next bus is coming."

Her pace quickened and her long hair bounced.

It was still the familiar scene. She followed the final insistence in her heart and still sat one seat after the other with the young man.

But this time she was sitting a little further back, while Oreki Gen was sitting in the front.

So she could clearly see the boy leaning slightly against the window.

The scenes outside the car window flash by one after another, and I can never capture them, just like a memory like a movie.

She will not look back at the scenery she has missed. She always thinks that if she has missed it, it is missed. It is not missed at all, but it never belonged to her in the first place.

But looking at the boy's clean shirt and his messy hair.

She frowned.

Yes, these things are enough to remember him.

This summer...is indeed different.

When the bus stopped at a familiar place, the two got off together.

On the clean streets, you can occasionally see stray cats climbing over the fences, or lying on them lazily enjoying the last rays of the setting sun.

This seems to be the last part of this semester, the last part of the journey with this young man.

Asagiri Ran didn't know what to say. Maybe she should just be like she used to be and say nothing.

Time will take effect, evaporating the shaken mood and allowing the unclear emotions to be adjusted.

But at this moment, as if they were about to part, Oreki Gen stopped and turned to look at Asagiri Ran who was caught off guard.

"Asagiri-san."

"Ok?"

The way he hesitated to speak was just like the scene in the anime where the male protagonist wanted to confess his feelings but hesitated. She knew that this was impossible, but she seemed to feel a little nervous involuntarily.

It’s simply baffling!

"What are you going to do during the summer vacation?"

I knew it was right!

Asagiri Ran loosened her fists, but her heart felt empty, as if a gust of wind had blown past her.

"Don't you think it's a bit late to ask now?"

Oreki Gen said with a smile: "Why is it late? I didn't invite you to go back home with me."

“You wish!” Asagiri Ran turned her eyes away, then sighed softly and turned back to look at Oreki Gen with an impatient look, “Read books at home, go out for a walk occasionally, that’s all.”

"No games or anything?"

"A waste of life."

"Brother Xiang will definitely be very sad when he hears this." Oreki Gen said with emotion.

"What is it, Xiang?"

"It's okay, he's a good friend of mine, I can introduce him to you when I have time."

Asagiri Ran frowned instantly: “No.”

Oreki Gen shrugged indifferently. He looked at the top of the wall where there was a fat orange cat. The cat licked his hands and scratched its head occasionally, looking funny.

Oreki Xian couldn't help but smile.

Asagiri Ran immediately said in dissatisfaction: "What are you laughing at?"

Oreki Gen shook his head: "Nothing, it's just... won't you be bored at home alone? It would be a pity to let the whole summer vacation go by like this, right? For example, loneliness... is the most difficult thing to endure."

Chao Wu Ran sneered disdainfully: "Only those with strong hearts are not afraid of so-called loneliness and solitude. The so-called companionship between friends is nothing more than meaningless communication and entertainment for each other."

The prejudice is really deep.

Oreki nodded: "It's up to you... But if you feel bored or lonely, you can call me. It's just that the signal is not very good in the countryside."

Asagiri sneered: "Who wants to call you? Stop being so conceited."

Oreki Gen said casually: "It's okay, I know you like to be tough."

"You're the one who talks so hard!"

"I'm the one who's best at talking tough...Okay, I'm ready to go. See you after the summer vacation."

He smiled easily, as if he had never been hurt.

However, the word "summer vacation" appeared in Asagiri Ran's mind.

summer vacation.

More than a month.

Summer days always seem so long...right?

But...