I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

However, in response to Amamiya Yo's question, Shinohara Shiori simply looked at her silently, then turned around and walked out of the coffee shop without saying a word.

……

Shinohara Shiori returned home.

The weather in the afternoon was very good, with clear skies and a perfect ratio of autumn breeze and sunshine. It felt cool in the sunshine and the autumn breeze was blowing.

Just like that, amid the swaying of the evergreen leaves of the trees along the roadside, she slowly walked back to her doorstep.

However, when the welcoming maid opened the door and Shinohara Shiori walked in, her footsteps paused for a moment.

She turned around and looked at the street outside.

The road stretched into the distance and eventually disappeared at the end.

Retain...?

Her mind recalled the evening two days ago, when the teacher said goodbye to her and walked away into the distance.

"..."

If retaining him would be useful, he wouldn't have disappeared without saying anything.

Everything that happens after the dream ends is extremely cruel, so cruel that it makes people lose hope.

The possibility between teachers and students only exists in dreams. In reality, people will definitely say that "the relationship between teachers and students is impossible."

During the days when he was missing, Shinohara Shiori also walked out of that dream.

It's all over, and it was her initiative.

although……

When I learned that I was about to leave my job, I felt dazed and absent-minded for a short while.

The sudden resignation reminded her of the sudden departure, and those indelible memories began to be replicated in her mind.

She was distracted for a day.

However, as time goes by, when the dream fades away again, expectations quickly fall to the bottom, and nothing is left.

No expectations, no disappointment.

Having completely accepted reality, Shiori Shinohara no longer has any hope. It's over and that's it.

Leaving the job only made the already insurmountable distance between the two people a little further, and there was no fundamental change.

Therefore, there is nothing to retain.

Shinohara Shiori calmly withdrew her gaze and walked into the house.

Chapter 254 Yu Gongye chose another path, however, some enemies are beyond her power

Not long after Shinohara Shiori left the cafe, Amemiya Yoru also left.

The path she took when she left was the opposite of that of Shinohara Shishiori - both in a literal and abstract sense.

The emotions between people are not the same. Perhaps, Shinohara Shiori was indeed completely disappointed. Even when faced with something like resignation, after the initial confusion, she quickly accepted the fact and no longer cared.

But Yu Gongye is different.

The teacher who signed a contract with her, the teacher who always understood and stood by her side, the teacher who was still preparing a movie for her and supporting her before he left, and who encouraged her to accept the other side of her heart through the words of "Uwano" -

I absolutely cannot accept it. I cannot accept him leaving like this.

Mahiru faced the existence of her inner Maya, and so did Amamiya Yoru.

The secret body should not be secret, because she is not separated from the real world, she belongs to herself.

She had once paradoxically divided herself into two people, but that would no longer be the case.

She is Amamiya Ye, who faces the other side of Amamiya Ye hidden in her heart.

The present body is her, and the hidden body is also her.

However, the hidden body is the real her deep in her heart, the one she expects to be, the one who outlines the world with fantasy.

Now, after the movie is over, after communicating with the mother, everything can be shown openly.

She came into the world secretly and was no longer separated from it. She was the complete Amamiya Yoru.

And all this was brought by that teacher.

If she is alone, hiding her secret body, perhaps the only ending is that with the passage of time, in the depths of her soul that no one notices, in the darkness that no one understands, she will decay and eventually disappear?

If this is the case, it is a bit too sad.

What she expected and hoped to become, ended up dying alone.

Fortunately, fortunately it’s just if.

Because of his existence, she rejected such an ending and became the person she expected to be but was unable to be before.

Now, she has changed, but... the person who helped her change is leaving?

Amamiya Ye was not going to accept it, absolutely not.

She wanted the teacher to stay with her and watch her change.

Willful?

But that's what Amamiya Ye thought.

“Please look into your own heart.”

——Through the movie, such expectations were brought to her.

She will act with such expectations in the future.

So, the so-called facing one's inner self does not mean hiding one's thoughts in one's heart, but speaking them out and putting them into action.

This is the true way to face your inner self.

"Xiaoye, are you back?"

"Well, this body has returned."

When he returned home, Amemiya Ye said this to his mother who opened the door.

She decided that she would go find the teacher.

……

……

……

May 11, weekend.

Today is the second day after I resigned.

No, this method of timing is wrong. If you use events that sound rather negative to count time, people will become negative and their lives will become gloomy.

Therefore, the correct timing method should be:

Today is the first day with Hisata—yesterday was day 1.

Well, with this kind of timing, life suddenly seems worth looking forward to and full of hope.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa opened his eyes and greeted this November morning with full energy.

Today, I made an appointment with Hisata to go out, but what I was going to do...

Of course, the couple who have just gotten together go out on a date.

……

When it came time to meet up, it wasn't the same as usual.

In the past, two people who met would say something like "Good morning" to each other.

But today, there are other ways to greet people instead.

When he saw Hisata getting off the train at the station, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who had been waiting for her, went up to greet her and naturally held her hand.

"..."

"Why, are you shy?"

With their fingers intertwined, Tetsufumi Hirakawa chuckled and turned to the blushing female teacher.

"It must be something I'm not used to..."

As if to confirm, the interlocked hands gave a soft, tight grip. At the same time, the answer was low, and the other free hand habitually scratched the ends of the hair.

"I'm used to it."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi held Hisata's hand a little tighter.

"Do you know why?"

"Why?" Hisada Moki asked curiously and cooperatively.

"Because I like you, and I've been looking forward to this for a long time. I've thought about it many times in my heart, so when I can really hold your hand easily, in addition to satisfaction, I also have a feeling that this is how it should be."

"Eh...really?"

"of course."

"All right?"

Hisada Masu's tone of confirmation rose, and the corners of her mouth also smiled.

"Oh, right? Didn't we agree to meet at the square? Why are you here?"

I asked this as we walked out of the train station.

Hirakawa Tetsufumi answered without thinking: "Of course it's to see you earlier, my Moshu."

"..."

……

It was unknown how long Hirakawa Tetsufumi had been admiring the little girl's posture of the female teacher next to him. Finally, when they arrived at the meeting place, she puffed up her cheeks a little and raised them up cutely.

“It’s always like this,” she said.

"Is it always the same?" asked Tetsufumi Hirakawa.

"From the beginning, before we got together, Mr. Pingchuan liked to say some nonsense to tease me."

"How can this be nonsense? Also, what should you call me?"

"...Zhewen - if you're not talking nonsense, then what is that? Also, you don't deny that you like to tease me?"

"Well, of course I'm not talking nonsense. This is the most authentic expression of love through language. And - I don't deny this kind of thing..."

"Because you can't deny it?"

"Well, because I can't deny that teasing a cute female teacher is an indispensable hobby in life."

"..."

Hisada Masu gave his hand a hard squeeze.

However, I just felt that the soft touch became more obvious and it didn't hurt.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa smiled, took Masaki Hisada's hand, and walked into the mall.

……

It seems that shopping is an indispensable form of entertainment for women.

At least that's the case for Hisada Masu.

Last night, when the two of them were talking on the phone about where to go for a date today, the first thing she thought of was the shopping mall.

Is this the instinct engraved in DNA? If so, "Then I decided to engrave my love for you into it" - this bitter love sentence was what Hirakawa Tetsufumi said to Hisata last night.

"What are you thinking about?"

Inside the accessories store, Hisada Masaki, who was walking ahead holding hands with him, turned around and waved at him with her free hand.

Hirakawa Tetsufumi came back to his senses, blinked his eyes, and replied:

"Thinking about last night."