I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

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"Um... By the way - Christmas is coming, so I'm just checking on you. How have you been lately?"

"Christmas is over."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa stared at the ceiling, listening to the indeed pleasant voice in the receiver and responded casually.

As for how he's been lately... He's so tired of talking about this kind of topic now.

"..."

Hazuki Reiya was stuck for a moment.

Although she didn't hear any strange sounds, it was not bad, but she didn't get the answer she wanted.

However, I seemed to be able to hear that Tetsufumi Hirakawa sounded a little tired. Could it be an illusion?

Ye Yue Li Ya thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and continued to ask, but this time he asked a little more directly.

"Well, let me ask you, are you still dreaming, or have you woken up?"

"..."

This time, the question was quite clear in its direction, and the absent-minded Tetsufumi Hirakawa suddenly came to his senses.

"…Hedzuki-san, what do you mean?"

"Well...that's it..."

Ye Yue Li Ya hesitated for a moment, and decided to ask more directly.

"Where is Shinohara Shiori? Are you okay now? I heard that you seem to be awake."

"..."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi was obviously stunned.

Dream, wakefulness, at this special moment in time, naturally, Ye Yue Li Ya was not asking about dreams in the ordinary sense.

But why did Ye Yue Li Ya know about this?

This incident clearly just happened, right?

"Hello?" After being in a daze for too long, Ye Yue Liya called out, "Are you still there?"

"...Ye Yue." Hirakawa Tetsufumi's tone was no longer weak, but rather complicated. "Why do you know about this?"

"This one……"

It’s not easy to explain Ye Yue Liya.

"..."

"Are you in touch with Shinohara?"

But obviously, there was no other answer except this one, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa immediately found the reason.

"how to say……"

Ye Yue Li Ya, who was holding the mobile phone, raised her head, her face slightly raised, and her tone was a little guilty.

"That's it."

"..."

There was silence between the two, and neither of them spoke.

Hazuki Reiya did it because he felt guilty, and Hirakawa Tetsufumi did it because his messed-up brains had discovered key information and started working again, and they began to try to figure out the matter.

I can ask about Shinohara Shiori now, and about the dream and the awakening...

He didn't tell Hazuki Reiya, so it was obviously only Shinohara Shiori.

Hazuki Reiya is related to Shinohara Shiori...

But why?

How did the two of them know each other? Why did Shinohara Shiori tell Hazuki Reiya about this?

All kinds of questions began to run through Tetsuwen Hirakawa's mind.

It was not until a long time later that the two quiet people resumed their conversation.

"During the school trip, in Kyoto?" Hirakawa Tetsufumi frowned and made a guess.

"...Ah, that's amazing, you guessed it right away." Ye Yue Liya's tone sounded like a compliment.

"..."

admitted.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa held the phone and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Mixed feelings.

"Why did you contact Shinohara? Why did she tell you this?" After a moment, he continued to ask.

"Uh……"

Ye Yue Li Ya thought about it and decided that there was no point in hiding it now, so she decided to confess.

"That's right, when you guys, Moriya, were on a school trip in Kyoto..."

"We met, and then..."

"because……"

"then……"

"..."

"That's it."

After telling the whole story between Kyoto and Shinohara Shiori, Hazuki Reiya nodded to the air, expressing her conclusion, indicating that she had finished.

"..."

After listening to Reiya Hazuki's statement, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who was lying on the bed, fell into silence.

After a long time, he asked in a complicated tone: "So, this incident happened, and Xiaoyuan would do this again. Do you have any reasons?"

"……perhaps?"

"..."

After a while of silence, Ye Yue Li Ya asked in a low voice, a little uneasily: "Hey... now, how are you? Are you awake?"

"...Yeah, you're awake." Hirakawa Tetsufumi's tone returned to that tired feeling.

"How did you wake up?"

"Shinohara left, Moshu called me, and then woke up."

"...That's it."

"..."

"So...how do you feel now?" asked Ye Yue Li Ya.

"What do you think?" Tetsufumi Hirakawa was tired of holding the phone, so he took it away from his ear, held it in front of him, turned on the speakerphone, and then casually placed it on his chest.

Ye Yue Liya's voice suddenly became louder, coming out of the microphone and echoing in the silent bedroom.

"It should be... not so good, right?"

You can tell it by listening to the sound.

"Ah."

Hirakawa Tetsufumi responded softly.

"...Are you angry?" Ye Yue Li Ya was indeed a little uneasy.

"No." Hirakawa Tetsufumi denied.

"Really?"

"I just feel tired and don't have the energy to be angry."

"..."

When you are really tired, you can't even muster the energy to get angry... Ye Yue Li Ya can understand this feeling because she has experienced it too.

Faced with the cruel reality, she didn't want to think about anything and just wanted to empty her mind... She was quite familiar with this feeling.

"Besides," Hirakawa Tetsufumi added, "what's the point of getting angry if it can't solve the problem?"

"……sorry."

Ye Yue Li Ya felt that it was a bit pitiful to see Hirakawa Tetsufumi looking so tired.

"fine."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa just shook his head gently.

"If I really have to say it, it's because of Shiori... because of Shinohara. The issues between her and I haven't been resolved yet."

"It takes a spark to revive something... you probably just got caught in a whirlwind."

"..."

A very vivid metaphor.

That's right, the reason why Shinohara Shiori could do such a thing again is mostly because her feelings for him have not ended, right?

The girl had expressed this feeling to him last night when she was pressed under him.

The unextinguished emotion met the wind, and then it took advantage of the wind and rekindled.

So in the final analysis, it was because he himself didn't figure it out. If nothing had happened between him and Shinohara Shiori in the beginning, this incident wouldn't have happened now.

There's no need to blame Ye Yue Li Ya for what happened... Besides, Hirakawa Tetsufumi really doesn't have the heart to do that right now.

How to solve the problem, how to explain it to Hisata... Questions like these have exhausted his mind, and he has no energy to worry about other things.

Hazuki Reiya could hear what Hirakawa Tetsufumi felt.

"Um... then let me ask, what happened between you and Shinohara when you were hypnotized?"

"..."

"Kissing, sleeping together, everything happened except the last step." Hirakawa Tetsufumi said in a flat tone.

"..."

Ye Yue Li Ya also began to look up at the ceiling in a daze.

Um...how should I put it...

Never mind, she didn’t know what to say.

"So what do you think now?"

"do not know."

"do not know?"

"If I knew, I wouldn't be so tired."