Tokyo Soft Rice King

Hei Yuming never thought that friends were people who could accompany one for a lifetime. Those who had this function should be called family. Even his wife might not be able to do this.

Moreover, most of the friends I met in school will no longer be in touch after graduation.

No matter how close you were in the past, the relationship will naturally fade as long as you are in different places and separated by a certain distance.

That’s why it is said that life is like a train with one station after another. The people you meet at each station are different, and few people can get on the train halfway and ride with you to the last stop.

However, Anri Hitomi was very dissatisfied with Kuroba Akira's answer. She didn't want to wishfully regard the other party as her best friend while the other party didn't think so.

The relationship between two people should be a two-way arrow, with mutual consent, so that it can last for a long time.

"Kuroba-kun, your statement makes me a little angry."

"what?"

Anri Hitomi suddenly reached out and snatched the chopsticks from Hei Yuming's hand. Hei Yuming looked at her blankly with his mouth half open.

What's going on? Why is he suddenly not giving me food...

Hei Yuming felt that she had done a good job as a listener this time and served as the class monitor's emotional trash can, so she should have felt relieved. Why was she angry and upset instead?

Is it because I refuted her words about being a lifelong friend?

But it would be strange to decide that the other person is a lifelong friend after just two days of meeting each other. This is even stranger than love at first sight or exchanging cock heads. After all, the latter is at least an instinctive impulse, which is understandable.

"Since you think we're not good friends, Kuroba-kun, it means we don't know each other well enough."

"right……"

"So from now on I'm going to feed you. This is how I care for my friends."

"Oh ah?"

Do you want to play feeding play? That's a shameful play that only stupid couples do, right?

Even though no one is watching now, it’s still embarrassing… What a shame.

The most important thing is to have enough food.

So Hei Yuming shamelessly opened his mouth and waited for the monitor to feed him.

"Ah~"

Originally, Anri Hitomi wanted to use the sentence pattern of "Come~ah~" to make Kuroba Akira feel embarrassed, but he got there first.

"I really admire Kuroba-kun's ability to stay true to himself... If you want to eat, you have to answer my next question, okay?"

Here's the trick...

But if you want to ask, just ask. Apart from things related to time travel and my ability to see through things, I don’t have any secrets at all.

"Yes! Feel free to ask! I'll answer everything I know!"

"I believe that friends should care about each other, so now that I've finished talking about my childhood sweethearts, it's time for you, Kuroba-kun, to tell us about your own. You probably had some close friends when you were little, right?"

It turns out that he wanted to hear about his past.

But there really wasn't much to say about Hei Yuming.

Before traveling through time, he was a corporate slave, and his memories of the time after traveling through time no longer exist.

"But I don't have any childhood playmates or sweethearts."

When Anri Hitomi heard him say this, her mood seemed to suddenly improve a lot, and she put a fried shrimp into Hei Yuming's mouth.

However, this answer would certainly not satisfy the class monitor, so Kuroba Akira thought about it and told him what he remembered during the confrontation with Sumitomo Ryouta.

"Well...if I have to say it...I had a crush on a girl when I was in middle school."

"..."

Asato Hitomi tripled the strength of her grip on the chopsticks, and the chopsticks were making a mournful cry.

"But I didn't confess my feelings to her, and we lost contact afterwards. I don't even remember her name..."

"Then where is she now?"

"do not know."

"Does Kuroba-kun still like the other person now?"

"I don't feel anything now, I can only say that I once loved him."

"That's it..."

"Yeah, this is the only thing worth mentioning in my past life... I really can't remember anything about other people."

For Hei Yuming, his student life in his previous life happened more than ten years ago. It was such a distant memory that not many fragments of it remained.

And you can't think of it by just thinking about it. Usually, you can only awaken your past memories by meeting old friends you haven't seen for a long time and talking to them for a few words.

Anri Hitomi nodded, put the last piece of chicken into Hei Yuming's mouth, threw the broken chopsticks in the middle into the lunch box, and then began to clean up.

Hei Yuming breathed a sigh of relief, he really enjoyed the meal.

After packing up the lunch box, Asato Hitomi naturally sat next to Kuroba Akira and asked with concern.

"Kuroba-kun, does your hand still hurt?"

"I say, squad leader, you should care about the one who was beaten, not me who beat him."

"Forces act reciprocally. Your hand was also struck by the same force, Kuroba-kun. Perhaps you sprained your finger?"

"My hands aren't that fragile. But I hit Sumitomo Ryouta so hard that his nose was bleeding."

"Sumitomo-kun has many good friends around him and doesn't need my concern. If I show my concern, it will not only seem fake, but will also make the girls who like him hate me."

"Wow... the relationships between girls are really complicated."

"Besides, I'm the only one in school who cares about you, Kuroba-kun, right?"

"And Mr. Kobayakawa."

"Hate it, Kuroba-kun, it's only natural for a teacher to care about you, right? But my concern for you is the concern for a friend."

"right……"

"Show me your hands, I'll rub them for you."

“There’s no need to go to this extent…”

"Kuroba-kun, are you going to reject your friend's kindness?"

"..."

No, you can't resist her, she can turn evil at any time.

Hei Yuming obediently stretched out his right hand, which made Anri Hitomi smile with satisfaction. Then she wrapped Hei Yuming's right hand with her own hands, raised it in front of herself, and spoke while exhaling.

"Hoo~Hoo~The pain is all gone~"

"...Squad Leader, you just wanted to say this line, didn't you?"

"Haha, this is my first time doing this for someone. I've wanted to try it for a long time. Hei Yu-kun accepted my first time again."

"So don't use such ambiguous terms..."

"Also, I've never licked anyone's wound before. Do you want me to lick yours next? My tongue is very flexible. I can even tie two knots on a cherry stem."

"There's no blood or wounds. Where are you going to lick?"

"Um...palm?"

"..."

It turned out that she was making fun of his strange behavior of looking at her palm for a long time yesterday.

At this time, Kuroba Ming had also discovered that from the beginning, Anri Hitomi showed an unusual obsession with the word "friend".

It was as if she had to make him admit that he considered Asato Hitomi his best friend, so she was trying very hard to please herself.

It seems that the experience of losing a friend in childhood made the class monitor particularly paranoid about friends.

For a friend she recognizes, Anri Hitomi can do anything for him or her.

Give without hesitation.

Chapter 52: The Temperature of the Palm

Kuroba Akira felt honored to have been given such an important friend status.

But giving without expecting anything in return will only make people feel scared.

Only close friends can respond to every request. Although this kind of indestructible friendship is rare, it does exist. It is usually the brotherhood between the same sex, or the comradeship between those who have carried guns together.

However, this is not the case between opposite sexes. Although we cannot say that there are no such cases, we can only say that the number is negligible.

The so-called "male best friend" is just an ambiguous relationship that blurs the boundaries between genders. It often only takes a small opportunity for this relationship to be broken like window paper, leaving a mess.

These are just statements used to deceive oneself and cover up one's own faults.

But the class monitor doesn't seem to want Hei Yuming to be her best male friend, but she really thinks that friends should be to this extent, which is already a very distorted perception.

So "friends" are such an excessive thing?

Even my 'girlfriend' can't do this!

I always feel that if I ask the monitor to help me deal with the accumulated things in the name of a friend, she might agree...

Okay, it’s a bit of a delusion, it shouldn’t be to this extent, but licking your hands is already too much.

Hei Yuming saw that the class monitor had already stuck out her pink little tongue and was lowering her head towards his palm. If he didn't stop her, she would probably lick it.

I wonder how Sumitomo Ryouta would feel if he saw this scene... Kuroba Akira thought with a sense of evil humor.

But as expected, I still couldn't really let her lick my hand. On the one hand, I didn't want to remember the touch of the class monitor's tongue, and on the other hand, I was afraid that I would become addicted to this ambiguous behavior of "asking a friend for help."

If the monitor really agreed to everything, I would probably not be able to help but think of her as Doraemon.

So Hei Yuming stretched out his left index finger and tapped the monitor's eyebrows, asking her to stop her "lowering her head" behavior.

"That's enough, squad leader. There's no need to prove it this way."

"Uh-huh?"

Anri Hitomi's forehead was pressed, and the movement of tilting her head back made her make a strange sound. The ambiguous atmosphere disappeared instantly and it became like she was making a face.

Hei Yuming spoke seriously, which was rare.

"As long as you are still willing to treat me as a friend, I will never betray you, even for a lifetime."

Only when it comes to this can she feel at ease. Gravity must be responded to with gravity.

And saying it is one thing, doing it is another.

A man's mouth, a liar.

However, Hei Yuming didn't want to deceive the class monitor. After all, he would never get tired of eating free food.

Having a friend who can support you as a backer is like having a last resort plan.

If the 'Murasamiya's Voice Actor Training Plan' fails and I'm kicked out by Granny Kobayashi after graduation, maybe I can still stay at the class monitor's house in the name of a friend and be a freeloader.

"Great, I was thinking if Kuroba-kun still refused, I'd just take a bite."

"So you want to bite me..."

Although he knew that this bite was not the same as that bite, Hei Yuming couldn't help but imagine a separate bite.

I don't know why, but I can naturally think of the unhealthy image of the class monitor. Is it because she herself is a know-it-all, introverted character?

Hei Yuming decided that when he had money, he would treat the class monitor to a big popsicle and see how she hesitated.

Hiding this evil thought, Hei Yuming pretended to be a gentleman on the surface.

"Then I can't let you succeed. Just rubbing it is enough. You are not injured in the first place."

"Then I'll continue to massage you."

After saying that, the squad leader smiled and continued to hold Hei Yuming's right hand, carefully rubbing the raised knuckles with the tip of his thumb.

It feels like taking a foot bath...but the part being massaged is not the feet, but the hands.