Zongman: Kulaixiku, resurrection!

If you stroll through Hanegaoka Gakuen on a sunny day, you might be lucky enough to see something like this:

Under the blazing sun, the lush green corridors of the teaching building are surrounded by flower beds, filled with a vibrant array of flowers. The roots of the vegetation, covered in fertile black soil, often gleam with dazzling light. These are the various stones and gravel left over from the renovation of the old campus more than a decade ago. If you look carefully, you can always find some beautiful mica, quartz, or other treasures. A young girl with short gray hair, like a fawn, weaves among the green leaves and red flowers, silently searching for these treasures like a miner mole. If anyone passes by, the mole will tremble and hide among the flowers, hoping for an opportunity to be unnoticed before making a desperate escape, perhaps with a few roses hanging from her head.

But that’s when the weather is nice.

In bad weather like today, with strong winds and drizzle that can even blow open some flimsy windows, it is suitable to stay in the classroom and read quietly or sleep. In short, any non-work outdoor activities are incomprehensible.

Therefore, it was particularly difficult for Kashiwa Sanhui to understand why a petite gray-haired girl, holding a small umbrella, was hiding by the window sill of his infirmary, in a flower bed, squatting and looking for something, making a very loud noise, and was frightened by his sudden opening of the window, and fell to the wet ground.

Although it was difficult to understand, Kashiwa Sanhui still politely invited the girl, whose eyes were full of panic and looked like a fawn, to the infirmary.

"Take this towel and wipe your hair - uh, may I ask your name?" Baihe Sanhui found a dry towel from the cabinet and handed it to the girl. The girl sitting on the chair took it timidly, then hung the towel on her head and wiped it gently.

"My name is Gao Songdeng." Gao Songdeng's eyes sparkled, his face was gentle, and even his speech was word by word with a little stutter, making him as lovable as a little animal.

"Mr. Takamatsu Deng, I'm sorry to scare you, but I really want to know what you are doing hiding in the flower bed?" Kashiwa Sanhui asked curiously.

He knew that Takamatsu Deng was also one of the protagonists of mygo, but he could only get endless coins from his friends in the previous life, and he knew nothing about Takamatsu Deng's personality and preferences.

"Looking for stones." Takamatsu Deng pulled a handful of small stones of various shapes from her pocket. Some were round, some pointed, and some had a variety of colors. Overall, they were just ordinary limestone. Takamatsu Deng raised her palm as if to show off, showing her trophy to Kashiwa Sanhui.

"We can't go out to look for stones on a rainy day. What if we catch a cold?" Baihe Sanhui was a little helpless, but he still picked up a few stones of decent quality and examined them carefully.

"My friend told me that on rainy days, the stones become shiny and easy to distinguish!"

Uh...that's a pretty convincing reason.

"Hey? Takamatsu Deng, your knee—" Kashiwa Miki suddenly noticed that Takamatsu Deng's round knee was bleeding. It must have been scraped when he fell just now. "Let me disinfect it for you and put a Band-Aid on it."

"No need!" Gao Songdeng pulled out a handful of Band-Aids from somewhere. They were printed with various cute penguins. He pulled one out, blew carefully on the wound, and then put it on.

"Is this... a Magellanic penguin?" Kashiwa Sanhui asked with interest, playing with the pebbles collected by Takamatsu Deng in his hand.

"Yes!" Gao Songdeng's eyes suddenly lit up, and her speech suddenly became clear. "Not only that, this is an emperor penguin, this is an Antarctic penguin, this is..." Gao Songdeng began to show her various Band-Aids, and it seemed that none of the penguin patterns on them were repeated.

"Wait wait wait wait, Takamatsu Deng-san, I don't know much about marine life. I definitely won't be able to remember everything if you explain everything in one breath."

Gao Songdeng's dejection was visibly evident. She had thought she had met her soulmate.

"But I do have some knowledge of stones—"

Gao Songdeng's eyes lit up again. He had indeed met a soulmate. He and I are the same kind of people!

"Let me show you my proud collection." Baihe Sanhui returned to the desk and rummaged around for a while, then took out a small and exquisite cigarette box. After opening it, there were only a few leftover cigarettes inside, and the rest of the compartments were filled with beautiful stones of various colors. Baihe Sanhui selected for a while, took out the three fullest and most eye-catching ones, and showed them in front of Gao Songdeng.

A green cat's eye the size of a fingernail, a square piece of pyrite, and a flat obsidian with distinct shades of color.

"Nice to meet you, and as an apology to you, please choose one from the three." Baihe Sanhui said very generously. In fact, these things are not difficult to make. You can find an excuse to accompany your mentor to conduct research. The unique local natural environment can always nurture these beautiful little things.

Gao Songdeng's eyes sparkled as he touched and pinched this and that, appearing to be completely absorbed in the collection. Finally, he reluctantly placed all of them back into Kashiwa Sanhui's cigarette box. "These are too precious. I can't have them."

"It's nothing precious, Takamatsu Deng-san. Your feelings are much more precious than these stones."

"No, I really can't have it." Although Gao Songdeng's desire was written all over his face, he still refused quite firmly.

"Well...how about this?" Kashiwa Sanhui reached out to Takamatsu Deng, and the sudden movement scared Takamatsu Deng. "What are you doing?"

"Calm down, Takamatsu Tou." Kashiwa Sanhui took a whole handful of Band-Aids from Takamatsu Tou's hand, picked them carefully, and chose a Band-Aid with an Antarctic penguin pattern and put it on the back of his hand, and put the rest back in Takamatsu Tou's hand.

"This picture of Antarctic penguin belongs to me, and your beautiful little stones also belong to me, in exchange--" Gao Songdeng's little stones went into the cigarette box, and a crystal sparkling with a bright yellow light fell into Gao Songdeng's hand.

"This citrine has a slight flaw and contains some impurities, but if you observe it under the light, you will find that it looks like a tear is sealed inside."

"How about giving it a name? As a testimony of our friendship." Kashiwa Sanhui looked at Takamatsu Deng with a smile on her face as he admired her new gift with surprise.

"I can't think of one yet. If I do, I'll tell you. Also, this is for you."

One ticket to the aquarium in Ikebukuro.

"If you're interested in penguins, come find me and I'll be your guide. What's your name?"

Baihe Sanhui pointed to his name badge and said, "Baihe Sanhui, you can call me Ke Sanhui if you don't think it's awkward."

"Kashiwa Sanhui, Kashiwa Sanhui, Kashiwa Sanhui..." Gao Songdeng repeated it several times, then nodded solemnly: "Remember it!"

"On Saturday, let's go to the aquarium together and I'll be your guide!"

I decided my own itinerary, Takamatsu Deng.

Then the two of them added each other on LINE. After thinking for a moment, Takamatsu Deng changed the note for Kashiwa Sanhui to his real name "Ke Sanhui".

"Ke Sanhui, Ke Sanhui, Ke Sanhui...Okay, I will try my best to remember it."

"Goodbye, Dr. Ke, you must come on Saturday!"

"Don't worry, I'll come."

"I've been waiting for you!"

Takamatsu Deng finally left, and Kashiwa Sanhui breathed a sigh of relief. Why did he feel a little heavy when communicating with Takamatsu Deng?

He's just a cute kid.