I have pure love with them

"Although it may be a little presumptuous, I still want to ask, Goto-san, do you mind if I visit your home?"

"……Eh?"

Goto Ichiri, who was looking at Izumi, felt that he might be hallucinating. He stared blankly at Izumi in front of him, not knowing how to react for a moment.

After hesitating for a long time, she raised her right hand and gently pinched her cheek.

pain.

Not an illusion?

"It's okay if you can't. I'm just asking. Don't take it to heart."

Looking at the dazed Goto Ichiri, Izumi felt that the two of them had only known each other for a week, and it was indeed a bit inappropriate to suddenly ask for a visit to the other's home at this time.

"Then, then—"

"can!"

"Ok?"

When Goto Ichiri saw that Izumi seemed to change her mind, she nodded quickly.

"can!"

"Can I come to your house as a guest?"

I asked Goto Ichiri for confirmation again, and the line "Can I go home with you?" that often appears in a certain variety show came to my mind.

"Uh-huh!"

Goto Ichiri nodded, indicating that there was no problem.

"Tomorrow morning, then?"

"Ok!"

I had never been to the spring in a girl's home before, and I didn't expect that Goto Ichiri would agree so easily when I asked for the first time.

"Is that okay? It's not too much of a stretch?"

Izumi had never been to a girl's home before, and seeing Goto Ichiri agree so quickly, he felt a little uncomfortable. After thinking for a while, he confirmed with Goto Ichiri again.

"N-No! It's okay! I'll be ready!"

It was the first time in his life that someone wanted to visit his home, and Goto Ichiri was filled with joy.

'Finally! Finally! I can have friends visiting my home!'

Goto Ichiri, who didn't care about gender issues at all, was cheering in his heart just because he had a friend visiting his home.

'Prepare?'

After hearing Goto Ichiri's answer, Izumi looked at the girl in front of him with some confusion, not knowing what the other party's preparation meant.

"..."

Suddenly thinking of the scene where Goto Ichiri welcomed Ijichi Koka and Yamada Ryo, he fell silent for a moment.

"You won't hang a banner saying 'Welcome Chihayazumi' at your door, will you?"

For a moment, Quan felt that he was a little careless.

"Well, it's okay if you don't make any preparations. It's just an ordinary visit, so it's best not to make any preparations, Goto-san?"

"Eh? No, don't you need to prepare anything?"

"Yes."

"I understand……"

For some reason, he seemed to feel that Goto Ichiri's expression became lost. Izumi suspected that the other party had already prepared the banner. Fortunately, he thought of this and stopped him first.

"It's enough that Goto-san agreed to let me visit and be his guest. Compared to Goto-san, everything else is just embellishment."

“Eh? Is, is that so?”

Looking at Goto Ichiri, who became shy and attracted attention when praised, Izumi sighed helplessly in his heart.

"This child is too innocent."

Akatsuki Ci was sitting in the classroom. Most of the people had already left. She vaguely heard Izumi's voice, turned around and looked towards the back of the classroom, where she saw him talking to Goto Ichiri.

Last time, although she took the initiative to communicate with Goto Ichiri, the effect was not obvious. Every time the get out of class was over, she could not find Goto Ichiri, and she didn't know where he went. But when it was time for class, he would appear in the classroom on time. It always felt a little mysterious.

"It's been such a long time since the start of school, and it seems that Chihaya-san is the only one who can communicate normally with Goto-san, right?"

To be honest, she doubted that Chihayazumi approached Goto-san because she was good-looking, but the information she got from Kurashima-san was that Chihayazumi never accepted the confession of any girl in middle school and was not the kind of person who toyed with the feelings of innocent girls.

"What is it about Goto-san that attracts him?"

Recalling the time when she was choked by the other party, Ayatsuji felt a little dissatisfied, as if she was inferior to Goto in some way.

33. The morning before departure

"You got up very early today. Don't you want to take a good rest on a day when you don't have to go to school?"

Michiyo Goto watched her daughter hurried down the stairs. After arriving in the living room, she sat on the sofa, looking towards the door from time to time. Her uneasy attitude, as if someone might come back to visit, made her have a thought that she shouldn't have.

"Could it be that she has a friend?"

When this thought came to her mind, Goto Michiyo quickly put out this impossible idea in her mind.

She once hoped that her daughter would make friends, but after her daughter went from elementary school to junior high school and did not have a single friend to talk to during these nine years, Goto Michiyo almost gave up the idea in this regard.

"It's better not to show any suspicion in this regard. Hmm... could it be that a package from her will be delivered to the house today?"

Michiyo Goto, who was preparing breakfast for her husband and daughter, kept looking at her daughter. She didn't think her daughter would have any friends to invite home, but she still had a little hope.

"No need...I've had enough rest."

When she raised her head and looked at her family, Goto Ichiri did not shrink back in front of outsiders. Her eyes fell on her mother who was busy preparing breakfast. She opened her mouth, wanting to help her mother prepare breakfast.

"But... Chihaya-san will be visiting today. If I get clumsy and hurt my hands while helping mom, will that disappoint Chihaya-san? Can I really prepare breakfast?"

Goto Ichiri, who has no friends and rarely receives affirmation from outsiders, has great insecurity about herself. She pursed her lips, slowly brought her legs together, hugged her knees with her hands, and fell into thought. While Goto Michiyo quickly prepared breakfast.

"It's ready. Breakfast is ready. Yili, can you help call Dad and Erli who are still sleeping in?"

"Eh?"

Faced with his mother's request, Goto Ichiri couldn't help but turn his head to glance at the door with a hesitant look on his face.

"If that doesn't work, I can also--"

"can!"

Not wanting to show anything unusual in front of his family, Goto Ichiri agreed immediately and then hurriedly ran down the stairs to the second floor. Goto Michiyo, who stayed in the living room, stroked her cheek with one hand, looking confused and puzzled.

Before Goto Michiyo could find a reason to convince herself, Goto Ichiri ran down from upstairs panting.

“Hoo, hoo…that…is already, yelling—”

"Got it, got it. Take a break for a while, Ichiri."

Looking at Goto Ichiri who hurried upstairs and came back so quickly, Goto Michiyo felt that things seemed to be getting more and more wrong, so she asked her daughter to calm down and sit in the living room to have a good rest.

When her husband Goto Naoki and young daughter Goto Jiri woke up and came to the living room, while the family was having breakfast, Goto Naoki also noticed her daughter's reaction, which seemed a little abnormal, and looked at Goto Ichiri.

"Is something wrong?"

Goto Ichiri was absent-minded, thinking about when her classmate Chihaya would come over, and did not notice her father's question at all.

"Ok?"

Goto Naoki looked at his wife, while Goto Michiyo also had no idea what was going on. When her husband looked at her, she responded with a puzzled expression. The younger Goto Jiri was quietly having breakfast, not paying any attention to her parents and sister...

7:24

Following a routine that couldn't be more normal, Quan slowly opened his eyes.

“You woke up right after you boarded the plane to Finland with Aine?”

He rubbed his forehead with his hand, then turned his head to look at the clock on the bedside table, and noticed that it was 7 o'clock. He was silent for a moment, and his brain, which was not yet fully awake, began to calculate his schedule for the day.

"It's early morning at Aine's place now... No, is it 10 o'clock at night? There are still 9 hours left, which is 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It's almost time for her to get up. It's also a holiday there, so let's contact her in the evening. Also... are we going to visit Goto's house?"

Suddenly remembering that it would take about two hours to drive from his place to Goto's house, he sat up in bed.

"As for time, it seems like I'm a bit anxious. I have to get up."

Although he really wanted to recall the scenes in his dream, time waits for no one, and he didn't want to make Goto Ichiri wait anxiously, so he simply opened Line and sent a message to the other party, informing him that he might not arrive until around 9 o'clock, and then got up to prepare to go out.

"Quan, you woke up very early today."

Mrs. Chihaya looked at Izumi who came to the living room and was a little surprised. She remembered that Izumi usually slept until 8 o'clock on weekends, but he woke up so early today...

I glanced at the clock in the living room and found that it was almost 8 o'clock, so I didn't wake up too early.

"Well, I'm going to go out and visit a friend's house later."

"Are you going to the Tokinoya household? Do you need me to prepare any souvenirs for you?"

"No, it's a new classmate I met in high school. I'll prepare the gift myself on the way."

"Do you have enough money?"

The Chihaya family can be considered middle class, and they don't need to be so frugal when it comes to daily living expenses. They care more about etiquette and decency when interacting with others.

"enough."

"What about breakfast?"

"Just buy some at the convenience store and finish it on the way. Don't worry."

Seeing Izumi's hurried movements, Mrs. Chihaya really wanted to ask about the new classmate, but thinking that Izumi had been very mature since childhood and his current friends were all well-behaved children, she did not ask any more questions.

After tidying up his appearance and clothes, he chose a light blue round-neck sweater, a gray jacket, and light-colored jeans.

"That's it."

He gently raised the corners of his mouth, with a gentle and humble smile on his face. He returned to the living room, said goodbye to Mrs. Chihaya, and then set off for the address given to him by Goto Ichiri, carrying a slightly heavy backpack.

In the backpack were study materials that he had specially prepared for Goto Ichiri. Thinking of the pained and tortured expression that the other party would show when facing these questions today, the gentle smile on Quan's lips became a lot more natural.