I have pure love with them

The flight from London to Tokyo takes about 13 hours, plus the 9-hour time difference, if you leave in the afternoon, you will arrive back in Tokyo almost in the afternoon.

"My meeting with Toki Kenjiro is tomorrow... no, tomorrow afternoon. It won't affect my meeting with Aine the day after tomorrow. Should I take a leave of absence from school and wait for Aine at the airport the day after tomorrow?"

Quan, who was walking on the way to school, began to exude a bright aura when he thought that he would soon see his sister. The female students and ladies who happened to pass by couldn't help but look at Quan again and again.

He kept this smile until he entered the school, then opened his shoe cabinet and found another letter inside.

"..."

Quan did not deal with the letter from yesterday, nor did he add the other party as a friend according to the contact information given on it. Unexpectedly, just one night later, the other party could not wait to write him another letter.

'Is it the same person?'

After all, the incident happened only one day ago, and he was not given any time to think about it. He had already prepared the second letter. Doesn't he seem a little anxious?

With his brows slightly furrowed, he glanced around, but didn't see anyone acting suspiciously, like in the corner of the shoe cabinet, or anywhere else, but he didn't see the figure of the 'suspect'.

He still did not open the letter and read its contents directly in front of the shoe cabinet. Just like yesterday, he stuffed it into his schoolbag, preparing to wait until he was in a place where he would not attract anyone's attention before reading the contents of the letter.

He calmed his frown, readjusted his mood, and a gentle and polite, but not very sincere, business-like smile appeared on his face.

After putting on his indoor shoes and closing the shoe cabinet again, he walked towards the classroom...

I stopped and stood at the door of the classroom, and then I noticed Goto Ichiri sitting in her seat. She arrived at school early as usual, but today her mood was even more gloomy than usual. Compared to other transparent areas in the classroom, there was always a depressing and gloomy shadow in Goto Ichiri's seat.

"It does give people a feeling that she is difficult to approach... While cutting off contact with others, is she also protecting herself? "

In fact, with Goto Ichiri's personality, even if she really started to interact with her classmates, her cute appearance and weak personality would easily cause her to get into trouble. Even if she herself had no ill intentions, the groundless jealousy among girls might hurt her.

Either high EQ or high IQ, Goto Ichiri...

Entering the classroom, Izumi came to Goto Ichiri's side, stretched out his hand and placed it on her slender shoulder. Goto Ichiri, who had her head down with her forehead on the table, trembled suddenly and raised her head with a slightly panicked look.

When she noticed that the person who patted her shoulder was Quan, her expression calmed down a little, but her eyes were still evasive and she didn't dare to look Quan in the eye.

"Good morning, Chihaya-san."

"Not very good. Last night I thought Goto-san would send me a message, so I kept waiting. In the end, I didn't hear from Goto-san even when I fell asleep. After I fell asleep, I woke up several times. I barely managed to get out of bed when it was daybreak. Look, I have dark circles under my eyes."

He leaned down gently, moved his face close to Goto Ichiri, and pointed at the faint dark circles under his eyes. Quan could see that Goto Ichiri looked into his eyes, and then as if he had been electrocuted, he looked away, with a guilty look on his face.

This made Izumi, who had deceived Goto Ichiri, feel a little embarrassed.

Although I did wake up several times during the night, it was basically because I was thinking about my sister coming back and thinking about how to welcome her that I woke up from my dream.

Now seeing that Goto Ichiri believed it so immediately, he felt a little sorry for deceiving such an innocent heart.

'How about buying her a bag of melon seeds?'

“S-Sorry—”

Without waiting for Goto Ichiri to apologize, Izumi raised her finger and pointed at her soft cherry lips, which made some girls in the classroom who were paying attention to Izumi suddenly excited. They stretched out their hands and patted their friends next to them frantically without saying a word, but just poked Goto Ichiri's seat implicitly.

"It's just a joke. Although I do care about Goto-san and whether he has something on his mind, your insomnia is not entirely due to Goto-san."

The soft and elastic touch from the fingertips made me want to press it gently, but considering that such an action was too intimate, I gave up the emotions surging in my heart and silently withdrew my fingers.

“…Huh? Is, is that so? I…was playing guitar when I got home yesterday, and then I accidentally forgot…Ahaha, hahaha.”

Even though she was aware of Izumi's concern for her, Goto Ichiri found it difficult to express the feelings hidden in her heart.

"I feel envious of Chihaya's sister and...if Chihaya, who loves her sister so much, knew about this, she would definitely hate me."

Looking at Goto Ichiri, who could not lie at all and was touching her head with an embarrassed smile on her face, Izumi did not expose her. She just looked at her with gentle eyes and a smile.

"If you have anything on your mind, you can tell me. Goto-san is my important friend. We have an agreement, right?"

"……Yes."

When Goto Ichiri faced Izumi's gaze, her uneasy heart calmed down. She clearly remembered the agreement he made with her.

Friends for life!

After comforting Goto Ichiri and preventing her from feeling depressed, Izumi returned to his seat.

"As expected...are you dating?"

When Akatsuki Ci witnessed Izumi's intimate gesture to Goto Ichiri, where he put his fingertips on her lips, she couldn't help but mutter in her heart, but at the same time she bit her lips unconsciously.

"Those two people are really dating, right?"

The whispers of the people around him made Xuanji Ci a little annoyed, and he lowered his head in depression.

Just now, from the moment she entered the classroom, Chihayazumi's gaze never lingered on her, and she didn't pay any attention to her at all.

In this school, in this class, the only person that Ayatsuji Kotoko could take seriously was Chihaya Izumi, but she couldn't take it to heart that the other person ignored her like that.

"Nothing... I have nothing..."

Her hands on her legs clenched involuntarily, and Xuanji Ci forced a smile to agree with the people around her.

"Chihaya-san is excellent in every aspect. It would be a shame if she dated Goto-san. What do you think, Ayatsuji-san?"

"Hmm? Isn't that good?"

69. What can you do to defeat me?

At noon, the three boys had lunch together. After returning to the classroom, Izumi went to the library and stayed with Goto Ichiri until the lunch break was over. Then the two returned to the classroom together.

The rumors about their relationship were not discussed in front of them, but from the looks they gave each other, it was basically assumed that Izumi and Goto Ichiri were a couple.

Goto Ichiri, who did not understand human nature, just noticed that the looks people gave her were a little strange, which created an invisible barrier between her and other people in the class. Quan understood the meaning of everyone's looks, but explaining would not have any effect, so it was better to remain silent and protect Goto Ichiri.

"A lover?"

Looking at the teacher who was giving a lecture, Quan was thinking about those people's misunderstandings about him and Goto Ichiri.

On the first day of high school, Izumi prayed in the shrine hoping to have 100 girlfriends. He did not insist on not having a girlfriend during high school. It was more that he had a strong interest in finding a suitable relationship partner. As he was in adolescence, he had some worldly desires that teenagers would have.

'But if I date Goto-san, it's not hard to imagine that if she sees me chatting with other girls, she will doubt whether I should break up with her, and if I don't reply to her messages for half an hour, she will block her.'

His eyes slowly turned towards Goto Ichiri's seat. The girl was sitting at the table, her eyes fixed on the teacher who was giving a lecture in front of her. However, her lightless eyes showed that her consciousness had obviously broken through the atmosphere and was traveling in the universe.

"School year test, is she okay?"

No, there will definitely be a lot of problems.

Looking at Goto Ichisato who was now in a trance, all Izumi could do was pray that he could pass the test.

After school.

Thanks to the advice Izumi gave last time, Goto Ichiri's playback and attention have increased significantly, with an increase of about 5k followers. So during the lunch break, Izumi gave her new advice, asking her to focus on updating videos and retaining new followers during this period.

Doing this meant that the two of them would no longer have time to spend together after school, but now they could meet at noon, and they could also contact each other via Line at night, so Goto Ichiri accepted Izumi's suggestion.

"Aren't you going back with Goto-san?"

There was nothing important, so Izumi was leisurely tidying up her desk. A familiar short skirt appeared on the edge of the desk on her right hand side, and the familiar white legs under the skirt made Izumi turn her head slightly and look at the formal smiling face of Akatsuki Ci.

"I'm curious."

"what?"

"Ayatsuji-san, why are you always paying attention to what's going on between me and Goto-san? If you need my autograph, it's okay to just say it directly, okay?"

Most of the other people in the classroom had already left, and the student on duty had temporarily left the classroom to take out the trash. No one was paying attention to the conversation between Ayatsuji and Izumi.

Tearing off a page from his notebook, Izumi took out a pen from his pencil case, wrote his name fluently, and handed it to Akatsuki.

"Although I didn't explain it at the beginning of the school year, I have passed the first level of hard pen calligraphy and the seventh level of calligraphy, so I can definitely teach others. If you need it, I can also teach you, Ayatsuji."

Seeing Izumi looking at her with a smile, Ayatsuji Ci's smile faded. She slapped away Izumi's hand holding the signature, then grabbed Izumi's collar with her left hand, put her face in front of Izumi, and stared at him with a gloomy face.

"Are you looking down on me?"

Facing the face so close at hand, and the breath in and out on his face, Quan couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. He glanced at Xuanji Ci's seat, and then pointed the index fingers of both hands at his own seat and Xuanji Ci's seat, and slowly pulled them apart between the two of them -

"There's a lot of distance between me and Ayatsuji-san. There's no need for that. I don't need to look at Ayatsuji-san. If you think I underestimate you, it's probably just a misunderstanding on Ayatsuji-san's part."

The gentle tone deeply stimulated Xuanji Ci's self-esteem, and her expression became even gloomier. But when Quan thought that the other party would not be able to help but do some rude actions, Xuanji Ci suddenly smiled and loosened his collar, stood up straight, and looked at Quan with a smile.

"It seems that Chihaya-kun is very confident in his own excellence."

"……generally."

Izumi, who thought she would have a special experience, was surprised and a little disappointed when she saw Akatsuki suddenly calm down.

"Then how about a competition? There will be a test this week to see who is better between me and Chihaya-kun. The loser needs to promise the winner a condition."

With her slender white index finger raised in front of her body, Ayatsuji Ci looked at Izumi with a smile.

Although he really wanted to imitate the hideous and exaggerated smile of the villains in the comics, and then respond with a low voice saying "interesting", he felt that it would be like setting a flag for himself. Looking at the confident smile of Ayatsuji Ci, he restrained the smile on his face and his expression gradually became serious.

"Don't underestimate my bond with knowledge. Even if it's for my family, the rules of victory have been determined. I agree."

It's fun to bluff Ayatsuji, but beneath Izumi's unruly image, he has the heart of a slave. If he can win, he won't do such a thing as losing.

Looking at Izumi with a more serious look, Akatsuji Kotori felt satisfied in his heart.

"Are you finally looking at me now?"

Although he didn't understand the strange words that Izumi said before, when he saw that Izumi agreed, Xuanji Ci's purpose was satisfied and he stretched out his slender little finger.

"Children?"

Izumi was a little surprised when seeing the finger extended by Xuanji Ci, but he still extended his hand and hooked it lightly.

'Speaking of which, this week's test is...wait...wait?'

Seeing that Akatsuki was satisfied and was about to turn around and leave, Izumi was silent for a moment.

"The experiment shouldn't be the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Hmm? It's the day after tomorrow. Any problem?"

Xuanji Ci frowned, puzzled by the question asked by Quan.

"... Never mind. Even ten minutes is enough to deal with you."

"You sound quite proud. I hope you can still be so proud after the exam."

I don't know why Izumi's expression suddenly became serious, but he suddenly started to mock himself, but Ayatsuji Ci didn't think that he, who worked hard every day, would lose to this genius who was distracted in class and indulged in depravity.

In response, Quan just shrugged slightly.