"Ah~ I'm so exhausted." Mai Shiraishi returned to her room and immediately lay down on the soft bed as if she was deflated.
Amamiya Shiori put down his bag, sat on the bedside, and looked around with interest.
The furnishings in Mai Shiraishi's room seemed to have remained unchanged over the years.
There is a small desk by the window, and there is an old TV on the drawer cabinet next to it, as well as stuffed animals such as Snoopy, Minnie, and Totoro. The low bookshelves are filled with picture albums, magazines and childhood toys. In the corner are tennis rackets, bats and trumpets.
Mai Shiraishi went to high school in Saitama Prefecture. The room in her hometown was kept as it was since she didn’t live in it regularly.
"Isn't Sister Yui at home?" Amamiya Shiori asked.
Mai Shiraishi has a sister who is three years older than her. She had met her a few times back then, but she never saw her this time when she came to Shiraishi's house.
"My sister got married the year before last." Mai Shiraishi turned around and lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling.
"Eh? Married? Why so early?" In my impression, Shiraishi Yui and Shiraishi Mai look very similar, like twins.
"Morning?"
"It's not too early to get married at the age of 20, isn't it?"
"When I was little, I thought about getting married right after graduating from high school."
Amamiya Sugawara imagined Shiraishi Mai wearing a wedding dress, holding a bouquet of white roses and lisianthus, walking on the lush green grass, with petals flying in the air, and two flower girls behind her. Wearing skirt tail.
"What about now?" She couldn't help but ask as the imaginary scene turned into reality.
"Now? I don't know. I'm very happy staying in Nogizaka. It feels like my dream has come true."
Mai Shiraishi liked to imitate comedians when she was a child. She often boasted in front of her parents and elders that she would become "a person on TV" in the future. Now that I have truly become a TV idol, of course I cherish the hard-won opportunity even more.
Amamiya Shiori was also tired, so Shiraishi Mai moved a place so that she could lie on the bed.
The two of them chatted wordlessly.
While waiting for dinner, Mai Shiraishi hugged Amamiya Shiori's waist and fell asleep deeply.
Amamiya Sugawara looked at Shiraishi Mai's delicate sleeping face, gently raised her waist, and moved Shiraishi Mai's arm out from under her waist. On the one hand, it was to prevent her arm from being pressed and painful, and on the other hand, she was lying down. More comfortable.
Amamiya Shiori pulled the quilt away with one hand and covered Shiraishi, gently trying not to wake her up.
Mai Shiraishi's chest rose and fell with the gentle breathing, and she frowned slightly in her sleep, which touched Amamiya's heart.
Amamiya Shiori likes Shiraishi Mai.
When they first met, she was attracted to this kind-hearted girl who was implicated for helping a classmate who was being bullied. That short year was also the happiest year she had lived in the more than ten years of wandering with her mother.
Because she matures early and moves frequently, she doesn't like to interact too much with kids her age.
In the eyes of others, she has good academic performance but a withdrawn personality. Every time she came to a new school, after the mystery of being a transfer student disappeared, few students took the initiative to strike up a conversation with her.
She was also happy and at ease.
Until one day at noon, while eating a half-price lunch in the atrium, I met Shiraishi Mai, who was being scolded by a senior in the tennis club.
"Why don't you say hello when you see your seniors!" "Yeah, I've noticed you've been unhappy for a long time!" "You came to learn tennis just to catch Kai Zi! Don't you just have a pretty face? With such poor skills, the tennis club's reputation They were corrupted by people like you." Several girls scolded the obedient Mai Shiraishi angrily.
Mai Shiraishi just said a few words to help a girl who was being bullied, but unexpectedly she was redirected and became the target of public criticism. She didn't know why she, who was always friendly to others, became the target of bullying.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry~" Mai Shiraishi kept apologizing with a tearful voice.
When the surrounding students saw this situation, they were afraid to avoid it, so they walked away from a distance. Amamiya Shiori sat on a nearby bench without moving.
"Hey! Noisy, noisy, why are you making such a fuss? If you want to make a fuss, go out and make a fuss. Are you disturbing someone else's meal?" Amamiya Shiori put down her lunch box. She just lost a lot of money on the lottery tickets she asked her mother to buy yesterday. She was very angry and in a very mood. accurate.
The girl who bullied others was crooked, but the girl being bullied was very beautiful. Amamiya Sugawara thought for less than a second and decided to stand in line.
"Who are you?" The tall and lanky girl in the lead turned to look at the little man who suddenly spoke out, "Didn't you see the internal activities of the tennis club?"
"You're in the first grade, right? When you see your seniors interjecting without saying hello, do you lack education?" The short, fat girl next to him echoed fiercely.
"Fuck you, senior x, you are a loser who has had two more years of work. What's there to be proud of? Did you win the national championship in tennis or beat an alien? What are you pretending to be?" Amamiya Sugawara replied mercilessly. scold.
She hates the advanced culture of Japan and Korea. Different from the domestic "you are strong, you are justified", Japan and South Korea attach great importance to the culture of their predecessors. One year older, one year earlier to go to school, one year earlier to enter the industry, you are the senior. Juniors should greet their seniors with honorifics and accept criticism humbly. An extreme example is the incident that happened in Korean League of Legends where trainees could only eat the leftovers of official members. It often happens that seniors cannot fight back when they beat or scold their juniors.
Amamiya Shiori can still accept honorifics, but if someone in the school uses her status as a senior to suppress her, she will be very upset. Firstly, you are not my boss and pay me my salary, and secondly, you have no convincing results. Why should I listen to lectures from a little brat like you who is only one or two years older?
Hearing Amamiya Sōri's retort, the three members of the tennis club were shocked. It has always been the seniors who teach the juniors a lesson, and I did the same thing back then, yet some people dared not to obey.
Shiraishi Mai also opened her eyes wide and stared blankly. In the past two days, these people were always calling her out of the classroom for various reasons to lecture her. She asked her classmates for help, but no one was willing to help her. Even the girls she had helped gave her helpless looks. Boys who have been very good at playing since elementary school are afraid to avoid him. This thin girl, judging by the color of her tie, must be in first grade. Why don't you just walk away and wade into the muddy water?
"What are you looking at? I was enjoying my meal, but I lost my appetite because I saw you three ugly girls." Amamiya Shiori stood up. Although he was not tall, he showed the aura of a delinquent girl.
"You...you, you, you..." The tall, thin woman at the head was angry and stretched out her hand.
"What are you doing? You want to fight!" Amamiya Shiori said aggressively, "Come on, come on, take action." The position in the atrium was monitored, and she was not afraid of fighting with them. She just had to wait for them to make the first move before she could occupy it. reason.
The trio in the tennis club are not habitual bullies. They seem to have been jealous of the pretty girl behind them for a long time, so they found a reason to isolate and teach her a lesson.
Amamiya Shiori thought about it in her heart.
As expected, these people were also paper tigers, and were frightened by Amamiya Sugawara's posture of stroking his sleeves. Because I didn't know this junior student, I thought she was a delinquent girl who transferred from somewhere.
"You wait!" The three people who resisted the urge to take action said harshly, glared at Amamiya Sori and Shiraishi Mai, and walked away angrily.
"Hmph~" Amamiya Shiori snorted disdainfully, you fools are just waiting for you, it's a waste of time. Turn around and pack away the leftover lunch.
"Oh...it's all cold." Amamiya Suga sat on the bench, took a bite of the fish, and sighed.
"Why don't you leave?" asked Amamiya Sugawara, the beautiful girl who was bullied before, still standing there without moving, quietly wiping her tears.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Shiraishi Mai was frightened by the confrontation between the two groups just now, and was also agitated when Amamiya Shiori spoke to her.
"What's the use of being sorry? My lunch has been cold. How can I make up for it?" Amamiya Sōri felt that she felt a little better just pretending to be bad and scolding others, and her resentment over yesterday's loss of money disappeared a lot. Now I feel like teasing the girl in front of me.
"Eh? I'm sorry, I still have my wallet in the classroom. I only have 2,000 yen and a coupon for a ramen shop..." Mai Shiraishi felt like she had just escaped from the wolf pack and entered the tiger's mouth again.
Amamiya Shiori came up to her.
There were tears on Shiraishi Mai's face and she shrank her neck, not daring to look directly at Amamiya Shiori's face.
"Then let's go eat ramen!" Amamiya Soi patted her on the shoulder, feeling that her help could not be in vain.
"Ramen? Ah, hi! I understand." Mai Shiraishi responded timidly, nodding her head. "But...I-I have to go back to the classroom first."
She whispered, fearing to offend the bad guy.
"It's okay, I'll wait for you here." Seeing that the girl was cowardly and not interested in teasing, Amamiya Soi softened her tone.
Amamiya Shiori just said it casually, but he didn't expect that the girl actually came back with her wallet. She looked around like a thief.
