The Great Condor narrowed his eyes and said uncertainly. She put down her hand that was touching the switch and walked towards Saito Asuka.
"It's so late, why are you here?" The Great Condor came closer, and it was already confirmed that it was the idiot Saito Asuka.
"I... came to study. I can't sleep anyway." Saito Asuka looked a little flustered.
"Then why don't you study in the dormitory?"
If Saito Asuka is to take the initiative to learn on his own, it would be better to let the atheist Dai Shenying believe that there are ghosts in the world.
"It will disturb Minami in the dormitory. If the light is on, she won't be able to sleep."
"Oh." The Great Condor thought for a while, and it seemed that this was really the case.
She walked to Asuka Saito, took out the stool next to her, and sat down.
"What about you, you're up so late, why are you here so sneaky?" Saito Asuka asked.
"I came to buy a drink, I can't sleep."
After saying that, the Great Condor glanced at the homework book in front of Saito Asuka. The last question was still where the Great Condor taught him in the afternoon. "You haven't moved at all."
"I was just thinking!" Asuka Saito suddenly pounced on his homework book, preventing the great condor from reading any more.
"Fine."
The Great Condor didn't expose her. She always felt that Saito Asuka had something going on. Could it be a date? A person appeared in the lounge of Nogizaka Building late at night. Could it be that the person was an insider? Saito Asuka is only 16 years old. The more the Great Condor thought about it, the more she thought about it, the less she could look directly at Saito Asuka in front of her.
"Well..."
Just as the great condor was thinking frantically, Saito Asuka shuddered. Only then did she realize that Saito Asuka was only wearing a thin sweater. If it were placed in autumn, it might be able to keep out the cold, but it is winter now. , it's still the coldest time, and it's still night, so you can't catch a cold.
"Why do you wear so little?"
As he spoke, the Great Condor retracted his right arm from his sleeve, placed the stool close to Saito Asuka, and put the other half of his down jacket on Saito Asuka. Both of them were petite and wore the same wide and fat jacket. Down jackets are fine.
Saito Asuka was not polite and slipped his arms into his sleeves. The two of them clung to each other.
"Come on, I'll teach you which question you don't know. After you finish writing, go back to sleep." The Great Condor said.
"..."
In exchange for Saito Asuka's silence, the Great Condor could only see the back of Saito Asuka's head lying on the table, but could not see his face, because to keep her down jacket from falling off, she could only lean on Saito Asuka's back. back.
"Eagle." Saito Asuka was silent for a long time and called out the name of the great eagle.
"Um?"
"Am I terrible?"
"Why do you say that?" The Great Condor noticed that something seemed amiss.
"Because... you see, after the seventh single, eighth single, ninth single, and tenth single, I have not been selected for the selection, but I have worked hard. Is it because I am very bad. I want to graduate. ..." As he spoke, Saito Asuka sniffed a few times and seemed to be crying.
She regretted why she had posted such a blog in the first place. Even though people around her reminded her, whether it was Hashimoto Nana or the Great Condor, Saito Asuka didn't listen. Instead, she insisted on going her own way, thus being criticized by her fans. They are inflamed.
The result of posting that irrational and childish blog was that she was kicked under. This was a devastating blow to her who had just been on an upward trend.
Three consecutive under positions gave her no hope of improvement. Although she was in the front row in under, her ambition was not to be in under, even under center.
The Great Condor looked at Saito Asuka's little head for a while, then she put the hot matcha she was holding in her hand to cover her hands on the table and moved in front of Saito Asuka.
"If you don't mind, just take a sip to warm yourself up. The money is enough to buy a bottle." The Great Condor said.
Saito Asuka picked it up and took a sip from the tea-stained mouth. Looking back at the great condor, her eyes were red and tears were streaming down her face. Looking at her, she couldn't help but want to hold her in her arms to protect her and prevent her from receiving any harm.
"Why..." Saito Asuka said pitifully, biting her lips.
"Do you think this is the worst now?"
The Great Condor asked. The two were face to face no more than twenty centimeters apart, and they could both smell the other's breath that was slightly scented with matcha.
"Awful..."
The Great Condor left the back of the chair, sat up straight, took a pen from Saito Asuka, put it on her homework book, and pointed at a question.
"Look at this parabola. It opens upward and has its vertex at the origin." The Great Condor circled the vertex of the parabola at the origin with a black gel pen.
"Sometimes you are frustrated, sometimes you are proud. A bad result is just the lowest point. It cannot be any worse than this result, right? It is the society that poses the question, but we ourselves are the ones who solve the question. The result of each question may only be One, but there are many solutions. Perhaps, there will be no solution in the end. As long as you firmly believe in your own ideas and change your thinking, maybe another village will become brighter."
The Great Condor patiently reasoned with Saito Asuka. She believed that no matter how stupid Saito Asuka was, Chicken Soup for the Soul could still understand him.
"Blow..." Saito Asuka sniffed.
"Asuka, have you ever heard of the term three-minute heat?"
Saito Asuka nodded with red eyes.
"This word applies to any situation. Take you as an idol for example. You have been an idol since you were thirteen and have persisted until now. It is great. But you see, you have only had three orders, and you can no longer bear your temper. , what about Higuchi-san? Where’s Wada-san?”
Higuchi Hina and Wada Maya are also Nogizaka first-year students, and like Saito Asuka, they are also in the junior group. But even though they were not selected in the first seven singles, they persisted, and the eight singles finally came to the selection. Although it sank again later, at least I persisted until the day I came out.
"Look at me, when I was in Qidan, I was with Miona, and I jumped to the top instantly. Qidan was even more dazzling than Maiyang and Nanamin."
As he spoke, the great condor drew a circle at the highest point on the left side of the parabola.
"But it's not the same. Eight orders, I just came down from CENTER and reached the edge of a row. Of course, that position is also very dazzling."
The Great Condor draws another circle on the parabola that continues downward on the left.
"But what happened later." After the Great Condor said, he circled the apex at the origin, the lowest point of the parabola, "I played directly from a row of gods of fortune to UNDER. I was stupid at the time, you know? Haha."
The Great Condor made himself laugh as he spoke. Saito Asuka also laughed through his tears and wiped away his tears.
"A lot of things must have happened at that time. Now Yamato Rina has also been fired, which can be considered as an end to the grudge."
"Why did you quarrel with Rina at that time?" Asuka Saito knew that they were quarreling at that time, but he didn't know why. He just vaguely knew that it was related to the second-year student Terada Ranyo.
"Hey, she was the one who laughed at Lan Shi and didn't mention her." The Great Condor shook his head. "From a row of lucky gods to under, I guess the ground drilling machine is not as fast as me, right? At that time, my whole body was numb, thinking, it's over, I'm done with it."
What the Great Condor said was half true and half false, and it was more to follow Saito Asuka's sympathetic psychology. Only when she was as miserable as her, or worse than her, would she have the heart to think about it.
"But what happened later, you also know, I picked up the movie, and with a bang, I flew back to the God of Fortune." The big condor drew the last circle on the parabola on the right.
"Life is always full of ups and downs. Remember what I said, the only constant in the world is change."
The great condor stared at Saito Asuka and spoke word by word.
"....Change...."
"That's right. I am just a bystander, an outsider, and you are the chess player in your life. How to move, when to advance, when to stop, and when to retreat are all decided by you. But now I suggest you stay still for now, maybe the opponent in life will give you a gap, right?" The Great Condor smiled softly.
Saito Asuka's eyes were changing, containing a lot of emotions and thoughts. The Great Condor had told her, but it was up to her to decide how to go.
"Okay, go back and think about it slowly. I don't think you're here to do your homework. Come up together and I'll take you back."
After saying that, the Great Condor was about to get up. The two of them were wearing the same down jacket, and Saito Asuka was also pulled up.
"That, Eagle..."
Just as the great condor was about to leave, Saito Asuka stopped in place.
"What's wrong?"
"I think...I didn't bring the door key..."
