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Chapter 743 NO.114 Star and Moon Nocturne
Manchester City Tea House noticed something unusual.

It's not an abnormality in the sense of spiritualism, nor is it an abnormality in the weather due to the heavy rain.

It was the abnormality of his classmates.

What does the so-called abnormality mean?

It was probably the 'reception chair' that Bourbon had cleared for the president and Senior Sister Sirius before the other party pulled it over. He placed it next to the trainer's sofa. Then he took out his mobile phone. It looked like he wanted to play with it for a while. But it's a scene of talking to each other in a nonchalant manner.

Although the conversation was intermittent, it seemed that there was something very attractive to her on the screen of her mobile phone from time to time, so that the conversation often ended abruptly.

But the cafe still felt a little strange.

Of course, Tea House didn’t actually know this classmate who had been in the same class for more than a year very well.

Until last month, her impression of admiring Orihime was the same as most people's: a solitary lifestyle that did not like to socialize, training that seemed to have no rest, the courage to refuse invitations outright, and often sighing out of impatience. .

It was difficult to even talk to them, and the result of trying to communicate with them was often intermittent communication, which would then end abruptly when the other party became completely impatient, and they would get up and leave.

——As early as the first year of school, I noticed that my classmates were entangled in spirit bodies and tried to talk to them at the cafe. I can personally summarize the above characteristics.

A few days after the trainer corrected this classmate, although this classmate was no longer so socially exclusive and was even more frank, his style of getting along with others did not actually change much.

Just like now, when Tea House was communicating with her sister Sang, her conversational style with the trainer was still the same, so Tea House didn't feel anything unusual at first, until the relationship lasted for more than ten minutes...

abnormal.

There is absolutely a problem.

It should be...not my misunderstanding...?
The teahouse who was listening to the conversation between his friend Sang and his sister Sang looked at the window and the two people vaguely reflected in the window.

One of them is reading a book with his head down, and the other is staring at his mobile phone, but the one staring at the mobile phone will look sideways from time to time.

Occasionally, when a topic is brought up that makes the trainer look sideways, after that brief and ordinary exchange of eyes - usually Orihime-san looks away and tilts her head slightly.

Side to side.

That small but constant amplitude was naturally strange in Tea House's eyes. It was not in line with the habits she had observed when she met the other party several times before.

Yes, watch.

Although there are also some careless Ma Niang students in Treson, all three of Omo's subordinates have the gift of observation.

Admittedly, the act of observing is not praiseworthy in itself.

Human beings are born with the ability to observe, obtain information through observation, and carry out the next step through observation. What is important is whether you consciously use the results of your observations - whether you can summarize, summarize, and turn them into your own experience.

Whether you can achieve this step is the basic threshold for "observer".

At this step, observation itself has entered the field of research, and only by reaching this step can observation truly become a special skill that can be written into the specialty.

The three horse girls under trainer Linton actually all have such talents.

Ari Tachyon will also be extremely sensitive in experiments, and Miura Bourbon will summarize his thoughts and gains like a machine, so that he can accurately grasp the pace frequency and running time during training.

As for Manchester Tea House, she is usually so dull, but she has an extremely keen spiritual sense, and she can actually see very carefully.

Especially in the field of séance, which she is particularly interested in.

During the days when she became aware of the existence of a guardian spirit around Orihime-san, although she frequently encountered obstacles in direct contact and did not improve her in-depth understanding in remote observation, she continued to accumulate experience unconsciously.

That experience is called: daily admiration for Orihime.

Even though she only saw and felt him in class, on campus, and on the training field, it was enough to make her aware of the other person's abnormality.

And compared to this, the more powerful evidence for her is 'feeling'.

The difference between awkward chat and natural conversation is very obvious. The way she used to talk to her admirer Orihime can be called awkward chat. Under the premise that one party is not good at expressing and the other is unwilling to talk more, the intermittent communication is awkward. , enough to make people dig out three rooms and one living room with their toes.

In stark contrast, it is the present.

"If you follow that amount of training, what should you do next?"

"Live a normal life, Ms. Orihime, live the life a sophomore at Tereson High School should live."

"what is that?"

"Talk to my classmates about training, competitions, interesting things and experiences in life, being dragged to eat, to karaoke, etc., and then being dragged to amusement parks, dessert shops, doll shops, etc. by my roommates."

"It's boring, and why are you always passive?" "It suits your current situation, doesn't it?"

Omo said calmly after turning the page, his eyes still wandering over the lines of ink, but his fingers were able to smoothly lift the coffee cup to his lips.

"Are you really bored, or are you suppressing your joy? You know it yourself," he put down his coffee. "To be honest, I don't know what other reasons you have for suppressing your emotional expression. It can't be the so-called...maintaining an idol persona. ?."

"It's not repressed." Admiring Orihime whispered.

"Well...that's right, that's true."

After thinking deeply, he calmly put down the "Chasing of Desire" in his hand and picked up another "Phase Geometry" on the small shelf next to the sofa.

After opening it, he flipped to where the bookmark was and took out the extendable note and pen. While writing and drawing on it, he suddenly said:

"Just killing a monster doesn't really make everyone happy."

The awkward personality will not be corrected by the disappearance of negative energy. After all, the indifference of admiring Orihime is more like a habit now.

But he was willing to accept the invitation from Naritaji and the others before, and just now he decided to return without asking him to waste any words - it was a great improvement.

Facing yourself and accepting yourself is not an overnight process.

Personality doesn't change easily either.

After hearing this, Admiring Orihime just remained silent.

After being silent for more than ten seconds, he suddenly spoke:
"...Do you follow the formula when writing?"

This time she didn't hide her gaze at the note at all.

"That's true. If it was just for myself to read, I would be more casual. Unfortunately, someone asked me to help her take formula notes."

"notes……"

——Before, it was a reference to the constellations, and even a discussion about the recent situation of the New Universe classmate, and then it was a topic she didn't understand, and now she was actively asking about the trainer's handwriting...

The atmosphere of communication between these two people was so natural that it made the teahouse feel even more abnormal.

After all, no matter how high the art of speaking is, it means nothing as long as the other person doesn't want to talk to you, and today...perhaps the day she saw Orihime talk the most and take the most initiative.

After the other party was corrected, he took the initiative to come to me to express his gratitude and ask for advice on psychic techniques. This was a completely different type.

It's not a misunderstanding... I missed something, right...?
Teaza, who felt that he would often see this kind of situation around the trainer, turned around and looked directly at the two people.

The trainer didn't change much, but Orihime-san seemed...like a cat that was usually cold and repulsive to anyone approaching, suddenly started circling around a person's trouser legs, but it still had that expressionless face.

It looks a bit awkward and makes people laugh.

So she turned back again, raising her fingers while laughing unconsciously, and faced the vague figure on the window.

On a heavy rainy day with a hint of coolness in the tranquility, due to the slight temperature difference, film-like water stains appear on the inside and outside of the windows. Once touched with a finger, it will leave obvious traces in the field of vision.

It's her favorite thing to do in this situation.

Swipe downwards to form an arc, and then slightly jump the angle and pull back to cover the trainer's vague shadow within it.

This is the shape of the moon.

Then she raised her finger to the side and drew the outline of the four corners in the dim background of the rainstorm.

It covers Orihime-san, who appears smaller in the window due to the angle.

This is a four-pointed star like the pattern on her earrings.

The moon and stars drawn out by fingers, and the dark cloud 'curtain' that looks like a dark night are the teahouse's small creations today.

The spirit bodies that could make sister Sang and friend Sang come over to take a look, then looked back at the two people behind who were still chatting together.

The former still had a ヽ(`) expression, while the latter showed a bit of suspicion.

　Each horse girl in "Jockey Girl" has her own corresponding nickname (title) - different skins are different. For example, the original tachyon is tach-nology/tachyon-technology (pinch the English word "technology" ( Technology, technology, etc.), changing the "tech" to the "tach" in its name "Tachyon".), Swimsuit Tachyon is Lunatic Lab/Crazy Experiment.

　　The title of the person who admires Orihime is: Starry Nocturne, literally translated as Starry Night, also translated as Starry Nocturne - which is the title name

　　
　
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