I work as a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

"This summer vacation, Mr. Hirakawa will accompany Shiori, right?"

"When?"

"every day."

"..."

"—I really want to say that, but Mr. Hirakawa probably can't do it, right?"

Facing Shiori Shinohara's sudden turn to stare at him for questioning, all Hirakawa Tetsubun could do was smile awkwardly.

Shinohara Shiori sighed softly.

"Then I'll find Teacher Hirakawa again."

"it is good."

……

The start of school in April, re-entering the wind performance department, the camp in May, practicing the new year's etudes in the concert hall together, and rushing to June together in the familiar and nostalgic daily life, and then the summer vacation in July came in a blink of an eye .

Whether it is for Hirakawa or Shinohara Shiori, summer vacation is indeed an extremely important day.

At this time last year, the girl who knew everything was doomed to go wrong took a big step towards the wrong path... She expressed her heart.

A year has passed and there is still no progress.

Shinohara Shiori looked at her in the mirror, thinking ecstatically.

It wasn't until the mobile phone placed on the table vibrated slightly that he came back to his senses.

Time to go out.

After glancing at the message from the phone, Shinohara Shiori picked up the phone and stood up. Before walking out of the room, she took one last look at her in the mirror.

……

The heat of summer has not dissipated so quickly, although the sky has darkened, and the direction of the setting sun, there is only a skyline that gradually changes from orange to gray blue, and the outline of the cloud that is vaguely outlined. Above, most of the sky on the other side has completely fallen into a gray twilight scene, and even the outline of the clouds has disappeared, completely covered by the background color of the sky.But the ground, which is scorched by the August sun during the day, even if the sun is no longer there, there is still a faint heat rising in this evening when it is getting dark, and the air is flowing, from bottom to top.

The exposed skin, especially the head, can clearly feel this temperature, which belongs to the summer temperature, and when the wind blows, it is warm.

Hirakawa Zhewen looked at the figure slowly walking towards him from the front.

The cherry-colored bathrobe, the belt was neatly tied, without any wrinkles. The y-shaped neckline reveals a clean and beautiful neck, so clean that people want to lean in and take a bite.

With wooden clogs on her feet, her hand protruding from the bathrobe was carrying a small bag. Although she was in the crowd, she stood out so conspicuously that the surrounding figures seemed to be blurred with a blur filter, and they were automatically blurred. The brain was blurred, and only the girl was left in his eyes.

She walked towards him, her unhurried footsteps seemed to contain an impatient briskness.

Finally came to the body.

The girl raised her hands, and the sleeves of the bathrobe slipped down a little bit, exposing her white wrists, and she slowly turned around in front of him.

Thus, the already dim light of the evening faithfully reflected the girl's body into his eyes.

The chest was wrapped in a bathrobe so that even the small ups and downs disappeared, and the back was also flat. The long hair hanging behind was pulled up and tied with a red hair rope, revealing the girl's equally beautiful back neck.

When she turned around, the girl stood in front of her, with a flawless face, a small and cute nose, eyes that seemed to be shining in the twilight, and a slight smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Teacher Hirakawa, is it good-looking?"

The evening warm wind with a summer atmosphere stirred the hair, and the fingers of the girl in front of her brushed the face, skimming the hair.

Following the oncoming wind, you can smell the girl's body fragrance and hear her clear and pleasant voice.

"Of course Shiori is pretty."

From the moment he saw this young lady, Hirakawa Tetsufumi couldn't help but smile. He took a step forward and reached out to hold the girl's white wrist in mid-air.

Fingers crossed, hooked together.

"Ms. Hirakawa didn't admit it so frankly last year."

Putting down their hands and connecting their fingers together, the two turned around, facing the entrance of the lively street of the Summer Festival.

"Sorry, I was the one who was stubborn last year." Hirakawa Zhewen said sincerely, still looking at the stunning side face of the girl on the side who couldn't get tired of seeing it.

Until he couldn't bear it any longer, he bent down and kissed the girl's Bai Nen's side face.

A side kiss, when leaving, Shinohara Shiori also turned her cheek.

"What's wrong?" Hirakawa Zhewen asked.

Shinohara Shiori looked at the blue yukata on Hirakawa, looking up and down, and Hirakawa Tetsufumi couldn't help but look down at his own attire.

"What, isn't it appropriate?"

"It looks weird."

"...It hurts so much."

"Wear it specially for Shiori?"

"Yeah, it's weird to wear it on purpose."

Shinohara Shiori laughed: "It's just that I'm not used to it, Shiori didn't say Mr. Hirakawa is not handsome."

"so?"

"Of course. Also, Mr. Hirakawa has the air of a little girl."

"Correction: I want to present a better side to the person I like. This is not unique to little girls... Even I would have such thoughts."

"Ms. Hirakawa likes Shiori?"

"There is no need to ask this kind of question. Naturally, I like Shiori, I like it, I like it very much." When talking about the latter, Hirakawa Tetsufumi said in Shinohara Shiori's ear.

The voice in the ear, and the indistinct human voice in the background... Shiori Shinohara held her hand tightly.

The smile on the corner of the mouth is so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off.

Tetsubun Hirakawa heard her say: "Shiori asked that, just wanted Mr. Hirakawa to say that."

Hirakawa Tetsuwen also tightened his hand.

"If you want to hear it, just say it."

"That Shiori wants to hear it."

"..."

"What's wrong?" Shiori Shinohara looked at Tetsufumi Hirakawa who suddenly stopped.

Hirakawa Tetsuwen smiled at him: "Okay, it came suddenly like this, but I still didn't realize it... that... I like Shiori."

"The tone of Teacher Pingchuan's words is too plain."

"You don't have to be so strict, do you?"

Miss Shinohara was noncommittal.

In the end, before walking into the busy streets of the Summer Festival, all she left for Hirakawa Tetsufumi was that pretty side face and slightly curved rosy lips.

……

The next sentence is among the crowd, the girl next to her is staring at the summer festival stall on the side of the street.

"Ms. Hirakawa, do you remember this time last year?"

Hirakawa Tetsufumi followed Miss Shinohara's gaze, and when he looked over, it was an air gun booth.

"Of course I remember, but in terms of memory, there is absolutely no need to doubt it."

"Then, what about the rabbit that Mr. Hirakawa hit?"

"..."

"Huh?" Shiori Shinohara withdrew her gaze from memory and stared at him who was silent.

"That...how should I put it..."

"Forgot? Lost?"

"how is this possible."

"That?"

"Last year... I put it in the cabinet after it was over, and it seems that I haven't taken it out." After weighing it for a few seconds, Hirakawa Zhewen still took it seriously.

"..."

"..."

The girl's gaze spoke.

Hirakawa Zhewen quickly promised: "I will take it out when I go back."

Miss Shinohara let him go for the time being.

She took his hand and walked to the air gun booth.

……

Unexpectedly, although last year was in a daze like a dream, but in terms of air guns, this year is not as good as last year.

I didn't pay attention to counting how many times I played, but I only knew that it was absolutely indispensable. When Hirakawa Tetsufumi and Shinohara Shiori walked out of the crowd surrounding the booth, the only thing the girl was holding was a gray cartoon wolf doll. .

Hirakawa Zhewen stared at the wolf doll in the young lady's hand.

"Teacher Hirakawa, what's the matter?" Holding the doll, Shiori Shinohara noticed his gaze and raised her eyes.

"This..." Hirakawa Zhewen looked away from the doll, "So why is it a wolf?"

"Because wolves eat rabbits."

"……I'm a wolf?"

"Shiori is a wolf." Shinohara Shiori said as if she was serious, she raised the doll in her hand, and pointed at Hirakawa with the wolf's mouth, "Ms. Hirakawa is a rabbit."

"..."

"Ms. Hirakawa was eaten by Shiori."

"..."

Hirakawa Zhewen looked at the arm bitten by the cartoon wolf doll, and couldn't help laughing for a moment.

"what."

Miss Shinohara also laughed, but that light smile looked much better than Hirakawa's broad smile.

"Then put this at Shiori's house."

Finally, she stopped laughing, Shiori Shinohara hugged the wolf in her hand, and said very solemnly.

"Okay." Hirakawa Zhewen nodded.

"Ms. Hirakawa, remember to let the rabbit out."

"definitely."

"..."

"..."

"Why does Hirakawa-sensei keep looking at Shiori?" Shinohara Shiori noticed that she never looked away.

After being discovered, Hirakawa Zhewen's eyes overlapped with those of the girl, and he still did not move away.

"Because I think Shiori is a little different today."

"Different?"

"Yes."

"What's the difference?"

Hirakawa Zhewen lowered his head slightly, and took a bite on the girl's cheek.

"It's different and cute."

"..."

Shiori Shinohara turned her face silently, grabbed it with one hand, and wiped the saliva from her cheek onto the bathrobe on Tetsufumi Hirakawa's arm.

After wiping, he didn't let go at all, his arms were folded, his cheek was pressed against his arm.

Hirakawa Tetsuwen laughed again, and continued to move forward with the girl.

……

The next stop is a shaved ice stall.

"Shiori." Hirakawa Tetsuwen watched the stall owner skillfully making shaved ice, stopped and said, "Do you know what I'm thinking of now?"

Shinohara Shiori leaned against Hirakawa Tetsufumi's arm, raised it to take a look, and then the corners of her mouth curved into the same smile as Hirakawa Tetsufumi.

She lowered her lips.

"What did Mr. Hirakawa think of?"

"I thought of optional taste." Hirakawa Zhewen pursed his lips and said.

"Does Hirakawa-sensei want to eat shaved ice? Shiori also wants to... Shiori wants to..." Miss Shinohara said to herself.

"Stop." Hirakawa Tetsuwen shouted to stop.

"Ok?"

"You can choose your own taste." Hirakawa Tetsuwen emphasized again.

"Shiori is choosing a flavor...Shiori wants...um...strawberry flavor."

"Does it taste like strawberry?" This sentence was said to Miss Shinohara by the owner behind the booth.

"Ah."

"Then I want...mangoes." Hirakawa Tetsuwen also said.

"Okay, two guests, please wait a moment."

The shaving ice machine roared, and the crystal smoothies fell and piled up in the cup.

The boss operated skillfully, and finally poured red strawberry jam.

"Okay." The boss handed the strawberry-flavored shaved ice to Shiori Shinohara.

"Okay." Hirakawa Tetsuwen reached out and took it.

"..."

The boss looked at him, then at Shiori Shinohara, and then at him.

Shiori Shinohara smiled softly, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa held the shaved ice, without changing his face, just said: "There is also a bowl of mango flavor."

"..."

After a last suspicious look, the boss resumed operating the machine.

The mango-flavored shaved ice was ready again quickly. After hesitating for a while, he still handed the bowl to Hirakawa Tetsufumi.

"This is……"

"Shiori." Shinohara Shiori reached out and took it.

"..."

"..."

When he finally paid and left, Hirakawa Zhewen saw the boss look at the two of them inexplicably.

"Mr. Hirakawa, you took the wrong one. The strawberry flavor should be Shiori's, and the mango flavor is yours." Turning back, Shinohara Shiori seemed to be very serious and said to him.

However, the corners of the mouth clearly had a slight upward arc, revealing a smile.

Hirakawa Tetsubun also pretended to be serious.

"Did you take it wrong? No? The mango flavor is indeed mine...just wait," he said.

Just as the voice fell, the sound of the radio rang in my ears.

"The firework festival is about to start, the firework festival is about to start, tourists who want to watch it, please go to..."

The broadcast was repeated several times.

Tetsubun Hirakawa looked at Shiori Shinohara, and Miss Shinohara was also looking at him.

Afterwards, the crowd who had been quiet because of the broadcast became noisy again, and their stagnant steps started to move again, but in a different direction.

Tetsubun Hirakawa and Shiori Shinohara laughed together.

"Then let's go." When he stopped laughing, Tetsufumi Hirakawa took Shinohara Shiori's hand.

"Yes." The girl leaned on his shoulder.

The firework festival is about to start.