After deciding to give up, I became popular

“Me?” Suddenly asked, Utaha Kasumigaoka was caught off guard, but immediately began to think seriously.

She really had many places she wanted to go, which is why she sent him a “research” date invitation before. However, those planned arrangements were not suitable to be completed today, otherwise it would disrupt her plan.

“How about… watching a movie?” Utaha Kasumigaoka suggested.

This fits her persona and can slightly satisfy her need for a “date”. Although it is indeed a bit old-fashioned, she just likes this classic development.

“Watching a movie… that’s fine too.” Kanade Natsukawa nodded, thinking that with Utaha Kasumigaoka’s personality, she couldn't come up with any other type of suggestion. After all, this guy is similar to him, the type who can stay at home all day on a day off, but she should be reading, while he prefers playing games.

“Is there anything you want to see?”

Utaha Kasumigaoka nodded: “There are quite a few, like 'Norwegian Wood' and stuff…”

“'Norwegian Wood'…” Kanade Natsukawa nodded slightly, indicating that he understood. Then, he took out his phone to check which nearby cinemas were showing the movie.

As an old movie, it had long passed its golden release period, but because it was indeed a classic, some cinemas would occasionally re-release it a few times.

They were lucky. Without much effort, they found a cinema that was showing the movie today, with the screening time about an hour away. However, it was a bit far from their location, and they needed to take a train for a while.

“An hour… If we leave now, we should make it.” Kanade Natsukawa pondered for a moment, and then shared the cinema's location information with Utaha.

The senior checked it and nodded: “I have no objection.”

After a little more planning, the two headed to the nearest train station.

After getting on the train, the two quickly found empty seats, the kind that were next to each other. It wasn't rush hour, so the train seemed a bit empty, with only a few people. Therefore, even normal conversations wouldn't disturb others.

However, for Kanade Natsukawa, there was nothing he really wanted to talk about, so he simply opened his phone and started browsing Twitter.

Seeing this, Utaha Kasumigaoka wasn't very annoyed. Instead, she tugged at his arm slightly and said softly, “Move a little closer, I want to see too.”

Then, without waiting for his reaction, she leaned her head over a little.

Kanade Natsukawa looked at her silently, with a slightly disgusted expression, but his body was very honest, and he obviously slowed down his scrolling on Twitter.

Time gradually passed, and just as Kanade Natsukawa thought they would reach their destination peacefully, Utaha Kasumigaoka suddenly reached out and poked the screen, saying:

“This couple is so miserable.”

“?” The sudden request for interaction made Kanade Natsukawa immediately focus on it. The next moment, he saw a short story that seemed like a tale—

A girl was diagnosed with cancer and needed to have surgery immediately, but because her parents were deceased and she had no other relatives, there was no one to sign the surgical consent form, so the hospital refused to arrange the surgery. Afterwards, although her boyfriend took care of her meticulously, no miracle happened in the end…

There were too many words to describe the whole story in detail, but the general situation was like this, and Utaha Kasumigaoka, who was always sentimental, couldn't help but feel deeply moved after seeing it.

“The deceased are gone, the living should persevere. Although the words are easy to say, it must be very difficult days ahead for her boyfriend, right?”

She didn't like stories with tragic endings, but it was undeniable that the great works of art in history usually ended in tragedy.

This was certainly a normal thing, after all, only “tragedy” was more memorable. However, modern people had misunderstood the real core of it, and were clearly pursuing tragedy for the sake of tragedy, thus abandoning the essence of it. This led to many recent “tragedy” works failing to move people's hearts at all, and instead beginning to be annoying.

Normally speaking, it's not the so-called car accident or natural disaster that leads to eternal separation, but the natural and inevitable occurrence of a painful ending following the normal development of events. However, in this process, something extremely valuable is revealed, which can be called a true tragedy.

Just like the male and female protagonists in this story, their love is the most worthy thing to affirm.

“I don't think so.” Kanade Natsukawa shook his head decisively.

Utaha Kasumigaoka looked at him in astonishment, and a chill suddenly surged in her heart.

However, Kanade Natsukawa just continued to express his opinion: “If I were this guy…”

“If it were you… you could quickly get over the grief of your girlfriend's death?” Utaha Kasumigaoka said softly.

She suddenly felt that the person sitting next to her was so unfamiliar, as if she had never really understood him…

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Kanade Natsukawa frowned, “If it were me, this situation wouldn't have happened in the first place.”

“That so-called surgical consent form, normally speaking, only needs to be signed by the person themselves, but the hospital is afraid of taking responsibility, so they insist on requiring the patient's relative to sign. But this is actually easy to solve, and even just a piece of paper is enough.” Kanade Natsukawa looked at Utaha Kasumigaoka again, as if asking her.

“……”

Seeing her looking confused, he continued with a slightly disdainful tone: “A marriage registration form, just a marriage application form is enough. As long as you register, aren't you husband and wife? Since he's the husband, he can sign the surgical consent form.”

“……” Utaha Kasumigaoka was suddenly stunned.

Seeing that the other party still didn't seem to understand, Kanade Natsukawa explained again: “That's why I said I don't agree—normally speaking, since that girl has no other relatives, the hospital will definitely explain it clearly to that guy, and it's impossible not to tell him this method, or if that guy is willing, it's impossible not to ask if this method will work. But since he didn't do this, he must have some concerns himself, and may even have considered the things that will happen afterwards.”

“Of course, I'm not saying he's doing anything wrong, after all, risk avoidance is human nature. He has already been quite responsible for being able to take care of his girlfriend meticulously afterwards, but for me, I would naturally choose another way…”

He was still talking eloquently, but obviously Utaha Kasumigaoka had no interest in continuing to listen. An idea inevitably emerged in her mind—if it were her…

“If it were me, would you do that too?” she said.

Then she looked at him intently, hoping he would tell her personally.

“Huh?” Kanade Natsukawa was stunned, then paused, and was about to answer her, “Unfortunately…”

Utaha Kasumigaoka: “……”

She opened her mouth, suddenly feeling that all the strength in her body had been drained.

“Unfortunately, if it happened to you, I definitely wouldn't be qualified to do that, after all, your parents are quite healthy, right? It definitely wouldn't be my turn to help.” Kanade Natsukawa spread his hands.

“……” After listening to him word by word, Utaha Kasumigaoka was silent again.

Only this time the time was relatively longer, even making Kanade Natsukawa wonder what was wrong with her, why she suddenly stopped talking.

After a long while, she finally raised her head, looking at Kanade Natsukawa with a very kind gaze, squinting her eyes and lightly opening her lips, she said: “As expected of you, Scumbag-kun, your skills in playing with pure girls are also superb…”

“……”

“My suggestion is to die quickly, preferably right in front of me, so I can see what human beings look like when they struggle in pain before death.”

“Huh?” Kanade Natsukawa looked terrified.

What is this woman talking about? How can she be so vicious!

PS: So annoying, changed it again and again, always feel that the senior's poisonous tongue is not in place, afraid that it will become too aggressive if it's too much, and afraid that it will be a little less flavorful, alas, as expected, I still usually quarrel with people too little. But another chapter is finished. But I'm a little sleepy, let's take a nap and continue, okay.

204. Why are you so skilled!

The joys and sorrows between people are not connected. When Kanade Natsukawa was full of doubts about what was wrong with the woman next to him, why she suddenly madly DISSed him, Utaha Kasumigaoka had already walked out of the train refreshed.

She was naturally in a good mood, not only successfully testing the other party's attitude, but also venting the depression in her heart, which can be said to be a complete win-win—she wins twice.

Not only that, looking at Kanade Natsukawa's bewildered look, a unspeakable and wonderful sense of refreshment also emerged in her heart.

“Which way do we go next?” Utaha Kasumigaoka glanced at him and asked casually.

The time spent on the train was not very long, but because of the ups and downs of her mood, she actually felt very tired after getting off the train, so she couldn't help but stretch, and suddenly her full body curves were undoubtedly revealed, thus also attracting a lot of secretly observing gazes.

She hated this kind of voyeuristic gaze, but if she was traveling with her junior, she wouldn't care too much about these, but would instead feel a sense of pride in it—look, even those nameless passers-by can know who is the best, this kind of body is rare, okay?

“Juniorkun can openly and honestly…”

However, when she turned her gaze to the other party, she found that he was like a wooden man and didn't look at her at all, and even seemed not to have heard her subsequent words.

“Wait a minute, I'm looking at the map…” Kanade Natsukawa didn't even look at her, completely busy with his business.

He first confirmed the location, then carefully looked at the map, and after confirming that he was not mistaken, he pointed in a direction and affirmed to Utaha Kasumigaoka: “Go in this direction, it will take about 6 or 7 minutes, there is plenty of time.”

Utaha Kasumigaoka: “……”

She didn't know what to say, should she say that he was conscientious and a good guide? But this kind of thing doesn't matter at all, isn't the key to traveling with a girl to put your attention on her as much as possible?

Of course, she is indeed not an ordinary girl, but the dissatisfaction in her heart still exists more or less… No, thinking about it makes me angry!

It makes her seem like she has no charm at all and is not worth looking at a few more times!

“I'm tired!” The words blurted out instantly, but thinking about it, it's not like before, these words are simply inexplicable, and there is also a sense of making trouble unreasonably, so she added: “Because I'm tired from sitting, I don't want to move, can Juniorkun carry me over?”

Now she nodded with satisfaction, thinking that this was polite enough, right?

“???” Kanade Natsukawa raised his head instantly, and then looked at her with a puzzled expression, thinking what was wrong with this guy again.

Tired from sitting in the car? You can even say such a thing!

“Senior, are you… okay?”

As a result, as soon as the words came out, he was glared at fiercely by Utaha Kasumigaoka.

“Don't look at me like that, I just want to care about you.” Kanade Natsukawa said helplessly.

He was really helpless, first he was inexplicably scolded on the train, and then he had to cooperate with her wild ideas after getting off the train. Wouldn't anyone else go crazy immediately?

“Let's just be direct, just say directly, what other whimsical ideas do you have.”

“……” Utaha Kasumigaoka just pursed her lips, seeming unwilling to answer.

“……” After a while, Kanade Natsukawa felt that he seemed to understand why she was like this, and he was also a little embarrassed, “Ahem, I really didn't pay attention just now… I admit that ignoring you just now was my fault, but you don't have to punish me in this way, right? And this is a public place, letting me carry you over like this… the impact is not very good.”

“……” Utaha Kasumigaoka's expression seemed to loosen a little.

Seeing this, Kanade Natsukawa thought that it was indeed so, girls are eager to be noticed, especially for the accompanying male partner. If the other party's eyes are completely attracted by other things, especially other women, then they will definitely be dissatisfied.

Fortunately, he didn't do the stupid thing later, so he was completely saved.

So he seized the opportunity and raised his hand to signal: “I can guarantee that I will never ignore you again, otherwise you can make any request.”

Hearing these words, Utaha Kasumigaoka's brows finally completely relaxed, but there was still a little thought left in her heart.

“……Hand.”

“Hand?” Kanade Natsukawa looked puzzled.

“……”

Seeing that he didn't understand what she meant at all, Utaha Kasumigaoka glared at him lightly, and then took the initiative to reach out, but because of the shyness in her heart, she only extended halfway, unwilling to directly grab it forcefully.

Actively handing it over was already the limit, no matter what, it was impossible for her to take the initiative to hold it, after all, she wasn't a good puppy yet.

“……” So Kanade Natsukawa finally understood.

After all this time, she really didn't want to walk, so she asked him to carry her! He thought she was just complaining and making a temper tantrum, but it turned out to be really because she was physically exhausted?

In other words, the senior probably intended to remain completely still as a form of punishment, but after his comforting words, she calmed down and felt a bit better, so she didn't want to make things too difficult for him. However, the desire to not move herself was still there, so she hoped he would pull her along.

This wasn't a problem, and it wouldn't take much effort for him, so he readily agreed.

"Okay, no problem."

He decisively reached out and took her hand, pulling Kasumigaoka Utaha towards the movie theater.

Because the event occurred so suddenly, the latter didn't react much and was pulled forward, even taking a while to come back to her senses. Then, her mind was filled with disbelief—wait, how could he be so decisive? And so skilled, as if he had held countless hands before!

But this was her first time, you know? Could he at least respect her girlish feelings a little???

However, the guy leading the way definitely couldn't hear her inner voice, and even if he did, he might scoff—a woman who is a master of lewd jokes, constantly spouting dirty puns, is getting her heart racing from just holding hands? Don't joke around!

But regardless, her inner turmoil was real, but the strength coming from her hand was too great, forcing her to follow along step by step, finally adapting to his walking pace after a long while.

Only then did she finally have time to think about her situation—

So, a boy's hand is this big and wide...

I wonder what the other parts are like...

She was really curious, so her eyes kept flickering.

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205. Senior, is there something wrong with you?

But no matter how curious she was, she couldn't forcefully ask him to let her touch him, wouldn't that make her seem like a perverted woman?

So Kasumigaoka Utaha had to patiently wait for an opportunity, but such a thing wasn't easy to achieve. In fact, she couldn't think of any good ideas along the way, but unknowingly, they had already reached their destination.

The journey wasn't far, and they weren't in a hurry, so the two of them leisurely strolled to the movie theater.

The movie theater wasn't crowded, in fact, it was quite deserted. It was unclear whether this was due to the location or the time.

Although it was also part of Tokyo, it was clearly much more remote compared to the central city area. The surrounding houses were mostly old-fashioned residential buildings, indicating that this area hadn't been developed much.

However, even so, the corresponding infrastructure was readily available, so there was no need to seek services in other areas.

After finding the front desk, Natsukawa Kanade confirmed the movie's showtime and, after confirming he hadn't made a mistake, decisively purchased two tickets.