Love Comes After Learning

However, the wonderful familiarity brought by that voice made her quickly stop her instinctive movements, think for a while, and then showed surprise.

"You are--"

Looking at the student union team in disbelief, at some point, the six figures turned into five—under her unprofessional surveillance, someone quietly disappeared and appeared like a teleport Behind her, a thin column was used to support her back.

After analyzing this fact, Ai Hayasaka's face turned cold, and she gritted her teeth.

"It's really hidden...

Yu Ishigami! "

"Heh." The voice of "Ishigami" sneered, and the tone was arrogant and casual, "Hayasaka-san... no, you are a year older than me, I should call you Hayasaka-senpai.

Hayasaka-senpai, it's really hard for you to watch over here for so long, did you enjoy the festival well? "

"Hmph... Thanks to you, the originally boring surveillance mission is finally interesting."

Hayasaka closed her eyes slightly, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of her mouth, crossed her arms, and said with ease as if giving up resistance: "Then, before you 'shoot', can I ask a question?

Why did you sneak attack me at this time, even at the expense of exposing your identity? "

Without a direct answer, "Ishigami" just chuckled with interest.

"Oh? Are you so sure that I will shoot? Maybe I will hold you hostage and visit all the stalls."

"..." With his back turned to him, Hayasaka showed an emotional expression for a moment, removed his cold and calm disguise, bit his lower lip with a reddish face, and nodded slightly.

But immediately, her fingers wrinkled the sleeves of the bathrobe, she sighed softly and said plainly.

"It's a pity, Secretary Fujiwara and the others are waiting for you, and I have to continue my mission. There is no time to hang around at all."

"So, you still have to 'shoot' after all... My relationship with you is not good enough to go to the temple fair stalls together."

After hesitating for a moment, Hayasaka looked at the ground in front of him, and his voice became much softer: "...Unless you 'force' me to leave my work position and ask me to explain something to my family...Anyway, Missy will Looking at it for a long time, if it's just a period of time... if it's just a period of time, I..."

Before she finished speaking, she couldn't continue because her face was blushing and her heart was beating faster.

Fortunately, her back was facing him, otherwise she would not be able to talk to him calmly in this manner before using her "acting skills".

(Will he invite me... No, probably not. After all, he has to go back to the student union team, and the favorability between me and him is about 60. I want him to give up the student union and hang out with me The temple fair is really unlikely...but, if, just if...)

Maybe, she could experience the feeling of going to a temple fair with the opposite sex for the first time in her life?

Anticipation and nervousness mixed into a wonderful emotion, quietly fermenting in her heart——she tensed her body silently, waiting for the answer behind her.

"Ishigami" was silent for a moment, and then said flatly: "You're right, I just found an excuse to come out, I still have to go back later, I can't talk to you for too long."

"..."

As if putting on a mask, the blush on Hayasaka Ai's face completely faded, her heartbeat stabilized, and her expression changed into an indifferent and indifferent makeup again.

"Is that so? Then after you've said the reason why you came to me, hurry back—"Asada-kun."

"Ishigami"... The disguised Asada smiled bitterly, and changed back to his own voice: "You actually exposed me so quickly, it seems that you are getting impatient, Hayasaka-san."

"Call me Hayasaka-senpai, you impolite junior." Hayasaka Ai said coldly.

Asada, who is also used to wearing a mask, knows that her statement is just bragging.

"Okay Hayasaka-san, I know Hayasaka-san." With a casual attitude that made her pinch her phalanx in a threatening way, Asada lowered his arm, and the slender object that pressed against her back twirled around between his fingers, He was flirtatiously resting on her slender shoulders.

"Yeah, is there a reason... Apart from feeling the vague gaze, there is probably only one reason why I came here to look for you, right?"

"There's no need to be tricky, please finish quickly, Miss Kaguya and the others are about to leave the sight range." Hayasaka had no expectations in her heart, and Hayasaka pursed her mouth slightly, with a displeased expression on her face.

"Okay, then I'll just say it straight." Asada didn't hesitate, and directly stuffed the muff fireworks into her palm, "I bought an extra firework, and I don't know what to do with it. I don't want to waste it, so I will give it to you." .”　

"... Huh?" After being stunned for a moment, she stared dumbfounded at the stick-like muff fireworks, "Wait, your reason is too—"

"Also, let's just treat it as my boring sympathy. I'm all wearing a good-looking yukata, but I can't enjoy the temple fair because I have to take care of the "Master". I can only hide in the corner and eat an apple. Tang, I really can't bear to see this kind of scene."

Glancing at the well-matched violet-patterned bathrobe and all kinds of silver and small accessories on her body, the blond hair tied into a side ponytail seemed to be shining under the light of the lantern, Asada touched his head and sighed helplessly.

"Although my acting skills are much better than yours, we are considered "similar" after all, so... no, let's put it this way."

Asada suddenly laughed.

"Come on, put on the 'mask'. You are more used to talking like this, right?"

"...a boring proposal." Hayasaka clicked his lips, lowered his brows and eyes, and said in a cold tone, "...that kind of thing, I have never taken it off."

"If you don't wear a mask, you can't get love", "Your true self will never be loved by others"——

I always think this way, in order to survive in this world better, I will put on various masks and put on various identities to face everyone I meet.

Ordinary Hayasaka, Hayasaka of Shinomiya's maid, Hayasaka of Shuchiin students, Hayasaka of passers-by, Hayasaka of Betsuma School, Hayasaka of female disguised as men... She wears so many "masks" that they are almost blurred The real Hayasaka Ai, even when she is alone, she rarely reveals her true nature.

Shinichi Asada's words are similar to saying please start your performance to an actor in a TV series, it is simply nonsense.

"Very well, then I'm here." Without further words, Asada closed his eyes, and three seconds later.

The moment he opened his eyes, there was a hearty smile on the corner of his mouth, and his demeanor became much gentler and kinder, just like... the common male protagonists in light novels.

Hayasaka Ai turned her back to him, she didn't notice the change in him at the moment, she just folded her hands in front of her chest, idly guessing what trick he was trying to play.

Asada looked at her slender back, and suddenly smiled.

"Thank you, Hayasaka-san!"

This warm cry made Ai Hayasaka freeze for a moment, as if someone had thrown an ice cube into her collar, and her goosebumps were aroused.

Before she turned around to complain, he spoke clearly and continued.

"Perhaps, no one will watch the fireworks with you today? Because you are a very serious maid, and you always complete your tasks meticulously."

"It's just like when senior sister Shinomiya asked you to come close to me in order to catch me. She was so reluctant, but she still forced her smile to get along with me."

"In this way, you will surely hide in a hidden corner at the fireworks festival later, guarding Shinomiya-senpai, while watching the fireworks in the night sky and sighing alone?"

"..." The mood seemed to be sinking gradually, Hayasaka Ai lowered her head and hugged her arms coldly, "... so what? What do you want to say?"

"I would say that the light from that muff firework is beautiful."

He took a step back, his smile still bright: "Maybe it will be more beautiful than the fireworks display later?"

The gentle voice came to her ears word by word, covered by her hair, Hayasaka Ai slightly widened her ice blue eyes.

The heartbeat that was suppressed by the disguise seemed to gradually speed up with his words.

"For it, you choose to occupy this light alone, even if everyone is watching the fireworks in the sky, it doesn't matter - in your hands, there are more gorgeous colors than those dazzling fireworks."

"If you may, please think so."

"If possible, please cheer up too, Hayasaka-san."

"You have more than you think, and your colors are more beautiful than anyone else's."

"At least, I think so."

"Please enjoy this temple fair, even if no one can see you."

As soon as the words fell, Hayasaka Ai suddenly raised her head if she felt something, turned around and reached back to grab it.

Clenched her fingertips in the empty space a few times, but she could only watch him retreat into the crowd as if fleeing, and her tone returned to calm, and she dropped a few sentences pretending to be indifferent.

"This is the 'mask' of the harem male protagonist who is talking about it. It has nothing to do with me. I reject any misunderstandings and ambiguous guesses. Thank you.

And senior Hayasaka, if you meet this kind of person in the future, you must give him a shoulder throw before talking, otherwise he will definitely embarrass you to death...or he will embarrass himself to death.

Well, see you another day. "

In the next instant, the noise of the temple fair swallowed everything, whether it was her voice or her figure, and she was the only one left standing there alone.

"..."

Slowly retracting her hand, clenched into a fist, Hayasaka Ai looked down at the ground, silent.

After a while, she suddenly turned around and rushed towards the small hill beside her - that was one of the viewing spots she had surveyed beforehand, if she accidentally lost Miss Huiye in the crowd, she could use these commanding heights to find her .

So, her cold and rational eyes quickly swept across the dark crowd below, and she quickly found the familiar "master" - Shinomiya Kaguya, and her little friends, a total of five people.

Her expression didn't relax, she just stared at it silently for a while, and the disappearing sixth person squeezed out from the crowd and joined them, with an apologetic smile on her face, but it was too far away to see clearly.

Even so, Hayasaka Ai still showed a helpless smile.

"They said they wanted to talk... but they didn't let me talk at all."

The evening wind blew her golden hair, the ponytail hanging down her shoulders fluttered gently, and the violet-colored bathrobe moved slowly.

"So to put it bluntly, did you come here to talk to me when you realized that I was following behind you with an unhappy face and that I couldn't even go to a temple fair by myself?

If you don't refute within ten seconds, I will take it for granted. "

After counting silently for ten seconds, the plain hand holding the muff and fireworks was put on his chest and slowly clenched.

"Then next time we meet...you dare to talk to me, I have to reward you with a shoulder throw first."

The heavy clouds suppressed the moonlight, but the lights on the ground faintly illuminated her side face.

On the always expressionless and indifferent face, a smile was quietly drawn, with a little blush that rose naturally.

"Embarrassing me and not giving me a chance to fight back, Shinichi Asada ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

In the middle of speaking, she suddenly squatted down covering her face with her hands, her face was already red from her neck to her ears, and she curled up into a ball.

The pupils behind the palms widened in disbelief, and she hid her panicked and shy appearance behind her knees, her cold demeanor completely shattered at this moment.

"He he just said I was beautiful?! What is this? Confession? Although many frivolous men have confessed in this way, it is the first kind of sincere and pleasant compliment. Could it be that he is serious? Yes, I'm just too embarrassed to say it... Ugh, what a mask, to hell with such a troublesome thing, can't you be more frank!? Speak straight, you bastard!"

Ms. Hayasaka Ai completely denied her own survival rules at this moment.

But after complaining, she spoke so softly on a deserted hillside.

"Even if it's me, I want to have a love that I won't regret in my high school life, which is only once in my life..."

If the object is him...

Staring in a daze at the figure who had gone far below and couldn't see clearly, Ai Hayasaka pressed the muff fireworks to her face, and the cold touch gradually warmed up.

Then, she gently closed her eyes, as if she had fallen into a sweet dream, and said with a smile.

"—It feels like it looks pretty good."

[Today's victory or defeat——

Shinichi Asada, whose shame level increased by [-]%, and Ai Hayasaka, who calmed down after Haruka's heart sprouted, and as a result, her shame level increased by [-]%, the two sides lost.

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