Love Comes After Learning

"What's the matter... Sure enough, it was just three days ago that I just cramped my feet..."

Er Nao secretly clicked his tongue, and frowned tightly.

I used to grind my guns in order to pass the make-up exam, and the make-up exam papers are relatively simple. It is no problem to pass the hard work—but I have to prepare at least a week in advance, and I study with my sisters. Naturally, the learning efficiency and results are not good. Same day.

However, this time is completely different.

Obviously not interested in studying, Er Nai chose to hide from everyone's eyes and hide in the room for that unspoken purpose, scratching his ears and cheeks at the textbook by himself, feeling dizzy.

She persisted like this for three days. After she went to the examination room, she knew that history was going to repeat itself. The effort during this period was like wasting nothing, and she was completely negated by the dizzyingly difficult test papers.

Although she had been mentally prepared for a long time, when she really saw the dazzling results and ridiculous rankings, she still felt an ambiguous irritability in her heart.

(Learning or something, why not help that guy deal with things...)

Her heels rolled against the ground, and she began to regret this impromptu decision.

Not only wasting time, but also made her feel a lot of frustration-the previous four leaves were at the bottom of the family, but now she can't even keep up with four leaves, officially becoming the tail of the crane among the quintuplets.

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it, anyway, she doesn't care about her grades, she has something she wants to do, as long as she can graduate from high school.

However, this shows one thing - everyone is moving forward, only she is retreating.

Everyone is changing, only she remains the same.

With Yuefa's burning anxiety hovering in her heart, Er Nai clicked her lips and looked away, unwilling to look at the list again.

Because that would make her more blatantly aware of the difference between herself and her family, and the distance that gradually became apparent.

With a cold face, she quietly withdrew from the crowd while the others were still looking for her name, and stood aside alone.

There was a deserted air beside him, and a lively crowd in front of him, Er Nao just stared at the four unobtrusive pink-haired heads among them, silent.

This corridor was full of hustle and bustle, cheers and sighs, but she seemed to be in a different world, and all sounds and scenes became extremely blurred and distorted.

"...Really, stupid."

Embracing his slightly trembling arms, Nino stepped forward expressionlessly, bypassing the crowd and walking forward.

With a heartbeat, she suddenly raised her head and stared at the top of the list, and a familiar name came into view.

"That guy, it's almost a perfect score..."

I hate this kind of academic bully the most. How did he study?

He obviously has more things to do than her, and he keeps saying that he has to go to bed on time at ten o'clock in the evening. Why does he still have time to study, and why does he still get such a high score in the exam?

Is this the difference between a genius and a mortal?

I hate this gap the most. Just like the numbers on the list, it is clearly annoying.

Is the distance between one hundred and thirty-seven people so long?

That's why I said, I hate studying the most... Ignore this kind of thing, and I won't be so upset now.

The corner of her mouth curled up in a self-deprecating arc, she lowered her head, and glanced at her tightly clenched fist.

If it is said that the forest school and the learning camp are two houses, Asada Shinichi is the landlord, and they are just tenants under the fence.

He can go wherever he wants, but they can't enter another room for no reason. They can only look at the back of him in another house through the scene of cherry blossoms falling and feel lost.

After going back on Monday, Ninao thought a lot, and made many excuses for himself, to support his not wanting to see such clearly demarcated boundaries, and to blur his selfishness of not wanting him to be snatched away.

Finally, she thought of a way——

As long as he studies a little seriously and shows him that he can study, maybe he can use this as a reason to cross the line and let her join another camp.

Maybe it's a little different from the original reason for wanting to prove yourself?But who cares, who has time to deal with the past.

The others were already one step ahead of her. Leaving Yihua aside, the remaining three had already walked into another house openly, and she was the only one who stayed in the empty room, leaning against the window with her back to the sound of their conversation. , like an unrelated stranger.

As for Nakano Nino, she hated being excluded by her family the most.

Also hate things that make family members exclude themselves, and people.

But don't hate him.

He keeps saying he hates it, but he just can't hate it so much.

That's why she wanted to join. She wanted to chat with him about studies and grades. It didn't matter if she was called a fool, as long as she scolded him back, this was her unique way of getting along with that guy.

... She just wants to be like everyone else, no matter which house he is in, she can talk to him naturally, instead of hoping that he will turn around and stick out his tongue like a puppy begging him for luck.

"..."

Nino let go of her fist, her arm stopped trembling, and she sighed.

she knows.

Whatever you want, go get it yourself.

If you feel lonely, find someone to accompany you.

If you don't feel happy, find something interesting.

If you feel that you are too far behind, try to find a way to shorten the distance until you feel at ease.

Others have a path that others can walk, I have a path that I want to walk, if you and everyone else are on another road, then I will use an excavator to dig a passage connecting the two roads, so that no one has to leave their own road .

You don't need too many reasons. If you have the urge to do it, just keep your head down and rush forward, don't worry about it so much.

This is the survival rule of Nakano Nino, a strategy manual for making oneself happy.

(It doesn't matter if you fail this time, anyway, the test is so bad that you don't have the face to talk to him, just pretend it never happened.)

Her azure blue pupils lit up with firm willful light, and she stared at the name closely.

——But next time, you wait for me!

It's not because I like you, nor because I want to be with you.

It's just pure, I don't want to be left behind by you and them.

So wait for me...

Even if this midterm exam is over, don't think that you and I are so different.

Even if the future forest school is over, don't think that you and I have nothing to do with each other from now on.

There will always be a way for me to follow you, no matter how far you run, I will always be by your side.

Do you have any opinion?Anyway, from now on, this is what I want to do most!

"Humph."

The originally drooping corners of the mouth had turned up at some point, bending like a crescent moon.

The previous self-confidence and pride returned to his face.

Turning around gracefully, Er Nai flicked her hands, her long hair flying like crimson flames, and stopped looking at the distance of the one hundred and thirty-seven people.

She raised her chin, and like a kitten with rekindled fighting spirit, she strode towards where the sisters were.

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"..."

Nakano Yotsuba stared blankly at her own ranking, with her hands hanging by her side, her eyes wide open as if blank.

Yihua was also looking at the rankings, as if she had discovered something interesting, she couldn't help smiling and said to her.

"I didn't expect that only the two of us got so close in scores this time, obviously before...huh? Yotsuba?"

She blinked, slightly worried.

"Are you okay? You look absent-minded."

Clover came back to her senses, quickly hid the haze on her face, and smiled.

"It's nothing! But Yihua is really good. He is obviously busy with acting, but he can score higher than me and Nino... Ah, maybe you are secretly studying too?"

"No! I just flipped through the book before the exam, and I can't understand the questions, so I can only guess." Yihua scratched his cheek embarrassedly, with a happy smile on his face, "Well, although I still It's the bottom twenty, but I'm very satisfied if I can guess such a result."

"Ah... well, congratulations."

After a pause, Yotsuba smiled calmly, looked up at Yihua who looked at the list again and didn't notice anything strange about her.

Frowning and thinking for a while, he pointed his chin with a finger and murmured.

"By the way, Sanjiu and Wuyue have made great progress. Is it really because of Shinichi-kun... Shall I start asking him to teach me? But will it make him too tired? It's not our exclusive Tutor..."

"..." The smile remained unchanged, but Yotsuba tightly pinched the corner of her clothes, her knuckles trembling slightly with such force.

A ray of light flashed in the azure blue eyes, then dimmed a bit, and the smile became weaker.

Before Yihua turned her gaze around, she turned her head away and looked curiously at the top of the list.

"Speaking of Asada-san... His name should be in the front, right? I don't know how much he got in the test, it must be so high that we can't imagine!"

"It's only five hundred points at most. How could it be unimaginably high... Besides, it's hard to say?" Yihua smiled wickedly and whispered like a thief.

"Maybe he's been too busy to study recently, and his grades have plummeted as a result!

I heard that Shinichi-kun also has a title called "The Unshakable Second King", if it falls, I don't know what it will be changed to..."

She just wanted to make a joke, and had no other meaning——Asada has read the most books for teaching recently, how could she not have time to study?

She also didn't think that Asada's performance would be surpassed by other people - there was no other reason, she just simply believed it, so she made this joke casually.

However, the speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.

"..." Yotsuba was silent for a long while, then suddenly stepped forward and ran towards the front of the list, "I'm going to the toilet, I'll go back to the classroom, tell everyone that you don't have to wait for me!"

"Eh? Wait, Yotsuba..." Before Yihua could react, she had already run away through the crowd, her figure was flexible and strong, and she couldn't catch her at all. .

Putting down his half-raised hand, Yihua suddenly realized, a trace of guilt appeared on his face, and he sighed secretly in his heart.

"It's a disaster... I know that Yotsuba cares about grades the most, but I said something like this...

Although she is no longer the one with the lowest score, but..."

That performance, no matter how you look at it, doesn't look like it can be relieved.

After all, Clover is the main reason for them to transfer here collectively...

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Passing through the crowd, Yotsuba pursed her lips tightly, not knowing what expression she had now.