Love Comes After Learning

"I like you, and everyone."

...This line comes from the middle of Chapter 2 in the game "Different ○ Excalibur 7". (Information extracted from Wikipedia)]

After reading it slowly, word by word, Nakano Yotsuba seemed to have just remembered how to breathe, her chest swelled with the beating heartbeat, the phone was pressed hard on her chest, her eyes were closed and her face was raised.

——I have to be awkward until the end, I really have Asada-san's style.

"Huh? Clover, what's wrong?"

Yihua looked away from her mobile phone, puzzled by Yotsuba's sudden behavior.

"Did Shinichi-kun say anything interesting in the message he sent you?"

Yotsuba slowly opened her eyes, looking at Yihua and Wuyue beside her.

The rabbit ears started to shake briskly, and she frowned, giggling.

"Well, a lot of things have been said!"

"Specifically?" Yihua asked reflexively, then was stunned for a moment, took a step back unconsciously, and shook his head.

"No, it's better not to ask..."

"Asada-san said that he likes us all!"

Yotsuba, who can't tell lies, spoke very straightforwardly, her eyes stared at Kazuka without haze, and her voice was clear.

"Because he found that I was eavesdropping on him talking about our relationship with others in the corridor, so he explained it to me.

"The rest are things like caring about me and getting me ready for the sports festival."

"Eh? Ha, yes, that's right..." Yihua opened her mouth wide slightly, showing a blank expression similar to Wuyue's, and after a long silence as if she was sorting out her thoughts, she said with a wry smile.

"I... During the summer vacation, I also heard him say the same line."

Yotsuba nodded without any surprise: "Yeah. It seems that he told Nino too."

"Er... Ninaoya?" Yihua twitched the corner of her mouth forcefully, her smile gradually became a little scary, her blue eyes dimmed, and a black air rose slowly behind her.

"That guy, how many girls did he say the same lines to..."

"Wait—" Wu Yue blinked, and after thinking about a certain critical moment, she couldn't help calling out.

"Everyone, am I the only one who didn't hear Asada-kun say this?!"

Yihua and Yotsuba looked at each other, and nodded uncertainly: "It should be, Sanjiu...maybe the earliest?"

"Ugh..."

Cheeks puffed up, Wuyue opened the message board with an expression of dissatisfaction, resentful and dissatisfied.

"You actually engage in differential treatment, Asada-kun is too bad! No, I must ask him for an explanation!"

"Don't get excited, don't get excited~" One flower and one finger poked Wu Yue's cheek, as if deflated a balloon, returning to its usual round and round appearance.

Then he sharply dispelled her past questioning thoughts.

"Mayue-chan, do you want Shinichi-kun to confess to you? Do you want to hear him say "I like you" to you?"

"Eh!?" Wu Yue panicked, her pretty face blushed in vain, and she quickly defended herself.

"No, that's not what I meant—ah, I really am, take back the foreword! Take back the foreword! Just now I said something without going through my brain, please don't pay attention!"

"I see, um, put this aside for now..."

Yihua shifted his gaze, and followed up with Yotsuba who was going to open the door, the smile on the corner of his mouth was slightly suppressed, and his voice was somewhat serious.

"Yotsuba, what do you think? After being told 'I like us all'—"

"You like the friendship aspect?"

Clover turned her head, looked at Ikka's slightly raised eyebrows, raised her chest with a smile, and said without hesitation:

"I like Asada-san very much too! Isn't that okay? There is no law that says you can only like one friend!"

"nothing much……"

As if lamenting that Yotsuba's mind was too innocent, Yihua shook her head helplessly, trying to make her understand the key point and explain it.

"Indeed, if we're friends, then there's no problem.

"But obviously, regardless of me, his feelings for Er Nai and San Jiu are definitely the love between men and women... Maybe you can't tell the difference?

"Before at the zoo..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a calm sentence.

"Enough. So what?"

"Eh……?"

Yihua opened her mouth and looked at her back in astonishment.

Clover pushed open the door, her side face was blurred in the unlit living room, and she couldn't see her expression clearly.

She stepped into the darkness without looking back, her voice seemed to have made up her mind, calm and firm.

"Everyone is the same."

"We... are quintuplets."

Only this sentence was left behind, as if losing weight, it kept ups and downs in the air between the two behind them.

Chapter 73 Things Even a Warm Man Can't Guess

Tuesday, September [-].

After reading the three messages sent back last night, Asada put away her phone and schoolbag, and went downstairs to have breakfast.

Today is the Double Ninth Festival. Because it is the harvest season, Japanese folks also have the term Chestnut Festival.

So today's breakfast at Asada's family is a bowl of fragrant chestnut rice, served with chrysanthemum omelet, chrysanthemum fried fish, and ending with a cup of refreshing and sweet chrysanthemum tea.

His mother is the kind of person who only cares about the atmosphere to celebrate the festival, no matter whether it is formal or not, if you eat something that suits the occasion, it will be a festival.

However, in modern Japan, there are very few households consciously celebrating the Double Ninth Festival, and there are not a few tender chrysanthemums blooming on the streets—maybe the festive atmosphere in Kyoto will be a little stronger?

After all, Tokyo is overly modernized, and the cold gray jungle that belongs to the city absorbs most of the nutrients of culture. At least Asada looked around, and he didn't see anyone planting dogwood outside the door to ward off evil spirits.

"Do you know what holiday is today?"

During the break after morning exercise, Asada casually asked Yotsuba.

After thinking about it, she answered uncertainly, "Asada-san's birthday?"

"No, it's the Double Ninth Festival."

Asada revealed the answer without any surprises, while she showed a dazed look, tilting her head and repeating the reading.

"Rush... itchy?"

This repeater is probably broken.

"It's the Double Ninth Festival... Forget it, pretend I didn't say it." Asada resolutely gave up the popular science, leaned against the rough tree trunk, and looked up at the sky quietly.

After the exercise, even the dome shrouded in clouds still has a soothing and magnificent beauty.

Clover saw that he didn't seem to want to explain, and didn't ask to the end, but just stood beside him as usual, and the two of them watched the same scenery together.

Suddenly, she remembered what happened yesterday.

"Asada-san..."

Looking at the bright gray sedimentary clouds, Yotsuba whispered his name in a sleepy voice.

"I'm here."

Asada turned around.

"what happened?"

"Huh? Then, that..."

Seemingly frightened even herself, Yotsuba regained her composure and panicked for a few seconds before suddenly asking:

"By the way, yesterday's message..."

His body froze suddenly, Yotsuba noticed it, blushed quickly and waved his hands.

"It's not that you posted it, I posted it!"

"Oh, that..." Asada quickly calmed down, nodded as if nothing had happened, and remembered the reply he saw in the morning.

"I also want to ask, what is it like to be my partner?"

As if the question was on point, she smiled mysteriously and looked sideways.

"Hmph, I understand, Asada-san~"

Asada looked at her in confusion: "You know a hammer."

"That's right, it's really hard to say this kind of thing. But it doesn't matter, as long as we have a tacit understanding!"

Clover nodded repeatedly with a deep expression, and patted his shoulder.

"Just remember, I will always support you behind Asada-san! So, do what you want to do with confidence!"

"Isn't this my line..." Didn't you deliberately tease me after reading the message?

Asada was speechless, although his heart was full of inexplicable, but seeing Yotsuba's brisk tone, his eyes were shining with seriousness, and he didn't seem to be joking at all, he felt that something else seemed strange.

After thinking about it, Asada finally put his hand on her head, which was seeking approval like a puppy, and opened her mouth tentatively.

"Then... please?"

"Ok!"

A bright smile bloomed like a flower, and Yotsuba responded cheerfully, smiling very happily and at ease.

Afterwards, she also raised her hand and placed it on her low head, just pressing down on the back of his hand.

"So, Yotsuba...?"

Touching the warm and moist palm, Asada's expression became a little subtle, and he wanted to say something, but at this moment, Yotsuba closed his eyes again, as if he had just fallen asleep, with a smile on his rosy face after exercising Gradually calm down.

Unlike the usual her, there was a feeling that a bear child suddenly became mature after a lot of thinking, conflict and reflection.

...No, maybe this is another clever and sensible Yotsuba under the stupid side of Genki.