Love Comes After Learning

The words fell softly on the carpet.

Chika Fujiwara said in a low voice, her blushing pretty face wrinkled into a ball, as if she was enduring the churning emotions in her heart.

She bit her pink lips hard, her nose opened and closed, and her tone became more sobbing and trembling.

Asada was a little distressed, but seeing her moved to such an extent, a feeling of complacency and happiness could not help but surge up.

"Not really... I just want to make you feel at ease and let you trust me from now on."

"So, be my girlfriend, Qianhua."

"The agreed love war, you won."

Fujiwara Chika shook her head, the corners of her mouth twitched, as if she wanted to smile, but she just made a very strange expression.

"I didn't win... The condition for winning is that I monopolize Koasada, so now, it is obvious that you have won."

"...Then treat it like this. Anyway, no matter who wins or loses, I will make you happy."

"Well, suck—"

The skirt of the wedding dress twirled around, and Chika Fujiwara turned around, sucking the snot and air into her body forcefully.

With her back to Asada, she seemed to wipe her eyes, and after she calmed down, she said something without thinking.

"Although it's sudden, let's guess a riddle first!"

"Huh?" Asada was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head helplessly, and stood up from the ground, "It was indeed quite sudden... But how should I put it, it's you."

"I'll accept this compliment first!" Chika Fujiwara raised her head slightly with a great look, and said so.

"Oasada, let me ask you—what is a weightless feather?"

Asada looked at her slender and petite back, showing a disgusted expression of "what is this guy talking about?".

Although I don't understand what the hell the question is asking, but I can guess what Fujiwara Chika is thinking, but even the former student council members can't do it, and he is already very proficient in it.

So after thinking for a few seconds, Asada answered with great certainty.

"It is the wings of a free heart that does its best to do what it likes and is not bound by others!"

puff!

There seems to be the sound of spraying water from the direction of the photographer...

"correct!"

puff--!

The photographer seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, and buried his face in his knees and suppressed a smile.

Ignoring Kashima-san who was poked at the point of laughter, Asada was about to ask about the reward for answering the puzzle correctly, Chika Fujiwara turned her body back.

With a sweet smile on her delicate and lovely face, and a charming and delicate figure like an elf, she stretched out her slender forearm towards herself, and a shiny silver ring appeared on her right ring finger.

"Hey hey~ It should be like this, right?"

Asada couldn't help being slightly startled, and then looked at the happy smile on her face, and then smiled slightly.

"Yeah, girls wear it on the ring finger of their right hand, which means falling in love...so, the moment you wear it."

While talking, Asada wanted to hold Chika Fujiwara's soft palm.

"You're the girlfriend I'm in love with—"

Before he could finish speaking, he stopped abruptly because of the touch of the empty palm.

Asada: "???"

Are you serious about taking a step back?

At this moment, the heart seemed to be pinched by the Platinum Star. After Asada froze for half a second, he looked suspiciously at Chika Fujiwara who was avoiding his palm.

"Qianhua, you..."

"Cough cough!"

She suddenly coughed twice, turned her face away and didn't look at herself, but scratched her flushed cheeks, and said subtly:

"That's it, Oasada~"

"Can you let me think about this matter?"

Asada slowly opened his mouth wide, without even feeling that his jaw was nearly dislocated.

He just showed an expression of astonishment, his throat was so dry that he couldn't make a sound, and he looked in disbelief at the pink-haired girl who covered her face with the hand wearing the ring.

Not to mention the heart stopped beating, it was almost crushed by the Platinum Star.

Suffocating for a few seconds like a drowning fish, Asada pulled back Piaofei's soul with great difficulty, his eyes trembled violently a few times, and he managed to squeeze out a voice from his throat.

"Then, what does that mean..."

I thought they would be happy if I did this...

Originally, I thought that my careful preparation was to declare my happiness from now on...

I thought that after thinking about so many different confession lines, what I got in the end should be a happier time than usual...

Why, will it become like this?

"...Anyway, I'm sorry!"

Bending down suddenly to apologize to him, Fujiwara Chika cruelly turned her face away, not watching him gradually collapse from strength to fragility, and ran away with the hem of the wedding dress in her hand.

"wait wait wait……"

Shouting like that, Shinichi Asada didn't catch up.

It's not that he doesn't want to chase, but now, as if all the strength in his body has been exhausted, he doesn't even have the strength to stand still, and he staggers to hold his knee.

Looking at her disappearing figure outside the church with wide open eyes, Asada opened his mouth, the thoughts in his eyes were chaotic and disorderly, and his usual calmness melted into a scattered pool of water like ice cubes that had been exposed to the sun for a long time stains.

"This development is wrong...why, why...did I do something wrong?"

"What to do, what to do..."

His heart was throbbing, his thinking was chaotic, and what made him even more nauseated and depressed was that the memories of the past surged up like a tide in an instant, hitting his mind with aggravation.

At this moment, he saw the experimental ward.

I saw myself who was lonely all my life, saw the paleness surrounded only by books, and also saw the loneliness that seemed to be branded on the soul.

In a flash before his eyes, countless "Shinichi Asada" appeared in a shattered scene like a kaleidoscope.

They are not around them, and they have rejected them countless times.

They chose different paths and led to the same ending.

——They got the knowledge they dreamed of, but never got the happiness they deserved.

Why, what is this?

How could this happen, what does this represent?

"Well--"

A distressed sound came from the chest and abdomen, Asada clenched his teeth subconsciously, his eyebrows were furrowed into knots, and his breathing was intermittent, as if countless himself stretched out his hands towards the internal organs, constantly squeezing the air out of them.

"Calm down, calm down, don't panic... don't panic!"

It's just a vague answer. A man who collapsed because of one sentence is not worthy of shouldering their happiness.

Alone, Shinichi Asada is just a dummy made of molten glass, both physically and mentally, so fragile and empty.

——However, the greatest luck in his life was meeting those girls.

It is precisely because of their support that the glass can be melted into steel, and the confetti can burst into flames.

The fragile is no longer weak, the empty is no longer empty...

So, he is no longer what he used to be.

"...everything will be fine."

Perhaps, there is really a word in this world that can save a person.

That trembling was approaching calmness.

"call……"

Slowly loosening his clenched fist, Shinichi Asada raised his face, and patted his cheek hard twice.

His closed eyes slowly opened, and he lowered his head again, exhaling a suffocating breath from his chest and abdomen.

Although the thinking is still not working smoothly, at least it has calmed down.

Even though those pictures were still flashing snowflakes in front of his eyes like an overloaded screen, at least...they had nothing to do with him.

Shinichi Asada will never let happiness slip through his fingers.

at this time--

"The next bride is coming."

Kashima-san's voice sounded, Asada turned around and looked back, feeling rejoiced,

Kashima should not have seen the gaffe just now.

"……Um?"

While leading the fashionable girl with blond hair and side ponytail in, Kashima looked at Asada who was standing at the other end of the red carpet, and frowned suspiciously as if aware of something.

Just before he looked carefully, he was patted on the shoulder by the third-year senior beside him, and at the same time, a cold and clear voice tinged with sarcasm rang out.

"I didn't expect that guy to be shaken to such an extent. To be honest, it's quite funny."

"Hayasaka-senpai..." Kashima-san said helplessly as he focused his eyes on the girl's bitten white lips, "When you say that, can you stop showing a distressed expression?"

"...You read it wrong, I was gloating." Her ears were a little red, Hayasaka Ai changed her face instantly, and raised her eyebrows expressionlessly, "Take me to change clothes, Kashima-senpai."

"Yes..." Responding with a sigh, Kashima gave Asada a worried look before leading Ai Hayasaka into the dressing room.

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After Hayasaka Ai changed into her wedding dress and came out, Asada stood at the back of the church with a smile as if nothing had happened just now, and couldn't help being taken aback when she saw her appearance.

"Love, your hair..."