On the other side, Ikuta was shocked and panicked, and the hand holding the phone trembled slightly.

——Ikuta-chan, you don’t need to come.

Fukawa's words still echoed in her ears.

Ikuta was sitting cross-legged on the bed, still wearing his home pajamas. He originally planned to pretend to have overslept and apologize to Fukawa and the others later. Unexpectedly, a phone call came from the other side. Instead, Ikuta got confused and answered the phone in a panic, making an excuse.

She was making up nonsense, and she felt like "What the hell am I talking about" halfway through.

But Fukawa would use such suppressed angry voice to tell her not to go there, which was beyond Ikuta's expectation.

It sounded like an angry comment, and after waiting for her boyfriend for more than half an hour in front of the cinema but no sign of her, she received a call to cancel an impromptu date, so the girl angrily said, "Then you don't want to come!" The subtext was clear.

It's us who are done.

Ikuta thought hard and never expected that the usually gentle and kind-hearted Madonna Fukagawa would be cruel to her, and would also use this trick of saying sarcastic words to express anger.

"Even my mother has never been cruel to me..."

Ikuta flattened his mouth, blinked his eyes a few times, and tears flowed down his cheeks. Ikuta subconsciously licked it, and the salty taste made her feel even more uncomfortable.

In fact, Ikuta's father had been cruel to her many times.

In short, Ikuta's mind was filled with a vicious cycle of "Maimai is angry with me" and "I have made Maimai angry." The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and finally burst into tears.

When Ikuta's mother heard the noise and rushed to the scene, she saw Ikuta crying and trying on her various clothes one by one in front of the floor-length mirror, saying "this... doesn't work" and "this... doesn't work either."

Match.

Ikuta's mother was inevitably confused, so she had no choice but to ask, "Erika, what's wrong with you?" as she approached.

Ikuta threw away his clothes and cried bitterly in his mother's arms.

"I-I'm going on a date at the amusement park with Hikaka...!"

Ikuta's mother hugged her daughter to comfort her, with only one thought in her mind.

This kid Erika...could there be something that fell into the hands of the members and was threatened?

——

In front of Fujikyu Gate, Gogeng and Nishino were really shocked when Fukawa and Shiraishi appeared as a team.

"Shixiao-chan, let's buy a ticket and go in first." Shekawa naturally took Wu Geng's hand and walked to the ticket gate. Wu Geng was almost forced to leave, and he didn't even have time to ask what was going on.

.

The same goes for Nishino.

The two of them looked panicked, not like they were here for a date, but more like they were here for an emergency evacuation.

Especially after Fukawa entered the park with Wu Geng, while Shiraishi was buying tickets, he would look back from time to time, as if he was avoiding something.

Nishino followed her line of sight and found nothing.

When Shiraishi nervously handed over the ticket to enter the park, Nishino did not reach out to take it immediately.

"Na-chan?"

"Ma Yiyan," Nishino said, "I'm sorry to bother you."

Shiraishi thought she was talking about queuing up to buy tickets, so he replied, "It's okay."

"Sorry to trouble you." But Nishino repeated again.

This time, Shiraishi finally noticed that Nishino used "you" instead of "you". She was silent for a moment, and the panic in her heart dissipated a lot.

Nishino's eyes looked at her tenderly but seriously, and Shiraishi was slightly touched. She thought of the girl who ran away in fright when she made eye contact in the early days, like a smart but timid hare.

At that time, Shiraishi wanted to talk to Nishino. If they talked more, maybe they could become good friends. But at that time, she also clung to the awkwardness in her heart, tangled in loneliness and expectations, and finally ended up forever.

Shima shattered her childish disguise, and then Fukawa broke in with Hashimoto.

Shiraishi was grateful for all these encounters. In that chaotic classroom, she was not sitting alone in the corner, like a stranger out of place.

She had companions and friends, which could already fill her empty heart. Now, they told her that there was a more intimate relationship beyond this. Looking at Fukawa and Hashimoto, Wu Geng and Nishino pointed out to each other

She was like a child lost in the dark, holding the balloon in her hand blankly, not knowing who to give it to.

"Na-chan..."

Shiraishi spoke complicatedly.

"Huh?" Nishino looked at her innocently.

Instead, Shiraishi was dazzled by the pure and transparent gaze.

Na-chan must have found something most precious to her. Shiraishi thought. In order to prevent them from missing each other due to misunderstanding, he appeared here.

"...It's okay," Shiraishi shook his head and said with a smile, "Let's go in." The first thing in line now is not her problem.

Nishino hung her bag on her shoulder, and her white and delicate arms hugged Shiraishi's arm. Seeing Shiraishi looking at her in surprise, she smiled narrowly, and the smile between her brows and eyes played with Shiraishi's heart like catkins.

"……Hate?"

"It's not that I hate it."

Shiraishi felt ashamed, but did not hide it. He just smiled helplessly, "Na-chan, you should show this side more in front of Shixiao-chan, right?"

Nishino nodded slightly, then raised his head and said in a coquettish tone, "What does it matter? The person I'm dating now is Mai."

"You want Shixiao-chan to feel uncomfortable watching it."

"More or less, she has never been able to understand my feelings. But," Nishino crossed his arms slightly, "I also want to have a good relationship with Mai. I have thought so from the beginning."

The skin on his arms came into contact, and the delicate and smooth touch between the rubs was like being slowly entangled by a pure and alluring white snake. Shiraishi felt that he was slightly aroused and his heart was fluctuating. This must be a girl.

That subtle and elusive throbbing that can only be felt in a short period of time.

"I...I'm just not used to Na-chan being so positive to me..." Shiraishi's body became a little stiff.

In the past, she would not have noticed these details, nor would she have been so easily immersed in them, so that she fell into the trap set by Nishino like a lost soul. She would treat these as ordinary contacts, women

Between children.

Now, the rising emotions have removed the barrier called friendship and gained more room to climb. The width and breadth of Shiraishi's view of things have been expanded to a certain extent.

She was somewhat at a loss, seeming to be struggling with what attitude to use in response to Nishino's attack, even though the real target of the attack was Wu Geng, and she was just a cover.

"Let's go, let's go, Mai-chan." Nishino turned his back on the guests and pulled Shiraishi, who was stiff, toward the garden.
Chapter completed!