My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 208 The Sunset After School

"Ok."

"learn."

"Do you two have something urgent to deal with later?" Teacher Naruko pulled up a chair, sat down, and looked at the two people in front of her.

"No." They both shook their heads simultaneously.

"Okay, wait a few more minutes, those students will be here. You can get to know each other before you go back."

I'll prepare your art supplies for tomorrow; you can just come and use them.

Tsuna thanked her, and Shoko quickly chimed in, "Then I'll have to trouble you, Naruko-sensei."

No sooner had he finished speaking than there was a knock on the closed door from the outside.

"Dong dong dong..."

“One of them must have arrived early.” Ms. Naruko took a sip of tea and shifted her gaze from the two people’s faces to the entrance of the art department.

"Click..."

As the knocking stopped, the wooden door handle was turned from the outside.

"You two, you've arrived so early?"

"Good afternoon, Miyagi-senpai."

The wooden door was pushed open halfway, and Tsuna could see the person who came in from his angle. It was none other than Miyagi Yuki-senpai, whom he had met in the art club yesterday.

After recognizing the newcomers, Shoko greeted them, and Miyagi Yuki nodded to the two of them before also greeting Naruko-sensei in front of them.

She instantly guessed what the two were waiting for, said something to them, and then returned to her designated spot to attend to her own business.

The two waited for another five or six minutes before the regular art department staff finally gathered.

They are the female club president in her third year and Itoya (male) in his third year.

Second-year students: Miyagi Yuki (female), Kudo Ueto (male), and Murashita Sami (female).

There was another student in the same grade as them, but he had something to do today and asked to be absent.

The two greeted the people present and introduced themselves to each other. They then stayed in the art department for about an hour before leaving.

She asked the seniors for some basic advice, and Shoko also diligently took out her notebook to write down the personal tips they shared.

Shoko's enthusiasm for everyone made her look forward to spending more time with them in the future.

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The lingering warmth of late summer still hangs lazily in the air, and the sky is like a piece of silk dyed with watercolor, revealing soft indigo and orange-pink hues.

The glass of the vending machine reflected shimmering light. Several boys gathered in front of the machine, dropped in coins, and as the carbonated drinks tumbled out with a "clatter," the sound of bubbles bursting out amidst their laughter.

At a certain corner, Ayumi Ajitani, who had changed into casual clothes, stopped and raised her phone to the sunset on the horizon. The light from the screen illuminated the dimples at the corners of her mouth.

"The minister just mentioned that the student in our grade is named Kawai. Tsuna, do you think he might be our class monitor from sixth grade?"

On her way home, Shoko couldn't contain her curiosity and asked a question.

She had a pretty good impression of the class monitor from sixth grade.

The other party never bullied her or gave her any strange looks.

But Tsuna told her to spend less time with him, so their relationship remained the same.

"Japan isn't a very big country, but there are many people with the same surname and given name. And our school is so big, the probability of it being her is still very small."

Tsuna shook her hand, denying her idea.

"Right."

Shoko lightly brushed a stray strand of hair behind her ear, smiled and nodded, and without hesitation took the arm of the person beside her.

"Ding...ding...ding..."

As the girl moved, a regular clanging sound came from the tram tracks in the distance.

A boy riding a bicycle sped past the slope in the distance, the wheels making a soft, crisp sound as they rolled over fallen leaves. His backpack on the back seat opened slightly from the bumps, revealing a corner of his Chinese textbook.

"What's wrong?" Tsuna asked curiously. "Nothing." Shoko shook her head slightly, her gaze falling on the sunset on the horizon, her eyes lingering on the boy's profile.

"Oh, right, Tsuna."

"Ok?"

"You agreed to join the track and field club with Mr. Zuo Jing, so aren't you going to report to the track and field club after school tomorrow?"

"Hmm..." Tsuna looked at the tram rushing past in the distance and thought for a moment: "I'll go with you to the art club tomorrow to talk to the seniors, and then it won't be too late to report to the track and field club."

"I can manage on my own, okay?" Shoko, annoyed by his childish tone, banged her head hard against his shoulder.

"I'll go to the art department tomorrow and talk to those seniors for you. You can just report to the track and field department."

"Then I'll go back to the art department as soon as possible."

"Uh-huh……"

"Sister, how long are you going to be all lovey-dovey? This road is only about five minutes long, but you've been walking for almost thirty minutes."

Just then, the speechless voice of a black-haired loli, who had appeared out of nowhere, rang out behind the two.

Shoko immediately released Tsuna's arm, instantly creating half a meter's distance between them before turning around to look behind her.

It was a little black-haired girl walking the dog, and her eyes were full of speechless disbelief.

"I saw you from a great distance, but I didn't expect you to walk at such a snail's pace."

"Woof!" Hachiko wagged its tail and echoed.

“You don’t understand.” Shoko waved her hand, shooing away Nishimiya Yuzuru, who was trying to squeeze between the two of them.

"Yes, yes, I don't understand."

After saying that, Nishimiya Yuzuru ran a few steps forward, turned around and shouted at Shoko:

"Sis, Mom bought strawberries today. I was planning to wait for you to come back so we could eat them together."

But now I've changed my mind; I'm going to go home early and eat it all!

As soon as she finished speaking, Nishimiya Yuzuru started running towards home.

Hachiko, who was standing to the side, turned around and glanced at the two of them before following closely behind.

"Hmm..." Shoko's gaze darted back and forth between the fleeing Nishimiya Yuzuru and the Tsuna beside her, before she finally hardened her heart and said:
"Tsuna, I'll get you lots more strawberries!"

"You two are running so fast, be careful you don't fall!"

Tsuna shouted loudly at the two who had run away, but received no response, so he had no choice but to join them.

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As dusk falls, the streetlights and the stars simultaneously come to life, and the rolling spots of light on the asphalt road are like tungsten filaments of the Milky Way falling to earth.

"Tsuna, come on, have some strawberries."

Shoko picked up one of the washed strawberries from the transparent fruit plate and fed it to someone watching TV.

"Why are there so many? Did Yuzuru fail to grab any?" Tsuna looked at the fruit platter full of strawberries, swallowed the one in his mouth, and asked with a puzzled smile.

Shoko also picked up a piece, took a bite of it, and slowly replied, "No, to be precise, Nishimiya Yuzuru succeeded."

But her mother gave her a flick on the forehead, and only then did she reluctantly share half of it. Then her mother added, "Your share is in this too."

Finally, Yuzuru, fighting back tears, gave me another half, but I didn't want it..."

"..."

As he listened to her description, Tsuna's mind flashed back to the image of the black-haired loli who was possessive of her food but had no choice but to share it with her.

"Here, have another one." Seeing that he didn't speak, Shoko picked up another one and held it to his lips.

"No, you eat it. I don't really like strawberries." Tsuna turned his head away.

"..." Shizuka Miyamura, who was sitting on the sofa watching the two of them, was extremely speechless, even though Shoko had given her a portion of strawberries next to her.

(End of this chapter)