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Chapter 189 How to Grasp the Feelings of Love
“It’s so cold, so cold!”

The girl screamed like this, bobbing up and down in the surging sea water. Matsueda Jun watched her long black hair being wet by the sea water, turning into the first hint of the coming night.

"Don't swim too far, otherwise I won't be able to get to you if something happens." Jun Matsueda put his hands to his mouth and shouted at the girl.

"I know--" Lai Qi Yang Shi's voice was drowned by the waves heading towards him.

There were still a few chairs on the beach that had been weathered by wind and sun. Songzhi Jun picked up a sturdy one, brushed off the sand on it, and sat down in front of the tide with it.

The girl seemed to have adapted to the temperature of the sea water, her movements became smooth and graceful. She leaned out of the water, took a deep breath, and then disappeared in the silver waves.

Jun Matsueda stood up, rolled up his trouser legs, put on slippers, and walked a few steps into the sea to make sure that Laiqi Yangshi had not drifted far away and was still within his reach.

It felt like releasing a dolphin into a bay. His thoughts soared with the seagulls, but this dolphin couldn't save people; instead, it was people who needed to save her.

Kurusu Yoshi's black hair rose again from the sea surface. She looked at the boy on the beach, "Matsuji! Ahem, I seem to have a cramp——"

Jun Matsueda looked at the tide behind the girl, took off his coat, let the cold air slide over his limbs, and jumped into the sea.

"What are you laughing at?" He dragged the girl back to the beach. "Doesn't your cramp hurt?"

"It hurts." Lai Qi Yang Shi's laughter was intermittent, mixed with painful inhalations.

"Crazy." Jun Matsueda grabbed her right toes and pulled them upwards, then pressed her calf muscles.

A few minutes later, “Phew—feeling better!”

The girl climbed up from the beach and jumped a few times on the spot. Her plump upper body swayed and the strings of her swimsuit were dangling.

"What's good about that!" After getting ashore, the cold and damp touch wrapped around his body. Matsueda Jun hugged himself tightly, "My clothes are all wet, unlike you who still have a change of clothes."

The wind on the shore started to blow, and he raised his legs and ran and jumped, trying to generate heat and keep warm. Lai Qi Yang Shi still had a smiling expression on her face, and she pointed to the bag next to the beach chair.

"Of course I prepared clothes for you."

A strong wind blew, and in the deep blue twilight, the two men shivered, picked up the bags and ran towards the locker room.

"Wait! Songzhi, wait for me!" The girl who had just had a cramp limped after him.

After drying himself, he changed into the shirt, trousers and knitted vest from the bag, put on his coat and walked out of the locker room.

"It's still so cold!" Lai Qi Yang Shi pushed open the wooden door at the same time as him. Both of them were holding bags filled with clothes they had taken off.

"The heat you lose doesn't come back just because you put on clothes."

Jun Matsueda looked at the girl. The wide windbreaker covered her slim figure. Judging from the way she walked, the cramps should not have had much impact on her.

"Then quickly replenish the calories!"

Sitting behind the floor-to-ceiling window of the cafe, Lai Qi Yangshi took a sip of the boiling hot coffee. The hot air he exhaled left a white mass on the glass, which then disappeared little by little.

Outside the window was the coastal highway, and on the other side of the highway was the beach where she had just had a cramp.

"Matsueda, the beach for two is more fun than I thought."

Jun Matsueda drank the coffee in small sips. The hot touch on the tip of his tongue was like a spark, rekindling the heat of his body.

Feeling like he was about to hear another story, he didn't say anything and put the coffee cup back on the plate on the table. The heating in the room surrounded the two of them, and the girl's voice became lazy.

"The last time I went to the beach was on the first day of the new year." Kurusu Yoshi rested his chin on the table, watching the smoke rising from the coffee cup.

"I went there with my mom. I didn't bring a swimsuit or wear flip-flops."

"I don't dare to swim because my mom is here on a date. If something goes wrong, she won't have time to take care of me." Jun Matsue took a sip of coffee. Luckily, Yosei Kurusu didn't inherit her mother's love-struck mind.

"It was summer, and I walked on the beach from afternoon until dusk, until I was the only one left."

"I still remember that evening. The sky was gloomy, the tide was roaring, and the wind was so strong that it blew tiny grains of sand into my face."

Kirisu Yoshi waved his right hand in front of his face, trying to block the non-existent sand.

In the girl's memory, for some reason, the summer evening breeze was colder than today's sea breeze.

"After that, I didn't want to go to the beach anymore."

A fleeting expression of calmness appeared on Laiqi Yangshi's face again, then disappeared in the mist of the fragrant coffee.

"Was that the beach you walked on that day in Shizuoka?"

"Hmm." The girl held her coffee in her hand and sighed contentedly, "It turns out that you should go to the beach together."

Matsueda Jun smiled and pushed the baumkuchen that the waiter brought in front of her. "Replenish your energy, so you don't catch a cold or fever in the middle of the night."

Kurusu Yoshi took a sip of coffee and a bite of cake. The girl's happiness was like a huge bubble, expanding in front of Matsueda Jun and wrapping up his face.

"By the way, were all these clothes bought when you were picking out underwear?"

He touched the sweater on his body and found it was quite comfortable.

The girl nodded. "A proper surprise is necessary between lovers, right?"

After their body heat recovered, the two left the cafe and went into a ramen restaurant for dinner.

"In winter, we must eat hot food with soup~" Lai Qi Yang Shi walked out of the store, stroking his belly.

"The noodle soup in this restaurant is a bit too salty." Jun Matsueda bought a bottle of mineral water from a roadside vending machine.

"I think it's fine. I just need to replenish salt after exercise!"

"Aside from pulling you ashore, I didn't do much exercise."

The two walked on the coastal road again. The capes in the distance were intertwined, and the moonlight shone through the clouds, making it hazy.

"Isn't it time to go back? We still have more than an hour's drive to go."

"Tomorrow is Coming of Age Day, and you don't have to go to school, so why are you in such a hurry?" The girl pulled Matsueda Jun back from the station and said, "Stroll with me for a while."

It is lonely to walk alone on the beach, but after having someone accompany him, Lai Qi Yang Shi wants to keep walking on the beach like this forever.

The sea breeze blew up the collar of her windbreaker. The girl looked at the boy walking beside her. His collar was also turned up, as if this could keep out the cold.

"Matsueda, I feel like I've finally grasped the feeling of love!"

"That's good. At least today's trip wasn't in vain." His weak applause disappeared in the wind and waves.

An old man in the cafe sat at the bar, and young men and women in windbreakers passed by the floor-to-ceiling windows and walked into the distance.

He picked up the oil pen on the table and walked to the window. There were various handwritings and photos left by guests on the high glass.

The silver-haired store manager uncapped a black pen and wrote in the blank space.

"As if looking out a window at the horizon, my youth has returned."

(End of this chapter)