I push the kid!

The bedding and pillows were placed in place by the housekeeper, and the blanket on the floor was not covered with dust.

Taku Makimura sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the empty bookshelf, wondering whether he should go to the study to read for a while before coming back.

Hoshino Ai suddenly sent him a message, which was a three-second voice message.

She said slowly: "I like you, Makimura Taku."

After listening to this, Taku Makimura typed in the chat box, "What do you mean, what strange medicine did the young lady give you?" and sent it.

Hoshino Ai then replied: "Is it really a lie, Makimura?"

"Of course." This is what Makimura Taku wanted to say at first.

The moment his finger stopped on the send button, he suddenly thought of the unpredictable expressions on Hoshino Ai and Ogura Tomoki's faces when they came out of the bath.

He hesitated for a moment and changed his reply message to: "Why did you think of asking this?"

"Because I suddenly wanted to ask."

"Are you stimulated?"

“That seems to be correct.”

"This answer is not reassuring," said Taku Makimura.

"Ah? Really?" Hoshino Ai sent a cute apology emoji to ease the atmosphere. The rabbit was bowing 90 degrees. "I'm sorry, sorry!"

"That's a very original way of saying sorry."

"right."

“It’s cute too.”

"Stolen from Watanabe!"

"No wonder." Taku Makimura thought of Mai Watanabe whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"But can you answer it, Makimura?" Hoshino Ai brought the topic back to the same question as before. "It's the same question as before."

"It's not a lie."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"How should I put it, Makimura," Hoshino Ai sent another voice message, "It's okay to tell the truth~"

The tone was gentle, or perhaps more optimistic than expected, but Makimura Taku always felt that there was something strange.

It was as if she sent the voice message deliberately just to convey those false feelings.

"Let's talk outside." He also sent a voice message.

"No." Hoshino Ai turned it into text, "Just tell me directly. After all, it's getting late now, isn't it? It's already half past eleven."

"I always feel like I can't explain it clearly." Both of them began typing.

"Haha, how could it be?"

"Can you find my room?"

"If you can't find it, just tell me directly, Makura~"

"Or downstairs, in the hall?"

"No."

"I say, you've been too willful tonight." Taku Makimura smiled bitterly at the screen.

"tell me."

"Are you too excited, you?"

"Really, I'm sleepy. Just tell me directly. I'll go to sleep after you listen to me."

Makimura Taku shook his head, feeling a little helpless. Just as he was about to type some words, a one-second voice message popped up from below.

"...Please." Hoshino Ai said in a crying voice.

Even though it was unclear, Makimura Taku didn't even have the courage to listen to it a second time.

He was stunned for a long time before he remembered to reply: "No."

"wrong."

"What's wrong."

"That wasn't the answer last time."

"If you're emotional, you won't be able to listen properly," said Taku Makimura.

"I have no idea……"

"how could be."

"That's all." Hoshino Ai sent the last voice message, "If even this is a lie, I..."

The rest of the words were lost, not because I couldn't hear them clearly, but because they were not recorded. Hoshino Ai didn't continue, she was choking up.

Taku Makimura sent her a message, but Hoshino Ai didn't reply. He called her, but Hoshino Ai didn't answer.

He threw his cell phone on the bed, opened the door and prepared to go out. Ogura Yuki was standing at the door, looking like he was about to knock.

The two looked at each other.

"Where are you going?"

"How did you come."

"You're going to look for Xiao Ai?"

Makimura Taku looked at her and nodded immediately: "Yes."

"No."

"why?"

Ogura Yuki said in a blaming tone: "I came to you in person, how can you bear to abandon me like this?"

"Sorry, sorry, but I don't have time to play house with you now, my lady." Makimura Taku pretended to leave.

Ogura Tomoki didn't care if he would be exposed. He raised his leg high and pushed him against the wall. At the same time, he looked at him with ill intent: "I'm not kidding."

"do not do that."

"how?"

"I can see it now," said Taku Makimura. But he didn't actually see it.

Ogura Tomoki suddenly blushed, turned away, and then quickly turned back.

She put down her thigh and used the same hand to push against the wall: "I'm not kidding, Makura."

"What."

"Tonight, let's," she continued with a blushing face, but with a threatening look on her face, "let's stay together!"

"..."

"If you hear it clearly, then say yes!"

"Don't you have your own room?"

"Don't say anything else."

"..." Makimura Taku said, "No."

"no?"

Taku Makimura gently grabbed her wrist, while Tomoki Ogura let out a surprised sound and looked at his right hand that was grabbed.

"If you want to refuse," Ogura Yuki said, "that's fine, but you have to kiss me first, then I will leave."

"No."

"No? Then I will..."

"A-san... Xiao Ai, she seems to be crying now." Makimura Taku said softly.

"..." Ogura Yuki was stunned, "Crying?"

"Yes."

"So, that's why you're in such a hurry to get out?"

"Yes."

Her hand slid down as if she had lost her strength: "I'm sorry."

"It has nothing to do with you, because..."

"It has something to do with me."

"It's my own problem."

"No, it's not your problem."

Makimura Taku kept silent and just looked at her.

Ogura Yuki's long black hair that had been blown dry fell down, covering both sides of her face: "I said, I said it was a lie."

Makimura Taku understood what she meant: "Even if you don't say it, she will know it."

"She could have slept peacefully."

"You were just telling the truth."

"Because I want her to back off, so..." She was a little anxious.

"It's none of your business." Makimura Taku said gently.

"Don't blame me." Ogura Yuki said, and then shook his head vigorously a few times, "... No, it should be all my fault."

"Why do you say that?"

"but."

"..."