I push the kid!

After that day, for several days in a row, Taku Makimura went to work as usual and only went to Ochanomizu once on Wednesday.

I went to the library on Tuesday and renewed my one-month swimming membership at the indoor swimming pool on Thursday. I swam ten laps in the 50-meter pool.

I was planning to go home and watch a movie on Friday, Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly.

But since there were no free resources, I decided to go to the cinema alone.

The movie started at 2:30 in the afternoon and ended around 5:00.

After he came out of the cinema, he wandered around the surrounding shopping malls for a few rounds, and finally had dinner at a set meal restaurant, spending more than 800 yen.

I walked into Starbucks at 6 o'clock and ran into Maki Teramoto and Hideki Nishida at the door. They were never a minute early.

When they saw Takuya Makimura arriving at this time, the two of them joked while changing their uniforms, saying that they didn't expect that he had also learned bad things.

Taku Makimura explained that it was only today.

Teramoto Maki patted his shoulder:

"It's okay, a few days is fine. Youxi doesn't expect you to go to work normally anyway. She always asks me to find an opportunity to put you outside the door to hand out flyers, just like the maids in Akihabara, do you know that?"

"not very clear."

"impossible?"

"Although I have never been to Akihabara," Nishida Hideki, who was wiping the table, said without looking up, "but even I know what the maids in Akihabara are like. Makimura-kun must know too, without a doubt."

"Is it that famous?" said Taku Makimura.

"Of course," he said, looking very knowledgeable, "As long as you are a man, it is impossible for you to have no interest in a beautiful girl wearing white stockings."

"...White stockings?" Koizumi Hanami, who was busy with something, stopped what she was doing and looked at him blankly.

"Do you think Makimura-kun is the same as you?" Maki Teramoto put away several stainless steel cylindrical containers and said in a very contemptuous tone.

“That’s the commonality.”

"Why do I feel like it's just you?"

"Isn't he standing here?" Nishida Hideki said, "Just ask Makimura-kun whether he likes it or not."

"Hey, Makimura-kun, do you like it?" Teramoto Maki asked directly.

Koizumi Hanami also looked at Makimura Taku, waiting for his next answer in a very anxious manner. She wanted to hear it, but was a little embarrassed.

"Of course I like it." Nishida Hideki snorted without thinking.

Makimura Taku cleared his throat and said, "To be honest, I don't hate it."

"Not annoying?" said Maki Teramoto.

"Just not hating it?" Nishida Hideki was a little surprised, "Shouldn't it be that I like it very much?"

Koizumi Hanami's cheeks blushed as she looked back and forth at them without saying a word.

"It's not to that extent." Makimura Taku thought about it.

"What's the approximate extent?" Hideki Nishida came over and asked.

“I’ll take another look.”

“And then you don’t watch it anymore?”

"should be."

"Are you going to stare at me all the time?" Teramoto Maki glared at him with complicated eyes.

"How is that possible?" Nishida Hideki replied, "I like you, but I'm not that serious."

"Then why are you asking Makimura-kun?"

"Just curious," he said, blocking his mouth, "Don't you want to know what Makimura-kun is like in private? You're usually so polite."

"A little bit." After thinking for half a second, Maki Teramoto nodded and glanced at Taku Makimura.

"That's okay."

"But no matter what, I won't be as bad as you."

"Bad? I'm a gentleman."

"How dare you say that."

During the two days of the weekend, Taku Makimura still did not go to Ochanomizu.

I reread The Great Gatsby while drinking coffee at home on Saturday morning.

I didn't read to the end, but every page and every sentence of this book is worth reading for a long time, and it took quite a long time.

That afternoon, he took his membership card to the swimming pool and went swimming for several hours.

On the way back, I bought a tube of toothpaste and some fresh vegetables at Odakyu Department Store. I also bought a few pieces of beef, and only chose bananas and apples as fruits.

After taking a shower in the evening, I read a book for a while and then went to bed.

On Sunday morning, Tomoki Ogura called and asked him about his work habits, and he replied that there were basically no problems.

"Is there another chance for you to stand on the street in front of the store?"

"It must be gone."

"pity."

"I'm going to eat first."

"Wait, don't hang up the phone yet." said Tomoki Ogura.

"what happened?"

After a few seconds, there was a response: "...Nothing."

"I hung up if there's nothing else." Makura Tuo hadn't brushed his teeth yet.

"wait."

"What's wrong?"

"There's something..." She hesitated for a moment before deciding to speak, "Can you please not have me call you all the time?"

"I haven't played many times this week."

"Can you give me one too?"

"Sometimes I don't know what to say," said Taku Makimura.

"You can say anything," Ogura Yuki said, "When did you get up, what did you eat, what books did you read, what strange people did you meet at work today, you can tell me everything."

"You want to hear this too?"

"I'm fine with anything. I'm not picky."

"You'll get tired of talking about it in two days."

"How come?" Ogura Tomoki asked, "Don't I always ask you how many years it has been since we talked? So how many years has it been?"

"The twelfth time."

"Are you tired of hearing that?"

"Somewhat."

There was an iceberg-like silence on the other side of the phone.

Makimura Taku asked quietly, "Still there?"

"Makimura." After a while, Ogura Tomoki read his name.

Just by listening to the voice, you would think that the person on the other side is a robot.

"What's wrong."

"Will we meet again?" The voice sounded a little dazed, as if it was entangled in a kite string and released into the air hundreds of meters high.

"Okay," Makimura Taku groaned, "Anything is possible in the future."

"Then I will definitely kill you the next time we meet."

"Ok?"

"Fool."

Silence loomed between them again.

Makimura Taku thought she hung up the phone, but she didn't. The person on the other end didn't say anything, and even his breathing was so loud that it was hard to hear.

Makimura Taku exhaled and smiled faintly: "Come and kill me."

The call ended at this point, and Tomoki Ogura hung up.

In mid-April, there was a continuous spring rain in the first few days, which stopped on the 15th.

The sun came out before eight o'clock in the morning, the earth was black and gold, and Makura Taku took a bus to work.

At around 1:00 p.m., Hoshino Ai asked him if he wanted to come to Ochanomizu. He thought about it and decided that he hadn't been there for a long time, so it was no problem for him to go back.

The train arrived at the station around two o'clock, and he went into the training room rented by B Komachi. All four members were there, but they were not training.

As soon as Makimura Taku entered, Watanabe Mai said as if she was making a station announcement: "Oh, Makimura-kun is here. It's been a while since we last met."

Sanae Takamine was helping Ritsuko Ninomiya bend down, while Ritsuko Ninomiya let out pitiful screams.

Hoshino Ai sat next to Watanabe Mai and waved to Makimura Taku, motioning him to come over and sit down.

When Taku Makimura walked over, Mai Watanabe raised her cell phone and pointed it at him and shouted, "Makimura-kun, look at the camera!"

He turned his head subconsciously, and with a click, the portrait was captured on the phone.

"Not bad, not bad, the expression is good!" Mai Watanabe tapped the screen with a smile.

"Really?" Hoshino Ai leaned her head over, "Let me see too."

"look!"

"Hmm..." She looked at the photo, then carefully examined Makimura Taku's face, "Very good!"

"This is an infringement of portrait rights." Taku Makimura said as he walked.

"Come on," Mai Watanabe called him, "Another close-up photo, a headshot!"