I push the kid!

The cold moonlight poured down from the top of the veil-like clouds, illuminating the flooded road surface.

On the road, cars were constantly flowing, and the pale yellow headlights flashed across the two people's bodies.

On the way to the station, they boarded the overpass.

The undried raindrops dripped clearly from the stone steps, playing a beautiful song in my ears.

When they reached the middle of the overpass, they stopped and looked out over the railing.

The city decorated with neon lights has a unique charm even at night.

"It's so beautiful!" Hoshino Ai exclaimed as she looked into the distance.

Makimura Taku glanced at her and said nothing.

He just watched the cars under the overpass dragging their taillights away until the lights gradually blurred and finally disappeared into the night.

The night breeze is always a little cool, like early autumn or late summer.

In this rain-soaked Tokyo, even the air has become icy cold.

"I always feel it's a little unbelievable." Hoshino Ai suddenly said.

"Incredible?" Makimura Taku turned his head.

"Yes!" Hoshino Ai raised one hand and looked at the starry sky with her deep eyes.

The loose three-quarter sleeves slid down her forearms, and in the thick darkness, the exposed skin looked like white snow.

She whispered, "I met you and decided to become an idol."

The voice was pleasant and gentle, as if it was talking about something that had passed away.

Not only that, even her unclear expression gradually fell into reminiscence.

On that night in early May when the evening breeze could be heard, Takuya Makimura could hear his own breathing.

The wind blew through his hair, bringing all the fresh air with it.

Makimura Taku looked straight ahead, put his arms on the handrail, and put one foot on the horizontal bar below.

He said calmly: "The most incredible thing is that we can meet again."

After saying that, he looked at Hoshino Ai.

Hoshino Ai just hummed in confirmation, but she stretched out the sound, and there was a hint of hesitation in her words.

She said, “Have you ever thought about this before?”

"what?"

"Reunion." As she said this, she faced forward, crossed her two index fingers together, and then squinted one eye and stared forward.

Looking at her meaningless movements, Makimura Taku chuckled and said, "No, I haven't thought about it."

"Really?"

"After all, we've been apart for a long time."

"Did you think about it at the very beginning?"

"nor."

"why?"

"Just a passerby, isn't he?"

"Just a passerby..."

"Yes." Makimura Taku confirmed, "At that time."

"Hmm..." Hoshino Ai looked under the bridge, "I have thought about this, Makimura."

"Reunion?"

"Reunion."

"You are the first one to leave." Makimura Taku smiled.

"That's right," Hoshino Ai turned her head, "But, Makimura, can you tell whether I was lying just now?"

"Ah."

"The results of it?"

"It's not a lie," he said.

"Look." Hoshino Ai smiled.

The moonlight disappeared into the clouds and the night was lit up by street lamps.

They got off the overpass and walked for a while in silence.

Until Hoshino Ai spoke first.

"Makimura."

"Ah."

"listen to me."

"I'm listening."

Neither of them looked at each other. Makimura Taku looked ahead, and Hoshino Ai stared at her feet.

She said, “I never thought I’d meet you.”

"Yeah." Makimura Taku waited for her to continue.

"But after I met you, and after that, I have forgotten when it started, I have thought about many things, related to you, related to myself. Sometimes, when I walk beside you, or suddenly think of you, I feel that I have become a little different from the past with that kind of thought." She paused and said, "But I don't hate myself like that at all. It's better to say that I like it no matter what!"

Makimura Taku smiled faintly and said nothing.

"I've thought about parting with you, and I've thought about meeting you again... Although I've thought about both, sometimes I still think: It's really incredible! Maybe, I have such thoughts." At this point, she turned her head cutely, "Mucun, can you understand what I'm saying?"

"More or less."

Chapter 51: Becoming an Idol from Tomorrow

Chapter 51 51. Becoming an Idol from Tomorrow

"From the time we reunited to the time I decided to become an idol, it was only a matter of days."

"Yes." Makimura Taku nodded slightly.

Hoshino Ai pursed her lips, crossed her hands and stretched them forward, then upwards:

"From the time I decided to become an idol to the time I formed an idol group with everyone in B-Komachi, almost a month had passed."

"It has been that long indeed."

She lowered her arms and tilted her head slightly, and a charming smiling face emerged in the darkness.

"How should I put it," she paused, "I always feel like I've done a lot of things I wouldn't have done before."

"It's too certain that I won't do it."

"But that's what I thought." She wondered, "Is this a lie?"

Makimura Taku shook his head: "This is not a lie."

"That's what I said." Hoshino Ai said with a smile.

The sky grew darker, and a gust of wind behind me rustled the leaves on the roadside.

The inky black clouds moved rapidly across the sky as if the fast-forward button had been pressed.

After the moon disappeared, thin raindrops began to fall obliquely from the sky.

Under the overpass not far away, pedestrians covered their heads with briefcases while striding across the road.

The worker who was repairing the street lights climbed down from the ladder and temporarily took shelter under a nearby eaves.

On the cobblestone road, Taku Makimura opened his umbrella and he and Ai Hoshino hid inside it.

"It started raining suddenly." Hoshino Ai spread out her palms.

"Let's go back early." Makimura Taku looked up.

"Ah."

The two of them quickened their pace and rushed to Ochanomizu Station in silence.

When the train arrived at the station, they walked into the same carriage.

The train stopped in front of Ochanomizu, and Hoshino Ai kept looking at the night view outside the opposite window.

As if something outside continued to attract her, she didn't even turn her head once.

It wasn't until the female voice on the radio announced the arrival of Ochanomizu that Hoshino Ai came to her senses.

She stood up from her seat, first straightening her wrinkled skirt.

Then she lowered her head and put her feet, which were wearing white shoes and black tights, together, as if she was observing some obvious stains on the toe of the shoe. She looked so cute.

When she lowered her head, her long hair would fall gently, like some very special purple waterfall.

Makimura Taku just glanced at her silently, and she seemed to notice it. She slowly raised her face, lifted the long hair by her ears, and raised the corners of her mouth into a perfect arc.

Hoshino Ai waved at Makimura Taku, and Makimura Taku nodded to her.

The car door opened at this time and she went out. Makimura Takuya would soon arrive at the station, so he stood up too.

The two looked at each other in silence before the door closed. Hoshino Ai tilted her head and chuckled, then waved goodbye again.

Before the train was about to start, the ignition switch closed to the middle. After a puffing sound, Hoshino Ai's face was blocked behind the transparent glass.

The car started to move forward, and she was still standing in the original position, just standing obediently.

The smile remained the same, as pure and flawless as usual, like a carefully carved girl-shaped doll.

When the figure was about to disappear, she opened her cherry lips slightly and seemed to say something, starting with "I".

But what happened next, Makimura Taku could neither see nor hear.

Later, the tram drove away and entered the tunnel in the rain.