I push the kid!

She pondered the word several times with a blank expression, and then she understood it, her face visibly turning red:

"Why are you suddenly saying this? Maki, Makimura! You want to ask me if I'm a virgin? Of course, right? You still need to ask?"

Makimura Taku smiled and said, "I suddenly thought of an animation I watched before, so I wanted to talk about it."

"Fool!"

"Haha, sorry, sorry."

“This apology won’t solve the problem.”

"Then I can only bow and apologize." Makimura Taku took two steps back and bowed ninety degrees, "I'm really sorry."

"Not enough." Hoshino Ai puffed her lips.

Makimura Taku straightened up: "What else can we do?"

"Well..." She half raised her head and thought for a few seconds, "You're going to confess to me too?"

"Confess what?"

"Confess whatever comes to mind!"

It was really too difficult for him. Standing in front of Hoshino Ai herself, Makimura Taku could only think of her name. What was there to confess about the name?

"I can't think of anything..."

Hoshino Ai showed a suspicious expression: "Really?"

"I can't confess."

"lie!"

"I will not lie to you."

“……” Hoshino Ai’s eyes flickered twice.

The sea breeze died down and in the distance it was a spring evening.

The afterglow of the setting sun spreads over the sea, and the sunset dyes the world orange.

"Is it really impossible to confess? Makimura..."

Makimura Taku suddenly froze.

"What you said is..."

"Then I'll tell you."

She rushed over, grabbed Makimura Taku with both hands, and since she was not tall enough, she stood on tiptoe just to kiss his lips.

Palm leaves swayed in the darkening sky and the waves were restless.

"Please confess to me, Makimura."

The two separated for half a second, and Hoshino Ai's eyes were confused.

"Do you like me, Makimura?"

Without waiting for Makimura Taku to answer, she kissed him again.

The wind from the south is noisy.

Chapter 81 Just Say: I Like You

Chapter 81 80. Then say: I like you

The setting sun sinks into the sea, and the dusk fades away in the moment of kissing.

In fact, the sky gradually darkened because they kissed for too long.

When the waves hit the shore, making an ethereal sound that has never been heard before.

Hoshino Ai's lips slowly separated from Makimura Taku's lips, and the lingering touch still flowed through every corner of her body.

"Mucun." She said softly.

She moved her hands away and placed them on her chest as if praying, and slowly lowered her tiptoes.

Makimura Taku looked at her and only noticed the pair of black eyelashes fluttering silently in the dim light like fireflies.

"Do you like me?" Hoshino Ai looked a little uneasy and she asked again.

"I……"

"No, no." She put her hand on Makura Taku's mouth and looked away.

The gurgling water flows under the stone bridge and merges into the vast ocean in the quiet night.

"It's better not to say it." Hoshino Ai said, "Don't say it, Makimura."

Makimura Taku said nothing and moved her fingers away.

Hoshino Ai turned around.

Her movements were slow, with an expression of bewilderment and surprise on her face.

It is hard to tell whether that expression can be considered surprise, but the feeling of being at a loss is real.

Even if I wasn't lying on her chest, I could still feel her heartbeat as fast as a train.

She stared at Taku Makimura, looking straight into his eyes, as if this would allow her to find the uncertain language within her heart.

"Let's kiss." said Taku Makimura.

"Huh?" She was surprised.

"Let's kiss." Makimura Taku repeated.

She put up her wind-blown hair and said, "Just now... it's been a long time."

"But you won't let me speak."

"You keep talking."

"I can't think of what to do."

She peeked up from below: "So, do you like me?"

Night has really fallen, the shadows of the trees are swaying on the sea, and the shadows on the stone bridge are leaning away from the street lights.

"like."

"But what is love?"

“I just can’t ever forget it.”

“Is this love?”

“I want to remember it forever.”

“They’re all the same.”

“It’s true.”

"..." She opened her mouth, but no words came out.

Whether she said it or not, her eyes really lit up, as real as the shining silver stars.

"Let's kiss."

"No."

"why."

“I’ve obviously done it.”

"I like you."

Her heart trembled again.

Makimura Taku looked at her, and Hoshino Ai suddenly lowered her head woodenly.

Her movements were as cautious as a kitten that had just been brought into the house from outside.

"This is..." Hoshino Ai pulled up three of his fingers and raised her head, "This is, our date?"

"That should be it." Makimura Taku crossed her hands and held them tightly.

She glanced down as if to confirm, then raised her head again.

"Well," she said, "do you want to kiss again, Makimura?"

"You just said no, didn't you?"

"That," she said after a pause, "is a lie."

"You're lying even about something like this..."

"That's how I am, you should know."

"I do not know."

"Can't you tell when a lie is wrong?"

"But I chose to believe you."

Hoshino Ai put on a silly expression: "It's a lie, right?"

"Who knows?"

"Does that mean..." She turned her face away in thought, then turned back excitedly, "I have completely deceived you, Makura."

"Maybe." Makimura Taku smiled.

In the evening breeze, the two looked at each other across the cold desert, and then kissed deeply.

……

……

It was already past nine o'clock when they got off the train. Taku Makimura sent Ai Hoshino to Ochanomizu Station. The door opened and she got out of the car.

"I really enjoyed today's date."

"is it?"