Kyoto: I just want to be a gentleman

As the sound of the bus wheels rolling and the whistling of the wind intertwined, the scenery outside the window changed as the bus moved forward, and this trip to Nara finally came to an end.

Watanabe Hideyuki was still sitting in the same position as when he came, looking out the window and summarizing what he had gained in the past two days.

If we have to count, one is the breakthrough with Nishii Satomi, and the second is that I seemed to have some contact with Kitano Chiharu in real life.

He didn't know whether the impact or consequences of the latter would be good or bad, so he could only take it one step at a time.

Watanabe Hideyuki took out his mobile phone from his pocket and secretly took a beautiful photo of the girl sleeping next to him, and then uploaded it to his Line Moments (Timeline) together with the photo of the girl and the deer in a form visible only to himself.

Then he turned to the camera and made a silent "yeah" gesture.

Record your beautiful life, start with him!

As if remembering something, he opened Line again, found the girl whose avatar was a flower in the list, and sent a message.

"Watanabe Hideyuki: Are you there?"

About five minutes passed.

"Kuroda Arisa:?"

"Hideyuki Watanabe:?(^?^●)ノ"

After Watanabe Hideyuki sent the emoticon, he watched as Kuroda Arisa's name in the chat box turned into "typing..." for a full two minutes. Just when he thought Arisa would not reply to his message, the phone rang.

"Kuroda Arisa:???"

Watanabe Hideyuki put down his phone, looked at Nishii Satomi, and thought about how he should respond if it were her at this time, so less than half a minute passed.

"Watanabe Hideyuki: ?乛v乛? Hehe"

Based on his understanding of the girl, there is a 70% chance that she will send this emoticon.

Maybe I could ask her when she wakes up.

"Kuroda Arisa:..."

Looking at this series of ellipsis, Watanabe Hideyuki seemed to be able to imagine the helpless expression of Arisa on the other side of the phone, but it seemed that there was no point in teasing her all the time, and business was more important.

"Watanabe Hideyuki: Are you free tonight?"

"Kuroda Arisa: What time is it?"

Watanabe Hideyuki looked at the time on his mobile phone. It was now two o'clock in the afternoon. At this speed, he would arrive in the center of Kyoto Prefecture at about four o'clock.

"Watanabe Hideyuki: Half past four?"

"Kuroda Arisa: I'll be off work at five, come pick me up."

"Watanabe Hideyuki: Is Natsumi-san here?"

"Kuroda Arisa: She's not here. She's busy renovating the new convenience store in Shijo Kawaramachi. She plans to open it before June."

"Watanabe Hideyuki: Okay, I'll go find you."

Watanabe Hideyuki breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Sister Xia Mei was not in the store, it would be fine. Considering what he had experienced in the past few days, he really felt powerless.

With Sister Xia Mei's physique, he would probably die of exhaustion in the small warehouse today without being able to satisfy her.

"Watanabe Hideyuki: How's your song practice going these days?"

"Kuroda Arisa: It's OK."

"Watanabe Hideyuki: Then we'll record it tonight."

After sending these messages, Watanabe Hideyuki put the phone aside, but less than half a minute later, the phone rang again.

Watanabe Hideyuki originally thought that it was Kuroda Arisa who had something to say, but when he opened it, he found that it was from someone he hadn't contacted for a long time.

"Chiaki Kitano: Chiaki Kitano recommends you a business card - Mandragora"

The head portrait of the business card is a white spider lily, the petals in the picture are as white as snow, light and thin, like the wings of an angel, and each petal exudes a faint luster.

Immediately afterwards, Kitano Chiaki sent another text message.

"Kitano Chiaki: My sister asked you to add her, and if you don't, she said you will know the consequences."

Before Watanabe Hideyuki could finish replying to the message, Kitano Chiaki's Line avatar instantly turned gray again, as if she didn't want to say a word more to Watanabe Hideyuki, as if if she said one more word, an unspeakable disaster would befall her.

After hesitating for a while, Watanabe Hideyuki clicked on Kitano Chiharu's business card and submitted a friend request.

...

"I pushed your business card to him."

On a busy city street, a black SUV slowly drove by. The lines of the car body were smooth, and the black paint shone slightly coldly under the reflection of the sun, revealing a sense of low-key luxury.

In the back seat of the car, two young girls sat side by side.

After one of the girls finished speaking, she put her phone in her pocket and closed her eyes.

Another girl was holding a mobile phone, constantly swiping and refreshing something on the Line interface.

With the girl's unremitting efforts, after a while, a red dot suddenly appeared on the Line interface. The girl's face showed a happy expression, her eyes lit up, and she couldn't wait to open the chat interface with the other party.

The girl's fingers moved rapidly on the screen of her mobile phone. After a while, a short essay of several hundred words appeared in her chat box.

But the girl seemed to feel that her behavior was not very reserved.

After thinking it over and over again, she revised it again and again, deleted and wrote, wrote and deleted again. After some entanglement and weighing, only a short sentence remained in the chat box: Hello, Watanabe, I am Chiharu Kitano, nice to meet you.

After repeated confirmation, the girl clicked the send button in the chat interface, feeling relieved.

"Mandara: Hello, Watanabe-san, I'm Kitano Chiharu, nice to meet you."

After sending this message, Chiharu Kitano opened Watanabe Hideyuki's social media.

Blank.

Kitano Chiharu pouted and then modified Watanabe Hideyuki's notes.

"My husband who belongs to me alone..."

Why does it feel so dead?

Kitano Chiharu thought about it, then pointed her phone at her long, beautiful legs, pressed the shutter button with a click, and sent the photo as a flash photo.

"My husband who belongs to me alone:!!!"

Finally, I have some motivation.

Kitano Chiharu stared at the screen of her mobile phone and began to smile foolishly for no apparent reason.

Kitano Chiharu, who was sitting next to her, glanced at her sister with her peripheral vision, showing a rather helpless look, and then slowly closed her eyes...

Chapter 74 Semester Test

(Chapter 73 is in the black room and is expected to be released at noon. If you don’t see Chapter 73, just refresh it.)

The next day.

sunny.

The morning sun shone through the thin curtains, scattering patches on the warm bed. Watanabe Hideyuki slowly opened his eyes, his pupils gradually adapting to the change from darkness to brightness.

Watanabe Hideyuki lazily sat up from the bed, supported his body with his hands, slightly stretched his stiff neck, slowly stood up, and opened the bedroom window.

A fresh and slightly cool air, accompanied by the singing of birds in the distance, quietly entered the room.

He took a deep breath of fresh air and felt his entire lungs filled with fresh breath. A brand new feeling surged in his heart, a feeling that was difficult to describe in words.

The non-stop life for several days seemed to have come to an end, and he returned to his previous campus life day after day.

How great it would be if every day could be so relaxing and leisurely, Watanabe Hideyuki said from the bottom of his heart.

It was almost eleven o'clock last night when he got home.

During the few days he was away, Arisa Kuroda had been practicing songs diligently. With the dual support of hard work and the system, her basic skills could be said to have been honed very solidly.

And after several small tests last night, Arisa Kuroda's level is now able to meet Watanabe Hideyuki's requirements.

So he made an appointment with Arisa Kuroda tonight to take time out again to record and upload the video. Their plan was obviously about to take the first official step.

This fairly smooth progress made Watanabe Hideyuki feel quite relieved.

Thinking this in his mind, Watanabe Hideyuki changed into his sportswear and sneakers and went to the small park where he did his morning exercises every day.

I haven't seen her for several days, and I don't know if Sugita Saki is still doing morning exercises there.

But it doesn’t matter. It’s a good thing to have someone to do morning exercises with, but it’s also okay to do morning exercises alone.

After all, the essence of morning exercise is to exercise the body and improve oneself, not to pursue companionship or form.

Being alone, you can focus more on the sport itself, feeling every breath, every muscle movement, and every drop of sweat.

Just after finishing the corresponding warm-up exercises, Watanabe Hideyuki saw a beautiful figure passing by him.

Looking closely, it was none other than Sugita Saki.

Watanabe Hideyuki followed her footsteps, simply nodded and said hello, and the two began their morning exercises as usual.

"Where have you been these days?" Before the meeting ended, Sugita Saki took the initiative to speak, which was rare. She asked casually while wiping the sweat off her face with a towel.

Watanabe Hideyuki was slightly stunned, then chuckled and responded: "The school organized a study tour and courage test in Nara."

Since that day, the relationship between the two has become much closer, and they occasionally chat about their lives.

"Oh?" Sugita Saki raised an eyebrow, looking a little curious, but she didn't delve into it. She just nodded, "I'm glad you're back. I haven't seen you these past few days, and I'm not used to it."

Although Watanabe Hideyuki knew that this was just a polite remark from the other party, he still felt warm in his heart when he heard it at first.

"Thank you. I won't disappear without saying hello next time." Watanabe Hideyuki promised sincerely.

Sugita Saki chuckled and said nothing. She first glanced at Watanabe Hideyuki in surprise, and then a look of satisfaction appeared in her eyes.

After finishing their morning exercise, the two went their separate ways.

......

“An old horse in the stable still has a thousand miles to go; a martyr in his old age still has great ambitions.”

"Cao Cao was already 53 years old when he wrote this poem." At the front of the classroom, the gray-haired history teacher was talking about his opinion of Cao Cao. "At that time, Cao Cao had just put down the Wuhuan rebellion and eliminated the remaining forces of Yuan Shao, before heading south to conquer Jing and Wu."

He derived the story from Cao Cao's literary accomplishments to the character and qualities revealed in Cao Cao's literary works, and combined them with the historical background to tell the story of Cao Cao's life.

The whole lecture process was interesting and fun.