If I don't capture the girl, I will die

Even when she was sitting, she still looked tall and graceful, with a hazy look in her eyes, as if she was half asleep. Ji Qi could hear the topics about her indirectly from other people's whispered conversations while standing at the door.

With a cup of cold coffee in front of her, Kasumigaoka Utaha sat on the sofa, half asleep and half awake.

"Give me a bowl of pasta and a drink, thank you." Ji Qi pressed the service bell on the table and said to the waiter who came.

"I'm surprised that seeing you sobered me up instantly."

Hearing the sound, Shiyu rubbed her eyes and yawned lazily.

"...Can I understand that you want to see me?" Ji Qi raised his black-framed glasses. It would be too bad if it wasn't this meaning but something else.

"If you say so, then it must be." With her long black hair tied around her waist, Kasumigaoka Utaha's tone was still very lazy.

Looking at Shiyu like this, Ji Qi shook his head and said, "If you feel sleepy, go home and sleep early."

"Actually, I believe in my intuition a lot." Kasumigaoka Utaha tilted her head and suddenly said something meaningless.

"What intuition?"

Shiyu's long eyelashes trembled as she said, "It's not a gentleman's thing to casually pry into a girl's privacy, right? Hmm... I always feel that if I just let it go, my junior will definitely be played around by some bad woman."

"What are you talking about, Ms. Shiyu?"

Ji Qi was a little confused. How could Kasumigaoka Utaha be a different person? Was she still asleep? Was she talking in her sleep?

Pursing her rosy lips, she glanced at the green plants in the pots and continued, "I'm not talking in my sleep, okay? So, for your own safety..."

Having said this, she paused.

Although Ji Qi wanted to complain about why she could understand what he was thinking, he still waited quietly for her reply.

The latter's mouth curled up slightly, "Well, since it's too long-winded to explain, I won't explain it. Anyway, you won't understand~"

"I always feel subtly despised. Is it my illusion?"

“It’s not an illusion.”

Ji Qi's mouth twitched. Coincidentally, the waiter delivered the meal he ordered at this time. He didn't pay too much attention to it. He was already hungry and began to devour the tempting noodles in front of him.

"Thank you for your hard work..."

Utaha Kasumigaoka was just like an ordinary high school girl, supporting the handle with one hand and watching her boyfriend eat with a smile on her face.

"What did you say?"

Ji Qi, who vaguely heard Kasumigaoka Utaha talking but didn't hear clearly, took a sip of his drink and asked.

"I asked you to eat a little slower. You looked a little ugly just now." Shi Yu's eyebrows curved with joy, not letting Ji Qi notice her true feelings at all.

Ji Qi said unhappily: "...I am really sorry then."

Kasumigaoka Utaha stretched out her slender white fingers, pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to the other party, "But I don't hate it."

After finishing the pasta in front of him and taking a big sip of the drink, Ji Qi sighed with contentment.

Looking at Kasumigaoka Utaha opposite her, she was leaning back on the soft sofa, her two long beautiful legs couldn't be stretched out and she kept kicking his feet from time to time.

As lazy as a cat.

"Did you pull an all-nighter again last night?"

"Ah... um." When mentioning this, Shiyu yawned in cooperation.

"The first volume has been completed, and there is still at least a month before the next submission. There is no need to work so hard, right? Do you want to try to go to bed early?" Looking at the fairy-like aura faintly emanating from Shiyu's extremely delicate face, Ji Qi, who knew her character well, asked tentatively in a negotiating tone.

"Okay."

What Ji Qi didn't expect was that even though she didn't know whether she would do it or not, she agreed verbally.

Shiyu is indeed a little strange today...

I didn't even say a few words to him during the cold war a few days ago...

"It's just that your existence has had a significant impact on me. I can't help but... want to slightly change my image in your eyes and the way we interact with each other."

"What?" Because Shiyu spoke very softly, Ji Qi couldn't hear what she was saying at all.

She glanced at him, and said in a tone that was part serious and part teasing: "Actually, you make me feel incredible."

"I hid so deeply but you still found it?" Ji Qi, who was in a good mood, said with a smile.

"Yes, I found that you seem to be a good person, right? Because I am a loner, have a bad temper, and a sharp tongue, and I do most things impulsively. Even my parents often scold me. Wouldn't Ji Qijun have a headache and be embarrassed to stay with such a person like me?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha is very clear about her own personality.

She hasn't talked to Ji Qi much recently. To be honest, she is still a little uncomfortable with it.

I was a little worried that he might dislike me for being so willful.

The girl's instinct and personality prevented her from taking the initiative to talk to him. Every time he talked to her, she was obviously very happy inside but pretended to be indifferent on the surface.

When she saw on Twitter that Ji Qi was going to hold a book signing event, she took careful note of it.

Hit? This was probably the first time she called her own name.

At this moment, Shiyu looked weak and gentle, and her usual signature sarcasm and ridicule were gone.

"Oh! Shiyu actually has the same opinion as me. I am also very satisfied with myself, right? As for headaches and embarrassment, it is true. You ignored me when I talked to you these past few days! You have a very stubborn personality, and sometimes you stamp your feet and lose your temper at the slightest provocation. No matter how you look at it, you are a woman who is very troublesome, right? But..."

"..."

……

PS: There will be at least 3 more chapters today~(っ*′Д`)っ

Chapter 78 Childhood Sweethearts

After a pause, Ji Qi almost laughed out loud at the sight of Shiyu, who seemed to be extremely nervous despite not noticing the fact.

"But no matter how you look at it, she's a good woman, right? Excellent in studies, slim, and beautiful, she's a favored daughter of heaven, isn't she? As for friends... who says I don't have any? I count as one, right?"

After all, Kasumigaoka Utaha is still a girl. When she heard this, her blood boiled and her mature and charming face turned red. She could only drink coffee to hide her shyness.

Ji Qi changed the topic at the right time.

"Have you asked for leave from school today?"

"It's obvious. The teacher was horrified when she heard that I was going to take her boyfriend's virginity."

"Hearing you say that, I'm also scared." Ji Qi held his forehead. This woman sometimes seems really bold...

Kasumigaoka Utaha continued with a half-smile, "It's really useless. Isn't there someone who thinks about me day and night, even kneeling at my feet and licking my toes and begging me like this, 'Senior Utaha, please. As long as you agree to this, it's okay for me to be your slave for the rest of my life.' Otherwise, I wouldn't do such a thing for such a useless man."

"Oh? Why don't I remember when I did this? You are a female writer, right? You have a strong imagination."

Ji Qi calmly took a sip of the drink, and ignored Kasumigaoka Utaha's venomous words. Not a word stayed in his heart.

Shiyu smacked her lips and turned her gaze out the window with boredom. There was already a hint of dusk on the horizon.

She stood up from the sofa, showing off her slender and perfect legs.

"It's getting late today. Let's go back first."

"no problem."

Ji Qi took two pieces of toilet paper from the table and followed behind Kasumigaoka Utaha, whose back was extremely tempting.

……

After taking the train and saying goodbye to Kasumigaoka Utaha, it was already five or six in the afternoon when we arrived near home.

The street seemed to be blocked, with several cars piled together and no one could move. They could only honk their horns desperately.

In the distant sky, the setting sun gradually disappears at the end of the horizon.

Night is coming.

Everywhere you look, you can see students going home alone or together.

Ji Qi, who was also walking on his way home, saw a vending machine on the street ahead. Feeling a little thirsty, he went up and bought a can of MAX coffee.

It's strange that the roads in Japan are very clean, but there are not many trash cans.

Ji Qi searched for a long time, but couldn't find a place to throw the bottle except next to the vending machine.

Anyway, he had already told Sagiri about this beforehand, so he wasn't in a hurry to go home, so he might as well just finish the drink on the spot and leave.

Pulling open the pull ring and feeling the sweetness of the coffee, Ji Qi was thinking about something absentmindedly.

"Click." The vending machine made a crisp sound of a drink hitting steel.

Ji Qi didn't care. The vending machine wasn't his, so it was normal for others to buy things there.

"Hello? I met you here, Senior. Good evening, Senior."

A familiar and gentle voice that seemed to have been heard there sounded in Ji Qi's ears.

Senior...are you calling me? Impossible. I don't know any junior girls.

"Yes, Senior. But you said something wrong. We are friends, right? After all, we have lived together on the same street for more than ten years~~"

The voice answered him without any emotion.

This is no longer friends, but childhood sweethearts!

What the hell is this setting? I don't remember any girl like this!

and many more……

While complaining in his heart, Ji Qi turned around while holding the MAX coffee.

As a result, he saw a very cute girl with a bob haircut, wearing a school uniform that he was very familiar with. The more he looked at her gentle features, the more familiar they became...

Ji Qi said with some surprise and joy: "Kato?"

"It's me, senior." Even though she seemed to have heard some very rude words just now, Kato Megumi still had a calm expression on her face.

Looking at this ordinary yet extraordinary girl, Ji Qi came back to his senses. The only lower grade girl he knew was Kato Megumi!

And she seemed to have said that they had lived on the same street for more than ten years? Isn't this a typical childhood sweetheart?

Ji Qi carefully recalled his memories.

As far as I can remember, there was indeed a room next door with a sign saying "Kato" hanging on it.

No, if that’s the case, then how come he and Kato Megumi only met at the opening ceremony of Toyonosaki?

Along with doubts, dusty memories appeared in my mind one by one...

Although they are close neighbors, their relationship did not develop as happily as in the anime.

Before they entered junior high school, they only knew that there was a neighbor with this name. Maybe Kato Megumi didn't even know it.

It was not until the death of my predecessor's parents that the neighbors and Kato Megumi's father came to pay their respects, and that my predecessor and Kato Megumi got to know each other for the first time in a real sense.

Then our relationship really developed into friendship when I ran into Kato Megumi by chance at the opening ceremony and found out that they were attending the same school.

From then on, whenever the two of them met, although they had no friends and did not join any clubs, they would go home together.

My predecessor still cherished the friendship with Kato Megumi, the gentle and considerate girl next door.

Should it be said that it is the joy of an invisible person meeting another invisible person?

In short, from a certain perspective, as long as they had a good relationship when they were young and visited each other, they could indeed be considered standard childhood sweethearts...

It’s a pity that I didn’t seize the opportunity.

I really want to know what Kato Megumi looked like when she was a child...

"I feel like you are thinking of something rude, Senior?" The girl tilted her head slightly, holding a can of ordinary drink in her fair left hand. The dusk was deep in the sky, and the last rays of sunset illuminated her extremely fair face. Calm and peaceful.

Hey, why does it feel like the girls around him can all read minds?

very scary!

"Ah... I can't read minds."

"You still said no!"

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Chapter 79 Is This a Confession?

It was completely dark, but the streets were lit up by street lights on both sides, so it didn't look gloomy.