"Ha..."

Serizawa seven-vegetable "Shiraino" walks along the national highway at night with a single person.

When I check my phone, it's almost 8: 30 at night. I had no club today, so I hassled various stores with my friends. I looked around at clothes and such, but as always, the range of products I only want to describe as not good. However, the next Sunday we are going to Miyamazu with the Colorful Flowers. I was looking forward to it now because it is a city so big that it is not comparable to this country-round local.

"Ha..."

Seven dishes, however, were currently in a very unpleasant mood.

(... I knew it would be mocking...)

Lunch break, phone call with my sister.

Birthday cake to a person with a name that would not be in at least the same rural town, called 'Refuge'.

(The colorful flowers... they didn't know anything)

As for the seven-course dish, I don't care about the fact that it is the current protection itself. I'm simply the kind of person who doesn't feel comfortable knowing what bothered him. Even on the TV show, "The truth is currently being investigated! It's a disappointing personality when it's tightened up."

(When you get back, ask your sister some more details...)

Probably because I was walking around thinking that way.

Seven vegetables that suddenly hit something in the corner turned out loud like they had been jumped, with a thoughtful buttcake on them.

"Ouch...... just, eh!?

The same thing happened recently, and I sit back and look up, and I'm stunned.

The opponent was not a handsome foreigner who might even use magic. A man of disappointed stature was looking down at himself.

In top and bottom blue trainer. I guess I bumped into a running encounter. A boneless face that looks pretty young but doesn't seem to make sense of the joke. Freshly pruned short hair. The neck that follows it is so thick that it doesn't seem like the same person, and the white shirt peeking from the chest that hasn't zipped up is so swollen that it seems to bounce.

"Oh, um... oh, I'm sorry -"

I don't care what you think, he's scary. sooner said than said by Seven Vegetables, who endured both its power and its intimidation,

"I'm sorry. Are you okay?"

The man has been holding out his right hand all the time.

a low voice suited for appearance;

(... eh, what, this... hand...!?

swollen, very thick palms. Unnaturally raised octopus, thick, swollen fingers. And A, where various scars, large and small, stand out. What the hell can I do to get in this shape? Rock. Rock man.

"Oh, thank you..."

It's not a good idea to stare seriously and damage the mood of your opponent. If I took my hand honestly, it was gently caused by one of its arms at the same time as I felt a rough touch as expected.

"I was late to notice. I'm sorry."

"Ah, no..."

"Then excuse me."

I see the side of the man passing by, and I realize it for the first time. Should I describe my ears as... twisted? Unlike myself and the people around me, my ears were like swollen crushed, in odd shape anyway. It's like cauliflower.

(sooo... why would I do that?)

Seven dishes squirm in her chest as she watches behind her running away lightly. At the same time,

"Uh, already...!

I sighed out sick of it.

It was because I was so upset about Arishi shielding.

(Why do I have to think like this... Go home and ask your sister for details)

Even now, Colorful Flowers, I don't know what such a man would like. Perhaps that's what "childhood friends" are for.

Colorful flowers were confessed by a senior member of the club at one time, and he had been annoyed by the surroundings that they looked good on him. The senior student had a good appearance and character, and honestly agreed as a seven-course dish. I wish I'd stayed stuck with you, but I still do.

But Colorful Flowers refused to tell me what the hell was wrong with me.

In the end, she only watched 'Childhood Friends'. I'm sure, even in person, unconscious.

The statue of Arishi Shield from the Seven Vegetables is exhausted by the phrase "no grasp". The face is normal. Female, but plain, not so bad. It doesn't even look cool depending on the angle. The personality is inconspicuous and the impression of not having as many friends.

Sometimes I've been playing karate since I was a kid and have a tight body, and the so-called bad group seemed to pay special attention to him as well. That's not something like a common comic book setting called 'I'm putting it at a glance', but the impression of 'treating it as the one who's not there'. Feel free to pretend to be evil and strong. Try them, and the really strong Arima Current Protection will get in the way. If you can't get rid of it by force, you have to ignore it. As a result, I don't care about both sides, and I don't hear about trouble, so I guess that's fine.

I have a negligible impression of fashionable things, I rarely end up with my classmates, and they are weirdly cold or adult -

(It doesn't look like it at all, but I guess it feels a little like the person I was just...)

The seven dishes that I casually looked back at,

"- - Huh?"

Stunned, he stood up on the spot.

The bag on his shoulder slipped into the asphalt with Dosari, but he couldn't afford to worry about it.

Seven dishes stare at the convenience store on the other side that separates the boulevard.

From there, he snuck out.

There's a current shield in private clothes.

Exactly what I was just thinking, six months ago I was suddenly missing and that was it, that classmate boy.

"... - Huh? What?"

The boy, who should be gone, walks right into the side trail with a white plastic bag in one hand.

"Huh? What? Oh, no............... right?

I rushed after him, and saw him.

Beyond the road where cars go and go.

A beautiful girl dressed in gale-inspired clothing with a shield from the sea currents in her luggage. The two of them walk in line as they speak to each other about something familiar. It disappears into darkness.

――――――

There was only one thought that came to mind here in the brain of seven vegetables.

That is,

What are you doing, you?

(Ah... Colorful flowers, how do you feel... waiting for you, why, why, this -)

There's nothing I can do, so trembling, so angry until pure. Enough to praise myself for not shouting out loud, no matter what.

"~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"

I thought I'd catch him later and stick his cheek up without question, but there he returned to me hah.

The national highway in front of us has quite a few cars going around only at times like this.

(Uh, shit! Gotta get to the other signal......!

I go back to pick up the bag I dropped, and as I rush through, I look into the trail beside the convenience store, but there are no more of them. Wait for the signal to turn blue with a rushing thought and run across the crosswalk at all costs.

"Ha ha...!

We finally get to the point where we witnessed the two of them, but naturally they're already gone. I'm going into a dark trail, and I'm going to go a little further.

(No, I totally lost sight...)

A few more peeks into the details of the branched residential neighborhood did not reveal their hindsight. In the first place, this area is a little far from the houses of drifting shelter and colorful flowers. A convenience store would have had one nearer. The assortment doesn't change, and it doesn't seem like there's any reason to bother coming to use this store on foot.

Speaking of which, who are the foreigners and the beautiful girls you were with? Is it something that a single high school student has the hang of getting to know such a person, not just Liquid Protection...?

In other words:

(Different person...... was...?

It was a familiar personal outfit. I also saw his face clearly.

Still, that kind of anxiety springs up.

So Seven Vegetables noticed someone walking toward him.

It is illuminated by high street lights, and gradually its appearance is revealed. He was a young salesman in a suit. Maybe this guy's watching the two of us.

"Oh, um, excuse me!

Seven vegetables were almost reflexively speaking.

"Hmm...?

Salary, on the other hand, stops his legs and frowns suspiciously. If a high school girl in uniform wandering around in such a dark place on her own at this hour is the opponent, she may have no choice but to react to it.

Seven vegetables that couldn't afford to worry about that stood up like they were rushed.

"Didn't you see people!? Er..."

So I thought of the look of the searcher, and I got stuck in words.

As I was thinking earlier. The appearance of drift protection is that of a boy everywhere without distinctive features.

"Um, a boy as old as me... what..."

"Huh? Hmmm......"

"It feels plain, there's a girl next door..."

"Hmm... a couple or something? But that's all I have to say..."

So the seven dishes finally flashed.

"Next door, there's a very pretty foreign-like girl. Long-haired, gal-like outfit. And then I want you to have a load of stuff!

"Oh, uh... yeah, if that sounds like it, you saw it. I walked over there. You're out on that boulevard by now."

"Thank you!

Run out before I finish saying it.

If the driftshield is hard to explain due to its unpleasant appearance, you can mark the super beautiful girl you were with. Through the path pointed by the salarier, he also leaves at the corner facing the boulevard. And

"... hey, hey, hey, there he is!

I found it.

Sidewalk on the other side. A plain Japanese boy and a beautiful foreign girl walking next to him. Pretty far, though.

(I knew for sure......, Arai......!

outfit, appearance, and walking style. I'm sure it's not a mistake.

"Whoa, Arihai, no!"

Now he was almost screaming reflexively.

But you still can't reach it across the main street where the car goes, as if you don't notice. It only got the attention of a few students going sidewalks on this side, and I was just frustrated and embarrassed.

It was a seven-course dish that I could put into my lap to chase after,

"Also, signal...... eh"

There are two of them, once again, across the big driveway. Luckily, the pedestrian signal has just turned red, and the currents of the cars that had been stopped are moving simultaneously.

At last, the strength of the indoorsy seven-course dish is already at its limit. I'm not proud of it, but it's faster to count from behind along with short and long walks, and physical education grades have long been stable at 2.

Waiting for the signal to change and chasing it is going to be a repeat of the same thing again.

In doing so, the two of them turn to the corner of the building. The long track that has come slowly blocks the sight for about five seconds. By the time the exhaust gases that stood in were foggy, their appearance had gone without shadows or shapes.

"Ha... ha... ha, ha, ha, ha"

The exhaust gas was fully inhaled, occupying the inner surface of the breathtaking seven-vegetable with the shoulder...

"... Enough, enough..."

Giving up;

"I'm kidding...!

It was a quiet rage that reached its limit.

There's a current shield. What are you doing?

I don't know. Take the lady and walk the whole city for granted.

Before you do that, you have something to do.

How do you think your childhood friend has been spending the last six months?

Keep waiting for your return. Keep believing you're alive. How much I thought you were tied to being gone...!

Seven dishes, driven by such intolerable emotions, took out their cell phones without hesitation.

I caught him in person, pulled him, tapped him, asked him for an excuse, and then what an idea was blowing up.

The person you're going to call is your best friend who talks a lot. You don't have to look for a phone book, you can dial it immediately.

Touch the call icon and the call sounds several degrees. There was an immediate response.

"If - your seven dishes...!

What are you talking about, you're out of breath.

You can hear it from the other side, the voice as usual. "As usual," a slightly less energetic voice. But at least if that voice... attitude returns me as it used to be.

"You know what? Can I talk to you for a second? What I'm about to tell you... calm down, don't be surprised, will you listen?

As I say, take a deep breath to calm yourself down, too. Seven dishes were carefully and clearly said so that they could not be misheard.

"- You know what? I saw a current shield, colorful flowers."

After finishing a call with a friend, Lotus Castle Colorful Flowers called that contact from the redial, whilst still wondering about his own fingers, which trembled and did not move well.

"Streak...!

Ten years of childhood friends. He neglected to disappear six months ago, give me that boy's phone number. Press the call without hesitation and wait for the call. but what I hear is the same mechanical audio as before, something like "no power on or no radio". I've been waiting for my absence lately to put in messages that I don't love, but of course I'm going to hang up now and go to the next person. After several call sounds, there was a response.

"Hello..."

"Uncle, it's me. Colorful flowers."

"Ooh... Colorful flowers. What's wrong? '

My father, Arihai Yuan.

A person who is luxurious, cluttered, dignified, but also has a childish affection. For Colorful Flowers, who have been cared for since childhood, he could not help but call himself another father.

"Uncle... are you home now"

"Mm-hmm... this time, finish a little early. Just yesterday, I just got back. '

So we'll see soon enough.

It's because we've known each other for a long time.

Something's wrong, he's hiding something, man. Oh, my God.

"Has she come back?"

It could have been a stabbing question.

Only breath, signs of silence are transmitted. And...

'... don't forget about him, Nah... I'll be mad'

"Naturally......!

Sacrane Park. Maybe we'll make it. '

It was like squeezing out, like a perceived voice. Yuanxi herself, groaning as if she was being annoyed by a tremendous troubles.

There were many things I wanted to ask. What the hell is going on? We may still make it, what does that mean?

But...

"Thank you very much."

Hang up the phone and find a change of clothes. I just can't leave in my bathing bedroom outfit.

"... Mendoku"

I even feel spared time fishing for my personal clothes and change into the school uniform I was wearing to my hanger.

I feel distracted.

Is it because they said, "I might make it" or something?

I just had a feeling I'd be pushed around.

We have to hurry. If we don't get there as soon as possible, something irrevocable will happen.

I only grabbed my phone and popped out of the room.

Running down the stairs, he opened the living room door and said, "I'm coming out for a second!" and run to the front door.

"Hey, at this hour!? Where are you going, Colorful Flowers!

My mother's voice echoes, but I can't afford to be answering. I found drift protection, etc., but it only causes confusion. Colorful flowers themselves have not been able to grasp the situation properly in the first place.

As I popped out, the cold night air greeted the girl.

"Huh..."

Gaze right into the garden. That's my bike there. Required if you're in a hurry, but badly in between, it's malfunctioning. I was going to send it out for repair over the weekend. I should have just fixed it, etc. Later festival.

(I just have to run......, it'll take me fifteen minutes...!

Colorful flowers bracketed his belly, rushed out with all their might.

(drift protection...... eh)

I have so much to say.

Two or three times...... no, I'm sorry if I didn't punch you more.

I don't care about you. But I'd be surprised if he was gone all of a sudden, and I've decided to worry about him. Because it's like family.

Above all,

"If you're back..., why don't you give me one of your contacts... Huh!

It's annoying. It's really annoying. You've been around a long time. I don't know what you're thinking......!

Although.

When I don't say anything, I mostly take care of colorful flowers.

That's why all this time, there's no way we can be adults.

Wiping the tears in his eyes, Lotus Castle Colorful Flowers runs all he can through the estate at night.