Watanabe Toru looked across the Kamogawa River, found the right angle, and threw the stone in his hand.

The rocks bounced and splashed with white water ripples, very fast, just like a lizard flying on the water.

"How's it going?" After confirming that he hit the other side, he turned back to the other four people and said.

"Have you played this dozens of times?" Keisuke Saito looked surprised, "How did you do it?"

"In 2004, French scientists published an article in Nature." Toru Watanabe dusted off his hands, "How many times a stone can bounce depends on four parameters: initial velocity, rotational speed, and the contact between the stone and the water surface when it enters the water.

of......"

"Senpai Mai is here!" Ichimokui interrupted with an anxious and uneasy voice.

The Nijo Bridge is filled with the colors of the setting sun, and Asuka Mai's slender figure is dotted on it.

She looked here, and because of the backlight, no one could see her expression clearly.

"Let's go up!" As he said that, Ichimokui had already taken steps.

Osamu Kunii and Keisuke Saito also followed immediately.

Watanabe Toru looked at Rin Kiyono who was sitting on the bench, elegant and beautiful.

Compared with her, Kamogawa is nothing worth mentioning.

Looking at her, Toru Watanabe said: "It depends on four parameters: initial velocity, rotation speed, the relationship between the stone and the water surface when entering the water..."

"...the angle is also made of stone." Qingye Rin stood up, calmly brushed his shoulder-length hair, and walked towards the bridge without looking back.

"..."

Rin Kiyono is absolutely a god.

How can any ordinary high school student watch "Nature"?

By the time Toru Watanabe and Rin Kiyono walked to the bridge, the atmosphere was already very tense.

Osamu Kunii and Keisuke Saito remained confused and silent, while Aoi Ichiki looked at Mai Asuka nervously.

Only Asuka Mai reacted as usual, but when Toru Watanabe appeared behind Ichimoku Aoi, she tilted her head slightly in centimeters.

The calm expression has the colorful colors of "the Kamogawa River at dusk".

Everyone's eyes were focused on the two of them.

Ichimoku Aoi gripped the handrail of the Nijo Bridge, her fingers turning white from the exertion.

"Senior Mai..."

"......Um."

Ichimokui took a deep breath. Under the knitted sweater and shirt, the slender abdomen of a sixteen-year-old girl shrank significantly.

The nervousness spread to everyone with this surprisingly loud breathing sound.

Even Toru Watanabe, who had known that this confession was in vain, became a little nervous.

"Since junior high school, I, I..."

Ichimukui felt that her face was so hot that it was about to burst into flames, and her heart was beating so loudly that it was harsh.

She took another deep breath.

"I like you, senior! I have always liked you! I have always liked you since junior high school!"

"...Thank you." Asuka Mai nodded calmly.

After a moment of silence, Ichimokui realized what he was doing and said quickly: "It's love, not like! Well, senior sister...please date me!"

Saito Keisuke opened his mouth wide and his eyes shone.

Osamu Kunii blinked furiously in surprise.

"......Feel sorry."

Hearing the answer, Ichimokui clenched his fists and said unwillingly: "Is it because you don't like girls?"

"......I have a favorite person."

"Oh, it turns out that's the case, haha." He laughed awkwardly twice, and Yimu Kui's world fell into a ruin-like silence.

Then, the sound of the gurgling water of the Kamogawa River and the sound of car engines roaring across the bridge filled her ears like thunder.

Looking at the back of Ichimoku Aoi standing there quietly? Toru Watanabe took two steps forward.

"Um, senior tomorrow, can you accompany me to the river?" He wanted to give Ichimokui some time to sort out his emotions. "I just discovered the technique of floating in water, do you want to see it?"

"good."

After Watanabe Toru and Asuka Mai left, Ichiki Aoi finally turned around.

She looked at the three people left behind and scratched her cheeks shyly: "I always feel disappointed again, but relieved again."

She took a breath and continued with a smile:

"But the probability of two people liking each other is very small? What's more, what about being of the same sex? Even if they are just good friends, it's hard to find a few in a lifetime, right?"

As she spoke, Ichimokui's eyes were filled with water, and her world became foggy.

She wiped the corners of her eyes and said with laughter and tears: "Qingye-san? I have troubled you during this period. I asked you to accompany me everywhere to waste time. It's really, really..."

The word 'thank you' was stuck in my throat and I couldn't say it out.

Ichimoku Aoi could only nodded slightly towards Kiyono Rin, and then turned her sight to Daimonji Mountain in the distance.

Osamu Kunijing saw transparent tears breaking out of her eyes and sliding down her cheeks.

He felt he had to say something.

"Ichiki-kun, you are already amazing!" Osamu Kunii's voice was so nervous that it distorted, "If I fell in love with someone of the same sex, I wouldn't even dare to confess, so, you, you..."

Osamu Kunii hated that he didn't read more books and couldn't even say a complete sentence of comfort.

When he was anxious about what to do, Ichimokui squatted down as if he was hollow.

She turned her back to everyone, covered her mouth, and cried softly by the pillar of Nijo Bridge.

——

Watanabe Toru picked up the pebbles and threw them into the darkening river water.

The pebbles flew straight to the other side.

"How's it going?" He turned to ask Asuka Mai.

"That's amazing." Asuka Mai applauded softly.

Watanabe Toru looked at her clear eyes staring directly at him, and said with a smile: "Senior, you didn't even look at it, did you?"

Asuka Mai smiled and narrowed her eyes: "I have been looking at Tohru."

Watanabe Toru picked up a stone again and calculated the angle of throwing it.

"What do you think, senior, about Ichiki-san?"

"Except for Tohru, I don't like anyone." Asuka Mai said with an attitude that it had nothing to do with her.

She looked at Toru Watanabe's sleeves that were slightly lowered, and his wrists could be seen from there.

Watanabe Tetsu didn't know what to say.

Putting aside the fact that he and Ichimokui have a normal relationship, they are not familiar with each other at all and are casual acquaintances. Let’s just talk about the matter of love, which needs to follow the will of both parties.

It is impossible to ignore the opinions of the other party and ask her to agree just because one party is pitiful, likes her more deeply, and looks pitiful.

He looked at the Kamogawa River in front of him and remembered what Rin Kiyono said when he was on the Uji River.

'The world is not gentle to negative people, Watanabe-san.'

The world will not be gentle to those who are affectionate without permission.

Watanabe Toru threw the stone in his hand.

At this time, the setting sun had completely disappeared, and the stones flew across the delta in the river and disappeared into the darkness.

Have you reached the other side? Not sure.

got windy.

Perhaps because the Kamogawa River was nearby, the night wind blowing across my cheeks was a little more chilly than the previous few days.

There was music coming from the other side of the river. It was probably the maverick students from Kyoto University who were playing.

Watanabe Toru saw that it was almost time, clapped his hands and walked towards Asuka Mai: "Let's go back too."

"Yes." Asuka Mai's tender hands lifted up her long hair, exuding a sweet fragrance.

As she was walking, she suddenly reached out and held Toru Watanabe.

"Senior?!" Toru Watanabe was startled.

Fortunately, it was already dark and the moon had not come out yet. In order to avoid embarrassment, the two of them walked farther away so that the people on the bridge could not see clearly.

"Tohru was scared?"
To be continued...