"That's it." Koizumi Aina looked towards the distant mountains.

Her tone was full of teasing smile, and she didn't take what Qingye Rin said to heart.

Qingye Rin couldn't help but turn his head.

"Teacher, aren't you curious about his bad side?"

"You don't need to talk to the teacher about this kind of thing, you two just... It's normal for boys to bully girls they like. It can't be considered a bad thing."

"The girl I like..."

Qingye Rin took a cup of hot spring water with one hand and poured it on his collarbone.

"Teacher, do you think he really likes me?"

"Isn't that natural?" Koizumi Qingna looked at her in surprise.

I don’t understand why two people who have already played ‘Night Raid’ would still have such questions.

Qingye Rin put his index finger on his chin and muttered: "So it's already such an obvious thing."

Koizumi Aona remembered Toru Watanabe's request to keep the two of them secretly dating Miki Kujo behind her back.

"No, actually it's not obvious at all." She said quickly.

"Huh?" Qingye Rin looked at her doubtfully.

"This...how should I put it...actually, teacher, I have a lot of experience, so I can see it right away!"

lie.

"That's it." Qingye Rin lost the desire to chat.

Koizumi Aina felt uneasy: She even said that she was very experienced, but was she hiding it?

There was a sound of rushing water from the other side of the high bamboo fence, as if someone was splashing water on me.

Then, there was the sound of people walking around in the pool, getting closer and closer.

"R-san, are you here? I'm Watanabe." His voice was subtle, as if he was speaking in code.

Koizumi Aina looked at Kiyo Rin with strange eyes, and then quickly turned away as if she didn't hear.

Why was he being bullied? It turned out to be a secret date.

Today's young people are really good at playing.

Wait a minute, will Watanabe come directly to the women's bath later?

Just when Koizumi Aona was hesitating whether to say hello in advance and tell Watanabe Toru that she was still there and not to do anything excessive.

Qingye Rin sighed helplessly: "What's the matter?"

"Is it true that you and Meiji agreed to marry the same person?" the other person asked quietly.

Qingye Rin frowned slightly.

But before she could answer, Koizumi Aina's slightly sharp voice sounded.

"Watanabe!"

"Teacher Koizumi? You are here too."

"Well, I'm here too!"

After Toru Watanabe came, Rin Kiyono felt that Koizumi Aona's mood was not right and her tone of voice was stiff.

What's wrong?

Is there any hidden secret between the teacher and the student?

Thinking that the two of them were much closer than ordinary people, Qingye Rin had to doubt the possibility of this speculation.

Here, Toru Watanabe has already asked why Aona Koizumi is here.

"Watanabe Toru-san." Kiyono Rin said.

"Are you in a bad mood? Are you angry?"

Watanabe Toru's simple rhetorical question and soft probing voice left Rin Kiyono speechless for a moment.

When she was getting to know Toru Watanabe, Toru Watanabe was also getting to know her.

The moment she realized this apparently simple thing, she thought of a lot.

The two of them walked together through the late-night streets in the early morning, looked down at the rumble of the trams from the overpass, looked up at the same starry sky late at night, and now, they were soaking in the hot springs again, chatting across the bamboo fence.

It is foreseeable that the two of them will spend at least two years together in high school and four years in college.

This kind of future seems very... not very annoying.

"Kyono-kun?"

Qingye Rin came back to his senses and recalled his mood when he asked the question just now: "Well, a little bit."

"Is it because of Snowball?"

"no."

Koizumi Aina is around, but girls never lie, so...

"It's because of you and Mr. Koizumi." she said.

"Me and Mr. Koizumi?!"

"Because of me?" Koizumi Aina was surprised at first, but then seemed to suddenly understand something, "Well, I've soaked it! Watanabe, you and Kiyono-san soaked slowly, but don't soak for too long, otherwise it will

Dizziness."

After saying that, she stood up, covered her face with a bath towel, and walked towards the indoor dressing room.

The graceful body is dripping with water.

"..."

Rin Kiyono felt vaguely that Toru Watanabe seemed helpless on the other side of the bamboo fence.

"Do you like Teacher Koizumi?" she asked.

"Isn't that a matter of course?"

Qingye Rin felt uncomfortable for no reason.

She couldn't help but mocked: "So you like older women."

"No, my crush on Mr. Koizumi is just a normal crush. What I really like is Kiyono-san...students of the same grade as you, for example, Miji."

"Can you be more serious?"

"Did I lie? No, right? Why would it be inappropriate to tell the truth?"

Qingye Rin sighed deeply: "I want to close my eyes and rest for a while."

"good."

The two of them stopped talking.

Kiyono Rin also sank his neck into the hot spring, leaned his head on the stone, and looked up at the sky.

Suddenly it started to snow lightly.

The pure white snowflakes fall endlessly from the colorless and transparent sky, which is so beautiful that it is beyond words.

As the snowflakes melted in the hot spring, her body seemed to melt along with it, feeling warm and exhausted.

Maybe it was because of the long ride in the car yesterday, the courage test meeting, and today's off-road vehicle competition and snowball fight, that a feeling of sleepiness quietly came over me.

The vision slowly darkens...

By the time she realized something was wrong, she had lost control of her body.

****

"Kyono-san, I'm almost done, I'm leaving first." Toru Watanabe greeted.

No one responded.

Watanabe Toru felt a little strange.

There was no sound of water just now, so Qingye Rin must still be inside, and she was definitely not someone who kept quiet because she was angry.

This man hates everyone, so he is almost ruthless in his politeness to others.

"Qingye-san? R-san?" Still no response.

Watanabe Toru felt something was wrong, so he raised his voice and shouted twice more.

This time finally came a very small response.

"Wat... side..."

"Qingye?!"

Watanabe Toru stood up from the hot spring with a swoosh.
To be continued...