A faint crimson color spreads on the horizon at dusk.

Mrs. Kujo raised her arms and stretched her body. After taking a long breath, she turned around and said:

"Xiao Rin, Miki, and Watanabe-kun, want to have dinner together?"

Qingye Rin hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement.

The four of them stood up. Toru Watanabe lowered his voice and asked Miki Kujo:

"Shall I tell them?"

Kujo Miki held her elbows with her hands and looked at him with her eyes.

"Teacher, senior, goodbye." Watanabe Toru raised his voice and said to the two of them.

Asuka Mai nodded.

"Goodbye." Koizumi Aona responded, and then she said to Mrs. Kujo: "Goodbye, Kujo mother!"

"Goodbye, Mr. Koizumi, Miki is looking after you at school." Kujo Maki responded with an elegant and calm smile.

After saying that, she took Miki Kujo and Rin Kiyo's arms and walked towards the exit.

"I'm suddenly very hungry. Is there anything you want to eat? Go to Minato City? Find a restaurant by Tokyo Bay and enjoy delicious food while watching the sunset?"

"It's up to you to decide." Qingye Rin responded nonchalantly.

"Where is Watanabe-kun?" Mrs. Kujo turned around and asked.

"Anything is fine." Toru Watanabe picked up Kujo Miki's coat from the chair, shook it twice, and followed.

After walking a few steps, five or six girls from the cheerleading team suddenly ran over.

"Watanabe-kun, today's competition is so awesome!" the third-grade girl in the lead said in an admiring tone.

"Thank you for your support. I can always hear the cheers."

"This is what we should do! Watanabe-kun, we will continue to support you! Can you give us your signature?"

Everyone looked at Toru Watanabe expectantly. He was about to refuse when he saw someone among them and changed his words:

"You can sign it, but there is no guarantee that it will be valuable in the future."

"It's okay, it's okay, thank you Watanabe-kun!"

Watanabe Toru took the brand-new notebooks, ledgers, and calendars handed over to them one by one, and wrote his name in the appropriate places.

"You are here to provide support, why do you carry these things with you?" he asked while signing.

"Today is Sunday, we went shopping on Takeshita Street in the morning!" the petite girl with a voice like a lark answered, while handing over a cute calendar with both hands.

"That's it." Toru Watanabe nodded, "Please be careful and pay attention to safety when you go back."

In the lower right corner of the calendar he wrote:

"I wish the Ewha schoolmates good luck with their studies tomorrow, by Toru Watanabe."

"Okay." He returned the calendar and pen to them, "If I don't leave, Meiji will kill me. Goodbye everyone, please continue to support the baseball club."

"Goodbye Watanabe-kun (senpai)!"

"We will continue to support you!"

Watanabe Toru took the clothes and turned around to walk towards the three people waiting for him not far away.

"Watanabe-kun is very popular." Mrs. Kujo said with a smile.

"When you were young, you were definitely more popular than me."

"That's not of course. All the girls in the school confessed to me!"

"girl?"

"It's a girls' school. What can I do?"

Watanabe Tetsu ignored Mrs. Kujo Maki, who had entered girl mode again, and said to Kujo Maki:

"I just signed to thank them for their support."

"As long as there is no physical contact, you don't need to report it to me." Kujo Miki didn't care about her boyfriend's popularity.

Even the more popular Toru Watanabe is, the more jealous she is, the happier she is.

While the three of them were talking, Qingye Rin glanced at the girls who just wanted to sign autographs.

When she noticed the appearance of one of the girls, she understood the reason why Toru Watanabe agreed to sign, which was beyond her expectation.

"Let's go, I'm really hungry." Urged by Mrs. Kujo, the four of them disappeared into the auditorium.

The girl who asked for autographs just now returned to the cheerleading team.

"Ah, I'm so envious. If I had known it, I would have mustered up the courage to go!"

"Even if you go, you don't have anything to sign, right?"

"And there are so many people going, maybe Watanabe-kun won't sign it. Show me quickly, I haven't seen Watanabe-kun's signature yet!"

"Huh?"

"What's wrong?"

"Why is it that only the pear blossom ones are different?"

"What's different?" Asuka Rika quickly took it back and compared it with others.

Among the people who wanted to sign, others said "I wish you good luck with your studies", but she was the only one who said "I wish tomorrow's Ewha schoolmates good luck with their studies."

"Rika, do you know Watanabe-senpai?" a first-year cheerleader asked curiously.

"Um——, I haven't said anything before." Asuka Rika replied while recalling.

"By the way, isn't Rika the freshmen representative? Maybe he wrote it down at that time! Watanabe-kun is so smart, he can definitely remember it at a glance!"

"I also want to be remembered by Watanabe-senpai! Rika, I envy you so much——"

Asuka Rika was surrounded by everyone, but she didn't want it to be for that reason.

Maybe Watanabe-senpai thought she was cute and noticed her a long time ago?

Koizumi Aona looked at the cheerleaders who were laughing and playing, and said to Asuka Mai: "Is that your sister?"

"Yeah." Asuka Mai nodded without any reaction.

"Because of you, Watanabe seems to take special care of her." Koizumi Aina smiled softly.

Because the person she likes and the loved ones of the person she likes prefer, in her opinion, it is a very beautiful thing.

"Yeah." Tomorrow Mai still had no reaction.

Her eyes, as clear as summer spring water, stared at Koizumi Aona:

"I'm going to travel too."

"..."

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This year's rainy season, according to the Meteorological Agency, will last until July 20.

Ever since that short trip to Atami, when Toru Watanabe promised to take him on a trip after the rainy season, Koizumi Aina has been filled with joy every day.

As the baseball club continued to win the Koshien qualifiers, and even newspapers came to the school for interviews, the rainy season began to come to an end.

When she heard the crisp chirping of cicadas and decided to go to Furano, Hokkaido to see the flowers, her whole body started to burn.

Except for class, even when she was in the teacher's office, looking at the roses delivered that day, she was thinking about the day of departure.

When I get up every day, I feel full of strength when I think that it is one day closer to the end of the rainy season.

The days become more vivid and the spirit becomes brighter and brighter.

The final exam is over and there are still a few days until summer vacation. It’s a leisurely day.

"Teacher Koizumi has become more and more beautiful recently!" a female teacher in the same office exclaimed.

"How beautiful is a rose every day?" Another slightly older female teacher said with a smile.

"The main thing is yesterday -" Huangzi said in a longer tone.

"What happened yesterday?" the female teachers asked one after another.

"Kangko!" Koizumi Aina shyly shouted.

"I won't tell you!" Huangzi said proudly to everyone.

"Cheapskate!"

"Boring!"

When everyone dispersed, Akira asked Koizumi Qingna in a low voice: "I went to see him off yesterday, but he didn't come back for a long time. What happened?"

"Nothing." Koizumi Aina sorted out the lesson plans that she had compiled.

"Nothing?" Huangzi took out his mobile phone, "Look at how you looked when you came back yesterday."
To be continued...