17.

The weather in Japan in October is the best.

The temperature is suitable, the day and night are average, there are mostly sunny days and there are few mosquitoes, plus a public holiday "sports day", so many schools will choose to arrange the sports meeting in October.

As one of the best private high schools in Osaka Prefecture, Osaka Kaifang Academy has a staggering variety of sports events. ——In addition to all kinds of running, long jump and high jump, shot put, tug-of-war and other track and field events that ordinary schools have, it also involves swimming, bicycle racing, and various ball games.

Hattori Heiji naturally would not let go of this rare opportunity to prove himself.As soon as the project list was confirmed, he rushed to sign up.

And Rin Toyama seems to have no interest in this activity that all the students in the school talk about. ——He hasn't participated in a sports meeting for many years, and he doesn't know where he lost his sense of mission and hard work.As far as he said, the sports meeting is no better than aikido or violin. The role he plays these days is nothing more than a competent audience and backup.Generally speaking, it is no different from usual, so I don't have so much expectation.

Seeing Hattori Heiji discussing training time with his classmates, Toyama Rin couldn't help but think about whether he could stand next to Heiji and reject a certain proposal with them if he was in good health like a normal person.

……

Maybe, but that's fine for now.At least he can now knock others down with his skills, and it doesn't matter so much whether he is physically fit or not.

Rin Toyama turned his head, supported his chin and looked towards the direction of the playground.After sweeping across the empty field with his plain sight, he caught a familiar figure in front of the woods.

Rei Harada and several senior seniors?

The boy thought for a long time, but he couldn't be sure whether there were so few people who dyed their hair like flamingos in the first year of high school.So let's just call them "senior".

What are these people doing?

Toyama Rin stared at it for a while, then suddenly stood up and walked towards the back door, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

No matter which country you are in, school bullying is a big problem that has long plagued teachers, parents and even the whole society.And those who are bullied are generally those who have a strong sense of presence and are easily targeted, or "little characters" who are too unknown, and those who seem to be honest or weak, and people with some physical defects .

I met Rin Toyama when he was in the sixth grade, because he still had some psychological problems at that time, he looked listless and short, so he was always bullied by those "vigorous" guys.He has personally experienced what it's like to be cornered by others, so he hates this kind of behavior.

In fact, this is not the first time Harada Rei has encountered such a situation.

Strictly speaking, this should not be regarded as campus bullying, at most it should be regarded as malicious harassment. ——These boys forced her into a corner with toothpicks in their mouths, and asked her to hang out with them while laughing mischievously.As for where to go, she only heard that that place is not for high school students.

Looking at the posture of those seniors, it feels like they will be beaten if they refuse.

Harada Rei was a little scared, but she also understood that some things cannot be justified the first time. ——If she agrees today, she will be forced to agree tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and even a long time after.Otherwise, it will cause a series of troublesome things.

So after thinking about it again and again, she bit the bullet and refused, citing something at home.

"Huh?! Dare to refuse me?!" The leading sophomore boy spat out the toothpick in his mouth, took a step forward and reached out to grab Harada Rei's shoulder.

In the end, he was stopped by a pair of sharp-boned hands.

"Senior, the lunch break is almost over." The young man's cold voice came.His tone was very calm, as if he was telling a traveler asking for directions how to get to the station, and his expression was the same, showing no emotion at all, "Aren't you going back to class?"

【Attend class?Are you mistaken, we are bad!Of course, such things as courses can be skipped if you want to. 】

Several boys laughed.Then the leading boy shook off Toyama Rin's hand and pushed him at the same time.

Even if the boy was mentally prepared, he couldn't resist that force.He took a step back uncontrollably, bumping his back against the thriving tung tree.

"Mr. Yuanshan!"

There was another burst of laughter.Mixed with the breeze blowing from the surroundings, it landed on Rin's exposed skin and brought a hot feeling. ——He could feel all the cells in his body clamoring to give the opponent a straight punch, but reason restrained him.He is not the kid in kindergarten who beats him back with his fists when he is bullied. The price of growth is patience.

"Yuanshan? Boss, I remembered, isn't this the girl who wore a skirt in the drama competition last time?"

"Oh? Is it him? - Hey, this is a celebrity in the whole school. Someone said last time that you work in a custom shop. Is that true?"

Harada Rei frowned. ——Just put on a play for the class!What are you sick bastards trying to write? !And which high school student would go to work in a custom shop! ! !Don't let me in at all, okay? !

However, she didn't dare to speak, for fear of angering those people and making the matter more serious. ——She looked at Toyama Rin, not knowing how the other party would react.

Rin Toyama's eyes seemed deeper than usual.Under the shade of the tree, the color difference between the pupil and the iris of the smile could not be distinguished at all. It seemed that even his iris was pure black, like ink melted in water, and it had a soft and silky feeling.

He looked at the boy in front of him who was leaning forward and back with a smile, and when he spoke again, his tone was still calm.

"Let's go.—there's nothing more for us here."

Eh? !Will they really let us go? !

Rei Harada was stunned for a moment, standing where he was before he could move.Seeing this, Toyama Rin raised his hand, put it on the girl's shoulder and gave her a weak force.

The two walked out of the shade of the tree, and the shadow shrank into a ball under the sun.

A few people behind were still shouting, "Show us what to wear again", "If we go to the store after you leave like this, we won't call you by name to accompany us for a drink." Li couldn't wait to run back and slap those people.

Do your shit.A bunch of jerks.

Aware of the hesitation in the footsteps of the girl next to her, Rin Toyama, who thought the other party was still worried, lowered his head: "They won't catch up, it's too empty here, and if there is a dispute, people in the building will see it."

"En." Rei Harada nodded, and then cautiously leaned towards the boy.

"Rinko Toyama! Rinko! I heard that you have a good relationship with that high school detective, the kind who can wear a pair of pants! Then you can solve each other's physical problems? You must be very good at it?"

Is it too much? !

Rei Harada felt the boy's footsteps pause, and the fingers on her shoulders tightened suddenly.

If Toyama Rin turned around and ran back to beat those people at this time, Harada Rei wouldn't think it was too much at all, but he didn't.

The spotless black leather shoes did not shift at all, pointing straight to the direction of the teaching building.

"Go back with my friends today, and send me an email when you get home. By the way, it's best to tell your parents about this." Toyama Rin pulled out his mobile phone from his pocket and called out his phone number to indicate The other party wrote it down, "Sorry, I put your shoulders on you without asking."

No, no, it doesn't matter how many times you ride!

How can someone be so careful with girls!Is this guy a gem! ! !

"Is it really okay? I think girls might mind this kind of thing—"

"I, I, I, I don't mind!" Rei Harada almost bit his tongue, "Thank you very much, Toyama-kun!!!"

After bidding farewell to Rei Harada, Rin Toyama found his locker and changed his shoes, and walked back to the classroom of Group A along the corridor.

Hattori Heiji was still sitting on his seat discussing baseball with a few boys. They had a lively chat, and they didn't even realize that he had gone out for a trip and came back again.

In other words, he is already a freshman in high school, shouldn't he try to date girls?When Dad was in high school, he made a bunch of girlfriends back and forth——

Rin Toyama thought so, lying on the table and yawning.

In the afternoon, there were two sections of liberal arts, and Rin Toyama was so sleepy that his pen was turning around on his notebook.Finally got through school, Hattori Heiji had to go to Heiji's public baseball field to practice baseball and couldn't go home directly, so he had to go with him.

Just kidding, he is not a fool, he just "communicated" with those seniors at noon today, wouldn't it be troublesome to go home by himself?At school they tend to hold back a lot, and if they happen to block him in an alley—

……

Rin Toyama didn't want to fight, he was carrying his piano on his back and planned to go to the store to change the hair of his bow after school.

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"Did Yuan Shan stay up late again last night?" When a group of people walked on the embankment, the squad leader asked knowingly.

"Ah."

"What are you doing all night? Is the homework so difficult? Didn't I lend you math and English copying?" Hattori Heiji was dissatisfied. ——Rin Toyama liked to sleep at first, which made his lunch break very boring.Now it's getting worse, he sleeps when he has time, and he can't even wake people up to say a word.

"to chat with."

"And that 'Holmes of the Heisei Era' again?"

"Well.—he's a nice fellow, better at chatting than you."

"...Huh?!" Hattori Heiji was very upset, but he opened and closed his mouth and said "you you you" for a long time without holding back a few words.Otherwise, Toyama Rin must have asked him strangely, "What does this have to do with you? I didn't pull you to chat."

……

It's because it didn't pull me——

Hattori Heiji thought about it for a long time and didn't know why this idea suddenly popped up in his mind. He and Rin Toyama meet every day, and it is estimated that there is nothing to talk about if they change the network platform. If they want to talk, they can just make a phone call?Why waste time waiting for this weak typist to hit the keyboard...

As long as he sees his friends and strangers "chatting", he feels uncomfortable recently, as if sitting on a burning frying pan.

Maybe it's because this guy is too stupid, maybe something will happen if you don't look at it. ——Whether the other party accepts it or not, he secretly swore to take care of Toyama Rin, in case that "Holmes of the Heisei era" is a rich Obasan who likes little milk dogs, and his friend can't recognize him through the network cable Wouldn't it be very troublesome if you didn't listen to persuasion if you were cheated?

A few days ago, I heard from my father that a high school girl was tricked into using Twitter to be dismembered in the apartment. Hattori Heiji felt that things like the Internet were really unreliable.

Although Toyama Rin is a boy and can do aikido with one hand, what if the other party uses ether first?Even the most powerful person should fall!

Hattori, a high school student detective with bloody images popping up in his head, Heiji suddenly grabbed Toyama Rin's wrist and said loudly: "Be careful!!!"

……

……

……

Isn't "be careful" plus multiple exclamation points used to threaten people?

A pair of bright black eyes looked at him with obvious surprise, the eyebrow on the left raised slightly to form a puzzled expression, and the slightly parted thin lips seemed to want to say something, but finally pursed into a straight line.After Hattori Heiji caught these subtle changes on Toyama Rin's face, he didn't know why he suddenly froze.

"Anyway, anyway, be careful with me."

He immediately withdrew his hand, and after leaving this sentence, he quickly ran to the squad leader in front, with his arms on each other's shoulders. The two of them lowered their heads and didn't know what they said, and no one else could hear them.

"Um... Hattori-kun, are you angry?" The cultural and sports committee member in the class—the only girl in this group—took Toyama Rin's sleeves, and looked at Hattori who was throwing his schoolbag on his shoulders in front of him. Heiji asked dumbfounded.

"No." When Hattori Heiji was angry, he would grab others by their collars, no matter how tall they were.

"...That's right. Why did he tell you to be careful?" The cultural and sports committee member blinked, looking very curious.

"I don't know either, and he didn't make it clear."

Rin Toyama had a headache.

Usually that guy does this every time, suddenly yelling something inexplicable and then saying nothing, and then pretending to be stupid when he asks again-"Ah? What did I just say? I forgot. Ah, I really can't remember, you Don’t take it to heart either, hahahaha.”

Hattori Heiji is the best in the world.

Rin Toyama snorted, opened his legs and followed the person in front of him to the direction of the court, and borrowed Hattori Heiji's coat as a quilt when the students started training, lay on the still green grass outside and began to sleep Eyes repose.

Training will end around 05:30. ——Rin Toyama was already sound asleep at that time, and Hattori Heiji yelled for a long time before he lifted his coat and rubbed his eyes to sit up from the grass.

"You don't think it's dirty to sleep here?"

"It's better than sleeping on the court and being hit by the ball." The boy yawned, raised his hand and returned the jacket to Hattori Heiji, then stood up and patted the grass on his body, picked up his schoolbag and piano case, and followed him directions to the station.

"I said earlier that if you are sleepy, you can go home alone. Why do you have to wait here? Are you not afraid of catching cold?" Heiji unscrewed the bottle cap and asked suspiciously, "Did you forget to go back the way home."

Toyama Rin squinted at him, stretched out his hand and slapped his friend who was drinking water with his head up: "No matter how crazy I am, it's impossible for me to get lost after almost a year!"

"Then why!" Hattori Heiji once again displayed his good quality of "breaking the casserole and asking the end". ——He felt that the friend in front of him was a little strange, and he would not suddenly make such a firm request to go home with him, what happened today?

"... I have encountered trouble. There were too many people just now, so I don't want to talk about it." Seeing that Heiji had finished drinking half a bottle of water, Toyama Rin was still unsatisfied, so he handed over his own half bottle, and at the same time described it concisely to the other party It's probably a troublesome thing.

"Huh?! Bad?!" Hattori Heiji was almost choked to death, "Why did you provoke them!"

"Then should I just sit in the classroom and watch?"

"You...you can tell the teacher or—"

Rin Toyama laughed suddenly: "Isn't this what my dad told me many years ago? -Listen, Heiji. Finding a teacher is never the best way to solve school bullying. I want to put an end to this problem forever , can only start from the parties.”

Why did he suddenly take up the posture of educating others?Hattori Heiji twitched the corners of his mouth, of course he knew this, but no matter how you think about it, Rin Toyama should not have come forward, right? Is he so familiar with Rei Harada? ——Besides, this guy really dared to confront a few senior boys face to face by himself, didn't he know to invite him to go with him?

"The last time you stole your father's motorcycle and went after the prisoner, you didn't ask me to go with you, did you?"

"...This is different! That's a real criminal! Those delinquents are still high school students!"

"I don't think there is any difference in essence." Toyama Rin stopped at the intersection, with a red light in front of him.The cars on both sides started quickly, and one after another, they crossed the zebra crossing, "The reason why you went alone is that you don't want to involve me, so I am the same."

When Hattori Heiji complained, he stopped suddenly.

He turned his head to look at Toyama Rin bathed in the setting sun.

The young man turned his back to the west, and the sunlight slanting from the sky outlined an obvious golden border on his shoulders.Those soft black eyes were clearly in the shadows, but for some reason they looked so bright.

"I don't want you to be hurt either." The corners of his mouth didn't rise, but there was a warm smile in his eyes, "Even if it's at the level of 'bad'."

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a long time but couldn't recover.

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