[Comprehensive] How to kill a rabid dog gently

A few more days passed, and Cheng still couldn't find a suitable time to get along with Lin Ye... She almost didn't even meet him again, and Orihara Lin seemed to have given up even the minimum concealment, he completely hid himself up.

It must be untrue to say that Cheng is not bothered by this at all... But judging from the current situation, she really has nothing to do.

After all, if the current situation is compared to hide-and-seek, then Linye is the active party guiding the game.

So today's Cheng was also waiting for Lin Ye, but the day passed by little by little, until after school, there was no sign of progress.

Cheng sighed, stood up and walked to the window.

Today's weather is gloomy, and the morning weather forecast said there might be rain, so Cheng decided to close the windows before leaving.

She looked out by chance.

The scenery that can be seen from this window should not be called unfamiliar to Cheng Li, but she is more used to the view of the clear sky when she looks up when she is sitting in her fixed position.

So, when she was standing in front of the window, Cheng was unconsciously attracted by the laughing students walking by in the corridor of the teaching building opposite the infirmary.

This is……

Cheng counted the floors.

In this position, it must be a second grader.

Then, her gaze moved upwards, and there was the classroom of the third grade——

She discovered that there was a third-grade classroom facing the direction of the infirmary. If you looked at that classroom from the window, you would probably have a very clear view—Cheng knew this because he had never Looking from the infirmary, the situation by the window over there is also unobstructed.

Cheng saw the figure of the boy by the window.

She didn't know how long the other party stood there, and she didn't know if he was surprised at the moment.

But he must have noticed Cheng's gaze.

For his shadow flickered like a cat, and then disappeared.

But Cheng didn't intend to let go of the hard-to-catch tip of the tail.

She briefly recalled the internal layout of the teaching building in her mind, and quickly turned and left the infirmary.

The child cannot be allowed to escape again.

The distance between the two buildings was not far, Cheng watched the faces of the students who were leaving the teaching building, and after confirming that there was no Lin Ye among them, he walked up the stairs.

Her footsteps were very light, and when she stepped on the empty stairs, there was still a slight echo... and when another voice gradually intertwined with Cheng's footsteps, she immediately noticed it.

The same goes for the other party.

The two footsteps stop almost simultaneously.

Cheng looked up, but there were still dozens of steps between the two of them, almost a whole floor away. In her field of vision, many steps blocked the other person's body vertically, and she could only faintly see his shirt under his coat. corner.

It was a boy's shirt.

The other party's footsteps walking down paused slightly, as if, like Cheng, he was also confirming something——

At this point they can't see each other.

But soon, the other party made his own judgment.

Orihara Lin also turned back decisively and left, his footsteps suddenly became shallow and hurried.

Cheng immediately followed. At about this time, students who had just finished their homework in twos and threes happened to be walking down, and their footsteps suddenly became chaotic. Cheng couldn't help being distracted, and lost Lin Ye's clue.

But she has no intention of giving up or staying.

Cheng quickened her pace, and when she reached the fourth floor, she keenly caught the shadow turning around the end of the corridor, but when she walked over, the person standing there was not Lin Ye.

"...I just happened to pass by here, Kawasaki-sensei."

Shilla, who was stared at by Cheng for a while, adjusted his glasses unnaturally.

"Even if you have any questions you want to ask me, I have nothing to answer..."

"Kishitani-san."

Cheng said.

"Although there has been no formal communication about this matter, we probably have a mutual friend, right...I mean Celty."

This name made Silla explode in an instant.

"I knew it was you, teacher! You are an opponent that cannot be underestimated!!"

"This is a special piece of advice for young people. Just like alliances, the state of hostility is not absolutely stable... Under certain circumstances, it is possible to transform into each other." Cheng slightly raised the corners of his mouth, "I mean, suppose , if you need some help in the future, maybe I can..."

Kishitani Shilla did try to help and cover it up, but if it was in front of Celti, who will always be number one in his heart...

Why?Who is Orihara Rin?

"I understand teacher, if you are looking for Lin Ye, he just turned back from the stairs on the right hand side, and he should not be in the teaching building now."

"Thank you, Kishitani-san."

Kishitani Shilla, who received Cheng's assist promise, couldn't help but start to think about it. The betrayed friend was completely forgotten by him without guilt. He walked into the classroom while braving pink bubbles, and then saw sitting When Lin Ye was on the desk, he took a step back in fright.

"Why are you here, Lin Ye?! You didn't come from the corridor..."

"I can't help it, because I know that Xinluo is not a reliable friend, so I lied to you by the way out of caution." Lin also said with a smile, "Look, it turns out that this is not unfounded worry."

"This, this is because..."

"Well, anyway, the teacher was deceived, so I still want to thank you."

Not caring about Silla's guilty conscience, Lin also walked out of the classroom.

"However, Lin Ye, I don't understand." Shilla stopped him from behind, "Why don't you want to meet the teacher, you clearly—"

He had obviously been looking at her.

"..."

Lin also turned his head, there was no longer any trace of a smile on his face.

"Because it's different."

He said.

"The more I look at her, the more I understand that what is reflected in my eyes and hers are completely different scenery."

If, when she takes all my vision, what she sees is—

If, when I get too close, I find that there is no figure of myself in her eyes.

Lin also said softly.

"I don't know what I'm going to do."

The teaching building was completely empty, and Lin Ye patiently waited for the time difference he estimated to pass, and after making the judgment that Cheng had left, he also returned to the exit on the first floor.

He walked down unhurriedly, and when there were only a few steps left, a voice broke the silence.

"Orihara."

Lin also stopped.

"Looks like I got it right this time."

He looked down, and Cheng, who came out of the shadow on the side of the stairs, raised his face slightly and looked at him.

"I know you might not want to...but can I talk to you?"

Lin Ye was silent for a while, and then continued to walk through the steps without any hesitation, even when he passed Cheng.

"I reject."

It was much darker than usual outside, but it was not the color of night, it was the rolling clouds, casting a groggy chaos.

Lin also walked into the filthy dusk.

Cheng unconsciously took a few steps.

"Orihara...!"

"What do you want to talk about?"

Lin also turned his head to ask, but he didn't seem to really want to ask anyone.

"Teacher, you are just wishful thinking and want to give this matter a happy ending here."

Orihara Lin also said.

"Things don't always go the way you want them to, don't you know that, you who have hitherto been alone—"

The moment he finished speaking, a bolt of lightning flashed by suddenly, followed by muffled thunder.

The arrival of this bolt of lightning was so fast that people were caught off guard. It was a beam of intense light that swooped down from the atmosphere to the surface. faces.

She hadn't had time to put away her faintly hurt look, she was as pale as a lily that was broken off and drained of blood from its broken stem.

Lin also knew very well that he was the one who broke it cruelly.

This is not a surprise - Orihara Lin also knows where her scar is, and knows that his words can easily uncover it again.

He has faintly discovered her hardness and fragility.

But he didn't continue.

It almost surprised him, but Lin would never admit that his decision was touched by something...for example, her hurt expression.

"...so far."

Finally, Pro also said.

"Goodbye, teacher."

He turned around, this time, Cheng didn't hold him back.

The second bolt of lightning landed at this moment, and the pale lightning that seemed to tear apart the space between the two was faster and more violent than before. Immediately afterwards, a few drops of rain fell heavily.

Lin also paused, opened his umbrella, and within a few seconds, the rainwater accumulated for a long time poured in, accompanied by the cold wind, the surrounding trees began to tremble in the slanted rain line.

The raindrops hitting the umbrella made a heavy and rapid sound, and the sound was getting more intense... But when he turned his head, he found that she was still standing where she was.

Cheng didn't catch up to him, but he didn't leave either.

She came in a hurry and didn't bring an umbrella with her. Lin almost doubted whether she had noticed the increasingly fierce torrential rain and howling wind.

But how could she not have noticed?

Her hair and clothes were wet, and the rain was running down her cheeks.

—Let’s go, teacher.

Said the inner voice from Lin Ye.

—Leave this rain and go where I can't see.

She must not have heard Lin Ye's heartbeat, because she was still standing alone in the rain, watching herself quietly.

At this moment, the heavy rain lay between them. Besides, Orihara Lin also had many reasons not to let her approach him. He had to remain cold and calm, because he was always like this. Thanks to this, he often To be able to win, and just because the opponent is her, Lin also has to be more cautious than before...

but.

At this moment, she blinked, and then Lin also saw her eyelashes quiver slightly, and a drop of water fell from there.

He knew it was rainwater.

However, this is too much like a teardrop.

Orihara Rin also exerted force with the hand holding the umbrella handle.Even the noisy sound of rain couldn't drown out the turbulent impulse in his heart that burst suddenly.

He didn't have the time to think about other things, and all of Orihara Rinya's current actions had only one very simple purpose - he had to overcome these storms and go to her.

The voice in Lin Ye's heart became intense.

—Why don't you leave?

He wants to ask her.

The wind was blowing harder, and the umbrellas of pedestrians were faltering.

Likewise, he wanted to question himself.

——Why, can't you leave?

Orihara Lin also simply let go, the umbrella fell out of his hand and fell into the rain, he finally got rid of the resistance, Lin also strode towards her, and then quickly arrived at her side.

When his shadow enveloped her, Cheng raised her head, and then the young man pulled her into his arms forcefully and irresistibly, blocking half of the wind and rain with his body.

Then, his voice rang in Cheng's ear, so sharp and light, if it was a thin steel feather, the moment Cheng caught it, the sharp edge would cut her skin.

And despite this.

This is still the most sincere, sincere, complicated and unwilling moment when Orihara Lin also abandoned all unnecessary thinking and pretense.

He said.

"you win."

Lin also took Cheng to the old school building.

With the new school building with better conditions, there are many fewer people living in the old school building, so they didn't meet other teachers or students along the way.

Cheng followed behind Lin Ye, none of them made a sound.

Leaving aside Cheng, the current Lin Ye is almost abnormally quiet.

He stopped at the single room at the end of the corridor and took out the key.

As for why Lin Ya, who is not a resident student, has the right to use the single room in the old school building, and what purpose does he use this place as one of his strongholds... Now is not a good time to ask.

Because his side face looks too cold and calm.

However, as to why he came here now, Cheng quickly got the answer.

Lin Ye who opened the door turned his gaze to Cheng.

"There is a dryer and a private bathroom here." Lin Ye said, "Go take a shower before you catch a cold."

Cheng was taken aback.

"But……"

"Teacher, this is from experience."

Lin also interrupted her coldly.

"Do you want to be hospitalized with a fever?"

"..."

She couldn't think of a good reason to refute the other party very quickly.

"... Then I'll bother you."

Cheng walked into the room, Lin also turned on the light switch, and closed the door behind him.

According to the decoration and configuration conditions, Cheng guessed that this place was probably used as a single dormitory for teaching staff.

The bathroom consists of two compartments, the inner one is used for showering, and the washing machine and dryer are placed next to each other outside, which is quite a convenient design for her at the moment.

But after Cheng took a shower and let his body warm up again, he realized that neither the lining nor the coat had dried enough to be worn.

"shit……"

Cheng finds himself in a dilemma.

The luck in the misfortune is that at least the underwear has dried... Then, I have to wait here for a while... if I don't catch a cold.

At this time, the sound of Lin Ye knocking on the door caught Cheng Cheng's attention. She looked over, and through the light, his shadow was faintly reflected on the door.

"I suddenly remembered something."

The voice of the other party came over faintly.

"There is a slight problem with the power level of the dryer here, but I rarely use it so it has not been repaired."

He put something in front of the door.

"This is to prevent this inexplicable situation from becoming the reason for your illness. I don't care if you appreciate it or not..."

He paused, then suddenly said, "The rain outside hasn't stopped yet."

Lin didn't explain the second half of his sentence, which sounded unclear, and his shadow left from the door.

Cheng hesitated for a while.

Perhaps because she felt that the current situation was indeed a bit awkward, she squatted down, pushed the door open a crack, and then saw clearly what the other party had left there.

It was a set of neatly stacked men's clothes, probably Lin Ye's replacement casual clothes.

Lin also went to another corner of the room, and Cheng couldn't see where he was through the gap, but she still thanked him softly.

She chose to accept the other party's kindness.

When Cheng put them on, he could vaguely smell the refreshing fragrance of laundry detergent.

Orihara Rinya's figure is not particularly tall, but the difference in body shape due to gender differences is still obvious. His shirt looked big and loose on Cheng's body. Cheng slightly gathered the neckline and walked out.

Lin also changed out of his wet school uniform. He was lazily leaning against the window sill with a chess board randomly placed beside him. The half-played chess game was casually disrupted by the master.

There was no emotion on his face, black hair and white clothes formed a clean and sharp contrast, Lin Ye was playing with a chess piece in his hand, but he didn't know where he was looking outside.

The room was very quiet except for the patter of rain.

Cheng walked towards the broken chess set, and gently straightened the overturned chess pieces.

"Want to play chess, Orihara?"

Lin also turned his head, looked at Cheng, and took a long time to respond.

"it is good."

It was Orihara Rinya who held the black in this round.

Today his style is very different from the meticulous and cunning of the past. Black's chess is fierce and aggressive, biting the enemy's camp surlyly. Showing hidden tenacity, the two unexpectedly formed a tug-of-war situation.

The sound of rain outside is still going on, and indoors, the scale of victory seems to be affected by the wind and rain, swaying.

In Lin Ye's turn, he was looking at the situation, and was about to reach out to touch a certain chess piece... Somehow he suddenly thought of something, his movements stopped, and then he withdrew his hand.

"It was a hard fight."

he asked.

"Who do you think will win?"

"I don't know." Cheng said frankly, "But as a player in the chess game, I don't think I should give an answer other than my own."

"My thoughts are the same." Lin Ye said, "I also often feel that I have to win."

His fingers picked up the chess pieces.

"If... I mean, if, there is such a game that arouses your strong desire to win..."

The chess piece fell down, knocking on the chessboard crisply.

"Will you do anything for it, Master?"

Cheng opened his mouth, but before she could say her own answer, Lin also answered for her without authorization.

"You probably will."

He finally smiled.

"Silla said that I am a person who has no mercy for others... I probably have no position to refute, so, as a price, I don't mind being treated maliciously by others..."

--"but."

Lin also watched her.

"Only you can't." He told her, "Teacher, only you can't."

"So, whatever the outcome you want, please stop lying to me."

"……This is my fault."

Cheng looked at the raindrops splashing on the window lattice in bewilderment, and when he looked back, there was something special in that gaze.

"So, do you want to hear me? The real story."

Her tone was very calm, not intense at all, but it instantly made Lin Ye breathe easier.

He didn't make a sound, but Cheng understood his meaning from his eyes.

So she went on.

"In this story, the wedding in the future tense that I described does not exist... But, he did exist."

This is Cheng, the first time he pointed clearly, and Lin also mentioned him.

"The one I love."

Lin Ye's expression froze slightly.

"This is impossible……"

"I won't lie to you again," she said, "and, Orihara, you should be able to tell if it's a lie."

The atmosphere between them became tense.

But Cheng still continued the story.

"The first time I met him was in Yokohama, and almost a year later, we became lovers."

"He was a man of great contradictions, sometimes ruthless as if he could make an enemy of the world, and at other times easily overwhelmed by the slightest sorrow."

"He's mature and naive...but, that guy doesn't seem to resent being considered childish by me."

Cheng couldn't help smiling.

Lin had also seen her many smiles, but he suddenly realized in front of her that this was completely different from the previous ones.

At this moment, there is nostalgia in Cheng's smiling eyes.

For the first time he saw, she showed an undisguised attachment to a thing.

Orihara Rinya's heart began to slide into the abyss.

"and after?"

he heard himself ask.

"Later... we separated."

Cheng's voice was very soft.

"Orihara, this is not my imagination, but I really can't let you meet that person to prove that those things happened..."

——"After all, the him at this moment exists on the other side of the world that I can't touch."

So this is ah.

Lin Ye should have doubted her words, but all of them were so real and reasonable. Some fragments of her that he didn't understand in the past were gradually completed because of these words-about why she was always so lonely.

Why is she clearly here, wearing her own clothes, with her own breath, still looks so far away and untouchable.

Because she was originally a person who chased the phantom of the stars.

but--

"After that, I traveled a lot...and now, as you know, I'm in Ikebukuro."

Her words seemed to come from far away, sounding very distant and soft, but when she approached him, she mercilessly penetrated his chest.

she says--

"Orihara, you remind me of him occasionally."

Somewhere in his heart suddenly and violently collapsed.

This game of chess is doomed to never come to fruition again.

Lin Ye violently pushed the chessboard away, and with the sound of the chessboard overturning, the knocked-off chess pieces scattered all over the ground, Cheng subconsciously retreated a little, but the opponent's movements were faster.

He bullied Cheng in a very short time, cutting off her escape route, Lin also grabbed her waist, and then his hand gradually moved up and pressed on the back of her neck.

This way, she couldn't look away.

Orihara Lin also thought about it, he stared deeply at his own reflection in Cheng Cheng's surprised eyes.

At the same time, he slowly pulled out the knife hidden in his pocket, shaking his wrist, the sound of the blade popping through the air rang very close to Cheng's ear.

Lin Ye half-kneeled between her knees, held the handle of the knife instead, and lifted it up, pointing the blade at the back of his hand...and her neck.

"I'm an unscrupulous person, especially when I really, really, really want to win ... I just didn't think it would be today, in this way."

he said softly.

"I can't say that I didn't premeditate at all. Teacher, I investigated your social relationship, and then I came to a conclusion - you are a person, even if you disappear, no one will find out."

"You did it on purpose, didn't you?"

"In any case, this is not bad news for me... Especially now, I suddenly had an idea."

Lin Ye's tone was tinged with a certain kind of nervous excitement.

"Why don't you give it a try and cut off all the connections around you except me."

He weaves this whimsical, but creepy enough plan almost with gusto.

"If it's a community with relatively independent residents and a house with good sound insulation, it might really work. I can also get such illegal drugs...but."

Lin also paused subtly.

"Teacher, you are not easy to deal with. Rather, you will never do what I want easily, so I may have to use more drastic means to treat you... For example, do you have claustrophobia?"

he asked.

"Have you tried it? How long will you last in a closed space with no light before it collapses?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you... After the initial pain is over, everything will be fine, not to mention..."

Lin also said.

"You tell me I'm like him."

"Then it doesn't matter if you take me as a substitute for that person."

When he said this, he actually smiled.

"It's fair, isn't it?"

She pursed her lips and did not speak, but Lin also saw the fragile water in her eyes.

"……teacher."

He didn't know what his voice sounded like, but he was trying, trying his best, to hide his true emotions.

"At this moment, do I make you feel regretful and disappointed?"

"No, Orihara—"

What happened next was not what Lin Ye expected.

The person he was deeply in love with, and who was also wantonly hurting him at the same time, got closer to him, holding his face tenderly.

"If you want to say that there is anything that makes me regret and disappoint, Orihara, it is only me-I have made many mistakes, so I have been trying to find the so-called most correct path...but, until now, I have not found out that you It's the right side..."

"Arrogance and self-righteousness clouded my eyes, and I was never qualified to make a choice for you, even if I thought it was right—"

"only."

She choked.

"It's just Orihara, please don't make yourself suffer so much, it's obviously my mistake."

"The similarity between you and him exists objectively. I can't deny my true feelings, but I'm also very clear. It's just that my thoughts sometimes become uncontrollable. I've never been able to see anyone as him... ..."

- "It's like I can't think of anyone as you."

"Anyone is not you."

"So, don't be so hasty in denying the time I've spent with you."

she says.

"To me, that is a very precious thing, please don't take it away."

Lin also let go of his hand, allowing the dagger to fall to the ground.

he asked her.

"So, teacher, can't you give me that position?"

Cheng accepted and faced his question squarely, and then solemnly gave an answer.

"No."

She watched him intently.

"Sorry, just, no."

Orihara Lin always had the illusion that he and Cheng first met in the deep sea.

She seems to be an existence that does not belong to this world. No matter how much she is curious, trapped and explored, there is still a part that cannot be touched.

In the end, he was just afraid that he would be forgotten and abandoned by her without leaving a trace in her heart.

But now, she says, that's not the case.

She did face up to the existence called "Orihara Rinya", and this name had left a mark in her soul, becoming a part of "Kawasaki Sumiya".

She knew exactly who she was rejecting, what kind of person he was, what kind of mood he had...she knew everything.

After deeply understanding all this, she still rejected him, and this could only be because the person she had been waiting for had nothing to do with him.

He understood everything.

There will never be a more painful realization.

Orihara Rinya's heart seemed to be tightly grasped by invisible hands. The intense pain paralyzed his sensory nerves, so that he had no time to care about other things, until Cheng's fingers touched his face. Surprised.

He didn't even know when he was crying.

Lin Ye opened her eyes wide in surprise, but the tears were still pouring out on her own, Cheng seemed to be more panicked than him, so Lin Ye suddenly realized that the only person in her eyes at this moment was herself.

Just be yourself.

"Don't cry..."

"teacher."

Lin also grabbed Cheng's hand that wanted to wipe away his tears.

Up to now, all his love and unwillingness, what he desires and entrusts, is nothing more than this one sentence.

"Look at me, even if it's just now."

There were still tears on his face, and the light reflected in his eyes flickered in a helpless and desperate way, even though it was broken, it still looked beautiful.

Orihara Lin also slightly bent down and pressed against her forehead.

- "Look at me, please."