spooky love

my face. "

Sounds like a tantrum toddler.Ryoichiro hugged Dema's body tightly, shaking from side to side.

"Oh, I'm still angry when I think about it."

Dema grabbed Ryoichiro's hand around his waist and pressed it close to his cheek.

"Isn't Mr. Yuan so drunk that he can't even walk steadily?"

"That's right..."

"I think it's better to put down what happened after drinking. You have to forgive the other party with the measure of a superior."

"but……"

Ryoichiro has an unacceptable expression on his face, and his expression is similar to that of his childhood, which makes De Ma feel affectionate.He gently stroked Ryoichiro's slightly longer hair:

"Since I haven't heard Mr. Hara talk about it, nor have I witnessed his lover, so I don't have the position to speak, but I think that as time goes by, he will understand that Master Ryoichiro is worried about him from the bottom of his heart."

"Because there is no cure for love," Ryoichiro murmured softly.Hearing this line, De Ma felt a tingling pain in his chest, because he felt that the words seemed to be talking about himself.He suspected: Could it be that this man regretted his relationship with him somewhere in his heart.

"By the way, you never asked me for anything."

Ryoichiro whispered as if thinking of something:

"Don't you have anything you want?"

"I don't want anything in particular."

"I want to say first that I still have debts to pay, because I don't have money and I can't afford expensive things."

"Really, I don't want anything."

"It's impossible to not want anything, right? Whether it's candy or snacks, I'll buy you whatever you want."

Hearing this childish tone as if he was treating a child, De Ma couldn't help laughing.Seeing Ryoichiro asking suspiciously "what's so funny", he felt that it was even more funny if he didn't realize it.

"I don't want sweets... just let me stay by your side for a long time."

The arms that hugged him tighter.

"It's not 'long', you will always be by my side."

After saying what he wanted to hear the most, Ryoichiro said "You're so cute" and buried his face in Toma's chest.

The next day, Ryoichiro said "I want a bento" while eating breakfast.He always settled for lunch with Hara at a cafeteria or soba noodle shop near the university. The reason why he wanted a bento box was probably because he didn't plan to have lunch with Hara.

The longer the dispute drags on, the more embarrassing it becomes. It would be better to reconcile as soon as possible, but it just happened yesterday, and Dema thinks that this face-saving man should not give in easily.He made a simple bento with nigiri rice balls, sweet boiled beans, and pickled vegetables, wrapped it in a furoshiki and handed it to the other party.

After sending Ryoichiro out, he tidied up the kitchen and prepared to cook. After finishing, he went to the well to wash clothes. At this time, the widow Chie who lived next door called him "Oh, Mr. Toku".From the first time he met Chie, he felt that the other party had an inexplicable sense of freedom and sophistication. Later, she confessed that she used to be a prostitute of Yoshihara (Note 41), and when she was old, Yudanna (Note 42) took care of her life It was good, but the man died suddenly of a heart attack two years ago.With the money the man left her, she could live without working.

"Are you a concubine?"

It has only been a few days since I moved here, and there are not many opportunities to talk, but the other party asks this question.He had only talked to her about the nearby vegetable and fruit shop before, so De Ma turned pale with fright, not understanding how the other party knew.Although the tiles can be soundproof, is it because the sound of groaning during sex is heard?He could only speculate.

Although it is not uncommon for people to talk together (Note 43), they will be classified as the behavior of the rich and theatrical in any case. It is unprecedented for two men to live like a husband and wife.If Ryoichiro is maliciously reported as a male sex lover because of himself, it will hinder his research at the university... Chie squinted at the trembling Dema, and said with a smile, "Don't be so scared."

"I've met so many men that I know it. The way Teacher looks at you is a man's eyes."

Chie whispered, and then she simply admitted that she had been a prostitute.

"At first I thought you were a servant as you claimed to be, but that teacher kept talking about 'Dema, Dema' from morning to night, and treated you like a wife."

Qianzhi is barren, and her Danna knows this, but still takes care of her.I don't know if it's because of this, even though she lives next door, she seems very interested in Tokuma and Ryoichiro, two men who live like a couple.Dema asked her to keep the matter between herself and Ryoichiro a secret, and Chie also said that she hoped that he would not tell anyone that she had been a prostitute.

"What's the matter, Miss Chieda."

"Please come here, my child is in trouble."

As soon as I came to the next door, I saw a slightly protruding tile at the boundary between the first and second floors of the same longhouse, and a white kitten meowed miserably on it.It was a kitten born to a cat raised by Chie, who sometimes played in the flower bed in front of the house.

"I can't reach it from the window, and I can't reach it from below, and the mother cat can't get close to it, please think of a way."

Dema borrowed a ladder from a craftsman living nearby and rescued the kitten.Qianzhi hugged the cat to her chest and said tearfully, "That's great, that's great..."

"Mr. De, thank you. By the way, wait a minute."

Chie went into the house and brought a package wrapped in newspaper.

"This... Please taste it with Sensei."

When I opened it, it was a grape that looked delicious.

"That's embarrassing."

"This is also given to me by others. I can't finish it, so you're welcome."

Ryoichiro grew up in the countryside under the care of a nanny, and his mouth was raised very carefully. He likes to eat this kind of fruit the most.But now there is no money left to buy, even if it is a gift from others, it is very happy.

"It's very sweet. That teacher likes sweets, right?"

"You know?"

"He often buys glutinous rice sticky cakes to take home, right? Serves for two."

After finishing speaking, Qianzhi lightly stroked De Ma's neck.

"This kind of place is getting red, and you and the teacher seem to be very hot about that matter."

Seeing De Ma's face flushed, Chie smiled.

"Mr. De is so innocent, so cute. If you weren't with the teacher, I would want to get my hands on it. But if the object is me, it shouldn't be useful in the end, right?"

After Chie finished making a bit of a dirty joke, she looked up at the house where Tokuma and Ryoichiro lived.

"Are you scared by the male couple? Since you came, the scary atmosphere in that house has disappeared."

Before Dema moved in, that house had been a famous haunted house nearby.After asking, I realized that the first people who lived here seemed to be a foreign couple. The husband took a Japanese concubine, and as a result, bloody and tragic scenes were staged at home.In the end, the foreign wife who lamented her husband's infidelity committed suicide by piercing her throat—it seemed to be the female ghost he asked Sang Ye to eat.

After being teased severely by Qianzhi, Dema returned home.While they were talking, the sun had climbed high.He walked through the corridor, intending to really go to do the laundry this time, and accidentally glanced at the living room, and found that the bento had been forgotten on the dining table.He took out his pocket watch from his chest, and sent it in time for lunch.If the other party finds out that he forgot to bring the bento, he might go out to eat with Hara.Although he thinks that might be better, if the knot has not been untied, the other party finds that he forgot to bring his lunch, maybe he will go home to get it.

Although hesitant, De Ma still hugged the burden on his chest and walked out of the house.It didn't take much time to walk to the university, but the sun was so strong that Dema regretted not wearing a hat.Although Ryoichiro bought him a Panama hat, he kept it at home because he thought it was not far away.

Passing through the front of the store, the water that is sprinkled on the ground rises up like hot water vapor.Sweat dripped down his back, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. In the end, Dema couldn't take it anymore, and went to the ice shop halfway to drink a glass of ice water.

Arriving at the university, just in time for lunch, many students came out of the building.Dema went against the flow of the crowd into the building and headed for the botany classroom.In the classroom, piles of plant specimens and plants that have not been pressed are placed closely together, let alone Ryoichiro, there is no one.I went to the assistant's room to spy, but I didn't see anyone.When I came here, I didn't meet him by mistake. Ryoichiro seemed to find that he didn't bring his bento and ran somewhere to eat.

When De Ma, who had not seen each other, was walking in the corridor with regret, a scrawny man came from the opposite side.He was thinking that the other party was as thin as a chicken bone, but he was startled when he saw the other party's face when he approached, it turned out to be Yuan.Yuan has lost a lot of weight since they met at the end of June, and even his appearance has changed.

"Mr. Yuan."

He called out.Yuan narrowed his sunken eye sockets, his expression was hard to say that he was kind, but surprised.

"I brought a lunch box to Master Ryoichiro, do you know where he went?"

Yuan murmured "Oh", and then said:

"Look for Sensei. He just went out the back door. He must have gone to a soba noodle shop."

After a short walk from the back door of the university, you will come to places where cheap cafeterias, soba noodle shops, and bakeries that conduct student business gather in succession.

"Is that so? I brought him a bento, but it seems unnecessary."

De Ma handed the bento in his hand to Yuan.

"If you haven't eaten lunch, please use it, there is nothing good in it."

"Ah, no, no need."

Yuan resolutely refused, but Honest's stomach growled.Whether it was out of shame or not, his thin face flushed red.

"Then, let's eat together, half of each person. I can't eat so much."

As a result, Yuan agreed to his proposal, and the two went outside to the greenhouse next to the greenhouse.