[Japanese Edition] Love at First Kiss] Female Supporting Struggle

The sky is pure blue, and the blue light reflected on the sea surface of Tokyo Bay gives the whole city a high-end texture.

Irie Naoki walked in front, Watanabe Junichi followed closely behind him.

Now is the time when club activities are over, the campus is full of students walking around with schoolbags on their backs, and the gray uniforms flash in front of Irie Naoki, but he just wants to find a different color.

After club activities are over every day, Matsumoto Reiko will always change into regular clothes. Naoki Irie doesn’t know what clothes she is wearing today, but it must be a colorful skirt—she likes to wear skirts.

Then, with just one glance, he saw her.

Reiko Matsumoto is wearing a red printed dress with a white background. The chic lapel makes her look cute and sweet.

So he quickened his pace.

She turned her head, with a slightly surprised expression, and waved to him with her arms outstretched.

How nice that when he looked at her, she looked at him.

He always thinks about her in his heart, and those fiery emotions gushing out of his heart are always on the tip of his tongue. As the footsteps approach step by step, those fragments of the past flashed in his mind frame by frame,

In the video store, wearing a sailor suit with a proud face.

Standing on the highest podium with medals and certificates in the national competition for middle school students, squinting happily.

The appearance of answering the questions seriously during the entrance examination.

How nice, he thought excitedly, that they went to the same school.But the young man's subtle self-esteem made him unwilling to admit such strong feelings.

He restrained the feelings in his heart, which made his expression even colder.

But a person's eyes can't be hidden, his eyes are so gentle and passionate, even if he always looks away indifferently when the eyes meet, Matsumoto Reiko still vaguely feels that subtle emotion, But the emotion was too vague, so she couldn't accurately judge what it was, so she could only smile intuitively.

Seeing her smile, Naoki Irie couldn't help but smile too.

Seeing his smile made Reiko Matsumoto feel angry unconsciously. Although she didn't know what she was angry with, she just didn't want to make him happy anyway. She puffed up her cheeks, trying to restrain her anger expression, but couldn't help it soon, she gave up resisting, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

As a result, Irie Naoki also showed a more cheerful smile.

It was so weird, they didn't say anything, they just looked at each other and started smiling, like they were in a competition who could smile the most.

The magical atmosphere separates them from others, as if they are the only world.

This made Watanabe Junichi feel uncomfortable, he squeezed between the two, "Reiko, have you finished training?"

In a hurry, he found a clumsy question.

As if the pause button was pressed, a wonderful link seemed to be cut.

"Huh? Hmm."

Reiko Matsumoto didn't react for a while, and nodded in agreement after two seconds.

Once the wonderful atmosphere was broken, the parties seemed to feel embarrassed.Both Naoki Irie and Reiko Matsumoto looked away unnaturally.

"How do you feel? How is your body?" Junichi Watanabe vowed to restore the atmosphere to normal.

"Not bad," Matsumoto Reiko muttered, turning sideways awkwardly, deliberately avoiding Irie Naoki's direction, reaching out and pinning her hair behind her ears to block the other party's sight.

Irie Naoki could only see the slender arms brushing over the white ears.

"Why is it so late?" Matsumoto Reiko muttered while carrying her schoolbag, she cooperated with Watanabe Junichi to skip the embarrassment just now.

Her face was so red it looked like the color of the setting sun.

"There is a practice match, and the time has been delayed for a long time." Naoki Irie said, which made Matsumoto Reiko have to turn her head to look at him.

"Nakano Industrial High School is here to play a training match." Watanabe Junichi rushed to pick up the topic.

"Competition?" Reiko Matsumoto was a little curious.

"Ah! Lizi hurry up, the private school is about to start."

Thinking of Naoki Irie's performance in the game just now, and the image of himself cheering on the bench, Junichi Watanabe seemed not to have heard Reiko's words, glanced at his watch, and skipped the topic loudly.

"Ah!" Matsumoto Reiko followed subconsciously and glanced at her watch, "Yes, it's going to be faster."

"Private school?" Naoki Irie realized something was wrong.

"Yes, Reiko and I are going to a cram school later." Junichi Watanabe proudly emphasized, "One class."

"Why go to private school? You two? When."

When it came to studying, the originally charming atmosphere was immediately broken. I didn't want to tell my competitors that I was in a cram school so soon, but since Watanabe Junichi said it, Matsumoto Reiko didn't hide it at all. "It started after the entrance exam last year. As for why," Reiko Matsumoto stood in front of Naoki Irie frankly, "Of course it was to defeat you."

Reiko Matsumoto was angry at the thought of this.As a student specially recruited for sports, Reiko Matsumoto didn't have to take the entrance exam.However, Ms. Matsumoto Reiko, who strives for perfection and wants to hold the title of No.1 instead of being a sports special recruit, chose to take the entrance examination of Shengdunan University, and paid 25000 yen for the examination fee.

That's right, if you want to be admitted to a private school, you still need to pay. The exam fee is not cheap. It is almost equivalent to an ordinary market operation. You can't let go of any place that can collect money.

The process of answering the questions went smoothly. Reiko Matsumoto thought that she would be the first, but in the end she was surpassed.

Irie Naoki.Since then, Reiko Matsumoto vowed that this is the person she must surpass in three years of high school.

"Ah," Naoki Irie remembered that when the admission results came out, Matsumoto Reiko was really not in a good mood, but he just guessed that she might not be happy in school, or, he didn't expect it to be because of the ranking of the admission results Second's sake, number two

"I knew you wanted this No.1 so much," said Naoki Irie, and glanced at Reiko Matsumoto.

He knew her, and her eyes would only be on beings higher than her.He glanced at Watanabe Junichi, he could see his love for Reiko and his defense against himself, but so what, she will look at me, and only at me.

"I'm definitely going to take a higher exam to let you know how big the gap is between us."

Irie Naoki smiled confidently.

Reiko Matsumoto is angry, this person is really too. . .Damn it!She swears that she must make it look good.

"Just wait and see, I will definitely beat you next time, and I will definitely stand in the first place in the midterm exam, just wait and see."

"Then I'll wait and see."

For Irie Naoki, the exam is a relaxed and boring thing. The content in the textbook is always easy to understand, and the answers to the questions on the test paper can be known at a glance.Some people think that he has no enthusiasm for learning, but in fact, if every test is just addition and subtraction, or addition and subtraction within ten, no one will be interested.For Naoki Irie, every exam is like completing addition and subtraction, which is no fun and new.

But this time I began to look forward to the midterm exam.He couldn't wait to prove himself in front of Reiko Matsumoto.

As long as he thought of her surprised and disappointed expression after seeing the results, the corners of his mouth would involuntarily turn up.

With this in mind, even after breaking up with Reiko Matsumoto at the subway station, Naoki Irie's good mood remained for a while.

But as he got closer and closer to home, his good mood dissipated little by little.After walking into the yard, Irie Naoki seemed to feel a kind of pressure, and all the joyful emotions instantly quieted down.

"I am back."

"Oni-chan," hearing the sound of the door opening, Machiko Irie ran out of the kitchen quickly.

Dressed in a Lolita dress adorned with lace and bows, and with the most innocent smile the most carefree housewife could have, she doesn't look like a mother in her 40s, but rather Like a little girl who doesn't know much about the world.

Irie Naoki looked up at his mother, nodded quickly, and then lowered his head.

He walked past his mother, trying to get back into the room.But before he walked into the living room, his mother's dissatisfied coquettish voice came from behind him.

"Oni-chan," Irie Machiko pouted unhappily without getting an enthusiastic response from her son.

No matter how carefree little girls are, there will be times when they are not going well, but when they are unhappy, others will always help them solve the problem.This is also the family education Naoki Irie has received since he was a child. His mother has paid a lot for this family, so don't make her unhappy.So no matter how much he tried to hide in the room, he finally stopped in cooperation, "Huh?"

"Oni-chan, how is life at school today?" Machiko Irie tried to communicate with Naoki Irie, but the young man had nothing to tell his mother.

Although they are mother and son, they live in two completely different worlds.

Machiko Irie was born in the countryside of Tottori Prefecture in the 50s.

Her entire childhood, adolescence, and youth were accompanied by Japan's rapid economic growth.It can be said that Japan has jumped from a defeated country to an economic power that can buy half of the United States.

But economic growth is not always pleasant, especially for young people like them living in small places.

When cities like Tokyo and Osaka are no different from international metropolises like New York and London, and the elites here are already wearing western clothes, listening to opera, watching ballet, and celebrating romantic and noble festivals such as Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day, These rural young people who have just been affected by the ripples of modernization have to find their own position in the second-hand fashionable style and traditional life that have been eliminated from the metropolis.

Among them, some are able to adapt to this rapidly changing era, change their destiny through learning, enter and stay in big cities.They themselves may still have a bit of the local flavor of the past, and they will not become real "Tokyo people" until their next generation is born.

But the so-called [-]-[-] law, the vast majority of people are mediocre people, they lack a good educational environment, and they don't have outstanding talents and perseverance. As a result, they can only lose to big cities because of poor grades. University opportunities.

They either wear remodeled student uniforms and eye-catching satin clothes embroidered with old imperial words such as "patriotic" and "kamikaze", or wear gorgeous costumes decorated with lace and bows, imagining that they live in the Rococo era. in the world.

Irie Machiko is one of these young people.