Expectation

"...Why is it the next time!"

Ayumi frowned and said unhappily, I was a little bit guilty, but seeing her aggrieved appearance made me feel like I had committed some heinous crime—even though I just rejected the children's invitation again.

"Recently, Sister Che ignored us at all! Did Ayumi do something to make you angry!" Ayumi seemed to be about to cry.I stammered and explained, "Most...recently, I've been really busy..."

"Obviously you went camping with us before, but you are so strange recently." They said in a hurry.

I asked for help, looking at the expressionless Ai, and then at the helpless Conan, trying to give the signal of "take these children away quickly", but they didn't have any tacit understanding with me, they just gloated While watching a play.

"Well, Che, why don't you go too, it's true that you haven't had much rest lately, have you?" Dr. A Li smiled gently. "Only one day, go to see sea fishing, adjust and adjust the efficiency to be high?"

...Although I didn't think I needed any rest, but what the doctor said was right, so I finally agreed to them.

...the sea.Although I live in an island country, I rarely come to the beach to play.When I was young, my mother once told me that her hometown was on the other side of the sea.So far, when I see the sea, her cold smile is always in my mind.That's ominous.

But today is indeed a very good weather, suitable for fishing.But that being said, in fact, I don’t know how to fish. A few kids made a big fuss and enthusiastically taught me this and that.

"Hey sister Che, your pole is moving! Hurry up!"

Only then did I realize that I was fishing, leisurely and leisurely, as soon as I closed my rod in a leisurely manner, it was indeed empty.

"Ah, it's so rare~" Ayumi said regretfully.I rubbed her head, "Well, I'd better see if you guys finished fishing, and pinch the bait for you."

"Eh--Okay."

I put the chair there and leaned back, and after sitting for a while, I felt sleepy.When she was about to fall asleep in a daze, Ai gently leaned over and said, "...Is that Chi Jing really so important to you?"

I woke up instantly and didn't know how to explain it.This was the first time he really mentioned it to Ai after his death.I stared at the waves in the distance, and finally said, "...just, someone has to do these things." If it wasn't me, someone was going to bring an end to the organization that I was.So what's wrong with adding as much firewood as I can.

She sighed softly, took my hand, took out a small ointment from her pocket, and applied it gently. "Really, I can't take care of myself at all."

I watched the blisters on my hands covered by the cool touch little by little, and let out a breath of comfort.I smiled and said, "Oh, we Ai-chan, it's so considerate, I don't know which one will be cheaper when it recovers in the future~"

The head was knocked lightly: "Just your skin."

The doctor was right, I really felt a sense of relaxation at the end of the day, I checked the time, asked the children to pack up, and waited for the doctor to pick us up.

"Ah, here we come!"

I squinted my eyes, and when I looked against the light, I could only see the figure, but I also saw that the person standing on the boat was not a short and fat doctor, but a somewhat tall man.I thought to myself that the sunset is really not conducive to observation, and I actually feel that the figure is somewhat familiar, or else I am so relaxed today that I am stupid.

Ai grabbed my hand violently.

—What did I say this morning?She is caring?Ah, I just hit the blisters and it hurts so much!

I could only squat down, "What's the matter? I know you?"

"That person... I've smelled the smell of the organization before." Ai lowered her voice and said concisely, she said with some confusion: "It's just... just for a moment, after that, it doesn't seem to be there. "

"now what?"

"Not now."

The children were also chirping, and finally Ayumi said, "Ah, I remembered, that big brother seems to live next door to the doctor's house."

Neighbor?

I immediately became vigilant, staring at the man wishing to burn a hole.I've seen Dr.'s neighbor, is this new?And next door?

I abducted Conan and asked, "Do you know him?" Conan wrote lightly, "Ah, I met in an incident before, and for some reason, I am currently living at my house."

live in your house? ?

I gasped, and even felt that Conan's brain was broken.Just when he was about to take him aside to question him carefully, the boat had already arrived, and the man with a handsome face was smiling, his face was really kind and amiable.

But I was preconceived. I heard that he had the so-called "organizational smell" on him, and I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable everywhere—even though I didn't know how accurate the sixth sense was.I smiled stiffly, and couldn't help muttering in my heart that if you squint your eyes and smile like this, aren't you afraid of eyelid cramps?

The man explained that the doctor had a problem with his invention and was still working on it, so he asked him to pick us up.After he finished speaking, he turned his head and said softly, "Are you Ms. Mizuhara Che? Dr. Ali told me. It's the first time we met. My name is Okiya Subaru. Like you, I am also a graduate student of Toto University."

I said perfunctorily, "Hello, please take care of me, I will trouble you today."

"It's nothing." He squinted his eyes unmoved, like a spring breeze.

...But I don't know why I couldn't help sweeping the goosebumps all over the floor, I quietly held Ai, and whispered to her: "I also think this squinting is a bit weird, but I don't know that Conan guy What are you thinking..."

"Hurry up, the sunset is going to go down soon." Okiya Subaru stood at the bow of the boat, watching the two of us talking quietly without rushing, and said gently.

I quickly stopped talking and took the children on board the boat back.

However, I observed him for a while and couldn't see any problem. He carefully and considerately protected the children on board one by one, patiently and gently.We all caught a lot of fish, and we originally thought about having a whole fish feast tonight and sharing it with the doctor.The children felt it was a pity at first, but he volunteered to say that he knows how to cook and can help us cook.

...What a nice guy!

I couldn't help but sighed and said: This squinting-eyed person looks like a dog and a beast, but in fact he seems to be a good person, isn't he?

She gave me a sad look: "Wait a little longer. At that time, my feeling was definitely not wrong! There must be something wrong with this person... this person."

If he is not a good person, he is a hypocrite.I thought uncomfortably, why bother.

nasty people.

"Ah, there is a corner rock over there."

The captain slowly told the children an old legend.I listened absent-mindedly, observing the man from the corner of my eye.He still kept his squinted smile, as if he was doting on the children's sparkling smiles.

"That's the decision! Go to Yijiaoyan to have a look!"

Hey, why are you so energetic...

And I frowned and thought, although I only heard a few words about the legend just now, I still feel a little ominous.I saw that Conan also got off the boat and landed on the so-called "Yijiaoyan" reef island, and I felt that it was possible, probably, something else happened.

The author has something to say: Oh, our brother Subaru!finally!debut~

ps: Che's current favorability towards Subaru: -99

Keywords: smell of tissue, squinting, people look like dogs