[Projectile] You smile at the hope called despair

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——!Otherwise——!

--Hey!

……

The voice was vague, as if someone was calling him.

……

His face was pinched and his ears were pinched.

then……

"pain!"

The vision seemed to brighten, but it was still blurry.

"Hey! Can you hear me?"

"Since you're awake, don't dawdle like this! It's a man!"

...seems like an impatient...uh...

It was a lovely looking girl.

—with a fierce expression on his face.

No, it's not accurate to say it's fierce—her face, especially the two blushes, makes people feel that this kind of fierceness——

It's unexpectedly cute.

"Can you get up? Since you are so pitiful, I'll pull you as hard as I can."

"After all, a guy like you... No one will remember where you died, and no one will know - it's because you were besieged first, and then you stayed silent."

ha?

"Hey. How long are you going to sit here?"

"My name is not 'Hi'. Also, although I really want to thank you...why can't I talk properly!"

"You bastards aren't worth it. Anyway, I'm leaving here sooner or later."

Hinata remembered the transfer student who had a bad attitude a few days ago.

"Although I don't know why you are treated the same as a group of scum like you, but please give me more advice."

Hey... This doesn't seem to be a very strange thing, and it's useless to force it. After all, I introduced myself like that.

"Then... if there is nothing else, I'll go first."

Turning a blind eye to the girl's outstretched hand, Hinata supported the tree trunk behind her and stood up.

"For now...thank you."

There's nothing to talk about with someone like her.

"Hey! Just wait for me!"

The girl seemed to panic suddenly.

Hinata turned around: "What's the matter?"

"Just ignoring me and leaving! I mean, I..." She blushed, "...letting a seriously injured person go is against family precepts! So you have to stop! Do you hear me!"

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"That's it! As a 'super high school-level younger sister', you can't do anything against your brother's creed!"

A super high school-level younger sister?

It seemed rather embarrassing to say it, she stammered: "Leaving the seriously injured... the seriously injured... will make the team lose face! So make sure to go to the infirmary for me! Ah..."

As if suddenly realizing something, she hurriedly took out her handkerchief: "This is embarrassing!"

After speaking, he hurriedly wiped Hinata's face and hands.

The girl seemed to just have a bad mouth, Hinata thought.

There's no way to express it frankly, it's just... sad.I should help her, and it can be regarded as repayment.

So I tried to smile as softly as possible:

"Thank you, now I can finally meet people. It seems a little inconvenient to just call me 'Hi' all the time——My name is Hinata So, please give me your advice, Kuzuryu-san."

Hearing this sentence, Nine-headed Dragon seemed surprised.

Hey?

"...It's nothing, I'm just surprised..." Her voice dropped, "Someone still remembers my name."

That's right, after all, I introduced myself like that, and being isolated is also expected.

"Then, according to the family rules, I will formally introduce myself again." Her expression brightened.

"Natsumi, the nine-headed dragon, is the 'super high school-level younger sister'. Please give me your advice."

Super high school grade sister?

"What do you mean by this attitude! It's not that I've been judged to be incapable...although it's impossible for you..."

...I'm...not...Damn it, it's so unconvincing!

"My family is a large violent group with more than 900 members, the Kuzuryu group. My brother is the 'Super High School Level Yakuza' who inherited the mantle. Of course I am the 'Super High School Level Sister'."

ha? ...Even so...forget it.

"To be with my brother, to keep up with his footsteps, I came here reluctantly... Sooner or later, I will go to undergraduate." She showed a smile that was bound to win, "You just watch it for me!"

Hinata thought of Nanami.

In order to understand everyone and understand everyone's feelings, I have been working so hard.

So hard, even if it seems ridiculous.

Although the meaning is a bit different, the nine-headed dragon must have done this because she wanted to get closer to her brother.

"Hey... that! Hinata! What are you thinking!" Nine-headed dragon looked at him dissatisfied.

It seems to be because of a sudden change of mouth, some are not used to it.

"Listen to me carefully!"

"Uh... ah, sorry."

"It's really..." She curled her lips lightly, and she smiled again in a flash, "Since you are bullied like this and don't make a sound or beg for mercy, I appreciate you! Tsk... Although they are all guys who are not as good as scum... ..."

"I led them to meet the security guards, and you don't have to worry about it anymore, because they won't show up again."

ha?this……

"The underworld is all about 'strike first'! You don't have any friends, do you? Be my follower, I'll cover you." She raised her eyebrows, showing a haughty posture, "...so you are not allowed to refuse to listen I'm talking, understand?"

... This guy... has such a strong self-esteem.

But it would be nice to be able to relieve her loneliness a little bit.

At dusk, in front of the fountain.

"photo?"

"Well, Hinata-kun." Qihai smiled and held up the large-scale photo album that looked very beautiful. atmosphere."

It's rare for her to buy such a big one.

Although it was only two weeks since I saw her for the first time, half of the books were already densely packed inside.

"Koizumi-san is so cunning. You took so many photos that day, but you only took them out now..."

Looking around, it was Nanami and her classmates, a happy scene, although apart from Mioda and Nanami, Hinata didn't know the rest of them.

However, Hinata understood that smile from the heart.

I also understand the happy light in Qihai's eyes that radiates from the inside out.

With them here, Nanami, she won't be alone.

"These photos are full of everyone's bright smiles."

Qihai's eyes became brighter: "Did Hyuga-kun find out? Although Koizumi said that she was just recording... just taking pictures of what she wanted to shoot, but I can still feel that she...is very powerful."

"Can it warm your heart..."

"That's right, Hinata-kun. Just like we played with Miota-san before, this kind of photo——can really convey that feeling."

Do you want to convey the hope you feel in your heart to others, hope...?

Perhaps, it should be said that Qihai and the others' warm feelings were first conveyed to the recorders of these photos, and then conveyed.

"...Because hope is contagious. Just like you...I have been thinking about my classmates and cherishing this memory...In these photos, everyone is smiling. Unbelievably, I can feel that they are also I really like Nanami."

"Is it..." Qihai's cheeks flushed slightly.

"...You have already done the 'making everyone friends'."

Somewhat sadly, Hinata still managed to squeeze out a smile: "... I will continue to create such happy memories in the future."

"Hinata-kun?" Qihai lowered her head unhappily as if trying to hold back some words, "It's still the same as before, always saying such things...you want to escape."

"It's not fair... I've said so much about me, but I still don't know anything about Hinata-kun... Tomorrow, Hinata-kun is here, but it always feels like I'm far away..."

"Like this...like this..."

"...always too cunning."

This made Hinata a little flustered.Wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything.

"I was obviously injured, but I didn't mention anything... I wanted to pretend I didn't know, but Hinata-kun is still..."

"I... I just fell this morning...haha."

Hinata laughed awkwardly.

"Even if you fall down, you have to talk about it! Complain about it! Don't you have any troubles? I...I..."

Hinata panicked completely: "Nan... Nanami... I'm sorry..."

Qihai looked at him angrily, and suddenly smiled: "This is the so-called insufficient flag...the flag is not enough to open the corresponding route... I almost forgot the most basic of the game."

Why?In other words, this shouldn't be playing with GAL!

"Games with high difficulty are worth challenging!" Qi Hai suddenly became energetic, "...I will definitely overcome it."

ha?What kind of talk is this?

"Right now, this memory is incomplete...Hinata-kun."

She leaned over suddenly, unprepared, and pulled the distance very close.

Hinata was caught off guard and froze.

His face became red.

"Hey... Hey! Nanami!"

As if fleeing, he covered his face.

"It's too late, Hinata-kun—it's already 'clicked'."

Nanami raised her phone slyly.

On it were a girl with a bright smile and a boy with a flustered blushing face.

"Huh? I just realized...Hinata-kun's expression is so strange..."

"No... that... I..."

"...Is this the so-called flag?" Nanami's smile shimmered in the setting sun.

"Then it's right to take advantage of the victory and pursue it."

After that, Nanami carefully flipped through the photo album, and introduced to Hinata little by little what happened in the class.That tone and expression was more interesting than when Hinata carried her back that evening.

Maybe it's because she's not so tired anymore, but Hinata believes that with these photos, her thoughts may have returned to that time.

The excitement and comfort from the heart were like a dream - she was immersed in it.

When Nanami introduced her classmates, she never mentioned their talents, so Hinata was not able to associate the "super high school-level underworld" that Kuzuryu Natsumi said with any undergraduates until the boy's smiling face appeared in the in these photos.

Kuzuryu Natsumi's older brother is Nanami's classmate.

The little boy with a cute face but a determined expression is very similar to the girl with the bad mouth.

In every photo, although the teenager tried his best to put on a serious expression, the slightly raised corners of his mouth and the warmth in his eyes betrayed him.

Even the parts that can't be expressed frankly... are very similar.