[Net King] Take away my heart

X month 3

I heard that Valentine's Day is coming soon.

When I was in the country, although I knew there was such a chocolate festival, it was not popular in our school.

The place where grandma lives is a rural area where it takes half an hour to drive to a convenience store.So even buying chocolates that everyone is used to is not a matter of course.

But in Lihai, the situation is very different.

The girls in the class prepared a lot of chocolates early in the morning, bought, made by themselves, giri, natal, and I was dazzled by the variety of sayings.

"Hey, Akiyama-san didn't prepare anything?"

When a girl asked me that, I shook my head.

Because of Jingshi's long-term illness and hospitalization, our family's economy is not very well off.Mom and Dad generally don't give me pocket money unless necessary.

"Oh, Akiyama is so pitiful... Come on, this is for you, it's friendship chocolate!"

As a result, I received several boxes of chocolates as a sympathy handout.

If I ask my parents for money to buy chocolates, I believe they will not refuse to give me.But the question is, who can I give it to when I buy it?

The girls in the class seemed to have the same goal, and they all stared at Marui's face that melted at the sight of sweets.

I never gave Marui anything, and under the atmosphere of "all girls will feed Marui" in the class, only Reika and I never gave him anything.

I heard that Marui has recently been selected as the main candidate. To congratulate him, even the senior girls from the second and third grades came to our class to bring him food.

"Marui-kun belongs to everyone! No one can monopolize it!"

I don't know who yelled this sentence first, the girls in our class were suddenly aroused with a sense of crisis.

They joined forces to form an organization to defend Marui, prohibiting the senior girls from coming to our class to run too frequently.

Unknowingly, Marui has become so popular.

During the lunch break, Marui stopped me in the corridor as I was going to the canteen.

"Hey, Canon, I have something to discuss with you!"

Usually Marui is either with Kuwahara or a group of girls, but today he is alone.

"What's the matter?" Seeing him deliberately avoiding other people, I seemed to have a vague idea of ​​what he wanted to do with me.

"Well, about the final exam..." He scratched his head and said.

as predicted.

"No." I interrupted him.

Marui's eyes widened, as if he didn't expect my rejection.

"Are... are you dissatisfied with me?" He looked at me suspiciously.

"No."

Maybe my answer was too short and quick, as if I did seem to be dissatisfied.

"Marui-kun... I won't do this kind of thing again." I changed my tone, "I hope you won't do it again."

There was a puzzled look in Marui's eyes.

"If it's so annoying, then why did you help me last time? You helped me but said you didn't want to do it. Then ignore me from the beginning."

I fell silent.

I wanted to help Marui, I wanted to win his favor, I wanted to hear him say thank you, I wanted to see him smile at me, but that wasn't enough.

For Marui, it is too easy to get help, because everyone likes him, everyone wants to be friends with him, and no one will refuse him.

Maybe he took it for granted that he got help, and he only needed a thank you to be able to feel at ease and not owe each other.

But this is not right.

A thank you and a smile are not enough... because Marui is like that to everyone.

Helping him cheat at the risk and condemnation of conscience is almost the same effect as just stuffing a lollipop into his hand.

I don't need that kind of thanks.

"Are you talking?" Seeing my silence, Marui got a little impatient, "If you don't want to, then I'll find someone else as soon as possible."

I knew he would do it.Marui has never lacked people who are willing to help him, and I am just one of countless spare tires.

"Hey, pig head over there, are you bothered?"

An angry voice came from behind me.

Lianhua grabbed my neck and pulled me towards her.She glared at Marui fiercely.

"They say they don't bother to talk to you anymore, what are you talking about? Go to whoever you want, get away as soon as possible, don't just rely on your small face to see and provoke people everywhere, if you eat like that, you will sooner or later become a pig's head! If you don't believe it, there will be someone else who will pay you!"

Marui was stunned by Lianhua's pungent scolding.

"Have you heard of the words "fatty liver and high blood sugar?" What about ghosts?"

Lianhua's saliva sprayed directly onto Marui's face.

After finally scolding Shu Tan, Lianhua just hooked my neck and carried me away.Marui was left alone in a daze.

"Uh, the one just now was just... I couldn't help it." After carrying me back to the classroom, Lianhua said, "Don't think too much about it."

I didn't think much about it, I was just as dumbfounded as Marui.

Lianhua is really a very powerful person, isn't she?I don't think I will ever meet a more powerful girl than her in my life.

"Lianhua... When your parents gave you a name, they definitely wouldn't have imagined that you will be like this when you grow up."

"Dare to make fun of my name, are you impatient?"

"No... In fact, like Lianhua, I have been given the wrong name."

——I am not good news, but bad news.

X month 14

On Valentine's Day, Marui received chocolates that would fill his entire schoolbag.

Because he couldn't pack his own book, poor Kuwahara had to donate his school bag to help him pack chocolates and take them home.

After being scolded by Lianhua, Marui never dared to look for us again.I thought my friendship with Marui was over.

After school, everyone went home one after another, and I stayed to clean the classroom as a student on duty.

While sweeping the floor, Marui suddenly walked towards me with a box of chocolates.

"That... this is for you."

Just like the scene where a girl confesses to a boy in a TV series, Marui blushed and handed me a box of cute chocolates.

"I'm sorry Canon, that day... I told you some nonsensical things."

"……I do not want."

I feel very sad, if Marui is sincerely apologizing, he shouldn't give me the chocolates that other girls gave him.

"No, no! Don't get me wrong!" As if seeing what I was thinking, Marui quickly explained, "They didn't give this to me, I bought it myself!"

Marui said that he waited in a long line at the department store to buy chocolates. The line was full of girls and he was the only boy, which made him feel ashamed.

"So you just accept it! Please! Forgive me, please?"

He clasped his hands together and lowered his head deeply.

……what can we do about it.I still haven't picked up the chocolate.

I still hold the broom in my hand, and I don't have any extra hands to take it.Marui cautiously raised his face to look at me.

"Sweep the floor for me." I said to him, "I'll forgive you when it's all cleaned up."

"...Really!? Good! It's on me!"

Marui quickly picked up a broom and quickly helped me sweep the entire classroom clean.

As expected of the tennis club... boys are always much easier than girls to do physical work, and they can get it done in two or three strokes.

"What, you're a genius!"

Seeing my admiration, Marui proudly scraped his nose with his hand.

"It's agreed in advance, don't play tricks!" He stuffed the chocolate into my hand.

I accepted my first valentine's chocolate from a boy.

X month 27

Diary-kun, I'm about to graduate from the first grade.

One year really flies by, and I seem to be a second-year student before I do anything.

During this year, Jingshi joined the tennis club and became the head of the tennis club. He won the first place in all grades without any suspense, and now he has entered the student union.

Compared with Jingshi, what have I done?Except for maintaining the top five grades in my grade, I seem to have achieved nothing.

I didn't join any clubs, and I didn't do anything to get ahead. If things go on like this, it may be difficult for me to become a good person. Let me help grandma win.

Lianhua asked me, besides studying to make money and getting ahead, is there no other human touch in your dream?

I asked her back, what is human touch?

So Lianhua told me her dream.

Lianhua has been tall since she was a child, much taller than all the boys of her age, just like me, her seat is always at the end of the classroom.

Because she is too tall, Lianhua has been bullied by her classmates all the time.They called her a big, big monster who always threw wads of paper at her during class.

This situation continued until the sixth grade of elementary school, Lianhua couldn't stand it anymore, why should she be bullied just because she is tall?She said that I just don't care about those short and disgusting guys who like to pretend to be cute to please men. I just want to grow taller than these bugs, I want to grow taller than anyone else, and I want to stand where they will never reach look down on them.

In this way, Lianhua began to resist.She learned kendo in the sixth grade, and even went to class with a wooden knife. As long as anyone dared to bully her, she would fight with those people.

No one can beat Lianhua, because her kendo skills are so superb that she can knock down a lot of people with just a wooden knife.

For this reason, the school asked Lianhua's parents to talk to her several times, and Lianhua soon became a bad girl in people's eyes.

Poor Flower said she didn't care.

When she arrived in middle school, Lianhua's stature continued to grow, and her kendo teacher told her that she could use this talent to do something.

"I'm going to be a top model in the world. No kidding, I think I have it all."

Lianhua has a slender figure, although she is tall but well-proportioned, I think she may really be a model.

Lianhua ate very little when she was growing up, she said it was to maintain her figure, the thinner the model, the better.

I didn't expect Lianhua's vision of the future to go so far away.

"Everyone thinks girls are too big to look good. This is because we are in Asia and people have conservative eyes." Lianhua said, "But it is different in European and American countries. Look at those supermodels, which one is not 1 meter tall? 7 or 1 meters? This is the same as playing basketball. If you are short, you are not qualified to do these industries.”

Lianhua said with great enthusiasm that she would change from an ugly duckling to a white swan through her own efforts.

"When I become a supermodel, I will definitely impress those bedbugs! Make them unworthy of licking my toes!"

That day, Lianhua and I were sitting on the slide in the children's park. She stood on a high place with her hands on her hips, laughing loudly at the setting sun in the distance.

Lianhua's figure looks more handsome than ever.

"I said, Canon."

After the laughter stopped, Reika suddenly said to me seriously.

"Let's do some business."

"cause?"

"Yes, great cause."

Lianhua and I didn't join the club, and we spent the whole first grade doing nothing. Lianhua said that she didn't want to waste her life like this.

"Anyway, there is no club we are interested in in school, so let's create one ourselves!"

"Create yourself...?"

For the first time, this kind of absurd idea that is almost impossible to realize has impacted my outlook on life.

"Life is short, like a white horse passing by!" Lianhua sighed, "Girl, don't waste your youth!"

I was amused by Lianhua's statement.

Diary-kun, it's not that I don't have things I want to do.There are many, many things I want to do, but none of them are easy to do.

Lianhua is a magical existence, her courage, her self-confidence, and her strength have deeply infected me.

With her, it seems that even I have courage and self-confidence.As long as she's around, I feel like I can do anything.

I won't give up... I want to create our own world together with Reika.