"Gah-gaah-"

Putting on his school bag and walking down the Ginkgo Slope in front of the campus gate, Raku Sakakihara followed the telephone poles standing on both sides of the road and extended his sight to the end of the narrow road. The setting sun had already set the sky on fire, and several birds flew in from Shinjuku.

A crow is sitting on the corner of the teaching building in the distance.

Raku Sakakihara looked up at the sky and found that since the rainy season passed, the dusk in Tokyo was much more golden than before.

Feeling the breeze blowing in front of him, he moved his gaze to the side face of Tianhai Zhixue who was walking beside him with a big white flower on the back of his head.

Now Yuki, Sakakihara Raku is a little hard to describe his feelings.

After practicing basketball with Liuli for a while, she seemed to have gained some confidence of her own.

"Is basketball difficult to play?"

"Yes." Amami Nozuki, who was carrying a small schoolbag, nodded immediately. She turned her bright eyes to Sakakibara Raku's face, "Every day I feel that I have a lot to learn and need to master a lot of knowledge and skills."

Sakakibara laughed and said, "Actually, I don't have to work so hard at ordinary times. How could I have been playing since school ended at 3:30 without having to take a break?"

"But, if not, it will be difficult to win the championship together with Sister Liuli."

Sakakihara looked ahead, led her across the sidewalk, and said with a smile:

"Why is Yuki so obsessed with winning?"

"Isn't that what Le said?"

"I said?"

"Well," Tianhai Zhixue looked at him very seriously with her expression and eyes, "Le said, he wants to see what I look like after hard work, because he hasn't seen it yet."

"So Yuki practices so hard every day?"

"Um."

Sakakihara thought about it carefully.

...This... I did indeed say it. It was what I said to comfort Zhixue shortly after I brought her back.

The original intention is actually to allow Tianhai Zhixue to focus on other things and prevent her from blaming herself too much.

Now it seems that Yuki regards her words of encouragement as a goal for which she strives endlessly.

...somewhat familiar.

"Yuki, I don't know if you understand or not, but if a person only works hard for others, life will be very tiring. So I don't recommend that you think this way. I hope you can learn more about basketball.

Find your place in sports.”

The snow of Tianhai blinked.

"Don't you understand?" Sakakihara asked.

"No." Tianhai Zhixue looked at him and shook his head, "I just don't understand why Le would say that."

Raku Sakakihara raised his head and looked at the pedestrian-filled streets ahead. Occasionally, there were a few tourists from abroad who saw the high school uniforms the two of them were wearing and were particularly curious.

He ignored the curiosity of these tourists and patiently explained:

"Because both me and your sister Qiyue are doing this, and in the end, Yuki, you also know the situation."

"But if I see Le watching me while playing basketball, I will feel a very special and special feeling in my heart."

After hearing this, Sakakihara laughed again:

"Then let me call this feeling happy, because someone pays attention to you and affirms your efforts. If, I mean if, if one day the person who affirms you no longer affirms you, will you still do it?

Do you want to stick with what you are doing now?”

Tianhai Zhixue was a little unable to understand this sentence, but it could be seen that she was trying her best to understand, "Is the person Le is talking about Le himself? If Le no longer pays attention to me, will I continue to practice basketball?

.”

"Amazing."

Sakakihara praised her, it was hard to imagine that Yuki would understand such difficult words.

"That's it. Look, you are happy playing basketball because I often come to see how you are playing, right? If I don't support you and stop coming to see you, yuki, will you have to give up your long-term friendship?

Sticking to the goal makes you feel like you have gained nothing.”

"it seems to be like this."

Raku Sakakibara looked at the setting sun in the distance of the city and felt quite emotional:

"That's why I say that you should find your own ideas in the sport of basketball, instead of just thinking that I like to see you like this, so you take action."

When yuki faced this sentence, he half understood it.

She didn't quite understand what to do.

In fact, Sakakihara Raku couldn't give her any good answers. After all, this was her own idea.

It was only in the past two days that he had the idea of ​​​​untying himself.

"Don't worry too much about this. It's good that Yuki has a goal now. And doesn't Yuki herself say that she is very happy to exercise with sister Liuli? This is actually something that belongs to you."

"Le, then I don't understand why Le would say that if you do this, you will feel very, very uncomfortable in the end."

After Sakakihara heard this, he repeated what he had just said to her.

Amami no Yuki listened again, thought again, and then stared at Sakakibara Raku's face for a long time, and in a weak and small voice, she said something that shocked Sakakibara Raku for a while:

"As long as you're happy, that's fine."

As long as you are happy?

Sakakibara Raku looked back at Amami Nozuki, and felt that the girl's extremely calm, yet unusually warm face was far longer than the elongated shadow under the setting sun.

"It's really something only Yuki can say."

Sakakibara laughed again, and felt a little sorry for her in his heart. His feelings for her were so humble.

Maybe it was the matter between Qiyue and Liuli that pushed her to the limit of the feelings she dared to ask for from her?

Raku Sakakihara found a little girl in front of the drink shop, tugging at the hem of her father's clothes and asking him to buy her ice cream.

The father couldn't resist the little girl, so she pulled him to the front of the store and bought a large cone.

After the two bought the cones, the little girl was satisfied. Her father took her and left quickly. Only Tianhai Zhixue beside her was still looking at the sunset scene.

Family.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is indeed a scene that Yuki has been paying close attention to.

It's as if everyone has a home and is happy and happy, but poor little Yuki stands in the distance, alone and looks at those people with perfect families.

"Want some ice cream?"

"Um."

"Then I'll buy it for you?"

"May I?"

"Of course, has Yuki forgotten that I used to pay for you to buy food?"

Sakakibara took her to the beverage shop and asked the clerk for a large cone. A minute later, he received it and handed it to Amami Yuki.

“Thank you Le”

Seeing her satisfied expression holding the big cone in both hands and staring directly at the snowy top of the cone, Sakakihara Raku truly felt that this eldest lady of the Amami family had never seen the world at all.

"It's nice to have fun."

"What good?"

"Youle can buy me ice cream."

"Are you so satisfied with just this? And don't you have a lot of money yourself? Grandpa gave it to you, so you can buy it yourself."

"Yes, I am very satisfied," Tianhai Zhixue nodded seriously, "and the one I bought for myself is completely different from the one Le bought as a gift to me."

Although their identities are similar to those of Qijiu, the difference between them is ridiculously huge.

Seemingly feeling something, Sakakihara suddenly glanced behind him. In his sight, a line of flaxen color flashed past and disappeared behind the neon billboards on the street.

"Yuki, let's keep walking."

"Okay. Let's eat something too."

"Huh? Can you bring me what you've eaten?"

Amami no Yuki turned the cone 190 degrees and handed it to Sakakibara Raku, "Raku, eat here, I've never eaten here."

"Haha, no need, I'm just teasing you, I won't eat from you."

"All right."

*

After calling a taxi and returning to the downstairs of the apartment, Sakakibara handed the key to Amami Yuki and asked her to go up first.

"Wouldn't you like to go home?"
To be continued...