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Horikita Suzune was stunned, and she subconsciously glanced to the side.
The boy who had been standing there disappeared.
ps: The next chapter will end this simulation. The big ones will be left on the main line. "Cat" is a foreshadowing that has appeared before.
ps2: Thank you all for reading and subscribing. My health is basically better. Horikita Manabu's philosophy and confusion are in Horikita Manabu's monologue in the eighth volume of the original work. I like the simulated ring tone this time and wrote it myself. I want to find it. Here's a little bit of the feeling of writing the two previous simulations of Honami Ichinose.
Main plot: Kitagawa Ryo's strength supremacy classroom: Chapter 28: Walk this road with me
"Hey, Ryo, where have you been?"
Horikita Suzune looked left and right but couldn't find Kitagawa Ryo, so she had to take out her mobile phone and dial the other party's number. The good news was that Kitagawa Ryo answered the call almost instantly, which made her couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Oh, I have some things to deal with here. I saw Suzune and Manabu were so engaged in their conversation just now that I didn't want to interrupt you."
Kitagawa Ryo's tone was as indifferent as usual, but Horikita Suzune felt something was wrong in her heart. She clenched the phone in her palm and tried to make her tone as relaxed as possible:
"I just asked my brother. He doesn't know how to play the piano at all. It seems that sometimes the information Ryo has is not 100% correct."
"No need to make excuses for me, I just fabricated this lie at the time, and this is not the only lie I told Suzune."
Kitagawa Ryo shook his head and denied.
This was the strategy he came up with in the first place.
In Karuizawa Megumi's simulation, Kitagawa Ryo understood a truth:
Deliberately exaggerating a certain kind of injury will eventually only make these injuries gradually lose their authenticity, and then the pain caused by this distorted injury will be reduced or even numb.
So he chose to deliberately exaggerate the excellence of Horikita Manabu. Since Horikita Suzune had conceived in his mind the goal of Horikita Manabu that could never be surpassed, he simply made the statue more dazzling.
Coat him with thicker gold powder and enshrine his shrine higher.
Doing so would help Horikita Suzune take the initiative to recognize Horikita Manabu again, and then discover her mistakes.
"I'm waiting for you downstairs in the special building now."
Sure enough, some things should be explained clearly in person. Kitagawa Ryo hung up the phone.
After doing all this, he nodded towards the driver in the front seat. The back door of the car was opened, and Kitagawa Ryo opened the door and walked out again.
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"Ring tone."
When Horikita Suzune walked downstairs, she looked up and saw Kitagawa Ryo waiting at the exit. It was now noon, and most of the guests were having lunch in the store, so it was much emptier than in the morning.
However, Horikita Suzune is also confident. Even if there is a dense crowd around her, she can find the other person at a glance.
When she was working at Hotaru, a dessert shop, she complained that Kitagawa Ryo should be allowed to go out to solicit customers by herself. At least it would not be a problem to trick 70% to 80% of the female students nearby.
"Have you encountered any problems in school? I just saw students from their class running around anxiously downstairs."
Horikita Suzune didn't even have time to ask Kitagawa Ryo what was the reason for her sudden departure, before the other party naturally took over the topic.
"... There was something wrong with my brother's class's performance. It seems that one of the lead actors and a pianist is missing, and some of the props used in the performance were also deliberately destroyed."
"That's really a bit troublesome."
Kitagawa Ryo was also a little surprised. After all, he didn't know the specific experience of Horikita Academy in the first and second grades. When he entered Tokyo Advanced Education Middle School, Horikita Academy was already in Class A for three years.
However, at that time, there were less than forty members of the three-year Class A. It can be probably inferred that the other party's life in the first and second grade was not as easy as imagined, and there were even dropouts in the class.
Although Kitagawa Ryo has never experienced the cultural festival, he has stayed in this school at least, and he can probably guess that the content of this exam should be related to the final sales.
Based on this speculation, Horikita's first-year class A should have been targeted by a lower-ranking class.
Similar to the sports festival that Kitagawa Ryo himself experienced, as long as the performance items and rosters of the enemy classes are detected in advance, and then the key figures among them are targeted, the efforts of the entire class can often be easily ruined.
"Because there is a time limit."
Kitagawa Ryo looked towards the third floor of the special building with a somewhat solemn expression. Many guests who had finished their meals on the second floor had already begun to move to the third floor. If the performance could not be performed immediately, the customers would be completely The other stores on the other side were taken away.
"It's probably too late to learn this time."
After judging the time, Kitagawa Ryo made this inference. He knew very well that Horikita Manabu was actually passively defending more often than actively attacking, but this style is also very suitable for the position of Class A. .
Manabu Horikita is an outstanding talent, but that definitely doesn't mean he won't fail.
After this time, he should have consciously paid attention to the joint actions of the other three classes, and the price was the defeat of Class A in the cultural festival.
Horikita Suzune's expression was a bit calmer than Kitagawa Ryo expected, but it was understandable considering that Horikita Suzune had already had in-depth communication with Horikita Manabu.
Compared to the psychological impact of Horikita Manabu's failure, the look in Horikita Suzune's eyes at this time was even more unwilling.
This was a sign that she wanted to help a little, but found that she didn't have the ability.
Beichuan Liang smiled, and he felt that he could probably relax.
"After all, Suzune couldn't have known in advance that something like this would happen, and after all, we're only here for less than a day."
He comforted Horikita Suzune, paused, and then continued:
"I should be leaving after today's cultural festival."
"Huh? Why?"
Horikita Suzune's heart tightened slightly. She turned her head and looked directly into Kitagawa Ryo's pupils, as if trying to catch some clues from his expression.
"Because my original purpose of coming here has been achieved."
Kitagawa Ryo showed a relaxed smile:
"Suzune has defeated Manabu now, hasn't she?"
"And it was certified by the student himself. There is no more convincing fact than this."
"Suzune opened the way one step ahead of Manabu. Even if it is just a prototype, even if it is just a step, it has indeed surpassed the opponent."
Horikita Suzune seemed to want to say something, but was quickly interrupted by Kitagawa Ryo.
"I have to admit, although I approached you with the purpose of using Suzune at the beginning, and sometimes I didn't expect Suzune to defeat Xue, I just wanted to see the fight between brother and sister, but in the end I ended up with Suzune. It's really a novel journey for me to become friends with music."
Kitagawa Ryo's words cut off a trace of Horikita Suzune's feelings that had sprouted from deep within her heart that she had not yet recognized.
Then Horikita Suzune nodded seriously:
"I'm glad to meet Ryo too."
"After all, I am Suzune's first friend. Even if Suzune has more friends in the future, she won't forget me, right?"
Kitagawa Ryo attracted Horikita Suzune's feelings. He himself eliminated any possibility of ambiguous behavior in his relationship with Horikita Suzune. They obviously lived under the same roof, but what Horikita Suzune can recall now is nothing. Just the little bits and pieces of daily life.
No problem at all.
Although Horikita Suzune felt a little strange, she just followed Kitagawa Ryo's words and attributed this feeling to the [first] friend.
After all, she had never experienced or thought about the feelings of love before.
"I want to visit other countries this time. I may not be able to contact Lingyin for the time being, but I will definitely call when I am free."
Just like the separation between friends that she had seen in books, Horikita Suzune now completely failed to recognize the nature of the feelings in her heart, and could only suppress everything in her heart temporarily.
"Well, I understand."
So Horikita Suzune just agreed. After her vision broadened, countless roads stretched out in front of her, and this was not a matter of life and death.
"How long will Ryo be gone?"
"Maybe say Merry Christmas to the ringer in advance."
Horikita Suzune was a little disappointed:
"Does that mean you won't be back until after Christmas?"
"Maybe, after all, I have to go to a far place, and I want to open my own dessert shop all over the world."
Kitagawa Ryo's familiar witticisms made Horikita Suzune smile. His breath formed a faint white mist in the air, and then disappeared silently.
Then they parted.
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It's Christmas again.
Horikita Suzune heard the children around her discussing the story of Santa Claus with great interest. The old man with a white beard and a red hat climbed in from the chimney on a sleigh with all kinds of gifts, and put the gifts into the hanging box. In the red socks on the bedside.
It can be imagined from their expectant tone that the children are looking forward to the arrival of the two sleighs pulled by the reindeer.
Horikita Suzune clasped her hands in her palms and breathed a sigh of relief. As midnight approached, the crowd on the street visibly thinned out.
What comes into view is the white snow and starry sky, and these quiet things are everywhere.
This is a crystal clear night, like being contained in a glass bottle.
She thought she started to have a soft spot for this festival when she was fourteen years old. In this sense, this should be a day to remember the past.
After all, a full ten years have passed.
Horikita Suzune stood up and planned to take a walk to warm herself up. She declined the party invitations from her friends and family today, but they probably didn't expect that she was wandering around here alone.
There was thick snow on the ground, and Horikita Suzune, wrapped in a thick winter coat, carefully rubbed it on it, like a clumsy penguin.
Some of the shops on both sides of the street have not yet closed. Colorful Christmas trees with small gifts hanging on them are lined up in front of each shop, almost becoming a forest.
The glass windows were painted with "Merry Christmas" patterns with colorful oil paints and spray cans, and shop assistants dressed in Santa Claus clothes were still working hard to attract customers.
Horikita Suzune learned about Kitagawa Ryo's life experience from his parents the day after Kitagawa Ryo left. In fact, Kitagawa Ryo and the Horikita family had no blood relationship at all. He was originally an adopted child.
And his biological father is Chairman Sakayanagi of Tokyo Advanced Education High School.
In other words, Sakayanagi Yusu is Ryo's biological sister.
Kitagawa Ryo's departure was just a return to the Sakayanagi family.
Horikita Suzune didn't think this was bad news. On the contrary, she even felt that with the support of the Sakayanagi family, Ryo might be able to realize her dream faster.
Maybe one day we can really see each other's dessert shops open all over the world.
In the beginning, the two did maintain a relationship like friends, but what made Horikita Suzune a little depressed was that Kitagawa Ryo did not choose to apply for Tokyo Advanced Education High School like her. After thinking about it, Horikita Suzune simply gave up. Enrolled in Tokyo Advanced Education High School.
Because Horikita Suzune knew very well that even without the resource support of Tokyo Advanced Education High School, she would still have enough confidence to achieve her goals. Tokyo Advanced Education High School was just a good springboard.
Kitagawa Ryo later chose to go to a high school affiliated with a famous medical school, while Horikita Suzune stayed at another high school in Tokyo with a high deviation value. Her goal was to major in literature at the University of Tokyo.
Horikita Suzune still has long hair. As she grows older and her appearance grows, more and more boys begin to express their affection for her, but she has never accepted any one's confession.
Sometimes she also thinks about her thoughts about Kitagawa Ryo. Horikita Suzune's attitude towards Kitagawa Ryo is different from others. Is it just because the other person is her [first] friend?
Later, many people praised Horikita Suzune's long hair, but no one gave her the subtle yet real joy that streaked across the epidermis.
Later, Horikita Suzune realized that it was because the other party was the [first].
He first saw the softest part of his roots, and then changed himself.
After entering university, Kitagawa Ryoka spent more and more time on research.
He is the most talented one. It is completely unimaginable that he was a baker who opened a dessert shop before.
He seemed to be able to memorize all kinds of tedious drug descriptions, experimental reactions, and chemical equations just by reading them once.
Horikita Suzune is also very clear about Kitagawa Ryo's goal. He wants to completely cure Sakayanagi Arisu's congenital heart disease.
Kitagawa Ryo seems to have a morbid obsession with curing his sister's physical illness.
So much so that even Horikita Suzune's phone calls were often missed.
For example, now.
Horikita Suzune was speechless and hung up the phone in her hand. She stood at the door of this huge building.
The man in a white coat seemed to be coming out for some air, and the security guard outside the door bowed his head to say hello.
This is the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, whose full name is Massachusetts General Hospital Affiliated to Harvard Medical School.
Kitagawa Ryo caught a glimpse of a familiar figure. After a brief moment of surprise, he smiled:
"Merry Christmas?"
"Merry Christmas."
This is a visit that spans an entire ocean and comes from thousands of miles away.
Kitagawa Ryo didn't know what to say for a moment.
"... Suzune's hairstyle today is also very beautiful."
