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Sakayanagi Yusu showed a slightly bitter smile:

"Sorry, I didn't mean to blame my father."

After her mother passed away, her father still worked very hard to provide her with a warm and relaxed family environment. Even if he had to have less contact with her due to his busy work in recent years, Sakayanagi Arisu had no complaints.

"Okay, thank you father."

With his finger touching the red hang up button, Sakayanagi Yusu ended the brief conversation with his father.

In the end, her father agreed with her willful approach of cutting things off first and playing them later. This also meant that in November of this year, when winter just arrived, Sakayanagi Yusu had a companion with whom she could hang out at the campus cultural festival for the first time. .

She walked to the street outside and cast her gaze at the window of Kitagawa Ryo's house.

The closer he gets to the other person, the more Sakayanagi Yusu can feel the talent contained in him.

But talents aside, there are still many things in this world that can only be experienced by getting close to people.

"Ahem."

Perhaps it was because his steps were a bit hurried when he went downstairs just now. Sakayanagi Yusu coughed a few times uncomfortably, feeling a bit clogged in his throat.

However, this was commonplace for her who had suffered from congenital heart disease since she was a child. After adjusting her breathing rhythm again, Sakayanagi Yusu walked towards the car parked nearby to pick her up.

To condense the meaning of life to the extreme, there are only life and death, and the pain in the process.

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When the other party's figure completely disappeared from his sight, Karuizawa Megumi breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's Hui here."

Kitagawa Ryo walked from the kitchen to the living room and glanced at the door. He had just finished washing the dishes and was wiping his hands with a dry towel.

"Well, is the kid just now a new student of Liang's? How old is he in elementary school?"

Karuizawa Megumi asked casually while changing into indoor shoes.

"Although Arisu is indeed not tall, he is not a junior high school student."

Kitagawa Ryo also smiled and explained:

"She is in the same grade as us."

"That Ryo is really awesome. He can even accept his peers as students."

"You'd better not say this in front of her in the future. Ignorant people are considered innocent today."

Beichuan Liang shook his head and warned:

"She has a congenital heart problem, so she looks smaller than other children of the same age."

"Sorry, I understand."

Karuizawa Megumi stuck out her tongue and turned her gaze to the chess pieces and chessboard on the table. She would probably never learn this thing in another two lifetimes.

"Actually, I don't regard her as a student, she just unilaterally recognizes me as a teacher."

Kitagawa Ryo joked while cleaning up the scattered black and white chess pieces on the table:

"Hui made quite a splash in the drama club this afternoon?"

"That Kushida told you, right? In fact, it was just a brief exchange with the freshmen."

Karuizawa Megumi also helped Kitagawa Ryo collect the chess sets and put them in the cabinet:

"But you, the minister, haven't been there even once since the start of school this year."

"No, but maybe the people in the drama department have long been accustomed to me being the hands-off shopkeeper. If I really go there, maybe they won't be able to adapt to it."

Kitagawa Ryo first took a bottle of canned carbonated drink from the refrigerator for himself, and was about to give Karuizawa Megumi a cup of hot cocoa, but when he turned around, he found that Karuizawa Megumi had already started to do it himself.

"You can drink iced drinks in April. If you were still in the troupe, you would be scolded to death by the old man."

After Karuizawa Megumi finished soaking her own cocoa, she returned to the living room. The steam in her hand was steaming, and the white mist in Kitagawa Ryo's hand was also rising, with bubbles popping up.

"Anyway, I'm not here anymore, so naturally I'm not so strict."

After all, the two of them had been together in the troupe day and night for more than two years, and their conversations with each other were quite casual.

"I met a very interesting new student in the drama department today, and she is related to Ryo."

"Horikita Suzune? Is she really looking for you?"

Kitagawa Ryo asked with some surprise. He thought Horikita Suzune would continue to survive alone, but he didn't expect that now he took the initiative to find Karuizawa Megumi.

"Well, at first he wanted to ask me for advice, and then he tried to bribe me. It was quite fun."

Karuizawa Megumi took a sip of the cocoa in the cup:

"Actually, Ryoya really has a hard time with her. I've read her information. During her previous elementary school and junior high school, Horikita Suzune had many conflicts with her classmates. She should be similar to that. A lone wolf type of girl."

"People's personalities can't be changed overnight, Ryo should know that."

This is something that Megumi Karuizawa finds strange, because no matter how hard Horikita Suzune tries, she cannot abandon the values ​​​​and worldview she has built over the past few years in a short period of time, and it is impossible for her to do so. Passed the final review by the Drama Department.

Children at this age are the most stubborn and self-centered, let alone Horikita Suzune.

At least Megumi Karuizawa couldn't imagine Suzune Horikita playing Lady Macbeth.

In other words, she simply doesn't think that the current Horikita Suzune can work as a team with anyone other than Horikita Manabu.

No, the current Horikita Suzune probably couldn't even say a decent word when she saw Horikita Gakuin.

"Yes, so I never intended for Horikita Suzune to pass the final review and enter the drama department through acting."

Kitagawa Ryo smiled casually:

"But it depends on whether she can realize it."

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Horikita Suzune felt like she was going off the rails.

For the first time, her biological clock shifted from the schedule she had planned long ago and followed meticulously over the past year.

When Horikita Suzune looked at the "7:03" moment displayed on her phone with dark circles under her eyes for the first time, she realized that she had actually read the script late at night last night.

Due to time constraints, Horikita Suzune chose a simple and convenient homemade sandwich for breakfast. She started learning cooking very early when she lived alone.

After quickly preparing today's breakfast, putting the extra portion into the lunch box and stuffing it into her schoolbag for lunch, Horikita Suzune hurriedly walked to school.

After getting Karuizawa Megumi's experience, she locked herself in her room and practiced many times in front of the mirror. This afternoon she could go to the drama department to test her practice results. After all, it would start in two days. The final verdict.

In order to enter Tokyo Advanced Education High School and meet his brother, he must enter the drama club.

Secretly making up her mind, Horikita Suzune listened carefully to the morning class and then walked towards the drama department during her lunch break.

There are very few people at this time, so you can save a lot of time by eating lunch on the way.

While calculating, she took out the sandwich prepared in the morning from her schoolbag. Unlike the ones you can buy at convenience stores that are wrapped in plastic wrap or other films, she always uses a sandwich-shaped bag with a zipper. , not only the shape is suitable, but it can also be used multiple times after being washed.

Because she lowered her head to unzip the bag and was a little distracted, Horikita Suzune bumped into a girl who happened to be coming from there at a corner. Fortunately, neither of them fell down. It was just that the other person was holding The lunch, which seemed to be pineapple buns, rolled onto the floor.

"Sorry sorry."

"Feel sorry."

Both of them subconsciously apologized immediately. Horikita Suzune quickly picked up the dusty pineapple bun on the ground. The girl who collided with her was wearing a mask, and her slightly longer bangs were covered up, so she couldn't see it. Not angry.

Horikita Suzune looked at the sandwich bag in her hand and took one out:

"I'm really sorry. I was in such a hurry just now. I'll make it up to you."

"it's okay no problem."

Sakura Airi quickly waved her hand to indicate it didn't matter. She patted the dust on her skirt:

"I'll just buy another one, and I didn't pay much attention just now."

"Take it, after all, I knocked it off, or if you want the same one, I will buy it for you."

Horikita Suzune shook her head and threw the pineapple bun in her hand into the trash can.

"Then I'd better get one."

Sakura Airi did not know how to deal with a girl with a strong personality like Horikita Suzune, and she was too embarrassed to ask the other party to run for her again, so she could only nod in agreement and stretched out her hand to take it. A sandwich handed over by Horikita Suzune.

"Are you going to the drama department? It's not open today."

Looking at Horikita Suzune who was about to leave, Sakura Airi, who had just returned from the drama department, quickly reminded her.

The drama club was originally in a relatively remote corner of the school, and this road was the only way to get there, so Sakura Airi concluded that Horikita Suzune went to the drama club.

Sakura Airi was also a little depressed. She had been preparing for today for a long time, but it all came to nothing.

"All right."

Horikita Suzune also stopped after hearing what she said. She walked back to find a bench and planned to sit down and eat her lunch first.

"Classmate, are you from the drama department?"

Sakura Airi also sat next to Horikita Suzune with a sandwich and asked her curiously.

"Not officially entered yet."

Horikita Suzune reluctantly replied, because she had done something wrong just now, so she was embarrassed to remain silent as before.

"Then have you met Director Kitagawa of the Drama Department?"

The chewing movement in her mouth stopped, and Horikita Suzune paused before saying:

"I've seen him before, once when school started, and again a week ago."

"It seems the rumors are true."

Seeing the girl next to her sigh with relief, Horikita Suzune glanced at her and asked:

"What rumors?"

"It's the rumor that Kitagawa quit the theater world and returned to school."

Sakura Airi replied matter-of-factly, and she also took a bite of the sandwich in her hand:

"Hmm... Did you do this yourself, classmate?"

"Yes."

"Very tasty!"

"Really? Thanks."

The first time she heard someone praise her cooking skills, Horikita Suzune was slightly stunned, and suddenly remembered that this was the first time she had shared her cooking with others.

"It tastes great. Although it's cold, the layers of flavors are very distinct."

The other party didn't seem to be polite, and he was happily eating every bite.

For Horikita Suzune, who had been hit by various failures this week, this was a rare sight.

"I'll give you this too."

After hesitating for a while, Horikita Suzune gave the sandwich in her hand to Sakura Airi:

"After all, you just soiled your pineapple bun."

After providing additional explanations for her actions, Horikita Suzune breathed a sigh of relief.

"Are you here to see Beichuan?"

She remembered what the other party said just now:

"Have you known him before?"

"We know each other, and we're still friends."

Sakura Airi nodded, smiled and said:

"And he is also very good at cooking, so I also learned a little bit from him."

"Which one is more delicious, mine or his?"

Suddenly feeling an inexplicable desire to win, Horikita Suzune asked seriously.

"They are all delicious. Comparisons don't matter. The meaning of food is to make people happy."

Sakura Airi finished eating the two sandwiches in her hand, and she said equally seriously to Horikita Suzune:

"When I was very nervous during training, Kitagawa would make me a lot of desserts. He said that he would glue my lips and teeth with sugar so that my lines wouldn't escape my mouth."