Chapter 1

TL: Kazue Kurosaki

ED: Kazue Kurosaki

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Kogure Richi is very bored. Every morning, I see I went to class, my stomach started to hurt, and I almost didn't want to go to school.

Richi is in his first year of high school, compared to the boys in on the same level, he is short and thin, with an honest personality and obedient, and he also wears glasses. By looking at it, it is very possible he was bullied in class, but that wasn't the case.

The perpetrator who made him very depressed actually are transfer students who come to their class in the third semester.

——Hey, did you see it? Transfer student that first year, she was so beautiful!

——That creamy brunette is truly hereditary mixed. But I always felt that he was a little arrogant, cool and mysterious!

——He changed schools during this period. Is something happened at school before? For example, someone dies while struggling for him, or thrown away by him and then jumping off the roof.

——Oh oh! Maybe it has the impression of that. Brings dark feelings. But it's not bad either!

——All the boys are truly in love to him, because he changed schools and had a beautiful appearance. But he always gives a cold feeling and definitely has a personality very bad.

The beautiful transfer student made everyone excited, and he sat in the chair next to Richi. At the first class meeting third semester, the seats were changed once, and then it became like this.

Richi saw the numbered notes he had taken and walked to a chair that was almost in the middle of class. At this moment, the transfer student stood with a seat number next to Richi.

Little light brown wavy hair rolled it flows beautifully, she is beautiful and mature, but she has a gaze sharp.

....

His pupils were as pale as a cat's pupils, with a look sharp that pierced Richi's heart, making him half cold inside instant. Richi was confused, when the other party immediately looked away, then sitting on a chair, turned his face away, and didn't even look at Richi.

Transfer students have not prepared textbooks, so the teacher instructs:

—Kogure, share your book with Shibuya.

The teacher's words made me put the table and the book together text opens in the middle.

—How delicious, Richi!

—It makes me jealous! Damn!

The boy cast one envious glance for one reason, and when they rest, everyone making fun. Richi's body was stiff, like a thorn in his back, and he can't breathe.

The transfer student also had a stiff expression, and turning his head as if disgusted, not wanting to see Richi and the book the lesson. For Richi, this is the greatest misfortune in life, and maybe the other party also wants to "stay away" from him.

After all, the transfer student, Shibuya Nairu, was richi's ex-girlfriend, and the two dated in junior high school.

The worst way to break up is difficult to do remembered—but in the months between midwinter and midwinter the summer of the following year, Nairu was indeed a secret girlfriend.

*

This morning, when Richi came to the classroom door, his stomach was bloated, and he wanted to go home again.

Of course, if he did, he wouldn't nothing happened, but if he ran away, he would have to wait until change of hours to return to class.

As usual, he muttered "calm down, rational" in his mind, pushing his glasses up with his finger, and step forward.

"Yo, morning, Richi."

"...Morning."

After greeting each other with friends his classmate, he sat in his chair, trying not to look to the side, then opened his school bag and took out his textbooks and notes...

No movement at all. However, he knew that Nairu was really there, his whole body was tense, and he felt uncomfortable when placing textbooks in the middle of the table.

(Very awkward)

It's been a week since Nairu moved to this school, but he was still not used to it at all. The heart panicked and he was embarrassed to death.

Richi's classmates still don't know that Nairu is his ex-girlfriend. And Nairu also pretends not to know Richi, so Richi understand that the other party does not want the other person to know that he or she has dating him.

Nairu and Richi date starting from winter in the first year of middle school until the summer of the second year, but after that, people nairu's parents divorced, and Nairu left with his biological father and changed schools. After separating for the next two and a half years, they both completely unable to communicate.

That is the end of the story.

(I was thrown by Nairu.)

During the summer vacation of his sophomore year of junior high, he can't contact Nairu. Once he called his cell phone, but he made an unprecedented cold statement:

—I won't go to see Richi again. Stop called and sent me a message. I will also delete your Line.

The tone sounded like he didn't want to said a word, and just when Richi was still confused, Nairu hang up.

Maybe he really hates Richi.

However, now they are classmates, and even sitting next to each other, Nairu had to keep his distance from him.

The two of them of course didn't say hello.

Not even a word was said.

Richi didn't want to look to the side, however driven by a tense silence, he pushed the nose of his glasses and peek. Nairu's light brown hair and serious face were visible in his eyes, it made his heart stiffen.

Cold sweat flowed from his back.

Just as he was about to look away quickly, Nairu suddenly looked at the window, and their eyes met.

"..."

"!?"

Richi's heart skipped a beat.

He hurriedly pushed the nose covering to covered his face with his hands, and Nairu also frowned, making an angry look, and quickly turned his face away. Pink lips the subtle one tilted to one side, as if angry.

(That's right... Nairu feels uncomfortable... He maybe don't want to remember me anymore...)

Thinking about this is like self-torture, Richi turned bluntly and looked beside him, but this time, he seeing Nairu looking at him, their eyes met again.

"!?"

"!?"

Both turned away at the same time.

If he sits in this chair, Richi really is won't live long because of stress.

(I won't see him again!)

Yes, don't look at him anymore.

Nairu may be the same. He was worried about whether his ex was the boyfriend he decides will say something, and then he will looked at him without realizing it.

Summer vacation just ended when Richi knowing that Nairu will move to another school.

If Nairu really wants to continue his relationship with Richi, even though they were thousands of kilometers apart, they could send Line, call, and save pocket money to visit cities they stay.

But he never discussed this with Richi, he simply unilaterally threw out the phrase "I won't go see you Richi again", which has nothing to do with changing schools, he just hates Richi.

From the start, the quiet and ordinary Richi, doesn't suit the beautiful mature Nairu.

He is confused about why Nairu wants to be someone's girlfriend like him, at that time he continued to try to hide himself from the environment where he dated Nairu.

—Richi, did you tell your friend that we are both dating?

At that time, Nairu asked that to him. After school, the two of them always met in the biology room filled with the smell of ammonia acid.

Nairu's hair wasn't as long as it was now, it just arrived shoulder. But at that time, he was still taller than Richi, and he was more mature than other girls in the same year.

She wore the pleated skirt of her school uniform, sitting down in a round folding chair, reach the edge of the chair with your arms outstretched, and leaning towards Richi. His hair swayed and fluttered, his white chest, slender neck and collarbone were visible in the gaps his shirt, and he couldn't help but be touched, and asked nervously:

—... Nairu, what do you want to do?

An intense gaze illuminated Nairu's pale brown pupils.

—I won't say it. Never tell anyone.

He gripped the edge of the chair tightly, his shoulder clenched, and answered firmly.

At that moment, Richi breathed a sigh of relief, and then he said:

—Then, I'll keep it a secret too.

—Yes. Richi is my lover and I am Richi's lover. Let this be our secret. However, if the secret is leaked—

Nairu's serious expression made Richi feel a little shame.

—What will happen?

Richi asked carefully. Folding chair the round creaked again, and Nairu's face turned pale, and he said with warning:

—Then, it will be a goodbye. Not again a lover, but back to a stranger's relationship.

Richi wants to continue being Nairu's lover, so he swore that he would never tell anyone, and would definitely keep it a secret.

Richi kept the secret until the summer second year of junior high school.

He didn't tell anyone what he was going through with Nairu, his friends also have no doubts about his relationship with Nairu.

Nairu and Richi's classes are different, and they are not related to club or school organization activities, and direction of return completely opposite. Moreover, Nairu had become the center of the conversation from then on, and Richi was just an ordinary person who would sit quietly in his chair and flipping through dinosaur-related books during breaks. Nah there are signs that the two are dating, no one doubts them.

That's right, Richi kept a secret.

He didn't tell anyone that he and Nairu often alone in biological space. The smell of ammonia acid filled the air, coated with shell fossils and dinosaur models, where he would tell Nairu about extinct creatures, working with them on schoolwork, prepare for exams, and do more interesting things with them. —him keeping everything in his heart.

During gym class, boys are in class went to the gym, and they saw Nairu from a distance on the street, so there were many discussion around Richi.

—That's Shibuya Nairu. He looks to have different beauty.

—Looks like a talent scout from a modeling agency come to look for it.

—Looks like he's dating a high school student~

—I heard he was dating someone student. The man was driving a dark blue sports car when he arrived to pick him up, and he's so cool!

They said so, but Richi remained silent.

—Hey Richi, are you interested in him? Shibuya Nairu that.

—Oh, Richi prefers dinosaurs to female.

—Ah, it looks like he will be on good terms with such a person, for example, the same girl with glasses.

—By the way, for us, we don't even thinking about dating Shibuya Nairu. He is a person with different dimensions that SMP~ students will not get along with

—That's right.

Even after listening to them say that, he secretly hid his heartbeat, his eyes calm as usual.

Richi kept the secret.

And until now, no one, including his former classmates, who once found out that Kogure Richi he was in a relationship with Shibuya Nairu in junior high school.

But Nairu left Richi.

Richi and Nairu are no longer lovers, but people foreign.

It will be difficult to meet again in life this. He couldn't help but imagine if he actually saw Nairu at that time adults, it should only be in a few dazzling places, like poster in front of the station or TV screen.

He never imagined that he would become high school classmates with him, and they sit next to each other.

He looked to the side, and their eyes meet again.

Both of them hurriedly looked away.

(Wouldn't it be better to encourage conversation? Like meeting casual acquaintance.)

But every time Richi tries to talk to him, he only got a cold look.

He seemed to say, "Don't talk to me."

During their relationship, he will be ignored when he meets Nairu in the corridor, but it makes him more aware of both share secrets, and his heart is filled with sour and sweet emotions.

No one knows that Nairu is an ex-girlfriend Richi.

Even though Richi and Nairu have been separated for a long time and being strangers to each other, but this secret still only exists in the heart them, it feels really bad.

Every time he was ignored by Nairu, his heart like being stabbed by a knife.

(I have to survive until second grade... Then me can change classes. Then, I walked away from Nairu. It's okay, just two another month...)

*

During his lunch break a few days later, Richi hearing that the beautiful transfer student soon got a girlfriend.

"She is Aiba Youhei."

(Aiba!?)

Richi was surprised when he read the relevant journal dinosaur in his chair, listening at the same time.

Youhei is the only official member of the year first a volleyball club, and he also plays for other sports clubs on behalf of other sports clubs.

Every time Youhei participates in a competition, a group of girls from another school would come to cheer him on at the time the same. Besides, it was rumored that the girls were all beautiful and graceful, so all sports clubs want to ask him to play on their behalf.

When he first entered the club, there was a girl in everywhere to confess to him, but he didn't have a girlfriend, and he became famous for this, but in the middle of the second semester, he officially announces that he is dating a woman. The girl has a level the same, which caused a stir.

That girl is the honest and humble type, so Youhei fans said: "It's quite serious", "It feels like like an artist marrying an ordinary person, I can see if it's a dream.". half gave up and half congratulated.

At that time, in front of everyone in the football club volleyball, she holds hands with her shy boyfriend and announces their relationship, but ten days later, he said:

—Sorry, I broke up with my girlfriend.

He announced his relationship casually, once again sparking conversation.

—How do I say it, once we start dating, I always felt that the two of us weren't one step away. You know, me impatient, but the other party was very calm and honest. Not good for pushed it further, so we broke up.

Everyone in the volleyball club listened the announcement, and other club members also sharpened their ears at the gym. After they heard it, they were all stunned.

What surprised everyone at school happened a few days later. That day, Youhei introduced his new girlfriend in in front of everyone at the volleyball club.

A new boyfriend is completely different from an ex-boyfriend, beautiful in appearance and generous in temperament.

But within two weeks, he also broke up with his girlfriend.

He dated his next girlfriend during a week, the next boyfriend is more than two weeks old, and the next one breaks up after three days, and then have another one, which lasts ten day.

He hasn't had a girlfriend for a long time, however since the ban was lifted, if someone comes to confess, and he hasn't deciding on a date, he would only date her first, and every time he "appears" at a volleyball club, the seniors end up angry, and ordered him:

—Enough! Introduce your girlfriend after three months dating!

So he gave a warm answer: "Okay—if I will work hard for three months," but after that, his "ex-girlfriend" continues to grow.

The longest record to date is 18 days.

Richi hears rumors of the wind. According to rumors, Aiba Youhei supposed to date a beautiful third grade senior now. Is they broke up again?

Then, this time, he dated Shibuya Nairu?

"Hey, don't joke! So far so many boys talked to him, and he completely ignored it they. It was almost completely gone. So the transfer student doesn't hate it boy!"

All the boys in class cried, and some of them they said:

"Is that false information? Yes, that's for sure, me won't believe it."

"No, no, that's completely true. Look...... The transfer student is not in the girl group."

Richi adjusted his glasses and took opportunity to direct his gaze to the classroom. Indeed, Nairu's figure can't be found.

The girls formed a group consisting of from three to five people and open bread wrappers and boxes bento. Until yesterday, Nairu was going to eat with the most powerful girl group in class. They always wanted to be friends with the beautiful Nairu, and they pay close attention to it every time they change classes or practice cooking, but Nairu seems to want them to stay away from him.

Richi feels this way because he knows that Nairu those who are still in junior high school are not the type of people who like to be surrounded by people in a lively way.

Basically, Nairu is a solitary person.

Because of his cruel personality, and the fact that he started dating Youhei, who was very popular at school without saying a word, the girls were planning to take care of the students nairu's move seems to have decided to expel him from the group.

Previously, Nairu and they had fun while eating.

Right now, Nairu was probably eating quietly alone somewhere.

—I'm good at finding places to be alone. Me likes quiet places.

Nairu, who had clear eyes, said to Richi. At that time, the two were still dating.

In the biology room, Nairu pressed his cheek white to the black table was heat-resistant, and looked at Richi with affection.

He unbuttoned the school uniform shirt to only three buttons, a snow-white chest looming, and drizzle descending outside window... The smell of ammonia was smelled in the quiet classroom...

—I don't like noise.

—The human voice... loud, and I am the most hate him.

—It's really... calm here.

"Is it true that he is with Aiba Youhei?"

Classmates chatted, gradually becoming like standing guard in front of a spirit.

"Oh, there's no way we can date such a beautiful woman, but if she is with Aiba, isn't a handsome man and a beautiful girl would be the perfect match?"

"How long ago this time——Aiba was the first time we met with him. Such cold-hearted people may have a long-term relationship long."

"By the way, it doesn't seem like Aiba this time who told me first...? From the past... In other words, transfer students who told him first!"

The conversation has been going round and round, and Richi has mixed feelings in his heart. The spinosaurus in the book has bones a thin, long, sail-like back on his back, and he had stared at the page in a gloomy mood.

(The staple food of Spinosaurus was not animal meat, but fish...)

For Richi who is a dinosaur fan, the panda's staple food is bamboo.

*

Lunch break is coming to an end, and Nairu back to class.

Next to him, Nairu pulled up a chair and sat down, Richi not looking at him, but he couldn't help but concentrate on listening chair sound.

(Are you dating Aiba?)

He wanted to ask Nairu.

(Everyone says that you are a student very picky move.)

A sarcastic statement soon came out.

(That, Shibuya-san, you confessed to Aiba first, is this true?)

Words with bad intentions and intentionally making things became difficult creating a black vortex in his heart, and he didn't can hold back disgust in himself.

What do I think.

If he said that, he would just be sad and miserable. Because Nairu will definitely sneer and treat him with cold gaze.

The teacher enters the classroom and starts the classroom, Richi tries concentrate on lessons.

But he always felt that he was being stared at by Nairu, his body couldn't move. It must be because he still is think about it.

Focus on the lesson, focus on the lesson.

Richi arranged his glasses, and at this moment, something rolled under Richi's feet.

Nairu eraser fell.

Richi sits next to Nairu, and eraser roll from under one leg to the other, then stop.

Judging from Nairu's position, he couldn't take it eraser sandwiched between Richi's legs.

(What should I do?)

He wanted to pretend he didn't see it, but he would be hard without an eraser. Moreover, Richi clearly saw down, but he felt that Nairu had looked at him and the side of his face facing him.

It must be just an illusion.

It has to be like that.

That's right, stay calm and look rational...

I didn't see anything.

But...

Richi felt his cheeks warm, his stomach tightened, and finally he couldn't stand the contradiction in his heart anymore, so he bent down and picked up the eraser that Nairu dropped on the floor.

A green leaf gently wrapped around the red cake young—er eraser that looks like Sakuramochi.

Her cute shape doesn't match Nairu's style the adult, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but remember the memories of the moment they both date.

Nairu, who is admired by classmates his man, cold and aloof, but the mechanical pencil he loved it has a cute and cute image, and a local mascot pendant is installed on it his cellphone.

Richi was also amazed at the "opposite" gadgets with his style" at first, and stared intently, while Nairu blush and frown to make excuses:

——Do you think it's very unsuitable! Me only use this when I'm home!

Ah, she's just an ordinary girl.

Richi thought Nairu was very cute at that time.

When the two went on a date to visit dinosaur exhibition, Nairu sees a cup with a triceratops sticker on it gift shop. The image that had a cute expression made his eyes sparkle, and he sighed repeatedly:

——This is very funny! This is funny, right, right! Hey, Richi, that's so cute, right!

Richi was shocked by Nairu's emotional face suddenly flushed, he immediately turned his face away, and said:

——If you look at it well, it seems not too cute.

As soon as he finished speaking, he left with in a hurry, Richi asked him, "Aren't you going to buy it?". Nairu answered bluntly, "I don't need to that, that's too childish."

So, Richi secretly picks it up while Nairu is away to toilet. Richi bought a Triceratops cup for two people and wanted to put it down on a black heat resistant table in the biology room after school one day later.

Seeing the cup, Nairu exclaimed "Ah", his eyes lit up again, then he smiled and looked at Richi, his face full of feeling shame.

——I said, I don't need to.

——Yeah, but I want it. Listen, didn't you say before that you want to boil water and drink coffee or something, so let me bring an electric kettle that I don't use in home. I'll take him tomorrow. Ah, you can use a cup paper if you don't like it.

Hearing Richi deliberately say that, Nairu hurriedly grabbed the cup, and pressed it against his chest, and quickly said:

 ——This, this is good! Me know because Richi specifically gave me this, even though it's not my favorite, but that's okay. I like this one!

After that, Richi took an electric kettle and pour hot water into the cup. During this time, Nairu laid down his cheeks on the table were heat-resistant and looked sideways at the cute triceratops printed on the cup. A happy smile was written on his smiling face.

When Nairu drinks coffee, he will definitely adding sugar and creamer to it, before pouring the creamer, he will stirring the coffee with a spoon, when Richi saw that, he would be nervous. Every times he sees something that "contrasts with the style" of Nairu, Richi unable to resist being touched, a burst of sweetness filled his heart, and he felt very warm.

Richi, who took the eraser, drowned in sweetness and warmth, and was about to stand up and lift his face to hand over the eraser—then the fingers freeze.

Nairu looked at Richi with a stiff expression.

Richi hands over the eraser clumsily, and he looked away and Nairu answered briefly.

"...Thank You."

Nairu seemed to whisper "thank you", but gripping the eraser tightly, his expression was still stiff, and he look straight ahead.

The facial profile was filled with expressions of disgust from deep in his heart, enduring the sadness, anger, and pain caused by people who don't want to see each other interfere themselves, knowing that his brain was quickly getting cold, and his heart suddenly felt cold.

Nairu was frowning and causing trouble in middle school long left.

Nairu is now no longer Nairu when she became a boyfriend Richi.

(If only I hadn't taken the eraser...)

The fifth and sixth classes are complete, and they are time to clean up. This week, Richi is in charge of class, and Nairu was in the same class, waving a broom with a face dull.

Richi used all his nerves, trying his best to get away from Nairu, and move the table at the same time, but suddenly felt a gaze.

Richi stood by the window and turned around, Nairu looked at him from the back door of the classroom.

He was silent, with anger written on his face.

The two's eyes met, Nairu was a little confused and that ended up glaring at him, but his big brown eyes were transparent and clear it was still watching him closely.

Richi also missed the opportunity to throw away face, so the two of them looked at each other from both ends of the class.

"..."

"..."

Maybe because the two of them don't know who would take a step first and look away, neither of them act. At this moment, a warm voice came.

"Nairu! Today's club activities are closed, let's go date later!"

Nairu and Richi trembled at the same time.

Aiba Youhei—the boy's voice and face were as bright and cheerful, he shows up at Richi's class.

Talking about his prowess in sports, everyone would imagine that he was a handsome boy with a tall and straight body, but in reality, everyone judging him as an idol child, he was slightly taller than average and has a slim body.

However, the clear expression of his eyes made him looks like a lively and naughty teenager, and in sports, he is nervous, and no matter what the weakness of his height and weight was, he was always perfect inside any position in any sport.

Wherever he is, whatever he does, he was always like a man in the spotlight.

It was completely different from Richi.

Nairu glanced at Richi again, then quickly turned to face his girlfriend, and answered,

"...I see, I'll hand it over to you."

"Eh, did you really hand it over me? If you say that, I will take you to my best place at once. But in the end, I shopped at supermacter, and then at my house—"

"Baka!."

Nairu took the handle of the broom and pressed it against Youhei's chin.

"Wow, you really didn't show any mercy pity your girlfriend.”

"I've only been dating for three days, how could I go to your house."

"Okay, I'm a guy who knows how to wait. Don't worry about today's route. But if Nairu, if you hug me and saying 'I don't want to go home today', I'm not responsible—"

"Won't."

"Hey, do they want to show off?"

"Damn, that careless conversation! Me too thinking about tempting the transfer student!"

From the conversation between Youhei and Nairu, it can be seen that lovers who start dating are clearly seductive and shows love, but Richi is the only one who sees this scene and not angry.

Nairu no longer pays attention to Richi, and continue a meaningful conversation with Youhei.

(It has nothing to do with me.)

After all, Nairu is no longer Richi's girlfriend.

Richi turned his face and continued moving table. This time, Youhei, who was chatting with Nairu, turned face his handsome idol and looked at Richi by the window.

(Huh?)

His sharp eyes were very firm, and Youhei stared Richi, who was confused, then breathed a sigh of relief.

This only happened at that moment. Youhei immediately said, "I'm still cleaning the yard, let's talk again later!" Then he disappeared without a trace.

Nairu and his classmates don't seem to realizing that Youhei smiled at Richi.

However, Richi's mood became very bad.