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Chapter 27 Extra Chapter ~ Photo Album (21 Years Old Summer)

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Facing the sun, he adjusted the towel tied around his head with his hands that became less dexterous with hemp gloves, and raised his arms to wipe the sweat dripping from his temples.

"The sun is so big."

Standing straight and squatting for a long time, my legs were a little stiff, and I turned my head to look at the weeds that had been pulled out for an hour. The flower garden became very simple, with a short green grass field, white and purple stalk flowers, and a big face The king sunflower facing the sun.

"This guy is so different."

Looking at the sunflowers that should not have appeared in this yard, but would grow by themselves every summer, Guang scratched his head and muttered.Unexpectedly, the sunflower seeds planted with an experimental mentality are still alive and healthy today.

"Don't drink all the water that the platycodon flower should drink." When the time comes, I will pull you out.

"Shinto-kun, let's take a break? Auntie poured barley tea for you and prepared some snacks!" Akiko held a serving plate with a pot of barley tea and cake on it, and stood on the porch to call out.

"Ah? Oh, thank you! But it's almost ready. Just pick up the weeds." Guang took the garbage bag and put the pulled grass into the bag.

"Ah? You're so fast!... But I'm really sorry, you were finally on vacation and Auntie called you here, but she even asked you to pull weeds."

"No, I'm free at home anyway."

After surfing in Shonan in the morning, I was about to go home and get some sleep. On the way, I received a call from a female voice.

"Is it Shinto-kun?Long time no see, I miss you so much!Do you want to come to my house?Waiting for you~』

"..."

The inexplicable phone call made Guang couldn't help but began to think about whether he had any unsettled debts, or some fairy trap, and asked frightenedly,

"...May I make a typo? 』

"Hehe~ Don't you know who I am?It seems that you have been very well-behaved recently, very well.it's me!Akiko!Bright mom! 』

In this way, after noon, Hikari came to Taya's house with a confused mood.After entering the house and chatting for a while, the topic turned to the flowers and plants in the yard without knowing it, and before I knew it, I volunteered to remove the grass...

***

After tidying up the weeds, washed his hands and went into the house, Akiko helped Guang get a cup of barley tea and added two ice cubes to it.

"Please use it. Is it hot outside? Thanks for your hard work."

I thanked him and took a sip of barley tea,

"Well, it's hot, but it's not hard enough.

I used to play outside during the summer vacation. Every summer, my body will automatically adjust to a state of vigorous energy and run around.So don't worry about it, Auntie, I'm a child of Xia Tian. "

"Hehe~ It really looks like the sunflowers outside!" Akiko smiled with her mouth covered.

"Ha, my grandmother also said the same thing. ... But, is it really good to just let this thing grow here? A sunflower suddenly appeared in a Japanese-style garden with a Japanese style."

"What's the matter? Auntie likes it very much, and so does Liang. Every day before going out, he will help water the sunflowers. It took him a long time to go out after watching it.

"...Really, I haven't heard Taya say that before." But that guy couldn't just say it. According to his personality, even if he tore his mouth, he couldn't be so frank.

"Next time, you don't have to wait for Ryo's invitation. Shindo-kun can come if you want, auntie is absolutely welcome. Every time Ryo asks you to come over for dinner, he always says you're busy, dragging me and Ryo's father to go abroad again. Already, I can only ask and call Shinto Kunra."

"Hehe...so that's the case." I thought the real purpose of calling me today was to do weeding.

"By the way, I heard that the Korean Chess Academy is inviting the teacher to be a guest chess player recently, right?"

"Huh? Shinto-kun is really well-informed? You just got a call yesterday!"

"A few days ago, I heard that the Korean Chess Academy has this plan when I was on the phone with a friend over there. Do you plan to go, Teacher?"

"Liang's father is very interested. Maybe he wants to stay outside for two or three years while his health permits? It looks like he wants to go to Korea this time."

"I see."

"Yes, Auntie has always wanted to go. But the long-term stay should be different, right? If you live in China for a long time and you can't see Chinese characters, you will be very flustered. All the characters are like key rings, and the words seem complicated."

"Really? I think it's easier than Chinese. When my mother came to visit me in Seoul, she lived there for two or three weeks. She was very happy to see her. Maybe it's her Korean drama DVDs that are full of mountains and valleys. ? Or should I borrow some from my mother and show it to my aunt?”

"Really? Does Shinto-kun's mother like watching Korean dramas?"

"Yeah! Super addictive. The last two weeks I was there I drove her and my grandma all day to Bae Yong Joon's Winter Sonata tour, they were so excited to death and I was so exhausted. Tsk, I really don’t know what kind of charm that Oji-san has so much—…”

"Cough~" Akiko coughed unnaturally twice, turned to look at the TV cabinet, then at the bookcase, and then turned back to take a sip of the cold barley tea.

Drawn by Akiko's series of movements, Hikari glanced at the TV cabinet, where a hardcover DVD box with Winter Sonata was placed inside, cold sweat streaming down his back.

Looking at the bookcase again, Bae Yong Joon in the photo frame is looking at him with a super powerful smile that kills all the teachers in Asia, and now his whole face starts to break out in cold sweat.

Putting down the cup in her hand, Akiko spoke eloquently,

"Auntie is just a beginner to Korean dramas, but I like Yongyang the most! Alas~ It seems that Auntie doesn't get along with Fuji-kun." She shook her head.

"Uh...." Which aspect?To see a man's eyes?I don't need it and I'm not interested.But it would be terrible to offend the person who is recognized by the Taya family as the least offending person of the Taya family....

Damn it, I really want to go back and take back what I just said.

Just when the cold sweat was pouring out, and the towel could turn out a bucket of sweat, Akiko said again,

"But the mother who followed Fuji-kun must be very good! Hehe~. Come! Let's have a look at the cake? Auntie made it herself!" with a smile all over her face for no reason.

Facing Akiko who suddenly became friendly again, Hikari became more confused,

"Oh, thank you." Tentatively picked up the fork and took a bite of the cake.

"...It's super delicious." Hikari's whole face lit up, and when he inserted the other half of the cake with a fork and was about to stuff it into his mouth, he suddenly felt Akiko's gaze,

"Hey..." Guang put the cake back on the plate, cut it in half before putting it in his mouth, and began to chew.

This is the educated way of eating that Guang learned from Liang.

Who knew Akiko's disappointed expression,

"Oh, this is not like Shinto-kun! Auntie has lost the motivation to watch it. Do you know? Auntie likes to watch Jinto-kun eating, and the most direct way to express delicious food is to stutter, but Taya's family It would be very unfulfilling to lack such people..."

"Is that so... I thought it was my bad eating."

"Auntie is not someone who cares about such small things!"

"But Tower—uh...I mean Light."

Thinking of three people named Taya living under this roof, Guang immediately changed his mind,

"Liang's eating appearance is very good. Every time I watch him eat, it's like watching a demonstration of table manners. I always thought that Auntie was a strict mother."

Akiko smiled softly,

"I'm not strict at all. Auntie's biggest wish is that Liang can grow up unfettered. ...But, others are not like this, right?" At this time, Mingzi's expression turned helpless.

"Another person?" Noticing Akiko's change, Guang asked.

"Well, in the past, "Taya Yukihiro's child" was another name of Ryo, which made Ryo attract much attention wherever he went, and his every move was scrutinized. This is what Taya Yuyo's child looked like when he ate. , Taya Yukihiro's children look like that when they play games, even when they walk and talk, they will be stared at.

Some people are just curious, but others hold malicious intentions to find flaws.This makes Liang pay attention to other people's eyes all the time, and think deeply about the true meaning of other people's words. ...It's really hard for him. "

"..."

I started to become a little famous, and even when I was nailed all over my head by the paparazzi, I probably experienced what it was like to be watched all day long. I couldn't do this or that, it was like being in prison.I used to be silent and unknown, and spent a long period of childhood doing whatever I wanted.

But Taya has been like this since he was born.After a little inquiring, he knew his name and the teacher's name, so he had to face countless curious eyes, and he was always worried when someone who knew him would show up.

Keeping himself in a state where he can be watched by others all the time is the way Taya came up with to prevent himself from being vulnerable. ...a very clumsy, and very bewildering, approach.

"Liang is a child who likes his father very much, so he can't tolerate others saying bad things about his father. He is most afraid of embarrassing his father because of his poor performance. This kind of thinking gradually made Liang not allow himself to fail, and he wanted to do his best in everything. Shut yourself into what other people call "perfect" framework.

Liang, who was stuffed in the frame, became farther and farther away from the ordinary, and became out of place with children of the same age.

In the past, my aunt was always worried that Liang would live like this without playing around with his friends, and the memory of running around would end his childhood. "

"Childhood?...Does he have such friends?"

"What a joke! Isn't that person Shinto-kun? Have you forgotten?"

"Um?"

"I remember putting it in the cabinet." As he said, Akiko dug out a few photo albums from the bookcase, stacked them on the tatami mat and began to search one by one, "I found it! Here!"

After receiving the photo album, before Guang's eyes were a few photos taken with his mobile phone when he went to Atami before. Due to the lack of pixels, the picture is a bit blurry, but the expression can still be seen.A few solo photos of Liang and the fish, the shutter is all light.At that time, I thought Liang's changing expression was very fresh, but now looking back at the [-]-year-old Liang, I find it cute.

"Auntie likes this one the most." Akiko pointed to a photo of an orange sky, which showed two teenagers playing on the embankment.

"Under Auntie's questioning, Ryo talked a lot about Atami. ...Because of Shinto's relationship, he was sprayed with soda and his whole body was sticky. Liang was very angry when he was chased by a big wolf dog, but Auntie was very happy to hear it.

This was the first time I heard Ryo talk about so many "friends".Is it at the last minute to catch up?Bright childhood memories.

As Ryo's mother, I'm ashamed to say that... But Shinto-kun, can you please stay by Ryo's side forever?The kid seems to be himself without qualms only when he's with you. "

"..., um. I'll... stay with him all the time."

Maybe Auntie hopes that I can be Taya's friend for the rest of my life so that he will always be so happy?

…If I tell her, I will try my best to make Taya smile so happily forever, but not as a friend, but as a lover.Perhaps, she would not simply agree to let me continue to intervene in Taya's life.

"There are many more photos, do you want to see them?"

"I think so. But is it okay? I asked Ryo before but he insisted not to let me see it, as if there was some ulterior secret."

"Secret?...How could there be. There are not many bright photos, especially the older the child, the less he likes to take pictures. Compared with the photos in middle school when he was a child, there are very few photos."

Folding the albums one by one in front of Guang Guang, Akiko stood up,

"Take it easy? It's about time for Auntie to cook, so I'll be having dinner at our house today, huh?"

"convenient?"

"I'm joking! Auntie planned this from the beginning! She didn't just ask you to pull weeds!"

"Hehe...ha...." Pulling the weeds is indeed one of the reasons.

***

Staying in the living room, the sound of Akiko cooking came from the kitchen, he just sipped his barley tea and flipped through the pages of the photo album.Looking back from the age of [-].

After flipping through two or three books, a bright voice came from the corridor of time,

"I am back."

"Are you back? Is it hot?" Guang poked his head out of the living room and asked Liang.

"Yeah, it's hot and humid. The central air conditioner in the Kiin failed again today. It's like playing chess in a steam room──Shinto?"

Liang bent down to put the shoes back in the shoe cabinet, answered casually, and then raised his head suddenly.

"Yo."

"Why are you at my house? I didn't invite you..." As he spoke, he walked towards the living room, and when he saw the photo albums piled up on the table, his face suddenly changed, and he grabbed the photo album in his hand,

"──And why did you take a look at my photo album without permission!"

"..."

This guy was actually angry.Is that why he doesn't want me to see it?Now that I see middle school, not to mention graduation ceremonies, there are no photos of sports meets, school trips, school festivals, club partners, and classmates. What’s so good about a photo album with nothing like this that I can’t let me see?

"Let me tell you first, my aunt showed me the photo album, so I didn't do it without permission. Next, I will come because my aunt invited me, so I am her guest."

"Why did you come here?"

"Pull the weeds? Although I did it myself. The sun is so bright. Look outside, how clean is it?" Pointing to the courtyard.In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, and it is still bright outside after five o'clock.

Liang looked helpless,

"Why does my mother like to look for you so much? Usually, it is impossible for guests to do this kind of thing."

"I don't know. It's like I want to ask why my mother, grandparents like you so much. Can you continue to read?" Pointing to the photo album in Ryo's hand.

Guang's words made Liang feel better immediately, and his expression was no longer harsh.

"...Where did you see it?"

"Looking back recently, the middle school part is almost over, right?"

Liang sighed, since the photos he least wanted Guang to see had been seen, there was nothing to hide, so he returned the album to Guang.Sitting on the cushion watching Guang continue to flip through the photo album.

"There are quite a few photos of the Lions Cup champion and the year's highest number of wins in the middle school photo album that has nothing."

"I'm a chess player."

"Do you think I never became a chess player in middle school? I have never missed a single photo of the graduation ceremony, school trip, school festival, sports meeting. Student life is not just about attending classes."

"Our definition of school life must be different.... It is enough for me to go to class and take exams." Liang replied stubbornly, because he didn't want Guang to think that he used Go as an excuse not to participate in extracurricular activities.

Guang stopped talking, and started to read the elementary school after finishing the middle school part.

Time goes back to elementary school, and finally there are photos of the graduation ceremony sports meeting.These were all taken by Ming Zi and other apprentices.

Rather than saying that all of them were shot naturally, it is better to say that most of them were candid shots. …The person involved didn’t look at the camera at all, and concentrated on carrying out the tasks of the sports meeting, such as general exercises, fun competitions, picnics at noon, and relays.I saw many children of the same age, but all the children were in the background, and no one approached.

With such a cute face, how could this kind of elementary school student be unpopular?

Thinking about it, Guang said emotionally, "It would be great if I went to the same elementary school as you."

Ryo, who didn't expect Hikari to have such an idea, looked at Hikari unexpectedly.

"At times like this, I'll point your shoulder at Auntie's camera and say, 'Taya! Your mom is taking pictures of you! Yay!' and steal your chance for a personal photo." Guang pointed at everyone and played together. In the group, the teacher was angry in front of the photo of only Liang sitting quietly on the turf waiting for the gymnastics to take place.

Then he pointed to another photo of Liang participating in a fun competition, looking for candy in a plate full of flour with a sad face,

"Then this one, if the sound is recorded in the photo, I will hear me standing at the finish line with my face full of flour, shouting: 'Stupid Taya!! How long will you blow it! My whole face will be buried in the flour try to find!!""

Liang stared at himself in the photo, imagining how he would sink his face into the flour the next second when he heard Guang's cheering.

"Then eat this bento for lunch.

After eating the bento in a few minutes, I would have the cheek to go to your place to arrange flowers, and then, like a starving ghost, I would take a big bite of this delicious-looking salmon rice ball in your hand.

As a result, of course, it was picked up by a large group of disciples of your family and thrown aside.It's scary, what is the purpose of such a large group of elementary school students coming to the sports meeting? "

When Guang Guang said this, he also laughed out loud. It was true that the battle at that time was so huge that it was a bit scary.

"And then these two relay photos.

After you handed me the stick, even though your stomach ached so badly that you were dying of cramps, you still put on a ghostly face and yelled at me: "Shinto!If you are chased, I will not forgive you! ! 』Obviously you were the one who was chased down to only [-] centimeters at the last moment and still left all the responsibility to me, isn't it too much? "

Finally point to two photos.One is a picture of Ryo with a red strap, passing the stick to the next one, as his opponent follows closely.In the other one, all the children wearing red belts couldn't hide their excitement and raised their hands and shouted long live, while Liang, who turned his back to the camera, was just watching the finish line with his stomach pressed down.

Light said everything as if it was true, and complained to Liang.

Of course, the atmosphere in these photos is not as pleasant as what Guang said at all, but after listening to it, most of the long-standing grudges in Liang’s heart seemed to have disappeared. photo.Looking at the photo, I said to myself: It’s okay, in the future you will meet Shinto, he will become your opponent, your friend, your most important person, and you will become different.

Liang lowered his eyes and touched the self in the photo who was always smiling.

"But after graduating from elementary school, we should part ways, right? Haiwang Middle School is too high-level, I can't pass the exam." Bare hands folded their arms and shook their heads.

"I will help you with tutoring! Let you go to the same school as me!" Liang retorted hastily.

"You help me with tutoring!?...It sounds terrible....I'm so stupid and you are so fierce, I must be read to death by you every day." Guang shuddered.

"If you don't miss you, will you work hard!? If you don't study hard, how can we go to the same school!!"

Ryo slapped the table again, staring at Ryo with terrifying vigor.

"I said Taya, hypothetical hypothetical, don't be so serious!"

"!?///...Oh." Thinking that he was completely immersed in the hypothetical world, Ryo suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Hey~, it would be even better if they were the same in junior high school. Graduation ceremony, school trip, school festival, athletic meet, all of them, including one of them."

"Yeah." Liang raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Guang turned a few more pages, opened his eyes,

"Oh? Is there a group photo with that Nakamura Tomoya? Is this a hike in Kamakura? Oh~...I really envy him, standing next to you. I've been in the same class for three years, right?...It's really disgusting." Such a cute Taya holding hands, I really want to curse him. ...Taya, a second-grade elementary school student, is so small, I really want to pick it up and have a look!hateful! !

Ryo stared at Hikari with his pitch-black eyes, puzzled by what Hikari said,

"My first friend is you, why do you envy him? I didn't smile at all in the photo, did I?"

"..., um (that's true). By the way, how is that guy doing in Brazil? Didn't you get in touch?"

"It's okay. I get a New Year's card every year."

"New Year's card? What do you write?"

"Happy New Year, what's up with him."

"Did you come back?"

"Um."

"Really? What did you write?"

"Happy New Year."

"..., what else?"

"Just happy new year!"

Heh... Sure enough, there is nothing to envy. After all these years, I still want to say: Poor Tomoya Nakamura....

***

After seeing the photos from the elementary school days, I came to the heavenly kindergarten period. At this time, Toya's personality has not yet been distorted, and she loves to laugh. Every photo is so cute that it breaks the table, which is too taboo! !

Wearing a round straw hat and sitting on the back seat of Aunt Akiko's bicycle, little Toya swinging her short legs;

In front of the birthday cake, holding the little white rabbit puppet tightly and happily looking at the smiling little Taya;

Kneeling on the tatami mat, the little Toya who was drooling and dozing directly on the Go table;

The teacher who was squatting with a white platycodon flower quilt reminded little Taya to take the camera;

Little Toya, who went to Disneyland with Ogata-sensei and Ashihara-san, has Mickey Mouse ears on her head so cute! PS [-]-year-old Mr. Ogata is really young, and Mr. Ashihara is still a kid!

Just when Hikaru consciously became fascinated by the cute little Toya, and almost wanted to grab the little Toya in the photo and hug her, Ryo covered the photo album vigorously,

"Enough is enough."

"ㄟ? Are you kidding me! I haven't finished reading it yet! There's still half of the book left! I've seen it here, so what's the point!?"

"Your face is weird!!"

"Ah!?" Hikaru touched his face.strangeness?What kind of strange method?Did he collapse from laughing or accidentally showed Shotacon's expression! ?

"Show me, big Taya! Don't make trouble, tell auntie!" He raised his ultimate weapon, showing an expression of displeasure wishing he could chop it all off.

Turning around, he took out several photos, put them in his pocket, and handed them back to Guang.

"Just watch it if you want."

"Is there such a villain!? What do I think of you taking so many cards and leaving!?"

"If you don't want to see it, I'll take it all!!"

"Tsk, cheapskate."

Reluctantly, he took back the photo album, and within three seconds after opening it, Hikari was fascinated by the little Taya again, and put aside all the anger that the big Taya had inflicted on him, and accepted the little Taya again. The baptism of those lovely smiles.

When I closed the album after reading it, I took a deep breath and looked satisfied.

"It's so cute. This should be the cutest baby I've ever seen in the world, right? Hey Taya, give me a picture? No matter how angry you say in the future, just let me see you when you were a child I will immediately lose my temper, and I will let you do everything. Hey, give it to me?"

"Are you kidding me? Don't." He took back the photo album, turned his back to the light, and put back the photo albums he just took out one by one.

The light stretches the neck,

"What the hell did you take away? It's more lethal than the ones I saw just now?"

Liang turned his head and rolled his eyes fiercely,

"You are not allowed to open this photo album without my permission. Otherwise you will break up with me! Do you understand?"

"That's too cruel, Taya! If it's true, you'll be the one crying!"

"Hmph! No way!"

I closed the photo album and put it back in the cabinet. At this moment, a photo suddenly fell out and landed on the tatami. The sharp-eyed light saw it and immediately stepped on it with my socked foot, and replied nonchalantly,

"Huh! If you don't open it, you won't open it! Cheapskate."

Turning on the TV, pretending to watch TV and ignoring Liang, while Liang was putting other photo albums back into the cabinet one by one, he slowly retracted his feet, taking advantage of the blind spot created by the table to peek at the photos under his feet.

"Shindo, I met Amano-san today, he said that he saw one head and two big ones in your self-war commentary, didn't he remind you that you jumped too fast, it's hard for ordinary people to see, and it can't be published──What's wrong with you? Ryo asked suddenly with a worried look on his face.

"What... what's wrong?" Hikaru raised his head and replied in panic.

"You have a nosebleed."

"Nosebleed!?" Guang quickly touched his nose, and his hands were indeed stained with bright red blood.

"It's...it's hot, you must be angry."

He picked up a random reason and answered, not daring to look into his bright eyes, took out a few pieces of tissue paper to plug his bloody nostrils, breathing through his mouth, and looked ugly.

Liang looked up and down Guang with distrust, and finally found out that there was a secret hidden under his feet, so he ran over briskly, pushed Guang's feet away and took out the photo to have a look.

"...You hopeless person!!"

Trembling with anger, he raised his hand and was about to punch his bald head when Akiko, who was holding a wooden spatula, just came to the living room. Seeing this scene, she covered her mouth in disbelief.

"Liang! When did you child become so violent? How did you hit Fuji-kun!? You need to stop the bleeding quickly! Shinto-kun, wait, Auntie is going to get ice immediately! You also need to get the first-aid kit! Where is the first aid kit?" He said and hurried back to the kitchen.

After Mingzi left, Liang knelt down on the ground in a very low mood, beating his head,

"I'm not wrong, why should I be scolded..." This was the first time Liang was scolded by Akiko since he was born.

"...Hmm. I'm sorry, I'll explain to Auntie later."

It's a pity that the comfort of the perpetrator alone is of no use at all, it only makes Liang even more angry.

"How do you explain it!? Say you have a bad brain and rich delusions, so you have nosebleeds!?"

The sharp question made Guang dumbfounded,

"Uh...I'd say I hit it myself."...hit your white ass...hehe ///.

Hikaru stole another glance at the photo that had fallen to the ground.

The naked little Taya was shaking his round and tender buttocks and crawling towards the pillow. Perhaps his aunt called his name on the way?Just like that, he tilted his head back and smiled.

This photo with an excellent angle allowed the poorly-lit head to automatically synthesize the appearance of Otoya, and the cute little Toya instantly transformed into a sexy Otoya, and the bloody tragedy inevitably happened like this , What a pity...