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"It's time for Natsume to start training. After all, your goal is the most difficult to achieve." Mahiru looked at him with a smile.
The boy, who had just finished running, still had traces of sweat on his hair and exuded the spirit of exercise all over his body.
"The running practice is over. Next, it's time to practice our skills. Let's go play tennis against the wall." Yukino looked at him and made a light request.
Natsume Rin put down the water in her hand and looked at the minister with contempt. She really was talking without any pain in her waist.
"It's not like I'm going to play tennis."
"Ok?"
"Time is limited. Since the goal is to win the medal count, we must look for an event where we can be sure of winning. Tennis clashes with another event."
As she explained this, Natsume Rin lifted the hem of her sportswear, revealing her well-defined abdomen, causing the girls on the playground to cheer softly.
Yukino didn't bother to pay attention to the two people sitting on the platform, and Mahiru curiously looked over to see more parts.
"Don't worry, I will definitely get first place this time!" Raising his hair handsomely, Natsume Rin jumped directly down along the railing of the platform.
After he left, Shiina Mahiru looked at Yukino and said softly with a smile.
"Does it sound like he's trying to look cool in front of girls?"
"Not like that." Yukino shook her head. "He's just simply in the mood, so he does all kinds of strange things."
"Ah, so that's how it is." Shiina Mahiru was very disappointed. She thought that Natsume was acting so cool just to show off her charm in front of her.
Just looking at the invincible boys on the playground, Shiina Mahiru held her face with her hands and laughed again.
"Little Snow."
"Hmm?" Yukino, who had just dismissed her idea, looked at her.
"I actually still like Natsume-kun very much." Mahiru's tone was very light, like a murmur coming from the horizon.
Yukino looked away, "There's no need to emphasize this, everyone already knows it."
"Is that so?" Mahiru covered her face shyly, and was very sure that this also included Natsume Rin.
"Xiaoxue, what do you think Natsume-kun is avoiding? Does he really want me to confess my feelings to him?" She touched the shoulder of the girl next to her.
"He may still have a little conscience..."
"Hmm?" Shiina Mahiru, who couldn't hear clearly because the voice was too soft, looked at Xiaoxue in confusion. Yukino, who was in a trance, turned around and looked at her seriously.
"He may be doing this for your own good. Shiina-san's family should not be simple."
One phone call can make the old-fashioned principal change his attitude immediately. This has nothing to do with the amount of assets. There must be a government background behind it.
"Actually, it's okay..." Shiina Mahiru lowered her head unconsciously.
Yukinoshita Yukino raised a triumphant smile on her face and continued to lure Shiina out of the abyss called love.
"Although the island nation is nominally a democracy, families with parliamentarian status are definitely more keen on concluding marriages with people of the same background. Shiina-san, Natsume Rin is not suitable for you. Even if he makes more money, he can't change that."
"You two are incompatible from an innate perspective."
"If possible, just treat it as a dream from your youth."
Recalling her parents' situation, Shiina Mahiru realized that Koyuki was right. She was the product of this kind of marriage and there was no reason for her to escape this cycle.
She slumped down on her legs, and the atmosphere around them became gloomy. Yukino wanted to comfort her, but she felt that it would be better to let her think it through herself.
"that……"
"Xiaoxue, do you like Natsume Rin?" she suddenly asked in a low voice.
Chapter 121 Come on, survive!
Does she like Natsume Rin?
Yukinoshita Yukino thought this was a joke, but she was unable to say anything to belittle Natsume Rin.
Obviously, when that boy was in front of her, she wanted to leave marks on his annoying face with her own hands. Now that she was asked like this, she should feel insulted.
Why am I so tangled up inexplicably?
"No need to say, I already know the answer." Shiina Mahiru looked at Xiaoxue with complicated eyes.
She had long noticed that the way Xiaoxue and Natsume got along was extraordinary, and she thought it was a special kind of relationship between siblings, but...
"Don't think too much, we are brother and sister." Yukinoshita Yukino answered reluctantly, but even she didn't believe it.
"Xiaoxue, has no one ever told you that you are not very good at lying?"
"Shiina-san, I won't like Natsume Rin. Please don't misunderstand my advice to you... as a dispute between love rivals. I'll get angry if I do."
The girls fell into silence, and Natsume Rin, who had caused a lot of trouble on the playground, trotted back to the platform.
"Hello, do you want to play together?" Natsume Rin jumped up and climbed on the guardrail.
Strange, something doesn't seem right between these two.
It would have been fine if Xiaoxue was in a bad mood, but Shiina Mahiru, who usually liked to react, just gave him a perfunctory smile.
"We are a little tired, so we can only watch Natsume-kun perform."
There is a problem, absolutely there is a problem.
Natsume Rin returned to the playground with a worried look on her face, and the silence on the stage was broken by Shiina Mahiru.
"Yukinoshita-san..."
"Natsume Rin."
Yukino suddenly stood up and shouted to Natsume who had just left.
The people who were still on the playground during this time were attracted by her attention. Shiina Mahiru pursed her lips, not sure what would happen next.
"Ah?" Natsume Rin turned around blankly and looked at the figure standing in the shadow.
You didn't say anything just now, what do you want to do now?
"We should go," Yukino's tone calmed down again, causing the students who had been waiting to watch the fun to sigh in disappointment.
Except Ebina!
She frantically recorded the scene in front of her, especially the fact that Yukinoshita-san was doing this in front of Shiina Mahiru, who was having an affair with Natsume-san.
There is a lot to it.
Even though the broadcasting company had reminded everyone not to fabricate news about the three members of the service club recently, it couldn't stop her wild gossiping heart.
"Oh oh." Natsume Rin scratched his head and walked back to the podium.
After Shiina Mahiru and Yukino looked at each other, they walked down with calm expressions.
In the evening before the sports festival, there seemed to be nothing worth noting.
Except when they were leaving the school gate, Yukino offered to let Natsume Rin take her home.
"My legs still feel a little uncomfortable." She looked straight at Natsume Rin.
Shiina Mahiru's expression slowly turned silent, and she pushed Natsume Rin from behind.
"Xiaoxue is your sister. You can't back down at this moment."
Natsume Rin felt like he was sandwiched between two girls. No matter what he did, there would be critical eyes staring at him.
So what exactly happened?
"Shiina-san, be careful on the road." Yukino looked at her. Feeling that another day was about to begin, Natsume Rin pushed Yukino and hurriedly set off, waving goodbye to Shiina Mahiru at the same time.
"I'll look for you when I get home."
"Don't say such things in the street." Mahiru covered her face, looking shy.
"It's so late, you might as well stay at my place." Yukino sneered as she was pushed slowly forward.
"Xiaoxue, are we going to start living together in high school?"
"Busan, and Shiina... I beg you all to just stop."
The boy in the middle leaned over to separate them, and suddenly he felt the world became a lot quieter.
After leaving Shiina Mahiru's sight, Yukino, who was originally limping, began to walk steadily.
"What do you want to say by pulling me over here?" Natsume Rin was certainly not surprised.
She wasn't injured at all. She was sitting there to rest simply because she was overworked.
"I'm afraid there might be danger on the road, so I called you to be my bodyguard."
After saying this, both of them laughed.
"Buichi...Yukino, what's wrong with you two?"
Under the threat of her eyes, Natsume Rin tactfully changed the way he addressed her.
Most of the time when they were in front of outsiders, they did not deliberately highlight the intimacy of their relationship by addressing each other.
"We talked about you." Yukino held the strap of her schoolbag and stopped halfway through the overpass.
Natsume Rin leaned against the guardrail and looked at the couple pushing their bicycles over to the other side of the overpass. She was not surprised at all.
"I exposed my brother's identity as a scumbag."
"No." Xueno lay on the guardrail, lifted the hair by her ears, and looked at the busy scene in a daze.
"Hmm? This is different from what I imagined." Natsume Rin was a little surprised. He was ready to take the initiative to ask Shiina Mahiru for the hatchet after returning home tonight.
"But it's pretty much the same."
"I told you, this is the Yukino I know." Natsume Rin breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that she could get the hatchet again.
Yukino looked at his handsome profile, which had an undisguised, relaxed smile on it, and said thoughtfully.
"Are you not going to tell me the identity of my girlfriend at this point?"
"It's not time yet."
"Do I know her?"
"There's no way to refute that. You'll definitely be surprised when the results are revealed."
The woman she knew?