Chapter 58,

After returning from Izu, summer vacation officially ended the next day.

Utsunomiya Shuo cherished every minute and spent the whole afternoon lying at home.

Then the Tokyo Central High School will start.

The wind is calm and the sun is beautiful, with no clouds in the sky.

The autumn summer breeze has brought a hint of coolness, kissing the students' cheeks.

"Oh~ Long time no see~"

"Wait a minute. Go back and let's do it again."

On the registration day after the summer vacation, Zhuo and Kiritani Ren met at the school gate, and the latter greeted them happily as soon as he came up.

Although Kiritani Ren could not understand Zhuo's request, he could forgive him.

So the two of them each took three steps back, and then walked forward at the same time.

This time Zhuo spoke first, half-raising one hand and said, "Hey, Sashi, don't pay attention! Tonggu."

“…Hello, long time no see.” Kiritani stammered in response.

Although he couldn't understand this behavior, seeing that Zhuo was as nonsensical as usual, Kiritani Jin also showed a relieved expression and deliberately let out a long sigh.

"Ah~ It seems like you had a great summer vacation. Are uncle and auntie in good health?"

"Yes, they are still as loving as ever, drinking Forget-me-not milk every day."

"Ok?"

"Nothing. How about you? How have you been recently? Are your bowel movements and urination normal?" Zhuo changed into indoor shoes, and the two walked towards the classroom together.

"Am I dying?!" Ren said speechlessly, "I'm doing OK. We went on vacation to Okinawa together. It was a family trip. It was quite fulfilling and fun, but it was also quite tiring."

"Yeah, I can understand your feelings." Zhuo nodded in approval.

Ren looked over with a smile, "It seems like you had an active summer vacation, did you do anything?"

"I slept all summer."

“…Thank you for your hard work.”

"Yeah! I think so too." Zhuo nodded in agreement: "Although I didn't do anything, it was hard work for me."

Go up to the second floor,

Before entering the classroom, Zhuo heard noisy voices coming from his own classroom. He couldn't help but look at Ren and glanced over.

Looking into the room from the door, I saw the long-lost Sanwu Lolita, who was as cold as ever, surrounded by a group of men and women.

Summer vacation has passed, but the temperature on Ling's face is still minus 200 degrees Celsius. He sits quietly on the chair, looking out the window, ignoring the conversations of his classmates.

The crowd that had gathered didn't care and continued chatting about their own things.

Well, that's a bit weird.

Ren also saw this scene and showed an emotional expression: "This is Her Majesty the Queen. Even so, people still flock to her."

"You're finally here." Kanda stood up from his seat, walked towards them, and extended his hand to greet them.

"Yo!" Zhuo also stretched out his hand and responded symbolically.

Ren bumped Kanda's shoulder, pointed to the corner of the classroom with his eyes, and asked, "What's going on?"

Zhuo also pricked up his ears to listen.

Kanda looked in the direction and immediately understood what Jin was referring to. He explained with a look of understanding:

"Oh, it seems that when I came to school today, a boy gave a gift to Romanov and it was accepted. Many people saw it."

"Gift?" Ren asked.

“A souvenir.” Kanda replied.

"That's quite strange, no wonder." Ren suddenly realized, "I remember Romanov never accepted gifts from others before."

"Yes, so everyone thinks there is a chance with Her Majesty the Queen." Kanda agreed.

"Did you receive a gift too?" Ren looked at Kanda.

Kanda is also very popular among girls, arguably as popular as Zero.

"Someone gave it to me, but I didn't dare to accept it." Kanda smiled bitterly, "After all, it's strange to only give me a gift, even if it's a souvenir. We didn't agree on it in advance."

Although there is a saying in Japan that politeness is not a problem, reciprocity is important in everything.

This kind of sudden gift has no prior agreement and the recipient has no way to reciprocate, so generally he or she will not accept it.

They both looked at the crowded crowd over there.

"That's true." Ren nodded, "Then why doesn't Romanov know about this?"

"Why?" Kanda repeated.

"Zhuo, can you guess it?" Ren found that Utsunomiya Zhuo didn't say a word, and hoped that his friend could join the discussion, so he specially issued an invitation.

Unfortunately... Zhuo had already traveled eight hundred miles away in his mind.

"Ah? Oh, that makes sense." Zhuo agreed, blinking his innocent big eyes.

Done!

Could it be that because of what I said when I left, Ling thought that accepting souvenirs in Neon was the proper etiquette?
...

...

"what is this?"

Facing Ling's usual calm tone, Zhuo felt more guilty than ever.

Ling was still sitting in a corner of the sofa in the living room, his eyes fixed on the plate on the table, which showed a series of fruits arranged in the shape of petals, including pears, apples, bananas, kiwis, watermelons, etc. ... but except for the watermelon which was cut, the other fruits were intact.

Zhuo pushed the fruit platter on the coffee table towards Ling, then withdrew his hand, rested his palms on his knees, and sat upright on the sofa, like a primary school student whose homework was randomly checked by the teacher.

"Gift, a unique, heaven-defying, awesome plus fruit love platter from Izu, made by the only son of the Utsunomiya family."

"Gift……"

Ling couldn't help but look up at Zhuo, then quickly lowered his head to stare at the fruit plate.

Although he didn't say anything obvious to refute, he just pursed his lips and his expression seemed to become colder.

You can tell it's broken as soon as you take a look at it.

Before leaving, Ling said that it would be fine as long as he brought it.

But the fruit plate put together on the spot was obviously too perfunctory. It was as if they had forgotten about it and had made up for it at the last minute...

He knew that Ling was not the kind of person who valued gifts, but for Ling, what she valued might be the agreement itself. And his behavior was probably equivalent to forgetting the agreement and not taking it to heart... After all, he said he would bring a gift when he came back.

"Thank you."

After three or four seconds of silence, Ling picked up a piece of cut watermelon with a cold face and took a small bite.

"...Oh, does it taste okay? It's grown in my home." Zhuo forced a smile.

Zero's expression was so cold, exactly the same as when he first met her.

Eh! Weird?
They both have paralyzed faces, but I can actually tell the difference!
"Yeah." Ling nodded, without saying whether it was delicious or not, and was very cold.

Zhuo didn't know what to say, so he remained silent and didn't respond.

After a few seconds of silence, Ling stood up and bowed slightly: "If there is nothing else, I will take my leave."

"Oh, walk slowly."

Ling nodded slightly again, changed his shoes and left Zhuo's apartment.

The room fell silent after hearing the door closing.

Zhuo sat on the sofa, staring at the fruit plate on the coffee table with only one piece of watermelon touched. After a long silence, he hesitantly pulled out a paper bag from behind him.

The paper bag is tied with a bow and wrapped as a gift decoration.

　Thanks to brother Chu Du for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brother Yuan Chenmeng for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to the principal-brother yy for the two monthly tickets.

　　Thanks to Wu Shen Yi Wu Bu Jian Qi Guang for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brothers Lan Yin and Bi Li for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brother 20200726065334117 for the monthly ticket.

　　thank.

　　Record +7.

　　Thanks to brother Mozhu Xiyin for the 100 reward.

　　Thanks to Kalvetuwa's Scepter Brothers for the 1000-point reward.

　　Thanks to brother 20221027150502173 for the 100-point reward.

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　　Emmmmm...I didn’t expect that there was only one round of recommendations and I couldn’t even make it to the second round.

　　The monthly tickets and rewards are obviously much better than the previous book, so how could this happen?

　　I see!

　　It must be that you guys are all growing books!!!

　　Well, since it didn’t make the recommendation, let’s prepare to put it on the shelves.

　　After the book is put on the shelves, I will finish all the chapters that have been missed during this period.

　　that's it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)