Chapter 78 Please don't be so distant with me.
"ViVi?"

Akai Muzi was originally preparing to leave the school, but at this time she was very curious. She didn't expect to see the fashion magazine ViVi on Fujii's seat.

This is the most popular fashion information magazine in Japan in recent years.

The readers are office women and college students aged 15 to 36. The content introduces the popular trends and fashion styles in the country and even the world.

There are many exclusive models of mixed race.

Akai Muzi also often read this magazine in the past and often used it as a reference for dressing.

So she was even more curious as to why Fujii was also watching.

Moreover, this seems to be the latest issue.
Just bought and unopened
She picked it up.

At this time, Fujii Itsuki returned to the office, and as soon as he approached, he lay down on the ergonomic chair worth more than 25 yen.

He looked uncomfortable, with a tense face and pinched brows.

"Is there a problem with the club again?" Akai asked curiously.

"No, I'm just sleepy." Fujii Itsuki answered weakly.

"Oh? What were you doing last night? You didn't come on Monday." Akai looked at the magazine in his hand again.

"Just write the music I brought this morning."

"Those sheets of music you annotated this morning?"

Akai Muzi looked at him strangely, "You are amazing. There are more than 50 people in the club, and you have to write individual notes for each of them. You still have to prepare lessons. Aren't you afraid of being exhausted?"

"If I don't do something, am I going to watch the club end before it even begins?"

"But this is obviously not your fault, Fujii."

Fujii Itsuki pinched his brows and shook his head. "Between teachers and students, we can't simply say who is right and who is wrong. Mutual compromise is also very important. I was too strict before."

"Ugh"

Akai Muzi was helpless. She knew how much trouble it was for one person to do the work of more than 50 people. Not to mention that this was a one-on-one tutoring. He carefully annotated the music scores of more than 50 people.

It definitely works, but isn't that just asking for trouble?

She couldn't help but advise:
"Fujii, few students will thank you for doing this. I've only been a teacher for a few months, and I've already figured this out."

"But I don't ask for thanks, Akai."

"Come on! Come on, come on!" Akai Muzi looked dissatisfied and directly covered his face with the magazine. "Then when will you thank yourself?"

Fujii Itsuki's face smiled under the magazine.

"Use your salary to hire workers for the welfare home, and use the money you save to buy gifts, stationery and books for the children in the welfare home. At school, you should also be selfless and write a separate annotated music score for all members of the club. Fujii, when will you think about yourself?"

"Maybe I'll wait until the day I become heartless."

Akai Muzi sighed again, "How about going to your sister's house for a drink this afternoon? And take a hot spring bath. I see you've been under a lot of pressure lately."

"Not today."

Fujii Itsuki took the magazine off her face, hugged it to her stomach, and rocked in the chair with her eyes still closed.

"how?"

"I didn't go to bed until 5:30 in the morning, and now I'm relying on coffee to keep me going."

"Coffee?" Akai frowned. "How many cups?"

"Five drinks."

"Are you crazy, Fujii?" Akai Muzi was so surprised that she stood up, "Then you only slept for more than an hour today!"

"yes."

"Why don't you take a rest now? You still have the mood to chat with me!"

"Not so good. I drank too much coffee and I want to sleep but I can't."

"You're crazy, you're really not afraid of death? You drank so much?"

"I feel fine, but I just can't sleep."

Fujii Itsuki suddenly remembered what happened with Chitose at Heian Shrine the night before.

"Fujii? Fujii!"

"Ah? I'm listening."

Fujii Itsuki then realized that Akai Muzi had grabbed his arm, and asked in surprise: "Akai, when did you learn how to teleport? Even a certain Saiyan prince doesn't know this trick."

"You bastard, you can even be distracted while I'm talking? You're a Saiyan prince, and you're already talking nonsense. I repeat, you definitely drank too much coffee. Go, go now!"

"Walk for what?"

"Now I'll take you back to rest!"

"Your home and mine are in opposite directions."

"I'll take you back in the opposite direction. I'm afraid you'll die next to me, okay? I'll also take a day off tomorrow so you can get a good night's sleep. Do you understand?"

".No, I can't delay you."

"What's the delay? I——"

Akai Muzi was really pissed off by this guy. Not only did he only sleep for an hour and come to school to attend classes, he also drank five cups of coffee.

Doesn't this guy know that drinking too much coffee can be fatal?

"Let's go! Since you still can't sleep, I'll take you home to lie down. If that doesn't work, I'll take you to my house to rest."

"Really? I have to prepare for the Chinese class for Class B tomorrow. There will be a three-party meeting next week, and I have to call ahead and contact the students' parents one by one. Akai, have you contacted them?"

"What else are you preparing?"

Akai Muzi really felt that this guy had taken stimulants. He didn't listen to what she said, but kept trying to trick people into following his words.

And I'm still thinking about work!

Akai Muzi turned her head and saw Jiuhuayue, carrying a shoulder bag in one hand and a musical instrument case on her back, peeking out of the office.

"Hey! Jiuhua, just in time, come here, come here quickly!"

"Akagi-sensei."

When she saw Akai Muzi waving and calling her, Jiuhuayue walked in and bowed politely.

"Teacher Akai, I'm here to see Fuji--"

"Jiuka, take your Fujii back to bed. This guy only slept for an hour last night and drank five cups of coffee! I wanted to send him off, but he refused."

".My home?" Jiuhuayue tilted her head in confusion.

"What are you saying?" Fujii Itsuki opened his eyes, tilted his head, looked at Akai Muzi through the green leaves of the potted plant, and sighed, "It's just that I don't want to owe you another favor."

"Human life is at stake. How dare you tell me that people are inhumane? If you die, who can I ask for favors?"

Akai Muzi put her hands on her hips and glared at him.

Fujii Itsuki helplessly spread his hands, "It's really nothing."

"Then are you embarrassed to owe Jiuhua a favor?"

Only then did Fujii Itsuki reluctantly go to look at Jiuhuayue.

The girl was dressed in the black sailor uniform of the second-year class of Tachibana Kita, and she was standing tall and graceful.

Although it was already off work, after realizing that this was a school and Jiuhuayue was also his student, Fujii Itsuki sat more seriously.

He straightened his body, coughed and said:

"It's okay. It's not like I can't go back."

"Um. What happened?"

Akai Muzi explained the situation of Fujii Itsuki to Jiuhuayue, and she immediately understood the importance of the matter.

"Do you understand?"

"I understand. I will do my best to escort Teacher Fujii home." Jiuhuayue was very serious.

Fujii Itsuki thought Akai was just worrying about nothing, and shouted again:

"Really, I told you, no—"

"Huh——?!" Akai Muzi glared at him.

Jiuhua is still cuter.

*
After repeatedly telling Fujii Itsuki to go back to sleep and handing him over to Jiuhuayue, Akai Muzi seemed to have something to do and left first.

Fujii Itsuki originally planned to take a short nap in the office before leaving, but now he wanted to sleep but couldn't, so it was really time to leave.

But unexpectedly, he staggered as soon as he stood up.

Seeing this, Jiuhuayue immediately wanted to go over and support him.

"It's okay, it's okay." Fujii Itsuki said quickly, extending his hand to refuse her kindness.

".This doesn't look like everything is alright. No wonder Akai-sensei asked me to take you back quickly."

Jiuhuayue seemed to be complaining.

"At five o'clock this morning, the uncle was still writing music for everyone, right?"

"Jiuhua, do you know?"

"When I got up at night, I saw a light coming from the crack of your door. Uncle, why are you so nice to those people? It's obviously some sophomores who were lazy and didn't practice."

"Jiuhua is not convinced?" "Not convinced," Jiuhua Yue said in a serious tone, like a fighter against nuclear weapons and war. "I am standing up for you, uncle. If Qiansui hadn't stood up and stopped everyone at that time, I--"

"Are you going to pour water on everyone's heads again?"

"."

"Thank you Jiuhua for defending me, but this is my business. If you do this, you will only create a bad impression for yourself. Look at the last time you poured water on a senior girl's head in the cafeteria, and then there were all those bad rumors about you, right?"

"I don't care about that at all!"

Jiuhuayue shouted and looked at Fujii Itsuki at the same time.

The two people's eyes met, and Jiuhua Yuebin's purple eyes trembled briefly for two seconds, then lowered again.

"Then what do you care about?" Fujii Itsuki asked the girl who lowered her head.

".I am concerned that unfair gossip has been said about you, uncle."

"I noticed that Jiuhua, you don't care about yourself very much. It was the same at the station before. You wanted to get rid of the trouble by getting rid of yourself. Although I still don't quite understand why you went to the station at that time."

"."

Fujii Itsuki knew that Jiuhuayue didn't like to talk about this matter, so he didn't go into it any further. He said, "Let's go home first," then packed up his computer and prepared to go home.

At this time, Jiu Huayue suddenly saw the ViVi magazine he had put away.

This is obviously the latest issue.

Also included are the photos she took in Tokyo during her March vacation.

The girl obviously wanted to ask him something, but perhaps because she was embarrassed, she didn't open her mouth to ask.

Fujii Itsuki picked up his briefcase and walked towards the off-campus bus station with Jiuhua.

Otaru has a small population and there are few people at night.

Even on the main streets in the city center, there were only a few elderly people walking their pets.

It was April, the time of year when cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Two rows of cherry trees stretched from the school gate to the end of the street, with petals covering the ground.

"Uncle, what did you do over the weekend? Why did you only come back yesterday morning?"

"Jiuhua cares a lot?"

"Well, I want to ask you some questions this weekend. I also want to play the trumpet I'm practicing for you, too."

As Fujii Itsuki walked with the girl, he looked up at the cherry blossoms blooming under the starry sky beside the road. He was very happy.

"It sounds like Jiuhua cares about me a lot."

"Hateful." As thin as a mosquito.

"What?" Fujii Itsuki didn't hear clearly.

"Hate you. I'm telling you." Jiu Huayue lifted the shoulder bag in front of her skirt with both hands, mumbling, as if she was a little dissatisfied, "You ask even though you know the answer."

It sounds like I'm teasing you.

"Jiuhua, please speak clearly."

"I say! I really care about you as a friend, uncle!"

Fujii Itsuki was stunned. He didn't expect her to be so loud all of a sudden. "What's wrong? What's this?"

Jiuhuayue turned her face away, "Didn't I say before that I don't want to go back to Tokyo?"

"Yes."

"I've had some unpleasant experiences with Chitose recently. She doesn't want to play with me. I refused to contact my parents, and my father was too angry to even bother calling me. I'm in Otaru, and now you're my only friend, right?"

"Where's Matsumae?" asked Fujii Itsuki.

"Matsumae Shinharu? No. She doesn't count."

"You and Matsumae have a bad relationship?"

Jiu Huayue obviously didn't want to talk about this, so she continued the previous topic, "I always feel bored on weekends. Sometimes I practice for a long time and feel tired. I want to find someone to talk to, but you are not here.
"I mean, can you please not act so distant from me? We are good friends, aren't we?"

Fujii Itsuki was even more confused, and at the same time curious, "Jiuka, why do you think so?"

"Isn't it? Uncle Weekend, you took a long time to reply to my message, and there was a period every time you typed. The content of your reply was not so substantial, and I always felt that you were angry."

"."

Fujii Itsuki remembered that Jiuhua did send him a message on that weekend morning.

She asked herself what she was doing.

How could Fujii Itsuki explain it clearly? He didn't want to lie, so he could only be vague and deal with her.

".Jiuhua, you misunderstood. I'm not angry."

".Do not believe."

"And why do you think that by putting a period at the end of a sentence, I'm angry?"

"Isn't it? But that's the feeling it gives people. The exclamation mark makes people feel very energetic, while the period makes people feel that you are very serious and earnest, and there is a sense of deliberate distance."

"."

"Is it because I didn't speak up for you last time when those people in the wind band club said bad things about you, so you are angry?"

"not at all."

"Then why do you sometimes put a period and sometimes not?"

"."

Who can notice this!

Fujii Itsuki found that he could not keep up with the pace of the young people.

He could only reiterate that he was not angry, and Jiuhuayue responded absentmindedly.

This girl, does she care so much whether she is angry or not?

Jiuhuayue was also feeling a little anxious at this time. She didn't know whether she had conveyed her thoughts to the uncle.

Uncle, could you please move a little closer to me?
Don't be so unfamiliar
*
After returning home, according to the order, Fujii Itsuki was responsible for cooking today, but Jiuhuayue insisted that she should do it.

"It's okay, I'll just come."

"No, uncle, I haven't slept for a whole day. Aren't you sleepy?"

".Fortunately, I walked outside for a while and took a nap in the car. I feel good. I'll do it."

"I'll do it. Uncle, go and have a rest."

"Jiuhua, I don't want to owe you a favor."

"I don't want to owe you, uncle! You even wrote me so many instructions."

“That’s what I’m supposed to do as a teacher.”

"You're not a teacher now, no."

Jiu Huayue firmly disagreed with him cooking and asked him to go and rest.

Fujii Itsuki didn't want to trouble her because everything she cooked, except for noodles and rice porridge, was extremely unpalatable, and he didn't want to point it out.

The two of them were fighting over it and accidentally cut the girl's finger.

"Feel sorry."

“.”Jiuhuayue didn’t cry out in pain.

Fujii Itsuki quickly went to get a Band-Aid and put it on her slender fingers.

When pasting it, Jiu Huayue stared at him for a long time, and then suddenly looked away.

Her ears and cheeks were slightly red, and it was unclear whether it was because of the cold or because she had been looking at him for too long.

".It's okay?"

"It's okay, so let me do it. Today I want to make you a bowl of strawberry scrambled eggs. I just learned how to make it online! I bought all the ingredients in advance. It's great!"

It sounds terrible!
Fujii Itsuki wanted to go crazy, Jiuhua, do you know that your cooking is terrible!
No wonder you only know how to cook noodles and dried plum porridge!

"Okay, okay."

"Okay!" Jiuhuayue smiled beautifully, like a cherry blossom, very happy, "I'll make it for you right away!"

Half an hour later.

Fujii Shu had to admit that Jiuhuayue only knew how to cook noodles and rice porridge.

It’s okay that it tastes bad, the key is that she is not aware of it.

"That's. Delicious, right?"

"Delicious, delicious!" Fujii Itsuki smiled again and took two bites of scrambled eggs with strawberries.

"Thank you for the compliment. I think it tastes good too. So, uncle, do you understand what I said to you when I got home just now?"

"what?"

"."

Jiu Huayue was depressed. She suddenly felt confused about how to make the uncle understand what she was really thinking at the moment.

To put it bluntly, something doesn't seem right.

I want him to be closer to me.
I want him to spend more time with me.
(End of this chapter)