Chapter 14 Chapter two

Kurita and Rei Asaba have a close relationship. It has been ten years since they met in the fourth grade of elementary school. At that time, people often asked Kurita to play for them in sports club competitions on the grounds that Kurita's motor nerves were very good.Kurita participated in a community group softball matchup as a substitute. At that time, Asaba was the pitcher for the opposing team. As a result, Kurita hit a farewell home run as a substitute hitter, and the relationship between the two began. After the match, Asaba bit her lip and remained silent for a long time.When Kurita packed up his things and was ready to go home, he called Kurita from behind and said, "... Let me ask you, how long have you been playing baseball?"

"Never." "what?" "Sorry, I'm not interested in baseball." Today, I was only entrusted by a friend, so I had to play the game as a last resort——Before Kurita had time to continue, Asaba had already grabbed Kurita, and his face with regular features turned red. "hateful!" "Why did you grab me all of a sudden?" "You don't want to be proud there!" After that, Asagi liked to find trouble with Kurita at every turn, and the two quarreled countless times in elementary school. Asaba always regards Kurita as an opponent, and loves to compete with Kurita whenever there is nothing to do.

The two also had a big confrontation to grab the territory in the territory of Sensoji Temple. At that time, the two each led a group of boys to stage a battle between primary schools and primary schools in the territory of Sensoji Temple. On the battlefield, the two sides threw the ball from a distance and fought each other with long swords made of cardboard boxes. In the end, Kurita's school won the victory.However, when they were about to go home, they were caught by the staff of Sensoji Temple and were beaten up severely, so they left bitter memories. After entering junior high school, the interaction between the two became less and they stopped fighting.Even so, Asaba would visit Kurita's house from time to time without warning.

"...What are you doing? You came to my house in the middle of the night." "Oh, I have nothing to do, so I came to see what the idiot looks like." "You can't look in the mirror!" "What a disappointment... I heard people say that Kurita has been quite lawless recently, so I came to you with full expectation, but you haven't changed at all. It's really boring, and I don't know how to dye my hair. It's more funny that way." "You... are you here to quarrel?" At that time, Asaba was a different type of punk from Kurita.

Perhaps it was because of the confrontational mentality that Asaba had had since she was a child, so she didn't want to hang with Kurita. Asagi wears eye-catching and gorgeous clothes every day, and spends most of the night fooling around and fighting on the street until dawn before returning home, which makes her father who runs a small factory very angry. Kurita is always admired by the local gangsters. On the contrary, Asaba is a lone ranger who doesn't deal with anyone, so of course the two are incompatible. "Okay, do you want to fight?" With a listless smile on Asaba's well-featured face, he said provocatively to Kurita.

Although Asakusa was slender, he was good at fighting, so many gangsters in Asakusa were in awe of him at that time. "I'm happy to be your opponent anytime." "...Then no need, I don't want to please you at all." "What kind of attitude do you have? You're so ruthless. If that's the case, you should do more mischief, and join a gang or something in the future." "Leave it to you to be a hooligan. After all, you are more suitable to be a cowherd." "...Believe it or not, I killed you, Kurita." Maybe Asaba was caring about Kurita at that time in his own way.

Until now, Kurita didn't understand the intention of interpreting Asaba in this way.However, this is just an interpretation, and it does not mean that Kurita agrees that he and Asaba have a better relationship. When the two met by chance at the same university last year, it was also a simmering situation. "Huh? Kurita!" "Asaba? Why are you here?" "Why are you here? Of course it's because I was admitted here. Why is your head still rusty, Kurita." "You still have a cheap mouth." "Because I'm good-looking, my mouth needs to be cheap to balance it out. Anyway, I didn't expect you to go to this university too... It seems that campus life should be very happy."

"What? How could anyone be happy?" "...What kind of attitude are you talking about!" The atmosphere at the scene gradually became sinister. If there were not people around to stop it, maybe the two would cause a big commotion on the first day of school. Although the relationship between the two was so bad, unexpectedly there was no serious dispute. As long as the two met, there would be a verbal battle, but it was purely a verbal rivalry, so basically they still lived a stable college life. Things didn't change until a year ago. When Kurita asked to suspend his studies at the university because of the death of his parents, Asaba had a big fight with him about it.

Asaha opposed Kurita's inheritance of the family business, and advised Kurita to finish college well, and then find a stable company to work for. "Kurita, you really don't understand the situation. The economy is so bad in this era, it's really foolhardy for you to run a wagashi shop by yourself." "Sorry, but I've made up my mind." "That's why I tell you to change your mind, you idiot! This society is not so easy to mess with..." "You should study hard and prepare to inherit your father's factory in the future." "...You stupid brain! Damn it, it doesn't make sense! I won't care about you anymore!"

Asahi left such a sentence, shrugged angrily and left. After that, Kurita never had the chance to meet Asaba again, and the relationship between the two has now become estranged. Of course, they were not close friends in the first place, so it was natural for the relationship to become estranged. What was really unnatural was the fact that Asaba wrote an e-mail inviting Kurita to attend the university celebration. Hearing someone say that, even if it wasn't Kurita, someone else would care about it. What did Asahi Rei want to show him? Kurita couldn't figure it out at all.However, because of the death of his parents last year, Kurita's mental state was not suitable for attending the school celebration at all, so he plans to go to the school celebration this year.

However, Kurita worried that if he showed his face too early, he might be misunderstood as being enthusiastic about it. Kurita thought to himself, he must not let Asaba get carried away. So, he decided to stop by the coffee shop for a cup of coffee before taking the train.