Alaya's sword cut a deep crack in the ground.
Sword Qi of two colors, white and blood, surged around her.
There is benevolence, righteousness and morality hidden in one sword, and the next sword is full of killing intent.
This kind of contradictory sword brought a certain burden to Alaya, she had to stop every two swords, and wipe the sweat on her face with the towel around her neck. Because of this, she couldn't fully immerse herself in her own way of swordsmanship and achieve the state of forgetting both things and me.
I took advantage of this, and held Heyue's hand while Alaya was resting while wiping her sweat, and swaggered past the corridor at the edge of the backyard.
Sure enough, Alayah looked up at us.
I still have a keen sense of gaze. She glanced at me first, then at He Yue, and then at the hands we held together.
I'm coming!
Just when I thought Alaiya would react, she lowered her gaze calmly, wiped the sweat from her brow, and continued the next round of practice with the sword in her hand.
After He Yue and I walked through the corridor, we flashed into a corner.
"It's not right."
Faced with my serious analysis, He Yue pulled his hand out of my palm and said without expression:
"I think that reaction is normal. As a girl, although I don't want you to be too intimate with others, it would be too strict if you even have to control holding hands."
I nodded approvingly.
In this case…
"He Yue, lend me your hand."
I took the initiative to reach out to He Yue, palm up. He Yue hesitated for a moment, and put her hand up. This time, instead of holding her hand in the palm of my hand as before, I slid my fingers between her fingers, unilaterally intertwined with her fingers, and then pulled her quickly back the same way.
Again!
He Yue was dragged two more steps by me, and just when she stabilized her body, she had already reached the edge of the backyard. This time, He Yue didn't even have time to complain, so he could only hastily hold my hand instead, and cooperated with me to perform a hand-holding method between lovers.
But Alaya still didn't respond at all.
Why! !
It shouldn't be like this.
I waved my arms more and more, and I almost waved at Alaya while holding Heyue's hand. But after Alaiya glanced at us at the beginning, she had no intention of continuing to cast her gaze here. After wiping off her sweat, she swung her sword twice. direction to think.
"It's not right, it's not right."
When I got to a place that Alaiya couldn't see, I took the initiative to let go of Heyue's hand, and sat cross-legged on the ground with my arms folded, constantly thinking about the reason.
He Yue sighed, stood behind me, put her hands in her sleeves, and asked:
"Lied, has Alayah ever been in a relationship before?"
I replied:
"No. Probably not."
He Yue asked sharply:
"Then does she know what kind of person is in love?"
I looked up at He Yue, and vaguely understood something:
"you mean… "
He Yue said:
"For people who have no knowledge of love at all, holding hands is just an ordinary action. No matter how you hold hands, it will not attract her attention, because she simply lacks the concept of this aspect. Also, before you should I have held her hand more or less. Maybe in Alayya's view, the act of holding hands is something that people with a good relationship will do. So you can see that Alaiya's gaze just now did not fluctuate at all, as if Look at a scene that couldn't be more normal."
I clapped my hands:
"I think so too. Then Heyue, how do you think we can make her realize something?"
He Yue stared at me for a while.
The atmosphere was silent for a while.
I waited quietly for a while.
When the sparrows on the eaves were chirping and flying, He Yue said calmly:
"... give me a hug on my shoulder and try?"
I braced my knees, stood up, and walked to He Yue's side.
He Yue stood there like a log, with a calm face. I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and slowly stretched my hand to He Yue's shoulder. He Yue leaned towards me very cooperatively, we both kept a considerable degree of silence, neither of us spoke, only felt a strange atmosphere gradually pervading.
When He Yue's shoulder touched me, she turned her head slightly to this side, her head resting on my shoulder.
My hand also fell down.
This action requires a lot of concentration, but fortunately, I am the kind of person with great concentration. But even though I said that, when the vague fragrance wafted into my nostrils, my heartbeat still accelerated a little. Regardless of gender, the enigmatic joy in my heart begins to overflow when I think that I am hugging a person who is impeccable in appearance, figure and personality.
Even when walking through the corridor, I deliberately slowed down, not daring to see He Yue's expression, and only glanced at Alaya from the corner of my eye.
This time, Alaiya looked at us for a while longer, but there was no jealousy in her eyes, but faint doubts.
Um?
Why is this?
Walking through the corridor, I immediately expressed my doubts to He Yue.
He Yue looked at me with complex emotions, took a few deep breaths, and said lightly:
"Lead. Is this how you usually hug girls?"
I said:
"yes."
He Yue held her forehead, looked away in despair, and said to me:
"It seems that the intimacy is a lot more intimate, but you put your arm on my shoulder casually like this, it feels like the two of us... are like good brothers."
"Is that so!!"
He Yue nodded, probably because I was so angry that she stopped talking.
I thought for a while, then moved my arm off her shoulder, He Yue took a step to the side, and stopped leaning on me actively.
But the next moment, my palm was on her shoulder, and I hugged her body forcefully again.
I felt He Yue's body tremble again, so I asked puzzledly:
"Isn't that right?"
He Yue held the other arm tightly with one hand, did not look at me, and stared at the ground under her feet:
"No...that's right."
"No, no, looking at your expression, it's obvious that something is wrong, right? Don't worry about my feelings, I still understand the truth that good medicine tastes bitter. Let me think about it... is it not strong enough?"
Saying so, I hugged a little tighter.
He Yue's expression became very strange for a moment, she opened her mouth and said as if accepting her fate:
"...Forget it. That's it."
I just don't think it makes any sense:
"Don't forget it! If we just compromise like this, what awaits us will only be failures again and again, right? I understand. Could it be that we are not close enough! Is this so? Or is it like this? Or— "
When I had already opened my arms to hold her tightly in my arms and was still rubbing her cheek, Heyue stuck her barely moving hand on my cheek and pushed me away without hesitation. to the side.
Then he flicked his sleeves, took a deep breath, straightened his messy hair, and said:
"Just... just put your arms around my shoulders."