After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back

Chapter 188 Lemon Flavor

No goals, no dreams, no friends, no lovers.

That was Kagura Hikaru now, an empty shell.

When he woke up this morning, he touched his chest in front of the mirror to check if there was a hollow where his heart should be.

Otherwise, why had he suddenly become so indifferent to everything?

Thinking about it, it all seemed to have started with Suse.

Her confession had led his relationship with Kiryu Hina astray.

More than a year later, she suddenly returned from Europe and started a new chapter.

Kagura Hikaru didn't think about judging her character.

With the story unfolding to this point, every character had faults, and all their actions were the causes leading to the current situation.

Kagura Hikaru was no exception; he had made mistakes from the start.

He shouldn't have dated Kiryu Hina, shouldn't have felt lucky, shouldn't have had expectations of others.

And he definitely shouldn't have hurt innocent people.

So, Kagura Hikaru understood, he really wasn't good at building relationships with people.

He wanted to start over.

Break up with Ayakoji Chiyoko, say goodbye to Kiryu Hina and Suse, go somewhere after graduation where no one knew him, tell himself not to mess up this time, nor to get involved with anyone, and live a careful life.

That was the future Kagura Hikaru could imagine for himself.

A boring and lonely apparition.

But did he have a choice?

After being fooled by Kiryu Hina, betrayed by Kohinata Motoyo, and hurting Ayakoji Chiyoko, could he still live a happy high school life like others?

If only he could become like that.

But Kagura Hikaru couldn't even imagine it.

The future where he would happily chat with people around him, that kind of happy ending, would it really come?

Click.

Suddenly, the door to the rooftop below was opened by someone.

Sitting at the top of the staircase, Kagura Hikaru and Ai Cheng Hua Lian watched as Teacher Yamazaki, who taught physical education, came out from the door, looking around as if checking if there were any students on the rooftop.

It was that lock.

Kagura Hikaru remembered the lock that Ai Cheng Hua Lian had removed when they entered the rooftop and casually set aside.

He hadn't thought much about it at the time, but now he realized, if a teacher happened to see the lock on the ground, it would be easy to deduce that someone had trespassed onto the closed old school rooftop.

It was a foreshadowing, a mistake!

Without needing a reminder, Kagura Hikaru and Ai Cheng Hua Lian moved in sync, slowly and quietly pulling their legs back in, then lying down slowly, feet flat, to reduce their visible area.

The ceiling of this stairwell was quite high, and if someone below didn't specifically look up, the chances of being discovered were relatively small.

Still, it ultimately depended on luck.

The two lay side by side above, as if they were on the same bed, shoulders touching, breathing deliberately softened, silently praying that Teacher Yamazaki's eyes weren't too sharp.

Ai Cheng Hua Lian's body heat transferred over.

At such close distance, Kagura Hikaru could clearly distinguish the scent of her body wash.

It was lemon.

He slowly turned his head, and Ai Cheng Hua Lian, blushing, turned hers as well.

They looked into each other's eyes.

Slowly, Kagura Hikaru's look turned wolfish.

'Didn't you say that there wouldn't be any teachers coming up at this time?' he seemed to say with his eyes.

Ai Cheng Hua Lian's lips pouted, like Little Red Riding Hood who had lost her grandmother, pitiful: 'I, I didn't know…'

They exchanged anxious glances.

If discovered, they would certainly be mistaken for a couple meeting on the rooftop.

That would be terrible/actually sort of nice!

Both were turning the same but opposite thoughts in their heads.

"..."

"..."

Teacher Yamazaki's footsteps below kept coming.

At first they grew distant, then approached again, growing louder and louder until Kagura Hikaru and Ai Cheng Hua Lian felt their hearts rise to their throats.

The footsteps circled around nearby, paused for a moment, and then they heard a loud bang, the sound of the rooftop door closing.

They didn't get up right away but waited quietly instead.

After a minute with no other sounds, they slowly rose and carefully surveyed their surroundings.

It seemed not to be a trap; no one else was on the rooftop.

Realizing they were safe, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

They were lucky not to be caught.

Kagura Hikaru and Ai Cheng Hua Lian exchanged glances, smiles appearing in their eyes/on their faces.

To do something naughty at school and almost get caught by a teacher, then to celebrate with a companion after confirming safety.

Such an experience, everyone should have at least once in their life, right?

The scare had completely dispelled the gloomy mood from before.

Kagura Hikaru laughed at his earlier desire to run away.

Living alone in a place where no one knew him, never interacting with others again, he couldn't believe he was seriously considering such a juvenile idea.

He surely was past the age where he thought being lonely was cool.

"Kagura, you're smiling again!" Ai Cheng Hua Lian said, surprised.

"Am I?"

Kagura Hikaru touched the corners of his mouth.

Indeed, there seemed to be a slight curve.

"Just wait, let me take a photo for you, don't move!"

By the time Ai Cheng Hua Lian took out her phone, Kagura Hikaru's mouth had already relaxed.

However, even if his face wasn't smiling, deep down he surely was still smiling.

He had decided not to run away anymore.

He had thought about finishing the deal with Kiryu Hina and breaking up with Ayakoji Chiyoko, and that would be the end of it.

But that was actually a form of giving up, a careless attitude.

He truly had made a mistake, but the only mistake was hurting Ayakoji Chiyoko.

Even now, the thought of breaking up with her hadn't changed.

Lies would be uncovered one day, and even if he continued the relationship through further errors, it wouldn't lead to a good outcome in the end, so for both their sakes, breaking up was inevitable.

But perhaps there was a more acceptable way to do it.

He couldn't think of it now, but he was sure his future self would come up with something.

Kagura Hikaru optimistically thought.

"We should probably go back down," he said to Ai Cheng Hua Lian.

Kagura Hikaru jumped down from the high spot and pulled at the rooftop door.

Bang.

It didn't budge.

"...?"

Bang bang.

Kagura Hikaru yanked harder twice, still not opening it, but he could faintly hear the sound of the lock rattling against the door panel from the other side.

"..."

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"Kagura, what's wrong?"

Ai Cheng Hua Lian too had come down the ladder by now, walking over curiously to ask.

Kagura Hikaru turned to look at her: "The door's been locked."

"..."

And so there were two silent figures.

In the end, they called for Ruzaki Mami, slipped the key through the door crack, and had her unlock it for them.

As for the questioning look she gave them after opening the door, well, consider it the price to pay for asking for help…