Iwahashi Shinichi looked confused.

Nakamori Akina thought about Okada Yukiko's complaint against her, and began to find his reaction very interesting.

"Oh." He nodded, "I also have plans for next Friday night."

Iwahashi Shinichi also casually mentioned it, so he should discuss the itinerary with her, "It will probably end very late, and I may not be able to return the call."

After he finished speaking, Nakamori Akina shook her head, "That's not it." She finally stopped holding back and smiled, "Yukiko and I made an appointment to meet very early. If Yukiko has a part-time job that day, don't leave her too late."

"What?"

Iwahashi Shinichi asked her to say this, and without thinking much at first, he added: "I don't often go to Yoyogi's recording studio..." Halfway through, he figured it out and asked her, "Yukiko wants to ask you

Complained?"

"The boss who always makes his employees work overtime will do this, and he will do it behind his back." Akina Nakamori said it right.

Iwahashi Shinichi reminded her, "You and I are thinking about Yukiko behind her back right now."

"Huh?" She looked like she was being poked.

Iwahashi Shinichi thought it was funny and fanned the flames, "Maybe Yukiko is sneezing non-stop right now."

Nakamori Akina later realized that she seemed to be the one who was telling the story behind her back, and she suddenly felt guilty. But how could her good friend's boss be her boyfriend...

She couldn't hide anything on her face, and when she was entangled, it couldn't be hidden from Iwahashi Shinichi's eyes. Seeing her like this, Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't help it anymore and started laughing.

Seeing his smile, Nakamori Akina came back to her senses, realized that he had tricked her again, and opened her eyes.

"Be careful next time."

Shin Iwahashi stopped as soon as he saw something good.

…

"Be sure to pay attention next time."

Akina Nakamori stuck out her tongue, feeling a little embarrassed. After making more mistakes, her momentum became lower and lower, and she looked very annoyed.

Shinichi Iwahashi opened the folded paper in his hand and said, "It doesn't matter."

"Do it again," he said.

It's a good match for a bad teacher to have a patient apprentice. It's been a while since I've done origami, and Akina Nakamori, a teacher, is also very bad at it. Not long after the long-awaited origami teaching class started, she kept making mistakes.

On Valentine's Day, when Nakamori Akina gave chocolates, she also included an origami penguin. The relationship between the two was developing rapidly these days. There were too many things to do together after meeting, and the original origami teaching class was left aside.

Last time, when I received a record from Shinichi Iwahashi, when Akina Nakamori wrote a reply, I remembered the unfinished lesson again.

The two of them took some time off to start classes at her home.

"There will be absolutely no problem this time..."

Nakamori Akina's attitude toward him was low, but her attitude toward "origami" was as high as ever, and she was determined not to stop until she folded the penguin in her hand.

Iwahashi Shinichi wanted to remind her that the origami reference book was at her home, but seeing her attitude, he pretended to have forgotten about it and accompanied her on the detour.

When she really gets stuck, she can remember the reference book by herself.

With Nakamori Akina's attitude of being able to solve the problem, reminding her now is almost like trying to undermine her.

"Try this again..."

Nakamori Akina's fingers moved dexterously.

The two of them were very close. Iwahashi Shinichi looked at the movements in her hands, and his eyes moved away from her fingers and fell on her drooped eyelids, the slightly raised tip of her nose, and her slightly parted lips.

Akina Nakamori was completely unaware and concentrated on it.

until--

"That's it!" She cheered a little, finally finding the key to unlock the next level. Because her face was focused and tense, a smile immediately appeared.

He raised his head to talk to Iwahashi Shinichi, only to find that he was staring at him.

Their eyes met. Iwahashi Shinichi, a student who was caught slacking off during class, not only did not panic because of being caught, but instead leaned over and kissed the corner of her mouth where her smile had not gone away.

after awhile.

Nakamori Akina pulled her head back and stared at his face again and again, "Is Shinichi-kun thinking about that?"

She was as sure as a famous detective in solving the case. Iwahashi Shinichi said without thinking, "That's right."

The overly frank admission actually made Akina Nakamori laugh. However, she immediately remembered the unused "that" one in her bedside drawer.

I'll be packing up and getting ready to move tomorrow.

Sure enough, it would be better to use it first than to put it somewhere and take it to a new home...

"Use 'that', okay?" Iwahashi Shinichi thought of it together with her.

There is really a connection between the two minds. Although this "connection between the two minds" seems a bit subtle at the moment. Although they just thought of going together, Nakamori Akina felt embarrassed that her heart had been seen through.

Stay away from him, raise the origami in your hand, "Be more attentive, Shinichi-kun."

"I understand." Shinichi Iwahashi nodded honestly.

Fortunately, the interruption did not cause her to forget the origami steps she had just remembered.

In fact, the technique of origami penguin is not that complicated. Ever since she gave up trying to stump Shinichi Iwahashi, Akina Nakamori no longer clings to origami that even she herself can't do.

I haven’t done any handwriting for a while, and I feel like my progress is back on track since I came back.

"In a few days, I will send you the concert tickets."

The origami paper in her hand had the shape of a penguin, but it hadn't been colored yet, which looked weird. Akina Nakamori got up and went to get a paintbrush, waiting to put the finishing touches on it.

Although the painting skills of both of them are not very good.

"What's the date?" Shinichi Iwahashi asked casually.

Akina Nakamori sat back next to him, "Next month on the 16th...but the public ticket sales have already started."

"I'll definitely go there then."

Shinichi Iwahashi took the brush she handed over and painted on the origami paper just like she did. It was done. The two had been folded several times with "scars", like origami penguins who had just gone on an adventure.

Put them next to each other.

"Put it here first."

Iwahashi Shin brought Nakamori Akina's piece to him and said, "Take it with you when you go back tomorrow."

…

"Just leave it like that." Shinichi Iwahashi advised her.

The light from the bedside lamp was dim, but it could also be used on the dressing table. Akina Nakamori turned her head and saw the origami kitten placed in the perfume box. The light was poor and she couldn't see it clearly. The more it looked like this, the more it seemed to her.

It seems alive.

Not only that, he is also a kitten who understands human nature and comes from a magical dream time and space.

Of course, she knew that this was the paper kitten Iwahashi Shinichi folded and gave to her for her birthday last year. It had no magic, no consciousness, and no idea what was being done here. It was just an ordinary origami kitten.

But knowing this, at this moment, with the creator of the kitten, Nakamori Akina suddenly had an illusion.

As if he was being watched by this kitten...

Once you think about it this way, it seems like it really happened.

But this kind of thing could not be explained clearly. Nakamori Akina was vague, and Iwahashi Shinichi could not guess where she suddenly had difficulty with the origami kitten and wanted to put it away.

The warm breath enveloped her, and Nakamori Akina finally had no time to care about the existence of the kitten, and she no longer asked whether there was a magical dream time and space, and whether the kitten saw all this.

But magical dream time and space probably do exist.

Akina Nakamori turned her head and saw in a daze that the kitten that was supposed to be motionless in the perfume box suddenly moved back and forth and began to pace.

It sharpened its claws, as if ready to pounce on its prey at any moment.

The kitten, who was stretching himself, suddenly noticed her gaze and opened his mouth.

Nakamori Akina heard its "meow" cry. The sound appeared in her mind, was pushed out of her mind, and came out of her mouth.

The kitten sharpened its claws and found its prey. It suddenly broke through the perfume box and looked about to jump from the dressing table to here——

It was about to reach her eyes.

Akina Nakamori held on to him tightly as if she wanted to defend her prey.

When the prey gave up its struggle and finally lowered its head, the kitten let out a contented "meow" sound.

Akina Nakamori turned her head. The perfume box on the dressing table was intact, the light was blurry, and the origami kitten stayed inside quietly, motionless.

She sighed as if relieved.

After regaining consciousness, Shinichi Iwahashi leaned over and gently hugged her shoulders.

…

Office workers have a busy Monday.

Shinichi Iwahashi came with the clothes he would wear to work today. After washing up in the morning, he rolled up the clothes he changed out of yesterday and put them in a travel bag, and changed into a work suit.
To be continued...