Honkai Shura Field: Dear, Who is She?

Chapter 5: Breakfast That Can't Be Delivered

When a person crosses a suspension bridge with trepidation, their heartbeat will involuntarily speed up.

If they happen to meet another person at this time, they will mistakenly understand the accelerated heartbeat caused by this situation as a physiological reaction caused by the other person making their heartbeat, and thus develop feelings of love for the other person.

This is the suspension bridge effect. The process by which people make incorrect inferences about their feelings is called misattribution of arousal, strong subjective expression, and misunderstanding of their own feelings.

The so-called true love comes only after one has supported each other through thick and thin, and this is probably the truth.

Ever since her father was put in prison, the eyes of everyone around her have become sharp and intimidating, like sharp blades, cutting at Mei's already fragile dignity.

Even the usually friendly teachers would inadvertently reveal looks of contempt and disdain.

Kiana is a simple girl who doesn't care about her past, she is also a new student at Chiba Academy and doesn't know herself well enough to be able to get along with herself peacefully.

'Then Akito...why?'

Mei is very confused now, because before her father was put in prison, all her teachers and classmates were polite to her, except Akito.

He had been deliberately distancing himself from her from the very beginning. When she was in her first year of high school, she took the initiative to talk to him, but Akito just pretended not to hear her and walked away.

Until now, in the second year of high school, Akito had never spoken a word to her on his own initiative, and they had not even made eye contact.

It seemed that in his eyes, the halo of Miss of the ME corp. was vague.

After her father went to jail, everything changed. The classmates and teachers around her became hideous, but Akito remained the same...

He still sleeps in class and stretches when he wakes up.

When he has nothing to do, he will tear off pure white draft paper, fold it into one paper crane after another, and then string them together.

Or fold it into a plane, throw it from the building, and watch it fly into the distance.

He would not follow his classmates to slander Mei and would always do his own thing.

It is such a quiet person, but in a corner where no one cares, he silently protects Mei's dignity and life.

…

This is an unprecedented experience and feeling.

A girl's mind is pure. She likes someone just because he smiles at her, or perhaps because of some deliberate favoritism.

In the darkness, Mei's face was hot and her fair and delicate skin turned red. Her eyes were closed tightly, her eyelashes filled with moisture trembled slightly, and a warm current surged in her heart.

"Ha... so tired."

Akito hung the rag back to its original place, gasping for air with exhaustion.

Although he is proficient in various skills, he is still an ordinary person in terms of physical strength.

"Finally done, look at the time... Five o'clock? Damn it, I didn't sleep last night, the quality of my sleep in class was too poor and it was not enough, and I didn't sleep today again. Forget it, I have to sleep in class for tomorrow. How come I have become as depraved as that white-haired ball?" Akito complained.

'I set an alarm on my phone for six o'clock, because I have to go to the morning self-study at seven o'clock. My classmates will arrive in the classroom as early as six-thirty, so I have to wake up early.'

'After all, I am the class monitor, so I have to start the morning reading before I can go back to sleep...'

Only sleeping for one hour and not being able to eat yesterday's dinner and today's breakfast was simply torture for an ordinary person like Akito.

Akito returned to his seat, curled up his hands as a pillow, and fell down with his head tilted.

After a moment, he fell asleep instantly. He was really too tired.

After hearing the faint breathing sound, Mei carefully poked her head out from the dark corner, walked timidly into the classroom, and came in front of Akito.

Akito was sleeping peacefully, his lips slightly parted, his long eyelashes very delicate, quiet and elegant.

His facial features are three-dimensional and distinct, and his skin is as delicate and fair as a girl's.

A gust of wind blew by, lifting the hair on his forehead, and bringing a hint of lazy beauty.

The air became quiet, the rustling of insects could be clearly heard, occasionally mixed with some birds singing. Everything seemed so peaceful as if all worries and unhappiness disappeared with these sounds.

Mei just stared at the sleeping Akito blankly, but an inexplicable sense of satisfaction emerged in her heart.

She was very happy, just like getting a favorite toy in her childhood, Mei seemed to have regained that pure happiness.

"..." Mei smiled sweetly unconsciously, but after realizing her situation, she immediately put away her smile.

'If others knew that I was smiling foolishly while looking at Akito's sleeping face, they would be misunderstood.'

'It definitely doesn't count if you know it yourself.'

After watching for a while, Mei walked out of the classroom, took out her cell phone, found Kiana, and launched a message attack

Less than a second later, Kiana responded.

Kiana: Yes, yes!

Mei: Are you still awake?

Kiana: Just woke up~ (sticking out tongue)

Mei: You're not playing games all night again, are you? Kiana is always like this. Will she have to sleep in for another day during class today... (sweating)

Kiana: Oh hey, it turns out that I can't fool Mei.

Mei: Kiana, I need your help with something.

Kiana: Mei's problem is my problem. I can definitely help! (Excited)

Mei: That's it…um, please bring me two breakfasts tomorrow…you can help me with that first, and I'll pay you back tomorrow!

Mei had never experienced borrowing money before. Most of the time, it was others who borrowed money from her.

But Kiana was a straightforward person and agreed immediately.

Kiana: OK! But I'm curious, Mei wants two breakfasts, who's the other one for? If I knew Mei prepared breakfast for someone else, I would be upset.

Mei: ...That's all, I still have things to do!

Mei turned off her phone in a panic, leaned against the wall, and breathed a sigh of relief, her lavender eyes glowing with an upbeat and bright light.

'I don't know why, even though I haven't slept the whole night, I still feel so energetic, as if I have endless energy!'

......

Morning self-study——

The students recited aloud, except Akito.

He fell asleep on his desk, with his head covered, not paying any attention to the books outside the window, and not concentrating on reading the books of sages.

'But the classroom was so noisy that I couldn't sleep at all!'

His stomach made growling sounds from time to time, and Akito looked like a sickly sapling, haggard and weak.

He hadn't had a good night's sleep in the past two days. Add to that the intense physical work and hunger... Akito felt like he was exhausted and ready to die at any time.

Fortunately, the morning reading was loud enough that Akito's stomach's protest was not that obvious, otherwise it would be embarrassing...

'Mei, hurry up, the teacher hasn't come yet, just go to Akito and give him breakfast!'

Mei blushed and tugged at the hem of her skirt, hesitating.

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