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The victory banquet came to a close, but Tokai Teio didn't feel that she had already claimed all her rewards.
Lucian didn't realize this point... until when training ended the next day, he saw Tokai Teio waiting for him at the doorway.
"Teio... why haven't you gone home yet?"
"It's Trainer who's the one, making me wait so long!" Tokai Teio was holding a cup of honey special drink in her hand and walked to Lucian's side.
On the street with many people and mouths, she also didn't dare get too close, so she could only maintain a fist's distance.
"What, Teio didn't say at all that she would wait for me." Lucian said pretending to be relaxed.
He looked up at the sky edge, only feeling that the evening setting sun was especially burning. Was it the setting sun? Or was it Tokai Teio's currently intensely beating heart?
What was the reason Tokai Teio was waiting here? Both of them understood without saying.
"Trainer, where is your car parked? Are we going to eat now, or go home right away?"
"Let's eat, my stomach is quite hungry, has Teio eaten?"
"No, I want to eat with Trainer." She lifted the honey special drink in her hand, "I also bought a drink for Trainer, hehe~"
"Here!" Tokai Teio thoughtfully helped Lucian insert the straw.
"Thanks."
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Turning into the dimly lit parking lot, Tokai Teio's petite body immediately pressed up, "Trainer, I took leave tomorrow!"
"Is... is that so? What are you taking leave for? Are you too tired?" Lucian stroked Tokai Teio's cheek, hot like a bag of hand warmer.
"Emmmm, maybe after tonight I'll be very tired?" Tokai Teio grabbed Lucian's clothes, tiptoed, raised her head, voice like a demon's whisper, "I just miss Trainer too much, the eyes are still just as clear right?"
Lucian looked and it really was, Tokai Teio had no signs of blackening.
But the longing burning in those eyes made him feel double the pressure, even more vigorous than when Silence Suzuka returned from abroad after a year apart back then.
But the two of them basically met every day, so what exactly was Tokai Teio missing?
"Right..."
"Hehe." Tokai Teio let go, "Trainer hurry and go drive, I'll wait for you here~"
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"Hachimi~ Hachimi~ Hachimi oh nanbei road all~"
Along the way, whether speaking or singing, Tokai Teio's voice was sweet, as if specially made candy for the ears to savor.
Actually... Lucian still quite liked her voice.
"Trainer, where are we going to eat?"
"Is there anything you want to eat?"
"Want to eat Torena-san!" When alone, every horse girl without exception could freely display the other side they hid.
In Lucian's eyes, she was too arrogant.
He suddenly recalled the consecutive days of madness with Silence Suzuka, sss... what capital did Tokai Teio have to be arrogant? On the contrary he had been inexplicably worrying the whole time.
That's right, based on what! Just one night, shouldn't the one who should be worrying be Tokai Teio?
Thinking this, Lucian gained confidence, his tone even hardened a bit, "This is temporarily not possible, pick another."
"I want to eat it, I want to eat it!" Tokai Teio waved her fists, bouncing very mischievously on the seat.
"Forget it... I'll make the decision." Lucian slightly curled the corner of his mouth, quite dashingly stepped on the accelerator.
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Night is a brilliant criminal.
It quietly takes the stage in the magnificent afterglow of the setting sun, without a sound dyeing all things in the world into its own deep ink color.
People are used to praising the moon, eulogizing the purity of its radiance. Little do they know, that bright moonlight is merely the night's catharsis and release after extreme repression.
But there are always some souls who can read the fable of the night. They beautify the night's crimes, praising the moonlight shining on all things as the gentlest essence condensed by the night.
At three in the morning, the weak light of the phone sprinkled on the faces of the two in the covers.
Lucian was editing the leave notice, Tokai Teio was quietly watching from the side, "Finally done."
"Trainer, can we sleep now?" Tokai Teio looked at Lucian with a bit of fatigue, but this was a positive fatigue—— the fatigue of being too happy and excited.
"Okay, I'm really a bit sleepy, Tokai."
"To... Tokai... can you not call me 'Tokai' now? I'm still used to Trainer calling me Teio." Tokai Teio buried into Lucian's neck.
"Sorry, I just got used to calling it."
As for why he suddenly called this, the answer was all in the radical of the second character.
It had the same ingenious effect as "Silent" when mute, and "Tangtang" when being silly.
Lucian felt he was a little genius at giving nicknames.
"No one has ever called me 'Tokai' before, truly a strange Trainer." Tokai Teio spoke while kissing Lucian's skin, "Sleepy..."
"Then let's sleep first." Lucian gathered the quilt, covering Tokai Teio's smooth back, not leaving even a bit of spring scenery for the moon.
But he himself wasn't sleepy, even a bit energetic.
"Trainer, I took the first crown of the undefeated Triple Crown... Satsuki Sho, it's the Satsuki Sho!"
"Last week's matter, is Teio only reacting now?" Lucian tightly hugged her, said warmly by her ear: "Could it be because just now... Teio's brain short-circuited?"
"N-no!" Tokai Teio always refused to admit, even if her expression and body had long sold her out.
"If not then not, why is Teio so excited?" Lucian raised his leg, also covering Tokai Teio's pair of small legs, "But, Teio took the Satsuki Sho, and I took the Teio who took the Satsuki Sho, does that count as me taking the Satsuki Sho?"
He just wanted to tease Tokai Teio, but never expected Tokai Teio to answer: "Of course it counts, this trophy originally has a share for the Trainer."
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