53 You Are Special

　　Ten minutes later, the bento and rice balls on the table had been replaced by an exercise book, Shinichi pointed at the title on the booklet.

　　"The past perfect form is used here, because it's something that was done, and you can't just use that."

　　Miku sighed softly.

　　"Hard to remember..."

　　Shinichi thought about it, took his notebook, started writing and drawing, then asked her: "Do you know the historical chronology?"

　　"I know, so we can record the major events that occurred back then into the time table?" Miku nodded, stood up a bit, and wanted to pay attention to Shinichi.

　　Shinichi pretended not to notice, and spoke calmly.

　　"That's right, there are two kinds of memory methods: linear memory and image memory. Linear memory is a method of remembering something according to one, two, and three causality clues or sequence relationships, while image memory is a method of recording through simplification, and clarity of interesting images to aid memory, and a combination of both."

　　He pushed his notebook back, and a table was drawn. Even though his straight lines weren't quite straight and his size ratio was a bit problematic, Miku still admired him.

　　"Your drawing is very beautiful."

　　"Thank you for not mentioning that my drawing is ugly." Shinichi sighed. Sure enough, the previous portrait was a marvel of flashes of inspiration. Apart from writing, his other manual skills are really unsightly.

　　"Putting aside specific forms, just as Japanese has a difference between present and past tense, English also has past, present and future differences, and the division is more detailed. How should we memorize it? Should Sensei have taught it, the example of Japanese becomes traceable like historical chronology, and you can find the contents of the story to remember more clearly."

　　"For example, Mary had a little lamb, Mary used to have a little lamb, and since raising little lambs, Mary became Super Marie... If you are not good at mechanical memory, reading stories, so there will be some resistance."

　　Miku listened intently, and her smile became even more evident.

　　"I understand! It's like remembering when a certain general died when I want to remember when a certain battle took place! And if the manner of his death is interesting, I can remember it more clearly!"

　　"That's right, you are very smart." Shinichi nodded appreciatively, and Miku smiled gently.

　　"Shinichi taught me well. Of course, it's right to ask you to teach me. Uesugi would never teach like that."

　　Shinichi shrugged, and was not happy with the compliment: "Hard to say, this is his first time tutoring, and was quite worried about just hanging out with you. It's only natural that the quality of teaching is poor, right?"

　　"No, he probably hasn't started teaching you yet, right? How do you know he can't teach like this?"

　　"Because Shinichi's teaching method is very personal, I don't think someone like Uesugi can teach this style." Miku shook her head again.

　　"Nothing can be the same as what Shinichi taught!"

　　"It's not good for me to be praised so much." Shinichi couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed after being praised so much, "I haven't taught anyone formally for a long time. In terms of experience and skill, it can't even be compared to a real tutor."

　　Miku looked at him seriously: "There may be someone who can teach me better than Shinichi, but there is absolutely no tutor who is more suitable for me than Shinichi!"

　　"Shinichi is special to me!"

　　"Special…?" Shinichi turned to look at her, and the eyes of the two met and merged instantly.

　　The two stared at each other for tens of seconds before Miku realized what she was saying, quickly lifted her notebook to cover her blushing face, and said frantically.

　　"Ah, no, I didn't mean that... I just thought... Shinichi's teaching method really suits me... I don't think like that..."

　　"...Don't worry, I didn't misunderstand." Shinichi smiled helplessly and looked away.

　　He thought of Ogata from yesterday, and every strange thought turned into a self-deprecating sigh.

　　"Keep doing your homework, and I'll help you check your answers when you're done, to see where you went wrong."

　　Miku slowly poked her head out from behind the notebook, a blush on her face. When she was about to say something, Shinichi had already looked at his book, and in the end she could only cover her expression with her hair, and started writing homework again.

　　In this way, time passed without wind and waves, and it was approaching class time.

　　After packing her things, Miku stood up and bowed slightly to Shinichi: "Thank you for taking the time to teach me today."

　　"Don't worry too much about it, not to mention that I like teaching people." Shinichi shook the empty drink can in his hand, "And there are free drinks to drink, that's good. It is for me to kill two birds with one stone."

　　Keeping her gratitude in her heart, Miku didn't say much, followed behind Shinichi, and left the Sakura Pavilion.

　　On the way back, Miku saw Shinichi's back, hesitated to speak and finally spoke.

　　"...Shinichi, I might not be able to eat here these days."

　　"Is it true?" Shinichi answered nonchalantly, but out of the corner of his eye, Miku's expression became slightly disappointed, and he said helplessly, "What happened?"

　　Miku got closer to him and complained: "I came late today because I was hiding from Nino, she always wants to know where I went for lunch. I said I was looking for a friend, but she said we just moved, where did the friend come from? I must be on a date, or kidnapped by a group of scammers..."

　　Shinichi could fully imagine Nino's expression pointing at himself and scolding, "You are the group of con artists who kidnapped Miku!"

　　Seeing Shinichi speechless, Miku chuckled, then said: "There is still Ichika, she is very curious, if I run here every few days, she will definitely follow secretly and maybe even pull me the other sisters, and all people will discover this place by then."

　 Shinichi couldn't tell Miku not to come here in the future, and he didn't want more people to know of the existence of the Sakura Pavilion. Sooner or later all the Nakano quintuplets will gather here.

　　He can hide for a while, but can't hide for life. Should he share his secret base like this?

　　... Not bad actually, just a matter of eating elsewhere.

　　What Shinichi liked was space to eat and read alone, but he was too lazy to think about this kind of thing.

　　But Miku didn't think so.

　　"Don't worry, I will try my best to avoid them and not let them find out!" Miku said seriously "Even though we are quintuplets, everyone has their own business. So as long as I find a time when Ichika and Nino have something to do, I can come here."

　　Shinichi was really embarrassed to say that he didn't really care about that, so he smiled at her: "Then please. If you don't do anything, I'll be here during the day, and there's no need to remind each other. We will meet naturally if there is fate."

　　"Fate..." Miku touched the headphones, after a moment of hesitation, her eyes suddenly became firm, and suddenly asked.

　　"Shinichi, do you have time after school?'