Chapter 115: Photos of Meiji Jingu Gaien (1)
After returning from a nap at Kujo Miki's place, Watanabe Toru took a shower, changed into casual clothes, and walked towards Kiyono Rin's apartment.
When you are almost there, send her a message on Line to let her know that she can come downstairs.
"Come up directly," replied Kiyono Rin.
"Eh? Is this okay?"
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"A female classmate invited a male student to her home, and it's a separate apartment... Is that what you mean? Can we do that? Although I took a shower, don't I have to go to the pharmacy first?"
Watanabe Toru regretted sending the message without thinking and seeing the 'read' prompt.
At the age of sixteen, he had slept for the whole afternoon with the beautiful Kujo Miki in his arms. Now his mind was full of obscene thoughts, and he spoke in a careless and casual manner.
Although he likes to joke, he would not say these things to girls casually, especially when the other party is Qingno Rin, whom he respects in his heart.
Just when Watanabe Toru was ready to be scolded.
"Need not"
Looking at the simple reply on his phone, he was stunned.
"Um... Kiyono-san, when you say 'no need', do you mean you don't understand what I'm saying, or do you mean... no need to go to the pharmacy?" Watanabe Toru carefully considered his words and typed cautiously.
I felt hesitant.
If it is the latter, should we go upstairs or not?
"Do you think I'll listen to your boring dirty jokes? Come up and move the equipment!"
"...Woman, you have successfully caught my attention."
Watanabe Toru packed up his feelings, not sure whether he was regretful or relieved, walked into the apartment door that had opened automatically, and took the elevator to Kiyono Rin's room.
As soon as I walked in, I saw her impatient pretty face.
"Why are you here just now?" Qingye Rin said.
"The elevator is only so fast, what can I do? You can't ask me to run up the stairs, right?"
"I mean, why does it take so long to get home and change?"
"Take a shower."
Kiyono Rin looked at Watanabe Toru without saying anything.
"Okay. I confessed and took a nap."
"You've made me wait here for two hours. Are you ready to commit seppuku to apologize?"
"Kiyono-san, please pay attention to your expression and tone, you are too murderous." In order to avoid committing seppuku, Watanabe Toru said the only serious thing he had done: "Actually, I went to find Miki and persuade her to play the leading role. She will meet us later."
"It's true, but taking a nap and taking a shower are not lies." Qingno Rin had no intention of letting him go.
"Didn't you take a shower too? What qualifications do you have to criticize me?" Watanabe Toru could smell the scent of shampoo coming from Kiyono Rin, which was very refreshing.
"I waited for you to show up, so I went to take a shower. I had to change clothes twice. And your nature is..."
"Kiyono-san, this dress is so pretty. But how can I put it? With your figure and looks, you'll look good in anything."
Qingye Rin, who was interrupted, looked down at the casual clothes she had just changed into, an apricot sleeveless shirt and a light blue knee-length skirt.
Qing Ye Lin opened her mouth and was about to say something, but Watanabe Toru spoke first: "But it's very troublesome. You are so beautiful, and there will be many people watching the fireworks tonight. I will be very worried about you. Don't leave my side when the time comes."
Qingye Rin opened her mouth, but swallowed her words back. She looked at the tripod, the boom microphone and the small slide rail, and then glanced at Watanabe Toru.
“…Go get it.”
"Yes, Minister!"
After waiting for two hours, Qingye Rin calmed down, and the two of them left the apartment, each taking their equipment.
…
The train clanged and swayed as it moved along the Sobu Line from Yotsuya Station to Meiji Jingu Gaien. The scenery of Shinjuku city gradually disappeared from the front.
Toru Watanabe, holding a tripod and a boom microphone like a soldier holding a rifle, kept dealing with the curious gazes of other people in the carriage.
There was a child who could not walk yet. He tilted his big face up, opened his round, bright eyes, and reached out to pick up the microphone.
The mother holding the child was wiping the saliva from his mouth.
"I think we need to hire a handyman." Watanabe Toru suddenly spoke with a serious face.
"No need." Kiyono Rin was searching Meiji Jingu Gaien on her phone to see if she could find information about a suitable photo spot.
"After all, I'm the leading actor, not a handyman. When filming, someone has to hold the microphone, right?" Toru Watanabe just wanted to find a laborer.
The choice has been made, just pick one between Kunii Osamu and Saito Keisuke.
"Do you think I wouldn't think of this? You don't have any lines in this scene, and you won't be using a microphone."
"Then why did you ask me to bring it out?"
"You don't have lines, the heroine does. You'll have to do odd jobs part-time." Qing Ye Lin looked carefully at the pictures of apricot trees on her phone and said bluntly, "If you always think of obscene things all day long, no matter how smart you are, you will be eliminated by society, Watanabe-san."
"You are wrongly accusing me, Kiyono-san. I have seven hours of sleep every day - not counting naps, which means that for at least seven hours, I don't think about those things."
Qingye Rin raised his head and shot an indifferent look over.
“…”
After a brief conversation, the two fell into silence again.
The kid next to him gave up trying to pick up the microphone and reached out to grab the long pole. Watanabe Toru subconsciously hugged the equipment tighter.
Damn it, he didn’t even hug Kujo Miki so tightly!
"Next stop, Shinano-cho, Shinano-cho."
The arrival announcement came from the loudspeaker, and the two got off the tram amid the crying of the child who was slapped by his mother.
Outside the station are modern high-rise buildings, and it is hard to imagine that there is a large and beautiful garden ahead.
" Watanabe, do you want to die here?" Kiyono Rin said, pointing at the zebra crossing ahead.
"…I already said that the male protagonist died! Not me! Also, if someone died on the zebra crossing at the intersection, will the fireworks display really go ahead as planned?"
"Well, what you said makes sense. Then we can only find a remote place for you to die."
"I told you it's not me anymore." Watanabe Toru said weakly.
He decided that when the movie was finished, he must make Kiyono Rin record a line himself: Actors are actors, and they have nothing to do with any real people. The same name is purely coincidental.
After walking for a while under the sun, we saw a blue sign that read "Meiji Jingu Gaien".
As you walk in, you can immediately see a sign that indicates the time, sponsors, and tourist spots for the evening fireworks display.
There were so many people inside that there were even police officers directing order, even though it was still early for the fireworks display.
Families and couples took photos under the Ginkgo Biloba Path in the Jingu Shrine and bought food from the stalls that had just been set up.
In summer, the ginkgo trees are green, tall and sturdy, standing on both sides of the road.
The ginkgo trees are lush and leafy, and the sunlight cannot penetrate the treetops. Only fragments of light fall on the ground.
"There are too many people." Qingye Rin frowned slightly, and the mottled sunlight greedily kissed her perfect profile.
Looking directly at this scene does not help one become a dedicated person. Watanabe Toru looked away from her face and said, "Of course. After all, it is the last fireworks display of the summer."
"Look again and see if you can find a path with the least people. It doesn't matter if you can't see the fireworks. Anyway, I want you to die without anyone noticing."
"…What kind of person is Watanabe Toru? He is so crazy that he would run onto a deserted path."
Kiyono Rin couldn't help but smile as she listened to Watanabe Toru, who seemed to be talking to himself but was actually complaining about her.
She smiled and said, "Although I have never been in a relationship, I know that couples in the period of passionate love will try their best to avoid the crowds and deliberately go to some remote places, right?"
Watanabe Toru looked at her in surprise.
"What's wrong?" Qingye Rin responded with a puzzled look.
"You deliberately suggested that we go to a less crowded path. Are you trying to create a romantic atmosphere with me? I admit that when I'm alone with you, I sometimes have unhealthy thoughts, but as a professional actor, I have enough manners to not have such thoughts with..."
Qingye Rin took the SLR camera, turned around and walked towards a place where the crowd was sparse.
"Hey, don't go, I haven't finished yet. Wait a minute, I'm not familiar with this place... No, I said I would protect you, Kiyono-san! Buchou!"
The two walked and stopped, and finally came to a narrow sidewalk covered with fallen leaves and no one in sight.
Qingye Rin looked around and nodded with satisfaction.
"This way, Watanabe-san." She waved gently.
"I've told you not to leave my side. Protecting the beautiful girl is my duty." Toru Watanabe, with equipment on his shoulders, walked over from a distance while saying that if Kamen came to ask, he would definitely give him a knight kick.
"I'll pay attention." Qing Ye Lin nodded, "Put your things away quickly. I want to try different shooting angles. By the way, do you have a photo of Kujo Miki?"
"photo?"
"Um."
"No. What do you do with it?"
"It works. Ask her for one now, quickly."
"This is such a hassle." Toru Watanabe put away the tripod and long-pole microphone and sent a message to Miki Kujo on his cell phone.
"Give me a photo of you"
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"it works"
"Did you get it?" Qingye Rin adjusted the parameters of the SLR.
"No." Just as he finished speaking, the phone beeped and a photo popped up on the screen.
“……”The deserted path fell into silence.
She should be sitting in an armchair, with her legs long and straight, resting on a luxurious desk. One of her black socks has been taken off, and the nails on her toes, which are usually hidden in the socks, are neatly and beautifully trimmed.
The legs that were out of sight were sticking out from under the skirt that was about to slip off.
But the skirt would never really slip down , because this is a photo, and even if there was a follow-up, it would not be visible in the photo.
Toru Watanabe slowly looked at Kiyono Rin. She was pinching her beautiful nose and her expression with her eyes closed seemed to be a little painful .
While Kiyono Rin wasn't paying attention, Watanabe Toru clicked [Save] and [Delete Record] with the reaction of a <Master-level·Free Fighting> and the hand speed of a <Master-level·Oboe>, and then sent a voice message to Kujo Miki.
"What are you doing in broad daylight? This isn't the kind of photo I want! Just a normal photo of your daily life!"
Qingye Rin sighed, slowly opened her beautiful eyes, and murmured to herself as if she had seen the ugliest side of human nature: "It's unbelievable."
As she spoke, she shook her head slightly, seemingly deleting the "leg photo" from her memory.
"Hmm." Watanabe Toru coughed lightly, "As a 'leg researcher', it's reasonable for my girlfriend to occasionally give me experimental materials to support my career, right?"
Qingye Rin held down the hem of her skirt, turned slightly, and looked at him warily.
“…”
Even Toru Watanabe felt a little embarrassed.
If he continues like this, he will soon become a pervert in the eyes of Qingye Rin.
Just when he was using his brain, which was full of legs, to think of ways to save his image, Kujo Miki sent him a photo of her normal life with the caption "You have so many demands. Are you not satisfied with the photos of my socks and legs?"
Watanabe Toru quickly deleted the text.
Do you think he's a pervert here too?
He was too lazy to save his image after this interruption. After all, time will tell if one is good or bad. After getting along for a long time, Qingno Rin will find out for herself that he is indeed an upright person.
"The photos are coming. What next, director?"
"Stand here and look at the photos with your most affectionate expression, with a hint of longing in your eyes." Qingye Rin loosened the hem of her skirt and pointed to the spot between the trees where a beam of sunlight was falling.
"When you look at the photo of your current girlfriend, are you actually thinking about your childhood sweetheart?" Toru Watanabe's eyes swept across Kiyono Rin's slightly swaying skirt, and he quickly glanced at her legs, and asked with the concentration of discussing a script.
"It seems that you still have some sanity left." Qingye Rin nodded with satisfaction.
"What do you take me for?"
"abnormal."
"Wait, not to mention that it was for research, she sent it to me without my permission, and I think my girlfriend's legs are also perverted? That doesn't make sense, right?"
"Then what were you looking at just now?" Qingye Rin, who originally had a warm face, suddenly said this with a sneer.
“…You noticed it.”
“Does it look good?”
Toru Watanabe has never done such a difficult multiple-choice question.
But when I think about the fact that Kiyono Rin can see through lies, there is nothing to worry about.
"It looks good." He nodded sincerely, with a holy heart, and was definitely not being a hooligan.
"Ha." Qingye Lin sneered, "From now on, you must absolutely obey my instructions. If I am not satisfied, the policeman who directed traffic on the way here just now will take you away."
"You actually used your body to seduce me? That's despicable." Watanabe Toru could no longer count how many handles on him Kiyono Rin had.
With the mentality of an actress whose indecent photos were taken, Toru Watanabe, under the guidance of the evil director Rin Kiyono, began filming the first scene of the movie that will be broadcast at the cultural festival.
Following the instructions, he deliberately let the sunlight shine on the side of his face.
He looked down at the photo in his hand, which was a photo of Kujo Miki's daily life.
"Expression." Kiyono Rin reminded.
Watanabe Toru thought for a moment and missed his hometown in Iwate Prefecture. He remembered his parents who braved the strong winds to harvest the crops in order to avoid being blown down.
My eyes were slightly moist with longing.
He enlarged the photo and stared blankly at the girl, of which only her face was left.
Then he suddenly zoomed out of the photo and put away his phone.
With his hands casually shoved into his pockets, he closed his eyes and looked up, letting the sun still caress the face that was thinking about someone.
Kiyono Rin recorded this scene with her camera.
In the outer gardens of Meiji Jingu, amid the hustle and bustle in the distance, the beautiful boy in a white shirt, sneakers, and with an expressionless face had his hair a little messy due to the wind.
