Chapter 119 Scenery at Mount Takao (2)
There are six routes to go up the mountain, and Qingye Rin chose Route 6.
"There are waterfalls, streams, and a suspension bridge along this route. There are almost no traces of human intervention, making it very suitable for filming scenes in Iwate Prefecture."
After hearing what she said, Watanabe Toru said dissatisfiedly: "Whether it is suitable or not, wait until I, a real citizen of Iwate Prefecture, see it and then I will say."
Kiyono Rin looked at Watanabe Toru who was holding her women's parasol, put her hand on her chin, and smiled meaningfully.
"What are you laughing at?" Toru Watanabe looked at himself and found nothing wrong.
"Nothing. Let's go."
Once you get to the mountain, the umbrella is completely useless!
There are fir trees that are seven, eight meters, or even taller than ten meters everywhere!
In addition to the cedar trees, there are countless maple trees, cherry trees, and various trees and weeds whose names cannot be recognized.
Mount Takao is known as the "most visited mountaineer in the world". In addition to its proximity to the world metropolis of Tokyo, the cherry and maple trees that cover the mountain are also one of the most important reasons.
It is now the end of August, a season without any special scenery. There is only green everywhere in the mountains, green trees, green grass, green stones, and even the roof of the shrine is green.
Unless you try hard, there is no place on Line 6 where you can get sunlight.
Toru Watanabe put away his umbrella and looked at Kiyono Rin's woven bag.
I thought about it and realized that it was a bit unreasonable for her to lend me the umbrella when the sun was shining, and let her carry it up the mountain by herself when the sun was not shining.
"Kiyono-san."
"Um?"
"Give it to me."
Qingye Rin put down the SLR camera she was using to take pictures and looked at him in confusion.
"Pack." said Toru Watanabe.
Qingye Rin was stunned for a moment, looked at Watanabe Toru's slender hands, then looked at her own woven bag, and suddenly seemed to react and fell into panic.
"No, no thanks."
"Just focus on framing and leave the heavy lifting to me. I'm supposed to be a chorister, right?"
Qingye Lin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded: "That's right."
She took the woven bag off her shoulder and was about to hand it to Watanabe Toru when Tamamo Yoshimi suddenly said, "Seino-san, let me help you!"
"No, thank you, Tamamo-san." Kiyono Rin refused softly.
"It's okay, let me get it for you!" Tamamo Yomi said as she reached out to take the woven bag, but Kiyono Rin did not let go.
"If Tamamo-san is willing to help, let her do it," said Toru Watanabe.
He had no sympathy for Tamamo's beauty, but if she was willing to take it, he would fully agree.
Tamamo Haomei glared at the pervert who touched her butt and was about to speak when Kiyono Rin spoke first, "No."
The brief words contained an unequivocal rejection, and Tamamo Yoshimi and the other three girls were stunned for a moment.
Watanabe Toru, who is familiar with "How to Win Over a Rich Woman" and "See Through! The Girl's Heart Under the Character of a Young Lady!!", and has rich practical experience, is not afraid of her at all - mainly because he is used to it.
With a hint of doubt, he asked, "Why not?"
In response to Toru Watanabe's question, Qing Ye Lin seemed a little unhappy for some reason: "Compared to Tamamo-san, you and I have a better relationship. I feel more comfortable asking you to help me carry my bag."
Her words caused the forest to fall into silence.
Toru Watanabe looked at the others who were shocked. Even Mai Asuka, who had been expressionless, looked at Rin Kiyono in surprise.
Watanabe Toru himself was a little surprised. After being with Kiyono Rin for so long, he almost forgot that this guy had a strange temper and was rude to strangers - in fact, he was just telling the truth.
Thinking of this, he felt incredible that he had developed 'Kiyono Rin antibodies'.
What on earth
Apart from her slightly 9-point attractive appearance, it is probably because she would rather have no friends than not tell the truth.
"There's really nothing I can do, Tamamo-san. It seems that Kiyono-san likes me more." Toru Watanabe proudly took the woven bag from Kiyono Rin's hand easily.
Tamamo Haomi stared at Watanabe Toru, her eyes burning with fighting spirit and murderous intent.
Qing Ye Lin sighed as if she couldn't do anything about him: "Please don't use the word 'like', it makes me uncomfortable, we are just closer."
"Tsundere?"
"What's tsundere?"
"nothing."
Seeing Watanabe Toru's serious expression, Qing Ye Lin thought of "Guan Gong's Stories". Wasn't he just...
She glared at Watanabe Toru fiercely and turned her face away unhappily.
"Let's go quickly. The light is good now, which makes it convenient for taking pictures." Saying this, Qingye Rin took the lead to go up the mountain.
Tamamo Haomei immediately followed.
"Senior, let's go too." Ikki Aoi called to Asuka Mai and Hanada Asako.
The unwelcome Watanabe Toru was at the back. He opened the woven bag and put the umbrella inside.
With a quick glance, he saw clearly what was inside the woven bag.
There weren't many things with me, just some water, a wallet, a Suica card for riding the tram, headphones, a cell phone, a memory card, tissues, and a square package of feminine hygiene products.
Toru Watanabe looked at the girl who was leading the way. She was walking without any hesitation and it seemed that she was just a backup.
It's really not easy for women, men should protect them well.
Watanabe Toru patted the woven bag and promised: "Comrades, brothers, let me and I protect Qingye together. You are here, and I am here!"
"Watanabe, what are you doing? " Kiyono Rin stood on a rock by the stream and looked down at him.
"Here they come!" Watanabe Toru took a step forward and caught up with them in no time.
But then again, this woman, Kiyono Rin, was really cunning. In front of both parties, she said something like "Compared to you, I'm closer to Watanabe", which made him feel a little happy to help carry the bag, and he almost walked fast.
It turns out that one should not underestimate the daughter of a chaebol.
We must also be careful with Kujo Miki. The situation has been very bad recently. He almost forgot about Ochanomizu.
Walking along the bluestones and upstream along the stream, they saw a small stream of water, the flow rate of which was only about the speed of a bucket of water poured down. The name was very impressive, called Loquat Waterfall.
From the nearby shrine, a faint sound similar to chanting could be heard.
This road is very difficult to walk on, especially for city girls. They are so cautious as if there is an invisible abyss between the two stones.
Watanabe Toru walked with ease, jumping from one stone to another, occasionally bending down and turning over the stones in the stream to see if there were any fish or crabs hidden underneath.
"I can't walk anymore, let's take a rest!" Ikki Aoi shouted.
Watanabe Toru turned around and saw that she was far behind, and the others also looked too tired to walk.
"Take a break." Qingye Rin nodded.
Toru Watanabe looked at her and saw that her physical strength was only 3 points. The others had already sat down to rest. Although her clothes were soaked with sweat and her face was red, she was still concentrating and kept taking pictures and videos with her SLR.
Watanabe Toru jumped down and came to her side: "You should take a rest too."
"...Yeah." Qingye Rin nodded slightly and sorted out the video she had just shot.
"You are really stubborn. Why didn't you take a rest earlier when you were so tired?"
"Nothing." Qingye Rin responded calmly.
Watanabe Toru suddenly laughed.
As soon as he smiled, Qing Ye Lin immediately shot him a cold look: "Watanabe-san, what are you laughing at?"
"I remember the scene when we were running at the beginning of the school year."
At that time, both of them had 3 points of physical strength, and they were fighting hard on the field. They were evenly matched and no one wanted to be the last one.
Qing Ye Lin also laughed, and then sneered: "It's a pity that you betrayed me."
"No, no, there was no betrayal between us at that time. We were enemies."
Tamamo, who was sitting far away, was so beautiful. She pouted at the two smiling people in a very girlish way.
Asu Mai and Hanada Asako stared at Watanabe Toru who was smiling.
The road up the mountain is lined with green trees and there are occasional gusts of wind. It would be very comfortable to sit down and do nothing.
But as long as you take a few steps, even if there is no sun but there is a stream next to you, you will immediately start sweating and fall into heat wave hell.
The altitude is 599 meters. They walked and stopped several times until they reached the viewing platform halfway up the mountain. The girls could not walk any more and had to rest here for a long time.
The stone benches were scorching hot from the sun, so the girls brought picnic blankets, spread them on the ground, took out water and antiperspirant, and did various tasks.
Toru Watanabe did not try to use their picnic blanket. As a countryman from Iwate Prefecture, he did not mind the dirt on the ground at all and just sat down under a relatively clean maple tree.
He tilted his head back and poured the warm oolong tea in his hand into his mouth. His Adam's apple rolled and a swallowing sound came from his throat.
"Huh——" With a contented sigh, Toru Watanabe saw that Kiyono Rin was pointing her single-lens reflex camera at him, and he didn't know whether she was taking a photo or recording a video.
He shook the empty plastic bottle in his hand at her.
"Watanabe-san," Kiyono Rin's beautiful face emerged from behind the SLR, "you can't do such frivolous things ."
"frivolous?"
Toru Watanabe couldn't understand what was so frivolous about showing off by drinking half a bottle of water in one breath?
Does Qingye Rin understand the joke of 'I only drank one sip when I praised my father'?
"You have to look to the north." Qingye Rin said something even more meaningless.
"The north... I don't miss home that much." Iwate Prefecture is located far to the north of Mt. Takao.
Qing Ye Lin sighed and said, "I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about your personality."
"My character?"
"You appear to be a silent, autistic teenager, but you are actually immersed in your own world, determined to become a professional performer. When you take a break, you look towards Iwate Prefecture, missing the happy times you spent with your childhood sweetheart. So you should have been looking towards the north in silence just now."
"...This is the first time I've heard of this setting. Could it be that you just came up with it?"
"How rude! I clearly wrote all these things in the script."
“I haven’t read the script.”
Qingye Rin was stunned for a moment, then seemed to remember something, and her already rosy face became more shy.
"Wait." Watanabe Toru looked at her evasive eyes and said, "Did you forget to show me the script?"
"Watanabe-san, please reshoot the previous shot. Don't waste time." Kiyono Rin shrank her face behind the SLR camera.
That pretty face was not big, and hiding behind the SLR camera, one couldn't see her expression at all.
"I thought you were going to follow the style of a great director and let the actors perform on their own! I'm so disappointed, Kiyono-san!"
Qing Ye Lin glared at him fiercely: "Follow the director's instructions, Watanabe-san."
"Am I right?!"
"Look north!"
The other four girls looked over here, Ikki Aoi whispered something, Tamamo Haomi wanted to join in, but the weather was too hot and she didn't want to talk.
Hanada Asako stared at the two of them, tightly gripping the thermos cup of iced barley tea, her cute little face frowning.
Asu Mai stared motionlessly at the plastic bottle in Watanabe Toru's hand, then she put her own water bottle between her lips and took a small sip.
After "taming" Watanabe Toru, at the request of Ikki Aoi, Kiyono Rin and other girls started taking pictures of each other.
After a fifteen-minute rest, they continued to climb up and passed a suspension bridge before reaching the top of the mountain.
The valley is quiet and secluded, with dense jungles on both sides and even various mushrooms growing at the foot of the trees. A wooden suspension bridge in such an environment completely aroused the desire of director Rin Kiyono.
"Watanabe-san, please walk over there by yourself. When you reach the middle, remember to look back and smile a sad, happy smile." Director Kiyono Rin pointed at the suspension bridge under the sun.
Watanabe Toru studied her expression: "A sad, happy smile? Are you seeking revenge for what happened just now?"
"I am planning to find a chance to take revenge on you, but please don't worry, what I just said was all for the movie. This is the scene after your death. You died in Shinjuku, the most prosperous district in Tokyo, but your final farewell was in the mountains, implying that you still like your first love. How do you feel?"
If someone else said this, Watanabe Toru would definitely think that the other person was deliberately making excuses and was actually taking revenge on him, but he believed every word that Kiyono Rin said - except those that cursed him.
"It does make sense, but it's really not me who died."
"Go quickly." Qingye Rin smiled happily.
Toru Watanabe didn't know whether she was happy about finding inspiration or happy about getting the verbal advantage again.
"Okay." As a professional actor, Toru Watanabe obediently followed the director's instructions and walked towards the suspension bridge.
"Wait a minute." Qing Ye Lin called him, "Give me the bag first."
Toru Watanabe returned the woven bag to her.
The weather was hot, and the straps of the woven bag retained a residual temperature higher than body temperature. Qingye Rin was stunned for a moment when she carried the bag, and then naturally put the bag back on her shoulder.
As Toru Watanabe walked over, Hanada Asako couldn't help but ask, "Kiyono-san, isn't Kujo-san the heroine? Why isn't she here?"
"Today we were just shooting scenes, but Watanabe-san came along, so I took some shots on the spur of the moment."
"Does Kujo know what happened today?" Hanada Asako asked immediately.
After adjusting the exposure and other parameters, Qingye Rin turned around and said with a meaningful smile: "So what if I don't know?"
"I don't know. If I don't know... I don't think this is a good idea." Hanada Asako clenched her fists and mustered up the courage to say.
"Don't worry." Qing Ye Lin smiled slightly, "Things are not what you think, Hanada-senpai."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Watanabe and Kujo, the two of them..."
"Is it okay here?" Toru Watanabe's voice came from a distance.
Qingye Rin looked over and said, "Step back a little more... It's okay, right there."
She raised her SLR and aimed it at Toru Watanabe in the middle of the suspension bridge.
The young man's back looked particularly tall and straight, as he walked alone towards the dark other side.
He suddenly turned around, with an excited and happy look on his face, and pointed to the distance: "Look, it's Ultraman's pyramid!"
“…”
Kiyono Rin put down her SLR camera and looked at Watanabe Toru with a gaze like a cold storm sweeping across the South Pole and the North Pole.
Watanabe Toru put away his smile and turned away silently.
This place really looks like the first episode of "Tiga", the scene where Daigu stands on the suspension bridge and looks at the pyramids. As a professional actor, he really couldn't resist the desire to improvise.
The most important thing is, what exactly is a 'sad happy smile'?
Someone come tell him!
