Chapter 210 New Year in Iwate Prefecture: Right Here (7)

"Everyone, start digging bamboo shoots, but you can only do it around here."

"yes--"

After giving the instructions, Yoshida Reiko took out a picnic blanket, spread it on the ground, and sat down to rest before starting to work.

"Ladies, please choose the weapons you want." Watanabe Toru showed the two of them a hoe and a shovel.

The two young ladies took one look at the ferocious-looking hoe and gave up immediately, choosing a shovel instead - the shovels in the countryside weren't that cute either.

Kiyono Rin took the shovel, tried it out as if she were holding a trekking pole , and nodded in affirmation.

"…That, Kiyono-san, that's used for digging the soil." Watanabe Toru reminded.

"I know." Qingye Rin said calmly.

As the only believer and the man closest to God, Toru Watanabe could naturally understand the deep meaning of her words:

If you say anything more you're dead.

"Meiji, be careful when digging bamboo shoots. The shovel is like this... What are you doing, my princess?"

"It depends on whether it's convenient or not."

The way Kujo Miki holds the shovel makes it very convenient to exert force.

This convenient use of force refers to how to hit someone on the head.

"Anyway," Watanabe Toru raised his voice slightly, "you two should be careful not to hurt yourselves... or others. Call me after you dig out the bamboo shoots."

"Don't treat me like a child." Qingye Rin looked at him with a little displeasure.

The crowd separated slightly and each found a place to dig bamboo shoots.

Queen Kujo looked at Lord Kiyono provocatively, and thus a war began - over who would dig out the first bamboo shoot first.

Watanabe Toru breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the two men use the shovel in the correct way.

He didn't go far, but stayed beside the two of them, turning over the soil at random, trying to find some winter bamboo shoots in the soil.

After a while, just as he found a bamboo shoot under the weeds and was slowly clearing the soil around it with a hoe, Xiaolian came over with two bamboo poles.

"Archer, Archer!"

"What's wrong?"

"We found the bamboo sword!"

Watanabe Toru leaned the hoe against the bamboo, reached out and took the bamboo from her hand, and looked at it carefully.

It's just that the bamboo branches are thin and straight, and they look very similar.

"Not bad." He crossed his bamboos and assumed a two-sword style stance.

"Archer, we have to challenge the Trial of the Sword again!"

"Oh?" Watanabe Toru put away his posture and said seriously, "Are you serious?"

"Uh-huh!"

"This is a test prepared for the brave. Once you pass it, you can inherit my title of 'Mizawa Village's Strongest Swordsman'."

"The strongest swordsman in Mizawa Village..." Xiaolian's eyes flickered, full of desire for this title, "I want to become the strongest swordsman in Mizawa Village!"

"Hehe, it's not just that."

"oh?!!"

"In the year since I went to Tokyo, my sword has become stronger, and now I—"

"Archer now--"

"He's the best high school student in the entire island country!"

"Oh!!!" Xiaolian's eyes widened.

Watanabe Toru snorted arrogantly: "Len, you are just a first-grade student, do you still want to challenge me?"

Xiaolian pursed her lips and put on a serious expression on her face as a first-grade student.

"We are going to challenge the best high school student in the entire island nation."

"very good!"

Watanabe Toru returned the shorter bamboo to her, moved three meters away, and held his own bamboo with both hands.

"Come on, Lian!"

Xiaolian held her "sword" and looked at Watanabe Toru: "I! I want to become the strongest first-grade elementary school student in the entire island country!"

"This momentum?! Very good, girl, defeat me and become a legend!"

The bamboo swords collided and rubbed against each other, creating sparks, just like a train and a railroad track.

Figures intertwine, bamboo leaves dance, and the cold light that devours life hides behind every leaf.

When masters fight, victory or defeat is decided in a split second.

"Len," Toru Watanabe knelt on the ground, "You are already... the strongest first-grade elementary school student in the world."

"Go forward, carrying the name of defeating me, Toru Watanabe, and keep moving forward."

"The world is yours."

His body fell to the ground.

Watanabe Ren slowly put away his sword and looked towards the Mize Village at the foot of the mountain.

"We are already invincible."

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"Come on, Lian!"

The two young ladies who were digging bamboo shoots were attracted by the roar.

Thinking something had happened, I turned around and saw two people, one big and one small, each holding a bamboo stick, facing each other.

"We! Want to be the strongest first-grade student in the entire island country!" the child's babbling.

"This momentum?!" Watanabe Toru took a step back exaggeratedly, as if there was a strong wind blowing from the opposite side.

"Very good!" He waved his hand foolishly, "Girl, defeat me and become a legend!"

Watanabe Ren rushed forward with an “Ah——”

Toru Watanabe hurled the bamboo stick forward at the speed of practicing Chinese Tai Chi.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!"

Every time Watanabe Ren made a "huh" sound, he would hit Watanabe Toru's bamboo stick.

Then, she suddenly stopped knocking, changed direction, and slid across Watanabe Toru's belly.

Watanabe Toru staggered forward a few steps, and the two men's bodies staggered.

He held his waist and knelt on the ground, trying his best to avoid touching bird droppings and stones.

"Lian, you are already... the strongest first-grade student in the world."

He also paused and acted 'seriously injured', which was excellent.

"Go forward, carrying the name of defeating me, Toru Watanabe, and keep moving forward."

"The world is yours."

After saying that, he looked around, found a clean place, and lay down.

Watanabe Ren, who never looked back, inserted the bamboo stick into her overalls, and the stick stopped only when it fell to her buttocks.

She looked in the direction she came from and said:

"We are already invincible."

It can be seen that she tried her best to act out the feeling of loneliness, but unfortunately her tone was flat and she was just reading in a rigid manner. Her acting skills were crushed by her brother.

Two beautiful girls: "..."

Miki Kujo walked to the side of 'Watanabe Toru's body'.

She folded her arms, raised her feet and stepped on Watanabe Toru's butt.

"Who is it? Why are you stepping on me?"

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Toru Watanabe turned his head and followed the graceful curve of the long legs under the jeans, and saw the gloomy-faced Kujo Miki.

"Meiji?"

Miki Kujo lifted the foot that was on his butt and stepped on it for the second time.

"Um, Meiji?"

Kujo Miki stepped down for the third time.

"Are you giving me a massage?"

"I'm digging bamboo shoots over there, sweating all over, and you're playing here?"

"How can you say this is a joke? This is a competition for the strongest swordsman in Mizawa Village."

Step on his butt for the fourth time.

"Kiyono-san, save me!" Watanabe Toru, who was lying on the ground, reached out to Kiyono Rin.

Kiyono Rin wiped the sweat off her face elegantly with her sleeves and said:

"Kujo-san, can I step on you too?"

"... Kiyono, you?" Toru Watanabe was abandoned by his God.

Miki Kujo can bully her boyfriend however she wants, but she will never allow anyone else to touch him.

She retracted her foot and looked down at Watanabe Toru with disdain: "Get up, how long are you going to lie down?"

"oh."

Just as Watanabe Toru was about to stand up, Xiaolian, who had come back to her senses from her invincible feeling of intoxication, came over and put her little foot on his left buttock.

She held her first-grade student's face in her hands, her eyes sparkling, and she was intoxicated again:

"So this is what it feels like to step on the corpses of your enemies."

“…”

Looking at Toru Watanabe who was being stepped on by a first-grade student, Kiyono Rin covered her mouth with her hands, turned her face away, and laughed with trembling shoulders.

"Meiji, you have corrupted my sister."

Miki Kujo raised her foot and stepped on his right buttock.

"What are you guys doing?" Ayako Honma, who came to borrow a hoe, looked at the scene with a shattered worldview.

"Ayako, we are already the strongest first-grade elementary school student in the entire island nation!"

"...Oh, that's awesome...but why did you step on your brother?"

At noon, the bamboo shoots they dug out filled half a bag, which was carried by Yoshida Reiko, and the group went down the mountain.

They went back to Reiko's house first.

Aunt Yoshida prepared a meal for them using fresh bamboo shoots.

Miki Kujo thought it was just average, but Rin Kiyono thought it was delicious and she liked these fresh vegetables.

After dinner, everyone took one or two bamboo shoots back home.

"Xiao Lian, can I get you a bamboo basket?"

"Well, thank you! "

The bamboo basket that Aunt Yoshida gave Xiaolian was the kind for children, and it was very small.

Aunt Yoshida put the largest bamboo shoot in, filling it up just enough.

"Can you carry Xiaolian?" asked Aunt Yoshida.

"It's okay," said Toru Watanabe, "Xiao Lian is already the strongest first-year elementary school student, so this won't be a problem."

"I see. Congratulations, Xiaolian." Aunt Yoshida touched Xiaolian's head.

"We still have to keep working hard."

"I'm already the strongest, why should I work harder?" Ayako Honma held her hands behind her head, forming a sharp contrast with the elegance of the two young ladies.

"Ayako, we are really worried about you." Xiaolian, carrying a small bamboo basket, looked worried.

“Why?!”

"If I don't work hard, I might not be the strongest by the second year! Ayako, don't you even understand this?!"

"...After all, I don't understand the term 'the strongest first-year elementary school student'. Aren't you the only first-year student in our village?"

Xiaolian angrily snorted and made a "hmm" sound. She grabbed the hem of Honma Ayako's shirt, shook it hard, and yelled:

"It's the entire island nation! We are the strongest in the entire island nation!"

"I know, I know! Stop shaking. I just ate and my stomach feels bad!"

After distributing the winter bamboo shoots and saying goodbye to Yoshida and her daughter, they each went home.

Watanabe Toru was worried about Xiaolian, so he followed her back.

"Look~ Is that a civet cat? Is it a civet cat? It should be a raccoon! It's a weasel~ Today is just like usual, the wind blows past me, la la la..."

Xiaolian, carrying a bamboo basket on her back, sang a song she composed breathlessly, waving the sword that defeated Watanabe Toru in her hand.

"Xiao Lian, do you want to come to my house later to do your winter vacation homework?"

"want!"

As she was almost home, she grabbed the bamboo basket’s straps with both hands and rushed towards the house.

"We've dug up some big bamboo shoots!"

"Xiao Lian, run slower."

Toru Watanabe stood at the door and chatted with Xiaolian's mother about Tokyo. Xiaolian came out with a backpack on her back.

"Let's go to Archer's house to do homework!"

"Will you be back for dinner?"

"Eat! We want to eat the bamboo shoots we dug ourselves!"

While Xiaolian was sitting at the entrance, putting on her shoes carefully, Watanabe Toru said to Xiaolian's mother:

"I'll bring Xiaolian back during dinner."

"Please ask Archer to help Xiaolian with her homework."

"Xiao Lian is the smartest elementary school student in the world," Watanabe Toru rubbed Xiao Lian's head, "She doesn't need my tutoring."

Xiaolian put on her shoes and stood up straight: "Archer, I am the smartest elementary school student in the entire island country!"

“The whole world is bigger than the whole island nation.”

"I am the smartest elementary school student in the entire island!"

"Yes, yes, Xiaolian is the smartest elementary school student in the entire island country."

Xiaolian's mother looked at the brother and sister and smiled.

On the way to Watanabe's house, the two siblings took two tomatoes from the greenhouse and ate them as they walked.

When Xiaolian arrived at Watanabe's house, her lips and hands were covered with tomato juice.

She skillfully washed her hands and mouth at the well in front of Watanabe's house.

When I entered the house, the two young ladies had already taken a shower and changed into home clothes.

Xiaolian stood at the door of the living room, looking at the two of them in surprise.

"What's wrong?" Qingye Rin asked her puzzledly.

"Beauty!" Xiaolian's eyes sparkled.

When they were wearing baseball uniforms and sportswear just now, the two young ladies seemed a little approachable. Now they have changed into fashionable and beautiful home clothes, with long shiny black hair, slender and graceful limbs, they look beautiful and noble.

Qing Ye Lin smiled and said: "Xiao Lian is also very cute."

"Can we become a beauty like my sister?"

"Your brother is very handsome. If nothing goes wrong, Xiaolian will be as cute as us."

"We can become a beauty too." Xiaolian held her face with both hands and said to herself, "Ache is so amazing."

"…Whether you can become a beauty or not has nothing to do with how powerful I am." Watanabe Toru corrected, "Go in quickly."

Watanabe Toru also took a shower and changed his clothes.

The four of them sat in the stove and did their winter vacation homework together.

Xiaolian's homework was holiday observation. She wrote about going up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots today, and the accompanying picture was a picture of everyone holding bamboo shoots.

"A bamboo shoot for Archer, a bamboo shoot for Ayako, and a bamboo shoot for Kana~" He hummed this song while drawing.

"Xiao Lian, if you draw like this, the person will look better." Qingye Rin instructed from the side.

"Hmm - like this? Really! Beautiful women are amazing!"

"I am a beauty, but this has nothing to do with beauty."

"Is there anything more powerful than a beauty?"

"There's still a lot more to come. Here, draw it like this. Look, doesn't it look better?"

"Beauty," Xiaolian held her face with both hands and said to herself, "You are really amazing."

“…”

One was teaching and the other was learning. Miki Kujo and Toru Watanabe worked hard to finish their winter vacation homework as soon as possible.

When Toru Watanabe was almost done with his winter vacation homework, he was kicked.

When he looked up, he saw Kujo Miki winking at him, asking him to go outside with her.

I don't know when Qingye Rin sat with Xiaolian. One was a physical loser and the other was an elementary school student. They had already fallen asleep.

Toru Watanabe stood up quietly and followed Miki Kujo out of the living room.

"Meiji, what... ugh!"

Before he could finish his words, Kujo Miki put her arms around his neck and moved her lips closer to his.

Toru Watanabe naturally put his arms around her slender waist.

For a long time, the only sounds in the Watanabe family were the sound of firewood burning in the stove in the living room and the sounds of ambiguous kissing.

Their lips parted, and their foreheads touched.

"What's wrong?" Watanabe Toru asked in a low voice.

Kujo Miki's face flushed and she exhaled a breath full of lust.

"This is to make up for Christmas. It's all her fault for sleeping in the same room with me. I was thinking about it last night."

"Meiji, you are so lewd."

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!"

"Yes, my queen." Toru Watanabe picked her up and prepared to go upstairs.

"Don't go, it's right here!"

"Right here?" Watanabe Toru was shocked.

This is the entrance to the living room, and it’s the corridor facing the entrance hall.

"If we go upstairs, we won't know if they are awake or not. We can keep an eye on them here."

"That's what I said, but..."