Chapter 211 New Year in Iwate Prefecture: Confrontation (8)
Miki Kujo's voice was hoarse and beautiful, and just a simple humming was like the most moving melody in the world.
The air also changed, becoming gentle and undulating.
Toru Watanabe saw the rose covered with thorns blooming beautifully.
…
On the distant mountain ridge, a white windmill slowly rotates clockwise.
The sun overlooks Mizawa Village.
It looked at this lonely and peaceful village, its sight climbing up the wall to the roof, and peeking into the house through the windows and door cracks.
Inside the house, the colors spilling out into the hallway gradually darken to a light amber.
As time goes by, the sunshine turns into sunset.
Xiaolian wakes up.
"Toilet...toilet..."
She rubbed her eyes and walked out of the living room, meeting Kujo Miki at the corner.
She looked up and saw Kujo Miki frowning, holding the wall with her hands, not moving.
"What's wrong? Do you have a stomachache?" Xiaolian asked in a childish voice.
Kujo Miki didn't say anything.
Xiaolian, who was not fully awake, tilted her head and looked at her puzzledly.
Suddenly, her eyes widened and her whole body seemed to be frightened .
"Could it be that, beauty... your legs will also become numb if you go to the toilet for a long time?!" Her world view and outlook on life were reshaped.
“……”Miki Kujo’s legs were indeed numb, but it was not because of going to the toilet.
Watanabe Toru came out of the bathroom: "Xiao Lian? Are you awake?"
"Yeah." Xiaolian nodded at him obediently, and then suddenly remembered and told him loudly, "Ache, it's terrible. Even if you become a beauty, your legs will be numb when you go to the toilet!"
"…Beauty doesn't go to the toilet." Watanabe Toru said expressionlessly.
"Really?!" Xiaolian opened her mouth in surprise, and then became disappointed, "It seems that I can't become a beauty."
After Xiaolian went to the toilet, Watanabe Toru couldn't help laughing:
"Meiji, my Meiji, your legs are numb after going to the toilet?"
Jiujo Miki glared at him fiercely: "Hurry up and help me in!"
"Okay." Watanabe Toru reached out to support her.
Just as Kujo Miki was about to move, her thighs immediately felt numb, and she couldn't help but take a breath with a "hiss".
"Wait a moment." Her frowned brows showed her charm.
Watanabe Toru couldn't help laughing again.
When Kujo Miki glared at him, he quickly put away his smile and explained:
"It's your choice to be here. It has nothing to do with me."
"Is it what I want to have my legs lifted so high?" Miki Kujo said coldly.
"I just want to see how flexible your body is, Meiji."
"Flexibility? I don't practice yoga for..."
"Let's go."
Miki Kujo glanced at Toru Watanabe and closed her mouth.
"Xiao Lian, can I take you home now?" asked Watanabe Toru.
"Yeah." Xiaolian nodded obediently.
Watanabe Toru said to Kujo Miki: "Then I will send her back first."
Miki Kujo didn't say anything, still struggling with her numb legs.
After Watanabe Toru and Xiaolian left, Kiyono Rin also woke up.
She rubbed her sore shoulders, walked out of the living room, and met the same Kujo Miki.
"Ah," Qing Ye Lin stroked her lips with her hand and chuckled, "Is your leg numb from going to the toilet for so long?"
"Does it have anything to do with you?" Kujo Miki asked coldly.
Qingye Rin smiled nonchalantly, brushed her long hair off her shoulders, and prepared to go to the bathroom on the second floor.
When passing by Kujo Miki, she suddenly poked Kujo Miki's thigh with her finger.
"Hiss——" Miki Kujo's expression was painful, just like when putting her feet into boiling hot water during a foot bath.
"What are you doing?!" she shouted angrily.
No one had ever dared to tease her like this. Even Toru Watanabe only dared to be so unrestrained in bed.
"This is your punishment for eating my tomato this morning." Qing Ye Lin stood on the steps that Kujo Miki couldn't reach, "I am very vindictive, Kujo-san."
"You're dead." Kujo Miki said in a cold voice, enunciating each word.
"I'll wait for you." Qingye Rin turned around and walked upstairs.
Miki Kujo gritted her white and neat teeth, endured the numbness in her thighs, and chased after him.
Because she had been numb for a while, and coupled with Qingye Rin's sneak attack just now, she was able to endure the numbness at this moment.
Hearing the footsteps, Kiyono Rin realized something was wrong, but before she could react, she just let out an "Ah!" and was captured by Kujo Miki.
Miki Kujo pressed Kiyono Rin against the wall from behind, holding her wrists with her hands and restraining her legs with her legs.
This posture was learned by Miki Kujo from Toru Watanabe. As a practitioner, she knew very well how to prevent the other party from exerting too much strength.
"I told you, you're dead." Kujo Miki said with a sneer.
"I heard that Kujo-san led the Kujo family with wisdom, but now that he meets me, he can only rely on brute force?" Qingno Rin answered indifferently.
"You are the same, aren't you? You say you are honest and never lie, but you end up taking advantage of someone who is in trouble?"
"Kujo-san, the antonym of honesty is hypocrisy. Even Watanabe-san knows this basic knowledge. Also, just because a person is honest doesn't mean he is a good person. I have never said that I am a good person."
Kujo Miki sneered: "You are quite good at talking."
"Because I don't advocate the use of force, that's what barbarians do."
"Barbarians? Today I will let you know how powerful barbarians are!"
Miki Kujo put her hand into Kiyono Rin's clothes, and her fingers, like feathers, gently brushed the smooth and graceful curves of her flank, tickling her.
"ah!"
Apart from the initial scream, Qingye Rin's soft, crystal clear lips were tightly pursed.
She did not beg for mercy, nor made a sound, but tears welled up uncontrollably from her eyes and her body struggled subconsciously.
"Are you giving up? Huh?" After putting her hand under the hem of her clothes and maintaining this posture, Kujo Miki's hand felt a little sore.
Qingye Rin took a breath and said in a cold voice: "Childish."
"I like stubborn people the most." Kujo Miki laughed happily, but her laughter was full of malice.
"Besides tickling, what else can you do to me?" Qingye Rin said disdainfully.
"Oh?" Kujo Miki said with a teasing tone of admiration, "What about this?"
Qingye Rin's face changed.
A finger hooked between the skin of her back and the bra strap, and this finger was pulling the bra strap back like a slingshot.
She closed her eyes tightly, enduring the coming pain of her underwear bouncing against her skin.
Just at this moment.
"You guys, what are you doing?"
At the door, in the backlight of the setting sun, Watanabe's mother, carrying a lot of bags, looked at the scene in the corridor in surprise:
Miki Kujo pressed Kiyono Rin against the wall, grabbed her wrists with her left hand, and reached into her clothes with her right hand.
Qingye Rin was panting, her face was flushed, her clothes were disheveled, and her snow-white, slender waist could be seen.
The three of them looked at each other.
At this time in the Watanabe family's house, the only sound was the sound of firewood burning in the stove in the living room.
"Snap!" Miki Kujo let go, and her underwear bounced onto Rin Kiyono.
As women, everyone present knew what was going on.
"It was just a joke." Miki Kujo withdrew her hand, folded her arms, and explained calmly.
"You could say it's just a joke, but it's also a form of physical bullying." Kiyono Rin straightened her clothes.
"I see," Watanabe's mother nodded as if she understood, but in fact she didn't understand anything. "I'll go cook, it will be ready soon."
Qingye Rin intended to help, so she took a few steps towards the kitchen, but turned back and went upstairs.
I almost forgot to go to the toilet because of Kujo Miki's disturbance.
Watanabe Toru heard this from his mother.
He sent Xiaolian back home, and when he got home, his mother asked him to help in the kitchen, and then she told him the matter secretly.
After hearing this, he was surprised and exclaimed "Ah?!", just as Qingye Rin walked into the kitchen to help serve the dishes.
His mother gave him a look that said "keep your voice down" and smiled as she handed the "grilled bamboo shoots with soy sauce" to Qingye Rin.
When Qing Ye Lin was about to leave, looking at her back, Watanabe Toru hesitated and said:
"Qingye."
"What's up?"
"You guys, are you okay?"
"I will win back." Qingye Rin didn't look back.
After she left, Toru Watanabe shrugged at his mother, indicating that everything was fine.
The meal was ready, Watanabe's father came back, and the five of them sat down according to yesterday's seats.
"I'm starting."
While eating, Toru Watanabe noticed that Kiyono Rin's plate and bowl had been replaced with new ones.
"Why don't you buy me a new set?" Watanabe Toru thought about this while drinking miso soup made from fried radish and tofu.
"Meiji, are you used to sleeping well at night?" asked Watanabe's mother.
"Everything else is fine, but I'm not used to having someone around me." Miki Kujo was eating the pork in the pork salad.
"Lie." Qingye Rin was eating fresh grilled bamboo shoots.
Kujo Miki put the half-eaten pork in the bowl, looked at her, and said word by word:
"I'm not used to having anyone around except Toru."
"What else can you be dissatisfied with, being able to sleep next to a beauty like me?" Qingye Rin drank a bowl of flavored soup, showing an expression of enjoying the delicious taste.
"It's okay to be narcissistic, but you also have to know the target clearly. How dare you say such things in front of me?" Miki Kujo swallowed the pork in one bite.
She also wasted a lot of energy today, whether in the morning, afternoon, or evening.
This scene seemed normal to Toru Watanabe. He turned a deaf ear to it and focused on eating - this was the most suitable approach for him after summarizing his experience in mediating fights many times.
But in the eyes of Watanabe's parents, the two were just arguing.
Watanabe's mother thought of the scene she saw at dusk and couldn't help feeling a little worried.
She interrupted the two and asked Kujo Miki:
"Meiji, when did you and Xiaoche start dating?"
Kujo Miki did not answer, but asked Watanabe Toru: "When?"
"May." Toru Watanabe replied.
"specific."
"May 29th."
"Be more specific."
"On May 29th, at 11:05, I confessed my love to you. At 12:11, you agreed to confess."
Miki Kujo picked up a piece of pork for Toru Watanabe.
Watanabe's mother looked at this scene and said with a smile:
"Meiji, our family is poor and we can't afford to buy a house in Tokyo. I'm sorry to have wronged you."
"I like Toru. What does it have to do with whether you are poor or not?"
Watanabe's mother didn't know what to say.
Watanabe's father, who had been silent the whole time, nodded in agreement and said in a calm and experienced voice:
"As long as we love each other, any difficulties can be overcome."
"We don't have any difficulties." Kujo Miki said, "On the contrary, if you have any difficulties or troubles in life, you can find Toru and ask him to tell me. When I marry Toru, you are also my parents."
Watanabe's father didn't know what to say.
There was a moment of subtle silence at the dining table.
The sound of Kiyono Rin holding the bowl and blowing softly into the miso soup was very clear, and the sense of comfort she exuded could be heard very clearly.
"By the way, when I was delivering the letter this morning, Uncle Honma asked me to get the dried persimmons." At this time, only the brave Watanabe Toru stood up.
"Bring some back and let Miki and Xiaolin have a taste," said Watanabe's mother.
"Bring some natto, Honma also likes to eat it," Watanabe's father added.
"Okay." Watanabe Toru nodded.
"Watanabe-san," Qing Ye Lin said, "I heard from Auntie Zhi that you started delivering newspapers and letters a long time ago?"
"Not long ago, probably around the first grade of the new year." Toru Watanabe replied.
Qing Ye Lin nodded and praised: "You are indeed better than the average person. Although I like..."
Considering that Watanabe's parents were there, she coughed lightly and skipped the words 'lying and legs'.
"Thanks."
Watanabe Toru was not thanking her for the compliment. It was a basic fact that he was better than the average person, there was nothing much to say.
He was thanking Kiyono Rin for not saying the rest of the sentence.
I remember when we went to Mt. Takao to shoot for the cultural festival, she said to Tamamo Haomi in front of her, "Compared to Tamamo-san, you and I have a better relationship, and I feel more comfortable asking you to carry my bag."
When Kiyono Rin came to Iwate Prefecture, Watanabe Toru was worried that she would be so honest in front of her parents and tell them everything about what happened in school.
Thinking in this way, Qingye Rin has also changed a little bit, and is no longer as unkind as before.
"Thank me." Qingye Rin gave him this look.
"You are God! I am filled with infinite gratitude to you!" Watanabe Toru responded.
Wait, wait, how did Qingye Rin know what he was thinking?
Could it be that as her abilities evolve, she is really going to become a god?
"I get up before dawn and deliver letters in the cold wind, but the money I earn is not even enough for the return fare." Kujo Miki sneered disdainfully.
Watanabe Toru came back to his senses and listened to her continue:
"I admire Toru's ambition and ability to endure hardship, but let's forget about this before. I won't allow you to do such hard work again."
"It's not a question of whether it's hard or not." Qingye Rin said calmly.
"Hmm?" There was a sense of oppression in Miki Kujo's tone, as if it was none of your business.
Toru Watanabe glanced at his parents. Their expressions were so wonderful that it was hard to describe.
This is the Shura Field in Tokyo, which cannot be seen in Mizawa Village in Iwate Prefecture.
"Kujo-san, your money is your money. You can give it to Watanabe-san, but you can't stop him from making money on his own."
"Is it reasonable for you to let your boyfriend, your future husband, do such hard work when you have money?"
"He can choose not to do it and use your money at ease, but that is his own business. You can only give him options, but you can't force him to choose."
"What if I want to?"
"That's not love, it's just possessiveness." Qingye Rin said coldly.
"No matter what your love is, my love is this." Kujo Miki said nonchalantly, "I will give him a lot of money, so that he can develop the same consumption concept as me, give up the inefficient job of delivering newspapers, and become inseparable from me forever."
"If you do this, Watanabe-san will no longer be himself. You will only make him a waste."
"Kiyono-san," Toru Watanabe couldn't help but interject, "You're not a waste, are you?"
Qingye Rin gave him a look that meant: shut up.
"Useless?" Kujo Miki sneered, "Who do you think taught him to learn the oboe? Also, when have I ever stopped him from studying hard? Even when he surpassed me, I didn't say anything about him."
"He is only moving within the scope you allow, like a pig that has been forced to grow meat since childhood. He is not free." Qingye Rin retorted.
"Kiyono-san," Toru Watanabe couldn't help himself again, "Can you change your metaphor?"
Qingye Rin gave him another look, meaning: I deliberately said it so seriously, but you don’t reflect on it at all?
"So what you mean is that it doesn't matter if this pig runs out of the fence? Even if it runs into someone else's fence and is eaten by someone else, it doesn't matter?" asked Miki Kujo in a deep voice.
"No, you two..."
"What?!" The two people with cold faces looked at him at the same time.
...So scary.
So, start choosing:
Tacit, altruistic, tender love;
Intense, exclusive, dependent love;
If both are loyal, which one should you choose?
