Chapter 224: Restless Valentine's Day (3)
After the beginning of spring, the days gradually become longer.
But it will take until March 20 or 21 for the daylight hours to completely exceed the night time.
So, when do the days become shorter and the nights become longer?
September 22 or 23.
Second question: When is the polar day in the Arctic?
It’s simple, you don’t even need to remember it to figure it out, in…
"Next stop, Aqueduct Bridge, Aqueduct Bridge."
The soft announcement of the station by the female announcer made Toru Watanabe end the random quiz in his mind and follow the crowd out of the tram car.
Coming out of the west exit, there is a ramen restaurant. On a cold winter night, the restaurant is full of people and filled with fog.
Turn left and you will see a coffee shop called Excelsior Caffe on the corner. The sign at the door introduces the coffee and ice cream on sale for Valentine's Day.
Walking past the coffee shop and looking at the Ferris wheel in the distance, Toru Watanabe called Miki Kujo.
"What's the matter?" Kujo Miki's concise and powerful voice came over.
"Meiji, I'm just about to come to your place."
"I'm not home." After a pause, she continued, "Where are you?"
"I'm in the middle of nowhere, looking at the Ferris wheel at Tokyo Dome, talking on the phone with my Meiji."
"Are you reading Haruki Murakami recently?"
"No, "We are born useless, and only entertainment can make us really not want to die.""
"You are really a failure."
"Aha, Maggie, my Maggie, you must not have seen Céline's Long Day's Journey into Night!"
"Um?"
"I mean, I have a waterway bridge with three sparrows on a telephone pole."
"Wait for me there."
After hanging up the phone, Toru Watanabe turned around, walked into the warm "Excelsior Caffe" coffee shop, and ordered a latte.
After he rejected the invitations of "a group of female junior high school students, three groups of female high school students, and two groups of female college students - who might also be working people", Kujo Miki called him to get out.
The luxury cars parked on the roadside attract attention.
Without waiting for Watanabe Toru to get close, the car door opened automatically and he sat in.
Miki Kujo was dressed casually in light blue jeans, a simple white sweater, and a red baseball jacket with the collar half-closed.
The straight and long legs, the slender waist, the puffy sweater, and the little face on the white collar are delicate and noble.
Some people are born different, such as Kiyono Rin and Kujo Miki.
Almost everyone who sees them thinks that they have the right to live surrounded by flowers, bask in the most comfortable sunshine, and enjoy a rich and easy life.
"Do you want to go for a walk?" The temperature in the car was very high, and Toru Watanabe pulled off his school uniform tie.
Miki Kujo's eyes swept across the white neck and distinct collarbone.
"Let's find a place." She said lazily.
"How about a random shopping mall?"
Kujo Miki nodded indifferently.
About ten minutes later, the two arrived at the Isetan store in Shinjuku.
After getting off the car and before entering the store, the biting evening breeze made the thinly dressed Kujo Miki frown slightly.
Watanabe Toru held her in his arms and quickened his pace.
As soon as I entered, I saw a long queue of people buying cosmetics.
Neither of them was very interested in skin care products.
Miki Kujo's skin is what those who spend a lot of money on skin care dream of, but Toru Watanabe... is just a stinky man. Cosmetics companies can forget about making a single yen from him.
Although they were not interested, the two still went for a walk.
In a store, Toru Watanabe found an interesting face-lifting massager.
"Can this thing really improve my skin?" He picked one up and rolled the ball on it.
"Maybe, I haven't used it either." Kujo Miki said, hugging her elbows.
The waiter came over and recommended the four-ball model to Watanabe Toru, who was holding two balls. He also said that there would be a heater for heating the balls as a gift, so he could use it without any worries in winter.
Toru Watanabe rolled the massager on his face, but there was no reaction. However, when he rolled it on his neck, there was a little interest.
"It's quite comfortable, you try it."
"Take it away." Kujo Miki pushed his hand away. "I don't know who has tried this before."
"Then I'll go back and give you a massage with my hands. I guarantee it'll be more comfortable than this." Toru Watanabe put the massager back in place.
"Is that a massage?" Kujo Miki said with a look of disgust.
Watanabe Toru put his arm around her shoulders and walked towards the second floor.
"It doesn't matter whether it's a massage or not, as long as it's comfortable." He whispered in her ear with a smile.
"When did I say I felt comfortable?" Miki Kujo leaned in his arms.
"Sister Meiji's level of trouble has reached a new level today."
"I told you not to use that name."
"Okay, Sister Meiji."
Miki Kujo raised her hand and struck him in the ribs.
Watanabe Toru dodged her attack with a smile: "Okay, okay, I was wrong, Meiji sister, I'm sorry. By the way, you are younger than me, right? Three months and three days?"
"Yes, you have the same birthday as someone." Kujo Miki said with a smile.
"This has nothing to do with me." Toru Watanabe is truly innocent this time.
The second floor mainly sells shoes.
Going further up, there are various luxury stores such as Chanel, Dior, Rolex, Lamer, etc.
Clothes worth more than 400,000 yen and cantaloupe worth 16,000 yen.
At the SUQQU counter, the two tried on eye shadows.
Of course it wasn’t the severely mysophobic Miki Kujo, but Toru Watanabe!
"I don't want it!" Watanabe Toru protected his eyes.
"Hurry up." Miki Kujo held a four-color eyeshadow palette in her hand.
"If you say no, then don't!"
"I'll help you wipe it off after you try it." Kujo Miki said with a smile.
“I don’t believe it!”
"come over."
"No matter what you say!"
"You don't listen to me?" Miss Kujo was unhappy.
"Okay." In order to please his girlfriend, Toru Watanabe had no choice but to sacrifice himself.
He sat down opposite Kujo Miki: "Be gentle, it's my first time and I'm afraid of pain."
Kujo Miki kicked him.
She didn't use a brush, but directly used her ring finger to pick up some light-colored eye shadow and smudged it on Watanabe Toru's right eye socket from back to front.
Gently smeared hands; a close face; the warmth in the exhaled breath; and a smile that is serious yet slightly mischievous.
Watanabe Toru felt warm in his heart, as if he was soaking in a winter hot spring. He wanted to hug Kujo Miki and have a good sleep without doing anything.
"Some more mascara." Queen Kujo didn't want to sleep, she was having a great time.
After everything was over, Watanabe Toru in the mirror had his right eye look slightly bigger than his left eye.
"Is it beautiful?" asked Miki Kujo with a smile.
"It's so beautiful." Watanabe Toru said perfunctorily, "Can you erase it now?"
"No, that's all you'll do today."
"You lied to me?"
"I love playing tricks on you the most." Kujo Miki smiled happily.
At this point, Watanabe Toru had no choice but to resort to his ultimate move.
"Sister, Sister Miki~" He pulled the hem of Miki Kujo's baseball jacket.
Miki Kujo took a deep breath and helped Toru Watanabe clean off his eye shadow.
Afterwards, the two went to the underground first floor, where there was an astonishing amount of food.
Various skewers and foods were piled up like small mountains and neatly arranged to the end.
Under the bright lights, it is like a mountain of gold for those who love gourmet food.
It was still early when we came out of Isetan.
"Let's go watch a movie across the street." Miki Kujo was in a good mood.
Opposite Isetan there is a budget shopping mall with two cinemas.
As he walked over, Toru Watanabe was still holding Kujo Miki tightly.
Although this did not block much of the cold wind, Kujo Miki enjoyed it very much and nestled her body in Watanabe Toru's arms.
This shopping mall had more people in it, mostly young people, with some in school uniforms wandering around.
The temperature outside was below zero, and the high school girls had bare legs and their skirts were deliberately raised, which showed their obsession with beauty.
The mall was heated, bringing the aroma of the dessert shop to your nose.
"Would you like to buy some desserts to try?" said Toru Watanabe.
"Buy two donuts." Miki Kujo really wanted to eat something sweet now.
There is a KFC at the entrance on the first floor, and there is a dessert shop next to the KFC.
The sign at the door announced today's specials: spiral bread, cookie puffs, and cheesecake.
In addition, there are Valentine's Day-specific chocolates and other items.
The two walked in, and the air they smelled instantly became sweeter.
There were quite a few people in the store, but the back of one of them was the first thing that caught the attention of the visitors.
She was a beautiful girl wearing a long white windbreaker and a handsome scarf. She was leaning on her chin with her hand, looking at the glass counter in deep thought.
That shiny black hair, that lovely little face like a flower, that presence that cannot be ignored, it can only be anyone other than Kiyono Rin.
"Do you know she is here?" Miki Kujo turned and asked Toru Watanabe.
"Isetan was chosen by your driver, and you said you wanted to watch the movie."
While the two were talking, Qingye Rin turned around.
Before she spoke, she looked at Watanabe Toru and blinked twice, then immediately returned to her normal expression.
"Oh, what a coincidence." She greeted with a smile.
Kujo Miki snorted: "Tokyo is not big, but it's not small either. I can run into you wherever I go."
"I'm the one who's wondering. It's fine if Kujo-san isn't in Chiyoda, but why is he in Shinjuku, and in this kind of popular shopping mall? Isn't the Isetan across the street more suitable for you?"
"We just came out of there," said Toru Watanabe. "We didn't buy anything, but we got to try out the eyeshadow for free. Are you alone?"
"Only the weak gather in groups." Qingye Rin sneered, mocking everything.
"Kiyono-san, I have a question."
"ask."
"Excuse me, what is a strong person? Physical strength? Intelligence?" Watanabe Toru asked her.
"Heart." Qingye Rin said this in a tone of 'you can submit to me'.
"I see." Watanabe Toru nodded, "If we're comparing the degree of narcissism, then Kiyono-san is indeed a well-deserved strong man."
Qing Ye Lin glared at him in dissatisfaction: "I'm talking about the heart..."
"That's enough." Kujo Miki's uninterested voice came, "I don't care whether you are a strong man or not, just don't stop us from buying things."
During the conversation, several more people lined up behind the three.
From the rude looks of these people, it can be seen that they believed that what happened just now was Watanabe Toru being caught on the spot for trampling on two boats.
Toru Watanabe was very dissatisfied with this.
He is a great and amazing person. Even though Kiyono Rin is so perfect that she is almost irresistible, he still does not do anything that is enviable and despicable.
Some people just like to impose their own imagination on others, regardless of whether they are...
"Ah, alive!"
"It's so cold outside! My face is frozen!"
"Aoi, what time is the movie?"
"8:30, there are still forty minutes, should we go around again?"
"Okay. I remember there's a dessert shop on the first floor. Maybe they'll have some premium chocolate for sale today. Let's go check it out!"
The sounds got closer and closer, and then they met.
"Eh? Kiyono-san, Kujo-san, Watanabe- kun?"
"So you guys have an appointment tonight, no wonder you didn't join us!"
Watanabe Toru glanced at Asu Mai and said to the insignificant trio, "Tokyo is not big, but it's not small either. How come we met by chance?"
"It must be fate!" Ikki Aoi smiled happily.
Kujo Miki began to frown.
Watanabe Toru leaned close to her ear and said, "I told you, this guy likes women, you better be careful with him."
Miki Kujo looked at Aoi Ikki and vaguely remembered that there was such a thing, but she had no interest in these insignificant people and could not remember it clearly.
"Kiyono-san," Tamamo Yomi took two steps forward, "Would you like to go to the movies together later?"
"No, thank you." After refusing, Qing Ye Lin said to the clerk, "Please give me a donut."
"Three!" Toru Watanabe added.
The clerk looked at Watanabe Toru and then at Kiyono Rin.
Qingye Lin sighed: "Three donuts, thank you."
"Okay, wait a moment."
After buying desserts, the three of them went outside the store.
A love song contest is being held in the atrium of the shopping mall. As long as boyfriends and girlfriends go on stage and sing a song together, they can receive free chocolate coupons.
Watanabe Toru listened to the song that was 'not great, but not bad either' and took a bite of the donut that Kiyono Rin paid for.
Under the crust, the sugar solidified like snow and was very sweet.
Kiyono Rin and Kujo Miki were also eating.
Both of them held the donuts with one hand, both with their left hands, and the size of the donuts they took a bite out of were almost the same. This might be a coincidence, but it made Toru Watanabe think about their complicated relationship.
She hated it, of course, but Miki Kujo, who hated physical contact, took the initiative to press Kiyono Rin onto her bed during winter camping.
And what about Kiyono Rin?
This high-class beauty who never talks nonsense to anyone - except Watanabe Toru - but once she starts arguing with Kujo Miki, it seems like there's no end to it.
Given their intelligence, they must have realized long ago that the other was special to them.
So, do they not care, or are they used to it, or have they reached a tacit understanding that although they hate each other, they still accept each other?
"Kiyono-san, what are you going to do next?" Toru Watanabe finished the last bite of the donut and crumpled the white paper bag into a ball.
"What about you guys?" Qingye Rin still had half of her donut left.
She has always eaten slowly, taking small bites and chewing frequently.
"I'm going to see a movie." Toru Watanabe replied.
"Then I'll go too."
"Hmm?" Watanabe Toru was slightly stunned. "Just now, Ikki Aoi and the others invited you, but you didn't agree. Would it be inappropriate for you to go with us now?"
The moment he asked the question subconsciously without thinking, Watanabe Toru knew that he was going to be scolded again - Kiyono Rin never cared what others thought of her, she just stayed herself.
"Watanabe-san, your memory..."
"I know, I know, I'm a prostitute, is that okay?" Toru Watanabe spoke before she could finish.
In island nations, chickens are used as a metaphor for people with poor memory.
Qing Ye Lin covered her mouth with her right hand and said with a smile: "You said that yourself."
He was planning to say something more extreme, but he showed such an attitude. It's really annoying... I can't stand it.
"Are you planning to watch the same show with us?" asked Toru Watanabe.
"Of course." Qingye Rin took a bite of the donut, "Are you not welcome?"
"The cinema is not owned by my family, so go if you want." Watanabe Toru turned around and asked Kujo Miki, "Miki, what about you?"
Miki Kujo glanced at Rin Kiyono and said to Toru Watanabe, "As long as she sits with me."
"You two have such a good relationship!" Watanabe Toru said enviously.
"Heh." Kujo Miki laughed contemptuously, "If we want to have a good relationship, it's not impossible. Let her kneel down and lick my feet."
"Only Watanabe Toru would do something like this, right?" Kiyono Rin responded with a cold expression, "I'm gentler than you, Kujo. As long as you write a 10,000-word self-reflection and call me sister, I will be on good terms with you with reluctance."
"Review? Onee-sama? Who else but Watanabe would do such a useless thing?"
"Hey, you guys are actually teaming up to scold me!"
The two young ladies snorted at the same time, and then their faces became even uglier because of the coordinated movements, so they went to eat donuts at the same time.
Then, they both stopped eating at the same time...
The situation was complex, wonderful and fun.
Unfortunately, Toru Watanabe laughed in the middle and was stepped on by Miki Kujo, so he did not observe the entire process.
When the two young ladies were having a quarrel, Ikki Aoi and other three came out.
"Watanabe-kun, what are you going to do later?" asked Aoi Ikki, holding a bag of chocolates.
"See a movie."
"Is this Kadokawa Cinema?"
"Um."
"Me too! What's the name of the movie? What time does it start?"
"'The Earth Stands Still', 9:15."
"Great! We're watching that romance movie too! At the same time! I hope our seats can be next to each other!"
At this time, Toru Watanabe and Mai Asuka met eyes.
With Kujo Miki around, she wouldn't show any abnormality, but in the dimly lit theater...
To be honest, Toru Watanabe didn't quite believe in Senior Mai's willpower.
"Wait," Toru Watanabe realized that he had overlooked a very important question, "Is 'The Earth Stood Still' a romance film? Not a science fiction film?"
