Chapter 269 Family Trip (2)
It seems a little late to say it now, or it seems unnecessary: Kamikawa stands on a high ground in "Yotani", covering a large area, and the scenery overlooking the distance is very nice.
The steep slope leading to the plateau is planted with cherry trees and camphor trees.
That morning, on this steep slope, Watanabe Toru met Kiyono Rin for the umpteenth time.
The two of them don't even say hello to each other now, and only exchange a few words occasionally.
"What happened yesterday?" asked Qingye Rin.
"Why do you say that?"
"You suddenly said you wanted to be an honest person. Did you go to the future as well? Did you completely change your life?"
"You can even guess this?" Watanabe Toru said admiringly, "When I was sleeping last night, I suddenly went to your body ten years later. It's so troublesome for a woman to go to the toilet."
"Even the words 'Qingye, I want to try to slowly become an honest person' are lies. My expectations of you are in vain."
"Just joking is not a lie. I stick to this point. I also said it will 'gradually become' and I will work hard."
"What exactly happened?" Qingye Rin asked again.
Watanabe Toru recounted what happened last night.
On both sides of the road, bright green cherry and beech trees swayed gently in the south wind.
From time to time, students riding bicycles standing up would pass them;
The baseball team chanted slogans and lined up for a morning run;
The two high school girls who talked about idol groups mentioned above were seen at the basketball tournament.
A sunny morning.
"Meiji and Qingye are selfish?" Qingye Rin's long, shiny black hair was gently blown by the south wind.
"Is it appropriate?" Watanabe Toru said with a hint of pride, "There is no other word more appropriate than this."
Qing Ye Lin responded coldly to this, she turned to ask:
"No matter what Koizumi Aona thinks, she must belong to you for the rest of her life - is this what you insist on for them?"
"right."
"You've been in Tokyo for a year and you already have a girlfriend and two lovers. When you graduate from college, are you going to buy the apartment you live in now?" she said sarcastically.
"I don't want to, but no one can be sure of the future."
"Really?"
"So," Toru Watanabe turned his head to look at her adorable little face, "I want to promise you that this will never happen again."
"What if it happens?"
Watanabe Toru didn't say anything, just smiled at Kiyono Rin.
The boy's smile is like an irresistible preference for the person he likes.
Kiyono Rin glanced at him, and the two looked at each other on the Yotsuya hills.
Climbing up the hill, we saw the person on duty at the school gate, Aona Koizumi, wearing a cardigan and a long skirt, looking gentle and pretty.
Four or five girls who were in Class 4 of Grade 1 but were not assigned to Class 4 of Grade 2 surrounded her.
"Good morning, Mr. Koizumi," Toru Watanabe greeted as he passed by.
"Good morning." Seeing Kiyono Rin beside Watanabe Toru, Koizumi Aona remained calm but felt a little flustered in her heart.
"Good morning, Watanabe-kun!" The girls surrounding Koizumi Aona looked at Watanabe Toru excitedly.
"Well, good morning."
As I entered the school gate, I saw the huge oak tree in front of me.
When Watanabe Toru and Kiyono Rin walked under the tree, the entire sky seemed to be covered with dense green leaves, overlapping one another.
Going around the oak tree from the left, the corridor that was just divided into two by the tree turned back into one, leading straight to the courtyard.
On both sides of the atrium filled with flowers and plants are the teaching building and the community building, and between the buildings is an elevated corridor.
The two walked towards the teaching building.
"Watanabe-san, it's about time you learn to be self-disciplined. Don't just give in to any woman who can't leave you."
"You mean soft-hearted? As for self-discipline, do you know how many meters a circumference of the outer garden of the shrine is?"
"I'm talking about physiological self-discipline."
“…I am also very self-disciplined in this regard.”
"Is that so? By the way, one lap of the Jingu Outer Gardens is 1,320 meters."
"How do you know?"
Kiyono Rin opened the island high school student-style school bag and took out a book with a cover from it - Watanabe Toru saw that she had been reading it for a long time.
She turned to a certain page.
"January 4th, moved. First morning run in Jingu Outer Gardens. One lap is 1,320 meters. In parentheses, showing off to Kiyono Rin."
It turned out that what she had been reading these days was not a book, but someone's notes.
"Also, the distance around the Imperial Palace is about 5km." She raised her notebook and said, "Write it down here too. Don't write it down to show off to me in the future."
“……” Toru Watanabe reached out to her.
"Hmm?" Qingye looked at him puzzledly with eyes as clear as the winter sky.
Watanabe Toru pointed at the notebook in her hand and then at himself with grievance, meaning: Have you finished reading it? Can you give it back to me?
Like a kid whose video game console was taken away.
Qingye Rin looked at the diary in her hand and put it back into her schoolbag.
"I'm sorry, I didn't consider the feelings of the person involved. I shouldn't have taken it out in a place like this." She zipped up her backpack.
With the sound of a zipper, the diary disappeared from its owner's sight.
"Goodbye." Watanabe Toru withdrew his hand.
"Remember to open the window. Your girlfriend eats in there all day and the whole place smells like food." Qingno Rin said to his back.
Toru Watanabe went to the club room to place roses.
In today's class, the three of them continued to write the notebook that Toru Watanabe secretly named "Records of the Human Observation Department":
"Your lips are worthy of comparison with mine" (Kujo)
"It's true that they can't compare, in terms of ugliness" (Kiyano)
"Knowing that you are ugly is not hopeless" (Nine Articles)
"I really admire your self-deception. I can't deceive myself about the fact that my breasts are not as good as yours." (Kiyano)
"You are quite optimistic. Besides having legs that are as pretty as mine, you actually think you can be better than me in other ways." (Kujo)
"Instead of arguing verbally, why not just compete? I'd like to offer advice from a male perspective." (Watanabe)
"I'm fine" (Nine)
"Kujo-san, please give him a kick for me, thank you" (Kiyano)
"Go on your own" (9 articles)
"I'm not that vulgar. Kicking someone is something only you can do." (Kiyano)
After class, Kujo Miki pinched Kiyono Rin's little face and asked her in a bullying tone: "Am I the only one who can do this?"
Unable to defeat him, Qingye Rin could only turn away coldly.
Everyone in the classroom stared at this scene in amazement.
Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin with sympathy.
I give her medicine, and I take her for exercise in the name of walks during the wind band activities on Saturdays and Sundays, but it seems that she only exercises these two days a week.
Although Kujo Miki also doesn't exercise, she has high physical strength, and because it is convenient to drug her, she eats more.
"Kiyono-san, please change your behavior in the future," Watanabe Toru advised.
"What to change?" Qingye Rin was very embarrassed, and her voice was so cold that it sounded like it was snowing in Tokyo in May.
"Either you change your laziness and work hard at exercise, or you change your provocation."
"You mean you want me to admit defeat to her?" Kiyono Rin glared at Watanabe Toru.
"Don't glare at me, glare at her, glare at her!" Toru Watanabe pointed at the winner, Miki Kujo.
Kujo Miki kicked him.
Watanabe Toru hooked her feet with his legs and continued to say:
"And asking you to stop provoking others doesn't mean you have to admit defeat. For example, in grades, serious sports, and this essay contest, the winners and losers are obvious. If you insist on comparing who is prettier, let the whole country vote a thousand times. 499 times you will be prettier, and 499 times Meiji will be prettier."
"What about the other two times?" asked Miki Kujo lazily.
"I'm so handsome, it's reasonable for me to win twice out of a thousand."
Kiyono Rin couldn't help looking at him, while Kujo Miki fell on the desk laughing, her laughter was heart-stirring.
"…You two, do you want to fight?"
Days like this passed in a flash, and soon it was Friday.
After school, Toru Watanabe and Rin Kiyono took Kujo Miki's luxury car and went to the Kiyono mansion together.
The evening glow of early summer makes the palace sparkle.
Passing through the living room with a high dome ceiling, the three of them came to the backyard.
There are spacious lawns, lush green pines and cypresses, rose vines climbing all over the fences, and a deep blue marble swimming pool.
This beautiful and magnificent building faces Tokyo Bay and overlooks the minato area.
The three of them walked through the arch, passed the dining table among the flowers, and came to the fence.
Two ladies are here.
"This rose has a strong fragrance and this one has bright color. The British blue rose here has large petals, beautiful flower shapes, and blooms all year round." Kiyono's mother introduced to Kujo's mother.
"I prefer crimson roses to blue roses," said Kujo's mother.
"Mother." Kiyono Rin and Kujo Miki called out, and Watanabe Toru called her aunt.
The two ladies turned around and looked at the three people.
Kujo's mother glanced at Watanabe Toru and said to Kiyono's mother with a smile:
"Watanabe-kun slept at my place last time. He picked the May roses I used for bathing and gave them to Miki in the morning. He said he wanted to smell my bath water."
"Really?"
The two of them laughed like little girls.
"There is such a thing." Qing Ye Lin turned her head and looked at Watanabe Toru, "Does the bath water smell good?"
"It smells good, of course it smells good, the scent of May roses." Watanabe Toru affirmed.
"Watanabe-kun," Kiyono's mother said with a smile, "next time, smell my bath water and see what it smells like."
"Aunt……"
"Huh? Mom is going to be angry."
Toru Watanabe glanced at Rin Kiyono and asked her to help.
"Watanabe-kun, your mother is talking to you." Mother Kiyono put one hand on her waist, posing as a mother.
"Mom, you are so young and innocent. I don't need to smell it to know that it must be jasmine. Jasmine flowers are whiter than snow, with beautiful shapes but not ostentatious , elegant and noble. It is the most suitable for you."
"Meiji, my adopted son is full of sweet words, you'd better be careful not to be fooled." Qingye's mother scolded with a smile.
"It's so nice to be cheated. A woman should only listen to compliments, so that she can become beautiful and confident." Kujo's mother said, "It's so boring to see everything and only listen to the truth."
Then, she said to Watanabe Toru, who wanted to escape from the bottom of his heart:
"Watanabe-kun, if your stepmother doesn't like to hear it, tell it to me - your real mother."
Watanabe Toru pulled the collars on both sides of his suit with both hands, turned his back to the sunset over Tokyo Bay, and said to Kujo Miki and Kiyono Rin:
"My two sisters, I'm sorry, but the successor of the Kujo and Kiyono families must be me, the elder brother."
The two sisters rolled their eyes at brother Watanabe.
The two ladies smiled charmingly , their charm overshadowing the flowers in the yard.
The five of them sat at the garden dining table and enjoyed a fine dinner brought by the servants.
It was an evening with a warm breeze.
The waters of Tokyo Bay are rippling, and each wave carries gold bricks.
During the dinner, Kujo's mother whispered to Watanabe Toru the purpose of the dinner - to ease the relationship between the two young ladies.
In the fragrance of the kiss flower, the beautiful girl leaned over and the handsome Watanabe Toru listened attentively. Outsiders who didn't know their relationship would subconsciously think that they were a couple whispering.
"How are you doing recently?" Kujo's mother was not concerned about Watanabe Toru's health.
"I took the lead in doing some things, and the relationship seems to have improved a little." Toru Watanabe replied.
Rock-paper-scissors, essay writing, etc.
"Oh?" As expected of Meiji's mother, these simple syllables touched people's hearts.
"Today, Miki pinched Kiyono's face, even though it was a fight." Watanabe Toru explained in a low voice.
"What are you two whispering about?" Qingye's mother's voice came over with a smile, "Speak out so that everyone can hear it."
Mother Jiujo sat up straight and said with a smile:
"Watanabe-kun, what are we talking about?"
"Ask me?"
"Hmm?" Kujo's mother tilted her head and looked at him. Her behavior and expression were no different from those of Kamikawa's high school girl, but she had an additional mature charm.
"Tell me about it." Miki Kujo looked calm.
"I'm curious too." said Qingye Rin.
Just as Toru Watanabe was about to speak, Kujo's mother came over with the scent of May roses.
Her passionate lips were close to Watanabe Toru's ear, and she covered it with her wrinkle-free hand.
He looked at the other three people, as if afraid that they might eavesdrop.
"Don't tell anyone. Even though they know the purpose of the dinner, they won't come if you tell them."
After she finished speaking, Toru Watanabe leaned close to her ear.
"Meiji and I are going on a trip at the end of the month. Where do you think we should go?"
The mother of Kujo huddled her shoulders as if she was ticklish, looking delicate and shy.
Toru Watanabe wondered if the girl he saw for the first time, the one wearing a gorgeous kimono and sitting at the top seat in a dignified and noble manner, was a stand-in.
After the two of them finished communicating, Watanabe Toru said to the other three:
"Meiji and I are planning to go on a trip at the end of the month. I just asked Kujo...Mom, where is fun."
Kujo's mother glanced at Kiyono Rin, who could see through lies, and suddenly burst out laughing.
"Watanabe-kun," she couldn't stop smiling, "Mom likes you very much."
"Mom, I like you too."
"Lie." Qingye Rin wiped the corners of her mouth with a white napkin.
"..." Watanabe Toru confessed, "Well, I like Miki."
"Really? Rin-chan is such a bummer." Kujo's mother didn't care at all, "Watanabe-kun, it's okay. Mom believes everything you say."
"You're a better liar than me!" Watanabe Toru looked at his girlfriend for help.
"Mother." Kujo Miki called out coldly.
"Okay, okay, Miki is jealous." Kujo's mother finally ended her performance.
"Traveling is great." Qingye's mother sighed, "Come to think of it, I haven't been out this year. How about this, let's go together?"
"Ah?" Watanabe Toru stood there in a daze.
"Is it okay, Watanabe-kun?" Kiyono's mother leaned over and put her shoulder on Watanabe Toru's shoulder.
A faint fragrance wafted over.
"Help!" Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin in despair.
Qingye Rin took a sip of fresh orange juice and turned her gaze toward the rippling water of the bay.
Toru Watanabe looked at Kujo's mother again.
Kujo's mother looked at Kiyono Rin, then at her daughter.
"Great, the five of us will go together." She said with a smile.
"Then it's settled!" Qingye's mother clapped her hands together decisively, "We two mothers will decide the location and arrange the process, and you three children can concentrate on your studies."
Under the table, Miki Kujo kicked Toru Watanabe hard.
On the way back, she crossed her legs, hugged her arms, and asked Watanabe Toru:
"Why don't you just refuse!"
"She is Qingye's mother."
"What? You want to go to their house?" she sneered.
"She's Qingye's mother. I've only met her a few times. How can I refuse her? If it was our mothers, I would have said directly, 'No, Meiji and I need some time alone.' Do you understand what I mean? It's embarrassing if we don't have a good relationship."
After saying this, Watanabe Toru complained again:
"So did your mother. Why did you agree to it?"
Miki Kujo narrowed her eyes slightly, thinking about something, and then laughed again.
"Well, let them see how close we are during this trip."
Is it the dating anniversary?
Why did Toru Watanabe have the illusion that it was his death anniversary?
