Chapter 350 The Second Night in Hakodate
November 4th, five in the morning.
It was still dark in Hakodate, and in the pitch darkness, a beam of light illuminated the hotel sign.
Toru Watanabe kept running until he reached a narrow estuary in the south, and then ran back.
Whenever he runs, he thinks of every morning in Shinjuku Yotsuya - sitting alone on the steps of Suga Shrine, and enjoying the taste of soda in the summer.
In front of the hotel, the big black words "Zhuye Xinye Pavilion" can be seen from a distance.
"Good morning, guest." As I walked into the small wooden building, a staff member in kimono came up to greet me.
"Good morning." said Toru Watanabe.
"I thought you went to the morning market, but it turns out you went for a morning run." The young waitress had a happy smile on her face.
"This is the first time I see a customer jogging in the morning." said another waitress.
"I had no choice," said Toru Watanabe.
"What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well?"
"That's not the case. I slept very comfortably. It's just that when we first started dating, I was physically weak and was bullied by my girlfriend every day, so I started running."
"Really?" Several waitresses were shocked and said that she was worthy of being a woman from Tokyo.
"Are you still being bullied now?" asked the waitress who was the first to greet Watanabe Toru.
Watanabe Toru nodded.
"Morning jogging doesn't seem to be of any use."
"It's obvious from the first glance that the customer is someone who really cares about his girlfriend."
Everyone was talking at once, and in addition to the scent on their bodies, Watanabe Toru could also smell the faint woody fragrance of the hotel itself.
"I don't know if Qingye has woken up yet, but Meiji must still be sleeping soundly, this lazy and lovely woman."
After six o'clock, Koizumi Aona, Asuka Mai and others got up one after another.
In order to save space for tasting the fresh seafood at the "morning market", everyone gave up the hotel's sumptuous breakfast.
Akiko had a painful look on his face, and kept saying "I lost money" until he reached the "Chaoichi".
At around six or seven o'clock, the sky over Hakodate was just getting light, and the "morning market" was already in full swing.
In the tank, there are live fish that are so ugly that it’s doubtful whether they can be eaten;
Placed on ice, the crab legs were almost half as long as Xiaolian's body;
The shell is shaped into a bowl and the cleaned sea urchin is 1,000 yen per portion.
Cut into pieces, half of the body is packed in a box, and the price of a box is 3,000 to 5,000 yen;
Watanabe Toru's squid, which is as big as his two palms and sizzles on the iron plate, sells for 1,500 yen.
On the plate, the eels were skewered and coated with sauce, 700 yen a skewer;
…
"Wow!" Akiko laughed excitedly and pulled out a crab leg.
It is thick, long and white. Just take a bite and the crab meat will fill your mouth immediately.
“Hmm—” She narrowed her eyes, her face full of happiness, “Hmm, hmm, hmm!”
"I don't understand what you are saying. Let's talk after we finish eating." Miyuki Miyazaki looked disgusted.
"You can also catch squid here!" Huangzi pointed at the squid shop while eating crab legs.
"Let's go and have some fun." said Toru Watanabe.
"Yeah!" Akiko nodded vigorously.
Miyuki Miyazaki, Akiko, and Toru Watanabe each took a mini fishing rod.
"Senior," Toru Watanabe turned his head and asked Asuka Mai with a smile, "Would you like to play?"
Just like in Uji, Kyoto, a place he had only been to once, he would not restrain himself and would laugh whenever he wanted to.
"I can't." said Asu Mai.
"I'll teach you." Toru Watanabe handed her the fishing rod, held her soft little hand, and put the bait into the water tank together.
"Let's see who catches the fish first, and the loser pays the bill!" Akiko suggested with interest.
"No problem." Miyazaki Miyuki nodded.
"You guys should be ready to pay!" Watanabe Toru said confidently, "Senior, don't worry, I caught a tuna taller than a human in the Pacific Ocean."
"Yeah!" Asu Mai is not interested in squid fishing, but she is very happy to be able to fish squid with Watanabe Toru.
"Aona, help me take the crab legs." Akiko rolled up her sweater sleeves, "Today I'll let you know how powerful the teacher is!"
"Have you seen "The Old Man and the Sea"? It is based on me." Toru Watanabe was not to be outdone.
"Young man," Miyazaki Miyuki said, "I am now suspicious of your tuna fishing."
"This kid must be lying." Akiko said affirmatively.
"Mai-senpai, do you believe me?"
"Well, I believe..."
"Huh?" Miyuki Miyazaki pulled the mini fishing rod and a squid was hanging on it.
"Senior," Watanabe Toru said seriously, "Next time, let's go fishing for tuna."
"Toru," Asu Mai tilted her head, her hair falling from her shoulders, "I want to fish for squid."
"…Okay, squid fishing."
Asu Mai looked at Watanabe Toru and smiled happily and brightly.
Looking at her like this, Watanabe Toru also smiled sincerely.
Koizumi Aona was watching them from behind. She knew that this was normal and that it was Watanabe Toru who was taking care of Asu Mai, but she couldn't help but attribute it to what happened last night.
Sure enough, people will unconsciously prefer those with whom they have deep relationships.
Koizumi Aona took a deep breath.
The squids caught are turned into squid rings in a few minutes after being processed by the boss.
The crystal clear meat was served on a small silver plate, but Watanabe Toru had no desire to eat it.
After walking around, I found a seafood restaurant.
We had tuna rice, sea urchin rice, and king crab leg rice.
There was a huge hill of tuna meat and so much crab legs that you couldn't even see the rice. The portions were very generous.
When Toru Watanabe saw this, he thought of Kujo Miki - two days before coming, she had used various methods to let Toru Watanabe taste Hokkaido's paella.
"Teacher Akiko," Toru Watanabe asked, "where are you going today?"
"Yesterday's itinerary was in the city, and today's itinerary is in the mountains!" Huangzi said while eating.
It is Mount Eyama during the day and Mount Hakodate at night.
Huishan is located in Huishan Provincial Park, only 618 meters above sea level, and can be reached in an hour's hike.
Before starting their climb, they stopped at the Mizunashi Kaihama Onsen near Cape Eyama.
This is a very magical hot spring.
It is right next to the beach, directly connected to the sea, and is only surrounded by rocks.
Although the weather was good that day, the wind at the beach was still very cold and tried hard to take away people's body temperature.
But in the hot spring, there are many people soaking in swimsuits.
"The magic of nature is breathtaking," exclaimed Miyuki Miyazaki.
As for Akiko, she had already pulled Asuka Mai to a smaller pool, took off her socks and started soaking her feet.
"The water temperature is just right! Come here!" Akiko held his socks in his left hand and waved towards this side with his right hand.
"Foot soaking is good for your health. Let's go over too." Miyuki Miyazaki called out and walked over first.
When she walked a little further away, Watanabe Toru asked Koizumi Aona beside him with concern: "What's wrong?"
"Huh?" Koizumi Aona came back to her senses.
"He's been acting stupid since this morning," said Toru Watanabe.
"How dare you call the teacher stupid?" Koizumi Aona pretended to hit him.
Watanabe Toru smiled and dodged: "Are you angry? Because of what happened last night?"
"No, I haven't."
"Teacher Qingnai, if you have any dissatisfaction, or don't like what I do, you must speak up. Don't keep it in your heart, sulk or force yourself to get used to me."
"Don't worry." Koizumi Aona smiled.
"Communication, you must keep communicating, this is the secret to a long-lasting relationship." Watanabe Toru said with a smile.
"Watanabe..." Koizumi Aona looked at the vast and boundless sea.
Toru Watanabe raised his hand and tucked the ends of her hair that were blown by the sea breeze behind her ears. Her delicate ears were white and transparent in the sunlight.
He waited for a while, but Koizumi Aona still didn't say anything further.
"What's wrong?" he asked curiously.
"Nothing, nothing." Koizumi Aona raised her hand to tie up her hair, but halfway through she remembered that it had already been tied up by Watanabe Toru.
"Let's go take a hot spring bath, it looks like a lot of fun." Without waiting for Watanabe Toru to speak, she said as she walked towards the pile of rocks on the beach.
She was not angry or unhappy, but when she thought about what was going to happen tonight , her heart started pounding so hard that it seemed like it was going to jump out of her body.
The memories of using Toru Watanabe's body always come to my mind.
The toilet, bathroom, and cloakroom for half an hour.
This kind of thing... How can we possibly maintain communication as Toru Watanabe said? !
At the age of 26, Koizumi Aona had such wild fantasies for the first time in her life.
After leaving Huishan Cape, the five people headed towards Huishan.
From a distance, the top of the mountain looks like the surface of the moon, bare and with nothing on it.
But except for the top of the mountain, the rest of the place is covered with red maples.
Huishan is an active volcano and is still emitting heat today.
There was a sign with the Chinese characters "Danger" written on it in the white mist. In the mist, there were geological prospectors. If you ignore their helmets, it looked like a scene in heaven.
In the bare rocky area without a single blade of grass, the five people took several photos with the geologist, white mist, and the "Danger" sign as the background.
Akiko blew in the direction of the wind, as if the white air was blown out by her;
Koizumi Aona cutely extended her hand to introduce the scene, and it seemed that she would be very popular as a reporter;
Miyuki Miyazaki sat on a rock, looking at the camera in a casual manner - this was simply because she was tired;
Asu Mai was squatting in the white sand and gravel, holding a white stone in her hand, staring at the camera blankly - this was a snapshot taken by Toru Watanabe.
After leaving Huishan, we found another restaurant to eat seafood - Watanabe Toru had been eating seafood for four days in a row.
I was suddenly glad that the hotel I booked was a Japanese-style hotel that mainly serves kaiseki cuisine.
In the afternoon, it’s time for girls to go shopping.
Tokyo has everything, but I still can’t find the drugstores and MUJI in Hakodate.
Watanabe Toru sat on the sofa, having long since started living the life of a middle-aged man with a woman's bag by his side.
While waiting, I sneaked out to buy a tofu daifuku and a piece of Dorayaki.
The middle-aged man next door got up and left, and after a while he came back with a piece of Dorayaki in his hand.
"It's delicious." said the middle-aged man.
"That's right." Watanabe Toru responded.
For dinner, we found a restaurant where we could watch the sunset into the sea.
After that, we went to Mount Hakodate to see the night view.
The night view of Mount Hakodate is known as one of the three best night views in the world and enjoys the honor of "Million Night View".
The round-trip ticket is 1,500 yen per person. As the cable car slowly rises higher and higher, the street lights shine brightly, the houses are brightly lit, and the appearance of Hakodate gradually emerges.
Climbing to an altitude of 334 meters, the wind on Mount Hakodate in November is very cold, especially at night when it is accompanied by the sea breeze, the chill goes straight into the neck.
As I approached the window step by step and looked at Hakodate, whose entire bay was lit up by colorful bright yellow lights, I suddenly felt that everything was worth it.
After enjoying the night view, everyone was already very cold when they went down the mountain.
Toru Watanabe saw that Koizumi Aona's ears were red, so he reached out to cover them for her.
Koizumi Aona looked back at him with a happy yet somewhat embarrassed shy smile on her face.
"Tsk tsk." Akiko couldn't bear to watch it anymore and smacked her lips. She rolled her eyes and grabbed Miyazaki Miyuki's hands and covered her ears with them.
Asu Mai looked at everyone and reached out her hand to cover Watanabe Toru's ears.
"Senior, I'm not cold." said Toru Watanabe.
"Let go. It's hard to walk like this." Miyazaki Miyuki said to Akiko.
The tourists passing by looked at them with curiosity, warmth, or as if they were crazy.
After descending Mount Hakodate, the five people, feeling cold, ran to the food street by the canal and then went into a barbecue lamb restaurant.
Toru Watanabe is in charge of the grilling.
Akiko and Miyuki Miyazaki were eating happily.
Asu Mai was wearing the hat that Watanabe Toru had just bought for her. It was white, furry, and had two cute little balls on it. It had a very northern style.
Looking at her plain little face and the cute hat, Koizumi Aona always felt that Watanabe Toru bought her this hat because it looked fun.
"Aona, eat quickly." Akiko called out.
"Hmm." Koizumi Aona had no intention of tasting the roasted lamb.
The darker it got, the more nervous she became.
After dinner, everyone originally planned to go back to the hotel to soak in the hot springs, but she suggested going to "Xiangxue Garden" to enjoy the night maple leaves.
The red leaf avenue is about a hundred meters long, and under the light, it appears layered with varying depths.
The red leaves swayed in the dark evening breeze under the light, as if they were even more gorgeous than in the sunlight.
The ground was covered with fallen leaves, and walking on them, Koizumi Aona felt a little relaxed.
But once I heard Watanabe Toru's voice or saw his figure, my heart began to beat uncontrollably again.
The long, yet seemingly short day is finally coming to an end.
After returning to the hotel and soaking in the hot spring, Koizumi Aona was still planning to play for a while and try to delay the time. However, Akiko and Miyazaki Miyuki said they were too tired and wanted to rest early.
"So early?" She looked at the two of them in surprise.
"I got up before six o'clock, climbed the mountain, went shopping, and went to the mountain again in the evening. I was so tired." said Huangzi.
"When did your physical strength become so good?" Miyuki Miyazaki asked Aona Koizumi.
After hearing what they said, Koizumi Aona suddenly realized that today was indeed a day full of plans.
"…Okay, good night."
Leaving their room, she placed her hand on her chest. Through the thin bathrobe, she could feel her heart beating and her body trembling.
"I'll go back first." Asu Mai said lightly.
"...Yeah." Koizumi Aona even felt that her voice was trembling.
After Asu Mai left, she took a deep breath and walked towards Watanabe Toru's bedroom.
Toru Watanabe is reading a book about the ice and snow in Hokkaido.
Hearing a knock on the door, he casually put the book on the tatami and walked over.
When I opened the door, I saw Aona Koizumi who looked nervous.
"Teacher Aona?" Watanabe Toru asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Koizumi Aona didn't say anything, but just lowered her head, held up the hem of her yukata, and squeezed past Watanabe Toru into the room.
Watanabe Toru slowly closed the door, and when he walked back, Koizumi Aona was already kneeling beside the futon.
His heartbeat also began to quicken, and he understood the purpose of Koizumi Aona's visit so late at night.
He was not in a hurry. Since Koizumi Aona was so nervous, he couldn't be nervous either.
"Can't sleep?" He asked naturally.
"Yeah." Koizumi Aona took the upside-down book and looked at one line repeatedly.
Toru Watanabe went to the tea room and poured her a cup of tea.
"Thank you." Koizumi Aona put down the book, held the tea in both hands, and drank it in small sips.
"We'll be going back tomorrow." Toru Watanabe took the book and flipped through two pages.
"Hmm." Koizumi Aona stared at the tea, as if studying why some leaves can become tea leaves but some cannot.
"How about we come again next time? When it snows heavily."
"Yeah." After a pause, Koizumi Aona added, "Okay."
Watanabe Toru stopped flipping through the book and looked at her: "Teacher Aonai, you haven't given me the reward for first place in the October test yet, you didn't forget it, did you?"
Koizumi Aona said nothing, but took a sip of tea to hide her nervousness.
Toru Watanabe closed the book, put it aside, and then took away Koizumi Aona's teacup.
"May I?" He looked into her eyes.
"...Yeah." Koizumi Aona lowered her head.
Toru Watanabe held Koizumi Aona's round shoulders with both hands and put his lips close to hers.
Koizumi Aona slowly closed her eyes, her heartbeat was like thunder, but when her lips overlapped, she could hear nothing.
After a brief taste, Toru Watanabe left her lips.
He admired Koizumi Aona, and Koizumi Aona also let him look at her.
The yukata was white with a green bamboo print on it, and a ribbon was tied around her slender waist.
"Is it okay?" Watanabe Toru's breathing quickened.
"...Yeah." Koizumi Aona gave an affirmative answer again.
Toru Watanabe placed his hands on her shoulders, holding her yukata together, and moved them down along both sides of her arms.
The yukata slid apart from the shoulders, and the neckline became a V-shape, revealing the delicate collarbone and an alluring touch of whiteness.
Under the light, Koizumi Aona's body trembled slightly, and she subconsciously reached out to grab the collar of her yukata to prevent it from going down.
"Aona." Watanabe Toru called softly, took her hand and kissed it.
From the fair skin, to the collarbone, and finally back to the lips.
This time, unlike the gentleness just now, it was a little greedy.
Immersed in the passionate kiss, Koizumi Aona's body slowly lost strength.
Toru Watanabe did not hug her, but guided her to fall gently onto the bedding.
Koizumi Aona seemed to be ticklish, but also seemed to be comfortable, so she bent her legs and then straightened them.
Leaving her legs, her hands moved up again, and with a faint sound of rope friction, the belt around Koizumi Aona's waist was gently pulled open.
Toru Watanabe moved slightly away from Aona Koizumi and opened the yukata from both sides.
Aona Koizumi is lying on a yukata, with round and full breasts, a slender waist, snow-white thighs, and underwear that is just the right amount of sexy.
"Don't look!" Koizumi Aona called out shyly, covering her upper body with her left hand and her lower body with her right hand.
"Can you let me see it?" Toru Watanabe did not use brute force, but pleaded gently.
After a moment of silence, Koizumi Aona moved her left hand up to cover her eyes, then took her right hand away and nervously grabbed the quilt.
"I like you, I like you!" she whispered softly, with fervent affection.
