"Is there anything wrong with me?" Raiden Mio put down the book in his hand, took off his glasses and looked up at Chihori standing beside him.

"That...... Mio-san, tomorrow is a day off. ”

"Masako told you that, but I have a request. Mio immediately guessed Chihori's intentions, stood up and shook her hair, tied a slightly loose ponytail behind her head with the hairband on her wrist, crossed her waist and said, "Today I'm going to my mother's place, there is no one to take care of the knives in the room, you are responsible for helping me take care of them, and Masako will teach you the specific steps." ”

"Miss Mio wants me to take good care of those knives, I understand, can you agree to come out with me tomorrow?" Chiho asked impatiently, seeing that there was hope in this matter.

"Probably, then, I'll go first. ”

Chiho Li got out of the way, bent down respectfully and whispered, "Miss Mio, be careful on the road." ”

It's nine o'clock in the morning, and Fujiwa doesn't seem to have much work to do, just boring himself in the kitchen and wiping the table repeatedly, looking absent-minded and not knowing what he's thinking.

"Miss Fujiwa!"

"Wow!" Fujiwa was startled, sat on the chair, and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that it was Chihori, "Chihori, don't suddenly appear behind others in the future!"

"Oh......"

"What's wrong?, did the eldest lady promise you?" asked Fujiwa, holding his chin.

Chihori tugged at the corner of her skirt, unable to speak for a long time, and after a long time, she said, "I don't know if that's a promise...... Miss Mio said let me take care of the knives for her, and then she might go out with me tomorrow. ”

"Isn't it nice to finally take the first step. Fujiwa saw that Chihori seemed to have something on his mind, so he approached and asked, "Are you afraid that the eldest lady will not agree?"

"Hmm. Chihori nodded.

"No, the eldest lady likes you very much. I've been working in the Raiden family for seventeen years, and I've never seen the eldest lady get along with anyone to such a point, she seems to have already agreed with you, but she hasn't said anything. ”

"Is that really the case......" Chiho Ri suddenly thought of Raiden Mio's words just now, leaned over and asked, "Does Miss Fujiwa know how to maintain Miss Mio's knife?" She said that I came to you. ”

Fujiwa took Chihori to Mio's room, and she always locked the door when she wasn't there, only Mio herself, Raiden Knife and Fujiwa had the key here, and there was no other spare key.

"Click. ”

Pushing open the door of the room, a fresh fragrance came from inside the house, this was the first time in a month that Chiho Li had entered here, and she could only wait for Raiden Mio at the door before, and she had never stood in her room so naturally.

"Didn't the eldest lady close the window again?" Fujiwa glanced at the raised curtains, sighed and walked over to him, closing the window.

"Does Mio-sama have to maintain them every day?" Chiho Ri looked around at the swords that filled the walls of almost the entire room, each of them had its own knife holder, and its color, texture, and temperament were all unique, and it was not easy to find time to maintain these knives every day.

"Well, the eldest lady will be here the rest of the time except for reading in the garden downstairs. Fujiwa pulled out two small white bottles from the box in the corner of the room and handed one of them to Chihori, "This is the commonly used knife oil of the eldest lady, a very precious type, and it can't be bought in Furano, so be careful when using it." ”

Chihori looked at the bottle in her hand, about the size of a palm, filled with knife oil that smelled fragrant.

"I always feel like I've smelled it somewhere......" Chiho Ri sniffed the smell of knife oil, but couldn't remember where she had smelled it, "Miss Fujiwa, how do you use this?"

Fujiwa took a knife from the wall of the room, this knife was about five feet long, it was heavy in his hand, the scabbard was engraved with cyan dragon patterns, it was extremely exquisite, each dragon seemed to have its own life, as if it would suddenly rush out of the scabbard in the next moment!

"Boom-"

The crisp sound of metal clashing as the blade unsheathed lingered in the room for a long time, like the roar of a dragon.

"Chihori, you wait for me here, I'll go get a basin of clean water. Fujiwa handed the knife to Chihori, and the knife was really heavy in his hand, and it took a lot of effort to hold it with one hand.

A few minutes later, Fujiwa returned to the room with a basin of water, filled it with a soft cloth, covered it with water, covered it with the blade, wiped off the old knife oil from top to bottom, and then wrung out the soft cloth, carefully wiped the blade, until there was no drop of water stains left on it, then took out the knife oil just now, and carefully applied it on it little by little, very evenly, almost every place was just right.

"Then retract the scabbard, and that's it. Fujiwa held up the knife and motioned for Chiho to do it the same way she did.

Chihori took a knife from the wall behind her, wiped off the old knife oil, and carefully wiped the water traces on it, but when it came to reapplying the knife oil, she couldn't do it evenly like Fujiwa, either a little more here or a little less there, and in the end she had to cry and ask Fujiwa to wipe them evenly.

"It's not easy, just practice for a while. At this moment, Fujiwa suddenly felt the mobile phone in his pocket vibrate, "I'm sorry, I can't accompany you, the owner of the sword wind seems to call me again." ”

"Eh, wouldn't that mean I'm going to ...... alone?"

"If you had done all the maintenance of these knives, Mio-chan would have been very happy. Fujiwa laughed and ran out of Raiden Mio's room, leaving Chiho Ri alone in a daze at the knives in the entire room.

"What...... I slipped away alone before I was completely taught.,Ah~ Miss Fujiwa is really.。 Chihori looked at the knife in his hand, this is the second one, and there are still ninety-seven on the wall that need to be maintained, if an average one takes three minutes, it will take at least nearly five hours to maintain all of them!

Putting the well-maintained knife back on the knife holder, Chiho suddenly found a row of small characters under the knife holder next to her.

"Huh? This is...... What did Mio name the knife for?" Chihori looked at the other knife holders, each with a different name written underneath, ninety-nine in total.

"Miss Mio's friend. Chihori recalled what Fujiwa had told her, Mio had no friends from beginning to end, only these knives could always accompany her, for some reason, Chiho Li suddenly felt a sour heart, and an inexplicable feeling of sadness gushed out from the depths of her heart.

She gently removed the third knife and said softly, "Thank you all the time......

In the evening, Raiden Mio rode back to the bottom of the mountain of Raiden's house, and walked up the steps to the door of the house, where Fujiwa seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"Miss, you're back. ”

"Masako, didn't you tell you to help Chihori?" asked Raiden Mio as she walked.

"Miss, I think it would be better to leave her alone. ”

"I'm making my own decisions again, hmph, when can I stop doing those superfluous things. ”

"I'm afraid it's impossible in this life. Fujiwa said with a smile.

Raiden Mio walked over to the couch and sat down, picking up the vine and the tea, a rare look of tiredness on her face.

"Miss, is everything okay over there?" Fujiwa asked softly as he sat down next to Raiden Mio.

"Mom is very busy every day, but she has a good body. ”

"Really...... That's good. ”

"I'll go back to my room, let Chiho Ri make me dinner. ”

Back upstairs, Raiden Mio tiredly pushed open the door, only to see that the golden rippled water in the afterglow of the setting sun was constantly being lifted by a pair of small hands, which carefully drained the water on the knife little by little, and wiped the blade with their hands instead of a soft cloth.

"What are you doing?"

"Ah, Miss Mio, you're back. Chihori stood up from the ground, the knife in her hand still dripping downward, and she dried it with a soft cloth before she began to apply knife oil to it.

"Have you been here all day?" Raiden Mio crouched down, looked at the knife in Chihori's hand, and glanced up at the knife holder on the wall, this knife was the penultimate knife on the right wall, which was one of the last knives that Chiho was going to maintain.

"Yes, it would have taken me five hours to complete, but no matter how much Miss Fujiwa taught me, I couldn't learn the art of applying knife oil, so I had to use my hands to find the feeling. Don't worry, Mio-san, I won't break them, because ...... They're your friends. Chiho put the knife into its sheath and carefully placed it back on the knife holder.

And after Chihori's hand was no longer covered by the knife, several bright red cuts entered Raiden Mio's sight.

"That's enough, I'll do the rest. Raiden Mio stopped Chihori, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, "Masako has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory medicines there, and she will help you deal with these wounds." ”

"Miss Mio, ...... tomorrow"

"Let me see you before seven. ”

Chiho Ri's heart suddenly surged into a warm current, this usually cold eldest lady would actually give people such a warm feeling, for a moment I thought it was an illusion, but after staring at her eyes seriously, I realized that as Fuji and Masako said, she had really begun to recognize herself!

"I see, thank you, Mio-san. ”

"Those knife oils are harmful to the human body, hurry up and find Masako!"

Chiho Ri excitedly left Raiden Mio's room, looking at the few wounds on her hands, if these injuries can be exchanged for Mio's sincerity, it will be worth it.

"Oh, Chihori, has your work been going well lately?" When I came to the hall on the first floor, I happened to meet the thunderbolt knife wind who seemed to be going somewhere in a suit and leather shoes.

"Master. Chihori nodded and said, "Well, everything is fine, Mio-sama promised to go out with me tomorrow." ”

"Yes, it's a good job, and sure enough, I didn't misread you. Okay, I'm going to a banquet right now, and I'll be back late, so Mio will leave it to you. Daofeng hurriedly left the house and went down the mountain under the escort of several men in suits.