The smile on Takasugi's face was even more eerie, his lips were thin, and when he grinned, he looked particularly terrifying, there was some wildness in the horror, and there was also some coldness and ruthlessness. He said, "Huh." I was right, interesting. Hawkers, let's walk from the bridge, there are fewer people. ”

"Okay." This summer, Yiyan walked in front and walked in the direction of the bridge.

It's the bridge that was hit in the head with a walnut last time she was chatting with Sawada.

Takasugi still had to lean on something to stand as if he had no bones, and now he was holding on to the railing of the bridge with both hands and looking into the water below. It's a tiny little bridge, with no scenery or pedestrians underneath, just a shallow stream of water with scattered cherry blossom petals.

"Are you cold?" This summer, I wore a light pink kimono that complemented the antique flavor of Nit Town, and the fox fur shawl on the outside was a man-made product, very warm, not so expensive, and if you looked closely, you could see that the fox's eyes were made of glass beads, and only when it was draped on someone of her appearance, this fake fur would not look man-made. Now she untied the fake fox and put it on Takasugi, who was lying on the railing of the bridge and looking down.

"You're dressed, I'm not cold." Every time Takasugi, who was wearing only thin clothes, spoke, a soft white mist could come out of his mouth, lining his frozen pale skin, like the legendary Snow Maiden...... Oh no, it's like Snow Man.

"Oh." This summer, he didn't wear it back as he said, so he took the fox tail part of the shawl, hung down from the bridge, and touched the water with the fox's lips and kissed the part, touching the ripples one by one. The bridge is really low.

"Hehe, be careful of being captured by the fox fairy to marry." Takasugi watched her play tricks with a shawl alone, and suddenly said this.

"Huh?" As soon as his hand loosened this summer, he almost dropped his shawl into the water: "Takasugi, you believe in the fox fairy." "No wonder it's so angry.

"I heard that." Takasugi changed to a posture with his back to the bridge railing, his arms supported by the bridge railing on his elbows, and he looked up at the night sky: "In this Hiigo Town, there is a shrine without gods. There's a fox fairy inside. ”

"Huh?"

Seeing that this summer was interested, Takasugi continued, "On the night of the full moon, the fox fairy will come out of that deserted shrine to find his master. ”

"Looking for the gods." It's a romantic story that deceives children. How can there be such a real fox fairy, how can there be no shrine and the fox fairy who is still waiting for the owner.

"Well, who knows what he's looking for. You are so beautiful, it may not be you who is looking for you. At the end of the story, Takasugi didn't forget to tease her by the way.

Looking at Takasugi's nervous expression and listening to his nervous voice, I felt that today's moon was exceptionally large and round...... Maybe Takasugi Shinsuke is the fox fairy, and she is the master he is looking for...... Thinking of this, she couldn't help but put the little artificial fox back on and cleared her throat: "Well, so, where is that shrine?" "Usually this kind of story will be made up to say that the shrine has been torn down or something, otherwise how can the mystery of the story be preserved?

Unexpectedly, Takasugi said, "It's right behind you." Opposite side of the bridge. ”

It may be that Takasugi's voice is both coquettish and perverted, which makes this summer's back chill, and he can't help but look back in the direction he said.

Thinking about it this summer, Sawada also said that there was a shrine here, but she couldn't find the specific location, and she didn't care much about it. Where?

"Where are ......" At this moment, Takasugi Jinsuke suddenly approached her ear, and his voice was deliberately muffled, with cold water vapor, gently piercing through her ear and directly reaching her brain.

It was so close that I could clearly smell the incense on his body.

"Hmm!" This summer turned around sharply and pushed him, staggering him into the bridge.

Takasugi burst out laughing, and his posture was still so soft, looking like a seriously ill psychopath, and like a mischievous old cat.

"But there's really a shrine." Didn't get seriously angry this summer. She's not so pretentious. She recalled the scene just now, and she was half heartbroken, and she didn't lose anything.

Takasugi also stopped laughing, took out his cigarette stick and lit it again: "Well, that fox fairy likes to eat walnuts." If there is a walnut shell in the sky, it means that he has come. ”

"Huh!" Hu, Walnut?

Yes, at that time, it was Hu Tao who hit her and Sawada's brains. Could it be that they were rectified by the fox fairy's prank? Why don't you go to the gods of his house and tease them?

Takasugi lit a cigarette, took a puff, and smiled playfully, "You won't really see it, will you?" ”

"Hah." This summer smiled noncommittally. Some things don't have to be taken so seriously. This legend is originally very beautiful, and it doesn't need to be verified at all, and I don't want to create another terrifying shadow on it, does it?

Before she knew it, it was too early, and it was time for her to go back.

Takasugi didn't politely send her off, nor did he politely ask for a false promise to come to him next time, just stood silently in the middle of the street, smoking a cigarette and watching her figure fade away at the end of the street.

This summer, I feel that although she has been to Nit Town so many times, only today's experience makes her never forget and never forget: not only can she not fall asleep with high excitement when she returns home, but even after lying in bed, she can vaguely remember the light and cold aroma of Takasugi. It was supposed to be plum blossoms mixed with the smell of rosin.

Sure enough, it's too expensive. She couldn't afford it.

The next day, she got up late, and she rubbed her sleepy eyes to see the time, which was only enough to simply freshen up. She hurriedly packed herself up and went out, and as soon as she walked into the office, she was called to her boss's office by a phone call.

said that she was the boss because the other party was bigger than her official position. The other party is not a faction with her, and she usually doesn't have much contact, so it stands to reason that there will be nothing to do for her. Therefore, she was a little uneasy when the call came strangely. Because this leader used to be a very well-known and promising young man...... Now that he is middle-aged, once people's ambitions are too big, they will become more and more unpleasant to the guys around him, and he is this kind of person. Suddenly being targeted by such a person, her first reaction was to think about whether she had done anything bad recently.

After thinking about it for three seconds, she didn't come up with it, and she gave up on the idea. She thought, maybe it's not so bad, maybe the other party really has a special task for her.

rushed to the boss's office, the other party was burying his head in the computer, and when he saw her come in, he politely closed the computer and stood up. First of all, this attitude can explain why this promising middle-aged man can climb so quickly. This summer hurriedly nodded and saluted.

"I've had a hard time lately." The first is of course the routine politeness.

This summer, he hurriedly said that he did not work hard at all and should serve the people.

The boss's face was not very good, his cheeks were dark, and his eyebrows, which should have been neatly groomed, had a lot of stubble, and his skin looked very dry. This is obviously the face of what troubles will not be solved for a long time. As he began to speak, his hand kept playing with an old fountain pen on the simple and clean table, unscrewing the cap and closing it again.

The atmosphere was fantastic. At least you don't have to worry about getting scolded. According to the explanation of the psychological portrait, this guy not only can't scold, but he still has something to do this summer. Don't ask her when she studied psychology portraits - how can she climb up without knowing something useful.

"Recently...... Are there any difficulties in busy affairs? The boss finally threw the pen into the pen holder with a "snap", and cared about her work in a calm tone.

Don't pretend.

Now this summer, he can even guess that what he wants to do has something to do with Nit Town. Why did you guess? She made such a high-profile canvassing speech, and the central theme was to encourage the squatters in Nit Town to find employment, so the issue of Nit Town will be the focus of her work for the first half of her tenure - always make a little achievement to show the villagers who voted for her. She has only been in office for a short time, and there will be regular media visits to her performance. Concerned so much about the progress of her work, of course the matter has something to do with Nit Town.

It won't be for her to help Gasse with counseling, right?

With a smile on his face, he said very reservedly: "Thanks to you, things are developing in a good direction, although the progress is not much, but everyone is working hard, and I believe it will get better soon." What an official answer! What a sense of distance! So, oh, I definitely don't want to plug it for you! First of all, as a public official, it is wrong to help the abusive person to go to the consultation.

The boss sighed, probably realizing that the effect of business is not to shake the summer that although he entered the industry late, he was like a fish in water, so he had to take out a slap big black book like a diary from the drawer: "Then I won't be polite to you, Mayor Tachibana." ”

This summer Yan nodded solemnly: "Please command, I will do my best." ”

"Here's the thing."

What follows is intermittent memories. Those memories are not stored in the boss's alarm clock, but in the notebook.

It turned out that when the boss was still a high-spirited and promising young man - ah, it was the second year of middle school, because he was a proud character of the sky, it was inevitable that he couldn't get used to the waste wood around him, but he was able to talk to an elite advisor in Nit Town. According to the boss's recollection, the other party was a very thoughtful, ambitious, and decisive man. Although he spent his days in Nit Town loitering around and not having a serious job, he had a wide range of knowledge, which was an astonishing knowledge at his age.

At this point, the boss sighed deeply again and added, "This is what I found out later when I read my own diary. Because, I can't remember that I once made friends with such a young hero. ”

Is it? But your expression is as if you're out of love. I really wanted to complain like this this summer, but she still had a stern smile on the surface, bowing her head slightly, waiting for the follow-up of this story.

According to his boss, some of the strategies and measures he has taken since entering politics have been concluded through consultation with this consultant, who is not knowing how many times more capable than the team he has spent money on. The advisor was particularly good at chess, so he sometimes coached the national players in their matches. The boss's diary records that they played against each other, and that the advisor never lost. The advisor had also told him that whether he wanted to win or lose, he would be able to do it without a trace. This incident seems to have hit the boss hard...... Even though it's just a game of chess, I don't know what's so hard about it this summer.

Later, because the boss got married and promoted, his personality gradually became stable, and his heart for reform became much calmer, and the time to discuss work with consultants became much less. However, I still visit the advisor regularly, and I have long regarded him as a spiritual friend, or spiritual leader.

The boss is a proud and conceited person, and he feels that it was after meeting the consultant that he gradually reined in his edge, realized his own shortcomings, and became the calm personality he is now.

Wow. Is this telling his subordinates about his love history? But you don't feel like you're in love, it's more like your unilateral longing for a senior's love. Listening to it this summer, I have already guessed the end: either the advisor finally got married and gave up being a Nit, and from then on worked hard and became a mortal; Either that family squat suffered from some terminal illness and finally died young. Rest assured, that's how the story is told now.

Sure enough, the boss held his forehead and said lightly, "He's missing." ”

The boss fell into the memories and his tone was confused, as if he was talking about someone else's business, but what he said made him suspicious this summer.

"Missing is ......?" No way?!

"I reported the case." The boss glanced out the window, and his face had begun to appear with such a confused look: "He disappeared overnight." The next day, I seemed to talk to him about something...... I can't remember clearly, it's strange, I can barely recall his memories with the help of my diary, no, it can't be called a memory anymore. My deepest memory is the love I felt every time I saw him. I can't even remember what he looked like. ”

It's weird. It was as if someone had deliberately erased his memory. As far as she knows, the current medical treatment of human beings has not yet reached the point of extracting a certain memory without damaging other memories. Secret ...... of Nit Town It's getting more and more interesting.

"So, remember the name? Did you mention it in your diary? "Try to ask this summer.

"Lelouch." The boss said categorically: "His name is Lelouch." ”