Mr. Kinomoto seems to be a very nice and talkative person.

But this person is going to be her future tutor, which makes the hedgehog relax a little and nervous again, I really don't want Mr. Kinomoto to see her bad grades at home.

"Then let's have a drink!" My wife's mother's sudden voice frightened the hedgehog.

After coming back to her senses, she suddenly heard such a bold sentence from her mother, and the hedgehog's head flashed like a marquee about what happened before and was vomited, which was really not a good experience, especially since it was very difficult for her to clean up the vomit with her hands.

"Ya, Ya Yan ......" The hedgehog who reacted was not good, and he didn't have time to worry about his inconvenience, so he reflexively rushed up and hugged my wife's mother's waist with one hand.

However, it was too late.

The hedgehog could only watch his mother drink the sake that the waiter had already put on the table, "Ahh......h

A glass of sake was drunk by my wife's mother in a hearty sip, and the small shot glass was smashed on the table by her "bang", "Haah~, it's amazing——! She let out an uncle-like sigh, and then poured another glass and dried it in one gulp.

Momoya Kinomoto is an outsider and a junior. His identity was a little embarrassing, and he was really embarrassed to step forward and hold my wife's mother for such a bold drink, so he could only look at the petrified little girl on the side for help, and said, "That my wife?" Is that good? Don't stop the point. ”

"Hedgehog...... I don't want to pay attention to my mother anymore. Although he wanted to answer like this, the hedgehog did not say this wayward word after all.

"Mother, Ya Yan Butterfly! The last time you added this one, it's the second time you've drunk this month, and you've already overdosed. And you've drunk too much, there's no way I can get you back to the hotel. "The hedgehog tried to snatch the glass from my wife's mother's hand, but was shaken by the actions of the brave warrior and fell face down on the mat.

"It's okay, it's okay." My wife's mother, who was overwhelmed by alcohol, was already a little drunk, and she waved her hands and said, "Don't worry, there is Kinomoto-kun here today, and it's just a small glass." ”

"It's not just a small cup, it's two...... It's rude. The hedgehog maintained his lying motion, raised his head and muttered helplessly. She looked apologetically at the people who were involved in this unwarranted disaster, and said, "Really, I'm really sorry for Mr. Kinomoto, my mother is drunk...... will become like a drunk uncle, so, so ...... If anything happens today, please bear with me. ”

"Little brother, let's have a drink." As soon as she finished speaking, her mother ran out to brush up on her zài feeling, and the hedgehog was tired and lay on the mat and covered her face.

"Mom, Mr. Kinomoto, is not yet an adult......"

"Then baby, have a drink."

"I'm just a primary school student......"

"Woohoo!" My wife's mother willfully tapped the wine glass with chopsticks, and shouted in her mouth, "Have a drink!" Have a drink! words.

"Mom, you're rude like this! It's going to bother others! "The hedgehog struggled to get up with one hand, and pounced on it to snatch the chopsticks from my wife's mother's hand, but was shaken again and pounced on the food on the table.

"Danger!"

Before the hedgehog was about to hit the table, Kinomoto grabbed the child who was already crying without tears, hugged her and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"Yes...... Yes, thank you, Mr. Kinomoto. The hedgehog nestled in Momoya's arms wiped off the sweat that was scared, looked back at her mother who was stunned and worried, and took the sports drink that had been opened in front of Momoya and lifted it up.

"Mom!" The hedgehog slammed the sports drink on the table, "I respect you!" After speaking, he held up his drink and drank it.

My wife's mother suddenly became excited, and she didn't care about what the hedgehog was drinking, so she raised her glass and said, "Hedgehog! Interesting! Then he drank with his daughter.

After a whole bottle of sports drink was drunk by the hedgehog, there was a thud across the table. Those who were still excited before were finally put down by the third drink.

The hedgehog got down from Momoya's arms, covered his mouth with his hand to prevent water from squirting out of his mouth, stepped forward and poked his mother's head with his fingers, and after making sure that he was completely dizzy and had no strength to move, he slowly swallowed all the water in his mouth with a sigh of relief.

Obviously he didn't drink, but the hedgehog's cheeks turned red when he turned his head to look at the person who was snickering across from him.

"That, that ......" Although it is a white lie to fool her mother to get drunk, she still feels ashamed to be seen by outsiders in the whole process of her fooling people, especially since this person is her future tutor, "I, I ......"

The hedgehog really wishes there was a hole here for her to hide.

"Heh, I'm sorry, I just sent a daze." Momoya raised her hand to cover the corners of her mouth and looked away from the hedgehog. Hopefully, by doing so, he will calm down the little girl who is red like a tomato and is about to explode, but it still doesn't work.

The hedgehog smiled awkwardly and quickly dug out my wife's mother's wallet to settle the bill.

"Ah, that's still ......" Momoya reacted, and before she could say the word "I'll come", the hedgehog had already handed the cash to the waiter who happened to be passing by.

"Knot, checkout." The hedgehog's timid voice made the waiter stunned for a moment, he looked at the person who fell on the table, and the young man on the other side who wanted to stand up, and then looked at the red little girl in front of him, and replied, "Yes, please wait a moment." ”

After a quick checkout, the waiter asked thoughtfully, "Excuse me, do you need help?" He gestured to the man who had fallen on the table.

The hedgehog looked at the other party's point, and when she saw her mother's appearance, she sighed and said, "Yes, yes, can I trouble you?" ”

The waiter and Momoya drove the unconscious arm of my wife's mother and followed the hedgehog with the bag towards the hotel, and sent my wife's mother to the bed.

Momoya went to wash my wife's mother with a hot towel to apply to her face.

And the hedgehog, who is like a little adult, after sending Mr. waiter to the door, she is used to tipping abroad, and she is not stingy at all to give Mr. waiter a considerable extra income," ...... I'm sorry to disturb your working hours. ”

After sending off Mr. Waitress, the hedgehog turned around and returned to the room, just in time to see Momoya placing a towel on my wife's mother's forehead.

The hedgehog stepped forward to take over the work in Momoya's hands, and after helping her mother fold the quilt, she thanked her: "Really, it's really troublesome for you, Mr. Kinomoto, mom is ......only like this when she's happy" Obviously, he came to see the tutor, but it turned out to be a scene of his mother getting drunk again, and the hedgehog didn't want to leave any bad impressions for the future tutor.

"Don't worry." Momoya gently rubbed the hedgehog's head without care, and accidentally touched the hairpin on the hedgehog's head when she withdrew it, making her dull hair finally pop out and straighten up like an ear.

Momoya was stunned for a moment, and after pinching the hedgehog's stupid hair, he made sure that it was hair and not cat ears, so he withdrew his hand and coughed embarrassedly, "Ahem, what, because it's not far from the holiday now, and it won't play much of a role in giving you make-up classes, so I'll leave you some homework a little, and when we meet during the holidays, check your progress so that I can arrange a study plan for you." ”

Suddenly, the topic changed so that the hedgehog didn't realize what was wrong, and after being stunned for a while, she realized that this was Mr. Kinomoto telling her about teaching.

"Ahh Be! The hedgehog suddenly became nervous, and the hairpin on the other side of the hair also collapsed, and the two hairs stood up together, and she asked, "So, that, what do I need to do?!" ”

"Huh." Momoya chuckled, borrowed a hedgehog's pen and paper and wrote on the paper: "If you don't know Japanese well, you'd better start reading first, go buy a book suitable for you, how about a mythological story?" and a dictionary is also needed...... My wife's English is very good, so I bought an English-Japanese dictionary. When he finished writing, he handed it out.

The hedgehog took the simple study plan, and always felt that something was wrong, but for a while he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Momoya looked at his watch and found that it was already late and might not be able to catch up with the car if he didn't leave, so he simply cleaned up and said goodbye: "Then, I'll leave first." I'll see you on vacation, my wife. ”

"Yes!" The hedgehog stood up again, and stiffly sent away his tutor with his hands and feet.

Early the next morning.

After making sure that his mother was okay in the hotel, the hedgehog went out with his study plan.

After buying dictionaries and mythological storybooks at a major bookstore, the idle hedgehog began to spin around Ikebukuro, no matter how many times she walked back and forth on the pedestrian streets of Ikebukuro, no matter how many times she entered the crowd of people coming and going, she always felt that she could not fit in today.

The people she saw were gray and white, and they hurried past her, their looks and features forgotten in an instant.

The hedgehog, who sits on the railing and rests, has the illusion that the whole world seems to be the only one with color.

The world faded and turned grayish-white, and the noisy sounds faded into obscurity, and then became inaudible.

She was isolated from the world like a virus, standing alone on the street.

"Gah!" The crow that landed on the trash can in the hidden path screamed at her, and it flapped its wings and flew up, then landed again, anxiously flapping its wings as if urging the hedgehog to come quickly.

"What's wrong?" Step by step, the hedgehog walked to the place where the crow was.

The crow that had invited her to come tilted its head, flew up and landed farther on the ground.

Doubts only flashed through the hedgehog's heart, and she followed the crow who had sent out the invitation. In this way, she left the crowded road and gradually walked towards the sparsely populated path.

It wasn't long before the hedgehog left the main road.

A few people who seemed to be partners walked up to where she stood, and the blonde boy who was left last let out an unhappy snort, and he whispered, "Why are we here in Ikebukuro!" It's not like I'm going to find that seafood, feed the little persimmon, what's that person's name. ”

"Tsunayoshi Sawada." The boy next to him pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose and replied, "That's why we came here because Tsubi-sama wanted to meet someone famous in Ikebukuro." ”

"Tsk." The blond boy held back his mouth in dissatisfaction and said nothing more.

The dark-haired boy who was beating his head suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at the trail crossing that the hedgehog had just entered, and chuckled and said, "I didn't expect Ikebukuro to be quite interesting." ”

"Lord Skeleton, what's wrong?" The blonde boy turned his head to look at Xiaodao in confusion, but he didn't find any problems. Where it was quiet, there was no one but black feathers that fell to the ground.

"No, nothing." The dark-haired boy withdrew his gaze, not thinking of chasing him in to find out. After all, what he had sensed just now was a fluctuation that did not belong to this world. He is not a good person, and he will not help a child who has strayed into the absolute realm, and only hopes that the child will not encounter anything terrible in it.

"Let's go and meet some of the famous people in Ikebukuro, he might be useful to us." The dark-blue-haired teenager finally glanced at the calm trail, and left with his two companions catching up with the one who was walking in front.

The other side.

The hedgehog followed the crow all the way to a European-style building, the house was fenced off by a wooden fence, and after entering the courtyard, the ground was paved with a stone path, and the interior of the house was decorated in an antique Japanese style that was completely different from the outside.

The crow led the hedgehog all the way to the backyard.

Under the Japanese-style porch sat a beautiful black-haired woman wearing a pale blue water-patterned kimono. She slowly turned her head to look over, and when she found the hedgehog standing on the side and the crow on her shoulder, she smiled and said, "Oh, it's really rare, you actually came to the cold house." ”

The hedgehog didn't answer the words of the woman in front of him, just stared at her blankly.

It's the first time she's seen a big beauty who has beaten her own mother like this! With long straight black hair, a lazy appearance and a mature atmosphere in her gestures, she is really a beautiful lady.

"What's wrong?"

"Ahh Realizing that the other party was talking to him, the hedgehog, who realized that he was so rude to look at the other party so naked, said nervously: "That, that...... Yes, I'm sorry! It was this kid who brought me in...... No, I mean, it's rude to just come in without your consent, and I'll leave immediately. ”

"I know, it was the little guy who brought you here." The person under the corridor smiled to soothe the panicked hedgehog, and she introduced herself: "My name is Ichihara Yoko, and this is the first time I have met you in this form." ”

"This form?" The hedgehog looked at the person in front of him for some reason, and then he reacted, it turned out that the previous greeting was not said to the crow, but to her. Looking at the other party's calm expression, the hedgehog subtly felt no longer nervous, and spoke normally: "My name is my wife hedgehog, hello Ichihara Ou...... Mulberry. ”

"Just call me a son."

"Well, that's not good." As soon as it comes up, it calls people by name or something, which makes the hedgehog a little unaccustomed.

Ichihara Yoko didn't care and said: "It's okay, I hope you can call me that, being called Ichihara-san makes me a little bit of a drama." ”

"Uh, what about Yoko-san?"

"Yes, Hedgehog-chan." Yoko responded with a smile.

The first time she was called by someone she just knew, it made the hedgehog blush a little embarrassed, but when she saw the delicate face of Ichihara Yuko with a playful smile, she suddenly had a feeling that she seemed to have been tricked?

"Come and sit." Ichihara gently patted the position next to him, watched the hedgehog sit over, and handed over the small plate with grass cakes in his hand, "Eat, you like snacks, right?" ”

"Ah, yes, thank you." It always felt like she didn't have to say anything, as if the other party knew what she was thinking. Although it is very weird, the hedgehog is not afraid. She was still in a very happy mood and bit the grass cake, and dragged a small piece to share with the crow that was still on her shoulder.

Yuzi picked up the teacup and took a sip, looked at the person opposite who had finished eating the grass cake little by little, and asked, "It's really rare, is there anything you need my help with?" ”

Giving the last bit of grass cake to the crow, the hedgehog finally asked himself as soon as he came in, "I'm sorry, excuse me...... Did I know Yoko-san before? It always feels strange why Yoko-san would know that I like snacks, and ......"

"And does that seem to be the tone of a friend who has been absent for a long time?" Yuzi added with a slight smile.

"Yes."

"I know a lot of people, and you, or rather your past life, had a good relationship with me. Your appearance has changed, but as long as your soul hasn't changed, you're still a friend I've ever known. Yuzi took out his cigarette pouch, just lit it and suddenly remembered something, looked back at the little guy beside him, and put aside the cigarette pouch that was wafting out of the cigarette incense.

The hedgehog who smelled the fragrance of cigarettes subconsciously reminded: "Yu Zisan, smoking is not good for your health." After finishing speaking, even she was stunned, why would she say the words of blocking so smoothly.

The hedgehog wanted to apologize, but when he turned his head and saw Yuzi froze, he suddenly stopped laughing.

"Hahaha, sure enough, you're still the same as before." Yoko put the cigarette out and set it aside.

"Quack!" The crow screamed after eating the grass cake, fanning its wings to attract the attention of the hedgehog and the hedgehog, and it gently flapped the hedgehog's head with its wings, as if to remind them that there was business to do.

The yozi who reacted said: "Yes, the price has also been received, and you have to solve your matter first." ”

"The price? My business? The hedgehog was puzzled, "But I don't have anything to do, I have bought a dictionary and a book, and the only thing left is to wait for Mr. Kinomoto to teach me." ”

"Kinomoto?" Yoko repeated the words of the hedgehog and said with a smile: "Hehe, yes, is it Kinomoto." ”

Yuko stood up, walked under the cherry blossom tree, broke a branch that had not yet bloomed, and handed it to the hedgehog, "Take it, and the child on your shoulder, take it with you." It's not suitable for you now, but one day you'll need it. ”

"We'll meet again in the near future."

The hedgehog was holding the cherry blossom branch blankly, and the voice of the girl was still echoing in her ears, and she looked behind her in hindsight, and the place where there should have been a European-style building became an open space. Wonderful, she didn't feel scared, but had a feeling of relief that she had let go of heavy things.

The hedgehog turned his head to look at the crow that had landed on his shoulder again, "Luckily, my dad is not allergic to bird feathers. Let's go, let's go home. ”

"Quack!" The crow flapped its wings happily and flew up, returning to the noisy streets of Ikebukuro with the hedgehog.