On June 2, a few days before the rainy season in the weather forecast, the transparent sky was as clear as the water in the tropics. When I went out in the morning, there was a hint of coolness in the air.

On the streets of the Kawabashi area, Toru Shimizu looked left and right with great interest as soon as he left the station, stopping from time to time to hold up the camera hanging on his chest and take a few pictures before moving on.

Seeing him put down the camera again, Nanami Nanami finally couldn't control her growing curiosity and asked, "Shimizu, haven't you been here before?" ”

"Well, I've only heard others talk about it, and it's a very famous kitchen supplies market."

Nodding at her, after a pause, Toru Shimizu finally realized something, and a smile called embarrassment appeared on his face: "I'm sorry, when I came to a place I haven't seen before, I reflexively wanted to take some pictures down, and maybe I could use it when I wrote in the future." Not then, let's go. ”

"No, no, I'm just a little curious, and I don't mean to stop you."

Faced with Nanami's understanding, Toru Shimizu smiled, didn't reply again, and continued to look for a shop that could provide knife sharpening services with her.

I was delayed for some time, and although I stopped less often, I found that it was close to noon when I found a kitchen knife specialty store that provided this service.

When I entered the store, I asked about the price, talked about the requirements, and handed over the knives I brought to the clerk, and learned that it would take a lot of effort to process the complete set of knives.

Considering the excessive sun exposure outside, neither of them had the intention of taking the opportunity to go out for a stroll, but just paced in the shade of the store.

Glancing over the rows of knives on the shelves, Toru Shimizu wanted to find some characteristics, but with his cooking ability equal to zero, he really didn't see any difference between them, except for the metallic light that flashed on the edge of the blade.

I casually took a few photos for the record, and I noticed Nanami Nanami standing in front of the display case not far away, leaning down to look carefully, and pointing her finger on her chin, looking very attentive.

Moving to her side, Toru Shimizu also looked at the knife in the display case: "Nanami, do you know what kind of knife this is?" ”

"This... I think it's a knife used to cut eels, right? ”

"Ah, really," Finding the correct answer from the atlas next to him, Qing Shui Toru exclaimed and looked at her again, "Nanami you seem to really understand this." ”

"Of course."

Nanami straightened up, put her hands behind her back, and looked elsewhere with a relaxed expression.

"I used to think about becoming a professional chef."

"Oh?"

"When I was in middle school, I always had good grades in home economics, and my teachers praised me for being very talented. At that time, I thought that it would be nice to be the kind of imposing chef in a sushi restaurant, so I made the effort to learn about it at the time. But now I've almost forgotten about it. ”

Listening to her introduce the past, Toru Shimizu remembered the dinner she prepared every day. Although the ingredients are simple, the taste is always good. He said "no wonder" and talked about his own affairs.

"I have no talent for cooking at all, and in the past, I relied on girls in the same group to barely pass the housekeeping class, and I had to ask them for homework such as cookies."

I thought that the self-deprecating words did not have the expected effect, but Nanami Nanami just tilted her head, and said expressionlessly: "Shimizu your words, as long as you exit please, there must be many girls who are willing, right?" ”

Conscious of his speechlessness, Qing Shui Toru was silent for a few seconds, and then pointed to another knife.

"Nanami, what kind of knife is this?"

There was still no expression on her face, Nanami Nanami glanced at it and said lightly: "This is used for chopping knives and processing large pieces of meat, or ingredients with bones." ”

"Uh-oh."

Qing Shui Toru nodded repeatedly, as if he suddenly thought of something, took a picture of the knife, took out a notebook from his bag, and wrote down her introduction just now.

"What about this?"

"This is sashimi bunding, which is specially used for sashimi, and it is basically the sharpest."

After listening to her introduction, Toru Shimizu repeated the previous action again.

After repeating it a few times, Nanami finally turned her head with doubts in her eyes: "Qing Shui... What are you? ”

"It's a material," Toru Shimizu looked as a matter of course, "I feel that what you said can be used in the novel, so I'll write it down first." ”

"But these are the most superficial classifications, and they are easy to find on the Internet."

Qing Shui Toru paused, slowly raised his head, and put away the pen and paper.

"Well, that's what you're talking about."

Then the store fell silent, except for the crisp sound of the clerk handling the knives.

Still pacing between the shelves, Nanami spoke first.

"Actually... There are also two ways to make kitchen knives, which are honyaki and Kasumi..."

She stopped abruptly at this point. Qing Shui was stunned for a moment before she reacted, and quickly flipped out her notebook, and she continued.

“… This firing is made of pure steel. The Kasumi system is forged with a mixture of steel and wrought iron. Among them, steel is relatively hard, so it is used to make a knife edge. And because the junction of steel and iron is impregnated with each other, hazy, and like smoke, this method is called the xia system..."

Nanami Nanami gently touched the back of the knife with her fingertips, and waited until the sound of the tip of the pen rubbing on the page behind her disappeared, and suddenly looked back at him: "This Kasumi knife looks beautiful, can you help me take a picture?" ”

"Oh, okay."

Toru Shimizu pointed the camera there, took a picture carefully, and before she could show it, the store manager, who was originally standing in front of the counter, was smiling, rubbing his hands, and leaned over first.

"Gee, I heard it over there, this young lady knows a lot about our knives. What does this knife think? Do you like it? ”

"Hmm..."

Nanami was stunned for a moment, hesitated and bowed her head gently.

"You really have an eye, this knife is specially customized by our shop to find a knife craftsman, and it belongs to one of the complete sets of knives in our store. Nowadays, many newlyweds will choose to customize a set of kitchen knives before moving into a new home, how about it, should you consider it? ”

He spread out his hands and looked back and forth at the expressions of the two. However, Nanami Nanami was so surprised by the meaning of his words that she couldn't speak, and it was up to Toru Shimizu to answer the question.

"I'm sorry, we're not in that relationship yet."

The boss was obviously stunned, but after a moment, he was full of smiles, rubbed his hands vigorously and said, "Oops, I'm really sorry that I was confused all of a sudden." Then you look at it first, and then call me if you have any questions? ”

"Okay, excuse me."

"Oops, it should be."

The boss retreated, and Toru Shimizu finally had time to look at Nanami on the side.

She lowered her gaze slightly, and the flush under her eyes overflowed, and under the pull of gravity, it had already overflowed her jaw, and was about to flow towards her white neck.

Just as she was about to observe more closely, Nanami Nanami had already raised her hand, fanned a breeze on her face, and pretended to be relaxed: "It's a little hot here, I'll go outside and take a look." ”

Watching her leave in a hurry, Toru Shimizu stood in place, recalling her expression just now.

The redness is like a glow.