After a short uphill walk of concrete, you will see the vestibule of Watanabe's house.

It's a dirty piece of land that looks sturdy, so solid that even when it's raining, it doesn't show much silt.

On this piece of land, stands an extremely ordinary two-story wooden house in the shape of an "L".

It looks like it's been a bit old, and today, it's a relatively rare island-style traditional building.

"Both, this is my home."

The three of them stood at the end of the concrete road, one step into the dirt vestibule.

Rin Kiyono looked at the house, black bricks, and a silver-white TV satellite cauldron on the windowsill on the second floor.

At the entrance of the house and in front of the verandah, there are bonsai that do not die in winter—not so much potted plants, but unknown plants that are pleasing to the eye in the mountains, and they are dug up casually.

"That's what you call the Honda wolf?" Miki Kujo's gaze looked at the warehouse on the left side of the house.

The warehouse has no doors, and inside it is a farm tool and a red motorcycle.

On the back seat of the motorcycle was a cargo box, and the tires of the car were covered in mud.

"I'll take you for a ride." Toru Watanabe boasted.

Kujou Miki glared at him a little helplessly.

"Do you have a driver's license?" Rin Kiyono asked curiously.

You can only get a motorcycle license at the age of 16.

After the two turned sixteen and stayed together almost all day, it should be impossible for Toru Watanabe to have time to get a driver's license.

But she believes that taking the motorcycle test is a very simple thing for Toru Watanabe, and it is enough to make up her mind to do it and seize the morning before school.

Toru Watanabe smiled confidently at her: "In Mizawa Village, I have it. ”

That's no.

"Okay, okay, let's go in." Toru Watanabe was the first to step into the vestibule.

Two beautiful girls pulled the box and followed closely behind.

"If I don't see the car, then my dad shouldn't be at home." As he spoke, Toru Watanabe didn't use the key, and opened the wooden door directly with one hand.

In front of you is a wooden promenade.

On the left and right sides of the promenade, there is a wooden sliding door, and at the end is a staircase leading up to the second floor.

Rin Kiyono looked to the left, which led to the verandah, and at the end of the veranda was the small house that represented the horizontal line under the "L" shape.

Will it be a kitchen...... She was guessing when she heard the sound of Toru Watanabe shouting.

"Mom——, I'm back!"

"Come back and come in by yourself!" In the wooden door on the left side of the corridor, a female voice was heard.

"No! Too much luggage, come and help! ”

The wooden door opened, and Watanabe stepped out.

Seeing the two people beside her son, she was there for a while.

Toru Watanabe smiled happily at his mother and introduced her with a slight smugness.

"This is my girlfriend, Miki Kujo."

"Gui'an, Aunt Eda, I'm Toru's girlfriend, Mihime Kujo." Kujou Miki bows gracefully.

"Gui, Gui'an, Mei Ji." This way of greeting is something that Watanabe has only heard in TV dramas.

"You've seen this, Rin Kiyono." Toru Watanabe continued, "My friend and enemy, she and Miki grew up together. ”

"Hello, Auntie." Rin Kiyono greets in the normal way.

"It's Rin-chan," Watanabe's mother laughed, "Come on, come in." ”

She took three pairs of slippers from the shoe cabinet, one pair of Toru Watanabe's, and two for the usual visitors.

Rin Kiyono nodded politely in thanks.

Kujou Miki glanced at the slippers and stared at the pair in front of Toru Watanabe: "This is yours?" ”

"Well, you wear mine, I'll wear yours."

Miki Kujou nodded and changed into Toru Watanabe's slippers.

Watanabe's mother glanced at Mihime Kujo and said with a smile, "Come in." ”

The three of them put their luggage at the door and followed Watanabe's mother into the room she had just come out of.

It is a living room with a large space and a large luxury for the average person living in Tokyo.

There is a cabinet in the corner of the living room, and there is a TV that looks thin and high-end, but is actually very cheap, with only 1333×768 pixels.

There is a variety show on TV: popular idols come to Iwate Prefecture for a tour, and their expressions exaggerate to introduce various cuisines.

There is a hearth in the middle of the living room, which is the same as the kotatsu, but there is a hole dug under the table, so you can put your feet in it directly without kneeling.

In addition, there is a wood-fired stove made of tinplate in the living room, on which the peel of a quick-dried orange is placed.

The faint smell of ripe oranges in the room came from there.

"Sit down, I'll peel fruit for you." Watanabe's mother said as she stood at the door of the living room.

"I'm here to help." Rin Kiyono, who had just walked into the living room, turned around and walked back to Watanabe's side.

"No, Rin-chan, you have a good rest, I'm tired from coming here from Tokyo."

Rin Kiyono thought for a moment, "Okay, thank you, Auntie." ”

"You're welcome." Watanabe's mother laughed happily twice, and then instructed Watanabe Toru, "Little Toru, you treat them well." ”

"Got it."

Watanabe's mother went to the kitchen.

Rin Kiyono sat down in the hearth and sighed comfortably.

After sitting in the car for so long and walking such a long way, it is worth her usual exercise for a week.

"Mei Ji, you can sit too." Toru Watanabe greeted.

Kujou Miki glanced at the bedding of the hearth and was slightly disgusted: "I don't know how many people have used it, you let me get into it?" ”

It's true that there are women in the village who like to come and chat with Watanabe's mother, but this has nothing to do with the countrymen and city people, and Kujou Miki dislikes everyone.

Toru Watanabe got used to her cleanliness and proposed, "There should be a new futon at home, and then I'll get you another cushion?" ”

"The cushions need to be new, too."

"Cushion...... Is there a new one......" Toru Watanabe was hopeless.

Kujou Miki glanced at him, "If you don't, I'll take your room." ”

"That's there, wait for me."

Toru Watanabe walked out of the living room and slumped up to the second floor.

In the living room, Rin Kiyono chuckled and said to Miki Kujo, "If you are like this, I'm afraid that you will make Watanabe-san's parents annoyed." ”

"So what?" Kujou Miki didn't care, "Do you want Miss Ben to accommodate them?" The only thing I like is Toru Watanabe. On the contrary, it's you, pretending to be a good girl, what do you want to do? ”

"It's just basic etiquette as a guest, but you're too rude, Miss Kujo."

"It's my habit not to use quilts that have been used by others, so what's not etiquette?"

"...... in someone else's house"

"Quarrel so soon?" Toru Watanabe walked in with a quilt and cushion, "You guys have a really good relationship." ”

The two ignored him.

When Watanabe's mother came in with a fruit plate, she was slightly stunned when she saw the newly changed bedding and the cushion under Kujo Mihime's buttocks.

"I'm sorry, but I only have the simplest fruits at home." She pretended nothing had happened and placed the plate in the middle of the table.

There were only grapes, oranges, and sliced apples on the plate.

Apples are the fruit that Watanabe's mother usually eats.

She doesn't know where she heard that eating apples can be beautiful, and sometimes in order to lose weight, she only eats apples for dinner.

The grapes were bought for Toru Watanabe, who came back today.

As for the oranges, there are a few orange trees on the mountain, which are picked casually, but they are very sweet.

"Enough is enough, it's us who bother." Rin Kiyono saluted slightly.

Miki Kujou nodded, acknowledging Rin's words.

Toru Watanabe took an orange and said while peeling it, "Mom, Mihime and Kiyono will stay together for the New Year, you can clean up the room for them." ”

After speaking, he suddenly remembered to add: ;

"By the way, Mei Ji can sleep in my room, she's so clean that she's almost mentally ill."

Kujou Mihime was in the pit under the table and kicked Toru Watanabe with her foot: "It's not me who is mentally ill. ”

She glanced at Rin Kiyono.

Rin Kiyono leisurely eats an apple with a toothpick.

"You're going to sleep in a room?" Watanabe's mother looked back and forth at her son and Kujou Miki in surprise.

"It's not." Toru Watanabe swallowed the juicy orange in his mouth, "You help me clean up another room." ”

"That's right." Watanabe's mother nodded as if relieved, "Then I'll go now, Toru Ko, you can entertain Rin and Mihime well." ”

"Trouble Auntie."

"Thank you."

After his mother left, Toru Watanabe muttered, "What should I ask you to do...... To play or not to play? ”

"Do you have a game console or a computer at home?" Miki Kujou asked in surprise.

"There are no computers, but there are still game consoles."

Toru Watanabe put down the half-eaten oranges, got up and walked to the TV, and pulled out the red and white machine and a bunch of game cards from the cabinet.

"It's just a little old." He said.

"It's not just old, it's outdated." Miki Kujo added.

"Classics never go out of style!" Toru Watanabe's words are round.

He connected the red and white machine to the TV and plugged in the handle.

The line of the handle is long, and it is perfectly suitable for sitting on the hearth to play with - a remnant of Watanabe's time when he was afraid of the cold.

"Play what? Have a thrilling or? ”

"No, play this." The card that Miki Kujo picked up.

“...... All right. ”

Toru Watanabe chose a cooperative game and wanted the two to have a good relationship, but as long as they can play games together, the relationship may be better.

With good expectations, Toru Watanabe blew on the game card and inserted it into the card slot of the red and white machine.

The quality of the console and the game card is good, and after all these years, it still runs smoothly without any problems.

If there is still a problem, the only way to do it is to use the killer trick - lick it.

He handed the handle to the two beautiful girls sitting in the hearth.

Rin Kiyono hasn't played it, but the simplest operation is still possible.

When her squirrel takes the lead, Miki Kujo, who is deliberately lagging behind, lifts the box and knocks her unconscious.

And that's not all, Kujou Mihime's squirrel ran over, lifted Rin Kiyono up, and carried it all the way.

Finding that Kiyono Rin, who was held up and couldn't move, frowned slightly.

When she got to the place where there was a cactus, Kujou Miki threw her on it.

Rin Kiyono is bloodless, but she is also free, and she learns the trick as she lifts the box and smashes it at Mihime Kujo.

Can Miki Kujou still be prepared? Hiding in a box defuses this trick.

After that, there are also telephone pole climbs.

The two of you throw me, I throw you, trying to throw each other down directly.

If you can't help each other, try to run as fast as possible, and if the slow person falls behind and falls out of the game screen, he will also have to deduct blood.

A game, borrowing a knife to kill, taking advantage of the fire to rob, watching the fire from the other side, walking for the top, anti-guest-oriented, going up the house to draw a ladder...... Quickly use all the thirty-six strategies except for the beauty plan.

After a while, Watanabe Eda returned.

"Rin-chan, I'm sorry, but there's a bedroom that's moldy, can I trouble you and Mei Ji to sleep in the room together?"

"Wouldn't it be better to be moldy?" Kujou Mihime said with a sneer at Rin Kiyono.

"What?" Watanabe's mother was stunned.

"She's kidding." Toru Watanabe explained, "Let's let Kiyono-san sleep with Mihime." ”

"I'm fine." Rin Kiyono nodded.

Kujou Miki didn't say anything, it was really just a mockery just now.

Of course, it would be best if Rin Kiyono was angry and slept in that room or went back to Tokyo.

"I'll go to the town to buy some food, Xiao Che, you can entertain the two of them!"

"Got it, Mom, you've said this three times today, are you underestimating your son's memory? I'm the number one in the country and the smartest first-year high school student in the entire island nation. ”

"You kid!" Watanabe wanted to put on a face and scold, but he couldn't help but laugh on his face.

"Stay safe on the road."

"Well, I'm leaving."

After Watanabe leaves, Toru Watanabe goes to the door to help the two carry their suitcases upstairs.

The three of them slumped down the wooden stairs and went up to the second floor to Toru Watanabe's room.

Kujou Mihime didn't dare to be interested in downstairs, but when she got here, she looked at it carefully.

The space is also large and more than enough for two people.

There are no beds, and two bunks are already spread on tatami mats.

There was a kotatsu without an electric heater, and a cheap alarm clock was bare on the table.

There is a handmade bookshelf against the wall, and as far as the eye can see, it is full of textbooks, workbooks and notebooks.

Kujou Miki took a closer look, and in the corners of the bookshelves, she found several cheap library books, magazines that were five or six years out of date, as well as plastic airplanes and cheap clay people from gacha.

The room has a window that looks out onto the vestibule, the terraced rice fields in the distance, and the mountains.

Miki Kujo imagines Toru Watanabe in elementary school.

A well-behaved little boy sits on a tatami mat and struggles to piece together a paper airplane.

Imagine Toru Watanabe in junior high school.

A serious half-grown child, reading seriously at the table in the middle of the night, tired and looking out the window.

Spring is warm, summer is hot, autumn is hot, winter night, a year, two years, he slowly grows up in this humble room, and then appears in front of him.

"It's okay." Kujou Miki said with her arms crossed.

"It's really an honor to be able to get a good evaluation from Meiji, which you can still evaluate." Toru Watanabe said with a smile.

In Tokyo, even the membership-only restaurant is 'what a bad place' in the mouth of Miki Kujo.

I just don't know if what Kujou Miki said is true or not, maybe it's just politeness.

Rin Kiyono walked to the bookshelf and flipped through Toru Watanabe's previous study materials, which were full of notes and summaries of mistakes.

Although it is only the knowledge of junior high school and a small number of high schools, most junior high school teachers can't do it if you want to be admitted to Kamikawa, let alone rely on students to learn on their own.

"Which one is your bed?" Kujou Miki asked, looking at the two beds.

"This one." Toru Watanabe pointed to the one away from the window.

Miki Kujou nodded.

Putting down his luggage, Toru Watanabe took the two of them around the house.

"How? Isn't it a bit of a disappointment? Toru Watanabe asked.

"I think it's good." Rin Kiyono said.

"Do you think it's good? Tell me, where's the good? ”

Although Toru Watanabe doesn't dislike his own family, and others will get angry if they say it's bad, but it's really good or not, he still knows very well.

There are few advantages other than that the land is cheap enough to be expensive and large enough.

"The glass is beautifully carved, the sink is cleanly brushed, the tiles inside are beautifully colored, and the curtain steps are patched with cherry blossom patterns, and I feel the bond between the Watanabe family and this house, which you love so much."

If Miki Kujo hadn't come, Toru Watanabe would have said, 'Kiyono-san, this is one of the means you made me love you?' ’

"What do you think, Miji?" Toru Watanabe asked his girlfriend.

"A dilapidated house."

“…… It's a broken house, yes. ”

"However," Kujou Mihime's gaze swept over a pillar with a notch on it that measured Toru Watanabe's height from childhood to adulthood, "after all, it's where you grew up, and although it's broken, it's not annoying." ”

“…… Well, I don't hate it here either. ”