"Take a bath?"

Mai Tomorrow shook her head slightly, wearing the belt of her yukata in her hand: "I'm going to bring Toru back." ”

Sending off Mai Tomorrow, Toru Watanabe took a Coke from the miniature refrigerator and splashed it on the Japanese-style tatami mats.

Call the front desk.

"Yes, I accidentally spilled it, please help me replace it. If there is an additional cost, it will be included in the price. ”

On the other side of the phone, in a gentle Kyoto accent, he promised to let someone change it immediately.

Toru Watanabe didn't like the presence of the staff when they changed items, so he decided to go out for a walk.

After taking a simple shower in the room's own bathroom, I changed into private clothes, took it, left the window wide open, and left the room.

Step out of Dongshan Villa, step on the bluestone road, and blend into the hustle and bustle of people.

Refusing to be accosted a few times, he walked into a quiet and elegant café, ordered a drink, read a book by the window, and occasionally stared at the lively ancient street in the distance.

I read the book three times before I went back.

Early the next morning, Toru Watanabe walked into the large tatami restaurant while trying to press his upturned hair back with his hands.

Everyone sat on tatami mats and ate a fragrant breakfast.

The seats were casual, and most of them were sitting with the group members who were moving together today.

"Good morning, Kiyono-san."

"Good morning." Rin Kiyono said perfunctorily, put a vegetable salad in the bowl, and didn't look at Toru Watanabe.

The thought of Toru Watanabe watching a paid movie in her room last night, and then talking to her while doing that kind of thing, she didn't want to talk to him for a while.

"Didn't sleep well last night? Did you dream of me? ”

"What did you say?!" Opposite Rin Kiyono, Tamamo's beautiful face was full of displeasure.

"Talking to you? If you don't use your ears, you can donate them to those who need them. Watanabe replied in the tone of Rin Kiyono.

"Toru Watanabe-san." Rin Kiyono looked up.

"I'm sorry, I'll be hungry later." Toru Watanabe sat down about three of them away.

For breakfast, there is a vegetable salad, roasted willow fish, pork cold vegetables, and miso soup made with radish and fried tofu.

Toru Watanabe drank the flavor of the soup, and felt that it tasted good, so he took another sip before sandwiching the meat of the roasted willow leaf fish.

"Senior sister, where did you go last night?" While he was immersed in eating, he heard the voice of Aoi Ichiki.

“...... Shopping. Tomorrow's Mai's indifferent tone came.

"Alone?"

“...... Well. ”

"Why don't you call me along? I also wanted to play with Kiyono-san yesterday, and I went to find my senior sister! ”

“...... Think of one person. ”

"Senior sister, we're going to ...... today"

The meat of the roasted willow leaf fish has a very elastic texture, and Toru Watanabe ate two bites in a row before aiming his chopsticks at other dishes.

At this time, absolutely, absolutely, you can't go to see Rin Kiyono!

After breakfast, Toru Watanabe went back to his room to take a shower.

I always feel like I've been taking a shower too many times lately - at least twice tonight, and I don't know if there is any harm in washing too much.

When he came out, there were few classmates left in Dongshanzhuang.

As he walked through the door with his hands in his pockets, a group of girls suddenly called out to him.

"Watanabe-kun—"

Toru Watanabe turned his head and looked at the four female classmates in front of him, he had seen and remembered the names, but he had never spoken.

"What's the matter?" He took his hand out of his pocket to avoid giving the impression of being too arrogant.

"I like you!"

“......”

"I like you too!" The second place, an ordinary girl with a round face.

"You ......"

"Me too! I like Watanabe-kun very, very much! "The third place, the girl with short hair.

"No, wait......"

"Watanabe-kun at the cultural festival! At a sports festival! It's so handsome! Watanabe-kun, I'm already in love with you! "The fourth, a lively girl with a small breasts.

Toru Watanabe looked at the three of them: "Now...... What should I say? ”

"Ahhh Watanabe-kun big stupid! The four girls ran off into the distance with a prank, holding hands, laughing and laughing.

Toru Watanabe adjusted the position of the black diver's watch on his wrist and continued along the trinity hill.

A small Japanese-style wooden house, low and quaint, with a brick roof and an old machiya building with insect cage windows.

Geisha dressed in kimonos with pale faces stride down the stone path from time to time in a hurry to get there.

Kyoto, built in imitation of Luoyang and Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, has gone through thousands of years of wind and rain, and has the charm of 'heaven and street color and other smoke and rain, and I am waiting for you'.

Because there was still time, when passing by an ice cream parlor, Toru Watanabe stopped in line to try matcha ice cream.

In front of him were Chinese, Koreans, and even white couples in kimonos, and at the front were several girls wearing Kamigawa High School uniforms.

After they bought it, they confessed to him as if they were taking turns to high-five him.

"Watanabe-kun, I like you~"

"Oh."

"Watanabe-kun, I like you the most!"

"Thank you."

"I like it, I like it!"

"Got it, got it."

"Please engage with me."

"Forget it."

Just like just now, after the confession, the four girls hurriedly slipped away.

The Chinese, Koreans, and whites in front looked back at Toru Watanabe, who was left at the scene, in confusion.

A Chinese girl in a cherry blossom-colored kimono, about twenty-eight years old, with her hair tied and looking like a beautiful young woman, said to Toru Watanabe in the Japanese she was learning after buying ice cream:

"Watara, Watanabe-kun, I like it."

"Oh oh oh, I like you too, and also, my name is Watanabe, written in kanji, and it's Watanabe by the ferry."

"You can speak Chinese!" The beautiful young woman looked at him in surprise.

……

When the white couple said they liked Watanabe, Watanabe responded with a 'thank you' in French.

These people don't think of this as one of the customs of the island nation, do they?

After going through it twice, Toru Watanabe probably guessed why Kazumi Ikeda agreed to vote for Kyoto.

Autumn ice cream is cool, but just as delicious.

Toru Watanabe took a bite, held it up to the sky, took a photo, and sent it to Kumiko, who was probably in class.

Maybe it's really in class, message prompt.

Toru Watanabe didn't mind either, and while eating, he walked, occasionally nodding to the female classmate who confessed to him on the way.

This is a group flirtation, right? Can I call the police?

When he got to the bus stop, he took a bus to the girl he wanted to say he liked, and was waiting for him there.

On the banks of the sparkling Kamogawa River, Kujo Mihime's car has been parked there.

Toru Watanabe opened the car door and did not enter, holding the roof of the car with his hand and reaching out to Miki Kujo.

"Let Miss Ben wait, you're still the first." Kujou Miki handed it over in a very unkind tone.

"It's that you're too early, and it's still ...... before the appointed time"

Kujou Miki took her hands back, hugged her arms, and stopped her steps to get out of the car, and re-established her legs.

"By car, back to Tokyo."

The car throttle buzzed, but it didn't move.

Sandwiched between the eldest lady who is in love and the future young master, it is a very difficult job.

"Wait, wait!" Toru Watanabe bent down and reached out again to help Mihime Kujo, "I was wrong, I remembered the wrong time, I'm sorry!" ”

"What's wrong with the time? Are you an idiot for me? Kujou Miki waved his hand away, "I'm sitting in the car, I'm coming early, I'm late, am I in charge?" ”

The female driver hurriedly turned off the engine and got out of the car, avoiding the dilemma of whether to really start the car in the end.

She bent down to apologize to the two: "Miss, young master, I'm really sorry!" The car was in good condition today, so it arrived earlier than expected. ”

"I'll just say, how can Mei Ji have me love her more, I'm ten minutes early." Toru Watanabe said.

"Ten minutes?" Miki Kujou turned her head and looked at him outside the car door, "You seem to be satisfied?" ”

"Fifteen minutes next time!" Toru Watanabe held out his hand again.

"Half an hour." Kujou Miki put her hand in his hand.

"Half an hour is nothing, for you, I could have waited here the night before."

"So be it next time."

“…… No, I don't think we should limit the expression of love to the length of time we have to wait for someone. ”

Shizuru got out of the car at the other door and followed.

"You, yes, that's you, robot." Toru Watanabe pointed at her, "You're not allowed to come along, the next time is for me and Mihime." ”

Shizuru ignored him, walked around the back of the car, and walked behind Miki Kujou.

Kujou Miki glanced at her, "You can stay today and go play around." ”

"Miss......"

Kujou Miki looked over.

Shizuru lowered his head: "Yes." ”

"I can't command you yet, when I become the head of the Kujo family, I'll be the first to open you!" Toru Watanabe said triumphantly with his face tilted.

Shizuru looked at him with a murderous face, if it weren't for Kujou Mihime's presence, she might have snatched it directly.

Kujou Mihime glanced at Toru Watanabe: "I find that you are becoming more and more arrogant now." ”

"That's not good for her, I'm actually joking."

"I'm talking about the head of the Kujo family." Kujou Miki said with a terrifying expression.

"Wait, you're really going to fire the robot? Although the level is a little worse, I hate her very much, but it's a woman, and I'm the first to disagree with a male bodyguard! ”

In Shizuru's angry eyes, Kujou Mihime grabbed Toru Watanabe's ear: "Flim Tongue." ”

After the car left, she asked, "Where to go?" ”

"Let's take a walk around the neighborhood first, and then have lunch." Toru Watanabe put away the improperness.

Two thousand held hands and walked along the Kamogawa River.

The autumn sky is clear, the water is murmuring, the waves are rippling, and the clear autumn breeze blows through the aquatic plants by the river, which is refreshing.

Miki Kujou wore a simple white short-sleeved dress with English letters printed on it today, and a light long skirt on the lower body.

For the environment she is usually in, there is no consideration of low temperature, but on this late autumn morning, the wind by the river brings a hint of chill.

"Is it cold or not?"

"Sort of."

Toru Watanabe takes off her red and white baseball-jersey-style jacket and puts it on for her.

The coat is a lot bigger for Miki Kujo, and her little white hands barely come out of the sleeves, which is very cute.

Toru Watanabe put his arm around her waist and sniffed her hair: "I missed you very, very much yesterday. ”

"How much do you want?" Kujou Miki said with a smile.

An old man walking a Shiba Inu walked in front of him, he squatted down to tie it, and the Shiba Inu turned his head and looked at the old man as if he had pressed the pause button on the screen.

Toru Watanabe put his lips to Kujo Mihime's ear and whispered, "I want to swim down the Kamogawa River all the way back to Tokyo where I have you—that's what I miss you." ”

"Does Kamogawa pass through Tokyo?"

"Who knows." Toru Watanabe said with a smile.

"So you're lying to me?"

"Reality at the service of art. It doesn't matter where the Kamogawa River goes, the important thing is that I just want to swim back to Tokyo from the Kamogawa River to find you. ”

"Rhetoric all day long." Kujou Miki said angrily.

Shiba Inu and the old man overtook them.

At this time, the Shiba Inu was already on the old man's back, and it put its forelimbs on the person's shoulder, a face that felt like it was smiling all the time, looking around at the scenery.

This reminds Toru Watanabe of Kiyomizudera Temple's rickshaw.

"You haven't said you miss me much." He said to Miki Kujo.

"I don't want you."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true." Kujou Miki looked at Shiba Inu.

"Then why did you arrive at the date before me?"

"You want to die, don't you?"

"Hahaha, I know, your love for me is in my heart, don't say it."

"It's the driver who is driving fast, how can Miss Ben wait for someone." Kujou Miki said dissatisfied, "I miss you...... At most, it's only to the extent of swimming at home. ”

Toru Watanabe hugged her in his arms: "It's 370 kilometers from Kamogawa to Tokyo, and you're swimming in the pool, it's too small!" ”

"Who knows if you're really swimming?" Kujou Miki felt a faint sense of oppression and rested her head comfortably in his arms.

"I'll show you now!"

"Go ahead, I'll watch."

"I'm really going."

"Hmm."

"I'm really going."

"Go, go." Miki Kujou made a gesture to push him away.

Toru Watanabe hugged her harder and whispered a laugh in her ear, "The river is too cold in autumn, so let's wait for summer." ”

Miki Kujou is tired of walking and wants to find a place to rest for a while.

There is exactly a bench nearby.

A cat emerges from the landscape bushes, leaps lightly, and sits down on the bench in the posture of a sphinx.

Its large, transparent eyes, like glass beads, looked at Kamogawa motionlessly.

That scene is like an alien coming to Earth missing their hometown.

"What should I do?" The two stood in place, and Toru Watanabe asked Miki Kujo.

"Get rid of it." Kujou Miki ordered.

"Kamogawa advocates the union of man and nature, you look at other people, and there are those who sit on the ground. Let's not bother it, go to the front again, there are other seats. ”

"Is it important for people and nature, or am I important?"

"Do you need to ask? Of course you are important. ”

"Then get rid of it."

"No problem."

Toru Watanabe walked over and squatted down in front of the cat: "Friends in Kyoto, can you let me go, we are guests from Tokyo, and we came to see Kamogawa." ”

The cat ignores him.

"Don't understand?" Toru Watanabe changed into a Kyoto accent, "Hey, don't let me lose face in front of my girlfriend, or don't blame me for being unkind." ”

The cat turned its round furry face, glanced at him, and continued to look into the distance, missing the scenery of his hometown.

Toru Watanabe raised his head and said to Miki Kujou, who was standing, "I think this cat might think I'm a fool." ”

"I think you're a fool too."

"I see, I wonder why I would do such a thing? That makes sense. ”

Kujou Miki tightened her face and looked down at him coldly.

But if you look closely, the corners of her mouth go up, smooth, up, smooth, and finally burst out laughing.

Because I didn't want to laugh but laughed, I barely turned into a disdain before I laughed.

Toru Watanabe stood up with a smile, put his arm around her thin waist, sighed and said, "Let's go, just let this cat stay here, and we two fools will sit in another place." ”

"What did you say?"

"I'm a fool."

"Hmph."

The two of them walked forward, but fortunately no more cat popped out of the bushes.

Toru Watanabe wiped the chair clean, and the two finally sat down and quietly enjoyed the scenery of the Kamogawa River.

On the stones in the stream, tourists jump and walk over and take pictures on them;

A woman in her thirties sat on the riverbank eating baked rice cakes with a 120-yen bottle of green tea beside her;

On the creekside path, under the wooden terrace of the Japanese restaurant, a young man from China who came to Kyoto University for graduate school held a guitar and sang the Chengdu version.

It's like crying, it's really ugly.

In the song of 'Walk to the end of the Hanami path and sit at the door of the tavern', Toru Watanabe points to the duck in the water weed: "I don't know how much meat will be left after plucking." ”

"Isn't it man and nature?"

"Na-" Watanabe said jealously and coquettishly, "Is man and nature important, or am I important?" ”

Kujou Mihime glanced at him as if she couldn't stand it, and she was full of charm.

Toru Watanabe laughed, leaned in, and kissed her.

This is a kiss without any lust, only a faint warmth lingers in the heart.

The water of the Kamogawa River is crystal clear, and when it hits the stones, the splash of the water shines in the warm autumn sun.