When they came out of the ski resort, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and the two of them, who were already hungry, casually found a ramen restaurant near their home to deal with it.

"-Nanamin, where are the dancers coming from?"

Qiu Yang felt that his buttocks were still aching, and while snorting the thick soup ramen, he asked inarticulate about Nanami Hashimoto's plans for the future trip.

"Hmm... Haven't thought about it yet..."

Nanami Hashimoto looked a little weird, as if she was shy? Some of them look like they don't work.

"Hey! It's my birthday, so you don't have any idea where to take me! Just know to ask! ”

As if deliberately changing the topic, she suddenly complained about Qiu Yang again, which made him confused.

"-That and that, then I'll arrange it?"

After all, Nana Min is the biggest today, and Qiu Yang followed her intentions, racking his brains to think of where to go.

“…… Going shopping? ”“…… Going to the park? ”“…… Playing electric at home? ”“…… Going for dessert? ”

However, Nanami Hashimoto's head shook like a rattle, and it seemed that his advice was always not to her liking.

"Hmm...... Where the hell do you want to go......"

"- A fantastic world of ice and snow! A paradise for kids! ”

The small screen that looped in the ramen shop was once again shown in an advertisement for Asahikawa Zoo.

Seeing that Nana Hashimoto did not deliberately lower her head and not look in the direction of the screen, but quietly flew red cheeks, Qiu Yang suddenly understood, and put a little evil smile into her ear.

"- Nanamin, why don't you accompany me to the zoo, I've been going there for a long time!"

Nana Hashimoto raised her head in joy all of a sudden, and there were twinkling stars under her eyes, but she was pretending to be reserved and complaining.

"Yikes! How old are you, and you're going to the zoo! ”

Qiu Yang snickered in his heart at this down-and-down acting act, and grabbed her sleeve and shook it slightly.

"Well... I'm still a child, so Nanami will come with me! ”

"Hey, I really can't help you!"

Nana Hashimoto didn't say the twisted words, but she stood up on the ground.

"Let's go, let's go! If it's too late, it'll close! ”

While saying this, she pretended to be natural and stretched out her hand in Qiu Yang's direction.

Qiu Yang stayed in his seat very procrastinatedly, deliberately looked at Nanami Hashimoto with his upper eyeline, and thought with some evil taste - you have to do a full set of plays.

Gently pulling Nanami Hashimoto's hand, he lowered his voice, a little pitiful.

"So, Sister Nanami will take me to the zoo?"

"Woo——!"

What! The careful trick that Kenta cooperated with yesterday released Qiu Yang's nature? It's just that I'm still eating this set, and it's only been half a day, and I always feel that my heart has been suffering a critical hit.

- Sure enough, I haven't felt in love for too long, I always feel that I am in front of Qiu Yang, how can I be so innocent.

"—Pretend to be tender! Disgusting! Vomit! ”

Despite her usefulness, she was still unforgiving.

Unexpectedly, after hearing her say this, Qiu Yang stood up suddenly, blocked the light source, and suddenly shrouded her in the shadows.

He leaned close to his ear, his breath was too hot, and his deep voice was very different from what he had just looked.

"-Nanamin, do you still prefer me to look like this?"

"Get out!"

Nana Hashimoto blushed and pushed Qiu Yang away. Qiu Yang was not annoyed, he just narrowed his eyes and looked at her gently and narrowly.

At this moment, she suddenly felt that although Qiu Yang always felt that she couldn't adapt to the contrast of people in the entertainment industry, his current appearance was like a natural performer, and his every move was as if he was sitting under the stage.

"- Nanamin, I promise you that I will not touch the stage again."

Thinking of Qiu Yang's promise when she answered her request just now, she calmed down a little and thought about it a little sweetly.

This is an underwhelming and charming look, it should be Nana Min's exclusive to me!

……

……

"- Wow, this little raccoon, it's so cute!"

"—Ah, it's scary! Look at that lion's teeth! ”

As soon as he entered the zoo, Nanami Hashimoto's mood seemed to be a little too high, dragging Qiu Yang's hand and running around, as if he was a primary school student on his first spring outing.

The long chestnut hair was scattered, and as he ran, it gently swept over Qiu Yang's cheeks from time to time, making his face and heart itch together.

"-Hahahaha, Qiu Yang, look at that giraffe doesn't look like you!"

"Hey! What! ”

Such an unnutritious conversation continued, Nana Hashimoto looked at all kinds of animals with great interest, and Qiu Yang looked at Nanamin, who had a rare and delicate look, all the way.

"Look at that owl, it's so cute!"

"Well, that's cute."

"Hey! You didn't even look at it! It's so distracting! ”

Nana Hashimoto turned her head angrily, but she was looking at Qiu Yang fixedly at her.

"I watched! It's just cute. ”

Qiu Yang said seriously.

The words of complaining choked in her throat, and she turned her head a little flustered, and pulled Qiu Yang to the next area as if she was running away.

In Qiu Yang's somewhat doting eyes, she seemed to realize that her interest was a little too high after entering the zoo, and Nana Hashimoto blushed and began to cover her ears and steal the bell.

"I'm not very happy today, it's just, it's just, it's just ......"

"Just what?"

Qiu Yang felt that her appearance was too cute, so he followed her words.

"—only, since I was very young, since that man left, I haven't been to the zoo in my private time."

It's very ghostly, she inadvertently confided her true heart.

"Ahh

Qiu Yang didn't expect the topic to suddenly lead to a heavy range, and he subconsciously apologized at a loss.

"I'm sorry... I..."

"It's okay, it's been so long, and I don't really care about it anymore."

Nana Hashimoto gently straightened her sideburns and smiled very calmly, and her different expression made Qiu Yang lose his mind for a moment.

"However, I do always look forward to the day when I can hold hands with someone who really loves me, spoils me, and respects me, and walks slowly around the zoo......

When she said this, she clenched Qiu Yang's hand, and Qiu Yang also gently held it back.

- Although he only unilaterally and unexpectedly exposed his heart, the most important thing that the past has taught him is to respond to everything, otherwise he will regret it later.

"So, I'm not here, am I?"

He pointed at himself with a hippie smile and deliberately diverted the subject, both of whom were very knowledgeable and did not lead the topic to their relationship.

"I'm glad Nanami told me this, and I'm honored that I accompanied Nanami here!"

Nana Hashimoto only came back to her senses from her memories at this time, knowing that it was her own gaffe, which made the atmosphere a little dull, and she changed the topic a little stiffly.

"- Look at that penguin, not very smart, super cute!"

She pointed to the cute penguins behind the glass curtain wall in a panic.

There was a little penguin who seemed to have just learned to walk, and his motor nerves were very poor, and he was a little clumsy following behind the large group, looking like he was about to fall.

But suddenly, as if it heard Nanamin's words, it was deeply stimulated, and it seemed to have mastered the skill at once, and it flew up like a leap, and suddenly rushed to the front of the group. Although he is still not very skilled, he is determined.

"—that's amazing!"

As the mascot of Asahikawa Zoo, there are many visitors to the penguin pavilion, and everyone who saw this scene clapped their hands in amazement.

The scene in front of her, for some reason, suddenly made her a little familiar, and she subconsciously pulled Qiu Yang's sleeve.

"Look at that little penguin, doesn't it look like—"

Halfway through his words, he suddenly paused.

Qiu Yang was also affected by this pause, and cast his gaze a little strangely, but the moment he met his eyes, he quickly understood the reason for Nanamin's silence - the damn tacit understanding between the two seemed so redundant at this time.

"Hmm... It's kind of like. ”

He didn't know how to answer, so he could only keep his head down and follow her words.

Nana Min's intestines were full of regret, and the rare good atmosphere finally made Qiu Yang forget the unpleasant experience for a while, but he was speechless.

"Nanamin, let's go over there and have a look..."

After being silent for a long time, Qiu Yang pulled out a relaxed smile and pulled Nana Hashimoto to leave the penguin pavilion. This is the first time today that he took the initiative to hold her hand and walk in front of her.

"-Don't worry."

Despite the softness of his voice, and despite not turning his head towards himself, the wind brought the words to the ears of Nanami Hashimoto.

She was slightly stunned, and suddenly shook her head as if she had been defeated-obviously she was a very insecure person, but these four simple words unreasonably settled her heart.

"Yes."

She let Qiu Yang pull her forward, not asking about the way forward.

……

……

"Nanamin, are you coming back today?"

Oh, mom is really, just ask, why do you add a bad smile?

After thinking about it, she still left room for it.

"Not necessarily, Mom and Kenta will sleep first, I'll see the situation."

"Good! fufufu~Come on~"

- Hey! It's too fast! What kind of oil to add!

Throwing the phone in her bag and ignoring it, Nana Hashimoto rubbed her nose with some distress.

"-Boom!"

A huge rainbow-colored marshmallow poked in front of her, and when she turned around, Qiu Yang smiled brightly, gnawing on the one in her hand, and there were a lot of flocculent sugar threads on the corners of her mouth, which looked a little funny.

I don't know where the courage came from, Nana Hashimoto didn't reach out and gently pluck it off and put it in her mouth, the sweet taste melted, and the feeling of shyness came to her senses.

"Eh, you, what are you doing!"

However, Qiu Yang was even more panicked than her, and for the first time today, she changed from an easy-to-use appearance to a helpless shyness, which suddenly made her feel proud again.

- Well! A younger brother is a younger brother!

I didn't see myself at all, and my cheeks burned with fire.

"-Nanamin, when are we going back, Auntie, they have to worry."

Qiu Yang began to look for a topic very easily. However, he was indeed a little tired - even though it was a relatively prosperous city in Hokkaido, the streets of Asahikawa at eight or nine o'clock were already sparsely lit and there were few pedestrians, probably due to the fact that it was dark early.

“……”

The intention was to change the topic, but it silenced her all of a sudden. In this silence, Qiu Yang also seemed to feel that the temperature of the air around him was rising.

“…… Nana Min is ...... Want to live outside? ”

The extra question seemed a little silly, but Nanami Hashimoto was also used to Qiu Yang's intermittent offline IQ, so he just hugged him wordlessly.

"Ahh Marshmallows are falling off..."

He complained a little weakly, but he also hugged her and gently rubbed her in his arms.

It seemed to have suddenly touched his nerves, and it seemed that he felt that he would miss the opportunity if he said it later, and his heart was naturally confided.

"Nanamin, let's be together."

"Is this the next sentence that marshmallow is about to fall? It's really disconnected. ”

Nana Hashimoto's muffled complaint came from under her chin.

"There's no way, I've all confessed, I can only be tied up by you."

"It doesn't count."

"Huh?"

"I said, that's not a confession."

Nanawei Hashimoto's voice was three points resentful and seven points coquettish, which made Qiu Yang feel bone-chested all of a sudden.

As if provoked, he lowered his head and bombarded her ears repeatedly with anger.

"- I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it the most!"

"Hey!"

It can be felt that Nana Hashimoto's body trembled slightly.

"Is that enough?"

He whispered in her ear with some wicked eyes.

“……”

Surprisingly no response.

After being silent for a long time, Nana Hashimoto raised her voice, as if she knew that she couldn't get around this level, and softly mentioned something that was a little damaging to the air.

"That's the ...... Azuka"

As soon as the words came out, Qiu Yang was silent, just hugged her like a statue, and for a long time, buried his head deep in her neck.

Then, as if talking to herself, her voice was so soft that she could barely hear it, and the exhaled air made her neck itch, but she didn't dare to move.

I finally heard the content clearly, and it seemed that some of the answers were not what I asked.

"Nanamin, we'll be together as usual."

Knowing Qiu Yang's intentions and determination, Nana Hashimoto patted him on the back with some distress.

"—it will be."

Her words were sonorous.

……

……

The hot water washed over his body from the top of his head, and Qiu Yang still couldn't calm down.

The bland confession ended like this, there was no verbal reply, but when she appeared here, she was lying on the big bed outside the door, which was already the most practical response.

After all, I have made up my mind to return to an ordinary life.

- As for whether Azuka will continue to contact Nanami after that, and whether she will reunite with him, and what kind of mood she will feel at that time, he doesn't plan to think about it, and he can't think about it.

Shaking his head to dispel his thoughts, he silently recited the words that had sustained him through these two days.

"Cherish the people in front of you."

……

Pushing open the door of the bathroom and walking out, Nana Hashimoto had turned off the lights without wearing a bathrobe, and had already gotten into the quilt, lying on her side in the corner of the bed and pretending to sleep - a huge bed, she wished she had left herself four-fifths.

With a chuckle, he lifted the corner of the quilt and lay down heavily, even gently flicking her up a little while she was sleeping on it.

"Hey! What are you doing! ”

Feeling some excessively hot body on one side of her body, Nana Hashimoto was not ashamed to lift up and kick Qiu Yang away.

"Hey! No more birthday presents! ”

Qiu Yang pretended to wail as he quietly approached again.

Her birthday is almost over, and she has never asked for a gift - on the one hand, she feels that Qiu Yang's willingness to come to Hokkaido to accompany her is the best gift; On the other hand, she seems to feel that as long as the gift has not been given, the birthday will not end, and this special preferential treatment can be continued.

"Who wants your gift......"

Nanami Hashimoto's voice gradually weakened, she knew that Qiu Yang always ate soft and not hard, if he was against the bar, he would not give it if he didn't understand the amorous feelings.

"Well, gifts."

He shoved his hand into hers and clasped his fingers together.

"Hey! Who wants you to give such a big and useless gift, perfunctory! ”

Although getting Qiu Yang made her equally happy in her heart, she was still insatiable in her desire to get more sincerity.

"Do you want to feel it more carefully?"

Qiu Yang bit her ears with her again, and she couldn't stand it the most. The hands of the two rubbed slightly, and she felt that there was a small metal object in the palm of her hand, because it was covered by his body temperature, and she didn't feel it at the first time.

She groped for a while and realized that what Qiu Yang handed her was a small key, and she suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and her nose began to sour.

"Well...... During this time, you know, I'm very busy, and I don't have time to make handicrafts, so I haven't decided on what gift to give you......"

"Before I came to Asahikawa, I prepared this, but I never thought about whether to send it or not."

His tone hesitated a little for the first time in a long time.

"-It was Nishino-senpai who finally finalized my decision, and he made me cherish the people in front of me."

As soon as Nana Hashimoto heard this, he couldn't wait to give a pennant to Kazuki Nishino, a playboy who always had some prejudices.

"Nanamin is the person in front of me that I want to cherish the most, so I decided to give you this, the spare key to my new home, and recently, I was moving out of Asakusa. Because...... You know. ”

"—Happy birthday, Nanami."

After listening to this series of confessions, Nanami Hashimoto finally mustered up the courage and turned over all of a sudden, and the distance between him and Qiu Yang was instantly close.

The soft and light bathrobe did not seem to fulfill its obligation to separate the two people, and the friction of the clothes made the air in the room extremely ambiguous.

Looking at Qiu Yang, who was watching her with a look of expression in the dark, she seemed to have exhausted her life's courage, and she leaned her head over in desperation.

"Woo......"

Maybe it was the black light, or maybe it was a little lack of experience, she kissed Qiu Yang's chin all of a sudden, knocking her lips painfully.

Nana Hashimoto didn't feel a little ashamed, obviously she was so clumsy as an old man, she even complained a little about herself, why didn't she experience life more.

"-So, is it my turn?"

Qiu Yang chuckled, and his pretended sophisticated tone made Nanami Hashimoto inexplicably unhappy - how experienced are you guys, is it ...... with Asuka?

The gagged lips interrupted her thinking all of a sudden, and feeling his equally clumsy attack, Nana Hashimoto was immediately relieved, and complained a little sweetly in her heart.

- What, aren't you just a younger brother!

The two of them, both non-experiencers, felt each other's body temperature jerkyly, and Qiu Yang's hand instinctively began to be restless, making Nanami Hashimoto's reason more and more confused.

……

"Boom-"

The bell struck twelve o'clock in the middle of the night suddenly, as if it had reunited the rationality of the two at once, and at the same time spread out their hands, and lay on their backs with a slight gasp.

“…… It's gone. ”

After a long time, Qiu Yang spoke.

"Hmm."

Nanami Hashimoto also continued bluntly, referring to her birthday, which is also the unique Asahikawa love story that everything that happened today and will be remembered by her for the rest of her life.

"—that's it for today."

Qiu Yang asked tentatively.

"Hmm."

Although she was a little disappointed, she also knew that it shouldn't be so fast, and the bell was really a timely warning.

was melancholy, a big hand gently took her small hand, and it was ten fingers interlocked.

"Nanamin, don't think about it."

Qiu Yang's gentle voice was in her ears, making her suddenly feel as if the life in this life should be like this.

"Good night, my little birthday boy."

"Yes, good night."

She closed her eyes, all her thoughts were gone, and she fell asleep peacefully.

……

The sky of Asahikawa is cloudy and there is no moonlight, and it seems that tonight is specially wrapped in darkness for lovers.

And in the distant Tokyo, a small figure huddled in a corner alone under a quilt was entangled until 23:59 before sending a message to an old friend who didn't know where he was.

"- Nanami, Happy Birthday! It's been a busy day today and I don't have time to bless you on time! Have fun every day! ”

However, she still didn't send it after all, and she had been struggling with the next sentence for a whole day.

"-If you can, take good care of Qiu Yang for me!"

She read the message for the thousandth time, and finally her eyes were misty with tears, and she deleted it from the draft box word by word.

The moonlight in Tokyo is good, but no one knows if it will illuminate the path of gradual chaos.

……

[End of Volume 2]