Christmas Eve, which is Christmas Eve.

Women and women, go to drugstores, large shopping malls together, buy and buy; Men and men, except for those who are taking pictures with cameras, are really few couples; Men and women usually go shopping, taking pictures, and then go to the hotel, or go home.

That's about it.

Although Yu Murakami went out with the three women of Aii Nakano, it is not counted in the category of men and women.

Three women belong to women and women, and he is one person, so it doesn't matter if he is classified as a man and a man.

On the streets of Marunouchi, three girls go in and out of various shops.

At this time, Yu Murakami was standing on the side of the street outside the store, looking at the colorful lights on the trees, watching the crowd, and watching the men and women driving sports cars, swaggering through the street.

The crowd is the most boring, and the bright yellow lights on the trees are the most attractive.

Whether it's a cluster, a reindeer, or something else, or just a few dots, it's all good.

Yu Murakami admired it to the fullest, wearing a black trench coat, black slacks, and a handsome face like a two-dimensional character, he was also admired.

People who are alive can always find their own fun.

After a while, the three of them came out of the store with a few bags.

"Murakami-kun, let's go, when do you want to see it?"

Higashiyama greeted him.

Yu Murakami turned around and followed.

Walking along the street to a traffic light, crossing the zebra crossing, the four of them entered a large square that resembled a courtyard.

There is a large Christmas tree in the center of the square, which is also dotted with bright yellow lights.

As soon as Yu Murakami came in, he was attracted to it.

"Brother You, you still say that you don't like Christmas?"

"I just love the lights."

"But it's Christmas lights, you don't like Christmas yet."

Youmubi's logic is wrong.

If it's the Tanabata Festival, the Spring Festival, or any festival at all, it's just an ordinary day, and the streets are also lit like this, Yu Murakami will also like it.

So it doesn't matter what the holiday is.

But it doesn't matter if you like Christmas or not.

He doesn't care if he's categorized as "Likes Christmas" or "Doesn't Like Christmas".

Yu Murakami was about to admit that he liked Christmas when he was interrupted by a "dudulu~".

This sound effect is the LINE prompt sound of Youmubi.

You Mubi took out her mobile phone, looked at it twice, and then said:

"Sister Suzune asked us how long we were going to go."

Dongshan leaned his head over and looked at You Mubi's mobile phone: "Is she coming?" ”

"It's not. Sister Suzune and I said okay, let's welcome Christmas together in the evening. ”

Ai Nakano asked, "She's going back to Sakuraso?" ”

You Mubi shook her head.

"It's just through the LINE video."

Yu Murakami withdrew his gaze from looking at them and re-examined the lights in the "courtyard".

The light bulb on the Christmas tree changed color very suddenly.

How can I say that color? It can be said to be blue, or it can be said to be white.

Let's call it blue-white.

How to distinguish colors in detail, there is nothing Murakami can do.

"I don't know when Sister Suzune will move back." You Mubi put away her phone and said again.

"Didn't she say it's winter?" Dongshan picked up a string of earrings, put them in the palm of his hand and looked at them: "Soon." ”

With this little episode, You Mubi had no plans to go to other places, and after visiting this mall, the three of them accompanied her back.

After changing her shoes at the entrance, You Mubi couldn't wait to take out her mobile phone and start a video call.

Higashiyama's mobile phone, Nakano Ai's mobile phone, and Murakami's mobile phone rang at the same time.

The entrance can't accommodate four people changing shoes at the same time, and Yu Murakami likes it and has always been at the back, so when the phone rang, he was changing his shoes and couldn't take out the phone in his right trouser pocket.

But he could see the mobile phone screens of Higashiyama and Aii Nakano—the invitation that Yu Mubi initiated in the Sakura Village group chat.

By the time he had changed his shoes, the phone in his pocket had gone silent, and he had no idea of taking it out.

Back in the living room, the four of them had started a video call. It's just that in the shots of the three Ai Nakano, there will be pictures of the other two from time to time.

Yu Murakami stayed in the living room for a while, read a book for a while, and then couldn't stand it.

Several people's phones are always stressed.

It's not enough to say it's annoying, but it's one of the situations he's trying to avoid!

So he took the book and went back to his room.

At half past eleven, when he went downstairs to the toilet and was about to go to bed, he was pulled to the living room by You Mubi.

"Brother You, what about welcoming 00:00 on the 25th together?"

"Did you tell me about that?"

"Of course! Just a few days ago, when everyone was chatting together after dinner. I said, I'm on winter vacation on the 24th, so stay up late together on the night of the 24th to welcome Christmas, right? That's it. ”

"It was half past nine in the evening of the 18th." Yu Murakami remembers very well, even though he was reading the fourth volume of the "Classical Series" at the time: "You said so, but I didn't agree. ”

"Uh-huh——?"

You Mubi stared at him with round eyes, a little pitiful, a little angry.

"I agreed!! I remember it well!! ”

"Nope."

Compared with Yu Mubi's tone as if he had been wronged, Yu Murakami is like a lawyer who has slapped the evidence, calm and calm.

"Obviously!"

"It's Nakano and Higashiyama who promised you, I'm reading a book, and I didn't speak."

"Isn't that a tacit acquiescence?!"

"Huh?"

After all, this is not a court of evidence, this is Sakuraso, with a loud voice, pretending to be pitiful, and young, and is the rightful winner.

Murakami followed Yu Mubi back to the living room.

What he thought to himself was whether he would have to go to the toilet after 12 o'clock and before going to bed.

The living room table is filled with snacks, drinks, oranges, persimmons sent by Yoshima Sato, and more.

The phone was still on a video call, it just quieted down, everyone was doing their own thing with each other, and occasionally they suddenly said a few words, and then it ended abruptly.

"There's nothing to do anyway, let's show our talents, shall we?" Ai Nakano said, holding the cup in her hand.

It could be tea, it could be wine, it could be coffee, it could be just simple hot water.

Murakami entered the living room and lay down on his side, listening to the latest broadcast of "Game of Life" that I don't know who played, and I didn't know what she was drinking.

"Okay, okay~ I'll come first!"

As he spoke, he stood up and began to sing.

sang "The Moonlight is Beautiful".

To this day, she can fill the song with emotion by opening her mouth casually, but she herself is not driven by the emotion in the song.

She has a pompous performance smile on her face, giggling, and doing exaggerated affectionate movements.

It doesn't match the artistic conception of the song at all.

"You're going to sing it to me! Such beautiful lyrics! You sing with this expression?! On the mobile phone on the table, there was the voice of Suzune Sakura.

Higashiyama couldn't help laughing and finished singing.

"How's it going?"

"Not bad." Ai Nakano said.

"Uh-huh~" You Mubi said, "It's very good! Sister Zhu is amazing! ”

"Hum hum~" Higashiyama tilted his face and said in the proud tone of a professional singer: "Suzune, what else do you have to say?" ”

"Well, I'll retire the album of "Moonlight is Beautiful" later."

"Please! Don't do that! I was wrong! ”

Professional singer Higashiyama gave in because he wanted to sell one more album.

In the end, Higashiyama said to Yu Murakami, who was peeling oranges:

"Murakami-kun, you haven't expressed your opinion yet?"

"Smack, smack, smack."

Yu Murakami put the orange on the table, clapped it three times, and then picked it up again.

"Good song, I like it very much, it's like" After peeling the orange, he stuffed a petal into his mouth: "The winter rain gently falls on the spring grass." ”

"Winter rain? Spring prairie? ”

"That's right. February is winter, right? The sky still belongs to winter, but the seemingly yellow grassland has actually been possessed by spring. ”

"Hmm...... What does that mean? ”

"I'm saying that your seemingly exaggerated performance actually contains the true artistic conception of the song. Don't be fooled by appearances. ”

After saying the two words that Yu Murakami himself didn't know what they meant, the little orange was also eaten.

He pulled out a piece of paper, wiped his hands, and looked at a few people, trying to know from them what he meant.

Higashiyama nodded, with a {I don't know what you're talking about, but you still know me}.

Ai Nakano smiled.

You Mubi frowned her little eyebrows, as if she wanted to analyze what Yu Murakami said from the perspective of doing questions.

Next, there is the drama of Yu Mubi and Aii Nakano, "Sister Bear in the Forest".

The plot is boring, it's just a story about a bear getting lost, and then the sister finds and educates the sister by asking about the flowers and trees.

This is supposed to be a story serialized in the Shogakukan, and it doesn't fit the atmosphere of the night at all.

After that, it's Suzune Sakura on the other side of the phone.

"Then I'll sing too."

Suzune Sakura is just a simple voice actor.

In the introduction of characters on Wikipedia, there are not many female voice actors who are the usual entries of {active female voice actors of such and such a firm, female singers of such and such a record company}.

It's very simple, {YM office female voice actor} words.

But that's not to say that she can't sing well.

Although it's not good, it's not to the point where you're embarrassed to sing because of incomplete pentatonic tones.

"No way!" Dongshan looked at the camera, crossed his hands into a cross: "I've already performed singing, you have to perform others, and you can't do drama!" ”

"Eh~~~ It's so troublesome, I already knew I was the first to perform."

After discussing it for a while, Suzune Sakura decided to perform a somersault.

"Sister Suzune, can you?"

"Don't underestimate me, I've been in the basketball club and gymnastics club."

Then, in order to give Suzune Sakura more space to perform and make it easier for several people to see clearly, they began to adjust the position of the mobile phone camera.

After the adjustment, there is a series of "Suzune is so powerful", "Sister Suzune has another one", "Pajamas!" Pajamas are off! "Ah-", "It's actually a cat pattern", "No cut-offs", "Click" and so on.

Murakami lay on his side on the ground, not mixed in with their lively atmosphere.

He was eating cucumbers, small, crisp, fresh, with a fresh fragrance of vitality.

It was bought by Higashiyama.

Yu Murakami ate two bites, learned from her to dip in soy sauce, tasted two bites, and then chose to eat directly.

I ate one and didn't eat any more.

Cucumbers are summer, after all, and although humans let them grow and bear fruit in winter, there is still a difference in the taste inside.

Ordinary people may not be able to eat it, but Yu Murakami can distinguish the subtle difference very clearly.

In winter, it is still suitable for eating oranges.

So he picked up another orange and began to peel it slowly, removing the white orange shreds.

In the end, it was his turn to perform at the Christmas gala.

"Murakami-kun, what are you going to perform?"

"Hmm...... Think about it. ”

"Okay."

Maybe it was because of the fragrance of his food, and while the three of them were waiting, they also began to eat oranges and cucumbers.

"Ah~~~, eating at night, you are committing a crime!" A roar came from the phone: "I'll go downstairs and get something to eat, too!" ”

As they ate, Yu Murakami began to think about what he was performing.

[Ventriloquism]? This is not a dubbing room; [Music]? Someone has sung it; [Acting]? Dramas have also been performed; [Read]? 【Cuisine】? [Photography]?

Well......

Thinking about it this way, it seems that he doesn't have a skill that he can perform.

"Brother You, have you thought about it?"

"I'm going to show you a book?"

"Read...... Study? ”

"Well, it's like having a book club, where everyone takes turns sharing their favorite clips. Of course, you should have already shared, and I am the last. ”

"Also~~~ Okay."

You Mubi agreed very reluctantly.

So, Yu Murakami took the third volume of "Unexpected Love" given to him by the publishing house.

Flip a page in the middle.

Nakano Ai Yi stretched out his head, "Do you want to read your own book?" ”

"Don't like it?"

"I like it, but because I like it, we've all seen it."

"Nope." Suzune Sakura, who was on the other side of the phone, said, "I haven't seen it. Don't count me in. I'm not interested in this book. ”

Yu Murakami said, "Look, isn't there anyone who hasn't seen it?" ”

"Okay, okay, you can read it." Ai Nakano said with a smile.

Yu Murakami was about to speak, but Suzune Sakura on the other side of the phone interrupted him

"No, I'm not interested."

Yu Murakami doesn't care, put the book aside.

"Then I'll perform whistling."

"This is good, this is good." You Mubi applauded: "It's much more interesting than reading." ”

Yu Murakami began to blow "The Moonlight is Beautiful", "Cyan Coral Reef", and "First Love......

Blowing, blowing, it's not just whistling.

Guitar, piano, flute, piccolo, violin......

The sound of birds, the wind, and the sound of the spring wandering in the mountain stream......

That kind of scene, that kind of sound, how to describe it?

So be it.

[You Mubi took out a five-yuan coin from her pocket and put it in the perfectly peeled orange peel in front of Yu Murakami. 】

That's the kind of scene.

Ai Nakano and Higashiyama grinned, and also took out a five-dollar coin from their pockets and put it in front of him.

Blowing "Mr. Bear in the Forest", several people danced the same dance that day.

When they reached the "Asahigaoka Branch School Song", they began to sing together.

……

[The rising sun rises from the hills, leading me forward]

[Look at the early spring sunshine and warmth, reflected in the dormitory]

[The teacher is tireless and unforgettable]

[Will one day spread its wings and soar in the sky]

……

Faintly, there seemed to be a sentence, "I want to go back too." ”

So, Yu Murakami began to play "Sakura".

Christmas in 2014 came quietly in the whistle of Yu Murakami.

"Ahh

You Mubi wailed, and then pressed the phone a few times, and several people's phones rang again.

Yu Murakami stood up, stretched, went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth, and went upstairs.

Pick up your phone at the bedside.

{You Mubi: Merry Christmas!?~~}

{Kitagawa Tamako: Master, Merry Christmas.} }

{Saori Onishi: Senior, Merry Christmas.} }

In addition, there are many messages sent {Merry Christmas} through group chats and as strangers.

On December 25, he woke up and saw them at the door giving him gifts.

"Boom!"

Yu Mubi jumped out of her room, dressed in Santa Claus's clothes.

"Brother You, let's have a Merry Christmas together!"

"Didn't you last night?"

"What are you talking about, Brother You, it's Christmas! My Christmas tree! My Christmas dress! I haven't used all sorts of things yet! ”

After saying that, she muttered quietly, "Damn the courier." ”

"And what was last night?" Yu Murakami asked.

"Christmas Eve."

"Isn't that already Christmas celebrated?"

"No, it doesn't count. Christmas Eve is Christmas Eve, Christmas is Christmas, let's go see the lights again today! ”

“......”

"Brother Yuu?"

Retracting the previous words, it would be better for Yu Murakami to be divided on the side of {don't like Christmas}.

"Brother You~? Brother Yu——! ”

Yu Murakami slapped his right hand on his forehead.

"Spare me."

Sure enough, if you like Christmas or something, you must have made a mistake.