December 30, 5 a.m., Haneda Airport.

Winter days are short, and the sky is still dark at this time.

Yu Murakami put his hands into his winter coat and sat on his chair, looking out the window boredly at the plane.

"Senior, choose one."

Saori Onishi, dressed in a brown plush robe with a large pile of drinks in her arms, stood by his chair playfully.

Murakami glanced at it and pulled out the bottle that he hadn't drunk in the innermost.

"The seniors are too much! That's my favorite flavor! ”

Saori Onishi, who is in charge of buying drinks, is destined not to be the first to choose, so she deliberately puts her favorite in the most chest-to-chest position.

As a result, the first person to pick it, took it away.

"Give it back, give it back to me!"

Saori Onishi was like a baby who had been robbed of her pacifier, stomping on the ground with her right foot, babbling and babbling.

"You can't stuff it back in, can you?"

Hearing what Yu Murakami said, Saori Onishi glanced down at the drink in the crook of his arm - the overall structure is delicate, and if you don't pay attention to it, you risk spilling it all to the ground.

And stuffed back, although wearing thick clothes, a man stuffed a cylindrical object onto his chest......

"Then senior, you help me hold it first, and I'll come over to exchange it with you last!"

Saori Onishi pursed her lips and made up her mind that if her seniors didn't agree, she would kill him.

"Okay." Yu Murakami saw through her childlike temper and sighed.

Saori Onishi left with the drink in her arms, and after a while, she took the remaining bottle that everyone picked up and exchanged it for what she liked to drink from Yu Murakami's hand.

Yu Murakami twisted the cap of the bottle and took a sip of the cold liquid, which tasted like lactic acid bacteria.

Board the plane at half past five, and the plane landed at Asahikawa Airport at around seven o'clock.

It was snowing in Asahikawa today, and the minimum temperature was minus 13 degrees, but fortunately, it was not windy, and the group from Tokyo should be able to bear it.

"It's snow! Look! ”

"It's beautiful!"

"It's so cool!"

"Ahh Don't get it in my clothes! ”

Worried about whether the weather is cold, it seems that he is the only one, Yu Murakami looked at the female voice actors who opened their arms and greeted the snow, and suddenly realized.

He also raised his head and looked at the colorless and transparent Hokkaido sky, where the white snowflakes were falling endlessly, and there was nothing to say.

I got on the bus to the New Prince Hotel, and because the number of people was nine, Yu Murakami sat with a passerby.

"This is the latest DSLR?" Elderly passers-by talked.

"yes."

"Are you a photographer? There are often photographers who come to Hokkaido specifically to take pictures in winter. ”

"No, shoot whatever."

"When I was younger, I also signed up for a private photography class, but unfortunately I was at the bottom of every assignment and had no talent for taking pictures. Gave up in a month. ”

The middle-aged man asked Yu Murakami to show him the photo again.

It didn't matter if Yu Murakami had taken serious photos, but according to Sakura, there were photos in the camera that they had taken that they should never show to anyone, and not even their parents, so they refused.

The two chatted for a few words, fell silent, and the middle-aged man closed his eyes and took a nap.

The female voice actors in the front row, and the mother and daughter on the left, are all chattering non-stop.

Yu Murakami, who was in charge of recording the whole process, took a picture of the front row after completing the task, and then also enjoyed the snow scene outside the window.

When the car was about to arrive at the New Prince Hotel, the women who were tired of chatting and napping exclaimed "wow".

The little girl on one side was even about to leave her seat, but her mother pressed her back again, so she had to stretch her little neck long.

Someone was struggling to clear the snow in front of the hotel.

Yu Murakami remembered a sentence in Ryoma Sato's letter a few days ago:

[In winter, just clearing the snow makes you sweat. The locals of Hokkaido don't like snowy days, and they are loved by tourists. 】

After entering the hotel, before the salute could be put down, the noise of "I sleep on the right" and "I sleep in the middle" has already sounded.

This time without Shimazaki Nobunaga, Yu Murakami slept in a room alone.

He threw himself on the soft bed, ready to rest quietly for a while.

"Murakami! Open the door! ”

"Skiing skiing! Skiing and skiing! ”

"Senior! Hurry up! ”

There was a knock on the door.

Murakami got up and opened the door, looking at the excited faces of the eight female voice actors, even Ai Nakano, who has always been calm.

"Aren't you tired? Been in the car for so long? ”

"You're too inferior, aren't you?"

"It's not okay for a boy to be unmotivated!"

"It's unexpectedly useless, I'll only be 25 years old next year!"

"Murakami-kun is obviously in good shape, but I thought it would be strong!"

The women are gathered and dare to say anything. Usually when they are alone with Yu Murakami, they don't say such things.

...... I had to go.

Outside, the snow has become very small. The ski slopes are near the hotel, and the daytime skiing is from 9:30 to 15:30.

Nine people chose 3 hours for 4,500 yen. After lunch, decide whether or not to continue skiing in the afternoon.

When discussing whether to hire a coach, everyone disagreed.

"It's fun to play by yourself, anyway, it's a big deal and it hurts!" Shui Laiqi said.

"Ask an instructor to learn a little basics to enjoy skiing faster!" In addition to Shui Laiqi, the opinions of the other seven female voice actors.

"You're so cowardly!"

Mizurai turned his head to look at Yu Murakami.

"Murakami-san must want to learn it himself, right? Such an exciting thing! ”

"Of course."

Yu Murakami doesn't like to use the strength and balance given by [** transformation] to fight, but he is happy to use it for things like riding motorcycles and skiing.

"Then let's be together, not with these cowards."

"Who coward do you say?!"

"We'll take a picture of you when you fall!"

"And talk about it in all the radio events!"

"I won't let it go on Twitter and Instagram!"

Shui Laiqi shrank his neck and looked at Yu Murakami: "Murakami-san, I can only rely on you now." I don't want to fall! ”

"I'll do my best."

Because of the reasons of "Murakami has a bad temper and is indifferent", "Shui Lai is not gentle and not interested in human beings", although he didn't say it, but both of them have a tacit understanding of "people of insight in the world, only Murakami and Shui Lai".

So Yu Murakami is happy to help the innocent and romantic Mizurai.

When he went to the top of the mountain, Mizurai no longer sat with Saori Onishi, but instead sat on the same cable car as Murakami.

"It's so cold!"

Murakami turned his head and looked at Mizurachi.

On the thick white ski suit, she supported her delicate face.

She is very well-behaved at first glance, but when you look closely at her big eyes and thin lips, there is a strange mood.

Shui Laiqi touched his face: "Is there something wrong with my face?" ”

"There are snowflakes on the eyebrows."

"Huh? Are you sure? Murakami-san, take a picture of me! Wait, I'm brewing feelings. ”

As she spoke, her eyes suddenly watered, and her face was expressionless but sad.

Yu Murakami didn't bring a camera, so he had to take a picture of her with his own mobile phone.

"I'll see!"

Mizurai leaned over, and Murakami could smell her body fragrance in the snow.

"Great! The sunshine coming out of the snow-capped mountain tops behind is also great! I'm going to set this as a line, Twitter avatar! ”

"I'll send it to you."

At the top of the mountain, the others gathered around the female coach to learn the basics.

Yu Murakami and Mizurai found a relatively empty position - afraid of bumping into others, and at the same time giving themselves more room to show.

After covering your mouth and nose with a mask and wearing goggles, you can be considered to be in the atmosphere of the snow resort {recognize people not by their faces, but by their equipment}.

Both of them were a little excited.

"Murakami-san, where do we start?" Because of the headgear, her voice was buzzing.

Yu Murakami doesn't know how to ski, so he says to Mizurachi, "You wait for me." ”

"Huh?"

Before Mizurai could react, Yu Murakami rushed down from the top of the mountain.

He doesn't know any professional moves, but that's okay, the so-called professional moves are nothing more than making skiing safer, less effortless, and more gorgeous.

In short, it is just a habit that people slowly sum up.

Mizurai watched Murakami go all the way down, and disappeared into the cedar forest in a blink of an eye.

"Murakami-san......"

She retracted her subconsciously outstretched hand, not knowing what to do.

Ten minutes later, I didn't see Yu Murakami come back for a long time, and she was tired from standing in place on a skateboard.

She sat down in the snow and watched others skate with envy.

There were two people next to him, and because they were fully armed, they couldn't see their looks, but they were probably a man and a woman from the bright colors of the ski suits.

“...... There is a famous saying in skiing: there are no friends before powder snow, and there is no one on the slopes. ”

"It's my first time skiing, you have to teach me seriously! Don't skate alone! ”

"No problem!"

It was indeed a man and a woman.

Then the men began to demonstrate the movements, teaching the women how to ski step by step.

Shui Laiqi took the opportunity to eavesdrop on the sidelines.

But after a while, maybe the girl was stupid, and after falling several times in a row, the man gradually ran out of patience.

"Don't be afraid! Don't worry, go skating! Snow doesn't hurt! ”

"If you say you're not afraid, you're not afraid! How can this thing be restrained! ”

"You've fallen so many times! Don't you know if it hurts? ”

"What are you yelling at? Isn't it impatient! ”

"Nope! But it's only three hours, and if you grind like this, you won't be able to do anything! ”

"You just want to skate on your own, don't you? You're going to slide your go! I'm not slipping anymore! ”

The woman angrily took off her skis and walked to the cable car down the mountain.

The man struggled in place for a long time, and finally hugged the skis and followed.

It turns out that people who like skiing want to ski more freely than teach their friends seriously, Mizulai prays.

Could it be that Murakami-san also wanted to ski freely by himself, so he left her here.

No, Murakami-san is not such a person.

After another five minutes of waiting, the number of people who came to ski turned out to be more and more, and the originally empty area became densely crowded.

Mizurai looked at Saori Onishi, who was no longer in sight, and for so long, they might have happily followed the instructor on the slopes.

Shui Laiqi struggled to stand up, patted her buttocks, and decided not to wait.

Carefully crouch forward, bring your weight forward, and lift your poles off the ground.

Whispered the technique that he had stolen just now: "Slightly inner eight." Anterior body pressure. Bend your knees. Don't be weak in your legs! ”

It's slow, but it's steady, and it's perfectly fine.

But what's the direction, what's wrong? Don't go to the tree! Stop it!

After hitting a tree, he fell into the snow.

She got up, made sure she was on her way, and set off again.

As a result, I have been falling, either hitting a tree or, in order to force a stop, sitting on my butt in the snow.

With the physical exertion, it was already difficult for her to stand up, and she had to get up from the ground with difficulty.

Fall and climb again.

Friends who came to Hokkaido together, Yu Murakami, who skied together, have long since disappeared.

She had thought about taking off her goggles and hood, maybe Sakura and the others would see her when they passed by, and they could skate together when the time came.

But when she thought of Yu Murakami, who abandoned her and went skiing by herself, she became more and more angry and aggrieved, and her eyes moistened under the windbreaker.

She subconsciously wanted to wipe her tears with her arm, but was blocked by the windscreen.

Biting his lip, he got up again, ready to stumble back down the hill like this, leave this ghost place, and go back to the hotel by himself.

But she didn't slip two steps, and she fell again, and she was so angry that she grabbed the snow from the ground and threw it to the ground.

"Found you."

A man stopped in front of her.

"I'm sorry." Yu Murakami didn't wear a hood or goggles, "It took me a while to go down, and when I came up, I had to wait in line for a long time." ”

Looking at the hand stretched out to her, Shui Laiqi's tears flowed out all of a sudden, and she was angry in her heart, but she still held the hand and stood up.

"Let's go, I'll teach you how to ski."

"No need." She said in as calm a tone as she could.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm tired and want to go back to the hotel to soak in the hot springs."

"That's it." Yu Murakami nodded, "It's still a little way from the hotel, I'll paddle there with you." ”

"Hmm."

As soon as her voice fell, Yu Murakami pushed her hard behind her back. She screamed, and the whole body flew like a fly, and rushed down very much in the snow.

And this time it wasn't the edge of the slope that she had been staying on, but straight into the middle of the slope, which was full of people.

"Ahh

Before bumping into the passerby in front of her, she closed her eyes and subconsciously blocked the front with her hands.

However, after someone grabbed her shoulder, the collision did not happen.

"I'm sorry."

She opened her eyes and saw Yu Murakami apologizing to passers-by who were intimidated by her.

She subconsciously prepared to bow and apologize, but saw that the passer-by was getting farther and farther away from the snow.

It turned out that the two were still sliding down at a speed that swept over the snow.

"Stop!"

"Don't be afraid! Anyway, wearing a helmet and mask, everyone doesn't know us! With that, Yu Murakami pulled the mask up again.

"I'm afraid ——!"

And no matter what she said, Yu Murakami just wouldn't let her stop.

Hold her arm only when she is about to fall; Grab her shoulders just as she was about to hit people and trees.

The two of them rushed all the way down.

Gradually, she was not afraid of being brave, and the feeling of approaching flying was so wonderful!

The thrill of speed is addictive.

Seeing that she was about to bump into someone again, and after intimidating others, she grabbed in front of Murakami and turned her head to leave a sentence:

"I'm sorry~"

Then he departed in style.

"So handsome!"

It's like her twenty-five-year-old dream: {Someone held up the microphone and asked, "Is it the water that prays for Sang?"} She lowered her index finger and replied handsomely, "I'm sorry, you made a mistake." "} just as handsome!

Yu Murakami: "......"

"Murakami-san! Murakami-san! Go to a crowded place! They can't see our faces anyway! ”

“......”

On the snow, except for the ugly posture of the fall, the next day the back hurts and rolls all over the snow, there is no injury at all.

Then, the two of them rushed over to a place where there were many people and looked like novices.

As the two of them glided, the screams on the slopes, the knock-on effect of people hitting people**, everywhere.

When they were about to reach the bottom of the mountain, the two stopped at a rapid speed in front of a person who had stopped, and scared the others down again.

"Hahaha! It's so much fun! Shui Laiqi's voice changed happily.

"Ahh!!h

The person who fell to the ground was Saori Onishi.

She stood up and was about to laugh louder and pray, but as soon as she got up, she fell again, and when she got up again, she fell again......

"Hahaha!" Shui Laiqi laughed as she took out her phone and used continuous shooting.

Onishi Saori's balance ability is so bad that I can't bear to look at it directly.

Finally, Yu Murakami reached out and pulled her up.

"Why are you alone?" Yu Murakami asked her.

"Skiing is not fun at all! They're going to skate, and I'm here to say I'll wait for them. ”

Saori Onishi briefly talked about their experience: along the edge of the slope, she fell all the way, but she fell a little more often.

"You can go back first and drink some hot water. Sakura and the others, I'll tell you when you see them on the road. Yu Murakami said.

"Okay, then I'll go back first."

Yu Murakami and Mizurai get on the cable car again and go to the top of the mountain.

Neither of them mentioned that Shui Laiqi said that he wanted to go back just now.

On the cable car, Yu Murakami apologized again: "I'm sorry just now, I threw you on the top of the mountain alone." ”

"It's okay, I know that the masters have a saying that {no one waits for anyone on the slopes}."

"Listen to whom?"

"On the top of the mountain just now, I heard a boy show off to his girlfriend."

"That's it."

"But Murakami-san, why can you wait for me? You can also skate with me, I thought only skating could do that. ”

"Maybe I'm not a master yet."

"But it's also very powerful," Shui Laiqi pointed his right palm up, and compared the snow slope under his feet for a week, "at least you are the best here!" ”

"We're the best."

"Haha, that's right! We are the best! With that, she imitated the movements she had just made when she was skiing: she turned around, said sorry lightly, and then couldn't help but laugh happily.

"Murakami-san, you can wear a mask this time! Don't let others see our faces! ”

"Okay." Murakami said with a smile.

"You didn't wear it at first, did you? Will it be recognized? ”

"Hmm...... It's possible. ”

"Ahh Murakami-san~~"

"I wasn't looking for you just now, I was afraid that you wouldn't recognize me, so I took off my mask. Will wear it this time. ”

“...... That's right. I knew that I would have taken off my mask and glasses, so that Murakami-san would have found me earlier. Shui Laiqi whispered.

"It's okay." Yu Murakami said, "It's okay to look at the back, not to mention that I also remember your clothes." ”

"Murakami-san......" Mizulai called him in a low voice.

"What's wrong?"

“...... It's great to come out and play with you! ”