At this time, a large number of townspeople had gathered in the venue, and they were standing around the ice palace in twos and threes. Due to the large number of people, it seems that the cold air seems to be warmer, and the adults gather happily to talk loudly, while the children chase them everywhere in groups of three or five.

On the left side of the ice palace, there is a staff member of the town office handing out drinks, and there are wooden folding chairs for people to rest. Saga and I went up and took a drink, then found a chair and sat down. The drink is served in a wooden cup, which is hot and exudes warmth in the hand. This is a soup made from the roots of white-leaved plants, and the soup is pale green in color, and it has a sweet and sour taste.

After waiting for a while, Shizune and Hoko also arrived early, I waved at them, and then Shizune pulled Suiko and trotted over and sat down next to me.

"Fold, why did you run away all of a sudden?"

As soon as she sat down, she immediately stared at me, her emerald green eyes with an age-appropriate piercing power.

"Met a few ...... Well, people who don't want to see it, so go faster. ”

I was a little afraid to look her eyes, so I turned my head to look in the direction of the Ice Palace, only to see a tall, thin man standing on the verandah on the second floor, looking down at the ground. He wears a white coat and a mask that covers the upper half of his face, and has very strong personal features.

Dysprosium Tree Star.

From the obvious features of clothing, I immediately recognized the identity of the man.

"That's it, forget it."

Jing turned back to her lazy appearance, and she followed my gaze and saw the Dysprosy Clan: "Speaking of which, this year's paving is the Dysprosy Tree." ”

"Really, it's Kazuki-sama."

Hoko looked very respectful of Kazuki, and her eyes sparkled as she looked at him. She suddenly exclaimed, "He is looking at us." ”

In fact, I didn't need to be reminded by Suiko, I had already noticed that the Kazuki clan was looking at us. Perhaps sensing too much, he immediately noticed that we were looking at him, so his lips, unobscured by the mask, curled up and showed us a smile that was not friendly from a distance of a hundred meters.

I frowned, I really didn't like his attitude. However, out of politeness, I still nod my head slightly as a sign of respect. As for Jingze, she didn't react, and turned her head to hold Suizi's head: "Okay, there's nothing to see." He's about the same age as your father, and he doesn't look down on a kid like you. ”

"Really, Jing, you...... What are you talking about, I'm just respecting him. ”

Suizi blushed and waved her hands in a panic, but was grabbed by Shizuchi, she put her head to Suiko's ear, and whispered something. After that, Suizi showed a hesitant look on her face, but soon nodded again, as if she had agreed to some conditions.

Ignoring Shizu's whispers, I was still looking at Kazuki in the distance, and he was also looking at us. No, to be more precise, he was looking at the veil beside me, and I was nothing more than an incidental item.

The keen perception of the fantasy realm made me perceive that his gaze wandered over the crimson hair, and then on the face, and that gaze was so impudent as to displease me. Yarn seemed to notice something, and after she smiled politely at Kamiki, she frowned, bit her lip, and whispered to me, "I don't like the look in his eyes, it's like looking at another person from me." ”

"He should have seen that you thought of Miss Liuzhi."

I shook the veil's hand lightly, and ignored Kadoki's piercing gaze.

Soon my parents arrived at the venue, and after they told me and Jing to say a few words, they sat in the back row with a few friends. Most of the children in the front row are like me and Sasa, and most of the adults sit in the back of the row, except for shorter women and adults with children.

"Fold!"

After a while, just as Saza and I were discussing what to eat at the stall first, suddenly there was a voice calling for me, and because there were many children sitting around, the crowd was so loud that I couldn't hear who was calling me and where I was shouting, so I turned my head and looked around.

"Fold, this way, this way! I am here! ”

The man shouted again, and this time I saw it, it was Watanabe Morning. She sat about thirty meters away from us, also in the first few rows, but since the seats were arranged around the ice palace, it was not easy to see each other from the perspective.

There seemed to be a few children sitting next to her, such as Maria Akizuki and Asahina, and because of her screaming, several of them looked this way. Asahinaju's expression was quite interesting, with a pouting and a look of disgust and displeasure, while the other children were fine.

Noticing that I was looking that way, Akira pulled away the head of Asahina, who was sitting next to him, and stood up and waved his arms excitedly. I smiled and waved my hand at her.

"Fold, an acquaintance?"

Sha held the finished wooden cup in her hand and stroked the embossed pattern on the wall with her fingers. It was a panda with a thin bamboo in its mouth, ruffian eyes and sharp claws, and it looked quite cute.

She tilted her head to look at the early season who was waving in this direction, and was a little puzzled: "I don't seem to have seen it, it's not a child of the Golden Country?" ”

"Well, her home is in the land of watermills, not far from the bridge."

I nodded, my gaze inadvertently swept over the long red hair of Akizuki Maria, and after a serious look, I suddenly thought of something, and turned my head to carefully observe Sa's face.

"Fold. Why, why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face? ”

Under my gaze, Sasha carefully touched her cheek, and her pretty face was full of puzzlement.

"Yarn, speaking of which, does your mother have any brothers and sisters?"

I held my chin in my hand, and the face of the veil in my mind and the face of Maria Akizuki intertwined, and the contour alone was less than four points similar, but both of them had extremely rare red hair, which made one wonder if they were related.

"Yes, I heard my mother say that she has a younger sister, but I haven't seen it. Fold, did something happen? Why do you suddenly ask that? ”

Yarn was still puzzled, but I didn't plan to tell her the answer immediately, but smiled mysteriously at her, stood up and stretched out my hand to her: "Yarn, come with me to say hello, and by the way, introduce a friend to you." ”

"Huh...... Friend? Who is it? ”

Sa, though she didn't know what to do, put her left hand in mine, and I pulled her up from her seat and walked towards their place in the morning.

Seeing us approaching in the early season, she became reserved, she put away her arms that were waving her big grin, but she still had a happy smile on her face: "Fold, come and sit here, and wait for us to eat apple candy together." ”

"Good morning, early season. There are also Asahina, Akizuki, Aonuma, and Inaba. ”

I stood in front of a few children, pretending not to see Asahina's expression, which was full of "troublesome", "annoying", and "this guy is really angry", and waved my hand to greet them.

"Early."

"Good morning, Shiraishi."

……

Several children responded, but Maria Akizuki and Aonuma were already sensitive to the yarn standing behind me, as well as her long red hair.

"Red ......"

Akizuki Mariya opened her mouth slightly, and she stroked her hair, which was also red, while looking at the veil: "May I ask ......?"

"Come, introduce me. This is my friend, her name is six knowledge yarn, six is the number of six, consciousness is the consciousness of consciousness, yarn is spinning yarn (糸を紡ぐ pinyin pronunciation for yidoozhimugu) yarn, but the reading to read into yarn (さ念法 sa). ”

I pulled Saki to my side and realized that she was staring at Maria Akizuki too, so I patted Sa's shoulder and introduced them to the early season.

"That...... Are Sha and Truth a relative? Why do you have the same hair color? ”

Early Ji was the first to ask questions, and she unceremoniously called out the name of the yarn.

"Six Senses...... It was my mother's previous last name. ”

Akizuki Maria tugged at the sleeve of the early season, she still looked at the yarn, and her expression became a little happy: "I heard my mother say that her sister has a daughter who is older than me, and her name seems to be called yarn." I've never seen her, but I think she's my sister. ”

"The first time we met, my name is Maria Akizuki, and my mother is Kaori Akizuki, please take care of me."

Maria Akizuki got up from her chair and walked over to the yarn and bent down politely. Saya took a step back and bent down: "Where, it should be me." I've already been introduced, but allow me to introduce myself again. My name is Liuzhisha, and my mother is the name of the Liuzhi flower (かな pronunciation kana, please guess the source), and please take care of it. ”

The etiquette of both was perfect, and it was almost impossible to fault one. From this point of view, the relationship between the two cousins seems to be certain.

Perhaps because of their blood relationship, Yarn and Maria get along well, discussing each other's lives and preferences, and then talking about their respective mothers. I was dealing with machine-gun fire in the early season, and her personality was so lively that it gave me a headache.

"Fold, speaking of which, did you eat snow balls this morning?"

"Well, my mother has done it, and I have eaten a lot."

"What about the taste? How does it taste? My mom made it tasted great. Yes! I'll bring it over tomorrow and I'll love it. ”

"Yes, thank you. But ......"

"Fold, I wanted to go and play with you after I found out where your house was last time, but it snowed every day since then, and my mother didn't let me go out, which was too much. I had to stay at home with my sister every day, and I couldn't even go to the door to build a snowman, and my mother said that playing in the snow would make me catch a cold. ”

"Well...... It was really hard, but I think as long as I communicated well with my aunt and dressed thickly, as long as the snow didn't fall too hard, my aunt would agree. Also, the snow ......"

"En-en-en-en-ne-en! That's right! Have you ever caught a snowcoat? My sister said that the color of the blood of the snowcoat insect is very beautiful, it is a red like ruby, it has a very strange fragrance, and it can be used to eat, is this true? ”

"It's true, there are a lot of ...... in the body of the snowcoat Well, the substance called magentic acid is relatively bright, and it is not easy to fade, and it is not toxic, and it can be mixed into food and eaten together. However, if you plan to eat it alone, I'm afraid of some of it. ”

"Oh! It's so good, you know everything! ”

……

The barrage of conversations left me dizzy, and I had to deal with the endless conversations of the early season. Until the end, I still couldn't say the sentence "I'm very grateful, but the matter of bringing Yukimaruko is too troublesome for me to accept."

After several people in charge of the town office boarded the ring corridor of the ice palace and beat the gongs and drums, Sawan and I declined their invitation and returned to our seats. Jing on the side glanced at me, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything in the end, and turned her head to meet Suizi again.

Since it is a rare festival in the town, when the gongs and drums that indicate the opening is about to begin, most of the townspeople arrive early, and more than 3,000 people are spread out in the vast venue, which does not seem crowded. Most of the people sat down around the ice palace, waiting for the opening of the town office to be announced, and then the floor laying ceremony was carried out.

The floor paving ceremony refers to the fact that a mana master uses his powerful magic power to make a large amount of ice in a short period of time, take ice, and then turn the ice into the shape of floor tiles, and then spread it throughout the venue. This huge project is the first part of the snow festival. The whole process is carried out in full view, which can be said to be not only an activity, but also a test and observation of the executor, and it is also a way for children to understand the vastness and power of the mana up close.

I still remember the first time I watched the shocking image of the paving ceremony, huge ice blocks weighing hundreds of kilograms per cubic meter gushing out of the frozen river, like an ice dragon hundreds of meters long rising from the ground, and the hundreds of thousands of tons of behemoths passed through the heads of everyone as if nothing under the control of mana, and for a moment there was no light below.

In the end, the executor at that time let out a soft shout, and the huge ice dragon instantly split into thousands of ice bricks of the same shape and size, and then rained down, neatly covering the earth, paving every inch of the ground with ice bricks as thick as thirty or forty centimeters, making people feel as if they were in the crystal realm.

That image is still deeply etched in my mind, and it always inspires my desire and curiosity about the power of mana.

The previous floor-laying ceremonies were similar, and the impression I had brought could not be surpassed, or even compared, to the shock of the first time I watched the ceremony. So this time, what kind of scene will Kazuki Shixing, who claims to be the strongest mana user in the town, show? Can I see the greater side of mana?

I began to look forward to it, imagining the majestic scenery that the Kazuki clan was about to bring.

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