When the sun rose in the east, Saa and I arrived at the Snow Festival venue early and gathered with Mika and the three of us in the small square that was specially vacated in the center.

"All in all, the competition is in the afternoon, and we will continue to practice in the morning, and this time we must carve a fully formed work."

Mika clenched her fists in a sworn manner, the pink rabbit ear cap she wore on her head dangling, and a pair of pointy, fluffy ears would be in front and running to the back. Mamura stared at her hat, looking like she wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. In the end, it was Rina who asked him a question: "What's the matter with this hat?" ”

"That's what you say?"

Meijia reached out and grabbed the rabbit ears, and showed a smug smile with a "hehe": "The decisive hat, I picked it in the hat shop the day before yesterday, and I also picked a yarn, but it is a cat ear." ”

Saying this, she stared straight at the yarn, her eyes turning around on the small black round hat on the head of the yarn, and her cheeks bulged: "Ah! Yarn, didn't you say that you should wear it today? Hat...... What about hats? ”

Sha turned her head casually, stood on tiptoe and kicked a piece of broken ice that had fallen under her feet at some point, and her eyes quietly bent into the shape of a crescent moon: "Forget ...... Forgot. ”

"Absolutely...... Definitely not forgotten, right? ”

Although it was a questioning sentence, the tone was a mixture of statement and imperative, and Mika stared at her viciously, and at the same time with a pleading expression—she was about to cry.

I looked at Mika and then at the veil, remembering that she seemed to have secretly put something in the pocket of her white coat in the morning, and she blushed when I found out. At the time, I was a little confused, but after listening to Mika's words, it was easy to guess what it was.

But I don't have any intention of exposing it, since Yarn occasionally wants to play tricks on Mika, let's make her happy.

"Lost it."

She put her hand in the pocket of her coat and looked at me, and winked at me, not knowing whether it was a hint or something else.

"Why, isn't I the only one wearing this kind of hat today!"

Mika's nemesis, Yarn, easily defeated her with a clumsy lie, which is gratifying, gratifying. However, although Mika covered her face with her hands and made a collapsed appearance, judging from her quiet approach to the yarn, the situation was obviously not so simple.

I took this scene into my eyes, so I also winked at the yarn, which was a reminder. However, because Meijia was too fast, the yarn that received the prompt could not react, so she pounced like a hungry tiger, grabbed the small black round hat on the yarn head with one hand, took off her rabbit ear hat with the other, buckled the rabbit ear hat on the yarn's head at a lightning speed, and put the small round hat belonging to the yarn on her head.

After doing all this, she took a few steps back, looked at the yarn with her hands on her hips, nodded her head with a satisfied "uh-huh", and let out a smug laugh: "Yarn, it looks really good like this." ”

"Ah...... Hat. ”

Only then did she react, and she reached out and touched the fluffy rabbit ear hat on her head, and her cheeks turned red. This stunned look is amazingly cute, and Mika opened her mouth wide and her eyes widened: "Sa, please be my wife." ”

No one took her words seriously, and I stepped forward and clapped my hands to stop: "Okay, don't make trouble." Mika, return the hat to the yarn. ”

"Don't want it, it's too shameful for me to wear a hat like that alone."

Mika shook her head like a drum, unwilling to return her hat.

"But weren't you the one who picked the hat?"

"That's true, but at the time, it was the yarn that proposed to choose, saying that two people wore it together. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't be wearing a hat like this. ”

"So what to do?"

I shrugged my shoulders and threw a "almost" look at Sa, and was about to continue watching, but Saki pulled her sleeve. She didn't speak, just looked up at me slightly, the top half of a pair of soft cotton wool rabbit ears hanging down on both sides of her hairline, giving people the urge to reach out and grab and pinch it.

"This hat, in fact, looks good when wearing yarn."

I complimented me heartily, and the yarn's cheeks turned a little redder. She let go of the hand that was pulling my sleeve and pulled out a crumpled white ball of hair from her pocket with the other hand. When I opened it, it was a hat with cat ears similar to Raff's ears, and the ears were black and different from the white hat, which was short and warped, and looked like a pair of real cat ears.

"Ahh Yarn, it's really bad-hearted, didn't you bring it? ”

Ignoring Meijia's complaints, the yarn ripped off the rabbit ear hat on her head, tidied up her bright red hair, and then put the cat ear hat on seriously, and then stared at me expectantly.

"This one is also very beautiful, about the same as Raff's ears."

I gave a casual compliment, but it was not a lie, the cheeks were flushed with gauze and pink, and the red hair was accentuated by the white hat, almost like a life-size doll. From a cute point of view, it's probably perfect.

"Yes, thank you."

Yarn nodded, walked up to Mika and handed her the rabbit ear cap, but she pounced on her and hugged her, rubbing her cheek against cheek: "Yarn, it's so cute, I really want to take it home." ”

After a while, the two girls finally separated, and their faces turned red, and many passers-by stopped because of the peculiar hats.

"Speaking of which, it's just me and Saa wearing hats like this, don't you think it's very abrupt?"

Mika, who was wearing a rabbit-eared hat, looked at the three of us onlookers maliciously, and finally laughed "hehe".

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"Have fun."

As the shopkeeper shouted and walked out of the igloo with the word "crown house" engraved on the door, I, Rina, and Mamura all had strange hats on their heads, which were glasses and frog hats, dog-eared hats, and butterfly wing hats.

As soon as she walked out of the door wearing such a hat, Mika, who was standing at the door, burst into laughter. I touched the strange yellow frog hat with black-rimmed glasses on my head, and somehow I felt as if something was missing. Is it a delusion?

After solving the problem of the winning hat, we were about to continue the practice on the east side of the river, but before we had even left the market area, we met two people, Takashi Takeda and Takeuchi, at the door of a food service, neither of them wearing the uniform jacket of the Board of Education, but each wearing civilian clothes. But what is exaggerated is that Takeuchi still grabbed a few steaming grilled sausages in his hands and stuffed them into his mouth.

Not to mention whether he would be sick to his stomach if he ate something so greasy during the day, he looked like he hadn't eaten in days. How long has this man not eaten?

Since it was already to the extent that I met head-on, it was not good to pretend to be blind, so I took the lead in raising my hand and waved at them: "Hello, grandpa, and uncle." ”

"Isn't this a fold, what a coincidence."

Takeuchi swallowed the food in his mouth and looked at us several times, his eyes particularly focused on the top of his head. He looked at the dark-eyed face with a look of interest: "Did you choose your hat from the 'crown house'?" ”

"yes, they're weird hats, but they're funny."

The shop called "Crown House" has a variety of exotic hats, including hats made to look like the heads of various animals, hooded hats that cover the face together, and even hats made of crystal - but they are for ornamental use.

"It's great, I used to choose one whenever the 'Crown House' opened, but in the last two years, I have forgotten about it. Oh, it's really hard work. ”

Takeuchi grumbled, and Takashi Takeda, who was next to him, nodded at us with a smile and said hello, and then walked to a snack bar to talk to the owner who was preparing.

"Good work."

I nodded copistically, thinking to myself that if this guy had been a thousand years ago, he would have been a full-time salary thief, dealing with work all day.

"Huh...... It turns out that adults are also very hard. Uncle, you were dying of hunger just now, right? And the circles under his eyes are so dark, it looks like he's going to die. ”

Mika listened sympathetically, but the words she said were particularly shocking. As soon as he said this, Takeuchi's face revealed embarrassment, and he coughed: "It's because something happened last night, and I had to get up to work in the middle of the night." Think about it, if you wake you up at night when you fall asleep and ask you to work like me, will you be like me? ”

"No, because we're not members of the Ethics Committee."

This was Mamura's answer, which made Takeuchi look displeased.

"That's right, uncle has worked hard."

This is Mika's, which makes Takeuchi feel comfortable.

"Good work."

Saya nodded slightly, causing Takeuchi to look horrified—especially when he noticed Sa's red hair, and his whole body almost trembled. He used to be a descendant of Mamura's mother in the whole class, right? Maybe it's to know Miss Liuzhi? Could it be that Miss Liuzhi has done something to him before?

"Is Uncle a hardworking teenager?"

Rina cut her hair and smiled softly. Takeuchi's face turned cloudy and clear, and it brightened like the sun.

"You can be lazy, anyway, there are probably not many places where the uncle can come in handy."

This was my answer, and although I didn't want to hit him, as soon as he finished speaking, he showed a bored expression and his head drooped. I had to change the subject: "Speaking of which, uncle, you said something happened last night, what exactly happened?" ”

"This ......"

Takeuchi showed an embarrassed expression and waved his hand: "This is a matter of work, and you can't say it to children." ”

"Does it have anything to do with rats?"

I attacked from a different angle. He opened his mouth, but looked around reflexively, and only when he was sure that Takashi Takeda was indeed not beside him, did he shake his head: "If it doesn't matter, it's actually a little related." Kindness...... Anyway, it's probably the same situation where the dog guarding the house suddenly barks like crazy, and then suddenly dies - well, I can't say more. You little ghost, you're so curious. ”

He smiled and stood up, reaching out to my head, but I was still avoiding it by taking a step back. So he smiled and retracted his hand, showing a comforting expression: "But you don't have to worry, this matter has nothing to do with the little brother of the real village." ”

After a few more idle words, after Takeuchi knew that we were going to participate in the ice sculpture competition today, he cheered us on, and then was called away by Takashi Takeda, who had finished the conversation. After separating from him, we continued towards the east side of the river.

Along the way, I kept thinking about the meaning of what Takeuchi revealed, which was very vague to the uninformed, but to me it was equivalent to directly revealing the truth. First of all, he was referring to the dog guarding the door, which was supposed to mean that the two cats had been tricked – and the whole thing was supposed to be that the two cats had gone crazy after I left, and then they had died.

Does it have anything to do with me?

I thought carefully about the situation last night, and judging from Takeuchi's expression and tone, the two rats were probably fine, and the two cats who died were just two cats. And last night, I used the credibility of both the rat and the cat scam, if the rat is fine, then why did the cat scam die? Is there anything that has not been done to rats, but only to cats?

After thinking about it for a while, it occurred to me that in order to keep the two cats from making a sound, I had imagined two huge palms grabbing their heads and exerting a powerful suffocating sensation. In a way, this is no longer hypnosis, but a level that can be called a mental attack.

Could it be that this is the reason why the two-headed cat is scared to death?

There's no definite information, and I haven't done this kind of mental damage to the target before, so I can't be sure of that for a while. One thing is certain, however, that faith is not completely harmless, but a bomb that can explode at any moment.

This conclusion made me feel a chill in my heart, and while I pinched a cold sweat, I reaffirmed my idea that I would never use my trust lightly unless necessary.

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