Shiho Miyano, who was leaning on Takato's shoulder, closed his eyes tightly and breathed evenly, as if he was asleep, but Takato knew that the other party was obviously not asleep. And the numb touch caused by the gentle movement of the other party's fingertips from the palm of his hand made Gao Yuan's heart throb.

But after all, it was still in Hanada Keiwei's car, and Takato still had to make a normal state as much as possible, so that Hanada Megumi could not notice anything unusual.

But after thinking about it carefully, he showed a helpless look, and then stretched out his right hand, intending to gently push away Shiho Miyano, who was leaning on his shoulder.

"Sir. wise, please be gentlemen."

Through the rearview mirror, seeing the movement of Gao Yuan on the back seat, Hanada Kei suddenly smiled and stopped.

"It's an honor to lend my shoulder to a lady!"

Hearing this, Gao Yuan smiled helplessly, and put down his hand, but there was a trace of surprise in his heart - could it be that Megumi Hanada was spying on Shiho Miyano?

Thinking like this, he began to carefully feel the strokes that Shiho Miyano had drawn in his palm. Takato understands that Miyano Shiho must not have done this for no reason.

Soon, the touch of the finger movement disappeared, and in its place, the palm of the other party was attached to the palm of Takato, as if to mean that all the strokes had been written.

Gao Yuan pieced together the order of these strokes in his mind, and then came up with the result, which is three English letters and a symbol: "g", "e", "m", and a "? ”。

“gem？ Jewel? ”

After a moment of silence in his heart, Takato understood what Miyano Shiho meant—she was asking me about the gem, that is, the "red-faced mermaid" that she secretly put into Miyano Shiho's pocket on Mermaid Island! That question mark, is it asking me what to do with that gem?

If so, how do you answer it?

After all, at that time, she never thought that she would have the opportunity to get the "red-faced mermaid" back, not to mention, Miyano Shiho's actions should be under the supervision of the organization, in this case, she even had to talk to me in this way, could it be that she still expected to come back in person?

So, after thinking about it for a while, Takato wrote the letters "as you like" in the palm of the other party's hand, and then learned the movements of Miyano Shiho and put his palm and the other party's palm together.

After a while, Takato didn't wait for Miyano Shiho to make further moves, so he maintained this posture until Hanada Megumi drove to the vicinity of Rice Flower Shrine and parked the car in the parking lot.

"Here we are."

After parking the car, Hanada Kei said, and Miyano Shiho seemed to wake up because he heard Hanada Keiwei's words, yawned goodbye, and then pushed the car door and got out of the car, and walked to Masami Hirota, who had come early and was already waiting here, as if nothing had happened in the car just now.

In this regard, Gao Yuan got out of the car as if nothing happened, and then Hanada Mezumi got out of the car, and then the four of them walked to the rice flower shrine together.

At this time, it was still more than an hour before midnight, but there were already many people on the outside of the shrine, probably because there were many stalls outside the shrine selling New Year's goods.

So, Masami Hirota proposed, first go to the shrine to worship, and then the four of them climb the stone steps, and after entering the shrine area, the crowd is obviously much smaller, and it seems that because there is only one shrine in front of you, so only the crowd of people who come to worship is left.

In this way, the four of them followed the crowd and soon arrived in front of the shrine.

"What do you want to wish for?"

Megumi Hanada asked with some joy.

"New Year's worship is not utilitarian and realistic, and it is not an occasion to make a wish to the gods."

In a cold tone, Shiho Miyano said.

"Don't say that, Shiho."

Masami Hirota said, "Isn't visiting the shrine on New Year's just to pray to the gods for peace? It's okay to ask for a wish. ”

In this regard, Hanada Megumi very much agreed with Masami Hirota's meaning, so he pulled Masami Hirota to worship together, only to see them take out coins, put them into the cash box, shake the bell together, bow twice, clap their hands twice, and then gently close their eyes, solemnly make a wish, and then put down their hands, bow once, and bow slightly, which is considered to be the completion of the visit.

Then, Takato and Miyano Shiho also learned the movements of Megumi Hanada, and prayed with their palms together in order.

Heart's desire?

Thinking so, Takato glanced sideways at Shiho Miyano beside him, and found that she was standing there with her eyes closed, a hint of exhalation coming out of her lips, looking very reverent - obviously she had just said something like that.

In this regard, Gao Yuan also closed his eyes-

At least, don't leave any regrets and live in this world!

Thinking like this, Takato and Miyano Shiho synchronized, completed the following actions, completed the trip to the shrine, and so far, the four of them were able to leave the crowd.

"It's the god sign!"

As soon as he left the crowd, Hanada Kei looked around the shrine and pointed to a place and said.

"Let's go and have a lot!"

Masami Hirota said.

So the four of them came to the place where the lot was drawn, picked up the hexagonal wooden barrel and shook it in turn, shook out a wooden stick inside, and then told the shrine maiden the number of the wooden stick, and you can get the corresponding lot.

"Good! I'm Daji! ”

Megumi Hanada opened his signature and said very happily, while Masami Hirota and Shiho Miyano looked at the sign in their hands but were silent.

"What's the matter, what did you draw?"

Seeing this, Megumi Hanada stepped forward to steal a look.

"Nakayoshi."

With a look of indifference, Shiho Miyano showed the sign and said.

"Little Murderer......

Masami Hirota said with some frustration.

"That's unfortunate."

Megumi Hanada couldn't help but say, "Then you have to hang it up quickly!" Hang high, pray that the gods will see and take away bad luck! ”

"I'll hang you up."

Hearing this, Gao Yuan put his "Xiaoji" signature together and said.

"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Wise."

In this regard, Masami Hirota said, handed his sign to Takato, so Takato came to the shrine, tied a lot of lots, next to the tree, with the help of the branches of the tree, climbed to the highest place, tied Masami Hirota's lot, and then jumped down - the tree of the shrine is not high.

"Okay, I've visited the shrine, I've signed and asked for it, what will I do next? It's not past midnight yet! ”

Megumi Hanada said.

"Then let's visit the stalls."

Masami Hirota proposed, and then led everyone out of the shrine, looking at the rows of stalls outside and the crowd of people.

Seeing this, because he was worried that he would be scattered in the crowd, in the end, Hanada Kei took the lead, leading Masami Hirota and Miyano Shiho on the left and right, and the three of them squeezed into the crowd, but at the last moment, Miyano Shiho suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed Takato, who was about to retreat, and pulled him into the crowd.

As we walked through the crowds, time flew by, and the shrine had begun to ring its bells. When the one hundred and eighth bell rings, the new year has arrived!