"Is that something that surprises you?"

Nanamiya elegantly sandwiched the barbecue, even with iron tongs and trays, she ate the feeling of being in a high-end Western restaurant.

It seems that there are no hanging bottle racks and hospital beds around, but round tables and red wine, and polite attendants.

Mio Izumi nodded like a chicken pecking rice, which was very cute.

Naoki Natsume was stunned again, and an electric current flashed through his heart.

It seems like......

Not so surprised yourself?

If you look closely at the faces of these two people, they don't look like each other at all, and you can see some clues between your eyebrows and eyes.

But why did I always think that all good-looking women were like this before, because they were beautiful?

Why can't I see such a simple truth before I use my brain a little now?

And I used to think that there were some temperaments between Asai and Nanami School Doctor, and they were also very similar.

For example, the attribute of the fun person.

Asai fights a little bit, and Nanami School Doctor is completely watching the excitement and not thinking it's a big deal.

"I ...... I have some understanding. Naoki Natsume thoughtfully: "So Asai occasionally has a bad personality, did you teach the school doctor?" ”

Nanamiya was stunned when he heard this, and then chuckled twice.

"Yes...... What's funny? Naoki Natsume was puzzled.

"She didn't learn from me, she learned from a bad-hearted little boy." Nanamiya suddenly felt a little melancholy: "But I don't remember what the little boy's name was or what he looked like." It's only been ten years, but I seem to have forgotten a lot of things. If I hadn't studied medicine myself, I would have suspected that I had developed Alzheimer's disease in advance. ”

Naoki Natsume suddenly frowned: "Little boy? ”

"Yes, she had a good relationship with that kid when she was a child, probably a neighbor, and I can't remember anything else." Nanamiya smiled: "What, the little guy is jealous?" ”

"Please don't joke with me," Naoki Natsume looked determined, with the confidence in his eyes that saw through everything, "I won't be fooled like this." ”

I don't know how many times I've been teased by Asai usually.,Verbal tricks like this will no longer be fooled.。

I'm no longer the one who blushed when I heard that I was going to live with a girl at the beginning of spring!

And Izumi Mio's side heard Nanamiya ask if he was jealous, and he was already worried, but seeing Natsume-kun so resolutely denying it, he was a little relieved.

Nanami Ye saw that the little guy had grown a little, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Evolution is a bit fast, and it doesn't seem like it's time to have fun with him casually.

Listening to Nanamiya's words just now, Natsume Naoki had more thoughts in his heart.

If you don't run away from the scumbag idea that is growing in your heart, admit that you actually have a little bit of a good impression of Asai......

It stands to reason that when I heard that Asai had a boy who had a good time when he was a child, he should have felt a little awkward.

Although it is not as obvious as being jealous, it doesn't matter if it is as big as it is now, and it even feels a little strange.

If it's not that the feelings for Asai in my heart are fake, then it's a little greasy.

When Nanamiya told Asai about his childhood and the boy in the neighborhood, Naoki Natsume had an inexplicable familiarity, as if he had some impression of this boy.

"Could it be that I knew that boy when I was a child, and maybe even played very well and had a deep relationship, so I didn't have awkwardness or even jealousy?"

If that's the case, it's the missing memory of before the age of eight.

Naoki Natsume muttered to himself, and then looked at Nanamiya, "Where did Asai live when he was a child?" ”

"Live in Sapporo." Nanamiya said without thinking.

"Hokkaido?" Obviously, this answer was beyond Natsume's expectations.

"Why, looking at your expression, it seems that Asai's hometown in Hokkaido is also a thing that surprises you very much? Sapporo is also the fifth most populous city in Japan, so it's no surprise that the people around me are from Sapporo. Nanami spread her hands: "I'm her aunt, she lived in Sapporo when she was a child, and she never mentioned it to you?" ”

Naoki Natsume shook her head, "Asai rarely tells me about herself. ”

"And what are you surprised about?"

"I'm also from Sapporo, so I'm surprised by the coincidence." Naoki Natsume replied, "My hometown is in Teine Honmachi, which is a village at the foot of Teine Mountain, and I heard that it was the first place where the Tokugawa shogunate reclaimed the cold area. ”

"I've heard of the Fahan Village built by the samurai of the Twenty Regiment." Nanamiya tilted his head: "Then if Asai was from the same village as you when he was a child, would you be even more surprised?" ”

It seems that Asai didn't say anything, and this little guy really doesn't know anything.

Nanamiya thought so, and even the matter of taking in Asai after the car accident, he didn't know very well, right?

Odd......

But if that were the case, would he really not know that the family was sponsoring a little girl whose parents died in a car accident?

Nanamiya sensed that something was not quite right in her memory.

It seems that the part about the youngest son of the Natsume family is too ambiguous.

Now recall, the amiable faces of the Natsume couple are still vivid, more than ten years ago when Asai's mother was still surnamed Nanami, the two sisters knew the Natsume family, and they were acquaintances for a long time.

After all, the village is so big, and when my sister is married, she is a family surnamed Asai in the village, and she has been in the village from beginning to end.

It stands to reason that he should also be familiar with the Natsume family, and the children of their family should have seen it.

At least the well-connected and wealthy family in the village raised a boy, and he did not say that he had grown up, and he would not have been strangers to each other many years later when they met again in the university infirmary.

That day, I still heard Asai call him Natsume, and I realized that this was the youngest son of the Natsume family, who was fostered in Tokyo.

So Nanamiya pinned his hopes on the shock and incomprehension of his hope on Naoki Natsume's face.

Maybe it's just that the two haven't seen each other for a long time, and they don't know each other well, so they don't recognize each other.

But contrary to her expectations, Naoki Natsume didn't appear too shocked, especially after hearing that he and Asai were in the same village.

Instead, Naoki Natsume fell into a state of deep thought.

The ingenuity that often comes to the mind of Amamiya Chizuru has temporarily returned to its rightful owner.

"What's wrong, how can I live close to Asai when I was a child......" Naoki Natsume frowned slightly and muttered to himself: "But why don't you have any impression of Asai in your mind?" ”

I vaguely remember that there was a surname Asai in the village, but I really can't remember who that family had.

Hiss!

The untouchable fragment of memory scratched him again, causing his frowning brow to shrink suddenly, as if a needle had pierced the center of his brow.

The hallucinations that appeared when he struggled in his heart after washing the quilt last time came to his mind again, and he felt as if there was a mirror in his mind, standing in front of the mirror and facing each other, but he couldn't see his face in the mirror clearly, a little unfamiliar, but more familiar, that is, himself.

I tried to reach out and touch it, but my fingers were scratched by the broken mirror, and my feet were stopped by falling debris.

"Perhaps, when I come home from the summer, I can learn something from my diary when I was a child." Naoki Natsume vaguely felt that everything was answered in Hokkaido, in that small village in Sapporo......

Mio Izumi, who was on the side, listened to all the conversations between Natsume-kun and Nanami's school doctor.

The doubts in her heart grew more and more burdensome.

Isn't Asai-san's childhood sweetheart Natsume-kun?

Why does Natsume-kun seem so unfamiliar with Asai-san's past?

Hokkaido......

I went there as a child, but now all I remember is the snow-capped mountains and small houses, and the fires in the sky.

I'll ask Xiaohui later, if there are any arrangements for the summer vacation school trip!

In the dark, Izumi Mio felt that she should go to Hokkaido this summer.

……………………

On the other side, after getting information that is completely contrary to his memory, Amamiya Chizuru leaves the auditorium and wanders around the school aimlessly.

The excitement around her seemed to have nothing to do with her, she lowered her head, looked at the ground and thought about things, and followed the crowd to the most lively place.

"Hokkaido's car accident," she felt her head messy, like a knife rusty, not as sharp as before, subconsciously biting her nails, she muttered to herself: "If you want to find out more accurate information, do you really want to go to Hokkaido in person...... But that place ......."

She really didn't want to go back to the land that made her sad, the city that had taken her mother.

"Can you sell me this knot cheaper?"

A familiar voice interrupted Amamiya's thoughts, and she looked up to see Asai stopping in front of a stall selling souvenirs.

"Our club is handmade, and for the sake of you as an alumni, it's already very cheap." The students who set up the stall were a little embarrassed: "Maybe if you buy two, I can give you a little cheaper." ”

Another girl at the booth accosted her, "My mother works at the Izumo Taisha Shrine, and she brought the raw materials of these knots from the shrine to pray for blessings." My mother often said that sincerity is spirituality, but if you bargain, there is less sincerity. ”

Most of the vendors who sell such items of faith will raise the price under the guise of sincerity and spirituality, and Asai did not believe in this at first, but when he thought of the purpose of buying the knot, he was a little hesitant to continue bargaining.

But it's probably a campus festival, and some students want to take the opportunity to make money, so the price of the knot is really expensive...... For a thrifty maid, the price of goods exceeds the average price in the market, which is expensive.

Asai thought for a long time, shook his head, and put the knot in his hand back down: "Forget it, I'll take a look elsewhere." ”

After the school festival, there is still a week of exam week before the summer vacation, so go to the suburban shrine on the weekend and buy some cheap ones to take home.

Aunt Natsume believes in these things, she was a witch when she was young, and later married Uncle Natsume and resigned to concentrate on being a housewife, no worries, Uncle Natsume devoted himself to the garment factory, and the garment factory began to go smoothly.

As for the rest of the knots......

Before he could finish thinking about it, a hand that was whiter and smaller than most girls reached out and grabbed the knot that Asai had just put down.

"I paid for her." The back of Amamiya Chizuru's head appeared in Asui's sight, with a height of one meter and five aura, and two meters was indeed worthy of his name, and when it came to money, the little rich woman had confidence.

She turned her head to look at Asai: "How many to buy?" ”

"Two ...... No, three. "You're not welcome.

"Three, wrap it up." The little rich woman didn't ask the price from beginning to end, and even the price was written on the label, and she didn't bother to look at it.

Carrying the wrapped bag, the two walked together for the first time.

Amamiya Chizuru followed the direction with the most people to the opening ceremony, and Asai originally said that he would wait for Natsume Naoki here, so naturally he was here.

As for how harmonious these two are...... It's just because Asai has a short manpower, so it's inconvenient to say anything, otherwise maybe the two of them will continue the Shura field in the video game city at that time.

"What are you buying these things for? Belief? Amamiya Chizuru probably felt that the atmosphere was a little dignified, and took the lead in breaking the deadlock.

Asai had the face of Aunt Natsume in his mind, and there was an amiable old man.

The old man is the priest of Teine Shrine at the foot of the mountain next to the village, and now that the wind and candles are in his last years, he will definitely not be able to withstand the winter of Hokkaido this year.

Back then, Brother Naoki braved the wind and snow to break into the shrine at night, and he didn't know what to say to the old man.

Later, she went to ask, but the old priest refused to say what happened back then, but said that the will of heaven was difficult to disobey, and the child insisted on doing it, and he persuaded him, but there was no way.

Then time flew by, and ten years passed in a blink of an eye.

The day before she came to Tokyo, it was almost spring, and before leaving, she went to Teine Shrine for the last time.

The priest saw her and said a few more words to her:

It was a night, and the snow was falling so heavily that the priest vaguely felt that something big was about to happen, and refused to sleep.

Then the news broadcast the catastrophic car accident.

In the second half of the night, a child named Naoki Natsume in a nearby village broke into the shrine through the snowstorm and sat down in front of the priest with blood and snow all over his body, his face was calm, his eyes were bright and terrifying, and he didn't talk like a child at all.

What Brother Naoki said, Asai still couldn't know from the old man's mouth, only to learn that Brother Naoki once said that the tram problem is actually a solution-

That is, the joystick is held in the hands of that single person.

The priest abruptly described to Asai Naoki's back when he left, with a small body, but it seemed to be a man who carried righteousness, and he went to sacrifice without hesitation.

It wasn't the first time the priest had seen Naoki Natsume, and the Natsumes would take him to worship every Chinese New Year.

But that was the first time the priest had communicated with him, and it took only one night of conversation, from shock to puzzlement to admiration.

That was also the last time the priest communicated with him, and then when the priest secretly went to visit the hospital, through the door of the ward, he couldn't see the light in Natsume's eyes.

So he went back to the shrine and felt ten years older.

Ten years later, before Asai left, the priest had a request.

He wanted to ask Asai to ask Naoki Natsume if he had succeeded.

This answer is like hanging the last breath of the priest, so that he is still alive in the world.

Asai looked at the knot in his hand and clenched it a little: "It's an old man's wish to buy it back." ”

Amamiya Chizuru frowned, thinking to herself that this is the second line in that game?

Asai has his own plans in mind.

Although I still don't know what Brother Naoki said to the priest back then, what the success of the priest's question refers to.

But now that I'm still healthy and alive, I can still participate in the grand Waseda campus festival, and I can eat delicious food, all of this is what the priest called a success, right?

There is nothing more cherished by Asai than the life that Brother Naoki exchanged for ten years of gloomy life.