"Where is this?"

Mio Izumi woke up and found herself sitting on a bench on the bank of a small river.

Beside her, countless blooming cherry blossoms hung from the treetops.

Heavy cherry blossoms bend the branches, and the branches hang down the water, and the petals flow down with the water.

The warm temperature made her feel like she was soaking in a hot spring...... Obviously, the evening breeze was blowing in the steep Tedao Mountain just now.

"Listen to what the old man means, it's in a dream."

Amamiya Chizuru rubbed her ass and said, she looked at Mio Izumi who was sitting on the bench with a pout, "Why did I fall my ass, but you sat on the bench so well?" ”

Mio Izumi got up and turned her head to look, and found that it was not only Amamiya Chizuru, but even the school doctor was there.

"Is it that strange incense?" She asked curiously.

Nanami looked around at night, and now it looked like it was seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining, and there were many office workers in a hurry around buying breakfast at the convenience store.

Then she looked at the kimono on her body, "It's really strange." ”

Mio Izumi asked, "School doctor, do you believe that we are in a dream now?" ”

Amamiya Chizuru answered: "Eliminate all the impossibilities, then there is only this one explanation left...... We were still wearing the same clothes we wore for the fireworks display, and we all remember it. ”

With that, she walked under the cherry blossom tree beside Mio Izumi and stroked the trunk with her hand: "The rough feel is very real." Is it possible to do this with religion alone? ”

Mio Izumi shook her head, "I don't think this can be done by faith alone...... Where are we now? ”

"Shinjuku." Nanamiya replied, she pointed to the tall buildings not far away: "There is a restaurant I often go to over there, salmon sashimi and kaiseki cuisine are not bad, and the most important thing is that the wine is delicious...... And it's expensive. ”

"Shinjuku?"

"Shinjuku!"

The former was a puzzle from Amamiya Chizuru, who didn't understand why the old man had made up their dreams in Shinjuku...... If it's a dream, why is it Tokyo, why not go to the Maldives or Spain ports to dive and eat authentic exotic food.

I don't know if there is a sense of taste in the current situation...... The smell is a must, and the aroma of cherry blossoms is unforgettable, and according to the ratio of petals to flower bones, it is estimated that it is the beginning of April.

The latter was Mio Izumi's exclamation.

She realized where it was.

"Naoki-kun's family lives in Tsurumaki-cho, Shinjuku." She said, then looked at the river next to her and the cherry blossom trees blooming on the riverbank, "This can't be the Kanda River, right?" ”

"No cell phone." Amamiya Chizuru shook her head slightly.

The kimono has no pockets, and the handbag doesn't dream with the big guys.

Without a mobile phone, modern people are like being blind in an unfamiliar part of life, especially for heavy electronics enthusiasts like Amamiya Chizuru.

Fortunately, now that he recognized that this is the town of Tsurumaki in Shinjuku, Mio Izumi will remember some landmarks when he calms down.

Combined with the school doctor's memories of the high-end restaurants in the neighborhood, it didn't take long for them to find the Shadow Bridge.

On the other side of the bridge, there is a coarse dim sum shop built near the river, commonly known as a commissary.

An old woman stood at the door, occasionally saying something to the shop behind her.

After a while, a frail boy came out of the shop, holding a large number of things in his arms.

"Shall I deliver it for you? You can't get so many things alone. ”

"No need for Grandma Muto, it's just a stretch of road, the wind chill from the first two days has been better, but there is a little cough, which is not in the way."

"Be sure to pay attention to your body! I'm sick when I'm old, and it's all the same lesions left over from my youth...... You're young, you can't always be like that. ”

"Don't worry, grandma, you'll get better after taking these medicines."

The young man was holding a large number of Chinese medicinal herbs in his arms, and there was light in his eyes when he said this, whether he believed it or not, it finally put Grandma Muto, who was worried about him, at ease.

"If you need anything, just tell me, I'll ask my daughter and son-in-law to buy it for you, remember that the body is the most important!"

The three of them who stood on the bridge witnessed the whole process of the young man and the elderly shopkeeper, and Amamiya Chizuru and Nanamiya only realized that something was wrong, and Izumi Mio had already rushed to the bridge, put her hands to her mouth and put them into a horn, shouting at the young man who was walking slowly along the riverside.

"Naoki-kun! Naoki-kun, I'm here! ”

Amamiya Chizuru saw Mio Izumi shouting and waving his hand regardless of his image, and he came to the bridge with a frown.

But she was too short to be blocked by a stone fence, and she trotted around to a new angle before she could barely see the man's back.

"You said that guy is a senior?" Amamiya Chizuru looked incredulous: "His hair is messy, and the whole person looks very unenergetic!" The most important thing is to feel like an old man in his last years...... How can there be a little bit of youthful vitality? He's certainly not a stupid senior. ”

Amamiya Chizuru pursed his mouth: "Don't say anything else, that guy is as strong as a cow, and he has endless strength, so he won't be out of breath with a bag of medicinal herbs." ”

After that, she carefully began to look at the young man's back again, and vaguely felt as if there were three or four more points...... No, once the idea that that guy is Naoki Natsume came to mind, the resemblance of three or four points eventually became ten or even nine points.

Mio Izumi couldn't take his eyes off him from the first time he saw him.

Seeing that Amamiya Chizuru denied it, she looked back at Amamiya Chizuru for a short time with some reluctance, her face full of happiness and superiority.

"Naoki-kun has been like this until this spring!" She was very proud, because neither Chizuru Amamiya, who had just entered the school this year, nor the school doctor who was transferred from Kaichun, had never seen Naoki-kun look like before.

At that time, he was still a very unfortunate and frail teenager, a withdrawn patient with his hair covering his eyes, and he would not greet even his classmates who were in the same class on the road at school, and the professor could only remember that there was a student in his class who had never missed class when he saw the name on the roster.

"It's a shame that I didn't participate in Naoki-kun's past." The senior sister tilted her head slightly, and finally was able to be confident in front of her rival for a while.

"I'm going to find him!"

After she briefly enjoyed the superiority of her rival in love, she couldn't wait to meet Naoki-kun.

"Hey, wait for me!" Amamiya Chizuru couldn't stand her provocation and wanted to catch up and ask what was going on.

On the other hand, Nanamiya looked thoughtfully at Naoki Natsume's back, wondering if this would also be the mirror flower in his dream.

Mio Izumi chased while shouting Naoki Natsume's name, and Amamiya Chizuru and Nanamiya followed behind, but because the distance was far away at the beginning, they needed to go around the bridge, and the three of them were wearing clogs that were inconvenient to run, so they actually went out with them for nearly an intersection before slowly shortening the distance.

"Is that guy deaf!" Amamiya Chizuru caught up with Mio Izumi, but she was also exhausted and began to gasp, she stomped her feet there angrily and scolded, "I called him like this, he didn't even look at it!" ”

Before the next intersection, a pickup truck drove past them and caught up with Naoki Natsume.

Because of his holding and poor health, his movements are not very agile, the intersection is very narrow, the truck driver honks continuously, Natsume Naoki is disturbed by the sudden sound of the horn, hides for a while, and finally stands on the stone slab on the side of the road to make way for the truck.

The driver pulled down the glass window and poked out half of his head with thinning hair - it was a bald uncle.

He spat at Naoki Natsume viciously, "Are you deaf!" ”

"Hah! He dared to call him deaf! ”

Amamiya Chizuru heard the driver's aggressive scolding from a long distance, and his eyes widened.

She couldn't believe what she had heard, and then she gritted her teeth, and was furious, as if she had seen the most despicable evil in the world, and she clenched her fists and was about to rush forward: "How dare he talk to him like that...... No one can scold him but me! I'm going to put that bald bastard out of work, let him be eaten by a sinister society, and then curl up under the flyover in a filthy quilt and regret my rude behavior to him today! ”

"Calm down."

Suddenly, a warm and powerful big hand hugged the menacing little rich woman by the waist, like picking up a fried cat, and comforted her softly while smoothing the hair.

"It's just a scolding, if the people who spread the misfortune to me are done like this, I'm afraid that half of the people in Shinjuku will be unemployed."

Amamiya Chizuru looked at it, and it was Naoki Natsume who was hugging her.

It's just the Natsume Naoki she is familiar with, with a calm smile on his face and a sunny handsomeness, and he is still wearing the tattooed feather hakama that everyone went to buy together.

"Eh, you're here!" Amamiya Chizuru's eyes lit up immediately, and she looked ahead, the truck had already driven away, and the young man holding a large bag of Chinese medicinal herbs was still persevering, and the shirt he wore in spring was already soaked with sweat.

"Since you're here, who is he?"

"It's me, too." Naoki Natsume smiled slightly, then turned his head to look at Mio Izumi: "Senior sister should be very familiar, right?" I was like that all my freshman year...... In fact, a little further back, junior high school and high school are like that. ”

Amamiya Chizuru also reacted at this time.

Here are the dreams.

It was him who was real in a dream, but not real.

"Have you always been like this?" She was curious.

Naoki Natsume shook his head and laughed at himself: "It's only a few times like that, and most of the rest of the time it's on crutches...... Ah, it's like that. ”

As he spoke, he accidentally stepped on the ditch while walking in front, and the whole person threw himself out at once, his forearm was bruised on the stone, and his foot seemed to be twisted.

But he didn't cover his wound and complain, but quickly fished up all the Chinese medicinal materials that fell into the canal, and then opened the package to check the loss.

"Huh!"

Amamiya Chizuru wanted to go forward again, but this time even the senior sister and the school doctor were a little moved, and Naoki Natsume pulled them back.

"It's useless, it's a dream, he can't see us."

A few people walked closer, and sure enough, he was still immature, and he squatted on the ground to check how many medicinal herbs were wet, and he couldn't see that there were already a few people around him.

"Fortunately, the loss is not big." There was a sincere happiness on his face: "Otherwise, it will be in vain for Grandma Muto's kindness." ”

"Hey, you're hurt, worry about yourself!" Amamiya Chizuru gritted his teeth with hatred beside him: "It's just a few pieces of broken medicinal herbs, I'll buy you as much as you want, can you not look like you're very resistant to beating?" You can't even stand up! ”

"No, I'll stand up." Naoki Natsume folded his hands around his chest next to him, as if watching a play, but his tone was very determined.

It was himself after all, and no one knew himself better than himself.

Sure enough, he struggled to stand up on his feet, and the medicinal herbs he originally needed to hold were carried with difficulty by him with one hand, and with the other hand against the wall, he continued to walk in the direction of home.

"Look." Naoki Natsume, who was following behind, smiled slightly: "I'm not so easy to bow to life. ”

The little rich woman glared at him hatefully, didn't turn her head to wipe a handful of tears, and then turned her head to him with a face full of displeasure: "It's okay, it's just a dream!" If this were true, I'd have to pounce on you and bite you!" ”

"Hey, forget about the canal bullying me, why are you bullying me." Naoki Natsume protested.

"Who made you so careless about your body!"

Naoki Natsume smiled: "I used to feel sorry for myself, but then when I realized that nothing could be changed, I started reading. When I first read the book, I didn't know much about it, but I found that there were many people in the book who were as unfortunate as me, and the world would not be any better. But when I read about the suffering of the world, I complained about it, but I didn't think that reading more than one page was the rich spirit of the unfortunate and the beauty of the world...... Books depict suffering and I go through it, books teach me that life is full of hope, how dare I despise my future? ”

"So you...... Did you survive it alone? ”

Amamiya Chizuru was full of distress, and with a small mouth, she took his hand and gently stroked the back of his hand, like a little rabbit comforting a wounded lion.

Naoki Natsume laughed and rubbed her hair, and she didn't resist anymore: "Maybe I'm suffering for many people by myself." ”

"It's not worth it, it's not worth it, it's not worth it!" The little rich woman was about to cry aggrievedly: "Even if you suffer for 10,000 people, I don't think it's good." ”

Naoki Natsume stopped talking, just helped her re-comb her messy hair.

The senior sister pinched the hem of her clothes on the side, pursing her lips and blaming herself.

Amamiya Senmei has not experienced his tragic past, and now that she sees it, she is still distressed and wants to teach him a lesson.

And he could have helped Naoki-kun earlier......

Where is I at this time!

She was even more upset.

Because now is the time when Naoki-kun needs help from others the most.

As she blamed herself, her warm hand covered her little hand that was tightly tugging at the corner of her clothes.

Naoki Natsume smiled comfortingly: "At this time, I don't even have the courage to talk to my senior sister, so please don't be sad, senior sister, the two of us have no communication at this time, because of my fear, and it has nothing to do with senior sister." But even so, the senior sister is still my white moonlight, and throughout the freshman year, I am full of hope for life by watching the goddess of sunshine sweating on the playground. ”

"And then ......"

"And then somehow my body got better," he shrugged, "until now, I've been honest with you, senior sister, and I've met Chizuru who bites people, and the school doctor who always makes fun of me." ”

"The body is somehow getting better?" When it comes to the field that he is good at, Nanamiya became interested: "It stands to reason that it will be difficult to recover from the frail state you just now to the present, without three or five years...... Coupled with the current condition of the muscles in your body, even if they return to normal, it will take a long time to exercise. ”

"If you exercise, I was actually exercising." Several people followed Naoki Natsume to the door of the house, he looked at himself who opened the door and entered, and was also puzzled: "But exercising before had no effect at all, just like I was already at the upper limit of physical fitness, no matter how much I exercised, it didn't help, until one day in late spring and early summer, the body suddenly recovered, and the muscles became developed in a short time." It's simply that the accumulation of a long time breaks through at that moment, and the stored workout is released. ”

"Hmm~" Nanamiya raised his eyebrows: "After school starts, come to the infirmary and I'll give you a comprehensive examination...... It would be nice to show me your muscles. ”

"School doctor, you're not thinking badly, are you?" Amamiya Chizuru asked suspiciously.

Nanamiya smiled mysteriously: "What bad intentions can the school doctor have?" ”

Suddenly, the surrounding scene changed, as if the smoke and dust had dispersed and reassembled, the streets were still those streets, and the pedestrians on the road seemed to be speeding by the camera.

The sun, moon and stars in the sky, the stars shifted, and in the blink of an eye, I don't know how many days passed, and when everything settled again, it seemed that it was no longer the day.

It's early in the morning again.

There weren't many pedestrians on the road yet, and it looked like a weekend.

From the subway station in the distance, a girl with luggage and a huge suitcase appeared in everyone's sight.

Not for anything else, just because her outfit is so eye-catching - she is wearing the costume of a European medieval maid, and it looks like the maid of a large family has escaped, and it looks like the best performing one in the maid coffee shop has gone to the wrong door.

She looked at the note in her hand, confirmed that it was this one, and went straight to Naoki Natsume's door.

He knocked on the door and stood there quietly, as if he were the most outstanding sculpture of some artist, and the temperament between his gestures made Amamiya Chizuru feel a little surprised.

"She is definitely a highly educated lady, and she is the one with the best appearance and demeanor among so many people I have met with my father." Amamiya Chizuru said, "It's also the most beautiful one...... She's coming for you? ”

Naoki Natsume shook his head, "I don't know...... Hmm, my head hurts. ”

He covered his head in discomfort, and Nanamiya gently massaged his temples with his hands.

On the other side, after a while, a crack opened in the door, revealing Naoki Natsume's half-wary face.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Is this Naoki Natsume's home?"

"I am," his face was more puzzled and wary, "you're looking for me?" ”

"I'm the door-to-door service your mother found for you." The girl said something terrible!

Not only was there stunned, but several girls here also looked at Naoki Natsume with different expressions.

The senior sister covered her mouth in disbelief, and her three views were shattered.

Amamiya Chizuru had already taken half a step back and was ready for the knight to kick.

The school doctor covered his mouth and chuckled, making a teasing "あらあら", "Cosplay seems to be expensive." ”

Naoki Natsume's eyes widened and he waved his hand to explain, but he was suddenly stunned.

This scene......

Why did I subconsciously think in my mind that that girl would say such an amazing thing?

In short...... Reasonable?