September 2nd.

That is, 7 p.m. the day after the start of the new semester.

Everyone sat around a rectangular dining table in the living room.

On the dining table, there are all kinds of meals that have just been prepared.

The dishes were hearty. It should be said that it is much more abundant than usual.

All four of them sat in their places, and none of them started to move first.

In such a quiet atmosphere, Kamihara crossed his hands and elbows propped up on the table, staring at the aroma and heat of the food.

Kamihara Suzu felt that something was wrong with this atmosphere, because in the past, the old brother was very happy to call everyone to eat, but instead of being so weird now, he kept a movement with a blank face.

Was it because of the day before yesterday?

But the day before yesterday, isn't it over?

Suzu Kamihara tried to break the silence of the dinner: "Brother... What are you talking about announcing something? And why don't everyone speak? Isn't that day over, even though I'm still very dissatisfied. ”

While Suzu Kamihara said this, she also observed the expressions of the Amami sisters, and they didn't have anyone to speak.

......

......

"Everyone, let's talk too, it's time to eat......"

......

"Hmm."

"Brother? What are you going to say? ”

Kamihara closed his eyes in the field of view of a piece of food:

"It's simple. I'm going to move out and live, and the house has already been chosen. ”

——————

September 30.

It was an evening after school, and Kamihara rode a Mitsubishi Fuso bus into Tokyo's Itabashi district.

The sun at the end of September was much lighter than in August, but the air was still just as hot.

The noisy summer cicadas, the leaves that have been blown by the wind for a long time, and the shade of the trees swaying on the mountain roads in the suburbs.

As the bus drove along the mountain road, Kamihara Le, who was sitting in the back seat with his head against the window, looked down the mountain.

The shadows of the trees flickered as the bus moved, and the residential area below the hill seemed to be moving with it, and Kamihara saw his house in the criss-crossing telephone poles and a single house.

His new residence was located in the residential area at the foot of the mountain, which was remote and not as convenient as downtown Tokyo, and he had to walk a few streets and cross dozens of telephone poles to reach the shopping street called Arakawa Market in the distance.

However, compared to the city, it is better to be clean, and the trails are also very clean.

Occasionally, police officers on bicycles can be seen patrolling the area, greeting the residents of the area amid the sound of "jingle bells".

It's been almost a month since Kamihara came here.

The people here are very welcoming, and even if Kamihara Raku is a resident who has suddenly moved here, the lady next door and the old lady across the street will often give him some vegetables such as eggplant, winter melon, tomato, and potatoes to give him.

In return, Kamihara often invites them to taste the dishes he has cooked too much.

After coming and going, I got acquainted with everyone here.

His favorite is the Arakawa shopping street, which is near the Arakawa River, where many people who like to slow the pace and old women like to hang out.

Here, he would find a pot of his favorite plants every day, and then take them to the small yard built by his family to take care of them.

Experience a relaxing lifestyle.

Prune the flowers, water them, clean the cobblestone road in front of the door to relaxing music... Laughing and occasionally saying hello to nearby neighbors, it seems that after coming here, it seems that on such a day, you can forget all your previous troubles.

"Oh, walk slowly!" The bus uncle driver smiled and took off his hat to greet him.

After smiling and stretching out his hand in response, Kamihara got off the bus, turned onto the neighborhood avenue, and came to the Arakawa shopping street.

The shopping street is home to a variety of shops, such as tailor shops, flower shops, rice cake shops, cake shops... And so on and so forth.

Some of the shops have a sense of history, such as the wooden sign of the Kuro Fresh Fish, which is handwritten with a brush.

After school, walk through the young junior high school students talking and laughing.

In the snack shop, he was held by his mother's hand, pointed to a candy and said "I want that".

The old man who bends down to feed the cats.

A few children who are so happy in the shopping street that they chase and play, and housewives who go out to buy groceries with shopping baskets.

All kinds of people walk through this Arakawa shopping street.

Every time I walk here, I feel like I'm stepping into another world, and it's completely different from the bustling Minato Ward of Tokyo.

It feels good.

"Oh, isn't that a little fun! School ends so early today? Are you going to buy a fish today? ”

Kamihara followed the voice and turned around, and it was a heroic uncle wearing an apron who looked like a person related to [Kuro Fresh Fish].

"Mr. Kuro."

Kamihara was greeted by him to the door of the store.

"Oh-oh? Do you really want to buy it? Hahaha, welcome, welcome. ”

"Good afternoon, Mr. Kuro."

"Hahaha, what are you doing so politely, you want to have something today, a limited-time special! You buy a fish, I'll give you two more scallops! ”

"Mr. Kuro, if you want to send something, shouldn't you come up with something that is affordable? What can two scallops do. ”

"Hahaha, selling fish depends on passion! Whatever you send is enthusiasm, and how much you send is enthusiasm! ”

Kamihara Le felt that Uncle Kuro's words could be described in strong words, so he smiled and shook his head, and chose a stone perch.

"That's it, go back and fry some fish."

"Okay!"

Uncle Kurou quickly fished the fish out of the pool and put it on the electronic scale and pressed a price.

Kamihara Le, flipped the schoolbag that was resting behind him in front of him, took out the change, and took out a 5,000 yen and handed it to Uncle Kuro.

"Dad, I'm back, today... Hey, Kamihara-kun is also there......"

It was a young girl who had just walked from the other side of the shopping street. She carried a schoolbag and wore a sailor suit.

She is the daughter of Uncle Jiulang, Jiulang Xinzi, who has just entered the third grade of junior high school, and is usually a young girl with two pigtails.

Kamihara often hears from three naughty little kids on the street that they all like her.

I want to marry Xinzi as my wife in the future.

For this reason, the three children often scuffled into a mess, and when they were discovered, they were called back to the store by their respective mothers.

Haha, it's so cute.

Because the surname Jiulang is too much like a boy alone, the uncle named his daughter as close to the girl as possible.

Shinko.

Although I'm still called by Jiulang's classmates and Jiulang's classmates at school, it's not like a girl's name.

Kuro Shinko is very interested in this Kamihara Raku, who suddenly moved into the neighborhood.

He seems to live alone, and can often be seen running in the morning when he goes to school.

Many classmates and girlfriends said that he was very handsome.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but I often meet him in the shopping street...

Uncle Jiulang patted his daughter's back heroically, and even made her stumble without holding her footing.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

"Haha, Xinzi, didn't you always want to say that you want to enter the Kaoming Virtue School? Xiao Leke is a student of Mingde School, you can learn more from him. After Uncle Jiulang finished speaking, he also winked at his daughter with obvious intentions.

Sure enough, it's a stinky dad...... What nonsense!

Kuro Shinko, who originally wanted to say something, was already incoherent at the moment.

Kamihara Le took the stone perch handed by Uncle Jiulang, "Isn't there only 2 giveaways, why are there 5 more?" ”

"Limited Time OfferLimited Time Sale!" Uncle Jiulang waved his hand and said, not caring, "Xiaole, you have been frequent in our store these days, and I can't neglect you, haha." ”

Uncle Kuro always makes a smile that makes people feel good.

"That's okay," Kamihara said with a smile as he took the fish and scallops in his hand, "I'll just go shopping for groceries and won't bother me too much." ”

After speaking, he then said to Xinzi behind Uncle Jiulang, "I'll go first." ”

"Ah, yes, yes." Kuro Shinko was dull for a moment before nodding.

Kamihara Raku picked up his bag and continued to walk towards the shopping street.

I bought some food, and I bought some pork, and today's ingredients are almost enough, and Kamihara Le, who was about to leave, suddenly remembered that there was another task today, so he came to the flower shop, hugged a pot of epiphany, and left.

[Limited Mission: Shopping (Completed)]

[500 points have been issued]

[Skill "Gardening" upgraded to "Master"]

Kamihara glanced at the panel.

It's okay, master gardener.

This should be able to trim a few dwarf pines in the small yard to look better, to be honest, those dwarf pines were originally frizzy and frizzy, and there was no beauty at all.

"Good afternoon..."

"Well, good afternoon, mother-in-law."

"Yo, you're buying so much stuff today!"

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay."

After greeting everyone in the shopping street, Kamihara Le, who walked out of the shopping street, finally returned home, and the iron door was hung with a cold card lock.

When you open the door and push the door in, you can see the whole yard, and the orange tree planted at the door has already borne fruit, and there is a thick leaf under the tree.

This year, the weather is much hotter than usual, and the late-ripening oranges are expected to be ripening soon.

I heard from the landlady that this orange was planted by her grandson, and it was very delicious, and he could use it at will.

On the right side of the small courtyard, the creeper occupies the entire wall, and along the wall are all kinds of flowers and plants that Kamihara Raku has taken care of for more than a month.

After placing the vegetables on the shelves at the door, and placing the epiphany in the many pots, Kamihara came to the mossy faucet and connected the watering can.

Originally, he was going to sprinkle water along the rows of flower pots, but he stayed in place.

He saw a beautiful figure, and a beautiful side face with a somewhat strange expression. She was wearing a long summer lace dress, with her back to her hands, looking at the wisteria vines in the back garden.

It's a girl who just needs to look at it and can't forget.

Seeing the hairpin on her head, Kamihara knew who it was. Hehe... Looking at it again after a month, it's still so beautiful, no wonder the grandma who greeted her just now smiled and said to herself that there was a beautiful girl looking for her.

After the appearance of Kamihara, the nine glasses of the heavenly sea found him.

"I'm sorry... Brother ......" The beautiful girl lowered her head and whispered at the first sight of him.

Kamihara didn't react, "Hmm." How did you find this place? I've retired from both the Kyudo Club and the Literature Department.,If you use the principal.,You didn't ask.。 ”

"Suzu told me..."

"She told you?"

"Hmm."

"Then I'll tell you about it, I'll change places." Raku Kamihara withdrew his gaze from her face, pinched the shower, passed over her, and began to slowly sprinkle water along the first potted plant.

"Brother... Don't do that, it's my fault. Tianhai Jiuliuli took two steps closer to him.

Is it her fault?

Well, it's her fault.

Originally, on the day of the airport, Kamihara felt that there was still room for redemption.

After all, my aunt and Jiu Liuli have been talking for a long time, and Jiu Liuli has taken her mother very seriously since she was a child, because her mother broke up with her temporarily... Haha, anyway, the relationship is not long, it is better to break it off early, which is reasonable, and I can barely understand it.

After all, she herself said that she didn't want to break up so much.

The day after the airport was still very kind, although the atmosphere between himself and Jiu Liuli had become a little subtle, but Kamihara Le could also feel that the two of them were trying to reconcile.

Until—Tianhai Jiu Liuli had a showdown with himself after that.

She told herself that she was dating her because of Qi Mingyue.

What is this?

Doesn't that mean she's deceiving herself from beginning to end?!

Can this be a response to your own feelings?!

Is this just because of Qi Mingyue, can you accept my feelings for you like this?!

Kamihara admitted that he was a bad person, but he was not a bad person with no bottom line.

Kamihara can accept her rejection, but he can't accept her deception.

Kamihara can keep her, but he is not obligated to play games with her.

I still really want her to be good.

I think she is gentle and understands her ......

The sincerity of feeling myself for so long is all false and useless.

Ha ha... Hahaha!

It's funny, it's really funny, it's going to be laughing for a lifetime!

Shen Yuan Le remembered that he had chased her before, and wanted to try to keep this first love, but now he wanted to slap himself.

It's ridiculous to yourself... Also first love.

After the showdown, Kamihara knew that he couldn't stay any longer, so he wanted to find a place to relax alone.

Stay away from that place.

The school also did not meet and speak to them, and the archery club and the literature department also withdrew.

Every day I come home from school and come here to trim the flowers and plants.

It's been a month, actually, isn't it good to be alone?

"So you came to me today, what's the matter?" Kamihara calmly watered the flowers.

"I want to call my brother, you go back......"

"Go back?" Kamihara Le asked rhetorically without any emotional fluctuations, and looked at her, his shoulders closed slightly, "Is it for Qi Mingyue again?" ”

"No—"

Tianhai Jiu Liuli obviously wanted to explain something to him, but was interrupted by Shenyuan Le.

"Okay, there's no need to say anything between us, I'm tired, Jiu Liuli, I'm really tired... During that time, I cooked every morning, noon, and evening...... I never ask for anything from you, I just want to treat you like real family...... But Jiuliuli you- forget it, I really don't want to say any more. ”

Kamihara finished shaking the last bit of water in the kettle, put it back in its place, and walked back to the room with the ingredients he had just bought.

"Brother, wait a minute."

Tianhai Jiu Liuli only found him after a month, she knew that what she was doing was not right at all, and wanted to talk to him, but he stretched out his hand and refused at the door.

"Don't be, I refuse to entertain guests, and I haven't prepared any ingredients for entertaining, this little thing is only enough for me to eat," Kamihara made a gesture of invitation, facing the gate of the courtyard, "Please go back, Miss Amami." ”

Kamihara also showed a smile to her, and it was also a really good-looking smile he had in the previous time.

But now it's different, and now the smile has changed its meaning.

Only the surface remains.

Kamihara originally thought that when he saw Jiu Ruri again, he would become hysterical and become a painful look of "why is it like this".

But no.

There is only calm, real peace.

Kamihara Le took one last look at Tianhai Jiu Liuli's delicate face and withdrew his gaze.

Kacha snorted.

Before Tianhai Jiu Ruri could respond, Kamihara Le closed the door of the room tightly.

......

Standing alone at the door that was turned away, Tianhai Jiu Liuli lowered his head, feeling guilty and sad in his heart.

She recalled the way her brother looked at her just now, and the tone and attitude of her words.

My brother, who used to laugh when he saw him, now hates himself so much?

She pinched her right arm with her left hand.

"I'm sorry."

She is not a person who wants to save face, if she does something wrong, she is willing to apologize, she is willing to bear it, and she is more willing to correct it.

In the past month, she has thought a lot.

From the starting point, she was wrong from the beginning, and she should not have deceived her brother and promised his confession in that ambiguous situation.

I don't understand the weight of feelings.,Feel free to take my brother's contribution as something that can be humbled.。

If you want to help Qi Mingyue, in fact, from the beginning, you should clearly refuse.

Yes, it was wrong from the start.

......

Kamihara put things in the kitchen, and soon after, an email was received on his phone.

The signature is Tianhai Nine Glass.

[I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I want my brother's forgiveness]

Kamihara Le ignored her, only glanced at it, then tied the apron, and began to blow a little song in his mouth and leisurely began to wash and chop vegetables.

The phone was put aside, and I randomly selected some leisurely light music and clicked to play.

"Hmph~Hmph~~"

Handle the fish, wash the pot, and then count the seasonings and various prepared ingredients.

If you are cooking, as long as you are relaxed, it is quite comfortable.

The kitchen knife makes a noise on the eucalyptus board, and Kamihara quickly chops the chili peppers.

It took an hour to prepare two main courses, and he was going to make another tomato egg soup and eat it slowly while watching TV.

When I went to pick up the tomatoes, I glanced at my phone and found that there seemed to be several more emails.

[Brother, I've thought a lot about it this month, I know that I shouldn't have lied to you from the beginning, and I'm also confused, but then I got along with you for a long time with my brother and found out that I don't have feelings for you, brother... I really didn't lie to you at this point, I still hope we can reconcile if you will, I'm really sorry...]

This one is the most recent.

An hour ago, there were more than a dozen unread emails, and Kamihara slid his fingers and glanced at them, and the content was roughly some of her thoughts and apologies.

Kamihara looked at it - didn't feel anything.

I guess it's a look.

He still didn't intend to respond, slowly fetched the water and took the eggs from the refrigerator.

This time, another email came.

[I'm sorry, brother, I'll be waiting at the door... I didn't want to get your forgiveness right away, I just wanted to say a few more words to you, okay...? ]

Say a few more words?

That's a request.

Kamihara looked at the dropped email, and suddenly felt his hand sink, and he turned his head:

"I'll go, the water is full, turn it off."

......

......

[Really, I'm sorry...]

Tianhai Jiuliuli squatted at the door, looked at the vertical line that flashed repeatedly in the input box, and sent this email out again.

I glanced at the more than 20 emails that showed [Sent], but none of them were replied to, and I didn't know what to do now.

.....。