"Sure enough, it's still snowing."

The next day, when Kamihara woke up in the early morning, he pushed open the window, and the cold air suddenly penetrated into the house along the cracks, rolling in, which made him shiver all over his body and quickly closed the window.

It's already so cold in November this year? He couldn't help but think to himself, looking around, his grandmother's house looked very dim, as if there was an invisible shadow shrouded in it.

The wind outside the window made the old windows rattle, giving people a cold and lonely feeling.

Getting up and putting on warm cotton clothes for winter, Kamihara habitually prepared to go downstairs to a beaker of hot water to drink.

As he passed by his sister's room, he pushed aside the shoji and looked inside.

On a white quilt sleeper, Suzu Kamihara was still asleep, and she wrapped her body tightly in the quilt, like a silkworm chrysalis, as if she wanted to lock herself firmly on the quilt.

"I don't kick the quilt in winter."

Turn off the shoji with a snort.

Walking up the stairs that made a strange sound of wooden planks, Kamihara went down to the first floor.

The corridor leading to the living room and kitchen needs to pass through the entrance, and Kamihara glanced over there unintentionally, and suddenly found that the door of the entrance was ajar.

How is the door open?

If you look a little further to the left, you will see the figure of half a girl standing outside.

He thought to himself, it should be Qimingyue.

Raku Kamihara pulled up the zipper of his padded jacket, changed into outdoor shoes, pushed open the half-hidden door and walked out.

The glare of the day made Kamihara Le unable to open his eyes for almost a moment, and the cold continued to penetrate into his body from the neckline like crazy, so that the only remaining temperature in the bed after waking up suddenly extinguished.

Kamihara shivered again, and then looked ahead.

I saw the girl standing quietly in the snow, she looked at the ridges in the distance, the ridges covered by wind and snow in the distance......

Kamihara didn't know what she was doing, but she could see that her long flaxen-colored hair was also dyed with many tiny white snow spots, as if she had been standing for a long time.

The wind and snow that can mold the sight of the lake seem to make her figure become illusory......

Kamihara Le, holding the snow off his head, approached her.

"Qi Mingyue, you're going to catch a cold when you stand here."

“...... I know. She replied.

"Then why are you still here?"

Tianhai Qimingyue looked up at the white snow that was fluttering: "Because I have never seen such a big snow, the sky is pressed under the snow." ”

"So, you're out to see the snow?"

"Hmm. Do you want to know what I was thinking? ”

"I don't want to."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue ignored his refusal, and said to herself: "I'm thinking, on such a cold day, if an unpopular person is buried in the snow like this, few people will be sad for her." ”

......

"What are you referring to?" Shen Yuanle heard that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked.

Tianhai Qi Mingyue returned his gaze and stared at Kamihara's expression for a long time.

"You... In a hurry? Think I'm going to do something stupid? ”

“...... I think Qi Mingyue, you are indeed the kind of person who will be silent and then disappear silently. ”

"Looks like you're still worried I'm gone."

"What did you just say?" Kamihara asked with some concern.

"You want to ask me if I have that kind of thought?"

"Yes."

"I can only answer that there were." Tianhai Qi Mingyue stretched out her hand to dust the snow off her body, and said while patting, "Okay, are you ready to go on a date with me today." ”

"Not just watching a movie?"

"Do you believe it? Does my sister believe it? ”

"You believe what you believe, I believe what I believe."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue clasped her hands to her chest, and she didn't want to argue with him at all.

Kamihara sighed, "Then you go back to the house first, so that you don't catch a cold later." We'll go back when the snow is light. ”

Tianhai Qi Mingyue didn't refuse, but when he walked back to the house, he suddenly asked Kamihara Le again: "Are you still looking forward to staying with me?" ”

“... To say no, I'm just lying to myself. ”

The corners of Tianhai Qi Mingyue's mouth seemed to have a smile that she couldn't help but perceive, she closed her eyes and walked towards the entrance: "You are now one step closer to the scumbag." ”

"Even so, you have to understand that it is impossible for me to leave Jiuliuli now... If I do something sorry for Jiu Liuli again, I'm afraid she will have that kind of extreme behavior. ”

"Afraid that my sister will find a short time?"

"I'm afraid that she will stab me with a firewood knife, even with you."

Tianhai Qimingyue smiled for the first time in a long time.

.......

If you want to go out, Kamihara naturally wants to talk to Kamihara Suzu about this.

She doesn't come out of the bedroom much in winter, so she likes to lie on her bed and play game consoles.

"What? You're going to the city today? ”

"Hmm."

"Going to see Grandma?

"It's like... bar. "Shen Yuan Le is not lying, I went to the city when I went, and I must take a look at my grandmother before coming back.

Suzu Kamihara crawled under the quilt with her head on the quilt, and when she heard that he was leaving, she put down the game console.

She lowered her voice and lowered her eyes.

"I don't feel like I haven't been able to see you much lately..."

Kamihara Le's right hand was propped back, sitting on the tatami mat and smiling at her, "Do you miss your brother?" ”

"I said I wanted to... Can you stay and play with me? Suzu Kamihara took the game console out of the heated bed, and looked at him with colorful purple eyes.

"Your brother is not superhuman, so he can't be separated."

Suzu Kamihara disgusted face: "Then you used to always blow in front of me, you can do anything!" ”

"Isn't that for your peace of mind?"

Suzu-chan Kamihara's face was buried in the pillow, like a ball of anger, "Then you can go." ”

"Let me go?"

"I can't care about you, I'm just your sister, even if you fall in love with someone else, it has nothing to do with me."

"Why is this so angry?"

"It's true!"

Suzu Kamihara, who had her face buried, kicked her feet up and down in the quilt and kicked them back and forth.

Probably because her head was stuffy for a long time, she looked up again, and said again with messy hair:

"But as I said before, it's going to be my birthday soon."

"Know know, know what you mean."

Suzu Kamihara leaned his face on the pillow: "I don't have to ask for a gift, you can say happy birthday to me, and then you can come to the company to pick me up on a rainy day as before...... No one remembered my birthday before... Mom is busy... And only you remember to send me a happy birthday. ”

Happy birthday......

Kamihara Le inexplicably thought of the completely different Qimingyue before.

Everyone, it seems, has a very good feeling for this sentence.

"Well, Ah Ling, I said what if... What would you do if I hated you, 100 percent? ”

"Really 100%?"

"It's 100% annoying. Of course, I'm talking about what ifs. ”

Suzu Kamihara pursed her lips and thought about it, drawing circles on the tatami with her fingers: "If you really hate me, then I... Ignore you...... If you don't see it, you don't see it, who is rare... Not uncommon at all......"

She whispered like this, her voice getting slower and slower, and then, Kamihara noticed that there was suddenly a little crystal water in the corner of her eye. Before he could see clearly, Suzu Kamihara slammed his head into the pillow.

She hammered the tatami up and down with her fists, as if she was unwilling.

"I hate it! Why ask such a question. ”

Why ask this kind of question?

On the one hand, I want to ask Ah Ling Qi Mingyue's possible reaction, and on the other hand, I want to experience Qi Mingyue's mood.

Depressed, chest tightness, uncomfortable.

At the moment he is experiencing it.

To be honest, Kamihara didn't want to do that either.

Isn't it nice that everyone is happy like before?

Qi Mingyue's little devil personality is also quite interesting.

Speaking of... Since the fireworks festival, Qi Mingyue's personality seems to be getting colder and colder.

Kamihara Leto doesn't feel like the naughty sister who flirted with her sister when she first met, and then said he was "my sister's boyfriend......

Seven bright moons... It seems to be getting more and more unhappy.

......

When the snow cleared, the bus stopped in downtown Matsuyama.

Obviously they went to the movies together, but Kamihara Le and Tianhai Qimingyue didn't communicate a word on the bus.

Even when I walked to the cinema, I only said two simple words.

The movie is an ordinary niche literary film, which tells the story of the protagonist Miss Shizi who returns to the countryside to take care of her grandmother. After experiencing the quiet death of her grandmother, the only light relative, Miss Ichiko, who has lost her goal, decides to leave everything behind and go on a trip that belongs only to her.

Kamihara reads this kind of movie, because sometimes he thinks, a long trip... Sounds pretty good.

Of course.

While watching the movie, Kamihara did not forget to beware of the seven bright moons of the sky and sea sitting beside him.

I guess she might have secretly pulled her hand and put it inside her skirt or something weird.

But...

Not really.

Tianhai Qimingyue sat quietly in that position the whole time, watching the movie silently.

There was not the slightest unusual behavior.

To say that she has the only interaction with herself.

That is, she handed herself the popcorn that she couldn't eat.

After watching the movie, it was one o'clock in the afternoon.

With light snow falling over the city and scattered pedestrians on the streets, most of them chose to bury their faces in thick scarves and walk briskly with their hands in their pockets.

At this time, the two had not yet eaten lunch.

Shen Yuanle didn't take the initiative to go out this time, and it was Qi Mingyue who led him around the whole time.

I thought she would choose a restaurant to eat, but she didn't expect to choose a roadside ramen shop. She ordered a beef ramen in clear soup from the uncle inside.

Naturally, Kamihara followed her, ordered the same ramen and sat down.

The ramen was eaten quickly.

"Take it."

"What?"

"Paper to wipe your mouth."

"Oh..."Kamihara took it a little stunned, "Thank you, thank you." ”

Tianhai Qimingyue did not respond.

After that, the two of them did not say their destination, but just got up and paced slowly through the city.

Seeing that Tianhai Qimingyue still had nothing to say, Shenyuan couldn't help but be curious and asked her:

"Didn't you say you don't like ramen?"

"I don't like it."

？

"Why don't you speak?"

"I'm tired and don't want to talk about it."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue had no intention of continuing to speak, and the topic stopped abruptly.

The two walked to the playground in Matsuyama City.

Tianhai Qi Mingyue glanced up, and then walked in.

Ferris wheel project.

"Are you sure you want to go in and sit?" Kamihara asked.

"Sit down."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue said this, and went to line up without saying a word.

There are quite a few people who come to ride the Ferris wheel on this day, probably because of the heavy snow in the morning.

When Qi Mingyue was queuing, there were many boys around her staring at her.

The eyes were visibly hot, but no one dared to go up and talk to her.

I'm afraid this is the temperament cultivated from childhood... Kamihara thought to himself.

"Take it."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue bought two tickets and handed one of them to himself.

Kamihara and she waited under the rest pavilion, the amusement park was dotted with snowflakes, and most of the children ran happily in the open field, making it full of childlike colors.

"Why is Qimingyue so strange today?"

"Shouldn't it be normal?"

"It's weird to be too normal. Wait, you're not really going to do anything stupid, are you? Today is the farewell of you and me before leaving. ”

"I said no, no," Tianhai Qimingyue said in an indifferent tone, she stood up and looked at the couple of men and women who stepped off the Ferris wheel, "Okay, it's our turn." ”

"Oh."

The Ferris wheel slowly lifts into the air.

You can even see the iconic castle tower in the center of Matsuyama City.

The whole city is shrouded in snow.

Although they sat on the Ferris wheel together, Tianhai Qi Mingyue didn't sit next to her, she sat opposite her alone, and her little hands with half-hidden cuffs were flat on her legs.

Circled several layers of white scarves, she tilted her head sideways, breathed in the heat, and looked at the city outside the Ferris wheel.

The same strange environment.

Get off the Ferris wheel.

Tianhai Qimingyue took herself all the way to the amusement park to visit various facilities.

What roller coasters, pirate ships, pendulums, etc... I tried them all.

Although it's a little strange and cares about the state of the seven bright moons.

Overall, it can be regarded as a good experience.

Later, I went to the playground and bought skewers, banana chocolate, and takoyaki... Every time I buy these foods, Qi Mingyue will ask Kamihara if I want a copy.

He mostly replied that he wanted one.

In this way, in addition to the haunted house, the playground was visited by the two.

I also ate it all over again.

Qi Mingyue didn't seem to be tired, but Shen Yuanle was tired.

Some projects are too exciting, and he can't stand it, but Tianhai Qi Mingyue has no expression throughout the whole process.

The time, too, went from half past one in the afternoon to six in the evening.

It's getting dark.

Kamihara sat on a bench in the playground and looked at the ice sculptures in front of him that had been carved overnight in the last few days. The colorful neon lights of the playground illuminate his face, and from time to time the excited screams of small children are conveyed from afar.

"Take it."

"Milk tea?"

"Well, for you."

Kamihara did not refuse, took the milk tea she bought, and tentatively touched the hot cup wall with both hands.

The palms of the hands were warm, and the chill in the body seemed to dissipate a lot.

Tianhai Qimingyue sat down beside him, and watched with him the ice sculptures with different expressions in front of him, as well as the children playing with snow under the ice sculptures.

At this moment, the snow is still flying in the night sky.

"Isn't it curious?" After Tianhai Qi Mingyue drank a few sips of milk tea, her voice suddenly sounded in her ears.

Kamihara turned her head and found her eyes fixed on the milk tea she was holding in her hand.

"It's curious."

"Think I'm going to have some plan against you if I call you out today? And then today I will be on full defense? ”

"Yes."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue groaned for a while, and the tips of her fingers carefully scraped the wall of the cup of milk tea: "Everything today is my first attempt. ”

"Including ramen?"

"This is the first time I've eaten ramen."

"Okay."

The voice of the seven bright moons in the sky and sea was as clear as the lake: "...... No one wanted to take me to do these things, and I never experienced them. ”

"Including going to the movies and going to the playground?"

"Yes," Tianhai Qimingyue agreed, "My sister and I have never been to the movies or the amusement park, and the only experience I have experienced when I was a child is that my mother took me and my sister to Ehime Prefecture for a tour... I think I spend most of my time practicing. ”

“......”

"So, I wanted to try it today."

"It's good."

......

"I like you."

“... Well. ”

"So... Today, I mainly want you to accompany me, even if you don't contact me, it's nothing, just be by your side. ”

"Today... It's as simple as that? ”

"Well, it's as simple as that."

The air froze again.

Why, why did Tianhai Qi Mingyue say it without a trace of heaviness, but said these words very easily.

Kamihara always feels... It's so depressed......

"Didn't you ask me why I suddenly took you to the wedding photoshoot?"

"Yes."

“...... I know you don't remember, but I remember very clearly, it was the wedding of Mr. Nonaka and Miss Tomomi, and my grandmother took you to attend, and I happened to go to look for you at the time, and I took it all the way...... The wedding was a great success and a happy one. ”

Tianhai Qi Mingyue was holding the hot milk tea, and every time she said a word, there would be a surging mist floating out of her mouth.

"I still remember the smiles on everyone's faces, the guests, the neighbors, the family, the parents, everyone was laughing, applauding, and blessing Mr. Nonaka and Ms. Tomomi......

"It was also the first time I saw a wedding, the first time I saw ...... I envy that kind of scene, I want to wear such beautiful clothes, and I want people to smile at me like that...... That's when I said, 'I want to wear that dress,' and you said to me, 'I have a chance to take you there,' and I asked why, and you replied that I was cute and would look good in it...... Then I nodded and you smiled...... You know, the moment you smile, my heart is full of trust.

"I believe, and I look forward to, that there will be a moment......

"But the day after that, I went back to Tokyo."

The distant lights outlined the face of Qimingyue in the sky and sea, and the moment her eyes overlapped with the light, all the pictures became hazy.

Kamihara didn't know what to say.

He was thinking about why he said that......

Probably, perhaps, probably... I want to simply coax the children.

But if you think about it, it's very likely that you can say whatever you want.

but was ...... The person in front of him remembered it now.

This feeling is too heavy.

"Isn't it ridiculous? I remember you saying that no one takes what they said as a child seriously... And I actually took it seriously, am I pitifully stupid? Tianhai Qi Mingyue asked him calmly.

Kamihara was silent again.

"After that... Of course I know it's likely that you're saying it to me casually, maybe you didn't take it to heart at all... Dad doesn't come home every night, and my sister has to listen to Mom and practice the piano...... When I'm alone, I climb up on the roof, look at the moon, and always think about the wedding that day and the things you promised me... What if it's true, what if he remembers..... It turns out that fools are always fools and will only believe what they want to believe. ”

Qi Mingyue's words made Shen Yuanle's heart so heavy that it was hard to breathe.

"I like you."

“......”

Shenyuan Le felt sorry for Qi Mingyue, and he was really distressed.

But after a while, I remembered how I got up in the early morning to clean up my clothes.

"Look, confessions again and again, every time they are rejected, I ...... Tired...... You're tired too, aren't you? Is it difficult to choose between me and my sister every day? ”

“... Be. ”

"I know I shouldn't have taken things as seriously as a kid, I couldn't have changed before... But now, I feel like I should try to change. ”

“......”

"Let's make a change."

"Good. How to change? ”

"You promise me a request, I promise to treat you as a righteous brother in the future, and we won't have to be so tired in the future."

"What requirements?"

"Be my boyfriend for an hour."

“... Why this. ”

"You can see why I want to say that."

Kamihara understands... As a person, she is already sick in her heart.

"So you're satisfied?"

"How can I be satisfied, it's just that I will start to try to let myself go, I like you, but you always ignore me, every time I see you and my sister, my heart is dissatisfied. I don't want that. Promise me once, even if it's only for a while. ”

“......”

"I like you." Another confession.

But there was still no response.

Why wouldn't you say yes? You've completely cut off your relationship with me, isn't it? There's nothing to bother you and your sister in the future. ”

"I promised," Kamihara took a deep breath and looked at her, "What do you want my one-hour boyfriend to do." ”

"Kiss me, then take me to the night market, and then, go home."

“......”

"Hesitation only makes things harder."

“......”

"I only need it, and you won't agree to this?"

“......”

The indescribable emotions pressed against Kamihara's brain, Qi Mingyue's feelings, her words, her almost pleading.

Obviously, he has already agreed to be her boyfriend for an hour.

But hesitating.

Kamihara Le calmed down and looked at the Seven Bright Moons of the Heavenly Sea that were waiting for him.

She sits very upright, and it can also be said that she is very well-behaved and reserved.

Kiss.

No, you have to kiss.

When there is no continuation, it will be disturbed.

After agreeing to Qi Mingyue, life will be back on track, and she also promises to treat herself purely as a righteous brother in the future.

She confessed that she was tired, and she was distressed to refuse again and again.

This time, even if it is different from the previous thing, let's make a difference.

Scumbag?

He was originally a scumbag.

Kamihara took the hand of Tianhai Qimingyue and took the initiative to kiss her thin pink cherry lips.

Tianhai Qimingyue greeted his movements just right, and closed his eyes in the flickering lights of the carousel behind the bench.

Soft and sweet, mixed with the fragrance of milk tea, rippling in the mouth.

......

This is... For the fourth time.

If you want to say that you don't like Qimingyue?

No, it's impossible not to like.

The things I got along with her before were happy or uncomfortable.

Every time I see her show a different side, I am very happy.

Even the last time I used a megaphone on the street to call myself a stupid, I didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

I like to look at Qi Mingyue's face, I like to look at her legs, and I like her sometimes teasing intentionally or unintentionally.

Although I embarrass myself every time, but... It does feel it.

There are also her confessions again and again, and when she carried her by herself, she was close to her back.

Quiet and a little warm.

These things are like marquees, constantly flashing back to my mind at the moment of kissing.

Yes, I do like Qi Mingyue, and it's hard to let go of her.

But now... It's over.

......

......

......

Katsa.

When Kamihara heard the sound of the photo, he immediately withdrew his mind.

Looking at it again, Tianhai Qi Mingyue, who was sitting opposite him, didn't know when, and there was an extra mobile phone in his hand.

And in the mobile phone, it was a picture of himself and her kissing on the bench.

It made him unbelievable.

"Seven bright moons...?!"

Suddenly, immediately, Kamihara had the idea of snatching the phone in her hand.

But I haven't made a move yet—

"It's useless," Tianhai Qi Mingyue said directly with her mobile phone, "Photos are automatically backed up in the cloud, and no one can get them without my password." ”

"You ——?!"

"Think I'm going to give up? Think I'm going to throw in the towel? Tianhai Qimingyue's eyes were like ice, "I tell you, Shenyuan Le, it's impossible, I want you to be responsible." You're wrong because you shouldn't have been so good to me once, twice, or three times, I've been remembering it for more than ten years, just like that, and you're going to make me forget it all? ”

Finish.

Kamihara knew that he was in the middle of it.

All day long, Qi Mingyue is brewing this atmosphere!

Let him say yes, force him to say yes.

Angry, annoyed, and regretful for not being at the beginning.

Also, depressed......

Kamihara Le sighed and obeyed, he really convinced her.

"It's not just photos, but also videos, just now you kissed me for two minutes, you said, if this picture is seen by my sister again, or you take the initiative, what will my sister's expression be?"

Although I can understand the seven bright moons.

But Kamihara was really angry.

"You lied to me, what did you promise?"

"Promise to completely treat you as a 'brother-in-law'? That's perfectly fine, is there any conflict with the relationship I want? ”

“......”

You, you're awesome, okay.

"Besides, how many times have you lied to me since I was a child, and if you forget it, you can write it all off? Don't even think about it. ”

Kamihara couldn't refute it.

This... It is indeed the cause and effect that you have planted.

Everything goes back to the source, isn't it still the sin I created when I was a child?

Isn't it just for what I did when I was a kid now?

Although this is the case, why are you so aggrieved?

And, and I just thought about it so much.

also made it clear that he really likes Qi Mingyue.

I want to be angry but I can't get angry.

A beautiful girl is still sticking to herself, Kamihara is really... I don't know what to do!

"What are you going to do with this picture?"

"Did you figure it out?"

"Yes, that's right, I like you, and I have feelings for you."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue's expression was very intriguing: "Wouldn't it be nice to do this earlier, admit it earlier, there is no need to develop into what it is now." Plus, you're a scumbag. ”

That's right, I'm a scumbag.

I am!

Kamihara smiled bitterly: "This is not what you want to see?" ”

"I won't send the photo to my sister for the time being, these days, I want you to think about it and deal with this matter."

"Row ......"

When Kamihara Le shouted this word, he knew his life in front of Jiu Liuli.

Finished.

.....。