"Could it be him, Ka Chi-san was also wearing a white coat last night, like a white fox. I remember his appearance, like an expressionless portrait, standing in the snow and not knowing the cold, and a strange person. Akina Nakamori stomped her footsteps, thinking about the figure of Kamaike Teiichi standing behind her last night without speaking, holding the heels of her shoes on tiptoe, leaving a series of footprints on the snow in the community.

When I arrived outside, I saw a dim light shining through the windows on the third floor, "Is Mr. Fox at home?" Akina Nakamori said silently.

Walking into the door frame, the white in front of him was not a snowdrift, and Akina Nakamori was a little surprised, "It's really a strange person, and on such a cold day, he still has to sit on the stairs with a lamp and read a book." Isn't he afraid of the cold? ”

I noticed a figure in front of me, as if I knew that it was Akina Nakamori, and my heart was a little throbbing inexplicably.

Closing the "Man Who Stole the Shadow" in his hand, he stood up with a stiff body, as if he was reading a book here to wait for her, lifted the lamp on the ground, and slowly lifted the steps up the floor step by step.

Akina Nakamori looked at Mr. Fox in front of him, and the light from the lamp was shining on him, perhaps because of the "whiteness", the reflected light was more. The person in front was very slow, and Akina Nakamori followed him slowly.

"Is the staircase light broken?" Akina Nakamori muttered in her heart.

"Was that letter written by the man in front of me, and was he afraid that I would go home alone to read here?"

As soon as Pu Chihui opened the door, he put the lamp on the shoe cabinet, closed the door as usual, and naturally changed into slippers. But he still stopped in the hallway, and tightened his hand in the book.

He didn't hear the door open and close as usual, he didn't know what was wrong with him, and without thinking about it, he put his hand on the handle of the entrance, and the scene outside the door seemed to dominate his consciousness. He struggled to control the movement of his hands, and his hands floated in mid-air and lowered, and suddenly leaned down towards the entrance.

The door opened, and a beam of light scattered through his body outside the entrance, looking at the girl leaning against the opposite entrance in front of him, her hair scattered on her chest, covering her white and tender face.

The girl raised her head in surprise and looked at the man on the other side of the entrance, and the loneliness emanated from the inside out.

Pu Chi Huiyi was a little flustered, as if he remembered something, and without thinking, he squatted down and took out the key from under the mat in front of the door.

"I'll take the key, I'm sorry~" got up and turned around to go back to the house, and the reluctance came to his heart, and he turned his body again.

"Akina-san is going to come in and sit down for a while?" The eyes drifted unnaturally on Akina Nakamori's face, and Ka Chi Hui looked at the corridor and thought about what he had just said, and scolded himself with some annoyance in his heart.

Akina Nakamori looked at the man in front of her blankly, silent. The man's figure approached little by little, felt the traction at his wrist, and quietly walked into the man's room.

Still wondering why the man pulled his wrist, the body unconsciously lost control.

The lights were on, and it was the same as when she woke up that day, a quiet, simple, warm-colored living room, she didn't know what the other rooms looked like, but everything in front of her was enough to make her feel calm.

Akina Nakamori sat on the couch where she had been lying, and the man let go of her hand tremblingly, watching the strange man Kamaike Keiichi walk into the kitchen.

touched the sofa where he had slept and absentmindedly started to flute.

"Akina-san, there's only hot milk."

After taking the cup handed over by Katsuchi Teruichi, the whole palm warmed up, and Akina Nakamori carefully took a few sips.

Seeing that the girl in front of her no longer shivered, her tongue was pressed against the rim of the cup like a kitten. Akina Nakamori raised her head, her eyes collided together, Pu Chihui's pupils fluttered for a moment, and she consciously looked away.

The TV was beating, "Due to the cold snap in Hokkaido, the temperature in Tokyo tonight is as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius, so please pay attention to the general public to keep warm when traveling·····"

Reading a book outside without turning off the TV?

"The lyrics, tracks, and letters of "Station", were they written by Fox Jun?" Akina Nakamori asked in a whisper as she continued to drink milk.

"Hmm"

"Why do you like to wear white in the winter?"

"Hmm"

"Kitsune-kun is really a strange guy."

"Hmm"

Akina Nakamori was amused by Kamaike Teruichi's stunned tone, and her mood was much better than just now.

Seeing Akina Nakamori put the cup on the table, Ka Chi Teru's thoughts immediately drifted back.

"Need a little more?"

"No need, thank you" Realizing that Pu Chi Hui might be fluted again just now, she was about to ask again, but Pu Chi Hui was preempted.

"On such a cold day, why didn't Akina-san go home outside the entrance?"

"The key is missing, and I don't want to look for it."

"Doesn't Akina-san have no relatives in Tokyo?"

Ka Chi Teichi looked at the girl's furrowed eyebrows, as if her eyes were moistening rapidly.

"Ah~, Mingcai-san will sleep here, like last time, I'll go get you a quilt." Saying that, Pu Chi Huiyi hurriedly rushed into the room.

Akina Nakamori looked at the desk next to him and then at the sofa, and suddenly saw Ka Chi Teiichi walking out of the room with a quilt several laps older than him. The quilt has several layers, the blue one has two layers, and the white one has two layers.

"Is that enough?" Ka Chi Teiichi put the quilt next to Akina and stood in front of her and asked.

Looking at Ka Chi Teruiichi's sweaty appearance, Akina Nakamori turned her head and laughed softly, "Hmm." ”

Pu Chihui grabbed his hair and smiled politely. Put the "good night" on the desk in his arms, and open the bedroom door in a panic.

"Well, I'm sorry for your trouble, thank you, Kamaike-san."

"Akina, I opened the stove for you, if it's cold, you must call me."

"Wait a minute, I have a question for you." Akina Nakamori called Kamaike Keiichi, who was back in the room.

"Huh~?"

"It's so cold in winter, Kamaike-san was ······ on the stairs just now"

"I'm just reading a book, I'm watching The Man Who Stole Shadows, nothing else." Pu Chi Huiyi interrupted.

"Oh—"

"That...."Ka Chi Hui turned his head to look at the door, and then at Akina Nakamori.

"Go to bed."

"Sleep."

"Good night."

Lying on the sofa where she slept on Christmas Eve, Akina didn't think anything strange, but the room was warm, and the warmth made her a little dizzy, "This feeling...."

In a trance, I remembered the situation the day before yesterday, when the fox gentleman carried her to the sofa; Wipe her face with a hot towel, and the way she rubs the fox's face.

Akina Nakamori blushed instantly, and suddenly turned over and wanted to hide in the crack of the sofa.

When she woke up at 10 o'clock in the morning, Akina Nakamori looked at the gray ceiling, rubbed her eyes, and found that the thick quilt was still covered with a white coat, Mr. Fox's coat, and the stove was still steaming, and she reluctantly lifted the quilt. Sitting at the desk in the living room, looking at the clock on the desk, Akina Nakamori didn't expect to sleep so late.

But the strange thing is that the tiredness and worries seem to disappear, probably because the house is very warm.

I accidentally saw a piece of paper on the table that looked like yesterday's letter, "It's really written by Fox San." ”

The tip of the pen touched the paper, and Akina Nakamori lay on the table and wrote carefully.

Fox-kun is at home

Fox-kun said

It was a pleasure to sit next to the fireplace

It's so cold outside, and it's snowing

At this time, someone knocked on the door of the fox king's house

It's a beautiful and pitiful winter

Fox-kun thought for a moment and wanted to let winter in

"Winter, come in, come in and warm up"

Winter froze Kitsune-kun's house

So the fox said to Winter

"Winter, you're a guest, you can't do that"

- Mr. Fox in winter, Akina Nakamori