Hachioji City, Mt. Takao.

A group of young men and women with travel backpacks on their backs crutches and trekking poles make their way up a rugged mountain trail.

They are all office workers in Tokyo, and because they love mountaineering, they have formed a small circle of mountaineering enthusiasts, and they look for mountains around Tokyo to climb every day off.

The most famous mountain in Japan is Mt. Fuji, but they have climbed it many times, and Mt. Fuji is only open to mountaineers from July to September, so it's still a little early.

And Mt. Takao, located in Hachioji City, is something they haven't tried yet.

Mt. Takao is also a popular tourist destination in Japan, with millions of tourists coming here every year to see the cherry blossoms in spring and the autumn leaves in autumn.

It's June, and neither the cherry blossoms nor the autumn leaves are in season, so there aren't many visitors to Mt. Takao, which is what the group likes.

After all, when you climb the mountain, you are faced with a sea of people, and it is still a little troublesome if you can't even step out of your feet.

Mt. Takao is far inferior to Mt. Fuji in terms of altitude and steepness, and the trails here are specially designed for the convenience of visitors of all ages, so it is not difficult to climb.

So they chose to go up a steep slope from no man's land, wanting to make it a little difficult for themselves.

It has to be said that they succeeded.

......

"Yishu, I can't go up to this——!"

Haruka Kuno looked at the vertical cliff in front of her, which was almost taller than her, and let out a cry of despair.

There was such a steep terrain everywhere along the way, and after climbing for a long time, she had no strength, let alone carrying such a heavy travel bag.

If it was when the excitement of climbing the mountain was still there, maybe she could grit her teeth and climb up, but now that she is exhausted, she just wants to be coquettish to her boyfriend.

Nigami Kazuki turned his head and looked at his girlfriend a little helplessly.

Haruka Kuno doesn't actually like mountaineering, and she often follows her girlfriends to party in the city center on her rest days.

But this time, I don't know why she actually proposed for a long time that 'couples should enhance their relationship together on their days off'.

Kazuki Nigami guessed that she probably fell out with her new girlfriend again.

Whatever the reason, the result was that when Haruka Kuno heard that the mountain he was going to climb this time was Mt. Takao, a mountain specially designed for elderly climbers, he happily asked to climb with him as well.

Even when he explained to her that they would open up their own hiking trails and find no man's land to climb the mountain, she didn't care, and said that she would definitely not hold back, as she often told herself.

Sure enough.

Nigami Kazuki sighed in his heart, put down the backpack behind him, apologized to the companions who looked back in front of him, and then went to pull Jiuye Haruka.

"Give me the bag first."

He took his girlfriend's backpack and pulled her hard to climb up.

Haruka Kuno pouted, even if she was pulled up by her boyfriend, she was still a little dissatisfied.

"How far is it, I don't have the strength anymore, I don't want to climb."

She sat on her backpack, rubbed her bare feet, and asked her boyfriend dissatisfied.

They arrived in Hachioji City in the morning on the Keio Electric Railway, and they only started climbing in the afternoon, but now that it was getting late, they still hadn't reached their destination.

Nigami and Ichiki also had a bit of a headache, originally they planned to climb directly to the top of Mt. Takao, and then camp in tents there, and then follow the trail down the mountain the next day.

But they didn't expect that the steepness of the no-man's land of Mt. Takao was still more than they expected, and Haruka Kuno needed help from time to time, so until now they were probably halfway up the mountain.

At this pace, I'm afraid they won't be able to reach the top of the mountain before sunset.

"Haruka, let's go a little further ahead, it's still a while before sunset."

"But I can't walk anymore!"

Haruka Kuno rubbed her bare feet, her mouth was longer, and she stared at the two gods and one tree with watery eyes, as if she was looking at a negative man.

Although he has long been accustomed to his girlfriend's style, he still feels a headache at this moment.

After all, she's just bothering herself at home, but now there are other people.

Although they have climbed the mountain together a few times because they have the same hobby, it is not enough to say how familiar they are, at least the two gods and one tree are absolutely unwilling to cause them trouble.

"It's better to go a little further ahead, you see it's all woods, and we don't have a place to sleep."

"Didn't we bring a tent?"

"But this is no man's land, and there may be wild beasts and poisonous snakes in the woods, and it will be very dangerous at night."

Kazuki Nigami tried his best to persuade his girlfriend, but Haruka Kuno's mouth was stretched longer.

She felt that her boyfriend was disgusting herself, which made her want to be coquettish even more while being wronged in her heart.

"I don't care, I don't want to move!"

"But it's not good to camp here, Yao, it's okay to walk a little longer, I'll discuss with Moriya and them to camp in advance, but it's definitely not okay here, just walk a little longer, don't make trouble for everyone!"

"I don't care! I'm your girlfriend, isn't it me that you should be thinking about the most? ”

Because of the continuous persuasion of the two gods and one tree, Jiuye Haruka is obviously a little bit of a bull.

Nigami and Ichiki were also a little angry, his voice gradually became louder, and Haruka Kuno on the other side also became excited when he saw this.

A couple who looked at this side seemed to start arguing, and the companions who were standing in front of them also came over.

"What's wrong, Nigami?"

Yuto Moriya approached them and asked with some concern.

Among these people, he has the best relationship with Nigami and Ichiki, unlike most other people who only get lively before organizing an event, he and Nigami Ichiki also maintain a certain connection in normal times because of their like-mindedness, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are friends.

Therefore, in the face of the quarrel between the couple, the others just watched from the sidelines because they avoided suspicion, while he came over and tried to persuade him.

"I'm sorry, Moriya."

Kazuki Nigami scratched his hair, looking a little embarrassed.

"It's me, can we camp early today? I was feeling a little unwell. ”

Although he said this, Yuto Moriya knew what the real reason was when he looked at the movement of Haruka Kuno rubbing his naked feet and the face that skimmed away.

To this he just smiled:

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I won't be able to climb to the top of the mountain today, it doesn't make much difference where I camp, I'll go talk to them, it's okay."

"Thank you, Moriya." Nigami Kazuki sighed.

He turned his head and said to his girlfriend: "Let's go a little longer, I can carry you, this place is really not suitable for camping." ”

Jiuye Yao gritted his teeth and glared at him hatefully: "I don't care, I'm not leaving, and I don't want you to carry me!" ”

Looking at his girlfriend who is completely unreasonable even in front of others, Nigami Kazuki is really a little angry.

"And where do you want to live?"

"Stay there!"

Kuno Haruka pointed ahead.

Kazuki Nigami looked in the direction of her finger and noticed that there was a faint outline of a temple on the mountainside ahead.

Strange, did you see the temple just now?

I guess I didn't notice it.

But if you have a temple, you can spend the night, it's much better than a tent, but I didn't expect it to be the first to be discovered by my girlfriend.

He flipped through his phone and glanced at the time.

At six o'clock in the evening, it was not far from sunset.

"Then let's go to that temple and spend the night."