"Yayoi-san," it was already past twelve o'clock in the second half of the night, Narumi Yu accompanied Yayoi Autumn to lie on the lawn together, blowing a cool breeze, counting the stars, "When you ran out, Kuriyama was already asleep?" ”

"Well, they all fell asleep as soon as they lay down."

"I guess I'm too tired."

Kuriyama also carried a lot of luggage, and he always led the way in front of the team, making markers, and cutting branches.

"Isn't Narumi Sang tired?"

"Of course I'm tired, I'm carrying my luggage and hurrying, I'm cooking on the fire, and I'm tortured by my bed at night, and now my calves are so sore that I can't stand up." Narumi complained, "It would be nice if someone could help rub it." ”

“……”

The boy's simple and simple wishes were ignored, so he had to take a step back, "Then let's help each other rub it." ”

"I'm tired too, so I'm going to rub it myself."

"It's a shame."

Narumi kept looking for topics to talk about.

The eyes are closed, and if you stop, you will probably lie down and fall asleep.

"It's time to go back, Yayoi-san."

"It's okay, I left a note next to my sleeping bag, go catch the fish in the morning, just bring the fish back."

"I didn't expect you to lie sometimes." He was a little surprised, opened his eyes slightly, and suddenly felt that the starry sky was getting closer and closer to him.

"I'm telling the truth, we'll catch fish when it's dawn."

"Concealment and inducement are also deceptive, but I didn't expect Yayoi-san's character to have such a bad side."

Could it be that you also learned from the 寝子?

"Isn't Narumi Mulberry lying to me every day?"

"I never said I was a good person."

"Hmmm......"

……

The world fell silent, and Narumi suddenly felt as if she could see the starry sky without opening her eyes.

"Yayoi-san?"

“……”

He spoke softly, but received no response.

The sound of the wind and insects gradually died down......

……

Wow~~

The distant silence was broken by the sound of rapid and dense rain.

The sound of the wind came back to my ears.

The force of the breeze, much stronger than that of a clear night breeze, rustled the wind mixed with rain on the leaves.

The sight gradually returned.

The young man in the lily robe came back to his senses and raised his head slightly, most of the gray sky was covered by a hat, and the rain took advantage of the situation to sweep his face, making him unable to open his eyes.

What did he come here for?

Five or six dilapidated wooden houses, and a few more, were piled up with decayed wooden building materials, and all that remained was ruins.

Such a place must no longer be inhabited by anyone, right?

Is he looking for someone?

The thoughts in my head are blank.

Where is this, what is he going to do, and even forgetting who he is.

But the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the fine raindrops are almost connected into silk threads.

It is necessary to find a place to hide from the rain as soon as possible.

I don't know when the rain will stop, at least for a short time, there is no way to get out.

The boy ran into a wooden house in the rain, and the wooden door creaked shut from the inside, keeping the rain out.

Stagnant water dripped from the leaky roof, creating puddles on the floor.

To be on the safe side, he moved in a wooden cabinet left in the house and blocked it behind the door.

The room was dark, and I searched through the whole body and found no tools to light the fire. But at least it didn't rain, and no wind blew into the house.

He leaned back against the wooden cabinet and breathed a sigh of relief.

The things I found in my pocket were the omamori, a wooden plaque with Chinese characters engraved on it (you could feel the word "Miyaji" engraved on it), and a knife about 20 centimeters in my waist.

Is it really okay to come to such a remote place with only such a small thing?

Let's not talk about matches or anything, at least you should bring something to eat......

The dull sound of rain passed through the wooden door, tirelessly, showing no tendency to abate.

In order to conserve his strength, it seemed that he was indeed tired, so the boy closed his eyes and fell asleep.

……

……

The harsh sunlight shone on Narumi's face, urging him to open his eyes.

He sat up with some soreness, bringing the dew from the leaves.

When he woke up, he was the only one left on the grass in front of the cliff, and he didn't find Yayoi Akiza's figure after looking around.

It wasn't until he stood up and looked at the tea garden under the cliff that he saw the figure of the girl next to the wooden house, communicating with the people who lived in the tea garden.

It looks like an old couple who are at least fifty years old, and the woman's figure is already a little hunchbacked.

A few minutes later, the man walked to the warehouse, took out a wooden barrel, handed it to Yayoi Akiha, waved his hand, and watched her leave.

……

"And then."

When Yayoi Aki walked to the bottom of the cliff, he looked up and said to him, waiting for him to stretch out his hand and throw the barrel up.

Catch it smoothly.

Then the girl turned into a black cat and jumped up the cliff.

"This is, for fish?" Narumi looked at the barrel in his hand and asked, "Are you looking too highly of the two of us?" ”

I don't know if it's leaking or not.

"Let the girl do the fishing, it should be fine." The black cat has reverted to the form of a girl.

The delicate white thighs under the sports shorts were rubbed with a little mud, and after being photographed, they left a brown mud mark.

The white sneakers on his feet were already a little dirty, and the uppers were covered with dirt.

"Do you remember the way you came?" The girl asked.

"Of course." Narumi carried the bucket and burrowed into the forest without looking back.

He had something he wanted to ask Yayoi about the early autumn morning, but now that the sun was fully up, it was close to seven o'clock in the morning, and they had to hurry back to the camping place as soon as possible.

Imperial guards, carved wooden signs, heavy rain and broken houses......

Is this what the gentle slope of the tea plantation looked like seventy or eighty years ago?

What kind of perspective did he have in his dreams......

Onlooker? Browse the past like you did with the past of Chisaka Imadegawa?

Then why does the protagonist in the dream remember nothing......

Since he was discharged from the hospital, he has rarely had such completely unconscious dreams.

He didn't have a detailed understanding of the specific position in the shrine, but he had seen an introduction to the palace secretary in "Nai River".

For some small shrines where there are not many people, it can be simply understood as the owner of the shrine.

If you extrapolate it like this, he in the dream should be the one who brought the bed back to the shrine back then.

"Is Neko there?"

"It's in."

On the way back, he asked, "Last night's dream, did the 寝子 also take shelter from the rain in that wooden house?" ”

"It said yes." Yayoi Aki listened to Neko's words early and relayed them to him.

Narumi Yu suddenly wondered why the girl could understand the meaning of Neko's "meow meow".

The story about Neko in "Nai River" should also be told by a certain black cat who was attached to Yayoi in the early autumn morning.

"The bed in the dream, is it the bed at that time, or the bed now?" He asked again.

In the morning woods, you can see pillars of light, through the shade of the trees, the dew on the shrubs and blades of grass.

Passing through the bushes, the dew on the leaves rubbed against the girl's thighs, blending with the mud prints and sliding down the skin.

"It was at the time." The girl glanced up at him, catching his sideways gaze on the spot, "...... What are you looking at? ”

"When the dew falls, doesn't it itch?" Narumi Yu still didn't withdraw his gaze to observe the beautiful girl's thighs and asked.

He has always acted calmly and never ...... Rarely do voyeuristic things.

“……”

Beautiful girls who haunt the mountains and forests in the morning will turn into black cats.

Her prey is not a fish swimming in a stream, but a teenager who has strayed into the forest.

If you enter the mountain, please remember not to take offense easily.

This is the valuable experience that Narumi Yu's predecessor learned after falling under the cat's claw.