In the camping team, no one is good at cooking except for Yayoi Akihaya and Narumi Yu.

So the five waited until the two of them returned.

By the time I finished breakfast, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning.

As for the fact that he only brought back tea leaves and didn't bring back fish, everyone saw Narumi Yu's "hard work".

It can only be attributed to bad luck and not being caught.

After the sun and the cooking fire, Narumi's soaked clothes dried, leaving only a few mud marks on them.

Everyone got moving, dismantled their tents, packed their luggage, and followed the previously planned route to see Niwayama Waterfall.

The villages at the foot of Mt. Niwa are inhabited and have communication signals, so they can find trucks and the like to send them back to the town.

"Yayoi-san, Kamigawa editors, will they leave you here and go back?"

Walk through the mountains and forests and find the path that the locals often take when entering the mountains, and seven people walk in a line.

Narumi Yuu fell to the back and asked himself about Yayoi Aki in front of him.

In front of Yayoi is Kuriyama City, and there is a distance of seven or eight meters in the middle, so if the sound is not loud, you should not be able to hear it.

"I told them in advance, and if they finish the job, they will go back early."

Before they arrived, the filming of "Nai River" was already in its final stages.

Even if I didn't go back early, I was probably just waiting for Yayoi Autumn.

"So when the time comes, will you go back with us, or with Kamigawa editors?"

「……」

The girl did not answer his question.

After passing through a bamboo forest, the sound of birds was heard, and the stream was piled with bluestone slabs, leaving a gap in the middle for the stream to pass through, and people crossed the stream with the stone slabs above the water.

When Narumi stepped on it, he lowered his head and looked for fish in the stream, guessing how Yayoi Autumn would choose.

"I thought Narumi-san was going to ask me," the girl's voice sounded better than a bird's cry, causing him to withdraw his gaze from the fish in the stream, "'Do you want me to stay here and go back with Yayoi-san, or do you want to leave with Natsume-sensei and the others?' ，」

「…… I'm not one who likes to sacrifice myself for others." Narumi Yu felt the weight of the luggage behind him, and felt that his words didn't seem convincing.

However, "can" does not mean "like", and Yayoi Akiha, who is as smart as the first in the grade, should understand what he means.

"...... so," the girl sighed meaningfully, and walked a few steps faster, leaving him alone at the back of the group.

……

"Hey!

Are you okay? If you can't hold on, don't be strong!" Kondamura, who was in the middle of the line, turned around and shouted.

He gestured up, then hurried to follow.

I can't guess Yayoi Akiza's thoughts.

……

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

The luggage was stored at a family in the village, and everyone went to see the waterfall with ease.

Yayoi Autumn didn't go early, saying that he was going to see other places. Narumi Yu helps explain, and then accidentally leaves herself in the village.

It's a pity.

Although he has already seen the waterfall once, he will not get tired of seeing this natural landscape a few more times.

He also likes to look at something pleasing to the eye in a daze.

….

"Narumi-san is worried about me?"

"I'm worried about Neko." The previous ones are all excuses, and this sentence is the truth.

After everyone else left, he followed Yayoi Aki to the courtyard of the shrine.

"Worried about the disappearance of the bed?"

"I'm worried that I'll forget about it when Neko disappears."

Narumi looks at the thatched roof of the dilapidated shrine.

From the last time I came to the shrine to now, nothing has changed.

Perhaps only the two of them have been here in the last few years.

"There's the story of "Nai River", even if you forget it

I can think about it again......

The hut where the shrine is kept, and the wooden platform in front of the shrine is covered with a thick layer of dust. Yayoi Aki stretched out his hand to wipe it, but when he was about to touch it, he took it back.

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"Hey!

Are you okay? If you can't hold on, don't be strong!" Kondamura, who was in the middle of the line, turned around and shouted.

He gestured up, then hurried to follow.

I can't guess Yayoi Akiza's thoughts.

……

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

The luggage was stored at a family in the village, and everyone went to see the waterfall with ease.

Yayoi Autumn didn't go early, saying that he was going to see other places. Narumi Yu helps explain, and then accidentally leaves herself in the village.

It's a pity.

Although he has already seen the waterfall once, he will not get tired of seeing this natural landscape a few more times.

He also likes to look at something pleasing to the eye in a daze.

"Narumi-san is worried about me?"

"I'm worried about Neko." The previous ones are all excuses, and this sentence is the truth.

After everyone else left, he followed Yayoi Aki to the courtyard of the shrine.

"Worried about the disappearance of the bed?"

"I'm worried that I'll forget about it when Neko disappears."

Narumi looks at the thatched roof of the dilapidated shrine.

From the last time I came to the shrine to now, nothing has changed.

Perhaps only the two of them have been here in the last few years.

"With the story of "Nai River", even if you forget it, you can remember it again......

The hut where the shrine is kept, and the wooden platform in front of the shrine is covered with a thick layer of dust. Yayoi Aki stretched out his hand to wipe it, but when he was about to touch it, he took it back.

"Perhaps." He replied.

Actually, you don't think about it.

It's not the same as being deprived of a memory and forgetting it yourself.

He's been through both.

If the existence of Neko disappears completely, the story in "Nai River" will be just a story.

The reader will only sigh at Yayoi Akiza's brushstrokes, and will only sigh at what happened to Neko, but no one will ever think that there is indeed a cat named Neko in reality, waiting for himself to grow old in such a shrine.

Narumi stepped forward and looked at the shrine.

A shrine to the mountain god of Mt. Niwa.

It's just that I don't know who made up the story in ancient times, or if there was such a god at one time.

….

If there really is a mountain god, is the flood a few years ago a vent to the anger of the human race at the destruction of their shrines......

In the camping team, no one is good at cooking except for Yayoi Akihaya and Narumi Yu.

So the five waited until the two of them returned.

By the time I finished breakfast, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning.

As for the fact that he only brought back tea leaves and didn't bring back fish, everyone saw Narumi Yu's "hard work".

It can only be attributed to bad luck and not being caught.

After the sun and the cooking fire, Narumi's soaked clothes dried, leaving only a few mud marks on them.

Everyone got moving, dismantled their tents, packed their luggage, and followed the previously planned route to see Niwayama Waterfall.

The villages at the foot of Mt. Niwa are inhabited and have communication signals, so they can find trucks and the like to send them back to the town.

"Yayoi-san, Kamigawa editors, will they leave you here and go back?"

Walk through the mountains and forests and find the path that the locals often take when entering the mountains, and seven people walk in a line.

Narumi Yuu fell to the back and asked himself about Yayoi Aki in front of him.

In front of Yayoi is Kuriyama City, and there is a distance of seven or eight meters in the middle, so if the sound is not loud, you should not be able to hear it.

"I told them in advance, and if they finish the job, they will go back early."

Before they arrived, the filming of "Nai River" was already in its final stages.

Even if I didn't go back early, I was probably just waiting for Yayoi Autumn.

"So when the time comes, you go back with us

, or with Kamigawa's editors?"

「……」

The girl did not answer his question.

After passing through a bamboo forest, the sound of birds was heard, and the stream was piled with bluestone slabs, leaving a gap in the middle for the stream to pass through, and people crossed the stream with the stone slabs above the water.

When Narumi stepped on it, he lowered his head and looked for fish in the stream, guessing how Yayoi Autumn would choose.

"I thought Narumi-san was going to ask me," the girl's voice sounded better than a bird's cry, causing him to withdraw his gaze from the fish in the stream, "'Do you want me to stay here and go back with Yayoi-san, or do you want to leave with Natsume-sensei and the others?' ，」

「…… I'm not one who likes to sacrifice myself for others." Narumi Yu felt the weight of the luggage behind him, and felt that his words didn't seem convincing.

However, "can" does not mean "like", and Yayoi Akiha, who is as smart as the first in the grade, should understand what he means.

"...... so," the girl sighed meaningfully, and walked a few steps faster, leaving him alone at the back of the group.

……

"Hey!

Are you okay? If you can't hold on, don't be strong!" Kondamura, who was in the middle of the line, turned around and shouted.

He gestured up, then hurried to follow.

I can't guess Yayoi Akiza's thoughts.

……

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

The luggage was stored at a family in the village, and everyone went to see the waterfall with ease.

Yayoi Autumn didn't go early, saying that he was going to see other places. Narumi Yu helps explain, and then accidentally leaves herself in the village.

It's a pity.

Although he has already seen the waterfall once, he will not get tired of seeing this natural landscape a few more times.

….

He also likes to look at something pleasing to the eye in a daze.

"Narumi-san is worried about me?"

"I'm worried about Neko." The previous ones are all excuses, and this sentence is the truth.

After everyone else left, he followed Yayoi Aki to the courtyard of the shrine.

"Worried about the disappearance of the bed?"

"I'm worried that I'll forget about it when Neko disappears."

Narumi looks at the thatched roof of the dilapidated shrine.

From the last time I came to the shrine to now, nothing has changed.

Perhaps only the two of them have been here in the last few years.

"With the story of "Nai River", even if you forget it, you can remember it again......

The hut where the shrine is kept, and the wooden platform in front of the shrine is covered with a thick layer of dust. Yayoi Aki stretched out his hand to wipe it, but when he was about to touch it, he took it back.

"Perhaps." He replied.

Actually, you don't think about it.

It's not the same as being deprived of a memory and forgetting it yourself.

He's been through both.

If the existence of Neko disappears completely, the story in "Nai River" will be just a story.

The reader will only sigh at Yayoi Akiza's brushstrokes, and will only sigh at what happened to Neko, but no one will ever think that there is indeed a cat named Neko in reality, waiting for himself to grow old in such a shrine.

Narumi stepped forward and looked at the shrine.

A shrine to the mountain god of Mt. Niwa.

It's just that I don't know who made up the story in ancient times, or if there was such a god at one time.

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