A small memory scene appears.

The eaves of Japanese architecture are a bit like the corridors of ancient Chinese buildings, with roofs on top and passages below, leading to functional areas such as warehouses and toilets.

The difference is that the Japanese verandah does not have floor tiles, but floors that are a cut above the ground and as high as the inside of the house.

Minami Yuki opened the door of the backyard, walked through the courtyard where vegetables were grown, took off her shoes, stepped on the floor of the verandah, and sat next to Moyu.

He didn't hide his figure, he didn't hide his footsteps, Moyu didn't look at him, but kept his posture, his face down, staring at the floor at his feet.

The girl's beige slippers were neatly placed aside, two pairs of thin white socks were stacked next to them, and her white and tender feet were clinging to the light wooden floor.

"Why did you come back so early?" Nan Yuki paid attention to the girl's expression, he had just thought that the girl was silent because he was not at home, and now, he was not quite sure.

"The last class was PE and I left early." The girl turned her head, rested her cheek on her knee, looked at Minami Yuki's face, and smiled, "Welcome home, Yuki." ”

Her long, silky hair slid from her back to her side shoulders as she moved, and the slip was smooth and natural, without any sluggishness. Nan Yuxi stared at the bundle of green silk, a little distracted, he thought, such a smooth hair, insert his fingers in it and gently stroke, feel the feeling of the hair rubbing the inside of the fingers, it must be very comfortable.

If the girl is 7 years old, he will not hesitate to reach out, however, the girl is 17 years old.

"I went to the painting studio by the sea with a few local painters." Minami Yuki said.

He didn't know why he was explaining, and obviously Moyou didn't ask where he went.

Maybe it's because of Mo You's welcome home, maybe it's because Mo You explained the reason for her early return, and maybe it's the girl's frustrated posture when he enters the door.

"Is it the studio with a view of the docks?"

"Hmm."

"I learned to draw there when I was in junior high school, and then the painting class moved to the city, and I tried to go in and see it several times, but the door was locked."

"I've got the key over there." Nan Yuki reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver key.

A quiet place is a necessity for any creator. The painter of Sakuragaoka then gave him the key to use the half-abandoned but fully equipped studio at his disposal.

"Can you give it to me, I want to take a look when I pass by." Mo Yu stretched out her hand to Nan Yuki, and her white palm with a touch of pink was placed in front of Nan Yuki's eyes.

Looking at this hand, Nan Yuki thought of Strawberry Daifuku and thought of Sakura Pudding.

He placed the key in the girl's hand.

Taking the key, Mo You's smile widened, and there was a sly look in her eyes.

She held the key tightly and said to Nan Yuki, "If Yuki wants to go to that studio, remember to tell me oh, I'll open the door for Yuki." ”

“…… Can I get the keys back? Minami Yuki realizes that she has been fooled.

"No, it's mine!" The girl stood up and held the key in the air. The evening sun shone on her smug face.

"Don't you just have to look at the studio once?" Nan Yuki has guessed the girl's thoughts, and he wants to verify it.

"I didn't say I only watched it once! I'm going to keep watching! The girl lowered her hand, and she took two steps back, her hands behind her back, guarding against Nan Yuki's snatch.

She continued, "If Yuki wants to draw, she can just pick a random room or paint in the living room and I'll put the table away. Outside studios are forbidden! My mother said that men should not be allowed to have other houses, otherwise, after a quarrel, men will run away from home without any scruples and go to that house! ”

Nan Yuki thought to herself, Mo You would not quarrel with him, and the girl was not worried about after the quarrel. The girl was worried that he moved to live in the studio, which was a two-story villa, and there was no problem in cleaning up one as a bedroom.

"How do you know I have the key to that studio?" He asked.

"I can see the pier from the window of the studio, and of course I can see the window of the studio from the pier, and when I saw a figure inside, I knew it was Yuki."

Moyu didn't know that Nan Yuki had the key, but when she saw him inside, she suspected that he had the key.

"I'll leave the key with you, I wasn't going to go there." Minami Yuki replied.

"It appeared, the man's classic words 'I didn't plan to do it in the first place'!"

[I thought that the girl was lost and panicked because you were not at home, and you felt guilty, so you were defenseless in the next chat with the girl. 】

[You fell into the trap of the girl, she found you in the studio next to the dock, she pretended to be lost, and deceived you of the key. 】

[The girl does everything possible to prevent you from leaving Utashima, leaving her house, and leaving her side. 】

[This blockade has no realistic tough blockade, and there is no emotional plea bondage, Mo You shows the coquettishness and cunning of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in this regard. 】

[You don't care about the key, you don't care about the heart contained in the girl's actions, because you think that if you wait for a long time, when the filter of memory is removed, Moyou will leave you. 】

[Your bland reaction annoys the girl slightly, she wants you to gently reprimand her, wants you to pinch her cheeks, pluck her ears, and lift her off the ground, just like when you were a child, however, you didn't even knock her on the head. 】

After dinner, she takes you to the studio, and she looks around all the rooms curiously. In one of the rooms, which had a sofa and a thin quilt for sleeping, she locked the room and pulled the room key that was stuck in the door. You laugh dumbly. 】

[A few days after Mo You got the key, the meals were extraordinarily rich, which was the girl's euphemistic compensation. 】

[You used the empty room next to your bedroom as a studio, and whenever Moyu went to school, you started painting.] You didn't draw Moyu, but the sea behind the house. 】

[The lunch break at school is short, and Moyu can't come back to make lunch for you, the girl suggests, you go to her school, and she runs out to eat with you, but you refuse the offer and eat lunch at the only restaurant on the island, where you are often the only one. 】

[You first got acquainted with the family who opened the restaurant, and then you got acquainted with the nearby residents. Utashima is a very small, very closed island, and you, an outsider, or an outsider from Osaki, attract many residents to come and see you and talk to you. After you mentioned that you had been abroad, more people came to see you. 】

[Before the novelty of the residents has passed, you have become acquaintances with them through your unfallen social skills. 】

[On the weekend, Moyou on vacation takes you out to climb the mountains of Utashima, and on the way, you greet the residents you meet, and your relationship with Moyou is ridiculed by them. Among them, several women enthusiastically tell you where the mountains are interesting and want to walk with you, and you know what they think and politely refuse them. 】

[Out of the residential area, into the forest, the surroundings are quiet, Mo You walks in front of you, her steps are fast. You are not used to the path in the woods, and you are gradually falling behind. 】

Memory scenes appear.

Minami Yuki carefully identifies the ground under her feet and tries to step on a place where there are no fallen leaves.

Modern people who are accustomed to walking on solid ground find it difficult to imagine that walking is also a difficult thing, and when they are deep and shallow, and occasionally stumble because of the wrong judgment of the foothold, they will know the difficulty of the mountain road.

Bypassing a tree in front of her, Minami Yuki looked up and looked ahead, and there was no girl's back in the crack in the trunk.

He took two more steps forward and carefully scanned the surroundings to make sure that the girl had disappeared into the sea of trees.

Although there is some distance between him and Mo You, this distance should not be to the point of looking down at a few steps and losing the girl.

Troubled for a while, Nan Yuki had a guess. Closing his eyes, he recalled the last place he had seen the girl and walked that way.

The leaves and soft earth trampled under his feet, making a dull sound, spreading and disappearing into the deep forest.

He came to a tree with a thick canopy and looked up.

A blue skirt, and a small patch of pink, reflected in his eyes.

"You can't see it!" A branch falls from above.

Taking a step back, Minami Yuki dodged the thin branches and retracted her gaze.

He turned around and looked at the sky in the distance, it was really round.

The clatter of the ground came from behind him, and the girl jumped to the ground, and he turned to look at the puffing girl.

"Seyuki!" The girl glared at him with a cute face.

"Don't climb trees in skirts." Minami Yuki sighed.

Although Moyu showed a bit of wildness in farming when she was a child, Nan Yuki didn't expect that the girl could climb trees skillfully and climb in a skirt.

"I thought Yuki wouldn't find out." The girl is still angry, but her anger at the moment has become angry with herself.

She wondered where she had revealed a flaw, and Yuki noticed it.

"'Think' is often the beginning of tragedy."

Nan Yuki wanted to give the example of Hongichi being cheated of money, but she felt that it was inappropriate to tell other people's daughters that her father had done stupid things, so she changed it to ordinary words: "You have to fully consider the consequences first." ”

He regarded the girl as his junior, and unconsciously used a tone of admonition.

"I've thought about it, because there's only one Yuki here!" The girl defended herself.

"Can I? Then what did you just shout, and attack me with branches. ”

“…… I didn't prepare for the attack, I wanted to break a bunch of leaves to block the skirt ......, and then my hand slipped and fell. ”

"I thought that Xiao Moyou thought I was troublesome, so she first lured me to go under the tree, and then stabbed me in the head with a sharp branch, ready to throw my body in the mountains and forests."

"I didn't think Yuki was troublesome."

"Then why are you walking so fast and hiding in a tree to trick me?"

Hearing Nan Yuki's words, the girl's cheeks bulged again: "That's Yuki's fault." ”

"What's wrong with me?"

Minami Yuki thought back to what he had just done, and he wondered if it was he who had spoken a few more words to the twenty-year-old lady in the restaurant, or whether he had smiled with the twenty-something-old daughter of the boatman's family, or the surviving person next door to the Asagiri family......

"You just hugged someone else! You didn't even hug me! "Moyu accuses Nan Yuki of infidelity.

"Don't talk nonsense, where did I hug someone else?" Minami Yuki was taken aback, he couldn't remember which woman he was holding.

Seeing that the man refused to admit it, Mo You's cheeks became more rounded, and she said the other party's name: "It's Xiaoya!" ”

Nan Yuxi thought for a while, there were a lot of people on the island, and he couldn't remember all the names, but there was no one named Xiaoya among the few he knew.

"Who is Xiaoya?" He was at a loss.

"It's the boy you just hugged!"

“……？”

Minami Yuki remembered that before going up the mountain, he met a family of three who were walking and hugged the children in it.

He was a little troubled and replied to Mo You seriously: "If Mo You is a little girl of four or five years old, you can hug as many people as you want." ”

"I'm a little girl of four months old." Mo You opened her arms and wanted to hug Minami Yuki.

"You've been a bit a bit late late." Nan Yuki pressed her fingers against her forehead to keep her from getting closer.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and they continued on, towards the mountain.

On the way, the girl was still a little angry.

"That little boy is so cunning!" She thought to herself.

[Moyu tried to trick you, but she failed.] Under your inquiry, she tells you the reason for her displeasure because you are holding a little boy and not wanting to hold her. 】

[This result makes you think deeply.] The jealousy of a young girl is not for a woman, but for a child. 】

[Walking behind the girl, you think, maybe Moyu's feelings for you are not what you imagined before. 】

[This discovery made you breathe a sigh of relief, the stone that had been pressing on your heart was removed, and you thought, if that's the case, you don't have to be so careful.] 】

You did not climb to the top of the mountain, but stayed on the cliff at the edge of the island for a while. The sky on the island was getting fast, the sun was hidden in the clouds, and the white gray clouds obscured the entire sky. 】

[You are in a hurry to go back and forth, but it is still a little late, and by the time you reach the residential area, the rain has already fallen. 】

"Take shelter from the rain under the eaves of the house next to you. Moyu's blue skirt was soaked in the rain and stuck to her body. The girl is playing tricks on you. 】

A short memory scene appears.

The rain poured down, and the rain line was connected in front of the two of them, like a curtain, covering them behind the eaves, and separating the small space under the eaves into a private place.

Nan Yuki took off her coat and handed it to the girl next to her.

Moyou's blue dress was partially wet, and the shoulders, chest, and back were close to her skin, and the fabric of the skirt was very thick, not revealing the brilliance of the girl's skin, but revealing the girl's body curves.

Taking Nan Yuki's coat, the girl did not rush to put it on, but squinted her eyes and looked up at the man in front of her.

She noticed that Nan Yuki's gaze deliberately avoided her body.

"Intrigued?" She asked with a playful smile.

"Girls can't say that." Minami Yuki knocked her on the head.

This time he used a lot of force, and the girl covered her head and shrunk her neck: "It hurts." ”

"Here's a lesson for you."

"Because it's my brother...... It was Yuki who said that! ”

"Neither can I."

"When we were kids, we bathed together."

"I don't remember anything like that."

"After taking a shower, Yuki ran to my room......"

Her voice stopped, and Yuki Minami pinched both of her cheeks with both hands and pulled her out hard.

"It hurts, it hurts, I was wrong!" The girl begged for mercy pitifully.

When Nan Yuki let go of her hand, her look of begging for mercy quickly disappeared, revealing a mischievous smile.

"Yuki pinched my face." She put her hands behind her back, stood on tiptoe, and brought a beautiful smile to Nan Yuki's eyes: "The next step is to let Yuki take the initiative to hug me." ”