"What, it's so stingy, isn't it just borrowed to play?"

The sun wheel gradually rose to a high point in the sky, and that was the beginning of the day, but the boy under the red torii was unhappy.

"It's a pity, if there were Gangenir, my combat power would definitely rise by hundreds of thousands......."

While bullying the stones on the long steps with his feet, Takeya thought in pieces, and his strange appearance naturally attracted the attention of the shrine maiden who was cleaning the shrine.

"Takeya? Where are you babbling and talking? ”

"Ah, how can I say it, if I want to use a magic spear in the future, don't I have to ask Remilia to borrow it? It's so troublesome......"

"Hey!"

She raised her eyebrows at Takeshi who was talking to herself, obviously, Reimu's words did not reach Takeya's ears, and the fact that she was ignored caused her displeasure.

Reimu's hand holding the broom was slightly forced, only to see the broom in his hand suddenly soar into the air, and after completing a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree flip in the air, it smashed straight on Takeya's head.

Boom.

"It hurts!"

A burst of pain in his head brought Takeya back to his senses, and he looked down at the broom that had been thrown beside him with a click, and he looked at the expressionless Reimu in front of him, and a second later-

"What are you bastard Reimu! It hurts! ”

"It's noisy! Who told you to ignore me! ”

"You ......"

Seeing Reimu's face, it seemed to say, "I just fought, how about it, I have the ability to fight back, be careful that I will treat you!" Wu also silently swallowed a mouthful of blood.

I endure.

Takeya, who bowed his head to the Hakurei witch very spinelessly, pulled the corners of his mouth stiffly:

"What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, it's just that your pestle is in the way there."

Reimu unceremoniously counted down Takeya, and then pointed to the utility room in the backyard of the shrine with the broom he picked up on the ground:

"Wu Ye, you're too busy anyway, just go and help me get the new tea leaves."

"Huh......?"

Reimu's words made Takeshi not slow down for a while, you must know that Reimu is a peerless genius who can drink a bag of tea to be colorless and tasteless.

This is not because she is poor, nor because of how precious Gensokyo's tea is, but because she is lazy.

Too lazy to go out, too lazy to buy tea, or even too lazy to change the tea leaves, as far as Reimu is concerned, unless the tea leaves in the teapot are all turned into scum and drunk up, otherwise she will definitely not even bother to lift the lid.

In this way, she would actually offer to change a new cup of tea, especially when the tea leaves in the pot had just been changed yesterday, which is almost impossible.

Takeya stared blankly at Reimu, who was doing the cleaning work as if he had nothing to do, until he was urged by Reimu a few more times, and walked to the utility room in a daze to see a page of calendar pressed under the tea bag.

“...... It turns out that this day has arrived. ”

The moment he saw the date, all the doubts in Wu Ye's heart were swept away, no wonder Reimu, who was lazy today, would get up early, no wonder Yakumo Zi, who always likes to do things today, also disappeared, so it was......

"It's been a few years, where the hell did you guy......"

Takeya picked up the new bag of tea and walked out of the utility room, the glimmer of light shining through the gap illuminated the darkness obscured by the wooden door, only to see that where the tea leaves and the calendar were pressed, a slightly old witch costume was neatly stacked.

The hand on the door paused slightly, and Takeya was silent for a long time at the red and white witch costume exposed in the gap, and finally closed the door gently.

It was about a few years ago today, the day the shrine maiden disappeared from front of them, how long did it take, five years? Six years? He can't tell, maybe it's really the same as what Yakumo Zi said-

Time can destroy everything, especially feelings.

At that point, maybe he couldn't even remember the sadness he felt when he learned that the shrine maiden had disappeared in the first place, right?

Sure enough, I'm a real cold-blooded animal than Reimu, which seems a little less human on the surface.

With a self-deprecating smile, Takeya came to the room in the backyard, which was where Reimu usually lazied, with a teapot on the light-colored tatami mat and two teacups placed casually.

Silently changing the tea to a new one, Takeya easily found the balls that Reimu had bought from the shrine, and after all the preparations were complete, he sipped the tea while waiting for Reimu's arrival.

Soon, there was movement in the front yard, and after a while, Reimu dragged into the room with a lazy expression that was no different from usual.

"Huh? Takeya, you're ready. ”

Reimu was not surprised at all, and sat in the seat she was used to on weekdays, she picked up the steaming tea and took a sip, smashing it several times in her mouth:

"Sure enough, the fresh tea is delicious."

"It's ......"

Looking at Reimu who showed a look of exclamation, Wu Ye scolded with a smile:

"Since you know it's delicious, give me a little more diligence, you lazy witch."

"Hmph."

Squeezing his nose, Reimu blew the hot air on the teacup again, and said slowly:

"If I'm too diligent, won't it seem that you're too useless?"

"What? Why did it pull me? ”

Listening to Wu's incomprehensible question, Reimu shrugged his shoulders and said as a matter of course:

"Isn't it natural for men to come and support their families?"

"Hey, stop, stop, who's the witch in this shrine?"

Takeya asked amusefully.

"It's noisy, drink my tea and work for me."

"You ......"

"What? Comments? ”

“...... All right. ”

Seeing the slight beating in the corners of Reimeng's eyes, Wu Ye immediately raised his hand and surrendered:

"Whatever you say is what you say."

"That's pretty much it."

Reimu nodded, looking like a teachable child, and the two looked at each other for a while, and she suddenly burst out laughing:

"Hehe, sure enough, ......"

With a light smile on Reimu's face that had not completely faded, she put down the empty teacup in her hand, turned her head sideways to look at Wu Ye and said:

"Only on this day will you follow me in everything, Takeya."

"Huh."

Wu also let out a noncommittal laugh, then put the teacup to his mouth, and for a moment, there was only the sound of tea entering the air.

"And how many years have passed?"

Holding the teacup, Reimu's gaze fell on the trees in the courtyard that seemed to never grow, and he said as if talking to himself:

"Five years? Six years? Time flies so fast. ”

"What? Does our shrine maiden want to become a child who will never grow up? Go and ask the young girl over there, maybe there will be a play. ”

As he spoke, Wu also pointed in the direction of the Santu River.

"Hush."

Reimu glanced at Wu Ye and said angrily:

"You don't have to be so careful, I'm not as fragile as you think."

"Really? I'm worried that you will be unhappy for a while, and you will directly throw a barrage enchantment on me......"

"Go, go, go."

Waving his hand in disgust at Wu Ye's non-fake expression, Reimu lowered his eyes, paused and said lightly:

"Grandma hasn't been seen for so long, I don't care anymore."