Even though the neighbor's house next door was empty, Naoko got up in the morning and washed up, and went there to prepare today's breakfast and lunch.

As she had done yesterday morning, in the middle of a busy day, she went upstairs to his room and pushed open the door.

Of course there was no one in the room.

After standing in the doorway for a while, she went in and sat on the edge of the bed, lay down again, and buried her face in his pillow.

Closing her eyes and breathing in his scent, Naoko buried her face deeper.

“…… Worst. ”

After a while, she suddenly came to her senses and hurried downstairs.

Preparing breakfast and a bento, Naoko glanced at the time and sent him a message before starting to enjoy breakfast.

Naoko: Good morning. Did Harumi get up?

Chunhai: I got up, and I was eating the hotel's breakfast buffet.

Naoko: You don't have to go to school, you wake up so early.

Harumi: Hikari got up earlier, and she woke me up.

“……”

Naoko pursed her lips, the phone was upside down, and the person also fell on the table.

On the other side of the table, where the eye rests, is an empty chair.

"Two days to ......"

Buzz –

Naruse quickly picks up her phone, and Naoko just says she's going out.

Naruse: Be careful on the road.

Naoko: Okay.

"Naoko's news?" Hikaru Takikawa, who was sitting opposite, asked.

"Hmm." Naruse put down his phone and glanced at the breakfast in front of him again, he had almost eaten it.

"Would you like to bring one for the starfish?"

"There's nothing to bring here, so let her come down and eat by herself."

"I don't know if the starfish is awake."

"It's almost time to wake up."

After eating the last bit of food on the plate, Naruse wiped his mouth, got up and said, "I'll call her upstairs." ”

Hikaru Takikawa bit down on the food and nodded.

After taking two steps, Naruse turned around and asked, "What is the number of starfish's room?" ”

He was far away from their room, and he didn't remember the exact number of their room.

"Next to my room is the starfish's room."

“…… What is the room of light? ”

She thought for a moment and pulled the key out of her pocket to confirm.

"Ah, it's 407. By the way, Starfish's room is 408. ”

Back upstairs, Naruse knocked on the door of room 408, and it was a long time before a response came from inside.

The voice was muffled and hoarse, and the starfish had just woken up.

She came to open the door, and when she saw that it was not Hikaru Takikawa but him standing outside the door, her eyes narrowed a lot, and then she retreated behind the door.

“……”

Although the time was short, Naruse still saw the faint dark circles under the starfish's eyes, and naturally guessed that she slept late last night.

"Hikari is waiting for you for breakfast in the restaurant downstairs."

“…… Oh. ”

The two men were silent, and after a short silence, the crack in the door narrowed and narrowed until it was completely closed.

Smack.

Listening to the footsteps outside, the starfish walked away from behind the door.

When he came to the bathroom and looked at his face in the mirror, the starfish leaned closer and closer, and immediately frowned when he saw it.

"Wow...... Sure enough, there are dark circles under my eyes. ”

Whoop –

She turned on the faucet, took some cold water from her hand, and slapped it on her face.

Droplets of water slid down her jaw, her fingertips resting on her lips.

"Isn't this the same as saying it explicitly, do I still care about it......

After breakfast, Starfish and Hikaru Takikawa went to the hotel to find Takigawa Tsuki.

When the third-grade team was about to leave for Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Naruse, who received the news, left the hotel and joined the two.

When he saw the starfish again, he was slightly stunned, because the dark circles under his eyes that he had seen in the morning had completely disappeared at this time.

He didn't ask much, but on the way to Kiyomizuji, he heard Hikaru Takikawa say that she had borrowed some cosmetics for the starfish at the hotel, and he understood why.

- Probably with concealer or something, I put it on my face to cover it.

"Is this Shimizuzaka over here, there are a lot of shops."

"Souvenirs like Kiyomizuyaki and Kyoto fans, or sweets like Kyoto sweets, you can basically buy them here."

Kiyomizudera Temple is not far away, almost a kilometer from the inn, and it can be walked in ten minutes, and you will pass by a commercial street like Kiyomizuzaka on the way.

"I'd like to buy something here." Looking at the dazzling array of shops, Hikaru Takikawa decided to pick out the gifts to bring back here.

"I'll buy it when I get back." "Unless you want to carry things around." ”

Hikaru Takikawa is just saying, naturally he won't buy it now.

After continuing to climb along the stone path for a while, I finally arrived at Kiyomizuji Temple, and on the top of the steps facing him, I saw the Niomon Gate with vermilion and black tiles.

The third-year students took a roll call in the open space on the side, and the three of them waited for a while, and Takigawa Yue quickly came over to meet them, along with several girls from the same class.

"Let's go to the landlord's shrine first.,I heard that the love prayer there is very effective.,I want to draw a lot!"

"I want to try the love divination divine stone there, Yue, come with me."

"Good ......"

Several of the senior sisters were interested in the landlord shrine, so it became the first destination.

On the way, passing by the brightly colored three-storied pagoda, several people couldn't help but stop and watch for a while, and Naruse was also pulled to help take a few photos.

Not far away is the majestic main hall of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, and the Shimizu Stage is covered by a dark brown curtain, and it is said that it has recently been temporarily repaired and closed to the public, which is a great pity.

Bypassing the main hall, you finally arrive at the bottom of the steps of the landlord shrine, and after two or three steps up, you will find the inside of the landlord shrine.

A stone with a thick rope stood in the middle of the road, and more than ten meters in front of it, there was an almost identical stone.

Judging from the above text, this is the love divination divine stone that one of the senior sisters has in mind.

"It is said that if you walk from one stone to another with your eyes closed, without shifting, you will be able to get a good fate."

She said as she walked over to the stone, "Tsuki, Reiko, if I go crooked, you have to warn me." ”

"Eh, can you still be reminded?"

"This is what the gods allowed...... Isn't it also like the occasional need for the help of friends in love? ”

"But you don't even have a love partner now?"

"Shut up—"

Naruse didn't stay here, and walked inside again.

The landlord shrine is not too big, it can even be said to be relatively small, but it is better because the layout is delicate and interesting, and the content is also very rich.

Walking around in front of several old buildings with "Important Cultural Properties" attached to them, he turned around to see Hikaru Takikawa standing in the open space, his eyes closed and his hands wandering around.

And the love divination divine stone was five or six meters away from her.

“…… That's too far, isn't it? ”

After touching it for a long time, Takikawa Hikaru opened his eyes, looked left and right, and found that he was ridiculously remote, and he just smiled.

"The eccentricity of the earth really exists."

"Is that what happened?"

"Let's try it too."

"I'm not interested."

"Let's try."

Naruse had no choice but to go over, stand in front of the stone, look at another stone more than ten meters away, and close his eyes.

"Just go ahead, if you want to bump into someone, I'll warn you." Hikaru Takikawa said next to him.

Naruse responded, and then went straight forward with his sixth sense, and only stopped when he felt that he was almost there, and raised his hand to touch the front of him.

Poof—

“……”

When he opened his eyes, he was in front of the third-grade senior who had just tried first, and his original goal had already been left behind by him.

"It seems that the handsome brother in the first grade can't get a good match."

Naruse was silent for a moment, then looked back at the stone that had advanced intuitively but could not be touched.

"So it sees."

"Ah......h

The senior sister was stunned, "It's just a joke, don't show such an expression of resignation...... If you really can't do it, you can just follow me. ”

Naruse laughed again.

"I'm sorry, I don't really like older than me."

The senior sister raised her eyebrows, not very satisfied with his casual perfunctory: "Maybe it's because of this reason that I will miss the good fate." ”

"No, that ......"

Someone bumped into him.

Naruse turned his head, and the starfish who had just opened his eyes looked at him in a daze, his hands froze helplessly in the air, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the love divination divine stone a few meters away.

"Sure enough, it's a matter of geostrophic deflection force!" Hikaru Takikawa shouted on the other side.

(End of chapter)