Several pieces of chicken are skewered together with a roll of shiso leaves tightly wrapped around the outside. The skewers are cooked, and the aroma of the chicken comes out with the special aroma of shiso, and it is tender and delicious without being greasy.

And the cheese chicken skewers are just as hard to refuse. The melted cheese is wrapped in fried chicken skewers and sprinkled with special seasonings and spices.

Pulling out the bamboo skewer a little harder, Naruse chewed it a few times, swallowed the delicious taste in his mouth, and let out a sigh of satisfaction.

Eating meat is such a simple and pure pleasure......

The bamboo skewers were piled up on the table, and the big glass of Calpis sparkling water had bottomed out, and the two of them were unhurried and ate for nearly an hour.

After another sip of the drink, Starfish put down the cup and stared at the table.

She had already entered a trance after eating.

Naruse was also a little supportive, raised his hand to call the clerk, and asked for two glasses of lemonade to get tired.

The lemonade was quickly delivered, he took a sip and looked at the starfish: "Do you want to add more?" ”

"Don't. I can't eat it anymore. She shook her head and took a sip of lemonade.

"Then take a break and go back."

"Hmm."

Eating meat is indeed a happy and relaxing thing, and the two of them have eaten until now, and the communication has become much more normal.

If this can make the relationship between them completely normal, he doesn't mind inviting her to eat meat a few more times.

“……”

After thinking about it for a while, Naruse shook his head again, shaking off this naïve thought.

Occasionally closer, but inevitably far away, and their relationship is always like that until they really touch that bottom line called "the past".

Starfish held lemonade in both hands and cast a gaze from behind the glass, a little puzzled by his sudden shake of head, but didn't ask.

The two sat for more than ten minutes, drank most of the lemonade, and after almost resting, Naruse got up and went to pay the bill.

He felt that he and the starfish had eaten and drunk, and he should have spent a lot, and it was less than 5,000 yen at the time of checkout, which could be said to be quite cheap.

After paying, the two of them walked outside, and the people waiting in the seats outside made a little commotion when it was their turn.

"Someone came out. It's finally our time...... I'm starving. ”

"You have to wait here, you can go to Xiandou Town."

"It's all said that I'm here for a treat, so just listen to me."

Delicious and affordable, no wonder it's so late and there are still quite a few people waiting in line outside.

Passing through the waiting area, there is a narrow aisle to get outside, and Naruse and Starfish are halfway there, and a group of people walk in from outside the store, and the smell of alcohol can be smelled from afar.

“……”

Naruse frowned, held his breath, and turned sideways to the wall, ready to let the group of drunkards pass first.

Starfish against the wall reacted in the same way.

"Hey, how far is it?"

"This is it."

"The entrance is so narrow, is it really a serious store?"

"Rest assured—"

The drunkards staggered in, and the man at the back was still stretching his arms and touching the wall all the way, as if measuring the width of the passage.

Naruse took half a step in front of the starfish.

Sure enough, even if he touched the stranger, the man didn't stop his hand, and touched the palm of his hand from Naruse's arm and back to the next section of the wall.

In the dimly lit aisle, the two looked at each other.

"Ah, there are people. I'm sorry~"

"It's fine." Naruse is too lazy to bother with this kind of drunken uncle.

He stood still, watching the group go in, before he looked down at the starfish in front of him, "Let's go." ”

She looked up at him, then lowered her head again.

“…… Thank you. ”

The two continued to walk outside.

Following him, Starfish looked at his back, a little messy in his heart.

A long time ago, he was the one who walked ahead of everyone;

Later, he was the one who told her to never follow again;

suddenly said that the person he liked was him;

He is the one who says that the liking is false;

After four years, he came back with a mature attitude, as if he had forgotten the past, and now he is still the one who will even protect her......

Naruse stopped suddenly, the starfish was still distracted, and hit it directly, "Ah." ”

"I thought I misheard......"

Naruse turned around, the starfish didn't know why, and just about to ask, a wave of humid air rushed to his face.

“……”

She was stunned for a moment, and then she also heard the sound of the rain outside.

"It's raining?"

"It's raining."

Outside, the rain was louder.

The lantern in front of the skewer shop is still bright, illuminating the wet fallen leaves.

"It looks like it's raining a lot."

Naruse looked at the sky, perhaps the optimism brought by eating meat was still working, even if he didn't bring an umbrella, he didn't care too much.

"What should I do...... The ground was glowing with flowing water, and the starfish looked down, a little stunned.

"Have you taken a shower?" Naruse asked suddenly.

"Huh...... No. ”

"Then go back like this. It's almost enough to take a shower after returning to the hotel. ”

At this time, there is no place to buy an umbrella nearby, and starfish have no other way.

“…… All right. ”

The two looked at the sky again and walked into the rain one after another.

It's cold......

A few drops of rain fell into his collar, and Naruse shrunk his neck, while the starfish behind him let out a low scream.

He glanced back, she was a little embarrassed, and urged him to move on.

Despite having decided to brave the rain to go back, the two of them stuck to the shelter on the side of the road as much as they could.

The unfolded canopy outside the shop, the eaves of an old building in Kyoto, or a tree with less luxuriant foliage are all temporary shelters that they keep approaching and abandoning.

Coming out of this path, the situation suddenly changed a lot. The sidewalks on both sides of the four roads are basically sheltered, and the rain does not come in.

Both stopped at the same time and took a breath.

The street lamps were bright, illuminating the rain that kept blooming and disappearing on the ground outside, and the Shijo-dori in the middle of the night was so silent that it was full of the sound of rain falling.

Naruse glanced at the starfish.

After a short pause, the two continued to walk back, but they didn't have to run like they had just done.

"It feels like it's getting a lot colder when it rains."

"Hmmm......"

"But it's still not comparable to the northeast."

"It's snowing over there."

Walking under the cover of the sidewalk, the lanterns overhead emitted a beige light, not too bright, just one after another, dispelling the darkness.

Starfish glanced at Naruse.

Whoop -

A taxi drove over the waterlogged road, and when it came to the distance ahead, it turned on its brake lights again and turned onto Hanamikodo.

Remembering a hurried glance at the intersection when the two of them came over, Starfish said, "Geisha seem to take taxis when they get around. ”

"yes." Naruse also looked at the fleeting taillights of the taxi at the intersection ahead, "They are not very convenient to walk in that way." ”

The two walked forward and stopped at the intersection of Hanamikoji.

There are no cars on the road, it's just that the sidewalk is obscured and ends there.

Reflecting the bamboo fence and red-painted walls, the rain is fine, weaving a crystal net under the street lamp.

Naruse looked left and right, and there was no one on the road without a car, "I'm going to run." ”

"Hmmm......"

The two of them plunged headlong into the rain again until the pavement cover appeared overhead again.

This section of the road was unavoidable, and both of them were drenched in a lot of rain.

The blonde hair stuck to her face and got into her mouth as she ran, and the starfish snorted twice and wiped a handful of rain from her face.

The four dojos are coming to an end, and the overhead occlusion is intermittent, intermittent. A little further on, there's their hotel.

Naruse turned her head to look at the wet starfish, and she looked over as well.

"This is probably the price of going out for supper and not shouting together."

“……”

She couldn't help but laugh a little, and pursed her lips to hide it.

"Did Hikari sleep early?"

"Probably...... I don't know. ”

The last part of the road, with no cover overhead, and the two of them did not run, and walked back to the hotel.

"There's still someone on duty at the front desk...... Don't look over there, it's quite troublesome to be accosted. ”

"Oooh."

His hair was dripping, and he followed Naruse into the elevator, where Starfish looked at the side of his face and his eyes fell on his black stud earrings again.

Ding——

The elevator arrived too fast......

Naruse walked to the door of the room before looking at her again, "Let's go back to the shower, good night." ”

"Hmm...... Good night. ”

I want to shark the designer of win11.

After the update, the taskbar transparency plugin is invalid, which is so uncomfortable.

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