Returning from Oshoshikaike, Naruse Monk Naoko got on the train, took a stop in the direction of Matsumoto City, and got off at Kamisuwa.

Back and forth, taking the car and waiting for the car, the time had come to noon, and the two decided to fill their stomachs first and then continue to play.

When you come to Nagano, you can't miss the famous Shinshu soba noodles, and when you leave the station, you can see soba restaurants of all sizes, and Naruse takes Naoko into one of them.

The store is not large, there are not many seats, and there is just one empty table left.

The two sat down, and Naoko picked up the menu and looked at it, and immediately handed it to her boyfriend.

"There's also horse meat ...... here"

Naruse took a look, and in addition to the regular soba noodles and tempura, the store also offers horse meat sashimi.

Are there any farms around......

"Do you want to try it?"

She immediately shook her head.

He was also uninterested, looked at the menu again, and asked for a tempura soba set meal, and Naoko did the same.

After ordering and looking at the various bottles at the bar, Naruse estimated that this place would be transformed into an izakaya at night. There are many restaurants that do this, and business is always better because they also deal in alcohol.

Lunch for the two was quickly delivered: boiled soba noodles on a bamboo plate, a special sauce, a bowl of miso soup, and a large portion of tempura.

"I'm moving."

The soba noodles are dipped in the sauce, which is refreshing and delicious, and when you bite into it, the noodles are chewy and not hard. The tempura is fried to a crispy crisp, and fresh vegetables from the local area are wrapped in a coat and fried, and the aroma of vegetables fills the mouth. The miso soup is also delicious.

The two ate to their heart's content.

After a short break in the shop, the two moved on to the next one.

"When we were young, didn't we have a famous animated movie where a meteorite fell from the sky and flattened the whole town and smashed a lake or something...... The prototype of Lake Itomori in that movie is Lake Suwa. ”

"Ah, I remember...... That was many years ago. At that time, Chunhai was still living at Starfish's house, and it was Starfish's father who drove us to see a movie. ”

"Yes, that time."

"It turns out that the prototype is Lake Suwa?"

"The current mainstream narrative is this...... However, some people say that the prototype is actually Lake Matsubara, the hometown of the film director. You'll have to go up and see for yourself. ”

"Hmm. Does Haruhi still have an impression? ”

"A little bit."

Naruse said, seeing the taxi parked on the side of the road in front of him, he immediately pulled Naoko to speed up, "But what I remember the most is that when the movie was about to end, Naoko and Starfish were crying." ”

"Huh?"

"It's when the hero and heroine seem to be missing...... Let's get in the car first. ”

Naoko was stunned again, "Do you need to take a taxi?" ”

"Well, get in the car and come back later. It's a bit hard to walk back and forth. ”

Naoko sat in the back seat of the taxi and moved inside, and he sat in with him.

"Go to Tateishi Park."

"Okay."

The taxi departed quickly, and Naoko looked outside, vaguely remembering what she seemed to want to ask.

"Don't remember?" Naruse understood what she cared about, "When the movie was about to end, didn't the hero and heroine meet and pass by, and Naoko cried at that time." ”

"Am I crying......" Naoko was still a little dazed.

"Because there was a reversal very quickly, Naoko forgot about it...... It could also be because the starfish cried faster and louder, and Naoko forgot that she was crying too. ”

"Possibly."

Tateishi Park looks close halfway up the mountainside facing Lake Suwa, but the actual distance is not short, and it still takes ten minutes for a taxi to go around the winding road.

Stopping at the side of the road, Naruse pays and gets out of the car, and there is a panoramic view of Lake Suwa in front of you.

The park is not large, if not small, but its main purpose is to provide a place where citizens can overlook Lake Suwa.

"Let's go to the guardrail, see better."

"Hmm."

Walking down the sunken plaza-like stairs to the guardrail, there is not much difference outside, and it is another part of the park, which has facilities such as slides, and it seems to be a children's park.

And the two people who had just come over were completely off of their sights, looking straight ahead.

The sky is high, wisps of white clouds are wafting, and the blue lake lies quietly on the earth. The distance blurred the boundaries of each other, and they looked at each other from afar, as if the sky was upside down.

The mountains in the distance are cascading, and the clouds on the horizon are changeable, which is not as important as the lake in front of you.

After looking at it for a long time, the two slowly came back to their senses.

"Like?" Naruse asked.

Naoko nodded quickly, then smiled again, "Like, I don't remember exactly." ”

"When I get back, I'll look for a disc of that movie, and we'll watch it again."

"Okay."

After watching it for a while, Naoko didn't forget to post the photo of the distant view to the group.

Several people chatted a few words, and Morimi also sent a photo.

"Kazuha posted a photo of the book......"

“……”

Naruse's heart skipped a beat, and he leaned over to take a look.

She sent not the cover of the book he was already familiar with, but a text from another book.

【…… The water of the lake is sparkling, the light and shadow in the center of the lake are shining, and the black leafy flat boats swim on the surface of the lake. On the other side of the lake, the spires of the houses are scattered and faintly recognizable; In the background, the mountains are slow, stretching to the sides and spreading out to the ......]

The camera focuses on this, but the rest of the text in the upper and lower paragraphs is not completely unclear.

Finding one of the names, combined with the context, Naruse frowned and thought for a while, and soon the result came.

Naoko looked at him: "What kind of book is this?" ”

"Matsumoto Kiyohari's "Wave Tower" is talking about Lake Suwa here. Of course, it's Lake Suwa from the last century. ”

Matsumoto Kiyoshi ...... Is it the master of reasoning? ”

"Hmm."

"This description of Lake Suwa is very vivid."

She paused, "Kazuha actually remembers, rummaging through it very quickly." ”

Naruse nodded, looked at the photo on his phone, and then looked at the lake in front of him.

Although written by a master of reasoning, "Tower of Waves" is more like a love ...... The love that depicts forbidden love.

Looking at the lake, Naoko also glanced at her boyfriend beside her.

He seemed to frown for a while, his face was a little solemn, and when she turned her head to look over, the emotions on his face disappeared again, and only calm remained.

"Luckily, the weather is fine today."

"yes."

The two of them looked at the lake and the city here, killing time, and many tourists came to the park halfway up the mountain.

A middle-aged uncle stopped beside them with his bag, then took out various equipment such as cameras, lenses, and tripods, and assembled them one by one.

When he finished assembling it, Naoko and Naruse were also addicted to it and prepared to go down the mountain.

"I've heard that good cameras are expensive."

"That shot is more expensive. You didn't see him when he installed the camera, and he wanted to lie on the ground and cushion, for fear that his hand would fall off if he didn't hold it steady. ”

Back on the stairs, there were also a lot of long guns and short cannons set up here, and Naruse glanced at them as he walked by, and the position where they were standing just now was completely in the camera.

You don't have to follow the winding road to descend the mountain, there are several paths with unique scenery.

Wildflowers are in full bloom, grass and trees are sandwiched, and the path is quite wild.

Lake Suwa is getting closer and farther away. It took the two of them half an hour to return to the vicinity of the station, and they could no longer see the lake blocked by various buildings.

It's not too early to get back to Matsumoto by train.

They had been walking around the station a little bit last night, and today they went a little further and found a small restaurant on a small road around the Shiju Shrine.

After eating and drinking, I came out again, and it was already completely dark.

The two held hands and walked towards the hotel, their pace unhurried.

Perhaps because they walk around restaurants and izakayas, Matsumoto is much more lively at night than during the day.

"I feel like it's good to live here."

"Does Naoko like Matsumoto?"

"It's just a feeling."

Lake Suwa (HU)

(End of chapter)