Chapter 57: Camping Trip (2)
"Miwa, why did you suddenly say that you wouldn't go if you didn't go?"
Shirakawa Chiho tapped the button of her mobile phone and asked her best friend who suddenly got out of the car and left.
The phone quickly received a reply from Line.
"No, no."
"Why? Didn't you say you were going camping together in the morning? β
"I suddenly don't want to go."
Chihori Shirakawa looked at the chat box message, and a look of confusion appeared on her face.
What's wrong with this mother-in-law lately? Becoming more and more unpredictable? Could it be that this month, my aunt is ahead of schedule?
While Shirakawa Chiho was still struggling to persuade her, Terashima River, who was in the back row of the bus, was studying the system panel this time.
[Temporary Mission: Let the girls give sincere praise!] γ
γTarget: Femaleγ
[Progress: 2/10]]
[Duration: 12 hours]
[Hint: Please let more women praise you sincerely!] γ
.....
Terashimagawa looked at the progress '2' and was speechless for a long time.
One is an unknown female high school student on the train, and the other is that not long ago, Chihori Shirakawa accidentally praised him for looking good in this outfit?
How do you complete this temporary mission now?
Forget it, let's not think about it yet.
Looking out the car window, you can already see the towering green hills, stretching endlessly. There is also a clear stream nearby, and sparrows flutter their wings over the branches in the dense forest.
This very rural atmosphere makes most of the students living in the city on the bus extremely excited, pointing at the monkeys and squirrels outside the window from time to time to make discussions.
At the end of the road is a small town in Okazaki City, where the camping took place.
The noise woke Kiko Takahashi, who was pillowed on Terashima River's shoulder, and she opened her eyes in a daze, and soon noticed that she was leaning on Terashima River's shoulder.
It's just that she didn't show a flustered or shy reaction, so she naturally sat up, listened to the discussion around her, and looked out the car window together.
"Woke up?" Terashimagawa put away his phone and glanced sideways at her.
"Hmm."
"You seem sleepy? Didn't you sleep well last night? β
"Well, but it's much better now."
Terashimagawa didn't ask any more questions, just looked at the phone navigation.
Looking at the map, this suburb is 35 kilometers southeast of Nagoya City, and the mountains in the east are inhabited by wild monkeys.
When they arrived, the bus first drove into the town and stopped. After getting off the bus, the consultants and teachers of the club gathered their club members and explained the precautions for camping in the afternoon.
Immediately afterwards, Terashimagawa and several people followed the large army to the nearby suburbs of the mountains and forests, and scattered according to different associations to set up camp.
Each club can go to the farmhouse to get a pot and pan, or they can form a team to go to the vegetable garden and orchard at the bottom of the mountain to pick vegetables and fruits, or find a lake in the mountain forest to try fishing and shrimp fishing, etc., as for the cost of fishing gear, you need to go to the town to buy and buy it.
Of course, for individual clubs who don't know how to cook, they can also go to the town and buy a boxed lunch for a few hundred yen, but for the people who go camping, no one will do this.
It's almost noon, and Haruna Ayase accompanies Chihori Shirakawa to the manga club's camp and begins to assign tasks.
Haruna Ayase is obligated to be the chef, Kiko Takahashi and Chihori Shirakawa go to the farmhouse to get cooking utensils, Miyuki Takahashi and Qiong Kimura are assigned to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, and Terashimagawa is lucky enough to be assigned to inspect firewood.
Twenty minutes later, Terashimagawa came out of the dense forest with a pile of dry firewood, watching the birds tossing in the forest, he thought, these three days should be a good weather, right?
In front of me is a group photo of a group of girls from the makeup club, and Terashimagawa wants to go around.
"Terashima-kun, can you take a picture for us?!"
The president of the makeup company, a girl wearing delicate makeup, handed the camera to Terashimagawa.
Under the warm sunshine, a group of young and beautiful girls, under his lens, posed in a more cute pose than the other.
"How's the shot? Terashima-kun, let me see. The female president took the camera and looked at the photos.
"I feel okay." As for his second-level photography level, Terashimagawa believes that it is no problem to pass the photography skills.
The girls of the warblers and swallows kept zooming in and out of the photos around the camera, chattering, making Terashima Kawa want to slip away.
"Not bad! Terashima-kun, please help me take another separate one, please! β
"I want it too! I want it too! β
The female president looked at Terashima River in embarrassment, and her big eyes showed hope: "Can you do it, Terashima-kun?" β
What can a man say he can't? So, Terashimagawa took over the camera again.
After taking photos that satisfied more than a dozen girls in small skirts and showing their big white legs, Terashimagawa, who was physically and mentally exhausted, finally returned to the camp with dry firewood.
Fortunately, this errand was not in vain, and under the sincere praise of several girls, the temporary task progress bar of the panel stopped at 8/10.
There are still two people missing.
Who to turn to?
This lunch took a full hour to prepare, and under Haruna Ayase's exquisite cooking skills, Chiho Shirakawa was the first to be impressed.
"Ayase, I've decided to go to your house often in the future!"
"Okay, but I'll take care of the dishes."
"Then let's put it that way!"
A few people talked and laughed, but on the whole, it was quite harmonious.
After lunch, some of the club members decided to stay in the mountains and explore. The other part decided to go shopping around town. According to them, camping takes three days, and it's not too late to climb the mountains and play in the water one day later.
Perhaps on the day of the autumn equinox, you will see maple trees dyeing the mountains red on the way down.
The autumn water is rippling, and Miyuki Takahashi takes Kimura Qiong's hand and rushes to the stream to play in the water.
When you come to the town, maybe because of the small local population, there are not as many shops on the street as in the big city.
"There are too few shops, and there is nothing good to eat." A few people walked around, and then walked to the door of the shrine with some boredom.
"Why don't you wait until it gets dark, but the mother-in-law at the farmhouse said, 'When the night market stalls open, it will be very lively.' Haruna Ayase said.
Terashimagawa immediately nodded: "I approve!" β
Kiko Takahashi tilted her head and stared at him suspiciously: "I guess Terashima-kun wants to return to the camp and not come at night, right?" β
The two intersected because of the comics, and the number of voice communications was more than usual when they met, so as soon as she heard Terashimagawa's tone, Kiko Takahashi noticed something unusual.
Seeing that Haruna Ayase and Chihori Shirakawa were all looking at him, Terashimagawa quickly turned his head to look at the stall selling origami lanterns at the entrance of the shrine.
"That rabbit-shaped lantern is a bit special, let's go check it out."
Sure enough, the three girls followed the direction he pointed out and came to the stall, forgetting the unpleasantness, and holding the origami lantern full of novelty.
"Wow, it's so cute~, I want to buy one and go back to Liumei."
"This moon lantern is also very beautiful! Boss, how much? β
A discerning person will know at a glance that it is nothing more than cutting with colored paper of various colors and folding into patterns of different shapes. No matter how difficult it is, it is also necessary to apply paint to the cardboard carefully, which is a technical job.
However, although Terashimagawa admires the stall owner's skills, he will never spend this unjust money to buy origami lanterns with a shelf life of less than a month.
If it rains, it is estimated that it will be scrapped on the spot.
Behind the shrine is a gazebo, and you can smell the water from afar. When they arrived, their eyes lit up, surrounded by a mixed forest of metasequoia and oak, and the water surface of the pond was sparkling with a cool breeze.
A wooden sign was erected in front of the pavilion and a scarlet poem was written.
There are trees on the stones, and horses are drunk with flowers.
Give you a chat about discounts, and you have gone to the end of the world.
Junxing is a long road, like sweeping into a group.
May the water come one day and burn this feast.
.....
Haruna Ayase looked at the wooden sign for a long time, until Chiho Shirakawa called twice, and then slowly turned around and walked up to the pavilion.
"It's so beautiful here."
"Well, you should still be able to see fireflies here in the summer."
"Let's take pictures!"
Girls come out to play is nothing more than taking pictures, first by Takahashi Kiko to take pictures of the two teachers, and then Takahashi Kiko and Ayase Haruna, in short, the three girls took pictures all over again, and finally changed to a single. In short, the Terashima River had a headache when I saw it, and I found a clean place to tease the koi in the pond.
At this time, Shirakawa Chihori called him in the pavilion: "Terashima-san, come over quickly." β
"Finished shooting? Let's go, then. β
"Wait! The three of us want to take a group photo, you can help us. β
β.... Good. β
The woman was really insatiable, and said that she would take a good one, but she changed several cute and charming poses and took several photos, and finally took a satisfactory photo for the third girl.
At 4:27 p.m., after he was dragged by Mrs. Ayase to take a foursome photoshoot, dusk finally fell.
When I returned to the shrine, it was a little different from the afternoon, the small shops had already hung lanterns, and although there were not many visitors, the narrow streets and dusk colors made it seem to be a little more popular.
"It's takoyaki! Ayase, let's go over and buy it. β
"Mm-hmm, that's candy apples over there, right? I haven't eaten it in a long time. β
"Wait a minute, let's go over and buy a few strings, it's all childhood memories!"
....
Kikomi Takahashi followed behind, looking at the photos of the camera in her hands, and glanced at Terashima River from time to time: "It's a good shot, Terashima-kun." β
"It's okay, the main thing is that you are good-looking, and you can't shoot much worse."
He is telling the truth, good-looking people look good no matter how they shoot.
Kiko Takahashi smiled rarely: "Terashima-kun can really speak, he must be very pleasing to girls, right?" β
Terashimagawa thought of Professor Tsukishima, who had not replied to his message after a few hours: "That's not true, I think I'm very good at making girls angry." β
"No, I think Terashima-kun has always been gentle with people."
[Progress: 9/10]
Unexpectedly, looking at the system prompt, Terashimagawa was in a much better mood.
While chatting with Kiko Takahashi, he followed her to the stall selling chocolate bananas, bought some and took them back to Miyuki Takahashi and Qiong Kimura.
While waiting for Takahashi Kiko to settle the bill, he Terashimagawa subconsciously looked in front of the shrine, at this time there was an extra witch there, looking very young in figure and appearance, it should be a female student who came to work part-time.
Terashimagawa had always heard that the shrine maiden costume was very special, well, very elegant, so I wanted to see the unique charm of the foreign culture that has been passed down to this day.
Before he could see it for long, there was a voice from Shirakawa Chiho behind him.
"Tsk, men are like that. Ayase, it's time for you to discipline your little assistant teacher well. β
Terashimagawa took his gaze off the shrine maiden costume without a trace, "You're back?" β
"Don't change the subject! Terashima-san, tell the teacher what you were just watching? β
Shirakawa Chiho has a fiery personality, holding a box of takoyaki in her hand, and she doesn't look like it's a big deal.
"Alright, don't talk about Terashima again." Haruna Ayase took out two boxes of takoyaki from the paper bag and distributed them to the two students, "I think this is normal, if my students don't like the opposite sex, I, a teacher who does ideological education, will have a headache." β
"That's the truth..."
Shirakawa Chihori nodded, changed her words, and asked, "Terashima-san, do you think that girl in the witch costume just now is good-looking, or is our Ayase beautiful?" β
Terashima simply ignored this topic, isn't this digging a pit for him to drill? No matter what the answer is, Shirakawa Chiho can pop out of the sentence 'Pervert, what am I doing!' β
He tasted an takoyaki with a signature, and it tasted pretty good.
The four of them walked for more than ten minutes and came to the gate of the shrine.
From afar, I saw groups of vendors, selling all kinds of love omamori, all of which were very delicate and lovely. There are marriage lily of the valley omamori, the key to love achievement, and happy love omamori.
As we all know, the people of the island country have always liked to worship gods and ghosts, and large and small shrines can be seen everywhere, not only for health and wealth, but also for studies and marriage.
When you enter the shrine, there are many cute rabbit statues inside.
In the yard, there is also a simple and natural bamboo tube with a 'ding dong' sound when it is connected to water, which will automatically pour out when it is full, and at the same time will make a 'bang' sound.
Then there are red lacquered lanterns on either side of the stone steps, which extend to the end of the stone steps.
Terashimagawa and Takahashi Kiko followed the two female teachers and walked straight into the courtyard along the stone path under the maple leaves.
Looking at the appearance of a towering tree in front of him, it is at least a hundred years old. Terashimagawa sent a photo of himself sitting cross-legged under a tree and doing Zen meditation to Miwa Tsukishima.
As expected, the cold Professor Tsukishima is estimated to be still angry, and it is already commonplace that he can't read it back.
In the distance, Chihori Shirakawa and Haruna Ayase stand together.
"Ayase, you say, is it necessary for me to buy a stick?"
"Don't you have a boyfriend anymore? Could it be that there are other men who meditate? β
"How do you call it 'other men', I call it love investment!"
The conversation is aborted.
Haruna Ayase still spent a hundred yen to draw a lot, and it said "Yoshi".
Haruna Ayase smiled shallowly at the corner of her mouth.
The wind blows the trees, the mountain spring water beats the pebbles, and the tourists around pass by the main hall and chat.
Shirakawa Chihori noisily pestered Haruna Ayase and asked, "Ayase, what kind of comment did you write above?" β
Terashimagawa and Kiko Takahashi couldn't help but look at Mrs. Ayase curiously.
Haruna Ayase took out the sign and read out the comments on the sign unfamiliarly: "The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the person was there, and the lights were dim." β
Shirakawa Chiho put her hand on her chin and thought: "I have been looking for the person I love in the vast sea of people, but I have never found it, and suddenly one day, when I calmed down, I found that the person I had been looking for was beside me, but I didn't find it." β
"Does this mean that Mr. Ayase, your peach blossom luck is coming?" Kiko Takahashi sighed.
Chihori Shirakawa returned the sign to Haruna Ayase: "Ayase, you must put it away!" β
Good wishes always make people feel a lot better, and Haruna Ayase temporarily put aside a matter of concern.
"By the way, Takahashi-san, what is written on your signature?"
β.... Sueyoshi. β
Kiko Takahashi instantly became nervous and handed the approval document to everyone.
Haruna Ayase was stunned for a moment, and her eyes looked like she hoped that Shirakawa Chiho could pick something nice to say when she read it.
"Tonight, if the warbler is singing or not, it is too pitiful to think about it. The sunset is shining, and the moon is already in the sky." In fact, judging from the marriage.... The other person may be your crush, but as long as you can speak your mind out loud, everything will be fine. "Shirakawa Chiho said as best as she could.
β.... Thank you. Kiko Takahashi nodded, carefully folded the stick, and put it in her purse.
It was getting late, and the three girls walked out of the courtyard.
Terashimagawa, who was lagging behind, thought about it and stuffed a hundred yen into the lottery cabinet.
"Suekishi"
"If there is no fate in the previous life, wait for the reunion and wish in the next life."
According to the solution, this sentence can be understood to mean: If you and I have no fate in the previous life, then wait for the next life and then become husband and wife.
But who is this continuation of the frontier for?
Terashimagawa didn't have the impression of this person in his mind at all, but he thought it was a shrine trick, and when he donated 100 yen to revitalize the shrine industry in Okazaki City.
"Terashimaβ" Haruna Ayase shouted in the distance.
"It's coming!" Terashimagawa trotted over quickly.
Wait a minute! It seems that both Sueji and Vicious are going to be taken away?
He ran back and took the stick, tying the unwanted stick to the tree outside the shrine with a red rope.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the four of them came to a shop full of stuffed dolls.
No matter how old a girl is, there will always be a little princess living in her heart. As soon as they saw a pile of cat and dog dolls inside, each holding one in their left and right hands, they were ready to buy it back to the camp to decorate their tents.
"Terashima-kun, as the only man at the moment, it's hard for you to help us share the weight."
"Wouldn't it be a waste to buy so much?"
Haruna Ayase shook her index finger and whispered, "You don't understand this, no matter what age a girl is, she will always like romance." If you can fill a room with these little toys, it's more romantic than spending money on a beauty treatment! β
Terashima River walked forward with a pair of cats and dogs in his arms, and suddenly, he heard Chiho Shirakawa say, "Terashima, I've worked hard for you today." Blame me for missing you before, and I thought that you always like to quarrel with me, steal my snacks, and I heard that you have also skipped school, but Ayase always favors you. Now I can understand why. β
"Got it?" Terashimagawa looked at it in amazement.
Haruna Ayase was also curious to wait for what Chihori Shirakawa would say next.
Shirakawa Chiho said slowly: "Obviously, you guy is always very naughty and loves to make people angry." But it's still very reliable at critical times, such as helping the teacher get a few more dolls now? β
Terashimagawa's face darkened: "It's such a big circle, Mr. Shirakawa, you just want me to help you share the weight!" Don't buy so much if you can't take it, forgive me for refusing. β
"Ahhh Ayase, you student bullied me. β
"Giggles, Chihori, it's you who don't bully my students."
Haruna Ayase stopped, took a cat doll from Terashimagawa's hand, and said with a gentle smile, "Teacher help you get one." Also, you are my student, and you can't be bullied casually, so if you refuse, the teacher praises and supports you! β
Shirakawa Chiho has no love: "Ayase, you are eccentric!" You teamed up with your students to bully the weak and helpless me~"
Terashimagawa thought it was funny, leaned over, and said righteously, "I want to add one thing, Mr. Shirakawa." In addition to being reliable, there is another point that you have missed! β
"What's missing?"
"I'm handsome!"
β....β
As soon as his words fell, he saw Shirakawa Chihori stunned, Kiko Takahashi covered her mouth and snickered, and Haruna Ayase, who was standing next to him, had her shoulders swaying slightly.
In the next second, Haruna Ayase couldn't help laughing at all: "Hahaha, Terashima, you are so cute!" β
"It's shameless!" Chihori Shirakawa added.
Regardless of whether this wave of output is very cheeky or not, Terashima River is absolutely sure to make a profit or lose anyway.
He looked at the blue panel that appeared in his sight, showing that all the temporary tasks were completed.
γDing! Temporary Mission '10/10' Completedγ
γReward: Memory Replay Card (1 day)γ
Looking at the familiar inventory inventory appeared a memory card, the suffix is the same as before, it is displayed with a one-day expiration date, and it expires.
According to the previous times he obtained card props, there were uncontrollable accidents, and this time he chose to understand the function of the cards first.
γMemory Replay Card (1 day)γ
[Function: Restore forgotten memories.] γ
[Reminder: You can't say anything about "memory" during use.]
Looking at the card information, Terashimagawa was struggling with whether to use it. For him, although he has incomplete memories of his previous life after being reborn, he has lived a good life, succeeding in his studies and gradually improving his career.
So for him now, is the memory of his past life still important? Not necessarily.
While thinking, Terashimagawa looked up just in time to see Haruna Ayase looking at him gently.
"Terashima, why do you want to be so engrossed? It's getting dark, and it's time for us to go back to camp. β
"Oh... Good. β
At this time, the personal information panel about Haruna Ayase flashed in his sight.
[Character: Haruna Ayase]
[Charm: 8]
[Identity: Rumi Ayase's mother]
[Intelligence: Haruna Ayase wants to know the whereabouts of 'Si Chuan' "Do you accept it"]
γStrategyγ
There is an additional intelligence message "whether to accept", is the system upgrade permission?
Forget it, none of that matters.
Mainly Mrs. Ayase, what would know the name Sikawa? Does she know herself in her previous life? What the hell is going on?!
Curious, Terashimagawa decided to take the information and find out.
"Accept"
[Check for memory loss.... Need a 'memory reproduction card'... In use....γ
[Memory Recovery.... The card is in effect... Countdown to 23 hours and 59 minutes....γ
The memory card disappeared directly from the inventory, and with a wave of dizziness hit, Terashimagawa felt so tired for the first time.
The voices of Haruna Ayase and Chiho Shirakawa in front of them gradually faded away, and the chatting voices of tourists around them seemed to be blown away by the wind. The streets of the town blurred in sight, and the lanterns seemed to drift away, and finally fell into complete darkness.
"Terashima-kun, what's wrong with you?!"