The shallow clouds reflect the moonlight, and when you look over the long sakado and stand on the stairs, you can see the neon-colored signs of the town town as if they were hazy in the night.

This is Yanaka Ginza at Nippori Station.

The Edo-like wooden buildings and modern shops create a unique atmosphere of the city, and Takitanizawa and Ishikawa Satomi stand at the top of the stairs and can be seen by passers-by.

The children stood in the middle, holding the palms of their parents, a family of three with happy smiles.

A drunk man carrying a wine bottle.

After looking at the phone next to her boyfriend, she yelled with her waist and black face, carrying a bag on her back, obviously a couple from out of town who were arguing because of taking photos.

Scenes of everyday life full of fireworks are reflected in the pupils, as if the shots of a movie are overlapping.

All this seems so illusory, but it is indeed real, as if standing here is isolated from the world, but as long as you walk in, you can integrate into this indescribable place, get close to this real life, and make people feel like they want to live in peace.

"This is what you call love?" Takitanizawa stood on the stairs and turned his face sideways, and asked with a strange expression.

"Don't you think Takiya-kun is very pyrotechnic?"

Satomi Ishikawa didn't answer his question, but brushed the hair that was blown by the night breeze in her ears, the corners of her crimson lips were slightly hooked, and her cheeks were slightly drunk, as if she was immersed in some kind of artistic conception.

She was still wearing a corseted black dress, with a bow tied with the same colored gauze around her waist, and because she was standing on a high place, she also swung back with the breeze.

The dress of this black dress contrasts strongly with the exposed fair skin, coupled with the beautiful side face, standing on the sunset staircase in the twilight, this scene, like a gently swaying manju sawa, exudes a quiet and seductive charm.

"It's true that I didn't expect such a place in Tokyo, and I thought that only places like Kamakura Kyoto and Nara would have one." Takitanazawa's eyes narrowed.

This kind of scene is very rare in Kanto, where it looks like an ancient picture scroll unfolding.

But he didn't want to appreciate this mood.

Instead, he stared straight at the whirlpool that seemed to exude a beautiful artistic conception, and people couldn't help but fall into the side face of Satomi Nakaishikawa.

Is this the opening of the quasi-emperor realm?

He silently commented in his heart.

"I like this atmosphere very much, just now I asked Takiya if he believes in love, that is, he always thinks that many people are happy, but this kind of thing seems to be nowhere to be found for me, and it has grown so big, in my experience, in fact, I have never believed it."

Satomi Ishikawa seemed to be really drunk, rarely talking a lot, and forgetting the gap between them.

And when he said the second half of the sentence.

The tone was faintly bitter.

It's like reading a thousand sails, but never finding the posture of your own boat, which makes people can't help but want to feel distressed and say the words of giving her a home.

Takitanazawa squinted his eyes slightly and said, "Love is like a ghost, everyone has heard of it, but no one has seen it. ”

Satomi Ishikawa bowed slightly in agreement.

"But this kind of thing also externalizes into a form."

The crimson lips pursed slightly, and she suddenly moved to Takitana's side, and a faint aroma mixed with the smell of alcohol struck, and Takitanizawa saw her raise her slender white arm and point at it from afar:

"When I came here by chance, I found that there were many families of three with smiles on their faces, just like that family, the smiles on their faces were not acting, I could feel that it was from the heart, but what else can marriage bring? In addition to laundry, cooking, and taking care of the children, I have to stay at home alone every day and wait for my drunken husband, which seems to be all. ”

Takitanizawa looked in the direction she was pointing.

I found out that it was the couple who were holding their children's hands on the left and right just now, and they were buying something.

Probably going out for a walk after dinner.

At the end of the day's work, people can leave their worries behind for a short time, and the young couple seems to have stepped out of a TV series, the husband is still holding a fox mask with red marks on a white background to deliberately scare their daughter, while the wife smiles and pats him on the shoulder, feigning an angry expression.

Takitanizawa glanced at her, and he really couldn't find the slightest trace of changing the topic, because from love to marriage, it seems to be a very normal development.

But he knew it wasn't normal.

Sniffing lightly the quiet fragrance that swept the tip of his nose with the night breeze on it, he looked at the shoulders that didn't know when Satomi Ishikawa had narrowed the distance, but it wasn't that kind of deliberate closeness.

"Is Ishikawa-san afraid of marriage?"

Takitanizawa followed her topic, and asked calmly with the same expression as in the bar before.

Satomi Ishikawa turned her cheek slightly.

Her eyes finally settled on his face, although her battle-hardened mood was enough for her to look at anyone without revealing other extraordinary emotions, but seeing the unusually calm expression on Takitana's face, she was still a little unconfident in her heart.

Yes, it's too calm.

So calm that he didn't seem to care about the topic at all.

She thinks that her observation is okay, and she doesn't dare to say that she can figure out her temper with a face-to-face look, but she can roughly understand it by communicating a few words alone.

Of course, it's not that there are no powerful characters.

Like Takitanizawa, she is one of those who is also very good at hiding her temper over the years.

But personality is such a thing, in the eyes of people with strong sensitivity like them, no matter how thoroughly they pretend, they can know about it after getting along a few times.

She thinks she knows Takitanizawa's basic temper.

Just like the latter should also know her.

But today's Takitanizawa is too abnormal.

Whether it's just in the bar, threatening others like a child, the possessiveness that can be suppressed in a flash of eyes, and the expression that often smiles and likes to play tricks on people before, all have changed.

This change puts the situation out of control, and Ishikawa Satomi can only try to correct the deviation trajectory.

Turning her pale cheeks to the side completely, she said quietly with the strength of the wine that had not yet dissipated: "What kind of fear of marriage, I don't even have a relationship experience until now." ”

"This lie is too much, isn't it?"

Finally, I heard an unexpected answer.

Satomi Ishikawa breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and her beautiful eyes pretended to be confused, as if she looked at him with a phantom and said with a smile: "If work is also counted as a relationship, then it is estimated that there are too many to count." ”

"Ten? Twenty? Hundred? ”

She lifted her slender and beautiful palms, and one finger at a time began to curl up into her palms.

It seems that there is really the amount she said.

Even if the ingredients of this performance are too obvious, even Satomi Ishikawa is deliberately exaggerated, and Takitanizawa is also willing to watch her perform with herself, and she is very cooperative and asks with a look of surprise.

"Are there really a hundred?" He asked with a slight frown.

Satomi Ishikawa's voice stagnated, and her pale face was a little annoyed, as if she was slightly drunk when she showed her true feelings, and she slapped his shoulder and said angrily: "What kind of expression is this Takiya-kun?" Where can there really be a hundred, I don't have a doppelganger, and this kind of work has always been expensive and not expensive, I don't have the energy. ”

"I just believe in Ishikawa-san's strength."

Takitanizawa thought for a moment and said to himself: "If Ishikawa-san is still my predecessor according to the time of entering the industry, I need to learn from you." ”

"Then call the seniors to listen first."

Satomi Ishikawa smiled and took over the topic.

"Forget it, I don't like to be taken advantage of."

Hearing this, Takitanizawa shook his head and refused her request, and the expression on his face returned to calm.

"What I just said is good, I really let you say this kind of thing when you call it, these men are like ants nesting in the rain, they like to take advantage of others."

The smile in the corner of Ishikawa Satomi's eyes retracted, as if she had woken up a little, and after taking a deep look at him, she walked towards the bottom of the sunset staircase, and by the way, she beckoned him to come along, and slowly stepped down the stone staircase.

In fact, the stairs behind this sakado are not long.

It's only about ten meters, and the highest point is actually less than five meters high, but before this row of low-rise wooden buildings in the ancient style, it is just right.

They quickly walked into the shopping street.

The noise in their ears, as well as the neon signs in front of them, made them feel like they were integrated into the world in the picture scroll just now, passing by the bamboo craft cuiwu and Jinji Garden, they also looked inside to see the flower baskets and coasters on sale and some small accessories, which were very similar to the passers-by who went shopping.

If it weren't for the fact that they didn't hold hands, it would be absolutely fine to say that they were an ordinary couple who came here to shop.

After stepping out of the shop, they stepped on the bluestone pavement, but there was no intention of going in again, because the streets were narrow, they were close to each other's shoulders, and they could only hear each other's voices when talking in this environment.

"Sometimes I think about it, how long is this green tea for a long time, obviously I have already got what I dreamed of before, but I am still deep in it and can't extricate myself."

Satomi Ishikawa looked at everything around her, and when she stood beside him, she suddenly said something with emotion.

Her wine seemed to have fully woken up.

But I don't know why, it looks like there is a depression hidden in the chest, and after this abrupt sentence comes out, there is a feeling of being a little confused.

"Playing with human nature is addictive."

Takitanizawa said in a serious tone.

Satomi Ishikawa was stunned for a moment, glanced at him sideways, and nodded, "That's right, it's addictive." ”

"Is Takiya-kun addicted too?"

"It's addictive, but every time I'm left with myself, it's like clearing a game and picking up the fruits of victory but I don't know what to do, to be honest, it's empty, I feel like I got it, and it doesn't seem to make much sense."

Takitanazawa felt that he was really empty, and now he could only look at the 700 million lying in his account.

Although I am a little sorry for the little sheep.

But he didn't shave her for nothing, and he went back to buy her a suite with one or two hundred million, but before buying a house, their relationship also had to be dealt with.

"That's what I thought too."

She said this in a firm tone.

It seems that this is really what I think.

This gesture and expression made Takitanizawa almost believe it.

The last time we slaughtered a fat sheep, we were more excited than the other, and you tell me now that it's meaningless, and you will feel empty when you make a lot of money in your pocket?

Your eyes are like a scanner, and you're almost scanning Ikumi Takase's hearse into a photocopy.

Thought I didn't see it?

And when your fat sheep buys you something.

The resignation is similar to me, but in the pocket that should be carried in the pocket, in the shoulder hand on the shoulder hand, and the hand that tears the small ticket on the back of the two people is about to appear afterimage!

If it weren't for the last time I took your handle.

By the way, I took advantage of it excessively, and when we first met, you see if I would believe your words.

If there is no scene reproduction, to be honest, Takitanizawa will really be surprised by her appearance, this woman is too smart to perfectly guess her own psychology, if he really confesses to himself, he may really believe that the other party is because he is made to like himself by his own means.

After all, people with high self-esteem are like that.

People who have the ability and means, without exception, are Muqiang, and while conquering others, they are actually interested in most of the people who can conquer themselves.

His last behavior was clearly to suppress the quasi-emperor.

Coupled with physical contact, and the basic law that no matter how deep his mind is, he will inevitably think a little more because of those things between men and women, he will indeed be smart but be mistaken by cleverness, and think a lot of things.

But he still admires Satomi Ishikawa very much.

Let's not mention her scheming, only by holding back until today was she willing to make a game to call herself, until the ability to improvise just now can be admired.

I'm abnormal enough today.

It didn't even affect the tea ceremony emperor to act according to the plan, this powerful psychological quality, like Shui Wuyue Xianglian, I am afraid that even if he has practiced for a hundred years, he will not be able to match it, even if there is an answer, he will be vigilant.

As they spoke, they had already reached the end of the alley.

Compared with the bustling shopping street, it is a little deserted, and it is more suitable for exerting skills.

Satomi Ishikawa felt the atmosphere, and glanced at the pedestrians around her, she secretly mentioned her spirit, her footsteps suddenly stopped, as if she had made some great determination, turned around and forced to stop Takitanizawa beside her, and looked him directly into the eyes.

Then she took a deep breath, and a hint of struggle clearly appeared in her eyes that were already completely awake.

In the end, the struggle in his eyes turned into determination.

"Takiya-kun, I have something to say to you."

"I have a word for you."

The two voices sounded in unison, and the one behind it was a little slower, in fact, Takitanizawa only said it when he saw her turn around, and Ishikawa Satomi, who heard that he also had something to say to himself, had already calmed down because of entering the state, and because of this sudden disturbance, it rippled like a stone, and there was even a feeling of wanting to speak first.

It's just that the only remaining rationality stops her, if she wants to show her true feelings and sincerity, and perform seamlessly with the acting skills of the substitution school, she can't be very deliberate.

Especially in the last stage, explain the reasons why you are interested in him, so that the guy in front of you is suspicious, and he must not show an emotional expression, the more rational he is, the more convincing he is in front of people like them.

She resisted the feeling that she could lose her temper, and exhaled lightly to meet those calm eyes.

The two kept a distance from each other.

This distance is enough for them to see each other's slender and crystalline eyelashes under each other's eyelids, and enough for an atmosphere called ambiguity to gradually circulate.

The world was silent, as if only they were the only ones left.

Takitanizawa looked at the pure black pupils with the reflection of his face, as if he had seen through the scheming behind the beauty of the universe, but now he was also immersed in his experiential acting skills, and after a long time, he spoke solemnly and calmly.

"I like you."

(End of chapter)