I didn't expect that in this post, the picture that the landlord gave to [Childhood Vampire] at random would be his own picture, and the corner of Chikawa Nai, who was inexplicably professional, twitched the corner of his mouth, and it felt very undeserved.

He reached out and poked at the work of the painter in the style of oil painting, and suddenly thought of something as he lowered his hand.

windy......

A famous and taciturn painter, the homepage is empty, no avatar, no signature, and even the comments are pitifully few, and the few replies in the early stage are asking how to operate the interface.

It wasn't until he returned to Japan that he noticed the painter who is commonly referred to as 'W Dai' because of his posts and videos, but there was always a vague familiarity.

He had deduced that he must have gained some benefit from the forum buffs, so he subconsciously had a helpless indulgent attitude towards those buffs that always caused trouble.

And the reason for the success of the forum buff must be related to the number of replies to the post, after all, only popular posts will come true, but if you used the buff method at that time to just use the account to reply to the popularity of the building, it is really unsafe, and there will be a danger of being sealed forever, and the gains outweigh the losses.

In this way, the best way is to use the [Create] section account, which is separate from the other two section accounts of the forum, to attract traffic to the posts you need to use to achieve your goals.

Ikekawa pursed her lips, and on the surface, she accepted the room card handed by the receptionist as usual, and listened to the other party's introduction to the hot spring hotel and the surrounding scenery, but her hand quickly opened the search bar and typed down the letter W.

If the other party's feed does have a link to a forum post in the feed, you only need to compare what happened at the approximate time with the forum buff to know whether the person named [windy] is himself or not.

At the moment of typing this letter, Ikekawa Nai realized that he was now in the [Communication] section, not in the search bar of the [Creation] section.

I was in a bit of a hurry, and I actually clicked in the wrong place.

He frowned and was about to quit, but accidentally pressed the search button and directly searched for a bunch of posts with the keyword 'W' in the [Exchange] section.

In order of the number of replies, the first post name made the brunette man stop moving.

[emo feels lonely for so long, what kind of emotionally stable adult is W big! ] ]

With a slight tap of her finger on the screen, Ikekawa didn't rush to read it after entering the post.

After putting away the room card and other things properly, he motioned to the two girls waiting next to him, explaining that he had some work to deal with, and then walked to the lounge sofa in the hall next to the bookshelf, and returned his gaze to the post.

[My impression of W Big before this incident: a taciturn artist, withdrawn and sensitive, easy to be hurt by others, not good at words, hiding in the corner, silently autistic, speaking politely to electronic products, I swear to protect the best W Big!!]

My impression of W after this incident: Emotionally stable adults, inexplicably pulled into the melee but actually too lazy to take care of it, and only after the real hammer did I have time to take a look, and continued to be busy with my own three things and Japanese paintings]

[Laughing to death!!] Yes... I feel like I haven't said anything but I've said everything, I saw this news he posted, and even made up my mind to take a look at the chaotic scene in my spare time, and then the financial industry office worker with a very faint mocking smile on his face (pushing gold-rimmed glasses .jpg)]

[Uh-huh??] What, what, I've recently been off the internet and just went online.,Who will explain to me what happened!! (put a pg) (don't know what's going on) (in a hurry) (in a hurry to run around)]

[I'll explain!] The reason is that a studio sells works around under the banner of authorization.,W big himself never authorized works (xs Actually, I feel like he's just too lazy to take care of private messages),Because the pre-sale is very good, the popularity of another studio really authorized other painters is still ranked.,And then the painter didn't want to start making W big rumors.,Said that he was just bad money and deliberately aimed at himself or something.,In short, it's very smoky.,Let a lot of people who don't know rush to the W comment area to scold him]

[As a result, the miasma became like this, and he remained for a day.]

The frequency of a divine map, and finally after being hammered and just spreading rumors, he began to apologize on a large scale, and finally the infringing studio also apologized and closed. I was thinking that the whole inexplicable thing was going to die for W's grievances, and he suddenly shared an exchange post]

[It's the 'workplace black mud!' I hope that the more you tell the truth, the luckier you are, and the rules that will be unlucky if you tell a lie...' theme post, laughing to death!! Isn't this just mocking the studio and the painter for being unlucky because they were purely deceptive!! ]

[And this'If only I could see loyalty/integrity, I'm afraid of being deceived by subordinates jumping ......jobs every day', when he sent this, it seems that when he sent this, it seemed that the two of them were duplicitous because of plagiarism, and finally they were beaten, and I laughed to death! ]

['Chat, if there was a buff that you couldn't die for, what would you do?' → benchmarked against the Internet Zisha apologized for changing the number and continued to dance]

[I'm really emotionally stable when I'm laughing, and there's a sense of irony that overflows the screen with disdain.] And these posts are not sent by him, I feel like I just wandered around the forum and found that this post was really 'interesting', very benchmarking, so I sent it out to share]

[Speaking of which, this is really metaphysical.,After he reposted the post that he would be lucky if he told the truth.,In the old thief's red and black side story,Nana rarely confessed to Akay for a while.,And the plan was quite smooth during that time.,I feel lucky max+ career luck up!] ]

[Why do you suddenly mention this, not talking about painters?] ]

[ls doesn't recognize W big at first glance!] He's Nana's cook.,And every Japanese painting has Ikekawa Nai as the protagonist and never replaces.,So when you mention him, it's not ky to mention Nana-related! In fact, it feels a little hard to imagine whose chef he is, because I feel that he is the kind of character who is very serious and not used to the Internet, such as not understanding Internet terms at all, and has been frightened by crazy literature in the comment area, so I always look good in the comment area! But take a break when you're drawing! Then the picture was transferred to a friend and the window went crazy]

[Yes,What scared him at the time was that I (eye shift) actually has、、Cute,He doesn't seem to be very good at using the functions of the forum.,There's a feeling of being very bitter about electronic devices.,I also asked in the comment area how to turn off the notification in the early days.,Whether it's asking or thanking you, it's so serious and polite.,Kawa pinch!! I also seriously replied to a person who was trampling on other painters in the comment area at the time and said that their paintings were slow and of poor quality, saying that their paintings were painstaking efforts and that their paintings were just borrowed, and it was recommended not to say this kind of thing again]

[Actually, it feels like it's a suggestion, but the sense of oppression is so strong () There is a feeling that you'll be finished if you step on it and kill it again.,Ahem, in short, it's very emotionally stable.,I've even seen the food of other wives of W big x Nana.,Emotional stability, taciturn, infatuated subordinates x deep-minded little master,Knock who died......]

[Well, I also saw Mrs. Rice's painting of strong/controlled love.,I went to my subordinate's house to spend the night.,I accidentally walked into the basement.,I found that all the piles were filled with my own portrait of the little young master who was imprisoned (sucking and sucking)]

[W Big!] Don't love it too much! ]

...... You don't have to go to [Creation] to see it, this windy, no matter how you look at it, it's all him!

Looking at the reply at the end of the first page, which translates to Narcissus, Ikakawa closed her eyes, and suddenly a sentence infected by the forum appeared in her mind, 'Anything will only hurt you'.

Those shared posts shouldn't be a timely taunt either, just because they needed the buff of this post, and then shared it.

For example, if you tell the truth to a specific target, you can increase your luck and support the planned buff skills. Looking at the forum, my luck during that period was also very good, obviously it was the effect of the buff.

However, the object he chose to tell the truth at that time was actually Shuichi Akai, not Gin. This struck him as odd.

What exactly was his plan at that time, he even needed to avoid Gin and bind this buff to Ley, who had already sensed that his identity was wrong at that time.

And... Where did those [borrowed] paintings come from? He hadn't learned anything art-related since he was a child, and he couldn't spend so much time at home doing something as easy to attract suspicion as painting, and those works couldn't always be out of thin air

Appear.

Draw... Painters... Camera......

When I thought of this, Chikawa Nai was in a hurry, and suddenly remembered that a long time ago, when I was scrolling through the forum, I had unconsciously seen a post in the forum, and it seemed that there were these words.

But that memory is a bit old, he should have just glanced at it casually at the time, and didn't look at it seriously, and now he really can't remember what the name is. Searching for words like hand/camera would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, especially if he wasn't even sure if the words were in that post.

It's better to put it aside for the time being, it's useless to rush this kind of thing, and maybe you can find other clues slowly.

Thinking so, he turned off the screen of his phone, and the two girls waiting for him to finish his work at the counter were already chatting quietly.

"I'll just say it's a little familiar, isn't that the young master of the Chikawa chaebol, I saw him when I went to the American auction house with Uncle Jiro before." Sonoko Suzuki looked at the black-haired man carefully, and then her eyes lit up, "Although it is called a chaebol, the Ikekawa zaibatsu is not composed of the same clan and close relatives like the traditional chaebol, it seems that they are all partners on his adoptive father's side, and it is more like a large enterprise than a chaebol." ”

"Hey, adoptive father, ......?" Maolilan was stunned.

"Yes, it is said that he is a mysterious collector who provided strong financial support for the establishment of the Ikekawa chaebol." The short-haired girl had an excited expression, "It is worthy of being the person who single-handedly established the chaebol, and those rich second-generation gentlemen are different, they are handsome and educated, and they can be called young talents." actually met this kind of high-quality man, Xiaolan really has you! ”

Speaking of this, Suzuki Sonoko exclaimed slightly, "The bamboo horse who didn't realize his love and the handsome and golden sky, isn't this exactly the same as Li, but just changed an identity!" Xiaolan, if you go out, you can definitely take him down! ”

"What!" Mao Lilan hurriedly covered the other party's mouth with a red face, thinking of the relationship between Toru Amuro and Na Ikekawa, her voice stuttered a little.

"How could I be with Mr. Ikekawa... The other party already has a man... Woman...... In short, he already has a partner! At that time, I met at the winery because he happened to stay at the winery for a short time with his partner. ”

"I actually have a partner... But I'm really curious about who it is, will it be the daughter of the chaebol who is the right person? But usually in this case, there will be a banquet or something, right......? Speaking of this, remembering Maoriran's attitude of wanting to help people hide, Suzuki Sonoko, who was particularly sensitive to this kind of gossip, opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Wouldn't it?!" Could it be that kind of Cinderella and Prince plot! ”

"No, his family education is so strict, at that time, Uncle Jiro wanted to invite him to the family banquet together, and he was going to agree, but he left immediately after receiving a call from his family, this kind of person would actually ...... in private"

Mao Lilan hurriedly 'booed' at him several times.

She originally wanted to help Amuro keep the secret, but she was not good at deceiving people, and it was obvious when she had any troubles or emotions, but she didn't expect to be directly guessed by her friend who was keen in this regard.

"Don't be so loud, I'm sure I'll help keep it secret...... You must not say it. ”

Obviously, I feel that the atmosphere between Amuro and Ikekawa Na seems to be not quite right after coming out of the storage room, because Ikekawa Na left first in the middle of solving the case, and finally Amuro didn't seem to go to the room on the second floor, and if he didn't keep a secret for others to know during the quarrel, maybe it would really have a big impact on them.

"You can rest assured, I will definitely not say this kind of thing that will affect others." Suzuki Sonoko patted his chest and assured that it looked more reliable at this time, "After all, I think that with the situation of their family, if the parents know, they will definitely be blocked, so I will definitely rot in my stomach in this matter, but Xiaolan, can make you so nervous, that person will not be someone we know, right?" ”

All were guessed correctly by the garden......

Mao Lilan opened her mouth, and before she could refute, she saw that the central figure of the topic had finished the work at hand and was walking in the direction of the two, and she hurriedly pulled

pulled the corner of the man's clothes next to him and changed the subject

，“...... Mr. Ikekawa, are you here alone? ”

"Well, a man came." Ikekawa Nai smiled gently at her, "Take advantage of the empty time at work to rest for two days." ”

"It's only been two days, and Mr. Ikekawa is usually very busy at work, but he needs to rest well to be more motivated." Looking at the other party's short-term planning for travel, Mao Lilan's expression was a little worried.

In fact, there is usually nothing to do at all, and the company's projects are pushed to Miss Katori, who is so busy that her eyes are full of stars, to do it, but listening to the other party's words, Ikekawa Nai nodded without any weakness, "Well, it's busy." ”

Before he could finish speaking, the short-haired girl next to him leaned over and asked, "Then do you want Mr. Ikekawa to join us?" Because there are children who have classes on Mondays, and we only stay here for about two days, and the time is right, and there are a lot of us, and there are children here, so we will definitely not let your daughter ...... Others misunderstood! ”

......？

Sensing that the other party had swallowed something very important, the black-haired man paused slightly, then shook his head, "I'm sorry, I want to rest in the room first according to the original plan." ”

Acting with them is equivalent to acting with Shuichi Akai, and the man named Midorikawa Jing, who had a relationship before, wants to find the clues of his stay in this hot spring hotel first than to deal with these two guys whose identities are not quite right.

After nodding goodbye to the two of them, he walked towards the staircase with a small suitcase, and when he was about to step on the stairs, he inadvertently skimmed the side, and when he saw the things next to him, the man stopped.

In the corner was a tall decorative wooden bookshelf full of books in English that seemed to be just for decoration, as well as some travelogues and familiar ones, and his gaze swept over the cover and was quickly drawn to a familiar book.

"Forever Freedom and Travel".

The book once appeared on the bookshelf of the villa, and was read many times by his underage self at the time, and the photos from all over the world on it can be said to be his first impression of the world. Sadly, however, within a few days, after he had expressed his love for it, the book had disappeared forever from the bookcase, and there were very few books of this genre even since.

Because of this, the person in charge of providing him with books seems to have been punished by the gentleman, and then the one he got in exchange for was exactly what was required, and all he added to the bookcase were obscure and difficult to chew, even if it was a casual one.

With that familiarity from his childhood, he opened the book, and when he turned the pages, he soon found that several pages had different degrees of opening, as if something was caught in them.

Ikekawa frowned and flipped to the wrong page, finding that there were two separate coupons of the kind that Dr. Nozawa had handed him.

The front page is a huge photograph of the mountains, because the author is a photographer, and most of the book is full of photographs and not much text. Below the mountain photo there is a big caption: Attention!

Judging from the small print below, this note is just a reminder to ask for directions in advance when traveling here, and leave when the sun sets, otherwise it is easy to get lost in the mountains.

He flipped to the next page with the coupon on it, and it was a photo of a group of people dancing and singing around a campfire in national costumes, with a headline that was bigger than the others: People here.

Ikekawa Na looked at the two coupons again, and sure enough, she saw the letter A from her own hand in the corner.

This is the clue to stay at the hot spring inn, and let him pay attention to the person who comes to him or the person who has been in the hot spring inn, and if the latter, I am afraid that it means the staff or regular customers here.

If it's the former... Could it be the guest who will be here today? However, the probability of this is too low, and even if I used the forum buff to reap the benefits, I am afraid that I will not be able to predict when I will return to Japan and when I will get Mr. Nozawa's prompt to come to this hotel.

After all, whether he left Japan or returned, it was the gentleman's will.

Thinking like this, Ikekawa lowered her eyes and was about to close the book in her hand and put it back in her hand

The shelf, when the pages were turned, stopped closing the book and reopened it.

At the end of the third chapter, the monologue is quietly written in a single line, which occupies an entire blank page, but because the location is too remote and inconspicuous, which is probably why the book was able to pass the censorship and put it on its own bookshelf at that time.

After all, he had nothing else to do at that time, so he could only bury his head in reading books and absorb knowledge, and it would be too inefficient to read every book that was going to be put on the shelf from beginning to end before it was delivered, so they would only check the title page and the content at the end.

[At the end of 20xx, I quit my job and picked up the camera again to continue traveling.] As the title of the book says, eternal freedom and travel, this is a world that is so huge that even the most populous city is only a small point in the whole world, as small as a cage, let alone a boring office.

And so, I embarked on a destitute journey, not to the tourist resorts described in the first two chapters, but to forgotten corners, where I had to spend the night in the wilderness and eat at the locals' homes to fill my stomach, but it was easier than ever.

I think it's probably because for me, it's only the animals, not me, who stay in one place forever. ]

He reached out and clicked on the line, his eyes darkening.

When I read this book, I should have been sitting on the big chair in the study, what happened after reading this book? I would probably put down my book and relax my eyes by looking out the window at the overlapping trees.

Through the small, cage-like window, you can see the corner framed by a rectangular glass window.

Stuffing the book back into the bookcase, Ikekawa Na took the suitcase and walked upstairs again, the second floor is a wooden corridor and the corresponding room, because it is a hot spring inn, there are vending machines in many places, and there are ice milk and other things suitable for drinking after soaking in the hot spring.

As he walked up, the door of a room next to the vending machine was pushed open, and the pink-haired man who came out met him with eye contact, and both of them were stunned.

"Mr. Okiya." Nodding slightly at the other party with a polite attitude towards someone who only had a few faces, Ikekawa Na didn't slow down, walked straight to his room, opened the door and entered.

The spacious rooms, with floor-to-ceiling windows that don't match the quaint décor, are designed to give guests a better view of the snow, facing the back of the hot spring inn.

It is a large forest, the leaves fall in winter, and only the bare trunks remain, and the trees seem to be of the same variety as around the villa, all black and dark, lined with snow-white snow without any other traces, and as far as the eye can see, it is black and white except for the blue sky in winter.

The quiet and familiar scenery made him look a little sick to his stomach.

The black-haired man put down the suitcase in his hand and walked over to close the thick curtains on either side of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

If it weren't for that clue, I probably wouldn't have spent only two days traveling to a place like this that would bring a strong sense of déjà vu.

After using the lunch brought by the innkeeper in the room, I rested for a while, and because of the clues I found in the book before, Ikekawa Nai cleaned up and decided to go downstairs to have a look.

I couldn't find any other clues after staying in the room.

Downstairs was not very quiet, but the sound of children chattering that he heard during the meal was gone, and he walked down the stairs and saw the two girls who had chatted before sitting on the sofa and whispering to each other, sometimes making a kind laugh, and Okiya, who had just seen him in the corridor, was also sitting on the sofa reading a book.

What he was holding in his hand was the travelogue he had just flipped through.

"Mr. Ikekawa!" Seeing him come down, Suzuki Sonoko, who had always been enthusiastic and lively, immediately waved at her, "Do you want to go to the mountains with us to see the snow scene, just now the little owner of the hotel said that he could send us up." ”

"Snow?" Thinking of the floor-to-ceiling window that had been directly closed by herself with a curtain, Ikekawa Nai walked up to the two and asked.

Before the girl could answer, a strong male voice came from behind her.

"That's right,

This is the proudest part of our hotel! ”

Next to the rest area in the lobby of the hot spring hotel, the young boss walked from behind the counter, his eyebrows were very thick, he was obviously tall and full of muscles but there was no sense of oppression, but he had a face that looked honest, "There are no other hotels around, so there are few people coming and going, and the road up from the mountain is very quiet, of course you have to be in this kind of place to enjoy the snow scene!" If you're lucky, you'll see foxes and other animals on the road. ”

He walked up to the men, put down the teapot he was holding, and the next words he was about to say were stuck in his throat when he looked up and saw the face of the man in the kimono.

“...... It's you? The man's lips moved, and his face was covered with a layer of emotion that he couldn't tell if it was excitement or something, "I didn't expect to meet here, we met before, you, do you remember, I lived in that small town under the mountain at that time......"

Sure enough, the clues in the book just now point to the people who live in this hotel permanently.

Chikawa Nai glanced at the other party carefully, but he didn't find anyone who could match his face from memory, seeing that the person was still waiting for him to speak, the black-haired man could only shake his head slightly, with a little apology in his voice, "I'm sorry." ”

On the sofa next to him, Okiya didn't look up, his fingers rubbed on the page, but he didn't turn the page for half a day in just a paragraph.

Seeing that the other party's eyes were full of doubts, the young boss just reached out and scratched his head, revealing an honest smile, "But it's all before, it's normal to forget, since you've seen it, you're a friend, and tonight I promise to let you taste the most unique cuisine in our store!" ”

"Boss, you can't be partial." Suzuki Sonoko on the side raised her voice at the right time to insert the topic, "We met in the morning, and now we can be considered friends, right?" We can't miss out on our special dishes. ”

Hearing this, the man laughed and reached out and patted her on the shoulder, doing this like a strong bear, "Of course it's no problem!" You're the first batch of new customers after winter, so I'm going to have to show my housekeeping skills anyway! ”

"You should all pack up, right? I'm done with what I'm doing, and I can take you up the mountain now. A couple of my friends are up in the mountains now, and maybe you'll be able to bump into them. ”

"I'll go with you." Hearing this, Ikekawa thought for a moment, but decided to keep up with a few people.

"Okay! It's cold in the mountains though, so remember to wear your thickest clothes. The young boss nodded at him, and only nodded when he saw him go back to the room and get a thick shawl down, "Then let's go!" ”

Sonoko Suzuki cooperated next to her and shouted, "Let's go!" Not accustomed to this kind of overly 'energetic' occasion, Ikekawa Nai simply walked half a step behind a few people, and walked a little behind with Okiya Pleiades.

When the boss named Kashiwagi Takao recognized himself just now, he smelled a very faint sour smell in the air, and the moment he smelled this smell, the skill of the vampire buff made him quickly and automatically distinguish that it was a surprise smell in his brain.

It's a pure surprise that doesn't have any malice, so it's a nice sour, like a lemon candy melted in the air.

This was a bit surprising, he thought that jealousy and other emotions would be sour, but he didn't expect the surprise to be this taste, probably because the sign symbolizing the surprise always likes to use bright yellow, which is the same as the yellow lemon candy.

What will the other emotions taste like......

Thinking like this, he suddenly smelled a little sweeter than the sourness, but it was fleeting, and before he could analyze the source of the sweetness, the owner of this emotion restrained the emotion well, and even the smell in the air disappeared as if it had been sucked away by someone with a vacuum cleaner.

Ikekawa Na blinked and looked sideways, only to see the side face illuminated by the sun when Okiya stopped in front of him and looked up at the flock of birds that were startled by a few people passing by. ：，，.