Around 11 o'clock in the evening, inside a convenience store on the side of the road.

Holding the oden, Toru Ito was eating while chatting with Uncle Tatsuda, the manager of the convenience store, and suddenly talked about the girl on the bench outside.

Toru Ito also asked casually: "Uncle Tatsuda, when I came over just now, I saw a girl on the bench on the side of the road, it's so late, why didn't she go home?" Aren't her parents in a hurry? ”

After hearing Tetsuya Ito's inquiry, Uncle Tatsuda, the manager of the convenience store, instantly complicated his expression, glanced at the empty street outside, and didn't know what he was looking at, and then turned his head to look puzzled, and the curious Toru Ito also explained:

"This child's name is Ogiwara Sayu, and he is also a pitiful, just entered high school, maybe because something bad happened, so he ran away from home."

"Before, when I was feeding the stray kitten outside the store as usual, she suddenly fainted from hunger, and you know, I also have a daughter as old as her in my family, and I couldn't bear it for a while, so I woke her up."

"Where did she get her address and her parents from? She refused to answer, and finally only told me her name Hagiwara Sayu, wearing a school uniform that had not been washed for a long time, and she looked very hungry and pitiful, and I didn't drive her away, so I regarded it as a good deed, and I have been leaving her the expired lunch box in the store for the past few days. ”

"Hey, what a poor child, I don't know what happened to run away from home, it must be something that makes people feel desperate and want to escape."

Finally, after telling the story of the girl outside Hagiwara Sayu, Uncle Tatsuda, who was quite sad, sighed.

"I see, she's running away from home......"

Toru Ito also thought after listening to Uncle Tatsuda's narration, and then with a hearty smile on his face, he gulped down the last meatball on the bamboo skewer, and praised Uncle Tatsuda: "Uncle Tatsuda, you are really a good person!" ”

"Why, I'm just an ordinary person." Uncle Long Tian hurriedly waved his hand and replied embarrassedly.

"The bento boxes that expire every day in the store are said to be expired, but in fact, they can be sold for some more prices, but Uncle Tatsuda, you still didn't hesitate and left these bento boxes to the poor girl Ogiwara Sayu, this kind of behavior seems to me to be a good person with an extremely kind heart." Toru Ito also looked at Uncle Tatsuda with a smile on his face with admiration, you know, this kind of kindness to others is Uncle Tatsuda's heartfelt behavior, and occasionally when he comes to buy snacks to eat, Toru Ito can also see Uncle Tatsuda with a gentle smile on his face, squatting down to feed the stray cat.

I've seen a lot of scenes like this, and Uncle Tatsuda has become a good person with a gentle personality and a kind heart in Ito Tetsuya's cognition.

And what we see today is also a confirmation of his thoughts.

Sure enough, Uncle Long Tian is really a kind-hearted person!

And there are not many such people in this world anymore, more of greed, lust, and possession......

Even Toru Ito felt that he couldn't get rid of these things, and of course, he could still do it with occasional kindness.

"Hahaha."

After Ito Tetsuya's praise this time, Uncle Tatsuda rubbed the back of his head with his hand embarrassedly, and laughed innocently, his eyes full of smiles.

In the following time, Toru Ito chatted with Uncle Tatsuda for a while, and then slowly walked out of the convenience store under the eyes of Uncle Tatsuda.

As he passed by the garbage can, Toru Ito also threw some clean bamboo skewers into it, and the outer wall of the round cardboard box containing milky white soup and oden in his hand exuded a faint warm heat, bringing a touch of warmth to Toru Ito on this slightly chilly late night street.

Perhaps it was the movement of Toru Ito's garbage that woke up Sayu Hagiwara, who was huddled up, or maybe it was the fragrant oden in Toru Ito's hands that attracted the attention of Sayu Hagiwara, who was squatting with his hands on his knees.

I saw that Sayu Hagiwara opened a pair of cute big amber eyes, blinked gently, and looked at the tall Tetsuya Ito, and as her small nose moved, her eyes involuntarily went down, looking at the oden that Tetsuya Ito was holding in his hand.

Vaguely, Toru Ito, who was standing in front of the bench, was condescending, and he could see Sayu Ogiwara swallowing his saliva with some longing.

As if noticing Toru Ito's observant gaze, Sayu Ogiwara hurriedly shrunk like a poor puppy, lowered his head, and buried his head between his legs, looking very cute and pitiful.

“……”

Toru Ito was also silent in his heart.

"Is she hungry?" He thought about what he had just seen.

Standing next to the trash can, Toru Ito didn't move his steps for a long time, looking at Sayu Hagiwara, who was holding his knees with his hands and knees, poor and nowhere to go, and his mind flashed the words that Uncle Tatsuda had said to him in the convenience store just now.

"Hungry and faint", "running away from home", "something happened at home", "despairing", "wanting to escape"

The words flickered through Ito's mind one by one.

Eventually, it came together with an idea:

"She's so pitiful, she should do a good deed~"

"Hey~"

"Forget it, it's really been eight lifetimes before I met you."

Looking at the poor girl in front of him, Sayu Hagiwara, Toru Ito also sighed and said something that he didn't know who he was scolding.

The figure that had been standing there for a long time suddenly took a step forward, and at the moment when Sayu Hagiwara, whose head was buried between his legs, secretly looked, Toru Ito sat directly next to the girl.

The two sides sat very close together.

In the middle of the night street with a chill, Toru Ito, who was sitting next to the girl Sayu Hagiwara, could clearly see a warm feeling coming from beside her.

It seems to be in the middle of the night, and suddenly a warm and bright bonfire appears in front of me, which makes people can't help but step forward and want to embrace more warm firelight.

At this moment, this is what Tetsuya Ito feels.

"Your name is Sayu Hagiwara, right? I just heard Uncle Tatsuda, the manager of the convenience store, say something about you, don't worry, I'm not a bad person. Toru Ito sat down and faced Hagiwara Sayu's vigilant and worried gaze, and explained very naturally, and sent the oden with a little white steam in his hand to Ogiwara Sayu, and said, "Well, if you don't mind, can you help me share a little bit of oden that I can't eat?" ”

"Well, I'm a thrifty person, and I don't really want to throw the uneaten oden in the trash, it's too wasteful of food, so, can you help me eat some of it?" Seeing that the girl Ogiwara Sayu was indifferent, and Ito Toru also said a new word, the girl Ogiwara Sayu was vigilant and her indifferent expression finally changed.

Ogiwara Shayu slowly opened his somewhat dry cherry lips, and his voice was like a cherry blossom gently drifting in the wind: "I heard Uncle say you, sure enough, people who like to feed stray cats are kinder in their hearts, and so is the uncle of the convenience store store, and so are you." ”

Then, Sayu Hagiwara opened a pair of bright amber cute big eyes, looked at Tetsuya Ito who was smiling beside him, and said softly, "You actually want to give me these oden to eat, but you are afraid that I will be embarrassed to accept it, so you used the method of being afraid of wasting food, right?" Tetsuya Ito? ”

"How do you know my name?" Toru Ito was also surprised.

Seeing Toru Ito's surprised look, Sayu Hagiwara, a girl who was somewhat similar to Sanno, finally opened her smiling face, and the sunlight seemed to suddenly appear on the cold night street, so bright and brilliant, and even a warm smile for a moment took away the brilliance of the bright moon in the sky, which made people deeply memorable.

"Because, I remember you."