Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 103 The Kotatsu Study Session

When I came to Morimi Bookstore, Ichiyo was arranging the bookshelves.

"come yet."

After saying hello to her parents, she put on her schoolbag and followed the three of Naruse to the Shinki Hotel diagonally opposite.

"Shall we have a study session together? That would be great."

Seiichiro Maki was a little happy, and Hai Xing quickly came down from upstairs.

"Be careful on the road."

"Okay." Naruse stayed behind, "We will send the starfish back."

"With Harumi here, I feel relieved." Seiichiro said.

Naruse nodded without saying anything.

Following up with the companion in front, Hai Xing took another look at him and then looked forward.

Walking in the snow, taking one step at a time, Morimi's home is not close at all, and in this case it seems even further away.

"It takes a lot of time to walk this road every day." Naruse stepped on the white snow, looked back at Morimi, "Why don't you live in the bookstore?"

"My pleasure."

"..."

Seeing him roll his eyes, Mori saw a short smile.

"There's nothing wrong with taking a few more steps. Such a long journey is just right for sorting out your mood."

"That's right..."

Hikaru Takikawa nodded understandingly, "If I have to walk such a long way before going out, maybe I will become numb to going to school."

"What you said is not the same thing at all, don't be numb."

After walking forward for a while, Naruse narrowed his eyes.

"It's almost there."

Shangzi took his arm, and raised his gaze, and Mori saw the family in front.

Hai Xing exhaled a cloud of cold air, then shrank his neck, "It's finally here..."

"There is no air conditioner at my house." Mori Jian said beside him.

"Hey, isn't it cold?"

"Resist with will, and you won't feel cold."

"Eh……"

She smiled.

But when she arrived at Morimi's house, Hai Xing realized that she was joking - her old house did not have air-conditioning, but there were kotatsu and electric heaters.

"Can five people sit?" When Naruse was at home, he turned on the air conditioner in the room, and turned on the floor heating in the living room. He never used a kotatsu.

"You can still sit if you squeeze." Mori Jian put down his schoolbag, "Sit down first, I'll make tea."

Shangzi followed, "I'll help."

"No... what is this?" Mori Jian suddenly noticed what she brought over.

"Rice ball." Shangzi smiled slightly, "Let's eat together when you are hungry."

Mori looked again, and couldn't help shaking his head: "When I'm with Shangzi, I always feel like I'm not a girl."

Shangzi smiled, "How could that be?"

When the two returned to the living room, Naruse, Takikawa Hikaru, and Haixing had already got into the kotatsu, and the former was looking down inside.

"There should be a switch or something... There seems to be an electric heater under the table."

"The switch is here." Morimi put down the cup, lifted the quilt, and skillfully turned on the switch of the electric heater.

"Ah, it's getting hot." Hikari Takikawa quickly gave feedback.

Mori Jian smiled, then pointed to another electric heater placed outside, "Does this need to be turned on?"

"No, a kotatsu is enough."

The three of them sat on one side of the kotatsu on the four sides, Naoko sat beside Naruse quite naturally, squeezed together with him, and gave the vacant seat to Morimi.

Beside him was Starfish, and Hikari Takikawa was sitting opposite.

Waiting for Morimi to also sit in the kotatsu, with her ten legs intertwined and tucked under the quilt, she couldn't be more intimate.

"Don't press me... whose leg is this?"

"Wait a minute, Chunhai don't move."

"I haven't moved..."

It took a while to adjust before finally satisfying everyone.

"let's start."

According to the pattern in the library in the afternoon, several people continued to hold study sessions.

Haixing, Naoko and Hikari Takikawa searched for their own problems by doing exercises, and Naruse and Morimi were responsible for answering questions for the three of them, checking for and filling in the gaps, and finding their own loopholes.

"Yiye, what does this sentence mean?"

"Let me see... Do you just know this word?"

"do not know."

"This is a new word learned this semester. Didn't you take the test before?"

While flipping through the word book, Morimi explained to Hikaru Takikawa. At a certain moment, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the starfish opposite him: "Is there a problem?"

She hesitated to speak, and watched her for a long time.

Hai Xing picked up the exercise book, "This question..."

Morimi took a look, "Narase."

"Let me see." Naruse took the exercise book and put it between each other, "Which question?"

Starfish looked at him, stretched out a finger, "This."

It was a very simple question, and it was also a common type. Naruse glanced at it and almost calculated the answer in his heart.

It's just that he has to let Haixing understand his thoughts.

"The question is to ask for the minimum value of this quadratic function in this interval, why can't I understand it?"

"No... I understand, but the answer I made is different from the normal answer."

"Well, it's different..."

Isn't that a mistake?
"Let me see your process."

Hai Xing handed over the draft, Naruse glanced at it, and found the problem.

"Have you confirmed the position of the vertex before finding the extreme value?"

Starfish looked at him and shook his head.

"Then you should reconfirm and try again."

Hai Xing took back both the draft book and the exercise book, and was about to start when he added:
"Whether you are sure or not, drawing a sketch when solving quadratic function problems can help you avoid many mistakes."

"Oh……"

After a while, Naruse heard her suddenly take a breath, and understood where she found her mistake.

After a while, she lowered her head and said, "It's done."

"Ah."

Naruse responded without saying anything more.

"Chunhai..."

Turning his attention back to his side, Shangzi was struggling with the topic that he had to think about for a while.

"I can't see the way to solve the problem at a glance."

"It's okay, this question is very difficult, even Senjian can't figure it out at a glance."

"..."

Morimi, who was explaining grammar to Hikari Takikawa, gave him a sideways glance.

Shangzi smiled.

"This question is a bit complicated, and it's not easy to explain...I'll do it first, and then explain it to Shangzi."

"All right."

It was freezing cold outside, and the wind and snow were howling.

In the warm kotatsu inside the house, two people are tutoring three people. They are busy but not nervous, and everyone enjoys their own time.

Time flowed silently, and at a certain moment, Hikaru Takikawa's cell phone vibrated.

"Who's the news...Wow, is it already this time? Mom asked me when I would go back."

Naruse also checked the time, only to realize that it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening.

The five of them actually sat motionless in the kotatsu for three or four hours.

"Hmm - are you going back?" Mori stretched restrainedly.

"It's getting late..."

Hikaru Takikawa pulled out his legs with some difficulty, just climbed out of the kotatsu, and immediately got in again.

"Wow, it's so cold!...Let's stay a little longer."

"The longer you stay in the kotatsu, the less you want to leave."

"Well……"

She got down on her stomach, "Just a moment."

When she came back to her senses, Hai Xing couldn't sit still, and reluctantly climbed out of the kotatsu.

"starfish?"

"I'll go...over there."

She pointed in the direction of the toilet.

The kotatsu was a little empty, and Naruse was able to move his legs, and his upper body stretched accordingly.

After he settled down, Shangzi leaned over again, "Are you hungry?"

"A little bit."

"Want to have dinner?"

"Eat."

Naoko climbed out of the kotatsu, followed by Morimi, "After so long, the onigiri have become cold, there is a microwave oven in the kitchen."

"Great, let's heat it up."

The two left the living room, only Naruse and Takikawa Hikari remained in the kotatsu.

She drilled down again, only showing her head.

"It's so comfortable..."

"Don't fall asleep."

"I don't want to go home anymore. Chunhai, let's sleep here at night."

"..."

Naruse looked at the lattice door, the wind and snow were howling outside, and he really didn't want to leave this warm place.

But only think about it.

"Don't fall asleep."

"Got it."

After a while, Hai Xing came back to the living room, her footsteps suddenly stopped.

"... Where are they?"

"Go to the kitchen to warm up rice balls," Naruse said.

"Oh……"

She walked slowly, dawdling, and it took a long time to come over.

Not alone...

Naruse was thinking in his heart when Hai Xing, who had returned to the kotatsu, suddenly let out a low cry.

"ah--"

"Hahaha……"

There was a burst of laughter from the kotatsu.

Boom!
The table was pushed up suddenly, and the laughter stopped abruptly.

"--What's wrong?"

Hearing the movement here, Morimi hurried back to the living room, only to see Hikari Takikawa moaning while covering his head, while Haixing stood aside, a little at a loss.

"It hurts, hurts, hurts..."

She looked at Naruse, and he was helpless.

"Leave her alone...retribution."

(End of this chapter)