Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 579
Accompanying his girlfriend and lying on another girlfriend's bed for nearly half an hour, Naruse kept to himself, motionless, and still didn't feel much sleepiness.

He'd only slept in this bed once, and the focus of that night wasn't sleep.

Morimi suggested that everyone come to her house for barbecue, presumably not just to help them digest the excess beef and pork.

After staring at the ceiling for a while, Naruse lowered his head and realized that the door to the room had quietly opened at some point.

"..."

After looking at Morimi at the door, Naruse turned to look at Naoko next to him.

After spending time together day and night, he could naturally tell that she had been asleep for a long time.

He slowly climbed out of bed and walked out of the room, carefully closing the door.

Morimi hugged him and bit him on the face first, "What on earth are you here for? Are you showing off?"

"Really just taking a break..."

Naruse lowered his voice, "Where are they?"

"downstairs."

"Go down."

"Why don't you do something with me?"

"If you want to do it, you can't do it here." Naruse dragged her away from the door of the room and walked downstairs.

Haixing and Takigawa Hikaru were sitting outside the edge of the living room. They went downstairs and stopped for a while at the entrance of the stairs to kiss.

"what……"

After the long kiss ended, Morimi panted, took off his glasses, and leaned against him again, kissing randomly on his neck, "Let's do it to the end."

"バカ." (ba ka)

Naruse held down her groping hand and put the glasses on her, "You will be discovered."

She stared at him and expressed her dissatisfaction bluntly, "I haven't done it for a week."

He lowered his head and nipped the tip of her nose lightly.

"That's not OK."

She also bit his jaw with a little more force.

"pain……"

The two of them nibbled on each other in the corner for a while before coming outside.

Takigawa Hikari and Haisei were both lying on the floor. When they saw them coming out, they just raised their heads and looked at the two people's upside down figures.

"Is Naoko asleep?"

"Yes." Naruse sat down next to Takigawa Hikaru, she smiled, and then sat up as well.

Morimi looked at the two of them, sat down next to Haixing, and looked at the barbecue grill that had been set up in the yard, "You're not hungry yet."

"Eh...no, my stomach is still full."

Haixing didn't know that she was just looking for something to say, thinking that she really felt that her appetite had no limit, so she quickly explained.

"It's only after one o'clock now. Let's start the barbecue at five or six o'clock." Naruse said, "After eating, we will go home."

"Okay." It was Hikari Takigawa who agreed quickly.

The two looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

Mori Jian squinted, and before he looked over, he turned his gaze to the no longer clear sky outside the courtyard wall.

"A little boring."

Starfish turned around and saw that she was lying down on the floor, then raised a hand and grasped something in mid-air.

"What should we do?" Takigawa Hikaru asked.

"Whatever." She turned over, facing away from them.

Naruse looked at her back, wondering if her inexplicable emotions at this moment were all due to his previous rejection.

"Then just wander around the neighborhood."

Takigawa Hikaru stood up, pulled up Naruse, then pulled Haixing, and then stretched out his hand towards Morimi who was still lying on the floor.

She looked at them for a few times, then held her outstretched hand, "You guys really can't be idle at all... ah."

She was pulled up, and Takigawa Hikaru smiled slightly, "Isn't it true that Kazuha said it was a bit boring?"

"I can go back to my room and read."

"Naoko is still sleeping there," Naruse said.

She looked at him and said, "I won't disturb your precious princess."

Reluctantly, after being pulled up, she walked to the front instead.

After leaving a message for Naoko, Naruse followed her, plus Starfish and Hikaru Takigawa, and the four of them wandered around aimlessly.

Naruse: “On weekends, you don’t see many people in the countryside.”

Morimi: "This is the Japanese countryside, and it will always be like this in the future, or even get worse."

Haixing: "We will leave here sooner or later..."

Naruse: "Sooner or later I will come back."

Morimi: "Are you planning to come back here to retire?"

Naruse: "If circumstances permit."

After crossing Qingliu Bridge, the four of them walked along the county road for about twenty minutes, then turned into another path from the intersection and started walking back.

We hadn't gone very far back when Mori Jian started to complain about being tired, "I would have ridden out if I had known."

"Can't you move on your own a little longer?"

"No. I'm tired. You carry me."

Naruse looked back at her twice, but still stopped and waited for her, bending down and waiting for her to lie down.

"Are you acting coquettishly?" He lowered his voice.

"Ah."

"I thought you were angry."

"..."

She lay forward, then looked at Haixing and Takigawa Hikari who were also waiting for them, and hugged his neck.

"I have long lost the qualification to be angry about this kind of thing."

Naruse turned to look at her.

Exhaling, she patted his shoulder twice, "Okay, don't worry about it, it's just a sudden emotion."

Naruse didn't ask any more questions and walked a few steps forward with her on his back to follow the two of them.

"Is Kazuyo unable to walk?"

"No, I'm just acting coquettishly," Morimi said.

Takigawa Hikaru smiled and said nothing.

Haixing stared at Naruse for a few times, but hesitated to speak.

"Let's go." He only looked forward.

After carrying Morimi for a while, she got off his back when a small truck appeared on the road ahead.

After stopping and walking, it took them more than half an hour to get back to Morimi's house.

"I don't know if Shangzi is awake."

"Let me go and take a look." Hikaru Takigawa said.

Morimi also stood up and walked inside, "What do you want to drink?"

"casual."

"Water will do." Naruse turned around and said, and when he turned around again, the starfish next to him was staring at him.

He immediately moved a butt distance to the side, and she also moved over.

"Morimi will be out soon." Naruse signaled her not to mess around, "Naoko and Hikaru will be coming down soon."

"As long as you answer me a question, I won't pester you anymore." Haixing said.

Naruse didn't believe it, he had already guessed what the question was.

"Think about it, is now the time to ask that question?"

"I do not want……"

pat!

Naruse turned his head and glanced. The sound of something being thrown on the ground came from the door.

Starfish's attention was briefly attracted, and when he returned to the front, Morimi had already come out with several glasses of water.

"What did you buy for the drinks for the barbecue tonight?"

"Juice and soda." Naruse replied, "What's wrong?"

A little distance away, she sat down next to the starfish and put down the plate, "Why didn't I see it?"

"Isn't it in the refrigerator?"

"Are you sure you put it in the refrigerator?" Mori Jian had a look of surprise on his face, "I didn't see it."

"I'm sure……"

Naruse said and suddenly stood up, "It seems to have been put in the freezer area."

"Baka..."

Watching him walk in, Morimi shook his head, picked up a glass of water, and drank most of it in one breath.

"Drink whatever you want."

"Um……"

After walking for almost an hour, Haixing was indeed a little thirsty, so he picked up the barley tea and started drinking it.

Hikaru Takigawa quickly returned to Enzai and sat down next to Haixing. She got her a glass of water.

"Thank you~"

"Naoko hasn't woken up yet?" Morimi asked.

"woke up."

She took a big sip of barley tea, and then continued: "Shangzi was up when I went up. Now I'm going to the bathroom."

Morimi nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

In the kitchen, Naruse took out all the drinks that had been misplaced in the freezer area of ​​the refrigerator and put them in the cold snow area. After fiddling with them for a while, he opened another bottle of Coke and poured himself a cup first.

"what……"

After a mouthful of cold water, he shrank his neck and went out with the remaining half cup of Coke.

Before he reached the living room, he saw Shangzi coming from the door.

"Shangzi is up?"

"……Um."

She was startled at first, then came over in small steps, holding his hand and the cup in his hand with both hands, and drank all the Coke in one breath.

"Cough...cough!"

Naoko drank a little eagerly, and the iced Coke that had just been taken out of the freezer section was stimulated as expected.

"Don't worry." Naruse patted his girlfriend on the back, "Are you so thirsty?"

"Um……"

She slowed down and looked up at him, her eyes a little moist, as if she had coughed up tears.

"It's so cold..."

Naruse smiled helplessly and touched her back again, "Morimi poured some less iced barley tea, please go outside."

After coming outside and sitting down, Shangzi asked a few questions about where they had been, and didn't seem to care much about their answers, and then he absent-mindedly stood still.

Hikaru Takigawa noticed her state and asked, "Naoko still hasn't had enough rest?"

"..."

She was silent for a while, burying her head on the shoulder of her boyfriend next to her.

"Probably...I have been feeling hazy and dreaming all day today..."

She was a little weak, but the hand holding her boyfriend's arm unconsciously tightened.

Shangzi's condition is not quite right.

Naruse looked down at his girlfriend, leaned in and kissed her forehead, "Is there anything on you that doesn't feel good?"

Her head buried lower and turned slowly.

"No... I just want to sleep a little bit. It would be nice to have some rest..."

Naruse raised his gaze and looked at Hikari Takigawa who was sitting on the other side. She also had some worry on her face.

He tried the temperature on Shangzi's forehead again, but couldn't feel anything wrong. Maybe she just didn't get enough sleep.

...Or maybe she wanted to act coquettishly with him in front of them.

She lay still on his arm, and Naruse continued to lie with her, looking down and asking questions from time to time.

A few people sat on the edge and continued chatting, and the afternoon passed not too slowly.

"In a few days, it will be October..."

"In October, the third grade school trip will start. I don't know where it will go. Is there any news?"

"Hey, I haven't asked about it. Let's go to school tomorrow and ask."

"I went to Kyoto last year, and I will never go again this year... It was Hokkaido the year before last, and I guess I will go to Tokyo this year."

"Is it possible to go to Nara?"

"When going to Nara, I usually go to Kyoto-Osaka-Nara together. It is basically impossible to go to Nara alone...Does Harumi want to go there?"

"If I were to choose, I would choose Nara..."

"I haven't been to Nara yet."

The few people chatted in various directions. Naoko lay on Naruse's arm for a long time and then raised his head.

Although she did not participate in their conversation, judging from her occasional reactions, it was obvious that she was listening. Naruse and Takigawa Hikaru felt a little relieved.

Unconsciously, the sun moved westward and gradually changed its color.The cloudy sky was dyed with splendor, and the remaining time called day began to burn.

"It's 05:30."

"Yeah." "It's almost time to start preparations." Morimi stood up, "I'll go and process all the meat."

Shangzi, who had been silent until now, also spoke, "I'm here to help."

Naruse turned to look at her, "Naoko..."

"It's okay." She raised her head and smiled at him, "I'm almost rested."

He looked at him again and said nothing more.

"Then let me prepare things on the grill."

"The charcoal for barbecue is in the warehouse. Go and see if it's enough. If not, go buy it now." Morimi said.

"it is good."

She and Naoko went to the kitchen. Naruse put on his shoes and went to the warehouse. He quickly found the box of charcoal that Shang bought when he came last time.

"Is there enough charcoal?"

He turned around and saw Hikaru Takigawa coming over, "That's about right. I won't be spending the night here anyway."

She smiled and said, "You have to be careful next time."

"Ah."

Naruse moved the charcoal to the grill next to Yuan, and Haixing also stood up, ready to help, but he didn't know what he needed to do.

"Haixing, go and prepare the tableware for the five of us so that the two of them won't be able to get it later." Naruse said, "I'll light the fire."

"it is good……"

Several people were busy working on their own and quickly got ready for the barbecue.

Before six o'clock in the evening, the first piece of roasted beef was placed on Naoko's plate by Naruse under the watchful eyes of several people.

"Don't get burned."

"Um……"

The second piece of meat was given to the eager starfish.

Shangzi pursed his lower lip, picked up his own beef, and put it into his mouth.

After giving a slice to all four of them, Naruse picked up a few more pieces of raw meat and put them on the grill, continuing to grill them.

"Harumi's own."

"You guys eat first, I'm not that hungry."

After eating a few slices, Shangzi refused more beef.

"I can't eat anymore..."

"Can't eat anymore?" Naruse frowned.

"Hmm... I don't have much appetite."

"Are you okay, Naoko?" Takigawa Hikaru also looked at her.

Shangzi shook his head and forced a smile, "I must have eaten too much at noon. Now that I have eaten a little, I feel full."

"Ok."

"I'm going to the bathroom." Shangzi stood up and left.

When she walked inside and couldn't see the four people beside her when she looked back, she turned around and walked quickly towards the door.

Opening one of the many rooms in Morimi's house, it was dark inside. She got in, closed the door behind her back, then took out her phone and turned on the light.

There was a notebook lying on the floor, which she had thrown in in the afternoon when she had nowhere to put it.

Before that, the notebook was on the ground outside, in the room upstairs, and under Morimi's bed when she accidentally pushed her phone to the floor and bent down to pick it up after she woke up.

It’s unknown why this appeared in Morimi’s house, but it originally belonged to Haisei’s diary.

It records all the past between Haixing and her boyfriend that she doesn't know about.

Before Hikaru Takigawa went upstairs and she threw the diary out the window, she had seen them kiss for the first time.

"..."

The sudden sharp pain in her chest did not stop her from opening the diary again. Under the light of her mobile phone, she quickly flipped to the place she had read before.

[X month, X day, Sunday X, cloudy day.

Everyone went to Shangzi's house to play today.

Shangzi's current parents are also scientists, but they are often away from home, and Shangzi feels lonely.

If my father also dies, will I be picked up and raised by someone I don’t know like Naoko?
I absolutely cannot accept this.

When he asked Chunhai, he became angry again. 】

"Ah hot!"

"Blow it a little, don't eat it directly, idiot."

Looking at Haixing, whose brows were tightened by the freshly roasted meat slices, Naruse felt helpless.

"I'll grill it, and Harumi will eat it." Hikaru Takigawa stood up and took over the grilling work from him.

Naruse sat down next to Haixing and looked at her again, "Is your tongue cooked?"

"Ugh..."

She looked at him with a grimace, slightly sticking out the tip of her pink tongue.

"..."

Naruse's heart skipped a beat and he looked away.

"Deserving it."

"Don't say that." Takigawa Hikaru smiled.

"Drink some cold drinks." Morimi also picked up the cup and handed it to Haixing.

She took a sip of Coke, her mouth full of ice coldness, to temporarily suppress the pain of being burned.

"Let's have another piece." Takigawa Hikaru gave her another piece of roasted beef.

After letting it sit for a while, I picked it up and blew it before I dared to put the starfish into my mouth.

"How about it?"

"delicious."

"That's good~ This is Harumi's portion." Naruse also took a piece of beef, waited for a while, and put it into his mouth.

After eating a few slices of barbecue, he turned back and looked inside the living room.

Shangzi has been gone for a long time.

"Why haven't you come out yet... I'm going to see Naoko." Naruse put down the plate, stood up and went in.

When he came to the bathroom, he knocked on the door, but there was no response.

When he opened the door, there was no one inside and the lights were not turned on.

Did you go upstairs to rest?
Naruse went upstairs and looked in Morimi's room, but there was still no one there.

Or downstairs?
And he went down and searched around, but there was no one in the bathroom or kitchen. He opened a few empty rooms and looked around, but there was still no sign of Naoko.

You can't go back alone first, right?
Standing in the corridor, he took out his mobile phone and was about to send a message to Shangzi when there was a sound of footsteps behind him.

"Where is Shangzi?"

He turned around and saw that the person coming was Haixing, "I don't know."

"Eh……"

"I'm asking."

Before the message was sent, Haixing came closer.

Naruse immediately took two steps back and said, "Be more honest."

The corridor was dark, and she just subconsciously leaned towards him, but received such a disgusting reaction from him. In addition, he had been very close to three other girls during the day, but he chose to ignore and avoid her. Haixing suddenly felt a little annoyed. .

And the more she thought about it, the more unbearable it became.

"I won't!"

She came closer, straightened her chest, and looked back at him with an almost provocative attitude.

"Why are you so cold to me alone? Sure enough, something happened between you and Kazuha and the others? Don't just hide it from me!"

The starfish kept getting closer, and Naruse backed away and looked at the message that had been sent.

The message is still unread.

Where did Shangzi go...

"Look at me!"

Haixing suddenly snatched his phone away.

"..."

Naruse took a breath and suppressed his involuntary irritation, "Give me the phone."

She hid her phone behind her back.

"Look at me, Harumi..."

She stared at him closely, her voice trembling, "Please, don't leave me alone..."

Naruse took a deep breath, and his heart softened again.

"I didn't mean to abandon the starfish... Why can't you listen to me?

I said it, just because Haixing can’t hide secrets, so I can’t tell you now…”

"——Do you like me?" She couldn't listen to his excuses.

Naruse opened his mouth, closed his eyes, and exhaled heavily.

"I hate idiots."

Before she finished speaking, she threw herself into his arms.

"I like Harumi...don't leave me."

"..."

Her chest was hugging her body tighter and tighter, and her mind was a mess. Naruse had a vague feeling that things were getting out of control.

But we can’t lose control yet.

He pulled Haixing towards the door, then opened the door of a room and pulled her in with him.

The room was dark, and the only thing that could be heard was each other's deep or shallow breathing.

Nor does he need light.

"starfish."

"……Um."

"what do you want."

"Eh...I want you. I want Harumi."

"I want you too. I like starfish."

"..."

In the darkness, she rushed towards him again and hugged him tightly, her body trembling and her excitement uncontrollable.

"I know it! I like Harumi! I have always loved Harumi! I never stop for a day!"

Although he knew that now was not the time to say these words, Naruse couldn't help but raise his hands and hug her tightly.

"……Me too."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

The emotions that had been accumulated for a long time finally burst out, and Haixing immediately cried.

He held her and waited for her to calm down a little before continuing, "But it's not time to date Starfish yet."

After a brief silence, Haixing also let go of him, sobbing and asked: "When will it be..."

"When I solve Naoko's problem," Naruse said.

"But Kazuha and Hikaru..." She asked halfway, then turned to him to confirm her guess, "Are they dating Harumi now?"

"Yeah." Naruse no longer denied it this time. He needed to use the examples of the two of them to emphasize to her what he was going to say next.

"Kazuye, I, and Guang are already dating in private..."

thump.

Suddenly there was the sound of something falling in the darkness.

"..."

Naruse was immediately startled, and then his whole body felt horrified and his spine felt chilly.

"Shangzi..."

Touching on the light in the room, in the corner, a huddled figure fell to the ground, half kneeling and half prone, his shoulders trembling.

"Shangzi!"

Naruse rushed over to help her up, but she took a sharp breath, with only despair and tears left on her face, and she no longer had any strength to stand.

"Shangzi..."

He didn't know what he should say, what else to say besides calling her name.

Shang Zi was held and dragged by him, his head tilted back weakly, looking at the dazzling light that had just been turned on, his expression numb, and he didn't react at all.

"..."

Haixing sat slumped against the wall, looking at the two people over there. When he turned his head, Morimi and Hikaru Takigawa also found him.

"Harumi, Naoko, Haixing..." Hikaru Takigawa looked at the three of them respectively, instinctively feeling uneasy, "What's wrong?"

When he saw the diary on the floor that was originally hidden under his bed, Morimi had already guessed something.

"It's going to end..." she murmured, "all of it."

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[Four-person travel chapter·End]

　6.2k big chapter.

　　After the explosion, Qingmei still has the last volume left.

　　Of course, the ending has been planned out a long time ago, but how to get there is actually not very clear yet.

　　I couldn't postpone it to next month, so I could only take one more day off this month to sort out the outline of the final volume.

　　Try to finish it before the new year.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)