I push the child!

Chapter 8 8. The last day in Echigo Yuzawa

On the last day of staying in Echigo Yuzawa, the gentle snow drifted all night.

After five o'clock, the snow stopped, and the trees in the mountains seemed to be covered with a white windbreaker.

The potholes and hollows of the snow seemed to have been filled up carefully by cement workers, and they were as full as a quilt filled with camel hair.

During the day, the two each ate a sandwich for breakfast at the hotel.

When his mouth was dry, Hoshino drank a bottle of strawberry-flavored milk with a straw, and Makimura Takumi drank two glasses of warm water.

After that, they drank a cup of coffee at the coffee shop they had been to before and ordered desserts they hadn't eaten before.

The customers around were chatting softly. Someone ordered special sake, and the glasses made a crisp sound when they clinked together.

In the same seat, the daffodil leaves on the table are as green as ever.It was indeed warmer inside than outside.

"Take a photo and take a photo!" Saying that, Ai Hoshino had pointed her phone at the dessert.

"Wait." Makimura Taku wanted to lean back to prevent himself from breaking into the camera, but he didn't have time.

"Crack!"

The two cups of coffee, the dessert decorated with lemon slices, the long daffodils, the dim light, and the boy's pretty knuckles are all included in the picture.

Out of the coffee shop, they bought takoyaki with a sweet sauce at a nearby shop belching white smoke.

After eating, they went to the vending machine to buy two bottles of mineral water, and stuffed the paper shells used to hold the balls into the trash can.

"...It's so delicious."

Before swallowing the food in her mouth, Hoshino Ai puffed her cheeks like a hamster and said indistinctly.

"What are we going to do next?" Mucun Taku, who was leaning against the vending machine, asked her.

"Hmm..." Ai Hoshino swallowed the little balls into her stomach, "What else haven't you done? I'm going to play it all today!"

"Of course no problem." Makimura Takumi nodded with a smile.

Looking at the girl in front of him, he always felt that there was a natural affinity with her.

That kind of wonderful feeling makes people want to get close to her and like her.Let alone attractive.

Regarding where to go next, Ai Hoshino decided to think about it while walking, and Makimura Taku naturally had no objection.

They rounded the corner and onto the trail.

The breeze mixed with the fragrance of cedar leaves and soil came from the left, blowing Ai Hoshino's cashmere scarf.

The nearby bushes were also rustling, and the birds flew high from the eaves as if frightened.

The black house cat gracefully jumped down from the stone wall with its tail upright. It glanced in the direction of Taku and Makimura, then turned and left.

"It's windy." Makimura Taku said.

Hoshino held down the fluttering scarf with both hands, but could only let her hair dance with the wind.

I can't tell if it's the scent of shampoo or the natural scent of my body.

In short, the smell is like autumn, which has quietly passed away with the passing wind.

When the wind calmed down, Ai Hoshino looked up at him, and said in a voice cleaner than the air:

"It's windy, let's go fly a kite!"

They didn't have lunch, and they went to an open space 400 meters away from the hotel during their lunch break.

The snow is not too thick there, the sun is blown obliquely by the resident north wind, and the shadows of the trees extend straight in the snow.

Looking from a distance, several children around seven or eight years old are putting the glass wire on the long winch, and their figures are running back and forth on the snow, as if trying to chase the direction of the wind.

Butterflies, whales, dolphins, and even Doraemon are flying in the sky.

After looking at it for a while, the two rented a kite with the pattern of a deep-sea fish in a nearby shop, found an open space and started to fly a long lead.

The process of flying the kite went smoothly.

As the lead wire stretched out little by little, the deep-sea fish flew to the horizon, almost entangled with the misty clouds.

The blue sky seems to be transformed into the sea of ​​Tokyo Bay.

When Ai Hoshino ran happily below, the deep-sea fish kite moved forward.

Tired of running, she handed the kite to Mucuntuo, and Mucuntuo continued to wander in the blue sky with the big fish.

Both of them were tired, so they went to the hill, tied the string of the kite under the shaded oak tree, and sat down together with their backs against the tree trunk.

The wind blew across the snow and bent the grass.

The ears are full of wind, and occasionally there will be a dog barking from nowhere, that sound seems to come from another world.

"No matter how much I play, I can't get enough of it." Under the oak tree, Ai Hoshino hugged her knees and looked at a wisp of floating clouds.

Mucun Taku lowered his head and brushed away the white snow under his feet: "There are so many things, if you want to do everything once, the time seems to be tight all of a sudden."

"Hmm..." After pondering for a moment, Ai Hoshino suddenly said, "But I want them all!"

Mu Cuntuo looked at her and said with a smile, "Isn't it too greedy?"

"That's right, unique greed!"

She also turned to Makimura Taku, and made a hook gesture with her hand on her chin, revealing a confident and lovely face.

When looking at the blue sky and white clouds again, Ai Hoshino's eyes followed the erratic figure of the kite.

She said: "What others have done, others have not done. No matter which one, I want to do it again."

"It does look like you."

Hoshino Ai took a breath, her smile was as unique as the snow scene: "I, Hoshino Ai, am so greedy!"

The wind was getting louder, and the barking of dogs seemed to be getting closer.

Looking at Hoshino Ai's slightly cunning but cute side face, Makimura Taku thought deeply.

Others may not be sure, but he alone knows for sure: this statement is not a lie.

Leaving from under the oak tree, they collected all the rented winches, kites, and glass wires and returned them to the shop.

In the afternoon, they went to a special ski resort for skiing, and tasted the famous fried tempura here.

Before dusk, the two of them went to a nearby shrine for a stroll.

There are not too many tourists there, and the air is much fresher than outside.

After they prayed for blessings, they bought traffic safety wards, health wards, career wards, and love wards, which cost less than [-] yen in total.

"Don't just buy omamori as gifts, and don't open omamori's sachet without authorization, otherwise the wish will not come true." The staff in the shrine told them this way.

The two nodded with a sense of novelty, and their appearance was almost completely in sync.

Walking out of the shrine, a crow flew to the red pillar at the exit, staring at the ground with black pupils, and three butterflies flew around the purple flowers on both sides of the road.

They kept walking, and the steps leading to the shrine were gradually left behind.

At dusk, the sky is soaked in the setting sun, it looks like some special orange juice has been spilled, and even the snow is yellow and shiny.

"Flying a kite, skiing, visiting torii gates, eating the fried tempura you've been thinking about..." On the way back to the hotel, Ai Hoshino read with fingers, "I haven't missed anything, I've done all of these!"

"That's what I said," Mucuntuo corrected her, "But it's not entirely my heart, you like it too."

"However, it always feels like something is missing."

"What's the difference?"

She bowed her head in thought.

The setting sun slipped away while she was thinking, and the light white enveloped the earth again.

They passed by the village last time, but they didn't see the footprints left by the last time.

On both sides of the snow-covered sidewalk, the street lights flickered on, and there was probably still a lot of distance from the broken one.

"I know!" When one or two stars appeared, Ai Hoshino suddenly said to him, "Snowball fight! Mr. Mucun, we haven't had a snowball fight yet!"

"A snowball fight?"

"That's right, in a place full of snow, how can we not have a snowball fight?"

"It's not unreasonable."

"The snow here is so thick, you must experience it once!"

"But it's so late, tomorrow morning..."

"Huh!"

In the middle of speaking, a fluffy snowball suddenly hit Makimura Taku's coat.

"Let's talk about the rest later!"

At some point, Hoshino Ai had already run four meters away, rubbing another snowball in her hand.

Mu Cuntuo looked at her, with a smile on her face that could be seen clearly even in the middle of the night.

She declares again:

"I've done it, I haven't done it. The past, the present, and the future. I, Ai Hoshino, want them all!"

The snowball was thrown over again, and with a bang, the moonlight was awakened.

Under the soft silver-white moonlight, Ai Hoshino's body seemed to be shrouded in a faint halo of light.

There was no wind that night, and the sound of dogs barking was like howling wolves, and the snow did not drift by for a minute.

The two had a snowball fight, basking in the bright white moonlight without any hesitation and greed.

Until the last snowball falls, the night is dark, and the mountains seem to be trapped in the frozen starry sky.

Satisfied, they returned to the hotel and changed their shoes.

Ai Hoshino went to the women's hot spring with a bath towel, and Takumi Makimura insisted on exercising as always.

When Makimura Takuya came back from the hot spring, Hoshino Ai was already watching his "The Great Gatsby".

"What else do you want to do?" Sitting on the tatami mat, Takumi Mumura asked her with a smile.

"What?" Ai Hoshino raised her head.

"Is there anything else you want to do?" Mu Cuntuo joked, "If you can think of anything else, before we fall asleep, it may be too late."

"Hmm..." Ai Hoshino thought for a while, then said mischievously, "Ice digging to catch fish?"

"I'm afraid it doesn't make sense."

"How about drinking the sake here?"

"Aren't you still underage?"

"Have a good dream!"

"Tonight will do."

"I hope so." She closed the book, and the corner of her mouth raised a beautiful arc.

In the hotel room, the fire on the fireplace flickered.

Outside the shutters, the sky was dark and deep, but the mountains were glowing with a lovely white light.

After the fire and lights were out, the two slept on both sides of the bed, back to back.

The moonlight diffused through the gaps in the blinds to the floor, and the field of vision brightened up somewhat inconceivably.

In the quiet space, someone made a sound.

"Mr. Mucun."

"I'm here."

"Makimura Taku."

"I'm here."

"Makimura."

"Yes."

"You want to say I'm here."

"I'm here." Makimura Taku said.

"Can I call you Mucun?" Ai Hoshino's voice came from behind.

"No problem, I don't care about that."

"Makimura."

"I'm here."

After being quiet for a while, Ai Hoshino's voice came again: "I'm actually not good at remembering people's names, do you believe it?"

"This sentence is not a lie."

"But I still remember you." Ai Hoshino said.

She seemed to have turned around.

"I remember your name is Mucun, and your full name is Mucuntuo. Although I always call you Mucun-kun, I just remember."

Makimura Taku looked at the silver glow falling on the ground.

He responded softly: "Thank you, I also remember your name."

"Say."

"Hoshino Ai."

"You always call me Miss Hoshino."

"But I just remember."

"Thank you."

She seemed to turn around again.

"To be honest, I keep calling my guardian's name wrong. Whether it is Saito, Sato or Saito, I can't tell the difference every time. It's ridiculous."

"Quite cute."

The sound seemed to disappear with a whoosh.

The moonlight stretched out the shadows cast by the wooden bars of the shutters.

after awhile.

"Makimura."

"I'm here."

"I may have a deeper memory of talented people." Ai Hoshino's voice drifted gently into the darkness.

Mu Cuntuo responded to her: "To tell you the truth, I also often feel that I am a talented person."

"Not at all humble."

"Influenced by you."

"What talents do you have?"

"Long and handsome."

Hoshino smiled fondly: "Even so, appearance is not a talent."

"Then I insist on exercising, I like to read books, I am polite, I treat others equally, I never slack off, and my grades in high school were basically in the top five of my age. Do these count as talents?"

"So you are so powerful?"

"Yes."

"amazing!"

"Great Makimura Taku." Makimura Taku said.

"Great Taku Makimura!" Ai Hoshino repeated, "Such a powerful Taku Makimura, in my opinion, is even more powerful!"

"what?"

"secret!"

"I knew it."

"whee."

Borrowing the moonlight, they talked endlessly, chatted and chatted, as if they really wanted to finish their life's work tonight.

"What do you like?" Makimura asked her.

"Secret." Ai Hoshino replied.

"What's your favorite book?"

"This is also a secret."

"what do you like eating?"

"That's a secret too."

"Even in love?"

"secret."

"What type do you like?"

"secret."

"It's all a secret?"

"It's all a secret!" Ai Hoshino said with a smile, her laughter was more beautiful than her singing.

Makimura Taku didn't care, and continued to ask, "Can you sing?"

"Sing?"

"Like yesterday's light music department."

"I can't sing that well," Hoshino Ai paused, "I don't like singing very much."

"Obviously the voice is very nice."

"I appreciate your compliment."

"Can I sing it once?"

"Ok?"

"Sing it softly once."

"No."

"pity."

"Even the singing voice is a secret!" Hoshino Ai told him happily.

At that time, the stars were twinkling in the sky, and the moon was motionless.

The next morning, before the sun had risen, the two woke up early and packed their luggage.

They went nearby to buy some biscuits, bread, chocolate, candy and other food that can be used to replenish energy, and then packed them into their backpacks.

After breakfast, they walked out of the hotel. The footprints of their return from last night still remained outside the door of the hotel.

But it will probably become unrecognizable soon, Makimura Taku thought.

On the way to Echigo Yuzawa Station, the sun was as mild as a spring day.

Next to the sidewalk, the snow is barely visible, and water is dripping from the giant billboard.

Except for the green vegetation, the earth is pitch black.

There was no standing water on the road. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like a warm sun after a summer rainstorm.

When they arrived at the station, they checked their tickets and got on the train. They got into the compartment with their luggage and found a seat by the window. The two of them faced each other again.

Halfway through the car, there was a couple talking next to each other.

"I was wobbling in the car."

"You referred to riding in a car as 'wobbling in a car'."

"right!"

The scenery outside the window changed rapidly. Next, they will go to Karuizawa.

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