While the bus passed the Uji Bridge, Watanabe Toru rang the bell and got off with Kiyano Rin here.

Uji Bridge, the oldest existing pure Japanese-style bridge in the island country, is 153 meters long and was built in 646 AD.

Up to now, although reinforced concrete is inevitable for the bridge body, the railings still retain the wooden structure, which is very historical.

Beside the bridge stands a stone statue of Shikibu, the author of “The Tale of Genji”, and under the bridge is Ujigawa where Kumiko usually practices the Euphonium.

“Is there anything special here?” Kiyano Rin asked, holding on to the railing.

“It’s nothing special, I just want to take a walk with Kiyano classmates along the riverside in the autumn afternoon.” Watanabe Toru looked at the white waves rolling on the water.

“Lies.”

Watanabe Toru smiled and said, “Actually, it’s because there are beautiful reeds here. As an oboe player, a professional reedist, right as The reed, which is the raw material of the reed, is very popular.”

“It is so boring.”

“Boring?” Watanabe Toru turned his head and looked at Kiyano Rin, looking into the distance. “This World has people who love the sky, some who love flowers, and some who are fascinated by trams. Don’t you think they are all boring.”

“No.” Kiyano Rin denied in a casual tone, “I I just want to mock you. I’m not interested in knowing what other people like.”

“It’s really cunning, R Sang, if you say that, even if you are ironic, I can hardly get angry.”

Kiyano Rin turned his head and looked at Watanabe Toru.

She pulled her hair behind her ears, and said with a smile: “This is one of the ways to make you like me.”

The breeze of Ujigawa brushed her cheeks, long The hair swayed gently, and there was a pleasant fragrance that made Watanabe Toru very comfortable.

“If you tell the purpose, I won’t be moved at all.”

“It doesn’t matter, I don’t want to do something too simple.” Kiyano Rin is full of confidence Tao.

“Admire.” Watanabe Toru nodded, his gaze once again followed the endless stream of Uji River, looking into the distance.

On the beach far away, there was a bird with white feathers and something in its mouth.

Watanabe Toru poked his head from the railing to see clearly.

Kiyano Rin glanced at him. Compared with him, the wooden railings were too short, and it felt like people would fall off easily.

She subconsciously reached out and gently grabbed the corner of his school uniform.

“Pond Heron? Heron? Or Egret?” Watanabe Toru turned his head, “Kiyano Lord, see what it is?”

Kiyano Rin let go of his hand calmly , Looked at his sight just now, and said: “You catch it first, let me see clearly, then I can tell you what it is.”

“Let’s go! I think it’s quite fat , I can already think of the scene when the grease drips on the charcoal and burst into flames during the roasting.”

The two walked down the stairs next to the bridge.

“Kiyano classmate, do you like chili powder for barbecue? I heard that some people like to eat it with sugar. It is an unimaginable abnormal behavior.”

“Eating grilled milk When I was a pig, I occasionally tried the abnormal behavior in Watanabe Toru’s mouth.”

“When I think of Kiyano’s way of eating with sugar, this way of eating is also cute.”

The two leaned in while chatting.

Unfortunately, before the two of them approached, the white bird raised his long neck, swallowed the fish in his mouth, patted the water with his wings, and flew away.

The two continued to stroll along the river, walking on the stone embankment.

The lush maple leaves show the light of the sun. Some benches are placed along the river, where joggers or tourists will rest.

“The hibiscus is beautiful in autumn, and the maple leaves are like pill and tender cold.” Watanabe Toru chanted loudly.

“Who wrote it?”

“Lu Xun.”

Kiyano Rin was quietly nodded, looking towards the distance.

Under the brilliance of the sun, the surface of the Uji River was shining brightly, and the water hit the stakes or stones and splashed white droplets.

In the distance, the peaks of the Maple Leaf Season are greeted, dyed with red and yellow.

She retracted her gaze and noticed that Watanabe Toru had broken a piece of miscanthus from the surrounding weeds and waved as she walked.

Not sure why, she suddenly became happy, with a touch of warmth overflowing in her chest.

“Watanabe-san, would you like to hear my story?” She said this in an emotion that she had never had before.

“I’m not interested in other people’s past,” Watanabe Toru stopped waving Miscanthus and turned to look at her, “Except for R-Sang.”

Kiyano Rin did not respond to this sentence Make any comments.

“I have always lived without expectation.” She said, “I don’t have any connection with anyone, and I will not expect others to respond, nor do I need others to respond.”

Watanabe Toru said nothing, staring at the reeds not far ahead.

“When I was young, everyone had a big laughter. I didn’t even want to move my eyebrows. Maybe I couldn’t move my eyebrows more precisely, because the things that caused a big laughter were all lies. It feels disgusting.”

“This past, I can probably guess.” Watanabe Toru nodded.

The two moved towards the reeds under the shadow of the maple tree.

“At that time, I would ruthlessly point out that others were lying. At first, everyone thought of me as a child and laughed indifferently, but the more often, they couldn’t laugh again. Look at me like weird people.”

There were two girls sitting by the river beach, and Kiyano Rin stopped talking.

When she was far away from the two, she laughed at herself: “The people around me began to stay away from me, teasing me about my pretensions, including your Miki.”

The last sentence , She smiled and glanced at Watanabe Toru.

Watanabe Toru threw the miscanthus awkwardly into the river, patted his hand.

Kiyano Rin smiled and said: “I didn’t mean to blame you, after all, it has nothing to do with you.”

The two walked to the reeds and Watanabe Toru was on the old bench sit down. He patted an extra place beside him and motioned to Kiyano Rin to sit down too.

Kiyano Rin pressed his pleated skirt and sat beside him in a feminine manner.

The two of them sat in the shade of the tree and looked at the rushing Uji River side by side for a while.

“I think the problem is not with you.” Watanabe Toru said, “You are essentially different from them. You are the flower that blooms in the wrong season.”

“Wrong season? “

“The focus should be on the flowers, right?” Watanabe Toru looked at her, “I really like your… character.”

Kiyano Rin touched Chin, with a hint of mischievous laughter: “Separately tell me to listen to it?”

“Don’t even think about it, I like Miki.” After refusing decisively, Watanabe Toru re-looked towards Ujigawa. “I thought you would be in a negative mood right now, didn’t expect and you can crack a joke.”

“The world is not gentle with negative people, classmate Watanabe.”

“It makes sense, I learned it again.” Watanabe Toru nodded solemnly.

He wants to say some comforting words, but Kiyano Rin is not weak enough to need comfort, and saying this to him is not to win his sympathy.

Even more how, he has never had the same experience before, no matter how he put himself in, the comfort he said was separated by a layer.

The breeze blows, and the leaves above the head are rustling.

A red leaf fell on Kiyano Rin’s lap.

She gently picked up the leaf, facing the sunlight squeezed in from the leaf, and whispered with the deep sound of the clear spring:

“The wind is blowing, Do you want to stay alive? No, you don’t need to.”

Watanabe Toru suddenly felt sad, he realized that Kiyano Rin’s past was more than just what she just said.

He picked up a fairly complete leaf from the ground.

“Because of the decay of these maple leaves, we won’t be full of more beautiful cherry blossoms until next spring.”

Kiyano Rin laughed and retracted his hand holding the maple leaf.

“I just remembered this sentence suddenly, classmate Watanabe don’t have to worry about comforting me.”

“…I am nothing serious casually, you think too much “

“Watanabe, you really like lying.” Kiyano Rin reluctantly said with a smile, his slender hand briskly turning the leaf stalk of the maple leaf.

“I’m so sorry, I have become what you hate.” Watanabe Toru apologized without any apology.

“Sometimes even if you hate it, you still have to be patient, life is like that.”

“It is true, but you say that, I am a little sad.”

” I just said, I have no expectations for anyone, am I?” Kiyano Rin looked towards him.

“Yes.” Watanabe Toru threw the leaf in his hand under the bare cherry tree.

“This attitude continued until Watanabe-san you appeared, and I had expectations of you-although I didn’t want to admit it.”

“What kind of expectations?”

“I don’t know.” Kiyano Rin turned his eyes to the river, showing a thoughtful expression. “This feeling is very vague. If I have to say it… It’s like I’m falling into Uji River now. I won’t expect anything. People come to save me, I don’t care if they come to save me, but if you don’t jump down to save me right away, I should be very angry.”

“The water is so urgent, there are that many Stone, what should I do if I drowned too?”

“Why don’t you jump?”

“What is there to say.” Watanabe Toru replied, “No matter when you , I will jump down to save you without the slightest hesitation.”

“Then you have to exercise your swimming ability. With my caution, if you really fall, It must be the most dangerous river.” Kiyano Rin said with a slight smile.

The smile is like a cloud in the distance, gurgling in the air like quicksand.

“I can’t guarantee, but,” Watanabe Toru picked up a stone on the ground and threw it out, “No matter how strong the wind blows, life will never give up.”

Kiyano Rin The sight catches up with this stone.

Until it disappeared from the field of vision, the stone did not fall.

“Watanabe-san, you are very smart, but you deliberately pretend to be stupid and casual. Somewhere deep in your heart, you must despise everyone and think everyone is an idiot, right? “

“Absolutely nothing like this.” Watanabe Toru denied it.

“Well, I was lying again.” Kiyano Rin said with a smile.

There are overgrown weeds, unknown flowers blooming everywhere, and reeds almost as high as people sway in the wind comfortably.

The sun went west again, the shade of the trees above his head deviated, and the two were bathed in the sun.

……

On the way back to Kyoto from Uji, Kiyano Rin has been sleeping.

The weather is ten thousand li, and the tram carriage is shining.

……

Back to Dongshanzhuang, Watanabe Toru went to the boys’ shop in Class 4 to take a look, and planned to kill the last time together if anyone was playing cards .

There was no card game, but Kunai Shu’s “corpse” did.

Watanabe Toru looked at him, and asked Saito Keisuke, who was playing the game next to him, “failed?”

“‘I admire the gentleness of Kunai classmates and I also like to be with you Play games, but, socialize…Let’s be friends’.” Saito Keisuke pinched his throat, imitating Ichiki Aoi’s tone.

“It’s so noisy!” Kunai Shu, who was lying on the tatami with his back facing them, smashed the pillow.

Looking at the pillow coming towards his forehead, Watanabe Toru reached out and stopped.

Saito Keisuke didn’t care, his fingers were still frantically pressing the switch button, and he said: “The confession failed. There was not a big chance. You should have been mentally prepared.”

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Watanabe Toru glanced at him.

This guy was obviously the one who encouraged Kunai Shu the most before confessing, but now he is watching a joke.

But being able to stay here is already a way for boys to express friendship.

“Kunai.” Watanabe Toru walked over with the pillow, “Get up.”

Kunai Shu said nothing.

Watanabe Toru kicked him in the ass.

“What are you doing?!” Kunai Shu said impatiently.

“Take you out to relax.”

“No!” Kunai Shu put the quilt on his head.

“If you don’t go, I will tell everyone in the school that you like Ichiki and your rejections.”

“You want to talk about it!”

“And the type of movie you like.”

“You–!!!” Kunai Shu lifted the quilt and glared at Watanabe Toru.

Kunai Shu, he likes siblings, the kind of dear ones.

“An Ichiki Aoi is a trivial matter,” Watanabe Toru put the pillow aside, casually said, “You are known about your interests. You are in high school for three years. No, if you can’t say college, you can’t pay a girl. Friends.”

“Go, I can’t go!” Kunai Shu have no desire to improve.

“Look at your talent.” Watanabe Toru smiled and cursed, “Isn’t that a girlfriend? You are in Tokyo’s leading private high school, with 3,000 grades in the country, well-developed sports nerves, high As soon as I boarded the Koshien hitter, I still worried about not finding my girlfriend?”

“Then why did Ichiki-student reject me?”

“Don’t like baseball?”

“Then what does she like?”

“Rugby?”

“Then I will join the rugby club next year.” Kunai Shu picked up the school uniform jacket and looked depressed. Wear it.

“Wait, how do I know what Ichiki Aoi likes? You guy has a bit of his own judgment, OK?”

Wait for Kunai Shu to get dressed and walk up to Saito Keisuke, One grabbed the game console.

“What are you doing! I played for twenty minutes and haven’t saved it yet! Give it back!”

Kunai Shu sneered, ruthlessly shutting down.

“I, I…for the sake of your broken love, this Uncle doesn’t care about you today!”

The three of them walked out of the shop and walked towards the gate .

On the way, Watanabe Toru said to Kunai Shu: “It’s not bad to fail once. If a person wants to be great, failure is a necessary process.”

Kunai Shu stared at the ground Walk without saying a word.

Watanabe Toru didn’t care about his reaction, and continued: “Even if it’s as great as me, I only wanted to pass it by and experience some unbearable things for ordinary people. Only then did I get rid of the meaningless life before and want to become a What a great person.”

“How’s it going to live by?” Saito Keisuke asked.

“Assuming that the average person’s standard of wealth is an annual income of 10 million yen or 20 million yen, then I can pass the standard, at least the annual income is 100 million yen or 200 million yen.”

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“You can’t call it too much?” Kunai Shu said ill-humoredly.

“There is no way, the bottom line of my business is relatively low. It is known by other colleagues that my annual income is only 100 million yen. It is estimated that I will be laughed out of.”

“What occupation Can you introduce it to me?” Saito Keisuke said curiously.

“Tokyo guy.”

“Isn’t he just a pretty boy.” Kunai Shu said with disdain.

“I…Forget it, pretty boy is also in our business.” Watanabe Toru endured him.

When the three people walked to the door, they met an unexpected person—Kiyano Rin and Ichiki Aoi.

Saito Keisuke smiled thiefly, and poked Kunai Shu in the flanks with his elbow.

Kunai Shu pushed him away hard.

Ichiki Aoi looked a little awkward when seeing the three.

Watanabe Toru stepped forward: “Where to go?”

“Classmate Ichiki said that there is a very accurate fortune-telling agency and would like to see it.” Kiyano Rin replied.

“Divination?” Watanabe Toru thought for a while, “Can we go together? It just didn’t expect where to go.”

“Watanabe!” Kunai Shu took a quick walk Stepped up and shouted in a low voice.

Watanabe Toru said to Ichiki Aoi: “Ichiki classmate, don’t you mind if we are together?”

“Ah, eh.” Ichiki Aoi responded late.

So the five people walked out of Dongshanzhuang together, preparing to go to the fortune-telling society.

Three boys fell behind.

“Watanabe, what are you doing?” Kunai Shu flustered and exasperated asked in a low voice.

“It’s embarrassing to fail to confess?”

“Are you nonsense!”

“You are classmates, you will meet all day, maybe sophomore I will still be in the same class. Rather than waiting to be embarrassed in the future, it is better to take advantage of the present to deal with the sadness and embarrassment after the failure, all these negative emotions in one go.”

“I…” Kunai Shu looked towards Ichiki Aoi’s back.

Watanabe Toru followed his gaze, glanced at Ichiki Aoi, and quickly moved his gaze to Kiyano Rin.

“Don’t thank me,” he patted Kunai Shu on the shoulder, “After all, as an Ultraman, it is my mission to force humans to guide.”

“Stop playing there. Handsome! You are obviously playing with a face!” Kunai Shu patted Watanabe Toru’s hand.

“No difference, no difference, all partners of justice.”


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