Chapter 304 The rule of not talking

"Naoki-kun said there is a place you want to come to no matter what, is this here?"

The two people stood in front of the red torii gate and did not go in.

In the legend of neon, people believe that the torii is the gate connecting the two worlds. Crossing the torii is equivalent to entering the other side. Therefore, many neon people who have been influenced by the elderly will subconsciously stop in front of the torii and will not easily

Go in.

Just like someone would not easily enter a temple without a special reason.

Natsume Naoki nodded: "Yes, no matter what, I have something to ask the priest at the shrine."

He looked at Izumi Mio: "Mio-senpai, don't you want to go in? In that case, I can come over by myself later."

Izumi Mio blinked, smiled slightly and asked: "Naoki-kun, why don't you ask me to go in with you, or let me wait at the door for a while? No matter what you say, I will definitely agree."

Natsume Naoki also smiled when he heard this: "It is precisely because I know that senior sister will not reject me as long as I ask, so I will not ask you to do anything."

"Naoki-kun, that's weird." Izumi Mio tapped his cheek with her finger and said happily: "But as long as you are with Naoki-kun, wherever you go, it's a date! And for us at the shrine.

I think it would be a very happy thing to pray for future relationships.”

When she said this, the senior's face turned red, and Natsume Naoki couldn't help but poke her back.

"Then let's go."

He held his senior sister's hand, crossed the torii gate, walked in and stepped up the steps.

The magpie that originally settled on the torii flapped its wings and flew away.

The senior sister was like a child amusing herself, jumping up on the steps with her feet together. Natsume Naoki understood this and held her hand as a support point.

This way of getting along with "I understand your weirdness, and you know my cuteness" makes Izumi Mio very comfortable.

So this is what it feels like to be in love?

She turned to Natsume Naoki, who was playing with her, and smiled slightly: "If there is snow, we can have a snowball fight with Naoki-kun."

Natsume Naoki also looked at the pine trees next to him and nodded: "In my impression, snow-free Hokkaido does seem to be missing something."

"Do you still remember what happened when you helped me pack my luggage on the day of vacation?" Izumi Mio asked.

Natsume Naoki smiled and said: "Of course I remember, there is also that painting."

It is very rare for an adult to be able to draw a person so abstractly.

It's hard to forget.

Izumi Mio said with some sadness: "I was chatting with Xiao Hui that day, and I was thinking about coming to Hokkaido to see the snow, there are also amusement parks and Ferris wheels, and I wanted to ride on the Ferris wheel!"

"Senior, if you want to do it with me, then next week..."

Natsume Naoki suddenly paused in the middle of his words: "Maybe I can take my senior sister to the amusement park on Mount Teami before school starts next week."

He looked up at the towering mountains in the distance: "It is said that there is a ski resort on Mount Teine. In recent years, the ski resort has been expanded. The boss has money and built many more recreational facilities on the original basis. Now the ski resort

It has become an amusement park.”

"Really?" Izumi Mio's eyes lit up: "Is there snow? Is there snow? Can I see snow in Hokkaido?"

Seeing the expectant look on the senior's face, Naoki Natsume smiled and scratched her nose with his finger: "Then, senior, guess why the ski resort is called a ski resort?"

Realizing that he had made a stupid mistake and realizing that he was being teased by his juniors, Izumi Mio pouted and quickly got angry to regain his image: "It's impolite to offend seniors!"

"This is outside the school, and it's Hokkaido, which is more than a thousand kilometers away from Waseda." Naoki Natsume spread his hands and said with a smile, "Senior, you have no control over me."

"The school rules have no control over you, but as the director of the sports association, I order you to accompany me to the amusement park before the end of this vacation. You are not allowed to refuse!"

Izumi Mio narrowed her eyes and looked at Natsume Naoki, who stretched out her hand to indicate that it was okay, shook her head helplessly, and showed a doting smile.

"I didn't expect that my senior sister would also abuse her private power."

Izumi Mio put her fingers on her lower eyelids and made a cute face: "Who asked you to tease my senior first?"

When the two of them walked up the long steps and arrived at the Jew Pond, they found that someone had already stopped near the shrine before them.

Old people traveling in twos and threes were holding the handle of a spoon and pouring water on their other hand in front of the hand washing basin marked "Sailor's House".

Izumi Mio waited for them to leave and went over to give it a try. The water was not cold at all.

This water is all well water. The well water in summer is cold but the well water in winter is warm to the hands. This is because the temperature of the water flow under the surface changes very little, and the contrast is obvious compared with the outside climate.

"The shrine here is very popular with the elderly." Izumi Mio said while cleaning her hands, and then asked: "Naoki-kun, are you busy next week?"

"Senior, why do you ask that?"

"Because you talked about the amusement park just now, you originally wanted to go together next week, right?" Izumi Mio put her hands behind her back and looked at him playfully, "Then she changed her mind."

"Because I'm not sure if I'll be free next week." Naoki Natsume looked at the shrine and the shrine at the end: "Next week is the shrine's sacrificial ceremony, and our family has made an appointment to attend the festival together."

"Will there be fireworks?"

"Maybe," Natsume Naoki thought for a while: "The nearby residents may set off fireworks to celebrate, which should be very beautiful. I will take pictures of my senior sister then."

Izumi Mio jumped up and down happily.

The road leading from Sailor House to the shrine is called a shrine, and most of the more formal ones are stone roads. Teine Shrine may use a gravel road because of its small size and the uneven mountainous terrain nearby.

The old people walked on both sides of the shrine, supporting each other, and stood in front of the merit box at the entrance of the shrine. They inserted coins, rang the bell, and then high-fived twice and put their hands together.

"This scene reminds me of Mai." Mio Izumi and Naoki Natsume were queuing up at the back, communicating quietly.

Natsume Naoki thought for a while: ""Daily Life"?"

"I didn't expect Naoki-kun to have watched such a heartwarming drama." Izumi Mio was slightly surprised.

"What kind of warmth? It's obviously a battle episode."

He smiled and didn't say that he had put a lot of effort into watching the show after he knew that his senior was an anime nerd.

When it was the senior's turn, she took a five-yen coin and threw it into the merit box. She shook the knot with the word "offer" on it, and the light ringing of the bell rang in front of the shrine door.

"Te Inayama God, who is said to protect Sapporo, please bless Naoki-kun and I to achieve enlightenment." Izumi Mio clasped her hands together and prayed devoutly in her heart.

Finally, she raised her head and looked at the miko standing in front of the shrine, "Excuse me, is the priest here?"

Izumi Mio looked back at Natsume Naoki, and then added to the miko: "We have something to do with the priest."

The witch just bowed to her but did not speak to her.

"Um...hello?" Izumi Mio asked again, but the miko still didn't reply. She just stood next to the merit box and looked at her quietly.

"Little girl, don't waste your efforts, she won't answer you." At this time, the old woman next to him smiled and stopped Izumi Mio, "This is the rule of this shrine."
Chapter completed!