Chapter 98 I will hold an umbrella next time

A decadent life saved by a cat reminds Natsume Naoki of "Stray Cat Bob".

The movie is adapted from real events. The real Bob passed away in 2020 after saving James. Natsume Naoki looked at this combination of man and cat and understood that there are thousands of James and Bob in the world.

At this moment, a drop of rain fell from the sky. Everyone looked up at the sky. Only Natsume Naoki raised his hand and looked at the water droplet falling on the back of his hand.

The street artists on the gravel floor began to pack up their belongings, among which the drummer was the most anxious.

The orange cat lying on the street singer's shoulder looked very uneasy. Cats don't like water. If their hair gets wet and cannot be dried in time, they may get dermatitis.

The street singer's expression changed. He didn't have an umbrella at home, and he wouldn't go out to sing on rainy days. The weather forecast he read was clearly for good weather.

He lifted up his clothes and stuffed the orange cat into his arms, then squatted down to collect the bowl with coins and the guitar case on the floor.

"this is for you."

A transparent white umbrella was handed to him.

He was stunned for a moment, then looked up, and Naoki Natsume handed over the umbrella in his hand with a smile on his face.

The girl standing next to him silently but tacitly opened the umbrella in her hand to cover him from the rain.

"Isn't this... this umbrella expensive?"

"Only six hundred."

"Then why don't you take this back, I'll just ask for an umbrella."

The wandering singer wanted to return the thousand yen note to Natsume Naoki, but he refused with a smile.

"There is no reason to get back the money you gave out."

Asai held the umbrella for Natsume and waved to the wandering singer, "I hope I can hear you singing again in other places next time...such as a bar. How about being a resident to end the wandering?"

The wandering singer didn't answer. No one's future can be decided in one sentence. His future path is full of unknowns.

Natsume Naoki didn't mean to hear the answer, he was just being polite. He looked at the orange cat lying in the vagabond's arms and its head emerged from the collar, and waved.

"I hope to see you again in the future, little teacher."

"Meow!"

The cat meowed at him and shrank back.

When it rains in the park, there are no tourists.

Within a few minutes, Natsume and Asai were the only ones left strolling around in the entire Shinjuku Gyoen Garden, holding the same umbrella.

If this scene had happened a few years earlier, when they were still junior high school students, their classmates would have seen it and they would have drawn matching umbrellas back home.

For a compatible umbrella (あいあいがさ), use chalk to draw a simple umbrella on the blackboard. A triangle and a vertical line are the simplest simple umbrella drawings. Write the name of the young couple on the left and right sides of the umbrella handle.

In Japanese folk, the umbrella is a symbol of two people getting married. It is often used for ignorant love in school days. Of course, the person involved must be ashamed to talk about it, so in anime, it is usually drawn for fun when classmates are teasing them.

It is a very romantic thing for a man and a woman to walk home together holding an umbrella on a rainy day.

So Asai Mao didn't speak during the whole journey.

Natsume Naoki didn't realize this, and just said softly, "It always rains in "The Garden of Words"."

After returning home, the two of us were still a little wet.

Natsume Naoki's shoes got wet. The shoes he wore when he went out were a little thin, and he occasionally encountered places with a lot of water on the road. Even if he was careful, he would still get wet.

As for Asai Mao, half of her shoulders were wet. The umbrella couldn't cover the two of them. Either they both got a little wet... or one of them got a little more wet.

She chose the latter, but fortunately the top was dark so it was not obvious.

She said nothing, thankful in her heart that Natsume Naoki didn't notice, and silently prepared to go upstairs to change clothes.

When passing by the bathroom, Naoki Natsume walked out barefoot, wiping her hair with a towel with one hand, and took out Asai's towel with the other hand and gently covered her head.

"Sorry."

"about what."

Asai tilted his head and looked up at him.

Only when I stood in front of me did I realize that he was so tall.

"I'll hold an umbrella next time."

Natsume Naoki stretched out his hand and gently placed it on Asai's shoulder, feeling the wet feeling. Then he pinched her clothes with his thumb and index finger and tugged, otherwise it would be uncomfortable if it crinkled against her skin.

"It doesn't matter. There's only one umbrella. It's better to do this than to get both of us wet. The clothes should be washed anyway."

"I didn't want to see them get wet, so I gave them an umbrella." Natsume Naoki said after wiping his hair.

Asai was silent for a while and replied: "That's not your fault."

Although Natsume didn't say it, she felt that it was her bad luck that caused the rain...

Although it is a bit exaggerated to think that one's luck can affect the weather. But luck itself is a metaphysics, not to mention Luck 3. It is not surprising even if a dark cloud appears just above his head.

He saw that Asai was holding a gift pillow from IKEA in one hand and a swimsuit bought by two people in the other hand. It was inconvenient for him to wipe his hair, so he turned around and threw the towel in his hand on the sink in the bathroom, and then

He took the towel from her head and helped her wipe the black hair scattered behind her.

Normally, Asai would wear braids and a maid's headdress on her head, but today she didn't go out without it. Her black hair hung like a waterfall behind her, she was very beautiful, and she looked like a beautiful enchantress who would attract scholars to have no intention of studying.

She is so beautiful, but she is covered up by the heavy maid uniform all day long, and she is very stubborn and must wear work clothes whenever she is working.

Asai entered the living room and placed the bags containing swimsuits on the sofa. Natsume Naoki handed her the towel in a tacit understanding.

This scene would not be so smooth even for a young couple living together, but the master and servant, who are only connected by a contract, are so harmonious.

"I'm going to change clothes. Should we eat first or arrange the furniture first?" Asai asked.

Natsume Naoki looked at the perpetual calendar hanging on the wall, "It's probably too late for dinner. IKEA just called me and asked if they could deliver it earlier. The weather was not good and they were afraid that the rain would get heavier and affect the loading and unloading. After I entered the door

Tell them that they can come and see you off. There is someone at home. Calculating the time, the car should be arriving at Tsurumaki Town soon."

Asai nodded and went up to change clothes.

Within twenty minutes, there was a knock on the door. At this time, Asai and Natsume were moving the bookcases in the study to her original small utility room.

From then on, the study on the second floor became Asai's bedroom, right next to Natsume's bedroom, and the small utility room became his new study.

"Will this affect your study?" Asai stood in the corridor, supervising the workers to carry the bed into the new bedroom, and asked Natsume Naoki standing next to him, "You have to take the first place in the game at the campus festival.

Version, right? You usually type code in your study, so don’t affect your progress."

"Well...it doesn't matter," Natsume Naoki thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I plan to apply for a small club so that I can have a classroom in school as an activity room. I will move all my notebooks there so that I can use them later.

It’s close to the library so it’s easier to look up information.”

"To apply for a club, you need four members and an instructor." Asai Mao is very familiar with these rules in the school: "Leaving aside the instructor, can you get the four candidates together?"
Chapter completed!