The concrete cobblestone road is surrounded by the chirping of birds and insects, and is flanked by ordinary dense mountain forests. In addition to green, there are also faintly bright red maple leaves on Mount Takao.
When walking on the road, you can often see old men and old women walking down the mountain with trekking poles, walking vigorously.
Passing by a strange stone statue with "Six Roots of Purity" written on it, it's nearly an hour's walk up the mountain.
Along the way, we passed many strange small shrines with unknown functions.
The journey was harmonious and interesting. While walking and chatting, I enjoyed various scenery on the mountain that I couldn’t see in the city.
The first half was okay, but in the second half, Kanhara Raku discovered a point that he couldn't ignore.
——Tianhai Qimingyue is not physically strong enough.
Amami Kuruuri and Kanbaru Suzu seemed to be chatting about what they had just seen in the shopping street. Kanamehara was walking in the middle, while Amami Nanamiyue who was walking behind was getting increasingly exhausted.
At the back, Kambaraku took five or six steps, while Tianhai Qimingyue couldn't even step up one step.
"Are you okay? It looks like you're about to faint." Kanbaru quickly went over to help her.
"You are squeezing my hand like this, do you want to take advantage of me?" Although Tianhai Qimingyue was very tired, she spoke with domineering words.
Kanbaru said very speechlessly: "This is because I care about you."
Today, both Qi Mingyue and Jiu Liuli are wearing dresses with their arms exposed. When Kanbaru went to support her, he inevitably pinched her arms. They were thin and soft.
"It's better to wait until my sister comes down before taking advantage like this."
"..."
"Do you want to fight with your sister?"
"How about it, brother, do you want to see it?"
Tianhai Qimingyue's words made Kanbaru not know how to answer for a while.
Women fighting?
What does this mean?
"Forget it, I think it would be more comfortable for you two to love each other."
"It means both brothers want it, right?"
"Let's not talk about whether it is possible or not. If my uncle finds out, I'm afraid he will take me to the asphalt factory to melt it."
Kanbaru stood on the bluestone steps and looked up the mountain. At this time, A Ling and Jiu Liuli had stopped and seemed to be walking towards the two of them.
Then, Kanbaru turned around and said to Tianhai Qimingyue, who was particularly weak both in face and body:
"I'll carry you up the rest of the way. We should be reaching the top of the mountain."
"In my opinion, it's just the wind from the central air conditioner blowing on my head."
"...But it is undeniable that it is very comfortable to be blown by the air conditioner in the summer, isn't it?"
Seeing that Tianhai Qimingyue didn't say anything, Kanharale quickly smiled and said:
"Okay, it's decided, I'll carry you up."
Kambaraku didn't wait for Tianhai Qimingyue to refuse, then came to the stairs beside her and bent down beside her.
Tianhai Qimingyue did not immediately put her hands on his back, but looked at his back with slightly swaying eyes in front of her, bending towards her. She showed a slightly awkward expression:
"You are so cunning."
"Be cunning, be cunning, but it's true that you can't walk now, right? I will definitely not leave you alone, so... just use it as a temporary support... Okay, hurry up
Come on up, she will definitely be jealous when Ah Ling gets close."
Tianhai Qimingyue saw him waving to her again, and then carefully moved her body to his.
"What kind of concern does this come from?"
"You can do whatever you want. Anyway, I am taking care of you now. It is an indisputable fact."
Kanbaru confirmed that she had indeed held his neck firmly, and then began to walk towards Tianhai Jiureli and Kanbaru Suzu above.
"What's wrong?" Tianhai Jiuliuli looked at the two of them and asked, "Are you injured?"
"Ah, it's nothing," Kagura Le explained to Jiuliuli while carrying the girl behind her, whose eyes were a little evasive, "It's just that Qi Mingyue really can't walk, so I'll carry her on my back for the rest of the way."
Kanbaru Suzu looked a little unhappy when she saw her brother hugging Qi Mingyue's thigh:
"Are you physically so weak?"
Tianhai Jiuliuli explained for her sister: "Qi Mingyue has not liked exercise since she was a child, she seldom walks, and her physical strength is very weak."
Sister...is speaking for herself.
Tianhai Qimingyue realized this. Even after her sister knew that she had kissed the person she liked while she was alone, she was still helping her to speak.
My sister must be feeling bad now.
But even Qi Mingyue didn't know why. Instead, she hugged the person carrying her tighter in front of her sister.
My heart is conveying the idea of "not wanting to let go"...
It is this strange mentality that makes it difficult for Tianhai Qimingyue to face her sister.
Kanbaru Raku echoed what he said before: "That's right, I didn't even finish the Qimingyue Run in gym class before."
"They are obviously twins! Their physiques should be about the same."
"The reasons for different habits."
Kanbaru thought for a long time and could only think of this explanation. He thought that A Ling would be jealous or something, but he didn't expect that she just said "hmm" to express her understanding.
Probably...she thought today was Qi Mingyue's birthday, and Qi Mingyue really couldn't walk...A Ling took this into consideration, so she didn't have a temper, right?
Unconsciously, Ah Ling seems to have grown up a lot.
......
After that, everyone enjoyed the scenery along the way while climbing the mountain, and the journey was peaceful.
During this period, Jiuliuli turned around several times with the camera in hand and asked Kaname Yuara if there was any problem, and he always replied that it was fine.
Qi Mingyue’s weight is not very high.
There is also a comfortable fragrance on her body, so I don’t feel uncomfortable carrying her up the mountain.
While marching, the group of people gradually came to a section of green dense forest mountain road.
It is surrounded by moisture and fog, and the road is covered with all kinds of weeds with water-colored leaves, and occasionally there are a few low trees interspersed among them.
When walking, the trouser legs will be inadvertently wet by the scratched rain, and even the soil under the feet will be soft and sticky.
Fresh and refreshing.
"It's quite humid in the morning on the mountain. Do you feel cold?" Kanhara asked as he walked, looking at Tianhai Qimingyue behind him.
"It's okay."
"That's good. I also said that if you're cold, you can come down and I'll put my coat on you."
After a brief chat, Kanbaru carried her on his back and continued walking. Whether it was her arm holding her neck or her upper body leaning behind her, she could feel the slenderness and lightness of her body.
The skin on the thighs under the skirt is also quite delicate.
In order to prevent her from sliding down, I pinched the flesh of her legs and stood on tiptoe several times.
Amidst the faint fragrance coming from behind and the mist in the mountains, the gentle sound of the seven bright moons in the sky and sea came to my ears.
"You walk a little slower, I have something to tell you."
Only then did Kanbaru realize that she had put her face on his shoulder, and her mouth was just a few feet away from his ears.
Whatever you say is like blowing heat towards yourself.
Kanbaru Raku looked at Jiu Liuli and Kanbaru Suzu who were walking in front, and then kept a certain distance from Jiu Liuli and Kanbaru Suzu as she said.
"Why do you want to talk now? Why didn't you say anything just now?"
"Aren't you tired of carrying me?"
"It's okay. Aren't you a beautiful girl? I'm happy to carry you."
"This is the second time you have carried me behind your back since you became an elder brother."
Does it mean that she still remembers the time when she took wedding photos? Kambara faintly noticed the change in her voice, which was not as calm as usual.
Of course, it may be an illusion. After all, even though Qi Mingyue's words have no emotional fluctuations, she is also a thoughtful person, and you can more or less feel it from her words.
"How do you feel?"
"I like it very much." Tianhai Qimingyue leaned next to his ear and said softly.
The girl's frankness in his ears was unbearable, and it also made Kanbaru stunned for a while. He suddenly felt her hugging him tighter, and his brain became more emptier, and his senses became clearer. There were soft dead leaves under his feet.
My feelings suddenly became clear.
"I can probably understand that it would feel very relaxing to rest all the weight of the body on other places, right?"
Tianhai Qimingyue did not answer his rhetorical question, but continued what he had just said:
"... Even if I say this, you will definitely not react, right? After all, for you, the place you can rely on as a lover has been given to your sister, and the place you can rely on as a brother has been given to you.
The place was also given to my sister."
Tianhai Qimingyue suddenly stretched out her hand, hugged his body from behind, and leaned her side face on his shoulder, which was constantly vibrating slightly due to walking.
She closed her eyes.
Kanbaru heard the voice coming from his ears, which seemed to contain awkward and expectant emotions:
"Then to you, what am I..."
She added in a low voice: "You are the first person to do this to me..."
What she said at this time was completely different from what she had shown in the past. But Kambara did not feel any suddenness. Instead, it felt like she had opened her heart to him.
Later, Kanbaru felt that she was hugging him much tighter from behind, and tried his best to enjoy the moment from behind.
Because Qi Mingyue itself is very lonely and has no friends. She has always only held a book and sat quietly in the classroom of the Literature Department. She was not cared about by her parents in her childhood. She was just a caged child imprisoned in etiquette and art.
Bird.
No one even carried her on his back so easily, so when he carried her on his back, he would hug himself so involuntarily...
——Thinking of these, Kambara couldn't help but feel a hint of sadness.
At this moment, facing a simple inquiry like Tianhai Qimingyue, Kanbaru's mood became complicated again.
"I don't know..." After thinking for a long time, he could only reply like this, as if he was sighing.
"Well..."
"...It sounds like you accepted it?"
"Not knowing means that you haven't clearly dealt with my position in your heart. At least, there is hope, right?"
"I hope you can gradually let it go."
"Then you should put me down from your back immediately and ignore me."
"You know I can't do this."
"Then you should understand that I can't do it either."
The conversation at this moment was so deep that Kanamehara took a deep breath. The fresh mountain air filled his lungs and seemed to make his brain a lot clearer.
Tianhai Qimingyue gently clung to his back, put her arms around his neck, and rested her tired head on his shoulder:
"I don't want to talk anymore. Now I just want you to carry me on your back for a while... This is something I finally stole from my sister."
"...I didn't expect you to say these things to me."
"You feel distressed, right?"
"...Sort of."
"Then hold me steady."
There are no guardrails on this section of stairs, and there are ordinary jungles on both sides.
Kanwara heard that she was trying to calm down the atmosphere, and smiled: "Just sit still, I'm afraid you won't be able to sit still, and we will fall down together."
Tianhai Qimingyue raised her head and looked towards the misty cliff: "Are you going to die for love? It's quite romantic."
"Don't say such terrible things casually." Kanbaru continued to look towards the mountain, carrying the seven bright moons of Tianhai on his back, and took another step upward.
Tianhai Jiureli and Kanhara Suzu, who were walking in front, seemed to realize that they were lagging behind, so they stopped and waited for them.
Amami Qimingyue had already heard what Suzu Kambara seemed to be shouting in front of her. Although the distance between them was only a dozen stairs, she hoped that he would walk slower while carrying her on his back so that she could feel him taking a step.
Feedback that finally comes back to myself.
Tianhai Qi Mingyue, who was already tired, leaned her face against his back and closed her eyes again.
......
"Is Qi Mingyue asleep?"
Tianhai Jiuliuli waited until Kamara Le came up carrying her sister on her back. She saw her sister leaning on her brother's back and sleeping peacefully with her eyes closed.
Kanbaru tried calling her softly twice, but there was no response.
"Looks like he fell asleep."
"I slept so comfortably." Kanbaru Suzu, who was standing beside her, crossed her arms and looked at Kambaraku with resentment in her voice.
Kanbaru Raku: "Let her sleep for a while. Her physical strength is not good to begin with. She must be so dizzy that she can't even take a step."
"Brother, do you want me to carry the Seven Bright Moons for a while?"
"It's okay, don't worry, it's still possible to walk this way."
After saying that, he continued walking towards the mountain.
Kanbaru Suzu followed, looking at Tianhai Qimingyue sleeping on her brother's back from the side. She didn't say anything, but her eyes glanced at her sleeping face several times, and she murmured something.
"Today is your birthday, forget it" is such a no-brainer.
As for Tianhai Jiuli, it was only after Kanhara Le had taken many steps upward that she slowly caught up.
Watching the twin sister who looked exactly like me sleeping on her brother's back, I felt equally complicated.
......
The road up the mountain is always exhausting both physically and mentally, with stops and starts along the way.
But at least we arrived at a crowded place. Stone pillars and street lamps adorned the Yaowang Shrine Road, and tall and thick hemlocks lined the road.
Three painted horse walls with various wishes written on them are hung on the road.
On the one hand, they have a "bright future", on the other hand, they "give birth to a precious son early", and on the other hand, they "keep the same heart forever".
The number of painted horses in the former is much greater than that of the latter two combined.
Tianhai Qimingyue had already woken up at this time, and had already gotten off Kamarale's back. According to her, she didn't like to be seen by too many people and someone was carrying her.
Although Kambaraku had already gained a lot of envious looks from others just by carrying her up the mountain.
Kagura Raku can now clearly feel that her mood has improved a lot.
"What are you looking at?"
"I was wondering if you were shy when you were on my back just now."
As soon as Kanbaru finished speaking, Tianhai Qimingyue stretched out her hand towards his waist. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and jumped to avoid the attack.
Tianhai Qimingyue did not speak at this time, seemingly not wanting to say anything.
"Today is your birthday, why don't you be happy? You climbed up just to enjoy the scenery along the way. You see, the environment here is very good. When you go to Yuntai later, you will have a wide view and you can see Mount Fuji over there. There are many people.
It’s lively.”
"I didn't say I was unhappy..."
Kagawa Raku saw that Tianhai Qimingyue, who was originally cold and emotionless, turned away with a hint of complaint at this time, and she seemed to be whispering when she spoke.
Qimingyue... seems to have become cute?
It should be the sequelae of having just carried her.
Regardless of what Tianhai Qimingyue says about touching and kissing her freely, if you really want to touch her, she will definitely become very strange.
——This is derived from the experience that Kagura Raku learned after carrying her on his back twice.
Before Kanbaru could be proud of his careful observation, his face was pushed aside by the mineral water bottle in Tianhai Qimingyue's hand.
Or the side of the bottle cap.
Tianhai Qimingyue's long flaxen hair with a princess braid stretched out behind her, and she looked at him with an indifferent expression:
"Don't think about weird things. Didn't you see that my sister asked us to go over there and write Ema?"
"What kind of nonsense is this? It's clear——"
"Huh?"
Kaname Yuara's face was squeezed by the bottle cap so much that his voice changed: "Okay, you have the final say, you have the final say."
Really, the little devil didn't even let himself say it...Next time, next time, I will definitely let her...Wait, last time I said I would hit her hard in the face with the piano, but it seems that I haven't done it yet.
What?
Alas, what should I say about Qi Mingyue, my adopted sister?
She always likes to ride on her own head, saying that she still refuses to admit it.
Not only did she take away my first kiss, but she also took away my second kiss.
Although her lips were quite soft, there was a delicious sweetness in her mouth after the kiss... But it was uncomfortable, and there was no reason to be forcibly kissed by the sister of her ex-girlfriend.
But...
Qi Mingyue and Jiu Liuli look exactly the same.
When being kissed by her, Kanbaru will inevitably overlap her shadow with Jiuliuli, and his love for that beautiful face will also overlap, and he will even feel the sweetness of love.
When he looked at the thin lips under Tianhai Qimingyue's face, he would even recall the feeling of kissing her.
Why do you seem to be acting a little strange?
"Want to kiss me?"
"...I didn't say that."
"If you want to kiss me, we can go to the woods over there later. Although I don't mind, you still don't want your sister to see it, right?"
She is serious.
Kagawa Raku realized that as long as she wanted to, she could now drag Qi Mingyue to a deserted place and kiss her casually for dozens of minutes.
"No." He refused.
"Oh, then let's go find my sisters and the others."
Tianhai Qimingyue walked over first, and Kanwara looked at her back, but all kinds of weirdness appeared in his heart.
Obviously today I am taking them out to celebrate their birthday and go on an outing together.
But why does he always feel like there is a thread hanging on Qi Mingyue's body, hanging on him?