Chapter 197 In the snowy sky, Raku Sakakibara fell into Nanamiyue’s dreamland (2)
That rain.
Continuously and softly hitting the black hat brim of the old building, like old glass marbles, raindrops fell from the eaves. A soft and hazy rainy atmosphere enveloped the corridor leading out of the living room. The sky was filled with plum rain.
The smell of the air makes all the plants look surprisingly green in the humid air.
[I] seemed to be looking up at the light rain, my legs dangling unconsciously on the edge of the verandah.
Wet stones, wet moss, swaying green trees, soft wind chimes on the brim of the hat...
Such a picture comes into view.
Ding Ling Ling~~
The two sounds of wind chimes, like coming from the depths of the soul, made Kamarale suddenly wake up.
This voice——
He was completely impressed.
[Self], started to move.
Then, like a movie camera, the perspective slowly shifted to the crisp wind chime under the brim of the hat.
[Self], is staring quietly.
"Ale, go and get the lighter for me."
The sound of the wicker chair shaking was creaking at the side, accompanied by the man's commanding tone.
"Okay."
The perspective suddenly changed. [I] slowly propped up my body, glanced at the man lying on the wicker chair, turned around, and walked into the living room.
[Self] opened the drawer and started looking for something inside.
Kagawa Raku's perspective was shaking. He obviously didn't make any movement, but his slightly immature hands found an old pulley lighter from the drawer as if with a clear purpose.
What an amazing experience.
"Ale, have you found it?"
"Found it."
"Well, bring it then."
[He] walked back again and handed the lighter in his hand to the lazy man lying on the wicker chair with a cigarette in his mouth.
With a little pull, the man's finger slid the pulley of the lighter, sparks came out, and he lit the cigarette.
"Ale, you know, dad is unemployed. If you don't go to work, you and your sister will have nothing to eat."
The man puffed away with melancholy and told [himself] that he was going to move recently.
These are all grown-up stories.
Kagura Raku knows about it, but doesn’t really want to hear it.
He is even more curious about his current state now.
Is this the world in dreams?
According to the familiar yet unfamiliar environment around me, I should be in my childhood home now.
The man on the wicker chair in front of me is the bastard dad who will run away in the future.
And he can't control [himself].
Just like the first-person perspective when playing a game, watching [myself] relive the memory traces of the past.
This must have happened when I was a child, right?
Seeing the old man whose appearance he had almost forgotten talking about old things that he had almost forgotten, Kambara felt a burst of emotion in his heart.
He didn't expect that when he saw this person again after so many years, he would actually be in Qi Mingyue's dream.
It’s really ironic.
However.
Isn’t this Qimingyue’s dream?
Since it was Qi Mingyue’s dream, then why am I still here?
Qi Mingyue definitely has no memory of talking to her father alone.
Taking advantage of the boring break between dad and [myself] chatting.
Kagura Raku has rediscovered the detailed description of the props of [Dream Corridor].
In Regulation No. 334, I found the description of the dream connection.
[334. If the dreamer and the dreamer have memories of the same time period, then the dreamer will automatically enter the same identity in the dreamer's memory. At the same time, the dream environment will be created by the dreamer's memory]
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This explanation is a bit difficult to pronounce.
Explain briefly.
This is the current dream, which is equivalent to a dream space built based on the memories of two people.
During this time period, Kanhara Raku and Tianhai Qimingyue respectively replaced themselves as children.
As for why there is no Qimingyue yet?
Kagura Raku guessed that the timeline of this world has not yet reached the time when the two met.
Qi Mingyue should still be recalling her own affairs.
In her memories, the person "Kanahara Raku" has not yet appeared.
......
Why does it feel like playing an online game?
Kanbaru is a little depressed.
The most important thing is that I can't move yet, it's just like watching a movie.
But that’s okay.
Anyway, I don’t remember anything, so watching a “movie” from my childhood can be regarded as reminiscing about the past.
......
After the bastard dad complained for a while on the wicker chair about his grandparents not wanting him to move away from his hometown, he waved his hand and sent him away [Kamihara Raku].
Obviously, he has little interest in a seven-year-old kid and doesn't expect him to help him solve his problems.
I just use my son as an outlet for my complaints.
It's best to listen. If you don't obey, just lecture.
After a few minutes, suddenly a little girl with a ponytail ran over from outside.
"Brother, brother!"
Kanbaru smiled when he saw her.
Of course, because he couldn't control his childhood self, he only smiled in his heart.
Kamihara Suzu, little Kamihara Suzu, who was only five years old, ran over crying.
As soon as she got home, she told [Kanahara Raku] that someone was bullying her.
"Who?"
"Selling...the skinny monkey selling snacks, and the fat guy selling oranges."
It can be said that Kanbaru Suzu cried to herself as soon as she came back, complaining about her grievances and grievances, with tears streaming down her face and pitifully, and she was holding two broken bamboos in her hands.
"What——"
"You little girl, you run out to play on a rainy day?"
When the father heard his daughter crying, he looked back while holding a cigarette between his fingers. He happened to see Kanbaru Suzuna who had been soaked in the rain. He was already angry because he was laid off, so he launched an attack on his daughter.
Angry.
Kanbaru Suzu was originally afraid of her father. When she heard him yelling at her, she felt scared and became even more sad, and her tears couldn't stop falling.
"Crying again?! Still crying. If crying could solve the problem, I wouldn't have to be so upset!"
"Dad, don't say that to A Ling, she is still young."
"So are you, brat! If I hadn't paid to support you - forget it."
When the father saw his daughter like this, he felt upset, naughty and disobedient. He impatiently waved to his son and asked his son to take her elsewhere to cry.
"Go, go, let's go."
Kanbaru Suzu stood behind her brother. She was so young that she couldn't hold back her tears. She kept wiping her tears with the clothes on her elbows. And because she was afraid that her father would talk to her again, she tried her best not to cry out.
Dare to wipe tears with your hands.
......
Alas, as a bystander, Kanhara Raku felt heartbroken when he saw these memories that were so far away that he had forgotten them.
......
Fortunately, [Kamihara Raku] also felt very sorry for this sister and kept comforting her with words.
After her father waved his hand twice, he took her away from here. Along the verandah around the house, the two of them came to the other end of the yard.
[Kamihara Raku]Ask her what exactly happened.
Kanbaru Suzu tried hard to hold back her tears and showed him the two bamboos held in her dirty hands.
This thing...Kanahara Raku remembers it.
Isn’t this a bamboo gun?
Stuff a wet paper towel inside the bamboo, and then poke it with a thinner bamboo, and it will make a "pop" sound when it is launched.
It's quite painful to hit someone.
Kogamihara Suzu cried and said: "They... they broke this of mine... and used their that... that... to beat me... There are so many of them, I, I can't beat them."
them."
Hearing A Ling's milky voice, long-ago memories seemed to suddenly come to life.
By the way, it seems that when A Ling was a child, she didn’t have to deal with the children in the two shops selling oranges and snacks in the village.
Ah Ling always said that they bullied her.
It is said to be bullying, but in fact it is just children playing around.
Ah Ling is very competitive and can't compete with them, that's why she said this.
But this time the other party seemed to have gone too far. A Ling said that they used bamboo guns to beat her and bully her alone. She could not fight with the bamboo guns of the two of them, and her friends did not dare to fight with those two.
The naughty child is in opposition.
She ran out of bullets and the opponent chased her and beat her, and ran all the way back home.
The bamboo gun I made for her was stepped on while running.
They kept laughing at the bamboo gun her brother made for her, which was trash and terrible.
While Kogamihara Suzu was unable to do anything to them, they were so angry that she wanted to cry.
"I...I, wuwu, I said it was not rubbish, but they, they still said that you did...I...I..."
"Okay, okay, don't cry, if something is broken, it's broken."
"But...but..."
(This is childhood)
Seeing the crying little A Ling, Kambara felt emotional and at the same time thought she was quite cute when she was a child.
"A Ling wants to be better than them?"
"Hmm... um... they, too, went too far..." Kanbaru Suzu cried, but nodded seriously.
"Okay, come with me." [Kamihara Le] kept touching her head.
"What, what are you going out for...? Brother... Brother, aren't you afraid of being told by dad? It's raining outside..."
"Let's do it secretly, just don't let him find out."
[Kamihara Raku]'s smile made little Kamihara Suzu feel at ease. When she heard that her brother was taking her out again, she wiped away her tears and kept nodding.
She followed her brother to the woodshed and watched him pick up the hatchet and then pick up a roll of tape in the tool box.
The ignorant little Kamihara Suzu didn't know what her brother was going to do, but she knew that all she had to do was follow her brother.
Her brother would give her delicious food and play with her. Even the bamboo gun just now was a toy made for her by her brother.
......
"Let's go out."
"Hmm, um...ok..."
Kagamihara Suzu followed Kagamihara Raku all the way to the door, walked through the dirt road covered with weeds, arrived at a hill near her home, and arrived in front of a clump of bamboo near the roadside.
[Kamihara Raku] looked at the bamboo and selected it for a long time, then selected the target and chopped off the small bamboo with a knife.
Kogamihara Suzu probably knew what he was going to do. By this time, her sobbing had gradually gotten better.
"Brother, do you want... to make another one?"
"Of course."
"But, I still can't beat them two."
"Don't worry." [Kamihara Raku] said to her sister to relax while wielding a hatchet to cut off the bamboo.
The plum rain was drizzle, and the chopped bamboo rustled overhead.
[Kamihara Raku] First cut off a small piece of bamboo, and then selected a smaller piece of bamboo as the firing pin for launching the bamboo gun. I poked the firing pin into the gun barrel and tried it.
The size...is not good.
[Kamihara Raku] I guessed that the size of the bamboos didn’t match, so I cut a few more in succession, compared them carefully, and tried to compress the progress of the bamboo gun to the limit.
After cutting five bamboos, I finally made a bamboo gun with a firing pin and a barrel that fit perfectly.
It looks like a very exquisite gadget.
He took out a napkin from his pocket, dipped it in the rainwater from the puddles on the roadside, and then stuffed it into the bamboo gun to test its power.
The sound of "Pa!" is quite powerful.
Ogamihara Suzu has played with the bamboo gun a lot, she can hear the sound, and can see that the one her brother made is much more powerful than before.
Her eyes shine.
[Kamihara Raku] It can be seen that Kogamihara Suzu wants it very much.
"Don't worry, I'll modify it for you."
Kogamihara Suzu didn’t understand anything and just nodded.
[Kamihara Raku] used a knife to cut a rectangular hole in the barrel of the bamboo gun, then picked a larger No. 2 bamboo and hollowed out both sides.
Then, push the No. 2 bamboo vertically into the bamboo barrel so that it is nested in the hole of the bamboo barrel, forming a cross shape.
In this way, a bamboo gun with a magazine is a small success.
Kagura Raku pinched several wet tissue bullets and put them into the bamboo magazine at the top, pushing the firing pin back and forth several times.
"Pa bang bang"
At this time, the bamboo gun did not make a "pop" sound, but several times in succession.
Xiaogamihara Suzu saw the gadget her brother got for her from the side, and her eyes were filled with stars.
"Okay...you can fire continuously..."
"Wait a minute, I'll tie it up for you."
[Kamihara Raku] used the plastic tape at home to tie the assembled continuous bamboo gun, and used cross binding to tie the inner three layers and the outer three layers back and forth.
After confirming that it was secure, he handed the toy, which was half the length of a small A-ling's hand, to her.
"Okay, take it."
Kogamihara Suzu took over this "artifact" from her brother's hand just like receiving the Holy Grail.
She looked at this particularly delicate-looking bamboo gun with a curious look on her face.
"Do you know how to use it?"
"Well, put bullets on it!"
"Smart, but you have to prepare bullets in advance. It's best to use small fruits like that. Whenever someone bullies you with a bamboo gun, use this to deal with him."
Kogamihara Suzu nodded repeatedly, eager to try, and the tears she had shed before were gone.
"But," [Kamihara Raku] said seriously to little Kamihara Suzu, "don't slap this on other people's faces, you know? Just hit them on the stomach or hands. If you don't obey, I will take this away from you.
Back."
"I, I understand, thank you brother."
[Kamihara Raku] smiled and touched her sister's head again, "Okay, let's go out and play. The rain has lightened up now, so be careful."
"Yeah, yeah."
Xiaogamihara Suzu couldn't wait any longer. Although she was young, she knew that the thing her brother had made for her was much better than theirs!
The one selling oranges and the one selling snacks, if they knew they could do this in succession, they would definitely envy themselves to death!
"Remember."
"Okay."
[Kamihara Raku] smiled as he watched his sister happily trotting down the hillside.
At the same time, Kanbaru Raku, who witnessed this incident from a first-hand perspective, was also filled with emotions.
Continuous-shooting bamboo gun.
With this thing in hand, Ah Ling will definitely become the king of the kids among those little brats, right?
It’s really a nostalgic gadget.
The perspective continues to move with [self].
[I] walked down the mountain and headed back home along the narrow field ridges where the mountains were intertwined.
The plum rain is still falling, although it is very small, but if you stay under the rain for a long time, it will inevitably leave layers of tiny raindrops on your head.
[Myself] is carrying a hatchet used for chopping firewood at home. It seems that he has the habit of admiring the scenery while walking. He occasionally turns his head to observe the highway lanes parallel to the field ridges.
A car passed by the rural station across the field, making the sound of tires in the rain.
The plum rainy day makes the dark sky heavy, which also makes the surrounding scenery dim. The wind in the plum rain continues to press the tender green straw in the fields, one after another, one after another turns white and rustles.
[Self], suddenly stopped.
The angle of view involuntarily went to the little girl sitting alone under the country station. Her conspicuous flaxen hair and blue dress wet by the rain involuntarily attracted [myself] on the field ridge across the road. p>
The little girl's face was gloomy, and she looked indescribably lonely.
Just sitting alone, without shaking his legs or turning his head.
Kanbaru also saw it.
He understands [his] mood now.
Curiosity - Curious why she appears here.
I’m curious as to why she’s still sitting here alone despite being caught in the rain.
[He] stood on the field ridge and watched for a while. Probably out of concern, he crossed the field ridge, crossed the highway, and came to the station.
"...Are you okay?"
In order not to make himself look like a bad person, [Kamihara Raku] lowered his voice very softly.
The little girl was not wary of him, did not raise her head, and of course, did not speak.
She is very weird.
That’s what [Kamihara Raku] thought at the time.
Today’s Kanhara Raku thinks the same way.
If I remember correctly, Qi Mingyue should be only five years old at this time.
A little girl about the same age as her sister.
Why...she shows that calm expression of nothing?
[Kamihara Raku] asked her gently twice more, and then the little girl responded.
She raised her face.
Issued the most common question.
"Who are you?"
Well, Kagura Raku has to admit that even Miss Tianhai’s voice is quite cold in her childhood.
He continued to read.
[Myself] is answering:
"Who am I? My name is Kagura Raku, and I live in the house across from the field. Let me point it out to you. Well, that's right there. I live there."
The little girl did not look in the direction he pointed, but turned her sky-blue eyes to see the hatchet and the unused roll of tape in his hand.
"Are you here to kidnap me?"
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As expected of Miss Tianhai, she had such a personality even in her childhood.
"If so, I hope you will hurry up."
Even so, Kanbaru Raku felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart when he saw such a young Nanamigyue showing a sad expression.
Perspective continues.
"Of course not, I'm just curious why you are here."
"Well, I'm right here."
"?"
"Kidnap me quickly."
The little girl said this and held out her arms to him with their wrists together.
How strange.
"I'm not here to kidnap you. I'm holding a hatchet because I just chopped bamboo."
"Yeah, that's such a pity." The little girl put down her hand and continued to lower her head. After being quiet for a while, she raised her eyes again and asked, "Why are you talking to me."
"You stay here alone on a rainy day and you are wet. No one will care."
"Really, but I've been sitting here for a long time, and my mother hasn't come to see me." The little girl looked down at her stained skirt.
"How long have you been here?"
"...I don't know, I only know that it was raining heavily at that time."
"Is it raining heavily? It must be at least noon, but it's almost five o'clock in the afternoon now, and you've been sitting here all afternoon?!"
"Probably..."
This place is close to the sea and is a rural area on an island. Except for a car that will pass by for a long time, no one will pass by here at all on rainy days.
Alas, a five-year-old girl got caught in the rain and sat at a rural station for several hours.
Even if Kamigahara sees it now, he can't help but ask.
[I] thought the same way at that time. After hearing the little girl's answer, I couldn't help but frown:
"I haven't seen you in the village. Are you not from the village?"
"My mother, sister, and I are here to travel."
"Travel...oh, are you staying at the Clement Hotel? That place has just been repaired."
"It seems...that's the name."
"That place is not too far away."
The little girl stopped talking. She seemed to like being alone like this.
[Kamihara Raku] saw her wet little skirt.
"You'll catch a cold like this."
"Hmm."
"...cold can be very uncomfortable."
"Hmm."
"...Do you understand what a cold means?"
"Hmm."
From the perspective of watching a movie, Kanbaru watched Xiao Qiyue replying three "um"s in a row when asked by [himself], and couldn't help but sigh at Miss Tianhai's weird personality when she was a child.
"Where is your home? Do you want to go home?"
"I want to wait for my mother to come find me."
"...But you waited from morning to noon and now."
(Aunt... Alas, no matter how bad a woman she is, she would not leave five-year-old Qi Mingyue here like this!)
"Hmm."
Still "Yeah."
This proves that what he said makes no sense at all now.
"It's raining a little less now, maybe... you can try walking back to the hotel first?"
"I have to wait for my mother. Mom...should come to me."
"How about you follow me first?"
"..."
Xiaoqi Mingyue didn't answer, she was too stubborn to listen to what he said.
She seemed very reluctant.
This is normal. For her, [she] is just a strange peer.
How can a mother be so close to you?
He was a little worried about the little girl, but he had no reason to take the little girl away. He was probably thinking that he would call her mother to pick her up when he returned to the village.
[Kamihara Raku] This stranger did not stay here for too long and turned around and left the station.
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Because this road is originally close to the sea, even though it is June, the wind from the seaside will still make people feel chilly at night.
After walking for a while, the sea breeze blew over. Even though the clothes on his body were not soaked by the rain, the cold wind penetrated into his body and still made him feel cold.
I am already so cold, and that little girl is all wet, how cold must it be?
Looking back again, the little girl with flaxen hair at the foot of the station was lowering her head, her body trembling in the cold rain and wind.
[Kamihara Raku] It’s quite distressing to see:
"How about I take you to the village? Maybe your mother is looking for you in the village."
"You're back again, are you really going to kidnap me?"
"I really don't mean that. Look, the village is on the other side of the road. Let's just go there."
The little girl then looked in the direction he pointed.
She seemed to know that was where she came from.
"Hmm."
"Still, don't want to?"
"You are a stranger."
"It's a good thing that you are wary, but it doesn't matter if you are sitting here now. It will be very uncomfortable if you catch a cold later. Look, you are also very uncomfortable with the cold now."
Perhaps because her body is too cold and she has been sitting for too long, the little girl can no longer stay here.
"Let's go, I'll take you there."
"I can't leave..."
"Why?"
[Kamihara Raku] Then I saw that her feet were obviously muddy and had scars from a fall.
There was also an injury on the knee, but it was blocked by the skirt and I couldn't see it right away.
"It was an injury from a fall on the mountain just now. I can't walk...it hurts..."
"A sprained foot?"
The sea breeze blew over again. At this time, the little girl was obviously a little colder, and her drooping face turned pale.
Kanbaru could see that there were some signs of a cold on her face.
"I'll carry you there."
This is the only way right now.
"Are you willing?"
"...You won't carry me and jump into the sea, will you?"
"...How could you have such a strange idea?"
"My sister said you can't just trust uncles outside."
"...But I'm not an uncle, I'm a brother...You look like my sister is as old as you."
"Yeah...you're not a weird uncle."
The little girl nodded and said that after a few exchanges, she relented. Although the reason for relenting was very strange, she did let [Kamihara Raku] carry her on her back.
"Hands, you can try to hold my neck, hold it tighter."
"Hmm."
"Just put your body on my back. Relax, I won't take you to jump into the sea."
Her body is small and her arms are soft, giving her the unique lightness of a little girl.
It's not too strenuous to carry, but it's a bit wet.
Although Kanbaru Raku cannot feel the feelings in the dream, as [himself], he has experienced such a scene personally.
I still subconsciously imagine the feeling of carrying a wet little girl on my back.
"Sit tight."
[Kamihara Raku] Carrying Xiaoqi Mingyue on his back, he walked on the roadside, braved the slight plum rain, and started to head towards the village.
"How strange."
"What's weird."
"Why didn't mom come to me..."
But probably because she had been wet in the rain for a long time, her body was trembling and her speech was softer than before.
Her face was pressed against [Kamihara Raku]'s shoulder.
"Maybe she doesn't know you're gone? Or maybe she's looking for you in the village now."
"Really?"
"Of course, no mother would care about her daughter. Your mother must be very anxious to find you."
This sentence seems to make Xiao Qi Mingyue feel at ease a little.
She put most of her strength on [Kamihara Raku]'s back.
"What's your name?"
"Tianhai..."
"What is Tianhai?"
"Qi Mingyue (Jerky Chinese)..."
"...Strange, you can also speak Chinese?"
"Well, because mom said, it's hard to spell my name in Japanese."
"Then what should I call you?"
"July... that's okay, that's what my mother called me."
"Okay, I'll call you Qi Qi."
"Well...what's my brother's name?"
"As I said just now, Kagura music, the music of Kagura."
"Can't spell it out..."
"It's okay if you can't spell it out. I can teach you, but don't sleep. You will definitely catch a cold if you sleep."
"Well...I understand. Isn't it uncomfortable for my brother to carry me on his back?"