Chapter 198 In the snowy sky, Raku Sakakihara fell into Nanamiyue’s dreamland (End)
"Speaking of which, why did you ask me to kidnap you just now?"
"Brother, you have a knife in your hand... you have tape... and you are talking to me alone."
When you think about this scene carefully, it is indeed a bit daunting to see it at a sparsely populated rural station on a rainy day.
"...Shouldn't it be normal to be afraid?"
"If someone kidnaps me, my mother will come find me."
What a naive idea... Kanbaru thought to himself.
[Myself] in the perspective seems to have the same consciousness.
"What a naive idea... Don't think like that in July. If you are really captured by bad guys, you will never see your mother again in your life."
"Yeah." She nodded behind her back.
"Do you understand?"
"Understood."
Although Qi Qi had a weird personality when she was a child and was not as quiet as an ordinary five-year-old girl, her answers still had the cuteness of a child when she said yes.
She is still a child after all.
Walking along the road towards the village. The closer you get, the colder and narrower the scenery becomes. The countryside and wasteland disappear. Instead, what comes into view are old Japanese-style buildings with black roof ridges and bluestone roads mixed with moss. Go around.
The dark green cedar trees growing on the black roof ridges were wetted by the rain, and the branches and leaves extending towards the street swayed in the wind, gently shining with the sheen of water.
On the street, in the rainy season, not a single soul was seen.
When [Kamihara Raku] was walking around the village with Xiaoqi Mingyue on her back, she was leaning on her back as if she was constantly looking at what was around her with her eyes.
"Looking for mom?"
"Well..."
Turning the perspective, [I] or heard the little girl's words, started to help her search around.
Not to mention people, even the orange cat that usually lies on the eaves is gone.
"Don't worry, let's go for a walk, we might encounter them."
"Okay."
As they moved forward, the surrounding scenery still maintained a uniform tone, and there was also no human figure. Slowly, Xiao Qiyue gradually lowered her eyes and buried her head deeper and deeper behind his shoulder.<
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"Mom, I'm probably looking for you elsewhere in the village."
"...really?"
"Well, yes, in July, you see, our village is quite big, there is a seaport, and so many people live there, so it's normal if mom doesn't meet us for a while."
"What my brother said makes sense..."
"Because that's the thing," [Kamihara Raku] tried her best to coax the children, "There are always difficult moments in life, maybe someone steps on a stone on the road and accidentally hurts his foot.
Then he turned around and walked towards another road."
“I don’t quite understand.”
"Well, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it well. You will understand it later. I think you are very smart in Qiyue, and you will definitely understand it later."
The little girl suddenly lost her voice: "I'm not as smart as my sister..."
"How come, you are great."
"Brother, don't you want to please me?"
"...Why should I please you?"
"Kidnap me and make me listen to you. I heard that there is that kind of perverted uncle who likes to kidnap little girls."
"...I told you that I am an elder brother, not an uncle..."
A gust of cold wind blew, and she hugged [Kamihara Le] tightly.
"Is it cold?"
"Cold..."
"Then in July, just hold on a little longer. Once you cross the bridge outside the village, you will almost arrive at your hotel. Promise my brother not to sleep."
"Okay..."
Clement Hotel.
This hotel standing on the edge of the village and close to the pier is somewhat incompatible with the houses in the village.
Essentially, it is a sea view hotel born to promote local tourism.
Because the village is located on the edge of Matsuyama City and borders the Seto Inland Sea, it is one of the main producing areas of Ehime oranges. It is also famous for its famous attractions such as Insorha Shrine, Dogo Onsen, Castle Tower, and Shimanami Kaido. The Hayami County Government under Matsuyama City also wants to take a share of the pie and encourage local people to launch Ehime orange picking experiences, Seto Inland Sea seafood fishing experiences, pearl picking handicraft making, pottery making, rural life style experiences...
and other tourism projects.
The Clement Hotel has just been built, and the tourism project is still unfinished.
My aunt and two sisters should be the first travelers here.
Arriving at the entrance of the well-known modern hotel in the village, Xiao Qi Mingyue shook her head behind her back.
"Not here."
"Ah? Not this hotel?"
"It's this hotel, but my mother's temporary accommodation will be next to the hotel, in a house near the sea."
That place.
It seems to be a tourist villa area, with VIP access for very wealthy people.
[Kamihara Raku] Continue to carry Xiaoqi Mingyue and move forward quickly.
"Your family is very rich in July, so you live in that place."
"Mom is a big star."
"Big star? No wonder you are so cute and your hair is golden."
"Brother really wants to kidnap me."
"Don't worry about this anymore. I would throw all my hatchets at the station for you... Is your mother a big star abroad?"
"UK."
"Mixed, no wonder. But why do you speak Chinese?"
"Grandpa can speak Chinese."
"Grandpa speaks Chinese? Oh, I probably know it."
"Mom can do it, and dad can do it too."
"Your mother is of English-Chinese descent, right, but why is your father too?"
"My father is very powerful. He can speak many languages. He will be a barrister in the future."
"So, your mother came to Japan to get married?"
"Yeah, mom and dad are both great."
[Myself] smiled: "I feel like you like your parents so much in July."
"Dad...and mom are very good to me and my sister."
"That's a really warm family. You're rich, and your parents are very nice to you. I think the dress you're wearing is probably very expensive."
"I don't know how much...does my brother's family have no money?"
"No, our family is just ordinary farmers, both grandfather and grandmother."
"Do you want me to give you money, brother?"
"Haha, where do you have any money?"
While jogging and chatting along the way, the bumps in her body made Xiao Qi Mingyue feel much better.
I don’t feel so sleepy anymore and want to sleep.
......
Kanbaru felt that Xiaoqi Mingyue was an ordinary little girl at this time.
She looks forward to her parents very much, likes them very much, and easily accepts people who are good to her.
This is completely different from the seven bright moons in the sky and sea in the future.
As for the reason why she became like that, as [she] walked through the rainy season, Kambara believed that she had spied part of it...
Around a villa surrounded by palm trees and flowering vines.
[Kamihara Raku] Walked around with Xiaoqi Mingyue who had injured her foot on her back.
Because they couldn't remember which house it was, they walked to three or four villas in a row.
"There is a piano sound."
A hint of light music mixed in the misty rain.
This short section of piano keeps playing, and it seems that the piano player is practicing this piece of music.
[Kamihara Le] raised his head and looked towards the last house in the villa area.
"Is it over there?"
He asked the little girl behind him.
But Xiaoqi Mingyue didn't know why. After hearing this piano piece, her mood suddenly became depressed, and her little head hid in [Kanahara Le]'s shoulder.
"What's wrong?"
"Yes...my sister is practicing the piano."
"Your sister?"
"Well..."
[Kamihara Le] carried Xiaoqi Mingyue on her back and continued to approach until she stood outside a metal fence.
He poked his head in and left and right, looking through the cracks in the fence for the figure in the window of the villa.
He saw the figure in the room standing behind a little girl.
And the other little girl with the same hair color as Xiao Qi Mingyue seemed to be listening to her mother's instructions and kept tapping the dark upright piano with her hands.
Beautiful music flows from your fingertips.
Even though the little girl was obviously tired, her fingers kept playing.
The mother had a smile on her face, holding her chin with her fingers and nodding regularly to the rhythm of her daughter's piano.
The wet little girl saw this, saw this in the rain.
My mood became increasingly depressed.
On one side is a home full of warm lights, a mother full of smiles, and an older sister practicing the piano hard.
On the other side, under the heavy sky, my sister was caught in the rain, her feet were injured, and her whole body was wet.
......
The little girl seems to be clutching the clothes on [her] shoulders.
[I] didn’t look back and kept looking at the scenery inside the house.
Although Kanbaru Raku cannot see things beyond [his] perspective, he can probably feel Nanamiyue's mood.
My mother was still standing in the room teaching my sister.
This shows that throughout the entire afternoon, my mother... didn't look for her at all.
Even though her clothes got wet, she slipped on the mountain, and she waited quietly for several hours at a rural station.
Her mother never looked for her at all.
.......
Kanbaru even couldn't help but think of the little girl who was waiting under the country station just now.
.......
"...I'll take you back."
Xiao Qi Mingyue seemed to hesitate, hesitated for several seconds, and then glanced at her mother and sister in the room.
She hid her sight and kept shaking her head, shaking her head.
She was unwilling to accept the fact that her mother never came to find her.
"But your mother...and she is at home. If you don't go back, you will definitely catch a cold."
She still shook her head and grabbed the clothes on [Kamihara Le]'s back with her hands.
Kanbaru can understand [his] thoughts now.
No matter what, the person inside is her mother.
At this moment [I] am just a stranger.
[Myself] sighed, walked around the fence on the side, and started walking towards the door.
"No."
At this time, the little girl behind him grabbed his clothes with her hands, expressing her inner thoughts with her actions.
[Kamihara Raku] tried to dissuade.
"Don't... don't... I don't want to go back..."
"But you don't go back——"
"I don't want..."
She just repeated this.
"But you will get sick if you do this."
"I won't go back."
This tugging went on for quite a long time, and no matter how [Kamihara Raku] tried to comfort her, she refused to enter the house.
[Kamihara Raku] Wanted to warn the people in the room, but Xiaoqi Mingyue became anxious and bit him with her teeth to stop him from shouting.
I almost fell off my back because of it.
The little girl on her back didn't know if her body was cold, so she hugged [Kamihara Raku] more closely from behind.
"Really don't want to go back?"
The little girl didn't respond, so she acquiesced.
It is impossible for such a big child to leave her outside.
She doesn’t want to go back.
And if you force her again, she will have the energy to seek death and survive.
(My aunt is really bad. Qi Mingyue disappeared in the afternoon, so she couldn’t even find her.)
The angle of view glanced at the beautiful woman who was very happy in the room.
Inside is a sister with clean clothes, which forms an even greater contrast.
"Really, really don't want to go back?"
Xiao Qi Mingyue behind her still didn’t respond, but buried her face deeper.
"You're really going to catch a cold now."
Although the rainy season in June is not too cold, it cannot withstand long periods of hard work.
There was no other way. Faced with a little girl who refused to go anywhere, [Kamihara Raku] could only suggest to her that she go to his home.
"Anyway, my home is not far from here, and there is a phone at home. When we go there, how about we give your mother a call first to let you know?"
......
"Hmm."
Just like that, [I] carried Xiao Qi Mingyue on my back and turned back the way I came.,
......
Arriving at the door of the house, [I] pushed the door open and found that it was locked.
I knocked inside and waited under the eaves for a long time, but still no response.
Kanbaru immediately guessed that his bastard father must have gone to play cards and locked the door.
"My dad doesn't seem to be here. Let's go to my grandma's house. I live there recently and my grandma's house is not far away."
Listen to what [myself] once said.
Kagura Raku really feels like he is a child abductor.
Although I was only 7 years old at that time.
......
Grandma’s house didn’t lock the door.
Grandma and grandpa were both not at home either, so Kanhara Raku, who didn’t know what they were doing, had to settle down with Xiao Qi Mingyue first.
This little loli is not in a good mood right now.
Recently, he and his sister have been staying at his grandmother's house, and his father only came back to stay temporarily for two days, so his grandmother's house also has A Ling's clothes.
Xiaoqi Mingyue’s dress got wet and must be changed.
"Do your feet still hurt?"
"Pain."
"Then can you take a bath alone? If you get caught in the rain, you must take a hot bath."
"My sister and I washed them together."
——The implication is that she needs someone to accompany her.
At that time, what strange ideas could a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl have?
Kagura Raku watched helplessly as Xiao Qi Mingyue buried her face in silence and nodded in agreement to let him help her take a bath after asking him repeatedly.
"Then let's go to the bathroom and I'll help you take off your clothes."
Wash her hair, hands, and arms. The most important thing is that she washes herself.
After flushing the hot water, [I] covered Xiao Qi Mingyue’s head with a towel and wiped her hair clean.
"Do you feel more comfortable after taking a bath?"
"..."
"Can you please wear my sister's clothes first?"
Just a gentle "Hmm."
Elderly people always have sprain ointments and bandages at home, which can be used in emergencies.
Xiaoqi Mingyue sat on the sofa and stretched out her injured foot.
[Kannahara] Use ice packs to apply to her wounds.
"Cool..."
"Be patient, your feet are a little swollen and need to be treated with ice." In order to help her relieve the pressure, [Kanahara Le] smiled at her and said, "Can't you speak in July?"
After some time, I took a bath again. At this time, Xiao Qi Mingyue's mood seemed to have recovered a little.
"Brother, can you heal injuries?"
"I can't, but I'm still good at dealing with sprains like this."
"..."
"Why don't you talk again? It's so fun to chat. Or do you want me to ask you? For example, where did you originally live, where did you come from, what do you usually like, and so on."
"I don't know."
"Don't know?"
“I don’t know what I like, and I don’t know what I like to eat.”
"That shouldn't be the case. Children should all have their own favorite things."
"Then my brother is also a child. What does he like?"
"Me?" [Kamihara Raku] said while applying ointment to her little fleshy feet, "I don't have anything I like. I can eat anything, and my family is not too rich... As for what I like,
Probably just playing with my sister. Alas, I don’t know if this is a return to childhood. I actually had a lot of fun with my sister, helping her make some small toys, and then watching her admire me with envy.
Brother."
Xiao Qi Mingyue didn't pay much attention to what he said. Instead, she kept paying attention to his actions of squeezing her feet and helping her to deal with her injuries.
Her belly started to growl.
"Are you hungry?"
"Well, I'm hungry."
"Then wait, let me take a look."
[Kamihara Raku] stood up with his knees up, left the living room, and went to the kitchen for a while.
"What is this?"
"Potato chips...the snacks my grandma bought for her. I don't know if my sister put them in the refrigerator. It's a bit cold. You just have to eat them first, and I'll make you a bowl of fried rice."
Xiaoqi Mingyue took the packaging bag he handed over: "I haven't eaten it before..."
"Do you know how to open it?"
Shake your head.
[Kamihara Raku] helped her open the bag of potato chips and said, "Take it and eat it."
......
Watch this scene from a first-person perspective and with the mentality of a bystander.
Kagura Raku didn't even realize that he was so good at... kidnapping and selling a lolita, and made her obedient in just a few words.
......
Perspective continues.
Because there are still leftover rice, green onions and eggs in the refrigerator, [I] plan to fry a bowl of the most common egg fried rice for her to eat.
I was worried that she wouldn't like it, so I fried some minced meat in advance and added it to the fried rice to add flavor.
After the fried rice is fried, it will already have a fragrant aroma.
[My] perspective suddenly changes.
At the door of the kitchen, Xiao Qi Mingyue was looking at herself against the wall. She was holding the potato chips she had just eaten.
"What's wrong?"
"This...is delicious..." She carefully carried the packaging bag.
"Have you finished eating?"
"Not yet."
"Then just wait a little longer and the food will be ready soon."
At the age of seven, I was really nimble with my hands and feet. I could make a plate of fried rice with minced meat and eggs in just a few seconds.
Fried rice with minced meat and eggs came to five-year-old Xiao Qi Mingyue, with a specially prepared spoon.
She stared at the meal for a long time, her stomach growled with hunger, but she still didn't start eating.
"Don't like it?"
"...I'm sorry."
"Why do you suddenly say this?"
"Shouldn't bite you..."
Seeing how reasonable this child was, [Kamihara Raku] comforted her and asked her to eat quickly.
"How does it taste?"
Didn't speak for a while.
"It's delicious, what is this?"
"It's just ordinary fried rice."
"I've never eaten this..."
"Isn't that right? You are five years old and you have never eaten fried rice? What do you usually eat?"
"Lunchboxes and bread from convenience stores...occasionally eat big lobsters and big crabs."
......
Kanbaru Raku can speculate that her aunt is probably too lazy to prepare food, so she brings them lunch boxes on weekdays.
Big lobsters, big crabs, etc., those must be things to eat out.
It’s not that these things are bad, it just doesn’t taste like rice at all.
To be precise, Qi Mingyue must have never had home-cooked meals.
Judging from the speed of eating, she really likes this fried rice.
"Is it delicious?"
“Delicious.”
"That's good."
Halfway through, Xiao Qi Mingyue's eating speed slowed down again.
"Thirsty?"
"Hmm."
"Wait a minute, I'll get you some water."
After receiving a glass of water and handing it to her, Kanbaru went to the yard to pick a few fresh early-maturing oranges and peeled them for her to eat.
I’m worried that I’ll find a plush blanket for her to wear later.
After eating a full meal, I also ate potato chips and oranges, and I wasn’t cold anymore.
Xiao Qi Mingyue, however, held the blanket to warm her body and continued to lower her head.
[Kamihara Raku] sat next to her and saw that she was still a little unhappy. He continued to tell her some interesting things or stories. He also took out A Ling's toys for her to play with.
When they got to the back, Xiao Qi Mingyue looked at him several times.
The stories he told were quite fascinating, and Xiao Qi Mingyue was entranced several times.
......
Afterwards, grandma came home, and [Kamihara Raku] explained to her grandma, but grandma didn’t say anything about the existence of the little girl.
I just got her mother's phone number from her mouth and contacted her via landline.
In the end, her mother and sister came to pick her up.
At this time, Xiao Qi Mingyue could still feel that her stomach was full, and the aroma of the fried rice was still lingering in her mouth.
She is reluctant to let go of her brother who wants to kidnap and traffic her today.
"After I go back, will I see my brother again?"
"Of course, you are welcome to come and play at any time."
Until the moment her sight completely disappeared, her eyes were still on him.,
.......
I don’t know if it’s because dreams often don’t match the real world, but this period of time went on for a long, long time.
For several days.
From the initial encounter to the next day, Qi Mingyue, under the guidance of her mother, went to play with him.
Later, she went to play with him by herself.
As for [himself], he was bored anyway, so he took her and the two to visit all the scenery around the village.
He took her to climb mountains, took her and A-Ling to fish by the creek, made a fire and barbecued branches, took her on a boat trip, and took her to the beach to fish.
Tell her where there are cat nests and sparrow nests in the village.
He even took them to steal one or two oranges from the orchard in the next village.
Although this is indeed a bit unkind and a sudden whim, the feeling of running wildly with two little girls is indeed quite exciting.
Oh, by the way.
Ah Ling was so anxious that she froze on the spot and cried loudly because she failed to climb over the wall when there was a big black dog in the yard.
Then the lady of the orchard was alarmed. Unexpectedly, she was a friend of my mother's.
Naturally, the three of them were left here and spent the whole afternoon cleaning the ground as compensation.
Visible to the naked eye, Xiao Qiyue became cheerful.
Kanbaru watched the whole journey and was mostly filled with emotion.
Later, Xiao Qiyue became more and more interested in playing with herself.
She even went against her mother's wishes and ran out before completing her piano lessons.
Just to sneak a look at him.
Naturally, she faced punishment from her mother, who banned her from practicing.
After the lockdown ended, it was also the night when the rainy season ended.
[Self] Help A Ling bury her fireflies.
It was from here that Kanbaru noticed something was wrong.
——I always tell her about Sherlock Holmes and how powerful and smart the Sherlock Holmes is.
Xiao Qi and Mingyue are all enjoying it.
She was probably in a bad mood today because she couldn't match her sister's talent at the piano. When [I] noticed this, I started to encourage her and made a promise to her.
——An agreement was made: "Next time we meet, as long as you learn a little more, I will prepare an extra story you like in exchange."
Xiaoqi Mingyue asked [himself] why.
[Myself] replied to her: "Because I quite like people who know everything."
When Xiao Qi Mingyue heard [her] words, she lowered her head and looked at the ground, as if repeating this sentence again and again.
I even checked the box and made a promise.
......
When Kanbaru saw this, he wanted to slap himself.
Is this a sin of your own making?
......
When saying goodbye, [I] waved to her, and she stared at me from a distance.
The eyes are full of reluctance.
This scene.
Let Kanbaru understand it directly.
Why Qi Mingyue? Why does Qi Mingyue know so much knowledge?
Why does she like to read books.
Why can she answer just by asking her?
In fact, she doesn't like these things that much at all.
Rather, these things are the goals I brought to her.
She has always been moving forward because of the agreement she made with her.
After more than ten years, she had learned so much knowledge, but he never brought her a story that interested her.
——This is the penultimate day before she leaves.
In the early morning of the next day, at the last moment when she was about to go home, she came to say goodbye to her.
She was very reluctant and invited him to go home with A Ling and herself.
She will introduce him seriously to her mother.
This is naturally impossible.
"There will be a chance to meet in the future."
——My words seem to be inexplicably convincing to Xiao Qiyue.
She spent a long time trying to convince herself and then made a promise to him:
She will definitely come back to him.
And at the end, he gave her a shark keychain as a gift.
......
From here on, the dream scene becomes chaotic and disorderly.
The airport, looking back when returning to Tokyo, leaning against the airplane window and looking down with reluctance, the little girl sitting alone in the room looking at the moon, a notebook filled with circuit diagrams, the father's reproach, the sister's crying, and the constant
The sound of the train continues to ring in my ears.
There seems to be a long memory behind this.
But Shen Yuanle frowned, and his consciousness deviated in chaos and disorder.
The sky in the real world has already brightened up, and the winter sun shines slantingly into the house.
Kanbaru opened his eyes, as if he had escaped from a long dream.
It also has the aroma of green apple, and it feels very soft to the touch, so soft that you can’t help but pinch it twice.
Wait, the smell of green apple...?!
Only then did Kambara realize that he had hugged Xiaoqi Mingyue, whose face had grown many times more mature, and that she was in his arms.
Snow shoulders are exposed, hair is hanging down, and he looks at himself expressionlessly.
Kanbaru's right hand subconsciously retracted. There was still rebound.