Chapter 218 The opening of the awakening and consolation meeting
The setting sun gradually sinks, dyeing the west sky into a bright orange-red color, and the misty mountains in the distance are hazy.
Shortly after Emperor Jue left, Kyoko "awakened".
As she moved forward, her body was shaking and shaking, and she was lying on Zong Gu's back.
Next to it is a flowing river, and a group of people sit on the green space. In front of him is his neck, with beads of sweat condensed.
She raised her hand, wiped the sweat off with the sleeve of the witch's suit, and whispered: "Student Zong Gu, let me down."
“…”
He paused, turned his head to look at her for a while, and turned around again.
"Have you recovered?"
Is he carrying it on his back after walking for a day?
The memory is a little blurry, and Kyoko cannot think too deeply.
She only remembered that when she reached Sijo Bridge, he took himself out of the line, walked along Kamakawa to Sanjo Bridge, and then walked back. This situation seemed natural.
He bent down and the scene of her lying on his back was still vivid in his mind, but she couldn't remember how she agreed.
"Probably...recovered a little."
Zong Gu held her up and continued to walk forward, "Then let's go for a while."
Kyoko pursed her lower lip and hugged his shoulder.
"good."
Whether it was a quick visit to the thirty-three mountain warehouses, or walking from four bridges to three bridges, from the morning to what happened just now, it was like a long dream, and it was not until now that she felt the real feeling.
Is it because of "that state"... it should be over now, right?
"Student Zong Gu."
"Um."
"You feel..." Kyoko still didn't know how to describe it, but she thought he could understand, "Did you feel that way?"
“…”
Zong Gu looked at the sky.
Unfortunately, he has always been awake.
"I feel it. But, I don't know how to describe it to you."
Kyoko chuckled softly, without any doubt about it.
"Me too."
Lying behind him and smelling the smell of his body, she felt very at ease.
Perhaps it was because she had him by her side that after she got out of that chaotic state, she did not feel extremely empty and lost like she did in previous years.
There seemed to be something on the lower edge of her palm. She turned it over and found that it was a full and complete grain of rice.
rice?
Kyoko asked in a statement tone: "I just ate half a rice ball that Soya classmate gave me?"
"Um……"
Zong Gu paused for a moment, "What's wrong with each person eating half of it?"
"No... nothing."
Kyoko unconsciously licked her lower lip and found that she couldn't remember the smell of the rice ball.
"How does Kyoko feel like it?" he asked suddenly.
“…”
She was silent for a few seconds and turned her head to look at Yakawa next to her, "It's delicious..."
Zong Gu laughed, then entrusted her up.
"It's going to slide down, hold it tighter."
"Um……"
Kyoko leaned forward, hugged his neck tightly, facing his side face.
After staring for a while, she looked away and looked at the house next to her.
Several cement stone pillars support the terrace extending to the river surface, and are connected by wooden houses. Here, they are all izakayas, cooking houses and other stores;
When the time is late, the sun sets, and the unique cooling bed on the banks of the Yachuan River will appear together with rising night lights.
After lying on Soya's back and walking through a tall four-story wooden house, Kyoko looked forward again.
The Shijo Bridge leading to the Natsuri Yasaka Shrine is not far away.
"Student Zong Gu, let me get down."
"Um."
Zong Gu stopped and slowly let go of her legs.
"How about it?"
"no problem."
Down to earth, Kyoko tidied up her witch suit and moved her stiff body a little.
"Let's go."
Wearing the sunset, people walking on the river bank, leisurely and freely.
Some people also sit on the grassy dike, talking in groups of three or five, or being single, quietly facing the flowing Yachuan.
Four bridges are near before you, and the two of them are not walking fast, strolling on the river bank, enjoying the silence for a while, and occasionally stopping to stand by the river for a while.
As the sky became late, as the sunset sank into the ground, the sunset turned to the dark red, Zong Gu took a deep breath.
He looked at Kyoko beside him, "This time, the Yasaka Shrine should be almost over."
"Um."
"Are there any other arrangements in the future?"
She shook her head, "After reporting to the gods, the ceremony is over."
"Then they all return?" Zong Gu asked.
"Absolutely." Kyoko looked at him, "The institution did not require it, and the people from each shrine will arrange it themselves."
"What about Miss Noma's plan?"
"I will go back after taking comfort in Kyoto, and I will be with the people from Shiramaru Shrine."
"Can you give me some consolation... I didn't do anything."
"This makes it easier to apply for funds from the institution."
“…”
After the sun sets, it seems that every time you breathe, the surroundings will become darker;
Accompanied by this, the lights on both sides of Yakugawa gradually became brighter.
Zong Gu stretched out his hand, "Since that's the case, let's go there too."
"Um."
Kyoko nodded and held his hand.
......
He rushed to Yasaka Shrine in the darkness, and the spiritualists from all over Kinki had long dispersed.
In the nearby parking lot, Soya and Kyoko found the car from Fuyun Shrine, and only Hanai Matori stayed in the car and waited for them.
"Come to your senses, you two are gone...where have you gone?"
"Kagua." Soya replied, "Take a walk."
“…”
Huajing looked at them, "It's a good thing you can still take a walk in that state."
She was not Noma Nan. Although she cared about it, she couldn't ask the bottom line. Soya smiled and passed by perfunctorily.
"Go over, Anan and the others are already waiting."
"Where?"
"The other side of Shirakawa."
The two took their own things, Huajing locked the car door, and walked out of the parking lot.
"Well, it's there again."
"Sayaka must go to something 'a place that can only be visited by the lord', but Anan didn't agree."
"……Yeah."
When I arrived at Shirakawa, the place I chose was not the last restaurant I had, but it was not far away.
In the large private room on the second floor, the witches of the two shrines sat in a mixed manner and were divided into two sides, surrounding a round table with an iron pot in the middle.
Zong Gu sniffed and his index finger moved.
"Why do you eat sukiyaki..."
"Soya, Kyoko, here~"
Noma Nan waved at the table inside, and Sayaka Hasegawa and Emi Toyosaki sat on her side and looked at him and Kyoko motionlessly.
“…”
Zong Gu didn't want to go there very much, but another dining table was already full.
Taking the seat, Kyoko sat down next to Tamako, and Soya followed her.
"Where have you been?" Noma Nan asked.
"Yamakawa."
“How did it do it?”
"I don't know." Soya looked at the iron pot in the middle. It had just started heating. The temperature was still very low. The butter cubes on it did not melt at all. "From my senses, Kyoko and I were already there."
"Yeah."
Noma Nan was stunned for a moment, then said, "Is this feeling amazing?"
"Um."
"What do you think?"
“So slow…”
“What’s so slow?”
“BBQ.”
“…”
After a while, the beef in the iron pot made a sizzling sound, and wine and drinks were also delivered to the private room.
"So--"
Noma Nan raised the juice and said, "Thank you all today. This meal is paid by the agency. You have to be welcome. Just let go of your stomach and eat it. Cheers!"