After sleeping and riding the station, Soya and Kyoko took some more time to get on the tram. She sent Kyoko back to Sugahara's house, and she asked him to stay and slept in her guest room for a whole morning before going back.
Soya was happy, but Sugawara and his wife were both at home, and he felt uncomfortable when he fell asleep, so he went back.
“Goodbye tonight.”
"Yeah. Good night."
Walking into Chaoyangli, Zong Gu turned around and smiled, "Good night."
When he got on the tram, he suddenly remembered that he could go to the room of the company to sleep.
However, he had already gotten into the car and was too lazy to go back. What's more, Kyoko had to take a rest during the day, so he probably wouldn't have time to go to the shrine, where there were part-time college students he didn't know.
I got out of the car and returned to the old house in Kirino. It was just past nine o'clock.
There was no one in the living room, probably all of them were still lying in the room.
"Well... I forgot to buy some food when I passed by the convenience store."
Hungry in his stomach, Zong Gu was about to go to the kitchen to find some food and go to bed, and wait until he woke up before taking a shower.
Just when he walked into the kitchen, he saw Akane Kirino who was sleeping on the dining table.
Breakfast is ready as well.
“…”
The sleepiness that had been tangled suddenly disappeared a lot. Zong Gu slowly pulled open the chair, sat down opposite her, and started to have breakfast.
After eating for a while, Akane Kirino suddenly shook.
Dong, her head hit the table and she woke up.
“Um…”
She looked up and was stunned for a moment, and the smile on her face instantly bloomed.
"Zonggu!"
He also smiled, "I'm back."
"Welcome back~" She glanced at the breakfast she had prepared, "How is it?"
"It's a perfect breakfast that can sleep after eating."
"What a strange compliment." Akane Kirino smiled with her chin on her back for a while, and suddenly remembered that she hadn't eaten breakfast, so she picked up the chopsticks.
"I originally wanted to wait for Zong Gu to eat together after he came back, but I accidentally fell asleep... You are so slow."
"After all, I came back from the Biwahu Bridge, and there was no tram there, so it was quite troublesome to get here." He didn't mention that he was sleeping on the way and sat by the station, "And I don't know that Kirino would prepare breakfast for me."
.”
"Are you happy?"
"It's almost crying."
Akane Kirino looked up at him, and saw that he couldn't squeeze out a tear for a long time, and then snorted again.
After taking a few bites, she suddenly remembered another thing and got up and was about to go out.
"I'll go and release hot water."
"No." Soya grabbed her wrist, "I plan to take a shower after waking up."
"Don't you feel uncomfortable?"
"Fortunately, I blew the wind all night at the bridge and didn't sweat much."
Soya let go of his hand, and Akane Kirino returned to the dining table to sit down.
"I came down at seven o'clock, and it's already past nine o'clock now."
"Well, Hongzi should be almost about to wake up."
"I'll go and have a look."
"No need. She will come down by herself when she wakes up."
The two of them ate and chatted. After breakfast was settled, Zong Gu wanted to go upstairs to rest.
“By the way…”
Akane Kirino looked over.
"Have you finished your summer homework?"
She smiled very happily, "It's all done!"
Sonoga clapped his hands and yawned again.
“Go up.”
When he arrived at the second floor, the door of the next room was not completely closed. He walked over and Hongzi also heard footsteps and looked here with his eyes.
“Welcome back…”
She sat up, sleepy and just woke up.
Zong Gu didn't go in and stood at the door, "It's already nine o'clock, have you not had enough sleep yet? When did you two go to bed last night?"
"After two o'clock...?"
"I really don't know how blessed I am in blessings and don't understand the value of sleep."
"What are you saying?" After saying a few words to him, Hongzi woke up a little more, and then signaled him to go in, "Is Akane downstairs?"
"Well, I got up at around seven o'clock and prepared breakfast."
"It must be prepared for Zong Gu..."
"certainly."
Zonggu sat down beside her, "Only mine."
Hongzi curled her lips.
"Just kidding." He didn't remember as soon as he sat down, "Hongzi is going downstairs now and can still have breakfast."
"Let's talk about it later."
She moved inside and patted the bedding again, "Songgu should just sleep with me to avoid making the bed."
Zong Gu turned his head and looked at it, then lay down and dragged her pillow under his head.
"What should I do if she sees it?"
"I didn't do anything... Then you get up."
"I don't want to move."
He closed his eyes and felt that the bedding under him was unprecedentedly soft, and his consciousness seemed to become blurred with each breath.
After sitting and looking at him for a while, Hongzi also lay down and held her head up to look at him sideways.
"Is Senior Sugahara with Soya also last night?"
"Um……"
"What have you all done?"
"What are you talking about...we are standing guard at the intersection, what else can we do."
Hongzi didn't say anything. Zong Gu murmured for a few moments, and forced his eyelids to open his eyes, "No... I'm going to fall asleep if I lie down."
He wanted to get up, and before he could sit up, Hongzi pressed him down and lay down.
"I've said it, just sleep here."
She lay down and pillowed with him, facing each other.
"I will explain on Akane."
After looking at her for a while, Zong Gu nodded and closed his eyes again.
She moved closer, and closer, squeezed into his arms, her arms and thighs wrapped around like octopus.
"Hello……"
"You sleep with you, don't worry about me."
If Akane Kirino saw her now, then nothing would be useful to explain...
Zong Gu thought to himself, but felt that it was extremely laborious to open his eyes and speak. After several breaths, it seemed that even the power to mobilize his thinking was melted into the softness that was pressed on his body.
The darkness in front of him became deeper and deeper. He began to fall, falling constantly, towards the darker nothingness until he felt nothing.
“…”
Going asleep?
Hongzi looked up at him for a while.
Her neck was a little sore, and she was also a little annoyed.
In this intimate state where he was almost completely attached, he actually fell asleep.
...But, from another perspective, it can also be understood as her making him feel relieved?
Hongzi sighed, not knowing whether she should be happy or not.
She didn't want to leave when she was piling in his arms and smelling the smell on his body.
Only a moment of pleasure is enough to make people fall into it and unable to extricate themselves.
Hongzi closed her eyes.
And when she heard the sound of footsteps that seemed to be there and there, the person who came had already walked outside the door.
The door is not closed.
“…”
The drowsiness that had just been brewing disappeared, Hongzi suddenly tightened her nerves. As soon as she opened her eyes, the person who came had already walked into the room.
She relaxed a little more.
Not Akane Kirino.
"bell……"
He nodded at Wuling, brought the door with his backhand, walked over and lay down on the other side, and looked at her through Zonggu.
After looking at each other for a while, Hongzi looked away first.
Her eyes could not see anything except calm, and her thoughts and secrets seemed to be seen through at first sight.
Although in front of her, she seemed to have no secret left...
"There is good news, and there is bad news." Chaowuling suddenly said, "For you."
Hongzi was stunned, "Hey..."
"I just can't tell you now."
“…”
Hongzi pursed her lower lip.
Then don't mention it.
"I'll feel better when I say it. You can pretend that I didn't hear it." Chao Wuling said, moved in, curled up in Zonggu's arms, and then murmured in a low voice.
Hongzi on the other side only saw her lips moving, but she didn't hear clearly what she was saying.
They were speechless, and the two lay down for a while in the strange silence.
A few minutes later, he sat up at Wuling, looked at the sleeping Zonggu, and then left the room.
Hongzi didn't fall asleep anymore.
She covered Zong Gu with a thin quilt and pulled the curtains, and then closed the door tightly.
"Don't pretend to be asleep..."
He stared at his sleeping face and confirmed that he had not woken up. She took off her clothes and changed her clothes.
When he came downstairs again, Akane Kirino was about to go upstairs.
"Ah, Hongzi, good morning. Sonoya is back."
"Well...I saw it."
"Have you fallen asleep?"
"Already asleep."
She went down with her again, "There is breakfast in the kitchen."
"Is Akane prepared?"
"Uh-huh."
Because Zong Gu was asleep upstairs, during the day, both of them subconsciously controlled their volume;
He spoke in a low voice, and he also played in a low voice. At noon, he went downstairs to call him hungry Yuedu, but they stared at him a few times and went upstairs to order takeout.
Zong Gu, who was sleeping, couldn't feel the flow of time and did not suddenly wake up at around 4 pm.
“…”
He opened his eyes, and Akane Kirino next to him was panicked for a moment, and immediately sat upright.
Zong Gu also quickly woke up.
Turning his head and looking at it, he quickly recalled that he had fallen asleep in their room.
"Did you remember?" Akane Kirino quickly returned to calm.
He sat up, "What."
"Songya drove away Hongzi in the morning and forcibly occupied her bedding."
“…”
Is this what she calls the explanation?
"I was so sleepy at that time and didn't want to make the bed." Soyao was wrong, as long as Akane Kirino could believe it, "What time is it now?"
“After four o'clock in the afternoon.”
"What were you doing just now?"
“…”
Akane Kirino glanced at the side again, "I'm going to ask Soya to get up. Seeing that you're sleeping soundly, I waited for a moment."
"Is that right?" The curtains were pulled, and the room was dark, and there were only him and hers. "Hongzi didn't come up?"
"Hongzi is back home."
"Uh-huh?"
Zong Gu glanced at her, "What are you doing when you go home?"
"Change clothes." Akane Kirino stood up, "I'm going home later. Have you forgotten? We're going to Kyoto tonight."
Soya remembered now, "Do you want to change your yukata?"
"Yeah. Soya hasn't seen my yukata with my own eyes."
"I haven't seen it before... um--"
He stretched his waist long and said, "Then I should get up too."
"Have you had enough sleep?" Akane Kirino asked.
"Not enough. Can I not go?"
"no!"
"That's not enough."
After packing up the quilt, getting up and going downstairs, and not having lunch, Zong Gu was so hungry that his head was dizzy.
Akane Kirino pulled him to the kitchen, "I'll keep some rice balls and put my stomach on my stomach first."
"good……"
Seeing him eating two small rice balls, Akane Kirino got up and went back, "Take a shower early and change clothes, I'll come over soon. We'll go to Kyoto early."
"Um."
After having another rice ball, Soya took out his cell phone and looked at it. There were a few messages from Kyoko.
Perhaps because she slept early, she woke up earlier and got up before three o'clock.
After chatting with her for a while, he agreed to see her again in the evening, and Zong Gu went to take a shower.
After coming out, Akane Kirino and Hongko had not come over yet. He waited in the living room, sat for a while and lay down again.
Within a few minutes, footsteps rang in the corridor.
The yukata swayed and walked slowly, and stopped until he walked to him.
Zong Gu opened his eyes and said, "It's so beautiful."
"snort."
Although he had received his evaluation, Hongzi slowly turned around and showed him his dark blue yukata.
"Are you newly bought?"
"No, I bought it last year. I really like this combination. It looks more mature... I feel that today is not suitable for wearing too bright colors." After all, today is the day to deliver the basin.
"Hongzi chose this yukata himself?" he asked again.
"certainly."
"No wonder it's so suitable."
There was a little more smile on her face, "You're up."
"Yeah." Zong Gu responded, lying down and not moving, "I don't know if it's because I've been sleeping for a long time, my head is still a little drowsy."
"The more you sleep, the more you become drowsy."
Hongzi tugged his arm with her bare feet, "You get up and sit for a while."
"Let's talk about it when Kirino comes over."
She raised her feet and shook them again, moved them to his face, and then Zong Gu grabbed her ankle.
Hongzi screamed, "I'm going to fall down!"
Standing on one foot, the other foot in his hand kept shaking. After just shaking a few times, she still stopped.
"That's amazing."
"snort……"
Hongzi's complacent was only temporary and she had no confidence to maintain it. "Let go quickly."
Zong Gu let go of his hand, but he broke the balance, and his right foot, hanging from the air, stepped directly towards his head.
"ah!"
Dong!
With a dull sound, the wind blew in his ears, and he barely avoided the girl's foot attack, and Zong Gu was also startled to sweat.
"It's really dangerous..."
His eyes raised as his right foot fell beside his head, and he was stunned for a moment.
“…Where are you looking at.”
"This is the first time I've admired a girl's yukata from this perspective."
Standing above his head, her face turned a little red, and she pressed the hem of her clothes between her legs.
"See?"
"See it."
White.
“…indifferent.”
Stepping over his head, Hongzi sat down on the other side, facing him with her knees.
"You are almost completely blinded by Zong Gu, you must be responsible for me."
"Um."
"Personally treat me again..." Hongzi poked his face.
Zong Gu turned over, buried his face between her legs, and closed his eyes.
"Do you want a knee pillow?"
"No, that's fine."
She stroked the hair behind his head, then the neck, and then the jaw.
More than ten minutes later, Akane Kirino also changed into a bathrobe and came over.
"Songya still doesn't seem to be very energetic."
"Well, I still feel a little heavy... Maybe it's because I stayed up late."
"It's obviously a day off."
After a brief tidying up, the four of them went out together and took the tram to Kyoto.
When we arrived in Kyoto, we turned to the Arashiyama Main Line. Soya had no seats and grabbed the handrail and shook with the tram.
Twilight appears outside the car window.
Zong Gu clenched his fists, surprised by his weakness.
He just stayed up all night and replenished his sleep during the day, so why did he still feel weak all over?
Or is he sick?
After touching his forehead, Soya couldn't feel anything unusual about his body temperature, so he asked Akane Kirino who was standing next to him to try it.
"You're sick."
"You're talking nonsense."
"Okay, I'll feel it again..."
She frowned and could not draw a new conclusion for a long time.
"Are there any other symptoms besides lack of strength?"
"The head is a little dizzy."
"You are indeed sick."
"It's better to change a doctor."
So she changed the red selves and touched them for a while, but she said she couldn't feel it.
"...But, after hearing what Soguchi said, it should be a cold? It was a cold wind blowing on the bridge last night."
Zong Gu could not think of other possibilities, and then asked the three of them to keep a distance from him.
"If it is contagious, it will be too late to keep a distance now."
"Don't regret it if you get sick tomorrow." Zong Gu decided to get off the bus and go to the station to buy a pair of masks and put them on.
Akane Kirino and Hongko talked about what would happen if they fell ill tomorrow, and only Kazuki looked at him silently.
After getting off the bus with the abortion, Zong Gu went to a convenience store to buy a few pairs of masks and asked the three girls to wear them too.
When leaving the station, there is no need for any road signs, and the walking flow guides the direction of Toshiki Bridge.
There is the starting point for the water lamp to release.
“There are quite a lot of people coming to put the water lamp.”
"yes."
Transitioning to the Tsuki Bridge, Nakanoshima Park in the river has been arranged in a festival, with people coming and going. The children passing by do not understand what goodbye is, and only smiles are on their faces.
The lights dotted the river banks on both sides. Looking at the temporary release platform extending into the river, Zong Gu said, "Go and buy lanterns."
"Uh-huh."
After paying for one thousand yen per lantern, Soya got four lantern papers. There was a table next to it, with a pen, which was specially used to write the names of ancestors and family members on the lantern paper, or inner wishes.
.
Because he was suspected of being sick, Zong Gu simply wrote a prayer for [Healthy].
Akane Kirino smiled, took the pen and wrote the same wish, and so did Hongko.
"Don't you write the bell?"
He shook his head at Wuling.
After writing the wish, they handed the lantern paper to the person holding the lantern rack on the other side. They skillfully put the lantern paper on, put it together with other lanterns, and then put it on the same flow after it is filled.
"It's a pity that I can't put the water lamp on my own."
"Because it's not safe."
The temporary release platform cannot stand up too many people.
They waited by the river for a while, and the wooden frames for lanterns were finally full. Two middle-aged men carried the wooden frames to the release platform and began to release the flow one by one.
Akane Kirino remembered the location of her lantern. When she saw that she was picked up, she whispered softly, and Soya looked over.
The base of the lantern is a square wooden board with a candle lit in the middle. It is placed in the water. The lantern shakes slightly and flows down with the river.
On the dark river surface, the lights slowly drifted, and then rotated in the breeze and collided. From time to time, lanterns would be ignited by their own candlelight and burned on the water.
Akane Kirino stared at her lantern, followed her on the river bank, and accidentally stepped on someone else's feet.
"Ah, I'm sorry..."
She turned around and found that the person she had stepped on was Hongzi, so she smiled at her again.
“…”
Hongzi was stunned, staring at her lips, and silently chanting unconsciously.
"'sorry'……"
She looked at Chaowuling, who was staring at Zonggu, and her eyes suddenly widened.
He stretched out his hand towards Wuling, but couldn't catch it.
thump--
Zong Gu fell forward and plunged into the river where Qiandeng was flowing.