I used the black card of the agency to swipe the machine in the stall and confirmed that the payment had been successful. The stall owner nodded and handed out a fluffy marshmallow.
After taking the marshmallow and handing it to Hongzi with her backhand, Zong Gu looked at Akane Kirino again. There was a gap in the marshmallow in her hand.
"Don't Soya eat it myself?"
"I'll forget it. If I accidentally stick it to my hands or mouth, it's quite troublesome."
"Be careful that you won't stick to it, just like this..." Akane Kirino said while demonstrating himself.
Looking at her flexible and pink tongue, Zong Gu turned his eyes away again, "I can't do it."
"You're just lazy."
The three of them continued to walk forward.
After nightfall, the lanterns connected into strings become brighter and dot the night sky.
In addition to using the institution's black card to pay, the institution's external festivals are no different from the summer festivals in other places. You can also see food, drink, and entertainment here and other places.
While Kirino Akane was attracted by something from a stall, Hongzi tore off a small ball of marshmallow and stuffed it to Zonggu's mouth.
"Open your mouth."
"ah."
The fluffy marshmallow melts as soon as it is in the mouth, leaving only a sweet taste.
After looking at Akane Kirino who had already walked to the next stall, she whispered, "Do you still want it?"
Zong Gu licked his lips and shook his head again.
"Zonggu, Hongzi, let's play this."
The two of them went over and found it was a stall for goldfish.
"OK."
The paper nets on the stall here are also 100 yen per pair, and Akane Kirino first asked for one to try it out.
"Take it for me." She handed over half of the marshmallows left.
Zong Gu took it and watched her immerse the paper net completely in the water, looking for the target in the fish pond.
"There's no chance."
She turned her head and glanced at him, ignoring her.
While waiting for her to fail, Zong Gu tear off a small piece of marshmallow and put it into his mouth. Hongzi hit her with her elbow.
"Don't Hongzi play?"
"I have no interest."
"Ah..." Picking up the broken paper net, Akane Kirino turned around and complained, "It's all because of the crow's mouth of the crow."
"Have you ever caught goldfish before?"
“I play every summer.”
"I haven't caught any of them."
"How is that possible? Sometimes you can get it if you have good luck."
Asking her to take the marshmallow herself, Zong Gu handed the black card to the stall owner and asked for five pairs of paper nets.
drop--
"Okay, please take it."
After receiving the card and paper net, he squatted to the fish pond and used the skills he had learned before at the Xiantai Qixi Festival. He tried while talking and caught a small red goldfish at one time.
"Wow!"
Akane Kirino exclaimed, "Soya is so lucky."
"...Did you not hear what I said just now?"
"Skills or something, just psychological comfort, right?"
"That's what people who can't learn say."
Soya demonstrated again and caught another little goldfish. Akane Kirino imitated it suspiciously, and her first attempt almost succeeded.
"Ahhh, I seem to have learned... do it again!"
She just used up the remaining three pairs of paper nets, but she failed to pick up one.
Zong Gu took out the card, "Five more mates... no, ten more."
"OK."
drop--
After taking over ten new paper nets, Akane Kirino slapped, "There are too many ten pairs."
"You can pick it up first and then talk more."
“This time I can succeed!”
But the fact is that after using nine pairs of paper nets one after another, there were only two goldfishes that Zong Gu caught in the plastic bowl.
"…It's the same in the movie. The protagonist always has to be successful until the last moment and uses up all the opportunities."
Seeing that she was still stubborn, Zong Gu picked up a small bowl and poured the two little goldfish he had caught back into the fish pond.
"ah……"
"Okay, now is the real last moment. If we don't succeed this time, we will have no fish."
“…”
Akane Kirino puffed up her mouth and felt a lot of pressure.
"Teach me again."
"Only a piece of paper net is left." Zong Gu waved the wooden stick in his hand. When he was waiting for her to catch fish, his marshmallow was almost pulled by him.
"You said, I'll do it." She looked up and said, "I know in front that the paper net cannot be immersed in the water, and it must be cut into the water diagonally, and then?"
Zong Gu squatted down next to her, "Select the target and then start, it is best to be close to the edge of the pool."
"Well... I've taken a fancy to it."
"Then let's start." Watching her cut the paper net into the water and slowly drove the selected little goldfish to the edge of the pond, he continued, "Press the border of the paper net to hold the goldfish's head, carrying the main weight
.”
Akane Kirino held her breath and focused, carefully controlled the paper net in her hand, squeezed the little goldfish to the edge of the pond, and then used the harder edge to lift the front half of the goldfish's body.
"ah……"
The paper net is already extremely thin, and the part soaked in the water is already wet. At this time, it is squeezed and still breaks.
Akane Kirino was extremely disappointed. Although she could still buy paper nets, she no longer wanted to try again after failures.
Skills are important, but luck is also indispensable, she thought.
And her luck is obviously not very good today.
“——and salvation.”
Zong Gu suddenly held her hand and didn't let her lift it up.
“…”
Subconsciously contracting for a moment, Kirino Akane quickly relaxed again, and he held and controlled his hand, slowly adjusting the angle between the paper net and the little goldfish;
As he used the border of the paper mesh and the upper half that had not yet been soaked in water, the two of their arms gradually fitted, and her wrists also twisted into a rather weird angle.
"Take the bowl and then." He said in her ear, and the distance between the two was unknowingly very close.
Plop, plop!
Perhaps because she kept holding her breath, she could feel her heartbeat faster and faster.
"Little Bowl." He said again.
"ah……"
Akane Kirino came to her senses, picked up the small bowl with her other hand, and then, Zonggu held up and finally successfully grabbed the little goldfish into the bowl.
"It's successful..." She breathed a sigh of relief.
The warmth wrapped around his right hand suddenly pulled away. He let go of his hand and stood up, "Good luck."
Akane Kirino looked down at the bowl, the goldfish swimming, and her mind was no longer on it.
When she looked up again, she found that the two companions behind her were looking at each other silently, and Hongzi's face was indescribably complicated.
"Hey, what's wrong..."
"fine."
Zong Gu first looked away and looked at her again.
"Do you want it?"
"What?"
"This little goldfish."
He signaled to the small bowl in her hand, "If you want it, take it back and raise it."
Akane Kirino looked down for a while, and the pure black goldfish swam back and forth in a small bowl, very cute.
Perhaps it is a symbol of good luck... although it is black.
"OK."
In addition, after paying for the fish, the boss put the little goldfish into a plastic bag, then tied a knot and handed it over.
"Take it right."
"Uh-huh."
Lifting up the transparent plastic bag full of water, reflecting the light, Akane Kiri stared at the little fish inside for a while, and said, "If you want to raise fish, you have to buy a fish tank when you go back."
"The premise is that it can follow you home safely."
"What are you saying?"
She glared at him, but her smile soon emerged, "Thank you, I'll be careful."
Soya didn't say anything, "Stay on the stroll."
"Uh-huh."
Akane Kirino walked in front with a goldfish, forgetting that there was still cotton candy. Zong Gu found a trash can and threw the wooden stick away, then looked at Hongzi beside him.
"Have you finished it yet?"
She turned her face away, "I want you to care."
Soya looked around and said, "Do you want something else? I'll buy takoyaki? fried noodles? Or Osakayaki?"
"Will Zonggu feed me?"
“…”
"snort."
There seemed to be some chaos in the distance. Zong Gu looked over there, dazzled and couldn't see clearly, so he didn't care much.
"It seems like a shooting stall here... I can beat you whatever Hongzi wants."
She said in a voice that only he could hear, "I want Zong Gu to hold my hand behind me, aim for me, and then I will pull the trigger."
"Stop making trouble..."
"Hmph. Then I want the best thing on the stall."
"I will definitely call you down."
Not afraid that she would want the best, but she would be fussy all the time, Zong Gu quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
He called Akane Kirino who continued to walk forward, picked up the Laifu gun on the stall and tried the feel, and indeed he had iron blocks added.
Looking at the shelves inside, the best prize is a panda mutton packed in a box.
"Brother, are you going to send me a shot?" the stall owner greeted warmly.
"There is no iron block in that panda's box."
"Absolutely, the Spirit Awareness does not deceive the Spirit Awareness."
Zong Gu looked at the stall owner, "You are not a spiritual enlightened person either."
"My sister is. She's there..."
The stall owner raised his hand and pointed at the location of Liuli Light Courtyard, and his face changed the next moment.