There was no longer a keyboard sound in the room on the other side, which was so quiet that it was a bit scary.
Back on the bedding, lying down and looking at the ceiling in the dark, Akane Kirino was still a little dissatisfied.
"Whatever you say is something you have to worry about, you have to think about it alone..."
She was rejected by Zong Gu, and she felt a little unhappy and vented her slim cover.
After kicking the quilt a few feet, Akane Kirino turned over and buried her face in the pillow.
“…what’s the worries.”
Zong Gu hasn't slept here for more than ten days, and there is no longer much smell on his pillow. Akane Kirino turned over again and hugged the pillow in her arms.
"Is it an unpleasant thing with my senior sister, or something else."
She still guessed.
"Hongzi didn't come here today..."
It seemed that because the police came to investigate her disappearance, Hongzi stayed at home all day today and had no time to come.
"I should be free tomorrow." Akane Kirino thought.
But the summer vacation is almost gone.
"Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... Is it going back to school to attend the opening ceremony the day after tomorrow? It's so fast."
Although he still prefers a free vacation, Akane Kirino is not resistant to the start of school.
This summer vacation is about to pass, she went to the beach in Jiuzhou, and also went to the countryside of Hongzi's grandmother's house. She also completed her summer homework in advance, leaving no regrets...
Just left a question.
“…”
Holding the pillow tightly and smelling the last bit of smell left on it, she thought that the answer to this question should be about to come out.
Sleep came, and Akane Kirino relaxed without resistance.
When I woke up again, it was already the next morning.
After getting up and changing clothes, she came to the door of Zonggu's room. She tried to pull it, and the door opened directly.
“…”
There was no one inside, and Zong Gu had indeed gotten up.
"snort."
When he came downstairs, he was brushing his teeth and greeted her with his eyes in the mirror.
"Good morning."
Akane Kirino went over, squeezed to his side, and then squeezed toothpaste.
Gulululu—
When he spit out the mouthwash, Zong Gu still had a lot of foam on his mouth, "Can't you wait for a while?"
"no."
Sonoya washed her face and Akane Kirito brushed her teeth. When he was about to go out, she grabbed him with her backhand.
The black hair was shiny and draped down, and she slept a little messy. Zong Gu combed it to the end without any stagnation.
Gulululu—
“It’s very soft.”
"Um."
"Come on."
"Didn't you brush your teeth?"
"Put it over for me."
After combing it a few more times, Zong Gu's movements became more proficient. As she said, it would be a bit satisfying to comb his long hair.
"Soya likes long or short hair?" Akane Kirino looked at him in the mirror.
"Am I myself?"
"No."
"Let's hair grow long." Soya said, after all, her hands were combed with long hair. Kyoko also had long hair.
Akane Kirino smiled slightly, "So too."
"Of course you are, otherwise you would have cut short hair like red."
"When it comes to hair cutting, Zong Gu's hair seems to be a little longer."
Zong Gu pursed his lower lip and did not answer.
"Songya's hair seems to be very long."
He continued to comb her hair.
"Songya's hair should be cut."
After combing to the end, he was about to comb again, Akane Kirino turned around and said, "Let me cut it."
"Will you just open your mouth, you're just slapped around the bush."
"Will it become me forcing Sonya?"
Sonoya looked at her, "Never now?"
"Yeah?"
“Isn’t it?”
"Yeah?"
The two of them stared at each other with big eyes, Zong Gu raised his hand, wiped the corner of her mouth, and then applied the foam from her fingertips to her face.
"Wash your face first."
"Oh!...you comb it a few more times."
After washing up, Akane Kirino took the comb and combed it a few more times. Soya went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast first.
"Songgu really likes long hair..."
She has long hair.
Senior Sister Guan Yuan also has long hair.
“…”
After staring at herself in the mirror for a while, Akane Kirino raised her hand and patted her face.
Pa, pa.
Yue Du also got up early today and went upstairs after breakfast. Zong Gu asked a few questions about the situation, but he just shook his head. Obviously the situation was not optimistic.
"I wonder if Hongzi will come in the morning." Akane Kirino said.
Even if he had time, Mrs. Yoshikawa would not allow her daughter to come to him, Soya thought.
"Ask."
"Well... Having said that, a policeman went to Hongzi's house to ask her about it yesterday. Don't Zong Gu go through this process?"
"It should be, I don't know much." Zong Gu remembered that when he came out of Liuliguangyuan yesterday, the police at the door did not stop him anymore, and he didn't know what his attitude was.
"If necessary, will the police come to my house? Although the police have already arrived when Zonggu disappeared a few days ago."
"It's hard to say."
"I'm kind of looking forward to it."
"Have you seen the police?"
"Why don't I just call the police and say that Sonoya is back."
"Don't make trouble."
Akane Kirino smiled and was about to say something, but her phone vibrated.
"Ah, Hongzi said she is not very convenient..."
really.
Soya didn't say anything, but Akane Kirino couldn't easily accept Mihu's statement, so she sent a few more messages and asked.
"Huh."
"What's wrong?" Zong Gu kept caring about the movements on her side.
"Hongzi said let me call."
“… Let’s fight.”
So Akane Kirino called Hongzi.
"Akane, what's wrong?"
"Hey, it's not Hongzi..."
"Cough cough cough cough cough—" She suddenly coughed.
"Ask her if she wants to come and play." Zong Gu whispered.
Akane Kirino was stunned, then suddenly realized and nodded to him.
"Is Hongzi coming to my house to play?"
“It’s not very convenient today…”
"Is there anything wrong?"
Hongzi sat on the sofa, looked at her mother sitting next to her, lowered her head and continued to rub her knees, "It's nothing."
“Why is that inconvenient?”
"Mom won't let me go."
“Huh?”
Mrs. Yoshikawa turned her head and looked over.
"Why?" She turned on the hands-free, and Akane Kirino asked one after another from the microphone, "Why don't Auntie let Hongzi come?"
"Can I go over and play with Qian?" Hongzi looked at her mother.
"Did Hongko go to find her?" Mrs. Yoshikawa looked at her daughter.
"Yes." Hongzi's face did not change and looked at her mother, but the momentum on her face became weaker and weaker until she was gone.
Looking at her wandering eyes, Mrs. Yoshikawa sighed deeply.
"Come back early and don't do stupid things."
"Uh-huh!"
Akane Kirino listened on the other side, turned on the hands-free, covered the microphone and said to Soya, "Auntie seems to agree that Hongzi has come over to play."
"Um."
"Why didn't you agree just now?"
Zong Gu turned his head and looked at the yard outside, "Because Hongzi is her most precious daughter."
"Eh?"
Hongzi's voice came from the receiver: "I'll come over right away."
"Ah, OK..."
Almost ten minutes later, Hongzi came to the old house of Tongye and was carrying a large portion of watermelon.
"I bought it by my sister."
"Is Sister Qingzi still here?" Zong Gu stood up and took the watermelon.
"Well, I'll go back to Tokyo tomorrow morning." Hongzi watched him walk towards the kitchen, "Don't eat it secretly, my sister said that the watermelon is not as good as Soya."
“…”
He looked back at her and said nothing.
"Why?" Akane Kirino signaled Akako to sit down next to her.
"Just kidding."
"Hongzi's mother didn't let her come here just now. Is it because of her previous disappearance?"
Hongzi waited for Zong Gu to go to the kitchen to put down the watermelon, and then replied after returning to the living room, "Because my mother was worried that I would be taken to a dangerous place by Zong Gu."
"No." Akane Kirino was half comforting and half defending Soya, "Isn't the previous incident also an accident?"
"Yes," Sogu said suddenly.
Hongzi glanced at him, then looked at Akane Kirino, "Look."
"Don't talk." Akane Kirino glared at Soya, thinking that he was deliberately looking for trouble.
He didn't say anything and laughed.
"Did the police stay at Hongzi's house for a long time yesterday?"
"From eight or nine in the morning to three or four in the afternoon," Hongzi replied, "because I can't believe what I said. The same question was asked several times, and deliberately used the wrong information to test me.
My head hurts."
Akane Kirino expressed her understanding: "After all, it is difficult for ordinary people to believe that something like falling into the underworld."
"In the end, I really couldn't stand it anymore. I just said that Zong Gu lured me into the deep mountains and deliberately hid me for a few days before coming out. The saying that I fell into the underworld was also taught by Zong Gu."
"Eh?"
Akane Kirino was stunned.
"Don't joke." Zong Gu glanced at him.
Hongko smiled at Akane Kirino and looked at him again, "Soya went to the shrine to find Senior Sister Guanhara yesterday."
"Um."
"Did you say anything?"
“I’ve said everything I should say.”
Hongzi stared at him, "Where is senior sister, what did she say?"
"Kyoko said she regretted not strangling Hongzi to death earlier."
"Hey—" Akane Kirino was shocked.
Hongzi directly stretched out her legs and kicked over, "I didn't joke with you."
Zong Gu didn't hide, she didn't have much strength anyway.
“Failed.”
"Hey...ha, deserve it."
Judging from his appearance, Hongzi knew that he had not given up yet, and he mocked him mercilessly at this time.
Aki Kirino on the side looked at the two of them, "What are Soya and Hongzi talking about? Why can't I understand?"
As soon as Zong Gu opened his mouth, Hongzi stood up and hugged her, and cast a warning look at him again.
He had no intention of telling the truth to Akane Kirino now, so he simply shut up.
"Hongko?" Akane Kirino looked up at her.
"Don't care." Hongzi let her go, "It's not an important thing."
"Yeah……"
After sitting for a while, Akane Kirino remembered something: "Sogu came out so soon, is the watermelon frozen?"
"No."
“Really…”
She got up and left the living room.
Hongzi turned her head to look at him, "Did Zong Gu really tell his senior sister?"
Soya sighed, "What are you lying to?"
"Why didn't she strangle you to death?"
"I want to be strangled to death by Kyoko, too."
“…”
After looking at him for a while, Hongzi asked, "What is the reaction of the senior sister? Do you want to break up with Zong Gu?"
Zong Gu looked at her without saying anything.
"You talk."
"It's almost the same, but it's not as good as breaking up, it's not very pleasant anyway."
"You seem to be deceiving yourself."
"It's almost the same as Hongzi before."
She punched her and was blocked by him, and the two of them were hurting each other at this point.
"Xian is coming back." Hongzi pulled out his hand and held it in his hand again.
A few seconds later, Akane Kirino returned to the living room, "The watermelon brought by Hongzi is really big, it's very laborious to carry it over."
"My arm is almost broken."
“Fortunately it’s not very hot today.”
The morning passed quickly, and Hongzi was dragged by the reason that she had finally gone out, so Zong Gu did not go out.
After lunch, because it rained and the weather was not too hot, the three of them stayed in the living room downstairs.
"Do you want to eat watermelon?"
"Have you had lunch?"
Akane Kirino was lying on the floor, "Well... Then let's talk about it later."
Zonggu sat up, "If you want to eat, I'll cut a few slices."
"It's better to forget it." She grabbed him, "I want to sleep for a while and eat when I wake up. Sonoya is not allowed to eat secretly."
He ignored her and lay down next to her, while Hongzi lay on the other side.
Akane Kirino turned her head and looked at him for a while, then raised her body slightly, and looked at Hongko on the other side and smiled.
The three of them lay together, and the electric fan at their feet swayed left and right.
Akane: "The summer vacation is obviously coming to an end..."
Hongzi: "There is nothing else to do."
Qian: "I've already started looking forward to the winter vacation."
Soya: "It's better to look forward to the school festival in October first."
Akane: "Ah!"
Akane: "I'm already looking forward to it! Do we have to do something during the school festival?"
Soya: "You can conceive now, Minister Kirino."
Akane: "I have to think about it..."
Hongzi: "Make a supernatural science magazine? It just happens that the events we encounter are compiled into a collection."
Akane: "It's not bad."
Despite their expectations, the afternoon was tired, and half an hour passed and the three of them fell asleep one after another.
Without any disturbance, Akane Kirino slept until nearly two o'clock before she woke up.
Turning his head, Zong Gu bowed his body toward her side, Hongzi curled up behind him, putting his hand on his waist, both of them still slept deep and still woke up.
Looking at his face, she leaned forward and stopped again.
“…”
Is it a dream?
Akane Kirino pinched herself quietly.
It hurts a little, not a dream.
She also realized what she was doing.
Do you want to kiss...or do you want to kiss him?
She remembered the question that had no answers again.
“…”
Akane Kirino was stunned for a while, but did not continue to approach, but raised her hand and touched it gently.
Warm. Soft.
His lips.
In the cicadas, there was a sudden sound of motorcycles outside.
Postal courier?
Akane Kirino was very familiar with this voice, and the image of the middle-aged postman riding a scooter appeared in his mind.
She sat up and listened carefully to the movement outside, and sure enough, she heard the impact of the mailbox lid opening and closing.
Whose letter is it?
Akane Kirino sat up slowly, and came outside without disturbing the two people who were still asleep.
The postman riding a motorcycle disappeared at the end of the alley. She opened the painted mailbox and found several postcards inside.
"Ah...ah!"
Looking at her signature, she immediately remembered, "Postcards sent back from the ferry from Shimahara to Kumamoto!"
She filled in the address of her old house for her parents, for Zong Gu, Hongzi and Ling.
"It's so slow. It's been a month since I've been sending it together?"
She looked through it. Although it was all the words she wrote a month ago, she still stood at the entrance of the yard and looked at it.
"I wrote a postcard for Zong Gu's...'Cang Qiang-I also wrote a postcard for Zong Gu. Are you surprised?'... Wow, it's so stupid."
Akane Kirino couldn't help laughing.
"Hmm ..."
In the living room, Hongzi also woke up slowly from her sleep.
I found myself hugging Zong Gu's waist. She first hugged her tightly, fitting her closer together with him, and then suddenly came to her senses.
“…”
After waiting for a while, she slowly raised her head and found that Akane Kirino was not in the living room.
"Is Akane not here..."
Hongzi sat up, looked at Zong Gu who was still asleep, and got up and went to the kitchen to take a look.
The watermelon was soaked in ice water, intact, and Akane Kirino was not here either.
"Xian——"
After shouting twice, there was no response from the upstairs or in the bathroom, Hongzi returned to the living room.
"Have you gone home...ah, you're awake."
Zong Gu looked at her sleepyly, then raised his arms to cover his eyes.
"What's wrong……"
"Akane seems to be home."
"Well." Awakened by such a trivial matter, Sogo shut up before his unhappiness was revealed.
Hongzi went over and sat down next to him.
"Have you not had enough sleep yet?" She stroked his face and looked at the clock on the wall again, "It's already half past two."
"Is that right...let me take a little longer."
Zong Gu said, it was just that sleepiness was hard to recover.
He put down his arms and looked at her.
“What are you doing…”
"I'm just trying to get revenge on you."
"What."
Hongzi turned over and sat on his waist, pressed his hands, and looked at him on it, "Because I woke up Songu?"
"Um."
"So stingy."
"I thought of it: I will call Hongzi at two o'clock tonight."
"How could there be a stingy man like you!"
She bent down and hit his head with her head.
"pain……"
Her foreheads were close to each other and her eyes were facing each other, and her glasses slid down.
After looking at the glasses frame, she looked up at him again.
"I want to kiss."
Zong Gu raised his hand to hold her waist.
"Hmm ..."
After kissing for a while, Hongzi sat up straight and prepared to take off her glasses that were in the way.
“…”
Akane Kirino stood in the yard, holding a postcard in her hand, and her smile froze on her face.
There was a loud bang in my mind, and Hongzi opened her mouth.
"Anime..."
Driven by confusion and shock, Akane Kirino subconsciously wanted to escape, so she turned around and ran away.
What……
What was that just now...
Are Hongzi and Soya... kissing?
Why kiss?
Just pretending to like it, will you do this?
The sound of wind was whistling in her ears, and her mind was in chaos. She stumbled, and she kept running forward until she ran home and hid in her room before stopping.
With his back against the door, Akane Kirino could no longer hold on and fell to the ground.
"Hmm ..."
The chest was dull and tingling, like a heavy rock pressing outside, making her breathless. There was a pointed cone in her chest that was hard against the rock, almost piercing her.
Hongzi likes Zong Gu seriously.
Akane Kirino finally understood the answer to that question.
She lowered her head and held the postcard she had given to them before she could even give it to her.
The one on the top is for Hongzi.
Pick.
Smack--
Tears slid down one after another, hitting the postcards, wetting the handwriting.
【Take a ferry and leave Shimahara!
The next stop is Kumamoto, and you can see Minister Kumamoto!
I have visited many places these two days, but I still feel like I haven't had enough fun. I would have had more time...
Ah, Zong Gu bought bread and said he wanted to go to the deck to feed the seagulls.
I have never fed seagulls. They look so big and are a little scared. They probably won't bite people, right?
Ah, Zong Gu is urging him again, just write so much, look forward to the next postcard.
(It was clearly sent to Hongzi, but it was written like a diary. I'm sorry. But Hongzi will definitely not care, because we will always be our best friends~)]