The Red and White Song Battle is playing on the TV.
After singing another song, before the next singer took the stage, Morimi put down his phone and prepared to go to the bathroom.
"..."
Can't get up.
The legs in the kotatsu were suppressed.
She lowered her head and lifted up the quilt, feeling helpless.
"Dad."
Mori Mianshu didn’t respond.
He had a few drinks in the evening and had already gone to bed early.
Morimi Chie pushed him a few times.
"Hmm...has Ryoko appeared yet?"
"Not yet. Yiye is going out."
He turned over and moved his legs away, and Kazuha climbed out of the kotatsu.
"Remember to call me when Ryoko appears..."
"Yes, yes."
After going to the bathroom, Kazuha returned to the living room. Instead of sitting directly back on the kotatsu, he came to the edge and stood for a while.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier.
The surrounding fields are vast and silent.
Buzz——
After taking a look at the message, she put down her phone and looked away.
Yanmu Mountain is hidden under the night, and nothing can be seen.
"Would you like to go to Iwakiyama Shrine for your first pilgrimage..."
After being dazed for a while, she picked up her phone again and remembered that she had already replied to the message when she received it.
Yiye:Okay.
Takigawa Hikaru smiled when he saw the news, "Kazuye also agreed."
Sitting on the sofa, Takigawa Yue leaned on her shoulder, looked at the TV, and tilted his head slightly.
"If everyone is here, I will probably agree."
"Well...it seems like that's really the case."
"Unless it affects learning." Takigawa Yue added.
Takigawa Hikaru smiled, remembering his previous truant trip to Kyoto, "It was really hard to ask Kazuyo out before."
"In the past six months, Kazuyo's smile has become much brighter than before... although it occasionally gets tighter." Takigawa Yue added.
"It's probably because of Harumi." Hikaru Takigawa thought for a while, "It's both."
"Harunami..." Takikawa Yue thought thoughtfully as she recalled some of the things she had inadvertently noticed in the past six months.
"It would be better to end it as soon as possible...for Kazuye."
"What?" Hikari Takigawa looked over.
She thought for a while and shook her head.
"It's nothing, maybe I'm overthinking... I hope I'm overthinking."
Takigawa Hikaru looked at her sister, didn't ask any questions, leaned on her shoulder, and clicked on another chat window.
Buzz——
Guang: Just in these two days.
Starfish:Okay.
Putting down the phone, Haixing looked at the TV and continued his random thoughts.
Shall we all go to Chuyi together...
In the past, could she find a chance to be alone with him?
You should be able to find it.
——As long as he doesn’t deliberately avoid it.
But on my side, after tonight, can I still muster the courage again?
Obviously, I have been denying and persuading myself to let go.
Are his thoughts really what he thinks they are?
There is no practical guarantee at all.
The only thing that can respond to myself is the so-called intuition at that moment.
"..."
Maki Seiichiro was watching the TV and turned his head inadvertently. He found that his daughter's brows were frowning and he couldn't help but froze for a moment.
"Don't Starfish like her?"
"Ah?"
Haixing was also startled, and then glanced at the elderly female singer who was singing on the TV. She was the kind whose name she couldn't remember at all.
"It's okay..."
Seeing her father's worried look, she took another deep breath and temporarily suppressed the overflowing emotions.
"I'm waiting for Ami to come on stage."
After looking at his daughter again, Seiichiro didn't say anything more. He took out the cigarette case from his pocket, knocked it lightly on the table, and put it down again.
After pretending to watch TV calmly for a while, Haixing picked up the phone again and stared at Naoko's profile picture in the list for a while.
That's a photo of two puppets leaning against each other.
And the white bear among them was one she had seen on his bed.
"..."
In the midst of the chaos, she vaguely saw a clue that might be able to solve it.
Buzz——
Hearing the noise, Naruse looked at Naoko.
She put down her phone and said to him: "Hikaru said that both Kazuyo and Haixing agreed."
"Hmm. Where's the time?"
"I haven't decided yet, just these two days. I just said she would say hello a day in advance."
Naruse nodded.
"Is it convenient to go to Iwakiyama Shrine here?"
"It seems that we have to go to the city and take a bus first. If we go there from the city, it will take about forty minutes."
"It's a bit troublesome."
"It's okay."
The two sat together, watching TV and chatting. Shangzi looked back from time to time.
The cups and plates on the table were in a mess, and the three adults had almost finished drinking.
"Hey, there's no more wine..."
Song Qianqiu picked up the wine bottle and poured it down. Only a few drops of residual wine came out.
And the bottles placed next to them are also empty.
"Let's drink here today."
Accompanying his wife and Matsu Chiaki, Kotetsu also drank a lot, but he was relatively sober.
"Chun Hai." He helped his swaying wife and greeted her again, gesturing with his eyes.
Naruse also quickly stood up and helped Matsu Chiaki, who was unsteady on his feet, to the sofa, leaning against Hanasawako.
Hana Che also wanted to help clean up the table, but Naoko dissuaded her and sat back on the sofa.
"I'll do it, Dad."
After clearing the table with Naruse, Naoko poured a glass of water for each of the three adults.
The two of them went to the kitchen to wash dishes together.
"Mom and auntie seemed to be having a great time drinking."
"This is the first time I know that Aunt Sawako likes to drink."
Shangzi smiled and said, "I didn't drink much before."
"That was instigated by my mother."
Naruse rinsed the plate in his hand, "But it is rare for her to relax... Even if she drinks, she is quite restrained."
Shangzi reached out to take it and put it on the other side, "Today is New Year's Eve."
"Well, today is New Year's Eve."
After taking some time to clean the dishes, Naruse walked out of the kitchen, but Naoko didn't follow.
Looking back, she bent down to open the cupboard and was looking for something again.
He walked back and looked at the soba noodles in her hand, "New Year's Eve soba noodles?"
"Yes."
"It's only around nine o'clock, so it's still early."
Shangzi washed the vegetables in his hands, "It's getting late, I'll prepare the ingredients first. Is there anything else Chunhai would like to add?"
Naruse thought for a while, "Prawn tempura."
Shangzi smiled and said, "Okay."
He also stayed to help.
"It's really quiet outside. Is it still snowing?"
"It seems so."
Returning to the living room, Matsu Chiaki and Kabuto Sawako were leaning together, chatting in a low voice, while Katoru was sitting aside and drinking water.
The two of them also sat on the sofa and continued watching TV.
The last bit of time of this year is slowly passing by, and no one can save it.
On TV, the red and white singers alternated, taking the stage to sing one after another.
"It's another new face I've never seen before."
"Don't you know this group, Sawako? They are quite popular on the Internet now. It is said that I will ask them to compose the theme song for the new drama I am filming."
Song Qianqiu said, bumping the son next to him with his arm, "Do you know Chunhai?"
"I don't know them. But I seem to have heard their songs in some advertisement." Naruse said.
"Tsk. Where is Shangzi?"
"I don't know it, but I think I heard it from a friend..."
"This won't work. Shangzi should pay more attention to popular things and stop staring at this nerd."
"Ah..."
After several shifts and changes of attention and topics, the Red and White Song Battle was coming to an end. Naoko looked at the time, got up and went to the kitchen.
Naruse quickly followed.
When the two returned to the living room, they both held a bowl of steaming soba noodles.
Song Qianqiu took a deep breath.
“Did you also add prawn tempura? I’m so happy~”
After returning a few times and bringing his own bowl of noodles, Naruse sat down next to Naoko.
The Red and White Song Battle has ended, and the New Year's Eve program "Year After Year" is being played.
Dong——dong——dong——
Accompanied by the long ringing of the bell, Hanasawako ate some noodles, looked at the two children sitting together, and smiled.
"I want to finish eating soba noodles before the new year comes."
"Okay."
Boom——
When the 108th bell came from the TV, both Naruse and Naoko had put down their chopsticks, looking at each other and smiling.
"Happy New Year."
"Please take good care of me in the new year."
It's already 1 o'clock when I finish coding, and I almost set it to be released on the 24th...