When I came out of a yakiniku restaurant deep in Hanami Kodori, there was already a long queue outside the door, and it was endless as far as the eye could see.
After taking a few steps, Naruse turned around and waited for his two companions who were walking a little slower, "Fortunately, we came early enough." Reading 溂
"Yeah..." Hikari Takigawa followed up and lay on his shoulder, "My stomach feels so full."
The starfish on the other side couldn't make intimate movements like her, but he also walked slowly and looked like he had eaten a lot.
"There are so many people queuing up."
Takigawa Hikaru looked at the people waiting outside the yakiniku restaurant, "You can eat so much meat for just a few thousand yen, no one can refuse it."
"And the beef in this store is also very fresh."
Turning back to write down the name of the store, Naruse shrugged his shoulders and motioned to Hikaru Takigawa to stand by himself, "Let's go."
She lay still and asked, "Go back to the hotel?"
"It's still early." Naruse thought for a while, "Let's just take a stroll."
"Okay~"
Takigawa Hikaru patted his shoulder and then let go.
Walking out of the Hanami path, the three of them walked towards the Shijo Bridge.
"Would you like to go shopping in Kawaramachi? There are many shopping malls there." Haixing suggested.
"Don't you want to go to Shin Kyogoku tomorrow afternoon? I'll definitely go there in more than two hours."
After Naruse finished speaking, he found that Haixing was still looking at him, with an expression on his face that seemed to be asking so what.
He suddenly realized that the concept of shopping in their eyes was completely different - at least when it came to repeated shopping, their attitudes were completely different.
"...Then just take a stroll."
After leaving Gion, walked across the Shijo Bridge and went straight to Kawaramachi. Naruse and Takikawa Hikari followed Haixing and walked around in the shopping mall.
And she seemed to have a clear destination, and soon took the two of them to a drug store.
"I saw on the Internet that this store has a very useful contact lens solution... I want to buy it and try it."
Starfish appeared in front of him wearing contact lenses most of the time, and Naruse almost forgot that she was actually more myopic than Morimi.
She went to look for the eye drops, and he and Hikaru Takigawa started shopping casually.
There were many customers in the store, most of them women. The two of them walked together, very conspicuous, and Takigawa Hikari smiled back at every glance, so more and more eyes were cast in this direction.
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She enjoyed the feeling of attracting bees and butterflies, while Naruse beside her couldn't bear it, so he excused himself to visit a certain shelf and separated from her temporarily.
Although there are still many eyes following me, they are much more restrained than before.
Walking among the shelves, there are a dazzling variety of medicines, cosmetics and skin care products on both sides.
Naruse's understanding of this kind of thing is basically zero, so he glanced over it and felt nothing.
Until he saw a lip balm.
Winter is coming soon, the air is cold and dry, and in the winter of recent years, he has heard Naoko talk about dry and cracked lips more than once.
Naruse stopped and picked up the lip balm and looked at it for a while.
"——If you want to buy lip balm, this one from Shiseido is easier to use."
Starfish, who was looking for eye drops, came around here at some point. He stared at him and the lip balm in his hand, and pointed to another one in front of him.
"Really?"
Naruse walked over and picked up the lip balm she recommended and looked at it. However, he had no experience and could not see much useful information from the outer packaging.
"Have you ever used Starfish?"
"No, this lip balm can only be bought here, in Tokyo and Osaka... But I have read online reviews and many people recommend this lip balm." Haixing said.
"That's it." Naruse nodded, looked at her, and subconsciously focused on her lips.
Pink and bright, his eyes stayed a little longer.
"..."
Starfish quickly noticed and was stunned. His face quickly turned red, he pursed his lips and turned away, pretending to look at other items on the shelf.
Naruse was also startled for a moment, opened his mouth, and then also fell into silence.
Other sounds around him became blurred, and the air seemed to freeze.
Before this unspeakable emotion rolled over and precipitated more results, Naruse picked up the lip balm recommended by Haixing and walked to the other side.
"Thank you. It helped a lot."
"..."
Looking away from the lotion that he hadn't remembered for a long time, Haixing looked at his back and bit his lip.
When Naruse found Hikaru Takigawa again, she had a college-aged girl on each arm, and she seemed to be helping them choose cosmetics.
What kind of efficiency is this...
He didn't bother, but went to the counter to pay for the lip balm in his hand.
After walking out of the drug store, I waited for a while before Takikawa Mitsuki and Haixing came out together.
"Did Chunhai also buy something? What was it?"
"Lipstick bought for Shangzi."
"Oh."
Takigawa Hikaru responded. After a while, he walked far away, and then suddenly remembered: "Why don't you remind me, I also want to bring something to Naoko."
Naruse glanced at her and said, "I'll come over tomorrow afternoon."
"Remember to remind me to come here."
"Yeah."
Haixing held the bag in his hand and said nothing, but would quickly look away once he met her.
With Hikari Takikawa beside him, Naruse could only pretend not to notice, "Is there any other store you particularly want to visit?"
"No." Hikari Takigawa shook his head, "Where's the starfish?"
"Me neither..."
"Then let's just go shopping."
So in the following time, the three of them walked around in several shopping malls in Kawaramachi for a long time. They stopped occasionally, but basically didn't buy anything.
When we left Kawaramachi, it was already nine o'clock at night.
Walking to the Shijo Bridge, Takigawa Hikaru looked down and stopped: "At this time, there are still people walking here."
The wind blew from the river, and she tightened her tight coat.
"It's a little cold...but it's still much warmer than in the Northeast."
His eyes followed the path by the river into the distance. Naruse was really tired from walking around just now, otherwise he would like to go for a walk.
"Let's go down and take a walk."
Takigawa Hikaru suddenly suggested, and smiled at Naruse who was looking at him, "Just walk for a while, cross the river at the bridge below, and go back from there."
Between the Shijo Bridge and the Wujo Bridge, there are two small bridges, and the nearest one is only a hundred or two hundred meters away.
"Then go down."
The three of them got off the bridge from the stairs next to the Shijo intersection at the end of the bridge and walked in the direction of Gojo.
Passing through the dark bridge tunnel, there were a few people sitting sparsely on the slope by the river. Some of them had young faces and seemed to be college students.
The river is flowing, and the lights of the restaurants on the other side are connected, making it very bright.
"In the summer, it seems that there will be cooling beds set up there."
"Yeah."
Hikaru Takigawa imagined the bustle of another season, "Sure enough, we should come here in the summer."
Naruse said nothing.
As long as he remained silent, he would not dispel the thought that emerged in her mind, "Let's do it again next summer."
"Well, let's talk about it later."
She glanced at him and smiled at his perfunctory behavior.
"Spring Sea~"
"Yeah."
"Record what you just said."
"...Stop making trouble."
The three of them walked and reached the bottom of the next bridge in a blink of an eye.
Haixing slowed down, but found that neither of them had the intention to go up here, so he had to speed up to keep up.
They walked to Matsubara Bridge below before going up. After crossing the bridge, they went down to the river embankment from the other side and walked towards Shijo Bridge.
After so much detour, it was already more than half an hour later when the three of them returned to the hotel.
Takigawa Hikaru and Haisei did not go back to their rooms directly, but led them into Naruse's room.
"Do you want to get up early tomorrow?"
"The hotel's breakfast is only served until half past eight." Naruse said, "I should get up."
"Then I'll get up early too."
Takigawa Hikaru nodded, "Yue and the others will leave for Kiyomizu Temple at nine-fifty. Before that, just stay at the hotel over there."
After playing for a day, both of them were a little tired and wanted to go back to the room after sitting for a while. Naruse walked to the door, closed the door and went back inside, only to find that Haixing's bag had been left on the table.
Inside were all the things she bought at night, such as the bottle of eye drops for contact lenses.
Just as Naruse was about to send it to her, there was a sudden knock on the door.
When I opened the door, I saw that the starfish came by itself.
"My stuff..."
She lowered her head and tried to take the bag from his hand, but missed.
Lifting his gaze, Naruse was looking at her, but he hesitated to speak.
"..."
Starfish subconsciously took a step back.
He pursed his lower lip and handed her the bag that he had taken back by mistake just now.
"Sorry."
Taking the bag, Haixing left in a hurry.
After closing the door, Naruse stood there for a while, frowning.