Chapter 311: Karuizawa in August (6)
"Hold on."
"Do you have any opinions, Watanabe-san?" Kiyono Rin and the female clergyman looked at Watanabe Toru.
"You know, right?" Watanabe Toru and Kiyono Rin looked at each other.
"Hmm?" Qingye Rin tilted her neck slightly.
That puzzled look was the cutest thing Toru Watanabe had ever seen - the second was Asuka Mai.
"My girlfriend, my fiancée—even though we're not engaged, my..."
Qing Ye Lin interrupted him: "It will be me at the end of the year."
"...I wish I could be as confident as you." Watanabe Toru complimented him and continued, "No matter what happens at the end of the year, my girlfriend, my fiancée, is K-san now."
"Do you have a girlfriend?" After being surprised, the female clergyman stared at Watanabe Toru with the eyes of a scumbag.
"The other one who came with me just now." said Toru Watanabe.
"Ah! I'm sorry, I misunderstood! I thought you came to Karuizawa for a trip with this lady without telling your girlfriend!" The female clergyman apologized quickly.
"In fact, there is no difference in essence." Qingye Lin said with a smile, "He has a girlfriend, but he comes to harass me all day long."
"Hey, don't talk nonsense!"
"You weren't staring at my legs? Weren't you also stunned when you saw me walking towards you just now?"
"No."
"Confess to me later." Qingye Rin spoke in the tone of God as a matter of course.
The photo of 'two people looking at each other in front of the plateau church with the sunlight shining through the green leaves' was not finally put in the church, but lay quietly in their mobile phone album as a travel photo.
"What a pity." The clergyman sighed, "The two of them in the photo are a perfect match, even better than those taken by professional photographers in the church."
"If we want to take photos like this, we can take them anytime." Watanabe Toru disagreed.
Kiyono Rin nodded in agreement: "I am cute after all."
"Yes, yes, you are the most... By the way, go back to the path and I will take a picture of you just walking by."
"What good is that?"
"I took the photo for you, R-san."
Qingye Rin stared at the branches above his head, as if there was a cuckoo there.
"Kiyano-san? Kiyano? R-san?" Toru Watanabe called out, "That scene just now was very beautiful, especially since you were wearing very fresh clothes today. You can take the best travel photos. "
" I'm not usually fresh?" Qingye Rin looked away from the tree branch.
"More cold than refreshing usually. Just this once."
Qingye Rin sighed helplessly and walked towards the tree-lined path.
Standing not too far away, she lifted the hem of her skirt and turned around, causing the light green ribbon on her tight waist to flutter.
"Very good! Do one more move!" photographer Watanabe instructed.
With her hands behind her back, Qingye Rin took a step forward and strolled in the shade of the trees.
"Very good! Ms. Kiyono, you are a natural model! You can make a lot of money by shooting covers for new fashion magazines every month! Do one more move!"
Qingye Rin turned around and walked away, then suddenly turned back and smiled brightly at Watanabe Toru.
“…”
On the mobile phone screen, the dazzling, fresh and natural picture seemed to materialize into something powerful, trying to pull Watanabe Toru in.
"...Very good!" Watanabe Toru nodded with satisfaction, "I will still be the spokesperson for Karuizawa for ten years, and Kiyono-san, you will be the spokesperson for Karuizawa right now."
Qingye Rin came over and spread out her fair and delicate right hand: "Let me see."
Watanabe Toru placed the phone in her palm.
Kiyono Rin gracefully pointed her fingers at the screen, admiring the three photos.
"I'll send it to the [Kujo, Kiyono, Watanabe] group later." Photographer Watanabe was very proud.
"Yeah." Qingye Rin responded perfunctorily and continued to slide her fingers on the screen.
“…Only three.”
"Hmm." The finger slid across the screen again.
"There are lots of photos of legs." Enlarge.
"…Meiji sent it to me. I didn't take any secret photos."
"Really?" Zooming out, Kiyono Rin continued to slide her fingers.
She nodded at a photo and said, "My swimsuit photo." and continued to scroll down.
"Um, Ms. Kiyono, my...privacy."
After checking the believer's "inner world", God Qingye returned the phone to him with satisfaction.
Toru Watanabe sent three photos to the chat group.
"I gave you my phone because I trusted you, but you took the opportunity to check the contents of my phone. I won't give it to you next time."
"Not only do you not care, you are actually a little happy."
"You have eye problems."
"I watch carefully."
"You have a heart problem."
"Kokoro means soul, Watanabe-san. How shallow of a person would you be to interpret the word 'kokoro' as 'heart'?"
"How vicious must a person be to deliberately call me superficial when they know I'm joking?"
"But I only scolded you."
"Thank you, but do you think this will make me happy?"
"Aren't you a masochist?" Qingye Rin asked in surprise.
"you……"
Before Watanabe Toru could finish his words, his cell phone rang. It was the chat group.
"You didn't turn on the reminder?" He asked Qingye Rin who was also in the group, and he clicked on the interface.
Qingye Rin didn't answer, but just leaned over and stared at Watanabe Toru's phone screen.
The wind blew over, and I could smell her faint fragrance among the scent of the trees.
"You have..."
"hurry up."
Watanabe Toru clicked into the line.
A gaming group that talks about game production and baseball games; a Shinano-machi apartment group that talks about what to eat tonight; a family group that shares ways to beat the heat in the summer...
Click on the [Kujo, Kiyono, Watanabe] group.
"Maki: This is a really beautiful shot."
"Yuko: Watanabe-kun, please take a picture for us later~"
"Watanabe: No problem, leave all the photography to me. My future ambition is to become a professional photographer."
"You don't hesitate to lie at all." Qingye Rin said beside him.
"In fact, every night, I confess to God three thousand times in my heart."
“I really didn’t hesitate at all.”
"There is still a little bit."
"Maki: I want a girly style too."
"Watanabe: It's time to test my skills"
"Maki: Hmm?"
「Watanabe: Nothing.」
"Meiji: So happy."
Watanabe: No.
"Meiji: Why don't you let me in?"
"Watanabe: ...Oh."
"Are we going in?" he asked Qingye Rin.
Qing Ye Lin's eyes showed a thoughtful look, and he said thoughtfully: "Let's go in and take a look."
"If those people say anything bad about you again, I will crucify them."
"lie."
"Let birds poop on their heads?"
“I don’t care what those people think of me.”
"But I care, so let's just do it. Don't bother about the first time they scold you, but the second time, you have to embarrass them a little."
"Can you command birds?"
"How is that possible?"
"I want to see it. Show it to me later."
"Please listen carefully to what people say."
The two walked into the church, Watanabe Toru sat next to Kujo Miki, and Kiyono Rin sat behind them, in a row alone.
Miki Kujo looked ahead, spread her hands to Toru Watanabe, and hooked the other four fingers except her thumb.
Toru Watanabe obediently put the phone in her hand.
Miki Kujo has the same slender and beautiful fingers as Rin Kiyono, click into the album.
When she saw the first one, she sneered contemptuously.
delete.
The second one.
"With his hands behind his back."
delete.
The third one.
She held it far away and looked at it carefully, then said with a smile, "It's quite beautiful."
delete.
This scene seemed familiar. Watanabe Toru secretly turned around and glanced at Kiyono Rin, who was staring at the choir boredly.
Toru Watanabe gave her a look, indicating that she should look at the current Miki Kujo.
Qingye Rin looked over.
Miki Kujo tilted her head and stared at her swimsuit critically.
'Like you?'
'boring.'
Qingye Rin withdrew her gaze and continued to look at the choir.
The next moment, she turned her pretty face away so that Watanabe Toru couldn't see it, and her thin shoulders trembled.
It seems that scene touched her funny bone.
The performance lasted unexpectedly long. In the middle, Toru Watanabe, whose cell phone could withstand anyone's scrutiny - in fact, he didn't want to hide anything from them, and the other two, said goodbye to the wives.
Xiaolian was left alone on the lawn, but she couldn't feel completely at ease after all.
They left the forest and saw Xiaolian, Jiazhi, and a group of children playing a game similar to the handkerchief dropping game.
As they sang, they circled around a person squatting in a circle - a ghost.
After the singer stops singing, the ghost has to guess who is behind him, and the person guessed correctly becomes the new ghost.
The innocent singing and carefree laughter make tourists stop and take a look.
"We had a lot of fun." said Miki Kujo.
Xiaolian, who was surrounded in the middle, had a serious look on her face and didn't even notice the arrival of the three people.
"Let's go for a walk on the street." Watanabe Toru said with a smile.
After that, he raised his voice and called to the little face on the lawn: "Xiao Lian!"
"Archer!" Xiaolian looked back.
"Ah! Lian-chan is cheating!"
"This round doesn't count! Let's start over again!"
Xiaolian suddenly realized that she was still playing games and turned around quickly.
Apparently, there was no need to tell her where the three of them were going.
The three of them didn't deliberately walk the entire street to the end. They saw a coffee shop and wanted to go in and sit down, so they walked in.
The coffee shop's decoration is old-fashioned, gentle and elegant.
On both sides of the long and narrow corridor are box-like seats, with four people in each, which are private and quiet.
They sat in a spot near the coffee shop courtyard and could see the lush trees.
There seems to be a chestnut tree with green thorny fruits hanging on it.
The roots of the trees were covered with the moss that Qingye Rin mentioned, which was very beautiful.
"It is said that Karuizawa occasionally has sun showers and thunderstorms. I hope to see one this month," said Toru Watanabe.
"My clothes are all wet. What's there to see?" Miki Kujo took a sip of coffee and put it down because it was too hot.
The cups used were new ones sold in the store and had been scalded with hot water.
"Of course it's uncomfortable to be wet, but I think there are many things in the world, such as eating horse meat sashimi, which you won't eat a second time, but it's worth eating for the first time."
After that, he concluded: “Rainy or sunny, I want to see it.”
The two girls are dispensable and it is unclear whether they agree with this view.
Watanabe Toru had no idea of gaining their approval or objection.
The topics started casually and ended casually as well.
"I heard that you spoke for me just now?" Qingye Rin said to Kujo Miki while smelling the aroma of coffee.
Kujo Miki looked up at Watanabe Toru and said, "You're too naive to expect us to reconcile over such a small matter."
"What can I do to make you reconcile?" Watanabe Toru asked them and also asked himself.
"Lick my shoes."
"Call me sister."
Watanabe Toru looked at the courtyard, where there were ancient trees and the sky was sunny, but the courtyard was shady.
"I've told you, you and her are too close to each other to think calmly and objectively. You think of everything from her perspective. Once you calm down, maybe you can find a solution." Miki Kujo stirred the coffee with a spoon.
In summer, it takes a long time for coffee to cool down to a suitable drinking temperature.
"You can't look at me objectively?" Qing Ye Lin repeated this sentence carefully, "So, Watanabe-san, what do you think of me?"
"How else can you look at it? Just look at it like that," replied Toru Watanabe.
"I want to listen to it too." Miki Kujo stopped stirring her coffee.
Watanabe Toru picked up the coffee cup and took a sip. He didn't know when he started to be no longer afraid of the cold or the heat.
I remember one time, he was still feeling cold when he ran back to the shabby rental house in the heavy rain.
The sticky feeling of my shoes being wet came back to my mind.
It was just as nasty as supermarket salmon - one slice wasn't enough, two slices was too much.
This was all a year ago.
"Can't tell?" asked Kujo Miki.
“I’m thinking.”
"lie."
“Start thinking now.”
Toru Watanabe put down his coffee cup and ran his fingers over the grain of the wooden chopping board.
"I suddenly have no idea what to say, so I'll just use the example of the person who just talked about her behind her back."
The two of them waited quietly for him to continue.
"I think they are a bunch of bastards." Watanabe Toru said calmly, "They, no, all these people, combined, are not worth a hair of Kiyono-san."
In the faint white vapor of coffee, Kiyono Rin gave a knowing smile.
"It's amazing that you can tolerate her." Miki Kujo continued to stir the coffee.
" Thank goodness Kiyono-san puts up with me."
"Why can you tolerate him?" Miki Kujo asked Rin Kiyono.
"Because Watanabe-san is the only one who thinks from the bottom of his heart that it's completely okay for me to do this and that my posture is beautiful." Kiyono Rin said in a flat, unimportant tone.
"As long as he has this idea, he will never find a way for us to reconcile." Kujo Miki said lightly.
"It's more important for him to keep thinking this way than to reconcile with you."
"The choice is not yours." Kujo Miki turned her head and looked at Watanabe Toru, "What do you want to do? Reconcile? Keep thinking this way?"
"Can't both coexist?" asked Toru Watanabe.
"No." replied Kujo Miki.
She put down the spoon, rested her chin on her folded hands, and looked at Watanabe Toru: "What are you going to do?"
Toru Watanabe looked at the coffee in front of him.
"It doesn't matter what happens to the others, except for you, Meiji. No matter what, I want you to reconcile."
Miki Kujo picked up the coffee. The temperature had dropped to a level that was still a little hot but drinkable.
"What is the specific method, Watanabe-san?" Kiyono Rin asked Watanabe Toru.
He stared blankly at the coffee cup in front of him, in which was his absent-minded reflection.
"It seems that we haven't thought of a solution yet." Qingye Rin raised the cup and took a sip of coffee.
The three of them fell into silence, each drinking their coffee.
"The beginning of the school year marks the cultural festival. What is the Human Observation Department planning to do this year?" Toru Watanabe suddenly said.
"There's no need to be so anxious about this matter." Kiyono Rin obviously didn't like the cultural festival.
"Every club must have a program. Now that we have nothing to do, wouldn't it be a good idea to think about it sooner rather than later? If we make a movie like last year, Karuizawa will be a ready-made filming location."
"Let's talk about it in two days." Miki Kujo drank coffee and looked at the courtyard.
Watanabe Toru nodded, stirred the coffee cup with a spoon, and the reflection disappeared.
"It's still early before school starts anyway," he said calmly.
They just sat there, drinking slowly and chatting occasionally, and when they felt it was time to go, the three of them left.
