Chapter 103: Carrying Sakurajima Home

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“Uh, it’s just weeds again.”

Should I call it bad luck that Natsuki Arai has caught weed for the third time?

“Don’t mind it, it’s just very normal, if you feel like you can’t catch anything here, you can change your location and go to a place where you think you can can have a big fish present.” Sakurajima Apricot said flatly with a bamboo stick in her mouth.

“Is it that metaphysical ……”

“Of course, don’t think of the fish as too stupid, because …… stupid fish would have been caught long ago.” Sakurajima Apricot told a joke.

But it sounds extraordinarily real.

Hayakawa was beside herself, not moving a muscle, in her impression fishing was all about making smooth and patient.

But the truth was, she hadn’t even caught a weed so far.

Sakurajima Apricot attached a glance at Hayakawa and spoke, “That’s not the way to fish, catching big fish requires skill, this kind of Road Runner soft bait itself is made to look like a small fish just to make the big fish take it as prey in the murky water, but if you don’t move at all, the big fish will naturally think you’re faking it, so while you’re fishing, your head has to be thinking about it, if you’re a fish , how you should swim in the water, the more irregular the better, and ……”

Sakurajima apricot stood up, the fishing rod inserted in the stone cracks, this look designated off the paint, the same fishing enthusiasts look at this must not be heartbroken bad, but she appeared to be unconcerned.

She walked over to Hayakawa and grabbed the fishing rod with her left hand while her right hand began to slowly reel in the line, “Hold the rod tightly! Then feel ……”

“……”

Keiko Hayakawa didn’t know what she was supposed to feel, but after a second she felt a slight rustling sensation from the rod.

“That’s the sensation of a soft bait touching the bottom and dragging between the mud and the sand, sometimes some small fish hide in the mud and sand to avoid predators, and many big fish watch for any living thing moving between the mud and sand and get close enough to make their next kill.”

“Oh! I didn’t realize there was such a saying.” Hayakawa Keiko came to a realization, not realizing that there was so much to learn amongst fishing.

The corners of Sakurajima Apricot’s mouth mysteriously rose, “Don’t underestimate the power of nature, you can only feel the wonders of it if you cut into it, keep up the good work, Hayakawa.”

“Yes!” Hayakawa nodded.

Aoi Natsuki watched from the sidelines, at first she was worried that Sakurajima apricot will get out of what moths to, did not think that actually quite professional well, is their own ideas steel seal, and in the future there is an opportunity to help her more it.

The fishing was undoubtedly long, but strangely surprisingly not boring, and a few people had a good time blowing in the wind and chatting about some of the day-to-day happenings on campus.

Leena wrapped her body, lately this little one was often prone to sleepiness, obviously it was winter, now it was almost two o’clock in the afternoon, she was also sleepy looking, after that she laid on her side on Aoi’s lap and slept with her eyes closed.

“Natsuki, how is Rina’s school situation now?” Keiko Hayakawa found a topic.

“Sloppy, I’ve been at the bottom of the class before when I fell behind a lot in my progress and with my health, but I’ve been making progress lately, so it’s all coming together slowly.”

Aoi Natsuki is one of the people who are calm and collected, he will think of more prudent plans for people and things, it’s okay to take a longer time, it’s better to be quick than fast, otherwise, just to complete the love game, he wouldn’t have shifted the target of the strategy in the first place and chose Takahashi Mito, maybe the probability of successfully completing the game is higher now, but he didn’t, why?

Because he is enjoying every day.

Even if the world speaks ill of him.

“That’s good, did you make any friends at school?”

“There seems to be quite a lot of them, Rina is cute and I heard that both boys and girls in the class take care of her.” Aoi Natsuki placed her hand on the sleeping Rina’s cheek and gently kneaded it.

After a long time together, he also completely treated Lina as his own sister, although it was strange that Lina always thought of him as her father, perhaps because she had been abandoned by her parents, what Lina needed more from the bottom of her heart would be a father’s love.

When you think about it, the meeting of the two would have been a coincidence.

Without Aoi, Lina might still be wandering alone.

“My parents messaged me to tell me that they’ll be back in a couple days, so bring Lena to them to meet them then.”

“Lena’s so much fun, she’s sure to make her aunt and uncle very happy.”

Hayakawa’s words were more sure of that than he was of himself.

Natsuki Aoi smiled faintly and nodded softly.

At the same time, Hayakawa Keiko felt a tightness in her hand, a huge tug on the rod, and her calm mind panicked, “There, there’s movement!”

The reaction also drew the attention of the two men next to him.

Sakurajima Apricot heaved the rod into the rocky crevice again and quickly got up and walked over to her, but instead of taking the rod, she directed her to make the next move.

“Now you hold the rod against your belly and slowly reel in the line.” Sakurajima Apricot, meanwhile, was pulling her body to prevent her from being dragged back into the water by the fish.

The atmosphere was tense for a moment.

The sleeping Lina also woke up, sat up, tiredly rubbed her eyes, saw the scorching battle in front of her, immediately her small mouth turned into an O shape, her sleepiness instantly swept away, and looked at the two of them with wide eyes.

Aoi Natsuki wrapped her arms around Rina, and without getting involved, followed along and watched from the sidelines.

A short while later, a dark figure approached the water slowly and languidly, and it looked like it was finally exhausted.

“OK, watch me next.” Sakurajima apricot hastily turned back to his backpack, from which he took out a cool looking dustpan, a pull on the line, which could be extended into a salvage net, jogging back, cooperating with Hayakawa to continue to collect the rope, and eventually a greenish-gray shaped and flattened fish was fished out of the water.

“Wow!” Lina exclaimed, covering her mouth.

“It’s an oxtail, it looks like it could be four pounds, great battle, Hayakawa.”

“Yes, is it ……” Hayakawa was so nervous that she didn’t know what to say, she was the kind of character that got shy when she was praised.

It was also now gripping the fishing rod with a look of overwhelm.

“Good job, we have our dinner tonight.” Apricot Sakurajima reared back, the pleasure of catching a fish heightening her interest, “How does it feel? Fishing.”

“Eh …… It’s really quite good, very, very accomplished!” Keiko Hayakawa held her tongue for two seconds before uttering the last half of her sentence.

Sakurajima Apricot patted her arm and continued, “If you like it, you can come back later as well, oh, next spring, that’s when the squid come to the shallow waters to spawn, I’ll take you to another place to fish then.”

“Uh-huh!”

“Good! Then Aoi and I will keep up the good work and try to catch another one too!”

With that belief in mind, I ended up with a few small fish in addition to this oxtail I caught in Hayakawa at 4:30pm.

It was kind of a great day, too.

After that came the cooking part, and Sakurajima Apricot then began to prepare the tools.

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“Here.”

Apricot Sakurajima handed Hayakawa a sharp knife.

Hayakawa took it and held the knife in both hands, his eyes a little dumbfounded.

On the counter, the oxtail was still panting slightly.

“Eh? Why am I the one to do this thing?” Hayakawa asked with an awkward smile hanging on his face.

“Of course, you caught it, so naturally it’s up to you to end its life, it’s also respect for life, it will die from dehydration in a little while anyway, do you want it to die in pain just like that? It would be better to give it closure with a single cut.” Sakurajima Apricot rested her head on her shoulder and spoke in a slow tone.

Hearing that, Hayakawa shuddered.

The eyes flicked to Natsuki.

He similarly nodded toward himself.

Well ……

Keiko Hayakawa made up her mind a little bit and finally put her hand on the knife to end the fish’s life.

“OK, I’ll leave the cooking to Aoi and I next.” Sakurajima Apricot took away the knife as soon as she could, after which she handed the entire plate along with the fish to Aoi.

Natsuki Aoi then skillfully began to gill, scale, gut and fillet the fish.

“Here, lemon.”

“Thanks.”

Lina was excited to see Natsuki showing off his fully-pointed cooking skills again, and was spinning around in place.

“Then I’ll go to a nearby store to get something to drink, I’ll be back soon.” Sakurajima Apricot turned around and headed back the way she came, the roads here were just too familiar to her.

“Sakurajima brought quite a lot of stuff.” Aoi Natsuki lit the black charcoal with a fire igniter, and those small fish were simply used to grill them directly, while half of the oxtail fish were used to grill them, and the other half were made into sashimi.

Not long after, Sakurajima Apricot also walked back from the distance, carrying a bag of drinks in her hand.

Aoi Natsuki’s side is also basically roasted.

For the sashimi, he also made a delicate presentation, looking appetizing.

“That’s pretty decent work, Arai.”

“Yeah, sit down so you can eat, move a rock over here.”

“Uh-huh.”

Several people sat in a circle and began to enjoy the well-earned meal.

Apricot Sakurajima handed out drinks, and once the stimulating carbonated beverage went down, the day’s hard work felt worth it.

That’s the joy of fishing.

“Character: Keiko Hayakawa, Specialty column changed ……”

The system tone came back.

Aoi Natsuki opened it up and saw that Hayakawa’s new specialty of “Fishing” had appeared in his specialty bar with a value of 1 point.

That’s great!

This gave Natsuki Aoi a small thrill.

“Hey! Sakurajima? Sakurajima are you okay!”

“What’s wrong?” Aoi looked back to Sakurajima Apricot only to find that she had gone limp on the floor.

Up close, his face was flushed and he smelled faintly of alcohol.

It’s hard not to ……

He looked down and picked up the bottle of drink beside her, on which the ingredient list said it was a beverage-type beer.

Despite said low degrees, it’s still beer.

In Japan, you can’t drink during your underage years, but in some places it’s still a custom that children who grow up in rice wine vats are good boys… Is it because the appearance is so much like the drink that even the store missed it?

“This idiot, can’t you read the package description properly.” Aoi Natsuki said helplessly.

“So what should we do now?”

“Let’s eat first, that’s a little bit of alcohol, you should wake up after a while.”

Aoi Natsuki was right, but Sakurajima Apricot, who woke up after a few minutes, was still a bit groggy, so it seems that she really can’t drink nah.

After eating, extinguish the charcoal, pack up and prepare to go back, because Sakurajima apricot is a little unable to walk the road, Aoi Natsuki also choose to carry her back to the original way back.

It was getting dark and a few people were waiting at the station for the last bus.

In the car, Sakurajima Apricot fell asleep again, the floating red on her face a little lighter this time.

After a forty minute drive, several people retraced their steps to the original rendezvous point.

“It’s fine, I’ll send her back, you should also go home early, don’t let your family worry.” Aoi Natsuki continued to choose to carry Sakurajima Apricot on his back, that burning nostrils kept blowing against his ears, and there was also a faint body fragrance unique to young girls.

“Okay.” Hayakawa Keiko looked at the time on her cell phone, indeed she should go back herself, and she was more than relieved to let Natsuki be sent by a boy.

“Narina, I’ll see you some other time.”

“Awww!” Rina waved goodbye to Hayakawa-san.

“Sakurajima, wake up, where does your family live? I’ll take you back.”

“Six, Roppongi …… New City.”

“Good, then …… walk.”

Aoi Natsuki can not be considered rich, Japan taxi how expensive know, ordinary people basically can not afford a car, generally can not return home will choose to live in some cheap hotels, and then will not help to live to some of the manga cybercafe to go, the price is cheap, one night only need 4000 yen less than, there are free drinks self-service, free manga to read and surf the Internet, sleepy can be directly in the small cubicle to sleep down.

Do not choose the subway, but because at this point a lot of rolled commuters are going home one after another, see yourself carrying a wonderful girl, I’m afraid I will not go to the police station to drink tea so simple, but directly detained.

Aoi Natsuki pointed to a convenience store not far away and said to Lina, “Lina, go buy a mask for me.”

It’s not safe to just walk back like that anyways.

Lina took the money, nodded heavily, and as if she had been given a task, her whole being got serious and trotted over.

Half a minute later, smugly, he walked out with a gag.

Aoi Natsuki put on her mask and carried Sakurajima Apricot on her back, walking slowly in the direction of her house.

Sakurajima Apricot’s body was lighter than he had expected, while being more substantial, and when sleeping quietly it completely lacked the creepy aura it usually had, instead looking sweet.

After ten minutes of walking had passed, Sakurajima Apricot on her back began to stir.

The whole body was writhing against him, and his head was working its way under the brim of his duffle coat.

Then he probed out again, the tip of his nose and mouth directly pressed against the back of Aoi Natsuki’s neck, and a hot, wet touch traveled up to his brain.

This, this is definitely a foul right ……

Natsuki Arai continued on with her on his back, choosing less crowded streets in order to avoid pedestrians, and when he came to a red light, he stopped.

There was also a self-timer sitting next to the street sign.

Noticing someone in front of him, he immediately switched to front-facing shooting mode as well.

Natsuki Aoi looked to the light source, and then he saw the camera filming them, and from the screen he also saw Sakurajima behind him, who had long since opened his eyes and was looking through the screen, straight at them inside.

So you woke up a long time ago ……