Chapter 186: Don’t bully Takahashi Mito!

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Time unconsciously came to the evening, a group of people have seen the sunset, until now the stars covered the sky, the night in the countryside, not only is there no sound of cars, even the sky seems to be so clean, Aoi Natsuki has never seen such a bright starry sky.

At the edge of the lake, several people built a fire and easily ignited the wood with dried pine nuts and dead wood, slowly adding it to the fire from thin to thick.

Hayakawa clasped his hands on his knees and kept his eyes bubbling as he looked at the sky.

Next to her, Ayano was the busiest, bursting with inspiration all of a sudden, grabbing her drawing board and starting her painting for the day.

Lina had fallen asleep lying in her tent because she was so sleepy, and Dragon Sakura accompanied her, holding a bushel fan and gently fanning herself towards her body.

After enjoying some night scenery, Aoi Natsuki slowly stood up, signaling that it was almost time to go back, using a basin to scoop up a large pot of water, pouring on the fire until confirming that there was no bit of fire at all, which then packed up his things, and originally wanted to carry Lina on his back, but who knew that Ryuusakura was directly next to do this job, and a few people slowly returned to the bottom of the mountain.

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Day two.

Aoi Natsuki sleepily woke up, a look at the cell phone time, it is already nine thirty, this is the first time he is so comfortable sleep, just stretched out, his ears heard a gust of voices coming from outside the door.

Aoi Natsuki climbed up, put on his clothes, and after pushing open the sliding door, he found that a vast number of people were busy outside the door, wearing masks and aprons, and started to wipe this one and that one with a rag, and they were …… cleaning up.

Natsuki Arai scratched his head.

“Good morning! Natsuki.” Ayano saw him and immediately greeted him with a genki.

“Good morning.” Natsuki Arai, still a bit uncomfortable with the lineup, looked around and asked, “Isn’t Grandpa home?”

“Well, Grandpa said he was coming back from a trip to town to get some stuff and just got on his bike half an hour ago.”

Aoi Natsuki nodded, then said, “Why are you guys suddenly cleaning up here? It’s weirdly embarrassing.”

“It was Ryuusakura who brought it up, saying that it’s always better to help out when you’re bothering to stay at your house.” Ayano said bluntly.

“Well ……,” Aoi Natsuki looked around, the hall that was originally a bit cluttered became much tidier, and then he also made up his mind, “Good! Then let’s start a big cleaning today!”

Then joined in the cleaning spree, doing and finishing the weeding from the night before, and just making a big change since we’ll be living there for a while longer anyway.

Outside the house the sun was hot, Aoi Natsuki took a lot of effort to fill up the mound of those weeds, his forehead was already sweating profusely, he took a long breath and when he looked up he saw Hayakawa at the corridor holding a large box, moving slowly towards the distance.

Hayakawa tried to put this box on top of the cabinet, but the cabinet itself was stacked with things, plus she wasn’t tall enough, she couldn’t put the box on it several times with her padded feet, her body was pressed tightly against the cabinet, after two or three failed attempts she turned her head to look at the others, everyone was busy with their own things, in fact, it was just a little bit closer, so why don’t you give it another try.

With that, Hayakawa once again held back his attempts, tiptoeing on his toes, stretching his arms out, getting closer and closer to the top of the cabinet.

“And, and almost ……”

She held her red face, a hard jump, attempting to put the box up, however, after this jump, not only the box did not pass up, her fingertips also touched the box that was already placed on the cabinet, the position of a shift, and then the straight box lost its center and smashed out towards Hayakawa’s forehead, she was completely unable to dodge, and instinctively had to close her eyes, hard to take this hit.

But who knew that just as the box was about to fall, Aoi Natsuki’s pair of large hands had already managed to hold it from behind, and with a gentle push of his fingertips, he tucked that box back into its original position.

“It’s better to let me do it, you look at me like this.” Aoi Natsuki lowered his head, one meter seventy-six is considered very tall among Japanese males, lowered his head to look at Hayakawa, very petite, at this time motionless hands holding up the box in his hands, Aoi Natsuki then took the box from her hands, stretched out his arms and then placed it on the cabinet.

“Sorry ……,” Hayakawa said, shrinking back.

The distance between the two was particularly close at this point, Hayakawa was sandwiched between the cabinet and Natsuki, his body slightly curled up, his hands didn’t even know where they should be placed, there was a full body mirror on the cabinet, Hayakawa glanced sideways at himself, there was no way to hide those panicked little eyes.

“If it’s convenient, can I ask you to sort the upstairs utility room? You’re more delicate in your work, and I’m a bit uneasy about leaving it to the other girls.” Aoi Natsuki blocked her mouth with her hand and came up to whisper.

Hayakawa jerked his body as if his ears had been stung by a bee, and after several seconds, he gently nodded his head and agreed in a small voice, “Okay ……”

“Please.” Aoi Natsuki stepped aside, then Hayakawa lowered his head and ran quickly in the direction of the second floor with small steps.

Aoi Natsuki mouth corner reveals a smile, he is not stupid, naturally able to feel the atmosphere between the two just now sense, this is the adolescent ignorant emotion well, really let a person’s blood surging na! He just deliberately stick so close, ask is galgame learned, the effect did not expect surprisingly good.

Hayakawa is still so cute when he’s shy.

Natsuki Arai turned his head to notice himself in the mirror, and because he was laboring under the hot sun, he couldn’t quite tell if he was sunburned or if he was actually blushing.

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A few people divided the work clearly, soon before noon all cleaned up, Aoi grandfather also returned from the town, seems to become a new house, the bag in the hand are surprised to fall to the ground.

At noon Grandpa Aoi made a beautiful vegetarian feast for a few people to eat, yesterday they just ate barbecue, taste is still tired of it, just to eat some fresh vegetables, scrape a scrape of oil and water, their own home grown, just put on the chopping board, I think it is watery.

In the afternoon, when the hot heat was slightly better than in the morning, Ayano, who was chatting with Grandpa Arai, suddenly rummaged through his shopping bag and found a packet of dried small fishes, and all of a sudden said in surprise, “Grandpa, where did you buy this snack?”

Grandpa Aoi was fanning himself with a fan, sitting at a low table and looking at a newspaper, when he heard this, he cast his eyes, “Oh, this, ah, I stopped by a 100 yen store in town today, does Ayano want to eat it? It’s okay.”

After getting along for two days, Grandpa Aoi had some general understanding of the personalities of several girls, and this girl named Ayano’s personality was big and innocent, and her pretty appearance also made him can’t help but want to be partial.

“The town, well, is it far from us?” Ayano asked again.

“That’s not true, a few of the villages are actually next to the town, and if you really want to go, it’s pretty much just out of the village and another kilometer away.”

“Wow! That sounds good too eh! Fellas! Why don’t we all go for a stroll around town this afternoon!” Ayano turned her head to the rest of the girls.

“You’re craving for a snack, aren’t you?” Aoi Natsuki said with a single word that revealed the true meaning of it.

In the next second, Ayano had just torn open the plastic package of dried small fishes and was about to eat half of the package in one bite, when she heard Natsuki’s words, she immediately smiled awkwardly as well.

“When I was a kid, I actually looked forward to going to the 100-yen store the most in my hometown, and every time I had just a hundred yen for my pocket money, so that the choice of snacks would have to be carefully chosen again and again, and then finally pick out the snacks that were most dear to my heart.” Hayakawa came forward and said.

“Uh-huh! I haven’t experienced it before, but it sounds as if it’s interesting!” Ayano nodded frequently as she chewed on the small dried fish.

“So are we going?” Dragon Sakura looked to him.

Aoi Natsuki saw that several people had ideas, and asked Sakurajima and Takahashi for their opinions, and they both said they were willing to go, especially Takahashi, after hearing the word snacks, I don’t know if it’s just an illusion on his part, but Takahashi’s eyes all seemed to flash with a white light in an instant.

“Good! Then we’ll go for a walk around town together afterward!”

Aoi Natsuki memory of the so-called town in fact with the prosperous two words still can not touch the edge, at most can only be with electronic products slightly on the edge of the remote suburbs, cell phone payment or something still can not do, even if the past few years, there should not be too much change.

After resting for a few moments, several people were ready to head to the town, Grandpa Aoi ceremoniously distributed two hundred yen to each person, this money might seem particularly small in the current fast-paced era, but it actually represented more of a token of appreciation, all of them also had a deeper level of perspective on the two hundred yen after just listening to Hayakawa’s explanation, and after bowing and saying thank you to Grandpa Aoi, the several people headed to the town in great numbers.

Long Sakura driving soon came to the town, that familiar asphalt road baked scent scurried into the nostrils, this way but did not see that cow again, found a location to stop, a few people out of the car, looking at the immediate environment of this secluded street, the left and right are stores, the high altitude of the messy racks of electric wires, and a few have been stretched out to the old, Aoi Natsuki felt that I just need to gently jump can be touched.

But even so, he was still shocked by the sense of images in front of him, past memories began to flood into his brain, not only him, next to a few girls are also similarly very surprised, this street is not like Tokyo are all skyscrapers, the tallest building here is estimated to be only four and a half floors, look at the facade should be a bathhouse, some stores on the store brand are also unheard of brand, that’s not to say whether there is a tasty Burger King and such fast food restaurants existed.

Remote and quiet town, the environment is particularly secluded, can occasionally see a few villagers passing by, are carrying a hoe, or holding a dustpan, in such a picture slowly will be viewed in the distance, at the end of the street, there is a lofty mountain is located in the center, the top of the mountain straight into the sky, immediately to the whole picture to bring a kind of unprecedented impact.

Ayano came to her senses and pulled on Rina, and the two of them excitedly rushed inside the street.

All at once the whole quiet street was given a touch of vigor.

The rest of the people here, except for Aoi as well as Hayakawa, were all native Tokyoites, so naturally they had never seen such an image before, and it was much more interesting than shopping, with everyone stopping for quite a while to ask what it was after spotting something they’d never seen before.

“Let’s set a rule then! Since Grandpa only gave us two hundred dollars, how about we only spend two hundred dollars here and buy what we want most?” Ayano swooped back down and proposed to the crowd.

“Well, that sounds like fun.” Dragon Sakura was the first to agree.

“Uh-huh!” Hayakawa had been meaning to say that for a while now, too, but he just hadn’t been able to say it in the car earlier.

“Ayano you turned out to be able to say such a good suggestion besides eating.” Aoi Natsuki teased.

Takahashi Ayano arched her nose, “Hmph~ Which is not true, to say that besides eating, my sister obviously loves eating more than me, only last night I secretly found her eating chocolate under the covers, eating chocolate at night, be careful of getting cavities!”

“Ayano!” Suddenly recognized, Takahashi Midu’s face suddenly blushed, this younger sister, why does she always like to say something embarrassing about herself! Eyes peeked to the side of Aoi Natsuki, only to find that he was casting a shocked look at himself.

“Takahashi, I should have asked last night if everyone was full, and you told me at that point that it seemed like they were.”

“That, that I digest quickly, so I’ll be hungry again by …… the end of the night, can’t I!” Takahashi Mito braced herself and raised her voice pitch an octave.

Aoi Natsuki shrugged and didn’t say anything else, while Ryuusakura, who was on the side, suddenly came over and looked at Takahashi with a serious gaze, and then took out a one hundred dollar coin from her pocket and handed it over, “Midu, then I’ll share one hundred with you, I have enough for one hundred.”

“You can have my hundred as well.” Before Takahashi Mito could even react, Sakurajima Apricot shoved a hundred dollars into her palm.

It wasn’t until Lina, the youngest, was also walking briskly towards her with a one hundred dollar coin that she finally couldn’t hold it together.

“What for! What for! No need, no need, do I look like a glutton! Take it all away! Even a hundred dollars is enough for me alone!” Takahashi Mito shouted in exasperation.

“Thanks then.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Sakurajima Apricot suddenly reached out and took two one hundred dollar coins from her palm.

Buzz–

Mito Takahashi’s entire head buzzed for a moment.

When she looked at Sakurajima again, she was already looking aggravated, but Sakurajima looked indifferent.

Are you the devil ……

Aoi Natsuki sighed and said that it was also your word, so consider yourself lucky.

“Remember the rules oh, only a fixed amount of money per person.” Sakurajima shouted under his breath as he wrapped his arm around Rina and headed down the street.

Mito Takahashi broke the defense, literally.

The pleading eyes turned back to the others, and by this time the rest of the people had already all left to buy what they wanted, and Takahashi Mito rubbed his stomach, it was clear that he had only just eaten his lunch not too long ago, but now why did he feel a little hungry again.

She followed it up with a long sigh.

“Alright, take it.” A voice suddenly sounded in front of him, and when he looked up, Aoi unexpectedly handed himself a hundred dollars.

“Aoi …… that you.”

“It’s okay, I eat snacks less now, take it and go pick out what you like.” Aoi Natsuki also had some sympathy for what had happened to Takahashi in the past three days, the day before yesterday when he came here he first fell, yesterday was camping and was chased by cows on top of him, and today, Sakurajima took away a hundred dollars, if this continued, the child would be abused and stupid, sparing the target was Takahashi Midu, the violent maniac who had once treated him badly, and now he felt that the pity was overdone.

“Aoi ……” Takahashi Midu was moved to tears after hearing it, clearly, clearly just a hundred dollars only, it is the amount of money that they used to drop anywhere at home, all of which they may not go and take the initiative to pick up, and today, and today… …

She was talking with a sob now.

Then he took the hundred dollars, wiped his nose and eyes, and trotted into the street with his head down.

Aoi Natsuki smiled helplessly, and in terms of favorability, Takahashi Mito had just risen another two points.