Chapter 187 – Is this your escape route?

A few girls walked into the 100 yen store together, the so-called 100 yen store, that is, all the snacks in the store are only 100 yen price, so that the selection becomes the most important part, Hayakawa holding Ayano’s arm, looking at the familiar candy snacks in the glass cabinet, suddenly eyes glittering, shook his arm, introduced Ayano to these traditional snacks.

Many are childhood memories, Hayakawa want to buy in Tokyo can not buy, as a child she remembers very clearly, a milk candy she can not eat, but also use a knife to cut it into three sections, divided into three days to eat, like their own wrestling injuries, her mother stuffed a small half of a piece of sugar in her mouth, in a short while she did not cry and scream.

Ayano listened to Hayakawa’s description of the snacks, cupping a one-hundred dollar coin in one hand with a rather solemn gaze.

“What do you want to eat just pick oh.” The owner of the hundred-dollar store is also a familiar image of an old woman with a kind face, basically these stores are not rented, many of them are converted from their own houses, and behind the small door next to the counter, it is someone’s home.

In the past, the two Takahashi sisters were basically able to buy whatever they wanted to eat at the supermarket or online, and thus lost the fun of shopping for it. Now that there were only two hundred yen available for them to choose from, this immediately made both of them become incredibly conscientious, and turned around several times in comparison to the size as well as the shapes of the snacks in the cupboard.

Not long after, Natsuki Aoi also walked into the front of the store, where a few girls were checking out at the counter.

“Well? Did you get everything?”

“Yes!” Ayano raised her right hand high, then trotted over with a bag of candy, opened the paper wrapping, and handed it over.

Aoi Natsuki looked at the brown quadrangular candies, picked up one, put it in his mouth, and hissed …… so sour.

“Plum candy?”

“Mmmmmm! Doesn’t that taste special!” Ayano nodded her head straight in triumph.

Natsuki Aoi kept sucking in her saliva, but after a while, the sourness faded and that strong smell of dried fruit came up, and well, it actually tasted pretty good.

“Then I’ll try some, too, Ayano.” Takahashi Mito came over and reached out to take a candy from the paper wrapper when Ayano immediately wrapped her hand around the opening with alertness and held the candy back, frowning slightly as she said, “No way! There aren’t that many in total! Didn’t Sis buy snacks too?”

“Huh? I’m your sister! Cheap bastard!” Takahashi Mito crossed her arms.

Ayano then poked her tongue out at her.

The few remaining girls slowly gathered over.

“Alright, alright, don’t argue, I bought lollipops for everyone, take one each.” Aoi Natsuki then carried out a plastic bag in her left hand that was blocking the door, and when she opened it, it was all filled with the same fruit-flavored lollipops.

“Ah! Natsuki, didn’t we agree that everyone could only spend two hundred dollars? Why are you breaking the rules!” Ayano turned to huff and puff and questioned, the two little clusters tied up at the top of her head from convenience bobbing adorably.

“Just pretend I dropped out.” Natsuki Aoi shrugged indifferently and stretched the plastic bag forward, “So you don’t want one?”

A tangled look passed over Ayano’s face, her hands clenched and her little head bobbing from side to side, finally unable to resist the temptation, she pulled a lollipop out of the plastic bag, “That’s so sly, Natsuki, only this time? You can’t do that next time.”

After that, he ripped open the wrapper, squinted prettily, and ate the lollipop.

It’s really like a child.

“Thanks a lot.” Dragon Sakura stepped up and smoked one as well.

“Then me too.” Takahashi Midu obediently touched one as well.

After a lap, everyone got a popsicle, and a group of people sat on the edge of the flower bed outside the street, looking at the scenery in front of them, eating snacks and popsicles, this kind of leisurely feeling, so comfortable ah ……

“Good grief, it’s thanks for the patronage.”

Ayano suddenly blurted out.

In her hand at this point she held aloft the cleanly eaten popsicle with the words thank you for patronizing vaguely emblazoned on it.

Seeing this, Rina also ate the remaining portion in one bite before gleefully handing the stick over to Ayano’s sister, who looked closer and sighed, “No prizes either oh.”

“I thank patronage as well.” Dragon Sakura said from the sidelines.

All around, everyone seems to be thanking patronage, which is a bit of bad luck to watch.

Natsuki Aoi looked at her own popsicle with the same “Thank you for your patronage” and wondered if this was not a prize in itself.

“Bingo! I won!” Takahashi Mito suddenly exclaimed excitedly, which then drew the attention of the rest of the group, Ayano and Rina were the first to jump down from the flowerbed and jogged over to the flowerbed, and when they saw the words “one more”, they shouted excitedly as if they had won the lottery.

“It’s really another one, it’s awesome ……”

“Looks like Takahashi today is your lucky day.”

It took Takahashi Mito a while to calm down this mood a little, looking at this just won a hundred yen popsicle stick, but she felt just like winning the jackpot, not good, the right hand holding the popsicle stick is unconsciously trembling!

“The bad luck seems to be over, Takahashi, go redeem your reward.” Aoi Natsuki said with a smile and pointed to a small goods store not far ahead.

“Mmm!” Takahashi Midu’s smile was extraordinarily sweet.

After an hour, a few people each shopping each, some stores have never seen, only Ayano and Dragon Sakura such bold people will take the initiative to walk into, by the way, also pulled Hayakawa and Lina together, Aoi Natsuki wanted to take out his cell phone, take a few pictures, but only just out of his pocket, he suddenly felt the cell phone came from the vibration of the persistent sound, open to look at the screen, it is Hetty called him, as well as on the screen also showed that There are twelve unread messages.

There is no signal in the village, so the other party calls or sends a text message, they can not receive, now to the town, the previous unsuccessful text messages are also received one after another, he then pressed the dialing button.

“Hello.”

“Hey ……”

“Hetty, what’s the matter?”

“Have you, uh, been busy the last couple days?”

“No, the main thing is that I just went back to my hometown during this period of time, there is no signal in the village in the countryside, so I didn’t see you sending messages, and now I just got to the town, and that’s when I saw you send me such a text message.”

“So that’s it.” Hetty on the other end of the phone was obviously relieved, and her speed of speech returned to its usual state, “Mainly, I wanted to talk to you about Nia’s subsequent schooling, I’ve talked to her and she’s quite willing, and the qualifications of the school you’ve sent me to are quite good, so I think it’s possible.”

“That’s so great, what grade is Nia in now? P1? P2?”

“It should be third grade in September.”

“That’s not the same grade as Rina, maybe the two of them can even become classmates.” Aoi Natsuki laughed.

“Yeah oh, there’s that possibility, that would be great if you could, as well as …… there’s one more thing I was hoping you could do me a favor.”

“Well, you say.”

“It’s just that, lately I might be extra busy at work and often won’t be home on time, and I heard you say earlier that this elementary school is chartered for school buses right?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Then could it be possible that on certain days, when I’m busy, Nia could get off at your neighborhood stop with Lina and have dinner at your house, don’t worry! I can pay for all the meals and more ……”

“So it’s this, of course it’s not a problem, you don’t have to stutter so much, I understand.” Aoi Natsuki knew this feeling better than anyone else, she was just taking care of her studies and Rina, she felt that her daily life was exceptionally fulfilling, but Hetty even had to get up early every morning and work hard to fight for her idol career, it was really not easy, and what she said was not that big of a deal, it’s just a matter of cooking some more dishes and having one more set of chopsticks, it was not a big deal.

“Really, really! That’s great …… Then I’ll call you next month for the food expenses starting in September!”

“Let’s talk about it when the time comes, there’s no need to give me too much for this expense, the ingredients I usually go for on special, it doesn’t cost much.” Aoi Natsuki didn’t reject the other party’s request to pay for the food, after all, for a girl of her character, accepting her kindness is often the only thing that won’t make the two of them awkward, every time he recalled the last time he was on the way home with her, she suddenly asked with a start if he liked her. Just thinking about it made me laugh and cry, so in order to avoid such misunderstandings, just treat her as a friend as much as possible.

“Okay, then I’ll trouble you to figure out the cost then, I’m going to get back to work, so have fun.”

“Well, you work also cheers, bye.” Aoi Natsuki gave encouragement, then hung up the phone, looked at the sky and took a deep breath, this is the normal conversation between friends.

“Cheer up at your work too~ Aoi you’re really a warm man na.” Sakurajima suddenly appeared in front of him, looking down, that gaze fell on the contact book with Hetty as the memo, her slender eyebrows flicked up, “Hm …… it’s Hetty huh.”

“Can you not be god-awful?” Aoi Natsuki stretched out his right index finger and tried to push it against her forehead, but who knew that she raised her head steeply and opened her mouth to bite his finger with her teeth, her eyes slightly sultry.

Aoi Natsuki felt a slight pain in her fingertips, the other party didn’t bite very hard.

A second later, she let go of her mouth and that look stayed on him, “Aoi, isn’t having us enough? Do you have to hook Hetty up too? You’re so greedy.”

“What are you talking about, don’t slander anon, Hetty and I have a serious friendship.” Aoi Natsuki said with a straight face.

“Yeah, well, don’t get in your face then.”

“Absolutely not.” Natsuki Arai closed her cell phone and put it back in her pocket, it was about time to go home now.

With Sakurajima the two of them looked for someone for quite a while, especially Ayano, because she didn’t bring her cell phone out with her, every store she walked into and looked around, she was nowhere to be seen, until they found her in a very old movie screening room, she was chatting with the staff inside, and when Aoi and the others came in she still didn’t know what was going on, and waved nervously and continuously towards him.

Ayano all watched the movie inside for free for most of the hour, it’s really embarrassing not to buy something to go back, Aoi Natsuki had to buy a few souvenir medals to go back, on the way back, Ayano has been holding up the nostalgic metal medals made of metal in the clear plastic bag in her hand, with a full smile on her face.

A few people stepped on the way back, parked the car at the original place, got out, and stood on that concrete path again, once they were back, now they didn’t need Aoi Natsuki to lead the way, Ayano and Rina had already sprinted thirty meters away, hand in hand.

Aoi Natsuki stood beside Hayakawa, somehow he always felt that Hayakawa was a bit preoccupied today, she kept her head down and didn’t talk much, and it was the same in the car on the way back, he looked at her and couldn’t hold back, he opened his mouth and asked, “Are you thinking about something?”

“Hm?” Hayakawa froze and turned his head to look at him, reacting violently, his hands kept swinging uncharacteristically and his face showed panic, “No, it’s nothing.”

So strange …… With Aoi Natsuki’s understanding of her, she must be thinking about something, but she doesn’t look like she’s willing to talk about it right now, so it seems that she can only find a chance to ask after some time.

Walking, the lead Ayano pulled Rina has reached the front door of the house, saw the door open, then walked straight into it, but once inside, it felt wrong, the original refreshed entrance steps were full of muddy footprints, fixed her eyes through the glass window, the things that had been organized inside were also rummaged through, and her heart suddenly panicked, it was hard to be!

Just as the thought crossed her mind, a tall man in a hood came out from the side yard carrying a large box of luggage, which Ayano instantly recognized as theirs!

And the other saw her immediately.

Luckily, Ayano was smart and barely froze, picking up Rina and running out the door, yelling that there was a thief! As soon as the people in the back heard that there was a thief, the relaxed atmosphere instantly became tense, with Aoi Natsuki and Ryuusakura being the first two to run over.

Hooded man as soon as he heard her shouting, he himself naturally panicked, with such a heavy thing simply can not run, simply directly thrown on the ground, rushed out of the door, just left and right to look at the escape route, only to see a man and a woman in the distance on the right side of the raging wildly over, he immediately gave up on the right side of this road, choose to the left side of this road towards the mountains to run.

He was most familiar with the mountain paths here, and as long as he could run up the mountain, he was absolutely confident that he could get rid of them!

But just ran not two steps, he passed the big curve when he glanced at the rear, immediately scared almost soul, just clearly still feel the distance of thirty or forty meters, this instant why feel so much closer!

He clenched his teeth and ran as hard as he could, but this time twenty meters ahead of him a massive cow was walking up the path at a slow pace, its slender tail slapping haphazardly at the mosquitoes that had stopped on its buttocks, completely oblivious to the head-covered man who was furiously charging toward it.

The man in the headgear was about to slow down and go around it, but who knew that when he was only two or three meters away from the cow, the cow suddenly turned its head, accompanied by a dull “moo” sound, and the two horns slammed into the headgear man’s abdomen, and the huge impact immediately knocked him to the ground, and getting up again was already impossible.

The few people who followed behind in pursuit witnessed this scene as well.

“Bull!”

Ayano exclaimed in surprise.

And the cow, after knocking down the thief, still stood with a calm face for a while, and then left with a steady pace all the way down the slope on the side of the path, as if it had never been here.