I'm Shenji, what are you doing?

I don’t know who said this, time waits for no one.

No matter what happens, no matter what people's subjective wishes are, time flows bit by bit, passing through 1998 and arriving in 1999 - the end of the 20th century, the last year.

In the past year, Shen Er encountered many things and met many people. There are good things and bad things, good people and bad people. These people and things eventually became his motivation and supported his continuous growth.

It can be said that without them, there would be no Shinji today.

In the new year, Shenji will continue to work hard and do more things. For Sakura, for Fujino, for Orange, for the Matou family, for everyone he values ​​and those who value him, he will become stronger and have more power.

I am Matou Shinji, and I will protect everything I cherish - the consciousness I have embraced since time travel has not changed yet, and it will not change in the future.

In Fuyuki City, in the Matou mansion, in his own room, Shinji opened the curtains and welcomed the first ray of morning light in 1999.

"Shenji, are you up? If you are up, change your clothes quickly. We are about to set off." He also urged him outside the door.

Because he has to do morning exercises, Shinji has always been the earliest person in the family to get up, while his father Tsuruya is definitely the last one, if not the latest, with the exception of the first day of the new year.

Similar to the Chinese custom of keeping the year old on New Year's Eve, Japan also has the custom of praying at the beginning of the new year.

Hatsuku means visiting a shrine or temple for the first time in a year to pray for peace. Most traditional Japanese people would start lining up to pay homage on the night of December 31st, but the Matou family is a foreign family after all, and their observance of local Japanese customs is not so strict. In the end, the date of the first childbirth ceremony was set on January 1st. early morning. This way you can avoid the first wave of people at midnight and the second wave of people in the morning.

On this day, the entire Matou family will get up at six in the morning, and as the head of the family, Tsuru will get up earlier than others to prepare for the most solemn visit to the shrine of the year.

According to Japanese etiquette, Hatsumi must wear formal attire. The so-called formal attire is "kimono", which is a kind of traditional Japanese clothing that is very troublesome to wear. The reason why the members of the Matou family got up so early was because they spent half their time dressing up.

During this time, Shinji was deliberately pretending to be asleep in order to avoid wearing a kimono.

Yes, Shinji doesn't want to wear a kimono.

Kimono originated from China's traditional clothing Hanfu. After being introduced to Japan, it evolved locally and eventually became the current kimono. Whenever he sees this kind of clothes, he will think of his past life.

Despite all the bad things about that country in his previous life, and even though he traveled to Japan in this life and had a Japanese name, he still loves that ancient country and is proud of it. So he chose to remember his past life in this way. No matter where he was, no matter how much blood flowed in his body, his heart would not change.

Some people may say that this is a kind of hypocrisy, a kind of self-satisfaction, and it belongs to being a bit (-_-!)ch but also erecting a memorial arch. Shinji will not deny this, but people always have to be persistent, even if it seems silly.

"coming."

After replying listlessly, Shinji opened the closet, randomly picked a suit, put it on, and walked out of the room.

"Father, happy New Year."

"Happy New Year."

Seeing his son's attire, Heya sighed: "It's a suit again. Why don't you want to wear a kimono? It was obviously not like this when you were a child."

In Tsuraya's memory, his son was no different from other children in Japan until he was six years old. It was not until that incident happened when he was six years old that his son changed. Generally speaking, it is a change for the better, but there will be incomprehensible stubbornness in many small things, just like now.

"Aren't you tired of saying the same thing every year? If you don't like it, you just don't like it. Our ancestors are from Europe anyway, and no one will make irresponsible remarks on the face of this mixed race." At this moment, Shen Er was extremely happy that he had traveled through time and become a It was Matou Shinji, not a pure-blooded Japanese, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to use such an excuse.

"It's up to you." He also looked helpless. He would no longer be able to control his son after he turned six.

"Sorry." Shinji lowered his eyelids.

"Nothing, it's not a big deal." Crane waved his hand, "Let's go down, Sakura and Fujino are already waiting for you down there."

In the living room of the Matou family, several other members of the family were already getting ready.

Seeing Shinji walking down the stairs, Sakura and Fujino hurriedly greeted him.

"Happy New Year, brother."

"Shinji, Happy New Year."

Shen Er responded one by one:

"Happy New Year, Sakura. Happy New Year, Fujino. Happy New Year, mother. Happy New Year, uncle."

The last two sentences were said to stepmother Elsa and uncle Kariya. Since it was the first time, the whole family was naturally present.

"Shenji, Happy New Year." The two elders responded with a smile.

No matter which country you are in, wishing each other a Happy New Year is an indispensable etiquette to offer good wishes for the new year.

When the greetings were over, Sakura couldn't wait to circle around in front of Shinji's eyes, asking:

"Brother, do you think my new clothes look good?"

Sakura is wearing a newly custom-made kimono. The color of the kimono is the same as her name. The pink background is dotted with white petals, which is like the colorful falling cherry blossoms in spring, which is eye-catching.

"It looks good, it looks really good." Shenji smiled and stretched out his hand to rub Sakura's head out of habit.

But this time, Sakura did not enjoy her brother's touch as before. Instead, she took a few steps back and pouted: "You can't touch her, your hair will be messed up."

In order to match the Sakura kimono, Sakura specially pulled up her long hair and added a cherry blossom hair accessory. The colors were pink and purple and blue, with the red one being more delicate and the purple one being more pure.

Shen Er retracted his hand and touched his nose sheepishly.

Fujino noticed Shinji's embarrassment, walked to the seat that originally belonged to Sakura, and said:

"I also changed into new clothes."

"I see, it matches you very well." Shenji narrowed his eyes to hide the strange brilliance in them.

The Fujino in front of him made his heart skip a beat. Fujino's kimono is the opposite sky blue to Sakura's, and is lighter than the color of her hair. There are no other unnecessary embellishments on the kimono. It just relies on the changes in the shades of blue to give people a pleasing feeling.

What's even more wonderful is that the natural layering formed between the color of the kimono and Fujino's long hair makes Fujino, who is already naturally beautiful, look even more gorgeous.

The flickering of the hair brought out a trace of girlish charm, which inadvertently stirred up Shenji's heart.

Should it be said that a daughter in my family has grown up? Or is Plan H a big success?

Although the age of the person who said this is a bit inappropriate.

PS: The so-called H plan is the Hikaru Genji plan. It is typical of the end of EX01 of the official Type Moon official sick series "Fantasy Carnival". Aoko helps Shiki to develop a young version of Genji.