Tokyo Girlfriend Illustrated Book

In some places, rain is called "dropping star".

It means drizzle, like stars falling.

At this moment, by the Kawaguchi Lake, iron trees and silver flowers are blooming, and gold and silver are in full bloom. Compared with the eternal stars in the sky, the fleeting fireworks are obviously insignificant.

But at least at this moment, for a moment, what was reflected on the lake was no longer the bright moon and stars in the sky, but the smiling and expectant faces of the girls holding fireworks on the shore.

The aesthetics of material sorrow advocated by Neon people can only be truly understood by facing it in person.

Life is inherently difficult, with natural disasters and man-made disasters. Even if you are born into a noble family, you may die immediately because of a village fight, let alone the steady stream of natural disasters.

Therefore, human beings with short lives focus on things that are even more short-lived.

Fireworks, cherry blossoms...

It's so gorgeous that it's breathtaking, and it's so brief that it's shocking.

Hojo Kyosuke held a fairy wand with two fingers. Although it was said to be a cold light firework, in fact, if he was not careful, he could burn scars on his body that would be difficult to heal.

In his previous life, he had played with a fairy wand that was longer and thicker than a broom in that country. What everyone thinks is that since you are so reluctant to part with this splendor, then try to extend it!

The fairy stick, which is more than ten centimeters long and as thick as the center of the pen, was suddenly made to be more than one meter long and as thick as a little finger. One stick is enough to make your eyes go blind.

But what he was holding in his hand at the moment was undoubtedly a "little fairy wand" that was fifteen centimeters long and three millimeters in diameter, and could only emit light for two minutes and twenty-three seconds.

Hojo Kyosuke held the fairy stick and poked the fairy stick in Yamauchi Sakura's hand with the other end that had already burned.

After being stimulated, the golden magic wand in the girl's hand dropped a few sparks like shooting stars.

"Qili~~"

Yamauchi Sakura whispered softly, her amber eyes illuminated even brighter by the golden fire.

She, Mitsuha, and Kyousuke squatted by the lake, and as soon as the fairy stick in their hands was about to burn out, they would immediately add another one.

"It's amazing. I have been playing it since I was a child, but I still find it interesting and beautiful every time I play..."

Sakura said in a low voice. Everyone spoke in a low voice from just now, as if they were afraid of disturbing those dancing sparks and making the already disappearing fireworks disappear faster.

Miyamizu Mitsuha neatly placed the empty metal wires burned in his hands on the ground next to him. He gently waved the fireworks in his hand with one hand, drawing irregular lines in the black air, and occasionally through the golden sparks. The "photo frame" formed looks at Kyosuke opposite and Sakura next to him.

"When I was young..."

She spoke softly:

"At that time, only when there was a New Year or a festival held at Miyamizu Shrine, Grandma Kobayashi's grocery store would buy some fireworks from nearby cities, but the quantity was very small."

The miko lady’s voice was full of nostalgia:

"On the one hand, everyone is not very wealthy, and they are obviously not willing to spend more money on such children's toys. On the other hand, they are worried about causing wildfires, which is serious."

Next to him, Hojo Kyosuke raised his head slightly and looked at Mitsuba, while Sakura smiled and said:

"I've never had this trouble. Not to mention it when I was younger. Ever since I met Kyousuke, I've never been short of fireworks."

Someone also laughed. His mother also liked to set off fireworks. Holding two children in her hands, she didn't need to worry about the possible comments from other people on the street, such as "That mother is not stable at all."

Every time there was a celebration, he and Sakura would definitely buy a lot of fireworks. If playing in the community wasn't enough, they would also go to the Minato River to play. The management of Minato is far less strict than in Tokyo. The dirt roads and grasslands next to the Minato River are the best places for fireworks. Small fireworks and other firecrackers can be played.

He had only one responsibility at that time, which was to watch over his mother and Sakura so they wouldn't get accidentally bombed.

After whispering a few interesting things about that time, Sakura smiled:

"It's just like a marquee. In the moment of light, all the happy things in the past came out in an instant!"

Mitsuha Miyamizu smiled and listened to the two of them telling interesting stories about their childhood. She was not Eiri, so she would not be able to break her guard, because she also had memories that would come to mind when the light of fire first appeared.

The miko lady straightened up slightly, raised her head and looked over Kyousuke's head to look around.

I saw my sister who was chanting a spell around the magic circle, my father who was looking at the lake in a daze holding a fairy wand that had already burned out, and I also saw Sayaka and Shishi chasing around the lake with fireworks.

It was embarrassing to say that only a few of her memories of Hanabi were related to her family. What came to mind at once were almost all the figures of Sayaka and the Imperial Envoy.

"...Grandma Kobayashi actually doesn't know how to do business at all, because almost every year the fireworks she buys are sold out in a short time, and the children in Itomori Town will even fight and quarrel over it. Sometimes I want to buy one. Fairy Stick, you have to fight with your opponent first, and then get beaten by your parents..."

Mitsuha Miyamizu smiled, her beautiful face full of nostalgia.

"Hahaha, these memories of Hanabi are really profound."

Sakuragi chuckled:

"But the fireworks bought this way will definitely be more fun!"

Sanye shook his head and laughed after hearing this nonsense.

"But Sayaka, I, and the envoy have never been beaten. There is only one factor that limits us from buying all the fireworks, money.

Although people in the town call us the mayor's daughter and the construction company's son, in fact, the pocket money of the emperor and I is not as much as that of Sayaka. "

Sanye couldn't help laughing when she mentioned this. It was obviously a happy memory:

"Sayaka has two brothers in her family, but it doesn't mean that the pocket money given by her parents will be dispersed. On the contrary, there are two more sources of pocket money. That guy didn't seem very smart since he was a child, so everyone in her family felt that he had to She needs to take good care of her, so her brothers must let her buy more snacks and fireworks even if they don't need any money.

Thanks to Sayaka, every year the three of us...oh, and Yotsuba, the four of us can buy a lot of fireworks. But Kyousuke, you know, we have never been very popular in the town, so if we play with fireworks in the open space in the town, we will definitely be bullied. So I might as well just go to the shrine and play. "

Hojo Kyosuke nodded, he understood more than he could.

Sakura laughed and said:

"Kyosuke and I are also very unpopular!"

This guy was beaming with pride and said triumphantly:

"Because Aunt Miyoko is very rich, Kyousuke and I always carry a big bag of fireworks whenever we go out. The bad boys in our community took advantage of us after they finished playing with their own fireworks."

Sanye asked curiously: "What then?"

"Then?"

Hojo Kyosuke and Yamauchi Sakura smiled at each other, and the girl spoke:

"If they want it, then give it to them! It's just already lit!"

Sakurara chuckled mischievously:

"Kyosuke told me at that time that it didn't matter even if all their clothes were blown up, just treat them as paying people to be the targets for fireworks. When I heard this, I was still very scared, and I suddenly felt that it made sense, even if I was later beaten by my father. Mom's lesson, just think of it as the price of enjoying it in advance now!

Then Kyousuke and I started to teach those bad guys a lesson with fireworks. Now that I think about it, Kyousuke and I are like Rambo! "

"Haha~~"

Miyami Mitsuha chuckled and sighed with envy:

"It's a pity that although we are considered 'nobles' by other children in the town, Sayaka, I, and I are not very courageous people. If we are blocked by others on our way back from the grocery store to the shrine, , Sayaka would quickly offer a few fireworks as protection money, and then pull me and the envoy to run back to the shrine.

That's the square in front of the shrine's front hall. Kyousuke, do you remember it? "

Hojo Kyosuke nodded. He also got up early and cleaned many times. At this time, when I heard Mitsuha talking, the memory of Miyamizu Shrine suddenly came to my mind in the light of the fire.

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The grandeur of Miyamizu Shrine is completely unlike a rural shrine, or Itomori Town, which has a population of less than 5,000, should not be able to support such a shrine in any case. It is not inferior to a well-known grand shrine in Tokyo.

Whether it is the winding mountain road that winds upward from the foot of the mountain, or the stone steps paved with bluestone, or the luxurious front hall and shrine, or the magnificent social office building, these are not things that should appear in the deep mountains. .

The square in front of the main hall that Mitsuha mentioned is the place where stalls are set up every time Miyamizu Shrine holds a temple fair. Not to mention the four children setting off fireworks, even the entire Itomori crowd is crowded there. Barely enough.

"To be honest, Teshiro and I are still a little afraid of setting off fireworks at the shrine. After all, I am a shrine maiden, and he is a member of the Teshikawara family, the most devout believer in Miyamizu Shrine. But what people didn't expect is that early Yexiang, that idiot who comes to the shrine every morning and asks me to pay for sesame oil, doesn’t care.”

Mitsuha smiled, her left eyebrow raised, and a "clumsy" smile appeared on her face. Hojo Kyosuke, who was very familiar with Sayaka, could tell that Mitsuha was imitating Sayaka.

"'Oh! Gods sometimes want to be lively!', the guy said this, and directly picked up a box of fireworks and lit them in front of the money box. The crackling fireworks filled the square of the shrine. illuminated.

I was shocked, and then I actually felt that what she said made sense. Thinking about it, even gods, don’t they have to go to Izumo Grand Shrine for meetings every year? Is that also equivalent to celebrating the New Year? "

Yamauchi Sakura nodded solemnly, and while helping Mitsuha refill a fairy stick, he said matter-of-factly:

"Yes, but the fairy stick played by the gods will definitely stay bright for a long, long time!"

Hojo Kyosuke said seriously: "Maybe the thunder and lightning are the fireworks they set off!"

"Eh... wouldn't that be shorter than ours?"

Sanye wrinkled her nose in disgust.

The three of them laughed and discussed for a while what the fireworks played by the gods would look like. Would they be as bright as a little boy? Then I heard the exclamations of Yotsuba, Sachiko and others not far away. Turning around, he saw that it was Yotsuba who had finally lit up the magic circle being built.

The little guy used more than a dozen kinds of fireworks, and it was not easy to light them all together. Toshiki Miyamizu, who had been standing by the lake in despair, was pulled over to help at some point.

The three simply stuck the fairy sticks in their hands on the ground, then stood up to admire Yotsuba's masterpiece.

"Speaking of which..."

Looking at her sister, Sanye had a wicked smile on her face:

"One time when Yotsuba was playing with fireworks, he accidentally lit the rattle on the money box."

"oh--"

Even Sakura couldn't help but be surprised, she had never been in such a big trouble.

Hojo Kyosuke is skeptical. After all, with the character of the miko, it is not impossible for her to do bad things and frame Yotsuba. No, it should be said that it is very possible.

Mitsuha Miyamizu's tacit understanding with someone was so amazing. He immediately noticed the suspicious look in Hojo Kyousuke's eyes and immediately shouted:

"It was really Yotsuba who did it that time!"

Hmm, that means there were indeed other times when Yotsuba was framed? Hojo Kyosuke nodded understandingly.

The miko lady also realized that she had made a mistake, and angrily hit someone on the shoulder twice before continuing:

"Then the guy was frightened and cried loudly and said, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Hahahahaha..."

Hojo Kyousuke burst into laughter, and for a moment he thought of Yotsuba's pitiful expression after hearing Sekigoro's fire when they switched bodies for the first time.

While laughing, he also explained to Sakura next to him what Sekigoro's fire was.

After laughing, Hojo Kyosuke suddenly discovered his blind spot: "Wait a minute? So Yotsuba heard about Sekigoro's fire when he was very young?"

Miyamizu Mitsuha nodded and said matter-of-factly:

"Of course. Since there is such a legend, how could adults not use it to scare children?"

"Too……"

Hojo Kyosuke nodded with concern, Neon's children's story couldn't be described as a cult at all, it was completely a horror story. For example, there is a story about a civet cat cooking an old lady. It tells the story of a troublesome civet cat that was caught by the old lady. Then the civet cat killed the old lady and then turned into the other person's appearance and coaxed the old man to drink the soup cooked by the old lady.

Then a superman rabbit appeared, first burned the civet cat's back, then applied chili pepper on the civet cat's back, and finally tricked the civet cat into getting on a boat made of mud and drowned the other party. The key is that until the rabbit uses a paddle to drive it into the water, the civet cat thinks the rabbit is its friend...

This story is actually used to teach children not to cause trouble and not to lie. Compared with this, the Guan Goro fire is really gentle and could not be gentler.

Mitsuha Miyamizu continued:

"I know what you are going to ask Kyousuke, but Yotsuba is an idiot. How good your memory is. Even if she gets into trouble, if you ask her now, she will probably think that I framed her."

"..."

Hojo Kyousuke twitched the corners of his mouth. The two sisters were in such a mess that they couldn't even sort things out. (End of chapter)