In the middle of the night, Kazuma was suddenly woken up by someone pushing him.
He opened his eyes and froze for a few seconds before he could see who woke him up.
"Chiyoko? Why is it thundering again?"
"That's not true! Also, I'm afraid of thunder and come to my brother. It's all about elementary school. I'm in the first year of high school!"
He patted his head with Ma to wake himself up quickly, then he glanced at Chiyoko's pajamas and said, "No, we are siblings..."
"I'll hit you! Someone smashed the window glass of our house with a small stone!"
When He Ma heard it, Ji Ling fully woke up.
"Have you gone out to see it?"
"How dare I, brother, you provoked people who know how to use guns recently, and I held down Ah Mao. How about we call the police directly?"
Hema thought for a while: "No, if it's an enemy, they won't smash the windows with small stones, they will definitely come in directly. I'll go out and have a look."
With that said, he got out of bed and quickly put on his coat.
Chiyoko thrust the wooden knife into his hand.
"Is it enough? Why don't you draw the real knife." She said worriedly.
"Are you crazy? I went out with a shining real knife. If someone got drunk and lost his way, wouldn't it scare him to death?"
He Ma waved his hands while talking, and walked out of the room with the wooden knife in his hand, and went straight to the entrance.
When passing the toilet on the road, I just heard a small stone slamming on the small skylight of the toilet.
The stones are so small that they can't even scratch the glass, let alone smash the windows.
Chiyoko: "The man outside keeps changing positions and smashes, and he doesn't hit the upstairs at all. He obviously knows that the second floor is full of tenants. But he doesn't know the distribution of the first floor."
He Ma nodded: "Understood."
He opened the door directly into the dojo, and walked around to the courtyard.
The courtyard has a good view and is not easy to be plotted against.
When opening the gate of the yard, Hema kept an eye out, hid on the side and pulled the tail of the door with his hand, and pulled the door open.
In this way, if there is an ambush outside, he will not be able to find him immediately.
After opening the door, he cautiously glanced at it.
There was a figure outside the fence. Looking at the shape of the ponytails, He Ma probably knew who it was.
The other said: "Wow, you are so careful, you look so ugly."
Only then did He Ma boldly go out the door, only to find that it was lightly raining that day.
People outside the fence are holding umbrellas and standing in the rain.
He Ma: "It would be great if you just ring the doorbell, what's the matter with throwing stones, just like a primary school student who secretly came to ask a girl who has a crush on her."
"I was thinking, if possible, don't disturb your sister and apprentice. Have I succeeded?"
"No." He Ma shook his head, "Come in."
"You come out." The other party said.
Hema raised his eyebrows and looked down at the pajama pants.
He always felt that this was not something that could be done just by going out for a while, and was thinking about whether to go back and change his pants, when the other person first said: "Put on your coat and walk with me."
He Ma nodded, turned and went into the house.
Chiyoko was waiting behind him, saw him turn around, and hurriedly asked: "Is it Beichuan? It's raining so late, you want to go out for a walk? Is there anything you can't come in and say?"
He Ma glanced at his sister: "Is there any leftovers at home? Help me pack a bento. Then there is barley tea, fill me a pot full."
After the words fell, Ah Mao turned around and was ready to go.
"Brother?" Chiyoko looked at Kazuma, "What is this for?"
"Let's go and see from a distance, probably." Hema shrugged.
Chiyoko's face was full of doubts.
After holding back for a few seconds, she squeezed out a sentence: "Elope?"
"You'll be fine for now."
While talking, Amao ran into the dojo with Hema's pants, bento, barley tea, and umbrella.
This saves the need to enter the house with the horse to change clothes.
Putting on his pants, he took the things in A Mao's hand, looked at Chiyoko with Ma, and said to A Mao, "I'll go back as soon as I go."
"Master, go slowly." Amao bowed respectfully.
Carrying things with the horse, he originally wanted to turn around and go out from the yard, but after thinking about it, he should go through the main entrance, which is more formal.
After a while, he went out, opened his umbrella and stepped into the rain, walking towards Saori Kitagawa.
Kitagawa Saori took a step back, allowing herself to enter the lighting range of the street lamp.
It was only then that Kazuma saw clearly that she was wearing a sailor suit with short sleeves and short skirt, carrying a guitar, and carrying a schoolbag in her hand who didn't know what it contained.
The sailor uniform has obviously been changed by itself, and it has become closer to the "singing uniform" of Japanese girl groups decades later.
"Will the school let you in if you wear this to school?" He Ma joked.
"Yes, why not. They have already allowed a Yakuza daughter to go to school, just a sailor suit."
"They allowed you to go to school, isn't it because the teachers' union needs your house to cover you?"
"There's also that reason." Saiori Kitagawa said nonchalantly, "By the way, this is for you."
As she spoke, she took out a folded red scarf from the outside pocket of her schoolbag and stuffed it to Kazuma.
He Ma: "This is for me? You at least tear off the plastic packaging and wrap it in a cuter colored paper before giving it away."
"I bought it at a convenience store that is open 24 hours a day, so I'll be satisfied with it."
"Don't the convenience stores in the middle of the night give you wrapping?" Hema was stunned, "However, it's so hot in Tokyo recently, you actually gave me a scarf..."
"Because I just saw it was on sale."
"Don't say something like Chiyoko would say, you should be like Honami, with ten thousand dollar bills in your wallet, right? Think for the clerk who changed."
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? I'll give you something and take it. If you wait any longer, it will be dawn. We still have a long way to go."
Shrugging with Ma, he stuffed the unopened scarf into the lunch bag.
The pretense was done, but he still joked a bit: "Come on, I'll give you a cheap hairpin, and you give me a cheap scarf, and we'll be even."
"Yeah, it's even, so whether you come or not next time is entirely up to you." Kitagawa Saori turned around and started walking.
Follow up with the horse.
However, the scene where Beichuan turned around just now reminded Kazuma of a rock song he liked very much in his previous life.
So he sang softly: "She understands, she understands, I can't afford it, so I turn around and walk towards the mountain."
Kitagawa Saori asked in surprise, "Chinese?"
"I'm a university student in Tokyo. Isn't it normal for me to understand Chinese?" He Ma prevaricated.
"Dongda is amazing."
"It's amazing."
Just like this, I chatted with Ma and Beichuan, walking in the night with light rain.
Hema didn't ask where he was going, but just followed the girl's footsteps.
**
Behind the trash bin not far from Kazuma and Shiramine, Daisuke Wakamiya asked Takashi Hanabha, "What should I do?"
"Do you still need to ask? Let's go! Follow up! By the way, you go back to the place where you live and take out the motorcycle. In case these two start to take the night bus, we will chase them by motorcycle."
"Oh, good." Daisuke Wakamiya nodded.
**
Beichuan Saori was not at a loss, as if she knew where to go early in the morning, and the entry above her head was shining: go to a distant place.
After an unknown period of time, she led the horse and walked onto the rails from an unattended railway crossing, and continued along the rails.
"Speaking of going to a distant place," He Ma said, "Sure enough, the first reaction was to walk along the railroad tracks. In fact, if you really want to go to a distant place, you should take a plane."
"If you say that, you should take a rocket," Kitagawa Saori retorted. "That's the way to go to the furthest place humans can reach now."
He Ma: "The universe, the last frontier of mankind."
"Do you have to recite the opening lines of Star Trek when you're romantically involved with a girl? Girls don't understand this!"
"Don't you understand?"
Beichuan Saori turned his head to look at Kazuma, and sighed: "You can't do it, you can't do it at all. You are so ignorant of style, what are the girls in the dojo planning?"
"Maybe what they are trying to figure out is that they don't understand style?"
Kitagawa Saori curled her lips and turned her gaze forward.
She walked with the cheerful pace of a primary school student on a spring outing, stepping on the sleepers with precision.
The passing railway signal lights were red.
"The signal light is red, and there is a train in the section ahead." Hema pointed to the light and said.
"Don't worry, we're going to fork in the road soon." Bei Chuan said, seeing a lever to switch the road ahead, "It's probably that lever! Let's go to the forked road."
As she said that, she started to run, and soon reached the side of the lever, then pointed to one side: "Look, there are really forks!"
"You haven't investigated it?"
"I've only seen the map. What the actual situation is, I can only rely on my imagination." Beichuan Saori bounced up and down the branch road.
Speeding up a little with the horse, when he passed the switch lever, he found that the lever had grown grass, and no one had pulled it for a long time.
Looking at the forked railway again, grass has grown under the sleepers, and even fungus appeared on some sleepers.
It seems that if you take this branch road, you don't have to worry about being hit by a train that suddenly appears.
Kazuma continued to accelerate, catching up with Kitagawa Saori who had gone far.
The girl now walks on the rails, as if on a tightrope, with her arms outstretched for balance.
Because the arms were spread out, the effect of the umbrella was gone, and the rain fell directly on her head.
Before catching up with the horse, he put the umbrella on top of her head.
"Oh, this move can be given full marks!" The judge Saori Kitagawa praised, "The wama contestant performed very well."
The Wama contestant chose not to comment because he was being drenched in the rain.
Kitagawa Saori continued: "The old man from Earth House told me that when he was young, he also wanted to go to the ends of the earth along the railway tracks. Doesn't everyone who plays rock and roll have to walk like this?"
"I don't know, but it's true that this is often done in romance dramas." He Ma paused, "The way we are now is a standard youth romance drama scene."
"Is that so? Well, it seems to be so."
Saori Kitagawa laughed and continued her tightrope walk.
He Ma: "So, did the old man from the Earth House end up in the ends of the earth?"
"No. He finally found out that Japan is an island country. No matter how far along the railway tracks, you can only go to the sea."
He Ma laughed heartily: "Sure enough, I should take the plane, or take the boat."
"Here it is again, it's time to be puzzled again." Saori Beichuan sighed, "Why did I choose a guy like you to go with me?"
"You chose, how do I know. I was called up in the middle of the night to get caught in the rain, and I was full of resentment."
"Then you can tell me what complaints you have."
He Ma thought for a while: "First of all, get up."
"Well, reasonable." Saori Kitagawa nodded, "What else?"
"Dissatisfaction with traveling companions who have only children in stature."
"watch out!"
Sha Xuli turned around and kicked from the upper section, and Hema Lian took two steps back to avoid it, and then used an umbrella to assume a defensive posture in the middle section.
Both of them were standing on the railroad tracks at this time. Kitagawa Saori stood on one foot, retracted the kicked leg, and put on a posture of facing the sky.
Kazuma remembers doing this for the heroine in the movie "Tokyo Express" he worked on.
Handsome is very handsome...
Kazuma kindly reminded: "The heroine of Tokyo Express is wearing a long skirt, and you are wearing a short skirt."
Bei Chuan Sa Xuli shouted loudly, took the umbrella and used it as a sword to attack He Ma.
And the horse also defends with an umbrella.
Because both of them were holding something in one hand, they could only hold a sword in one hand, so they both took the posture of Western swords by coincidence.
For a moment, Kazuma felt that it was not the rails under his feet, but the mast of a pirate ship, and now it was Captain Jack Sparrow fighting the octopus head.
After a few rounds of back and forth, Sha Xuli slipped and stepped on a sleeper under the railway track.
She sighed: "Stop making trouble, just like a child."
"Are you a child?"
Unexpectedly, Saori Kitagawa did not refute, but once again stood on the railroad tracks and played tightrope walking.
When I caught up with the horse, I happened to hear her say: "You people always treat me like a child, whether it is the old man in the Earth House, or everyone in the club, even grandpa and father, let me mess around. "
He Ma glanced at the entry of going to a distant place above her head, and found that the entry began to undergo some subtle changes.
So he said: "In my opinion, what you do is not nonsense, you play rock and roll because you are kind-hearted and don't want to be with the yakuza..."
"I have killed a lot of people with the Shinto No Mind Flow, although I didn't kill them. Do you want to say that I am kind by nature?"
He Ma laughed: "I also killed a lot of people, this does not prevent me from being a hero."
"I'm different from you. I kill people for the benefit of the group. After the killing, often grandpa will take over the territory of the person who was cut down, and dad will take over the serious business. I'm a bad guy out and out. , everyone in the school also fears me like a bad guy."
Kazuma was thinking about how to respond, and Saori Kitagawa changed the subject on his own:
"The reason why I learned kendo is that when I was young, I saw Shinsaku Sakata practicing swinging a sword, so I ran over and practiced with a branch."
Kazuma could only follow the topic: "Sakata Shinsaku, is Bai Fengfeng's younger brother?"
"Yeah, he's been Ruotou before. He was Bai Fengfeng's only card strength at that time, but he was actually super weak, so Bai Fengfeng was not regarded as a fighting faction.
"At that time, he was practicing kendo very seriously and wanted to support the business in the group. I saw him working hard and practiced accordingly.
"In the end, Grandpa finally invited Master Wu Nianliu of the Shinto to guide him. After watching Sakata and the others practice, he pointed at me and said: 'This is a good seedling, I will accept it.'"
Kazuma: "Sakata is miserable."
Kitagawa Saori laughed.
After laughing, she continued: "Later, Shinsaku Sakata no longer practiced swords, but went to the street to fight with people every day. At that time, the annexation of the goku was very serious. Shinsaku Sakata, as the guardian of our family's territory, gradually It actually earned a reputation, known as the Tiger of the White Peak."
Kazuma: "This tiger is still an English tiger. Is it so foreign? Doesn't Yakuza pay attention to Japanese tradition?"
"It was originally in Japanese, but later "The Story of Tora" became popular. Shinsaku felt that everyone usually called him "Tora"-san, which sounded similar to the nickname "Tora" of the protagonist in "The Story of Tora". I can't get up."
And Ma laughed.
In the Japanese national comedy "The Story of Torajiro", Atsumi Kiyoshi's classic appearance as a small citizen, it really doesn't look majestic, but it is very suitable for deflation.
Kitagawa Saori also laughed, and continued to say while laughing: "So it was changed to English Tiger later. When he read it, he always pronounced it Taika, both of which are accented, which is strange."
"Indeed." Kazuma also agreed, "Mikako will probably go crazy when she hears this, and feel that the dignity of the English Department students of Sophia University has been offended."
"Is it true? Does Mikako-san have dignity too?"
"Hello!"
"Ah, sorry, I'm sorry, but Sophia University has dignity. Sophia University is sorry."
"It's too much! That's my childhood sweetheart, please show me some respect?"
"Okay," Kitagawa Saori paused, and the conversation suddenly turned back to Sakata Shinsaku, "Shinsaku-san has gradually gained fans, such as the one from the Tsuda group who is also called Sakata."
Kazuma heard the Tsuda Group frowned slightly, and then remembered that there seemed to be such a person.
"Have you actually forgotten!" Kitagawa Saori was speechless, "Obviously his little finger is still buried under your cherry tree."
"I have too many little fingers under the cherry blossom tree, so I can remember them all when I have time."
Kitagawa Saori shrugged, and continued to recall: "The one who had the deepest influence on Jin Zuo was Miss Yukiko, she was originally the school's head girl, but she was caught in an ambush and was about to lose herself, and Jin Zuo happened to be passing by.
"Then Yukiko became Shinsaku's wife. I remember the day they got married very clearly. Shinsaku's whole feeling changed. Everyone said in private that the current Shinsaku is exactly the same as Torajiro."
Kazuma couldn't help but think of Torajiro's all-in-one outfit, and found it even funnier.
He laughed, and Bei Chuan laughed too.
Afterwards, Saori Kitagawa told many stories about the people at the summit, and Hema listened quietly, answering sentences from time to time so that the conversation could continue.
Not to brag to the horse, he thinks he is quite good at listening.
In my previous life, I was able to be a senior business representative, and this expertise also helped me a lot. Sometimes customers encountered troubles and needed to listen to them. After He Ma listened honestly, the business would naturally come to fruition.
Kitagawa Saori kept talking, and got thirsty a few times in the middle, and almost finished drinking Kazuma's barley tea.
The sky is gradually brightening, and the scenery on both sides of the railway can be seen clearly.
On the right, behind the gradually thinning rain curtain, the outline of the distant mountains is revealed.
On the left hand side is an abandoned factory building for an unknown period of time, with no farmland or human habitation.
Overhead is the telegraph wire along the railroad tracks. The railways in the old days relied on this kind of telegraph wire to control the segmental operation of the train and direct the switchmen on the road.
There is a wind blowing, with the fragrance of moist soil.
Kitagawa Saori turned around and walked backwards on the rails facing Kazuma, her little leather shoes already soaked by rain were shining.
"Listen to me that this is boring?" she asked.
"It's okay." He Ma responded truthfully, "It may even make people mistakenly think that you are talking about a group of goodguys (good guys)."
Kitagawa Saori smiled: "They are not good at all! I first knew this because I was coldly and violently abused by my classmates at school. Everyone didn't want to get close to me, as if they were hiding from a plague god.
"However, the deterrent effect of the extreme is still there, so no thumbtacks are put in the shoes, and the desks are not scribbled...
"However, I still feel very sad when I was young."
Kitagawa Saori smiled wryly.
"But I've grown up."
As the voice fell, a wind blew from behind Kazuma, blowing the umbrella in Kitagawa Saori's hand into the sky.
"Ah, it's flying!" Kitagawa Saori was very happy, as if she wanted to refuel her umbrella, "Fly! Fly to the clouds!"
"Your behavior doesn't look like you've grown up." He Ma said.
Bei Chuan withdrew his gaze, continued to walk backwards, looked at Kazuma with a mischievous and fearless smile on his face: "Really? But my period told me that I really grew up."
"Hey! Don't speak yellow accents all of a sudden!"
She laughed.
Behind her, a crack appeared in the cloud layer, and a few rays of sunlight fell through the cloud layer.
Looking at such a young girl, Hema's expression softened involuntarily.
He stared at the entry above her head, and saw that the three words "go to the distance" gradually turned into brilliance and disappeared.