Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 352 Old Photos

Even though he was overwhelmed by his preoccupation, he didn't close his eyes all night, and after lying down for a while, Soya fell asleep.

When she woke up again, Zhao Wuling was no longer in her arms.

"..."

Waking up also means that the peace is broken, and there are thousands of thoughts in his heart, sweeping in like a tide again, engulfing him.

Staring at the ceiling in a daze for a while, Soya searched for various reasons, trying to regain his composure.

"It's not sick, and there's nothing strange growing in my head..."

At least now, he understood the reason for his sudden coma.

The unknown is the scariest thing, he comforted himself.

And compared to before he fell into a coma, his body hasn't changed much—the change from the person in this world to the person in the next world happened as early as two years ago—it's just that he needs to go to the underworld every six months or so.

With Tianzi Ju, this matter is not a problem at all - this is also the greatest confidence that he can still lie here in a daze.

"The people of Huangquan Kingdom..."

If he guessed correctly, he is probably the only living citizen of Huang Quanguo.

As the only special case, Zongya couldn't feel the slightest sense of honor, after all, he still regarded himself as a person in this world.

After lying down for a while, Soya withdrew his thoughts from the emptiness, got up and went to the next room to find Zhao Kirin.

Walking into her room, he first narrowed his eyes.

The curtains in his room were drawn tightly, and it was dark. Only now did he see the bright and dazzling outside, and the sunlight was still fierce.

Chao Wuling was standing by the window.

Looking back at him, she closed half of the curtain and looked out of the window again.

Soya walked over, and she moved a little to the side.

As a matter of course, no one can be seen below, and there are only grass trees and fences in the courtyard that cannot escape under the scorching sun.It was about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the twilight had not yet appeared, and the twilight had already climbed onto her face.

"The setting sun is infinitely good, but it's almost dusk."

Zong Gu looked at her, and it was the first time that he could clearly feel the depth accumulated by 1000 and [-] years in her body.

"bell……"

Looking at Wuling, his eyes softened a lot, "What is it?"

"It's still the same thing as before."

"Ah."

Sogu looked at her, "Is there a way to preserve the power of the underworld, and then bring out the underworld?"

She glanced at him and seemed to think that such a question was meaningless, but she still said, "Find a carrier."

"Carrier...such as?"

"Daughter of the Underworld."

"..."

"Or Huang Quanjun."

"..."

Sogu pursed his lower lip. These two natural spirit bodies are not so much the carriers of the power of the underworld, but rather they are formed by the pure power of the underworld.

The problem is, neither of these spirits are easy to deal with... or they can't be dealt with at all.

"Other than that?"

Chao Wuling smiled suddenly, but it was very short, the arc of the corner of his mouth was fleeting.

"Eight Thunder Gods."

"..."

Zongya was helpless, "In other words, there is actually no way to preserve the power of the underworld?"

"Ah."

He sighed and shook his head again, "Then we can only trouble the teacher once every six months."

Chao Wuling looked outside again, but didn't speak.

After staying in her room for a while, Soya went downstairs to take a shower.

Chao Wuling was still standing by the window, looking at the flowing clouds in the sky.

【"Teacher, please give him a few more days..."】

【"I'll let him thank Ling."】

"Thank you..."

She closed her eyes.

Time is running out, and she is still hesitating, unable to make a final decision.

downstairs.

After soaking in the bathtub for more than 20 minutes, the hot water melted the heavy distracting thoughts, and the pores of the whole body were relaxed, and Soya's mood also relaxed a lot.

Muddling along is not the way to solve the problem, at least it can make people more relaxed.

"Soya, are you asleep again?"

"...how come, I just woke up."

Akane Kirino's voice came from outside, "You've been soaking for half an hour."

"Yes, I'm coming out now."

"Oh."

She went out again.

After coming out of the bathroom, Soya's stomach was empty, so he went to eat something first.Kirino Akane and Hongzi also came to the kitchen, discussing to go for a walk with the dog after the sun goes down, and let him come along.

"Okay."

Seeing that he liked the food she had prepared very much, Kirino Akane was also very happy, "Speaking of which, where is Soya going to be on duty tomorrow, is it far away?"

"It's not too far." Soya said.

"where?"

"Home."

"Eh?"

He smiled at the two of them, "I don't have any arrangements for this round of duty, which means a vacation."

"Really? Soya can finally rest for a few days."

Hongzi was happy for him, but at the same time regretted and complained, "It's only at this time that I'm free, and the Obon Festival is over."

The Obon festival is over, which means that her parents and sister are coming back from grandma's house.

She has been disturbed at Kirino's house for many days, and her parents will probably let her back home as soon as she comes back. Although they will not object if she wants to continue living, it is just that there is no reason to live here.

"Did Hongzi's family come back today?" Zong Gu asked.

"Tomorrow morning. I originally planned to come back this afternoon. My sister wanted to stay there for one more night, so my parents stayed."

He looked at her, "Then Hongzi has to go back to her own house."

"I won't go back." Hongzi said, taking Kirino Qian's arm next to her, "Akane will be reluctant."

"I'm not particularly reluctant..."

"Cy?!"

"We live very close to each other." Akane Kirino smiled sweetly at her, "It's only a few minutes from here to there, Hongzi can come here anytime."

"..."

Akane Kirino seldom said such things against her will to her friends, she thought she had good reasons and very reasonable reasons, but from the ears of the other two at the dinner table, it was no different from directly driving someone away.

Hongzi looked at Zongya subconsciously, but he was startled for a moment, and also a little apprehensive.

She drove Hongzi home on purpose, couldn't it be to create an environment where she could be alone with him and confess her love?
"Is there any problem?" Akane Kirino looked at the two people who suddenly fell silent, her eyes stayed on Hongzi's face, for fear that she would not go back.

"No...it's fine."

Hongzi came back to her senses, looked at Akane Kirino, and kicked Soya with her foot under the table, "The Obon festival is over, and my sister is about to return to Tokyo. I also want to go home and accompany her."

"Uh-huh!"

"..."

Do you want to be so happy?

Hongzi felt a little sad.

But Soya on the other side of the table didn't respond to her hint, just staring at the rice balls on the table.

She kicked him again.

"—the legs are going to break."

"Huh?" Kirino Qian was taken aback, then lowered her head again.

Hongzi glared at him and stopped in time.

"What's wrong with Soya's leg?" Akane Kirino raised her head and asked.

"It's okay, it just hurts a little."

"Did it hit him when he fell into the river last night?" She looked down at his legs again, "Or did he hit a rock when he landed?"

"maybe."

"Where does it hurt?"

Sogu looked at Hongzi, "Where is it?"

"..."

She glared at him again and said nothing.

Akane Kirino got up and walked around to him, but didn't see any bruises or wounds on his legs, and asked again: "Where?"

"here."

Zongya pointed to the place where Hongzi kicked him several times, "It still hurt a little bit now, but now I don't feel it anymore."

"Recessive disease!"

"...Don't use a new word just after you learn it."

Akane Kirino squatted down and poked that spot with her finger, "Don't you feel this way?"

"Ah."

"Then why did it hurt just now?"

He glanced at Hongzi again.

"Because I'm nervous."

"That's neurological disease."

"...I already said not to use terms that I don't understand indiscriminately."

"Humph."

With one final poke in his leg, Akane Kirino stood up and returned to her seat.

"Speaking of which, Kirino..."

"Ok?"

"Did you see Wushan sending fire last night?"

"Wushan Sending Fire... I can see it. After all, it is so conspicuous that I can see it everywhere, but I am not in the mood to appreciate it." Akane Kirino said, "What's wrong?"

"I was in a coma, and I didn't see anything. I remember Tongye said that there are related photos in the photo album of your family. I want to see it."

"Okay." She was very happy, got up and went out, "Wait a minute, I have to find out where the photo album is."

Soya and Hongzi were the only ones left in the kitchen.

"Only Qian would believe this kind of excuse."

"After all, I'm not very good at making excuses."

"You are so humble." She couldn't hold back a sarcasm.

"Is that all Hongzi wants to say?"

She was silent for a while, "What did Qian drive me home for?"

"I do not know either."

"...to confess to Soya?"

"I thought so too, but I don't think it's possible."

Hongzi was eager for him to put forward an opposing point of view, and also anxious to hear reasons that would convince him, "Why?"

Soya looked at her: "If Kirino really has this plan, with her character, Hongzi's presence or absence probably won't affect her actions."

Hongzi pursed her lower lip, wanting to refute, but couldn't find a conclusive reason.

"However, even if it's not a confession, it probably has something to do with it..." he guessed.

Kirino Akane's mind looked clear and transparent, like a glass of clear water, but no one knew whether it was just water or melted sugar or fine salt.

After looking at him for a while, Hongzi asked, "If Akane is going to do something, what is Soya going to do?"

"We can only see what she plans to do first."

She was restless and could only adapt.

Hongzi fell into deep thought, and the two sat silently until Kirino Akane returned to the kitchen with the photo album.

"There are only a few photos... Did I remember wrongly? I always feel that there are many photos of sending fire from Wushan."

Zong Gu wanted to remind her that she might have mixed up with the phone photo album, but he didn't really want to read it, so he didn't say anything, took the photo album and flipped through it.

Akane Kirino stood beside her, pointing to one of the photos, "At this time, I'm only in the third grade of elementary school."

A girl in a yukata smiled in front of the camera, while behind Matsuzaki Higashiyama, a huge "Miao"-shaped flame was burning.

"It's so cute." Soya said casually.

Akane Kirino curled her mouth and said nothing.

Hongzi saw it, and leaned over to look at the photo, and then glanced at him.

"You really are a lolicon."

Soya didn't bother to explain, "Yes."

"..."

After reading a few photos of sending fire from Wushan, it was still early, and he was still idle, Kirino Akane motioned him to keep scrolling forward.

"This photo album should be quite old."

"It's only two or three years, but the photos in it have been there for many years. The previous photo album was kept for more than 20 years, and the connection was broken, so my mother bought this new one."

Soya flipped forward, she became more and more immature in the photo, and the old house appeared more and more in the background.

In the photo, there also appeared a couple he had never seen before. Soya guessed that they were probably the nominal owner of this house, that is, Akane Kirino's uncle and aunt.

"Yeah, I guessed it right. Uncle and Dad are a bit similar. I haven't seen him for a long time."

The younger Kirino Hiroyuki and Kirino Keiko also appeared frequently. The former's face is just a little more immature than now, and his quiet demeanor has hardly changed, while the younger the latter, the more energetic he is. Compared with now, they are almost two people.

"Miss Qingzi has changed a lot..."

"Yeah, mom used to be cool."

Turning forward, Akane Kirino gradually turned from a primary school student into a young girl crawling on the floor, and into a baby held in the arms of Keiko Kirino, and finally fixed on the day she was born.

Soya held up the page of the photo album and swung it left and right: "From then on, this world has become different."

"Hahaha--"

He returned the album to her.

"Didn't you read the previous one?"

For Soya, Akane Kirino is the protagonist of this album, so there is no need to look through photos of her before she was born.

"There's nothing to see."

"But it's still a little early to go out... Let's start with this photo of my birth and look at it later."

"Alright. Go to the living room."

The three came to the living room, Akane Kirino and Hongzi sat next to him.

Soya flipped through the photo album, watching Kirino Akane grow up bit by bit from the frozen moments in the past.From staggering when he was just learning to walk, to running at full speed, taking the lead on the track and field in the elementary school sports meeting;

"Well, the person next to him looks familiar...is he your friend?"

"Hahaha. That's right, my best friend!"

The photos in the album are only up to Kirino Akane's graduation from middle school, there are no new ones.

"Now I basically take photos with my mobile phone." Akane Kirino put away the photo album, "Except for major events such as graduation, I don't usually keep such photos...Although it is very convenient to print."

"Well, unless there is a special commemorative significance."

"Let's take a 'commemorative' group photo right now." She suddenly suggested, "To commemorate Soya's first coma and his smooth recovery."

"..."

"Okay." Hongzi took Soya's arm, and picked up the phone with the other hand, "Let me take a picture."

Kirino Akane also hugged his arm, leaned against him, and looked at the camera.

Click.

Soya didn't even have time to adjust his expression, the two had already taken a photo and let go of him.

"Okay."

"Yeah, although Soya's expression is a bit strange..."

"When you walk the dog later, stop by the convenience store and print out this photo."

"Ah, then I have to pick a few more photos and print them together."

The two of them flipped through their phone albums again.

When the sun was about to set and it was not so hot outside, the three of them went out to walk the dog together.

Passing by the convenience store, Akane Kirino and Hongko used the self-service printer in the store to print carefully selected photos, while Soya waited beside him, biting a popsicle.

"This was taken in Minister Kumamon's office... This is the volcano on Sakurajima. It's a pity that only the crater was photographed smoking, and the moment of eruption was not photographed."

"This is the Tanabata Festival in Kyoto this year. It's on Kamogawa—by the way, Soya is in Sendai. Did you take any photos of the local Tanabata Festival?"

"No."

When I got home from walking the dog, it was already dark.

The family will come back tomorrow, Hongzi will still live here tonight.

After nightfall, the time before and after dinner passes the fastest, fleeting.

After eating, washing the dishes, and sitting down for a while, it will be eight o'clock;

They each went to take a shower, put the photos printed in the evening into the photo album, chatted for a while, and it was time to rest.

Asagiri went back to the room first, followed by Soya.Akane Kirino and Hongzi didn't stay downstairs any longer, they went upstairs together.

When walking past Soya's room, Akane Kirino raised her hand and pulled, and the door was locked.

She pouts at Hongzi, "This is obviously my home."

Hongzi just smiled.

Back in the room, the two spread the bedding together.

"Turn off the lights?"

"Ah."

"Thank you." Under the light of Hongzi's phone, Akane Kirino returned to her bed and lay down, "When Hongzi returns home, I might not be used to sleeping alone."

Hongzi looked at her sideways, "Then I'll stay."

"For Hongzi's sister, I will overcome this little difficulty." She said immediately.

"..."

Hongzi sighed secretly, and lay down again.

"Two days later." Kirino Qian said again, "Wait for me... Wait for Sister Qingzi to go to Tokyo, Hongzi will come to live with me again."

Hongzi turned to look at her for a while, but still couldn't hold back: "What is Qian going to do these two days?"

"Hey, what am I doing..."

"Do nothing?"

"Don't do anything..."

Hongzi decided to change the way, "Then I want Soya to stay at my house for two days, there are still vacant rooms anyway. My sister said she would like to chat with Soya..."

"--no."

She turned it down.

Hongzi moved towards her, "Why?"

"No reason." Akane Kirino looked at the other side, "I just don't think Soya would agree."

"—He agreed." Hongzi lied, "I told Sogu about it this afternoon, and he agreed."

"..."

Akane Kirino immediately sat up and looked down at her, "Really?"

Hongzi also sat up, "If Akane doesn't believe you, you can ask Soya."

There is no special skill in telling this kind of lie, the most important thing is self-confidence.

She didn't change her face, and Akane Kirino chose to believe it.

"Why is it at this time..."

"Akane is really going to do something, isn't she?"

Akane Kirino was silent for a while, and said, "Recently, there is a question that has been bothering me, and I want to know the answer no matter what."

Don't ask any more questions, Hongzi said to herself, no more questions.

But she still asked, "What's the problem?"

Akane Kirino looked at her, but didn't answer directly, "Before that, there is one thing I want to confirm with Hongzi."

"what……"

"Does Hongzi like Soya?"

"..."

Have you finally come this far?

"I like it." Hongzi took a deep breath and looked at her, "I like Zonggu."

Kirino Akane smiled.

"But Hongko doesn't really like Soya, does she?"

She opened her mouth.

"……Eh?"

　I tried cold-brewed tea, but I got a little dizzy after drinking it. I wondered if I accidentally soaked some red umbrellas and white poles in it. . .If there is no update tomorrow, it will be a board.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)