Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 516 Fireworks
When the sky-blue scooter rode over, Naruse had been waiting under the shade of the trees at the bridge for a long time.

Morimi stopped the car and frowned under the scorching sun, "Did I leave you here?"

"Yeah." Naruse glanced at him, "You're not wearing a helmet?"

"I can't bear to wear a helmet in this weather." Morimi said, and sneered, "You asked me to come here to take care of people, and you still care about this kind of thing."

With the scorching sun beating down on her head, Naruse didn't bother to say anything more, so he asked her to move back, then got on the motorcycle and rode back.

"What did you say to her?" Morimi asked loudly from the back seat as the car was not going very fast.

"Your true relationship with me now."

"..."

She stared at his side face for a while, "Go to my house."

Walking back along the prefectural road, at the intersection, Naruse turned to Morimi's house.

Stopping the car in the shade, she pulled him and said, "Don't get out of the car. Just make it clear here."

"That night, I saw the thing you gave me and came to ask me what your relationship is with me." Naruse Yan explained the cause and effect succinctly.

"Then you told her?"

He turned back, "You gave me the book with the condom in front of the light, didn't you mean to let her know?"

Morimi was silent for a while.

"I got carried away."

Not only that, she has been doing some contradictory things recently - she wants to keep this secret, but she can't wait to announce it to everyone.

"She will always know." Seeing her complex expression, Naruse took her hand and squeezed it again, "It's a matter of sooner or later."

Morimi held his hand tightly with her backhand, "What if she tells Naoko now?"

"Will not."

"She dare not?"

"Even I don't know how to talk to Naoko, and she can't control the scale." Naruse said, disgusted with his own confidence, "She doesn't dare to say anything."

The girlfriend in the back seat was silent for a while.

"Can this situation really be controlled now?"

Naruse pursed his lips and lowered his eyes to look at the shadows that enveloped each other, "Let's take a step and watch."

She sighed deeply, "I still want to settle everything before the end of the summer vacation, but now it seems that the chaos has just begun."

"Just leave the rest to me." Naruse turned around and tried to reassure her, "In the end, she cares more about me."

However, as she spoke, the anxiety on her face increased instead of decreasing, and there was a deep sense of powerlessness in her eyes behind the lenses.

"I'm hiding something."

Naruse's heart skipped a beat.

"what?"

Morimi raised his eyes and looked at him, "Tell me the truth, do you still like Haixing?"

He pursed his lower lip and lowered his eyes, then quickly raised them again.

"Yes."

"What about the light?"

"……Um."

"This is where the problem lies."

She fell forward weakly and leaned against him, "I also saw it, and then I told them about it."

"..."

Naruse lowered his head and could only see the top of her head.

"I didn't think I could get this far on my own from the beginning, so I roped in Guang and Haixing and wanted them to be the vanguard. Especially Haixing, you don't seem to be able to resist her... But I didn't expect that I really I did it. So I regretted it."

Morimi raised his head and looked at him, "So, this is not just your problem."

Naruse's brows slowly wrinkled, and his scalp felt numb.

"What on earth are you planning..."

"Let you have four girlfriends at the same time."

"Are you crazy?"

"What do you think? All my plans are to get you. Now that the situation has become so complicated, the root cause is your constant rejection of me."

“I was single-minded, is it still my fault?”

"I'm just stating the fundamental reason - if you were really single-minded, you wouldn't have the current problem."

"No matter the deeds or the heart, no matter how much I like you, it's just a thought. It was you who did whatever it took to make me take this step."

"..."

"..."

The two shirked their responsibilities and attacked each other for a while, but soon stopped again.

Morimi moved forward again and rested her head on his shoulder.

"It's all my fault. If it can't be solved by then, just push me forward and let me bear all the infamy and responsibility."

"Don't pretend to be pitiful. What exactly did you tell them?" Naruse asked.

"Humph……"

She was a little embarrassed when she failed to pretend to be pitiful, but quickly returned to the topic: "Are you excited, four girlfriends?"

"Yeah." Naruse admitted frankly, "It's definitely a lie to say that I'm not interested, but whether to take action is another matter. My current two girlfriends have already made me very anxious."

He took a breath slowly, "If I had known your plan earlier..."

"Then you're already sleeping with Starfish."

"……Won't."

"Hmph, that's hard to say."

She was obviously emotional, and Naruse held her hand and continued: "What I mean is, if I could have known earlier, the conflict with Guang wouldn't have been so intense... No."

He frowned again, "It looks like he is completely unprepared for this."

"Well, I wanted to get her and Haixing together, but only Haixing agreed. Guang was always opposed."

Naruse turned around and Morimi continued: "Hikari is less courageous than you. He is afraid that this kind of thing will completely break us up and we will never be in contact with each other until we die."

"..."

He pursed his lower lip and said, "Normal people would think so."

Even if what he is doing and thinking now is no longer in the category of a normal person, he still feels that it is natural for them to fall apart after such things are exposed.

"Then what are you going to do now?" Morimi asked.

"I do not know."

Naruse looked up at the low ceiling, not hiding his confusion.

"I can't completely predict the actions of the three of them or even you. I can only take one step at a time and act according to the situation."

Morimi shook his head and slowly exhaled a long breath, "That's not what I asked."

Naruse was startled, and soon understood what she really wanted to ask, and remained silent for a long time.

Looking at his heart, he saw four figures squeezed into the space that could only accommodate one person, but he could no longer muster the motivation to expel the two people who had been there for a long time.

Once one breaks through the limitations of oneself, human greed is indeed endless, he thought, even if there are already many difficulties in front of him.

"..."

Naruse took a breath and clenched his fists unconsciously.

The only difference between taking this road and not taking it is that since he has taken the first step, he wants to keep them all by his side.

"Since you let me know your plan, if you can do it, why not do it."

Senjian closed his eyes and sighed inwardly.

"Even if three of the four people are against it?"

He turned his head and said, "Do you regret it?"

She lay on his shoulder, "I regret it so much."

"It's too late."

She curled her lips and said, "Whether it's too late or not depends on your thoughts... Are you too greedy to find four girlfriends?"

"You are also very greedy when you want to steal the boyfriends of three people."

"..."

Leaving Hikaru and Haixing behind, or even snatching him away from Shangzi and then possessing him alone, has always been her ultimate goal... although she also understands that this is impossible.

Mori sighed.

"You turned bad too fast... Do you still remember the self that kept shouting 'no' even when being pinned to the ground by a bad woman? Can you return to your true nature and only like two people?" "

"It was you who tempted me... You should also remember how long I persisted. Once the bottom line is breached, there is no end."

"You mean, I might have to use the same thing with more women besides them in the future?"

"...Can you stop being so direct?" Naruse looked back at her and said firmly: "There will be no one else."

She also looked at him, "Can you promise?"

"I can guarantee it."

She sighed and said no more.

"You agree?" Naruse asked.

"Is it useful for me to object?"

"Let me hesitate for a few more minutes."

She pinched his waist and stretched forward, "First let me see if your things have been used by other women in the past few days."

He slapped her hand away, "I'm not in the mood now."

"..."

Morimi covered the back of his hands and stared at him, "How many times have you rejected me?"

"You haven't refused enough before. Now is not the time."

After that, Naruse turned the car key and restarted the motorcycle.

"Going back?"

"Well, let's go to the bookstore first."

"Okay, come on, I have nothing more to say."

After backing out of the motorcycle and leaving the yard of Morimi's house, a large cloud floated over and enveloped the two people under the sun.

Morimi looked up and said, "There are more and more clouds. I don't know if today's fireworks display will be cancelled."

"There was no news when I read it before."

Naruse looked ahead and could see the clouds gathering in the sky, "And whether you can go today is not only determined by the weather."

She lowered her gaze, "I'll ask Haixing to ask Guang about his plans later."

"Ah."

Arriving at Morimi Furuhonten, Naruse stopped the car.

"Why don't you just ride home?"

"No, just take a few steps to stretch your body."

She hummed softly and stared at him for a while.

"Spring Sea."

"Ah."

"You made me miserable."

"..."

"I've done you a disservice too."

Naruse pursed his lower lip and looked into the bookstore, "What's the point of talking about this now."

She also nodded, "Well, there's no point anymore. No matter what, your and my lives are already tightly tied together."

He looked over and looked into her eyes.

"Although it may not go smoothly, I will achieve everything you and I want step by step." "Yeah."

Morijian smiled, took a deep breath, and said, "Go back. If there is news over there, I will tell you."

"it is good."

Naoko was a little surprised to see Naruse walking home alone.

"Didn't Hikaru send Harumi back?"

"Well, she took me to the edge of the Iwaki River, left me and ran away."

"Eh……"

"She hasn't been here, has she?" Naruse looked around the living room, but there was no sign of her coming.

Shangzi shook his head, "No."

Naruse breathed a sigh of relief, and felt excited again.

Where did she go...

His heart was in turmoil, and he didn't want Shangzi to notice it, so he didn't stay down there and went back to his room on the pretext of reading.

Not long after, Morimi sent a message in the group, with only two simple words.

Yiye: As usual.

He chatted with her privately and asked about Hikari Takigawa.

Kazuha: Staying at home.

Kazuye: Are you going to comfort her? Girls are most likely to be pushed down at this time.

Naruse ignored her, chatted for a few more words and ended.

"Did you go home and hide..."

He was relieved a lot.

She was riding a motorcycle, and with the mood she was in at that time, it was not surprising that she would ride wildly wherever she went.

Four girlfriends...

After thinking about what was going to happen in the future alone for a while, and thinking hard on a certain place for a long time without getting any results, Naruse casually took a book and went downstairs again.

"Did Harumi and Hikaru quarrel?" Naoko asked.

"There was a bit of a philosophical conflict."

"what?"

Naruse was silent for a while, "How to get along with others."

"Eh……"

He lay down on the sofa, "It's not a big problem, she will still go to the fireworks display with us in the evening."

"What Kazuye said in the group just now..."

"That's it."

Shangzi looked at him without asking any questions, then moved to the side of his head and motioned for him to rest on her thigh.

"Comfortable."

"of course."

"It's almost noon, what do you want to eat?"

"let me see……"

The two stayed at home until the afternoon.By about four o'clock, the silent group gradually became lively again.

"Haixing said they would go there wearing yukata."

"Do you want to wear it Naoko?"

"I want to wear it."

"Then put it on." Naruse said, looking at the time again, "You can go change now."

"Where's Chunhai?"

"I'll wear it too."

The two of them took a bath together, then put on their bathrobes and waited for the time to gather.

At early five o'clock, Morimi came over with Haixing.

"Let's go directly to Guang's house to save them from having to drive here."

"it is good."

When they arrived at Takigawa's house, it was Hikaru Takigawa who opened the door for several people.

"..."

Her eyes swept across the faces of the four people one by one, and finally landed on Naruse's face. She turned around and went in without saying anything.

Both Naoko and Morimi glanced at him.

"Go in." Naruse said calmly.

Takigawa Yohei had to drive several children to attend the fireworks festival, so naturally he would not leave his wife alone at home, so the couple also changed into yukata.

"It's better to leave early."

He seemed a little more anxious than the children, "There must be a lot of people today. If the time is later, the road will be blocked."

"Ok."

Takigawa Yohei drove out, and several people got into the car. Naoko, Haisei and Morimi sat in the last row, while Naruse and Takigawa Hikaru sat in the middle row, one on the left and one on the right, separated by the narrow aisle.

"Left me on the bridge, where did you go?"

"..."

Takigawa Hikari turned his head and glanced at him in surprise.

"Go home directly?"

"……Um."

"That's too much." Naruse said casually, seemingly indifferent to the fact that she left him and went back alone.

She didn't care either, what she cared about was what happened before she left, and what she must not tell Shangzi.

What does he mean by mentioning it now?
She saw it right and didn't dare to tell Shangzi. Was she being provocative?
Just as she was thinking about it, he looked over again and said, "It was my fault this morning, don't think too much."

"..."

Takigawa Hikaru frowned even more tightly.

"What do you mean?"

"I shouldn't have said those things."

"Is it just a matter of those words?"

"Of course not." Naruse remained calm, "It's just that there were some deviations in our communication. You and I both had some misunderstandings."

"..."

Misunderstand?

He admitted it himself, so what misunderstanding is there?
Takigawa Hikaru looked at him. The three people in the back seat were either awake, confused, or half-informed, and they were all silently waiting for the follow-up.

Naruse didn't say much, but looked at Takikawa Midoriko, who finally got into the car, and then looked out the window.

"It's time to leave." Takigawa Yohei said.

"Okay..." Hikari Takigawa looked away,

The car slowly drove out of the path at the door, onto the county road, and then accelerated towards its destination.

It takes more than an hour to drive from Aoyagi to Lake Ogawahara.

Setting off in the evening, the change in the sky is particularly obvious, and it gets dark on the way.

"It's getting dark so fast, it won't rain..." Haixing was a little worried.

"Looking at the latest weather forecast, it shouldn't rain tonight."

The person who spoke was Takigawa Yohei who was driving. He asked again, "Hikari, have you seen the latest news about the fireworks festival?"

"Let me take a look." Hikari Takigawa came back to his senses, took out his mobile phone, opened the website and took a look, "Eh..."

When she saw a new message posted just 10 minutes ago, her heart skipped a beat and she subconsciously thought about the worst.

Fortunately, the content of the message is to remind people who come to participate in the fireworks festival to choose appropriate travel methods to avoid congestion.

"Is there any new news?" Naruse came over.

"..."

She glanced at him, turned her phone towards him, raised her voice again, and said to her father who was driving: "The fireworks display will go on as usual."

"That's good."

"What's the new news?" Morimi also came up from the back seat.

"Is the road already blocked?" Shangzi asked.

"Remind me to bring an umbrella or something." Haixing leaned his head to see.

"No..." Hikari Takigawa turned the phone to them.

A few people who had nothing to say all the way here finally started chatting again.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and after nearly four and ten minutes, the group finally arrived near the venue of the Lake Ogawahara Fireworks Festival.

"The road is already blocked..."

Takigawa Yohei looked at the motionless vehicles on the road ahead and frowned, "How long will this traffic jam last?"

Several children looked out the window and were a little anxious, even though it was still quite a while before the fireworks display started.

After waiting for another five or six minutes, the car still stopped in place and did not move. Takigawa Yohei turned around and said: "Harumi, take them out of the car first."

"it is good."

Naruse immediately responded, then glanced at Hikaru Takigawa and the three people in the back seat, "Follow me."

The car door opened, and Takigawa Yohei said again: "Don't worry about us. You can have fun on your own and contact us when the time comes."

"Ok."

Several people got out of the car one after another. Naruse looked at it and led a few people to the roadside.

Looking back at the stagnant traffic and the motionless car of the Takigawa family, he said, "Let's go directly to the venue."

"Yeah." Shangzi took his arm, and the other three followed suit.

The sky has completely darkened, but fortunately the lights at the celebration venue have also been turned on, and the lights are brightly lit all the way.

A few people were eating and shopping, and the time gradually approached eight o'clock.

While thinking about his parents on the road, Hikaru Takigawa looked at Naruse who was flirting with his two girlfriends, and his interest was not very high.

"Stop eating. It's almost eight o'clock. Let's find a better seat and wait for the fireworks display to start."

A few people walked around the venue by the lake, and finally found a grassy slope by the lake with a good view before the fireworks started setting off at eight o'clock.

"Wow, there are so many people..."

"Find a place to sit quickly."

Seeing that there were more and more people here, Hikaru Takigawa quickly pulled Haixing to sit down on the grass, and then realized that the person next to him was Naruse.

He was talking to Shangzi on the other side, but just turned to look at her, seemingly not paying attention at all.

She told herself not to care, not to be happy, not to complain, not to think about anything, and just concentrate on waiting for the fireworks that were about to take off.

Until he suddenly held her hand on the grass.

"..."

Hikari Takigawa turned his head and looked at the dark sky.

My eyes suddenly brightened.

boom--

Fireworks bloom.

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【Long Holiday·End】

　Big chapter.

　　My shoulders have been hurting for the past few days, and I have to sort out my thoughts, so I can’t add more for the time being.

　　There are still two volumes left, and the online loan should be repaid.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)