Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 49: The Moonlight is So Beautiful

It was the end of the last month of winter, the day before Christmas.

The black Toyota Mark was parked diagonally on the road. Longchuan Che watched Song Zhimuzi, whom he had seen more than ten minutes ago, running along the path and catching up with them before they completely drove into the dense forest.

The sound of night crows was heard from the cedar forest in the distance. Long Chuan Che was stunned for a moment, then got out of the car and walked towards the panting girl.

The wilderness was silent, with only the faint glow of the running lights.

The light hit the snow, then scattered along the whiteness, allowing the boy to see the sweat stains on the girl's cheeks and her red face from holding back.

"what's up?"

Longchuan Che looked along the path the girl had walked. It was a mysterious path different from the wide road, and it was also the key for Songzhi Muzi to catch up.

"Huff, huff." The girl was unable to immediately answer the question from the indifferent boy in front of her. Even for a sports student, running three kilometers along the trail was not easy.

Longchuan Che took two more steps forward.

The other party must have something important to tell me since he is trying so hard to catch up with me.

"It's still as difficult as when I was a kid."

The intermittent voice was accompanied by heavy breathing, and Longchuan Che was stunned.

"what?"

"Do I look like a bad woman?"

Before Longchuan Che could finish his words, he suddenly felt someone grabbing his collar.

The girl was stretching her knees and gasping for breath, and when he approached, she suddenly pounced on him and grabbed his clothes.

The skin tanned by the sun was suddenly close to Long Chuan Che. He could see the girl's red face, furrowed brows, and the colorful city behind her, as if a gorgeous sun was sleeping there.

"Woman? What bad woman?"

Longchuan Che was unable to deal with this kind of girl who did not play by the rules, and he ran across half the city chasing the car. It was something that not a normal person could do.

Long Chuan Che took a step back to avoid it. The girl's breath was a little hot and he felt the burning sensation on his skin.

"What about you using me as a shield?"

The boy shrugged and said, "Today was not a good experience for me, but from a personal perspective."

Longchuan Che expressed his views in a relaxed manner, roughly meaning that if he had that kind of trouble, he would probably make the same choice.

A little girl who was not convinced and caught up to argue?

Longchuan Che felt a little bored. He was in a hurry to finish this matter, then got in the car and drove into the cedar forest behind him.

The cedar forest is quiet and peaceful, effectively blocking out the silver moonlight from the sky.

"I say, do I look like a bad woman?"

Songzhi Muzi repeated the question again, and at the same time, he clenched the clothes in his hands tighter and moved his face closer.

A hot and wet feeling invaded the air around Longchuan Che.

Looking at the girl's hot face and shining eyes, he suddenly found it difficult to say "I think so".

The other party was too confident, so confident that it seemed as if Longchuan Che had done something wrong.

"No, no, you're not. I still have a little bit."

"That annoying guy is my brother. It's my fault for not telling you sooner. I'm sorry for embarrassing you."

The pine branches and seeds were firing like a small machine gun.

Longchuan Che was stunned for two or three seconds, his brain seemed unable to process the current situation.

"So...so?"

Is there really such a thing as love between men and women in the world? Anyway, Ryukawa Tetsu has never been in a relationship so he doesn't know for sure.

The girl's pupils seemed to be reflected in some psychedelic colors.

The first time she saw Ryukawa Toru, she greeted him enthusiastically on campus, and when she met him in Yamanakako, she asked if she could be his girlfriend.

It is common sense that there is no sudden luck in the world.

Everyone's behavioral logic is mostly wrapped up in interests.

Longchuan Che's somewhat sober and rational view seemed to be torn apart bit by bit by the girl's words just now. "So I didn't use you as a shield. I asked you out on Christmas Eve, and you said a lot of things to yourself and then left me there. Wasn't that a bit too much?"

Momoji Haragi in the bookstore is a brother who is worried that his sister will do something stupid on Christmas Eve, and Muko Matsueda is an adolescent girl who has no time to explain.

She may not love Longchuan Che to her core, but she really wants to date him.

"Is it too much?"

Longchuan Che's language system is somewhat disordered. He is used to thinking the worst of people, and he cannot cope with this sudden kindness and closeness.

"Of course it's excessive!"

Songzhi Muzi wiped the sweat from her forehead, and the light makeup she had prepared today was ruined.

"Although I didn't make it clear earlier."

The girl muttered softly, then looked at Longchuan Che with great momentum.

"Anyway, this is my first time dating a boy, if there is anything I did wrong, please forgive me."

This was probably the first time that Longchuan Tetsu saw a girl act so youthfully shy.

A new boyfriend and an inexplicable misunderstanding.

The girl crossed half the city and caught up with the car in the snow, just to say one sentence.
"Please take care of me in the future."

The breeze and the moonlight were sleeping together, and the scattered moonlight sank a few snowflakes accumulated on the branches.

Ryuukawa Toru can deal with that kind of sudden malice, but he is not very good at responding to this kind of simple and plain emotion.

Takeda and Ono, who were watching the fun in the car, saw the boy turning his head away uncomfortably and said the same thing.

'Please take care of me.'

Longchuan Che watched the girl go away, and then returned to the car a few minutes later with a small package.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk."

When getting on the bus, Taro Ono smacked his lips like an annoying middle-aged man.

Longchuan Che turned up the volume of the radio, not wanting to listen to the middle-aged man's teasing.

He touched the new scarf around his neck and felt a little weird.

Because of Takeda Takako's incident, he was used to speculating about others with malice, but the newly appeared Matsueda Muko seemed to have taught him a lesson.

She simply fell in love with Ryuukawa Toru from the small mountain village, and when he couldn't afford 8000 yen, she was willing to sit in the bookstore and embarrass herself with him.

Pulling up the cashmere scarf to cover the lower half of his face, the girl's behavior just now left a mark on his heart.

"Silent Eve, this is my Christmas present to you."

The girl who explained clearly took out a small package from behind her, which Longchuan Che saw her holding all day today.

She took out a black and white scarf from the package tied with a ribbon and put it around Longchuan Che's neck somewhat embarrassedly.

"I know you haven't prepared anything because it seems too sudden and a little strange." The girl lowered her head and kicked the snowflakes on the ground.

"but."

Han Yuyu's face suddenly magnified infinitely under the moonlight, and the distant disk illuminated half of the cedar forest.

In his last essay, Ryukawa Tetsu wrote:
I have never felt that the moonlight is beautiful or the wind is gentle. My childhood was not miserable, but I can say that I experienced the ups and downs of life.

With parents dying early and others looking down on them, orphans, a common character label in novels, have a hard time along the way.

Layers of snow covered the cedar forest near my home. I once thought I would never leave there, the place that gave me peace of mind.

Until I was eighteen.

When I was eighteen, a girl who seemed to carry the mountains and the seas and call the sun and the moon appeared in front of me.

She gave me a gift in the silence and said a simple blessing that I had never heard before.

she says
"Merry Christmas Eve, Ryukawa Toru."

Reflecting the silver moonlight, the girl's face was infinitely magnified in Long Chuan Che's mind. The boy sat in the car, covering the corners of his mouth with a scarf, and also said something softly.

"Merry Christmas Eve."

(End of this chapter)