After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 180 179. Lift Your Legs

Kyoto, formerly known as Heian-kyo, is a part of the Osaka metropolitan area, one of Japan's three major metropolitan areas. It was once the capital for thousands of years and has a rich historical heritage.

It is different from Tokyo, which has a strong urban feel.

In early September in Kyoto, the streets awaken in the morning dew, and the bluestone roads are shimmering with warm water light.

The insect-cage windows of the old machiya house were half-open, revealing the dark family crest on the indigo curtain corners. The wooden eaves tilted toward the center of the street, and sunlight like gold foil leaked in between, sprinkling on the ivy climbing the bamboo fence, and on the bodies of the shop owners and passers-by who were holding up their shops along the street.

Yuanye Si looked into the depths of the stone path. In front of the restaurant door stood a navy blue three-legged stone lamp. Moss climbed up the lamppost along the arabesque pattern, giving a cool feeling.

It's like traveling back to ancient times.

Without continuing to walk along the street, Yuanye Si found a tofu shop to sit down, ordered two servings of plain tofu hotpot, took the porcelain spoon that had been rinsed at high temperature from the old lady in a blue floral apron, scooped some tofu into his mouth.

The most original taste of tofu bursts in your mouth.

The rich soybean aroma instantly fills the entire mouth, the taste is fresh and rich, and the tofu is broken into pieces like water with a slight sip of the tongue, without any residue feeling.

"You drove four and a half hours to come here just to eat some tofu?" Kurosaki Orizuki, who was also sipping the clear tofu, gathered her skirt between her trembling legs and said indifferently.

"Is it not delicious?" Yuan Ye Si said with a smile.

"It's okay." Kurosaki Orizuki felt his eyes sweeping over her and tried her best to maintain her calm on the surface.

But Yuanye Si became more and more proud.

The more she refused to accept it.

"Aren't you afraid that I might get pregnant too?"

For people with families, it is extremely troublesome if their lover who has been away from home has a child.

But Kurosaki Oritsuki felt that Harano Tsukasa didn't seem to care about this matter. Even though he knew that Suzumiya Saka was pregnant with his child, he still came to find him to travel to Kyoto, and even used a ventilator on the way.

This is no longer ordinary scum.

It's time to strike hard!
This behavior of Harano Tsukasa made me, Kurosaki Oritsuki, who had been helped many times, feel greatly shaken in my heart, and I felt that I seemed to have misjudged the person again.

And his next words disappointed her even more.

"Why should I be afraid?" Yuanye Si scooped up the watery tofu and ate it with relish, without even raising his head.

"Because children are trouble."

"It's a problem, yes, but it's more of a problem for you than it is for me. You didn't even mention taking safety measures, so why should I?"

"Great! You're really someone who doesn't get anxious."

“Financially free people never feel anxious.”

"So the purpose of you calling me out is to relieve your sexual desire? Or to act as a travel bag-carrying machine?"

Upon hearing this, Harano Tsukasa suddenly stopped moving, turned his head to look at Kurosaki Orizuki's expression, stared at her for a few seconds before smiling and saying, "Can't we chat?"

Feeling his sharp gaze, Kurosaki Orizuki's heart trembled subconsciously, vaguely feeling that there might be something she didn't know. Thinking of his method of punishing her, she was silent for a few seconds, then inserted the porcelain spoon into the bowl and stroked the tofu and said, "Okay."

Seeing this, Yuanye Si slowly withdrew his gaze.

Take a bite of the bean cake, the crust is glutinous, the chestnut filling is very sweet, and there is a light salty taste, it seems that salt is added specifically to neutralize the sweet taste.

"Have you contacted her recently?"

"got engaged."

"what did you say?"

"She denied she was pregnant."

"From the tone of your voice, it seems that you are not very satisfied? Are you planning to arrange another truck?"

"Don't dare."

"I don't dare... that means I don't want to."

After saying this, Harano Tsukasa quietly waited for her answer, but Kurosaki Orizuki seemed not to notice. She used her slender pale fingers to pinch the porcelain spoon and swirled it in the bowl, stirring the tofu into pieces. Even the originally transparent water in the bowl gradually became turbid.

She didn't answer, and Harano Tsukasa's expression didn't change. Instead, he ate all the bean cakes.

As if he had not asked the question just now, Harano Tsukasa picked up the bowl and drank a sip of the clear tofu soup to soothe his dry throat, and suddenly asked: "Kurosaki-san, what are your plans for the future?"

"Alive."

"anything else?"

"First cure my illness, then find an honest man to marry, have children, and live an ordinary life like this." Kurosaki Orizuki twisted a tissue and wiped his mouth.

Yuan Ye Si was speechless after hearing this.

Another honest man.

Everyone’s escape route lies with the honest people, right?
So the honest people are eating your rice?
If it weren't for the fact that Harano Tsukasa was also in trouble and had just put a ventilator on Kurosaki Oritsuki, he would have probably punched her hard, but he couldn't say anything now. After all, he couldn't play the role of punishing evil in front of the other party, so he could only smile helplessly and asked jokingly.

"Don't want to play games?"

Kurosaki Orizuki looked at him with amusement and smoothed the hair beside his ear: "Didn't you give me the loss?"

"But don't you still want to turn defeat into victory?"

"No chance." Her voice suddenly turned indifferent, as if she had seen through something and was powerless. She retracted her gaze and said, "I have even handed over the thing that has the greatest potential to turn defeat into victory. What else can I do except make a disgusting last-ditch effort?"

"Have you ever thought about going around? Places like this are still very atmospheric when they are in season."

Yuan Ye Si asked after hesitating for a moment.

"I'm not in the mood." Kurosaki Orizuki said coldly.

[Wish target: Kurosaki Orizuki]

[The wish list is as follows]

[1. I hope the plan goes well and that child will be pregnant in my place. I have already collected all the things (red)]

[2. I want to punch Harano Tsukasa (blue)]

[3. I really want to die happily (red)]

You can't leave your children, right?

You're planning again!

Are you planning to let someone else get pregnant for you?
After taking a look at Kurosaki Orizuki's wish list, Harano Tsukasa couldn't help but feel a headache. He always felt that he should not have helped her in the first place. Sometimes too much mental pressure can crush a person, but if there is no pressure at all, the heart will be so empty that one will always find trouble.

It's understandable that you want to hit yourself.

This is even suicide!
And who is that child?
A few seconds was enough time for many thoughts to come to Harano Tsukasa's mind, but in the end he chose me to play the straight ball: "So you want a child too?"

Kurosaki Orizuki paused again.

Then he squeezed the tissue between his fingers.

Taking a deep breath, she asked as calmly as possible:

"Yuanye-kun, I'd like to ask you if you are proficient in psychology or can easily detect lies."

"You may think so for now."

"So that's how it is... Then guess what I want besides a child." After getting a positive answer, Kurosaki Orizuki raised his eyes and suddenly smiled.

"I want a dad."

Harano Tsukasa responded without hesitation.

This has been a wish from a long time ago.

The expression on Kurosaki Orizuki's quiet face froze.

Seeing her frustrated expression, Yuan Ye Si did not make fun of her idea and said, "Have you finished eating? After eating, let's go to Arashiyama for a walk. Driving is tiring. After a walk around Arashiyama, we will go back to the hotel to rest."

His idea was good, but the traffic was stuck before it even reached Arashiyama, and there was no movement for even half an hour.

Kyoto is a popular tourist city in Japan.

It is no exaggeration to say that Kyoto's tourism index ranks first in the whole of Asia. Now that the maple leaves are turning red and the midsummer has passed, there are countless people coming to travel, and most of them are foreign tourists.

And there are the most people in my hometown.

Harano Tsukasa underestimated other people's enthusiasm for traveling and was stuck on a freeway for an hour before he reluctantly got off the road and headed straight for the hotel he had booked on the road. The hotel was located near Hanami-koji and although there were many people there, at least he could walk around.

"Do you think I'm a scumbag?" Yuan Ye Si walked on the bluestone slope, looking at the shops along the street from time to time.

"Isn't it?" Kurosaki Orizuki asked back. "Yes." Harano Tsukasa answered without any hesitation, affirming: "I am indeed a scumbag, a person who only wants to enter the body but not the life."

"Then what are you going to say? It's a pity that you have feelings for someone?" Kurosaki Orizuki's tone became more sarcastic.

"What's so bad about falling in love? Even if you raise a cat or a dog, you will have feelings for it. Isn't that obvious?" Harano Tsukasa responded with a smile.

She paused for a moment, then continued, "It's just that sometimes you misjudge me, and you also misjudge others, just like I can always guess what you're thinking, but there are always times when I can't guess."

Kurosaki Orizuki carefully savored the meaning of his words, and after a few seconds, he asked with a look of doubt:

"She's not pregnant with your child!?"

"..."

"It should be mine."

"should?"

"You'll know when the baby is born." Yuan Ye Si sighed slightly and explained to her: "In short, for her, the child is more important than me. Everything else is unimportant. This is what I think now."

"She...really wants a child."

As friends who have known each other for many years, Kurosaki Orizuki certainly knows whether Suzumiya Saka wants to have children or not.

But the child is more important than him...

Kurosaki Orizuki was a little bit confused.

Until Harano Si's voice sounded again.

"Don't you want it?"

Kurosaki Orizuki came back to her senses and was silent for a while after listening. Then she replied calmly, "Being a mother is a very troublesome thing. Not to mention how much time and energy it takes to raise a child, if I unfortunately die of illness, what will happen to the child?"

"Don't you still have dad?"

"Men's sense of responsibility is limited. After all, it's not the flesh that falls from their belly, haha."

"So you don't want kids?"

“Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.”

“It depends on whether you can meet the right person.”

"The right person?" Yuan Ye Si couldn't help but smile when he heard these three words. He stopped and turned to look at her.

"Women are ignorant and don't get married in their teens and twenties. When they wake up in their thirties and forties, it is basically difficult for them to get married, because they have to admit that marriage means sacrificing themselves. But you may think that the person you met is not good enough, but if a woman doesn't meet the most beautiful and attractive person at her most beautiful and attractive age, will she be able to meet him when she is in her thirties or forties?"

"Yeah, so if you can't meet the right person, just give up. It's good to fend for yourself." She lowered her eyes.

"Then why drag others into it?"

Yuanye Si finally asked the question he wanted to ask.

Kurosaki Orizuki also paused.

After standing there in silence for a few seconds, she raised her head.

And those eyes that were so calm as if no living water had been injected into them finally began to stir, with bloodshot eyes appearing.

After their eyes met in mid-air for a while, Kurosaki Orizuki opened her bloodless and slightly pale lips, stared at him intently and said:

"Because I hate you."

"I hate you for messing up my life. I hate you for being disrespectful to me and her. I hate you for pretending to be sad even though you took away our most important thing. I don't understand why."

"You're really annoying like this."

"real."

"Even if you saved me and helped me, I still hate you because ever since you appeared, my life seems to have been rewound and has never stopped."

Listening to the voice of Kurosaki Orizuki, which was clearly filled with anger and even hatred, Harano Tsukasa put his hands in his pockets and asked calmly, "So you want to kill me?"

"Maybe." As if he had vented the anger that was pent up in his heart, Kurosaki Orizuki became ambiguous again.

"Hit me." Yuanye Si suddenly said.

"What?" Kurosaki Orizuki frowned slightly.

Seeing that she didn't make any move, Yuan Ye Si forcibly pulled up her hand, clenched it into a fist and whispered, "Hit me!"

"boom!"

He took her hand and hit himself hard.

The hammer hit his heart.

Yuanye Si frowned, suppressed the suffocation, and then calmly said, "Are you relieved?"

Kurosaki Orizuki remained silent.

"You probably feel unhappy. After all, compared to this soft punch, many things that happened before probably kept you awake. Whether it was because you were tired of me or for other reasons, you must have wanted to kill me. If that's the case, I'll grant your wish."

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Harano Tsukasa took a deep breath and pretended to relax, then he raised his right hand, and a sharp fruit knife appeared in his palm and was stuffed into Kurosaki Orizuki's hand.

"Go ahead."

"When..." Kurosaki Orizuki looked down at the fruit knife in his hand and muttered to himself.

Harano Tsukasa did not answer her question, but pulled her to a remote and deserted alley beside Hanami-koji Road, pressed his fingers and clenched the knife: "You are a doctor, you should know better than me where to stab without causing death and where to stab to kill."

"You want to send me to jail after getting hurt?"

"Send him to prison? Haha, do you really think you did it perfectly last time? If I wanted you to, you would be in prison now."

"then you…"

"Don't you hate me? Then come and kill me!"

"I…"

"Poke! Like I stabbed you!"

"..."

Kurosaki Orizuki held the fruit knife at his fingertips and looked at Harano Tsukasa who was standing just a few feet away. He subconsciously imagined in his mind where he should stab him to make him bleed profusely, or he could stab him in the throat and watch him fall straight down with his eyes wide open and his hands covering his throat.

but…

Even if she really had the urge to stab it forward, her hands seemed to be trembling slightly as if they were disobedient, and she couldn't even muster the strength to push forward.

Kurosaki Orizuki bit her lower lip tightly.

She was confused for a moment.

However, before she could think about why she was confused, she suddenly felt the knife in her hand being taken away, and Yuan Ye Si seemed to nod her head with the education child: "Don't dare to stab the blind with a knife!"

Kurosaki Orizuki felt a little ashamed.

She still kept her head down.

With a slightly trembling voice, he said, "You won, you won again. I admit that I really don't dare to kill you."

"Then do you still hate me?"

"…hatred…"

"That'll be easy."

After Harano Tsukasa finished speaking, Kurosaki Orizuki felt him suddenly grab her arm again and forcibly pull her away: "Where are you going?"

"Go to the hotel and wash away your hatred for me."

Yuanye Si said without turning his head.

Kurosaki Orizuki was stunned for a moment, and then a blush of embarrassment appeared on her pale face in the blink of an eye. She couldn't help but resist: "Don't do it again!"

"Someone once said that the deeper the hatred, the deeper the love. Maybe your hatred for me hasn't reached the critical point yet, so I will try harder."

"No...Absolutely not..."

"It doesn't matter what you say."

"......."

"Lift your legs up!"

(End of this chapter)