In the anime series, Goto Ichiri is actually my childhood sweetheart?

This uneasiness was like a ghost, locking onto her body. She found it difficult to breathe. Rikka felt darkness crawling up her spine, and everything around her was filled with malice.

“What…what is this.”

Rikka asked tremblingly, her crisp voice was covered by the heavy snow and cold wind, but Rikka's mother knew what she wanted to say and responded naturally.

She nodded at the tombstone, motioning for Rikka to read the words clearly.

"The mountain is where the elders are buried. My grandfather is buried on the mountain. Everyone can have their own small piece of cemetery. Of course, I will be no exception when I die." Rikka's father said this with a smile on his face. At that time, Rikka did not like to hear this and raised her fist to hit him, but he picked her up.

Memories suddenly emerged in her mind. Rikka stretched out her gloved hand and gently wiped the snow off the tombstone. The buried red words slowly appeared in the air.

'A loving father and a filial son...'

The two largest and brightest words at the top appeared first. Rikka covered her mouth with her left hand, paused in the air with her right hand, and then continued to wipe it down.

'Birds swim...'

The moment the tombstone owner's surname was exposed to the air, she began to get anxious and quickened her pace in wiping the snow.

"Not dead, not—"

She muttered to herself until the familiar name appeared before her eyes. She took two steps back in a daze, her vision blurry, and she almost fell to the ground.

"Did you see it? There's still time to see if your sister and I have lied to you." Rikka's mother stepped forward and put her arms around Rikka's shoulders, speaking softly to her.

Seeing that Rikka didn't respond, she added.

"I was afraid you would overreact, so I kept it from you. Now that you know the truth, let go of these obsessions and look forward. Mom knows you will get better and better, okay?"

Her voice revealed a hint of heartache; after all, she was her daughter, and even though she was being forced like this, it was ultimately for her own good.

The main reason is that Rika's transformation is too drastic. If it weren't for this, she would not have behaved so radically today and would not have directly dragged Rika to sweep her father's grave.

She felt that any mother would be worried about her daughter who kept muttering completely inaudible words like "Evil King's True Eyes" and "Invisible Boundary" all day long.

It is always good for children to suffer a little. After all, life is not always smooth sailing. Most of the time, we are suffering. Letting her exercise herself will be good for her to enter the society in the future.

"Let's clean up your father's tombstone now that we are here."

Liuhua's mother took a broom from the side and wanted to sweep the snow off the ground, but it was snowing heavily, so how could she sweep it clean?

"Rikka? Haven't you figured it out yet?" she said loudly to her daughter.

Liuhua stood there for a long time without moving. Liuhua's mother was so irritable that she unconsciously wanted to find something to do to relieve her anxiety.

The wind suddenly grew stronger, and the leaves around were rustling.

Even though the hair leaking out from the brim of her hat was blown wildly by the wind and even covered her eyes, Rikka didn't even bother to push it away.

"Rikka! Where are you going? Come back!"

In a blink of an eye, as if she had made up her mind, Liuhua took the umbrella given to her by her grandmother, ran down the stairs without saying a word, and disappeared in the wind and snow in a blink of an eye.

Rikka's mother put down the broom and chased in the direction Rikka left, but she couldn't even catch up with Rikka's shadow.

She hurried back home and Grandma Liuhua asked her as soon as she opened the door.

"Did Rikka come back just now?"

"No, she went out with you, where is she?"

Grandma Liuhua looked behind Liuhua's mother again and again, and became a little nervous when she found that Liuhua was no longer behind her.

"She just ran out by herself... I'll contact Juhua first. She has some money for the train, so she may have taken the train back."

There is definitely nowhere good to go in my hometown of Liuhua, so the most likely possibility is to go to Shihua.

No one expected that Rikka had actually escaped. It was icy and snowing heavily, and she didn't know where to start looking for her.

Liuhua's mother looked outside, and even the white snowflakes seemed to become ferocious.

......

"Sister Juuka, where is Rikka? Isn't she going to spend Christmas with you?"

Gao Qiaofeng sorted out the things he would need later, and then began to hang colorful lights on the walls of his house.

The small colored lights are connected in series, and the wicks flash the three primary colors of red, green and blue. Although they are not bright at all, they are very beautiful and can be used as decorations to create a Christmas atmosphere.

Today she and Goto Ichiri agreed to celebrate Christmas at his house, and he had been preparing for this for a long time. It took him a lot of effort just to move the two Christmas trees at the door from downstairs.

Ryoko also called Machida Sonoko, and now they are preparing food in the kitchen. Takahashi Feng is very pleased that these two ladies don't have to let him always stay in the kitchen alone to cook.

"Mom is going to take Liuhua to her hometown to celebrate Christmas. She will live there from now on. It may be troublesome for you to play together in the future."

Shihua smiled and tied the small bell to the small Christmas tree in the house.

"Where's your mother? Does she also live in your hometown?"

"Mom wants to live alone for a while. I think it's time for her to adjust herself. It's not good to be bored all day long."

It just so happens that the two of them are not getting along right now, so staying a little further away might help ease the situation.

"Ah! Xiao Feng, the pot is on fire!"

Machida Sonoko's head suddenly popped out from the kitchen, and a strange orange light was reflected on the kitchen door. Takahashi Feng clearly remembered that the kitchen light should be white.

"Nonsense, it's clearly destroyed!"

Ryoko pushed her head back, leaned out and smiled at Takahashi Kaede, then closed the door with a bang.

"Can these two really cook..." Touka felt that these two ladies who usually looked very reliable did not seem very reliable at this moment.

The probability of a fire starting from cooking is small, but definitely not zero.

"Ryoko does practice occasionally, but I don't know about Yuanzi. Who cares? It's not me who does it. I'll eat whatever they cook. At worst, we can just go out to eat."

Gao Qiaofeng put his hands behind his head, indicating that he was too lazy to care about these things.

"By the way, the snow today is so heavy and beautiful." Looking out the window, Takahashi Feng couldn't help but sigh.

It is not completely dark yet, and the fluttering snowflakes are dancing in the air like butterflies. They dodge left and right in the wind, and are extremely agile.

"Auspicious snow brings a good harvest. Next year will definitely be an auspicious year."

"Where did this saying come from? I've never heard of it before." Shihua laughed.

"Of course you haven't heard of it. It would be strange if you had."

Takahashi Feng thought that if you were a Chinese chef, he might have heard of you, but you are an Italian chef.

"Xiao Feng~~"

A crisp sound came from the corridor, and the sound continued until it reached the door of Takahashi Feng's house.

"Hey! These two trees are so big--Miss... Miss Juhua, why are you here?"

Goto Ichiri was originally planning to show off in front of Takahashi Kaede, but he immediately became restrained after seeing Touka.

"She came to spend Christmas with us, to see the little one inside."

Takahashi Feng pressed the button, and the lights surrounding the Christmas tree lit up instantly.

"So beautiful!" Goto Ichiri exclaimed sincerely.

Chapter 27 Evening Talk

Goto Ichiri sat on the sofa and blew on her hands. Even with gloves, she could not resist the raging cold. Her fingertips were frozen white.

Takahashi Feng moved the small solar stove in front of Goto Ichiri. The bright orange-yellow light shone on her face, not only bringing light but also transmitting a lot of heat.

“It’s still so cold.”

Goto Ichiri almost put his face on it, and kept rubbing his hands in front of the little sun, trying to get even heat.

But in the presence of such a small heat source, uniform heating means uniform unheatedness.

"Xiao Feng, don't you have a kotatsu at home? It's a square thing with a quilt on top and a heat source underneath, and you can sleep in it."

Recently, Goto Ichiri has been staying at home most of the time, and has even been lazy about practicing guitar.

There is no way, this winter is too cold. No matter how much I like guitar, it is better to curl up in a kotatsu and sleep for an afternoon.

"No, Ryoko and I are not afraid of the cold, and there are not so many people at home, so we have no plans to buy such things."

Goto Ichiri turned her head away in disappointment. The light from the small sun was not strong. She stared at the heating core and even her eyes felt hot.

But she still felt very cold, her hands were cold, and her body trembled from time to time in order to keep warm.

Seeing this, Takahashi Feng sat over, wrapped his hand around Goto Ichiri's hand, and transferred his warmth to him.

"Are you feeling better?" Gao Qiaofeng felt like he was grabbing two cubes of ice.

"Xiao Feng, your hands are so hot! How come you are not afraid of the cold?"

Goto Ichiri sighed that the hand wrapped by Takahashi Kaede was like a heater. Because they were completely stuck together, the efficiency of heat exchange was much higher than that of the little sun.

"I naturally get hotter than other people, and I've just been working on something, so it's natural to be a little hot... Don't put your hand in my neck, this level of cold won't allow you to see me make a fool of myself."

Takahashi Feng calmly took Goto Ichiri's dishonest hand away from his neck, and felt the place where Goto Ichiri touched was cold.

"Hehehe~" Goto Ichiri smiled foolishly and held Takahashi Kaede's hand tightly.

Touka was sitting on the side with her legs crossed, seemingly watching a show on TV, but in fact she was observing the two people interacting.

Even though they are childhood sweethearts, Touka has met many childhood sweethearts, but they are the only pair that can remain so harmonious even in junior high school.

Most people at this time will form their own small circles due to different interests and hobbies, and after some necessary interactions decrease, they will slowly become strangers called childhood sweethearts.

"Do you often play together in school?" Shihua was a little curious about the campus life of these two people.

"No, Xiao Feng has been sleeping all the time since he entered junior high school, and classmate Takanashi often goes to play with him, so I can't get a word in. We are not in the same class, so we rarely talk in school." Goto Ichiri thought about it and suddenly realized that he and Takahashi Feng hardly talked in school, and they only contacted each other through mobile phones when there was something.

"Rikka and Kaede are in the same class?"

"No, Takanashi is in the same class as me, and Xiaofeng's class is next door." Goto Ichiri replied.

The look in Tohka's eyes when she looked at Goto Ichiri suddenly became subtle.

"Feng, if you want to date Rikka you must tell me. Our two families are so familiar with each other, there's no need to hide it." Rikka said to Takahashi Feng calmly, but she was actually grinning in her heart.

"Ah? Who says that about their sister?"

"I have no control over what Rikka wants to do. I just made my judgment based on what you said."

Touka said that this was a reasonable judgment and she was not causing trouble.

"No, Kotori-san just thinks of Kaede as a friend with chuunibyou, it doesn't mean that~"

Goto Ichiri held Takahashi Kaede's hand in his arms and said foolishly.

"......Are you that kind of person?" Touka suddenly began to doubt whether Takahashi Kaede was a hypocrite. In fact, his deep interest was to trick all the girls he liked into becoming his own.

Goto Ichiri was fooled by him because his brain was not very good, but he still spoke up for him in this situation.

"I don't know what kind of person you're talking about, but if it's 'that' kind of person, then I'm definitely not one of them."

Facing Tohka's gaze, Takahashi Kaede chose to face it head-on and face the criticism with the most upright attitude.

"I'm the man who's going to marry Ichiri, and I won't allow such weird remarks to come out—"

"Xiao Feng, don't say such embarrassing things!"

Although Goto Ichiri was very happy, he still covered Takahashi Kaede's mouth tightly out of shame, causing him to make a series of "woohoo" sounds.

"...So you're boyfriend and girlfriend now?"

Takahashi Kaede's straightforwardness caught Touka by surprise, and she asked with some uncertainty, since he was so bold after all.

"Not for now." Yili released his mouth and Takahashi Feng answered immediately.

Goto Ichiri hid his head in the crack of the sofa and chose to be a coward.

"You're not even boyfriend and girlfriend yet you're thinking about getting married, is this the mindset of today's middle school students? I didn't expect that I'm already behind the times of you young people in my twenties, it's unbelievable."

"It just feels too early, and most of these things are done for others to see. We are not fashionistas who chase trends every day, so why are we in such a hurry?"

Goto Ichiri pulled his head out from the crack of the sofa again and nodded in agreement.

She couldn't stand being pointed at by a bunch of classmates.

"Have you ever done things that boyfriends and girlfriends should do?" Shihua suddenly asked.

The air suddenly stagnated, and for a moment the only sounds in the living room were the sounds of cooking and talking coming from the kitchen.

This...is this an adult? So scary!