I saved the fallen beautiful girl!

Something like this.

She looked at Aragaki Feng who was complaining about the temperature, and hesitated whether to make an invitation to the Obon Festival.

The kind with only two people.

But it's indeed a bit over the line. If Hanabi finds out, it will be game over.

(Well... never mind)

Dark JK is not so brave sometimes.

"that......"

"Ok?"

Luohe Shanyan coughed twice and said, "Do you want to come to my house later?"

"?"

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?" Xin Yuanfeng asked. He thought the girl had encountered some difficulties in life.

After all, it must be difficult for a girl living alone away from her parents.

"Um......"

(Oh no, I said it right away. What excuse should I give?)

(My cat can do backflips? Oh no, I don’t have a cat. I only have an automatic vacuum cleaner, but that thing can’t do backflips either.)

(But I can do a backflip myself, would Feng want to see it?)

I learned this from practicing Aikido.

"Well, I want to make some Obon lanterns, the kind that are burned," she said, thinking it was a good reason.

“I can, but I can’t do that.”

Most of the lanterns in the Aragaki family are purchased directly. In today's fast-paced society, no one should be bored enough to make that.

"It's okay, I can teach you!" Luohe Shanyan gave a thumbs up, indicating that she could leave everything to her.

(So ​​was there any meaning in my past?) Aragaki Feng thought.

"Well... I'll go and spread the remaining water first." He raised the bucket with some water left: "You just rest here for a while."

After all, the weather is still quite hot, and it would be bad if this little girl with hypoglycemia got heatstroke.

"Actually, I can still..."

"Be obedient." Xin Yuanfeng poked her forehead with his hand. The girl's face was already sweating a little: "I don't want to go through the trouble of carrying you back after you fainted."

"..."

Looking at the departing figure of Aragaki Kaede, Ochiai Shanyan's face became even redder.

The feeling on my forehead will probably last until tomorrow before it disappears.

The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she thanked herself for having the courage to call in the morning.

(Wait! Isn't it a better option to let Feng carry me back...)

The gloomy JK was stunned for a moment, thinking that it would not be a good idea for her to faint in the pavilion.

"so good."

"Eh?"

The words just now were said by the old lady in the pavilion. Luohe Shanyan blinked. Was she talking to me?

"You two are lovers, right?" The old woman said with a smile, "It reminds me of my past."

(Don’t be like that. I don’t think you were as complicated as I was.)

(and......)

Luohei Shanyan lowered his eyes and said in a calm tone: "No, we are not lovers."

"Huh? Is that so?" The old woman was a little surprised. She didn't expect that even with such an experienced eye, she could be wrong.

丿 "Yeah." Shan Yan responded, "Come to think of it, not all men and women who are together are lovers."

"But you like him."

"Uh......"

Facing Ochiai Shanyan's sudden loss of words, the old woman continued, "When you meet someone you like, you have to be brave."

"Don't wait until you're old to regret something. That kind of thing... is as useless as the photos on SNS."

(This old lady is quite fashionable...)

Ochiai Shanyan complained in his heart, and then said helplessly: "It's a little... different. Love is something that can only be accomplished by two people."

"Doesn't he like you? You're so beautiful."

"Eh?" Luohe Shanyan blushed a little and covered her cheeks. She was still a little uncomfortable with such direct praise.

"No...no, and his girlfriend is much prettier than me."

The words of encouragement the old woman was about to say were stuck in her throat.

So that boy has a girlfriend.

Ochiai Shanyan also realized that he seemed to have said something he shouldn't have said.

And judging from the other party's reaction, it seems that my courage was used in the wrong place.

Just when she was feeling sad, the old woman next to her smiled kindly again. With the sunlight shining on her body, Shan Yan seemed to have seen the guide on her life's path.

"Even so, he came out with you, didn't he?"

Facing Shan Yan's dazed face, she continued, "If the relationship wasn't very good, you wouldn't have made such ambiguous moves."

"But it could also be that kind of frivolous boy..."

"He is not." said Ochiai Shanyan.

If Aragaki Feng was really that kind of frivolous scumbag, it wouldn't be so difficult to get closer to him.

No, she seemed to have assumed that she was beautiful. In the eyes of the other person, she was actually quite average looking...

Ochiai Shanyan didn't quite understand, but she chose to believe Aragaki Feng.

"Since you are so sure, trust your own judgment and work hard."

“......Yeah.” Shan Yan nodded. He was still young, and it didn’t seem like a big deal to muster up the courage.

And I don’t want to be a lover, I just want to spend more time together...that’s all.

......

After a while, Xinyuan Feng came over carrying a bucket.

Luohe Shanyan left the pavilion with him. Before leaving, she looked at the kind old lady.

Bowed.

Maybe what I am doing now is not unforgivable.

Chapter 133 The plan failed again

"That place... is said to be called the Love Suicide Pond."

The warm wind blew Luo Ai Shan Yan's long hair. She pointed to the river below her feet and said, "If you jump from here, your body will float along the river."

The flying leaves fell on the water, causing slight ripples.

"There is a saying that men and women who jump from here can go to heaven together and never separate." She turned her head, her eyes looking at me were slightly dark, and she smiled softly, "Isn't it romantic?"

Aragaki Kaede took two steps forward and stood side by side with Ochiai Shanyan by the river.

After staring for a few seconds, he said, "Do you think there is really a so-called heaven in this world?"

"I don't know, maybe there is, otherwise what's the point of sweeping the tombs every year?" Shan Yan raised the bucket in his hand.

Because the water has been spilled, even a weak and dark JK can carry it.

"Well, but..." Aragaki Feng looked at her and said, "Does Tianguo need to go to school?"

"Eh?"

Facing Shan Yan's dazed expression, Xin Yuanfeng did not stop his assumptions: "Do they have to socialize as well? There should be some dark characters who can't even find friends."

"..."

"There will probably be mosquitoes in the summer, and I will be worried about failing the exam, and then I won't be able to find a job, and then I will spend the whole day at home playing with the automatic sweeper to pass the time..."

"Please stop, there is no romantic atmosphere anymore. I didn't tease the automatic sweeper!!!"

......

"But isn't the so-called Love Suicide Pond in Oita Prefecture?"

"Huh? You actually knew that."

Ochiai Shanyan was a little surprised. She thought she was the only one who liked to study such depressing urban legends.

The two walked towards the gloomy JK's house.

Today's weather is very suitable for traveling. The clouds are scattered like silver fragments in the clear sky.

She looked up, and her mood became much better.

"But there are similar places like this in every city." Ochiai Shanyan said calmly: "It is said that during the Heisei era, a young couple really jumped down here."

"I remember that it was because of their parents' obstruction that the two young men and women in love could not be together, so they finally chose to jump from here together."

She looked down the river and recalled, "It is said that there were passers-by who were there at the time and saw with their own eyes that the two of them turned into a ball of will-o'-the-wisp."

"Why is it one? Shouldn't two people be two will-o'-the-wisp?"

"Because they truly love each other, even their souls are united together." Luohe Shanyan said, his tone sounding a little envious.

It seems that this girl quite likes this kind of tragic love story.

“But there’s one thing I couldn’t understand.”

"What?" Xinyuan Feng looked back.

The girl stopped and lowered her brows: "Why do they have the courage to commit suicide, but don't have the courage to flee this town and start a new life in an unknown place?"

"That's true, is it because of the inconvenience of transportation?" Xin Yuanfeng couldn't figure it out, and then said indifferently: "Perhaps only in this way can the story be more touching, I don't quite understand."

He continued to walk forward, and Luohe Shanyan stared at the figure in front of him for a long time without saying a word.

In the past, she had thought that this arrangement was just a story made up purely for sadness.

but now.

She seemed to understand a little bit about the feelings of the two protagonists who died for love...

Some things cannot be done just by saying they can be done.

What binds us is often not the distance in space, but our own heart.

She doesn't like tragic love at all.

......

click!

After unlocking the door, the two walked into Ochiai's house.

When I came back, I had already bought the materials for making lanterns, as well as cucumbers, eggplants and other things.

Stick four chopsticks on top.

It became the 'cucumber horse' and 'eggplant cow' for the ancestors to ride.

Use a few wooden sticks to form a simple rectangle and glue it in place.

Wrap it with written white paper and you will have a simple Obon lantern.

"But wouldn't it feel awkward to put something like this at home?" asked Aragaki Feng.

After all, it's not the Ullambana Festival yet, so it's fine to just visit the graves, but it always feels a little wrong to light something like this in advance.