He didn't come back yesterday, just like he started after drinking a few days ago.

Standing on the balcony, I watched the rising sun drag the shadow of the building to the apartment opposite. There were many flower pots on the guardrail of the balcony. I took it back from various places, and the back is facing east. These flowers and plants are not growing well, but I really don’t pay attention to them, and "he" even ignored them.

There is no library near Chiba Valley. Maybe it is because the National Library of New Tokyo, which is adjacent to the neighboring city, is too famous. Without a monthly tram ticket, my range of activities is limited to the places where I can reach on foot in Chiba Valley, but at this time, the most unnecessary time is time.

"One, one, two" The morning jogging team of the team was beyond the spreading me from behind.

Stop and watch them pass by.

"Xiaocheng!" As I already knew, the man discovered me almost the moment the team passed by.

"I thought all those staying at home should be staying at home at this time."

"Kidding, I'm not an ordinary housewife who only stays at home and causes muscle sagging!" It was the Snow Hee, who changed to ordinary casual clothes.

I kept my usual expression and said, "Senior Zhanjima, don't you feel cold?" I should have asked, but in a sure tone.

"Well, if you know, you should take off a coat like in the comics! And you should call it Xue Ji!"

“…”

For questions that don’t need to be answered, I just looked at the other person who was walking towards me with indifferent eyes.

"Sorry, I shouldn't say something impossible." After comparing his height, Xue Ji, who had already walked to Cheng, became self-aware.

"If you want clothes, you should wear them before you come out." He replied casually and moved away again.

"Ah... I just went out before, because my home was too warm, so I was careless..." Xue Ji, Saramichi quickly followed up and said indifferently, "I saw that the rain was so pitiful yesterday. After I went back, I called her to introduce a good store. I wanted to give her another surprise to call her today, but she had already gone... I wasted my morning sleep time."

Since that's the case, I should have said it was OK before I left her house yesterday. Although I thought so in my heart, it doesn't make sense to remind the other party at this time.

"Hey, by the way, Xiaocheng, why did you come to Lanqiu so early?" Yesterday I did mention that I lived in Ayen Terrace, "It's still so early on Sunday. Do you want to ask Xiaoguang out? Then because I was too shy and didn't have the courage to ring the doorbell, I was wandering here alone in a hurry? The love of elementary school students~~"

Is this Blue Hill?

Because I felt a little uneasy, I didn't find my direction of travel.

But of course it wouldn't be what Xue Ji said.

"no."

"Huh? Then did you mean to deliberately ambush? Xiaoguang wouldn't go out today." Even so, Xue Ji did not give up her guess

"no."

"That's to prepare to wait..."

"No." No matter how you answer, it is the word "calm".

"Well... Then Xiaocheng, you are a virgin, are you?"

"So did Senior Zhanjima ask primary school students such questions?"

"Uh, but Xiaocheng, you didn't react at all. It's so boring. Be shy!"

"Don't you need to be shy about other people's words?"

But I feel that the other person will not have any word no matter what.

"Then say a few shy words!"

"reject."

After Zenjima promised to help me pay the tram fare, I agreed to go to the store with her to find Kaori's sister, Fallen Flower Rain.

Maybe I am also interested in the store mentioned by Xue Ji.

"Dangdang!" The shape of Sakami Yukihito was posing in a cross, with the background of a common anime and galgame store in the street full of crowds in New Tokyo Akihabara. If you are careful, you can also see the small sign hanging in front of the door saying "Minors are not allowed to enter"

After looking at Sakami Sakami for a while, he didn't ask the other party how he got in before. Without hesitation, he turned around and walked away.

"Hey, wait!"

"Where will the rain be?" Xue Ji confirmed to the owner that the rain was not here, so she had to seriously find people along the street, with the main targets being various bookstores.

"Xiaocheng, you can also go in and have a look. If you want it, I can treat you today!" Xue Ji is so sure that you can buy everything you can sell here.

But even if the other party said that, I obviously had no interest in buying things.

Then I saw a shop that was completely inconsistent with the surrounding environment. It had a magical appearance. Even here, it can be described as rare. The strangest thing is that the dense crowd around me seemed to have no one noticed it.

"Xiaocheng, you...huh!" Xue Ji, Zhanshima, turned around and said, but did not see the figure.

I watched the other party search around, and then said something as if I sighed and walked away along the street. I stood in front of the store but had no intention of chasing me.

He hesitated for a moment, turned around and walked into the store.

"Wow...Welcome!" Two more energetic than Sakamishima, the voices of only real children.

The moment I heard the sound, I felt both arms grabbing it.

"Customer goes here!" Two girls who looked as old as honest and repeated each other's words, dragging me forward.

Wings on the back?

I was not dissatisfied with this, followed their pace, but was interested in things that were not like decorations on their backs.

"Their wings are born~" When they just thought of this, they heard a female voice full of magical flavor like this store.

"I haven't seen a customer with a child for a long time~" A woman in a kimono was lying on her side on a recliner in the center of the hall, holding a cigarette pipe that is now hard to see in her right hand.

How much life will it cost to such a thick smoke...

Ignoring the weirdness here at all, I was more interested in the smoke that filled the room.

"Don't care about the smoke, the atmosphere, the important thing is the atmosphere." She seemed to be careless, and she supported her body with her right hand and said in a teasing tone, "Children should be like children, and they will not be adorable if they have a cold face."

"Not adorable! Not adorable!" the two little girls also repeated together.

"I don't think that's needed, cute or something."

"There won't be anything that's not needed," said halfway, and the woman suddenly stopped and looked at me.

"...As long as it exists, it means that the world itself needs them. Are you going to say that?"

"But I didn't say it."

"Because you want me to say it, knowing that I will say it, it is an inevitable possibility that you can say it, and it is the same if you don't say it." The other party knew that I could see it, and I felt this, so he said this without hesitation.

"It's so boring, it turns out that the prophet is the most boring." The woman immediately showed a "you're so bored" expression.

"It's boring!" The two people on both sides repeated again.

"Where is this?" He looked at the other person like this.

"Didn't you come in from the streets of Akihabara?"

“…”

“…”

"Okay, then, since I'm a customer, what kind of store is this?" I couldn't see, and in the next thing I had premonition, the traces of the person in front of me suddenly disappeared.

"The natural ability to predict is trouble. It took so long to block it." After I asked the question, the woman suddenly sat up from a half-lying position and said in a serious tone.

"Okay, now tell me your name."

"Why should I name a stranger?"

"Haha, this is a good habit, but if you don't know the name, the business will not be able to continue."

"So...what store is this?" Repeat the previous question.

"The store that fulfills her wish~" Suddenly she looked at me with a very interesting look, "Even if you want someone to die, I can introduce someone to you to help, and it's a cute little girl."

"Your words really sound really dangerous," Is this feeling so funny? Although I don't think it's a joke.

“It’s all the smell of crime.”

"Maybe, but there is no real joke in this world." The other party suddenly turned back his serious tone.

It is indeed very possible that such a store is already something beyond common sense.

"Makoto Tono." I decided to report my name.

"Well, it turns out that he is the beneficiary of the thief." Although he was surprised, the other party said in a tone that was indeed the case.

Thieves? The other party's words are undoubtedly wrong

"What about birthday?"

“March 7.”

"Is that right? Then..." the other party paused for a moment, and then said a sentence, "Makoto Tono, the place where he was born is different from where he lives. He has almost no feelings for his father and mother. Now he only lives with his father, and he longs for the other party to die and is good at housework, because he has to do it for himself, and has unique abilities, and you have the possibility of predicting the future."

“Can you know this because of your name and birthday?”

"Of course, these things are the basis for a person to emerge from the existence of the Red World and the soul of the Spirit World in the present world."

“…can’t understand”

"Haha, you haven't walked in yet."

"Maybe, but I think I'm leaving," he looked at the clock on the wall and said, "I'd better go to the station and wait, after all, the fare needs to be paid in advance..."
To be continued...