The wind and rain continued, causing the sliding door of the entrance to sway back and forth and make a rattling sound.

After putting on her raincoat, Kirino Keiko tidied herself up a little, nodded to her husband who was waiting, and looked at her daughter again.

"We're going back."

"Yeah, be careful on the road."

"If the power goes out, go to bed early."

"I got it."

Kirino and his wife walked into the rain, and their figures merged with the darkness outside. They could only see a bright light from the flashlight and countless streaks of rain in the light beam.

It wasn't until the light was no longer visible that Akane Kirino closed the door and turned back to the living room.

After the candle-lit night talk, the other three were cleaning the candles on the table, scraping away the melted wax remaining on the table with their fingernails or bank cards.

"Let's clean it up tomorrow. It's not glue or anything like that. It can be easily removed."

"Is it idle? Or do you really plan to go to bed now?" Using the light of the desk lamp, Zonggu scraped off a small piece of melted wax, touched the mobile phone on the table with his arm, and pushed it towards her.

"Put your phone away."

"Hey, this is not my mobile phone."

Kirino Akane took out her mobile phone, which had several kinds of pendants on it, "Look, mine is here. Mom's mobile phone must have been left behind."

"Then just tell her, so you don't have to look everywhere."

"Uh-huh."

Soya lowered his head again and continued to scratch the spots on the table with the black card used to pay wages, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw Kirino Keiko's cell phone light up.

Buzz——

【Caller: Qian】

"..."

As soon as the bell rang, the phone was hung up. Kirino Akane didn't look at anyone, pretending that nothing happened, and was about to call her father again.

"I just went out for a while. They probably haven't arrived home yet. It's not convenient to answer the phone wearing a raincoat. Send a message or contact me later." Zonggu reminded.

Akane Kirino thought for a moment, "Then I'll just send it back. Mom will be bored at night without a mobile phone."

"It's pitch black outside and it's raining heavily."

"It's not a big problem."

"It's better for me to go." The night was dark and the wind and rain were fierce, but Zonggu was still worried about her going out alone.

She was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly, "Okay."

But as soon as he left the living room with his mobile phone, Akane Kirino followed him, "I'm not worried about Soya going out alone. I'll go with you."

"..."

Who is worried about whom?

Zonggu didn't bother to talk to her anymore, so he put on his raincoat and waited at the door.

There was only one raincoat left, so Akane Kirino shook it off twice before putting it on, stepped into her rain boots, and said to Anko who was following her: "We'll be back soon."

"All right."

Hongzi looked at the two of them, pointed at the door with her mobile phone, and did not force herself to hold up an umbrella to follow.

"I'm going out~"

After closing the sliding door, Akane Kirino walked into the rain and heard the sound of pattering filling her ears.

Raindrops hit one after another, and her bangs were quickly soaked by the rain. She pulled her hat forward, slightly adjusted to the darkness in front of her, and then found that Zong Gu seemed to be looking at her.

"Let's go."

"Um."

The surroundings were almost completely dark, with only a faint light reflected from the clouds, allowing her to barely distinguish where the road was and where the walls or trees were.

Walking out of the yard, the blind street lamps and even the lamp posts were nowhere to be found, and it was still dim in front and back.

"Sogu..."

The dark figure in Mohu in front stopped and said, "Hmm."

Akane Kirino walked to him in three steps and two steps at a time. She explored the darkness with her hand, first touching the cold and wet raincoat, and then his arm.

"Can Soya see it?"

"I can barely see the road."

"Me too." She grabbed the cold arm and moved her hand down until she held the warm hand. "You have to lead the way."

Zong Gu just struggled a little, but he couldn't shake her away in such darkness, "Can't you just stay at home?"

"Can't~"

He sighed.

"cannot--"

"I heard."

"Then go forward."

The two of them continued walking forward.

Leaving the alley where Kirino's old house was located, Kirino Akane kept walking and looked around, but could only see a large area of ​​darkness.

"There was really a power outage nearby."

"Um."

"We don't know how widespread the power outage will be."

"It's not too big. At least there's no power outage over there in Jingzi."

Walking along the familiar road to Kirino's house, even if you can't see anything clearly, you won't get lost because the distance is so close that there is no chance of getting lost.

Walking up the winding stone path, before half way, Zonggu felt the cell phone in his pocket vibrating.

"Found."

"What?"

"Ms. Kirino found that her cell phone was missing."

The vibration continued and the bell rang. Kirino Akane touched his thigh through the raincoat.

"...Don't touch it."

"Where is the phone?"

"It's not here. And it will be there soon. Don't worry about it."

"All right."

Soya quickened his pace, Kirino Akane followed closely, and the ringing of the cell phone quickly subsided.

One stone step at a time, as we walked, a flashlight suddenly lit up in the darkness in the distance.

"It's mom...it should be mom, right?"

"I guess so."

The two of them continued to walk up, and the beam of light kept swaying and getting closer.

After a while, the two sides merged into one place.

"..."

Walking alone on a dark rainy night, she suddenly saw two ghost-like figures standing in front of her. Kirino Keiko almost threw the flashlight over and opened her mouth to call "husband".

Fortunately, Akane Kirino spoke faster, "Mom?"

"Akane?"

She raised the light, and what was revealed from under the hood of her raincoat was indeed her daughter's pretty face, and next to her was Zong Gu.

Her heartbeat slowly returned to normal, and she took a deep breath, "Why don't you turn on the lights?"

"There's no flashlight over there."

After illuminating the faces of the two people, the light moved downwards and fell on the hands held together by the two people.

Kirino Keiko couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, "Have you finally reached this point?"

"No." Zonggu immediately denied.

"What?" Akane Kirino asked.

The spotlight shone on Zong Gu's face, and two eyes converged: "Ask Zong Gu."

"..."
To be continued...