At the end of lunch, Sotani Eiji drank the entire bottle of Junmai Daiginjo by himself, taking with him most of the bottle of sake stored at home. He was naturally drunk.

Fortunately, there was no work in the afternoon.

After helping his uncle back to the room, Soya washed the dishes and chatted with his aunt Ryoko Soya for a while, and then said goodbye.

"Why don't you stay a little longer? Let's go after dinner. By the way, we won't go back until tomorrow morning anyway. Fangming has checked out the hotel, so he can stay at our house that night, as does Miss Asagiri."

"No, I still have to visit some other uncles and aunts..."

After politely declining her aunt's request to stay, Soya did not disturb Soya Eiji, who was already sleeping soundly, but took Suzu Asagiri to say goodbye and left.

In the afternoon, although it was cooler here in Sendai than in Kinki, the temperature still rose a lot. The two of them walked quickly in the sun and breathed a sigh of relief when they arrived at the station.

"What do you want to drink?"

"Anything is fine."

Bang, two bottles of green tea fell from the vending machine one after another.

Arriving at the platform and waiting for the tram that would arrive in the station in ten minutes, Sogu took a long sip of ice drink and let out a sigh of relief.

"Although the person who was most opposed to Uncle Eiji's adoption of me was Aunt Liangzi, she was indeed a good person and I never blamed her. After all, my family is more important."

Chao Wuling looked at him.

Zong Gu tightened the cap of the bottle, "For things like adopting a child, kindness and enthusiasm alone are far from enough."

"It should be said that it is more 'weird' that Uncle Eiji adopted me because he had no time to take care of himself. If he insisted on adopting me at that time, it might not be a good thing for me or Uncle Eiji's family.

To this day, I still want to thank Aunt Liangzi for her opposition, because at that time, I actually didn’t have much of an opinion."

"You used to be quite sad about this matter." Chaogiri Ling suddenly said.

Zong Gu was startled, but he quickly recalled his past self, feeling a little embarrassed, and then he couldn't help but laugh.

"There's nothing I can do...At that time, I thought I was a child abandoned by all my relatives."

He looked at the railroad tracks below, "I just stayed in the orphanage for a while, and I saw some things too much, so I understood them myself."

Asagiri Suzu held his hand and said, "You accept it faster than all the children."

Zonggu looked at her.

"I feel like I'm being praised by my elders."

"Don't think like that."

"Yes, Lord Ling."

"..."

After a while, the tram pulled into the station.

After getting on the train, Zonggu went to visit his next relative as planned.

Although he said that he looked away and did not mind the neglect of some relatives, when arranging the afternoon itinerary, he honestly shortened the time to visit each family;

In the morning, he stayed at Eiji Sotani's house for three or four hours, and even had a meal together. In the afternoon, he only stayed at other relatives' houses for about twenty minutes at most.

And this is also reflected in the gifts brought when visiting.

"Other gifts may have all kinds of inexplicable taboos, so let's just give them alcohol... Junmai Daiginjo? No, it's too expensive. Daiginjo is about the same."

After visiting several relatives living in Sendai City in this way, the afternoon slowly passed.

On their last night in Tohoku, Soya and Asagiri Suzu didn't go anywhere else. They had a long dinner at a high-end restaurant near the central station, walked for about half an hour, and then returned to the hotel.

They took a bath together and left the bathroom when they were both exhausted.

Lying in bed, looking back at the day that was about to end, Soya suddenly realized that Anko and Akane Kirino didn't look for him much today.

And he will return to Kinki tomorrow, and he still doesn't know how Kirino Akane will treat him.

"Can't you sleep?"

On the pillow next to him, Chaogiri Ling was looking at him.

Bang, Zonggu also turned off the bedside lamp.

"Not sleepy yet."

Her little hand came up, caressing it back and forth, and finally stopped at his heart, feeling the beating inside.

"After returning home, Ling will go back to her room to sleep."

"no."

"Please."

"no."

Soya gave in slightly, "Unless Kirino is away."

She raised her eyes and looked at him for a while, without expressing her position, which was regarded as acquiescence.

"When you go back, will you still do what you just did?"

Zong Gu's heart skipped a beat and he held her hand that was about to move downward.

"Um……"

"Then drive him out first."

He was stunned for a moment, and then realized that she was talking about Tsukuyomi.

"Tsukuyomi-sama has no interest in this kind of thing and won't care about it... It would be too pitiful to kick him out or something. Besides, I still need him."

After all, he is Tsuki no Takako, and he is also her nominal brother, but Tsukuyomi does not get the slightest respect from Asagiri Suzu.

"He never really helped you."

Soya almost nodded, "When dealing with Zilei, Tsukuyomi-sama still put in a lot of effort."

"Without the teacher's reminder, he wouldn't have even noticed that Zhilei was nearby."

"That's what I said..."

He pursed his lips, then lowered his head and looked at her, "Ling seems to have a lot of resentment towards Tsukuyomi-sama."

Caressing the left side of his chest, Chao Wuling responded after a long while, but he didn't say why.

Zongya didn't ask either.

"The bell will still be the same as before, as long as Tsukuyomi-sama doesn't exist."

She lowered her eyes and nodded after a while.

She also understood that her complaints were actually unreasonable.

"Or let him stay in Chiba. I think he is quite happy with it."

"Hmm... Ling hasn't given up yet?"

It wasn't until late at night that the two of them fell asleep one after another.

The next morning, Zonggu slept until around eight o'clock.

After packing up their luggage and waking up Chao Wuling, the two of them had breakfast and checked out.

After leaving the hotel and arriving at the central station, Soya searched for a while and soon found the high school student spirit Ishise who was poking around.

He has not forgotten what he promised to the other party.

"You're finally here."

Seeing him and Asagiri Suzu, Ishise was visibly relieved, "I was waiting here the night before yesterday, but I didn't see anyone. I thought you had gone back secretly."

Zonggu smiled.

"Even if I regret it, I can leave openly. There is no need to hide from you."

"That's true..."

Because of the differences between them, if Soya went back on his word, Ishise would have nothing to do with him.

"Will you take me in?"

"certainly."

"You are a good person."

"I just promised to take you to Kyoto." Soya waved his hand, "I'm going to get the ticket now, just follow me."

"good."

Ishise also followed Soya.

Chaogiri Ling just glanced at him and ignored him.

After getting two Shinkansen tickets and arriving at the ticket gate, Soya intentionally looked at the patterns engraved on the gate for the first time.

This is just part of what is revealed.

In fact, the entire station is surrounded by such or similar spiritual power lines, in order to block the spirit bodies trying to "hitchhike" and reduce their mobility as much as possible.
To be continued...