Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 13 Kamogawa
The sunlight passes through the sparse branches and leaves, and falls on the quiet stone steps, reflecting a little mottled.

Chuqing after the snow, although it is located near Kyoto University, this unpopular shrine hidden on the mountain is very quiet, and there are not many people to be seen after walking around.

"Cy?"

Akane Kirino came back to her senses and followed in the footsteps of her parents in front of her.

"Come on."

"Is there anything there?"

Kirino Keiko looked at the place where her daughter was in a daze just now. There was only a stone lantern hidden among the trees.

After thousands of years of wind and rain, the upright stone lanterns have been mottled and covered with moss.

"squirrel?"

"Eh? No, nothing." Akane Kirino also glanced back, "I just feel that the style of the stone lantern is rare, and I'm a little curious."

"yes."

"Does Akane like stone lanterns? At Kasuga Taisha in Nara, there are [-] stone lanterns of various kinds on the side of the mountain path. When the beginning of spring and the Obon Festival come, there will be Wandeng festivals."

"Really? It's amazing..."

The Tongye family gradually walked away along the stone steps, and suddenly a palm-sized figure emerged from the light chamber of the stone lantern, looking thoughtfully at the place where they disappeared.

"Is it someone who can 'see'?"

The stone ladder is steep, the trees on both sides are covered with snow, and even the long corridor has an end.Passing through the vermilion torii, Akane Kirino left Yoshida Shrine with her parents.

"The weather is so good, and there aren't many people. It's really unpopular here."

"But it's also really effective."

"But the one who was drawn was Sueji, it always feels a bit subtle. There's a feeling that you can't go up or down, and if you're not careful, you'll fall off the list..."

"Bah bah bah!"

Keiko Tongye raised her eyebrows and interrupted her daughter, "You can't say the word 'failure'!"

"Mom said it now."

"..."

Hiroyuki Kirino, who had been silent all this time, came out to smooth things over.

"It's getting late. I have something to do in the afternoon. Let's go back."

"What's the matter?" Kirino asked.

"There is a problem with a supplier, and we need to go and talk about it."

The izakaya run by the Kirino family needs a lot of ingredients every day, and these come from the stable supply of long-term cooperative stores.

"Is mom going too?"

"Yes, there are mother's acquaintances over there."

"but……"

She turned her head to look at the deserted shrine and Kyoto University not far away, "I want to spend a little more time in Kyoto."

The Tongye couple looked at each other and quickly made up their minds.

"In that case... Hong Xin should go back first, I will stay with Qian."

"Ah."

Akane Kirino had other ideas, "I'm fine by myself!"

"Oh?"

Kirino Keiko crossed her waist, "Did Akane plan just now?"

"Hey." She didn't deny it either.

"Where does Sis want to go?"

In fact, she just wanted to wander around casually, but wandering around without a purpose would make her parents unable to really relax, so she casually mentioned a destination.

"I want to sit by the Kamo River for a while."

"Kagawa...then let Dad drive Akane there."

"It's very close, I'll just walk over by myself."

"Is there enough money?"

"Not necessarily enough..."

The couple discussed for a while, then nodded and agreed, and gave her [-] yen as expenses before leaving.

"Keep your phone on all the time, remember to come back early."

"Uh-huh."

Separated from her parents, middle school student Akane Kirino stood for a while outside the narrow main entrance of Kyoto University;

In the confusion with nowhere to go, she suddenly understood the truth that casual words can tell the truth.

"Then go to Kamogawa to have a look..."

From the main gate of Beijing University to Kamogawa, you can go all the way to the end without turning.

At the end of February, at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the grass and trees on both sides of the Kamo River were not green, and the trees had no leaves. It was still a desolate scene.

There are quite a few people coming and going.

The flowing water is turbulent, and the stones in the middle of the river are covered with a thick layer of ice cream.Not too far upstream is the Kamogawa Delta.Akane Kirino didn't plan to go too far, and went home when she got tired of sitting by the river.

"At that time, let's go to Demachiyanagi Station over there and take the tram back." She thought to herself, "You can also go to the Delta to see."

Withdrawing her gaze from a distance, she found a bench and sat down, looking at the opposite river bank.

"Eh?"

On the sidewalk by the river, there was a very familiar figure, hurrying along.

Akane Kirino didn't think her memory was so good, but it was definitely not bad, at least she still remembered the clothes she personally picked a few days ago.

It was the coat that Soya went to a nearby shopping mall with him after Soya got his first week’s part-time salary—we couldn’t always wear those old and unfit old clothes left by his uncle.

It was because of this familiar attire that she fixed her eyes on the figure hurrying across the Kamo River.

Although she couldn't see his face clearly because of my short-sightedness, she could tell from his walking posture that he was Soya.

"Eh, why..."

Akane Kirino still remembered the flash of resistance on Soya's face when she proposed to come to Kyoto together in the morning, as if there was something terrible here, but she didn't expect to see him by the Kamogawa in the afternoon.

"Soya—"

She called out, but unfortunately Soya on the other side didn't hear her.

The bridge connecting the two banks of the Kamogawa River is still far away, but it is not necessary to pass the bridge just to cross the river.

Stepping down the river bank and coming to the water's edge, in front of you is a stone path that is neatly placed, connecting the opposite bank.

In this season, the Kamogawa flow is gentle and not turbulent. The huge rocks are very stable, and the snow on them has been cleaned up by the people who came earlier, but Akane Kirino is still a little nervous.

However, noticing that Soya had disappeared and seemed to have left the river bank, she no longer cared about her fear, and jumped all the way from the rocks to the opposite side in one go.

"That's great, little girl."

"Where where..."

Perhaps because she was too focused, Akane Kirino didn't notice that there were other people beside her. Following the sound, she saw a figure floating half a meter above the ground, floating in the air.

"Huh." He floated over without leaving any traces on the snow under his feet, "You can really see me, right?"

"I can't see it, I can't see it!"

Akane Kirino was shocked and had no time to rest. She boarded the river bank without looking back, and then went down from the other side.

"what……"

The girl panted heavily and kept walking.

what happened……

The Yoshida Shrine is also there, and the Kamogawa is also... how can there be so many wandering spirits on the Kyoto side?
She ran for a while, left Kamogawa, and plunged into the intricate alleys on the river bank.

The dazzling signboards and lanterns on both sides quickly made her lose her way; when she stopped, she no longer knew where she was.

"……This is where?"

Although she has been to Kyoto many times since she was a child, Akane Kirino is not familiar with this place, especially the alleys lined with bars, izakayas and restaurants, which is also called Hanaichi.

There are many pedestrians in the alley, shoulder to shoulder, each going forward.The chaos on both sides is like a bizarre dream, and she can't help but follow the flow of people forward.

The road is getting narrower and narrower, and there are fewer and fewer shops on both sides, but there are still crowds around her, without stopping.

At a certain moment, Akane Kirino suddenly stopped, and everyone in the alley also stopped.

Neatly, the sound of the last footsteps is surprisingly consistent.

"..."

She immediately felt that something was wrong, and before she had time to think about it, the passerby who was closest to her suddenly turned to look at her.

"joyous."

Almost at the same moment, another person beside him also turned around.

"welcome."

again.

"Come."

again……

"arrive."

And their faces, from facial expressions to expressions, and even the weird curvature of the corners of the mouths on both sides, seemed to be printed from the same mold, without the slightest difference.

Faces turned around, and the word-for-word announcement continued.

"Beijing."

"All."

"high!"

"sky!"

"Original!"

The next moment, hundreds of thousands of identical faces in the alley all looked at her.

"High! God! Yuan!"

"..."

Without any hesitation, Akane Kirino turned and ran.

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