Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 158 I Want To Be With You

Takayuki Sugawara, the father of Kyoko and Yuko, an ordinary person who was forced to inherit the Fuyun Shrine in his 20s and has served as the palace secretary to this day, what he denies is not his own daughter, but the fact that she is based on spiritual beings. An institution that walks between the living and the dead.

It’s just that after thousands of years of development, institutions that most ordinary people will never touch in their entire lives have actually influenced or controlled all shrines and temples in Japan.The two sides complement each other, and Fuyun Shrine is also one of the countless extensions.

Takayuki Sugawara could not deny that the organization and the psychics it dispatched, by virtue of various abilities and means that ordinary people could not understand, had in fact enhanced the influence of the shrine in the local area.Therefore, since inheriting the shrine, he hated and did not resist the organization's arrangements, and cooperated tepidly in the procedures.

A few years later, he and his wife's first daughter, Kyoko, came into the world and was soon discovered to be a psychic.

Noma Minami's senior, a maid from an institution who was about to retire at the time, once congratulated him: "If this child is raised properly, Mr. Sugawara will be able to relax in all aspects when this child grows up."

After long consideration, Takayuki Sugawara acquiesced to her implication.

And Kyoko, as the witch said, grew up to be a child who is outstanding in all aspects—especially the idea of ​​exorcising evil from evil and guarding the world.

At an age when most of her peers were still ignorant, she had replaced her father and became the actual leader of many social affairs in her shrine. At the same time, because of her status as a psychic, she became an unbreakable bond between the organization and Fuyun Shrine.

And Takayuki Sugawara was relieved, no longer having to deal with the institutional affairs he hated, and began to be active in various social activities and entertainments in the name of a clergyman, indulged in pleasure, and even became a well-known local "star" palace secretary.

It's just that he didn't expect that Yuzi, the second daughter of himself and his wife, was also a spiritual awakener.

Sugawara Takayuki is determined to let his youngest daughter Yuzi grow up naturally, but he can't stop Kyoko's intentional or unintentional influence on her sister.

And he soon discovered that Jingzi cared more for his younger sister.

Although she was allowed to join the organization early on, and she usually practiced some skills in dealing with spirit bodies, but she was never forced.In Kyoko's view, she is enough for the bond between the organization and Fuyun Shrine.

This coincides with Takayuki Sugawara's thoughts, and he has become extremely satisfied and grateful to his eldest daughter who has taken on important responsibilities for him and even the entire Sugawara family.

Therefore, when Kyoko suddenly stated that she planned to let Yuzi replace her, Takayuki Sugawara, who was both startled and angry, lost his composure to the point of calling the group of psychics represented by his daughter "heterogeneous".

Although he quickly apologized, it was the first time that Kyoko realized that her father did not recognize her deeds and pursuits, and the shock and harm she suffered from it could no longer be made up for.

"I won't resent my father, but I won't forget what he said."

"..."

After listening to Kyoko's explanation of the reason for the confrontation between father and daughter, Soya took a deep breath and looked out the window for a long time without saying a word.

This is an unavoidable contradiction between the two generations of the Sugawara family with diametrically opposed ideas. After a long time of burying, it erupts extremely intensely.The inseparable family relationship between father, daughter and sisters makes the contradictions complicated and difficult to understand, like the rainy season outside the window, eroding each other in darkness.

And on the night when Zhilei was killed, the hand he stretched out to Kyoko became the biggest push to turn the conflict that should have continued to lurk on the table—if he hadn't invited Kyoko to be his companion , She will not have the idea that she will leave the shrine sooner or later, and she will not choose to let her sister take over the burden.

Today, he is still stagnant, and she has devoted herself to "giving everything for it", as she said at the time.

If you want to ask what he can do for her at this moment, it seems that the only option left is to refuse her following and let the most intense part of the father-daughter conflict be resolved directly.

"..."

But he couldn't do it.

When he got out of the tram in the morning and returned to the carriage from the other side, he knew that he could not let her go.

"Kyoko."

She raised her head and looked over.

Sogu sat down by the bed, hesitated for half a second, then took her hand that was outside the quilt, and held it in his palm.

"Thank you."

She looked at his fingertips, "What..."

"I want to thank Kyoko for choosing to believe in me at that time... Now that something like this happened, she still chooses to follow me." He paused, "What I want to say is that I will also trust Kyoko in the same way."

"No matter what, I will stand by Jingzi."

"..."

Kyoko stared at him for a while, then lowered her gaze again when her eyes became hot.

"Me too... thank you."

"Following Soya-san is the most important decision in my life, and it will not change, nor will I waver..."

For some reason, she kept explaining why she followed him so firmly.

"Because Soya-san's goal is the same as mine and the institution, and everything is for the peace of the world. This is my lifelong ideal, and only Soya-san can achieve this..."

She said that he has lofty goals and is willing to spend his whole life to solve the problems that have plagued the human world for thousands of years; she also said that his understanding of various spirits is unparalleled in the world, and his skills are so good that no one can deal with him He also said that although he is not forgiving, he will always complain while properly solving all the troubles thrown by others.Every time they acted together, he was the one who put in the most energy... As he spoke, Kyoko choked up.

"No matter... no matter where Soya-san goes, by whose side..."

He had already responded to her expectation—he would stand by her side and become the staunchest supporter in her pursuit of her ideals—that was enough.

But she still has wishful thinking that she can't express.

"I have always... always been Soya-san's companion, and I have helped..."

She lowered her head and didn't look at him anymore. In the hazy eyes, there was the intimacy between him and another girl holding hands.

"So... Soya-san, please don't forget my existence."

The wind and rain outside the window seemed to have stagnated at this moment, and there was no other sound.

"will not forget."

Soya sat closer, grabbed the catkin and held it between his two hands.

"Even if I fall into the underworld again in 50 years and never see each other again, I will never forget Kyoko." Spreading his fingers, his palms pressed against hers, "Whether it's the hunting god's companion , or... something else."

She raised her gaze and stared at him, "What else... what is it?"

"friend?"

"...This has the same meaning as a companion."

Soya smiled and looked into her eyes, "People who care, people who can't be ignored, and people who want to stay together."

She also seemed to smile, then lowered her head and wiped her eyes on the quilt.

Strands of long hair hung down from both sides, hanging by the ears.He stretched out his hand and pulled the blue silk behind his ear.

"..."

She subconsciously dodged to the side, and before he stopped, she stuck up again.

Cheeks and palms rubbed against each other lightly, conveying each other's warmth.

She lowered her eyes, "Mr. Soya cares about too many people."

Touching the moist corners of the eyes with fingertips and touching the soft earlobes, Sogu couldn't help wanting to touch more.

"It's nothing compared to the people who care about me."

"Yoshikawa-san... For example, Yoshikawa-san, Kirino-san and Asagiri-san." She raised her eyes in the palm of his hand, "Isn't there enough?"

"Being together day and night, I can't stop caring about them...just like I can't ignore Jingzi."

She was not satisfied with such an answer, turned her face away, and buried herself in his palm again.The moist and slightly hot breath kept scratching the palm of his hand, and Soya didn't want to twitch his hand.

The time in the room has become viscous, and the world outside the window is still running on its own.

The rain seemed to be getting heavier, and the car rolled over the stagnant water on the ground, making a rattling sound.

One after another, it is the prelude to nightfall.

"it's getting dark."

"Ah."

"Go and eat something."

Jingzi smiled, and although she was a bit reluctant to end this quiet time alone, she still nodded.

"Ah."

And Zonggu was not willing to part with the softness in his hand, he had already let go, and gently pinched her cheek twice.

"..."

She just glanced at him and said nothing.

After leaving the express hotel where I stayed for nearly a day, it was completely dark.The two walked into the drizzle with umbrellas, and stopped at the intersection of red lights.

Soya stood a little ahead, looking past the sparse crowd in front of him, looking at the bright shopping mall in the distance.

"Let's go to the underground shopping mall we visited this morning."

"it is good."

Kyoko has no objections, he can go wherever he wants.

Waiting at the intersection, holding an umbrella in one hand, the other hand is still empty.

Looking at his side face, her eyes fell on the naturally hanging hand again.

"..."

After hesitating for a few seconds, she just stretched out her hand a little, when Sogu suddenly turned her head, and she immediately retracted it.

"Green light. Go through."

With her expression unchanged, Kyoko turned the umbrella in her hand.

"Ah."

　I want to buy a head and keep it at home, otherwise every time I conceive a scene, I can only grope my head with my backhand, which is quite abnormal.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)