Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 56
After the first class in the afternoon, Soya took out his mobile phone and told Akane Kirino who he thought of as the No. 5 member of the club.

The message quickly showed as "read," but she didn't reply.

When Soya was thinking whether to say hello to the person concerned first, someone stopped beside him.

"Miss Sugawara?"

Akane Kirino looked at her phone, and then at him, "Will she agree?"

"..."

He almost forgot that there was a wall between them.

"Not sure." Soya shook his head, "I happen to be going to the shrine in the afternoon, and I will have a face-to-face talk with Miss Sugawara."

"Ok."

Akane Kirino responded after a while, "It's more important to establish a club first."

She said this a little strangely, Soya asked: "Is there any problem?"

"I just think senior sister is too serious, but we're just playing around..."

She scratched her head and showed a forced smile, "Whoever accommodates anyone will feel restrained?"

"do not worry."

Zongya is very clear about Kyoko's attitude towards club activities, "Even if she agrees, she will at most just be a name in the club and will not participate in club activities."

"Ah." Akane Kirino paused, "Thinking about it this way, I feel a little pitiful for senior sister."

Soya smiled, "She asked for it."

It's not very polite to say that, he thought for a while, and added:
"Compared to club activities and interpersonal relationships at school, Kyoko values ​​the affairs of the shrine more, even though she is just holding a broom in a daze... In short, she enjoys herself."

"'Kyoko'."

Akane Kirino looked at him, "Soya is calling me senpai again."

"Because 'Sugawara' is more troublesome to pronounce, and she agreed."

"yes."

She was thoughtful, didn't say anything, and didn't go back to Class B directly to find Hongko Yoshikawa who was sitting in front.

Soya picked up the phone again.

Soya: After school, I have something to talk to my senior.

Kyoko Sugawara: Today we are going to prepare for the festival.

Soya: It won't take long.

Soya: Let's talk on the road.

"..."

Kyoko looked out the window and put away her phone.

Afternoon classes end soon.

Fushimi was so enthusiastic, he picked up his schoolbag and prepared to go to the club as soon as the class meeting was over, and at the same time he didn't forget to invite Soya again.

"Although I think Soya's height is more suitable for playing basketball, but if you have time, Soya should also come to the football club to have a look. You won't be disappointed."

"Um……"

He still remembers that when he first started school, Fushimi claimed to be a person with no athletic talent, but now he joined the football club just to attract the attention of girls, which made him a little admired;

But in high school, the members of the sports department do get more attention.

After packing up, Soya first went to the home economics classroom in the special building to show his face.It was still early, and only a second-grade girl came inside.

"Has the minister arrived yet?"

"Oh, it's Soya-san. You came early enough."

"I just came to say hello. Sorry, I have to go back early today."

"It doesn't matter, it's okay. The cooking research institute doesn't force attendance."

After tying up the turban, the minister pushed his glasses, "Sogu can come whenever he wants, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't, we are very convenient women."

"..."

People come and go in the school, after all, the Homecoming Department is a minority.As soon as he walked out of the teaching building, Soya saw Sugawara Kyoko waiting at the school gate.

"Awaited."

She nodded, turned around and left, Soya followed immediately.

"What is Soya-san looking for from me?"

"Tirino wants to set up a new club, but there is still one person missing. I thought of Kyoko—except for the Kyudo Club, Kyoko shouldn't have joined any other clubs, right?"

Before she could speak, he added, "You don't need to attend, just name it. And Ms. Noma also agreed to join the club as a consultant."

Jingzi glanced at him, and swallowed the words of direct refusal.

"Danhai High School has so many students, why did you come to me?"

There were only a few people on the stairs going down the mountain, and the iron handrails were painted with red paint, extending all the way to the ground.Soya took a step behind, holding on to the handrail vaguely off the ground.

"Because apart from senior sister, I can't think of other friends."

"It's pathetic," Kyoko said unemotionally.

He smiled, "So, I, a lonely ghost who escaped from the underworld, can only look forward to Senior Sister."

"..."

Jingzi turned to look at him, "If it won't take up my time, I can agree."

"That way I'm relieved."

Afterwards, the two chatted about Tsukiyomi, Noma Minami, and today's festival, all the way to the station where there were not many people.

The wind blowing over the lake was not warm enough, and Soya saw Akane Kirino in front of the platform at a glance, followed by Yoshikawa and Rin Asagiri beside her.

They also saw Zong Gu, or rather, they were waiting for him here.

"What kind of expression do you have... I want to go to the shrine too."

Yoshikawa came over and stopped in front of him.

"Can't you?"

Soya didn't have any objections. Kyoko, who runs the shrine at home, certainly wouldn't refuse worshipers.

"Isn't Yoshikawa not interested in such things?"

"Because it's people that interest me."

Yoshikawa felt a little proud of being able to react quickly and say such ambiguous words in front of Akane Kirino without revealing any actual content;
It was just a glimpse that her attention was all on Kyoko, and there was nothing left but a sense of emptiness.

"What's wrong?" Sogu could feel her mood changing.

"It's nothing."

After waiting for a while, the tram pulled into the station.

Walking into the carriage, four students of the same grade were sitting together, and Kyoko found a corner by herself.

"...By the way, Kyoko has agreed to join the club."

"Really." Kirino Akane smiled, "It's all right now. Regarding club activities, did Miss Sugawara say anything?"

"No. She didn't ask a word about the name of the society, who it was, or what it was going to do."

"Wow... this is determined not to come."

"Let her be a 'ghost member', isn't that what Kirino expects."

"Don't make it sound like I'm bullying senior sister!"

Stopping and stopping, the tram made a huge bend around Lake Biwa, and a few people got off at the Yazhou Station where the Fuyun Shrine was located.

Jingzi walked in front, neither fast nor slow.

"Has Akane ever been to the shrine here?" Yoshikawa asked.

"It seems that I came to Chuzhi when I was in elementary school, but I don't have much memory."

"After all, everyone prefers to go to Kyoto."

In recent years, neither of them has been here, and their understanding of Fuyun Shrine is not as good as Soya, a foreigner.

"But I know about that festival." Akane Kirino said, "It's not just Fuyun Shrine, it seems that most shrines near Kyoto will hold it."

"And it will be held once a month. There are so many shrines in Kinki, and the arrangements for each shrine are different. It's almost every day...so everyone doesn't look at it as a festival."

"Well, after all, the duration of the festival is very short."

Yoshikawa thought for a while, "It seems that it is only held at dusk. When the sun goes down, the festival is over."

"It's said to be a festival, but it's actually just a few witches dancing around and burning talisman papers..."

Kyoko, who was walking ahead, had already arrived at the bottom of the long steps of the shrine, and looked back at them.

"Sister Sugawara must have participated in that festival many times." Akane Kirino whispered.

Soya, who was just listening all this time, shook his head, "I haven't seen it before."

When the four of them approached, Jingzi took the lead to climb the stairs again.

"anyway……"

Climbing the steps, Yoshikawa looked at Soya, "Last week, Soya spent the night here, right? It was the time when Akane and I were invited to eat sandwiches from the convenience store at the station."

"...You still remember."

"Because it's too casual an excuse like 'I suddenly wanted to visit the shrine at night'."

"I told the truth, but Yoshikawa refused to believe it."

"You said 'eliminate evil spirits and protect the peace of Kinki'? This is nonsense."

Soya turned his head and glanced at her, "Believe it or not, Yoshikawa remembers it quite clearly."

"..."

She looked at Akane Kirino in front of her, and said in a low voice, "Because Akane is very interested in this kind of topic."

Because she is a different person from you.

Zong Gu wanted to tell her this, but he couldn't say it to an ordinary person.

The world of the enlightened person is not the shrine hall that can be seen by climbing the stairs at the foot, it is above the untouchable sky;
People in the sky can see the beautiful land under their feet when they bow their heads. No matter how the people below look at it, the sky is still the sky, and the clouds are still clouds.

"Don't bother with this kind of thing." He reminded, "Go ahead and develop your secrets."

"..."

Yoshikawa was startled, then smiled again.

"I really want to tell Soya this secret."

"I don't listen."

(End of this chapter)