But it's probably a school festival, and some students want to take advantage of the opportunity to make money, so the price of the knots is really expensive... For a maid who is diligent and thrifty, if the price exceeds the average price in the market, it means it is expensive.

Asai thought for a long time, shook his head, and put down the knot in his hand again: "Forget it, I'll go look elsewhere."

After the campus festival, there is still one week left before the summer vacation and the exam week. Let's go to a shrine in the suburbs to buy some cheap things to take back with us on the weekend.

Aunt Natsume believed in these things. She had been a miko when she was young. Later, she quit her job after marrying Uncle Natsume and became a housewife. Without worries, Uncle Natsume devoted himself to the garment factory, and the garment factory began to prosper.

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As for the remaining knots…

Before he could finish thinking, a hand that was fairer and smaller than most girls stretched out and grabbed the knot Asai put down just now.

"I paid for her." The back of Amamiya Chizuru's head appeared in Asai's sight. Her height of 1.5 meters and her aura of 2 meters certainly lived up to her reputation. When it comes to money, the little rich woman has confidence.

She turned to look at Asai: "How many should I buy?"

"Two... no, three." Asai was not polite.

"Three, wrap them up." The little rich woman never asked about the price. The price was even written on the label, and she didn't even bother to take a look.

Carrying the wrapped bags, the two of them walked together for the first time.

Amamiya Chizuru followed the direction with the largest flow of people to the opening ceremony. Asai originally said that he would wait for Natsume Naoki here, so naturally he was here.

As for the two people being so harmonious... it's just because Asai is short-handed and can't say anything more, otherwise the two of them might continue the Shura scene in the video game city at that time.

"Why are you buying these things? Are you religious?" Amamiya Chizuru probably felt that the atmosphere was a bit solemn, so she spoke first to break the deadlock.

Aunt Natsume's face appeared in Asai's mind, as well as an amiable old man.

The old man is the priest of Tateami Shrine at the foot of the mountain next to the village. Now that he is in his twilight years, he will definitely not be able to survive the winter in Hokkaido this year.

Back then, Naoki's brother broke into the shrine at night despite the snow and wind, and didn't know what he said to the old man.

Later, when she asked, the old priest refused to talk about what happened back then. He just said that God's will was inevitable and the child insisted on doing it. He tried to persuade her, but there was nothing he could do.

Then time flew by and ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

The day before she came to Tokyo, it was almost the beginning of spring, and before leaving, she made one last trip to Teine Shrine.

The priest saw her and said a few more words to her:

It was night, and the snow was falling heavily. The priest had a vague feeling that something big was about to happen, and he refused to fall asleep.

Then the big car accident was reported on the news.

In the middle of the night, a child named Natsume Naoki from a nearby village broke into the shrine through the wind and snow, and sat in front of the priest with blood and snow all over his body. His face was calm, his eyes were terrifyingly bright, and his conversation did not sound like a child at all.

Asai still couldn't find out what Brother Naoki said from the old priest's mouth. He only learned that Brother Naoki once said that there is actually a solution to the tram problem——

That is, the joystick is held in the hand of a single person.

The priest sadly described to Asai the figure of Naoki Natsume when he left. His small body seemed to be a man with great righteousness on his shoulders, and he went to sacrifice without hesitation.

That was not the first time that the priest met Natsume Naoki. Natsume and his wife would take him to worship every New Year.

But that was the first time the priest communicated with him. From shock to confusion to admiration, it only took one night of conversation.

That was also the last time the priest communicated with him. Then when the priest secretly visited him in the hospital, the light in Natsume Naoki's eyes could not be seen through the door of the ward.

So he returned to the shrine, feeling ten years older.

Really ten years later, before Asai left, the priest made a request.

He wanted to ask Asai to ask Natsume Naoki if he had succeeded.

This answer is like holding the priest's last breath to keep him alive in the world.

Asai looked at the knot in his hand and tightened his grip: "I bought it and fulfilled an old man's wish."

Amamiya Chizuru frowned, thinking that this was a chuuniu line in that game?

Asai has his own plan in mind.

Although I still don’t know what brother Naoki said to the priest back then, and what the priest meant by success.

But now I am still alive and healthy, I can still participate in the grand Waseda campus festival, and I can still eat delicious food. All of this is what the priest calls success, right?

There is nothing that Asai cherishes more than the life that Naoki's brother bought with ten years of gloomy life.
Chapter completed!