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Chapter 149. At the summit of Zaoyan Mountain, the sunset witnessed her first love.

The four people on the cable car are about to reach the top of the mountain.

"I think hiking would be quite interesting." Mizushima Miya looked at the dead trees under his feet.

The trees on the entire mountain were left with only bare branches. Looking towards the foot of the mountain, one could only see a dry brown ocean. The path under the cable seemed to be split apart by a great force, but the white snow could still be seen.

"It's easy to encounter bears in Hokkaido, so you have to be careful when hiking." Jun Matsueda said slowly.

"Really?!" Natsumi Imokawa looked at him, and the girl's tone didn't seem to be as scared as it should be.

"That's possible. We met some people preparing to climb the mountain at the bus stop at the foot of the mountain," Tomatsu Tomoka echoed him. "They all had bear bells."

Natsumi Imokawa pointed his camera at the woods below, hoping that a large creature would jump out immediately.

"Aren't they supposed to hibernate?" Mizushima Miya thought seriously. She was half a mountaineering enthusiast, so she had to take precautions before anything happened.

“Yes,” Jun Matsue continued in a ghost story-telling tone, “If there isn’t enough food, won’t they run away?”

The three girls in the car all looked over and he gestured to them to shut up.

With a slight shake, the cable car stopped indoors, and Natsumi Imokawa was the first to jump out of the car.

"The sun hasn't set yet, there's still time!" She hurriedly ran to the observation deck with her camera.

"Be careful not to slip—" As soon as Matsueda Jun's voice fell, the girl rushed towards the snow pile in front of her.

"Are you okay?" He trotted over and helped the fallen girl up. Tomatsu Tomoka walked behind the two of them and began to think about how to make the fake fall more reasonable.

Natsumi Imokawa was not wearing snow boots, and the girl staggered again when she stood up. Her soft body wrapped in her coat fell into his arms, like a ball of soft snow about to melt, with the aroma of butter.

Mizushima Miya looked at her best friend walking beside her. Tomatsu Tomoka's face was so ferocious that she would rather go down the mountain to look for the bear.

Natsumi Imokawa was leaning against Jun Matsueda's chest to check the camera. This was the girl's top priority, and she didn't even notice when Tomoka Tomatsu walked between them.

"Fortunately, the camera is fine!" She raised her head and smiled thankfully at Matsueda Jun, but what she saw was Tomatsu Tomoka's face.

"Imokawa-san, please watch your step next time."

She could only nod timidly and move sideways step by step to keep some distance between herself and Tomatsu Tomoka.

Today's sunset had two colors: the western sky carried the last traces of the sun's orange-red glow, while the eastern sky was a pale blue. On a clear day, visibility was high, allowing for the sight of the snow-capped mountains behind the city and the pink clouds above.

Natsumi Imokawa had already turned on the camera and started recording. The city in the picture began to be dyed with light pink, and the voices of boys and girls were heard outside the screen.

"I'm so lucky today. I can see two kinds of sunsets at once~" Tomatsu Tomoka's voice was filled with smiles and emotions that were hard to hide.

No adolescent girl could remain sober in such a romantic blues moment.

Matsueda Jun's voice softened. "It was probably this kind of sunset that made people in the past go up the mountain, even at the risk of fighting bears."

The warm laughter of the people around surrounded the pink city in the camera lens.

"Which color does Matsueda like better?" Tomatsu Tomoka asked expectantly.

"It's the light blue color in the east. I feel like if I've seen such a color before, I can have a good dream at night." Matsueda Jun thought for a while.

"Oh, I see. I like the colors of the east too," Tomatsu Yuka said, though she didn't mean it. Actually, she preferred the orange-red of the west; it was closer to the sun and felt warmer.

But the girl's own preferences are not important. Tomatsu Tomoka is like a pool of weak water in front of Matsueda Jun. In order to fit into his container, she can change into any shape.

Natsumi Imokawa's camera was aimed at two people who were chatting while leaning on the railing. The sunset gave their profiles a hint of pink, like an unconscious blush.

The picture was beautiful, the composition was harmonious, the colors were natural, and even the sound of the wind was so gentle - but she was not as happy as she thought.

Maybe it's because there was a second person in the frame filming him.

She twisted the camera so that only Jun Matsueda was in the frame. The boy, lazily leaning against the railing, noticed the girl's gaze and turned to smile at the camera, appearing shy because of the blush of the sunset.

Natsumi Imokawa nodded with satisfaction. Since her parents wanted to see her good friend Matsueda, there was no need to allow irrelevant people to show up.

After the sun sets completely, the whole world is immersed in deep blue liquid, and the lights of the city light up one by one, making people realize that they are not at the bottom of the sea.

Tomatsu Tomoka tied her red scarf tightly around her neck and walked to the center of the observatory. A sign read "Lovers' Sanctuary," a bell hung from a central support, and love locks were densely tied to the ropes surrounding it.

The girl also bought a lock. She walked up to Jun Matsueda and handed him the key.

Jun Matsueda did not take it. In Natsumi Imokawa's camera, the small, golden key was quietly hanging above the city, looking so huge.

The girl put away the key, wrote a few words on the lock with a marker, and then handed it to him to see.

"My first love."

“This lock is not a lover’s lock, but my first love’s lock.”

"Please accept the key, Matsueda-san, as a witness to my love. If one day my first love is no longer there, I will take it back, return here alone, and open it with my own hands."

Jun Matsueda took the key, and the girl in front of him began to learn not to say forever anymore.

Or is this another way for her to prove herself?
Natsumi Imokawa imagined the scene of the girl sitting alone in the shaky cable car back to the top of the mountain, untying the locks of the past in the night breeze and sunset, and silently shedding tears. She licked her lips excitedly.

Tomatsu Tomoka walked up the stairs, gently rang the bell at the top, then bent down to hang the small brass lock.

The girl's first love will remain on the top of Mount Moiwa, waiting for the day when she returns.

After Natsumi Imokawa had enjoyed the night view and put away his camera with a reluctant look on his face, they took the cable car back down the mountain, becoming the smallest of the numerous light spots dotted across the city.

When the cable car was halfway there, the dead branches of the woods below began to shake, and the girls' screams were heard in the car.

“There really is a bear!”

After taking the bus back to the hotel, when Jun Matsueda went up to the top floor, he found that there were many people gathered at the door of Mochizuki Haruka's room.

Hearing footsteps coming from the stairwell, the group of girls standing at the door turned their heads and found that it was Jun Matsueda. Then the hot girl in the crowd spoke.

"Matsueda-chan, someone saw Mochizuki-chan coming on the school trip. Is that true?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the door of the room, which had been closed, was opened.

Mochizuki Haruka walked through the crowd and threw herself tremblingly into Matsueda Jun's arms.

(End of this chapter)