Lonely Rock for the Blind.

Why didn't you return the wages you owed before?

"Because...because I've taken a liking to an effects pedal..."

"Does that mean if you like something, you don't have to pay back the money you owe?"

"No! I think about paying it back every month!"

Yamada Ryo tried his best to defend himself.

"What about the money?"

“Every month when my allowance and wages are paid together, I lose consciousness. When I come to my senses, the money in my hand has turned into a bass guitar and effects pedals.”

"Hello!!!!"

Nijika Ichi shouted in dissatisfaction, but Goto Ichiri next to her suddenly raised his hand.

"I...I feel the same way!"

"?"

Ichi Nijika looked at Goto Ichiri with a strange expression.

"You also owe money and haven't paid it back?"

"No...no, I often find myself sleeping in the closet in the middle of the night, but when I wake up, I find myself in the cemetery. But after going there a few times, I've gotten pretty familiar with it."

Goto Ichiri scratched his head.

"Maybe I have symptoms of sleepwalking..."

"..." × 4

"...Were you really not summoned there?"

Kita Ikuyo covered one mouth and asked.

"This is a paranormal event."

Yamada Ryo exclaimed excitedly.

"That's true! Pochi should hurry and go see a master!"

Ichi Nijika reached out and patted Goto Ichiri on the shoulder.

"Ah...about this..."

Nekoyashiki Haru lowered her head in thought.

"The Kikuri family's house is actually haunted."

"Eh?"

Kita Ikuyo looked at Nekoyashiki Haru.

"Is she alright all by herself?"

"It's alright. According to her, she has experience drinking with them, so it shouldn't be a big problem."

Nekoyashiki Haru gave a thumbs up.

Nijika Ichichi's lips twitched.

"Drinking with ghosts is probably just a hallucination that happens when you're about to die from drinking too much..."

Chapter Eighty-Eight: Playing

"So, shall we go do some sightseeing first?"

"Nekoyashiki Haru asked."

"Ok!"

Kita Yukiyo nodded, then took out her phone.

"I've already made all the necessary plans!"

My finger is swiping across the phone screen.

"First, I'll go to a jewelry store, then a shopping mall to look at clothes. I'll have lunch there too. After lunch, I'll go to the next mall; it seems there's an event there today, an idol group is performing. After the performance, I'll go to the mall next door! Someone recommended their cakes, saying they're really good, and then..."

Kita Ikuyo kept talking.

"...I'm going to eat salt ice cream."

Yamada Ryo, expressionless, took small, quick steps to leave, when he was grabbed by Ijichi Nijika.

"I never said we would be splitting up."

Ichi Niji Natsumi pulled Yamada Ryo back, then looked at Kita Ikuyo with a troubled expression.

"Um... Kita..."

"Ok?"

Kita Ikuyo looked at Ichi Niji Natsumi.

"...If we just keep shopping in malls...then what's the point of coming to the beach..."

"...A shopping mall by the sea?"

Kita Ikuyo hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"... "

Ichi Nijika sighed.

"At least make some difference from usual, it would be too strange if it were all shopping malls."

Kita Ikuyo's expression suddenly froze, and then she looked at Nekoyashiki Haru.

At this moment, Nekoyashiki Haru is lost in thought.

He had no opinion about where to go; all he could think about at that moment was Ichiji Hoshika and Pa-san, who were working far away in the stars.

That must have been really tough...

Kita Ikuyo looked at the other two.

Yamada Ryo looked resistant, while Goto Ichiri shook his head.

"It would be better for me if there were fewer people... fewer people."

"…Um…"

Looking at the three homebodies and one blind man in front of him, Kita Ikuyo fell into deep thought.

"Then... let's go hiking!"

"do not want!"

Yamada Ryo shook his head vigorously.

"I...I don't really want to go either..."

Ichi Nijika waved her hands in refusal.

"No beach, no shopping mall! No hiking either, so where do you suggest we go?"

Kita Ikuyo asked with a hint of dissatisfaction.

"... "

Ichi Nijika tilted her head.

"A seaside stall?"

Ryo Yamada raised his hand.

"I agree!"

"...You can't take many interesting photos like that."

Kita Ikuyo lowered her eyes.

"?"

Goto Ichiri looked up at Kita Ikuyo, who then spoke.

"We want to visit the beach stalls, and other worthwhile places too. Aren't we planning to spend the whole day here?!"

With her yellow-green eyes wide open and her hands placed in front of her chest, Kita Ikuyo looked at the crowd and spoke in a low voice.

"Everyone, it would be so strange if we didn't move around while we're out having fun! Let's create some sunny memories of our youth together!"

【kita————】

A dazzling array of colors emerged from behind Kita Ikuyo, releasing a hue that no one but the blind and the popular could look directly at.

Yamada Ryo quickly took Nekoyashiki Haru's sunglasses, and Nekoyashiki Haru closed his eyes at the same time.

Yamada Ryo put on his sunglasses and then hid behind Ijichi Nikka.

"Hongxia! It's all up to you!"

"Huh?! What are you relying on me for?"

"Hang in there, you're the one who can withstand the sun the most here!"

"You can't handle it! Besides, what's on your face... um?"

"Ichi Nijika called out with her eyes closed, then suddenly paused."

Do I feel something sticky under my feet?

Looking down, I saw that the pink, viscous liquid had already stained the soles of my feet.

"What...what is this?"

Cold sweat trickled down Ijichi Nijika's forehead, the viscous liquid still flowing, pushing the blue and yellow cubes right under Ijichi Nijika's eyes.

"?!"

The red eyes widened.