I push the kid!

"so."

"correct."

Makimura Taku nodded and said nothing more.

Ogura Tomoki said to himself: "Even if there are some differences, it must be thanks to you, Makimura Taku."

The words were loud enough for Makimura Taku to hear, and he glanced at her again.

Less than five minutes later, the two walked into the supermarket.

Taku Makimura pushed the shopping cart, and Tomoki Ogura walked in front of him and helped him choose items in the fruit and vegetable area.

"Carrot, take it."

"Row."

"Onions, take them."

"it is good."

"Potatoes, tomatoes, lotus roots, cabbage, cabbage..." She threw them into the shopping mall without blinking, "Watermelon, mango, tangerines, pears... Take them all."

"Hey, hey. We're here to pick out ingredients for cooking, not to buy this supermarket."

"I'll pay." She patted her chest.

"Does it have anything to do with who pays?" Makimura Taku said with a frown.

"Then I'll have someone drive it back."

"..." Makimura Taku didn't care, "Just take care of it, young lady."

It only took the driver three minutes to take the two of them back to Taku Makimura's home.

The two went upstairs and Taku Makimura began to show off his cooking skills. Tomoki Ogura ran to the faucet to wash a bag of grapes and added it to the plate on the table.

"I suddenly forgot," Makimura Taku said as he was making soup, "The umbrella is still in your car. I'll get it later."

Ogura Yuki bit into a grape and said, "The driver has left. I'll bring it to you next time."

"Next time? Can't I just give you a call and come?"

“There are so many drivers, I can’t remember them all.”

"Do you think I'm stupid? Just make that phone call last time."

"Idiot. I won't." She crossed her legs and twirled a grape in her hand. "I'll come visit you next time under the pretext of returning the umbrella."

Makimura Taku paused and looked at her in surprise: "Ogura, do you need an excuse to break into someone's house?"

"Ok?"

After lunch, the two took a break.

Taku Makimura got up to clean up the dishes. Tomoki Ogura turned off the TV, called Hoshino Ai, and said he would pick her up later.

After Hoshino Ai told the address, Ogura Tomoki called the driver over.

At about one o'clock, she got into the car with Taku Makimura.

She specially called another car, and sure enough, Makimura Taku didn't see his umbrella.

Since they had to pick up Hoshino Ai, they went to Ochanomizu first.

When the car door was opened, the rain outside had become much lighter.

Hoshino Ai, holding a transparent umbrella, got into the car and put away the umbrella.

Today she wore an extremely gentle white dress, revealing her fair skin from her knees to her ankles.

It’s not like Makimura Taku had never seen this outfit before, but seeing it again after more than half a year, it still felt like a long-lost feeling.

"Makino, you've been staring for too long, haven't you?" Ogura Tomoki complained.

"Oh, sorry." Makimura Taku looked away.

"Haha. It's okay," Hoshino Ai waved his hand, "By the way, where is the aquarium we are going to? What's its name? Is it far away?"

"Sumida Aquarium, it's not far."

"I remember it was under the Sky Tree in Sumida District," said Makimura Taku. "Did you decide the distance based on the driver's driving speed?"

"Sky Tree?" Hoshino Ai only paid attention to this.

Ogura Yuki looked at him and said, "You even know this."

"As I should. After all, I will stay in Tokyo longer than you. Even though you are the eldest lady."

"What's with this annoying Tokyo accent?"

"You think too much."

"Ah, really?"

"Yes."

In the dimly-lit car, Hoshino Ai looked at Makimura Taku with her eyes twinkling.

Makimura Taku cleared his throat and told her the history, nicknames, and various features of Tokyo Skytree:

“…In landscape paintings of the Edo period, Mount Fuji covered in snow was often seen in the distance. Standing on the Tokyo Skytree observatory, which is designed to expand from top to bottom like Mount Fuji and gradually disappear at the bottom, reminds people of the scenery of Tokyo in the past.”

After listening carefully, Hoshino Ai said excitedly, "It's great. Just listening to it makes me feel very interesting. I'm looking forward to it more and more."

"I only know a little bit about it." said Taku Makimura.

"We are going to an aquarium," Ogura Yuki held up his head, "What on earth are you introducing? Let's start over."

"Aquarium..." Makimura Taku thought for a moment, "I don't know much about it."

"Really? Is there something you don't understand?"

"I'm not an encyclopedia."

"Even if you know it, there's no need to introduce it," Hoshino Ai said with a smile, "just go and see it in person."

"makes sense."

When the car drove near Tokyo Skytree, the rain stopped for a while.

The three of them got out of the car and looked up to see the Tokyo Skytree which was over 600 meters high.

There are actually quite a few tall buildings around, but compared with the towering Sky Tree, they are not on the same level.

"It's really amazing!" Hoshino Ai exclaimed.

"Indeed." Makimura Taku had never been here either.

Tomoki Ogura led the two to buy tickets first, and then they entered together from the entrance on the fifth floor of the West Building of Tokyo Sola Town.

The first exhibition hall is a natural waterscape. In the transparent tank filled with water, a large number of aquatic plants and swimming fish are concentrated in it as a landscape.

Taku Makimura stood silently in the back, while Tomoki Ogura was checking the map of the exhibition hall.

Only Hoshino Ai squinted his eyes and looked at the scenery in the tank one by one. He said it was very interesting, and then asked Makimura Taku how to get to the second exhibition hall.

Taku Makimura pointed at Tomoki Ogura, and Hoshino Ai moved closer to her and also looked at the exhibition hall map.

She actually didn't find it interesting, or wasn't very interested in it, because the word "interesting" was a lie.

When he thought of this, Makimura Taku's heart suddenly sank.

How many lies were there in Hoshino Ai's words when she was in Echigo Yuzawa and Karuizawa?

He had never doubted Hoshino Ai's love for the scenery along the way, nor had he ever thought of finding out whether every word she said was a lie.

I like autumn, I like winter, I like snow, I like sunsets...all these kinds of likes, are they all fake?

He now finds it hard to tell.

It was not until Hoshino Ai waved and called him that Makimura Taku came back to his senses.

The three of them went to the second exhibition hall, an exhibition area full of jellyfish.

The groups of jellyfish in the huge water tank opened and closed their bodies gently like small transparent umbrellas.

Under the glare of pink and purple light, the dynamic swimming postures of the jellyfish looked exactly like the video effects displayed on modern computers.

Walk a little further and you will see flocks of blue jellyfish.

In the pitch-black surroundings, the pool where the floating jellyfish were located seemed to have turned into a stage for dancing and singing.

This time, Hoshino Ai was really interested.

She held onto the fence and looked toward the pool, her mouth wide open in amazement at the sight before her:

“This is amazing! Are these jellyfish glowing by themselves?”

"Well," Makimura Taku didn't know much, but he had read some introductions about jellyfish in books. "Other animals rely on substances like fluorescein to glow, but some jellyfish can do this with a small amount of protein in their bodies."

"Fluorescein? Protein? It's so hard to understand." Hoshino Ai said. It seemed that she didn't care about the answer to the question at all. She pointed at a jellyfish in the pool and said, "Makino, look, that one is the brightest, and it's also very big... No, the one over there seems to be a little brighter. Wait! It's still not right..."

Tomoki Ogura was left out and held his face.

She looked at the jellyfish in the pool, then at Hoshino Ai who was pointing at the pool, and Makimura Taku who was standing next to her and explaining patiently.

She looked away, took out her cell phone from her skirt and scrolled through it boredly.

Ten minutes later, Hoshino Ai was tired of looking at all the jellyfish in the pond and couldn't wait to go to the next exhibition area.

Taku Makimura walked slowly behind, and when he saw that Tomoki Ogura had not caught up, he shouted.

"Oh." Tomoki Ogura put away his phone.

Taku Makimura glanced at Hoshino Ai who was running away, stood there and waited for a while, then Tomoki Ogura came up reluctantly.

"Aren't you going to follow? Xiao Ai has run far away." She said awkwardly.

Makimura Taku replied calmly: "If you are not interested in the aquarium, why do you have to come?"

“Do you think my purpose in coming to the aquarium is to do this?” she said. “I just wanted to be with you.”

The jellyfish pond with a faint blue glow was behind Ogura Yuki, gently illuminating half of her face.

The family of three walked into the second exhibition area hand in hand, talking and laughing near the two of them.

That voice quietly amplified Makimura Taku's silence.