I push the kid!

There is a boutique on this side, a candy house over there, and a Western restaurant further ahead.

There is a souvenir shop nearby with two long queues outside the door. The shop sells curry bread.

There were sounds of girls and children talking, laughing and playing around.

There are all kinds of pedestrians walking on the street, as if to include people of every skin color.

At a glance, you can also see Japanese women who are deliberately tanning and wearing platform shoes.

They wore woolen autumn clothes on the upper body and hot pants on the lower body. Their light earth-colored thighs were completely exposed to the air, but they did not feel cold at all, as if their bodies were put into two different seasons.

Walking on this ancient street with people coming and going, Hoshino Ai is like a simple chick that has just hatched from its shell.

After looking to the east, she looked to the west, wishing she had an extra pair of eyes.

“Grilled fish!”

Makimura Taku followed her line of sight.

"Russian bomb!"

Makimura Taku glanced in another direction again.

“Beef Teppanyaki!”

Makimura Taku sighed and called out to Hoshino Ai, who was running around: "I'll tell you."

"What?" Hoshino Ai turned her head and looked at him innocently, with saliva almost flowing from the corners of her mouth.

"Why don't you choose one first?"

She poked her red lips and thought for a moment, then pointed with a smile at a mocha ice cream shop across the street.

"Just go there!"

The ice cream shop is not small, with two floors. There are several small round tables on the terrace, from which you can overlook the street view.

Below is an ordinary store with a sign promoting new products at the door, but the decoration gives people the feeling of a fruit shop.

"Thank you for your patronage~" the clerk said with a smile.

They bought two cups of mocha ice cream with coffee jelly and ate them as they walked.

The cold feeling spread from the tip of the tongue to the brain. They thought of snow and Echigo Yuzawa they had just left. Sweetness spread on their taste buds.

Later, they passed by a white church and saw a couple in love getting married there.

The bride's wedding dress dragged on the ground for a long time, and the wooden platform made of elm wood made a clattering sound when stepped on by her red high heels.

As the bride and groom walked out of the church, the prelude to the fifth act of Mendelssohn's overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the "Wedding March", seemed to sound melodiously from the birch forest.

When she got there, Hoshino Ai couldn't move.

She stood a little further away and watched until she didn't even notice that the ice cream had melted.

When applause broke out in the wedding venue, all the colorful balloons were released into the sky, and the colorful ribbons suddenly exploded like fireworks. At this time, a group of white doves cooed and flew away from the highest point of the church to the end of the world. The cheerful sound of woodwind instruments was like a rabbit darting into the wind.

The air is filled with the scent of love, and the world seems to be a happier place.

The song ended, and the bride's lace veil was carried into the blue sky by the autumn wind, as if chasing the pigeons away.

Seeing this scene, Hoshino Ai couldn't help but want to applaud.

She did applaud, the coffee jelly swaying beneath the ice cream and the cream clinging to the sides of the cup.

"How happy~" she said with some envy, her eyes still looking at the wedding venue, which was a church that looked like a white mountain.

Beside her, Makimura Taku nodded: "Just by looking at it once, I feel that I have become happy."

“Is happiness contagious?”

"Yes."

"What about sadness?"

"Sure."

"After love comes the wedding, and after the wedding, a healthy baby will probably be born..." At this point, she turned to Makura Taku, "Makura, do you think the child will be happy?"

"Yes."

“But I didn’t feel it,” she said.

Makimura Taku stared at her, and it seemed as if something was breaking in her eyes. There was a click, and the sound was even harsher than when a goblet fell on the uneven concrete floor.

The congratulations, laughter, and the crisp sound of glass bottles colliding that were faintly heard in the previous second seemed to disappear in an instant.

There is only the wind blowing and the birds singing in my ears.

The leaves were rustling all the time, which was really loud, and the ringing of bicycle bells was very pleasant even in the forest.

"Oh, just kidding!" Hoshino Ai smiled, and her eyes were filled with color again.

She smiled faintly and opened her mouth to bite off the ice cream without the cream tip.

That smile seemed to be crying, and the outside of the pupil seemed to be covered with a layer of misty film.

Taku Makimura felt something was vaguely stinging him and he was unable to speak.

The two left the church and were silent for a long time. No one could tell what shop they passed by, what tree they saw, or whether the autumn wind was still blowing.

When the time came, they naturally decided to go for lunch, which they had in a particularly fancy restaurant.

Hoshino Ai ordered a lot of things, as if that would make her happy. In fact, she was never sad. Even if she was a little sad, she threw it outside the church.

"In the afternoon," Hoshino Ai said to him in the store, "let's go buy a cake to eat, okay?"

"Okay." Makimura Taku nodded.

In the afternoon, they went to buy cakes and talked about the scenery and the willow trees by the river along the way. Makimura Taku told her that it was not a willow tree, but a locust tree. Hoshino Ai said, who cares, just shout whatever makes you happy. Makimura Taku smiled and said yes.

They went to the cake shop and bought the cake. The waiter wrapped it in a blue gift box for them, tied a bow on it with a red ribbon, and placed a knife and fork, and candles on it.

"It's okay if you don't have candles." Taku Makimura said to the waiter. It wasn't anyone's birthday anyway.

"Don't you want it? It's free~" the waiter told him.

"Yes!" Hoshino Ai rushed to answer.

Makimura Taku looked at her, and she smiled again. It was a real smile, with many of her upper teeth showing. Makimura Taku thought that even her teeth were incredibly beautiful.

In the evening, they returned from the forest path in the dusk, the setting sun was left behind the shadows, and the wind suddenly became cold.

Back at the hotel, they watched a baseball game on TV. Team A was leading by one to zero at first, but thirty minutes later they were two points behind Team B.

The audience's cheers were blocked by the screen. The two found it boring and turned off the TV.

It was getting dark, and they turned on the lights. Outside the door that was like a floor-to-ceiling window, the bamboo forest was quietly illuminated, but most of it was still blended into the night.

Around seven o'clock, they unwrapped the cake, threw aside the bows, ribbons and plastic gloves, and stuck sixteen candles on the chocolate cream.

"Happy birthday to you." said Taku Makimura.

"Today is not my birthday." Hoshino Ai smiled happily.

They didn't turn off the lights, but directly lit all the candles with matches. When the candles were halfway burned, a gust of evening breeze came in through the crack in the door and blew out all the fire.

"No need." When Makimura Taku was about to light a match, Hoshino Ai held his hand and said.

They cut a piece of cake with a knife and fork, divided it into two halves, and each of them tasted it lightly, and there was still two-thirds left before going to bed.

At night, the cake placed on the table seemed to have turned into a painting.

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I went out to relax today and didn’t update much. In fact, I went out to eat and went to the bookstore to read. I think reading can also be considered a “business trip”.

April has passed, please continue to be happy in May.

Chapter 11: Everything, please remember it sincerely

Chapter 11. Everything, please remember it sincerely

After waking up, Taku Makimura went out for exercise in the faint morning light.

He ran back and forth several times on the very flat birch forest path, and by dawn he had covered exactly five kilometers.

When we returned to the hotel, Hoshino Ai seemed to have washed her hair long ago and was using the free Panasonic hair dryer to blow hot air at the ends of her hair.

"Exercising again?" Hoshino Ai asked casually while looking at her hair.

"Yes."

"Aren't you tired of running every day?"

"It's tiring," said Taku Makimura, "but I don't hate the feeling of persistence."

"awesome."

"As amazing as you are."

Hoshino Ai smiled, and her hair was almost dry at this time.

She turned off the hair dryer, put it back on the table, stood up, and tied her long hair into a bun with a pink elastic.

Her hair fell to the front of her left shoulder blade. She looked at Makimura Taku with a smile on her face, and folded her hands in front of her: "Welcome back~"

"I'm back." Makimura Taku looked at her and added hesitantly.

After washing and changing clothes, they rode their rented bicycles to Kyu-Karuizawa for breakfast.

It was a small shop filled with the aroma of mahogany.

The two sat outside the store, ordered two cups of hot coffee and a large egg sandwich, and shared the egg sandwich while watching the passers-by and feeling the light breeze.

Before lunch, they set out from Ginza Street, which connects the old and new Karuizawa, and went to the outlet mall.

It seemed like they sold everything there, including pizza, avocado cheeseburgers, American coffee with animal art, and eel sushi with a spicy, salty sauce.

She has even more clothes and things to use, including Gucci, Nike, Adidas, Burberry, and countless others, but Hoshino Ai only likes Uniqlo.

"How is it?" Hoshino Ai, who came out of the locker room and changed into a beige short-sleeved shirt with a cartoon dolphin pattern, asked Makimura Taku what he thought.