I push the kid!

"it is good."

In addition to them, there were many people sitting on the shore. Old couples in their seventies and eighties were chattering, and young couples in their twenties were hugging each other.

A professional photographer was adjusting the shooting angle in the back, and with a flash of white light, even Makimura Taku and Hoshino Ai were probably frozen in the scenery.

They looked at the light and shadow on the water. The sunlight seemed to be broken into small pieces by fallen leaves.

"Makino," Hoshino Ai suddenly asked him, "Do you still remember what you said to me?"

"I will remember your name."

She was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and the shadows of the trees flashed across her smile.

She shook her head and said, "That's not it."

Makimura Taku thought for a moment and said, "Please like the autumn in Karuizawa?"

"Not really." She still said with a smile.

"Unexpected."

"Think again."

"I can't think of it anymore."

"Think of one more and I'll tell you!"

Makimura Taku hummed in thought, glanced at the clouds floating in the sky and said, "Okay."

"good?"

"Okay." Makimura Taku explained, "I seem to say 'Okay' to you often."

"Really?" Hoshino Ai looked at him, "It seems so, but that's not what I wanted to say."

"what is that?"

She supported her hands on the ground, her eyes fixed on a red maple leaf that was about to fall, and her slender legs hidden in her skirt swayed three times in the air.

"You said you could see through all the lies..." The leaves floated down and swung into the water. She turned to Makimura Taku, "Really?"

“Honesty is my strength.”

"Humor, too," she said. "You always joke with me, and I don't believe you completely."

“But it’s true.”

"Then let me test you."

"Please say."

"My guardian's last name is Saito."

"lie."

"My guardian's last name is Sato."

"lie."

"My guardian's last name is Saiki."

"lie."

"Amazing!" she asked admiringly, "How did you do that?"

"I can tell if something is a lie or not as long as it is spoken."

"Brain waves?"

"superpower."

"amazing!"

"Thank you."

They said no more.

It seemed that Hoshino Ai just asked the question on a whim, and in the end everyone treated it as a joke. Makimura Taku was already used to this kind of thing.

They stayed in Yunchang Pond for a long time, as if they wanted to stay until all the leaves fell and the river water was evaporated by the sun.

Those countless maple trees probably won’t wither at the same time for another hundred years, thought Taku Makimura.

He turned on his cell phone and found that it was only four o'clock.

Time passed so slowly, as if someone had turned the hands back thirty degrees just to let them sit a little longer.

"Ah, my butt is numb." said Hoshino Ai.

"Take a walk?"

“I want to go where the wind is.”

"Wind," Makimura Taku raised his hand, "but it's right here, why should we go somewhere else?"

She stretched and said, "Hmm... I want to go to a place with wind but few people to continue daydreaming."

"Okay." Makimura Taku smiled.

They stood up and left, maple leaf rain falling behind them, as romantic as an autumn snow, the snow was pink.

Along the way, they felt the autumn wind and watched the passers-by hurrying by. They were the only ones living in a slow world. There were only the two of them in the world.

"Where?"

"It doesn't matter where you go, even if you get lost!"

"it is good."

Despite saying this, they still paid attention to their steps at all times, maintaining a certain tacit speed, moving forward in silence, and the direction never changed from beginning to end.

They walked a long way until the fiery red autumn colors faded, passing by the villa complex and crossing the stone bridge.

Later, a woodpecker flew into view, and they stepped onto the wooden plank road and arrived at the sunny platform.

The setting sun fell before their eyes, and the sky seemed to be on fire. The clouds were not white, but red and inky black.

"What a sunset!" Standing on the observatory, Hoshino Ai used his hands as a trumpet and shouted at the top of his voice, "Why is it so beautiful!"

It was as if they had just walked out of a painting and entered another one.

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Chapter 13 Please Always Smile

Chapter 13 13. Please smile forever

At dusk, the sunset is movingly beautiful, and the light is not glaring at all.

A golden halo seemed to be shooting from the top of the mountain. At first glance, it seemed to come from another galaxy, traveling tens of thousands of light years to get here.

Facing the evening breeze, the two quietly watched the sunset sink into the mountains.

The golden halo suddenly turned colorful.

It is a kind of color that can only be obtained by mixing all the colors in the world, washing them and drying them in the sun. It is rare to see even in dreams.

Next to the observation deck covered by the afterglow, under a towering oak tree that required six or seven people to hug it at the same time, a rattan swing was swinging with a creaking sound.

There were fallen leaves all over the ground around the untrimmed weeds, and the wind was chasing them.

After a while, Makimura Taku quietly stepped back and leaned against the tree.

Hoshino Ai realized that he had disappeared from her side, she looked around, and finally turned back to look at him.

She smiled, and her expression seemed to express her peace of mind, and also made those who saw her feel at ease.

Against the dim light, Hoshino Ai walked over from the pink sunset and sat down on the swing.

She held the rattan sticks with both hands, with the sunflower sandwiched between her hands and the rattan. When she swayed gently, she looked incredibly graceful, like a princess who had stumbled into Shakespeare's garden.

She looked at the drunken sky and asked softly, "Do you like the sunset?"

"like."

"How much do you like it?"

"I like it very much."

“Not at all.”

"It's like walking along the bridge on a summer night, feeling the breeze blowing from the riverbank."

"I see..." she said.

"Yes."

"I like it too."

"How much do you like it?"

"Hmm..." She looked ahead, her body swinging a few times, "It's like three o'clock in the afternoon when the sun is shining brightly, and I sit by the dim lamp and write a letter while looking at the few drops of rain falling from the eaves outside the window."

"I like it very much?"

“I love it so much!”

After she finished speaking, the swing suddenly swung very high, as if it was going to swing into the sunset.

Flocks of black crows flew over the hilltops. Dense forests grew at the bottom of the world, the same color as the crows.

Makimura Taku looked at her, just looked at her back, and felt that she seemed to have broken the rules of space. He couldn't understand how that figure blended into the scenery.

"Hey, Makimura."

"I'm here."

Hoshino Ai jumped off the swing and stepped on the fallen leaves.

Makimura Taku wanted to ask her something, but Hoshino Ai just jogged forward without saying a word until she could no longer move forward.

She shouted towards the setting sun, in the direction of another mountain: "I-I am Hoshino Ai!"

Feng replied to her: "I-I am Hoshino Ai!"