I push the kid!

Hoshino Ai asked again: "If I say I ran away from home, would you believe it?"

"That's probably a lie."

"Interesting!" she laughed.

This was the most beautiful smile that Taku Makimura had ever seen in the world.

"Can't you tell the truth?"

"Well..." She murmured for a moment, as if she had traced her smile with a pen, and even stuck out her tongue coquettishly, looking very cute, "It's a secret!"

“Mystery business... … ”

"whee."

Makimura Taku pretended to be sad and sighed: "I even told you my most precious secret. This is not fair at all."

"Oh, don't be sad," she said, looking a little self-reproachful, "You were just teasing me, weren't you?"

"it is true."

"That's like a super power, right?"

"So I only told you."

"Are you afraid of being caught for research?"

"Don't change the subject."

"Hehe." She hit herself on the head with her little pink fist.

This was the cutest girl that Makimura Taku had ever seen in the world.

"Go ahead."

"I'm telling you reluctantly." She blew a breath on the car window, wrote the words "Hoshino Ai" on it, and then sat up straight again.

“My name is Hoshino Ai,” she said, “I’m not a high school student who didn’t graduate, nor am I a wayward girl who ran away from home.

"Because my guardian at home wants me to debut as an idol, but I haven't made a decision yet, so I thought I would go out on a trip alone to relax and then give him an answer when I return. It's that simple."

"Yeah." Makimura Taku nodded thoughtfully, "But why did you lie at the beginning?"

"You ask why..." Hoshino Ai touched her lower lip and looked at her reflection in the window glass, "Why... I can't explain it clearly."

"Stupid girl?"

"Keep it a secret!"

"cute."

"Hateful handsome guy!"

"You got your hair in your mouth."

"Where where?"

In the autumn colors of November, the black train drove forward and broke into an unknown land.

In the world outside the window, the mountain ridges are blurred and the birds are singing from far away.

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Chapter 2 The Greediest Girl in the World

Chapter 2. The Greediest Girl in the World

After crossing the county boundary, a light drizzle drifted down the desert, clinging to the car windows, but when I looked up I could no longer see the sunset glow.

As dusk approached, the train stopped at the station along the way.

The next train would depart in about fifteen minutes. Taku Makimura closed the magazine he had flipped through seven times and took out a plastic bottle of water from his bag to drink.

Passengers got on the dull carriage, scattered conversations were heard around, and a woman was comforting a crying child.

Hoshino Ai looked out the window curiously, and the attendant reminded everyone in a gentle voice that the lights in the car would soon be turned on.

When the lights came on, the outside world seemed to suddenly become a little darker.

The profile of Hoshino Ai was reflected on the window glass. In Makimura Taku's eyes, those eyes became particularly soft and transparent.

She stood up, pushed the scarf around her chest behind her neck, and opened the car window with her hand.

A cold front swept in, bringing with it two or three distinct raindrops, but not enough to wet the tabletop.

The air temperature has dropped a lot compared to when we set out.

Hoshino Ai tucked her chin into her cashmere scarf, leaving only her nose and eyes exposed.

A breath of white air came out from the soft cloth. She leaned out and looked into the distance with her pretty face.

In the vague mist, crows landed on the crisscrossing electric wires, and a gray orange cat jumped down from a low house and disappeared in an instant.

"It's beautiful," she said.

But this conversation had no one to talk to, it was like talking to oneself.

Turning his eyes away from her slightly flushed face, Makimura Taku cast his gaze towards the ground blackened by rain, and the parallel railroad tracks rusted: "It's Takasaki."

"Takasaki?" She turned around.

"Then it's Echigo-Yuzawa."

"I know that."

"Where are you going?" he asked casually, put away the plastic bottle, put one hand on the table, supported his chin with the other hand, and stared at Hoshino Ai.

"Echigo Yuzawa..." Hoshino Ai put her index finger on her lips, "It doesn't matter where we go. I just want to go somewhere where I can relax and rest."

"that is it?"

"that is it."

Makimura Taku nodded. "Hot springs, snow, skiing, eating Echigo-hime in Strawberry Village, making hand-made soba noodles, and enjoying hot tempura. That's what I came for."

"You know this area well."

He shook the travel guide he bought before getting on the bus.

"Oh, there is such a thing!" Hoshino Ai's eyes lit up.

Taku Makimura handed her the booklet and she took it naturally.

To prevent the drizzle from wetting the paper, she closed the window tightly, then sat back and flipped through a few pages.

"Oh, oh~" She exclaimed at the booklet from time to time and nodded symbolically occasionally.

"its not bad, right."

"There are places like this outside of Tokyo," Hoshino Ai snapped the booklet shut and looked up, saying, "Tokyo, that's amazing!"

“This has nothing to do with Tokyo.”

"Japan is so small that it can be counted as Tokyo."

“It’s normal not to think like that.”

"Doesn't this mean that I'm different from everyone else?" She smiled with a smug and funny look.

Makimura Taku thought about it and said, "I guess so."

The flight attendant, who was wearing a thick coat under her uniform, was walking through the aisle and her eyes were drawn to the boy and girl sitting in the seats.

But it was just a quick glance and the figure quickly left.

Hoshino Ai continued to open the booklet and read it.

"This place," she pointed her slender finger at an illustration on the guide after a while, "looks like a lot of fun!"

Makimura Taku stared over: "Karuizawa."

"There too?"

"You mean Echigo Yuzawa?" He adjusted his sitting position. "It's not far from there. It should be said that it's in the surrounding area... In the surrounding area of ​​Tokyo?"

"That's an interesting way of putting it," she said in a reassuring voice.

Makimura Taku teased her: "In this way, I am also different from everyone else."

"As expected of you!"

"Excellent."

“But we are the same.”

“There’s always some similarities.”

"After going to Echigo Yuzawa, let's go to Karuizawa!" Hoshino Ai suddenly stood up and said.

There was an expectant expression on her face, and even a smile in the corners of her eyes.

When Taku Makimura looked at her, he always felt that she was like an innocent ten-year-old child.

She also stared at Taku Makimura intently, with her hands on the table, and the travel guide pressed under her palms.

"Ok?"

"Me and you!"

"Why are you suddenly saying this?" he asked.

"Our destination is the same anyway," Hoshino Ai said, "You're here to relax, too, so why not have some fun together!"

"That's fine with me," Makimura Taku replied, "But aren't you afraid? We just met."

"You're only seventeen, what should I be afraid of?"

"What happened to Seventeen?"

"At the age of a flower," she said, "how can you commit a crime at this age?"

"How can the criminal be judged by age?"