Kyoto: I just want to be a gentleman

It is said that Takekazuchi Nobuko came to Nara from Kashima in Ibaraki Prefecture riding a white deer, so the deer here are regarded as sacred deer.

Kasuga Taisha is the family shrine of the Fujiwara clan, a powerful noble family from the Nara period to the Heian period. When the powerful Fujiwara clan saw a deer on the way, they got off their sedan chair and bowed.

Kasuga Taisha Shrine continues to this day, and there are a total of 3,000 Kasuga Shrine branches across Japan.

When they entered Kasuga Taisha Shrine, what impressed Watanabe Hideyuki and Nishii Satomi the most were the rows of stone lanterns.

This is a major feature of Kasuga Taisha Shrine.

There are more than 3,000 lanterns in total.

Almost all the lanterns are engraved with "Kasuga Shrine", and only 2000 out of about 15 lanterns are engraved with "Kasuga Daimyojin".

At this time, the two men saw a tall man looking through these stone lanterns one by one.

Watanabe Hideyuki took a closer look.

Isn’t this his most sincere best friend and leader of the Two-Dimensional Singles Alliance - Ishiyama Ryoma?

Of course, Watanabe Hideyuki does not know yet that the alliance was silently disbanded in Ishiyama Ryoma's heart an hour ago.

He greeted Ishiyama Ryoma's back enthusiastically.

"Ishiyama-san!"

Ishiyama Ryoma heard a familiar voice, turned around slowly, and saw that the person coming was Watanabe Hideyuki.

He rushed forward while shouting something about fate and the bond of friendship and gave Watanabe Hideyuki a big hug.

Watanabe Hideyuki was a little confused by Ishiyama Ryoma's sudden enthusiasm, but compared to Ishiyama Ryoma's strange attitude, he was more concerned about Ishiyama Ryoma's strange behavior just now.

A grown man with his butt sticking out looked through the stone lanterns one by one, which made Watanabe Hideyuki feel a little bit sick.

"What are you doing here?"

"Find three lanterns of 'Kasuga Daimyojin'."

"What are you looking for it for?"

"You don't know?" Ishiyama Ryoma asked in surprise after hearing Watanabe Hideyuki's question, "It's that legend."

"It is said that if a person who comes to Kasuga Taisha for the first time finds three lanterns with the three images of 'Kasuga Daimyojin' engraved on them among more than 2,000 lanterns with the images of 'Kasuga Shrine' engraved on them, he will become rich."

"Ah?" Xiuxing obviously had never heard of this legend.

However, he can understand it.

After all, come here.

"It's just too hard to find. I searched for half an hour and my eyes were almost tired before I finally found one." Ishiyama Ryoma rubbed his dry eyes and said with some regret.

"Then I'll help you look for it." Watanabe Hideyuki said, turning his head to look at the girl next to him, wanting her to sit aside and rest for a while.

But he was surprised to find that the girl had disappeared since some time ago.

Watanabe Hideyuki looked around quickly, but found nothing.

Just as he was about to take out his cell phone to contact the girl, a thin figure slowly poked his head out from behind a row of stone lanterns not far away and waved to him.

When Ishiyama Ryoma followed Watanabe Hideyuki and walked up to Nishii Satomi, he heard Nishii Satomi whispering to her best friend.

"Hideyuki-kun, I just found three lanterns of Kasuga Daimyojin. Touch them. I heard your fortune will improve..."

He seemed to feel that wealth was not that important anymore.

Chapter 63: Test of Courage (3)

"Watanabe-san, five more skewers of yaki chicken here."

"Watanabe-san, three skewers of chicken breast, please!"

"Watanabe-san, two skewers of chicken kidneys. Thank you for your hard work."

The last person to order was a girl. When she asked Watanabe Hideyuki, she bent over 90 degrees, revealing her fairly plump cleavage.

As if she was afraid that Xiuxing wouldn't notice, she stayed there for about five seconds, until she was sure that Xiuxing's eyes were deeply sunken in the ravine.

Watanabe Hideyuki coughed awkwardly and repeated what the girl had just said.

"Two skewers of liver. Got it. Please wait."

The girl seemed very satisfied with her actions. She stood up with a smug smile on her face, then turned around and returned to her seat.

She just didn't believe that she couldn't defeat him just by going into battle lightly?

You know, a hero’s strongest state is to go to the fountain without any equipment.

Watanabe Hideyuki is handsome, considerate, gentle, hardworking, has high grades, and has superb cooking skills. He has never been in a relationship for three years.

Watanabe Hideyuki has long been the object of desire of most girls in his grade.

If she could take him down, she could even control him and play with him.

Then she will undoubtedly become the focus of the circle.

I will graduate in one year.

It's too late to collect stamps now.

Even if this trick can't take him down, she still has a killer move.

Watanabe Hideyuki looked at the sparks coming out of the barbecue grill and sighed softly. This was the sixth girl who came to test him today.

Frankly speaking, he didn't like this feeling.

He prefers the kind of natural communication rather than this kind of deliberate display.

I'd like to make it more understandable, but it still needs some practice.

This girl's methods are not as bold as the second girl's.

But looking at the determined look in that girl's eyes before she left.

He thought she would have another trick up her sleeve.

But he could probably guess her trick - pretend to drop something, ask him to help pick it up, and then reveal pink...lace...?

He has been studying and practicing the same tricks every year, and to be honest, he is a little tired of it.

I think he was also responsible for the yakitori during the picnic a few years ago.

Mainly that group of people.

It was as if the cerebrum and brain could not process simultaneously, resulting in a lack of coordination between the hands and feet. The food that was baked tasted like black coal balls and was completely inedible.

In order to fill his own stomach, Watanabe Hideyuki had to volunteer to take on the role of chef.

As a result, his cooking skills were unanimously praised by everyone in the class, and he became the class's exclusive chef.

The same is true today.

Anyway, it’s the same whether you grill your own food or bring some extra food along. Those who are capable should do more work.

The above are the words that Watanabe Hideyuki used to comfort himself.

He meows.

The barbecue in Japan is much worse than the barbecue in my hometown.

No, there is no such thing as barbecue here, it is called yakitori.

After roasting it for a long time, only the part on the chicken is left.

There are many types of barbecue.

Lamb kebabs, grilled eggplant, lamb kidneys...his mouth was watering just thinking about them.

Watanabe Hideyuki thought to himself, but his hands did not stop moving at all.

This is the basic quality of being a chef.

He expertly flipped the chicken skewers on the grill with practiced, rhythmic movements.

The charcoal fire was burning, making crackling sounds, as if accompanying Watanabe Hideyuki's barbecue skills.

Hideyuki Watanabe always pays attention to the changes in the heat, sometimes moving the chicken skewers close to the fire source and sometimes quickly moving them away to ensure that each skewer can be heated evenly and baked to a crispy outside and tender inside.

As the chicken skewers are gradually cooked, an enticing aroma spreads, making people salivate.

Finally, when the chicken skewers were grilled to a golden brown, Watanabe Hideyuki nodded with satisfaction. He carefully took them off the grill and placed them neatly on a plate.

People around who had just placed orders formed a long queue as soon as they smelled the food.

Hideyuki Watanabe delivers in the order in which you order.

The girl just now was in the last position.

She still bowed 90 degrees to thank Xiuxing, but the difference from a dozen minutes ago was that she smelled of perfume.

as predicted.

A cliché plot.

Things went as Watanabe Hideyuki had imagined. The girl pretended that the bracelet on her hand fell to the ground when she picked up the plate.

Hideyuki followed the girl's script and bent down to pick up...

He was somewhat disdainful at this moment.

He wanted to see what kind of tricks this girl could come up with.

He had already looked at lace and white cotton.

Nothing new at all.

Oh, how could this boy destroy his moral integrity?

When he looked up.

He knew he had miscalculated.

The enemy has a lot of tricks.

Especially when this girl was leaving, she threw him a seductive look that was full of hints to him.

He felt that this girl could rank third among all the girls in the class with her skill in boiling water.