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The price was that his fur was covered in so much dirt that he spent the whole morning silently scrubbing it.

as well as.

Turning his head, Nomiyama looked at Megumi beside him, who seemed to be staring at him with a deep gaze.

And his condition worsened, this time the phantom appeared for a long time.

But he couldn't tell them that the phantoms wouldn't affect his life or actions; they just appeared from time to time, leaving him silent and unsure how to face them.

There's no need to worry them; just pretend they don't exist.

He would occasionally talk to the other person, not in the valley, but when he was daydreaming in the Arctic.

It shouldn't be a big problem... I can't possibly have a split personality...

"Hey! Time to eat!"

Hearing Eriri's words, Nomiyama turned his head to look at the pile of fur that had been washed and stacked high beside him.

Nodding, "Coming right away, I'll hang it up first."

Eriri Sawamura glanced at the fur, then immediately looked away and closed the door.

Phew, no, just looking at those things makes me feel like that period was so absurd.

Shaking her head to clear her mind, she moved closer to Yukino and looked at the contents of the pot: "What is this?"

Yukino Yukinoshita blushed as she looked at the soup that was still simmering, but she didn't explain in detail. She just said, "This is what he's been saving from the various prey we've been hunting. It's to nourish him. Don't eat any of it later."

"Replenish?" Eriri Sawamura didn't quite understand what could replenish, but she knew she shouldn't delve too deeply into it.

So she turned around and said, "I'll go pick two cucumbers and smash them up to make a cold dish later."

Yukino Yukinoshita responded, "Okay."

Then she watched Eriri leave, covering her face with one hand, feeling utterly powerless and unable to resist.

So it's all his fault.

Feeling the person holding her from behind, Yukino Yukinoshita showed no mercy and stomped on her.

She said coldly, "Wash your hands, then prepare to eat."

"Oh." Nomiyama took a step back and quietly went to wash his hands.

They'll use you and then forget about you. Ha, just you wait.

Once all the dishes were served, Nomiyama held his large soup bowl alone and silently ate the somewhat strange things inside.

Yukino Yukinoshita swallowed the crisp, salty, and spicy cucumber, glanced at him, and said, "Let's take a little longer. We went too fast last time and didn't get to see many places properly."

Nomiyama chewed on his meat and nodded, "Mm."

Without his scrambling for food, Eriri Sawamura quickly picked up some dishes, puffing out her cheeks: "A post-wedding trip?"

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at her helplessly: "Swallow before you speak, Eriri, you are a lady."

"Oh." Eriri Sawamura swallowed the food in her mouth with difficulty.

"Something like that," Yukino Yukinoshita explained. "After we go back, there will probably be very few times when it's just the three of us."

"Let's indulge ourselves one last time."

“Okay, where should we go first?” Eriri Sawamura had no objection and accepted the suggestion quite easily.

"Let's go to Europe. There are many places I want to see more of," Nomiyama concluded.

“Okay, sure.” Yukino Yukinoshita agreed to his suggestion.

“But before that.” Nomiyama picked up a soup bowl bigger than his head and took a big gulp of soup.

He exhaled and looked at her, smiling.

"There's something I really want to know."

......

In the Arctic, one person stands on a huge iceberg, another stands on the ice beneath it, and yet another stands on an iceberg some distance away, watching with curiosity.

Nomiyama grinned and said to the person above, "Remove the spell that obscures your strength. I need to know just how strong you really are now."

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at him, a slight smile playing on her lips: "What? Is the unknown scaring you?"

Nomiyama shook his head, feeling his body gradually becoming more active, and said seriously, "With you like this, I don't know how much effort I should put in. The power hidden in my body is terrifying."

Yukino Yukinoshita was somewhat unconvinced, but she didn't say anything. It was true that his body was terrifying. He followed her for half a year without sleep, food, or water, and during that time, he constantly unleashed his power. In a sense, he was like a wooden barrel with a hole dug in it and no water to replenish it. As a result, the barrel actually drained water for half a year before it was empty.

Breathe, Yukino Yukinoshita opens her arms, relaxes her body, and begins to unleash her entire being.

Nomiyama looked up at the dark clouds that had inexplicably gathered overhead, and excitement rose in his eyes.

He mobilized his body and began the activation process.

"Dong dong!"

A few muffled heartbeats sounded, then silence.

Nomiyama raised his head and shook his hand.

He looked up at the people above, and his vision suddenly distorted.

A person stood in mid-air, her red eyes conspicuous and arrogant. She laughed and said, "Hey! Kazehaya, how about another fight? I've improved recently, and I feel like I can beat you until you scream."

no answer.

With a slight movement of her finger, dozens of bolts of lightning struck down.

Below, a bolt of lightning several meters wide swept from bottom to top, engulfing her entire body and lingering for a long time without any sign of stopping.

As Nomiyama watched the image fade away, he grinned, remembering how her body had been trembling while she stubbornly laughed.

Eriri Sawamura took a deep breath, making sure they were all ready.

"start!!!"

In the blink of an eye, the iceberg, including its ice layers, all shot out sharp spikes at the boy.

The sky brightened, and several bolts of lightning struck.

Snowflakes, carrying extreme cold, drifted towards him.

The passing wind became a cutting knife, without hesitation.

Yes, in the blink of an eye, everything in his sight was heading towards him with an aggressive intent.

This is Qi, something almost omnipotent. Possessing this, you can make any place your home ground, as long as you are strong enough.

Yukino Yukinoshita mobilized everything at its fastest speed in the blink of an eye.

Then it was broken.

Because the moment that person's eyelids were about to close, they had already shattered the ice, broken through space, and stopped their finger in front of their forehead.

Yukino Yukinoshita paused all her spells as she looked at the person who had come before her.

She sighed: "How can you be so strong?"

Nomiyama withdrew his hand, as if it were a matter of course: "I am invincible. Although I am short of energy and cannot do many things, if we are talking about fighting and killing, it is too easy for me."

Yukino Yukinoshita was quiet for a moment, then asked a question she was curious about: "Back in Yakutsk, was that unfamiliar senior of yours able to beat you?"

"You mean Yuko? She used to be a member of your Yukinoshita family, but she's just been reincarnated." Nomiyama looked up, recalling the time a thousand years ago when she stabbed him.

Estimating, he opened his mouth and said, "Yuko's strongest state is when she has a knife. If she had a knife in her hand at that time, she could have cut me in half with one blow. In my state at that time, I couldn't have resisted. But she didn't have a knife at that time. If we had fought, I would have died and she would have been injured, because I was exhausted at that time. Even if I used my last bit of strength to suddenly attack, I could only punch her once and cripple her half."

She shook her head: "She wants to stop me, but she won't really stop me, because she has no reason to get involved in this. If she tries to stop me by force, she'll fight me, and then I'll die at her hands. She can't accept that."

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at him, who had said so much, and narrowed her eyes: "You seem to know this Yuko quite well."

Nomiyama rolled her eyes at her: "I am her sister's last possession. She may get angry, but how could she possibly want to destroy me?"

"Senior's, younger sister?"

"Ah."

Nomiyama squatted down: "Eriri, let's go home."

Eriri Sawamura, who was watching the show from the sidelines, snorted and climbed onto his back: "Didn't you say you wouldn't carry me? Now you're taking the initiative."

Nomiyama walked down the iceberg with a look of disdain: "Then come down."

"Hey, I don't want to."

"hehe."

Yukino Yukinoshita followed them through the snow, sighing, "Can't you two stop acting like little kids?"

Nomiyama glanced back at her, thought for a moment, and continued walking without saying anything.

Eriri Sawamura turned around, smiled, and then continued to whisper in his ear.

"Yukino is jealous."

"I know, just be more careful next time."

"No, I like it when you carry me on your back."

"You're stupid. Just don't do that on purpose in front of her next time."

"But this time it wasn't like that; you offered to carry me on your back?"

"whee."

Yukino stopped in her tracks and raised her hand.

Lightning began to flash frequently in the Arctic, and thunder gradually rose.

......

The three of them, each carrying a bag, bowed under the starry sky.

“Actually, my grandparents didn’t tell me what happened back then.” Eriri Sawamura smoothed her ponytail, her emotions complicated. “I just think that my grandparents are good people. For them to hate me so much, and even wait until the other family is all there before taking action, someone must have done something really outrageous.”

“My grandma often tells me that I look a lot like her granddaughter, but if they dote on their granddaughter so much, why would I still be here?”

"So I didn't stop them. I wanted them to take their revenge and go to the end of their fate with a sense of relief."

Eriri Sawamura smiled and said, "I don't know if it's right or wrong, I just want to do it this way."

Looking at the unburnt bricks covered by wind and snow, at the ruins of the house, Nomiyama reached out and pulled her into his arms, rubbing her head vigorously: "It's alright, we're in the same boat."

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at the ruins in front of her and thought of the two lonely old men who tried to let them stay overnight every time they met.

There were indeed overnight stays, but only a few times. Most of the time, they would have a meal, chat, and then return to the valley in the wind and snow.

Right or wrong, truth or falsehood, life or death, innocence or not; in the end, none of it mattered anymore, because the two old people burned everything with the flames of revenge, while the two people beside them chose to stand by and watch, and in the end, they even lit the fire to burn even brighter, covering everything up.

I am guilty too, because I no longer want to get involved in this matter.

Let all stories be buried in the wind and snow.

It's a pity that Grandma Sasha's pickled cucumbers and smoked pork were really delicious, but I didn't have a chance to praise them myself.

Reaching out, Yukino Yukinoshita touched the two of them.

She smiles.

"Alright, we'll visit Grandpa Ivan and Grandma Sasha again next time. We should go now."

......

"That's why I hate creators who choose locations that don't fit the reality." Nomiyama stretched out his legs and complained, "This sloping train only has a few seconds of outdoor space, but the animation shows it for at least tens of seconds or even several minutes. It's too much."

Looking out at the darkness, Yukino Yukinoshita also felt it was a bit too much. The last time she brought him here, she originally wanted to stand at the front of the train and he at the back, and the two of them would go up together. However, the train was only outdoors for a few seconds, and the rest of the time it was in a tunnel, so it was impossible to see the scenery as she had imagined.

"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Golden Wind?" Eriri Sawamura seemed quite interested. She looked around the carriage with its many steps, then at the two of them. "You two have quite a lot of ideas, you even came here specifically to try this."

Nomiyama shrugged: "This is the most interesting view I've ever seen in JoJo. Everything is receding and going down, while I'm going up and can keep looking down at the town through the car window. Isn't that interesting?"

"But they lied to me! I couldn't see anything at all! All I could see was pitch black in the tunnel!"

"Heh." Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at him. "Boring."

Nomiyama sneered: "Yukinoshita, this is the path you led."

Yukino Yukinoshita said helplessly, "I only brought you here because I knew you used to be very interested in it, not because I was curious myself."

"Huh? Do you even believe that yourself?"