Comics, daily stories

"No, no, Eriri's house is scary. Not going is the best option." Nomi-san carried his fishing rod in one hand and peeled off the candy's paper with the other. "Besides, didn't you say the amusement park was half price this weekend?"

"Well, what then?" Kato Megumi walked beside him, as if she didn't quite understand. She was also unwrapping the candy in her hands.

Nomiyama turned his head, glanced at Kato, and then threw the candy into his mouth: "I don't know, I forgot, Kato, can you remind me."

"I don't know. Fenghaya should think about it carefully."

"Then I don't know either."

"But Feng Zao clearly knew it."

"No, I don't know. I forgot."

Young boys and girls walked on the streets covered with fallen leaves. Their feet hit the ground, on the yellowed or dry leaves, making a crackling sound.

The second semester of junior high school has ended and the world has entered winter, but this year the snow is coming a little slower, and there is only the biting cold wind everywhere.

Turning his head, he glanced at the girl who was shrinking her neck, then Nomiya reached out, untied the black scarf from around his neck and handed it to her.

"Come around, I'm not afraid of the cold anyway."

"Okay, good." Kato Megumi obediently took the scarf, wrapped it around her neck, and quietly felt the warmth of the other person still remaining on it.

"Speaking of which, do we really need to go to the amusement park this weekend? In this kind of weather, many of the rides won't be available."

"Go ahead, I haven't been to an amusement park in a long time." Kato Megumi said with a calm expression.

"Okay." Nomiya exhaled, reached out to insert the key into the hole, and pushed open the door.

After entering the house, he took off his shoes, put his fishing rod aside, and then walked straight to the center of the living room.

The layout of the Nomiyama family's living room changes throughout the year. In spring, summer and autumn, there is a coffee table in the center of the living room. In winter, it will be replaced with a large kotatsu.

After turning on the kotatsu, Nomiya took off his coat and threw it on the sofa. Before the kotatsu could heat up, he couldn't wait to get in, leaving only his head outside.

Kato Hui picked up his scattered clothes and placed them on the corner of the sofa. Then she picked up the remote control, turned on the air conditioner, and walked towards the refrigerator. She said lightly: "There is air conditioning, so it will be warm after a while."

Nomiyama's eyes moved and he looked at Kato who was taking food out of the refrigerator: "It will be more comfortable to curl up in the kotatsu."

"Kazehaya is obviously just lazy and doesn't want to wait." Kato Megumi walked around him and headed towards the kitchen, carrying beef and a few shrimps.

"You're too lazy. I always help with the cooking." Nomiya moved his body, got off the kotatsu, and walked towards the kitchen.

"Fukahaya, are you saying that every time you finish cutting the side dishes, you just stand there and stare blankly?" Kato Megumi picked up the pot and rinsed it in the sink.

"Nonsense." Nomiyama took the piece of beef and sliced it easily, all smiles. "I was even standing by and admiring Kato's neat and skillful technique."

At this point, he suddenly paused and turned to look at Kato, who was putting the wok on the stove. "Kato, how about we have hot pot? It's winter now."

"Hey, do you want to eat hotpot?" Kato Megumi opened her eyes. She was not surprised by the boy's sudden whim. What she was thinking about was whether there were enough ingredients.

"Yes, hot pot. We have beef, shrimp, and a piece of tofu at home. We also have the smoked fish and sausage that Yukinoshita sent us. We also have white radish, carrots, and Chinese cabbage. We can also use pickles to whet our appetite. If that's not enough, we can go to the chicken coop and kill a chicken to supplement it."

Thousands of "searches"

"It seems like there are quite a lot." Kato Hui thought for a moment and nodded, "Then Feng Zao will go kill the chicken. I'll boil some water first, and then prepare the remaining ingredients."

"Row."

Nomiyama put down the kitchen knife he was using to cut vegetables, took another knife from the wall, and walked out of the kitchen.

He walked out of the living room, opened the door, and went straight to the chicken coop, thinking about some problems.

In fact, he had not been able to react for a long time. Kato seemed to have become very close to him silently. This semester, including the summer before, he would often appear at his house.

Moreover, he seemed to have taken this matter for granted, as if it had become some kind of habit, without realizing it.

Many times, after fishing after school, Kato would follow him into the house. He did not feel uncomfortable or surprised. When Kato walked into the kitchen, he would unconsciously help prepare the side dishes, and then sit in a daze while waiting for dinner.

Nomiyama was a little confused about the current situation, but he seemed to have vaguely seen the truth behind these things.

Taking a deep breath, feeling the chill in the air, he gripped the knife tightly and looked at the dozen or so chickens in the chicken coop that were staring at him with their eyes open.

Don’t think about it, just pick a chicken and give it a knife.

......

"Kazehaya, is that Sakurajima-senpai down there?"

Kato Megumi moved closer to the transparent glass and looked at the crowd gathered under the Ferris wheel.

Nomiyama was sitting next to her. After hearing what she said, he turned his gaze away from the distant neon lights, leaned over, and put his head close to the glass window, looking at her carefully for a few times. He smiled and said, "Well, Sakurajima-senpai is filming in summer clothes again in the middle of winter."

Kato Megumi lowered her head to look at the back of her head at her chest: "Kazehaya seems, very happy?"

Nomiyama heard some of the emotions and retracted his head, but his smile remained unchanged: "I just think it's interesting. It seems like I can run into Sakurajima-senpai every time I ride the Ferris wheel. It's quite rare."

Kato Megumi seemed to be thinking: "I see, Fuhaya feels that she and Sakurajima-senpai have a strong connection."

Nomiyama was slightly stunned and opened his mouth: "How did you come to this conclusion?"

Kato Megumi looked sideways at him. "Because Kazehaya really likes watching Sakurajima-senpai's dramas, right? And now, just riding the Ferris wheel once, you've come up with this idea of frequent encounters, a plot development that represents fate."

Nomiyama reached out and flicked Kato's forehead, his tone somewhat helpless: "I only watch her TV series because those local stations in Chiba basically like to broadcast her works."

Kato Megumi covered her forehead, pouting, and turned her head away, ignoring him.

Looking out the window, her expression gradually calmed down.

It seems that I won’t have the chance to experience the legendary Ferris wheel this year.

But it doesn’t matter, there’s still a lot of time.

Thinking about this, she said, "It's windy early, it's snowing."

Nomiyama was thinking that Kato looked cute when he pouts in anger, but when he heard this, he turned his head to look outside the Ferris wheel and saw some snowflakes floating towards him.

"The snow came really late."

......

Sakurajima Mai wrapped herself tightly in her down jacket and shivered slightly. She looked at the two people in front of the roasted sweet potato stall and gritted her teeth.

Scumbag junior! Here we go again! As long as you take pictures of the Ferris wheel yourself, you must come, right?

Staring with eyes wide open and inexplicably angry, she saw the junior peel the skin of the roasted sweet potato, blow on it, and then hand it to the person next to him.

The girl was like a snowy owl, huddling her head under a black scarf. Only when the sweet potato was handed to her did she stretch her neck, revealing her beautiful chin and lips.

She reached out and lifted the hair by her ear, leaned over, and gently took a bite of the steaming sweet potato, her eyes gentle and full of satisfaction.

After taking a bite, she shrank back under her black scarf, opened her eyes wide, and looked at the roasted sweet potato she had bitten into and the boy holding it.

With her eyes slightly widened, Mai Sakurajima watched as her scumbag junior took a bite of the roasted sweet potato with a missing piece.

Ah, I’m full.

......

"Don't you want it anymore?" Nomiyama looked at her taking a bite and then pulling it back, a little surprised, "It's not tasty?"

“It’s delicious, but I’m full from dinner.”

After Kato Megumi finished speaking, she opened her eyes wide and waited quietly for his next move.

Chapter 118: Just Ordinary

Second Miss, second place: [How does the sausage taste?]

Nomiyama Kazehaya: [As expected of a production by perfectionist Yukinoshita-san]

Second Miss, second place: [Please ask Nomi-san to be honest when praising someone, for example, "Yukinoshita-san's sausages are delicious."]

Nomiyama Kazehaya: [Ah, delicious, delicious, so delicious that it makes me cry]

2. Second Miss, second place: [I won’t send it next time]

Nomiyama Kazehaya: [I've been making dried chicken lately, and then I bought several pounds of candy. I also braised some pig's trotters, duck necks, duck tongues, and duck intestines. I'll airfreight them with ice so they don't spoil. I also made salted peanuts.]

Second Miss, second place: [Okay, but eat less marinated food]

Then don’t ask for it; the words passed through my mind, but I didn’t send them.

At this moment, Nomiyama was sitting in the living room, half of his body sunk in the kotatsu, one hand touching his mobile phone and the other holding a cup filled with hot milk tea.

Taking a sip of milk tea, he squinted his eyes and looked at the new message.

Second Miss, second place: [It should be afternoon over there. Have you decided what to eat for dinner?]

What to eat

Nomiyama looked up and looked towards the kitchen. Kato was busy inside. He cut the side dishes himself and Kato was responsible for the next processing.

Because both of them can accept spicy food, or perhaps because Nomi-san prefers spicy food, the taste today will probably be heavier.

Carefully recalling the side dishes he prepared in the afternoon, Nomiyama typed a reply on his phone.

[Mapo tofu, stir-fried beef with pickled peppers, braised lamb, steamed fish with chopped peppers, mouth-watering chicken, blanched choy sum, plus vegetable soup]

Second, Miss Second, second place: [Your taste is still so strong]

【Um】

Nomiyama put his phone aside, held the hot milk tea in both hands, and quietly watched the person busy in the kitchen.

These dishes are his favorites, and he was the one who taught Kato how to make them.

Yukinoshita knew Kato. She had known about the fact that she helped Kato's daughter mark test papers in the first grade of junior high school. Later, the two of them sat next to each other in the same class in the second grade, and naturally became friends. Yukinoshita also knew about it.

Even for Nomiyama Fusaya, who has a bad reputation in school, it is common to make new friends, let alone the daughter of an acquaintance.

At that time, neither of them took this matter to heart and thought it was just normal.

Yes, he didn't take it seriously. Nomiya just went to the river to fish as usual, but this time it wasn't just Eriri and Haruno there, there was also a new friend who could catch fish easily.

All the changes happened silently and then fell like thunder.

Nomiyama feels that he is a captain who can do everything on the sea, not only because of his rich sailing experience, but also because his ship is a giant cruise ship that is known as "unsinkable".

He was sailing on the sea as usual. The sea was calm and some seagulls that came from nowhere were enjoying the food fed by travelers on the deck.

Just when he thought everything would remain calm, the ship shook.

Confused, he went to look for the reason, and then got some incredible news.

All early warning equipment such as radar and navigation failed, the bottom of the ship hit a large reef, seawater has poured into the cabin, and the cruise ship is about to sink.

About to sink? Nomiyama was a little confused by this reality. How could the equipment suddenly fail and his ship suddenly sink?

When I realized it, everything seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

After letting out a breath, Nomiyama took another sip of milk tea and continued to look at the girl.

Rumor has it that in those extremely cold areas, most of the icebergs floating on the sea surface only have a small part exposed. Under the water, larger icebergs stand quietly. In the past, even the most experienced sailors had to carefully avoid icebergs when they encountered them, because you never know how big the underwater part of the iceberg is.

"Fukahaya, you're thinking about bad things."

Kato Megumi walked past him holding a large bowl of vegetable soup and went straight to the dining table.

Nomiyama stood up from the kotatsu and walked into the kitchen to serve the dishes. He held a fish in one hand and a chicken in the other, his expression thoughtful. "I was thinking about how great Kato is, and then I thought about what Kato said last time that he could only eat chocolate candy."

"Well, what's wrong?" Kato Megumi placed the vegetable soup in the center of the dining table, then picked up a small bowl from the side and served him rice.

Nomi-san put down the two plates of food and went back to the kitchen: "Then I was thinking, you and Yukinoshita can only eat chocolate..."

Kato Ei-shin's hand stopped and she turned her head to look towards the kitchen: "Kazehaya, do you mean you don't want to give me candy anymore?"

Nomiyama walked out of the kitchen carrying beef and mutton. He had a blank expression on his face and imitated the other person's usual tone: "Kato, even I would get angry if I heard these words."

Kato Hui looked at him imitating her, puffed her lips, and put down the bowl: "I'm angry, you serve yourself."

Shrugging, Nomi-san put down his plate, picked up a small bowl, and began to serve himself rice. He said, "I was just wondering, the store's description of the candy in life is that there's a one in a thousand chance of getting chocolate, but you guys get it every time. Does that mean I've actually bought all the chocolate candies in the store?"

Kato Hui brought the last two dishes from the kitchen, put them down, and thought for a while: "It seems, it's possible."

Nomiyama handed her a bowl of rice, then sat down at his seat and said with a smile, "In a sense, I made a good deal. The quality of the chocolate in this store shouldn't be too bad."

Kato Megumi quietly picked up a piece of mutton and glanced at him: "Fuhaya, you forgot one thing. You can't eat chocolate. If you want to say who made a profit, it should be me who told Yukinoshita-san."

You all eat my candy for free, so there is no fundamental reason for you to lose...

Nomiya lowered his head and ate his meal.

He chewed and asked something: "Is it okay for Kato to come here today? After all, today is New Year's Day."

Kato Hui glanced at the rich dishes on the table, and then looked at him: "That's why I came here in the afternoon. I must be at home with my family in the evening."