After nine o'clock, the night sky in Shintanabe has completely turned into a picture of alternate colors of blue, pink, and white.

It's really like the scenery in a dream, I just think it's so beautiful.

"Finally...it's here...Such a scene and such an experience, even if we can only encounter it once in a lifetime, it is enough."

Taki looked up at the night sky, his bright pupils were as bright as transparent ones, and he could see a streak of shooting stars passing through his eyes.

Being able to see such a beautiful night scene in the sky with my own eyes put a happy smile on the faces of everyone around me.

This is also a rare blessing for us who are born in this era, right?

At this moment, he even felt the shining broom tails clearly visible when meteors wrapped in flames landed in the atmosphere outside the earth.

One and one-half, one-third, one-quarter.

It does not divide like cells, but like a rainbow, it splits into many particles in an instant, and rains down densely like rain.

The meteors separated one after another, like a child who has lost its direction. Every arc of its fall was like something clearly making Takiichi feel that there was an inexplicable feeling deep in his heart that was leaving him.

Meteor, what is a meteor.

People say that they are in outer space, stars in the Milky Way that died a long time ago.

Before the last light fades away, choose a place to land.

"Takiichi-chan, look..."

The little girl Maibai next to her was holding Takiichi's laptop. The little girl had just witnessed the entire conversation between him and Momo, and she held the thing in her arms very thoughtfully.

This greatly facilitates the girls to better appreciate the pictures here, as well as Takiichi's expressions and movements.

A group of girls whose average age was not yet adults were talking excitedly and incoherently. Even momo was not interested in thinking about who the girl in the picture who called him Onii-chan was.

Little sister Wubai looked so happy that no one around her even opened her mouth to scold her.

2014, March 19, night, 9:15.

After all, there is still a gap between the estimated time and the time reported on TV.

Of course, if it were from the moment the sky started to change color, it seemed to be earlier than humans expected.

At this moment, Takiichi felt that his palm was being held by another fleshy little hand, and he and his little sister Wubai stood together in kimonos under the stars.

On spring nights, there is no chirping of summer cicadas or croaking of frogs.

The colors of the sky and the earth seem to be synchronized together. After being soaked in blue watercolor, it becomes clearer and more ethereal.

This was a moment as beautiful as a picture, and it shocked Takichi no less than when he, Sakura, and Nako sat in the backyard of their home admiring the beauty of the fallen cherry blossom trees.

Yes, at least in their memory, the moment is eternal, just like the film in the movie.

Whenever they recall memories because of being moved by a scene, they will take out that memory, play it back alone, and then savor it themselves.

With each passing year, mental and emotional maturity, each aftertaste is unique.

Now when I compared the two pictures, I found that the three people in the picture were always from the back, and they were always in the middle.

They were accompanied on both sides, and in the end they were completely wrapped in the dazzling white light and shallow cherry blossom rain.

For some reason, at this moment, Takiichi suddenly felt a trace of loneliness floating deep in his heart.

Is it because when you grow up, the person who used to accompany you is no longer by your side?

"Takiichi-chan, do you know how fast the meteor falls?"

"Hey? How fast is the meteor falling?"

Taki scratched his head, feeling the lack of knowledge for the first time.

"I only know that the speed of cherry blossoms falling is five centimeters per second, and meteors..."

"Hehe... I don't know, right? The relative speed of the meteor shower's atmosphere is related to the direction in which they enter the earth. If they meet the earth head-on, their speed will exceed 70 kilometers per second.

But...if a meteor catches up with the earth or the earth catches up with a meteor and enters the atmosphere, the falling speed is 10 kilometers per second. This speed, and ten times more than the bullet is fired, is enough to burn and glow by friction with the air.

, the original meteor has no color."

The little girl slightly raised her dimples and explained.

She grabbed her hand in the air and returned to its original position. The moment she spread her palm, a firefly lay timidly on her palm.

"We can't touch the shooting stars up close, so we can only settle for the second best... Takiichi-chan, this is a rare sight to see. It's not good for Takiichi-chan to be distracted like this."

The cherry blossoms fall at a speed of five centimeters per second, and the meteor falls at a speed of 70 kilometers per second. They are also falling, but their speeds are not static.

"I didn't expect that Mashiro knows a lot. I learned a lot today..."

Hearing incredible words from the mouth of a girl who was younger than him, Taki opened his mouth gently and blew away the firefly on the little girl's hand.

"This knowledge was told to me by my grandmother when I was young...I heard that when my grandmother was young, she encountered a meteor shower here, and then a man told her this, and that man later became me.

Grandpa."

The little girl pulled one of his fingers, her eyes shining brightly, as if she were a child waiting for her praise.

"It's a really beautiful story... So what is Mashiro implying when he tells me this?"

Taki retracted his thoughts, raised the corner of his mouth, and looked at her seriously, which made the little girl's face turn red instantly.

"Was Takiichi-chan thinking about his former girlfriend just now?"

Even at night, Takiichi could still feel the other person's rapidly beating heartbeat.

"No~ to say that I am thinking about someone, it is better to say...I am envious of them..."

The so-called them refer to the couples around them, young lovers, or old men.

They might hug together with their families and enjoy this rare scene forever.

Because of the strange sight, the children put their heads in the arms of their parents or grandparents.

But still because of his strong curiosity, he couldn't help but reveal one eye and stare at the stars in the sky.

Suddenly, Takiichi suddenly remembered that little sister Wu Bai's grandmother had given him a red rope woven with silk thread from Miyamizu Shrine.

It is said that this red rope is mixed with the witch's prayers and the blessings of the gods. If you wrap it around your hand and make a wish to the shooting star, it will be very effective.

At this time, belief or disbelief is not the most important thing, what is important is the beautiful heart of Akagi.

Taki tied the red rope to his hands in a strange way, glanced at the night sky where the meteor shower began to fall, and slowly closed his eyes.

The cool night breeze caused his hair and the hem of the kimono skirt beneath him to flutter slightly.

The young man has never expressed his thoughts to the astronomical signs in front of him like this.

Suddenly, many fireflies appeared in the field, seemingly spiritually flying around Takiichi.
Chapter completed!