September 2nd.

That is 7pm on the second day after the new semester starts.

Everyone sat around a rectangular dining table in the living room.

On the dining table are various meals that have just been prepared.

The dishes are very rich. It should be said that they are much richer than usual.

The four people all sat in their original positions, and no one started to move the tachyon first.

In such a quiet atmosphere, Kanbaru crossed his hands and rested his elbows on the table. He stared at the aroma and heat wafting from the food.

Kanbaru Suzu felt that something was wrong with this atmosphere, because in the past, the old man would happily call everyone to eat, but he would not act like this weirdly, expressionlessly.

Is it because of what happened the day before yesterday?

But isn’t what happened the day before yesterday in the past?

Kanbaru Suzu tried to break the silence of the dinner: "Brother...what is the thing you want to announce? And why is everyone silent? Isn't the matter of that day in the past? Although I am still very dissatisfied.

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While Kanbaru Suzu said this, she also observed the expressions of the Tianhai sisters. No one of them spoke.

......

......

"Everyone, let's talk, it's time to eat..."

......

"Hmm."

"Brother? What are you going to say?"

Kanbaru closed his eyes in the sight of food:

"The thing is very simple. I want to move out and the house has been chosen."

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September 30.

It was an evening after school. Kanbaru Raku took a Mitsubishi Fuso bus and entered the Itabashi district of Tokyo.

The sunshine at the end of September is much milder than that in August, but the air is still the same hot and dry.

The noisy summer cicadas, the leaves that have been blown by the wind for a long time, and the shadows of the trees are dancing on the mountain roads in the suburbs.

As the bus drove along the mountain road, Kambara Raku, who was sitting in the back seat with his head pressed against the window, looked down the mountain.

The shadows of the trees flickered as the bus drove by, and the residential area at the foot of the mountain seemed to be moving with it. Kambara saw his own house among the criss-crossing telephone poles and single-family houses.

His new residence is in a residential area at the foot of the mountain. This place is very remote, and the convenience is not as good as that of downtown Tokyo. If you want to buy something, you have to walk through several streets and pass dozens of telephone poles to reach the sight.

A shopping street called Arakawa Market in the distance.

However, compared to the city, it is cleaner here, and the paths are also particularly clean.

Occasionally, you can see policemen on bicycles patrolling on a daily basis, greeting the residents here in a friendly way with the sound of "ding bells".

It’s been almost a month since Kambaraku came here.

Everyone here is very enthusiastic. Even if Kanbaru is a resident who suddenly moves here, the lady next door and the old lady across the street will often give him some vegetables such as eggplants, winter melons, tomatoes, and potatoes as gifts.

In return, Kambara often invites them to taste the dishes he has cooked too much.

After going back and forth, I became familiar with everyone here.

His favorite is the Arakawa Shopping Street near the Arakawa River. Many people who like a slow pace and old ladies like to come here to hang out.

Here, he would find a pot of a plant he liked every day, and then take it to the small courtyard built by his family and take care of it carefully.

Experience some leisure life.

Trim the flowers and plants, water them, clean the cobblestone road in front of the door with relaxing music... and occasionally say hello to the neighbors with a smile. After coming here, it seems that you can forget it in such days. All the worries before.

"Oh, go slow!" The bus driver took off his hat and greeted him with a smile.

Kanbaru smiled and extended his hand in response, then got off the bus, turned onto the community avenue, and came to Arakawa Shopping Street.

There are various shops in the shopping street, including tailor shops, flower shops, rice cake shops, cake shops...and so on.

Some shops have a sense of history, such as the wooden signboard of [Kuroro Fresh Fish] with handwritten calligraphy.

Young middle school students walking through here talking and laughing after school.

The child in the yellow hat was held by his mother by the hand in the snack shop, pointing at a candy and saying "I want that".

An old man bending down to feed the cats.

A few children were chasing and playing happily in the shopping street, as well as housewives holding shopping baskets and going out to buy groceries.

All kinds of people walk through this Arakawa shopping street.

Every time I walk in here, Kanbaru feels like I have entered another world, which is completely different from the bustling Minato District of Tokyo.

It feels good.

"Oh, isn't this Xiao Le! School is over so early today? Do you want to buy a fish today?"

Kanbaru turned around following the voice, and the one who spoke was a heroic uncle wearing an apron, who looked like someone related to [Kurō Fresh Fish].

"Mr. Kuro."

Kagura Raku was greeted by him to the door of the store.

"Oh? Do you really want to buy it? Hahaha, welcome."

"Good afternoon, Mr. Kuro."

"Hahaha, why are you so polite? I'm going to have something today, a limited-time special offer! If you buy a fish, I'll give you two scallops as a gift!"

"Mr. Kuro, when you give something as a gift, shouldn't it be something affordable? What can two scallops do?"

"Hahaha, selling fish depends on enthusiasm! Whatever you give is enthusiasm, no matter how much you give, it is enthusiasm!"

Kagura Raku felt that what Uncle Kuro said could be described as unreasonable. He smiled, shook his head, and chose a stone bass.

"That's it. Let's go back and fry some fish."

"Okay!"

Uncle Jiulang quickly took the fish out of the pond, packed it, put it on the electronic scale and pressed a price.

Kanbaru turned the schoolbag behind him in front of him, took out some change, took out a 5,000 yen note and handed it to Uncle Kuro.

"Dad, I'm back. Today...hey, Kanbaru-kun is here too..."

The speaker was a young girl who had just walked from the other end of the shopping street. She was carrying a schoolbag and wearing a sailor uniform.

She is Uncle Kuro's daughter, Kuro Xinzi, who has just entered the third grade of junior high school. She is usually a young girl with two pigtails.

Kagura Raku often hears from three naughty kids on the street that they all like her.

I want to marry Xinzi as my wife in the future.

For this reason, the three children often got into fights. After being discovered, their mothers called them back to the store.

Haha, it’s quite cute.

Since the surname Jiuro sounds too much like a boy by itself, the uncle named his daughter as close to a girl as possible.

Xinzi.

Although I was still called Kuro-san and Kuro-san in school, it didn’t sound like a girl’s name.

Kuro Xinzi is very interested in Kambaraku who suddenly moved in nearby.

He seems to live alone, and you can often see him running in the morning when he goes to school.

Many classmates and girlfriends say he is very handsome.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but I often meet him in the shopping street...

Uncle Jiulang patted his daughter on the back boldly, causing her to lose her balance and stumble.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

"Haha, Xinzi, haven't you always said that you want to be admitted to Mingde Elementary School? Xiao Leke is a student of Mingde Elementary School. You should learn more from him." After Uncle Jiulang finished speaking, his intention was obvious.

The daughter blinked.

As expected, you are a stinky dad...what nonsense are you talking about!

Kuro Xinzi, who originally wanted to say something, was now incoherent.

Kanbaru took the stone seabass from Uncle Kuro and said, "There are only 2 gifts, why are there 5 more."

"Limited time special offer, limited time special offer!" Uncle Jiulang waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "Xiao Le, you have been frequenting our store these days, so I can't neglect you, haha."

Uncle Kuro always smiles in a normal mood.
To be continued...