"Speaking of which, why did you ask me to kidnap you just now?"

"Brother, you have a knife in your hand... you have tape... and you are talking to me alone."

When you think about this scene carefully, it is indeed a bit daunting to see it at a sparsely populated rural station on a rainy day.

"...Shouldn't it be normal to be afraid?"

"If someone kidnaps me, my mother will come find me."

What a naive idea... Kanbaru thought to himself.

[Myself] in the perspective seems to have the same consciousness.

"What a naive idea... Don't think like that in July. If you are really captured by bad guys, you will never see your mother again in your life."

"Yeah." She nodded behind her back.

"Do you understand?"

"Understood."

Although Qi Qi had a weird personality when she was a child and was not as quiet as an ordinary five-year-old girl, her answers still had the cuteness of a child when she said yes.

She is still a child after all.

Walking along the road towards the village. The closer you get, the colder and narrower the scenery becomes. The countryside and wasteland disappear. Instead, what comes into view are old Japanese-style buildings with black roof ridges and bluestone roads mixed with moss. Go around.

The dark green cedar trees growing on the black roof ridges were wetted by the rain, and the branches and leaves extending towards the street swayed in the wind, gently shining with the sheen of water.

On the street, in the rainy season, not a single soul was seen.

When [Kamihara Raku] was walking around the village with Xiaoqi Mingyue on her back, she was leaning on her back as if she was constantly looking at what was around her with her eyes.

"Looking for mom?"

"Well..."

Turning the perspective, [I] or heard the little girl's words, started to help her search around.

Not to mention people, even the orange cat that usually lies on the eaves is gone.

"Don't worry, let's go for a walk, we might encounter them."

"Okay."

As they moved forward, the surrounding scenery still maintained a uniform tone, and there was also no human figure. Slowly, Xiao Qiyue gradually lowered her eyes and buried her head deeper and deeper behind his shoulder.<

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"Mom, I'm probably looking for you elsewhere in the village."

"...really?"

"Well, yes, in July, you see, our village is quite big, there is a seaport, and so many people live there, so it's normal if mom doesn't meet us for a while."

"What my brother said makes sense..."

"Because that's the thing," [Kamihara Raku] tried her best to coax the children, "There are always difficult moments in life, maybe someone steps on a stone on the road and accidentally hurts his foot.

Then he turned around and walked towards another road."

“I don’t quite understand.”

"Well, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it well. You will understand it later. I think you are very smart in Qiyue, and you will definitely understand it later."

The little girl suddenly lost her voice: "I'm not as smart as my sister..."

"How come, you are great."

"Brother, don't you want to please me?"

"...Why should I please you?"

"Kidnap me and make me listen to you. I heard that there is that kind of perverted uncle who likes to kidnap little girls."

"...I told you that I am an elder brother, not an uncle..."

A gust of cold wind blew, and she hugged [Kamihara Le] tightly.

"Is it cold?"

"Cold..."

"Then in July, just hold on a little longer. Once you cross the bridge outside the village, you will almost arrive at your hotel. Promise my brother not to sleep."

"Okay..."

Clement Hotel.

This hotel standing on the edge of the village and close to the pier is somewhat incompatible with the houses in the village.

Essentially, it is a sea view hotel born to promote local tourism.

Because the village is located on the edge of Matsuyama City and borders the Seto Inland Sea, it is one of the main producing areas of Ehime oranges. It is also famous for its famous attractions such as Insorha Shrine, Dogo Onsen, Castle Tower, and Shimanami Kaido.

The Hayami County Government under Matsuyama City also wants to take a share of the pie and encourage local people to launch Ehime orange picking experiences, Seto Inland Sea seafood fishing experiences, pearl picking handicraft making, pottery making, rural life style experiences...

and other tourism projects.

The Clement Hotel has just been built, and the tourism project is still unfinished.

My aunt and two sisters should be the first travelers here.

Arriving at the entrance of the well-known modern hotel in the village, Xiao Qi Mingyue shook her head behind her back.

"Not here."

"Ah? Not this hotel?"

"It's this hotel, but my mother's temporary accommodation will be next to the hotel, in a house near the sea."

That place.

It seems to be a tourist villa area, with VIP access for very wealthy people.

[Kamihara Raku] Continue to carry Xiaoqi Mingyue and move forward quickly.

"Your family is very rich in July, so you live in that place."

"Mom is a big star."

"Big star? No wonder you are so cute and your hair is golden."

"Brother really wants to kidnap me."

"Don't worry about this anymore. I would throw all my hatchets at the station for you... Is your mother a big star abroad?"

"UK."

"Mixed, no wonder. But why do you speak Chinese?"

"Grandpa can speak Chinese."

"Grandpa speaks Chinese? Oh, I probably know it."

"Mom can do it, and dad can do it too."

"Your mother is of English-Chinese descent, right, but why is your father too?"

"My father is very powerful. He can speak many languages. He will be a barrister in the future."

"So, your mother came to Japan to get married?"

"Yeah, mom and dad are both great."

[Myself] smiled: "I feel like you like your parents so much in July."

"Dad...and mom are very good to me and my sister."

"That's a really warm family. You're rich, and your parents are very nice to you. I think the dress you're wearing is probably very expensive."

"I don't know how much...does my brother's family have no money?"

"No, our family is just ordinary farmers, both grandfather and grandmother."

"Do you want me to give you money, brother?"

"Haha, where do you have any money?"

While jogging and chatting along the way, the bumps in her body made Xiao Qi Mingyue feel much better.

I don’t feel so sleepy anymore and want to sleep.

......

Kanbaru felt that Xiaoqi Mingyue was an ordinary little girl at this time.

She looks forward to her parents very much, likes them very much, and easily accepts people who are good to her.

This is completely different from the seven bright moons in the sky and sea in the future.

As for the reason why she became like that, as [she] walked through the rainy season, Kambara believed that she had spied part of it...

Around a villa surrounded by palm trees and flowering vines.
To be continued...