Thousands of meters in the air.

The huge plane shuttled between the clouds and dived downward. After a 12-hour flight, it was about to land at Heathrow Airport, thousands of kilometers away from Tokyo.

Looking down from the cabin window, the grassland, runway and terminal building of the airport are gradually visible, and even the figures of the ground staff are becoming clearer.

After the plane landed, the lights in the cabin gradually brightened, soothing music came from the loudspeaker, the flight attendants opened the curtains and walked out of the lounge, and the passengers in the seats gradually woke up from their sleep.

Tianhai Jiuliuli, who was sitting quietly at position 14b, moved the dial on her wrist back eight hours.

The dial has officially reached London time - July 15th, Saturday, five o'clock in the morning.

She turned her head and saw Raku Sakakihara sleeping next to her.

The day after the sports festival, Saturday, July 15th, at 1 o'clock in the evening, the plane to the UK officially took off.

Lejun's invitation was actually a bit sudden.

First, the temperature in the UK tends to be mild, and the red beauty of maple leaves cannot be appreciated until September to November in autumn. If you come now, you can probably only see the avenue of green leaves.

Second, coming to the UK at this time, there is no competition to talk about...even July A Ling and the others didn't come with them...

Even though Amami Kuruuri was very happy to be alone with Sakakibara Raku for such a long time, without everyone's presence, she still felt that something was missing around her.

(A succession of message bubbles.)

Tianhai Jiuliuli picked up her phone and saw several messages from a user with a selfie of a girl with scissor hands.

It seemed like the plane had no network in the sky and received a lot of calls immediately after landing.

[Sister Liuli, are you here? You must take good care of my brother. I always feel that something is wrong with him recently. But when we are alone, he is very normal...and! I can't accompany you this time

It’s quite unhappy to go to England together...after all, I always feel like you have abandoned me!]

[(The rabbit hugs its chest and stamps its feet in anger)]

[But there is really no way. I have to rehearse for the next concert... I really can't spare the time. The last time I practiced basketball with everyone, it took up a lot of my time, and I didn't have time to study later.

How to study... But, hey, now the final results are out, and the test questions I gave are really useful. I am ranked 14th in my grade! It is much higher than yuki!

[I'm really happy about this. Yuki has also become much more cheerful than before... It's more and more like she's back to the past. So... we want to invite Sister Liuli to visit in the UK

From time to time, I occasionally buy him some small gifts, snacks and so on... My brother, since he was a child, no one except me would give him gifts. Because he used to be the kind of person who only immersed himself in studying.

, I go out for a run occasionally, and I’m just a bit of a cool nerd.

[When sister Liuli comes back, I will also personally make a cake to give to sister Liuli to thank her! Hey! Sister Liuli, don’t dislike it. That must be the first time I have successfully made a finished cake. If I hadn’t been unwilling recently,

Now that I’m cooking, you insist that I learn how to cook it myself, but I don’t know how to do it.]

[(Rabbit with arms crossed and head raised confidently)]

...

There is no news here.

The last message was at 3:30 a.m. Tokyo time.

Tianhai Jiuliuli smiled after reading these messages. She could tell that Ling would feel particularly uncomfortable with Lejun leaving her side.

That's why I sent myself a message in the middle of the night to express my concern.

[ok]

Replying to a small emoticon, Tianhai Jiuliuli put away her phone.

At the same time, she also discovered that Sakakibara Raku was already awake at this time. He was facing the narrow oval window of the plane, observing London at five in the morning, without speaking.

"Lejun...what are you thinking about? You keep looking outside."

"It's nothing," Raku Sakakihara looked away, "I just feel that except for the increase in English and the different people, this airport doesn't look much different."

"After all, they are all modern facilities... Lejun can actually tell if you go to major urban centers in China. Many shops and many decoration styles are not much different."

"Yes," Raku Sakakihara smiled as he faced Amami Kuruuri's cute and gentle face, "Well, this time we also ran out secretly. We didn't have much time and we had enough sleep, so we just went straight

How about going to the place you most want to visit?”

"don't want."

"Um?"

"I don't want to. Of course I have to save the best for last, how can I go there first!"

"Hmm...that's right. How about I just listen to Liuli during this short trip?"

"Listen to me the whole time..." Tianhai Jiuliuli hesitated for two seconds, blinked, and then immediately laughed, "Of course."

...

There is nothing urgent about this trip, so the schedule is not very long.

According to the arrangement along the way, you can visit all the places you want to visit in about three or four days?

They had already slept enough on the plane, so after they got off the plane, they were ready to leave without stopping.

Tianhai Jiureli spent a long time tinkering on her mobile phone but couldn't register a local taxi app, so she could only walk out of the airport with Raku Sakakibara carrying her suitcase.

After twists and turns, it took a lot of effort to find a place where I could take a taxi.

Tianhai Jiuliuli was pulling her suitcase, wearing a dress and a summer sunhat, her eyes full of curiosity.

"British taxis are black, so old-fashioned, like a big black box. Why are they black?"

Sakakihara stood on the roadside with her, holding the suitcase in his hand, and looked with her at the black taxi approaching from a distance.

"Liu Li, do you remember the black carriage that you often see in movies and TV series?"

"...Ah, I have an impression. I have seen it in many works."

"In the middle of the 17th century, box carriages were popular throughout the United Kingdom. The most striking feature was the black color... Not only was the body black, but even the driver had to wear a black suit and even a black top hat. Later, class differentiation appeared in the carriages

, and with the industrial revolution, they were gradually replaced by internal combustion engines... But what remains unchanged is the black paint used on various passenger cars."

"I see..." Tianhai Jiuliuli nodded, even more curious, "How does Lejun know this?"

Sakakihara Raku replied: "Last time... it was three months ago anyway. I can't remember the day. Nanamigyue insisted on dragging me to watch a vampire movie. I asked her and she introduced it to me."

"No wonder it smells like July being introduced."

As Tianhai Jiuliuli spoke, he reached out to hail a taxi on the side of the road, but unexpectedly did not continue the topic.

...

Arriving at the hotel booked in advance, Sakakibara Raku simply packed up and was about to leave, but Tenkai Kuruuri didn't come out.

In fact, this psychology is also easy to understand.

Liuli regarded this trip not only as a simple trip, but also as a travel date in a world where only two people could travel.

Thump...thump thump...

The movement of high-heeled shoes stopped after a knock on the door.

Sakakihara Raku raised his head, and time seemed to stop.

She is wearing a cool white dress, with delicate light blue and indigo accents on the edge. The tone is bright and lively. A lightweight belt is tied around her waist, matching the skirt, highlighting her slender waist. Her long flaxen hair is on the side.

The princess braid in the style of wheat ears is neat and clean, revealing the slender neck.

In addition, I don’t know whether she put on lipstick or lip balm, but she looked very natural. When she smiled faintly at me, she felt like there was a light sweetness in her heart.

Coupled with her already tall height...

What a beautiful big girl.

"...Why are you staring at me like that...?"

Tianhai Jiuliuli's shy smile and her coy voice like a little girl made her more real.

"...Hard to say." Sakakihara picked up his chin and looked at it carefully.

"What's so hard to say...? No, doesn't it look good? I spent more than half an hour dressing up."

"I mean, Liuli, you dress up so maturely, but you still blush like a little girl who just fell in love... Such a gesture is very subtle and difficult to evaluate."

"...What...if you want to compliment someone, just say so!"

Sakakihara Raku did not answer her words, but because she was so beautifully dressed, he couldn't help but look at her for a long time...

Tianhai Jiuliuli noticed the look in his eyes that suddenly stopped in place, "Look... dumbfounded?"

"..."

"Lejun?"

Sakakihara shook his head suddenly, "It's nothing, I just think it's very annoying that Liuli spends so much energy on dressing up just when you go out..."

"Moved? Happy?"

"Happiness is happiness...but more of a different mood..."

Sakakibara couldn't describe it, but when he looked at Liuli's eyes and the face that was exactly the same as Qiyue's, he would always think of the compromises she had made time and time again to take care of herself.

To this day...she still has a clear scar on her belly.
To be continued...