Naruto Sakaki

Chapter 443 The Hermitage, You Are Not Important

Chirping, birds singing.

The flowers are brilliant, the grass is green, and the industrious bees are dancing.

In front of the eyes, a brook flows by, the water is gurgling, and it is clear to the bottom, but there are fish roaming leisurely, embellishing the clear stream with colorful colors.

The breeze is blowing, and the warm sun is shining, which makes people feel refreshed.

"What's going on? You were still in the conference room just now, and you came here suddenly?"

Nanako, when she opened her eyes, she couldn't help but be amazed to see such a beautiful scenery.

"Don't like it?"

Of course, I like it!
Nanako took a deep breath of fragrance, indulging in this warm beauty, and even forgot the reality that she was still hugged by the young princess.

Young people are not too tired. Isn't that pair of powerful arms trained hard for this time?
Nanako admired it intoxicatedly with her eyes. This is a valley full of singing birds and fragrant flowers. It is pure and natural, without traces of human footsteps. It is a rare pure land in this world full of human hustle and bustle.

"Where is this place?"

"Need to care?" What matters is that he's here with her, isn't it?

This place, but he specially chose it, is within the mountains of the ancestral land of Whirlpool, because it is too difficult and dangerous to enter here, so this piece of pure land has been preserved, because of the special landform, a special climate has been formed here, obviously the outside world has already It's chilly autumn, but here, it's as warm as spring.

Here, when he was bored in the country of vortex, he found it by accident while wandering around. He felt that it was prepared by heaven for him and her.

Thinking about it, the young man's arms couldn't help but clenched even tighter, and Nanako finally realized the reality of being hugged.

"Ah, put me down!"

"Don't worry, I'm not tired at all."

"..." Nanako, who was speechless, could only grit her teeth, grabbed the young man with both arms and supported her vigorously, turned over, and her feet finally landed successfully, but the movements did not conform to the demure and gentle perfect image of the Miko.

But it doesn't matter, in front of this guy, she has no image for a long time, and she can maintain it.

"Let's go shopping here with you, I found this especially for you." It must be very good to live here in the future.

"Hmph, I can enjoy this scenery by myself, I don't need you!"

Nanako's face unexpectedly showed a girlish and innocent look, and she was running on the grass full of vitality.

She will lower her head and sniff the fragrance of flowers carefully.

She would smile, and the birds would sing around her.

She would lie on the grass, lazily basking in the warm sun, like a kitten.

She would also sit by the stream, dip her two crystal clear feet into the stream, and the fish would come to peck them lightly as if on a pilgrimage.

……

Now she is like a naive girl, active and happy, with a clear mind, all troubles have gone with the lost memories.

perhaps……

Originally, she had a calm temperament (at least after losing her memory, she returned to the original), so she retreated to the Witch Goddess Shrine, but after all, she couldn't completely return to peace.

But here, she doesn't need to worry about anything, and she doesn't need to take care of anything, she can do whatever she wants, laugh when she wants to laugh, get angry when she wants to be angry, everything is pure and pure, all tangible and intangible pressures are gone, how beautiful ah.

Night falls.

She was tired from playing, and she lay on her back on the grass with her limbs stretched out, but it was not ugly at all, because the bursting out of vitality was more elegant than anything else.

Groups of flowers embellish it, forming a most beautiful picture scroll.

uh~
Sakaki gave a low groan to show his presence, and lay down opposite Terumi Mei, with his head on his head, forming a straight line.

In this way, no one can see anyone's expression, only each other's breath, playing games with each other's nose.

No one spoke, or even moved, just lying quietly like this, as if no one could bear to break this tacit picture.

The sky is also painting.

The stars dotted the night, and each star shone with its own brilliance, forming a long curtain of star waterfalls together. A shooting star dragged its long tail across this beautiful picture, but It did not cause the slightest damage, but it was like the finishing touch, making the static picture of the sky come alive as if it had been injected with life by some kind of mighty force.

How beautiful, how shocking, how shockingly beautiful!

"It's so beautiful..." Nanako's intoxicated admiration is the best background music for this picture scroll.

"Under such a starry sky, I always feel that many things I have insisted on in the past seem to be meaningless."

The youth's voice sounded faintly.

"Yeah, I feel that the matter of the Miko and the country of the vortex is not important anymore, just lying quietly under the starry sky is enough..."

Nanako's sincere tone still had an aftertaste, and the topic changed again.

"You, do you really want me to say that?"

"Huh?" Finally provoked this topic!
The young man raised his eyebrows and moved, as if he wanted to talk to Nanako face to face, but was stopped by Nanako.

"Don't move, let's just say that."

It's so good, neither of them can see each other, facing the starry sky, let the starry sky witness all this.

"Is your ability to disappear and appear suddenly a ninjutsu?"

"Well, it's time-space ninjutsu."

"You are so powerful, how could you be caught and beaten like this, did you do it on purpose?"

"I've fulfilled the promise to let those guys quit the shrine and make you feel at ease, haven't I?"

"That's all? Didn't you deliberately get hurt by them, let me sympathize with you, and hate their bad intentions?"

"This is my intention." The young man corrected.

"Hmph, I've exposed everything. You're really calm. This kind of clumsy method just wants to lie to me..."

"Intentions are not used to deceive."

"Pfft~" Nanako suddenly laughed.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing, I just thought of another man..." Nanako was thinking about that clumsy little Saburo, "You guy, the only good thing is that your mouth is hard, it's so cute!"

"You need a little time to discover more."

"Hmph, glib. I was just laughing at you just now, so don't think I forgive you easily."

"What you said and what you did are inconsistent! Since you 'see through' everything, why were you so anxious to treat me and angry at me?"

"Who told you to be so open-minded, whoever gets the injury, I will take good care of it! So you are not special, and I am not angry to find them because of you."

"Didn't it make you angry because they hurt me?"

"It's only related to the matter itself, and has nothing to do with the person. It's not just that simple. From the vicious treatment of an innocent person, it is conceivable that there will be more such things?"

"What a kind-hearted Miko! I will give you an affirmative answer. There are indeed more. Let me ask you, do you think I was beaten badly?"

Nanako, remembering that the young man was covered with no good meat at that time, her eyes turned red again.

"It's too miserable... Well, I'm just talking about the facts, don't expect me to sympathize with you, you deserve it!"

The young man smiled and tolerated her arrogance.

"But what you say is too miserable is actually nothing more than that in the eyes of others! Do you know what they want to do to me? Whipping is just the most basic method. Some punishments will make you feel uncomfortable without mentioning them. They still want to kill me. Me, it's a pity that they met me, and there is no use for bad water."

A light-hearted one-liner doesn't make Nanako smile: "Why would they do that?"

"In order to punish me, a guy who blasphemed the sanctity of Miko-sama, isn't that reason enough?"

"Your taunt, I received it!"

"I'm just telling you to be realistic. If you treat this country as your own child, then the child has undoubtedly grown up and learned to think and act independently."

Nanako closed her eyes, and one scene after another appeared before her eyes.

"Think about them. Are they doing exactly what you want? No, they already have their own minds and run this country in their own way. Do you still want to control them?"

"No, I never wanted to control anyone, I just didn't want to see them do bad things."

"What a mother's voice! It's a pity that your thoughts can't take the place of theirs."

"They're all good people."

"Don't mention good or bad! What do you think you mean to this country?"

Nanako was silent, and the young man spoke for her.

"Miko-sama? God? An indispensable existence? Without you, the people of the country will be destroyed?"

"Yes, that's what I thought. How about it? Everyone pushed me into that position, what can I do?"

"Don't be angry, although I'm trying to make you understand that you are not as important as you think!"

Young people have already seen it clearly.

"The ones who are really in charge of this country are those in power, they really need a Miko-sama, a sign called 'Miko-sama'.

However, Miko-sama can be anyone else instead of you. After all, things like signboards don't need to be overly precise. "

"..." It's so ugly and heart-wrenching, but I can't refute it.

Nanako said with a difficult tone: "Are you telling me so much just to hurt me? You are really not likable enough."

"I just want you to give up unnecessary 'responsibility' to force yourself. You are not as important as you think, at least for them."

"At least..., so what about you?"

"Hmm~" The young man no longer needed words to prove his intentions, "Let's make a bet."

"bet?"

"I bet that after losing you, the changes in the country of the vortex, I guarantee that it will not go bad, the sky will not collapse, and it will still run peacefully, just like when you were here!"

Nanako was silent for a long time before uttering a word faintly.

"it is good."

……

(End of this chapter)