[Net King] Winter Snow

The slightly awkward atmosphere didn't last long. Before ten o'clock, most people in the tennis club had already arrived at the bottom of the shrine steps.Seeing that the main candidates had already arrived, Yuriko Uemura hid herself behind Yagyu Hiroshi without a trace.The boy looked at her and then at Genichiro Sanada who was not far away, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he was blocked by the girl's slightly abnormal expression.

The so-called test of courage is just to put it bluntly, but it is just a mountain path from the foot of the mountain to the top shrine. The not too steep uphill is covered with trees and grass. At first glance, the road without street lights is a bit scary, but with a flashlight It's not too dark either.The cool summer wind blew by, bringing some stuffy air. Although she seemed very confident when she refuted Genichiro Sanada before, Yuriko Uemura actually knew that she was more afraid of such nonsense than anyone else.

"Hiroshi..." whispered, the girl's voice seemed a little trembling, "The strange story Yukimura-kun said...could it be true?" The woman who lost her child wandered on this mountain, and finally turned into a The female ghost or something...

"You think too much, the minister made it up on the fly." Hiroshi Yagyu pushed his glasses with his right hand, pretending to be calm.If you ignore the other party's cold sweat, Uemura Yuriko thinks that Yagyu is a very reliable person to rely on.

"...Since it's fake, don't be so afraid!" Uemura Yuriko could clearly see the nervousness and fear of the other party, almost mourning, and elbowed Yagyu Hiroshi's waist.

"People who are as afraid as I am have no right to speak out against me." Lowering his voice, the boy wearing glasses didn't want others to know his weakness.

Frightened by Yukimura Seiichi's strange rumors, Uemura Yuriko felt that her current situation was not much better than that of Kirihara Chi who was standing in front and screaming.The iris-haired boy didn't stop there after he finished telling the ghost story, but announced even worse rules of the game.The one-person group mode made Uemura Yuriko almost want to leave immediately, but thinking that this test of courage was more or less the kindness of Yukimura Seichi, and the other party did not know her hard work against darkness and ghosts, the girl still held on He took the flashlight and walked to his starting point.

"Pa-ta--" turned on the switch of the flashlight, Yuriko Uemura took a look around, and then confirmed that there was indeed no one in the range of her sight.

The mountain wind at night is cooler than that from the street. Normally, no one would care about such a temperature difference, but at this moment, it has brought infinite psychological effects to Yuriko Uemura.Ghost stories like the gloomy wind in the mountains kept pouring into the girl's mind, and even the tree trunks and branches smudged by the moonlight were as scary as the claws of ghosts.

Uemura Yuriko walked tremblingly on the mountain road. The darkness of the night and the fear of unknown creatures made the girl extremely sensitive.Any disturbance could make her scream, and her startled appearance was not at all like the cheerful and straightforward top student on weekdays.

Suddenly, there was a slight sound from the bushes on one side.The frightened girl stared nervously at the darkness, for fear that some terrible ghost would float out of the grass.The ghost story that Yukimura Seiichi told before going up the mountain echoed very clearly in Uemura Yuriko's mind at this moment.The boy said that there are ghosts on this mountain who eat people, and they only pick out people who are panicked like her to attack them.The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became. When the thing in the bush was about to come out, Yuriko Uemura pointed the flashlight in her hand and shone it straight there, closing her eyes and repeating "don't come over" over and over again.

The girl who didn't dare to open her eyes could clearly hear something approaching her, like the sound of footsteps or broken leaves lingering in her ears, which made Uemura Yuriko almost cry in fright.The girl closed her eyes tightly, comforting herself that nothing happened if she couldn't see.In the quiet mountain, the sound of the other party's footsteps seemed to be amplified countless times, clearly falling in the ears of Yuriko Uemura.The ghost finally stopped in front of her, and then there was a long silence.

"I have already said that you are not suitable for the test of courage." After a while, Genichiro Sanada's voice came from the front of the girl.

Uemura Yuriko seemed aggrieved and annoyed when the other party saw that she was so afraid of ghosts. The girl with twin ponytails retorted indiscriminately, "I wouldn't be like this if you didn't scare me on purpose!"

"Where did I scare you?" Genichiro Sanada had a rigid expression, dissatisfied with Yuriko Uemura's deliberately aggressive appearance.

"You walked from the grass on purpose, didn't you!" Pointing to the side where Genichiro Sanada had walked before, the girl pushed all the faults on the other party.

"..." Knowing that it would be useless to reason with the other party in this situation, Sanada Genichiro restrained his emotions and said, "Since we have met, let's go together."

"I refuse, I can go by myself." Without thinking about it, she rejected the black-haired boy's proposal, and Yuriko Uemura left straight ahead.

"Obviously you are afraid of the dark, Uemura, what are you trying to do at a time like this! What if something happens?!" Finally unable to bear his own worries, Genichiro Sanada said with a hint of reprimand.He knew very well how scared Uemura Yuriko was, so he made a detour here to find her immediately after setting off, but what happened?The other party was still as stubborn as ever.

"Even if something happens, it's none of your business! Sanada-kun, your sense of justice is misplaced!" After being stopped by Genichiro Sanada's words, the girl who was walking stopped, but soon, Uemura Lily recovered.The girl's nails were tightly embedded in her palm because of her clenched fist, and the words on her mouth were merciless.

Walking ahead with a flashlight, Yuriko Uemura actually knew the reason why Genichiro Sanada appeared here.Before setting off, she secretly took a look at the starting point arranged by Yukimura Seiichi. She originally planned to meet Yagyu Hiroshi on the way, but the starting point was too far away from him.At the same time, the girl also saw Genichiro Sanada's starting point. The boy and her were only separated by one person, and the other party had already reached halfway up the mountain in terms of normal footsteps.So the conclusion is obvious that Genichiro Sanada came to find her on purpose, not by chance.

The black-haired boy just followed behind her without saying a word or leaving. The light of the flashlight was brighter than when he was alone, and the girl who was still flustered was much calmer now.

This protective gesture made Yuriko Uemura very uncomfortable, but Genichiro Sanada walked behind him as if he had some protection, which made people feel at ease.Angry at herself for having such thoughts, Yuriko Uemura walked faster and faster.

The branches and dead leaves in front of her were all trampled under her feet. The girl hardly looked at the road, and just walked straight ahead, completely ignoring how difficult the road ahead was, and not paying attention to the obstacles and potholes on the ground.The originally good flashlight suddenly went out, Yuriko Uemura, who was extremely confused in her mind, was startled by the sudden situation, she didn't notice the depression on the ground for a while, and fell to the ground.

The battery of the flashlight was thrown and bounced out, and it was hard to see where it was lost in the darkness.Rubbing her sore ankle, Yuriko Uemura felt that she was really unlucky.Originally, he thought he could get rid of Genichiro Sanada, but now without the flashlight, it is impossible to leave that boy and walk to the mountaintop shrine alone.

Thinking about it, she felt extremely annoyed. Yuriko Uemura was angry at her own cowardice, and at the same time, she was also angry at the other party's overly righteous behavior.If Genichiro Sanada hadn't come looking for her, she wouldn't have had to hurry up just to get rid of him, and she wouldn't have gotten so upset that she'd fallen over and broken the flashlight.

"It's all your fault!" The more she thinks about it, the more wronged she becomes. Yuriko Uemura feels that her current situation is all because of Genichiro Sanada, "It's all your fault, it's you, it's you!!!"

Looking at the girl who was sitting on the ground and refused to get up, Genichiro Sanada sighed, grabbed the girl's hands waving wildly in the air, "It's cold on the ground, get up first."

"Don't get up!" All the emotions were mixed together, Yuriko Uemura's ambivalence when she heard the confession, and the anger when she saw Genichiro Sanada at home, "It's like this every time! You are like this every time! Let People think that what you do is right! What others do is wrong! Have you ever thought about the consequences your actions will bring to others! Have you ever thought about how the other person will feel after you do this? what!!!"

"Uemura..." Grasping Uemura Yuriko's wrist, Genichiro Sanada was shocked by the girl's sudden burst of tears.

"Don't call me by my name!" Shouted at Genichiro Sanada, the girl's tears were completely uncontrollable, "Uemura Kamura! From before to now, you haven't properly acknowledged me! Every time I feel The relationship between us is close enough to call each other names, you give me hope and then let me despair! Is it so difficult for you to call me Yuriko? Since you don’t plan to call me by my name, don’t finish calling me Yuriko changed back to her last name the next day!"

"That's not what I meant, Uemura..." Genichiro Sanada changed his words as soon as he finished speaking, "Yuriko."

"Enough!" Wiping away the tears on her face fiercely, Yuriko Uemura shook off the young man's hand, stood up while supporting the tree trunk next to her, "Don't worry about me anymore!"

Seeing the girl limping away, Genichiro Sanada felt mixed feelings.Indeed, as Yuriko Uemura said, when he made many decisions, he never thought about the follow-up development, or even what the other party would think.Zenichiro Sanada suddenly hesitated whether the action of blindly implementing his own ideas could really meet his expectations.

If he had changed his position and thought before confessing, if he had considered the other party's mood before visiting, and even more, if he had chosen a smoother and more mature way of dealing with things when that incident happened, would it be possible for them to have a close relationship? Will it be very different?

In the silent night, there was only the bleak sound of insects, and the two people walking one after the other under the moonlight were a bit slow.When they finally arrived at the mountain top shrine, to Uemura Yuriko's surprise, there were only Yukimura Seiichi and Nioh Masaharu standing at the finish line.

A little embarrassed that the scene where he and Genichiro Sanada arrived together was seen by others, and Yuriko Uemura was not right or left, so he could only take out his mobile phone and ask Yagyu Hiroshi how long it would be until he arrived.

Before the girl got the reply from Yagyu Hiroshi, Yanagi Renji and Takeuchi Kiyomi came out from the mountain road, and with them was Kirihara Akaya with an exaggerated expression.The summit that was no longer so embarrassing at last made the girl Yuriko Uemura relax a bit, but at the same time she began to regret the impulsive and straightforward words just now.

I don't know what Yukimura Seichi said to Yanagi Renji, and I don't know what Kirihara Chiya waved his hands to explain. The dizzy girl couldn't figure out what she was thinking. She only knew that it was the iris-haired boy's proposal that made her It's so embarrassing now.

Without thinking, she fired at Yukimura Seiichi, and when she walked to the street far away from the shrine, Uemura Yuriko realized that her attitude towards Yukimura Seiichi was too inexplicable.Taking out her mobile phone and sending an apology text message to the other party, the girl felt that her recent behavior became more and more inexplicable.Always being poked at the point of anger at every turn like this, the good-tempered person in the past has disappeared to nowhere.

She shouldn't be like this.

She could obviously be calmer and more rational.

It was past twelve o'clock at night when I got home, and there was only the sound of Ami Uemura's slight breathing in the dark apartment.The girl gently opened the door of her room, spread out the tatami and was about to go to bed, when she received a call from Takeuchi Kiyomi.

The person on the screen is her best friend now, Yuriko Uemura can guess why Takeuchi Kiyomi is calling her now.Even she herself knew how bad she was in today, let alone that thoughtful girl.

"Qimiko, what's the matter?" Uemura Yuriko's voice was tired as she leaned against the paper door with her back.

"Just now at the shrine, have you cried?" Takeuchi Kiyomi said, "What's wrong?"

Unexpectedly, the other party would see her red and swollen eye sockets. Yuriko Uemura was taken aback for a moment, and then she denied it nervously, "No, I didn't cry, you misread it."

"Although I'm sorry, but when I went up the mountain, I heard the argument between you and Sanada-kun." The girl's voice on the other side of the phone was cold, but it sounded like something hot to Uemura Yuriko's ears, making people want to forget it immediately.

"..." She never expected that the quarrel between herself and Genichiro Sanada would be heard. Uemura Yuriko was silent for a long time before finally letting out a long breath.She has concealed some things for a long time, and she is tired of carrying them. The person on the other side of the phone is a close friend who has supported her until now. She should choose to confess instead of continuing to support everything alone.

Stretching out her hand to cover her eyes, the girl talked about the past in a low tone.The pain of losing her father, the despair of knowing everything, and her endless love for that black-haired boy.

In fact, Yuriko Uemura knew that even if such negative things were spoken out, no one could share anything for her, and it would make Takeuchi Kiyomi feel depressed, but even so, she still said it.I and Takeuchi Kiyomi should be close friends, not cowards who hide their pain from each other and don't want to touch each other in the past.

When she hung up the phone, Yuriko Uemura could clearly feel that the girl on the other side of the phone was much more silent.Probably because she wanted to comfort her but couldn't say anything substantive, the girl didn't care too much about it.

It's a new day when she wakes up, and she still has a lot of time to do what she wants to do instead of sticking to the broken past.

The author has something to say: In the next chapter, Harada-kun comes out (comes back?) to make soy sauce, please ask him to enlighten the little expert【.

Yuriko and Sanada are just...both dumb-headed and need someone to help enlighten them [Candle]