winter cloud

Kongyin had just woken up when he saw Qianzuru who was about to go out.

"Sister, where are you going?"

While arranging the lapels of her kimono, Qianzuru turned her head and replied with a smile: "Since I'm in Edo, I plan to visit Mr. Okita. Speaking of which, I can go home later to see if there is any trace of my father..."

Originally hearing that Chizuru was going to visit Okita, Sorane yawned without interest, but the other purpose that Chizuru said caught her attention.

"……go home?!"

Kongyin was stunned for two seconds, and when Qianhe got up to leave, he suddenly grabbed her, and then hurriedly crawled out of the bed: "Well, wait a minute! I want to go too!"

After finishing speaking, Sora started to rummage through his luggage to find the kimono, ignored Chizuru who was stunned over there, tidied up the front of his front, and tugged at Chizuru: "Okay, I'm ready."

It was only after this that Qianhe finally came back to his senses, looked at the neatly dressed Kong Yin in front of him, and sighed weakly.

Really, being infected by the light in her sister's eyes, she couldn't say no to it.

Although theoretically speaking, Sora should lie down and have a good rest, but judging by her energetic appearance since this morning, it shouldn't be a big deal...

For Sora Yin, the only purpose of going out was "going home", so she naturally didn't want to take a long way to go with Chizuru to visit Mr. Okita or something - anyway, that guy should be satisfied with his sister visiting him, If she followed, she might be teased.

Greeted Qianhe, and before she could express her objection, Kongyin ran away as if planned long ago.

She is not a child, so she can't even go home.

Today's Edo is less chaotic than Kyoto. Sora Yin's principle of running away when encountering trouble, coupled with the escape skills she has practiced for many years, is absolutely certain for her to return to her home safely.

However, even though she has no sentimental cells, she still has a little sadness when she sees the home she hasn't seen for a long time.

Because there is no one living here, the breath of life has long been lost, not only her room, but Qianzuru's room, even the entrance is covered with dust.

Ah, even if I knew in advance that these places are easy to attract dust, it was still unpleasant when I saw it with my own eyes.

That was her home. Even if the whole family left one after another, it was her only and most important home.

He reached out and touched the desk in the room, the dust on it was so thick that he could write words with his fingers.Sorane stretched out his hand and opened the drawer on the right, only a few crooked books remained in the place that was filled with books.

Taking out one of the books casually, Sorane looked at the cover carefully - it seemed that Hirasuke didn't put it in when he came.

Chizuru was confused by Sora's sudden action, and when he regained his composure, there was no sign of the girl in front of him.

Complaining about her sister's behavior that seemed to be playing tricks on her, Qianhe could only silently pray that nothing bad happened to Kongyin.

As she said before, after visiting Mr. Okita, Chizuru also rushed to the house.

She saw Kuyin's shoes at the entrance, but the whole house was eerily quiet.

An ominous premonition suddenly enveloped Qianhe, and she rushed into Kongyin's room anxiously without even knocking on the door.

In the room, she found her younger sister who was engrossed in reading a book——then Chizuru finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It was really scary just now, she thought...

"Sister?" Noticing Qianhe's arrival, Kongyin closed the book, "What's wrong?"

She had just heard the sound of Qianhe coming in from the entrance, and thought that Qianhe had come to tell her to go back, so she obediently stayed in the room and waited for her to come and call, but Qianhe rushed in in a panic.

"What happened?" She took it for granted that it was something important.

"Ah, no..." Realizing that his reaction was too much, Qianhe didn't know how to explain what he did to her, "Do you have any clues about your father?"

After hearing this, Kongyin frowned in embarrassment. Judging from the scene when she first came, it didn't look like anyone had come back here. Although she didn't want to see Qianhe's disappointed expression again, but...she could only shake her head regretfully. shook his head.

"Really..." Qianhe really closed his eyelids slightly, but immediately returned to his usual vigorous expression, "Then, we should go too."

It means that it is time to go, probably because there is no chance to come back in the future.

Kong Yin pursed his lips, and silently clenched his fists.

If possible, Kuyin didn't want to leave here.

Well, if this is the case, then there is no regret left.

Soran closed the book in his hand, then rummaged through the box and took out all the books in the drawer in one go.

"Wait, Kongyin, are you going to..." Surprised by Kongyin's actions, Qianhe hurriedly reached out to stop him, but failed, "Hey, Kongyin, are you planning to take all the books away?"

Even though he asked this question, looking at Kong Yin's appearance, the result was obvious.

"That's right." Kong Yin didn't think there was anything wrong with this, after she had tossed out two stacks of books, she blew the dust off her hands, "I'll go find a package."

Chizuru: "..."

When Kong Yin really came back with a package, Chizuru's expression became unusually tangled.

"Empty tone!"

However, she still couldn't bear to pour cold water on Kong Yin. Seeing that the stop was ineffective, she rolled up her sleeves helplessly, stepped forward to help her younger sister put away all the books, and handed them to her.

"Forget it, since you have decided so... just remember not to lose it."

"Hirasuke?" When going back with a large bag of books, Sorato saw Hirasuke tugging at the buttons on his clothes with a distressed expression.Without that beautiful ponytail, Soran almost didn't recognize him in a group of people, but there are still other ways, for example, at a glance, the shortest one is Hirasuke.

"Korone, you're back?" Noticing the package in the girl's hand, Hirasuke thoughtfully reached out to take it, and at the same time looked inside curiously, "Wow, so many books!"

"Well, because I brought all of them here, from home."

Kong Yin nodded, then stood on tiptoe, stretched out his hand to touch the clothes on Heisuke's chest: "What is this? Heisuke has been pulling from the beginning..."

"Eh?" Because of the girl's sudden approach, Assistant Ping scrambled to hold Kongyin's shoulders to prevent her from losing her center of gravity, "This seems to be called a 'button', uh, how should I put it, I always feel that the clothes are too tight to move around Not very comfortable."

Kongyin tilted his head in confusion: "Then why did you cut your hair?"

Is there any direct relationship between these two questions?

"What's the matter, that, isn't it pretty?"

After hearing this, Sora took a serious look at Hirasuke's hairstyle, and then replied with a serious face: "No, Hirasuke looks good no matter what."

Sora's serious tone made Hirasuke's face turn red instantly, and his words also became stuttering: "It's...really."

"Yes."

After a long silence, Hirasuke suddenly stretched out his arms to embrace the girl, and gently stroked her hair with his right hand.

"Hey, Sorane, when things here come to an end, we..." I wanted to say something like "let's go home together", but in the middle of the sentence, Hirasuke realized that they don't seem to have anything special to go back to now .Scratching his cheek in embarrassment, Hirasuke lowered his head and asked what Soran meant: "Is there any place Soran wants to go?"

"Where do you want to go...?" Kongyin frowned, and after thinking carefully for a while: "No."

"..." Please don't say such unpleasant things.

"That……"

"Stay here." Sorane interrupted Hirasuke's next words, raised his head and looked directly at him, "Stay in... Edo."

She doesn't have any desire to go to other places, as long as she can stay in this Edo where she was born and raised, she is satisfied.Here is her home.

"I'm at home, waiting for you."

A simple sentence made Hirasuke so moved that he wanted to cry.

Some people are willing to wait for him, and some people have reserved a place of "home" for him.

"Even if you don't come back, or can't come back, I will wait for you."

Forever and ever, will be waiting for you.

—— "Ah, wait for me."