The road of the house owner of the pig in the Chanyuan

No matter how messy the process was, the result of this dinner was barely a happy one—except for the porcelain plate that was forcibly broken into two halves due to the innocent being involved.

But before leaving, Shi Er didn't forget to threaten Zhizai with a fierce look on his face, "It's better for you and that white-haired bastard to stop wandering around under my nose together."

"Together?" Although Naoya shivered a little from Shi Er's aggressive tone because of Shi Er's "oppression" over the years, he still quickly grasped the other party's words He blinked his eyes, looked at Shi Er's eyebrows and eyes that seemed to be mixed with extreme impatience, and finally couldn't hold back, and asked in a low voice, "Then why should I come alone?"

But Shi Er didn't speak after hearing this, but squinted his eyes, and stared at Naoya for a while, just when Naoya thought his head was about to lose his head, Shi Er waved his hand and closed his eyes suddenly. on the gate.

"boom--"

I was a little startled by the sudden closing of the door. For a moment, Naoya and Makoto who were outside the door were stunned. After a moment of silence, they couldn't help but look at each other.

"Maybe this means...'yes'?" Naoya asked with some uncertainty, squinting at the door.

"I think that's what Mr. Shi'er meant," Zhenwang blinked, and said in a serious manner, "After all, sometimes Mr. Shi'er is really not very good at expressing words."

"...Pfft," probably because of Zhen Wang's overly serious expression at the moment, he hit a certain point of laughter, Naoya couldn't hold back, and stood in front of the door and laughed out loud, "Hahaha I'm not good at expressing, you, are you talking about it? Hahaha, if you really want to say that, it seems that there is really no problem, hahaha!"

"Young master," Zhen Wang bent his eyebrows and looked at Zhizai who was standing in front of her with an overjoyed face. The dim sunset glow softly sprinkled on the other party's face, against the corners of his eyes and brows that were raised high at the moment, sweeping away his previous illness During the period of dullness and fatigue, there was a bit of vigor that a young man of this age should have. The heart that had been hanging in his chest finally landed smoothly, and the corners of his lips curled up, and he said with a warm smile, "It's getting late, we Let's go back?"

"Okay," Barely stopped the laughter from the throat, Naoya wiped away the physiological tears seeping from the corner of his eyes, with an unfinished smile on his face, looked at Zhen Wang, nodded and said, "Together Let's go back."

Outside, it seemed as if it was dyed with oil paint. Above the sky, the thick and colorful sunset glow was becoming more and more bright red than fire.

----

At night, Naoya, who had finished washing and lay on the bed, did not immediately turn off the small orange light in front of the bed. It stands to reason that he had gone out and walked a lot today, which already consumed a certain amount of energy, and he is only a young man now. It didn't take long for Kankan to recover, and even the flesh on his face hadn't been replenished. Now it's late at night, and it should be the time when he is exhausted and drowsy.

This is indeed the case, I saw that Naoya's brows and eyes were bleary, his eyes were blurred, and there seemed to be some heavy burden on the eyelids, which kept slipping and falling, but before they were completely closed, he suddenly woke up and stared, trying to forcefully maintain the dazed eyes. wide awake'.

It's not that Naoya is deliberately against himself, looking for trouble for nothing, but before falling asleep, he wants to think clearly about what kind of ring to choose, platinum or silver, or something else, and how to avoid being caught by the five rings. When Satoru found out, he got the size of the opponent's finger.

For Naoya, he hopes that the commemorative significance of the ring is greater than the value itself. In fact, he can make a pair of rings by himself. The Ouroboros pendant he made for Gojo Satoru in the past has a similar structure.. ....

Ouroboros?Naoya paused for a moment, and the material used to carve this Ouroboros pendant at that time could not help appearing in his mind - it was the black jade fragments that his teacher Lin Mingde once gave him.

Teacher...Zaozai pursed the corners of his lips, and there was a hint of sourness in his eyes. In recent years, although he still kept in touch with Lin Mingde by text message occasionally, he also asked Zhenwang to visit and take care of him from time to time. Even two years ago, after he finished solving the matter of Risui, he sneaked to Lin Mingde's shop in the dark, and hung up his gift in front of the door.

But no matter how much he did and how many difficulties he had, he couldn't cover up what kind of harm he had caused in the heart of this old man who loved him when he was forced to "leave without saying goodbye". Tightly, the fingertips pressed deeply against the palm, leaving crescent-shaped marks,

Now, everything has almost settled, his body has almost fully recovered, and he has been allowed to go out by Zhen Wang, maybe... now he can visit his teacher openly?Naoya was a little dazed thinking about it, and in his lonely eyes, the stars gradually brightened up again.

I just don't know, will the teacher be surprised when he sees his current hair color?Naoya thought of it a little funny, pinched a few strands of golden and black hair hanging in front of his eyes, reflected in the orange light, as if it would glow, Naoya couldn't help but bend his eyebrows and eyes, and slightly raised the corners of his mouth .

However, before Naoya could completely break free from the sad and nostalgic emotions at the moment, he suddenly felt the bed behind him sink inexplicably, and a familiar scent mixed with a little sweetness wrapped around his waist intimately In between, the warm breath came close to his ear, as if coquettish, with the soft corners of her lips, gently rubbed against his ear, and kept rubbing against his temples.

"...Do you want to appear so suddenly?" Even though he knew that Gojo Satoru would attack in the middle of the night in all likelihood, Naoya never expected that the other party would be a night owl who was elusive, and teleported silently Get behind him and climb directly onto the bed—at least in the past, you would politely stand in front of him and let him take a look, "I almost gave you an elbow just now."

Saying that, Naoya turned off the night light at the bedside, turned around and lay down with Gojo Satoru face to face, the blue and white moonlight outside the window became softer, Gojo Satoru with his back to the moonlight, although a dark shadow fell on his face, the azure blue The eyes are still bright, with a heavy smile, and the eyes are full of Naoya's figure.

"Well, I didn't think you were asleep and I didn't want to wake you up."

Gojo Satoru whispered with a low smile, his low voice had a grainy texture like the wind blowing gravel, and it was all passed into Naoya's ears without any hindrance in the silent night, together with the slightly itchy touch left on the back of the ear before, it reappeared A tingling numbness that I can't tell whether it's comfortable or uncomfortable, went straight to Zhizai's heart, "Who knows it's so late, and you haven't fallen asleep yet, is it possible that the previous insomnia problem has occurred again?"

"...There is no one who sleeps with the light on, you are just making excuses," Naoya couldn't help but rubbed his hot ears, and gave Wujo Satoru a non-threatening look, "I was about to fall asleep In the end, after being frightened by you, they became sober again."

"Well, then I apologize?" Gojo Satoru blinked his eyes pretending to be innocent, and soon smiled and took Naoya into his arms, resting his chin on the top of Naoya's hair, feeling the coolness and smoothness of the hair, and With the faint aroma of shampoo, I said with satisfaction in my heart, "I'm sorry, sorry, I originally planned to come to you earlier, but Teacher Ye Moth suddenly had something to ask, and I went to help get rid of a few unsightly curse spirits temporarily. so late."

"Curse spirit?" Naoya frowned slightly after hearing this, and said thoughtfully, "Speaking of which, recently the office has also been doing a lot of missions. I heard that there are many more missions suddenly. The curse spirits that popped up seemed like..." Naoya paused for a moment, his eyes darkened, "The things that suppressed them before have all disappeared recently."

"Do you think that maybe it has something to do with that disgusting brain?" Wujo Wu raised his eyebrows, subconsciously tightened his arms around Naoya, his eyes were a little dark, and a trace of his mouth floated. With a sneer, he said coldly, "It was too cheap to deal with him at the first shot."

"This kind of thing has not been investigated, and no one can say for sure," Naoya shook his head, feeling the cold aura from Gojo Satoru and his own waist being tightened, knowing that the other party might be thinking of Xing Xing again What happened in the palace, he patted Gojo Wu on the back lightly, and comforted him in a low voice, "In short, what happened back then is over, and we are all fine now, with the help of the office, I believe these curse spirits The problem will definitely be resolved soon.”

"Hmm..." Gojo Gojo replied heavily, his voice was a little hoarse, he didn't say anything more, but he hugged Naoya's arm tightly, but he didn't relax at all.

"Enlightenment," Naoya quickly noticed that something was wrong with Gojo Satoru, patted the other's arm wrapped around his waist, and said with a smile, "Relax the strength in your hand and look at me, huh?"

After being silent for a while, Gojo Satoru seemed to reluctantly let go of the shackles around Naoya's waist, his lips were tightly pursed, and he looked at Naoya with a slightly gloomy expression. The wet little girl looked at him with some stubbornness in her eyes.

"I was laughing and joking just now, but now I'm showing this expression again, how can you 'turn your face' faster than flipping a book."

Seeing Wujo Gojo like this, Naoya couldn't help laughing, but a little apology welled up in his heart. He held Gojo Gojo's face in his hands, and kissed Gojo Goku's face lightly under the suspicious eyes of the other party. Between the eyebrows, there was a little shyness on the face, "Well, good night kiss...Go to sleep, Wu."

Gojo Satoru stared blankly at Naoya who was lying in front of him, his soft hair fell in a mess on his forehead, illuminated by the moonlight outside the window, and the fragmented shadows that fell were mixed with fine specks of light, as if the sky was full of stars. It fell into Naoya's eyes, and the remaining hot and humid touch between the brows seemed to seep into his mind, gradually dispelling the irritability and faint uneasiness in his heart.

The rest is only the person in front of him.

"Okay," Gojo Satoru raised the corners of his mouth, and quickly kissed Naoya's eyebrows lightly, then hugged him again, rubbed his cheeks twice, and said in a tone full of uncontrollable joy, "Good night and sweet dreams." , Naoya."

However, after the breath of the two became stable, Naoya suddenly opened his eyes in the dark night.

Under the moonlight, Naoya's shadow stretched longer and longer, and gradually condensed into a shape, but only a thin filament was drawn out from it, following Naoya's thoughts, it quietly wrapped around the five slender middle fingers of Wu Wu superior.

These days, as Naoya's physical condition gets better and better, his shadow has gradually recovered some strength. Although it is not as strong as it was in the heyday of the past, but now it is used to quietly measure the size of Gojo Satoru's finger. It is more than enough.

As long as we measure it with a ruler tomorrow, Naoya thought to himself looking at the shadow, then closed his eyes, and leaned into Wujo Gojo's arms, feeling the familiar and reassuring breath permeating his whole body. A deep sleep was eroded by the surging drowsiness.

----

In the early morning, in Yokohama's Chinatown, Lin Mingde opened the door of the shop early as usual, put up the signboard of [opening], and moved the candied haws piled up last night to the door step by step.

"teacher--"

Suddenly, a somewhat unfamiliar voice, mixed with a bit of hoarseness, sounded from behind Lin Mingde, which made him startled. Now in Japan, people who can call him teacher still speak authentic Chinese, and only... ..

As if he was shy from being close to his hometown, Lin Mingde hesitated for a long while in silence, then slowly turned around, looked at the figure behind him, and what caught his eyes was no longer the small figure in his memory, it was already almost the same size as him Tall, with long open eyebrows and eyes, compared to the immature and well-behaved ones when he was young, he is more handsome and mature. Lin Mingde once again realized that the person in front of him is no longer the little boy he used to be, he is almost an adult, but... ...

"Straight...?" Lin Mingde stared blankly at the person in front of him, but couldn't help but move his eyes up little by little until the top of the other person's head, and paused, "Your hair is... ...?"

"Hey, for some reason, I went to dye it," Naoya scratched his face nervously. Although he wanted to dye it himself, now that Lin Mingde saw it, he felt inexplicably ashamed of public execution. He raised the gift in his hand and handed it to Lin Mingde, then changed the subject and said, "That... This is Shizuoka tea for you! I remember you said it tastes good before."

"Ah? Oh, oh, Shizuoka tea..." Lin Mingde took the gift box in Naoya's hand, gently rubbed the box with his fingertips, his eyebrows and eyes were stained with nostalgia, and even his voice was slightly hoarse After a few minutes, he smiled lightly, "Indeed, I used to like the Shizuoka tea you brought me the most."

"Teacher..." Naoya wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth several times, but finally fell silent. He noticed that Lin Mingde's hair was only gray with a lot of black hair mixed in, but now it has all turned into a white hair. It was silvery white, and even at the ends of the hair, there was a faint eggshell-like light yellow.

When he met Lin Mingde, the other party was already 64 years old. Today, the two have not seen each other for six or seven years, and Lin Mingde has already passed the seventies.

"I'm sorry," thousands of words finally turned into this sentence, Naoya said hoarsely, "I haven't been able to visit you for so many years, I'm really, really sorry..." After finishing speaking, Naoya deeply He bowed down.

"What are you doing, get up, get up, this—" Lin Mingde quickly helped Naoya up, but when he saw Naoya's flushed eyes, he couldn't help being startled, and his voice was hoarse. With wrinkled hands, gently wiped the corners of Naoya's eyes lovingly, and said with a slight smile, "I'm almost an adult, and I still like to cry so much. You must know that men don't flick their tears easily, and they can't cry easily."

"Yes, teacher." Right at Lin Mingde's action, Naoya stretched out the back of his hand and wiped away the water stains oozed from the corners of his eyes, which even made the skin around the eye sockets red.

"Okay, let us don't just stand here stupidly, let's go in and talk if you have anything to say." Lin Mingde rubbed the top of Naoya's hair, and while leading Naoya to the store, he said with a gentle smile, "So Come here early, have you had breakfast? I just cooked noodles, would you like to eat some with me?"

"Don't bother Teacher, I already ate on the way here." Naoya hurriedly waved his hands, "I was worried that I would disturb your business if I came too early."

"Hi, it's just a small business. There's nothing to bother you," Lin Mingde said with a smile. After a pause, as if thinking of something, he hurried to the front of the store, flipped the [open] sign over, and changed it to [During the break], I smiled with satisfaction, "That's all."

"Teacher, this..." Seeing this, Naoya frowned, looking a little hesitant.

"It's okay, it's my own shop after all, I can rest whenever I want," Lin Mingde patted Naoya on the shoulder, and laughed loudly, his excellent mental outlook revealed his still tough body, "Okay, let's go in quickly."

"En!" Naozai nodded, looking into Lin Mingde's eyes, all the nervousness and hesitation before turned into admiration for the teacher.

"You sit down first, I'll make tea, or do you prefer to drink milk?" Leading him to the inner room to sit down, Lin Mingde asked with a smile, "Are you really full for breakfast, do you want some more snacks? The day's plan is in the morning, if you don't eat a good breakfast, you will be lacking energy throughout the day, look at you, you are much thinner than when you were a child, with thin arms and legs..." He said in a rambling manner, just As if facing his own grandson, he was always worried that Naoya hadn't eaten well.

"No teacher, no need for anything, I'm really full, and I'm thin only because I've grown taller, so I don't seem to have much meat," Naoya stood up, wanting to take over the work from Lin Mingde, "You have to do I’m here to help you, don’t bother entertaining me.”

"Sit down, how can you compete with the teacher for work?" Lin Mingde pretended to be serious and pushed him back again, "Just sit down obediently for me, if you don't eat, then have a glass of milk, you are still in the development stage, It’s always right to drink more milk to replenish calcium.”

After finishing speaking, Lin Mingde turned around and went to the kitchen, until he couldn't see Zhizai, he bent his body, looked at the tea gift box in his hand, rubbed it lightly, blurred his vision silently, only the smile on the corner of his mouth, but There is no way to stop it.

......

The old and the young chatted for a long time in a room full of caramel sweetness with the elegant tea fragrance of Shizuoka new tea and the milky fragrance of milk. Most of the time it was Lin Mingde who was asking, and Naoya one answer.

"Speaking of which, the black jade fragments that I wanted to give you before have also stayed with me, waiting for you to pick them up in person." Lin Mingde smiled, and looked at Naoya, "Now, I finally got it."

"Teacher..." Naoya lowered her head guiltily.

"You child, what are you doing with such an expression?" Lin Mingde rubbed Naoya's head with a smile, and said kindly, "I'm not blaming you, I'm just happy, those Moyu will not be wasted in vain."

"Well," Naoya replied in a low voice with a hoarse voice, nodded, looked at Lin Mingde's eyebrows, pursed his lips, and said hesitantly, "Teacher, I have something to tell you."

"Well, what's the matter?" Lin Mingde asked curiously.

"I, I handed over..." Zhizai blushed for a while, stammered in his mouth, and steam seemed to be rising from the top of his head, he buried his head in front of Lin Mingde, and whispered like a mosquito, "I made a...boyfriend..."

He knew that Huaguo had always been quite conservative about same-sex love. His teacher Lin Mingde, who was born and bred there, might be more prejudiced against it, but he didn't want to hide it from his teacher anyway, so he chose to leave The matter was spoken.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Naoya tightly closed his eyes as if evading.

A moment of silence.

"Boyfriend..." After a while, Lin Mingde's voice with unknown meaning came from above his head. Naoya couldn't help trembling when he heard it, but saw that Lin Mingde continued to say in distress, "It seems that in the future, your newlywed As a gift, I can't give you a pendant in the shape of a mandarin duck."

Naozai was startled, raised his head a little stupidly, and looked at Lin Mingde blankly.

"Haha, what's the matter, you look dumb, and you still think I'll scold you?" Seeing Naoya's expression, Lin Mingde couldn't help laughing, pinched Naoya's fleshless cheek, and said tolerantly, "Your teacher How can I scold you for my age, I have never seen anything, let alone you are my apprentice, it is not an unreasonable thing to do?"

"Teacher... thank you." After hearing this, Naoya felt that his eyes were filled with a lot of sourness, swollen and ready to burst out at any moment.

"Why do you seem to be a little tearful person today?" Lin Mingde smiled and wiped the tears from Naoya's eyes again, and asked curiously, "Speaking of which, who is my apprentice-in-law and what is her name?" ?”

"Uh, you've seen this person before," Naoya lowered his eyes shyly, "It's Gojo Satoru, the one with white hair and blue eyes who bought a lot of candied haws from you with me back then."

"It turns out that he..." Lin Mingde thought thoughtfully, "Then you guys are still childhood sweethearts."

Now Naoya was a little embarrassed to answer the words, pursed his lips, and remained silent.

"He's a good boy, and he will visit me with Zhenwang occasionally," Lin Mingde patted Naoya's hand, and said with a smile, "That's good, people who know the basics stay together, and life will always be longer. "

"Thank you, teacher," Naoya replied in a low voice, his cheeks getting hotter and hotter, "Well... Speaking of this, I also want to ask you, can you teach me how to carve a ring? For his birthday, I want to...give him a jade ring."

"Yujie, that's a good idea." Lin Mingde nodded, stroked his beard, and said, "It's August now, which means there are still four months... so, It would be better if I, the teacher, engrave a pair and give it to you.”

"Ah?" Naoya raised his head in a daze, and blinked.

"If you call me teacher, then I should do this for you." Lin Mingde rubbed Zhizai's head kindly, and instructed, "Don't forget to measure the size of your fingers before you leave. By the way, his fingers Do you have the size?"

"Yes, I have!" Zhizai's eyes lit up, and he raised his brows and mouth, and replied loudly. Then, he stood up and embraced Lin Mingde, "Teacher, thank you very much."

"...Okay, how many times have you said 'thank you' today, between you and me, master and apprentice, don't make such a difference," Lin Mingde was startled at first, but he quickly realized, slowly Hugging Naoya back, he smiled lightly, "I'll be very happy if you can come and accompany me more in the future."

"Yes, from now on..." Naoya couldn't hold back for a moment, choked up and said, "From now on, I will definitely visit you every month and continue to learn from you the unfinished carving skills."

"Good boy," Lin Mingde patted Naozai on the back, with tears in his eyes, he couldn't stop saying, "Okay..."

Outside the window, the rising sunlight filled the entire Chinatown, and penetrated into Lin Mingde's shop, reflecting the figures of the two of them.

Dawn is just right.

----

It was December in a blink of an eye.

On the day before Gojo Wu's birthday, Naoya rejected all work arrangements in advance and asked Gojo Wu to go out. Before going out, he gave the jade ring carved for him by Lin Mingde, together with the velvet ring with his and Gojo Wu's initials. Together, the box hides in the shadows.

"A normal heart, a normal heart, can't be found..." Along the way, Naoya kept hinting to himself in his heart, trying to suppress his increasingly nervous and jumping heartbeat.

He went shopping with Gojo Satoru, took pictures, and flowed among the bustling crowd, just like ordinary couples, wearing similar scarves, covered by generous clothes, holding hands, eating, drinking and having fun, or It was an accidental mischief, deliberately poking a cold hand into the back collar.

"Why are your hands so cold?" But the person who was being teased was not angry, raised his eyebrows, and wrapped Naoya's hands tightly, took a few breaths of steam, and kept rubbing, "Do I need to go to the mall to buy you a pair of gloves?"

"Well, next time, it's so late, the mall should be closed."

Naoya glanced at the sky, saw Gojo Satoru rubbing his hands earnestly, and couldn't help but bend his eyebrows. Taking advantage of the cover of the night and the fewer passers-by around him, he stood on his heels a little while he was unprepared, Kissed Wujo Satoru's cheek at once - after more than four months of dating, he has been shy and hot about this kind of thing from the beginning, and now he is almost used to it.

"Tsk, sneak attack, isn't it?" Gojo Gojo snorted, pulled his rubbed hands into his pockets, and even pulled Naoya into his arms, and kissed back like revenge—on the same place on the cheek, shallow With a light touch, "It's late, are you going back?"

"It's almost twelve o'clock," Naoya took out his phone and glanced at it. For today's date and tomorrow's Gojo Satoru's birthday, Naoya deliberately explained to Mamoko that he might be late. After thinking about it, he suggested, " Would you like to wait a few minutes?"

"Huh? Did you prepare any surprises for me?" Wujo Wu raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "If you have to stay here, can't you go back and talk about it?"

Although Naoya's body is no longer in serious condition, and his shadow has almost recovered to [-]% or [-]% of what it was before, but due to habit, occasionally, Gojo Satoru will subconsciously treat Naoya as a sick number, especially for Naoya's physical condition. Notice.

"Cough...not really," Naoya pretended to cough twice with a guilty conscience, cleared his throat, thought of what he was about to do, couldn't help but look away, and said with a slightly warm face, "I just thought it would be more convenient to be outside."

"Really?" Gojo Satoru was noncommittal, and took Naoya for a walk slowly, "Then let's walk casually."

Naoya nodded, but didn't respond, following Gojo Satoru's pace, he took a long breath without any trace, and secretly repeated the psychological construction for himself.

Twelve midnight arrived soon, and the date on the phone screen changed to December [-]th.

"Enlightenment," Naoya grabbed Gojo Satoru, took a deep breath, and under the curious eyes of the other party, took two exquisite and small velvet boxes from the end of the vine that rose from the shadow, and handed one of them to Gojo Satoru, chuckled and said, "Happy birthday."

Seeing this, Gojo Satoru was taken aback for a moment, then blinked, took the box from Naoya, and slowly opened it, revealing the black jade ring inside.

The simple and elegant shape, without too many fancy decorations, is only inlaid with silver thread on the front of the ring, making a very simple pattern of joints and branches, intertwined in the dark color of black jade, as dazzling as constellations twinkling in the night sky .

"...Tsk, is it actually a ring?" Gojo Satoru looked at the ring in the box in silence for a while, and finally couldn't help laughing, and said with some emotion, "I didn't expect you to be the first .”

Hearing this, Naoya's face turned red, he snorted, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he said a little proudly, "Then you can't always be the first in everything," then stretched out his hand, raised his eyebrows, and smiled Asked, "Shall I help you put it on? My teacher made it for us specially."

"Okay." Gojo Satoru nodded with a smile, and handed over the ring box again.

Naoya carefully took out the ring, calmly and slowly, following his breathing, put it on Wu Nao's slender middle finger bit by bit, with a focused look and an extremely solemn look, until he pushed the ring to the root of the finger, not too big or too small. Well, there is hardly a gap left.

"Where's yours?" Wujo Wu looked at the ring on his hand and asked, "Shall I put it on for you too?"

"Otherwise?" Naoya smiled, with the neon lights reflected in his eyes, he manipulated the shadow to hand over the velvet box with another ring, and stretched out his hand towards Gojo Satoru.

Gojo Satoru took it with a smile, and slowly put the ring on Naoya's middle finger with the same solemn expression, even holding his breath in the middle.

Looking at the rings in the hands of the two of them and the twigs inlaid with silver threads, Naoya felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction in his heart. The warmth of soaking in a hot spring even made his eyes feel hot. He took Gojo Satoru's hand , Looking at the other party's blue eyes and himself reflected in them, his brows and eyes frowned, "Then, please give me more advice in the future, Wu."

"Well, how should I put it," Wujo Wufan held Naoya's hand, with more than ten years of deep feelings in his eyes, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he said with a slightly hoarse voice, "Let's be each other."

Everything around seemed to have quieted down. As the two people's eyes met, they got closer and closer to each other until they could easily feel each other's warm breath. Under the night, they hugged each other tightly and pressed against each other gently Each other's soft lips exchanged their sweet and passionate love.

The neon lights in the city illuminate their eyebrows, eyes and hair, and cast a magnificent filter on their atmosphere at the moment, making time seem to stop at this moment forever.

Night is still long.