"Yotsuba, let me go for a walk by the river—"

"Uncle Gongshui, I have something I want to talk to you about."

In the early morning of the second day after going down the mountain, Taki and Mitsuha split into two groups according to their mutual agreement, and each started work.

"What's the matter, sister?" On the riverside, Yotsuba followed Mitsuba suspiciously, "Why did you bring out a weird bottle covered with moss?"

"Huh? Is there anything that can't be discussed after I finish work?" In the office, Toshiki Miyamizu seemed a little dissatisfied with Taki's sudden visit, "You know, even if Hida is just a small place, there are still many things to do. !"

"This..." Mitsuha stopped and turned around and took her sister's hand and put it on the bottle, "Shiye, don't you remember? This is the chewing wine you made when you were nine years old—"

"Could it be that administrative matters are really so important in uncle's mind?" Looking at Toshiki Miyamizu's furrowed brows, Taki didn't intend to go around in circles anymore, "Sanye told me that when you were young, you thought folk customs You are a scholar, and you came to Itomori and joined Miyamizu Shrine later, what is it that attracts you so much?"

"Ah? So you went to the gods yesterday?" Yotsuba opened her eyes wide in surprise, "I didn't expect this thing to still be there, but, what did you bring it back for? The shrine is gone, and this thing should be It's useless..."

"Young man, are you questioning me?" Toshiki Miyamizu stood up slowly with his hands on the table, walked to the sofa, sat down and looked at Taki face to face, "Even if you and Mitsuha are going to get married soon , but also pay attention to the tone and proportion of speaking!"

"Hey, Yotsuba, we are witches, have you forgotten?" Sanye took a deep breath and said slowly: "Since we are witches, we have magical powers. In fact, I didn't believe it at first, but Yesterday, all the mysteries were solved, listen to me tell you slowly—"

"I'm sorry, Uncle, I was eager to help Sanye untangle my heart, so I might have been a little anxious just now." Taki paused, and his tone eased a lot, "Actually, I want to ask you a sensitive topic, how about that?" That is, have you and Sanye's mother ever exchanged bodies?"

Listening to her sister's unbelievable but accurate description, Yotsuba was so surprised that she even forgot to breathe——

Hearing Taki's reasonable, well-founded and irrefutable guess and analysis, Miyamizu Toshiki also had a look of convulsion——

Slowly, he supported his forehead with both hands in pain, and after a long silence, he said in a low voice: "That's right, young man, just like you and Sanye, Erye and I... have also experienced the exchange of bodies. matter."

After Sanye watched Clover's shocked expression gradually calm down, she patiently listened to her talk about the memory of her own body-swapping that she still remembered.

Taki watched the pimple between Junshu Miyamizu's brows loosen little by little, then quietly listened to him recount the past that belonged to him and Sanye's mother——

That year, the young Toshiki came to Itomori with beautiful mountains and rivers for the first time as a young scholar who had been visiting various places for many years.In fact, he didn't know when he started, but he had a premonition that he was looking for a place, no, to be precise, he was looking for a person.Because he didn't know when it started, he felt that there was a gap in his memory, and the person in that place was the key to filling this gap.

The moment he stepped on Itomori's land, he decided that "that place" was Itomori.The first place to visit folk customs is the shrines in each village and town, and you need to contact the priests of the shrines at that time.

At that time, it was the previous miko, Miyamizu Erye, who was guarding the shrine.

"Hello, I'm a visiting scholar here to investigate folklore. This is my business card—" In front of the torii gate of Miyamizu Shrine, Toshiki respectfully handed his business card to the children who were talking to the town with their backs facing him. The laughing Erye.

"Huh? This name..."

She turned around slowly, with a slightly surprised expression on her face.

However, when they saw each other's face clearly, all the mist gradually dissipated, like a gust of fresh wind suddenly blowing in the world shrouded in morning mist.

"I have also been to the gods with Erye, and I have learned about Erye's past through drinking wine, and I also know that it is not nonsense to meet a demon at dusk," Toshiki Miyamizu said lightly: "It's just that we don't know, What is the purpose of this exchange of bodies? Is it to tease each other? Is it to test the love between the witch and the lover... No, to be precise, we have no chance to solve this mystery together, because ...Because..." He suddenly burst into tears, choked with sobs, "Because I failed to keep Erye, she fell ill later, when Sanye and Clover were still very young... I should have taken her directly I went to a big hospital in Tokyo for treatment, but at that time, I foolishly wanted to rely on time to reverse it again so that all this never happened... But, time can't be reversed again... It's all because of me... I couldn't save it She..."

"So..." When Toshiki Miyamizu's mood calmed down a little, Taki asked cautiously: "So since your aunt passed away, you have never been willing to take up the priesthood... because you relied too much on this unknown back then. power?"

"Yes..." Junshu sorted out his thoughts, "Although I was confused for a moment, I still hate this kind of innate divine power of the Gongshui family. Without it, Erye and I would not be in the same place." Searching for each other in the vast sea of ​​people for so long, if I didn't mistakenly want to rely on it again to save Erye's life, maybe, maybe Erye wouldn't have left us...Of course, without it, maybe... Me and Erye Ye will not know...all of this will never happen..."

That's right.

Taki lowered his head—indeed, this sad experience of exchanging bodies and then forgetting the past really tortured himself and Sanye.

I don't know, I don't know if the young Yotsuba also experienced these things?

"... That's it, I'm still forgetting now, and I don't know when, I won't remember him at all." Yotsuba leaned in her sister's arms while sobbing and said, "Fortunately, I found him by chance." Going back to that notebook, it's like the knotted rope that conveys messages between my sister and Taki..."

"Four leaves..." Sanye hugged her sister tightly and comforted her, "You have to believe in me, you will definitely meet again, it's just a matter of time..."

"Sister, you have been waiting for almost ten years, right?" Yotsuba wiped her face with the back of her hand, "Do I have to wait that long too? And now I can't feel where he is at all, and I don't know the relationship between us. How many years have passed, could it be... could it be that he has completely forgotten me now, and has found his other half...I..."

Sanye stared at her sister's almost desperate face in pain, and could only say nothing——

Now, she realizes how lucky she is.Although they have experienced the life-and-death challenge of the falling comet, Taki and her still live together in this world after all, and, relying on the vague feeling, they have been searching hard and sticking to it.

I have been struggling to support until the day when all the hardships come to an end.

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