Reborn In Tokyo After Picking Up Sayu Who Ran Away From Home

   Chapter 256 Marshmallow

   knock knock knock knock, cluck.

   Inside the shrine, clogs made a crisp sound.

   Colorful stalls line both sides of the road, spitting out a variety of smells.

  Red, orange, yellow, green, blue…

  The clothes of the girls who come and go are also brightly colored, which complements the yo-yos floating on the water.

  The children in masks ran around wielding toy swords, and the adults with beers followed behind with a smile, their faces were softer than usual.

  The original tall and solemn torii gate is also a little softer under the bright lights, quietly watching everyone who comes here.

  In this small dream country, there are several lanterns with the names of local companies and shops on them, and the dim lights illuminate the night.

   stands right below the torii gate.

"Wow…"

   Sayu let out a sigh, and uncontrollably let go of his palm, and trotted ahead.

   knock knock, knock knock.

   "Haha... so spectacular!"

   The open mouth looks a little silly and a little cute. The girl just looked around with such high spirits, the expression on her face was like that of a child who was brought to an amusement park by an adult for the first time.

   Kato Yusuke put his hand to his mouth to make a loudspeaker, and warned, "Don't get lost."

   "No way." Sayu, who was originally looking around, turned to look here, with a hearty smile on his face, and then kept pointing and asking.

   "Yusuke Yusuke, what is that?"

   "A goldfish fisher."

   "What about the one next to you?"

   "Selling water polo."

   "What about this one here?"

   "Airsoft shooting."

   "And what about this?"

   "That's just an ordinary mask booth."

   Kato Yusuke, with his hands in his sleeves, stepped forward slowly, then took out a hand to touch the other's forehead, and flicked his fingers on it.

"ah!"

  —

The    girl made a cute voice, and with this soft muffled sound, Sayu covered her head with her hands.

   "Hey, what's going on? What's going on?"

   The other party looked up with an inexplicable and pitiful expression.

   Kato Yusuke responded noncommittally: "This is just a punishment for annoying JK who deliberately picks some childish questions to make fun of others. Do you think you are a child?"

   "Hey hey, is there a picture?"

   "I'm not complimenting you."

   "But then again~"

   The girl said so, and tilted her upper body slightly.

   "I think, ah, the only person who will really take care of me as a child should be Yusuke. At least in the eyes of others, don't I feel like a new wife?"

  The citrus sweetness that belongs to the other party floats softly and mixes with the sweetness in the air, and the fusion is like a fruity taste with a layer of syrup.

  The soft dome-shaped F-cup looms at the neckline of the yukata, exuding a strong feminine charm. Kato Yusuke involuntarily turned his eyes away, secretly forcing himself not to imagine the body temperature hidden in the shadows.

   So he decided to change the subject.

   "One day you'll be a qualified bride—"

   The words stopped abruptly here, and Kato Yusuke, who realized what he said, immediately looked at Sayu.

   I saw the other party was half-opening his mouth, staying there in a daze, like he couldn't speak, obviously he didn't expect to hear such a feeling.

   It took a few seconds.

   The girl's white cheeks slowly turned red.

   "That... means..."

   Sayu asked him in a voice so weak that it was about to disappear, "Will I become Yusuke's... bride?"

   His voice was as thin as a gnat, but for some reason it still came into his ears.

"Um?"

   Kato Yusuke's eyelids twitched slightly, while Sayu lowered his head embarrassedly, his face flushed to the base of his ears.

-"bride"

  Essential but imaginative words, like the full moon hanging high in the night sky, are so far away that even if they are used as a joke, people don’t know what to do.

  The two did not speak for a while.

  Looking absently at the white, leisurely moon, Kato Yusuke silently pondered some outrageous questions, and then asked nonchalantly.

   "...I just smelled apple candy, shall we go buy it?"

   The girl's slender body trembled slightly, then slowly raised her head, closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

   When she opened her eyes again, a smile appeared on her face again.

   "Well, I want to go!"

  ◇

   After a few minutes, the two stopped in front of a stall.

  The owner of the stall is an easy-going uncle, who is adding jaggery to the heart of the round furnace that is rising at high temperature. There were also a few eagerly-awaited children beside him.

   "Is it cotton candy?"

   "Ah... marshmallow..."

   Sayu murmured, his tone seemed to be emotional.

   Seeing this, Kato Yusuke said to the stall owner, "I'm sorry, please give us one."

   "Okay, one hundred yen."

   He immediately took out a hundred yen and handed it to the other party.

   "...Huh? Yusuke..." Sayu suddenly turned his attention to him.

   "Aren't you going to eat?"

"Uh…?"

   "Because you look the way you want."

   "Is it so obvious..."

The girl put the cool soft weeds into his hands and said softly: "I just remembered going to the festival when I was a child, but I couldn't get the adults to buy it for me. I remember the things at that time very clearly, so I have always been very fond of it. interest."

   Staring at the heart of the furnace, Sayu raised his head slightly, and asked a little less confidently, "Is this weird...?"

   Like a fragile piece of porcelain, a little weakness appeared in the girl's eyes.

   Kato Yusuke was silent, just shook his head slowly and firmly, and pulled him to a position closer to the stove. There were originally two children here, but after they got their marshmallows and left, it was empty.

   "Although I don't know if it can make up for your regrets at the time, but now you are free, let's make up for it with little things, such as the process of making marshmallows."

"Like This."

   Sayu nodded his head slowly, his eyes swaying for a while. Then he turned his attention to the heart of the furnace and watched it.

   hum, hum—

  The kind uncle turned the disposable chopsticks in his hands, so that the shreds of sugar continued to wrap around them. It looked very interesting, and it also had the style of a summer festival.

   "Ai."

   Sayu who lowered his head suddenly called out softly, attracting Kato Yusuke's gaze. The furnace light reflected on her side face, making that face a touch of orange-red like a fiery cloud.

The    girl murmured, "Why were you willing to answer that kind of question just now?"

   Ignoring the other person who became quiet because of a certain emotion, she resisted the urge to turn around and peep, and went on.

  ""Someone will wait for me at the finish line", can I report this expectation? "

   No matter how careful he was, there was still a hint of eagerness to hear the answer in his tone.

  The surroundings seemed to be quiet all of a sudden.

   pounding, pounding.

   The cool little hands became a little stiff, and the palms began to sweat slightly, just when the owner couldn't help but want to withdraw his hand quietly to prevent being detected abnormal...

   "I just don't deny any possibility." Kato Yusuke said lightly.

   Although the answer was somewhat irrelevant, it didn't make Sayu say "This is not an answer at all".

   After a while, Sha Youcai nodded in response.

   "...Well, that's true."

   Then he turned around again, with a narrow smile on his face.

   "You're really not frank."

  “…”

   Kato Yusuke was too lazy to explain this, but just stretched his finger to the front, where the work on the stall owner's hand was nearing the end.

   "Come on, it's done."

  The uncle who turned off the machine handed over a marshmallow about the size of a football.

   "Wow, what a big goal... thank you."

   Sayu said gratefully, and took the marshmallow from the uncle.

   "Amazing, it's a real marshmallow!"

   The girl with a smile on her face showed him the marshmallow, and she looked very cute, like a child showing off treasures to adults.

  ‘Although it’s just sugar. ' Kato Yusuke thought a little sullenly, but he didn't say it out of his mouth. He just observed the other side's eating with interest.

After    tore off a small piece of the marshmallow with his hand, Sayu immediately exclaimed "Wow" in surprise.

   "It was super sticky when I touched it."

   "It's sugar after all."

   "That's what I said~"

   followed by—

   "It's amazing, it melted in my mouth in an instant!" The girl's eyes were slightly rounded in surprise.

   "It's all said to be sugar." Kato Yusuke, who was watching this scene, couldn't help but laugh.

   Sayu pursed his lips in dissatisfaction when he smiled like this, "Don't laugh at me, this is the first time I have eaten..."

   Yusuke nodded slightly at this, and used his eyes to signal that he knew, but the smile on his face had not completely dissipated.

   "But..." The girl hummed softly, and continued to tear a piece of marshmallow down and put it in her mouth.

   "Whether it's the sticky marshmallow, or the melt-in-your-mouth thing—"

   Sayu said lightly: "If I hadn't met Yusuke, I definitely wouldn't know..."

   Kato Yusuke smiled without saying a word, just looked at her with soft eyes, and said, "Remember not to eat too much, there are many others behind."

   "Are we one and a half?"

"okay."

   "Oh~ in that case."

   Involuntarily, the girl tore a piece of marshmallow near his mouth, "Then please open your mouth. Ah~~"

  The soft candy shreds and the cold fingers pressed against the mouth together, and there was a sweet and faint soap smell from the tip of the nose.

   Kato Yusuke opened his mouth and ate the marshmallow.

"How about it?"

  The smiling Sayu pulled back his hand, then put the fingertips wrapped in candy into his mouth, and asked with his fingers, "Is it sweet and delicious?"

   Gently moving his eyes on those shiny lips, Kato Yusuke nodded "yes" and said something delicious.

  Clogs stepped on the cheerful rhythm and continued the night.

   The two walked forward side by side.

  …

   (end of this chapter)