218. New Years in Iwate: 15(1/2)
"Go to the shrine, and you can go back after you're done." Toru Watanabe said.
The three of them walked towards the worship hall at the end of the shrine.
In the light of stars and bonfires, people who know each other well are saying New Year to each other.
The worship hall is on a flight of more than ten steps, which is crowded with worshipers, with three people standing at the end of the queue.
People standing behind them will subconsciously take a few steps away from them.
The two eldest ladies did not wear gorgeous and expensive kimonos, but their long-term behavioral habits and appearance that were more beautiful than everyone else gave people a natural sense of distance.
As for Toru Watanabe...
With that handsome face, if he doesn't smile, even if he wears modern clothes and sits in the front hall of worship, there must be many women who think there is no problem with all this.
Every minute or two, the crowd moves forward a step.
Several people stood in a row sideways, threw five yen coins, put their hands together and made a wish, then walked away to the next row.
Watanabe Toru watched this repeated operation and thought boredly:
Does God really like this?
For example, Qingye God, who is wearing gorgeous clothes, is sitting in the worship hall and listening to people's wishes one after another. He must be impatient, right?
There is a high probability that they will also say: "Please work hard."
If the god himself were more famous, he might be busy with several shrines at the same time, just like a bank employee accepting a commission.
Thinking about it this way, visiting the temple is really a bit like the service window of a bank, like being visited in prison.
Toru Watanabe couldn't help but laugh when he imagined Rin Kiyono being visited in prison.
Kujo Miki looked over, frowned and asked him, "Why are you laughing?"
"Listen to me..." Toru Watanabe told the two of them what he had just thought of, except for the last sentence.
After finishing, he added:
"So it's best not to make complicated and trivial wishes. Keep them simple and clear. Once the gods are happy, they might agree. For example: Give me 10 billion and I will live forever..."
"Watanabe-san, do you really understand the meaning of simplicity and clarity?" Rin Kiyono interrupted the dreaming Toru Watanabe.
"Compared with 'I hope my parents will be healthy, my children will go well in school, and I will get a promotion and a salary increase', 'Give me 10 billion' is not concise and clear enough?" Toru Watanabe asked.
"What you said is just concise and clear in words." Kujo Miki said.
"Oh, Contestant Meiji has something to say, please tell me." During the boring time of queuing, Toru Watanabe turned into the host.
Miki Kujo crossed her arms: "For God, a simple and clear wish should be 'own a doll', 'go on a trip' and so on."
"That's it." Toru Watanabe nodded and said to Rin Kiyono, "Kyono Rin, what do you think?"
"Same as Kujo-san."
"The two of you are really in tune with each other. You are indeed a person who has been married before."
After saying this, Toru Watanabe was stepped on by Miki Kujo.
"I advise you to be careful in your words and actions, Toru Watanabe-san." Rin Kiyono also stared at him with a gentle smile.
"I'm guilty, I repent, I was wrong, I'm sorry." Toru Watanabe raised his hands in surrender, while pretending that his feet were in pain.
He said: "I just want to liven up the New Year atmosphere, don't take it seriously. By the way, I want to interview Miss Mei Ji. What is the New Year like for rich people?"
"What else can I do? Relatives, work friends, and subordinates are coming to visit me one after another to pay New Year's greetings." When talking about this topic, Miki Kujo's face turned slightly gloomy.
It seems that the eldest lady herself doesn’t like the New Year celebrations of wealthy families.
"It's so hard." Watanabe Toru sighed without any sympathy.
"Speaking of New Year greetings, I remembered something." Kujo Miki smiled.
"Oh? Please speak!" Toru Watanabe was still playing the host.
Kujo Miki smiled and spread her hands to Toru Watanabe: "Give me the mobile phone."
"..."
"Hurry up." He raised his open palms.
Watanabe Toru reached for his phone and looked at Kiyono Rin out of the corner of his eye.
Lord Kiyonogami had no sympathy at all, and even seemed to approve of Miki Kujo's behavior. He was watching with great interest the action of Toru Watanabe slowly taking out his cell phone.
'God! No matter what God! My New Year's wish is: Senior sister, don't say ***, don't say ***, let alone say ***!'
The phone was handed into Miki Kujo's snow-white and slender hands.
The screen is already filled with New Year greetings.
Kujo Miki clicked on the line, Kiyono Rin looked over, and Kujo Miki glanced at her.
"You should need my help." Qingye Rin looked at the phone screen and said to himself.
Kujo Miki looked at her deeply, said nothing, and clicked on the first message.
Watanabe Toru: "..."
Everyone, when gods and demons stand side by side, and when the evening wind blows and their hair becomes tangled, the world... is hell.
"Who is this Miyamoto?" Kujo Miki asked.
"The wind section, the chief of the saxophone section." Qingye Rin answered.
"This?" Kujo Miki asked.
"Ikeda Kazumi, Watanabe-san's classmate." Kiyono Rin answered.
"You even know this?" Kujo Miki said in a bad tone.
"Not only do I know the names of all Watanabe-san's classmates, but I also know yours." Rin Kiyono said calmly.
"this?"
"Asuka Mai, principal of the wind section and bass section."
"this?"
"This is a boy."
"this?"
"Koizumi Aona, Watanabe-san likes my favorite teacher."
"Qingye-san, could you please stop using such ambiguous adjectives? I'm just my favorite teacher!"
Miki Kujo glanced at Toru Watanabe and continued to scroll down.
The two eldest ladies, who had no respect for Toru Watanabe's privacy at all, fell into silence and looked at him at the same time.
"What, what's wrong?" Watanabe Toru panicked.
But thinking about it carefully, Mai will be gone tomorrow, so there seems to be no need to panic.
Kujo Miki tapped her finger on the screen, and a youthful, lively, and ambiguous voice sounded.
"Toru-kun~Happy New Year~"
"Toru-kun~Happy New Year~"
Kujo’s mother! Kiyono’s mother! What are you doing!
As a mother, can you feel some distance from your son-in-law?
"You have a good relationship with them." Miki Kujo said in a meaningful tone.
"..." Toru Watanabe said, "Because of you, we have a good relationship. My direct relationship with them is really average."
Miki Kujo hummed, "You can do it yourself," and continued to scroll down.
"this?"
"Kaoru Hayami, principal of the oboe and bassoon section of the wind section, and current director."
In the chat that was "meaningless, but not boring at all, and even exciting," it was the three of them's turn to pay homage.
Toru Watanabe put three five-yen coins into the money box.
'God, I'll give you another chance, go!'
【New product:】
【Sunny Doll:】
I always feel like it's a great thing, but it's useless at all.
[Skills: Getting Started—Border Defense Service (100), Mastery—Children’s Nutrition and Health Care (1000), Mastery—Dodge (10,000), Master—Sanda (100,000)]
[Players redeem mastery level · dodge, 10,000 points will be deducted]
Watanabe Toru tried mind-reading and physical recovery, but failed to pass the physical recovery, and the master-level mind-reading was not as powerful as his instinctive observation of words and expressions.
He is also not interested in other professional knowledge.
I have self-discipline, extensive knowledge and strong memory, and I can rely on myself to learn whatever I want, so I simply chose dodge that allows me to advance, attack, and retreat to run.
To be continued...