Chapter 492 1 period of leisure
The period when the cherry blossoms smell the most at Narukami Taisha Shrine has passed.
The air sniffed in the nose was a little hotter, and when he looked up, the sky was clear and clear, the wind was light and the clouds were light. The blue sky was much higher than Rina could fly, and he could always see the end.
It's already summer.
A season passed quickly and inadvertently, and Rina's entire spring day passed like that.
I spent less than half of my time with wood carvings and most of my time with my friends. The rest of my time was spent on the eaves of Narukami Taisha Shrine listening to the prayers of passers-by in a daze, and I continued to feel confused.
Then one day, she met Maplehara Manyo again in reality.
Maplehara Manyo came to Narukami Taisha Shrine again at this time, not to follow her father to pray for blessings, but to come specifically to see her.
"I haven't come to see Rina for a long time. I have nothing to do today. I miss you a little." He said.
"Miss you? But we always meet in my little world."
"That's different." The other person replied.
For Manyo Maplehara, Rina Yae is her first friend.
The Maplehara family is a declining noble. Although many of the families he once befriended have now lost contact, his father's training for him has not been lost.
His father asked him to become the next head of the Fengyuan family. He did not refuse this kind of training, but he had few friends because of it.
So he could unexpectedly become friends with Yae Rina... He had always been happy about this.
The two went shopping together in Inazuma Castle. Looking at the unchanged shops and products, Rina was a little uninterested.
"Even Inazuma Castle has nothing new." The little monster finally walked and went to the beach with Maplehara Manyo.
She stepped on the gravel washed by the waves with one foot and one foot at a time, and said somewhat happily: "It would be boring if there is nothing new. Fortunately, you came to play with me, otherwise I would still be on the eaves of Narukami Taisha Shrine." Stay."
Inazuma is a country under the rule of General Raiden. General Raiden's philosophy of governing the country is "eternity", but can "eternity" and "static" be equated?
Rina doesn't know.
She doesn't know how to think about national affairs, and she can't figure out why. She doesn't have the mind of Yae Shenzi who takes every step and calculates ten steps. She just feels that... this kind of life is too boring.
And when she thought that she would continue to be so boring in the future, maybe it was her nature that made her feel uncomfortable all over.
Maplehara Manyo stretched out her hand and touched Rina's fluffy white hair, which was regarded as a silent comfort.
"Perhaps we can go and see other places?" He looked at the sun in the distance, which was gradually setting over the sea level, with an imperceptible longing in his voice. "I have always felt that this world is very vast."
There are countless books in the house, and those books not only record the past of the Maplehara family, but also record the vast world of Teyvat.
What kind of customs and customs are there in other countries, and how different they are from Inazuma... Just looking at them, Manyo Maplehara felt that her thoughts had followed those books, taking the cheapest trip around the world.
"If there is a chance..." He lowered his eyelashes, "I want to be a person who can travel everywhere."
Yae Rina said "Wow", her lake-blue eyes suddenly lit up, "Your wish is so special!"
Rina can travel around the world at any time, but she doesn't pursue freedom, and Shenzi is willing to let her go to various places.
She doesn't like traveling alone, it's a bit deserted, so she always stops to rest.
But after hearing what Wanyo said, she felt that her little friend was working too hard.
Otherwise...should we find more opportunities to play with him?
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It was also on this day that Maplehara Manyo finally met one of Yae Rina's new friends - Arataki Ito.
Arataki Yidou is here to catch the ghost bear insect.
He stuck his butt out and searched intently in the grass for a long time. He didn't see the strong Guidou Chong, but was suddenly patted from behind.
"Hey Ichito!" Rina suddenly appeared.
Arataki was startled, and then he sat down on the ground quite embarrassed.
"I'm scared to death! It's you, Rina, long time no see!" Naturally, his eyes fell on the person next to Yae Rina, "Is this your friend?"
Arataki Ito has a very free and easy personality.
As soon as they met and got to know each other, after Rina said "This is Manyo", Maplehara Manyo watched helplessly as the ghost boy suddenly gave out a very healthy smile.
"Hahahaha, are you the Man'ye brother that Rina often talks about? Since you are Rina's friend, you are my friend! Brother Man'ye, don't be polite, just ask me to fight!"
Maplehara Manyo thought about how wild and uninhibited the character of Arataki Ito was in Rina's mouth (this was Rina's description). Now that he saw it, he realized that Rina's description was extremely accurate.
"A fight." He followed suit.
Maplehara Manyo and Arataki Yito seem to have different styles, but they get along surprisingly well.
In this way, Rina Yae made Maplehara Manyo a new friend.
The three of them had nothing to do, so they went together to catch the ghost bug that Arataki Ichito recommended. Maplehara Manyo and Yae Rina watched helplessly as Arataki Ichito caught the bug and then went to challenge other children with great satisfaction. After losing the game, he became a walking corpse in despair.
Two people: "..."
After searching for it all afternoon, I ended up losing it in just one game... In one fight, you are so miserable.
Maplehara Manyo thought for a while, and finally focused on the ghost beast crawling on the side: "Let's fight, I will play a game with you."
And of course he lost.
So the ghost boy was resurrected with full blood.
The three of them were walking under the fading sunset, and the shadows behind them were extremely long.
"Rina, why didn't you see Xiaomiya today?"
"Xiaogong... I've been to her house before. She said she didn't pay attention when making fireworks and accidentally lit a firewood pile on fire. Now she's punished by her father..."
"It's so miserable."
"Yeah, I think so too..."
As the children left, those childish words gradually disappeared in the air.
Yae Rina thought, actually this is not bad.
Freedom always means loneliness. Life alone is not pleasant. Rather than that, it is better to stay here all the time.
...if these things could go on forever.
Maybe, like Kamiko, she will become an official shrine maiden who has lived in Narukami Taisha Shrine for a long time?
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Time flies, and Inazuma's sense of being unchanged is always easy to blur the concept of time.
In the sixth year after Rina met Maplehara Manyo, his father passed away.
"It's because of overwork."
"Rina..." He stood at the front of the funeral with a low voice, looking at the little bird that flew so far to visit him in his home.
His words were generally calm, but there was a suppressed trembling at the end.
"I have no family anymore," he said.
The eyes, like red maples in autumn, were closed, suppressing the fleeting sadness.
The bird flapped its wings and flew to his shoulder, then nuzzled him gently, like a silent comfort.
Human life always seems to be short.
The little monster thought.
This fact...youkai must accept it, and humans themselves must also accept it.
The separation of life and death seems to happen in an instant.