[Net King] Pilgrim

But in any case, it is a fact that Qingxue and the others are not at Jiangdao Shrine at the moment.Echizen Ryoma told her so.

Machida was puzzled, "Then where did they go?"

The person being asked was obviously stumped.

When she was about to ask him why he was here alone, there was a burst of hunger in the depths of her stomach, so strong that she couldn't ignore it.

I left Tokyo in a hurry at noon. Before I left, I only ate two small rice balls brought by my mother. After arriving in Kamakura, I didn't have time to touch the bag of snacks in the room.

There is a Maruyaki shop next to the shrine, and Machida raised his hand towards him, "Sorry, just wait for me." After speaking, he hurried over.

Echizen Ryoma watched her run away, folded his arms and leaned against the tree.When he thought of leaving his jacket and jacket in the room where he put his phone, he didn't want to talk at all.

Machida ordered an octopus pancake at the Maruyaki shop. The chef poured a whole octopus into the batter and put it in the pan, then tightened the wrench hard.Just as she was watching, the phone in her pocket vibrated suddenly.

She looked at the caller ID before picking it up, "Brother Zhou Zhu?"

"Ajiu, Ajiu's cell phone is out of battery, let me call you." Fujisuke said calmly, "We walked to the botanical garden, and everyone wanted to come to the botanical garden to take pictures, so we didn't stay at the shrine for too long. After you arrive at the shrine You can come directly."

"It doesn't matter. I'm at the shrine. I'll just go to the front and find everyone later." Machida saw the octopus batter in the cake pan being sandwiched into paper-thin in an instant, and the aroma of the seasoning overflowed, hooking her Can not help but look forward.

"Okay, then we'll wait for you here."

The master maker was putting the cut biscuits into bags. When she took it, she was about to hang up the phone, but suddenly she heard him speak on the other end.

Machida stood in front of the store with a handful of food in his hands, and he could still feel the warmth in his palm through a layer of paper bags.

Bu Er Zhou Zhu's words came through the receiver, she was slightly taken aback after hearing it, and couldn't help but smile.

She hung up the phone and looked in Echizen Ryoma's direction.He turned his head and smiled at the master of the Maruyaki shop, "May I have another one, please?"

Echizen Ryoma leaned against the thick tree trunk beside the courtyard and closed his eyes to rest.

He wore a gray polo shirt and cropped pants of the same color. He had a different temperament from when he was wearing a student uniform. Although he still had no expression most of the time, he looked more casual and approachable than in school.

When Machida stepped on the mottled tree shadows on the ground and approached him, he was still wondering if he might have fallen asleep, and hesitated, "Echizen-kun?" The next second he was caught off guard by a pair of beautiful amber.

Echizen Ryoma straightened up and glanced at the food in her hand.

Machida felt embarrassed at this moment, "I'm really hungry, so I went to buy something to eat, sorry for making you wait so long." After speaking, he handed one of the bags in front of him, "Do you like seafood? ? This is octopus crisps, super invincible and delicious! It's one of Enoshima's internet celebrity delicacies!" There was a bit of imperceptible pride hidden in the tone.

For food recommendations, Machida has always been confident.

Echizen Ryoma didn't have any ups and downs, he looked up at her, and then moved his eyes to the food bag.After a moment of silence, he raised his hand to take it.

The unique aroma of seafood rushed into the nostrils along with the steaming heat, and she said again: "Don't worry, this one has no fishy smell at all."

The translucent shortbread is like paper, and the original appearance of the octopus can still be vaguely seen.He took a bite, and the strong seafood flavor was not fishy at all, and the taste was light and crispy.

"Thank you, it tastes good."

When Machida heard this, his eyes instantly turned into crescent moons, and then he lowered his head and began to eat.

She must be very hungry, she puts food into her mouth one after another, her expression looks extremely satisfied.Halfway through eating, she suggested, "If Echizen-kun doesn't mind, let's move on after eating."

Echizen Ryoma swallowed the food in his mouth and looked up at her.

She seemed to be eating very intently and didn't even raise her head. "Maybe everyone has already gone to the front. After all, the scenery you can enjoy from the shrine is quite limited." She tore off a corner of the paper bag and bit a large piece to reveal "I often came to Shonan when I was a child, and I am quite familiar with this place. Enoshima, the more you go inside, the more you can feel its beauty."

Her mouth was full of food and she was a little slurred, but her tone was serious, "The scenery ahead is more interesting than here at the shrine, I promise." As if to prove that her information is reliable, she said and raised her hand After eating the octopus crisps, I smiled like a little fox.

Echizen Ryoma glanced at the mobile phone pendant protruding from her pocket, and said silently, "I don't care."

With his awkward tone and slightly indifferent eyes at this time, Machida took the last piece of shortbread in the bag, and remembered what Fuji Shusuke said to her on the other end of the phone just now——

"By the way, if you see Echizen, bring him along. There are a lot of people along the way, maybe he lost his way after getting separated from everyone." He smiled, "However, I don't think he will Said he was lost."

Fortunately, she is eating now, otherwise there is really no way to hide the corners of her mouth that can't help but curl up.

The warm sun in the autumn afternoon ironed the clothes, and every part was covered with light.

After finishing the food, the two walked up the winding path to the botanical garden. The small courtyard was exquisitely decorated, and all kinds of flowers and plants were shining brightly in the sun.

The team members of Qingxue are gathering together to take a group photo under a natural laurel tree.

"Echigan!"

I don't know who shouted, causing the two of them to become the focus of the crowd in an instant.

A tall boy with black hair ran up to them, and without saying a word, he put his arms around Echizen Ryoma's neck, "Where did you go!? You didn't pick up your phone, which made everyone worry!"

"I'm going to be out of breath, A Tao-senpai." Echizen Ryoma was full of reluctance, wanting to tear off his arm hanging on his body, "... Senpai, aren't you very happy taking pictures, you don't look worried about me. "

"Because Senior Fuji told everyone that you would come soon, and told us not to worry about you!"

……

Kazuki Machida touched his nose in embarrassment, and out of the corner of his eyes, he caught sight of Qing Xue and his group standing not far away.

She has mediocre eyesight, but she still caught Machida Hisashi at a glance. He raised his eyebrows, and his eyes looked back and forth between her and Echizen Ryoma.She squinted at him, and didn't bother to pay attention to his inexplicable smile.

At the same time, the deliberately lowered voice came into her ears.

"Echizen, you disappeared for so long... Could it be that you went on a secret date with a girl?"

Echizen Ryoma had an expression of "Senior, you think too much".

"..." Machida touched his nose, "That..."

Then the topic finally stopped, and the person known as Senior A Tao took a step forward in front of her, stretched out one hand, and put the other behind his head in embarrassment, "Excuse me, my name is Takeshi Momoshiro, Second Qing Xue Grade. Please don't mind the joke just now."

His tone was apologetic, and his voice was full of energy, making it sound oddly formal.

Machida shook his head slightly and smiled, "It's okay. Hello senior, my name is Machida Kazu." She shook his hand generously as she spoke, and she glanced at Echizen Ryoma next to her from the corner of her eye, and added, "It's Echizen-kun's classmate."

Takeshi Momoshiro obviously paid more attention to her name than the last sentence of an understatement, "Machida?"

He thought for a while, and said in surprise: "Then Senior Fuji said that Senior Jiu's younger sister will also come, so it's you?"

Before she could reply, he apologized to her again and again. His sincere and enthusiastic appearance made people feel a little fond of her.

Echizen Ryoma just stood lazily aside, and finally glanced at her when Momoshiro dragged her to take a photo, "Machida, you too."

The meeting process between Machida Kazu and the tennis club seniors seems a little unreasonable.She was eagerly pulled to take a group photo first, and then introduced each other, the order was completely reversed.

If I ignore Machida's even more ambiguous smile, she really feels that she has met a group of cute seniors.

It’s just that senior Gan pushed his glasses halfway, and suddenly said, “My data can’t calculate the follow-up development of Echizen and Machida”, which made the scene a little out of control for a while, and finally Senior Oishi had to come forward to smooth things over, smiling helplessly at her Said: "Sorry Machida, you can understand that this is a way of greeting from the tennis club, although it may be more... different."

As soon as Machida looked at the scene in front of him, he was a little caught off guard at first, but he quickly merged into the long-lost relaxed atmosphere, smiling brightly, "This is the most special greeting I have ever seen."

Later, as she said, in the years after that, even though she traveled to various places and met all kinds of people, she still believed that under the evergreen laurel trees in Enoshima, The informal meeting between her and the main selection of the Qing Xue Tennis Club is the most impressive memory of her youth.

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Machida Kazu and Echizen Ryoma mentioned that the more you walk in Enoshima, the more you can feel its beauty.

When she remembered this sentence, she was walking with everyone through the green garden to the outlook lighthouse on the top of the island, but when she got to the bottom of the tower, the more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, so she walked two steps behind Echizen Ryoma, and lightly poked the back of his hand .

When his attention turned here, she tilted her head slightly, pulled a little closer and said to him: "I thought about it, and I think it is necessary to correct what I just said."

Echizen Ryoma was still thinking about what Senpai Amo said in his head a moment ago, and that Senpai Fuji knew that he would come to the botanical garden soon.

In fact, at that time, he was leaning against the tree next to the shrine, and he saw Machida standing in front of the Maruyaki shop answering the phone from a distance, but there was some distance in the middle, so he couldn't hear what he said clearly.

Afterwards, she ran back and suggested him to go forward while eating, as if she felt that he was reluctant to leave because of the view of the shrine, and she was just encouraging him to take a look ahead.As long as you think about the connection back and forth, you can easily guess that the call was from Senior Fuji.

She just changed his way and solved his troubles.

Machida was very close to him, almost shoulder to shoulder, and told him in a serious tone that he wanted to correct what he said just now.

He waited for her next words, and saw that her black pearl-like eyes were full of seriousness: "Enoshima, the more you go up, the more you can feel its beauty."

After she finished speaking, she turned around with a smile, stopped, and raised her head to look up.

Echizen Ryoma stopped, followed her gaze and looked up.

The towering lighthouse stands majestically in front of you. The tower body looks like a budding flower, blooming from bottom to top. The hollowed-out fence design adds a bit of modernity, and the observatory connected to the top of the tower is harmonious.

They went up the spiral staircase to the observation deck at the top, and after passing through the narrow passage, they suddenly saw the light.

"At this time, being tall has an advantage." Machida muttered softly while lying on the railing, quietly looking at the Pacific Ocean in the distance.

The melodious sea level, the undulating birds, and the flocculent white clouds hang in the sky, indistinguishable from the end of the sky.

Echizen Ryoma was standing beside her, his arms leaning on the fence and leaning towards his center of gravity.

From his position, he can overlook Mount Fuji in the distance. The mist is floating across the top of the mountain. The mountain range is covered with jade-like white snow, as if leaning on the embrace of the sky.

He was silent for a while, "The top of this tower should be the highest point of Enoshima."

A few seniors behind him took pictures happily, and Machida looked at him when he heard the words, a little confused who he was talking to.

For a long time, he was still staring straight ahead, just when she thought she had heard wrong just now, Echizen Ryoma suddenly looked at her with clear eyes.

Before she could respond, he turned his head away as if nothing had happened, and hooked the corners of his mouth, "Because this is the most beautiful place."