The Difficulty of a Comprehensive Manga Is an Ordinary Life

The shrine has been dilapidated, and the torii's shimenawa hangs the precipitation of the years. Countless emas, tree shadows, and vines coexist.The boy in the white shirt climbed up the tree to look for the oldest ema, the sunlight cut by the leaves flooded his shirt, his face and his light golden eyes.His figure is thin and slender, appearing and disappearing among the green leaves, like a beautiful painting.

The grown-up appearance is really refreshing and bright.

Qianyang and Natsume met when they were seven years old. At that time, both of Natsume's parents died, and he moved to relatives' homes in various places. Later, he was taken into his own home by his mother Zenami Yuo.But the mother's financial resources are limited, and she will only take Natsume to live in her home during the winter and summer vacations. Later, when her mother passed away, they have not contacted or met again for a long time.

Next to it, the paper jam, which is said to be trying to recall the clues, is enjoying the coolness in the shadow of the hot day.

According to the woman, Qianyang controlled the time of Ema to four or fifty years ago and screened the area, but still had no clue.After working for an hour, no matter what Natsume and Qianyang gave the woman, she said that she had no impression or feeling.Seeing that Natsume was already sweating, Qianyang tidied up a clean place in the shrine for Natsume to rest.

"It's been so long, she's forgotten everything. Even if she finds it, she won't recognize it anymore." Qian Yang said sincerely, "It's worth cherishing that feeling, but forgetting is forgetting .It’s in front of me, but I can’t remember it.”

Natsume pursed her lips, but said nothing.

Qian Yang's words got no response, so he sighed and looked at the scenery outside the door.

The woman wearing a mask stood under the Ema wall, removed her mask, revealing an extremely delicate face, with fair complexion, like piled white snow, trimmed with golden edges in the sun.

"Qian, don't you think this woman is very kind?" Natsume asked suddenly.

"That said, I seem to have seen it somewhere." Qian Yang looked at the woman intently, and several images flashed in his mind.

"It's the debut work of the national treasure-level painting master Sorato Nohara - the protagonist of "The Thorn Girl"." Qianyang opened the laptop he was carrying with him to Natsume, and said affirmatively. The album of "Girl with Thorns", the first album that the two of them read at the bookstore when they had no money.What impressed Qian Yang the most was the girl who took a shortcut and ran from the thorn forest in order to say goodbye to her friend.She brought a flower among the thorns and smiled all over her face.

Like the light at dawn, like the epiphyllum that blooms overnight, the beauty is touching and shocking.

I heard that it was painted by Nohara Sorato, but the person who helped to submit it made a mistake.At that time, Sorato Nohara lost his temper. He would rather pay compensation than cancel all the contracts and take back the works.But I don’t know who listened to someone’s words, or I figured it out, or I received some news, and I stubbornly added a sentence in the painting of the work【君がため晚しからざりし明さへ长くもがなと思ひけるかな】, agreed to publish the work.Up to now, it still makes people speculate and don't understand.

"So, I seem to have seen an ema with the surname [Nohara] just now." Having got a clue, Natsume and Zen Ami immediately set off to find the ema. From old to new, there are seven pieces in total, but each piece is a prayer. Wishing you good health, you didn't specify who it was for, and if you put it in front of a woman, she didn't even have an impression.

Natsume also showed Nohara's paintings to the woman, but she remained silent for a long time.

Because she was wearing a mask, Qian Yang didn't know her expression either.

When everyone was at a loss, the paper clip shouted: "I remembered. If it is related to the painting, I remember that her name was put in an ema. Reiko sent the ema to a painter."

"It's very likely that it was sent to Sorato Nohara. We can go to him and maybe we can get his name." Natsume said, "But we don't know where he is now."

Hearing this, Qian Yang turned on the phone and looked in the phone book.If it's about finding someone, Senior Jing Ye has a very powerful bodyguard organization.Grandpa's whereabouts were found by him.

"You wait for me, it will be fine soon."

On the other side of the phone, on the private beach, Feng Jingye was sunbathing, while others were playing beach volleyball, swimming and surfing on the private beach.

"Moses, is it Senior Mirror Night?"

"Oh, isn't this Qianyang sauce?" Feng Jingye's tone was surprisingly a little more cheerful than usual, making Qianyang shudder inexplicably. "What's wrong?"

"I want to trouble seniors to help me find someone."

Qian Yang immediately added consciously: "I will bring gifts back."

"Oh, that's it. Who is it?" Feng Jingye lost interest, but still asked.

"Nohara Sorato. The one famous for painting "The Maiden of Thorns."

"Why are you looking for him?"

"Because I want to ask him about the Thorn Maiden."

Jing Ye was silent for a moment, then suddenly said with a smile: "I will reply to you. If you want to give me a gift, just choose the first gift you got in Yayuan."

"Ah?...I see." Qian Yang felt that Jing Ye was planning, but he didn't know what would benefit him.

"What's the matter?" Huan just came out of the sea, her blond hair was covered with a white towel, and the water on her hair was still dripping down.He could see Jing Ye sitting on the beach chair with a smile on his face when he looked up.

"Venture investment."

"Huh?" Huan looked at Jing Ye inexplicably.

Mirror Night is very fast.The message was that Sorato Nohara happened to be in the No. 60 Hospital in Kumamoto Prefecture where Zen Ami was located.After all, he is over [-] years old, and he himself was oppressed and bullied by his employer when he was young, and his physical foundation is very poor. Now he is basically lingering on his last breath.

Natsume and Zen Ami got the news and immediately prepared to leave, but the woman refused to move.

"I'm an earthbound spirit, I can't leave here."

With a smug smile that knows everything, he said in a tone of paper, "You are not an earthbound spirit. In my judgment, you are actually just an ordinary undead. Maybe it is because you have an obsession with the ema of the shrine that you can't leave. , as long as you bring the ema, you can leave."

Natsume immediately persuaded: "Go and take a look, you may remember something, and maybe the name is there. Maybe that person has been waiting for you."

Zenami was a game designer and also learned painting, and his teacher was Sorato Nohara's first disciple. Although he only studied for a short week, he also heard the story about the girl with thorns from there.

Maidens are the daughters of landowners who work as shrine maidens.At that time, Nohara was a poor boy who was often bullied.In the shrine, two people meet and get to know each other.Nohara's knowledge was taught to him by a girl in the early days, including literacy and painting.The girl is a lively and cheerful girl. Although restricted by her family and rules, she lives a very depressed life alone.She has never left the shrine, but once when Nohara left Yahara, the girl ran to see him off desperately.This moved Nohara very much.

If she is the girl in Nohara's painting, then she should see him again and send him off.

God knows how much he wanted to see her again.

God knows, he knew how desperate she felt after she died.

"There is nothing to lose by going there. Let's go!" Zen Ami took the woman's hand, and the woman followed her blankly and walked out of the shrine.

"Nohara……"

Zenami and Natsume took a car to the city center, the nursing home where Nohara was located.

Nohara looked older than the old people of the same age group, he was very thin, sitting in a wheelchair, quietly basking in the sun.His hands were always shaking unconsciously, unable to hold anything.

The woman looked at him suspiciously.

Natsume asked with the mood of trying: "Excuse me, have you ever received an ema from a girl surnamed Natsume before?" Not to mention, did he receive it.Jiema - that should have been a long time ago, plus he is old and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, do you still remember?

The old man's blank face suddenly seemed to recall something, he reached into his chest pocket, took out an old but still clean ema and handed it to Natsume, "Are you sending her to see me as agreed?"

"Fortunately, I didn't make me wait too long." The old man said with a smile.

For more than 40 years, he said, fortunately, he did not wait too long.

The middle of the ema is empty, and a piece of white paper with the name of the monster is stuffed inside. ——Aoki Tokizuki.

Xia Mu looked at it, put his hands together, put the paper on his lips, and said a mantra: "In your name, please accept it." A line like splashed ink fell on the woman.

【"Even if I die, I hope he can live well and live long."

"It's just, I'm afraid, if you wait for a long time, the memory will slowly fade, right? I can't remember anything."

"If you forget that feeling, it will be very sad."

"Can you help me seal up my name and my memory together, so that when he finally dies in his life, I can fully preserve my feelings of being desperate for him?"】

The old man smiled, even though he couldn't see the woman who was holding his hand crying and smiling for him.His hands were still shaking, but he could still take out the seven emas that Zenami had brought.

Among the seven sheets of paper, some of them could no longer be seen clearly.

There is one that says [I'm leaving. 】Maybe because of this, there is the story of the Thorn Girl.

"If there is no thousand, it may not be resolved so quickly."

Standing beside Qianyang, Natsume seemed to be talking to himself, or just wanted to say to Qianyang in a low voice: "If it was me, if it was me who waited for more than 40 years."

Qian Yang turned his head and looked at him.

Natsume didn't look back, just looked at the two long-lost people with a smile, and continued: "I won't forget, and I won't want to forget."

Qian Yang suddenly felt heat rushing into his eyes, raised his head, controlled his tone of voice, and said, "Natsume, you should scold me." It's not like you can erase everything with a smile for making you wait so long. everything.

The feeling of waiting is very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable.

Every time I look forward to it, it is accompanied by every disappointment.But he was unwilling to give up like this, and only hoped that he could see what he wanted at the next glance.Like that, is the torment of the heart.

Natsume couldn't help laughing, rubbed Qianyang's hair with his hands and said, "Idiot, I'm talking about you. Are you satisfied?"

"Also, don't cry."

"I didn't cry." Qian Yang continued to look up.

"Yes, it was raining."

Later, Qian Yang, who wanted to tell Senior Jing Ye that he hadn't received anything, received a set of paintings, one of which said so.

[The young man who traveled far away mustered up his courage and handed the ema to the girl. The girl took out the paper inside the ema, on which was written "Kimi ga tame xi shi karara zari shi ming さへ 长 くもがなと思けるかかな"]

君がため怀しからざりし明さへ长くもがなと思けるかかな.

I cherish my life for you, and I hope that we will meet each other for a long time.

I thought it didn't matter when I died, until I met you.From the moment I met you, I began to pray that I could stay with you forever.

Then the girl hugged the boy.

The real "The Maiden of Thorns" story ends.

It is said that it was drawn by Aoki Tokizuki.

Nohara Sorato's painting is accompanied by a smiling beautiful woman. This painting is said to be the last work of Nohara Sorato.The value has been rising in units of millions, but no one knows who this painting is for.

The painting reads [I am so forgetful when I am old, but I never forget lovesickness. 】

"Nohara Sorato, unmarried all his life, the only person he loves may be the thorny girl endowed with a soul in the painting. I don't know that this thorny girl who seems to come from the sky has attracted countless people by her sincere smile and The girl touched by the courage to run desperately is Nohara's own imagination, and it still exists." - "Fujiwara Sorato Two or Three Events in the Life of Fujiwara"

This Nohara painting was opened by Qianyang first, so it was the first gift he received from Yahara.

Then, it is now put away by Jing Ye.

The author has something to say:

After the two chapters of Natsume's plot are over, we will officially enter the plot of the preparatory master Asahina. If you want to watch the plot of Asahina, please wait a little longer.

I hope everyone is in a good mood today~

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