To the eternal you

Inazuma Castle has such a legend.

Legend has it that on the night of December 12 at the end of every year, a mysterious person will fly in the sky on a sled pulled by 24 Shiba Inumaru, enter the house through the chimney from door to door, and then secretly put gifts on the child's bed stocking, or piled under the Christmas tree by the fireplace.The rest of the year, she's busy making gifts and supervising the children's behavior.

Although no one has actually seen the appearance of the mysterious person, people think that she is the incarnation of the late Ou-sho-sama, wearing a red hat, a big white beard, a red cotton-padded coat, and black boots. A big bag of presents, because presents always appear on Christmas Eve, so it is customary to call her "Christmas Thor"——

At the end of the year, everyone is working hard to prepare the New Year's items, and the warm-up dance for the sacrifice is just coming to an end. The streets are full of people coming and going, and there are also some foreigners mixed in.

Most of them are tourists from Liyue, Mond, and Fontaine, and there are also many scholars from Xumi.

Among them are scholars who study folklore, as well as politicians from other countries who come to learn from the emerging experience, but most of them are scientific and technological scholars headed by the Fontaine people. It's like glue, inseparable. From time to time, bachelors are sent to study or do some big projects.

Regarding this country that clearly expressed its hostility to Solstice Winter among the Seven Kingdoms, everyone always came here with different thoughts, some agreed, and some held dissent, but generally the latter dared to speak nonsense in public places and would inevitably be caught. Tianling pursues please drink tea.

In one of the most prosperous streets of Inazuma Castle, Hanamazaka.

With eye-catching ghost horns and hair like a silver hedgehog, it looks like a gangster young man from the ghost clan is holding a lollipop in his mouth, dangling as if he is patrolling his own territory.

"I said, do you really think there is such a thing as Christmas Thor? You can't believe that kind of thing that deceives children. You can tell it's some kind of street writer who made it up to attract people's attention..."

Ararataki has a penetrating loud voice, and at this moment, his younger brother, Akira, and Genta are covering their mouths together, and A Shouzheng hastily bowed and apologized to the people around him who looked at him frowning and explained.

Ararataki Ichidou actually believed it, but as he grew older, he gradually felt that it was a trick to deceive children. Of course, the main reason was that he was like a gangster. He hadn’t received a gift for several years, so he simply refused I feel like it's gone.

No matter how you look at it, he is a very willful, stupid, and ghost-like guy.

"Be careful, today is the day of the holiday, and you will be locked up in the prison for talking nonsense like this. I don't want to write another psychiatric bail for you..."

Jiu Qiren said helplessly.

"And if you have to say it, we can't be considered good children, right? Isn't it normal not to receive gifts?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Even though he is the leader of the Ararataki faction, the rest of the younger brothers are not ghosts, and even the talking Kuki Shinobi is a girl, but he doesn't have any airs about the brothers below him.

In other words, in the face of such a situation where the little brothers all expressed their opinions, even he could only obediently agree, and A Huang and Yuan Tai also let go.

"Bah! Bah!" Huang Taki took a few long breaths, and said in distaste, "You two didn't wash your hands after going to the toilet, did you?"

"..."

Ah Huang and Yuan Tai turned their faces away pretending to be reserved.

"Hey! Refute it! What ah!"

Ararataki struggled with the expression of eating a ghost worm, and pouted a few times, then looked at Jiu Qiren.

"And speaking of it, I haven't forgotten the bail letter you wrote me last time! Are you humiliating me!?"

"Then you mean to live in the classroom at the end of the year! Do you want your mother-in-law to worry about you and shed tears, during this lively New Year's Eve party?"

Hisaki Shinobu just looked back like a dead fish.

"...You...cough cough! I admit that I spoke a little louder just now, and please don't tell my mother-in-law."

Ararataki Ichidou was picked up by his human mother-in-law when he was young, and brought him up. For him, besides Douzi's weakness, affection is also the weakness of this handsome man.

"Well, anyway, boss, let's hurry up and decide how to celebrate the year-end party this time."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Ah Huang hurriedly said.

"I hope it's not roasted violet melon..." Yuantai and Ah Shou looked bitter.

In previous years, there was a pansy melon meeting. Roasting pansy melons is not a problem, but it is a big problem to only eat pansy melons, especially when a whole bucket of pans was brought in that year...

"Huh ha ha ha ha! You guys are underestimating me. This time, I did odd jobs for a few more days and earned a lot of Mora. I can invite everyone to have a good meal together!"

Ararataki fumbled into the wallet with a stinky face, it was a snapper wallet, plump, it was sewn for him by the ghost mother-in-law.

"Eh... eh?! Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Jiu Qiren looked at him with a helpless expression. This guy is so blah about everything that people can't help but care about him. When he realized it, he found that he couldn't look back, but it would be nice if he could be more mature. up.

"Didn't you go back to your mother-in-law's house before? Did you forget about it for your mother-in-law at that time?"

"Huh... Speaking of which, it seems that this is the case, but I remember that there should be some money left."

Arataki Ichito scratched his head in distress, but soon he combed his hair stinkingly because he was concerned about his hairstyle.

"If that's the case, why don't you do that?" Ah Huang suggested.

"Which one is that?" Ararataki asked in confusion, turning his face to the side.

"It's the ceremony to welcome Lord Thunder God!"

In order to welcome Mr. Thunder God every year, most families, no matter whether they have children or not, will prepare the best dishes for the year, that’s right——cooking!And it is a dish with red and white elements.

When the last family gathers together to enjoy the perfect food, they can decide to build a bonfire in their yard and dance to pray to the gods, or to put the food in a shrine for offering.

In this way, when you wake up tomorrow, you can receive the gift from Mr. Thor.

"That's okay... Let's cook the world's best gourmet cuisine together, and then finish it off with a singing club. It's not bad, let's do it like this!"

Ararataki became more and more beautiful as he thought about it. His bold voice, which seemed to have a megaphone in his throat, attracted everyone's attention. Finally, under Jiu Qiren's embarrassing expression, he dragged his ears and screamed all the way back to his mother-in-law's house .

No matter what, Arrataki faction's goal for today is finalized!

——The girl is praying——

"Master General."

Kutiao Shaluo is kneeling in the palace of the Great Imperial Palace, meeting General Raiden.

"About the gift, the person in charge of the club said that it's almost ready."

"I know."

General Lei Dian was putting on makeup, put on a warm red padded robe, glued on a big white beard, and put on a red hat at the same time.

"That... this subordinate has something I want to ask." Probably because I couldn't help my inner curiosity, or because I saw such a close-to-people appearance, Jiujo Shaluo's original restrained attitude slowed down a lot, and even Muster up the courage to speak out.

"What's the matter?"

General Lei Dian seemed not to notice that there was something wrong with his attire at all, and replied in a dignified tone.

"In the past, the Christmas gifts were also distributed by the General...?"

Kujo Sara thought that he had asked a stupid question. After all, in terms of normal rationality, no matter how you looked at it, it could only be Lord General. Although it was hard to feel the shattering of childhood dreams, but the thought of being the extremely revered Lord Thor in front of him felt broken. mood gradually recovered.

"Not really."

After the general put on the big white beard, he tidied up his appearance again. Although his face was expressionless, this was a festive or lively attire, which concealed his sense of alienation well.

"That means... does the legendary Christmas Thor really exist?"

Kujo Sharo asked subconsciously.

"Well, it does exist."

"That's your sister...that Lord Qi?"

"Exactly."

"But if that's true, why is Master Qi unwilling to come back into everyone's sight...?"

This question seems to involve some mystery, the general paused and did not answer, but you will know such a perfunctory answer later.

Of course she knew the truth, that's because it was a one-day miracle.

Now, my sister must be at Narugami Taisha, facing those two women with evil intentions.

She sighed and motioned for Kujo to lead her to the place where the presents were placed.

It's just that when she arrived, there was nothing there, only the cold wind blowing——

"..."

"How could this happen?! How dare you steal in the Tianshou Pavilion! I will arrange for the people of Tianling to look for it."

"No need, my sister is already one step ahead of us."

"Sister...Sister? Is it Mr. Qi... This is really unimaginable."

It is difficult for Jiujo Shaluo to describe this delicate mood.

"In that case, let's go to Narujin Taisha Shrine to prepare for the festival."

The general didn't intend to look for it, my sister would naturally come to the door at night, and it would be fine to make a move at that time.

Now go find trouble with those two women, especially...that stupid woman who cooks every year after the statute of limitations expires.

Last year, she made an appointment with Yae Shenzi to make a sumptuous meal together to make a wish. She even lost her temper and insisted on wearing children's clothes.

The most important thing is that she is also responsible for cooking the dishes. Sometimes I really want to open her mind to see.

Is it filled with sky grass or song grass? Why do you sprinkle electric crystal powder to enhance the flavor when you think of roasted violet melon?

Is this really the thinking of a normal cook?In short, it was really annoying to cry to death because I didn't receive a gift that year.

By the way, the general who perfectly followed the etiquette of a good boy received a gift, and it must be the same this year.

At this moment, above the sky above Inazuma Castle.

There was a melodious bell ringing, a sleigh full of gifts was being dragged by Shiba Inu led by Chabusimaru, and a pretty girl in red was singing Christmas songs while holding the reins.

"Jingle bells~jingle bells, jingle bells~"

"We had so much fun skiing~we sat on the sled~"