‘It’s quiet.’
It was early, so the garden behind the inn was quiet.
When the cool autumn wind blows, the red maple leaves sway gently and fall into the pond.
Holding cider in one hand, I walk along the trail while enjoying the scenery in moderation.
‘yes?’
But there was one passenger in the garden that I thought there would be no one but me.
It was Hattori Ayame, who just recently transferred from Osaka.
Sitting on the rock, she was, to her surprise, surrounded by a flock of sparrows, which sat on her arms and legs, chirping happily.
To be honest, it was an unbelievable sight.
It was the first time I had seen a wild sparrow follow a human so well.
It was when I lost my mind and looked at her.
“who?”
Perhaps feeling the gaze towards her, she turned her head toward me.
A momentary gaze.
She immediately smiled and waved her hand.
“Hello, Kim. Why are you standing there blankly?”
“Uh, that’s it.”
I didn’t do anything, but it feels like I was caught doing something bad.
‘I was curious and looked at it.’
Is it not possible to answer that?
“It was just a passing road.”
He tried to get out of the crisis by giving an easy answer like that, but Hattori didn’t seem to want to let him go easily.
“Would you like to come over here?”
It was already too late to run away, so I had no choice but to approach her.
As I approached, Hattori showed me the sparrow on the palm of her hand and said,
“This child is called Chosuke. It’s a sparrow I’ve been raising since I was little.”
Then, as if understanding human speech, the sparrow on her palm spreads one wing and chirps! and cried.
It was something that could only happen in manga, but considering the worldview, it was quite possible, so I decided to do it.
“cute.”
“Is not it?”
As if she had received a compliment, Ayame said so with great joy, and realized later that she had been too attached to her.
“Originally, I couldn’t take it to Tokyo, so I left it at my hometown, but it seems that I flew from Osaka to Kyoto with my friends to see me.”
Tit!
If these words were true, I could only say that their loyalty was great.
No matter how close Osaka and Kyoto were, it would take at least several hours to fly with these short wings.
As he stroked his head with his index finger with such boldness, Chosuke closed his eyes as if he was happy.
‘… cute.’
It was a time when I seriously thought about it with a grin in my heart.
Suddenly, Ayame, who was next to me, puts it! and burst out laughing.
“????”
I looked at her, not understanding what was going on, but Ayame was still laughing with a tearful face.
She calmed down after a while and looked at me and said.
“Kim-kun, do you like cute things that are different from what they look like?”
“……”
I avoided her interest-filled gaze.
because it was true.
When I stopped stroking, Chosuke slid up on Hattori’s shoulder and looked at me with bright eyes.
It felt like it was piercing my heart.
Feeling uncomfortable with that gaze, I slowly decided to go back.
“Then, I’ll go first. You’ll come in too late.”
When I said that and got up my bent body, Hattori nodded and said yes.
I thought of breaking up with her on the way home.
‘If you think about it, you don’t know anything about Hattori.’
We’d been together for a while, but I didn’t really care about her.
Just because she was an Insa transfer student from Osaka, that was the impression I had on her.
However, from the previous conversation, I realized that she was no ordinary person.
‘There must be some secret.’
It was a national rule in a sense that transfer students had secrets in the world of manga.
I don’t know if the secret she is holding will be good or bad for me, but I decided to watch it for now.
Because I thought there was no need to go first.
***
The morning of the second day of the school trip.
After a simple breakfast, we boarded a tour bus and headed to the movie village.
By the way, the official name of the movie town is Toei Uzumasa Eigamura.
It is usually abbreviated as ‘Movie Village’ because it is too long, and it is a huge theme park that reproduces the streets of the Edo period like a Korean folk village for the purpose of filming. So, although the facility is usually open to tourists, it was also used as a set for movies and dramas if necessary.
Among the historical dramas filmed here, ‘Shinsengumi!’ is the most recognizable work, and thanks to this drama, the jade-colored haori unique to the Shinsengjo is being sold to Japanese tourists.
Anyway, I arrived at the movie village after driving about 30 minutes from the dorm.
Despite standing on the watch the night before, Matsuda, who was still alive, blew a whistle and shouted to the students lined up in front of the bus.
“The bus departs at 2pm, so you can act freely until then!
With a brief note, Matsuda, who informed the time when the car was leaving, immediately joined the other classmates and entered the movie town.
“Then, let’s move slowly.”
“okay.”
Ryuji and I at Satoru’s proposal, who were excited in many ways, nodded at the same time.
The reason we are in such a hurry is that ‘Movie Village’ is used as a meeting place in a sense.
School excursions In season, high schools all over Japan come to Kyoto for school excursions.
And when it comes to sightseeing spots in Kyoto, this movie town is a must-see, and it is considered a semi-essential course for school trips.
This is because you can spend a lot of time in one place without having to go to another place.
Truly, a schedule optimized for ‘hunting’ other school students.
I looked at the back of Satoru, who confidently went ahead, and then asked Ryuji.
“But how do you do hunting?”
“…Isn’t it enough just to ask for a phone number?”
“…is it?”
I promised Satoru that I’d hang out with him, but when I tried to do it, I didn’t even know exactly what hunting was, even Ryuji.
You must have done something like that
Anyway, we knew what kind of gaze the girls would get if they knew that we were hunting, so we quickly started chasing Satoru’s tail.
***
“Ryu-chan, where are you going in such a hurry?”
“I think the bathroom was urgent.”
“Um, is that so?”
It was Karen who responded like that to Rika’s puzzled words.
On the first day, Karen, who had been playing alone because she was walking around with the children in her group, was quite excited about the free time she had been waiting for.
Since he had already spoken to the children in the same group, there was no one to disturb him even if he played with his class B friends today.
“More than that, we came to the movie town, let’s go borrow a kimono. Kimono.”
“Wait! I’m so excited! Karen-chan!”
Rika shouted that to calm Karen’s excitement, but unfortunately Karen wasn’t already listening.
The class leader, one of the three other people watching the two of them, muttered, “Ahaha, you’re in good spirits,” Sasha said, shaking her head softly.
“You see things like that and you call them muscle idiots.”
Finally, Hattori, who exudes an insider vibe, pushed the two of them back and said.
“Don’t be too hard on yourself, why don’t we go and try kimonos too? You can’t wear it unless it’s like this.”
Sasha, a foreigner, agreed with her.
“It wouldn’t be bad.”
Although he looked savvy on the outside, the class leader with his own flexibility was the same.
“Well, these are all memories.”
Starting with Karen, who was excited to have so much fun, the group of women headed to the costume rental office to rent kimonos.
***
Somewhere in Kyoto.
“…there is only one day left.”
Coming down to Kyoto, the home of the Saionji family, for the engagement ceremony tomorrow, Kumiko looked out the window and took a deep breath.
By now, Kim Yu-seong, whom she longs for, must be enjoying a school trip in Kyoto.
Even though they were under the same sky, there was no need to feel sad that they couldn’t meet him, and a familiar voice came from beyond the threshold.
“Lady, the president has arrived.”
“Tell me to come in.”
“yes.”
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Minami, her servant,’s voice faded away, and then a light footstep began to be heard.
Druck!
Eventually, the tightly closed jigsaw door opened to the left and right, and what appeared from behind was an old man with thick white hair.
The gray hair and the wrinkles around the eyes, which seemed to show the passage of time, were colorless, but the eyes of the old man shone with the same shape.
“Long time no see, Kumiko.”
As the old man opened his mouth, Kumiko bowed slightly to greet him.
“How have you been? Grandpa.”
The old man’s true identity was Harunobu Saionji, the 27th head of the Saionji family and grandfather Kumiko Saionji.