I Am a Light Novel Master in Japan Chapter 263

Suddenly, a girl with short brown hair walking through the corridor saw Li Yan standing alone on the edge of the school's lotus pond. She was surprised. After all, she had already met Li Yan before. She immediately greeted the person not far behind her. Natsume Takashi comes over.

Natsume Takashi quickly walked out, and not far away, he saw Sasafune, whom he had not seen for a while, and Li Yan, and his expression suddenly changed slightly.

"Huh?!" Sasafune was startled. Without any explanation, he jumped into the lotus pond and turned into a fish and ran away.

"...In the end, he still ran away, so the disadvantage of being tsundere is that it gives people a headache." Li Yan noticed Natsume at first, but then he was too late to stop Sasafune from escaping, and suddenly sighed in distress.

However, he looked at Natsume Takashi again. At this moment, Li Yan could also see from Natsume's expression that it would be useless to pretend to be stupid.

"You already knew this." Li Yan said.

"Well... I'm sorry, senior, after all, she doesn't look like she intends to be discovered by me." Natsume Takashi said with a smile.

"Sometimes, you should take the initiative. Being too gentle will delay some things. The longer the misunderstanding lasts, the more energy you have to solve. Sure enough, you and she know each other. It's a good thing that I worried about it for so long. , then I will ignore this matter for the time being." Li Yan smiled and said.

"Um..." Duoluotou was confused after hearing this, and looked at the two of them with some confusion, but she still vaguely understood the general idea. It seemed to be about monsters. She always felt that maybe Li Yan Like Natsume Takashi, he is also a special person who can see monsters without any problems.

"It's been a while, classmate Duoluo." Li Yan noticed Duoluo Toru beside him and nodded in greeting.

"Well, Senior Li, I was taken care of last time in Tokyo." Multitrack Tou Yingying said with a smile.

"Don't take it seriously. I will treat you and Natsume even more carefully next time."

After being polite to Toru Toru for a while, Li Yan once again turned his attention back to Natsume Takashi and asked: "So, Natsume, what are you going to do?"

"..."

After Natsume Takashi was silent for a while, he said calmly: "I don't hold a grudge against anyone. Miss Sasafune seems to have been shaken by the death of someone. As long as you have the people you want to see, you are no longer alone." Alone. However, if a lonely person is given the opportunity to miss him, he will only appear more lonely. I will talk to Miss Sasafune, but I will only wait until she calms down before finding her properly."

After he finished speaking, he smiled warmly.

"Yes, I understand." Li Yan nodded and said. He felt that if it were Natsume Takashi, it would really make people feel reassured.

"Senior... do you have time after school in the afternoon? Several classmates and I are going to pay homage to an old man we know. As expected, I hope that senior will go with us. I will tell senior and Dokki about Miss Sasafune's affairs. .”

Natsume Takashi pondered for a while. Finally, he looked at Li Yan and asked.

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Within the mountains and forests about ten kilometers away from the village where Natsume lived, there was an area with many rivers, lakes and swamps.

After getting off the bus, Li Yan, Natsume Takashi and his group were dressed in black clothes and walked along a road leading to the deep forest. The sky was a little gray, and it looked like it was going to rain again.

"It's going to rain." Kitamura raised his head and said.

"Well, we have to get there quickly." Natsume Takashi said to them.

Li Yan had no choice but to follow closely behind the team. Neither he nor Duoluitou had ever seen that old lady, that one who had an indissoluble bond with the mermaid and a friendship that spanned decades. But after listening to Natsume's narration on the road, he and Toru Toru also wanted to commemorate this person they had never met.

【Poof! ! 】

When passing a slender wooden bridge across the lake, they suddenly heard the sound of water under their feet. Li Yan and Natsume Takashi both realized something, but when they looked at the lake, there was nothing.

But, maybe... that "friend" who has been avoiding him has also returned to his hometown.

Chizu Saakazaka, this is the name of the old lady. Although she is very old, she has always insisted on opening this folk shop called "Oshizhuang B&B" to allow guests from far away to have a good rest and have a good time. Chatting freely, unknowingly, many people were taken care of by her. On this afternoon, not only Natsume Takashi and others, but also guests from other places and even flying over, all participated. The funeral of a friend.

Soon, the ashes, escorted by her descendants, were sent to the cemetery and displayed among the rows of tombstones.

Finally, after several muffled thunders in the sky, light rain began to fall. The sky was gray, and the farewell crowd gradually began to disperse. Finally, Natsume Takashi and others were left behind. After everyone left, as night approached, the place was deserted and seemed so lonely and quiet.

Gradually, in the cemetery surrounded by emerald green woods, a belated friend came and walked to the stone tablet inscribed with [Sakazaka Chizu]. She did not bring an umbrella. She even said that she preferred such rainy days, but , suddenly, she began to hate such dim weather...

"I'm coming..."

Sasafune, very close to the stone monument, looked ahead with a smile, as if he were meeting friends, and murmured in a low voice.

"It's really pitiful. As we get older, the little girl who was once has become an old woman. Human beings are such fragile creatures. They are not honest at all, always cry, and still so reckless and immature. They are obviously mothers of several children..."

She lowered her body and whispered: "If you are over there, you must take good care of yourself. If you are so stupid and unreliable, you will not be able to find me to talk to..."

After the leaves are filled with water drops, they hang down slightly and let them flow away, so green and full of desolation.

The rain was so loud that I could no longer hear what the mermaid was saying to her friend...

A figure returned to the cemetery, holding a black umbrella and watching quietly.

Li Yan had already expected that Sasafune would come, and Natsume Takashi and others also wanted to come over again, but he could just watch this scene.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the mermaid gradually became unable to continue speaking.

Because no matter how much I say, I can never get the warm response...

Once, in order to avoid her own guilt, she had always planned to teach her a lesson for letting her live in trouble, but, as expected...she forgot that the other party was a human being, and the other party could not wait for her to calm down again. Make peace...

"As expected, you came here anyway, Miss Sasafune." Li Yan held an umbrella to protect the mermaid from the rain and whispered.

"..."

"So, be brave. You are not alone yet. Although your friend is gone, you still meet a gentle person. I think you should be brave. Friends' words are not about lasting forever, but about the moment they met. I have someone I cherish. Let her go, Miss Sasafune..."

Li Yan, whose body was mostly soaked by the rain, looked down at her and said.

In front of me, that mermaid girl covered her eyes with both hands, tears and rain mingled together, hugging the stone tablet tightly and unable to speak...

Chapter 161 A family on the verge of being broken up

Under the dim sky, there were wet tombstones. In the quiet and wet woods, the girl's slender hand gently pushed back the handed umbrella.

"that……"

Sasafune gradually let go of the tombstone, raised his head and looked at Li Yan beside him, shook his head, closed his eyes, and said: "I don't need an umbrella... It's better to take good care of yourself..."

"...Is that so?" Li Yan hesitated for a moment. Although he also understood that mermaids should like rain, looking at such a desolate scene, he couldn't help but try to protect her under this umbrella. Although I took some of it back, but the umbrella still blocked this extremely sad mermaid girl.

"Well, why did you come back again? Did you drop something?" Sasafune asked with her face looking at him curiously, her voice a little hoarse, as if she was trying to stop her crying, which made her throat uncomfortable.

"No, I just came over to check on you. Natsume also knew that you would definitely come here to miss your friend after everyone left. As expected...in fact, you didn't intend to say goodbye to your friend at first. Right? The same is true for people. It's better not to say goodbye than to say it... As soon as you say it, it seems as if that person is really going to leave. "

Li Yan looked at this tombstone with melancholy eyes, squatted beside Sasafune, and said with emotion to Sasafune in the pattering rain scene.

"Um..." Sasafune looked at Li Yan quietly, seemingly attracted by his words, which resonated in her heart. She turned her head to look at her friend's tombstone and whispered: "Well, that's true. As for me, I have never had any contact with other humans. It turns out that this kind of mood is very common among humans..."

"Why do humans and monsters have similar moods, but humans want to kill us mermaids out of greed... Hey, monster, actually I... Before Chizu died, I had already realized that she seemed She was about to leave this world, so... I looked for her."

With wet golden hair and delicate cheeks dripping with rain, Sasafune looked ahead.

"Eh...did you expect it?" Li Yan was slightly startled and asked.