The road from Tokyo to Kyoto is always very busy, like a bridge connecting the past and the present. As vehicles travel on the New Tomei Expressway, the scenery on both sides is rapidly receding.
Although there was no snow today, the ground was still slippery. Even though Yushan and Renyi Gao were brave, they did not dare to drive too fast. It would probably take four hours to reach Kyoto.
"Kaguya."
Just after crossing a bridge, Yushan Kazuto suddenly shouted.
"What's the matter?" Kaguya Shinomiya asked, stroking her soft hair.
"How long has it been since you last went to Kyoto?"
"Probably..." Shinomiya Kaguya recalled the time.
"Probably about eleven months."
"So, the last time you went back was during the New Year?" Yushan Heren said.
"Yeah." Kaguya Shinomiya responded.
Yushan Kazuto blinked and said, "After arriving in Kyoto, do you know the way to the Shinomiya family?"
The building of the Shinomiya headquarters is very famous and can be found with just a quick search on the map, but the location of the Shinomiya family is not so easy to find.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows, and the Shinomiya family has at least thirty burrows. In Kyoto alone, there are six or seven Shinomiya family mansions. Yushan Kazuto doesn't know where the Shinomiya family members live now.
"I know the locations of various mansions, but..." Shinomiya Kaguya blinked her beautiful eyes.
"I just don't know where your blind date will be held, right?" Yushan Heren said.
Shinomiya Kaguya nodded, and seeing that Yushan Kazuto was concentrating on being happy, she didn't turn her head and responded softly: "Yeah."
"The Shinomiya family's residences in Kyoto seem to be quite scattered," said Hayama Kazuto.
Kyoto is also a big city, with an area of more than 800 square kilometers. The mansions of the Shinomiya family are scattered in various corners of Kyoto, and the farthest ones are even thirty or forty kilometers apart.
The traffic in Kyoto city is not very friendly, and Yushan and others don't want to take the detour and waste time.
"I'll call Hayasaka and ask her." said Kaguya Shinomiya.
"Wait." Yushan Kazuto suddenly shouted.
Shinomiya Kaguya stopped what she was doing and looked at Yushan Kazuto with some confusion.
"There's a cell phone in the co-pilot's locker. It's for you," Yushan Heren said.
"Cell phone?" Kaguya Shinomiya opened the locker with some surprise, and inside lay a new model cell phone with beautiful packaging.
"Why did you give me a cell phone?" Kaguya Shinomiya became a little alert.
"You said you are still using a keypad phone, and even your selfies have to be saved in Fujiwara Chika's phone. You don't even have a line number, and the battery is aging. Don't you feel a little frustrated?" asked Yushan Kazuto.
Shinomiya Kaguya didn't have that feeling. She thought the keypad phone was pretty good to use, but to be honest, it did feel a bit inconvenient sometimes.
For example, when she attended Yushan Kazuto's birthday party, her keypad phone could not scan the QR code, so she could only quietly admire the photo album on Fujiwara Chika's phone screen.
After thinking about it, Kaguya Shinomiya accepted the gift, took out the phone box and tore off the protective film.
The phone box was resealed and seemed to have been opened before. Kaguya Shinomiya blinked and opened the box. The phone inside was brand new, with no signs of having been used at all.
[Has he ever opened the phone box?]
Shinomiya Kaguya secretly glanced at Yushan Kazuto, feeling somewhat confused. If Yushan Kazuto knew that the cell phone box had been opened, he would probably call the game hall a profiteer.
However, the phone was indeed brand new and had not been replaced. The game hall opened the phone box in advance just to arrange a little surprise.
I took the phone in my hand and played with it for a while.
Compared to a keypad phone, this phone is much larger, but in terms of weight, it is still a little lighter, which makes Kaguya Shinomiya feel a little surprised.
But when it came time to start filming, Kaguya Shinomiya was suddenly in trouble.
She looked left and right but couldn't find where the hang-up button was. Nowadays, mobile phones are all full-screen, and some even have no physical buttons.
"Why haven't you called yet?" After waiting for a while, Yushan Heren asked.
Shinomiya Kaguya blushed and said hesitantly, "I, I couldn't find the hang-up button."
Most keypad phones use the hang-up button to turn the phone on and off. Even if there are extra small buttons, they are used for forced restart.
Although Kaguya Shinomiya saw the small button on the top of the phone, she did not associate it with the power button.
Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but blink. He was driving the car at the moment, so he couldn't give Shinomiya Kaguya instructions. Yushan Kazuto didn't expect that Shinomiya Kaguya had never eaten "pork" and had hardly even seen a "pig run".
After all, under normal circumstances, today's smartphones rarely need to be turned on and off.
"There should be an instruction manual in the phone box. Take it and take a look." Yushan Heren said.
Anyway, it will take more than three hours to get to Kyoto, so Yushan Heren is not in a hurry.
Shinomiya Kaguya blinked, rummaged through the phone box, and soon found a somewhat thick booklet.
Fortunately, although the instruction manual is very thick, the first page after the table of contents teaches you how to turn the machine on and off.
Kaguya Shinomiya looked at the button on her phone that she had used as a forced restart button, and suddenly blushed, reaching out to press it.
"Don't rush to turn on the phone, take a quick look at how to insert the phone card." Yushan Heren reminded.
This phone is not a contract phone commonly seen in Japan, but an unlocked phone without a built-in SIM card.
Shinomiya Kaguya responded and started looking through the pages again.
[There seems to be something stuck in the instruction manual? ]
Kaguya Shinomiya held the instruction manual, but always felt something was wrong, as if she was holding a bookmark.
After flipping left and right, Kaguya Shinomiya finally found a small card.
The cards were small and thin, yet tough, made of a synthetic plastic that was a translucent carmine red.
Shinomiya Kaguya took out the card and looked at it carefully, but couldn't figure out what it meant, so she clipped it to the car window.
Following the steps in the instruction manual, Kaguya Shinomiya inserted the SIM card into the phone.
……
"In the residence in the South District." After hanging up the phone, Kaguya Shinomiya said.
Yushan Kazuto blinked and said, "Tell me about the South District. I don't even know where the mansion is in the South District."
Shinomiya Kaguya immediately lowered her head and blinked her eyes continuously.
"Once we get to the South District, please show me the way." Yushan Heren said.
"Yeah." Shinomiya Kaguya is quite familiar with Kyoto.
"You can play with your phone first, but I guess your SIM card doesn't support Internet access." Yushan Heren shrugged and said.
"You can still access the Internet." said Kaguya Shinomiya.
Although I have never changed my mobile phone, I have changed the SIM card several times. Because the card slot of the keypad phone has poor contact, I have to replace the card frequently.
However, Kaguya Shinomiya had no plans to go online. She just wanted to try out the camera function of her mobile phone.
"Then you can have some fun first. It will take some time to get to Kyoto."
"Yeah." Kaguya Shinomiya responded.
Outside the window, a ray of sunlight suddenly broke through the clouds, shone through the glass window, and into the car.
Shinomiya Kaguya turned her head and wanted to take a picture of the clearing sky.
The sunlight just passed through the small plastic sheet, reflecting a line of slightly blurry words.
Shinomiya Kaguya's face suddenly turned red.
Chapter 498 Do I need to explain to you?
“May the most beautiful scenery accompany you.”
It is very brief. After all, the small plastic piece is only that big, and if the font is any smaller, it will be hard to read.
But just reading this short line of words made Kaguya Shinomiya blush. She glanced at Yushan Kazuto from the corner of her eye. His already handsome profile seemed to be even more handsome now, which made Kaguya Shinomiya's heart beat faster.
"Why are you staring at me?" Yushan Kazuto blinked and felt Shinomiya Kaguya's gaze.
"No." Shinomiya Kaguya quickly sat up straight.
"No secret photography allowed." Yushan Kazuto said.
Japanese mobile phones have a feature that the sound of taking pictures cannot be turned off. You can hear the shutter sound as soon as a photo is taken. In fact, Yushan Kazuto did not need to worry about Shinomiya Kaguya taking pictures secretly, he just gave a casual reminder.
Unexpectedly, such a casual remark made Kaguya Shinomiya even more panicked. She quickly put away her phone and sat up straight, as if to clear herself of suspicion.
But when he caught a glimpse of Shinomiya Kaguya's performance out of the corner of his eye, Yushan Kazuto was a little confused.
However, the doubt in his mind only flashed by, and Yushan Heren quickly adjusted his mentality and continued driving.
Shinomiya Kaguya stared straight ahead, without the slightest deviation. All she could see was the hood of the car and the highway ahead, but her mind was in a mess.
……
"Hey, Kaguya, wake up." Yushan Kazuto pushed Shinomiya Kaguya.
Maybe it was because the road was a little bumpy and her nerves were tense, but Kaguya Shinomiya fell asleep halfway through the journey and didn't wake up until they arrived in Kyoto.
The vehicle had already arrived in the southern district of Kyoto. Yushan Kazuto didn't know where the Shinomiya family's southern district residence was, so he had to stop the car and wake up Shinomiya Kaguya.
However, even though Kaguya Shinomiya fell asleep, she did not behave disrespectfully at all. Even when she was asleep, Kaguya Shinomiya still maintained her nobility and elegance.
The elegant temperament seems to be engraved in her bones. Perhaps if she is burned to ashes and the ashes are scattered on the ground, they will naturally condense into the word "elegance".
"Sorry, I fell asleep." Looking at the quaint architectural style around her, Kaguya Shinomiya knew that she had probably arrived in Kyoto.
Although she felt a little guilty about sleeping on the road, Shinomiya Kaguya did not show any panic. She sat up straight, fiddled with her fingers casually, straightened her clothes, and then looked at Yushan Kazuto again.
"Go to the left." said Kaguya Shinomiya.
"Really?" Yushan Heren blinked, a little skeptical.
He remembered that when he was in Chiba, he also had a person who promised to give him directions, but he gave him the wrong directions all the time. In the end, he had to rely on mobile phone navigation to successfully reach his destination.
Looking at Kaguya Shinomiya's confident look, Yushan Kazuto suddenly felt a feeling of distrust.
Shinomiya Kaguya nodded firmly, and Yushan Kazuto blinked and turned on the left turn signal.
……
"Your mansion is really remote." Looking at the mansion not far away, Yushan Heren couldn't help but say.
The Shinomiya family has great power in Japan, but they also have many enemies, so they have to be cautious.
"It's indeed quite remote." Shinomiya Kaguya did not refute. Yushan Kazuto was telling the truth.
"Looking at the map, this is actually a forest."
Yushan Heren looked at his mobile phone. At this time, even the GPS signal was blocked, but the map he downloaded before could still be seen. This place was a lush green on the map.
Shinomiya Kaguya had never looked at a map. She only knew that mobile phones were of little use in the Shinomiya family. The Shinomiya family basically used old-fashioned telephones and a specially encrypted internal network to communicate with the outside world.
However, although this mansion is remote and secluded, the entrance of the Shinomiya family is full of luxury cars today, and the Lexus driven by Yushan Heren feels a bit like a chicken standing out among a crowd of cranes.
The purpose of these luxury cars coming here is naturally self-evident. Shinomiya Kaguya's expression is not very good.
Judging from the license plates, some of the cars even came from Hokkaido, which means that they may have stayed in Kyoto last night just to wait for today's banquet.
"The guard of the Shinomiya family should know you." Yushan Heren got out of the car and asked with a smile.
Shinomiya Kaguya nodded. Although she was not welcome in the Shinomiya family, she was the daughter of Shinomiya Yan'an after all.
Things like a servant bullying his master would never happen in the Shinomiya family.
"That's good." Yushan Kazuto walked to the side of Shinomiya Kaguya and held Shinomiya Kaguya's soft hand.
Her little hands were slightly cold. Even though the warm air from the air conditioner in the car was blowing towards her, Kaguya Shinomiya's palms were still cool.
Although it is cold, it is not hard, but soft and elastic. Holding it feels like holding a piece of iced jelly.
"What are you doing?" Shinomiya Kaguya lowered her eyebrows and asked softly, but she did not struggle.
"Since you are pretending to be a couple, you should at least act a little more intimate." Yushan Heren winked, "Otherwise, your family might lose face."
Shinomiya Kaguya blinked, not quite understanding what Yushan Kazuto meant, but still nodded and let Yushan Kazuto hold her left hand.
"Your hands are so sweaty." Yushan Kazuto said as they walked. This might be the first time that Shinomiya Kaguya held hands with a boy, or even the first time she held hands with someone.
Shinomiya Kaguya ignored Yushan Kazuto's complaints and just followed Yushan Kazuto closely, feeling extremely nervous.
