"Just put it on the table. Don't worry about it. I usually don't use it anyway."
"Oh fine."
Amano Haruna nodded obediently, but did not continue to dwell on this topic, and put the small box in her hand aside.
Just when she wanted to sit on the chair next to her and spend the night resting at the desk, she saw Ye Xing patting the empty space on the bed next to her and speaking calmly.
"Let's sleep together."
Amano Haruna's face turned slightly red and she said shyly.
"This...this is not good."
"Oh, we've already had a close contact, why do you still care about this?"
Before Amano Haruna could figure out what the so-called negative distance contact meant, Ye Xing immediately spoke seriously.
"Although I have eliminated all the enemy's divine messengers and their power has greatly decreased, they are still called gods after all. It is hard to say what other cards they have hidden. Before entering Itomori Town tomorrow morning, we must recover our strength as soon as possible."
"But..."
Seeing that Amano Haruna was still hesitating, Ye Xing used a trump card that he was very good at but rarely used.
"You don't want me to be distracted from protecting you because of your mental disorder, and end up getting injured or even killed in the battle, right?"
These words were too devastating for the sunny and gentle Amano Haruna, especially after she had just seen Ye Xing's ten fingers broken and thought that he would be disabled for life.
When she thought of the scene where Ye Xing was seriously injured, even lost his breath, and turned into a cold corpse because of her, an ordinary person, her heart seemed to be tightened and she could hardly breathe.
Never let that happen.
At such a critical moment, you should put aside your own shyness.
Besides...
What I should have done just now is almost done.
"If we just sleep together..."
Amano Haruna walked to the mat, carefully lay down on the edge, reached out her hand, pulled half of the quilt on Yexing's body, covered herself with it, and spoke in a voice as thin as a mosquito's hum.
"Well...it's not impossible."
"Okay, go to sleep."
After Ye Xing responded softly, he turned off the lights and the room fell into darkness and silence.
Amano Haruna felt her heart beating violently in her chest and her body becoming inexplicably hot, with only one thought in her mind.
"What to do? What to do? What to do?"
Her thoughts, which were completely out of her control, began to slip.
After all, it was less than two hours since Amano Haruna's first experience in her life.
A single man and a single woman are in the same room, and the atmosphere is ambiguous.
Even the breeze blowing out of the window, bringing a slight coolness after the rain, seemed to be assisting.
What is worrying Amano Haruna the most right now is...
What posture should I use to face the night stars?
Turn sideways and sleep looking at the other person's face?
Then I...wouldn't be able to resist kissing her, and then...
Amano Haruna didn't dare to think about what would happen next.
Sleeping with your back to the bed?
But if the other person reaches out his hand, reaches into your clothes, and grabs the place where he grabbed before, you...
Can you hold on?
After thinking for a long time, Amano Haruna finally realized something.
What will happen tonight seems to have nothing to do with what I do.
No matter what the situation was, if Ye Xing really took action, she would have no choice but to resist.
Thinking of this, in addition to nervousness, a sense of inexplicable anticipation also emerged in Amano Haruna's heart.
After waiting for who knows how long, she even relaxed and felt sleepy, but Ye Xing, who was lying beside her, did not move for a long time.
Amano Haruna plucked up her courage, turned her head carefully, tried her best to pretend nothing had happened, and glanced to the side.
What she didn't expect was that Ye Xing was lying flat on his back with his eyes closed, breathing evenly, and falling into a peaceful sleep like a baby.
"this..."
Amano Haruna had imagined countless possible beginnings, but she never expected that this would happen.
At this moment, she was stunned.
After a few seconds, an inexplicable but very logical idea suddenly emerged in my mind.
"Could it be that Mr. Yexing...really has no interest in me?"
At first, Amano Haruna instinctively felt resistance to this idea.
But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was in line with normal logic.
Ye Xing said that the intimate behavior between the two was just a show to lure the god into the trap.
If that's the case, then there's no point in continuing after achieving the goal...
But when I thought about how Ye Xing had asked me jokingly when I entered the room whether I wanted to continue.
If I had agreed instead of keeping silent...
Is the situation different now?
Amano Haruna's heart was in deep conflict.
........
The next morning, after checking out, Ye Xing and Amano Haruna, who obviously did not get enough rest and looked a little tired, walked out of the hotel together.
On the way, Amano Haruna would steal glances at him from time to time, as if trying to see something from his expression.
Was the other person pretending to be asleep last night, or was he really asleep?
It's a pity that when Ye Xing put on the mask of abstraction, due to the high level of abstraction, no one could see through his true thoughts.
Although Amano Haruna won in some aspects, she lost miserably at this moment.
Just as the two had entered the territory of Itomori Town and were walking, the red thread appeared again and quickly formed a sentence.
"Eh? Lord Yexing, didn't I tell you to arrange a car to pick you up? Why do you still have to walk here in person?"
"Come on this."
Ye Xing had been on guard against Red Silk's fawning character.
"You asked Miyamizu Mitsuha, a freshman girl, to find a car to pick someone up outside the town. Who can she ask? I'm afraid she can only ask her father. Let me emphasize again that the deal between you and me only includes saving Itomori Town. Don't blame me for the emotional gap between father and daughter."
"Hey, you saw through me."
The deity of Itomori Town represents honesty.
He didn't know why Lord Yexing knew that there was a rift between Mitsuha Miyamizu and her father due to certain things, even though he had never been to Itomori Town, and they didn't even talk about this matter normally.
But He would not ask.
If you know, you will know.
After all, Mitsuha Miyamizu is one of the messengers of this god, and he can hear clearly the little girl's daily prayers in her heart.
I want to leave the remote town of Itomori and live in a big city.
Although Mitsuha Miyamizu herself still doesn't understand why the shrine maidens exist, she hopes that her mother-in-law and her father will stop being obsessed with their deceased mother and that the two sides can reach a reconciliation.
The gods kept all the girl's requests in mind.
only...
He cannot directly change the other person's situation.
But, Lord Yexing can.
As for the reason for asking the other party for help?
The gods have done their best to bring Yohoshi to Itomori Town.
The next development will depend on Mitsuha Miyamizu's own performance.
Thinking of this, the red silk thread danced twice in the air.
I am such a dedicated guardian angel.
"Then I will be waiting for you at the Miyamizu Shrine."
........
At the same time, at Mitsuha Miyamizu's house.
"Three leaves."
"Three leaves?"
After her mother-in-law called her twice in succession, Miyamizu Mitsuha finally came to her senses.
"What's the matter, mother-in-law?"
Her younger sister, Miyamizu Yotsuba, was sitting nearby, looking at her sister's absent-minded appearance. She shook her head helplessly and pointed at the bowl of miso soup in front of her speechlessly.
"It's all cold. Why are you always distracted lately? Are you in puberty?"
"You, you are talking nonsense again, what is puberty."
"That's stupid."
"I think you are the fool."
Listening to the jokes of his two granddaughters, Miyamizu Kazuha just picked up the teacup and took a sip. He looked at Mitsuha who was sitting there through his reading glasses, looking thoughtful.
At this moment, the wind chimes at the door suddenly started to chime without any wind.
"Dingling bell~"
"This is......"
Miyamizu Ichiha's expression suddenly changed. She noticed that last night, on the knot that she had just woven halfway, a few red threads fluttered slightly. When she looked at it again, she found that it had returned to its original shape, as if it was just an illusion.
If it were an ordinary person, they would just think that they were seeing things.
But as a shrine maiden, Miyamizu Ichiha would not have such an idea.
Everything that happens around us is a revelation from God.
The sound of wind chimes without wind, and the red silk thread floating by itself...
My Lord God, you want to tell me something.
Just as Miyamizu Kazuha was thinking this, he suddenly heard a girl's voice coming from outside the door.
"Excuse me, is anyone there?"
Miyamizu Kazuha stood up slowly and noticed that his granddaughter Mitsuha was quicker than him, as if she had known someone would come to visit and even seemed a little impatient.
"coming."
Miyamizu Mitsuha ran over and opened the door, and saw the two people standing outside. They were indeed the people she was thinking of.
One of them has twin ponytails and looks very sunny and lively. She has an aura that makes people want to get close to her. She must be Amano Haruna.
As for the other one......
Miyamizu Mitsuha glanced at Ye Xing who was standing there in black casual clothes, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Although she had seen these two people when her soul left her body, the feeling at that time was like a dream. Not only was there a layer of haziness like seeing flowers in the fog, but after waking up, her memory of the incident became increasingly vague.
Now I finally saw it with my own eyes...
"He's really handsome..."
Hearing Miyamizu Mitsuha's mumbling, Amano Haruna was stunned.
