Chapter 563
Amamiya Masaki Wants to Start a New Life
Chapter 563 Amamiya Masaki Wants to Start a New Life
"Deng Deng."
Hanaya peeked into the kitchen and saw that Amamiya was still washing the fruit her father had bought and hadn't noticed them. Only then did Hanaya reach for her phone to check messages.
"How to address the side effects? Is there any further progress?"
"Kashiwagi-neechan is getting impatient. Her narcolepsy must be getting worse."
Hanaya pondered for a few seconds and quickly replied to the message.
"Yes! Don't worry, Kashiwagi-neechan, just hang in there for a few more days, and we'll have a crucial breakthrough soon."
After putting down her phone, Hua Gu glanced at the corner of the stairs; her father was still upstairs packing his things.
God knows what happened. Dad just jumped into the river and was rescued by Sister Kuriyama, and suddenly he became a "major source of pollution" that specifically infects girls.
To resolve the side effects of the Gu virus, the source must be addressed. Only if the father, the "major source of pollution," personally helps the victims and fulfills their wishes and hopes can the disease be cured. Otherwise, no one else can help; even she is powerless.
As for Kashiwagi's problem, only Dad can handle it personally. But given the current situation, how could Dad possibly abandon his girlfriend, whom he had just reconciled with less than a day ago, to run off and meet with other women?
So, Kashiwagi-neechan will have to wait a while longer.
Footsteps came from outside, heading downstairs.
Hua Gu turned around from the sofa, her little face watching her father carry a large box of things into the living room.
Kitahara Kento placed the box on the coffee table, sat down, and said to Hanaya, "Everything you wanted is inside."
Hanaya leaned closer, her little hands rummaging through the box. Amamiya Masaki had also finished washing the fruit and came over with a plate. She watched as Hanaya took out various odds and ends one by one: hair clips, photos, trophies, and some strange books.
As Amamiya Masahiro slowly looked through the items, she felt that some of them looked familiar. These butterfly hair clips seemed to be ones she had worn when she was a child.
Back then, she visited the Kitahara family every day, and even slept with Kitahara Kento during her lunch break, leaving behind quite a few things at the Kitahara family's house.
The photo is a picture of her and Kento Kitahara when they were children, sitting on a swing and swinging together.
Amamiya Masahiro put down the plate, gently picked up the photo frame with both hands, and gazed at the two little children snuggling together in the photo.
Seeing that she had been staring at him for a long time, Kitahara Kento asked, "Do you miss those days?"
Amamiya Masahiro snapped out of her reverie, nodded to him, looked at Kitahara Kento for a moment, then looked down at him in the photo, and then looked up at him in front of her.
"Too fast," she said softly.
Kitahara Kento couldn't help but sigh, "Yes, ten years have passed in the blink of an eye."
Amamiya Masahiro picked up another photo album and flipped through it with her index finger.
Many memories resurfaced with each photograph: eating together, playing the piano together, flying kites together in the park, playing in the bathtub together.
Amamiya Masahiro kept staring at a photo, and Kitahara Kento also shifted his gaze to look at it.
In the dimly lit photo, he and Masahiro Amamiya are lying on a makeshift bed on the floor, asleep together under a blanket.
It must have been his father, Old Tang, who saw him and Masahiro Amamiya taking a nap together and took the photo.
Noticing that Kitahara Kento was looking over, Amamiya Masahiro raised her head and met his gaze.
“.” Kitahara Kento.
"..." Amamiya Masahiro. Kitahara Kento suddenly had a premonition: was she going to suggest that they take a nap together again, like before, or even take an evening nap together?
As Amamiya Masahiro's lips moved as if she was about to speak, Hanaya, who had been watching them from the side, suddenly spoke up first: "Dad, are all my books in there?"
Upon hearing this, Kitahara Kento looked at his daughter. Hanaya, who was adept at reading people's expressions, would always interrupt in time when the atmosphere between him and Amamiya was getting heated.
"They should all be inside. Why are you looking for those books?"
"There's too much stuff at home, so I shouldn't put these books with the clutter," Hua Gu muttered to herself, counting as she stacked her books one by one on tiptoe.
"One, two, thirty-one, twelve, twelve books are all here."
The twelve thick books were stacked on the coffee table, their height exceeding that of Xiaohuagu.
Kitahara Kenjin recalled the titles of the books he had just seen, such as the "I Ching," "Plum Blossom Divination," "Fisherman and Woodcutter's Dialogue," and "Silk Manuscript of the Tao Te Ching," and even a book on Taoist cultivation. He had only seen half of the title and did not understand its meaning, nor did he know whether the content was about alchemy or qi cultivation.
He couldn't help but ask his daughter, "Have you finished watching it?"
"Of course I've watched them all."
Kitahara Kento casually picked up a book, opened it to a random page, and after reading for a while, fell silent.
"Can you understand it?" he asked again.
"Of course I can't understand it. Many things are too profound. Without a teacher, I can't understand those metaphors at all. I can't even guess them." Hua Gu pouted and continued, "Is Dad looking down on Hua Gu again?"
Kitahara Kento remained silent, staring at the obscure passages in the book that even he found difficult to understand, speechless for a moment.
Amamiya Masahiro, who had been hesitant to speak, was also drawn in. She flipped through several piles of books, all of which contained things she couldn't understand at all.
"Are these the books Hanaya reads? What are they about?"
“It’s related to the occult.” Hanaya thought for a moment and explained, “Some of them are books on divination, similar to tarot cards, but much more powerful. There are also some books that are hard to explain. To put it in a way that Amamiya-neechan can understand, they can be roughly understood as Western spiritualism, but on a level dozens of floors higher than spiritualism. These are all traditional Chinese culture. To put it in one sentence, they are the source of Japanese culture, our ancestors.”
Amamiya Masaki still didn't quite understand, and couldn't comprehend why a child of such a young age would like to read such mysterious books.
"Mysticism? Is it similar to Onmyoji?" she then asked.
Hanaya scratched his head, wondering how to explain it.
"In short, Onmyoji can never compare to the content in these books." Hanaya said with a serious expression.
"Many of the so-called Onmyoji in Japan use witchcraft and curses, and often deal with ghosts and monsters. These are all unorthodox and heretical practices. You could even say they have the skills but not the principles, and they don't even qualify as the Way. They are not respectable and are completely out of the loop."
“And these books,” Hua Gu patted the stack of books, “talk about the unity of heaven and man, about following the natural way, about living in harmony with the world, about the balance of yin and yang, and about the harmonious unity between man and the natural world and all living things. This is the true wisdom of the world.”
"In comparison, it is far superior to Onmyoji in terms of both level and scope."
Amamiya Masahiro listened in a daze and turned to look at Kitahara Kento.
Kitahara Kento nodded to her, clearly agreeing with what his daughter had said.
Amamiya Masahiro was a little confused. It seemed that, for some reason, Kitahara and Hanaya both harbored considerable prejudice against the country they lived in. However, she didn't care, because she didn't have any special feelings for Japan, nor any attachment to her hometown, and felt no longing for it whatsoever. If Kitahara Kento didn't have to stay here to study, she would have advised Kitahara and Hanaya to go abroad with her as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, Amamiya Masahiro suddenly realized that since Kitahara Kento and Hanaya didn't particularly like this country, she should find an opportunity to persuade them to leave together. Where they went didn't matter; the main thing was a new place to start a new life. Besides, there were two girls here she disliked, whose relationship with Kitahara Kento was ambiguous—two very dangerous individuals!