Chapter 412

"...Honestly, why didn't you tell me when you arranged this kind of scenario for Dion?" In a hot spring hotel in Hokkaido, Lancer Melo leaned against the window and watched the snow, while complaining about his roommates in Heroes of the Seat 221B who had finally gained Dion's understanding, "I suspect that when I return to Beika Town, I will be targeted by Maori Kogoro."

"You must have thought about how to deal with it." Sherlock interrupted unhappily. "By the way, did you actually use your full real name this time?"

"Ah, but when signing, only the first letter of the middle name will be written." Lansemello answered Sherlock, while turning up the temperature of the indoor air conditioner. "If Maori Kogoro really comes to find me, can't I just answer him truthfully? Speaking of which, when will this farce end?"

"It will be over when Bourbon stops disguising himself as Akai Shuichi." William replied to Lancer Mellor, "Bond and Charlie have caused trouble together, so of course they will have to help Dion clean up the mess."

"Then let's stay in Hokkaido until the incident in Beika Town is over before going back." Lansemero turned the pen in his hand and ended the communication. "Don't bother us unless it's urgent. We have already fully scheduled all the time for our vacation in Hokkaido."

"Marisbury: How long will you stay in Hokkaido?"

"Lancemero: I should be back in Beika Town in May. If it's longer than that, the school will protest."

Among the Chaldea members who live in Beika-cho, there are also members who cannot leave Beika-cho due to their status - the medical department members who are stationed in Beika Hospital found a suitable lecture invitation from a hospital outside of Tokyo when they received the news; the members who are still trapped in Beika-cho are all unlucky junior and senior high school students.

In order to prepare for the next semester, which would be a very restless one for them, the group of students quickly split up and made plans to travel outside of Beika Town before the winter break was over.

"I didn't expect that in the end there would be only three of us coming to Kyoto." Okita-kun put his hands in the pockets of his down jacket and turned his head to look at Miss Okita, "But... the situation here doesn't look like we are here for a trip to Kyoto."

"If you and Tokito want to compete with Hattori, I have no objection." Ms. Okita sent messages to the new people she met during this period. "I came to Kyoto just to have a snack this time. Ah, Kazuha and Hattori are already here. The Hattori guy said he wanted to invite Okita from Izumi Shin to come as well."

"I came here with the idea of ​​traveling..." Okita-kun covered his face and sighed, glancing at Tokito Muichiro who was currently a transfer student in Teitan Junior High School. "This time, we're doomed. They'll definitely take us to the dojo to compete until we're exhausted before we can rest. Hey, how about leaving Tokito with the two of them, and we can go to the tourist spots with Kazuha to check in and have some snacks?"

"Hattori will kill you." Ms. Okita complained to Mr. Okita with a subtle expression, "Well, let's talk about the details after we get off the bus. Besides, if we leave Tokito alone in a strange place, we will be lectured by the Butterfly Sisters when we go back."

The train stopped at Kyoto Station. Okita-kun and Okita-san walked out of the station with the long-haired junior high school boy and waved briskly to the only "local" among their companions on this journey.

"Look, that's Okita from Kanto." Hattori Heiji shrugged at the boy with a pigtail next to him, "But there are no national competitions in the second half of the year. The fame of the brother and sister is all from playing social competitions. I went to watch one of the games. These two are good at thrusting, just like you."

"Who is this child? She looks so cute." Toyama Kazuha greeted Miss Okita, tilting her head to look at Tokito Muichiro, who was being held by one hand each by Okita-kun and Miss Okita, "Does Sakura have any plans to go somewhere to play?"

"I only thought about which snack shops to go to - I didn't think about the actual tourist attractions." Ms. Okita smiled at Toyama Kazuha and pushed Tokito Muichiro to the front. "This child is a student at Teitan Junior High School. His parents are busy with other things at the moment, so they asked me and my brother to take him out for a trip - his name is Tokito Muichiro, and he's a very cute child."

"Come to think of it, Sakura!" Toyama and Hagamine whispered to Ms. Okita, complaining about Hattori Heiji with a rather unhappy expression, "Heiji even invited the guy from Izumi High School who has the same name as your brother without permission - does he still remember that this trip was paid for by your family?"

"It's okay. If he's a local of Kyoto, we can let him live in our house. Although even if there's one more person, our family can afford it." Ms. Okita smiled and looked down at Tokito's eyes. "But no matter what, we can't let young and energetic boys continue to stand at the station exit and chat."

"Pfft, you talk like they are all younger than you." Toyama Kazuha was amused by Ms. Okita's words.

"Really? Maybe this is the nature of twins - when the brother doesn't act like a brother, I have to change from a younger sister to a reliable older sister." Ms. Okita pulled Okita-kun's arm and walked towards Toyama Kazuha, reminding Hattori Heiji and Okita Souji who were obviously still a little bit agitated, "You two over there - we are going to have dinner. No matter what, how about we talk after dinner?"

After leaving the station, the six of them sat down in a very famous tofu hotpot restaurant.

"It's really surprising. Although you look like people from Kanto, judging from your dining habits, you are more like people from our place." Hattori Heiji held his chopsticks and looked at the three people sitting opposite him. "Although from the accent, it's exactly the same as in Tokyo."

"Eat more, Tokito-kun."

Ms. Okita and Mr. Okita simultaneously took out a piece of tofu and put it into the bowl of Tokito Muichiro who was sitting between them, with a concerned look in their eyes as if to say "kids, eat more and ignore the adults who are having a seizure" - so Tokito Muichiro blinked, accepted their kindness, ignored Hattori Heiji's burning gaze, and started to eat hard.

"Warm tofu soup is perfect in winter, right, Kazuha?" Ms. Okita ignored Hattori Heiji's tentative words and chatted with Toyama Kazuha, who was sitting opposite her, with a smile, "Kazuha, do you have any recommended attractions? We can stay in Kyoto until Teitan starts school - ah, we can also go to Osaka!"

After Ms. Okita successfully ignored Hattori Heiji, Okita-kun silently made eye contact with the high school boy with the same name opposite him and asked slowly, "Mr. Okita, you were pulled in front of us by Hattori-kun. Did you hear something strange from him?"

"I didn't say anything weird..." Hattori Heiji protested in a low voice, but no one at the scene paid attention to his defense.

After finishing off a piece of tender white tofu, Okita-souji answered Okita-kun cheerfully, "Ah, Hattori said that your swordsmanship is also very good, so I want to invite him to have a fight with you in a dojo I know."

"Can't we just wait until the national tournament starts?" Ms. Okita, who was watching the other side, interrupted and calmly asked Okita Souji, "My brother and I both made it through the preliminaries - but fortunately, the individual and team competitions are counted separately, and the level of Teitan High School's kendo club is not high, so we didn't make it through the team preliminaries."

"No, no, no." Souji Okita waved his hands and refuted Miss Okita seriously, "Because the competition is an elimination system, there is a chance that we won't even meet in the competition. Hattori and I will definitely be able to enter the semi-finals. I also know that there are strong people in other schools..."

"If I want to fight your brother and Hattori, the only way is to practice privately in the dojo."

"So, I have a proposal!" Hattori Heiji, who had become depressed because of being ignored, perked up again and greeted Okita-kun with great interest, "From the looks of you, you definitely didn't plan any itinerary to visit any tourist attractions on the first day of arriving in Kyoto - how about we go to the dojo where Okita usually practices kendo in the afternoon to compete with him?"

Okita-kun paused and turned to look at Miss Okita.

"…but I also want to buy some snacks." Ms. Okita blinked and looked at Hattori Heiji.

"What snacks would you like?" Souji Okita took out a pen and paper and prepared to take notes.

"Three-color dango, konpeito, Hachibashi, yokan..." Tokito Muichiro had just begun to say it when both Okita-kun and Okita-san covered their mouths in embarrassment. He blinked innocently and pulled their hands apart. "You two have been talking about it all the way on the Shinkansen. Anyone can recite it, right?"

"Ah, please don't say that, Muichiro-kun..." Ms. Okita made a desperate sound like sobbing and buried her face in her arms, "My life's hope is going to be shattered?"

"Stop talking..." Okita-kun's expression was equally desperate, "I just like to eat sweet things - but Muichiro-kun, with your list like this, it seems that I am just a simple glutton, right?"

"Come on, you guys are making me feel embarrassed to place additional orders." Tokito Muichiro laughed, and under the surprised gazes of Okita-kun and Okita-san, he continued to give Okita-souji a list of snacks without hesitation, "I want to eat Hagi mochi, daifuku, taiyaki... and I want to drink milk tea!"

"Children just love to eat..." Yuanshan and Ye finally showed a dazed expression.

"This has nothing to do with whether children can eat it..." Hattori Heiji complained.

"Okay." Okita Souji looked at the list he had written down, took out his phone and started sending messages, "It should save a lot of time if we ask everyone in the dojo to help buy it - I will let them keep the receipts and ask you for payment. You will pay for it yourself, right? Then, with the above said, let's go to the dojo to prepare!"

"Of course we'll pay for it ourselves, but... eh——!?!"

Okita-kun and Okita-san looked at Okita-souji with their eyes widened in disbelief.

"It seems like things are going to be very interesting from now on." Tokito Muichiro smiled and swung his feet. While everyone's attention was focused on Okita Souji, he took away the last piece of tofu in the pot. "I also want to participate in today's kendo practice."