Rigao Lu hurriedly came to work from 9 to 5, and was relieved to see that her daughter was still as cute and adorable as she remembered.
However, she did not take away Hidaka Mizutori. Instead, she left with Tsukuyomi to find Iori Izumi and joined the team organizing the evening banquet.
Hidaka Mizutori still stayed in the 9 to 5 hall, and while waiting for the banquet, Tokiwa Shougo took her there.
During the introduction, Junichiro Tokiwa will also go with him and prepare to show off his skills by adding a few tofu dishes to the banquet menu.
Among them is the cold tofu dish, which is a must-have.
It is a dish that both Junichiro Tokiwa and Shogo Tokiwa like.
There are no customers in the store now, so Junichiro Tokiwa simply left the store to Shogo Tokiwa and went out to pick out good tofu.
Boom! Boom! Boom——!
At this moment, footsteps came from the wooden stairs. Shogo Tokiwa, who was playing house with Hidaka Mizutori, turned around and saw Gates walking down the stairs.
"Hey, Mr. Sun has been showing off his butt for a long time. Is the lazy guy finally willing to get out of bed?"
Tokiwa Shogo laughed and teased Gates.
Hidaka Mizutori held Tokiwa Shogo's waist, half of his body was hidden behind Tokiwa Shogo, turned sideways, and poked his head out of Tokiwa Shogo's arms. Hearing this, he immediately made a face at Gates.
"Shy, shy, shy~~~"
Gates' face turned dark instantly.
Being mature and steady, he was embarrassed to burst out in front of a little girl and fight Tokiwa Shogo for three hundred rounds, so he could only win over nothing. He glared at Tokiwa Shogo fiercely and said in an emphatic tone: "I didn't sleep!"
"oh?"
Hearing this, Tokiwa Shougo suddenly had something to say again and sighed.
"It's great to be young, but you should also pay attention to your health."
Gates: "?"
Just as he was wondering, he heard Tokiwa Shougo continue: "...otherwise, wouldn't it be disappointing that I deliberately [refreshed] your almost overdrawn physical condition?"
Upon hearing this, Gates was stunned for a moment before reacting suddenly.
"Okay! It turns out to be your boy!
"You're the one who kept me awake on purpose!?"
Tokiwa Shougo nodded with a smile.
"Yes, it's me!"
Gates was furious, and the high wall of "maturity and stability" in his heart was crumbling and about to collapse in the next second.
However, a childish voice full of doubts sounded, and helped Gates paper up the "dangerous wall" to maintain the bright appearance.
"Brother Zhuangwu, what are you talking about? That brother's expression is so scary."
Tokiwa Shougo smiled gently, was neither impatient nor impatient, and answered in an adult-like manner:
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. He just suddenly remembered something unhappy. He is not targeting us."
"oh……"
Hidaka Mizutori nodded, with a look of understanding on his face.
Gates took a deep breath, suppressed the evil thoughts that were raging in his heart, closed his mouth, ignored the devil who used the little girl as a shield, walked down the stairs, and started to change his shoes.
But even if he ignored Tokiwa Shogo, Tokiwa Shogo's voice still continued to sound.
"Hey, you are going out..."
"Where are you going?"
"Let's talk about it."
"Why don't you speak?"
"Are you planning to do something shameful?"
"you……"
"Shut up!!"
Unable to endure it, Gates finally succeeded and responded to Tokiwa Shogo's long-winded words.
But how can such a small scene hold Tokiwa Shougo down?
"You tell me and I'll shut up."
He continued with his smile unchanged.
In the end, the savior was unable to defeat the Demon King and gave the answer Tokiwa Shogo wanted.
"It's Aura." Gates said. "She and Ur seem to be leaving the earth, so they asked me to meet one last time."
"Oh ho? That's it." Shougo Tokiwa nodded, "They are leaving."
Hearing this, Gates looked at Shogo Tokiwa in confusion, frowned and asked, "Don't you know? They didn't tell you?"
"No." Tokiwa Shougo shook his head, "It seems that Aura is going to let you say goodbye to me on her behalf..."
At this point, Tokiwa Shougo looked at Gates narrowly and continued: "Hey, tell me, why did she only look for you and not me before leaving?"
Hearing this, Gates was stunned for a moment, and then he became inexplicably embarrassed: "Then you go? I won't go!"
"No, no, no..." Upon hearing this, Shogo Tokiwa quickly waved his hand to appease Gates, "Go! Go!"
"snort!"
Gates snorted coldly and stayed there for a while, but was finally urged to leave by the sound of a message on his cell phone.
Apparently, it was Aura who sent him a message asking him, "Have you set off?" and "Where are you?".
Tokiwa Shougo watched Gates's leaving figure happily, feeling that his seniority was slowly rising.
"Hmph, if this continues, one day you will have a sad face! Do you really think they won't come back after they leave?"
Saying this, Tokiwa Shougo had a change of thought.
"No, I have to add insurance."
So he shouted to Gates who was about to walk out of the store.
"Hey! The spare key to my house, tell them they don't need to return it, just take it with them...or you can keep it for them, I don't have any objection!"
"..."
Gates didn't respond, and the sound of the store door closing could only be heard.
Seeing this, Tokiwa Shougo smiled slightly, shook his head, then turned around, raised his hands, and gave Hidaka Mizutori a light high-five.
"Yeah (＾－＾)V~~!"
The house game was a big success!
Tokiwa Shougo praised sincerely: "It's so cooperative. This is my ideal [sister]."
…
…
On the river bridge.
Compared to the high-spirited people in the past, Aura is really much more restrained and silent now.
She leaned on the railing with her arms and looked at the scenery upstream of the river, but what reflected in her eyes was not the long flowing river, but confusion about the way forward and a series of chaotic thoughts.
"Ola."
At this moment, a shout suddenly sounded from behind, interrupting Aura's thoughts and asking her to look back.
"You came."
It turned out that Gates had arrived.
She looked at Gates. She originally had a lot to say, but when it came to this moment, she didn't know what to say.
She was silent for a moment and said in a very soft voice: "I'm leaving."
Gates nodded: "I know."
After that, there was another long silence.
There is no retention, only a plain farewell, even a farewell without "goodbye".
Gates' eyes were always calm and firm, without any confusion about the way forward...unlike her.
Aura bit her lower lip and sighed quietly in her heart.
[Really, what am I expecting...]
She knew that as far as Gates was concerned, he just tried his best to save one person, but as far as she was concerned...
Aura lowered her eyes slightly, then opened them again, smiled, and took out the spare key to Tokiwa's house from her pocket.
"Ur and I will set off soon. I called you here this time. Firstly, I want to thank you again for saving us before, and secondly, I want to say goodbye to you."
With that said, she handed the key to Gates.
"This is the key to King Shi's house... You also know the relationship between us and King Shi. To be honest, it's quite embarrassing. So, after thinking about it, I decided not to go out of my way to see him for the last time, so I invited you to come. Say thank you and say goodbye to him for us.”
The more she talked about it, the calmer her heart became. Until the end, she felt like she was "letting go".
However, what Aura didn't expect was that Gates did not take the key from her hand, but pushed the hand that handed her the key back.
"Eh?"
Aura looked at Gates blankly.
"What...what happened?"
"It's nothing, it's just that you don't need to return it, you can take the key with you."
Gates shook his head, thinking of Tokiwa Sogo's words when he left from 9 to 5, and then added.
"I will have to give it to you again after you come back."
Hearing this, Aura immediately looked at Gates with wide eyes.
Does this... mean saying "goodbye" to her?
Thinking of this, a gust of wind suddenly blew, blowing her hair, blowing the feather hair ornaments on her ears, and causing ripples in her already calm inner lake.
The ripples fluctuated greatly, which can be seen just from the surprised sounds Aura made in the wind at this time.
"Eh? Eh?? Eh eh eh???"
A pair of beautiful eyes were shining, surprised and pleasantly surprised.
On the other side of the bridge, Wu Er saw this scene and turned around with a blank expression. He grabbed the railing with both hands and looked up at the sky. He only felt that the sky today was very blue, beautiful and pleasant.
