235 Lesson one: Two paths.

To me, what the hell is the existence of Tsugumi Tomorrow Tai? Sometimes there are things to think about.

Nothing, Tomorrow's Tai is rarely a spoiled child. The word "childhood" should only mean that we were friends at an early age.

To put it further, it seems more common that we were close when we were young, but after we grew up, we became alienated.

Therefore, Tomorrow Tai and myself continue to maintain the same sense of distance from a very young age to the present day.

What the hell is this relationship?

I usually connect relaxed and warm interactions, but sometimes I think about that.

What the hell is Tsugumi Tomorrow Tai for Himself - Rina Shifumi?

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Tomorrow Tai and I have been friends since we were young.

Too young to recall clearly the occasion of the encounter, etc.

Still, the relationship between the two began to be clearly built when you were three years old.

Even if it's not in my memory, I can guess that from the surrounding circumstances.

For three years, between the ages of three and six, I was kept by the Tsujimiya family.

That's why the neighborhood's nursery school was so full that it wasn't going to be able to get in this way.

For a mother who was thinking about returning to her original workplace, she didn't have enough errands in her regular kindergarten.

When this happened, I had to look for a nursery, even if it was a little far away, and keep it there - I heard my mother blur like that, and her mother suggested that I keep it in her own house tomorrow.

They said they were supposed to get a face-to-face in an obstetric hospital, but they were lucky to be their own mother, who had a determined temper like a man, and their very quiet Tomorrow Tai mother, who was both extremist types, as if they had deepened their rapprochement to the point where such an otherwise out of common sense interaction was established.

Later in life, friends at school and others said, "You're a much more insane mother!" I was to be surprised, "but as for myself, I was not dissatisfied with anything because I was able to connect with the Tsujimi family in a deep way with it.

So, he's one of the tourists.

The Tsuyumi family owned a popular dining room called "Tsuyumi Shop".

She didn't originally plan to send her to kindergarten or anything.

That didn't seem to be a very common story, but the fact that the kindergarten was far away and poorly transported, coupled with the mother's desire to live with her children as much as possible, seems to have been set in that kind of policy.

So, one or both of them are together, so it seems like Tai's mother said to me tomorrow that there is no bitterness in keeping it, etc. - Later, her own mother said, "That's not true, is it?"

"Well, you and Tai were both dear and untouchable tomorrow, but if the number of children doubles, it's only natural that the hardship doubles. He was so strong and sweet that he didn't think of such a struggle."

Either way, I'm going to spend my childhood with Tai tomorrow.

In the living room of the Tsujimi family, he was to spend more than half the day tomorrow dealing with Tai and his mother alone.

As for myself, I only remember having fun.

Tomorrow Tai looked cute like a girl, and her physique wasn't that different from mine, so I think she was able to play without any discomfort.

The most vivid thing I remember is playing with dolls with stuffed characters with Ampan heads.

After all, the Tsujimiya family was flooded with goods of that character inspired by ingredients.

And I also think you should be as interested in hero theatre as you would be in the original picture books and cartoons, but Tomorrow Tai and I used that doll to just hang out in the dining room.

"Yes, Hanba-gu, once in a while"

"Thanks. Delicious."

Cuttlebowls, rice balls, or vikin-inspired characters make hamburgers and omelettes taste delicious. Now I think it might have been a surreal worldview.

Tomorrow Tai's mother always watched me smile and smile at such a pastoral puppet show that Tai and herself weave tomorrow.

"Can you eat such an unsavory mess -! Get the owner!

The world was rough only when the father of Tai broke in tomorrow during the break from time to time.

Only then did the heroic play of good and evil begin, beating up the bad guys with both of them.

Others remember getting worm picked up in a small garden where Tai's mother was playing home vegetable garden tomorrow, sometimes on expeditions to the park, and taking her to the pool in the summer.

Because the outfit was about the same, or when I went out, I had a good chance of being mistaken by my twin brothers and sisters.

I don't remember what Tai's mother was answering to that tomorrow, but I don't think they cared about anything.

Such a happy three years passed quickly and the two were set to enroll safely in the local elementary school.

Within the first, I became confused about a new environment with a large number of children, but in a few months I was able to adapt without difficulty.

I was able to make a lot of friends soon to stay close, and I enjoyed spending time at school.

The class has left, but it seemed that Tai would be able to spend more time tomorrow without any problems.

Still, I never broke off with Tai tomorrow.

The boarding and dropping out of school were with us because the house was a neighborhood, and we played most often after school and on holiday days. Until then, I had spent more than half the day together, so I think I wanted to play more.

But by the time I went up to elementary school, Tomorrow Tai was going to help the store.

Tomorrow the mother of Tai broke her body.

He suffered from a disease of some difficult name, and went to the hospital all the time, often sleeping at home.

The Sagittarius was thriving, so he started hiring part-time workers day and night, but he still didn't have enough hands, and Tai was supposed to help him tomorrow.

Of course, I could only help with simple tasks such as cleaning dishes and washing dishes, but I still think it was enough fighting power.

Sunday and so on, I could only play for a few hours in the day and night section.

But still, when I visited, Tai was very pleased with me tomorrow.

Tomorrow when Tai's mother was doing well, it was common for the three of us to relax.

But such a life only lasted about a year, too.

In the early summer of second grade, just before Tai celebrated his eighth birthday tomorrow, Tai's mother passed away tomorrow.

During the funeral, I was supposed to cry too much tomorrow.

Of course I think I was crying, my own mother.

However, it was pathetic that the Tai was wobbly crying tomorrow, who had hardly ever cried since he was a child, and it was pathetic that the father of the Tai was pathetic tomorrow, who didn't show tears but had always been depressed, and the mother of the Tai was pathetic tomorrow, who could never exchange words with these two again - how sad she was herself, it was hard to tell even if she tried to remember later.

Then for a year or so, I think Tomorrow Tai barely smiled.

Even if there was laughter from time to time, the lack of flair or submission as before had disappeared.

However, when I went to the sea on summer vacation in third grade jointly with my own family, Tomorrow Tai seemed to enjoy crackling.

I'm sure it took me a year to rebuild my feelings.

That's how I'm glad the Tai gave me a bright smile tomorrow, I tear unexpectedly, and I still remember hurriedly diving into the sea.

From then on, the days of tranquillity continued again, and the two were, after all, to enroll in a local secondary school.

When we got to this point, we finally came to a difficult time, like puberty, and it just started to get harder to keep up the streets until then.

Even if we didn't think anything of it, our surroundings changed into circumstances that didn't allow it.

"Hey, you were home with the neighboring class Tsujimi Mitsuya before this, weren't you? Maybe it's stuck?

Sometimes I was asked that way.

"No. Tomorrow, you and I are familiar."

"What? If it was just childhood taming, wouldn't you go home with me until I was in middle school?

This is how it goes.

(Nothing, I didn't say 'just' childhood tame)

As for myself, I think so.

But then, what exactly is the relationship between myself and Tai tomorrow?

A friend of the opposite sex?

It's kind of an untouchable word.

As for the sensation, it is, after all, a "sibling of the same age" - it is also inappropriate because there is no blood connection.

Tomorrow is as important to me as it is to my real family.

I didn't see a word in my head explaining it.

That's why I'm going to be able to get a lot of distance from Tai tomorrow.

but that is only in school.

The conversation stuck to the minimum, and boarding and dropping out of school often separated. It also seems to be your law to call each other by the name below, so I consciously avoided it.

But it is the inevitable consequence of being thrown into such an environment, and I don't think it has any effect on me and what will flow tomorrow too soon.

To that proof, if I left school, I would have been able to behave the way I have always been, both myself and Tomorrow Tai.

Plus, by then, I was able to help the Sagittarius myself, so I might have spent a little more time with him.

Tomorrow Tai was about ten years old tomorrow Tai had already opened his eyes to the pleasure of cooking, so he started helping the store regardless of the lack of manpower.

So I became sure to help the store either Saturday or Sunday myself, and I could spend most of my day with Tai tomorrow on such a day.

Tomorrow too, Tai's father is accepting of himself as nothing has changed.

Every summer, he also went to the sea jointly by both families.

Secondary school is a bit of a hassle - based on the common perception that I and Tomorrow Tai could successfully continue to maintain the same relationship.

There were also occasions when people secretly fought back against something called the public.

At the end of the winter of junior high school, at an event called Valentine's Day, he set up a matrix to dedicate hot cakes.

It doesn't matter if it's the fate of my in-laws. I want to give it to you because I want to. Thinking of it that way, I was to sift barbaric courage in our kitchen for almost the first time.

but I can't make it very well.

I thought that was it, and I talked to my mother, and I said, "You're in the wrong amount, aren't you?," he said.

"That's not true. I'm making it exactly as instructed."

"Then you have no taste."

The mother said that very lightly.

And he looks at me with a lot of eye power.

"I'm telling you, when you were born as my child, you need to be prepared for it, right? Me, my mother, and my mother were devastated by the lack of culinary taste."

"What is that cursed blood muscle!

"That's why I decided to live with my work. Still, I was able to travel with people as understanding as my father - so if there's a god to throw away, there's a god to pick up, so human beings, giving up is the key."

I thought I'd give up, roll up the muffler and leave the house.

If this happens, there's no other way I can help you tomorrow.

I decided to pack a set of ingredients I had bought for this day and storm the bravery, Tsujimiya family.

"Is that it? What's going on? You weren't supposed to help today, were you?

In "The Stuff Store," I was just finishing up the noon section.

It was Sunday, Valentine's Day.

That's why I was willing to work on a big event like baking hot cakes myself.

"You know, hot cakes don't cook well. I was wondering if you could look at what's wrong?

"Hotcake? You're the hotcake!?

"... what its reactions"

"No, 'cause you always insisted that you were a specialty in eating?

"Well, Uncle Tomorrow, there's no curtain for me."

When I let my cheeks swoop, "Okay, okay," she laughed too hard tomorrow.

I used to just smile and laugh adorably, but I'm a busy childhood tame who was supposed to wear different expressions every time I got older.

"That said, I've never even made hot cakes. I don't know if I can help you.

"It's okay. Look, because the package says how to make it"

"... so how can you fail?

"I don't know that, so you're here to talk to me!

He said, "Okay. You want the kitchen over at the house?

I'll soak my hands in the front. Tomorrow with Tai, I'll head to the back of the store.

When you open the handicap door hidden in a large garment hanging, it's already the living room of the Tsujimiya family.

I was watching TV looking sloppy, and tomorrow, Tai's father says, "Is that it?" and round his eyes.

"What's wrong, Lina? Were you supposed to help today?

"Yeah. I'm here today to bake hot cakes"

"Oh, hot cake? I haven't had a hot cake in decades."

"Oh, uncle, were you not good at sweet?

"There's nothing I don't like about food! Hobylon, Curse Martu, whatever!

I distract my chest all the time. This one was the father of Tai tomorrow, no matter how old he is, who can't get rid of the child's face.

"Okay, well, let's try it and bake it"

"Oh, hey! If you make it, it doesn't make sense! I'll make it so you can figure out where the problem is."

"Hmm? Nothing, but don't burn my house, okay?

I snap a childhood tame's head that says angry things one way or the other, and then I go about making things.

"Um? Put the eggs and milk in a bowl first and stir well"

"Yeah. One egg, 140 ml of milk, right? I've read it so many times, I memorized it."

"Wow, you even brought eggs and milk. So, put in the hot cake mix and stir until the dama runs out.... All you have to do is bake? That's a much simpler recipe."

"Right. So what's so good about it? I figured this hotcake mix had a secret?

"Oh, no secrets, nothing, flour, sugar, baking powder, and then there's like salt in a hidden flavor, right? And if you're even using eggs and milk, it's natural to finish it deliciously."

It was the father of Tai who answered that way tomorrow.

Tomorrow Tai will look back at Ugano's living room.

"You haven't eaten in decades, you know a lot?

"Yeah? No. Well, I just said it in a way. I don't specialize in confectionery making, so don't take it too seriously."

I checked the name of the ingredient in the package because I was curious, except for what Tai's father mentioned tomorrow, it only stated that it was a colorant with fragrance.

"... this is the kind of place that makes you angry."

The thickness will whisper tomorrow with a bumpy face.

"Haha," he laughed back before finally deciding to put the dough in the hot frying pan.

If a puffy bubble floats on the surface after three minutes, flip it carefully.

The surface that bordered the frying pan had a beautiful baking color.

"Um? I think I'm going to succeed normally..."

"Well, there's no point in failing."

"But it burned black at home, didn't it?

"Were you even asleep while you were baking?

Is it a matter of concentration? Or was I wrong about the amount of milk or something after all? Pulling it up to the plate after three minutes as instructed, there was a splendid hot cake complete, no matter how you look at it.

"But there's a chance of a raw burn."

I'll borrow a fork and try just one bite.

The rustic taste, which was not syruped, spread gently in my mouth.

Normally successful.

"Which one," Too put his hand up tomorrow, so I pulled the back of that hand.

"Tomorrow you can't! Just relax with your uncle."

"What, I helped you, and no reward?

Blurring and blurring, he pulls into the living room.

(Chuckles! If this were the case, I would have liked to have succeeded at home and surprised you)

Either way, you have to provide the finished product by the end of the Sagittarius break. Cook the two portions using the remaining hot cake mixture, then decorate with the whipped cream and chocolate sauce you brought with you. Maple syrup was chosen to be put on at your own choice.

"Thank you for waiting! It's done!

Hot cakes placed on plates borrowed from Tsujimiya can be arranged on the shabu table.

The less similar-looking father and son have looked up at their faces appropriately.

"Wow, that's splendid. That's a big success.... this, can I eat it?

"Yeah. Because I made it for that. Enjoy it."

"Hey, I'm sorry it's not even my birthday."

Neither Tomorrow Too nor his father had been able to hide any confusion.

It seems that I don't understand why I suddenly have to be sifted through hotcakes by the old familiarity I've been visiting.

"Um, let me tell you something, it's Valentine's Day, right?

On the face of the father and son, the colour of surprise cannot run.

"Oh, Dad, it looks like you want to have a good day?

"Uhm. I'm not sure because I'm a Buddhist, but does it have anything to do with the Van Allen belt?

"I don't know what it is, but I don't think it matters"

"Right. It's not a hot cake, it's like a doughnut."

"... Parent-child comics are good. Enjoy it before it cools."

The voice of "I'll have it" was chanted.

"Yummy! Hot cakes were so delicious!

"Yeah, yummy! I still have work to do, but I want to catch a drink."

"... what a taste. Tea or coffee on a menu like this."

"You haven't left either at home. Would you at least like some tea?"

Tasty and delicious, Tomorrow Tai and his father made a hot cake in no time as he raised his voice.

It is somewhat strange that a very good cook father and son is so happy with what he has made.

I also ate only syrup on the first chilled hot cake I made, but I could taste it a lot better too.

"No, it was delicious!... Speaking of which, on second thought, this may be the first time I've eaten hot cake properly."

"Huh! Tomorrow, are you serious?

"Yeah. My mother liked Japanese sweets, and I never had a habit of eating sweets other than what my mother made."

That's how Tomorrow Tai smiled at me like a young child, looking at me better.

"It was as good as my mother's white egg dumplings and wasabi cakes. Lina, thank you."

If I could see such a smile, I could think that the one named Valentine wouldn't be so bad.

After that day, he would sift through handmade cakes, cookies, etc., even on his birthday, Christmas, etc., and only in confectionery making would he be able to take it off the cursed blood muscles of the living family.

However, I didn't feel like telling these stories to my school friends.

Because it was visible that he would be cooled down again.

While branding it an act of treason against a pioneering value, it was only executed within itself.

(School is fun, but only these stories are really annoying)

There's only one thing I know clearly.

What I hold too much tomorrow is that it can't be romantic emotion.

After that, I grew old in due course, and tomorrow the thickness will be taller with Gungu - and still, compared to the boys of my generation, it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal, but only at one time did the height difference between the two extend to about one head minute because my own growth stopped perfectly.

If you're 15, and you're in third grade, you'll look more and more masculine.

I'm not that tough because I'm a kind face to my mother, and I haven't played sports or anything. Still, tomorrow Tai was a man, and I was a woman.

But I guess - I don't have romantic feelings for this important childhood taming, I guess.

Tomorrow Too is as important as family.

I want you to continue to be a fine cook and live a happy life.

Either that's like a love affair for my brother or brother, and I guess I just want to keep an eye on it from the side.

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"Oh, Tomorrow."

Such a junior high school winter - on my way home, I ran into Tai tomorrow just at the lift.

I accidentally called him by the name below, but fortunately, no one I knew was around.

"That's unusual up to this hour. What the hell were you doing?

"Hmm? I was just talking to the class. As long as the store stays on holiday, we'll have to keep up."

"Wow, that's kind of a business-like rhetoric!

"Oh, you're a born cold-blooded man."

These are the kind of jokes.

It's mostly packed up in stores after school and on holidays, and although it's too late tomorrow with few opportunities to get close to classmates, it's rich in awkward sociability, so it should be running a peaceful school life no less than Lina's.

It's actually more of a solid personality than an appearance, and I guess it's not the type of person who's cute or hurt in conversations with people, or who's really good at being human - but still, with the brightness and the nostalgia of holding on to it, you're working it out.

Maybe tomorrow Tai likes humans because they're out of line.

Tomorrow Tai knows how happy humans can feel with love from others.

And I also know the pain and sorrow of losing it.

So tomorrow is too sweet, and while I'm a culinary idiot who only thinks about cooking, I guess I weigh my connections with others - I think.

"Hey, do you want to come home with me once in a while?

"Right. The directions are the same, so it's more natural."

That's why the two of us left the school gate side by side.

Several times a month, these are the days that come.

We usually maintain a moderate sense of distance so that we don't get teared up, so I would like you to look at this kind of thing.

"Ugh, you're getting colder and colder"

"Well, I can't do it without Cairo."

"What? Are you using such a weak thing, you?

"Of course you do. Girls are colder, huh?

As I say, let me give you the disposable Cairo I was gripping in my coat pocket.

"I recommend you, okay?

"Hmm... fine, nothing. It's not cold."

"Oh well."

If it was a comic strip or drama of love comedy, I secretly think it would be the right time to hold hands here.

"Three months till graduation, huh?

"Before you graduate, it's an entrance exam."

"Uh, that's a bad word."

"You're easy, aren't you? He's smart."

"That's not true. It's all a gift of authentic effort. Even today, I've always been in the library."

…………

"Aren't you supposed to be a good geologist tomorrow? Don't take exams or anything, I'm trying to get into a public school."

"... this is the so-called leeward formation."

"Well, maybe the cook doesn't need an education. My uncle told me I could hire a new part-time job, so why don't you just rely on him for the last time or so?

"He said it doesn't matter how busy the store is. I just don't want to spend less time in the kitchen myself."

Tomorrow's side of the Tai, facing the front, had a slightly murky look.

"It was my father's discretion to decide to go to school in the first place. I didn't want to go to high school because I was going to take over the store."

"But it's my uncle's opinion that there are more options for the future, right? I think that's just more true about your uncle, don't you?

After saying it that way, I decided to add just one word.

"Well, I can't imagine you working outside Sagittarius."

"Right? There's nothing wrong with making a life decision in Junior High, is there?

I'm totally childish looking.

The meat on my cheeks was thinner, the lines on my nose and jaw were slightly sharper, and the thickness of tomorrow, which was becoming a lot more adult, was as if I had gone back to childhood.

"You don't really seem convinced, do you? If you're going to end up working at Sagittarius, what about three years of high school? It's not like Sagittarius is running away."

"But human brain cells are dying of cancer after the age of twenty, right? Then I'd like to learn more about cooking while my head is cheerful."

And so on, and then tomorrow Tai took a deep sigh.

"If we were talking about going to school after 30 or 40, I wouldn't have had any differences, either."

Its distressing face was so serious in itself that it stuck out.

"You're already a fine cook by then, aren't you? Doesn't that mean you went to school then?

"That may be true..."

"Tomorrow's a crazy thing to say sometimes."

Laugh a little, then breathe a lot.

"But when you graduate from junior high, you should finally be, right?

"Hmm? It's nothing. There wasn't so much interaction at school, so isn't it a big difference?

"Really? I think it's a good idea to go to separate schools, because I've been growing up in the same environment for 12 years since I was three."

Even though the time is not even five o'clock yet, the area is dim.

The December sky is more and more cloudy, a sign that anything is going to snow.

Because it was halfway through time, there were only shadows on the way to school that counted, and they were all dark grey silhouettes, too.

I look up at Too's face tomorrow in a high position, feeling somewhat sentimental.

"Hey, what the hell are we?

"Yeah? What do you mean?

"We've been together for twelve years, we've had family grooming, we've had family patterns - but it's not like we're family, is it? What the hell is this relationship?

"Well, you... you're childhood friendly, aren't you?

"Just childhood taming?

"You don't just have to pay for childhood."

Tomorrow, Tai took my head off with me.

"But, well... Lina is Lina."

"... isn't that the answer?

"It's the only way. I can't tell you anything else."

There is a crease between the eyebrows.

I wondered if I had said anything extraneous - and I gently regretted it, but tomorrow Tai has gone on like this even more.

"What's the matter, you can't stay in the same position forever. Even if you were in the same high school, you'd go straight to college, and I'm a" knob shop ". So, you work at a company somewhere, and if you're lucky, you get married, and you have kids, you're gonna have a lot of work to do in your life."

"Yeah......"

"So if you move overseas with your husband, you might never see him again. Still, to me, you're a childhood trainer, Lina. It's not like my childhood memories disappear."

"Hey, aren't we taking a little leap? So far, I don't plan to move overseas."

"For ease of understanding, I just gave you the most extreme example. It's going to be hard to find my husband first."

Let me snap the back of your head.

It's just - the back of my chest was filled with something warm.

"That's right. No matter how far away you are, you'll find us."

"Yes, I can't erase it if I want to."

"You want to turn it off!? I'm hurt!

"That's not true, idiot"

Apparently, the lights were shining tomorrow.

Was my sentimental feelings contagious at some point?

If this was also a comic strip or drama of love comedy, it would be a scene to put together even one of my arms, or something, and make me laugh.

"I hope you're lucky enough to find someone to marry, too, Tomorrow?

"Well, that sounds pretty hard, too."

"That's not true. Tomorrow, you're halfway between masculinity and cuteness, so I don't think a girl would leave you alone if you waved it one way or the other, would you?

"Analyze it! The analysis of childhood training is heavy!

"Heh. So far, there's no such thing as a woman who knows more about you than I do, right?

Tomorrow, Tai took my head off again.

but the cold causes me to put my hand right back in my pocket.

"I hate gloves, this is a tough time, huh?

Because I tend to be rough at water work, I always apply skin cream to the tip of my hand tomorrow too. It is uncomfortable to wear gloves with those hands, etc., and they pass bare hands even in such a mid winter.

I screwed some other Cairo in the pocket of that hand's stowed coat.

"Dear child taming, that's why I'm here"

"... your love seems to pay dearly"

"Yeah, please, with a fin cutlet set"

"That's a pretty expensive product!

"You've made me want to eat tomorrow's dishes. I'll teach you how to study, so why don't you treat me to that reward?

"... if you take down that abominable condition, you don't have to treat him"

"Okay, then hurry home -!

The two paths, I guess, will soon be apart.

But this memory is forever.

At the end of the day, with such sentimental thoughts in mind, Myself, Reina Shifumi, continued on the path at dusk in December with her important childhood taming.