Chapter 295, Shopping
We are so obsessed with the ending.

There are so many great lives and beautiful loves in this world to witness and experience.
But as long as the ending is not satisfactory,
We immediately felt that this was tragic.

Or just the opposite,
As long as there is a moment of redemption,

A lifetime of injustice and pain can be ignored - Tommy Butler, "Catching Leaves".

……

After driving for nearly an hour from where they were staying, Zhuo and his group arrived at Shibuya, a key commercial development area in Tokyo. Although as they expected, it was indeed much quieter than what they saw on TV last year, it still seemed that there was still someone there.

“Although there aren’t that many people now, there are still quite a few.”

"Yes."

"Zhuo, follow closely and don't get separated. Although we will keep an eye on you and everyone has a cell phone, it won't be a problem for us to reunite, but even so it's better for us to act together."

"Yes, yes, okay, okay."

There are many commercial shops and large shopping malls in Shibuya Pedestrian Street, with all kinds of high-quality and low-priced brands. Because today is Christmas, huge Christmas trees are erected in front of every store, with colorful lights hanging on them, but it is still early so the lights are not turned on yet, and it will probably be more lively at night.

The mall was brightly lit, with the smooth beige marble reflecting the light above. The sound of high heels never stopped, mixed with the laughter of men and women. And when men and women, couples, passed by the group of boys and girls, they would always subconsciously look back.

There were still quite a lot of people, and almost all of them were couples holding hands... In this country, no, in many countries but I won’t say which ones, people have treated Christmas as Valentine’s Day... It’s not that there aren’t gatherings of friends like them, but they are rare.

Although you won't lose your shoes the moment you enter, there are still so many people that you often bump into shoulders, so you still have to be careful here.

"Then let's go."

Yurina led everyone into the crowd, with Kiritani Jin and Kanda Satoshi walking in front, and Zhuo and Ling following behind.

When it comes to Christmas in Neon, it's naturally = eating cake + eating fried chicken + drinking champagne + watching the light show~~
The last item will definitely have to wait until the evening. It seems that Yurina's goal is the first few items, and shopping by the way. Christmas is a great time for shopping in Japan. The discounts are the biggest throughout the year at this time, so it will never be wrong to come and shop - this is what Yurina said.

When she walked into Mitsukoshi Department Store, she planned to do some shopping first.

As expected, Zero attracted a lot of people's attention.

Both Yurina and Kanda have excellent looks, so Zero shouldn't stand out in plain clothes...but that's not the case.

In the end, even if Zero is not wearing any decorations, just wearing school uniform and pants as a base is attractive enough. What's more, today's clothes are matched, and she wears cute plush boots. It's impossible to say that she is not conspicuous with her innocent and beautiful figure.

Even the way she bent down to check the price tag on the product was so beautiful, attracting the attention of others.

“…What’s wrong?”

"nothing."

Although Zhuo felt uncomfortable with others looking at Ling, he did not say it out loud. Instead, he followed the crowd, changing shops back and forth, and followed behind silently.

Christmas is a carnival for couples, and both boys and girls dress up beautifully. However, Ling's beautiful face and tight warm suit... Although she wore cute long boots, it was eye-catching but tight... She was still the center of everyone's attention.

In addition, Ling tied her hair up today and put a jingling hairpin in it, which was very suitable for the occasion. Her homely, virtuous and cute hairstyle attracted more attention from everyone.

For Zhuo, he was not very willing to let Ling have such a hairstyle because it would expose the back of his neck.

Although it was Zero's freedom to wear whatever hairstyle she wanted, he naturally didn't want others to see the lack of vigilance on the part of the woman he liked.

"...How could I have such thoughts when it clearly doesn't belong to me?"

Even though they were not boyfriend and girlfriend, his possessiveness was becoming more and more apparent, which made Zhuo feel a little self-loathing.

"…Why, you feel a little down?"

"You think too much."

Ren Zhaozhuo looked over. He always became particularly perceptive at strange times. Zhuo put on an indifferent expression, then looked at Ling and nodded as if he suddenly understood something.

The smile on Ren's face was more like an attempt to amuse himself with Zhuo than a smile. Needless to say, Zhuo was feeling annoyed.

"It's noisy."

"I didn't say anything~"

"That's too noisy...Yurina went to the store across the street. If I don't follow her, she will definitely run away."

"Hi hi hi hi!"

Although Zhuo was deliberately slowing down his pace to wait for Ling, the Utsunomiya family was in financial trouble recently. Ling, who was in charge of the household budget, was no longer the princess of the past. She needed to consider what to buy and whether it was necessary. In addition, there were many people, so Ling stayed longer than everyone else. "Zero, are you still not well?"

"Hmm, neither of them fits...are they gone already?"

Even if it's not suitable, it's impossible. Since Ling tried on the coat, there were countless eyes staring at it. Moreover, Zhuo couldn't imagine what kind of clothes would be inappropriate for Ling. She was born to be a clothes rack. So it could only be because of the price.

"It's just across the street. You can catch up now."

"……Feel sorry."

"Okay, don't apologize for this."

"Okay," Ling said, and suddenly turned around without warning, facing away from him. Just when Zhuo didn't know what she was going to do, he heard, "Can you help me put my hair down? It's a bit cold."

...,

"Okay, hurry over there."

After all, it is because of Zhuo that Ling has to haggle over money matters, so it is necessary for Zhuo to take care of her.

Under everyone's regretful gaze, Ling's hair fell down again. Zhuo stretched out his hand to the small palm exposed from his sleeve, while Ling looked up at Zhuo.

Seeing Ling's expression, Zhuo thought that she might not be happy, and was about to take his hand back, but Ling quickly, even hurriedly, put her hand in Zhuo's hand, and looked up at him again. This made Zhuo confused and stared back.

After the two of them stared at each other for a while,

Ling first looked away and held Zhuo's hand tightly.

This left Zhuo no time to express his doubts, as the three people opposite him were about to change the scene again, so Zhuo clearly felt the touch of the hand he was holding while burying this little doubt in his heart.

……

"You two, over here~~
"Why did it take so long? Did you guys do something bad secretly?"

"Not funny at all."

When they gathered at Kendeji again after shopping, Ren asked the duo who had just returned.

Of course Zhuo would not mention anything about what happened before, but from the fact that Ling's hair had been let down again, others could probably guess what had happened.

"Would you like something to eat?"

"It's all fried chicken and cakes at this time."

"It's really nothing new."

The custom of eating fried egg cake on Christmas cannot be avoided, so Zhuo sat down in the seat opposite the three people that they had deliberately left empty, and Ling also sat down next to him in silence.

However, seeing that Ren's attention turned to dinner, Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, "It's great that no one mentioned it." He was about to quietly let go of his hand, but Ling did not relax his strength.

Although the action was very gentle, Zhuo still understood that Ling was reluctant to let go of her hand, and asked her softly "what's wrong", but got no answer.

She just held it with her slender fingers.

"Hey, you two, I'm going to go get some champagne, what kind do you want?"

"We're not old enough to drink yet."

"Mou--stubborn, stubborn Utsunomiya, today is Christmas!!! Even if you..."

"Just regular white champagne will be fine. Thank you Princess Yurina."

"whispering sound--"

Because of Yurina's interruption, Zhuo missed the opportunity to ask questions and let go of her hand, so he had to continue holding that delicate hand while dealing with Yurina.

"Mr. Romanov, what about you?"

"The same is fine."

"okey~~"

However, if Zero doesn't mind, then this is fine - Zhuo suppressed and endured the slight itchy feeling in his heart, then silently held Zero's hand again, and listened to Zero's answer to Yurina's question about what he wanted.

(End of this chapter)