Chapter 260 – #60_Hokkaido(11)
#261
One.
After parking the car at Otaru Station, I woke up Eugene.
I moved to the canal with Eugene, who woke up rubbing his sleepy eyes.
To prevent the cold from getting worse, he heavily armed Eugene himself.
A rolled scarf and long padded socks were also worn with sleeping socks to prevent cold feet.
Waddling like a penguin, Eugene follows behind him.
As if it was a lie that it snowed so much yesterday, the sky is clear.
Exploring new places has always been fun.
As long as the person he was with was Teacher Yuchan, Yujin didn’t care if this place was an extreme remote area.
“Sir, where are we going?”
“The Otaru Canal is another famous place. There’s even a sushi street, so let’s eat together.”
“If you come to Japan, it’s sushi! I really like that sushi too.”
Now, it is a small city where you can see everything in just two or three hours, but in the past, Otaru was the starting point for pioneering Hokkaido.
It was the largest central city in Hokkaido, relying on high-quality coal mines and the Otaru Canal, which made a road facing the sea, to power the trade industry.
Maybe that’s why the buildings near the Otaru Canal seemed to have stopped in time in the mid-1990s.
At that time, it would have been a splendid and sophisticated building, but now it is welcoming tourists with only the glory of the past.
“The buildings all look old. They look like buildings from the Japanese colonial period, right? I’ve seen buildings like that in many dramas.”
“It’s roughly similar in terms of timing. It’s a declining area now, so it depends on tourists like this, but in the past, the population was similar to Sapporo City.”
“Why did you ruin it?”
“With the decline of the coal industry and the development of inland transportation infrastructure, other cities have taken over the role of a port city. So now it feels like a satellite city of Sapporo.”
“Is that so? Something is lonely.”
“Until it’s lonely.”
During the 10-minute journey from the station to the canal, Yujin looked around and took in the old buildings as if they were curious.
As if he became a guide, he recited the information he had researched in advance, and he listened attentively and liked it.
If I had come in February when there was a snow festival, it would have been crowded with people, but there are not many people conspicuously because I chose November as an ambiguous time.
As I crossed the sparsely empty old street, I saw another exotic thing.
“Uh! I know that. It’s a rickshaw, right?”
“There were times when I went to China to play, but I’m here too.”
“It comes out even on lucky days.”
It was none other than an old man carrying a rickshaw.
The Otaru Canal is not very long, but it is quite long to walk around, so rickshaws are provided as a means of tourism in that way.
“Do you want to ride?”
“Um, no! I think it’s better to walk while talking to the teacher.”
“Yeah, I don’t have to walk that much. Well thought out.”
In response to his reply, Yujin squeezed the hand that was holding the pod tightly once.
After crossing the slightly elongated crossing, I finally saw the Otaru Canal, which I had been walking towards.
Unusually, the canal is not straight but gently curved.
On either side were rows of curbstone sheds and closed, old-fashioned factories.
Several of them have been remodeled into shops or restaurants, and there are promenades on either side of the tracks.
Since there are no tall buildings, the blue sky behind the open view and Mt. Tengu on the horizon give a sense of refreshment.
“Wow… Come to think of it, I think it’s my first time seeing a canal. Please come out, Speed Wagon!”
“The Otaru Canal is a 1km-long canal that leads to the port. It was made so that ships could bring in goods directly from the offshore to the warehouse.”
“Um… It looks like it’s only 20m away, but can you go by boat?”
“Originally, it was 40m, but it is said that it was filled up in the process of making a promenade as a tourist attraction.”
“How do you remember all of that? Super amazing.”
After a brief explanation, we walk the promenade together.
In fact, it is said that you can fully enjoy Otaru at sunset or at night.
The harmony of the soft colors created by the street lights and the twilight reveals true beauty when it meets the stone building.
However, I think that it is not too bad to walk on the snow while looking at the canal covered with thin ice.
By the time we were halfway there, we were already starting to get bored.
On the other hand, Eugene seems to have liked Otaro’s cute scenes very much.
Every once in a while, she stops and takes pictures and wanders around.
“Sam.”
“Yes?”
“I’m actually a little anxious.”
Even if I left her alone, she played well by herself, so I only agreed with her in moderation.
Yoo-chan listened to Yu-jin’s mood suddenly getting serious.
As she heard, it wasn’t such a serious problem.
She just honestly tells him about her change of heart.
“Mom…”
She’s a mother, a word she’d never said before.
“After her mother she died…”
Eugene just cries out the same words like a goldfish.
“She’s since her mother her died….”
In the end, Eugene quietly shut her mouth, unable to finish her words as if her breath her had been choked.
Then she struggles to open her mouth.
“I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to run away, I wanted to avoid it, I hated everything in the world, and I was so pitiful.”
“…..”
“At that time, it was the teacher who gave me strength. Teacher Yuchan. So, from then on, I thought about it…. As you know, I wanted to be your girlfriend.”
“……”
“In a way, I think it was just an escape from reality. No, but don’t get me wrong. I was really happy and had fun. I’m so happy right now.”
Eugene stopped tall, grabbed her railing her, and looked down her canal her.
Not a single cloud was reflected in her canals, which flowed through her thin ice.
“Because my dream has come true. You have finally become my man.”
“I’m glad I could be of any help.”
Yujin stared blankly at Yuchan and gave a lonely smile.
It was a very hesitant and confused smile.
“But what do I do now? After the goal has been achieved, I don’t know what’s next. I think I’ve lost my way.”
“……”
“What should I do next? What should I do?”
He walked over to Eugene and wrapped his arms around her trembling shoulders.
He whispered sweetly, wiping away her tears.
It can only be.
Seeing her seeds her, which had only germinated until now, grow rapidly, you can’t help but fall in love with her.
“Don’t think too hard. Just find another goal.”
“Another target?”
“Yeah, for example… Wouldn’t it be nice to continue being happy with me? Relationships are only meaningful when they last.”
Yujin’s face brightened a little.
She hugs her a little more and starts injecting her predestined words.
As if bonsai her newly growing heart her.
To make it grow into the desired shape.
“If you’re lost, I’ll be a guidepost. What should Eugene do? I’ll teach you what to do.”
“Teacher… You…?”
“Okay.”
“Then will you stay by my side?”
Yu-jin had no choice but to rely on Yu-chan.
But the difference between putting it in her mouth and only being aware of it subconsciously was quite large.
It was proof that Eugene was also influenced by her situation to the extent that she could slowly verbalize her situation.
“Nobody knows you as well as I do, doesn’t it?”
“That’s right, I wouldn’t be able to do anything without you.”
Peck.
Since no one was around, Yu-jin kissed Yu-chan.
It seems that even if there were people, they would have done it regardless.
It must be the way she wants to receive confirmation of her love in her own way.
“What if I’m not here?”
“That’s… Why are you saying that all of a sudden?”
Yu-jin’s eyes, while absentmindedly pondering Yu-chan’s words, suddenly feel uneasy.
To her, life without her euthanasia was a hell she didn’t even want to assume.
Eugene’s tone becomes ferocious like that of a cat that has stepped on her tail.
Yu-chan kisses Yu-jin once more before she goes mad.
If you look at the cause of her, it is Yu-chan’s work her that caused Yu-jin’s mental illness.
However, it is no longer useful as it was prepared to corrode and penetrate her heart.
It’s just annoying to see her getting nervous.
“It’s because I want to know you more. Eugene didn’t tell me everything he thought.”
“Is that so?”
“Of course. There’s no way I’m leaving Yujin. Well, except for one case.”
“Only one case? What is that?”
One case the teacher will leave himself.
The moment he heard those words, Eugene desperately started rolling her head.
Because I don’t want to imagine life without him.
She wanted to know in advance the only danger he would leave.
“I can’t tell you that.”
“Yes? Where is that?”
“I believe that Eugene won’t do that. And as long as I tell you the conditions, it won’t be your sincerity anymore.”
“What is that…”
“You don’t force yourself to do something because it shouldn’t be done.
At Yu-chan’s ambiguous words, Yu-jin’s eyebrows twitched.
That kind of thing makes no sense.
She was forever that if she made any mistake the teacher would walk away.
But does it make sense not to tell us what the mistake was?
Feeling the urge boiling in her chest at the moment, Eugene lost control of herself.
Her vehement tone her reaches out to Yoo-chan with her pointed aggression her.
“That makes sense…”
And the words stopped, as if someone was strangling him.
I could see her Yu-chan looking at her with her transparent eyes.
Until now, I see the eyes that seemed infinitely friendly, shimmering with a strange light.
Eugene couldn’t do anything more.
Just like realizing that there are land mines buried in the empty lot where you were about to step.
I couldn’t budge.
The fear of ‘What if the worst mistake the teacher said was me like this?’ Suppressed the outburst of emotions that I could never control normally.
“Town…!”
Eugene closed her mouth and bit her lip enough to bleed.
To stop the rants and angry voices from bursting out like screams.
To avoid making a mistake she might lose him.
“Don’t worry, I’ll do my best to prevent such a terrible thing from happening.”
Yujin covered her mouth and nodded her head slowly.
Tears kept flowing drop by drop from her hazy eyes.
“There’s no way I’ll leave Eugene easily.”
“That’s right…It has to be…”
Eugene swallowed her tears with her gear and calmed her emotions.
Her body and mind her seem to find stability in the teacher’s gentle pat on the back of her.
“Let’s go, let’s eat.”
Yoo-jin, who briefly looked at Yu-chan’s back with a grin as if wondering what had just happened, followed him obediently.
2.
While walking along the long Otaru Canal, Eugene also calmed down a bit.
First of all, we’re having a happy time holding the teacher’s hand, but what if we’re already thinking about parting?
Recently, Eugene was aware that his condition was not normal.
I must have regretted it once or twice after I was stuck on something that was not a big deal and poured out things I shouldn’t have said to the teacher and made a sudden leap.
It was teacher Yuchan who told me that he loved me unreservedly even for such a lacking image.
She didn’t want to lean on it forever.
That kind of behavior is appropriate for a child.
She is recognized by her teacher as her as a woman, she became her lover of her, and she is herself.
She will be careful and careful in the future and she will hold his heart her tightly.
Having made such a resolution, Eugene deliberately pretended that nothing had happened.
“Sam, I’m hungry.”
“I’m on my way to Sushi Street right now.”
“You really did a thorough investigation.”
Fortunately, the atmosphere is very good.
Even compared to her her earlier, there was nothing different, so Eugene secretly brushed her breasts her.
She was only an extension of herself.
Maybe preparing for a breakup when you start dating is a true adult attitude.
That was normal and I was weird.
Convincing herself, Eugene walked between the buildings in her residential area and arrived at her sushi street.
