Dating sim loading: My girlfriend is a cunning young lady-Chapter 455 - 214. New Year in Iwate Prefecture: To the Seaside (11)

December 28th was the day they had promised to go see the sea.

At nine in the morning, a trio plus the elementary school student Little Lian took an old, single-carriage train, leaving the basin where Misezawa Village was located.

Upon reaching the nearest town, they transferred to a bus that could take them to the sea.

An expansive azure sky, cloudless, the bus traveled under such a sky.

"Che, Che, a really big car just passed by!" Little Lian tugged at Dubian Che’s sleeve.

"Where, where?"

"Over there!"

"Ah, it’s already out of sight, Little Lian you should have alerted me sooner!"

"No worries, there will definitely be more later, I’ll call out for you then."

"Thanks for that."

"Mm!" Little Lian nodded firmly, as though she had been handed a mission as an undercover cop.

She let go of Dubian Che’s hand and pressed against the bus window again.

Behind her, Jiutiao Meiji looked at the two with an expression as if she were watching fools.

"Mr. Dubian, have you considered sending Little Lian to study in Tokyo?" Kiyono Lin, who was also sitting behind them, asked.

Dubian Che looked at his sister next to him; she hadn’t heard Kiyono Lin’s words and was intently staring out the window.

Her small body carried the huge water bottle from yesterday, filled with hot water her mother had prepared for her.

"Her parents won’t go to Tokyo, and I’m only in my first year of high school, they wouldn’t feel at ease with me either. I plan to wait two years until I’m in university and Little Lian is in the fourth grade, then I’ll bring her to Tokyo," Dubian Che said.

"She could attend Saint Hua Girls School," Kiyono Lin suggested.

Dubian Che only did research on Tokyo’s high schools for a brief period when he was applying to schools, and only the ones with the highest deviation value at that, let alone primary schools, which had little to do with him.

"What’s that school like?" he asked.

Kiyono Lin didn’t spout off about educational philosophy, didn’t narrate the school’s history, nor mention how advanced the facilities were—she simply said lightly:

"Jiutiao and I attended primary school at Saint Hua."

"I see."

Dubian Che could imagine the school’s auditorium, which must be incredibly spacious and probably made of wood, intimidatingly high-class.

"Right," he remembered something, "would Little Lian be bullied if she went there?"

Before Kiyono Lin could speak, Jiutiao Meiji said with a snicker:

"Your sister is my sister. Who would dare bully my little sister? If anyone dares touch her, I’ll make sure their whole family can’t stay in Tokyo."

"Che, look quick! It’s a taxi, I’ve never seen a taxi before!"

Little Lian and Jiutiao Meiji spoke at the same time, but Dubian Che didn’t pay attention to Little Lian’s words.

It was only after the taxi had passed that he looked outside.

"A taxi? Is it a clover taxi? Where?"

Little Lian puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction and said loudly: "Che, if you’re always daydreaming, you’ll get eaten by a wild boar!"

"Sorry, sorry, Little Lian will give me another chance, right? I don’t want to get eaten by a wild boar."

"I really don’t know what to do with you," Little Lian sighed like an adult, "Next time you have to look immediately, got it?"

"Mm-hmm, definitely."

Little Lian pressed against the window once more, keeping an eye on each car that passed.

After a while, having seen neither a big bus nor a taxi, the sea came into view.

Little Lian opened her mouth wide, her face pressed against the window glass, her shining eyes unblinkingly fixed on the distant sea.

"I’m seeing the sea for the first time," she said after a long while.

"When summer comes, I’ll take you to surf at Okinawa’s beaches," Dubian Che said.

"Surfing?!" Little Lian looked at him in surprise, "I’ve seen it on TV, can I really stand up on the sea too?"

"Of course, you are the strongest first-grader in Island Country, Little Lian."

Little Lian clasped her face in awe, "The strongest first-grader in Island Country, that’s amazing."

"Not just surfing, I’m also going to take you to Disneyland, to see the castle, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, to go rafting, and to watch the fireworks at night..."

"I know!" Little Lian suddenly spoke loudly.

"Hm?" Dubian Che asked in confusion, "What does Little Lian know?"

"Disneyland! Tokyo Disneyland is in Chiba Prefecture, just like the Platypodidae family only has the platypus!"

"...I can’t figure out the connection between these two, but never say that Disneyland is in Tokyo in front of people from Chiba, okay?"

"Why?"

"Because Chiba Prefecture hates Tokyo and yet wants to become Tokyo."

"Why?" Both whys came with identical volume and intonation.

"A good question," Dubian Che nodded in appreciation, "once you figure that out, you’ll be the strongest student in primary school, not just in first grade."

"Really?!" Little Lian excitedly grabbed Dubian Che’s clothes, the water bottle on her back swaying, laying on the seat.

"Of course, it’s..."

"Fake," Kiyono Lin interrupted Dubian Che.

"R-san, Mr. Dubian," Dubian Che turned his head back to look at the two young ladies who had been listening to him and Little Lian all along, "I am stimulating Little Lian’s enthusiasm for studying."

Kiyono Lin didn’t pay him any attention and told Little Lian:

"To become the number one primary student in Island Country, you must work hard, not just by riding on your brother’s coattails."

"Really?" It was as if Little Lian was hearing this for the first time and was frightened by the notion.

"Really," Kiyono Lin’s reply was without any hesitation.

This guy, she would definitely be the mother who tells her kids Santa Claus is a myth when she has children of her own.

The bus pulled into the station, and an old lady came on board, glanced at the group of four, then uninterestedly took a seat at the front.

As the old lady settled down, the driver wearing white gloves stepped on the accelerator of the bus.

"Only by continuously studying can you become the most amazing first-grade student." After a pause, Kiyono Lin continued, "Little Lian, do you know the world’s four great fishing grounds?"