145 Strange self-introduction (1/2)

I and Rumba separated from Kojiro at Kawahara and started walking freely over the bridge as intended.

After walking for a while, the residential area gradually became quieter, and there were more rice fields and mountains than people.

Apparently because of the distance from the center of the city, it became such an agricultural area.

It is very nostalgic to see the scenery of these rice fields, not the wheat fields.

Perumba was interested in seeing these rice fields before.

”Oh, there's a red building over there.”

Rumba said, pointing forward, while they were walking leisurely in the agricultural area.

Looking forward, as Perumba said, there was a mountain, and there was a red building like a shrine.

It is in a very high place, and there are hundreds of steps to get there.

… Perhaps you have to climb hundreds of steps on that steep slope to get there.

”Yeah, it's red and beautiful. It looks like there's nothing here and should we go back to the city?”

”No, wait, Al. Don't mind the red building over there?”

”I'm not bothered, let's go back”

”But I'm worried. Al, let's go.”

Rumba pulls my hand and starts walking, though I definitely deny it.

Rumba completely ignores my intentions, right?

”Uh !? It's troublesome to go up the stairs on such a steep slope. I'm absolutely tired!

”What if you thought you didn't like it? Then why don't you take the stairs and carry it with me?”

”Oh, that's fine.”

”Somehow Al is easy to understand.”

Perumba said so and lifted my hand.

No, nobody makes the same decision if they look at such an endless staircase. That's not easy enough to go with a little curiosity.

When you actually go, it's a pattern that you regret, saying, ”Oh, it's worse than I thought.”

While thinking about such things, walking across the countryside, it became like a forest full of trees.

However, there was a building like a shrine on the top, and the way people came in and out was relatively well maintained and it was easy to walk.

A lot of sunbeams shine through the ground and continue down the road. It seemed to lure me and rumba back and forth, and quickly passed through the woods as I was following the path of the sunbeams.

A flat open place that turns around from a road like a slope. Behind it were a series of stairs leading up to the shrine from a distance.

It's just a painful amount to think about the effort you have already done. The stairs in front of me seem to have more steps than when viewed from a distance.

”Okay, I'm going to go up!”

”I'll leave it.”

I seemed to remember my promise, Rumba said, and lifted my body lightly and put it on my right shoulder.

If you look at the top far away, you will climb an endless step.

Perumba jumps two steps at a stretch because of his large feet.

It's interesting because it goes faster than my seven-year-old child. Rumba moves away from the ground with just one or two steps, and the line of sight rises.

When I climbed the stairs, the swaying was inevitable.

But it's not bad because you can see the distant scene as the steps rise. We can see the forests and countryside where we were walking, the riverside and the bridge where we met Kojiro.

The slope is a bit too steep and the bottom is scary, but I don't want to look at it.

”Well, if you climb this step all at once, your feet will never get tired.”

When I was looking at the distant scenery, I muttered while breathing out that Rumba had finished climbing the stairs.

I can't seem to be tired at all. It's strange that I should have kept the pace by skipping two steps all the time.

I was amazed at Rumba's physical strength, which seemed infinite, and Rumba lowered me to the ground.

”Oh, it's beautiful.”

Roomba glances forward and screams.

At the end of your line of sight, there is a shrine with beautiful red pillars. The building itself created a solemn atmosphere just by looking at the large and beautiful roof.

There is no gorgeousness as in a castle or a castle, and it seems to emit godliness in harmony with nature.

”Is it a residence where the great people of Kagura live? I didn't have any servants or security, so I just dropped in.”

Rumba seems to mistake this for a mansion where a great person lives.

If anyone who doesn't know anything looks at this, it's unavoidable to misunderstand it.

”It's not particularly closed, there's no security guard, it's not a residence where great people live ... I'm sure.”

”Yes, then what is this building?”

Rumba looks around while twisting her neck. As I turned my gaze in the same way, I saw a girl appearing from the shrine building.