Chapter 938 - Kanagawa (1/2)
Haru was thinking about the chat which he had with Kuroneko before.
Kuroneko had asked him for a method to help her to talk with her online friend since she was invited to have an offline meeting.
Hearing that request, he felt quite worried even though he told her a method or advice. He didn't think that she would follow his method rather he was sure that she would mess up.
In the end, Haru decided to accompany her when she was about to meet her friends. He had decided to come to Kuroneko's world later during her appointment time. He felt that one hour in his world would be enough to go spend his time in Kuroneko's world since one hour in his world meant ten hours in Kuroneko's world.
But before that, there was something that he needed to do and that was to go out with Utaha for a date.
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On Saturday, the weather was quite great and it was as if the sky was trying to support them on their date.
As Utaha had said before, they had decided to go to Kanagawa.
If someone talked Kanagawa, there were a lot of famous things in that area such as the painting of ”The Great Wave off Kanagawa”.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It was published sometime between 1829 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
It was a very famous ukiyo-e painting and he had bought it before during his trip to London in the past since it wasn't that expensive.
Besides that painting, one thing which made Kanagawa very famous was ”Slam Dunk”.
Slam Dunk is a Japanese sports manga series written and ill.u.s.trated by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shohoku High School in the Shounan area. It was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump from October 1990 to June 1996, with the chapters collected into 31 volumes by Shueisha.
The birth of ”Slam Dunk” also increased the popularity of basketball in this country and there were a lot of people who started to play it because of this manga.
Shohoku High School also existed, but this high school wasn't located in Kanagawa rather it was in Tokyo.
Even if ”Slam Dunk” was located in Kanagawa, it didn't mean that the basketball in this prefecture was the strongest in the country.
Except that only happened in his previous world since ”Slam Dunk” at this world was being written in his manga magazine, though, it didn't change the fact that Kanagawa became famous because of this manga.
But even so, it didn't stop Haru and Utaha from going to the famous location of ”Slam Dunk”. They went to Enoden or the famous spot which appeared at the end of ”Slam Dunk”. They were lucky that there weren't any people in this place and took a picture together with a sea background behind them.
Utaha was very happy and hugged him closely.
”If I'm Hanamichi, then you're my Haruko,” Haru said.
Utaha snorted but smiled afterward. ”Right, how tall are you right now?” She knew that Haru was very tall, but she didn't know how tall he really was.
”It should be 184 cm,” Haru said. His height had increased by one centimeter than before but compared to Hanamichi who was 190 cm, he was still shorted, but he felt that it should be enough.
Utaha's height was 169cm and she was taller than Haruko Akagi who was 156 cm.
But of course, his Utaha was several times more beautiful than Haruko Akagi.
”So your novel needs to go on a trip to Kanagawa?” Haru asked. He was wondering what kind of plot Utaha wanted to write in her novel since they needed to go to Kanagawa.
Holding his hand, Utaha said, ”No, I just want to go out with you.” She felt bad to bring him out without Sora and Megumi, but sometimes she wanted to monopolize him.
”We can go out whenever no matter where it is,” Haru said.
”Then how about Antarctica?” Utaha asked.
”I'm alright with that, but are you sure? The trip isn't going to be enjoyable,” Haru said.
The trip to Antarctica was quite hard since they would need to go using a ship rather than an airplane. There were also powerful waves which would increase the chance of getting seasickness.
Thinking for a while, Utaha also felt that Antarctica was too far. ”Then how about the moon?”
”Moon, huh?”
Looking at the sky, Haru said, ”I might buy a rocket company in the future.”
”.....”
Utaha was surprised and asked, ”Really?”