Miku, It's You

After buying incense for the memorial service, Naoki and the quintuplets of the Nakano family went up the mountain.

It could be seen that the five sisters were very attached to their deceased mother. On the way up the mountain, even the most eccentric Ichika was silent.

Crossing a shady mountain road, the group walked towards the cemetery halfway up the mountain and arrived at the gravestone of the Nakano family's mother.

Starting from Ichika, the five sisters crouched down to offer incense to their mother in turn, and the last five all looked at Naoki, who was standing at the side.

"Asakawa-kun, it's your turn."

"Hurry up and add some incense to mother, why are you in a daze?"

"Asakawa-san, hurry."

"Pervert Asakawa, don't say weird things in front of mom."

Naoki sighed silently, squatted in front of the tombstone, lit the incense, then folded his arms and began to worship.

Itsuki's voice sounded soft from behind: "Mom, don't worry, Asakawa-kun will take care of us."

Hey, why should I take care of you guys!

Tutoring career was over, if not for superpowers spiraling out of control, we would be walkers by now.

A cool wind blows.

Smoke billowed in the air, along with a light breeze.

After incense.

"Asakawa-kun." Ichika gently tugged at the hem of Naoki's clothes and whispered, "Where is the granny that Itsuki said?"

"Enter into."

Naoki took the five sisters to the depths of the grave and stopped in front of a silent tombstone. The old granny he saw at the time of the demon was in the photo.

The five sisters became nervous.

Ghosts and youkai are very popular in Japan. Hyakki Yakou, urban legend, etc. Very prosperous. Society generally believed that there was life after death, so when Itsuki said that he met ghosts, the other four girls all believed it, no one said quantum mechanics against him.

"Asakawa-kun, what should I do now?"

Ichika asked in a low voice.

This was Ichika's first time meeting a ghost as an adult, and she had absolutely no relevant experience.

Of course, she could only rely on the boy Naoki. Even Nino who was always fussy, nervously looked at Naoki.

Naoki calmly said:

"Give some incense first and then talk."

"Understood." Itsuki lit the incense, then put his hands together, bowed nervously and apologized, "Sorry, Asakawa-san and I bothered you that night."

After Itsuki, the other sisters also offered incense to worship.

Naoki cleaned the rotten Bantapo behind the tombstone, saw the five sisters all staring at him, and pressed their hands on the tombstone.

As an Esper, Naoki still doesn't know how much superpower he has, because each ability eats up stamina, and the consumption value is not the same.

Naoki was quite worried about his chaos ability, he would immediately drain himself. He definitely didn't want to make headlines like "High School Students Who Lived Alone Drained and Died!"

"Since ghosts really exist, it's fine to use psychic abilities..."

With his right hand on the tombstone, Naoki closed his eyes, and an old yellowed photo, a family portrait, quickly appeared in his mind.

"...Is that so, what is the unresolved family obsession?"

Naoki opened his eyes, a sense of weakness assaulted him, and turned to look at his storage barn.

"Itsuki, give me meat buns."

"Okay." Itsuki opened his bag, took out a bag of meat buns and handed it over, "Here are the pork and chive fillings."

The others didn't always have snacks, but Itsuki definitely had meat buns on his body.

"Asakawa-kun, are you okay?" Ichika asked worriedly.

"Besides being hungry, everything else is fine." Naoki took a bite of the meat bun. "I have a general idea of the situation. The old woman's obsession is family photos."

Nino put his hand on his chest and asked: "Can you really talk to ghosts?"

"No words, just very weak telepathy." Naoki shook his head "I guess you don't understand..."

"Hah? You dare say I'm an idiot?"

"I didn't say that."

"You obviously mean that."

...

Get out of the grave.

A gust of cold wind whimpered past, adding a bit of cold air.

"Very cold." Nino covered her skirt with both hands, and suddenly thought of a question, "What if the old granny is an evil ghost and deceives us?"

"There is indeed such a possibility." Naoki nodded lightly, "Which of you five is the slowest runner?"

"Hah?" Itsuki was curious, "Asakawa-san suddenly asked what is this for?"

Naoki said with a serious expression:

"I remember a joke, a group of people went on an expedition into the forest and accidentally met a grizzly bear on the road, and then… it depends on who outruns."

The four sisters looked at Miku together.

Miku: "😔"

...

"If we want to fulfill grandma's obsession, we must first find her family."

After descending the mountain, Naoki quickly found the monk at the temple in charge of related affairs. Without much effort, he asked for the phone number of the old woman's relatives.

"Who's calling?" Naoki asked.

The five sisters looked at each other, and then looked at Naoki together with tacit understanding.

"Asakawa-kun is the best." Ichika folded her arms and said in a sweet voice, "Please."

Naoki sighed, took out his cell phone, and made a call.

After 10 seconds, luckily the phone worked.

"This is the Ishihara family, may I ask who you are…?"

A soft and weak voice sounded on the phone.

"Ishihara?" Naoki was surprised, but soon realized that it should be the old lady's daughter who changed her surname, "Is this Miss Mito Chika?"

"Ah… that's right, it's me."

Japan law stipulates that husband and wife must have the same surname after marriage.

In today's society, basically women follow a man's surname after marriage. For example, if Naoki was with the five Nakano sisters, they would be Asakawa Ichika, Asakawa Nino, Asakawa Yotsuba, Asakawa Miku and Asakawa Itsuki.

In addition, there are less than 10% of people who change male surnames to female surnames after marriage.

In fact this is not only happening in Japan, but also in most European and American countries. This surname system can perfectly solve the problem of whether the child should take the father's surname or the mother's surname.

There was no doubt that the old lady's daughter should have married during these years, and then changed her surname from Mito to Ishihara.

"I took the liberty of calling you, please forgive me…"

Naoki politely apologized, then explained in detail what happened to him and Itsuki.

No need to lie.

Initially a stranger who has never met, others should be very wary, it is better to tell the truth.

"What did you say?" The woman on the other end of the phone was quite surprised, "Mom's ghost? This kind of thing…"

"Even though it sounds great, we're telling the truth." Naoki described the details of the family photo that came to his mind just now, "This is an obsession that your mother gave us in a dream. "

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

The five twins stood on tiptoe and surrounded Naoki, holding their breath and listening.

After a while.

A sobbing sound was suddenly heard.

"Sorry, Okaa-san..."

"After I got married, I went abroad to work with my husband, and I didn't come back to see my mother for so long, sorry Okaa-san..."