"Do you have any opinion, Mr. Dubian?" Kiyono Lin and the Female Goddess Staff looked at Dubian Che.
"You know what?" Dubian Che and Kiyono Lin looked at each other.
"Hmm?" Kiyono Lin slightly tilted her neck.
That puzzled look was the cutest Dubian Che had ever seen—the second cutest was Mayi Asuka.
"My girlfriend, my fiancée—although not engaged yet, my..."
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"...I wish I had your confidence," Dubian Che complimented, then continued, "No matter what happens at the end of the year, now my girlfriend, my fiancée, is Ms. K."
"You have a girlfriend?" The Female Goddess Staff, after being surprised, stared at Dubian Che with the eyes one uses for a philanderer.
"The other one who came with me just now," said Dubian Che.
"Ah! I'm sorry, I misunderstood! I thought you were traveling to Karuizawa with this lady while hiding it from your girlfriend!" The Female Goddess Staff quickly apologized.
"Actually, there's no difference in essence," Kiyono Lin said with a smile, "He has a girlfriend, yet he comes to bother me all day."
"Hey, don't talk nonsense!"
"Weren't you staring at my legs? Didn't you also stare when you saw me coming?"
"Confess to me later," Kiyono Lin said authoritatively in a godlike tone.
The photo of 'them looking at each other in the sunlight coming through the green leaves in front of Highland Church' ended up not in the church but as a travel photo, quietly lying in their phone's photo album.
"It's a pity," sighed the clergy, "the two in the photo looked very matching, even better than those taken by professional photographers in the church."
"We can take such photos whenever we want," Dubian Che said nonchalantly.
Kiyono Lin nodded in agreement, "After all, I am very cute."
"Indeed, you are the best... now, go back on the path, and I'll snap a photo of you walking just now."
"What's in it for me?"
"It's me taking the photo, Ms. R," Dubian Che stated.
Kiyono Lin gazed at the tree branches above, as if there was a cuckoo up there.
"Miss Kiyono? Kiyono? Ms. R?" Dubian Che called out, "That scene just now was very beautiful, especially since you are dressed very fresh today, we could get the best travel photos."
"I'm not usually fresh?" Kiyono Lin shifted her gaze from the tree branches.
"Usually, you appear more aloof than fresh. Just this once."
Kiyono Lin sighed helplessly and walked towards the shady path.
Standing not too far away, she held her skirt and spun around, the light green ribbon on her tight waist flying up.
"Very good! Another pose!" Photographer Dubian instructed.
Kiyono Lin placed her hands behind her back and started walking under the tree shade.
"Very good! Miss Kiyono, you are a natural model! You could make a lot of money shooting covers for new fashion magazines every month! Another pose!"
Kiyono Lin turned around, walking towards the distance, then suddenly turned back, smiling sweetly at Dubian Che.
The dazzling yet natural scene on the phone screen seemed to materialize into something powerful enough to pull Dubian Che in.
"Very good!" Dubian Che nodded in satisfaction, "I've been endorsing Karuizawa for ten years, and now it's your turn, Miss Kiyono."
Kiyono Lin walked over, spreading her fair and delicate right hand, "Let me have a look."
Dubian Che placed the phone in her palm.
Kiyono Lin elegantly tapped on the screen, admiring the three photos just taken.
"We'll post these in the Jiutiao, Kiyono, Dubian group later," Photographer Dubian said proudly.
"Okay," Kiyono Lin responded noncommittally, her fingers continuing to slide across the screen.
"Okay." Her fingers slid across the screen again.
"Lots of photos of legs," she zoomed in.
"...Meiji sent them to me, I didn't sneak photos."
"Really?" she zoomed out, Kiyono Lin's fingers continuing to swipe.
She nodded at a photo, saying, "My swimsuit photo," and continued swiping.
"There, Miss Kiyono, my... privacy."
God Kiyono, after inspecting the follower's "inner world," contentedly returned the phone to its owner.
Dubian Che posted the three photos in the chat group.
"I trust you with my phone, yet you took the chance to check the contents, I won't give it to you next time."
"You don't mind, you actually seem kind of happy."
"You have a problem with your eyes."
"I see with my heart."
"You have a problem with your heart."
"Heart means spirit, Mr. Dubian. How shallow must one be to interpret the 'heart' I mentioned as 'physical heart?'"
"How malicious must one be to know I was joking yet deliberately call me shallow?"
"But I only scolded you."
"Thanks, but do you think that makes me happy?"
"Aren't you a bit masochistic?" Kiyono Lin exclaimed.
Before Dubian Che could finish, his phone rang, signaling a message from the chat group.
"Don't you have notifications on?" he asked Kiyono Lin, also present in the group, as he opened the interface.
Kiyono Lin didn't answer but leaned over to look at Dubian Che's phone screen.
The breeze brought the scent of the trees and her faint fragrance.
"You have it yourself....."
Dubian Che tapped into Line.
Chat groups about game development, baseball games; a group for discussing meals in Shinano Town apartments; family group sharing summer heat remedies...
He opened the Jiutiao, Kiyono, Dubian group.
"Zhengji: The photos look great."
"Youzi: Mr. Dubian, take some for us later~"
"Dubian: No problem, leave all the photography to me, my future ambition is to become a professional photographer."