Natural Aging of the Body

Time flew by.

Kanami and Hinata stood by the coast.

It was still the same sea.

Only, unlike the last time they had come here.

Back then, this place had not yet been open to the public. Now, it was.

There were so many people that it was no longer their private little base.

Though they had never actually intended to make it a secret base.

"Hey! What's going on with you two? When did you show up?"

A potbellied man ran over and looked at Kanami and Hinata in confusion.

"Did you buy tickets?"

"No."

Kanami answered honestly and directly.

Hinata nodded as well. "No."

The man froze. "Wait, you two didn't buy tickets, and you're acting this righteous about it??"

"Come out here and pay up!"

Kanami and Hinata smiled. "Looks like you've completely forgotten us."

"You?"

The man scratched at his thinning hair and thought for a long time, but he could not remember who the two people before him were.

He did not remember ever meeting them.

"Though the beautiful woman beside you does look familiar... I just can't remember where I saw her..."

"What? You find my wife familiar, but not me?"

Kanami narrowed his eyes, his voice deliberately low.

The man's expression immediately changed. He realized he had said the wrong thing.

"No, no, no, I misspoke. Actually, she doesn't look familiar..."

"Not familiar?"

"You both look familiar! Both of you!"

The man rubbed his hands together in front of himself. "Don't mess with me, please. This is just a small business. My whole family depends on this sea to make a living!"

He was not lying about that.

His family's food, clothing, housing, and transportation all basically depended on this sea.

They had claimed the mountain as their own and developed the area