Minami Yuki had expected Nakajima Reina's refusal. He took the biscuit from his mouth. The girl lowered her head. He squatted in front of her and put one end of the biscuit towards her lips.
Reina Nakajima opened her mouth in surprise and bit the biscuit that was approaching. As she looked even more surprised, the boy suddenly moved his face closer, and with a slight click, the biscuit broke into two pieces.
The boy stood up, and Nakajima Rena raised her eyes along with him.
The girl saw that the boy, who looked dazed in the dark night, had a piece of biscuit between his lips, and another piece in her mouth.
After realizing what had just happened, her face immediately turned red and she turned her head away. The tip of her tongue touched the chocolate-covered cookie stick in her mouth, and the sweetness spread across her tongue.
"I bit the end without chocolate." The boy's clear voice and the sound of chewing biscuits came from above, "I feel a little bit wronged. To be fair, Reina-dono will eat the end without chocolate this time."
Reina Nakajima's mind was completely occupied by the broken Pocky cookie, and she didn't hear clearly what the boy said.
She took the biscuit out of her mouth and held it in her hand. She moved away from the boy and hurried out of the pavilion.
"It's almost break time, I need to go back."
"etc."
The boy's request made her walk faster.
"At least wait for the wheelchair!" the boy caught up with her.
She stood up, avoided the boy's sight, and sat back in the wheelchair.
Her breathing was rapid, and just those few hurried steps made her body feel tired.
The boy pushed her back to the ward. Before he fixed the wheels of the wheelchair and came to help her, Nakajima Reina quickly stood up and sat down on the bed in two steps.
Watching her lie down on the bed, the boy helped her turn off the lights and walked out of the room.
In the gloom, Nakajima Reina tilted her ear and listened to the boy's footsteps. When the sound completely disappeared, she raised her upper body, stretched out her right hand from the quilt, and opened her clenched palm.
A half-chopped chocolate biscuit lay in the palm of her hand, the biscuit was broken into three parts, and the brown color of the chocolate stuck to the lines of her palm.
The bitter taste of chocolate lingered on her tongue.
The ward was silent. The dim light of the night light shone at the foot of the bed, and the footsteps of the nurses making rounds could be heard.
[After two weeks of getting along, your relationship has become very close. You invited her to play an ambiguous game, but she refused while looking at the lights of the nursing building. She thought of the boy in spring in her mind and the joke you made when you hid in the closet. You are not the partner she imagined, but the boy in spring is.]
[Your sudden approach made her panic. Back in the ward, she looked at the dim night and felt sad.]
When the simulated text in his mind reached this point, Minami Yuxi wanted to sigh, but he quickly suppressed the urge. He was still lying on Asano Nao's legs pretending to sleep.
Recalling the memory scenes and simulated text, he thought that the relationship was going well, but Rena Nakajima's heart could not get rid of the sadness, and she still had more than three years to live.
How should this disease be treated? Change hospital? Change treatment? Change attending physician
He didn't know, he didn't even know the name of the disease.
Shaking off this useless worry, Nan Youxi started thinking about another thing.
In the memory scene just now, Nakajima Reina did not accept his ambiguous game because she thought of "Minami Yuki", and he was shocked that he had become his love rival. Now it seems that this is not the case.
The "Minami Yuki" in Nakajima Reina's heart is not him, but a spring boy created by the girl's fantasy to accompany her lonely and sad self. "Minami Yuki" is just a title. All fantasies need real materials, and Nakajima Reina's material is him.
Tsk, this princess is quite playful.
Minami Yuxi turned over and lay on his side on Asano Nao's legs, his cheek pressed against his soft and elastic sportswear pants, continuing the simulation in his mind.
[What happened that night pulled off the dark veil covering your relationship, and you both clearly realized each other's feelings.]
[You didn't press on to win, but gave the girl some time to recover.]
[Every day, you come to the hospital once in the morning to chat with Nakajima Reina, and come to the hospital again in the evening. After Nakajima Yohei leaves, you take his daughter for a night stroll in the garden.]
[You often gaze at the distant mountains from the pavilion.]
[You noticed the attention the nurse at the front desk paid to you. With the secret propaganda of the nurse named Kawauchi, all the nurses in the sanatorium became observers and supporters of your relationship with Reina Nakajima.]
[You added several nurses on duty on LINE. Now, you can know the whereabouts of Nakajima Yohei without Nakajima Reina sending messages. ]
[Several times, you almost bumped into Nakajima Yohei, but it was thanks to the nurse on duty who sent you a message in advance.]
"… "
Looking at the text, Minami Youxi suddenly felt sad for Nakajima Yohei.
The man thought his daughter was recuperating in the hospital and never imagined that she was meeting with her father's students every day. The nurses in the hospital also reached a tacit agreement to help conceal the incident.
[You have expanded the venue. There is a small recreation room on each floor of the hospital, which has a TV, magazines and sofas. It is called a recreation room, but it is actually a place for patients to chat. During the day, some patients who can't stand loneliness will gather in the recreation room to chat and make friends.]
[There are six floors in the sanatorium, but only the five floors below are occupied. The wards on the sixth floor are all empty, and the recreation room is also empty. You and Reina Nakajima often go there. The soft sofa is more comfortable than the hospital bed.]
[You always take off your shoes and lie on the sofa. This casual behavior is nothing to you, but it is a bit irritating to the good girl Nakajima Reina. Lying on the sofa is an unreserved thing to do, and you even put your feet on it. ]
[Under your words of instigation and inducement, Nakajima Reina also lay on the sofa. From then on, the sofa became her new bed. ]
[The sofa in the middle of the entertainment room is very long, made up of two sofas. You lie on one end, and Nakajima Reina lies on the other. You often touch the girl's feet with your feet. Every time, the girl blushes and shrinks her legs to avoid your teasing.]
[The relationship between you and Reina Nakajima is becoming more and more ambiguous, but you have been unable to break through this ambiguity for a long time. ]
[The first month of summer vacation is about to end. A typhoon passed through the sea area around Misaki, bringing two days of heavy rain. After the rain, the temperature became much cooler. ]
[In the morning, you and Reina Nakajima walked to the entertainment room. The girl sat down on the sofa by the window and looked out at the world after the rain.]
[You sit beside her, looking outside with her, neither of you speaking. Nakajima Reina is immersed in the clear sky after the rain, and the Azuki Mountain that has been washed to an exceptionally emerald green.]
(End of this chapter)