[The new ward has a more lively atmosphere than the old one. There is no plastic floor, no white bedding or curtains. If you ignore the railings on the wall and the various instruments beside the bed, you will never know that this is a ward.]
[What satisfies you most is that in the new ward, you don’t have to wear that unaesthetic light blue hospital gown. Nakajima Reina can wear whatever she wants. Or, she can wear whatever you want her to wear.]
[You bought all kinds of clothes for the girl to wear. No matter what she wears, she looks elegant.]
[The temperature in the ward is kept at 22 degrees, so she can't wear thick formal kimonos. You like her best in dresses and yukata kimonos.]
[What made the girl a little regretful was that although there was a small garden outside the window of the ward, the sky in the distance was mostly blocked by the tall buildings, so she could not see far away.]
[There are many entertainment facilities for patients in the special ward. Many wealthy elderly people use this building as a nursing home. Nakajima Reina is not interested in those. When you are not around, she sits quietly by the bed, looking at the scenery outside the window. The high-rise building that blocks her view slowly becomes a part of her scenery.]
[After school, you come to the ward to accompany her, and you will not leave until she goes to bed.]
[You are not happy about the girl's surgery in two years, and you cherish the time you spend with her even more. You don't want to be separated from her because of the class, so you discuss with your father and agree with him to take a small test every month. As long as your grades don't drop, you can skip the class.]
[In order to help you apply for such a right, and to free you from the constraints of attendance rate, your father has been busy for a long time. ]
[You almost lived in the hospital, living with Nakajima Reina. ]
[You still often go to Shozuyama, the garden of Chikusa University Hospital and nearby parks. ]
[The first semester of the second grade is over, and summer vacation is here. ]
[You have always kept the girl's wish in mind. The girl most wanted to go to Hokkaido to see the snow and the lake her father talked about. Second, she wanted to go to the festivals in small places that often appeared on TV.]
[You chose the location. At the end of July, you boarded the train with the girl and two nurses.]
[Trains are much slower than airplanes, but you are afraid that the discomfort during takeoff and landing will burden the girl's heart.]
[The girl who is riding a train for the first time is very curious about everything and holds your hand to look around. ]
[You booked two rooms, one for the nurse and one for you and Nakajima Reina. Your room is a double sightseeing room. The small space has a sofa and two narrow foldable beds, as well as a huge window glass.]
[You occupied the window seat, hoping that the girl would ask you to give it to her and make conditions with her, but you didn't expect that the girl would lie directly on your lap.]
[As the car drove out of the city, the blue sky and green mountains filled the wide window glass. The clear blue and verdant green were reflected in the girl's black eyes, making your heart beat. ]
[Your hand touches the girl's face, the girl opens her lips and bites one of your fingers. I don't know since when, this girl has developed a habit of eating you, your fingers, ears and neck have been tasted by the girl many times.]
[In the evening, you arrived at your destination, a tourist town called Suiori.]
[The town is very famous abroad, and foreigners who come to participate in the festival can be seen everywhere on the streets. These foreigners became the first surprise for Reina Nakajima after arriving in the town. ]
[At night, you guys are staying in this quaint hotel. Nakajima Reina is curious about it for a while.]
[In the girl's life, the only time she had seen places other than Misaki was when she was a child and followed Nakajima Yohei to seek medical treatment. Now, that memory has long been lost in time, and only fragments remain that cannot be pieced together. The girl cherishes this trip very much. ]
[The festival is one day later. During the day, you take her to stroll around the town. At night, you ask the nurse to take her to the hot spring she longs for.]
[She successfully used the prop.]
[You were late for the festival the next morning. Neither you nor she was paying attention to the sword-drawing ceremony held at the shrine.]
[At night, you help her put on a yukata and kimono and go to the mountain where the shrine is located.]
[The girl's body was weak, and she ran out of strength after climbing just a few steps. She hugged you and acted coquettishly to you. You carried her on your back and slowly walked up the mountain.]
[On the long steps of the mountain, two lights go up from the bottom, connecting the town at the foot of the mountain and the shrine at the top of the mountain. On both sides of the lights, on both sides of the steps, simple stalls are neatly arranged, all for food and entertainment. Octopus balls, crepes, apple candies...; playing with air guns, scooping goldfish, throwing darts...]
[It was night, and we were in the mountains again, so the temperature was not hot. You had climbed Mt. Azuki many times in the past year, so you had gained some strength. Nakajima Reina was thin and light, so it was quite easy for you to carry her on your back.]
[You buy an apple candy for the girl. The bright apple candy matches the girl's dark red plaid yukata very well.]
A short memory scene appears.
The aroma of snacks, the hustle and bustle of pedestrians, the lights from the stalls on both sides, and the complex sensory stimulation flooded into Nan Youxi's brain.
The girl lying on his back had one arm around his neck and the other biting an apple candy. The hem of her yukata was swaying in front of Nan Youxi's face, and Nan Youxi could hear the sound of the girl biting the apple candy behind his head.
After a while, the girl's hand holding the candy apple dropped down, her arm rested on Nan Youxi's shoulder, her palm placed in front of Nan Youxi's chin. The candy apple, which had been bitten twice by the girl and had two small bites missing, came into Nan Youxi's sight and swayed in front of him.
The bright red apple was wrapped in transparent sugar coating, which made it even more translucent and pure. This color reminded Nan Youxi of the girl's lips that were eager for kisses and her shy face last night...
In the gap bitten by the girl, beige, moist white was revealed, wrapped in red, and it was looming due to the shaking of the palm. Nan Youxi thought of the girl's body last night again.
His eyes couldn't help but follow the candy apples up and down.
Reina Nakajima noticed the boy's gaze, and she placed the apple candy with a few more holes in it in front of him.
"Do you want to eat it?" She tilted her head and looked at the boy curiously. In her memory, the boy was not a greedy person. Why did he like this apple candy so much today
"Yes."
"Then why don't you just bite it!"
“I bit it.”
“Bite it, bite it… ah, why are you biting my hand!”
Nan Youxi didn't answer her. He put the girl's white lotus-like fingers on his tongue and licked the icing on her fingertips.
(End of this chapter)