[You stared at the sky in a trance. The fireworks did not bring you the shock and emotion you felt two years ago. In the interweaving of light and darkness, you remembered something.]
[Time and expectation made you ignore that thing, and now, the uneasiness in your heart helps you regain that memory. ]
[In another world line, in the future where you are undergoing surgery at Chikusa University Hospital, Reina Nakajima died in the second semester of your freshman year.]
[In just over half a month, the second semester will begin. ]
[Whether you have changed the future, whether fate has shown mercy to Reina, will be revealed soon.]
[On the way to the hill, you carried her on your back. She wanted to have a child with you, but you rejected her because you didn’t want her to take that risk.]
[She mentioned Yoshida-cho again. The time period represented by this place name is during the second semester. You feel uneasy.]
[After a week of touring the town, you returned to Misaki.]
Nan Youxi stopped reading and looked up at the fluorescent light on the ceiling. He reached out and turned off the light, returning the bedroom to darkness.
There is no need to worry or look into the future with wide eyes, as the simulated text has already predicted the result.
After so many simulations, Minami Youxi knew clearly that the simulator would never waste time on unimportant things. The anxiety that took up such a large amount of space must have its purpose, and its only possible purpose is to foreshadow, foreshadow the future of Nakajima Rena.
Yes, whether it was Nao Asano or Yuko Ibuki, they had to go through a lot of trial and error before they achieved a bright future. But for Rena Nakajima, how could it be so easy
He continued to look at the simulation interface.
[At the end of August, my wife got up later than usual. She has been too active recently. You think she might be a little tired.]
[You deliberately let her have a good rest and fall asleep early. ]
[She still got up very late and slept for half a day. When you asked her, she shook her head and said she was fine. She asked you to feel her heartbeat, which was not strong, but not weak either.]
[She didn’t want to go to the hospital for the complicated examinations. Tomorrow is the day you start school, and she didn’t want to trouble you. She said, if you don’t believe it, you can continue to observe.]
[Sure enough, she never slept that long again in the next two days. Everything seemed to be an illusion caused by your excessive worry.]
[On the third morning, you got dressed with the help of your wife, took your schoolbag and went out. You did not go to school, but went to a nearby coffee shop and sat for an hour, then walked back.]
[Pushing open the door, the house is silent. You walk quietly through the corridor, through the living room, and upstairs.]
[In the dim bedroom, your beautiful wife lies on the soft bed. You sit beside the bed and look at her beautiful sleeping face.]
[When your morning class was over, your wife's cell phone, which she had placed beside the bed, rang. The ringtone played for more than ten seconds before she slowly opened her eyes. Her dark pupils opened and closed once, then she reached out from under the quilt to touch the cell phone beside her.]
[You know the reason for this alarm, because you often video call her during lunch break. ]
You took her outstretched hand.
[The wife was startled. She sat up from the bed and looked at you. Her eyes were full of anxiety and guilt.]
A short dialogue screen appears.
"Let's go to the hospital."
Minami Yuxi reached out to grab Reina's shoulders. His wife, who was usually well-behaved and virtuous, rejected his touch today, contrary to her usual behavior.
She stepped back in panic, retreating to the bedside. Whether it was shock or fear, the color drained from her face.
"No." She shook her head.
"Go to the hospital for a checkup and take a few pills and you'll be fine."
"Impossible. The doctor said that if anything happens again it will be very bad."
“It might just be something small.”
"It's not a small matter. I can feel it. It's just like last time!"
"Then you have to go to the hospital."
Reina's emotions gradually became excited, and Minami Yuxi knelt on the bed and stroked her cheek.
"November is only two months away, and we've agreed to go to Yoshida-cho to see the snow!"
She had no intention of hating the culprit who had played tricks on her several times. She concealed her physical weakness and the pain in her heart, and only hoped that she could hold on until November to see the first snow in Yoshida-cho that she had missed time and time again.
She knew that once she entered the hospital, she would never be able to come out.
She thought of her childhood and two years ago, when fate had repeatedly thrown her away from the snow and pushed her into the pure white cage. This was her last chance to resist.
Lying on Nan Youxi's chest, her tears flowed.
"I'm sorry," she apologized to her husband.
[You took her to the hospital. After half a day of complicated tests, the attending doctor asked you to arrange for your wife to be hospitalized for surgery and hung the familiar medicine bag in her ward.]
[Your wife has fallen asleep. Nakajima Yohei and Honoka rush to the hospital, followed by Yuko. You hand your wife over to them and go to the doctor's office.]
[The doctor told you that this is the worst case scenario.]
[Reina's disease has relapsed. She has already undergone surgery once and cannot undergo another surgery in the short term. At this stage, she can only hope for a miracle. ]
[A week of intravenous infusion failed to wake Reina up. She slept for half a day and woke up for half a day. When she woke up, she could only open her tired eyes and speak softly.]
[After a month of conservative treatment, there was no miracle, and Reina's health did not improve.]
[The doctor needs you to make a choice, to let Reina wait for death normally, or to send her to the ICU to keep her alive. ]
You failed to make a decision immediately.
[Back in the ward, you sit next to Reina. ]
Memory scenes emerge.
"Ahem."
The illness took away Reina's physical strength and spirit. Even her cough was as light as the early snow in winter. As long as the sun came out the next day, it would be ruthlessly melted without leaving any trace.
Nan Youxi held her hand.
"Can I go to Yoshida-cho?" Reina turned her head and asked Minami Yuki.
Nan Youxi couldn't answer her.
"It looks like I can only go there in my next life." She smiled and made a joke, "Hey, will Yuuki marry me in my next life?"
Nan Youxi opened his lips, but the words were stuck in his throat and what came out was not sound, but uncontrollable tears.
"Don't cry, you're destroying the image of you in my mind." Reina struggled to sit up on the bed. She held Minami Yuxi's face and wiped away the tears on her husband's face.
Her eyes were also wet. In order to prevent Nan Youxi from seeing, she held her husband's head in her arms: "What did the doctor say? Tell me."
Leaning against his wife's chest, Nan Youxi no longer smelled the fragrance, but the smell of medicine.
He told his wife the options the doctor had given him.
"I won't go to the ICU. I'll have a lot of tubes inserted into my body, and all my hair will be shaved off. It'll be too ugly. If I become like that, I won't dare let Yuuki come to see me."
"I do not mind."
"I mind it a lot." Reina's words were gentle.
She stroked Nan Youxi's hair and murmured, "I want to die beautifully."
The sky outside the window was gray, with thick gray clouds pressing down on the building in front. The glass curtain wall that used to reflect the blue sky was now dim.
Reina wiped the tears from her face and said, "Besides, I've been in the hospital for long enough. Just spare me the ICU or something."
(End of this chapter)