Liu Quan's tears burst out of his eyes instantly.

It's weird. She thought.

The melody wafting in from the window is so light, so shocking, so energetic.

Why do you feel only a deep sadness when you hear it?

It's like an ominous prophecy, announcing a sign of parting. He couldn't come to her, she couldn't go to him, just as the last time we parted, the light melody resounded outside the window, but the deep sorrow and the pain of separation almost broke the whole heart.

She stared at the face on the screen in front of her.

At this moment, one of his hands was against the side of the screen, and the palm was facing hers, and she could clearly see the thin calluses in his palms due to the long-term sword practice, as well as the deep and clear palm prints.

In the palm of his hand, the lifeline was straight and long.

So, he can live, right? When he came in to report on Awashima just now, he already mentioned the fact that "the Dresden Slate was destroyed"; then, without the danger of losing his sword, he can now live in that world forever, and have a long and glorious life as a pillar that supports the world and maintains peace, right?!

Now, his palms are open and pressed against the screen. Next to the palm of his hand is his face. If she were to reach out and cover the palm of his hand now, it would look like her hand was touching his cheek through a screen.

However, that was only a visual illusion. She is, she will never touch his cheeks again, his hands, he is a person, right?!

She stared at him with sadness in her eyes. Until he seemed to sense her sadness, so he curled the corners of his lips slightly towards her helplessly, and his gaze at her became gentle and apologetic, with a faint hint of comfort and expectation-

Be brave, Xinya.

He told her that in his eyes.

Because, you're a good boy—

Yes. She thought.

I know.

Because, I'm always going to be a good boy in your mind, right?

Because it's a virtue to live bravely no matter what happens.

She looked at his face that could not be touched on the screen, and slowly stretched out her left hand, following his example, slightly opening her five fingers, but did not immediately cover his hand to the place where his hand was, but nostalgic and attachmentful, and gently traced the outline of his cheek on the screen with her fingertips.

As if sensing what she was doing on this end of the screen, Reiji Munegara curled the corners of her lips slightly.

Then, as if intending to confess at the last moment, he said suddenly:

“...... Once, at those critical moments when it seemed that the situation did not seem to be developing according to his wishes, I wondered if it was my fate to die on the battlefield......

Willow Springs: !!

Her eyes widened uncontrollably for a moment!

The scenes she had seen in the main control room of the Government of Time—the Battle of the Pillar Tower, the Blue King's sword breaking, his sword of Damocles followed with a shocking rattle, and the scene of cracks from top to bottom—suddenly came to her mind.

...... Is that the moment he was talking about, the moment when he was ready to die on the battlefield?!

However, Reiji Munakata did not continue to describe how he felt when he faced the last moments of his life, he just looked her in the eye deeply and said, "...... Just as it is your destiny to keep moving forward. ”

Liu Quan: ?!

Reiji Munegara lowered his eyebrows, and his expression suddenly became extremely calm and gentle. With some kind of strong conviction.

"Even without me, you're sure to find a better way to continue to move forward bravely. That's what I believe. ”

Willow Springs: !!

Tears poured down her face, down her cheeks, down her jaw, and onto the table.

However, she tried her best to slam her head at the person on the screen, revealing a bright smile, as if to affirm his statement.

I'll be brave. We will live bravely, bravely face every difficulty and every enemy that we will encounter in the future, and bravely move forward in the direction of the righteousness that you and I believe in, and become a reliable and trustworthy force that can make our respective worlds better.

So, let's have an agreed high-five, shall we?

She finally spread her five fingers, covering the screen with her palm and fingers tightly together, and his right hand was close to the other end.

There was a screen - where the hands of the two of them overlapped.

Tears finally rolled down her cheeks, but she struggled to lean her upper body forward, trying her best to open up a huge smile on the screen that showed eight teeth.

Her throat clenched. Barely able to make a sound. However, the next moment, she heard her own trembling voice, and said clearly:

"There are a few other lines in that song that I really like. ”

She paused and took a deep breath.

"'Just be brave and follow your own path'—"

"'Never say goodbye, just because we'll meet again soon – so let's have a high-five'. ”

After hearing her response, Reiji Munakata's eyebrows slowly stretched behind the thin-rimmed glasses, becoming calm and gentle. He pursed his thin lips and smiled at her, bowing his head slightly, then curling his fingers slightly over the screen, tapping his fingertips lightly on the screen twice.

There seemed to be a hint of sigh in his smiling voice, and the deep, mellow voice said to her gently, "Good boy." ”

The alarm of the small spherical timer next to it sounded at this moment.

The screen went black for a moment. Reiji's face disappeared from the screen.

But Liu Quan kept the movement of his left hand covering the screen for a long time, and did not move.

Yes.

Those times with you are the best days of our youth.

So.

If you haven't said it properly, I'll give you back with a high-five.

She sat in front of the screen, which had gone completely black, as if she had been sitting for a long time.

Strangely, the singing voice coming from the window was the same one all along.

[It's better to hold back tears.]

Why don't you let yourself cry out loud?

yes

There will be many, many hardships

Please wipe away your tears and stand up]

Liu Quan slowly withdrew his left hand from the blackened screen, slowly stood up, walked to the open window, held on to the windowsill, and looked down.

Outside the window is the atrium, which is full of people. During the relaxing tea break, many people poured out of the building and into the courtyard, enjoying the baptism of today's bright sunshine.

The song loops over and over again, singing:

[The melody of cherry blossoms can be heard everywhere.]

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of parting

In that corner on the wall of the school building

Keep the message that everyone wrote secretly]

Liu Quan pressed the windowsill with both hands, and then slowly leaned forward and leaned out as much as he could, as if he wanted to stand in the window, and he also wanted to bask in the brilliant warmth of today, not at all like the sunny sunshine that should be at the time of parting.

[Take off your familiar school uniform.]

All the flowers are bathed in the spring breeze

Soon it will be blown away

Then I will dream of new dreams.

With such a song, the door behind him clicked open, and the footsteps that had walked out before sounded.

It's Shoji Fujisawa who is back.

Liu Quan was still standing in front of the window, not looking back.

She heard Shoji Fujisawa's footsteps go around his desk, and he seemed to pull out his chair and sit back down. After a moment of silence, he spoke.

"You don't look like you've successfully completed your mission. He said.

Liu Quan still stood with his hands on the windowsill, facing out of the window.

"It didn't work out. There was a hint of a ghostly smile in her voice.

"The only mission I've failed so far...... I'll give it back to you. ”

There was a refreshing sense of defeat in her tone, as if she happily admitted that she also had moments when she was powerless. Shoji Fujisawa was silent for a few seconds and laughed.

"Hehehe...... Doesn't it sound like you mind talking openly about your failures?" he laughed with a hint of inquiry, "will you be able to face your failures so quickly?"

Liu Quan was silent for a moment, and suddenly pushed his hands the windowsill, and with that force, he half-turned around, and stood firm against the window frame, standing with his hands around his chest instead, and raising his chin slightly.

"Huh~" she replied, "It's not so much 'frank' as it is—I'm pretty proud of it, right?"

Shoji Fujisawa was stunned. “...... What?"

Liu Quan looked at him with a smile, and there was no weakness in his heart after the mission failed. There was something called bravery on her face.

"My mission failed, which means that I and Reis-kun have passed the test. "And I'm proud of it—it's such a simple thing." ”

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December 16:

Haven't I been very diligent lately!

Here's a dialogue between the head of the room and the sister about fate.,It's the head of the room before the sword fell off in the return chapter.

Because I think it's also fatalistic to use it here.

In addition, this chapter should have a soundtrack w

Same as the previous chapter.,The soundtrack is still the "Christmas Song" of the Back Number that everyone is already very familiar with.,Please listen to the link by yourself.

AKB48's "Give Me Five" is also referenced in this chapter.

I've always felt that it was very emotional to use this kind of melodic contrast soundtrack at parting, so I tried W again

PS. Today, I would like to thank the little cutie Meow, Ah Yan, and Gui Heshen for feeding~~ Recently, I have felt everyone's love, so I am very motivated w (づ ̄3 ̄)づ╭~