Winters in Japan are not as dry as in the interior, but temperatures are still low.

Crowds of people on the streets, carrying large and small bags, walked by quickly. The traffic lights at the intersection of the street alternate, and the green light flashes on.

The boy in a dark brown trench coat exhaled into the palm of his hand and followed the back of the crowd into the aisle.

"Little ...... Haruka?"

There was surprise in the temptation, and there was a unique joy in the young man's low voice.

Haruka Nanase turned her head suspiciously, and when she saw the person who stopped her, she couldn't help but freeze in place.

Since sending Rin Matsuoka to the airport that day, it is tacitly clear that the two have not been in contact for a long time. So, Haruka Nanase, who was somewhat shocked when they suddenly met on the road, was completely confused, and he didn't even notice that he was led near the school by Rin Matsuoka.

"Hey, don't you know how to take care of yourself in such a cold weather?" "Rin Matsuoka held Haruka Nanase's hand all the way, and there was no trace of warmth in her delicate fingers, like frost on the branches and leaves in the morning light. He lectured the young man who bowed his head and was silent in a vicious tone, but in a blink of an eye, he took off his gloves and threw them over, "I will borrow you first, don't lose it!"

Holding the gloves, Nanase looked at Rin Matsuoka in a daze, who turned his head to reveal reddish ears.

The slight pink, like warm sunlight, seeped into Nanase Haruka's heart, and he asked slowly, "You...... When did you come back, and how are you doing over there?"

"It's okay, the school happened to be closed a few days ago, so I came back and planned to leave after the Chinese New Year. Speaking of his study life, Rin Matsuoka smiled proudly in his eyes, "Let me tell you, I found a teacher at school who is a good swimmer." And the swimming club I attended was amazing, the students in it were on par with me, but I was the best!"

Nanase Haruka listened quietly to Rin Matsuoka, and he didn't mind if the other party would surpass him. But seeing the person in front of me so happy, I didn't know what was going on, and I was also very happy.

"By the way, how are Koto and Nagisa?" After talking for a long time, Matsuoka Rin also felt a little carried away, he scratched the back of his head and asked, "Are you in the same school?" When I was sorting things out abroad, I seemed to have lost their contact information, and I couldn't find them in my previous email address. ”

Haruka Nanase's gray-blue eyes were bright, with an imperceptible smile in them, "Nagisa still has a year to take the junior high school exam, and I study in the same class as Jean." They are all very good, next time I see them I will help you relay them, and give you their phone number later. ”

"Okay, maybe we can come out and get together!" Rin Matsuoka smiled brightly and looked up at the clear blue sky above, "I really miss the days when we swam together." ”

Haruka Nanase looked at Rin Matsuoka intently and did not speak.

"Although the piano is easy to speak, it is not soft every time it is tried, and it has to be high and low to stop. He thinks I don't know, but he just sees that I jump a few seconds faster than you, and every time I toss others to death. Nagisa giggles every day, but he takes swimming as seriously as we do, you remember that time when we swam halfway, he suddenly had a headache, and he hid from us until we reached the destination, and that kind of hardness was really scary. Rin Matsuoka recalled with interest the little bits and pieces of her partner, and her eyes burst out with dazzling light.

If it weren't for the miserable swimming, he would really be reluctant to leave Japan and leave these partners who had struggled with him.

In the same way, it also shows how much swimming occupies in his heart.

After talking for a while, Matsuoka's initial excitement gradually subsided. He paused to catch his breath, pursed his lips and opened his mouth—

"Is there any news from that guy?"

Nanase Haruka was stunned for a moment, but then thought of who Matsuoka Rin was talking about. The light in his eyes suddenly dimmed, "No, we haven't been able to find him since you left." ”

Not only can't I find it, but that person seems to have evaporated from the world. When Tachibana went to the small house by the sea, there was no one there. Neighbors in the neighborhood all said that the old woman inside had moved away, and no one knew where she had moved. Hazuki Nagisa took the missing person poster drawn by Haruka Nanase and asked everywhere, and found a lot of people he knew, but there was no news.

The time of separation was getting longer and longer, but Izawa seemed to have disappeared, without giving them a clue, let alone finding it. What's more, they all have their studies. There is a limit to what a child can do, even if it is a group of children.

Looking at Nanase Haruka shaking his head, Rin Matsuoka was not surprised, but the loss in his eyes was obvious.

"That guy...... As for it?"

He admitted that he had selfish intentions in deciding to leave, but that was because he saw that the people around him were stronger than him, and the young man's heart refused to admit defeat. Coupled with Izawa's repeated stimulation, he decided to leave his hometown and go out to seek advice.

But...... He didn't say give up on his friends!

The young man's lips pursed tightly, and his tense expression showed that he was in a very bad mood at the moment.

His every move fell on Nanase Haruka's eyes, and worry flowed from the gray-blue eyes. Not good at comforting people, so I can only clumsily change the topic, "In foreign countries, learn a lot." ”

"Hmm. ”

Frustrated, Rin Matsuoka lowered his head and didn't see Haruka Nanase's cautious expression clearly.

"What kind of person is the coach, is it good for you?" racking his brains to think of a topic that could divert attention, this is the first time that Haruka Nanase wants to actively communicate with someone like this.

Rin Matsuoka rubbed his eyes and looked much better, "Well, I've learned a lot." ”

Looking at the cherry blossom tree not far ahead, he suddenly remembered the trophy they had planted together at that time, and the exciting and unforgettable game.

Thinking of his training day and night abroad, the exclusion of team members, and the strictness of the coach. Rin Matsuoka stood up with a "snort" in his eyes, and there was an irrepressible battle intent in his eyes.

"Let's have a game!"

Haruka Nanase was stunned and pulled into the swimming pool by Rin Matsuoka and stood on the diving platform in a swimsuit.

Actually, he prefers to chat with Rin Matsuoka rather than swimming.

Outside, people still wear scarves and gloves to withstand the harsh winter, and a special competition has begun in the swimming pool.

The competition was short, it was a rest day and winter, and although there was heating in the swimming pool, no one went in to swim, and no one watched their game, so no one knew what the outcome of the game was.

It's just that Matsuoka Rin, who was the first to put it on, had a blue face, as if he had been provoked by someone. He was followed by Haruka Nanase, who was stunned, and walked behind him unhurriedly.

"Rin ......"

Haruka Nanase watched in surprise as Rin Matsuoka staggered his outstretched hand and stopped in place.

Looking at Haruka Nanase's injured face, Rin Matsuoka's heart softened. Thinking about what he had suffered before, his face became even more ugly, "Don't come here." ”

"Why......"

"It's nothing!" Rin Matsuoka turned his head away from Haruka Nanase and took a deep breath, "Don't follow, I don't want to see you!"

Nanase Haruka's eyes widened, and a trace of grievance flashed in her clear eyes, but she really stopped.

Rin ......

A gust of wind blew, and the time went back shortly after that game.

In early autumn, the sky is clear and blue, and the occasional cool breeze blows and the trees on both sides of the street shed their leaves.

In the garden downstairs of the hospital, it is rare for patients to go out for a walk at night. The sparse crowd walked back to the ward, and the place that had been relatively lively for a while suddenly became quiet.

In a corner hidden by bushes, a faint touch of blue and white is faintly revealed.

"Little brother, little brother, where are you?" Aiichiro Nitori ran in with a coat bigger than him, shouting as he looked around.

After running around the garden, I finally found the person I was looking for behind the bushes.

It was a young man paralyzed in a wheelchair, pale and weak. There were several gauze bandages on the arm that exposed the outside of the hospital gown, and there were still patches of bruises and purple marks on the uncovered area.

At first glance, you know that he is a seriously ill person.

Draping the coat in his hand over the boy, Aiichiro Nitori happily pushed him towards the ward building.

"Little brother, the method you taught me really worked! This time I won the second place in the group, and my father agreed to let me continue swimming!" "Aiichiro Nitori happily told the teenager how he broke into the group finals, and at the end of the year, he invited the credit, "Little brother, you say I'm not good!"

The boy seemed to have trouble moving, and he awkwardly raised his hand and patted Aiichiro Tori. Although it was only a very weak expression, it made the child even happier, "Little brother, my father said that he would bring delicious milk porridge today, let's eat it together later." ”

The young man's dull eyes looked at the increasingly gloomy sky, and he did not speak. As he was about to be pushed into the building, he spoke slowly, "Wait a minute. ”

Hearing the boy speak, Aiichiro Nitori let go of the handle in disbelief and came to the boy's side, extremely excited: "Little brother, little brother, can you speak? I heard you right!"

Seeing that the child was so happy, the boy nodded slowly, and the imperceptible pain slipped through his eyes.

"Great! You're going to get better!"

Aiichiro Nitori was at the airport to see off his traveling grandfather when he found Izawa fainting. At that time, his father was also by his side, and he did a simple emergency treatment and sent Izawa to the hospital.

The results of the examination showed that Izawa's organs had begun to deteriorate and various functions were gradually weakened. Izawa's family couldn't be contacted, and the child liked Izawa very much, and Ize had taken care of the child, so they arranged for him to be hospitalized.

Knowing that Ize's condition could only deteriorate day by day, the adults couldn't bear to let the two children lose confidence, so they only said that there would be a way. This time Izawa opened his mouth to speak, and Aiichiro Nitori felt that his father really didn't lie to him, and his little brother could still get better.

"Do you like to swim?"

Although he didn't know why he asked, the child nodded obediently.

"If you like it, you have to stay the course. ”

"Hmm. ”

After receiving many days of care and companionship from the child, Izawa decided to say one more thing, "Remember, you are sticking to your initial liking, not to be competitive." Otherwise, the heart to chase freedom and dreams will be lost, and it will never be recovered. ”

"Huh?" the child could not understand the vague words, and he tilted his head to look at Izawa with a puzzled expression.

Izawa didn't say more, he raised his hand to rub the child's hair, and after exerting the last trace of strength, he barely maintained normal and said, "I'm a little thirsty, can you go and pour me a glass of water?"

"Hmm. The boy did not suspect him, and immediately got up and ran to find water.

Izawa looked at the child's distant figure, looked around at no one, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He leaned silently in his wheelchair, his pale face almost pale.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on his body, making his body even thinner, faintly transparent.

Reaching out and looking at the lightly white fingers, Izawa closed his eyes slightly.

A moment later, a burst of white light flashed.

In the garden, there is no trace of it. There was no wheelchair and no pale teenager.

The author has something to say: if every world were the same form of farewell...... It's really going to be tired of love╮(╯▽╰)╭

This is also a foreshadowing of the next world, well, there is another world!