Dr. Sennan was two stops away from the hospital and I did, so we walked into the carriage together, holding on to the handrail above my head, and we were both crowded with people rushing to work and school. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Xiaoxi, I really didn't expect you to study in Shaojian Middle School, so I'm your senior."

"The seniors should know everything about the younger generations."

"Ah, are you right to ask about Hegu's class? I know, that incident was rumored at the time, then again, Xiaoxi, I almost forgot if you didn't mention it, there was really something strange at that time. ”

"Did you mention a letter or something?"

Dr. Sennan thought for a moment and said, "...... Yes, it is true that the letter was spoken, and the grain was looking for it at that time...... What's that name......

"Lily of the valley puppet."

"Yes, that's the name, he came to our class and asked, but no one knew what it was? Whether it was a person's name or a place name or something, no one knew where that name came from, and I remember him being in a hurry, saying that he had to write back to the lily of the valley puppet. ”

"Otherwise?"

"-Otherwise...... As if to say doom is coming......" Dr. Sennan looked up and looked around, perhaps nervous that no one would hear such a ridiculous thing come out of his mouth.

Then he added, "And there seems to be something going on in that incident...... I've also heard what others say, I'm not sure, but you let me 'know everything and say everything' I should tell you, it is said that He Gu is persona non grata in the class, he is a transfer student, a boy, he came after half a semester in the first year of high school, he was often bullied among his classmates, they all called him a freak in private, and, once when I was in an art class, I drew sketches, everyone drew according to the reference prescribed by the teacher, only he drew something else, and the teacher was scared when he went to see it. ”

"What did he draw?"

“...... A man hanging from the ceiling......" Dr. Sennan said in a low voice, "and he said that he drew according to the reference in front of him, and all the classmates were terrified by him. ”

I suddenly felt a chill in my back, like an ice blanket on my body, and the pores of my whole body couldn't help but expand.

"Did the letter He Gu receive from a classmate write it to him as a prank?"

"That's what I said, but even if it's a mischievous, I won't use such a strange name as the lily of the valley puppet for no reason, those mischievous classmates seem to have seen something before this name came up, Xiaoxi, why do you suddenly care about Hegu's affairs?"

"I'm in Class D of this year's high school because ....... Some of our classmates have already had accidents......" I said vaguely.

"Ah, it's so serious, when I was in my third year of high school, there was a curse in the school in class D, and I didn't believe it yet, so let's do it, Xiaoxi, I'll help you investigate, I didn't know much with the people in class D at that time, but I knew a classmate in class B who was very close to class D, I'll help you ask, and I'll notify you if there's news."

"Then please."

"Xiaoxi, you have to pay more attention to rest, don't participate in strenuous exercise, don't go to places with too many people and bad air, and come to the hospital at any time if you feel unwell......"

Dr. Sennan asked him again before getting out of the car, and I waved goodbye to him through the window.

I continued to sit at the next stop before getting off the bus and walking to school.

As I passed by the complex, I saw someone walking in with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, a bouquet of black roses wrapped in cream-colored paper, and in that person's hand, a soft and eerie beauty was highlighted.

I couldn't help but follow.

――It was Kihara, and he didn't seem to have any intention of going into the classroom, so he took the flower and went straight to the music room on the third floor of the complex.

Through the half-hidden door, the bouquet of roses was placed on the edge of the stage, and the black flowers were hollow and gorgeous.

"Come in, don't sneak out there."

Kihara opened the door, and I stood awkwardly by the door and greeted him.

"Hello—"

"Don't be inhibited, we've been classmates for a week."

He didn't look at me talking, but took it apart, the cream-colored wrapper was torn off, and the stems were exposed, like a beautiful girl who had been stripped of her dress and lay cold in his hands.

The flowers were scattered on the ground, and in the chaos, a candle was lit by Kihara and placed in between, I didn't understand his intention to do this, intuitively I could tell that he was doing a sacrifice for someone, like a small private funeral, was he doing it for the beginning of spring? I was suspicious.

"Do you think it's for the beginning of spring?"

He was staring into my eyes at this point, and he could read my thoughts, and that's what I thought, didn't I? Chunchu had just died, and he was so sad at yesterday's ceremony, like the feeling of losing a lover... Yes, that's it - and yet, he smiled negatively.

"Not for her, for another life, weak, delicate, defenseless... I love it so much... A life. ”

He continued: "But she is dead, and only I know, so I bury her dead soul for her on this little stage." ”

He took a step closer to me, behind the hair hanging down from his forehead was a pair of melancholy and beautiful eyes, but I was uncomfortable to look at, to some extent these eyes gave me a more morbid feeling than Miyayama's, he was very beautiful, even a kind of beauty that girls can't reach, but he was weird, at least at this time his actions and words made me think so surely, his beauty seemed to be contained in emptiness and exhaustion... Desolation, even near death.

The bell rang outside the window, and I left the music room, looking back at me in the dim light as I left.

During class, Shui Jing threw a small note-

"I went to see Kihara's performance after school, and I have a ticket."

Suddenly, a cold snap hit my limbs and chest, and recalling his "abnormal" behavior in the music classroom, I replied without hesitation on a small note, "I want to go home." ”

Shui Jing turned her face and pursed her lips like a coquette, her face was as unrestrained as usual with mascara and lip gloss, and there was no trace of grief after her death at the beginning of spring, she squeezed her eyes at me, and I still shook my head.

"Xiaoxi, you can go together, I beg you, I specially asked for two tickets, it's hard to get them."

After class, Shui Jing grabbed my arm and dragged me to the landing between the stairs and downstairs, and the battle was entangled... In the end, she won, and she threatened me with death to agree, and I naively agreed.

When I stood at the door of a club-like club, it was five o'clock in the afternoon, my father and I honestly confessed that I was going to see my classmates' performances, my father asked me for my address, and repeatedly asked to come and take me home after the event, I agreed, because I didn't promise that he would come anyway, I couldn't stubbornly not tell him where I was, I can understand the adult's anxiety about children, they are afraid of losing, because they know how to love better than us, every time I wake up in the hospital, I feel sad for the man in front of the bed. Until I remembered that he was my father, I would secretly cry when he couldn't see it.

The sunset has not yet left, the spotlights on the open-air stage have been turned on, the dazzling light makes me dizzy, a few young people with slightly longer hair than Kihara walked up from behind the stage, with a guitar hanging from their shoulders, the one should be an electric guitar and a bass in professional terms, the murmur of electricity between the microphone and the stereo, there is no opening statement, the instrument has already played notes, from weak to strong... The more vividly the performers on the stage, the more hysterical the people in the audience became, everyone screamed wildly, sweat splashed out of anger and accusations against the injustice of the world, intertwined their fragile souls and love with black metal, and even hoped that the moment when the sky would fall apart would come immediately and perish with it forever -

This is the kind of music that is called rock and roll that I haven't fully comprehended and integrated yet.

Kihara was also on stage, I saw him, a lazy white shirt and tight black pants, he was standing in front of the microphone and singing, whether he was expressing his understanding of the world in another way, I don't know, I felt dizzy from this atmosphere, to be honest, I couldn't stand it, my cranial nerves were warning me to leave the scene as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences would be serious.

Shui Jing jumped beside me, her excitement had broken through her limits, I couldn't tell if she was tears or sweat on her face, she wasn't screaming, she was crying, what was the reason why she needed such catharsis, I don't know, but her excitement was mixed with pain, I could see it.

It's been the third song, I left the scene with my stomach churning, Shui Jing didn't notice my departure, it's not that the music causes me to have this reaction to want to vomit, but the cerebral blood vessels will increase the intracranial pressure in the case of compression, at this time dizziness, nausea, and the feeling of wanting to vomit will come to me, if Dr. Sennan knows that I will come to this kind of place, I must be against it, I bypassed the stage to the door of a steeped house in the back, the house is a bar, it must be inappropriate for me to go in in a school uniform, So I found a slightly secluded place outside and sat down.

"I didn't expect you to come."

A sudden word.

I looked up - Kihara was standing in the light of the spotlight, and the faint light was enough to see his delicate face, his shirt, his hair, and all the otherworldly backgrounds behind him.

"Came with Shui Jing, did you see her?"

"Didn't pay much attention."

"Aren't you on stage? How..."

"I've done my part, and you don't like this kind of music very much."

"I... Ah, maybe, not quite adapting. "I've become accustomed to hiding my "flaws" under all sorts of excuses

"Do you need me to get you a glass of water? I see you're in a bad state. ”

"Well, thank you."

I'm really in a bad state, if it weren't for the dim light and I couldn't see clearly, people who saw me would think that I might have lost blood, at this time my face would be extremely pale, I kept covering my mouth with my hands, and I felt like I was going to vomit at any time, I guess this small action was noticed by Kihara.

After a while, he handed me a glass of warm water.

"Don't mind what happened in the morning, I was in a bad mood at that time." He said.

When I think of how he looked in the morning, I really don't have a normal opinion of him, but now there is a change from this glass of warm water, "... Oh, I've almost forgotten it. I said, "Nothing to do, don't worry." ”

"I'm really sad about the death of the early spring... My sadness is different from others, because..."

As he spoke, a voice suddenly called out to him—

"Kihara, it's going to end, you go over for a while."

"I'll tell you another day." He threw a word at me and ran away into the noise.

I looked back at the cup in my hand, rubbing my thumb over the print on it, and that's when I noticed two English letters printed on it.

――“TS”

Whether it was a coincidence or a spell cast by God or something, my memory was powered on in that moment, and I remembered - the events before I was hit by the ball on Saturday, and the special meaning of this "TS".