The summer temperature in August is unusually high.

Even if you don't do anything, just sit there quietly, and it won't take long for you to sweat.

The house was a little dim.

The curtains were only opened by a gap, which made the room somewhat bright, so that nothing could be seen clearly.

Xu Shuyao sat there quietly.

His eyes stayed at the window that had closed the curtains not far away, staring at the curtain that had been pulled apart.

I don't know what's going on in my head.

"Shu Yao."

There was a call from outside the room, and the next second the closed door was pushed open, without knocking or asking if he could enter.

Xu Shuyao's mother walked straight into her room, opened the door, and looked at Xu Shuyao with her back to the door.

A hint of loneliness flashed in her eyes, and soon this emotion was hidden by her.

A slightly stiff squeezed out a smile.

"Eat, make your favorite ......"

"Mom...... Eat, I'm not too hungry right now. ”

Xu Shuyao's voice was very calm, as if she hadn't spoken for a long time, and there was a noticeable pause at the moment she spoke.

The pace of speech is also very slow.

These words reached the ears of the mother, looking at the figure of her daughter with her back to her.

Lower your eyes.

"Then I'll keep one for you, and I'll give you hot again when you're hungry."

There was a hint of loss in his tone.

Then he left the room and closed the door to his daughter's room again.

With the sound of "Kaba", the room returned to darkness again.

Only a beam of light peeked through the gap in the curtain.

Xu Shuyao sat there quietly.

After half a ring, a pair of hands got up.

Holding the wheels of her wheelchair and rolling forward vigorously, this seemingly unstrenuous act was very difficult for her.

With a distance of less than three meters or so, it took her nearly a minute or so to make it there.

I came to the position in front of the window.

After adjusting the position of the wheelchair, Xu Shuyao's left hand moved away from the wheel, slowly lifted it, and opened a corner of the closed curtain.

A light shone in from outside.

After getting used to the darkness, suddenly being exposed to strong light will cause obvious discomfort to the eyes.

Xu Shuyao is no exception.

Under the strong light, I closed my eyes involuntarily, and after a while, my eyes slowly got used to the light.

The closed eyes also slowly opened at this moment.

Slightly unresponsive, lifeless eyes, looking out the window.

Looking out the window, the view is overlooked.

The facilities in the community are not high-end, and most of the elderly live around.

Some of their children work outside the home, leaving their elderly people to help take care of the children, so the pace of life is much more casual than in other places.

Xu Shuyao just turned 20 this year.

She was supposed to be on a college campus, but because of an accident four years ago, she lost the ability to walk.

From panic at the beginning, to numbness now.

Four years has made her look down on a lot.

There was no costume in the hair, it was simply draped down.

Because he hasn't been exposed to the sun for a long time, his face is paler than ordinary people.

This is more intuitive when exposed to sunlight.

Former friends came to visit her when she had just had an accident, but as time went on, they also had a new life of their own.

With new friends.

Even when I came to visit me again, most of them were not as enthusiastic as they were at the beginning, and more like they were coping.

Until...... In the end, I didn't come.

In this way, only Xu Shuyao herself remained.

At first, she would ask her mother to take her out to see the outside world.

But every time she was pushed out of the house by her mother and walked on the street, she could always detect the strange eyes of the people around her.

Mostly mercy.

Pity her......

[It's pitiful to be in a wheelchair at such a young age......]

[What's the use of being so pretty, and you can't walk. 】

[I don't know if I can have children.] 】

Words like this were heard by Xu Shuyao, and every time they brought great harm to her heart.

Before she knew it, she had begun to resist contact with the outside world.

Resist seeing other strangers.

Resist talking to others.

Just sit quietly in a wheelchair and stay in your room.

Her favorite books were also sealed on the shelves by her, and she never opened one except for her mother, who would come to clean up for herself.

There is less and less expectation for life.

She didn't know when she started, and suddenly she had the idea that "living in this world is boring".

The beautiful moments in the memories of the past have become more and more blurred as time passes.

More and more difficult to remember.

He could only stay in a small room, hiding in his last fortress.

Look through the window and look out at the world.

No one can endure loneliness, and the moment humans survive in the world, they are destined to be social animals.

Look out the window.

Look at the cats hiding in the shade on the lawn not far away.

I don't know who raised it, or if it was a wild cat.

Xu Shuyao had been observing the cat for two months, as if it had suddenly appeared in her world two months ago.

Orange, white-footed fat cat.

Perhaps because the elderly and children in the neighborhood are often fed, its body is much fatter than that of normal cats.

In Xu Shuyao's observation, the orange cat named "Little Orange" by her had no other entertainment activities, and would lie down in the shade of the lawn for an afternoon every day after eating and drinking.

When the sun is not so hot, they will leave the place slowly.

I don't know where to run.

From Monday to Friday, it can hide in the shade and rest, but on Saturday and Sunday, the good days of [Little Orange] will come to an end after the grandchildren of the old people in the neighborhood have a double holiday.

The little girl might tease him with some curiosity, while the boy would pick up a small stick from nowhere and poke him.

When it makes an impatient cry, the children laugh.

That's exactly what happened at the moment.

With his left hand holding the move of opening the curtain, Xu Shuyao looked at the cat lying on the lawn.

Not far away, a group of children ran over, each holding a long wooden stick in their hands, although they could not hear what they were shouting.

After a while, the cat was surrounded by the cat.

The hand that opened the curtain clenched subconsciously.

Clutching the curtains.

After a while, she heard the unpleasant screams of [Little Orange] and the laughter of the group of little boys.

Watch as the group of boys keep poking it with small sticks......

That's Xu Shuyao's friend.

She couldn't tolerate such injustice to Tachibana.

Perhaps it was the actions of that group of children that angered her, Xu Shuyao subconsciously bit her lip with the tip of her teeth.

After thinking about it, he slammed the window open with his right hand.

Open your mouth...... But it didn't make any noise.

She wanted to shout at the group of kids to stop bullying Tachibana.

But after not talking to outsiders for a long time, she has begun to gradually forget how to communicate with others.

How do you tell those kids that bullying animals is wrong......

She wanted to stop it, but she couldn't say it.

I can only sit helplessly in a wheelchair.

Through the window, I watched with concern.

Listen to the shouts of the little orange [meow].

Who......

Can you help it......