The girl on the hospital bed looked like she was not breathing.

Unlike Sakura's silky hair, which flowed like sapoo water, her hair was frizzy and messy, her skin was so pale that even her lips were so pale that she couldn't see blood.

She didn't look big, and Xiu felt like she was even smaller than herself.

They belong to children of the same age,

But the little girl could only stay in the hospital bed, looking through the small door at the only small world.

Xiu Ze has already left the cold cage, followed the strange person, stepped into the strange field, the strange town, witnessed the strange story, and slowly and firmly integrated himself into the strange world.

Now, he didn't know how to come to this stranger world.

However, in fact, Xiu didn't feel much difference.

Anyway, it's all strange, where is it, and what's the difference?

The sick girl lay lifelessly, wrapped in a thick quilt, her eyes closed weakly, and only the occasional subtle sensation of her nose could be noticed, and she was still breathing.

What kind of sickness must it take to torture a girl to such a degree?

She ...... What the hell is going on......"

Shu asked this Sakura in a whisper.

"Rin's illness is not clear even to my father." Sakura's eyes darkened a lot, "My father has used many, many medicines, and many, many methods, but Rin has never been better. ”

"All the time... Are you all in bed? Xiu muttered as he smelled the strong smell of medicine in the room.

"Well, all the time in bed. The farthest, only to the stairs of the shrine, just..."Sakura didn't say any more.

Xiu clenched his fists.

“... Sakura, can I talk to her? Xiu asked.

"Yes. It looks like I'm asleep, but I'm actually awake all the time. Sakura smiled slightly.

But Xiu could see that this was a smile that he had worked so hard to squeeze out.

"It's going to get better." Xiu said suddenly.

"Huh?" Sakura didn't seem to react, and Shu didn't mean to explain, but walked straight to the girl on the side of the sickbed and squatted down cautiously.

After walking into the girl's side, Xiu smelled a faint smell of medicine.

That's the taste of medicinal soup.

The smell is full of the despair that is characteristic of medicine, bitter and deadly. In despair, all I feel is death approaching me little by little, but it hovers at my side, never like the despair that you beckon but never leave.

This is a kind of play with life, and it is also a kind of desecration of life. It's always on your side, but never the last step.

Xiu slowly approached her ear, and said softly and a little stumblingly, "You'll be fine, so keep going." Your sister and your father will try to find a cure for you, so keep up with that. ”

The girl's body shuddered and turned slowly.

"Really... Is it okay? ”

She didn't even open her eyes.

She looked about the same age as Xiu, but her voice was hoarse and she didn't look like a child.

Her voice was already deep, deep in despair, or rather never hopeful.

Perhaps the initial hope has been completely crushed into smoke and dust by disappointments again and again in the long river of time.

"Yes. Everyone is trying to save you, and you have to work hard to respond to everyone. Xiu said softly but firmly.

Effort.

She thought about the word in her heart. She couldn't help but feel a little funny. But......

She never laughed.

She slowly opened her eyes.

His cheeks were a little thin, but his skin looked white, but there was a hint of copper.

His lips weren't too thin, but they were tightly pursed into a slit, as if he was distressed by something.

His nose was unlike anyone she had ever seen, it was so upturned that it looked like a mountain, and one couldn't help but wonder if such a nose could really grow into a mountain.

His eyes are purple.

Most of the villagers in Yae Village have black or brown eyes. Her and her cherry blue eyes are considered to be god-given eyes, so they are different from ordinary people. So the purple eyes are not the messengers of God who have come to take her away?

She looked at Xiu's face seriously, wanting to see his face more carefully, this is the silver white as snow hair slowly falling down.

Only then did she notice that his hair turned out to be frosty white hair that only old people have.

"Are you coming to pick me up, white-haired brother?"

"Nope." Xiu shook his head.

"So, if you're not the one who came to pick me up from the gods, then who are you?"

"I'm Hugh Kaslana. Your name is... Yae Rin, huh? ”

"Hmm,... It's you...... I know you. My sister told me about you yesterday. She seemed to want to sit up, she tried to raise her head, but her body couldn't get up.

The slender snow-white arm dragged the back of her neck, slowly holding her back and helping her up.

Sakura didn't have a smile on her face, but there was a hint of sadness. She let the girl, who was suffering from illness, slowly and gently lean against her body.

"Sister, you're here." Rin forced a smile.

"Well, my sister is here." Sakura gently stroked her rough hair and whispered softly.

"Sister, I saw the white-haired brother you mentioned, he is so beautiful." Rin said weakly.

"Well, he's right next to Rin. But how can anyone say that men are beautiful? Sakura gently pressed her face to Rin's head, "Rin, my father has gone to the mountains to collect medicine, and it should take a day or two to come back." Father will be able to find a cure for Rin. ”

Rin heard that he was going to drink medicine, and his face couldn't help but feel bitter, "Sister, can you not drink medicine, Rin doesn't want to drink medicine." ”

"No, you have to drink the medicine Rin to get better!" Sakura refused without hesitation, sounding non-negotiable.

"But the medicine is really too bitter..."Rin's pale face showed a hint of bitterness, and her already bad face looked even more ugly.

"Kasurana, that is, the white-haired brother has also drunk a full bowl of medicine, and you can be like him!" Sakura grabbed Shu's arm and pulled him over, "He's all in one go!" You know, the injury that my brother wants to treat is left by the mountain god! That injury was very serious! Therefore, my sister specially made a large amount of extra thick medicinal soup! ”

Xiu thought about the thing he drank that day, and couldn't help but shudder.

Oh my God, that's a big amount of extra concentrated medicine!

Sakura didn't notice that something was wrong with the repair, but continued to coax Rin, "You see, after he drank the medicine, the scars are like they're fine." I'll be able to get out of bed and come over to see Rin the next day! ”

"Really?" Rin had a glimmer of hope in her eyes.

"Well, it's true." Xiu nodded hurriedly. He was convincing himself not to think about the terrible smell as much as possible, and Sakura said, "Sakura's medicine is amazing, I thought I would have to lie down for a few days, but the next day I was fine!" ”

Rin looked at Xiu's appearance blankly, and the hope in his eyes became stronger and stronger.

"So, can I, with my sister, play together?"

"Yes! You can still come with me! ”

"Is it outside the room?"

"We'll be in the main square of the shrine!"

"So, can I see the world outside the village?"

"We will see the mountains outside the village, the forests on the hills, the streams by the forests, and the fish in the streams!"

"That's... That's—" Rin slowly reached out to Shu, as if trying to grab something. Xiu looked at her hand, pale fingers, protruding knuckles, and bloodless nails, and only hesitated for a moment before grabbing her hand without hesitation.

Xiu felt that her strength was so weak, but this hand seemed to grasp the whole world, so tightly and so hard that it kept trembling and grasping his palm.

"I, I can, with my sister, look at the cherry blossoms in Yae Village next year..."

Xiu saw her pink blue eyes staring at him tightly.

Suffering from illness, her eyes have long since lost the clarity they should be as a child. Her gaze was cloudy, and her vision was a little distracted, but he saw hope in such eyes. It was a longing, a longing, a yearning, a moth in the dark, desperate for the infinitely distant light, even if the light she longed for was a blazing firework that could burn her to ashes.

Xiu responded to the strength of her clenched palms and nodded firmly.

"You don't have to wait until next year. It's beautiful to see this year's cherry blossoms, so don't you want to see them this year? ”

Rin looked at Xiu's crystal purple eyes. What she saw was a pair of clean crystals that could be seen at a glance, and all she saw was a look of determination that she hadn't seen in her sister's eyes, her father's eyes, anyone's eyes in a long time.

She burst into tears.

Tears can't stop overflowing from his eyes, he can't wipe them dry, he can't stop them.

But she was laughing.

Her eyes were like a pair of beautiful crescent moons, and the smile had already filled her eyes, contained in the corners of her mouth, and overflowed on her face.

"Yes!"

(End of chapter)