Vaguely, it was as if I had another dream. A dream that I had had many times but couldn't remember the contents at all.

The morning sun peeks in through the cracks in the curtains that have been drawn, and even though it's the height of summer, the sun isn't boring at all.

The girl lay in the halo woven by the sun, letting the wisps of splendor shine fall on her beautiful cheeks, and the girl's white fingertips slid along the edge of the halo. She gently pinched the edges of the summer quilt and wrapped it a little tighter.

It's cold. It's the middle of summer, and the body feels chills for a while, which is certainly not a normal phenomenon.

Girls aren't girls who like to lie in bed. On weekdays, it would be a time when she hides in the Tokiwadai Library, holding a book in her arms and quietly enjoying reading.

But now, she is lying in her own home, because she is very rarely sick.

Although she looks soft and weak, she has always been very healthy. Suddenly infected like this time, it is the first time in my memory.

Although the body is cold from the inside out, the temperature felt by reaching out on the forehead is hot. The girl closed her eyes and sighed softly, feeling the temperature of the rays of sunlight shining through. For some reason, although her physical condition was really not good, her mind was not affected in any way, her mind was even clearer than usual, and she even remembered very clearly when this symptom began.

It was at the end of the piano performance that a feeling of weakness enveloped her. Although pathologically speaking, the time of infection should have been earlier than the onset of the disease, but the symptoms of discomfort that she felt did begin at that time.

According to the original arrangement, her new rank will also be officially announced at the end of the Midsummer Festival, for which Tokiwadai's classmates have even prepared a celebration party for her. However, because of her sudden serious illness, this matter had to be stopped in the end.

In addition to silently apologizing for sweeping away the interest of her classmates, she also felt that she was a little sick this time. As I said before, don't look at her appearance, she has always felt weak, but in fact, she has always been healthy, and even slight physical discomfort rarely appears in her.

Isn't it too tiring to prepare for the Midsummer Festival?

Indeed, she is the busiest and most carefully prepared person in the entire Tokiwadai Midsummer Festival. Whether it's learning etiquette from a chaotic group of students, learning cooking, or even writing music and practicing piano for a talent show. In everything, she did everything she could to be the best she could. If you look at it from someone else's point of view, it's really hard. However, as a client, she felt that she should not be weak enough to be crushed by such exertion.

It's really hard to tell.

Sighing again, she lay quietly but boredly, trying to put herself to sleep again. As we all know, rest is the best aid in the fight against disease, and the best rest is naturally nothing more than sleep. But reality is often like a little child who is keen on pranks, and when you consciously want to fall asleep, you tend to be more and more awake.

The girl, who never found the sleepiness, had to do something to distract herself to get through this time, thinking about the dream that she couldn't remember clearly, and catching the red thread of memory.

It was a very strange dream, and although every time she woke up from the dream, the content of the dream would be forgotten, but she clearly remembered that it was a dream that had been with her for many years.

That was far before she entered school, and even before she came to this warm home. That thread of memory even stretched all the way to the time she realized herself.

Her past is a mystery. Although everyone was kind enough to keep silent on this point, not even she herself would take the initiative to bring it up. However, this is something she has never forgotten.

Her real past is a real nothing. In this nothingness, only the dream whose contents cannot be remembered has survived to this day, like a bubble that occasionally emerges from a sea of vacuum.

Silently, she was immersed in what seemed meaningless thoughts. In this process, the scenes of the past that I experienced are presented in my mind one by one. From family members who were once strangers but are now extremely familiar to friends who were once familiar but now have no news. She didn't have any specific ideas, she just spent her time in memories.

Until the sound of the door gently opening woke her up from her memories.

"Brother?"

Obviously she hadn't seen anyone yet, so she took the initiative to say.

"Why do you know?"

Her brother walked in from behind the door.

"I don't know. But I can feel it. ”

The sick girl opened her eyes and smiled softly, somewhat weak. Her brother walked over to the bed and gently brushed back the few strands of hair that covered her face.

"Did I wake you up?"

The girl shook her head.

"I'm not asleep."

"Have you taken any medicine?"

"Hmm."

The girl replied softly. Under her brother's loving caresse, she changed to a side-lying position, curled up like a cute kitten.

The thin summer quilt is woven from a very soft and smooth material, so that it always clings to her body. When she lies on her side, the thin quilt naturally outlines her soft body, and even the charming and graceful arc of her slender waist is perfectly presented. At this moment, there is even an urge to hold her slender waist and embrace her in his arms to love her.

Her brother's movements paused, and the maiden was keenly aware of this.

"Brother?"

"I take back what I said yesterday." The boy changed his joking tone, "You're really getting cuter." ”

If it were a normal day, the girl would have blushed and looked ashamed. However, at this time, her performance was a little abnormal.

The so-called anomaly is that she just blinked her eyes and didn't react in any way. Because she was so calm that her brother didn't know what to say.

"You've got something on your mind, don't you? Brother. ”

In the end, it was the girl who took the initiative to speak.

Her brother did not deny it. Just as the maiden could more or less guess that he had something on his mind, her brother knew her just as well. A lie that is destined to be exposed, only a fool would tell. Neither of them is such a fool.

The younger sister could remain silent, but her brother couldn't.

After thinking carefully and carefully for a while, her brother spoke silently.

"Yes, and it's about you."

"Really?" The girl didn't react much, she wasn't excited about such a thing. She also knows that her brother often cares for and even helps her silently. His thoughts are actually often related to her. Although she felt some guilt because of this, there was nothing she could do.

But in the end, she was excited. Because her brother said a word.

"I asked some friends and they gave me some clues. Clues related to your former friends. ”

This simple sentence made the girl sit up from the bed almost suddenly. Her brother had long anticipated her possible reaction and reached out to hold her delicate shoulder.

"It's not time yet, at least not yet...... Not. ”

Since she was lying in bed to recuperate, it was natural that the girl was just wearing an underwear. Crystal like condensed snowflakes, even slightly transparent skin is exposed.

It was the first time her brother had looked at his sister's body so closely from such an angle. The exquisite collarbone is so delicate that it makes people want to touch or even kiss at any time. This made him slow to react for a while.

The so-called "getting cuter" is not a joke. Although she hasn't completely departed from the little girl's youth, her sister is already a slim girl. Even, has begun to have some of its own unique flattering temperament.

"Brother...... Elder brother? ”

Her brother let go of his hand with some embarrassment.

"Maybe you've overlooked something."

"What is it?"

"Look, do you think you're going to never see them?"

Her brother asked.

The answer was obvious to her.

Of course not.

"So, that means you think you're going to cross paths in the future, right?"

It's natural, and it looks like nonsense. But the girl frowned slightly, and she felt as if she had indeed overlooked something.

The girl held a cup of fragrant tea in her hand and gently blew away the tea leaves floating on the water.

Her brother went out after a few words of advice. Until the end, she still didn't understand the true meaning of her brother's words, but no matter what, his brother was unwilling to say more. She began to wonder if she was a little sluggish.

She believed that her brother must have his reasons. At least, she did feel that her brother seemed to be busy with something she didn't know much about lately. Thinking of his previous advice, the girl was even more convinced of this.

Although she did quite, quite caring. But as a younger sister, she is not easy to disobey her brother's requirements. Out of trust in her brother, she didn't ask questions until the end.

He exhaled deeply, took another sip of warm hot tea, and even his thoughts seemed to begin to become soft and fluid.

Inadvertently, overlooked......

If there were clues, only one of her two friends might have found the clue. Because of this friend's ability, it is very special in retrospect.

If this friend of mine participates in an experimental cooperation project in a school city, maybe he will leave some traces. However, there are not many means to know about this on their own. Although her interpersonal relationships have always been good, when it comes to social travel, her brother is far better than her.

Neglected ......

(Huh?) ）

Her slender eyebrows moved imperceptibly.

(Special ...... Ability...... ）

It was a faint touch, but it quietly tugged at her heartstrings. It's like there's a thought that's about to come to mind.

Just as she seemed to catch something, there was a knock at the door.

"Miss, your friend has come to visit you."

Her thoughts were interrupted by the words of a distracted student working at her home.

"Friends?"

She was still in the remembrance of her past friends, and she hadn't come back to her senses for a while.

"There are two of your classmates among them."

"Ahh

The girl reacted at once.

Yes, her friends aren't just stuck in the past. Now, she has friends of her own.