"...... home?"

In the kitchen, Kato's hand holding the soup spoon couldn't help but froze.

"Isn't this the home of Senior Luo?"

"No, I mean, uh, back home over there."

Maybe the difference is not very big, but Luo Tianshu still added this sentence superfluously.

"Uh, back home? That's about how it feels. ”

"Is it home over there in Huaxia?"

"Uh, that's right."

"That's ......"

It's like a bleak fallen leaf, and the tone that sank inadvertently is probably not even noticed by Kato himself.

After closing the lid on the pot, Kato silently took off his apron, walked out of the kitchen, and walked step by step to the blonde guy who was lying on the ground as always, playing a game.

Quietly opening his closed lips, Kato tried not to make his tone too unusual.

"Why do you want to go back so suddenly, is it because of some special holiday?"

Kneeling beside Luo Tianshu, she asked softly:

"Or is there something urgent?"

"Well, it's neither."

Luo Tian stared intently at the screen showing the game, and the action in his hand stopped at the screen of save and load.

"There's no special reason, it's just that I suddenly want to go back and see, this feeling."

"Really......"

Inadvertently, Kato's hand was already clenched tightly in his chest.

"Then, Senior Luo, when will you come back?"

“...... I don't know. ”

Luo Tianshu's eyes moved slightly, and he seemed to have drifted to other places, some, distant places.

"Specifically, I can't say, it's probably ......"

"I see."

The drooping bangs obscured Kato's expression, and the gloomy color seemed to be faintly visible from the corners of his mouth that remained stubborn.

"I've got it, I know it......"

Why, I suddenly felt like crying.

There's no particular reason, it's just that I want to cry.

Luo Tianshu's words didn't mean anything, but what fell on Kato's ears was like the final verdict, the future that once frightened her.

It's finally here.

He couldn't see each other's expressions, like two lighthouses looking at each other in the dark, and at this moment, Kato really felt that the distance between the two was no longer within the reach of one hand.

The figure in her heart may now have reached a place where she can no longer reach.

Unwilling.

Probably the only emotion she could say right now.

"So, do you want me to inform everyone?"

"Inform everyone? Why? ”

"Since Senior Luo is leaving, at least ......"

Biting his slightly pale lip, Kato's voice grew warmer and lower.

"Let's have a farewell party or something."

"What?"

The movements in Luo Tianshu's hands froze, and the current situation of those demons dancing in every gathering in his mind couldn't help but appear in front of his eyes, making him tremble subconsciously.

"Forget it, it's too much trouble."

"Trouble ......"

Kato suddenly gasped a little.

The emotion pressed in her chest continued to erode her heart, and Luo Tianshu's words were like meteors across the night sky, taking away hope and leaving the endless emptiness of this sky.

Yes, it's always been like this, probably for Senior Luo, I, no, it's us.

We will always be trouble.

Again and again willfully attached to the body of Luo's predecessors, troublesome.

It was a feeling that I hadn't felt before, no, maybe I had.

Kato desperately wants to become a fragile girl, so that she won't force a smile in front of Luo Tianshu, and in this way, she won't pretend to be mature in front of Luo Tianshu.

That way, she wouldn't be holding back the tears when they were welling up in her eyes.

Senior Luo, he has never changed.

Looking at Luo Tianshu's back, he obviously wanted to escape countless times, but Kato was worried that he would never see him again in the next second, and greedily cherished every second now.

I don't know when I started caring about this special "senior".

It was an accident.

The chance encounter on the detective slope made him acquainted with this senior.

Emotional intelligence is super low, bad personality, and there is no predecessor at all in the attitude towards juniors, and he is teaching stubborn juniors every day tomorrow, but his ability to cause trouble is not low at all.

Such a guy who is a negative score in anyone's eyes has left the deepest mark in his heart.

Obviously he looks completely unreliable, but when it matters, he can always stand at the forefront.

The memory of spending time in SOX is probably the most precious treasure of Kato's life.

A strange group of people, a strange dream, and the one who brought it all together, the strangest of Lo senpai.

It's like a painting.

All the memories turned into a painting made of fragments, and it was a happy scene.

But one day, Kato realized that what could remain in his paintings was always the image of the past, and both he and them were constantly moving forward.

The day of separation will surely come.

On the day he realized this, Kato's chest suddenly became a little dull, as if something would be painful if it wasn't communicated.

Kasumigaoka-senpai, Sawamura-san, Kaoru ......

Kato's mind flashed through the figures of his friends one by one, until that person appeared.

Luo Tianshu.

When his appearance was reflected in her eyes, it was as if something had disappeared from her body, the feeling of lightness, the pressure in her chest, and the inexplicable pain were all gone.

At that time, she finally understood.

She likes this person.

She didn't want to come to an end like this, she didn't want to go back to that world of transparent colors, she didn't want to live in a story without him.

Complex emotions overwhelmed her mental strength.

I'm so tired, I want to stop everything, I want to cry like this, I want to say everything willfully.

However, she couldn't.

She couldn't do it either way.

Obviously she wanted to cry, but she had a smile on her face, she obviously wanted to speak, but her mouth couldn't open, she obviously wanted to look away,

Her gaze couldn't take her eyes off the man anyway.

"Luo's senior ......"

The sparkle rolling in the corners of his eyes was quietly wiped away, and the choked words seemed to return to calm after being spoken.

"Finally, in the end, is there anything I can do to help Senior Luo?"

“...... That, Kato. ”

Obviously, the words he said were so bland, but inexplicably, there was a faint distressing taste in it, and Luo Tianshu didn't dare to turn around.

"Actually, you don't have to ......"

"No, even if you think it's my willfulness, anything, at least in the end......"

Kato...... All right. ”

It was probably that heaviness that had never been felt before that Luo Tianshu finally made up his mind, he slowly sat up from the ground, turned around and said solemnly to Kato:

"Kato, if you can...... How about taking care of Victoria for me these days? ”

“...... Huh? ”

Kato froze, and she suddenly realized that she seemed to have misunderstood something important.