The so-called battle is that Pear asks Fang Yuan to go to the library, waiting for the arrival of Xia Jing, who goes to the library with the team to solve the summer vacation homework, and creates a scene of chance encounter.

After the ambush is successful, intercept Xia Jing, and the three of them go to drink tea or something together.

The technique is quite clumsy, and it feels like a simple plan that even elementary school students can come up with.

However, Xia Jing didn't remember that they had practiced this battle. Because──

A few days apart.

Fang Yuan sent a text message to Pear.

The title is 'What's wrong with you?' , which reads, "Overslept?" I'm running out of time."

The next one is titled "Please get in touch", and the text only briefly says "I'm worried".

That's right.

I'm afraid it's - before the battle can be carried out, the incident of the disappearance of the pear will be exposed first.

Since that day, Pear has never sent a single text message. On the contrary, the text messages sent by Fang Yuan to Lizi skyrocketed to dozens in one go, and it is conceivable that she must have made phone calls again and again.

My heart ached.

The pain began to pulsate vigorously as the heartbeat began.

It's just that Xia Jing can only feel heartache and sadness at this stage.

About a year after Lizi's disappearance, the mailing box of Fang Yuan's mobile phone changed.

There are a lot of outgoing text messages that don't have a set recipient.

That series of contents, I can't send it even if I want to—no, it's a text message that I know I can't send but still typed out.

The first unsent text message was titled 'How are you?'

Give the pears.

How are you doing?

I'm about to take the high school entrance exam.

Although the days without pears are lonely and uncomfortable, I will try my best.

I was very serious about preparing for the exam. I hope I can be admitted to the same high school as that person.

Xia Jing immediately understood the meaning.

This is an update report.

A text message written to her by Ashbara, who believes that the pear is safe.

If memory serves, Riko's phone was found on the side of the road and malfunctioned a few days after she went missing. Even so, Fang Yuan still believes that one day she will contact her. There will be a regular report every week.

Xia Jing opens the next newsletter. The title was "I got in!"

Give the pears. I was admitted to a private high school... That person seems to have been admitted too.

I'm so happy to be able to go to the same high school again in the spring.

Frankly, it would be better if the pears could be together......

But I want to quit the habit of mourning and crying.

Because I want to be stronger before the pear returns.

At least, you have to be strong enough to dare to talk to Xia Jing.

Otherwise, when the pear returns, I'll cause you trouble again.

If you can see Xia Jing's classmates, I don't know how good it would be. Pear, you have to pray for me, too.

This wish shouldn't be greedy, right?

The view in front of you...... It became a blur. As if a force was pushing him, Xia Jing flipped through the newsletter in order.

After reading several newsletters in quick succession, one was titled "Great!" The text message caught his eye.

Today, Xia Jing took the initiative to talk to me.

He came to borrow my homework.

But I think my handwriting is so ugly that I can't see people at all. I was so nervous that I didn't hesitate for anything he said.

I didn't dare look him in the eye. Xia Jing, I'm sorry.

But I'm really happy.

It's satisfying to be in the same classroom like this, and then to have a few conversations once in a while.

Although Pears may say that this is too easy to satisfy......

However, I was so happy all day today.

But, but, but.

The frequent appearance of "but" in the text messages means that although she is not satisfied with her actions, on the other hand, she has a positive attitude towards her feelings.

This is the strong will she has always lacked confidence in interpersonal relationships.

Soon, the date of the text message came to summer, and then autumn went to winter, and a year passed.

Fang Yuan reported the situation to Lizi in detail.

The sesame little things of everyday life.

The worry of not being able to make friends.

Suddenly, a senior I didn't know confessed to myself.

It actually takes a lot of courage to refuse to confess.

There was only one thing she hadn't written in.

The incident that happened because of the refusal of the senior's confession - Fang Yuan didn't mention it at all.

Is it being reckless? Or is it because you don't want to worry Pear?

However, her recent reports begin to slowly take on a gloomy air from around early winter. The number of words has also been reduced, and there is a trend of increasing in abstract text messages such as "I had a good day today" and "I'm so bored this week". As if trying her best to hide the fact that she was being bullied, even those who watched felt heartache for her.

However, among these inconsequential contents, only mentioning a certain topic Fang Yuan will become a common rap.

That was the period when I started talking to Xia Jing frequently.

- He borrowed my homework from me.

- He asked me how I was doing.

- He said good morning to me today.

It's all trivial.

Even Xia Jing himself has long forgotten all these things.

However, she would rather report these inconsequential things to Pears than mention the bitter fact that she was being bullied. It's as if these little things are all she has.

It's as if I'm proudly saying to Pear, "I'm fearless when I have this."

「……」

The tearful eyes blur the field of vision.

It is already difficult to read word by word, and a breath is stuck in the heart, and even breathing is not normal and smooth.

"She's ...... How's that?"

Xia Jing couldn't cry, and he didn't even notice that he was sobbing and choking.

The words are full of sincere and dedicated feelings.

Fang Yuan's secret and faint feelings for Xia Jing.

Firm, unparalleled beauty – ah, if that's not beautiful, then there's no such thing as beauty in this world. So, the date of the text message that I flipped through in order entered February this year, and I haven't opened it yet, only the one at the top of the mailbox remains.

The time is February of this year. What makes it different from the previous text message is that it was sent before.

The target of the delivery is Xia Jing's mailbox.

"Okay, thanks for the reminder. Xia Jing should also be careful on the road when returning home."

It was the last day.

A text message sent by Fang Yuan to Xia Jing on the evening of the day she died.

The smiling emoji at the end of the text is beating.

Emoji ...... When exchanging text messages with pears, Fang Yuan also often uses them frequently. However, since the disappearance of the pear, it has disappeared from Fang Yuan's text messages, and has never appeared in those unsent text messages.

This also proves how happy Fang Yuan was when she typed this text message.

Xia Jing carefully regurgitated word by word as if he wanted to imprint the content in his eyes, and then turned off the power.

Close the lid and hold the phone in front of your heart. It was a cheesy pink charm, an old model from several years ago.

The thoughts left by Fang Yuan are hidden deep in this machine.

Now there is no chance to respond to her feelings, because she has left this world. The deceased has no feelings, and there is no way to convey thoughts to the deceased.

This fact taught Xia Jing to feel grief, remorse, and pain.

- But.

「…… Woo!"

Xia Jing lay on the table and cried to vent the emotions in his heart.

It wasn't like that—he suddenly thought to him.

Fang Yuan's feelings for Xia Jing are obviously different from them.

She didn't hesitate to sacrifice other people's lives like Ye Chun.

She didn't try to control the other party's heart like Qiu Yin.

She didn't care if Xia Jingyou was aware of her intentions, and she didn't force her feelings to be able to achieve positive results.

I just love the summer scene.

Take Xia Jing as the support of your soul.

Her purpose wasn't to get anything in return, she wasn't trying to force anything, as if she was just in love with love

Did her mood just disappear?

Was her mood abandoned and lost at the same time as she died?

「…… That's not right."

That guy had a go-to attitude from the start.

didn't respect Xia Jing's wishes at all, and declared that he wanted him to become a husband, feeling like an arrogant and unreasonable guy.

Ahh

That guy is different from Ye Chun and Qiu Yin.

Did she ever think of sacrificing others?

Did she ever try to suppress his heart in every possible way?

She had never done anything like that would hurt others.

- Do you really want to?

Whether it was when Xia Jing made up his mind to join the struggle between the two factions in front of Fang Yuan and Lizi's graves.

- So that's my question.

It was still the night of the Lost House, when she said that Fang Yuan was her rival.

- Just think about it slowly.

And after fighting Adai.

-- What matters is how each other feels......

Even when I was teased by my classmates

It's as if he put Xia Jing's feelings in front of his own thoughts.

As if she believed that she would not waver in her determination, she would decide next to Xia Jing.

What was that guy's original personality, Xia Jing didn't know.

But after meeting Xia Jing, she sent out a lot of kindness, and there were also expressions of kindness

Should be...... No, it must be

「…… Damn."

Xia Jing took out his glasses and wiped them on his face with the sleeves of his clothes.

The sleeves that had wiped his face were so wet that he was surprised. However, after wiping away the tears, the vision is very clear, and there is the illusion that you can see clearly without glasses.

Xia Jing can't wait and can't wait to act tomorrow.

He got up and left his desk and pulled a change of clothes from his closet.

Having said that, it was past nine o'clock in the evening, and there was no way to go out generously.

Xia Jing called Shazi and designated the time and place of the meeting - half past eleven, the neighboring park. Parents usually go to bed at eleven o'clock, and Xia Jing decided to wait thirty minutes before sneaking out of the house.

It was the first time in his life that he had left home in the middle of the night.

Although Xia Jing was ready to sneak home before his parents got up, for the sake of prudence, before leaving home, he quietly summoned a note saying "I can't sleep when I get up too early, I'll go to the supermarket" and put it in the living room. In this way, if you come home too late, your parents should only nag a few words and stop worrying.

The summer scene was greeted by a dark car.

"It feels like a manga plot." Just as Xia Jing was smacking his tongue and thinking this, the car parked in front of him rolled down the window, and what emerged from the driver's seat was a man in his fifties who seemed to be very gentlemanly.

"Please get in the car."

The other party didn't even confirm his name, so he invited Xia Jing to take a seat, and Xia Jing obediently complied.

Before departure, the driver handed over a blindfold.

"Please put this on."

Xia Jing guessed that the purpose of doing this should be to avoid leaking the location of the location, but he never expected that Yinglian himself would not be trusted.

That's no way around it.

After all, Xia Jing has a history of evasion, and he is the core figure of a series of events. Shazi was probably also worried about the possibility of him defecting and joining Ye Chun's camp.

So Xia Jing obediently put on a blindfold, and the car swayed all the way, and the whole journey felt like it was about dozens of minutes.

"We're here."

After learning of the arrival, Xia Jing took off his blindfold and took a look, and found that the car had driven into an underground parking lot.

After getting off the bus, you can see that the parking lot is quite large. Judging by the size, this should be a high-end mansion somewhere. However, Xia Jing didn't want to make himself look suspicious because he was constantly looking around, so he tried to maintain a dignified attitude as much as possible.

Xia Jing cast his eyes on the elevator attached to the parking lot in front of him.

As if had been coordinated in advance, the elevator doors opened at the same time.

A tall woman in a black hanfu with a sharp gaze on her face.

She is the master of the "holy" - sand.

I saw her slowly walk up to Xia Jing and stand still, glaring at him with angry eyes.

「…… It's a shame that you still have the face to come to the door."

The sound of the sand was clearly murderous.

"I have nothing to say."

Xia Jing was almost shocked by that momentum, and his body stiffened and did not obey the call.

In fact, he never stopped being nervous.

However, facing this gaze is Xia Jing's obligation.

In the past half a month, Xia Jing has just been avoiding his fate, and now he must take that responsibility. No matter how much you say about it, it's just boring.

"Is there anything wrong with coming here?"

"I want to meet."

Xia Jing answered the short question without hesitation.

"Please let me ...... with them No, let me meet her."

"What if I refuse?"

"I won't go back until I see you."

Even if Shazi has a tough attitude and is unreserved, Xia Jing still does not back down.

"Don't think you can't break your neck here."

"If you can't forgive me, wait until I meet that guy...... If you want to kill, you have to listen to it."

Silent.

After a while, the sand sighed slowly.

「…… Summer Scene."

She lowered her eyes.

At this time, anger and murderous aura could no longer be felt from her body.

"Actually, I know it very well...... The sin is not in you. The deer are reserved and will not allow you to be blamed for such behavior. I'm so sorry, and—"

Instead, she apologized to Xia Jing as if she was scolding herself, and——

"You're welcome. Thank you, son-in-law."

In terms of the attitude of adults to children, this can be said to be a very frank thank-you speech.

"Come with me."

「…… Okay."

Xia Jing boarded the elevator with the sand on his back.

Automatic doors close. Because it is a small elevator for home use, it is still crowded even if there are only two people to take it.

The proximity of the two made Xia Jing nervous. At this time, Shazi turned his back to him and said, "I'm sorry, can I trouble you to wear a blindfold on the return trip? I don't doubt what you mean, but ......."