Afterwards, he opened the curtains and stood in front of the window looking at the snow falling outside.

Asai was lying on the bed, already cleaned up by him.

I took a shower in my arms, cleaned up the smell on the bed, and even the garbage in the garbage can was thrown away in the snow to the garbage disposal station in the village.

The first time I didn't understand anything, it was all made by Asai.

Now seeing that she is so tired, she is choked by herself, and she can do what she can do.

"What do you want to know?"

Asai was lying on the bed, tightly wrapped in a small quilt, and looked at him from the outside.

Naoki Natsume held the notebook in his hand, held it in his left hand, held the pen in his right hand and looked at the snow outside the window, and wrote.

[Today is the first snow in Hokkaido, maybe not, but I haven't seen anything else, so I'll assume it.] ]

"Why do you call me Brother Naoki?" He asked as he wrote.

Asai replied, "I used to call it that way when I was a child, and you taught me that if I don't call it, I won't be given a lollipop."

"When I was a child......," he asked, "Sure enough, the little girl in the diary was you."

"I don't know what is written in the diary, but I have an impression of it."

Asai looked at Natsume Naoki's diary, and said softly, "In the past, you would write and draw in a notebook like this, but at that time I didn't know what a diary was, you told me, and I couldn't tell someone directly but I wanted to tell someone, so I wrote it as a diary."

"You also taught me how good my parents are and how happy it is to be their children in my diary, and at the end I put up a toy I want and hide the diary. After a few days, my parents would happily buy me the toys I wanted, and at one point I thought that the diary was actually a wishing book."

"So since then, you've been teaching me badly." "When I was a kid and now, it was my happiest life, and I love it," she said.

Naoki Natsume paused slightly when he heard the pen in his hand, and then continued to write: "It's good if you like it, and I'll like it even more in the future." I also asked my mother, she didn't know about the maid at all, you made it up, right? So...... This is the end of the maid's house, and after we go back, we will continue to do everything except for the housework equally, after all, you always have to go to college, and it is better to rent a house elsewhere than to live with me."

The meaning is already obvious, whether we share a house or live together in the future, you like.

I'm not going to let you go anyway.

Asai just shook his head slightly, "Maids always have to be, at least I volunteer."

He looked at Asui: "It's okay to call me selfish and call me a scumbag...... But I still have to say, I like you. I asked you what the relationship between the two of us was, and you asked me if I would like to give up Senpai and Amamiya, but I didn't answer."

"Can you answer now?" Asai asked rhetorically.

Naoki Natsume shook his head, "I'm sorry."

"Are you saying sorry to me, or are you saying sorry to this matter?"

Naoki Natsume looked at the diary, as if he could think of some bits and pieces through the diary.

He tightened his fist in the grip of the pen and said firmly, "I say sorry to all of you, I don't want to lose any of them."

Asai was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then turned his back, and this time even covered his head.

"If it were another woman, you would dare to put on your pants and say such a thing, you would be in the hospital by now."

Her tone was obviously a little angry, but Natsume Naoki could tell that it was more helpless and protective.

There is no way, you can only pet the one you choose.

"Another woman?" He said to himself, "Sure enough, I can't say such things to my senior sisters now."

Asai thought to himself that maybe one of them was more arrogant than the other now, and they all wanted to trample on their rivals.

But if you let them know the truth back then, what will happen to them if you say that again?

Will you make the same choice as yourself?

She thought to herself, hoping to see that day.

summer

Naoki was still coaxing her, "I know I'm a jerk, but I just don't want you to leave. Please, Mao, please don't leave me...... Didn't we make an appointment to spend your birthday together next year?"

"Next year's birthday...... Asai muttered, then replied in a louder voice, "I retract that sentence, whether I want to spend next year's birthday with you or not, to be decided."

"How?"

Naoki Natsume was stunned for a moment, and when she heard from her tone, she was serious, and immediately panicked.

Closing the notebook and putting it back on the desk, he quickly lifted the quilt and got into it to coax her: "Don't be angry, Zhenxu, my problem, I shouldn't say something to ruin afterwards." But, but we made an appointment, didn't we? There are also bigger cakes and red bean rice."

"I'm not angry." Asai turned to look at him, "Okay, I'm still a little angry with your flower heart, but I've been in trouble with you when I was a child, so I'll forgive you now."

"The birthday thing......

"I said to be determined." Her tone was serious: "The cake is tempting, but I can't promise you. Because now I'm not sure where I'm going to spend my birthday next year."

"Then ...... then"

"Are you trying to ask why I promised you at the time?" Asai thought calmly for a long, long time, and then replied with a slight smile, "Maybe that's when I started to have the idea of living with you for the rest of my life! After all, it's a big temptation for me to be able to eat a big cake every year for my birthday."

"But I'm sorry, I went to the shrine two days ago, and I can't promise you anything now."

"Shrine? The priest?" Naoki Natsume was stunned for a moment, and then his face was serious: "What did he tell you? He must know something......

"I didn't see him." Asai said in a calm tone, "No one can see him until the day of the festival, he is not in the shrine...... He is already the former priest, and the current priest is his apprentice, and the current priest told me that he will not live long, and he probably won't survive this winter."

"And who did you go to the shrine to meet? What did you say?"

"Let's change the question." Asai gently stroked his cheek as if to soothe an agitated beast, "You must have a lot more to ask."

Naoki Natsume knows Asai's temper very well, and even if she asks ten thousand times about what she doesn't want to say, she won't get an answer.

Looks like I'm going to go to the shrine myself tomorrow.

Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, he gently held her little hand caressing her cheek, feeling very cold, and wanted to cover her up, "What's your name?"

"My name is Nanami Mao now." Asai replied quietly, "All the documents and procedures are all in this name, and you can't find me if you look up other names."

"What about Asai Mao?"

"It's my old name."

"Why is your name on the list of victims on the stele?"

"It's a fact that Mao Asai died in a car accident ten years ago," Asai said with a smile, as if to say something inconsequential, "It's scary, but it's gone, and it's also true that I can live with you now."

She took it seriously, as if she was saying something very important, and she couldn't joke at all: "I, Nanami Mako, am now a living person, a living life."

The weight of this sentence is unusual, and only a few people know what it took to prove this truth that could not be simpler.

Naoki Natsume was a little confused, he felt that the amount of information was really a bit large, and he needed to slow down.

"And what about the little girl I wrote in my diary, is it you or Mao Asai?"

"Her name is Asai Mao, and she's me." Asai said, "Whether it's mentioned in the diary or the current me, all the truths that appear in Naoki's brother's life are me, and no one else."