?

Suzu Sakakihara didn't expect the dean to ask herself this question.

However, the color of his eyes has been asked since he was a child, so that everyone who sees him for the first time has to ask curiously whether he is wearing contact lenses.

So the dean asked this question abruptly at this time, and Sakakihara Suzu didn't think there was anything strange about it.

However, when the dean asked, all the voice actors, agents, and managers in the office looked at it, and Sakakihara Suzu was a little stressed.

Sakakihara Suzu faced the dean, tried to adjust his mentality, and replied with a reserved and polite smile under everyone's gaze:

"That's right."

After hearing the answer, Dean Matsuda's kind face was a little more surprised, and she stared at Sakakihara Suzurin's purple pupils several more times.

This made Sakakihara Suzu, who was already being stared at by everyone, a little more embarrassed.

The agent, Shinmura Shi, noticed the dean's expression and asked the dean on behalf of Sakakihara Suzu:

"Dean Matsuda. Do you think there's something strange about Suzu's eyes? ”

Probably noticing his gaffe, Matsuda withdrew the gaze he had been looking at Sakakihara Suzu, bowed his head slightly and first apologized to a few people, then put his hands together in front of him, and smiled at Sakakihara Suzu and said:

"It's not a particularly important thing, it's just that Miss Suzu's eyes remind me of a child in our hospital before."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone became even more curious.

Nanami Ayako, Yoshihara Nao, and the female seniors in the Utsu Yaeyu office all looked at Sakakihara Suzu.

Sakai Chi Tian also stared at Sakakihara Suzu.

"Kid. What child? Sakakihara Suzu was stared at by everyone.

Niimurashi noticed Sakakiwara Suzu's embarrassment, looked at Sakakiwara Suzu, and then looked at the dean, and took the initiative to pull up the topic to solve the siege for Suzu:

"Dean Matsuda, isn't that kid also having purple eyes?"

"That's right." Dean Matsuda nodded, "And the color of that child's eyes is very similar to that of Miss Sakakihara. ”

“.”

Hearing this, Sakakihara Suzu's predecessors couldn't suppress the soul of complaining in their hearts at all.

Yoshihara Nao approached Sakakihara Bell and pushed her with his elbow, very affectionate at the same time, revealing a little tiger tooth smile:

"Our Suzu-chan can't come out of the orphanage, right?"

"Nao, what are you talking about with Suzu?" Ayako Nanami, as the most senior voice actor in the office, wears more mature makeup when she goes out, and her attitude is more stable, and she reaches out to stop her from talking nonsense.

"Senior, it's just a joke with the bell~"

Yudu Yaeyu, who was dressed more neutrally, habitually waved his hand, and said helplessly: "You can't joke like this." ”

Sakai Qiantian was very curious, interjected weakly, raised his hand and asked the dean:

"Dean Matsuda, I've read on the Internet that there aren't five hundred people with purple eyes in the world, and it's a very rare thing to meet one in normal life, so it's basically impossible to meet a second one."

"Well," Dean Matsuda nodded in full approval, his voice unhurried, "That's why I care so much." ”

Yoshiwara Nao hugged Sakakihara Suzu's slender arm and said with a smile in her ear:

"I mean seriously, Suzu, do you want to get to know that kid? It's not uncommon to recognize a sister or something, it's not often that you have the same color as your eyes. Oh no, I've never seen anyone with the same color as Suzu's eyes. ”

Suzu Sakakihara smelled the perfume on the senpai, "Before, senior. What kind of sister do you know, I, I don't know each other very well. ”

"Hey, that's not right, aren't we here to spend Children's Day with the children today? Isn't it our job to get to know the kids today? ”

"That's right."

Sakai Chitenno asked the dean, "What about the child that the dean said?" ”

Dean Matsuda sighed and showed a look of regret: "The kid is lost." ”

"Lost?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes looked at them again.

"Yes, I lost it shortly after birth."

“.”

Nao Yoshihara stretched out her hand to block her mouth and looked at Suzu Sakakihara again.

The meaning of this look is self-evident.

"Not really."

Under the gaze of everyone, Suzu Sakakihara hurriedly retorted.

She didn't know why, and she was a little disgusted with this.

She doesn't hate orphans, but she doesn't like being denied her current identity.

But Sakakihara Suzu.

Suzu Sakakihara, who has lived under this name for more than ten years.

My mother is Sakakihara Miwa, and my brother is Sakakihara Le, so he is not an orphan.

If he really came out of the orphanage, what is his identity for more than ten years?

However, instead of being angry, Sakakihara Suzu didn't take what the dean said to heart at all.

Because I'm not the only one with purple eyes.

The neighbor's sister on the floor of our house surnamed Hanamaru also has purple eyes.

Although this thing is about it. It's a coincidence, but in this world, it's not impossible.

As long as it happens, it's reality.

While Suzu Sakakihara was thinking about these things, Nanami-senpai asked the dean about why the kid was lost.

"The child was stolen."

"Stolen?"

Sakai Chi Nai: "Didn't the police find it?" ”

Dean Matsuda shook his head wordlessly.

"At the time. It's the rainy season, and it rains every day, with frequent thunderstorms. I had just gotten married, and my husband and I would prepare dinner for the kids at 7 p.m. every day. I remember I was having dinner with my husband and the kids when my grandfather suddenly walked in with a baby girl in his arms.

"The baby girl seems to have just been born, crumpled, the umbilical cord has just been cut, it is thundering and raining outside, she has been crying in my grandfather's arms through his eyes, I know that this is another abandoned child."

Dean Matsuda probably recalled the unhappy past, thinking of the abandoned children, and there was a strong sadness in his words.

Sakakihara Suzu can understand the dean at this time.

As the director of the orphanage, I don't know how many children have been abandoned and abandoned by their parents in my life

They either have some congenital disease or some congenital organ loss.

They are lonely from birth and can only envy what others have.

"After taking the baby from my grandfather, my husband and I stopped eating, got the child a new swaddling baby, fed her some milk powder with warm water, and then gave her a physical examination. Fortunately, in addition to being a little weaker, she is a very healthy and beautiful baby girl.

"The head is big, the hands are strong, and the eyes are a pair of pure and beautiful purple that I have never seen before."

Dean Matsuda gestured with his hand to the size of the baby girl in his arms, and when he put his hand down, he looked into Suzu Sakakihara's eyes and smiled.

"When the child entered the orphanage, she was the youngest child in our family at that time, and the children took good care of her and regarded her as their own sister. I remember that the boy was so good at eating that he had to feed him more than 20 times a day.

"And then. On the third day, she was stolen by thieves. ”

"My husband and I called the police, who came over to investigate, but didn't find any clues about the baby or a trace of the suspect. The case dragged on and on, and gradually became a mystery, unsolved. ”

What the dean said was just a short story.

The point that this story can connect to Suzu Sakakihara is only one [purple eye] feature.

There are so many coincidences in the whole world, and Sakakihara Suzu will not be idle and have nothing to put this identity on herself.

After listening to it, others just regarded it as a past story and expressed regret for it.

*

After meeting with the dean, the dean led the way and officially entered the orphanage.

There is a spacious courtyard surrounded by shrubs and various flowers and plants, and several large trees are separated by a certain distance.

On the lawn in the middle, there are slides and swings similar to those found in kindergartens.

There are many ages of children playing on it.

Some of them looked quite lively, while others seemed quiet, such as the little girl in the short skirt standing under the tree, staring at the ground, and Suzu Sakakihara couldn't tell what she was doing.

Sakakihara Suzu followed behind the dean and secretly discussed with Sakai Chi Nai, who couldn't guess it.

However, the conversation between the two was overheard by Dean Matsuda, who was walking with several other seniors in front of her, and she stopped, looked at the little girl and said:

"The child's name is Qianyi. She has congenital heart disease, because the family is not wealthy, and her parents are divorced because of her. She followed her mother, who still cared about her, and her mother was an idle person at the beginning, who would not go to work, and then her mother, in order to earn money to operate on her, joined a gang of thieves, committed many crimes in a row, and was caught stealing the home of a steel factory owner and sentenced to nine years.

"Qianyi she often stands under the tree. It was she who was counting the ants, and her mother told her that when she counted to 50,000, they would be able to meet. ”

The dean was just stating the facts.

But Sakakihara Suzu sounds particularly complicated.

A mother who is idle and doesn't like to work, but knows how to care for her children. Even when her daughter had an incurable heart condition, she didn't give up.

But the strange way she saved the child was the immoral act of stealing.

This made Sakakiwara Suzu feel that this mother was both bad and not so bad.

Sakai Chi Tian asked, "Then Dean, is Chi Yi Chan's heart attack still there?" ”

"Yes," Matsuda replied in a kind voice, "She's going to have surgery soon, and she's still taking medicine every day to relieve the pressure on her heart." ”

Nao Yoshihara: "What about the cost of the operation?" The cost of surgery for congenital heart disease should be quite a large amount, right? ”

"Naturally, the orphanage had to pay for it, and her mother couldn't afford it at all."

Sakai Chi Sweeteno, "Is it like this for every child?" ”

"Yes."

Sakakihara Suzu: "But the director, there shouldn't be so much money in the orphanage, right?" What to do at this time. ”

"Please," said Dean Matsuda, staring at the little girl counting ants in the shade of the tree, "medical organizations, charities, going out on the street to ask for donations, looking for government financial support, as long as you can get money, you have to be cheeky and try." In the past, when I was so poor that I had no money, I would let the children make some things by hand and sell them at the market. How much can be sold. The house in the orphanage has also been sorted out and rented out."

It sounds like it's really hard to be a dean

If a child doesn't have the money to have surgery, he can really only "beg" everywhere, right?

Not to mention that there are so many children in the orphanage, their living expenses, education expenses, and medical expenses. All need to be borne by orphanages.

Suzu Sakakihara doesn't know the actual situation of the orphanage, but just thinking about it makes her feel embarrassed.

The group followed the director all the way to visit the orphanage.

A place where children sleep, a place where children learn, and a place where children play

I went to see them all.

Because it was originally a job, Tanaka-san, the producer in the studio, followed the whole process with a camera.

On the way, Suzu Sakakihara noticed that many children had come to greet the dean, and then to greet herself.

Some children, who were younger than themselves, shouted "Suzu-chan!" around them. Suzu-chan! Sakakihara Suzu was so enthusiastic that she was very embarrassed.

Then I started to get along with the children and asked them what their dreams were.

The children were very enthusiastic, and they surrounded Suzu Sakakihara and replied energetically, "I want to be a voice actor like Suzu!" ”

This sentence.

Listening to Sakakihara Suzu was in a trance.

Have you become someone else's dream?

In fact, he is no longer the sad newcomer who nibbles on the buns that his brother bought every morning and stays up late at night to practice his voice with anime?

In the blink of an eye, he seemed to be a lot stronger.

He is also a successful person, and he is also a person who is longed for and envied.

In the orphanage, I met a lot of children who said that they wanted to be themselves and take themselves as their goal in life, and Suzuma Sakakihara felt that she was moved.

You must know that since you were a child, you have always been the type that has been looked down upon.

It's stupid to do things, it's stupid to study, and it's stupid to exercise.

At school, I was always ridiculed by my classmates.

Once upon a time, you became someone else's dream?

Because of this, Suzu Sakakiwara got along more and more harmoniously with the children in the orphanage in the following time.

Sometimes they are so happy that they don't look like children without parents at all.

Always smiling, laughing when playing, smiling when eating.

In response to the children's wishes, Sakakiwara Suzu also used her various voices to come up with a few lines from the anime.

It's just that a few little boys innocently said that they wanted to listen to Hidaka in the animation confess their lines to the male protagonist, so that Sakakihara Suzu had to question whether the current children are too precocious?

But it's certain that these kids really like voice actors.

It is true that there are a few middle-aged girls in China who ask themselves how to practice their voices.

Today is Children's Day.

The orphanage also has performances prepared by the children themselves.

Suzu Sakakihara and the voice actors of the studio watched one by one, and after the performance, they played a chase game with the children, one of whom played the role of "ghost" and chased the other children in an attempt to catch them.

The other seniors are quite good at playing with children, especially Yoshihara seniors, who are especially popular with children.

Tian Nai was a little clumsy, and when he was a "ghost", he saw a child who was not very obvious and was embarrassed to debunk each other.

In fact, in the second half, Suzu Sakakihara felt that this was no longer work, and everyone had a lot of fun.

At least Sakakihara never thought that she would be able to play hide-and-seek and ghost-hunting games one day.

Playing hide and seek with Sakakihara was the most boring thing in the past, and he could always guess where he was hiding.

Ghost hunting is even more!

When the ghost can't catch up with him, the ghost can't run away from him.

He's better to be an older brother. Steady and reliable, you can find him for anything you want.

If you want to eat snacks, you can let him carry himself to the village to buy them.

Every time she was on his back, Suzu Sakakihara felt very powerful. Still. Someone who is especially happy will always hand himself a delicious meal on his back.

There is an elder brother's back, and there is food from the elder brother.

That's nice.

Wrong.

What do you want him to do?

said that I wouldn't think about him all the time in the past few days.

Suzu Sakakihara sighed about her childhood, recalling the past and what someone looks like now, and her face was a little red.

She patted her cheek, washed her hands from the bathroom, and walked out.

This is the first floor of the main building of the orphanage, and the director's office is also here.

On the wall of the corridor is the history of the Wishing Star Orphanage.

There are photos hanging on it, starting with the group photo of the old Dean Matsuda and the dean Matsuda, and there are more than a dozen group photos taken all the way to this year.

Every kid who has lived here is on it.

Suzu Sakakihara pinched her chin, her eyes carefully searched for the child she had just met today on the photo, and every time she recognized one and pronounced the other's name, she would be happy for a while.

That is, until Suzu Sakakihara saw a small photo hanging in the lower right corner of the photo wall.

Of all the photos, this one is not a group photo.

In the photo is Matsuda and his wife, who have just gotten married.

In the hands of the young Dean Matsuda, it was an infant child, who had just been born and was so small that she couldn't even drink much milk powder. But Sakakihara still felt that she was looking straight at the camera with those colorful purple eyes.

Even though the photo is slightly yellowed due to age, the pair of purple pupils that look like stars are still bright and shiny

Sakakihara Suzu saw God unconsciously.

"Why is this kid so much like Ah Ling, when you were a child?"

This abrupt and familiar voice startled Suzu Sakakihara, who was frowning and deep in the photo, and she quickly turned around and immediately saw a person who should not have been here.

Sakakihara Le, dressed in casual summer attire, touched his chin and stared carefully at the old photos on the wall.

When Sakakihara Suzu saw the familiar face, she was stunned for a moment, and then questioned loudly, "You, you, you, why are you here?!" ”

"Why can't I be here," Sakakihara replied casually, apparently more concerned about the baby in the photo on the wall, staring at her for a long time. ”

(End of chapter)