Clean up this thing.

Being at home is almost always Sakakihara's task.

I remember that when my father ran away and my mother started to go out to work multiple jobs, he took the initiative to take on these housework.

Day after day, year after year.

After a long time of cleaning, it has become a habit.

"Aren't you tired?"

Towards the end of the holidays, on the dog days of summer, Sakakihara is busy cleaning up his home.

The floor-to-ceiling glass windows were a little difficult to clean, so Sakakihara had a bucket by his side. He stood on the small bench and reached out to wipe the dirt from above.

Amami no Yuki sat quietly on the sofa, his hands on his sides, his head tilted sideways, and looked at the busy Sakakihara Raku.

"It's finally Saturday, and I'm happy to have a vacation after work."

"Even if you have a holiday, you can't be idle."

Sakakihara wrung out the dirty rag and looked up at the sun-lit floor-to-ceiling windows. Outside the skyscrapers, the city is distorted by the heatwave.

"If you don't wipe these things, they will accumulate over time and become mold that is difficult to dispose of."

"Le, aren't you tired?"

“.”

"Le should be very tired."

Sakakihara Le sighed helplessly, "Yuki, you've asked me this sentence five times!" ”

At this time, July and Ruri were still cleaning the bathroom and hallway.

Zhixue just wants to help.

But she was a little clumsy, and she always forgot where she left her things, and the more she sorted them out, the more messy they became.

Sakakihara was happy just now, so he simply let her sit and rest in the living room.

That's good.

Can.

Then she looked at herself with that pair of eyes, and kept asking herself if she was tired.

This caused Sakakihara to feel a little guilty.

Are you isolating her? Let her rest alone, and ignore her pleas.

That's not going to work.

Sakakihara saw that the glass in the living room was almost wiped down, so he wrung out the rag, washed his hands again, and came back to sit next to the snow of the sky.

"Ahem, Yuki."

"Yes."

The girl's long beige hair fell behind her shoulders, and her eyes looked at herself motionlessly, quietly and cutely.

The big white flower that she made by hand for her seems to have become an accessory that Yuki must wear every day.

Sakakihara reached out and grabbed a chocolate candy placed on the coffee table, unpacked it and fed it into his mouth, and asked with a smile:

"How's Yuki doing lately?"

"Good." The sound is small.

"What about illness? Is it serious? ”

Tianhai Zhixue shook his head, "The doctors have said that the recent state is very good, just to let me exercise less, but I can clean up!" Just let me clean up with Le. ”

Sakakihara selectively ignored her later sentence, "Doctor? Yes, you still have to go for regular check-ups, and the bell accompanies you? ”

Sky Sea Snow nodded.

Facing her sincere little face.

Sakakihara suddenly remembered the problems he had faced with Qijiu recently. It's just that they don't care enough about both of them.

Seventy-nine doesn't care anymore.

Isn't it even more so with Yuki?

Did I really snub her?

As a result, I forgot that she was going to the hospital for a check-up.

Wait and count the days carefully, Yuki is going to the hospital today, right?

Yuki's personality dictates that she likes to stay quietly, and when everyone talks, she can't interject, and she doesn't know what to say.

This makes her have no sense of existence among everyone, and she is easily left out.

This back and forth, Sakakihara Le was a little more distressed in the face of her long-term gaze at this time.

He reached out and touched the girl's head.

"What has Yuki been up to lately?"

"I practice music, I make videos, I play games with Sister Liuli, Sister July, and I occasionally go out to play basketball."

"How are you doing?"

"Good!"

“.”

Although she replied like this, Sakakihara was a little unconvinced.

The reason is that she looks at herself.

Love, anticipation, like. You have all these emotions.

Yuki, what is she expecting and thinking about now? Sakakihara felt that she had already made her words clear when she kept looking at her eyes.

He smiled helplessly and said, "Why don't we continue to clean the balcony together?" ”

"Good!"

Snow of the Sea stood up at once, as if waiting for him to say this, and she quickly went to the place where she had just put her things, and took a broom and a dustpan.

"Yuki, you forgot to take your apron."

"Apron."

Tianhai Zhixue glanced down at the clothes on his body, and hurried back to find an apron.

When she returned, the apron was already on her body, but the knot at the back was not very good.

Sakakihara Raku asked her to turn around, re-tied her apron, and tied her with a ball.

"Le, let's clean up together now!"

"It's just cleaning, what are you looking forward to?"

"Because you can be with Le."

As she spoke, she carried a broom and a dustpan and took Sakakihara to the balcony with Sakakihara Le.

is so enthusiastic that Sakakihara feels a little like her.

The balcony outside the living room is relatively large, and there are flowers and plants brought back by Sakakihara Raku in the past, and there is a small sink here.

There was already a lot of moss underneath those pots, and there was a little mildew where the moss extended, which was a bit troublesome to clean.

The snow of the sky and the sea swept the dirt from the corners of the wall and swept the ground. Sakakihara was wiping the balcony with a rag on the side, and occasionally saw her clumsily wiping the sink with waterproof sandpaper, so he smiled and told her what she should do to save effort.

With two people, the efficiency is much higher.

Halfway through, Sakakihara Le found that Tianhai Qimingyue suddenly didn't know when he was standing in the living room, quietly looking at the two outside.

July?

Sakakihara was a little curious about Qiyue's gaze at this time, he looked back at the snow of the sky in a serious state, and then opened the glass door of the balcony and walked inside.

"The bathroom is almost washed?"

"It's almost, my sister is spraying detergent, and I have to wait an hour before continuing to clean."

Sakakihara stayed on her expressionless face for a few more seconds, and she tied her hair up during the cleaning today, the same ball head.

He caught a little bit of July's strangeness.

"What were you looking at in July?"

"Look at the snow." Tianhai Qi Mingyue replied decisively.

Sakakihara looked back at the snow and didn't understand, "What's wrong?" ”

"Look at her serious look."

Tianhai Qi Mingyue didn't have many words, but the way she looked at Yuki, there were clearly many words in her heart that had not yet been spoken.

After a moment of silence, she suddenly sighed and said:

"I've been thinking about our relationship all this time. I don't know if you think, brother, that the relationship between me and Zhixue is much weaker than in the past. ”

"There's no way around it." Sakakihara said.

Tianhai Qimingyue shook her head, "If it's okay on both sides, the problem is that Zhixue is still good and likes me in the past, and still has guilt for me. Her feelings for you are even more subtle and cautious."

"You feel it in July, too," Sakakihara looked at her azure eyes.

"Isn't it just right to see now? Just because you can clean with her makes me happy and enthusiastic. How can I not understand? During this time, you have snubbed anyone, and my sister and I can feel it. My sister and I were able to get some responses, and Yuki just needed you to spend a while with her. ”

“.”

July's words are audible. It's heart-wrenching

Zhixue's emotions have been so small that she can be happy for a long time just by cleaning up with her for a while.

And her heart is always sincere and sincere. There are no distractions.

Sakakihara was silent.

Tianhai Qi Mingyue also closed his eyes, "It's very contradictory, I obviously can't accept that your feelings are shared, but I feel worried about Yuki's current situation. I'm reminded of what you said earlier, you're right, there are so many similarities between me in the past and Yuki now, and I see a shadow of myself in her - and that's where my idea of wanting her to be happy comes from."

“.”

Sakakihara is not good at picking up this passage in July.

July used to be very contradictory.

She obviously wanted to save the past "July", but because her feelings for herself were too deep, the two ideas had irreconcilable contradictions.

She could neither tolerate her betrayal, nor could she bear to see the snow forever.

Sure enough, people are always complex and multifaceted.

Sakakihara suddenly remembered something.

"Why don't you take Yuki for a check-up in July afternoon? It just so happened that she was going to the hospital for a follow-up examination today. ”

Tianhai Qi Mingyue understood what he meant, and looked over, "You have to understand that Zhixue is most eager to accompany her to check on you, and I also visited Zhixue when she was sick before. But even though she had just undergone surgery and was still in a state of anesthesia and coma, she was still calling your name. ”

Speaking of this, Tianhai Qi Mingyue saw the snow of Tianhai that was still trying to wipe the sink outside, and was silent for a while.

"I wonder if you remember Yuki's mother's diary?"

"Yes."

"Grandma, what she was most worried about during that time was Yuki, who had not yet been born, and worried that she would not get a lot of emotion because she didn't have a mother, and told her grandfather that Yuki was born in the future, and she must be kind to her. As you know, the result later is that grandma died, and the family was more or less angry with the snow who didn't know anything. ”

That's right. Yuki's autistic personality is more or less disliked by her sisters, right? ”

Tianhai Qi Mingyue acquiesced to this answer, "It can be said that for Zhixue, all she cared about in the first half of her life was a few words in the diary left by her mother, which is why she regarded the guitar and diary left by her mother as so important. ”

"That's where Yuki's love for guitar comes from."

Sakakihara heard that something was wrong with July's tone, "What are you doing all of a sudden in July?" ”

Tianhai Qimingyue sighed and said:

"I don't know if it's affected by something, but I've been dreaming about 'mother' lately."

“.”

This is July, she wants to be a mother?

"I dreamed of Bertha and I dreamed of my grandmother, whom I had never met. Needless to say, my mother's impression of my grandmother was seen in Zhixue's diary. You also know that I am the same age as Zhixue, and we haven't grown up when my grandmother died, so for me, grandma is more of a mother's figure. ”

Sakakihara Raku: "The one left for Yuki, the diary of a masterpiece? ”

Tianhai Qimingyue nodded:

"What was written in the diary was what my grandmother wanted to say to Zhixue when she was pregnant. She knew that she was likely to be gone, so she wrote down her wishes to her little daughter in advance. She told her to be brave, hoping that she could find her own happiness in this world, and even if she was gone, her mother would always be in the sky smiling and watching her grow up."

"And then? Does this have anything to do with your dream in July? ”

Tianhai Qi Mingyue continued:

"Recalling these mothers' words of concern for their children, I had a very strange dream. I dreamed that my grandmother was in the sky, and she had been watching the snow, but there was no smile in it. She watched her grow up alone, watched her grow up lonely, saw that her family didn't care about her, saw that her grandfather didn't pay attention to her, and watched her mess up to her current age, and saw that she finally found someone who could really take care of her and care about her in life, this person. But he still had to leave her. ”

Sakakihara did not speak, and listened patiently.

"This dream has always conveyed a picture to me - if you leave completely, brother, grandma will see the snow again, then she. How uncomfortable it should be"

After patiently listening to July's words, Sakakihara was not easy to answer.

"So, what do you want to do in July?"

Tianhai Qi Mingyue naturally replied:

I think that since I've accepted Yuki's status quo, I shouldn't treat her with the same attitude I had at that time. was so good to her before, but because of those things, he more or less snubbed her. I think. No matter what, I have to make Yuki's guilt about me disappear. ”

The relationship between several people is really awkward.

There are so many things and emotions that twist and turn.

But in any case, July now has this heart, which means that there is hope for her and Yuki to return to their previous state.

Sakakihara remembered something again.

"Do you feel like there is nothing to do in the snow in July?"

"You mean planning?"

"I'm a high school student, shouldn't I have a plan for the future? I still remember when I was in the second year of high school, didn't I submit a volunteer to the school, and everyone wrote it, but Zhixue didn't write it. ”

Tianhai Qimingyue pondered carefully, "That's right. But doesn't Yuki really like playing basketball? ”

"She just played basketball as a hobby, and she didn't have a lifelong pursuit of it."

"Music?"

Sakakihara laughed, "That's right, in fact, our band was quite good last time, but there is a problem with this, we are all busy with our own things, and we don't have time to accompany Zhixue to get this band during this time." ”

Tianhai Qi Mingyue understood what he meant, "You want to say, since you don't have time to accompany her, why don't you let her find something related to do by herself?" ”

"That's it. My idea is that it has something to do with Suzu.,It just so happens that Suzu hasn't been an idol trainee lately.,How about we take Yuki over to see if we're going to take it by the way? ”

It's related to music, and at the same time it's in line with the characteristics of Yuki, a little lonely, who likes a lot of people's attention.

Well. It does.

By the way, when it comes to Ah Ling's idol, I haven't seen how she is.

Just take the time to see how Ah Ling is doing.

Sakakihara then told this idea to Amami no Yuki, and Amami no Yuki naturally nodded dumbly.

Then I heard that today's inspection was July to accompany her.

There was a lot of joy in her eyes.

This mood Sakakihara can clearly be seen next to him, Yuki's eyes, isn't it just saying that she has always wanted to be with July?

(End of chapter)