Above the tall buildings, the air seems to be going to be cold.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa stared at Reya Hazuki's phone screen on the ground, looking at the message on it, and froze.

[No surgery, Keisuke is already dead]

[I'm going to accompany him too]

In just two sentences, it contains a message, but ......

It makes people breathe for a while.

Now, what should Reya Hazuki do?

In front of him, Reya Hazuki, who was sitting on the ground and no longer struggling, also found it at this moment. She followed his gaze to the side and found the phone.

「……」

Tetsufumi Hirakawa wanted to stop Reya Hazuki, but ...... What reason did he have to stop and conceal?

He watched as Ye Yue Liya stretched out her hand towards the phone, and then, raised it in front of herself.

「……」

"The ......"

"Hazuki ......"

Heavy to the unsettling air, Tetsufumi Hirakawa wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.

Who can accept such news safely? Nobody's.

And Reya Hazuki is still just a high school student......

Tetsufumi Hirakawa felt infinite distress and sadness in his heart for the girl in front of him.

He looked at Ye Yue Limi, from getting the mobile phone, from the small sobbing just now, to the enlargement of Tong Kong, and stopped all actions......

The phone "snapped" and fell weakly on the thigh.

Her lips trembled, her breathing seemed to stop, and her eyes ...... Lost focus.

She hung her head in a daze, staring at the phone on her lap, and on the screen of the phone, there was a picture.

A withered hand, bleeding from the wrist, stained the entire hand red...... It was Hazuki's mother's hand.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa couldn't bear to look at it.

He reached out and pressed the phone screen off.

During this period, Ye Yue Reya was indifferent and motionless throughout the whole process.

「…… Hazuki."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa put the phone aside, and his hand rested on Reya Hazuki's shoulder again.

At this time, Ye Yue Remi suddenly reacted.

All the time on the windswept rooftop, there was a rapid gasp in the whistling sound.

Reya Hazuki seemed to be out of breath, and in an instant, she suddenly began to gasp for breath.

「……」

Tetsufumi Hirakawa opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He didn't know what to say.

The air around them was so heavy that it was stagnant and it was difficult to breathe.

So...... What is this?

It's already tough, but is that the case?

Does it have to be this way?

Push people into the abyss without leaving any hope?

Is this the only way to be willing?

The wind takes away the heat from the body, and the heart will be cold.

He looked at Reya Hazuki, the girl who had broken down and couldn't accept the news at all.

It was the first time he felt so sorry for someone.

Just a little bit of it, he felt like his stomach was going to twitch and his heart was going to stop beating...... And Ye Yue Limi doesn't need to be substituted, she is the party to this tragedy.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa was silent, and his hand stroked the girl's back, over and over again.

……

The wheezing was gradually stopping, and so was the wind.

When the wind calmed down, Ye Yue Reya stopped gasping for breath.

"Hazuki ......," Tetsufumi Hirakawa called out to her uneasily.

Reya Hazuki didn't react.

There was no reaction, his eyes were dull, like the walking dead.

This heavy, unsettling air has been spreading for an unknown amount of time.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa saw Reya Hazuki raise his face.

「……」

She stared at him silently, her eyes sad.

"Yes...... Don't stop me."

Her thin, blood-colored lips, trembling, whispered...... Implore.

「……」

Tetsufumi Hirakawa was silent.

The girl's appearance made anyone who saw her and knew the situation feel distressed.

Indescribable sadness.

At this moment, any words, no comfort, are useless. Her heart was completely dead, her body was going to be in the same state as her heart, and she wanted to jump.

But he really didn't want to see such a scene.

Death is not the best relief, and when everything returns to nothingness, all that is greeted is endless sorrow, and no one wants to come a second time with that sorrow...... Of course, no one will be able to come a second time.

But he is an exception.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa recalls how he felt at that time.

In the last second of life, the consciousness goes from sobriety to the lake, and with it, all the sorrows in life are compressed to the extreme and then completely explode at that moment.

It was the change from the unbearable weight to the unbearable lightness...... From heaviness to nothingness, light and fluttering, but able to crush everything.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa knows.

If Reya Hazuki jumped from here, at the last moment, she would be able to experience such feelings.

It's really sad to think about it.

Because you can't bear it, you want to be liberated, but before everything returns to nothingness, what you can get is not liberation, but extreme desolation.

After this extreme desolation, without giving any time to react, everything dissipated.

Consciousness is no more, it is calm, there is no sense of liberation, only sadness.

So jumping is not a way of liberation, it is a sorrow within sorrow, and it does not give a chance to regret it.

"Hazuki."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa's hand was still gently holding Reya Hazuki's thin shoulder, and he looked into her desperate eyes.

"I'm sorry for this request...... I can't agree with that."

「……」

Ye Yueli looked at him quietly with empty eyes. She reached out and nudged, but didn't push.

So she didn't move again.

She didn't have any strength to struggle anymore, she was really tired.

……

Little by little, the time passed towards the late night time.

In December, the temperature on the rooftops is getting colder and colder.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa also felt this coldness.

Sweat evaporates after strenuous exercise, taking away a lot of heat from the body in the cold wind.

And...... His coat was still draped over Reya Hazuki.

And Ye Yue Reya lay on the ground, staring at the empty night sky in a daze.

What to do?

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at Reya Hazuki, a little helpless.

In his current state, his legs, which began to ache after climbing the stairs, would never have been able to take this girl away.

Call the police?

Tetsufumi Hirakawa doesn't feel like it's necessarily useful...... Tonight's events may be resolved for the time being, but perhaps at some point, such events will repeat themselves.

People whose hearts are dead need to find sustenance in life in order to live.

However, there seems to be no sustenance for her in this world.

But it's definitely not going to work here all the time, what......?

With the power of hypnosis? At least let Ye Yue Reya calm down first, and talk about things tomorrow.

But there's a problem. Hypnosis, which requires at least one weakness, changes the will of the other person by threatening the weakness.

But...... The current Hazuki Reya, after the heart dies, only the body of Hazuki Reya, what weaknesses does it have? What weakness could make her resist the relief of wanting to die?

It seems that there is no more.

The will to die is greater than all the desire to live, and this is the dilemma faced.

It was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at Reya Hazuki's face, her hair was stained with tears, and her originally neat front hair was messily attached to her cheeks in the wind.

Things seem to have turned to the point where there is no room for recovery.

It's a dead end...... This has been the case since the news came, and this is not something that an ordinary high school student can afford.

Unless Reya Hazuki's parents can survive, this is her only sustenance.

But......

Tetsufumi Hirakawa's heart gradually sank.

However, at this time, in the dim light near the end of the night, his afterglow suddenly caught a conspicuous light.

He looked to the side, and the source of the glow was Reya Hazuki's mobile phone.

The mobile phone screen suddenly lit up, and the call interface popped up, and the name of the caller was displayed, yes-

【Mother】

Reya Hazuki's mother.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa was stunned for a moment, he looked at Reya Hazuki, and then at his phone.

Maybe in her state, he would be better off answering the phone......

Making a decision on his own, Tetsufumi Hirakawa reached for his phone.

Reya Hazuki, who was in a daze, noticed his movements, and his eyes, which had been sluggish for a long time, finally fluctuated, and his eyes looked towards the mobile phone in Tetsufumi Hirakawa's ear.

The call was answered.

Even though the hands-free is not turned on, the sound of the mobile phone still floats down the earpiece on the now quiet rooftop.

Reya Hazuki heard the voice.

It was a male voice that said:

"Hello, are you a relative of Mr. Keisuke Hazuki and Ms. Natsuko Hazuki?"

「……」

It looks like a doctor at the hospital.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa glanced at Reya Hazuki again, and then answered for her.

「…… Yes."

And so the voice continued.

"Here's the thing...... Because of some things, Ms. Natsuko Hazuki slit her wrists in the hospital...... Fortunately, the nurse found it in time, and the rescue was successful."

"And Mr. Keisuke Hazuki...... Uh......"

It seems that there is some special reason that the other party's words are unclear here.

「…… It was true that he was critically ill, but fortunately, he was able to successfully pass the treatment and temporarily turn his life around."

"That's the way it is...... But I'm sorry, but to be honest, if you want further treatment, you need to pay off the medical bills as soon as possible."

「……」

"Hey? Is it still there?"

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