The older a person gets, the easier it is to recall the events of his youth.

In fact, it has nothing to do with age, everyone is like this, and from time to time they will recall those good old days in their memories.

It's just that as a person gradually ceases to be young and grows old, the more beautiful his memories will be, and the easier it will be to fall into the sentimentality of memories.

Related to this is the perception of time. The more I grow up, the more I feel that time flies, so fast that I don't have time to do many things, but I never have the opportunity to do them again.

But in reality, the flow of time does not change. The changes in the world itself are the most accurate and impartial timepieces, and do not accelerate or slow down because of someone's growth or aging.

Only people's own hearts change.

People's hearts always carry everything they have experienced in the past few years, more than ten years, and decades, but they cannot get a glimpse of the future.

Therefore, after a long journey of more than ten years or even decades, after he has already gone through it, it is only a matter of a moment to recall.

No matter how long the journey is, no matter how many things you have experienced, when you remember it, it is still just a short moment.

When he wakes up from his memories and looks at the minute and second leading to the future, the illusion of time flying by fills his empty heart.

Finally, in a daze, he sighed-

"Ah......h

"It turned out unconsciously,"

"It's been so long......"

Tears came from the corners of the old man's eyes that were caught in the memory.

"Yes, it's been seven or eight years, from Kawakami's mother-in-law to take in Taro Jiro until now." Narumi Yu watched as Kawakami's mother-in-law took out a handkerchief embroidered with cherry blossoms, gently wiped her tears, and sighed.

The old man agreed to their painting and showed them the pictures that others had taken for her and Taro Jiro.

The photos are all stories of an elderly man living alone and two Shiba Inu dogs who depend on each other.

Kawakami's mother-in-law's son works overseas, and it takes a long, long time to come back, and it is said that the marriage was also held abroad.

"My son's wife...... She's a beautiful foreign girl. ”

The old man did not resent his son for not coming home to see her, but sincerely hoped that he would be happy.

……

……

"Yusan...... Can we do more for Kawakami's mother-in-law? Coming out of Kawakami's house, the kind girl full of compassion couldn't help but wipe her tears, "I always feel that Kawakami's mother-in-law is ...... It's pathetic. ”

"Mother-in-law Kawakami, she's already very lucky." Narumi Yu watched the sunset on the streets.

The real misfortune is the elderly who live with their children, but live a life of neglect and dislike.

In this so-called "filial piety" care, it is better to let go completely, so that the elderly can spend the last period of their lives with their memories in loneliness.

"Hmm......"

Shiina held his hand tightly. She was only a sixteen-year-old girl, and naturally unlike him, a kind-hearted girl only thought about what she could do.

“…… After finishing the painting of Taro Jiro and letting Kawakami's mother-in-law and Taro Jiro see each other for the last time, "Narumi Yu felt that his hand was a little painful to be held by the girl, so he had to speak, "Let's help Kawakami's mother-in-law take care of the house." ”

"Eh......" The girl's dark eyes gradually lit up, and she regained her spirits, "Hmm! ”

……

"Yu-san ......"

"What's wrong?"

"It's really gentle."

“……”

Dropping off Shiina Miyo home, Narumi returned to Iidabashi Station and got on the train back to the rental house.

On the slowly moving train, I lowered my head and searched the Internet for the introduction of housing design for the elderly and related websites on the Internet.

If you want to help Kawakami's mother-in-law, the age-appropriate design must be considered, and it is probably the method that he can think of that can help Kawakami's mother-in-law the most.

"This won't work...... It doesn't fit the pattern of the Kawakami family. ”

"This isn't good, is this really an age-friendly design? It's too reluctant to need the old man to carry the wooden stick that acts as a handrail around, right? ”

“……”

After looking around, I didn't find a single one that really satisfied him.

It is also possible that I have seen a lot of first-class architects' targeted and age-appropriate designs, which has led to his requirements becoming higher.

"If you really can't do it, let's go straight to the architect and design it for Kawakami's mother-in-law alone......"

But then the budget becomes another issue......

It's not that he can't afford it.

However, if the cost is too expensive, it will be quite difficult to get Kawakami's mother-in-law to accept it.

……

……

When I got home, Yayoi Aki had already made dinner.

"Why is it so late?"

While eating together, the girl asked him casually.

"Something, and Shiina Weiyang went to visit an old man."

"...... like this"

"How's things going?"

"It's going well."

Because the meal time was too late, I had already missed Yayoi's "favorite" architectural variety show in the autumn morning.

Narumi tuned the channel to a TV station where he used to watch anime.

What is being shown on TV now is a lightly modified anime with a long name, and the name is "My Youth Love Story Really Has a Problem".

The length of the title is a match for his "The Demon King and the Angel".

At a key high school in Chiba Prefecture, various stories of cultural festivals are staged.

Yu Narumi's previous knowledge of the festival was limited to stage plays and class activities that each class had to prepare.

I don't know what to do behind the scenes.

I saw that in the anime, for the normal progress of the cultural festival, there were two executive committee members for each class, and then dozens of people got together to elect the chairman of the committee and deal with various affairs related to the cultural festival together.

The contradictions in the story revolve precisely around these matters.

It can be seen in the anime that even if dozens of people divide the work, the progress of affairs is still not smooth.

As the vice chairman, the heroine who actually does what the chairman should do, is even more because there are too many affairs to deal with, which causes her body to be unbearable and takes sick leave.

"Yayoi-san, the cultural festival of Mikagehama High School not long ago, is it also as busy as in the anime?"

He had the impression that Yayoi Akihaya had always been working on documents by himself, and even in the last few days before the festival, he had never seen any organizations such as the festival committee.

There are volunteers who maintain order during the festival, but handling affairs and recruiting volunteers are two completely different things.

"Not much...... It's not the same, though. ”

"What's the difference? No committee? ”

"Not really."

"Then Yayoi-san is too tired, right? Could it be that there is already some hidden disease somewhere in the body? How about I take a leave of absence tomorrow and I accompany you to the hospital for a check-up? ”

Hearing the girl say this, Narumi Yu felt a sense of awe in her heart.

"It's not as tiring as Narumi imagined."

"Really?"

"I did a lot of things early on, and Mikagehama High School is more efficient because it is not democratic."