Dongdong~

On Tuesday afternoon, in front of the door of the art department's club classroom, Narumi Yu knocked lightly on the door twice.

"Please come in."

It was still the voice of the minister of art who did not speak softly.

Narumi opened the door and stood quietly in the doorway, beckoning to Shiina Miao, who was packing up his things.

Seeing that the thing in the girl's arms was about to fall, she gave up the idea of standing outside the door and waiting for the other party, and ran over quickly, taking away part of the burden.

"Why are there so many?"

On the tree-lined path next to the playground, Narumi couldn't help but ask.

Forget all kinds of paints and brushes, there are three albums.

"Everyone in the art department should be similar to me...... Not much. ”

No, no...... It's impossible to look at it no matter how you look at it, especially under the premise that "every painting will be painted to the best of your ability".

Don't forget that there are five or six times more paintings in Shiina's bedroom.

"Shiina-san is very powerful."

“……”

Out of the school gate, Narumi Yu paid and stopped a taxi.

Sitting in the car, the atmosphere was somewhat silent.

Outside the car window, the sky has been gray all day since last night.

Narumi Yu looked sideways, feeling that no matter how he said, although he himself was the main reason, this dreary weather was also more than 10% responsible.

"Yu-san ......"

"What's wrong?"

"No...... It's nothing. ”

Following the faint reflection of the car window, as long as he adjusted the sight distance slightly, he could barely see the girl sitting next to him stretching out half of her hand to him and retracting it.

The taxi took them to Shiina's house and drove away slowly.

Narumi Yu helped Shiina Miyo move the album, drawing board, brushes, paints and other things into the girl's bedroom and tidy them up.

Moving everything out of the art department isn't because Shiina is quitting the art department.

It's just that there are four days left before the summer vacation, and Shiina Weiyang doesn't participate in the drawing competition, so he basically won't go to school to paint during the summer vacation.

"Shiina-san,"

The two of them were walking on the way to Kawakami's mother-in-law's house, and Shiina was holding a framed watercolor painting in his arms.

"If I hadn't been with you after graduating from high school, I still wouldn't like you until the end."

"What would you do?"

Passing by Kohinata Park, the park is not popular with people in the dreary bad weather.

Except for a girl listening to a song with headphones on the swing, I couldn't see anyone else.

"After high school...... And the ...... of the university"

"I'll go to the University of Tokyo."

"I ...... too I will definitely be able to pass the exam, even if I draw less or spend all my time on studying, I will definitely ......."

The feelings between the two of them, they probably know each other.

But the girl also has her own insistence.

The girl listening to the song noticed Narumi Yu who was looking at her, and raised her head to look at him.

The brown hole was so clear that he wanted to go up and ask what song was in the headphones.

"Liberal arts and sciences, even if they are in the same university, will be in different colleges. Shiina-san, we'll always be separated. ”

“……”

Seeing that he didn't look away, the girl tilted her head suspiciously, took off one of her headphones, held it in her hand, and raised it slightly in his direction.

Narumi Yu envied each other from the bottom of his heart.

Listening to a song quietly in the park alone has long wanted to do it, but he has never had the opportunity.

The green light came on, and Narumi waved goodbye to the girl who invited him to listen to the song.

The girl smiled, withdrew her outstretched headphones, and was not disappointed, and put them back on the ears hidden in the black hair.

"I probably ......"

Shiina looked down at the painting in his hand and followed Narumi through the crossroads.

Intersections in residential areas are mostly car-free.

"I don't know if I will be able to become a world-renowned artist by participating in the Tokyo Painting Awards, going to Musashino Art University, and then devoting myself to becoming a painter after graduation, but I will try to paint every day I spend with you."

The girl raised her head, looked at Narumi Yu who was walking in front of her, walked quickly to the side, and kept up with the footsteps,

"For the rest of the day, I think, this one thing should be enough."

"Alone?"

"Well, a person."

"Well," the boy who had told the student council president that he was a bird looked around for a crow he didn't like, "what if I die?" ”

Maybe some light writer is sick.

He felt that at this time, it would be better, or rather, that there must be crows skimming across the dreary sky, and a few hoarse chirps.

It sets off a sad atmosphere.

“……”

Suddenly, completely unexpectedly, the girl grabbed his hand and stopped.

He looked back, stunned.

The girl's blue eyes shimmered with colors he had never seen before.

It was the splendor that could break through the dull clouds above their heads and open up a clear sky.

"Yu-san ......"

"I'm a selfish person."

In the gentle smile, there is the determination of the girl who will never give up.

The moment you see it, as long as you are a human being, you will understand one thing in an instant.

No matter how much persuasion you try, no matter what happens in the future.

The owner of this smile will never give up the emotion she is pursuing.

"If, Yu-san is dead."

"I'm going to paint you in the most beautiful watercolors I can imagine."

"I'm going to see you every day."

"If you can, paint my daily life and draw you into my life."

"As long as I'm alive, You will be alive."

……

Yu Narumi pretended to smile easily.

He boasts that he is good at disguise, and that he is the best in the world when it comes to lying.

But it can't be easier now.

"How can I die so easily...... By the time I died, Shiina-san probably wouldn't be able to lift a paintbrush. ”

"Then don't say such things!" The smile on the girl's face gradually retracted, and she glared at him angrily.

"Just kidding......"

Narumi Yu grabbed the girl's little hand backhand into the palm of his hand,

"When the time comes...... Shiina Sanko wants to take a good look at the world and draw a different scenery every day. You know, my dream is to see all the famous scenery in the whole world before I am too old to walk! ”

“…… Well. ”

Rattle~

The crows, who are not angry, do not understand the atmosphere, and can only cause trouble and affect the appearance of the city, are passing through the air at an inopportune time at this time.

Narumi Yu felt the tenderness of his palms without resistance, and looked at the crows in the sky.

"Stupid,"

Feelings, relationships, pursuits.

Human society is really dangerous, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will fall into it.

He even had a feeling that his hatred of crows was actually a kind of envy, envy of the crows' freedom to wantonly destroy the atmosphere in the sky.

"What......" Narumi Yu's words only said a few words in the front, and there was no sound in the back, and Shiina Weiyang was dissatisfied with the hand that Narumi Yu was holding together.

"Traveling around the world and enjoying the beautiful scenery can be done when I am alive, so why wait until I die?"

"Shiina-san, who nodded yes to my words, isn't he a stupid person?"