[The summer sun is blazing, and even if the sun in the sky has just risen above the horizon, the temperature is still very high. You walk in the sun for a while and you sweat. 】

[Reina Nakajima hadn't experienced this heat for a long time, she felt fresh, and the scenery of the garden she had obviously seen very well in the ward, but after changing the angle of observation, the scene that should have been familiar suddenly became unfamiliar. 】

[You push her to the flower branch and let her smell the pollen, and she smiles.] 】

[Walking to the end of the garden, you go around from the other side, stop in the pavilion in the center of the garden, the pavilion lid casts a shady shadow, Ling and Nakajima Reina sit in the shadows, the girl looks outside, you look at the girl. 】

[Reina Nakajima's gaze gradually moved away from the garden, she looked farther away, and in the southeast of the garden, she saw a hill standing under the blue sky, the slopes of the hill were lush and green, and the sun was hanging on the top of the mountain. 】

[She was first surprised that there was a mountain nearby, and then she was surprised that the mountain was clearly facing her window, but she had not noticed the existence of the mountain before. 】

[You tell her that it's Shodoyama.] 】

[The sun rises higher, and the sun becomes stronger, and you push Rena Nakajima back to the ward. 】

[Sitting back on her hospital bed, the girl looked out the window, the familiar garden returned, but what occupied her mind was the unfamiliar perspective. 】

A small memory screen appears.

"How does it feel?" Minami Yuki rested her elbows on her lap and held her chin in her palms to look at the girl on the hospital bed.

"It's hot. It's been a long time since I've sweated. Reina Nakajima's answer was very realistic and resonant.

"Will you go again tomorrow?" Nan Yuki asked again.

The girl hesitated, she didn't know if she should go out or not.

"Then it's settled." Nan Yuki stood up, and the girl did not object, which showed that she wanted to agree.

[It's not early, you say goodbye to Rena Nakajima, return the wheelchair to the nurse, and leave the hospital.] 】

[The nurse on duty at the front desk knows all the patients in the nursing home, and when you go out with Reina Nakajima, she recognizes you at a glance, and she looks through your visit records and finds that you are not visiting Reina Nakajima. 】

How did you get together? She was curious. 】

[She didn't tell Yohei Nakajima, a nurse in her thirties who was not married, and she still had the fantasy ability of girlhood in her heart, and she secretly observed you and Rena Nakajima, and transformed your every move into a love story in her mind. 】

[Half of the summer vacation has passed, and the temperature has completely entered the highest period of the year, and you and Rena Nakajima still go to the garden every morning. 】

[On this day, you pushed the girl back from the garden, your back was wet, and the girl's forehead was sweaty. 】

[You said to the girl that it is getting hotter and hotter in the morning, so it is better to go out at night to watch the scenery. But there is Yohei Nakajima at night, and you can only use it for a short period of time before the end of the visiting time after Yohei Nakajima leaves. 】

[In order to accurately grasp the time of Yohei Nakajima's departure, you and Rena Nakajima exchanged LINE. 】

[Yohei Nakajima usually leaves half an hour early, and this half hour is the time for your night tour. 】

[During the first night tour, Reina Nakajima saw the darkness outside the door in the hall, tensed her body, and was a little nervous, and when you pushed her to the night, her nervousness quickly dissipated. 】

[She looks at the shadows of the buildings in the night, and at the moon and stars in the sky.] In the hospital room, she could see such a sight, but with a very different feeling. The feeling of being enveloped in shadows, shrouded in night, was beyond her imagination as she sat in a bright hospital room. 】

[While taking a nap in the pavilion, Rena Nakajima stood up from her wheelchair. 】

Memory scenes appear.

The sky was dark, the moon was obscured by thin clouds, the lights in the garden were dim, and the street lamps next to the pavilion attracted the insects of the summer night, and one by one the flying insects crashed into the translucent lampshade with a soft click.

"It's a little scary at night." Reina Nakajima said.

"Then hold my hand." Yuki Minami rested her right hand on her shoulder, palm up.

He stood behind the girl, he couldn't see the girl's face, he didn't know what the girl was thinking, only that after five or six seconds, the girl put her hand in his palm.

It was a very slender and tender hand, and Nan Yuki gripped the palm tightly.

"Can you give me a hand?" Rena Nakajima looked up at the chin of the teenager standing behind her.

Nan Yuki continued to hold the girl's palm with one hand, and placed the other hand next to the girl's shoulder to prevent the girl from losing her balance.

Reina Nakajima's body was not yet at the point where she couldn't stand, so she got up from her wheelchair smoothly, took two steps forward, and stood next to Yuki Minami.

The first time she was so close to the teenager, their shoulders almost touched, the burning heat of the teenager's body seemed to shoot through the air, and she smelled a fragrance, which was a mixture of men's shampoo and shower gel, and her heart beat faster.

"Have you been to the mountains over there?" She looked at the silhouette of Shodoyama in the dark night and asked Nan Yuki.

"Haven't been, just heard of it. That mountain is not very difficult to climb, and it takes more than half an hour to reach the top. ”

"That's right."

Rena Nakajima looked at the hills in the distance, not knowing what she was thinking.

"I have something for you." Nan Yuki led the girl to the corner of the pavilion, and he took out a plastic bag from the bottom of the pavilion bench.

Rena Nakajima opened the opening of the bag, and inside the bag were many snacks.

"The doctor didn't say you can't eat these, did he?" Minami Yuki pulls out potato chips, Baumkuchen, Pocky biscuits, and a bottle of marble soda.

"I just said that we should focus on nutritious meals in the hospital." Reina Nakajima didn't need Nan Yuki's persuasion, and she found an excuse for herself.

"To be on the safe side, you eat a little, and I'll give me the rest."

Reina Nakajima picked up the potato chips first, and the texture and taste that she had forgotten as a child returned to the tip of her tongue. She wondered, when did she start eating only nutritious meals and fruits from the hospital?

She looked at the young man in front of her, if it weren't for him, she would have forgotten the world outside the ward.

"Would you like to try this?" Yuki Minami took a Pocky cookie in her mouth and looked at Reina Nakajima. The long stick-like biscuit shook up and down between the boy's lips, as if urging her.

The two eating a Pocky together is a classic romance episode, which Reina Nakajima has seen many times on TV, and she never imagined that this scene would also appear to her.

She hesitated for a moment, then lifted her slender neck.

At this time, her gaze jumped over the young man's shoulders and saw the bright lights of the sanatorium.

She thought of the young man named Nan Yuki who accompanied her every night although she didn't know what she looked like.

Her neck hung down again, and she didn't bite the biscuit in the mouth of the young man in front of her.

At the end of the third shift, ask for a monthly pass!

(End of chapter)