Reina Nakajima's refusal was expected by Nan Yuki, he took the biscuit from his mouth, the girl's head was lowered, he squatted in front of the girl, and stretched one end of the biscuit to the girl's lips.

Reina Nakajima opened her mouth in surprise and bit down on the approaching biscuit, and in her even more surprised gaze, the boy jerked his face over, and with a soft click, the biscuit broke in two.

The boy stood up, and Reina Nakajima's eyes followed him.

The girl saw that the boy had a biscuit between his lips, which seemed to be dazed in the dark night, and another in her mouth.

After figuring out what had just happened, her face immediately turned red and she turned her head. The tip of her tongue touched the chocolate-coated cookie stick, and the sweetness spread between her tongue.

"I'm biting into the one without chocolate." The young man's clear words and the sound of chewing biscuits came from above, "I feel a little lost, for the sake of fairness, this time His Royal Highness Reina will come down to eat the part without chocolate." ”

Reina Nakajima's mind was so occupied by the broken biscuits that she didn't hear the boy clearly.

She took the biscuit from her mouth and held it in her hand. She opened her legs, avoided the boy, and hurried out of the pavilion.

"It's almost time to rest, I'm going back."

"Wait."

The boy's retention made her steps faster.

"At least wait for a wheelchair!" The teenager catches up with her.

She stood up, her face away from the teenager's gaze, and sat back in her wheelchair.

Her breath was short, and just a few hurried steps made her body feel tired.

The boy pushed her back to the hospital room. Before he fixed the wheels of his wheelchair and was about to help himself, Rena Nakajima quickly got up and sat on the edge of the bed in two steps.

Seeing her lie down on the bed, the boy helped her turn off the light and walked out of the house.

In the gloom, Reina Nakajima listened to the sound of the young man's footsteps with her ears sideways, and when the sound disappeared completely, she raised her upper body, stretched out her right hand from the quilt, and opened the palm that had been squeezed tightly.

Half of a chocolate chip cookie lay in her palm, the cookie broke into three sections, and the brown color of the chocolate stuck to her palm prints.

The tip of her tongue glowed with the bitterness of chocolate.

The room was silent, the dim glow of the nightlight shone at the foot of the bed, and the footsteps of the nurses on the rounds came.

[After two weeks of getting along, your relationship has become very close, you invite her to play an ambiguous game, she looks at the light of the sanatorium and refuses, she thinks of the spring boy in her mind, and thinks of the joke you said when you hid in the cabinet. You are not her delusional partner, but the boy in the spring is. 】

[Your sudden approach makes her panic.] Back in the ward, she looked at the dim night and felt sad. 】

The analogue text in his head was broadcast here, and Yuki Minami wanted to sigh, but he quickly suppressed the urge and lay on Nao Asano's lap and pretended to be asleep.

Thinking back to the memory screen and analog text, he thought that the relationship was going well, but Reina Nakajima's heart couldn't escape sadness, and she still had more than three years to live.

How should this disease be addressed? Changing hospitals? Switching therapies? Change the attending doctor?

He didn't know, he didn't even know the name of the disease.

Throwing away this useless sorrow, Nan Yuki thought about another thing.

Now, he finally understands what kind of existence "Nan Yuki" is in Reina Nakajima's heart.

In the memory scene just now, Rena Nakajima didn't pick up his ambiguous game because he thought of "Nan Yuki", and he said in his heart that he had actually become a rival in love. That doesn't seem to be the case now.

The "Nan Yuki" in Nakajima Reina's heart is not his own, but a young girl's delusional desire to come out and accompany her lonely and sad spring boy. "Minami Yuki" is just a title, all delusions need realistic materials, and Reina Nakajima's material is him.

Tsk, this highness the girl is still playing very flowery.

Yuki Minami rolled over and lay on her side on Nao Asano's lap, his cheek pressed against her soft-bouncy tracksuit pants, continuing the simulation in her mind.

[The events of that night ripped off the black cloth that covered your relationship, and you clearly perceived each other's feelings. 】

[You didn't take advantage of the victory to chase after you, but gave the girl some buffer time. 】

[Every day, you come to the hospital once in the morning, chat with Reina Nakajima, come to the hospital again in the evening, and after Yohei Nakajima leaves, take his daughter on a night tour of the garden. 】

You have always looked at the distant peaks in the pavilions. 】

[You noticed the attention of the nurse at the front desk, and under the quiet propaganda of the nurse surnamed Kawauchi, the nurses in the entire nursing building have become observers and supporters of your relationship with Rena Nakajima. 】

[You added a few nurses on duty LINE, and now, without Reina Nakajima sending a message, you can know the whereabouts of Yohei Nakajima.] 】

[Several times, you almost collided with Yohei Nakajima, thanks to the nurse on duty who sent you a message in advance. 】

“……”

Looking at the text, Nan Yuki suddenly felt sad for Yohei Nakajima.

The man thought that his daughter was obediently recuperating in the hospital, and he never imagined that his daughter would have a private meeting with her father's students every day. The nurses at the hospital also reached a tacit agreement to help conceal it.

[You've expanded the space of movement, and there is a small recreation room on each floor of the hospital with TVs, magazines, and sofas. It is said to be a recreation room, but it is actually a place for patients to chat. During the day, some patients who can't bear the loneliness will gather in the recreation room to chat and make friends. 】

[There are six floors in the nursing home, only the fifth floor below has residents, the wards on the sixth floor are empty, and the recreation room is naturally empty, you and Rena Nakajima often go there, the soft sofa is more comfortable than the hospital bed. 】

[You always take off your shoes and lie on the sofa, this casual action is nothing to you, and it is a little exciting for the good boy Rena Nakajima. Lying on the sofa is not a reserved thing, and I still put my feet on it. 】

[Instigated and induced by your words, Reina Nakajima also lay on the sofa. Since then, the sofa has become her new bed. 】

[The sofa in the middle of the entertainment room is very long, it is made up of two sofas, you lie at one end, Nakajima Reina lies at the other end, you often use your feet to touch the girl's feet, every time, the girl blushes slightly and shrinks her legs to avoid your teasing. 】

[Your relationship with Rena Nakajima is becoming more and more ambiguous, but you can't break through this ambiguity for a long time. 】

[As the first month of summer vacation approaches, a typhoon passes through the sea around Osaki, bringing two days of heavy rain. After the rain, the temperature is much cooler. 】

[In the morning, you and Rena Nakajima walked to the recreation room, and the girl sat down on the single sofa by the window, and she looked at the world after the rain. 】

You sit beside her, look out with her, and neither of you speaks. Reina Nakajima is immersed in the clear sky after the rain and the Shodoyama Mountain, which has been washed extraordinarily green. 】

(End of chapter)