[The most gentleman came up with such an idea was in September. 】

[Your wife is nearing the end of her life, and you are desperately thinking about what else you can give her, and how you can make her happy and relieved in this last part of her life. 】

[The only thing left of the wife's thoughts is the child and the snow in Yoshida-cho.] The risk of traveling is too great, you want to go to the welfare home, bring the girl, let the wife choose the daughter you want, and at the end of September, she first rejected your tentative words, and then faced her first death danger. 】

[At the beginning of October, she was in good spirits the day before, but that night she began to have fever, pain, a brief loss of heartbeat, and a brief stop to breathing. 】

[Her body was badly damaged, and she slept for most of the day, occasionally opening her eyes slightly, and her gaze fell on some piece of nothingness, and no matter what she said next to her, she could not get a response. Doctors said she wasn't conscious yet. 】

[The wife began to dream, it was the night of the second day after the rescue. 】

[She was transferred to a special care ward, where she was monitored by equipment and nurses.] When you come in the morning, the nurse tells you that she said something in the evening. 】

[The communicator used to monitor emergencies faithfully recorded his wife's babbles.] The voice was soft, faint, and dry, and as soon as she spoke, the nurse who was beside her called out to her in surprise, and the nurse's dutiful behavior caused you trouble, and her voice covered up his wife's dreams.

You can't tell what your wife said, but you can tell that her tone is calm, not moans of pain or wild words of resentment and hatred. 】

[You enter the ward, take your wife's palm, ask her the meaning of the words, and state to her your joy at hearing them. The wife slept quietly in the white futon, without a response, without the opening and closing of her lips, without a change in expression, not even a slight tremor of her eyelashes. 】

[You think of the sleeping princess in the fairy tale, and the image of the apple candy appears in your mind again, this time it no longer represents beauty and temptation, but the malice and toxin of fate. 】

No matter how many times you kiss that cool lip, your wife has not been able to spit out the cursed apple and restore her health and vitality. 】

[At night, you stay in a dimly lit hospital room and sit next to your wife. 】

[In the silent night, only the sound of the operation of the medical equipment next to it is soft.] You lean against the edge of the hospital bed, look down, and try to find your wife's voice in the silence. You haven't slept well for days, and sleepiness quickly eats away at your spirit and wears you out. 】

[When you hear that voice, you think it's a dream phantom, you've heard this familiar voice countless times in your dreams, but fortunately, the sound of the instrument next to you reminds you in time that this is not a dream. 】

You turn your head to listen to the words that come out of your wife's mouth. 】

[-Are you tired?] You catch the sound accurately, and your heart shudders, thinking that your wife has woken up and cares about you, and you look into her face, and in the light of the nightlight, you see her closed eyes. The wife didn't wake up, it was her dream. 】

[You look at her lips again, and there seems to be a smile on the corner of her mouth.] 】

[What makes the wife say that sentence and smile like that? What did she dream about? 】

[You have a guess.] 】

[Over the next two days, the wife spat out four more words, three of which you hear, and one of which you learn from the recording.] All four of these are fragments of very ordinary dialogue: they will fall; The sugar coating is so hard; Won't come again; It's so solemn. 】

[Every sentence is very soft, with a touch of coquettishness. 】

[Connecting the previous sentence, a total of five complete short sentences, you cross-verify, understand the meaning of all the words, understand the scene in which the words are located, and understand the dream when the girl is babbling. 】

["Are you tired" is when you climb Xiaodou Mountain, before marriage, when you carry your wife to the top of the mountain, your wife often asks you this sentence; "It's going to fall" is on the swing in the park, you always make it bad, let the swing wobbly, and let your wife hold your body tight; "The sugar coating is so hard" is that at the festival in the town, the wife likes to eat sweet and sour apple candy, the sugar coating of apple candy is hard, and she has to work hard to bite it; "I won't come again" is when I was discharged from the hospital, my wife happily said goodbye to the inpatient building; "It's so solemn" is the wedding, and the wedding ceremony at Genihime Shrine is particularly solemn. 】

[Through these words, you deduced the first word of the first fuzzy recording - purple, and the wife is talking about hydrangeas. 】

[Six voices, six phrases, six important memories of you and her, do you think, the sleeping wife in the continuous dream, back to your past, back to the beauty of the past? 】

[This discovery gives you comfort and makes you happy, it turns out that her sleep is not wrapped in endless darkness, but is illuminated by the brilliant bubbles of dreams. 】

[On the third day, she said the last word,—— the snow is so beautiful. 】

[You shudder suddenly, what kind of snow is your wife talking about? Is it the snow on the bushes that she licks greedily, or the snow in Yoshida-cho, which she has been waiting for from childhood to the present? 】

[In late October, my wife's condition improved. She was sober, although there were only a few dozen minutes a day, although every word, every action, and every look would take her great energy and make her tired. 】

[The doctor told you that this was about the flicker before the flame of life was extinguished.] 】

[Your wife's last words keep echoing in your head, making you fidgeting and forcing you to make up your mind.] 】

[You invited your wife to go to see the snow in Yoshida-cho, and your wife responded softly and smiled. 】

[For the wife who only has a remnant of life, any external stimulation is a place where the god of death is hidden, and if you don't pay attention to it, the sickle of death will pierce her chest. You hired the doctor at Chigusa University Hospital to prepare your wife for the journey. 】

[You first took a medically modified plane to Hokkaido, and then took the same modified bus to a small town on the edge of Yoshida-cho and stayed in the hospital you bought. 】

[The Grim Reaper who was ambushed during the journey failed to touch your beloved wife, but the reptile of time everywhere continues to gnaw at your wife's body, and you pray for the early arrival of the first snow of the year. 】

[At the beginning of November, the sun is shining, the dry wind blows through the mountains, and the mountains and forests are verdant. 】

[In the middle of November, there was a rain, the rain fell over the mountains, the mountains and forests became more lush, and the fire wheels in the sky became brighter after the rain. 】

[The wife's time to wake up is getting less and less, her consciousness is becoming more and more blurred, and her occasionally opened eyes seem to be covered with a layer of gray mist. 】

[On the fourth Saturday of November, it finally snowed in the sky. 】

(End of chapter)