A short memory scene emerges.

The hospital sits on the edge of the town, outside the window, the mountains are hidden in the darkness, like the black clouds in the night sky, the outline of the town is like a lake, and the lights are the stars reflected in the sky.

Nan Yuki hated this calm night sky, what he longed for was the wind and waves, he wanted the biting air, the cold wave in his face, the wind that swept the heavens and the earth, stirred the clouds in the sky into white pieces, and turned into goose feathers of snow to fall!

However, no matter how resolute his will was, he could not affect the majestic nature.

He closed the curtain and looked at Reina next to him.

The wife was lying in the hospital bed, and the lines of the medical equipment, which she was reluctant to approach, eventually touched her body. However, her beauty remains, and illness can take her life, but it does not hurt her elegance. The cold or transparent pipes, like the damp and gray vines and wattles in the forest, guarded her, the sleeping beauty.

At dinner, Reina woke up in a daze for a while, listened to him for a while, and fell into a deep sleep again. Her peaceful sleep a few days ago is now stained with some sorrow, and Minami Yuki can't wait to use the first snow in Yoshida Town to cleanse the nightmare that invades his wife.

He kissed Reina on the cheek and walked out of the room.

Next door to the ward is the attending doctor's office. A medium-sized woman in her fifties sits behind a desk and reads the inspection report in her hand.

She told Nan Yuxi: "It's been just a few days, half a month at most." ”

“…… Can't it be any longer? ”

"We've all done our best."

The doctor's sigh was soft, she was usually a stern person, and at this moment, she spoke to Minami Yuki in the gentlest tone.

However, no matter how many layers of cloth the knife wrapped around it to cover the cushion, it could not stop its sharpness, and the moment it touched people's hearts, the blade would pierce through layers of cloth and stab into the flesh.

The tingling of his heart made him tremble, and he may have said something to the doctor, and by the time he came to his senses, he was already standing on the rooftop.

He looked at the hills to the north, and the dark shadow across the hills was the lake that Reina wanted to see, the lake was blue because of the color of the minerals, like the clearest sky in summer, and the locals and tourists called it the Empty Pool.

When the first snow falls, the pond will freeze, and the branches of the trees in the pond will be covered with white snow, which is a dreamlike scene, a scene that Reina has waited for and missed several times in her short life, and it is the regret of her life.

Will she miss it this time, too?

Nan Yuki thought of last year, this time last year, Reina had already completed the operation and basically recovered, and the girl said that she would come to see the snow, if he didn't stop the girl, the girl wouldn't have to die with regrets.

His hand resting on the railing tightened, the cold wind wrapped in the cold air and hit his face, and he pulled up the hat of his coat and put it on, looking at the night before him.

Everything was black, only the shades of black differed, the sky was darker, the mountains were darker, the flowerbeds downstairs were darker, the clearing in front of him was darker, and his eyes chased the boundaries of the shades, looking for something he didn't know.

In this black hodgepodge, he suddenly saw a few spots of white.

At first he thought it was because he had been staring at the night for a long time and his brain was hallucinating, he rubbed his eyes, relaxed his brain, and looked into the distance.

More and more white is falling from the sky.

It's snow.

It's snowing.

The snow fell so suddenly that Nan Yuki couldn't believe his eyes, and he reached out to hold a few pieces of fine snow and look closer.

The white snowflakes were quickly turned into white ice and then into transparent water.

More and more snowflakes fell on the palm of his hand, and he placed a small patch of white snow on the tip of his tongue, and a little cold spread out on the tip of his tongue.

Along with the snowflakes, there is also the sorrow that imprisons joy, and joy gushes out.

He quickly ran down the roof and ran to the hospital room on the second floor.

Reina was still asleep, and he gently called his wife's name, but she didn't hear him, her eyes closed.

At this moment, Minami Yuki felt regret, and he wanted to watch the snow with his wife, share his joy, and share the hope he felt from the fine snow.

Soon, this regret turned into happiness.

He was glad that he hadn't woken up his wife and hadn't let fate's teasing of him spread to her.

Two hours later, the snow stopped.

This short and fine snow could not cover the dead branches of the empty pool, and it was not able to freeze the water of the empty pool.

The next morning, the sun rose, and the only small patch of snow left in the meadow quickly melted.

By noon, there was no trace of snow to be seen.

[You are ecstatic, you have never been to Hokkaido, you thought the first snow in the sky was the first snow, you quickly learned a lesson, the snow only fell for a while, and the next day the sun sun, there was no trace. 】

[I realized how my wife once felt, and experienced the bad fate and despicable tricks she often suffered. 】

[Three days after the first snowfall, the sky was clear. 】

[You hang the snow doll by the window, you go to the shrine to pray to the gods, and you seek guidance from the tarot cards in the divination house.] 】

[At the end of November, the temperature plummets, and you ask the oldest resident in the area, and he tells you that the real first snow is about to fall. 】

[However, the wife can't wait. 】

[My wife has not woken up for two days, and her life is like an origami boat drifting on the river on a rainy day, and the wind and waves will swallow her at any time. In the dead of night, you can hear her gasp in pain. 】

[At noon on December 3, my wife passed away. 】

[In the early morning of December 4th, it snowed. 】

[It snowed overnight, and by daytime, when you and her two families arrived, the snow had already reached your feet. 】

[In the snow, you have held a funeral, and you have already prepared her coffin and her grave. You bury her on the hillside opposite the Empty Pool. 】

[Put a bunch of hydrangeas in front of her grave, and when you get up, you see the empty pool not far away. 】

[From the hillside, the frozen surface of the lake is not blue, but green and green. The snow covered the dead branches of the trees that had died due to the flooding of the lake, and from a distance, the trees looked like crystal clear, and the snow seemed to float on the white surface of the lake. 】

[Above the Sky Pond, the sky, which was pale with snow, quietly turned upside down, and white clouds floated behind the mountain, making it impossible to tell whether it was snow that had not fallen or a mountain peak that was hidden by snow. 】

[The blue of the lake and the white of the snow, the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds, the sky and the lake, the clouds and the snow, the green and the white, meet and blend in your field of vision, you are in a trance, the snow is the skin of the wife, the clouds are her shallow smiling face, and the sky and the lake are the light blue hydrangeas covering the background. 】

[In the first snow of the empty pool, you saw the beautiful figure of your late wife. 】

(End of chapter)