[Yohei Nakajima, who heard the news, was ecstatic, and you, who released the news, finally put your mind at ease. 】

[Last November, Reina Nakajima's health began to feel unwell, and in the New Year, her condition deteriorated further, and doctors at Chigusa University Hospital were already urging surgery. 】

[Yohei Nakajima found you and carefully asked you about the institute and the operation, his spirit was tense, and he was afraid that he would get bad news. 】

[Ling told him that everything was fine, and a week later, Reina Nakajima was transferred to Lilian International Hospital.] 】

[He happily pulls you out to dinner.] Sitting at an upscale sushi restaurant, he talks to you, wondering how exactly you operate, and it was Lilian Hospital who offered to take over Reina Nakajima, a condition in which almost all critically ill heart patients are now seeking to qualify for surgical trials. 】

[You perfunctory him, only saying that you know the people involved in the project.] 】

[A week later, Reina Nakajima was transferred to Lilian Hospital to begin the examination and preparation for the operation.] 】

[Two months later, the surgery began.] 】

A small memory scene appears. The protagonist in the memory is not Yuki Minami, but Reina Nakajima.

"Dad, is Yuki here?" The time for the operation was approaching, and Reina Nakajima asked her father at the bedside.

"No, I can't get through to him, I don't know where I'm going!" Yohei Nakajima frowned.

"Didn't Yuki say that he had something to do today?" Honoka patted her husband on the back.

Yuko Ibuki nodded, agreeing with her mother's words.

"I know that he is a measured child and will not be absent for no reason, but today is the day of Reina's surgery!" Yohei Nakajima was dissatisfied.

This dissatisfaction does not come from the complaint that Nan Yuki has disappeared, but from the anxiety of the upcoming operation that is freely transformed into irritability, which is like a flood that bursts the embankment, drowning all emotions and turning everything into dissatisfaction.

"Yuki told me last night that he couldn't take me to the operating room." Reina Nakajima took care of her beloved teenager, "The previous patient surgery was successful, and this time it will definitely be successful, and when I wake up, he will come back." ”

"There's still some time before the operation, maybe he'll be back." Honoka comforts her stepdaughter and pinchs her husband's waist.

Yohei Nakajima kept his mouth shut, not wanting his inner irritability to infect his daughter.

"Hmm." Reina Nakajima responded to Honoka's words, and she lay at the head of the bed, waiting quietly.

The time for the operation is getting closer and closer, and there is a sound of footsteps outside the ward, and Reina Nakajima looks at the door of the ward, her eyes full of anticipation, but it is the nurse who pushes the cart who comes in.

She lay on the cart and was pushed by the nurse towards the operating room, the hard touch of the cart and the sound of the wheels rubbing against the ground made Nakajima uneasy.

Two months ago, her father excitedly told her that she had been qualified for a trial of a new surgery, and she was not happy.

When she was young, she had already learned to be indifferent after many hopes and disappointments. She understood that hope was like a ball thrown upwards, the ball would eventually fall and hit her head, and the greater the strength of hope, the harder the ball would hit her after disappointment. The best thing to do is to throw the ball lightly and never use too much force.

However, during these two months at Lilian's Hospital, under the extremely optimistic words of the doctor, she couldn't help but throw the ball a little higher. When she tosses the ball, her mind is full of the figure of Nan Yuki.

The cart turned a corner and entered the elevator, which descended and descended, and this brief feeling of weightlessness made her feel like her life was falling.

"Reina, how do you feel?" Yohei Nakajima and Honoka asked her with concern, and they followed the cart and got into the elevator.

Reina Nakajima didn't answer them, the elevator doors opened, and the cart ran down the hallway, her eyes wandering around, leaping over the patient in the blue hospital gown, the doctor in the white coat, not him, not him, not him......

"Dad, is Yuki here?" She was afraid that her increasingly weak body would see through the boy, so she asked her father next to her.

Her voice was so small that her father couldn't hear it, and she repeated it.

"Nope." The father replied to her.

She lowered her eyes in disappointment, perhaps in the last moments of her life, the boy she loved most was not by her side.

The boy said yesterday that he had an important thing to do, and he couldn't send her to the operating room, and she was mentally prepared, but the closer she got to the hideous door of the operating room, the more she longed for the boy's existence.

The sound of the wheels, the comforting voice of her father, the conversation of the doctor and the nurse, surrounded her ears, and she felt that the world was only left with herself lying flat and entering the operating room.

The cart paused to reach the door of the operating room, and she looked around again, but could not find the face of the teenager.

The flood that broke down the embankment of Nakajima Yohei also raged in Nakajima's heart, but what made Nakajima Reina uneasy was not only the operation that was at the junction of life and death, but also the disappearance of the teenager.

Yuki, where are you now? Does he really exist?

The door to the operating room was closed, and two nurses stepped forward to change her clothes.

She was at the mercy of the two young women, turning her neck, looking around for the person in her heart.

She couldn't find it, the irritability manifested in her body as tiredness, she closed her eyes, and the nurse pushed her into the anesthesia.

"Relax."

A familiar voice sounded above her head, and she looked up to see the figure that haunted her.

Despite the fact that the surgical gown, mask, and hair cover covered most of her figure, Rena Nakajima recognized Nan Yuki at a glance.

The eyes that stared at her with a shallow smile and reflected her figure, she couldn't be mistaken!

Irritability, worry, and sorrow were washed away by the ripples in those eyes, and Reina Nakajima opened her mouth to ask why Yuki Minami was in the operating room, but before she could speak, she swallowed it back.

She was afraid that as soon as she opened her mouth, this dream-like reality would burst like a brilliant bubble in the sun.

"Yuki." Her emotions turned into a simple call.

"I'll do your surgery." Minami Yuki stroked Reina Nakajima's cheek and whispered.

"Hmm." Reina Nakajima did not hesitate, did not be surprised. Her whole body is drunk in this dream encounter, as long as she stays by Nan Yuxi's side, everything else is fine.

Her vigorous love and love gave her a firm confidence and courage, as long as she stayed by the teenager's side, even death could not invade her.

"Come, inhale." Minami Yuki gently put the breathing mask over her face.

She breathed as the boy commanded, her consciousness gradually blurred, and the figure of the young man in her vision gradually became trance.

[In the operating room, you appeared in front of Rena Nakajima, and the girl was pleasantly surprised by your presence. You anesthetize her and carry her to the operating table. 】

[Even in a scene like the operating room, Reina Nakajima's sleepy face is still elegant and noble, you cut open her white chest and gaze at her fresh, red heart. 】

[The surgery went well, and you did it better than ever.] After the thoracic work is over, the assistant wants to stitch it for you, and you refuse her and finish the finishing touches for Reina Nakajima on your own. 】

(End of chapter)