Riding the subway with Yohei Nakajima, Yuki Minami stood next to the door, holding the handrail.

Even though he had just behaved very cheerfully, he was still nervous when he stepped on the subway line that he had traveled countless times in The Sims.

In the previous Sims, Yohei Nakajima never took the initiative to find him, this time, he must have been influenced by Reina, and Reina, who affected his father, what kind of situation is he in at the moment?

When he arrives at the hospital room and stands in front of and behind Reina Nakajima, what kind of reaction will the girl give?

Nan Yuki is worried about this.

With only that sentence in the free simulation, Reina Nakajima may not be sure, but if the girl asks......

Want to lie? Or is it a confession?

He couldn't make up his mind.

After getting out of the subway, he followed Yohei Nakajima to Chikusa University Hospital, and as he passed by the garden, he broke off a hydrangea.

"What are you doing with this?" Yohei Nakajima wondered.

"Give it to Reina."

"Reina doesn't like this, I said I wanted to bring her down to see her, but she didn't come."

"That should be the question of the person who sent the invitation."

“……？”

Yohei Nakajima took a deep breath and suppressed the emotions that were surging in his heart.

He registered Nan Yuki at the front desk, gave him the right to visit within the stipulated time, and took him upstairs.

"You go, I won't go."

Standing at the corner of the corridor, Yohei Nakajima stopped, thinking of his first cut and then playing, afraid of being disliked by his daughter. He instructed Nan Yuxi, saying that he came to visit on behalf of the class.

Nan Yuki agreed, and he knocked on the door of the hospital room.

"Please come in."

A clear voice like a clear spring came from behind the door, a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

Nan Yuxi pushed open the door and walked into the house, he saw that on the white hospital bed by the window, a girl wearing a blue hospital gown with an elegant temperament was sitting, and the clear sky outside the window floated through the soft clouds, and the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds were reflected in her quiet eyes.

The moment he saw the girl, the apprehension in Nan Yuki's heart disappeared, and the peace wrapped around the girl's body was like a gentle palm, caressing the folds in his heart.

"Good afternoon." Nan Yuki walked to the side of the bed and handed the hydrangea ball in his hand to the girl.

"Thank you."

Taking the flower from the boy's hand and looking at the boy's familiar face, Rena Nakajima's heart trembled, and she almost burst into tears.

Reality, according to the future in the dream?

However, the boy's next words shattered her illusions.

"My name is Yuki Minami, and I'm a student of Mr. Nakajima, so just call me Yuki."

"My name is Rena Nakajima, call me ...... Reina is fine. ”

"Hydrangeas are beautiful, but they don't smell at all."

"Well, it's like me."

"Huh? Isn't there a fragrance on Sister Reina? ”

Reina Nakajima blushed, the scent she said meant the breath of life, she was now just a lifeless shell. She believed that the boy understood the words, and that the scent on his body was playing tricks on her.

Sure enough, it's as bad as in the dream.

"Do you want to smell it?"

With the cunning she had gained from the memories and feelings of the dream, she deliberately paused to see the young man's wavering expression, and then raised her slender hand and said the remaining half of the sentence: "Hydrangeas, smell it?" ”

Nan Yuki breathed a sigh of relief, he also thought that Reina had developed towards Yuko's side, and he was startled.

Outside the door of the ward, Yohei Nakajima patted his chest, he almost broke in and said no!

When his heart calmed down, he continued to peek at the room.

Nan Yuki took the hydrangea and sniffed it, inserted it in a paper cup filled with water, and placed it on the bedside table.

They chatted normally, talking about the flowers downstairs and the scenery outside the window, and Nakajima Yohei's hanging heart was completely put down, the uneasiness disappeared, and the jealousy rose.

The daughter seems to have a good chat with Nan Yuki, much more than when she chats with him.

Damn, although I asked you to come and chat with Reina, how can you talk so much! Reina's health is not good, you have pity on her and say less!

The more he listened, the more sad Nakajima Yohei became, and he turned around and gave up monitoring.

It doesn't look like there's anything wrong with it, let them go.

He walked downstairs to the smoking room and smoked up.

In the hospital room, Yuki Minami and Rena Nakajima were silent after a short and eager chat, and the surroundings were quiet.

Reina Nakajima is a bland temperament, she doesn't talk much, Nan Yuki has a changeable temperament, and when she meets the quiet Rena Nakajima, his words are less.

This tranquility does not contain loneliness, it is the liveliness that belongs to them.

Their conversation is not in words, but in each other's presence, and the mere perception of each other's presence is enough to make them happy.

They all looked out the window at the garden, and the garden became a place for them to linger.

Occasionally, they would move their gaze and take a quick look at each other, and their sea of emotions would ripple in an instant, like a couple who love to chat and say something that would make both of them laugh.

Minami Yuki didn't speak, and for another reason, he was waiting for Reina Nakajima to ask him a question, asking him the last words he said in the free simulation.

Rena Nakajima didn't speak, and there was another reason, she was silent, and whenever her lips opened, she couldn't help but want to ask the boy about the future.

In this silence, the golden light outside the window faded into orange, shining on the pure white hospital bed, illuminating the tips of Nakajima's fingers.

Does the boy know what the future holds? Reina Nakajima stared at the hydrangeas in the garden.

In the scene of the VR glasses, Nan Yuki predicted the current situation, but he did not say whether he had future memories when he was a teenager.

The current teenager may be a teenager who knows nothing.

However, it is also possible that the boy has the same memories in the dream as her, and even, the current boy who can predict should have more memories than her.

She thought of the future in her dream, in the operating room, the doctor in the surgical gown who gave her anesthesia, and the doctor who said that he was going to give her the main operation, was the young man in front of her.

In the dream, she asked the boy many times afterwards, but the boy smiled and didn't answer, didn't say yes, didn't say no, she thought that the boy's posture was a phantom constructed by herself when she was anesthetized.

Now that I think about it, is it possible that it was Yuki?

And the research institute, the research institute that researched mature artificial valves, the research institute under Yuki's name, also suddenly came up with results.

And then there's ...... The study of Yuki's later years, the study of her heart disease...... Apparently she had already recovered by then......

Combined with that sentence and that prophecy, Nakajima Reina thought, maybe there is no need to ask.

The sun slowly sank behind the distant peaks, and as the sky grew dark, Minami Yuki stood up.

"Sister Reina doesn't have anything to ask?" He looked at the girl in the hospital bed.

The girl shook her head, her smile the color of a sunset outside the window.

She thought, she didn't need to ask, Yuki's words had already explained everything.

All she had to do was wait quietly, waiting for the boy to choose her, or—to leave her behind.

(End of chapter)