After a lot of effort, Morimi couldn't drag Naruse from the river, but instead he slipped and fell into the water, and he couldn't get up for half a day.

In the end, it was Naruse who fished her up and dragged her back to shore.

Lowering her down in the ankle-sinking pebble shallows, he lay down too, each other's yukata already completely soaked.

During the struggle, Morimi drank several sips of river water, and at this time he couldn't stop retching.

"Ahem, ahem!"

Spat out a little more water, she rolled over and fell onto his shoulder, gasping for breath for a moment.

He didn't move.

"Are you still alive?"

She raised her hand to touch his chest, felt the heartbeat inside, lay on her stomach for a moment, and then sat up again.

The river flooded his head and flowed by, and he gazed at the moon in the sky, his eyes glancing at her.

"If you really want to die, I can't stop you." Morimi looked down at him.

He didn't speak, but turned his gaze to the moon again.

After sitting next to him for a moment, she undid her soaked and heavy yukata and tilted her head back, bathing her upper body in the moonlight.

"Why did you get to this point......" she muttered.

He still didn't speak, and took a deep breath.

"I have my responsibility." Morimi said, "You have a responsibility, too. ”

She paused, "If you die here, it's all my responsibility......"

"I didn't want to die." He finally spoke, "Just trying to calm down." ”

In other words, it was the cold river that brought him back to his composure from the deeper and deeper guilt.

Hearing him say this, Morimi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and leaned on his chest, his voice choking again.

"I'm sorry."

“……”

Naruse closed his eyes, but he couldn't be silent.

Every tear that fell on his chest was so heavy that it hurt him.

"I'm the one who should say I'm sorry. I will not complain about what you want to do to me now...... Even if you want to strangle me. ”

She looked up, wiped her hand under her eyes, and stroked his face again.

"I want you alive."

He opened his mouth and closed it again.

"Send me home first, I have pain all over me." She said again.

“……”

No one knows better than him where the pain comes from.

Naruse sat up and found that his body was unusually heavy, and it wasn't just because his yukata was completely soaked by the river.

"I'm out of energy." Morimi also said.

He gritted his teeth, but stood up anyway, the river clattering below him.

Pulling her up, the two of them supported each other, and climbed back to the shore from where they had just come down the river.

The two of them came out barefoot, they didn't wear shoes, they didn't feel anything when they came over just now, and now they can't stand it after walking a few steps.

"You wait here, I'll go back and get my shoes." Naruse said.

"Are you going to leave me here alone?"

“……”

"Let's go." She hugged his arm tightly, "That's how I came just now." ”

The two slowly walked back to the courtyard of Morimi's house.

In front of the motorcycle, he now finally has time to turn off the engine and turn off the lights.

The courtyard was darkened, and the moonlight fell, providing a lot of light.

It's midnight right now.

Naruse sat down on the edge side, and Morimi sat down next to him, looking back at the mess behind him.

The slanted moonlight illuminated a few blood stains on the floor, which seemed to have dried.

She pursed her lower lip and looked inside, the sliding door of the living room, which had been locked from the inside, was smashed open by brute force, shattered and fell to the ground inside.

"If my parents find out that the sliding door is broken tomorrow, I will say that I accidentally fell and broke the door."

Naruse also turned his head, looked at it twice, and said, "I'll lose money." ”

"Of course you're going to have to lose money."

Morimi said, crawling to the other side again, picking up the phone that had long been silent.

After pressing it twice and there was no response, she pressed and held the power button again and tried it.

The screen lit up, and she was relieved at first, and then her face collapsed again.

"You broke the screen."

“……”

Seeing that she got the mobile phone in front of her, Naruse was silent again, "I will pay you a new mobile phone." ”

Morimi smiled, "It's good to fix it." ”

He didn't say anything, and no longer sat stupidly, but got up to clean up the mess he had made.

"Just throw the broken sliding door into the corner on the right side of the yard...... By the way, you put on your shoes first. ”

She didn't cover herself with her clothes, and she still had the heart to let him put on his shoes first.

"Just step on it, just wipe the floor later."

Putting on his shoes, Naruse packed up the things on the ground, carried them back and forth a few times, and sent the broken sliding door to the corner of the yard to be stacked.

"If it weren't for tomorrow or the day of the delivery, Mom and Dad would definitely come over, and they probably wouldn't notice if there was a lack or a new sliding door." Morimi said.

The lights in the living room had already been turned on, and Naruse glanced at the elf shed in the corner.

She looked over and sighed suddenly.

"Souls or something, they really don't exist, otherwise you just faced me in front of so many ancestors...... He was already killed by lightning. ”

“……”

He was speechless, and looked at her thighs again, which seemed to be stained with a little blood that had not been washed away by the river.

"I'll have to wash it up later." Noticing his gaze, Morimi said, "You too. ”

"Hmm."

"There's no way you're going back tonight, are you?" She asked, looking at him.

“…… Not going back. Naruse shook his head.

"That's good." She smiled and continued to clean up.

Except for the broken sliding door, which was called to install a new one tomorrow, the remaining traces were almost cleaned up in a short time.

Finally, he took a wet cloth and wiped the floor on the edge side, and Morimi picked it up and looked at it, and the blood stains had already changed color.

"I didn't expect my first night to be here......"

She muttered, and Naruse pursed her lower lip, trying to pretend she hadn't heard, but she looked over and smiled at him.

"Cleaned up."

"Hmm."

"Let's go take a shower."

"You go wash first."

Naruse looked down at the yukata on his body, and until he came out of the river, the clothes on each other's bodies were still wet, but they didn't drip anymore.

"Let's wash together, it's not too early."

Seeing him looking over, she added, "I've done it all, do you still need to care about this kind of thing." ”

Naruse was speechless, and the two went to the bathroom together.

Untying her hair, she faded the last shred of concealment in front of the mirror and surveyed her body.

“……”

She looked at him in the mirror, "Do you hate me?" ”

“……”

Every word she says is hard to answer.

"I'm talking about ...... before"

"I can't say hate." Naruse said, "It's just ......"

"I'm angry and want to break me."

The two looked at each other again.

She turned around and helped him undress, pulled him inside, took off the shower head, and rinsed it on him.

"Rinse first, then wash your hair later."

She could always avoid it when he raised his hand to take the sprinkler, and when the attempts failed, he let it go.

“…… It would be funny if it couldn't be washed off. ”

“……”

"You'll wash it for me later."

“…… Well. ”

By the time she rinsed his body, the sprinkler finally reached his hand.

Morimi's gaze didn't stay on his hand, it was on his face, "Why is this expression, isn't this all your bite?" ”

"I'm sorry."

"That's not what I meant."

He opened his mouth, but still said "I'm sorry".

"We're all wrong." Morimi leaned over, pressed against his face, stared into his eyes, "Unrecoverable, the mistake of two people." ”

"Have you done it to Naoko?" Morimi suddenly asked.

“…… No. ”

"You're the first time too?"

"Hmm."

She was silent for a moment.

"Should I be happy?"

He didn't speak.

After each other's bodies were rinsed, she pulled him again and sat down in the bathtub together.

He leaned against the bathtub, she leaned against him, and the two of them were squeezed into the not too big tub, a little reluctantly.

Naruse looked at the smooth back in front of him, and there were many marks on it.

"Let's turn off the lights." Morimi suddenly said, "I still like to stay in the dark. ”

(End of chapter)