The time is set back to three hours ago.

Nagoya City

Takada Town

The weather was gloomy, the city was soaked with rain, and the windows of the red sedan gradually blurred the view outside.

The torrential rain from 4 p.m. to the evening continued unstopprisingly, and Terashimagawa watched the lights of the commercial and mixed-use buildings outside the car window as they watched as they danced in front of him.

"Just pull over in front of you."

He felt a faint smell of blood in his mouth, like a mouth ulcer cracking the wound, and there was a tingling sensation, and he couldn't speak.

This is also to blame for his reckless behavior on the side of the road just now.

Of course, he didn't know that his recklessness would soon lead to his remorse.

The car stopped on the side of the road, and Tsukishima Miwa's face was cloudy, and she said angrily: "Get out of the car for me!" ”

She didn't notice that the lipstick on her lips had faded a lot.

"Oh... Good. ”

Hearing the rhythmic sound of hundreds of millions of raindrops smashing on the roof of the car, as well as the boy's action of opening the car door, Miwa Tsukishima couldn't help but say out, "Umbrella." ”

"I didn't bring an umbrella, it's okay, it's not far from my house, just trott over."

The sound of the rain gradually became louder, and passers-by with umbrellas around also ran to the nearby supermarket to take shelter from the rain.

Miwa Tsukishima took an umbrella from the back seat and got out of the car, and then stood in front of Terashima River, "What's the daze, I'll hold an umbrella for you, you go to the trunk and get your luggage." Let's go, or you'll catch a cold when you get home in the rain. ”

"Thank you, Dao'er."

He was pulling out his suitcase in the trunk, packing a few Nara specialties.

At this time, a gust of wind blew, mixed with rain, and Terashimagawa's sleeves were instantly wet with rain. The soaked shirt clung to his skin, which made him very annoying.

"It's getting heavier again, you come closer to me."

"Okay."

Terashimagawa carried a suitcase, carried a bag and was intimately attached to the skin of the woman next to him, and walked quietly towards the residential building.

Suddenly, Miwa Tsukishima stopped, felt something, and turned her head to look across the sidewalk behind her.

Terashimagawa looked at her suspiciously and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Miwa Tsukishima shook her head, "It's nothing, let's go." ”

They walked in the rain with transparent plastic umbrellas, which seemed to have become speakers in the sky yesterday, and the two of them listened quietly to the sound of rain playing overhead.

It's just that neither of them noticed that there was a cold woman standing on the opposite side of the sidewalk, and when she just saw Terashimagawa get off the bus, she subconsciously wanted to call him to stop.

When I saw Miwa Tsukishima get out of the car and walk into the rain with an umbrella with Terashimagawa, the idea of making this woman want to stop Terashimagawa was not put into practice after all.

Slowly put the extra umbrella down in the bag.

Because she knew that he was going home today, she found that it was cloudy before she went to work at noon, so she prepared an extra umbrella and came back early after work to pick him up at the intersection.

It's just that she's redundant.

She thought, maybe someone will hold an umbrella for you all the time in the future, but it won't be me...

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"Sister, are you distracted again?"

Noticing that Terashima Ling, who had been unable to give up since he returned home, Terashima River's eyes were a little confused.

I think back to the time Terashima entered the door just now, the canvas shoes were full of water on the ground, and the stockings under the blue denim shorts were wet and wrapped around her slender legs like a snake, and I seemed to be in a bad mood.

"Ah, nothing." Ryajima shook her head, went back to the bedroom to take off her soaked stockings, and sat down on the bed a little distracted.

The parents of her original family have no feelings at all, and she doesn't know why her mother and biological father got married, so she can only explain that the two of them were blind at the beginning.

And her mother's personality makes her unwilling to be a housewife, busy with her career and taking care of young Lingqiao, and she can't do it at all.

The biological father is a businessman, usually very busy, especially after indulging in gambling later, he has no time to care about her, and only left the young Lingqiao to his grandmother. And grandma loves to play cards and doesn't care much about her.

So she has been a 'wild child' since she was a child, and she goes out early and returns late every day, although she has money on her, but she is so young that she doesn't know what to spend, so she can't eat enough.

I once went to the river with a few children. In the winter, the river froze, and the few of them were pushing bricks and building snowmen on the river without adult supervision, but one of the boys accidentally fell down while standing in that position.

There were no adults around at the time, so it is possible that they did not notice them. At that time, the children were too young to understand anything, so they sat on the ice and watched at a loss. Fortunately, little by little, the boy climbed up and picked up a life.

Afterwards, everyone kept silent about it and went home, and when she grew up, she was really scared when she recalled this scene. At the same time, he sighed that if she had fallen into the river and had an accident, it is estimated that no one would know.

Later, her biological father has been addicted to gambling and has basically never educated her, and if she makes a mistake, she will be beaten, and of course she will not be beaten hard. And when her mother came back from work and found that she had been beaten, she would quarrel with her biological father. Day after day, whenever her parents finished arguing, her mother simply comforted her, and then went to work as usual the next day. This also made her reject the family from the bottom of her heart and didn't feel very close to her parents.

After that, she went to school, showing a hard-working and strong character, and she studied well, because she always wanted to escape from this home on her own strength.

Later, my mother remarried, and my stepfather was strict, so she went to a tutoring class with Terashima Kawa in the middle school....

"Terashima... Chuan..."

Lying on the bed, Terashima Lingyu muttered the name, and her mood became complicated.

It stands to reason that the conflict between the two has never stopped since childhood, but I have to admit that as they get along for a long time, although the two still often quarrel, they will still clean the room together, go to the supermarket to buy ingredients together, and do chores together as a family.

She was going to move, and this man would help her out, and before leaving, he would say to her, "Remember to call me if you have anything in the future, and you should be careful by yourself."

Later, the 'haunted' B&B she rented, and this man comforted and accompanied her all night.

It's like a ray of sunshine in a gloomy life, she hasn't felt much warmth and happiness in her first twenty-one years of life, and none of this seems to have anything to do with her. But that night, she fell asleep in the arms of the other party, and her heart was warm. I even regretted it a little, why I was so cold to him when I was a child, and I didn't have more contact with him.

From that night on, Tejima felt a little dependent on him. But in life, she really doesn't have any friends, and she is usually quite lonely, so she can't find a topic to talk to him.

I couldn't help but think of the scene I had just seen at the intersection, and her bright mood for a day slowly fell silent into darkness.

'Who am I to him?' Who is he? ’

'Family? Close relatives? ’

I see. ’

She stood up suddenly, grabbed the paper on the table and crumpled it violently, and smiled bitterly: "The only person I want to rely on the most now, the person I am trying my best to contact and understand, it turns out that I am the only person I can't love the most." ”

The rain continued heavily, and the thunder seemed to respond to her mood, faintly sounding in the distance in the sky.

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After a long time, she walked out of the bedroom as if relieved, and looked at the boy sitting on the sofa drawing comics.

Tejima said in a calm tone: "I will go back to the rental house tomorrow to check out, and then move out after finding a good house in a few days." ”

Terashimagawa didn't know why she suddenly said this, but he could understand that it was impossible for normal people to move back to the 'haunted' rental house.

"Don't worry, if it's to check out, I'll accompany you tomorrow, as for not living at home, you don't have to decide so early."

"Enough trouble for you, by the way, I'll ask you to go out for sukiyaki, thank you for coming forward that night."

"Do you know how to make sukiyaki?"

"Some, what's wrong? I'm telling the truth, because it's a disadvantage to live alone for a long time and not be able to cook. ”

"Then you can cook me a meal at home. I always eat outside things these days, and I have no appetite anymore. ”

Looking at the boy's sincere expression, Terashima was silent for a while, and then went back to the bedroom to change clothes.

They went downstairs and bought sliced meat and various vegetables at a nearby supermarket, as well as ingredients and bases such as raw eggs. After going back, Terashima Kawa helped, and Terashima made a few simple dishes.

At the dinner table, Terashimagawa took the initiative to speak: "I didn't expect you to cook sukiyaki so deliciously." ”

Tejima Ling's tone was ordinary: "No one has cared about me since I was a child, so I have to live." ”

Hearing this, Terashimagawa's eating movements froze, and a trace of distress flashed in his eyes.

He didn't know how bad the life of the 'sister' in front of him was when she was in her original family, and it was because of that unforgettable experience that she would develop a strong character today.

Seeing that Terashima Kawa was silent, Terashima Lingshu himself didn't talk much, and while eating, he suddenly saw Terashima Kawa receive a phone call, and the voice seemed to be a woman.

She saw that Terashima Kawa frowned slightly, and replied to the phone: "Don't come on a rainy day, I'll get something for you when I go back to school." ”

The other end of the phone seems to be very categorical, and it is impossible to hang up.

Looking at his 'younger brother's helpless expression, Terashima Lingqiao picked up the rice grains in the bowl with chopsticks and asked tentatively, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

"No... It's okay. ”

"If you have something to do, go and get busy, you don't have to stay with me. I've been living at home alone for the past few days, and there have been no weird phenomena. ”

She silently lowered her head and ate sukiyaki, and after waiting for a while to see the boy still sitting there, she thought she would be afraid if she was alone at home.

Immediately, Tejima said, "I'm full," and walked towards the living room. Before leaving, he turned around and said, "You don't need to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, I'll wash them later." ”

Terashimagawa was still wondering about Terashima's behavior today, but he felt that there seemed to be a feeling called family affection between the two. Faced with the change in his sister, Terashima River was obviously pleased.

She began to think of herself as a family.

Just then, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Terashima River, who had just finished eating, was about to leave to open the door, when he heard the sound of the door opening the door, and Terashima asked the people outside in confusion, "Who are you?" ”

The woman outside was stunned and said, "I came to find Terashimagawa, and his things fell on my car." ”

Terashima looked at Terashima River, who had arrived, and didn't speak, perhaps because he didn't know how to answer, so he turned around and went back to the house.

At this time, Tsukishima Miwa stood at the door with a blank face, obviously a little unhappy, threw a package that fell on the car into his arms, and stood at the door staring at him.

"She's my sister." Terashimagawa explained.

"Hmm." Miwa Tsukishima didn't say anything more, turned around and went downstairs.

Seeing this, Terashimagawa hurriedly followed.

The two walked down the community lane one after the other, stopping at a sparsely populated intersection.

Miwa Tsukishima turned around and looked at him.

"What are you doing with me?"

"Dao'er, I..."

"Don't call me that! I don't deserve to be your mentor! ”

“.... Miwa Tsukishima, I like you. ”

Tsukishima Miwa trembled violently, stimulated by Terashimagawa's words. Her pupils contracted suddenly, and her expression changed completely.

In the next second, she smashed the umbrella on Terashima River angrily, "Terashima River, you bastard!" ”

The rain was pouring down, and Terashimagawa remained indifferent, just holding the umbrella above the two of them.

"You know what? The three days in Nara are like three minutes, and every moment with you is full of sweetness and warmth, and it is like three years, which makes me go through the life of loving someone again in my heart. ”

"That's how you love someone? Who are you? Who am I? ”

Miwa Tsukishima's emotions suddenly fell out of control, covering her chest, her face pale without a trace of blood, staring at Terashima River's eyes.

Terashimagawa stopped talking, to himself, who was he, and who was Miwa Tsukishima?

The answer is self-explanatory.

Once he thought he was in love with this woman, but it happened that the two had the same dream, and in the dream they almost finished their lives.

And now that the dream is gone, he likes his mentor.

In reality, there is an insurmountable gap between the two, and further it is an abyss.

For the first time, he realized that he was not interested in an older woman, but a teacher who was going to teach him four years of college subjects.

In the face of this feeling, Miwa Tsukishima made a decision very early on, and kept denying and abandoning it all the time. But she is considerate and selfless in private, and in the face of her repeated 'coercion', she constantly accommodates herself and retreats to the bottom line again and again.

He suddenly remembered this sentence, "If one day, you can really think about her hardships and pains as a teacher from her perspective. And you still have this forbidden thought, which will definitely be ten times more painful than now."

The heavy rain fell and brought the Terashima River back to reality. Can you take her into endless trouble in the name of love?

He used to be the only person he wanted to protect the most in the strange and sinister environment of his dreams, and after waking up, he tried everything to try to find the person he promised to 'accompany and grow old' in his dream, and now he slowly likes the person he loves, but he can't love the person!

Terashimagawa silently stared at Tsukishima Mei and Xiumei's delicate face, even if he understood all this, he still couldn't wear his love for her.

That's enough! That's enough! Terashima River!!

Do you want to ruin her?! Let her suffer from gossip and even lose her job for the rest of her life?!

That's it, sober up, that's it, that's it!

The traffic lights at the intersection alternate, and it seems that as the rain washes the road, the most profound transformation comes quietly.

Miwa Tsukishima's eyes were red: "Don't want to say it or don't dare to answer?" Terashimagawa, your love is so clumsy! ”

If you could....

I will answer, I will tell you—

"Miwa Tsukishima, then let me love you so clumsily! From the moment to the unfortunate, from the first leaf to the autumn."

He didn't say it this time.

Towards nine o'clock in the evening, the rain became louder, lightning and thunder, and the wind was fierce.

The traffic lights alternated, and the red sedan at the intersection drove away.

The last words left by Miwa Tsukishima before leaving were finished in tears, which he could not forget for a long time. Even hearing those few simple words hurt him severely, and one sentence criticized all the love of Terashimagawa for nothing.

"Your love pains me and makes me despair."

Watching the car go away, Terashimagawa shrunk his neck as he walked back, and the cold wind poured into his thin shirt, which was very cold.

I'm sorry I didn't think it through.

I was just.... I've just learned how to protect you, but it's not too late.