Kogura and Keiko Hatoyama quarreled.

The point that triggered the quarrel between the two was actually not that complicated.

Two years have passed, and Keiko Hatoyama thinks that Karasuma can already give up, and there is no need to waste energy on her.

And Kokarasuma, what made her emotionally out of control was not that Keiko Hatoyama despised her efforts in the past two years, but that Keiko Hatoyama didn't care about her life at all.

She couldn't understand why she could give herself up so lightly, when she was working hard for Keiko Hatoyama, and when she was saving her?

She couldn't figure it out.

Of course, quarrels are quarrels, and that night, Kokaramaru still pinched the time and went to Keiko Hatoyama's ward with medicine.

After all, quarrels are actually a very normal thing between friends, and they are not children, after quarrels, whether they are reconciled or not, she has to do what she should do.

And in the hospital room, Keiko Hatoyama didn't mention the topic of wanting her to give up again.

She was very quiet and very cooperative in taking the medicine sent by Xiao Karasuma, without any care.

It seems that this matter has just passed......

But Karasuma knew that it wasn't.

Sister Keiko is not such a weak person, she is the one who will not shake her decision because of a simple quarrel.

She's just waiting.

Just like when Kokarsuma announced that he was going to the University of Tokyo School of Medicine two years ago, he waited quietly.

Two years ago, Sister Keiko thought that her efforts would never succeed, but Sister Keiko also knew that she couldn't convince her high-spirited at that time, so she could only choose to wait, wait for her to see the "reality" clearly, and then give up.

Today, two years later, the same is true, and after another failed attempt to convince, Keiko's sister once again chooses to wait, waiting for Karasuma to give up on her own.

And it is her extremely determined attitude, her "Yes, I am definitely going to die soon, so don't you work hard for me anymore, okay?" The attitude made the fire in Karasuma's heart more and more difficult to contain.

Is it just because your own life is short that you can casually despise your own life? How can you be worthy of the people around you who have always cared about you and worked hard for you? How can he be worthy of the officer Baihe who is still worried about coming back as soon as possible when he is abroad?

But these words, Korasuma couldn't ask.

She really wanted to know how Keiko Hatoyama thought about these questions, but she still didn't have such a hard heart after all, and she didn't dare to ask.

She was afraid that these words would hurt her.

Time passed little by little in the cowardly calm of Karasuma.

A few days later, the boy returned from London, and he looked the same as before, except that when he took off his clothes, he could see the gunshot wound to his chest near the heart.

Neither Keiko Hatoyama nor Karasuma told him about the quarrel they had a few days ago.

When the boy returned, the lives of the three of them passed in peace again, and soon another year passed.

Karasuma is still running between taking care of Keiko Hatoyama and the laboratory, and the boy, as always, is either busy dealing with various complicated cases or attending various meetings as a representative of Old Man Hatoyama.

As for Keiko Hatoyama, her physical condition is getting worse and worse, and the rapid decline of her body functions makes her become lethargic, and she spends most of the day in a hospital bed, unable to stay awake.

Ah, and the lean and lean Japanese police officer, he is still the same as before, he always steps on a little bit to visit Keiko Hatoyama every once in a while, but because Keiko Hatoyama's recent waking time has not been fixed, he often has to wait outside the ward for a while.

Yes, as a year ago, or even two, three years ago, everything is normal, everything is calm.

But only this peaceful daily life is unacceptable to Karasuma.

Because it also means that for more than a year, all her efforts have continued to fail, fail and fail, and no miracles have happened......

So, time is calm, so, there is not a little bit of turbulence in the lives of the three of them......

And Keiko Hatoyama, who is at the center of all the problems, she has long expected this scene, she did not cry, did not splash and roll, did not have a nervous breakdown, did not anger the people around her, and did not take revenge on society.

She didn't even ask about Karasuma's research progress again, nor did she try to persuade her to give up these words, but accepted it all calmly, quietly waiting for her final ending.

Everything is still moving in the direction she once predicted, and all the efforts of Kokarasuma in the past three years have never shaken this result in the slightest.

"Ahh

Suddenly, he pushed down all the bottles and jars on the experimental table, and Karasuma grabbed the small hammer on the side and smashed them all to pieces.

"Die! Die! Die!! ”

Her research has been making no progress—something she has never dared to say to Keiko Hatoyama in the past three years.

No matter how much relevant knowledge she has ingested in the past three years, no matter how many times she has had a flash of inspiration, but there is no progress, that is, there is no progress.

In three years, the more no progress, the more desperate she is, the more desperate she is, the more she seems to have no progress, in this repeated cycle, the anxiety in her heart continues to accumulate, and she has already reached the critical point she can bear.

A year ago, Sister Keiko may have noticed this point from her, so she persuaded her to give up, so she ...... She was like a powder keg and suddenly exploded......

Actually, it wasn't just her anger at Keiko Hatoyama for her disdain for her life, but more ...... It was her anger at her powerlessness.

Kokarsuma didn't care that she had spent three years on this, what she really cared about was that she had spent three years, but she didn't do anything for Keiko Hatoyama, obviously ...... It was she who swore that she would save her......

[That's why you told me at the time, so that I don't feel guilty, don't feel indebted, right......]

"Ah......h

His throat suddenly ached, and after a moment of venting, Karasuma grabbed his neck and sat down weakly at his experimental table.

All around her, there were smashed test bottles and shredded lab notes.

"Woo......"

She slowly gathered her legs, hugged her knees, buried her face in them, and sobbed softly.

She probably, really, failed......

“……”

That night, Keiko Hatoyama sat alone in the hospital room, staring blankly out of the dark window.

It's raining tonight, and the raindrops outside are crackling against the windows, like evil spirits who have come to ask for their lives.

"Click."

Behind him, there seemed to be the sound of the door opening, and Keiko Hatoyama woke up from this stunned state and turned her head to look.

Standing at the door was Kokarasuma.

A small Karasuma that is so gray that it seems to be completely shattered at the slightest touch.

Looking at her, a touch of distress and helplessness appeared in Keiko Hatoyama's eyes.

This scene came much later than she expected.

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(End of chapter)