"Anna ......"

Like Leon in her memory, after calling out the name of the girl in front of her, Emma only felt that her exhaustion receded like a tide, and even her shoulders, which were so heavy as if they were weighing on a thousand pounds, suddenly relaxed.

But instead of heartfelt joy and euphoria, it was a lingering pang of remorse and shame.

"I lost my job......"

After saying this sentence in a dejected manner, Emma ...... Or the former Leon, with a look of chagrin as he explained:

"I'm really not lazy, but I can still only carry about half of the weight of others, and the foreman only gave me half a month's salary, so that I don't have to go to the dock tomorrow, I ......"

"You're already good."

The dim oil lamp approached with the girl's gentle steps, and after a warm embrace, the sound of comfort without the slightest reproach rang in Emma's ears.

"Brother, it's not your fault, I know, you must have done your best. I've left you dinner for the evening, come into the house, and rest well after eating......"

"I ......"

"Emma-senpai?"

The whispering of doubt in her ears and the heat in her palms pulled Emma out of this memory that did not belong to her.

After shaking his head a little dazedly, he looked at Leon who had some doubts in his eyes, and Emma, who came back to his senses, said apologetically:

"Excuse me, I just ...... Well...... I should have seen the memories of you. ”

Looking at the fluorescent white bricks under her feet, Emma said softly:

"If I'm not mistaken, if two people step on the same brick, the person who steps on it next seems to see the memory of the previous person.

Lyon, if you mind, I actually ......."

"It's okay, let's see."

Remembering the experience of losing his job carrying bags on the dock for the first time, secretly finding a place to cry, and then being comforted by Anna's gentle words, Leon smiled a little embarrassedly.

"There shouldn't be anything too invisible in my memory, and if my predecessor hadn't saved Anna when I was in the hospital, these memories would have been ...... Well...... Anyway, if you can help you cross the black and white bridge with my memory, then I won't mind. ”

"Thank you......"

Holding Leon's warm and powerful palm, warmed by his frank and warm emotions all the way from his hands to his heart, Emma's palms finally stopped being slightly cold, and a little blood reappeared on her pale face.

After making sure that she was ready, Leon, who was still standing on one foot outside the bridge, clenched his fist, then raised the other foot and stood on the black and white bridge completely.

White bricks are also bricks that represent happiness.

And Emma, who got Leon's promise, also regained her courage and stepped on the bridge with both feet.

"Big brother!"

What appeared in front of Emma's eyes this time was the younger brother of the Leon family, who looked like a tiger with a tiger head and a very cute head, but always had a serious face and looked like a little adult.

At this moment, Emma, or Leon in memory, was standing next to a wall, staring at the nails on the wall, and William, who was standing side by side with Leon, was looking up and asking with a serious face:

"Big brother, are you sick?"

Lyon got sick this time?

After hearing Leon's brother's question, Emma couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

Shouldn't it? Leon is stepping on a white block, this should be a happy memory, right?

And Leon in his memory seemed to have the same doubts as Emma, and after shaking his body a little, Leon said with a puzzled face:

"No, I've been a little tired lately, but there shouldn't be any problems with my body."

"Don't lie to me!"

After looking at the eyes seriously, and then looking down at himself, William, who looked like a little adult, also shook his body, and then frowned and said with a serious face:

"If you weren't sick, why would you be so swollen there......

"Ahem, ahem! Ahem, ahem, ahem! ”

After coughing wildly with the biggest voice in his life, he woke Emma up from his memories, but he didn't expect that the memory of the brothers "releasing water" by the wall would also be grabbed by the black and white bridge, and Leon, who was embarrassed to say to Emma, who was in a trance:

"What, I thought about it just now, although I don't mind sharing my memories with you, senior, but...... Forehead...... But there are some cases where it's special...... So...... Forehead...... So can I sift through the content first, and then you step on it? ”

Through the palms that were still clenched together, and felt the embarrassment that was churning in Leon's heart, which was enough to make people pick out a set of large flats with their toes, Emma, who came back to her senses, also understood and knew what scene she had just seen.

After recalling the strange but unusually real touch, Emma's fair face couldn't help but turn red, and even her small and smooth earlobes were dyed a touch of crimson, and then she hurriedly turned her head away.

"Good...... Ok ......"

“……”

Damn it! I said why this time I was so lucky, my feet were white in a row, and it turned out that they were waiting for me here!

After scolding a damn word of luck, Leon took a deep breath and took the third step.

White lumps, still white lumps.

This time it was Melanie, who was naughty and troublesome, but most of the time, she was still a warm little padded jacket.

And the good memories related to her are that she sold newspapers in a freezing rain, and the next day she had a high fever, Anna ran out to buy medicine for herself, and Melanie took William to dig out a few nests of crow eggs, wanting to replenish her body with a fever.

Well...... So far, it's been pretty good, but for the next week, my house was attacked by a flock of angry crows, and everything from the door to the windowsill was drenched in half-dried bird droppings.

When I got well and took a shovel to clean up, the gray-white dried bird droppings had accumulated more than two fingers thick, and I had to knock it off with a hammer first, and I barely picked it off after three or four days.

All I can say about this is ...... Although a certain small padded jacket is warm enough when it is warm, she is also really leaky when it is time to leak......

After reading this warm but ridiculous memory, Leon couldn't help but shake his head helplessly, and then squeezed Emma's senior's palm hard, signaling that there was nothing to avoid this time, she could step on it.

However, Leon pinched it several times in a row, and Emma's seniors, who were lagging behind, did not continue to walk, and remained silent, and a burst of sorrow that was almost overflowing followed the palms of the two of them and broke into Leon's heart all the way.

"Emma, my daughter ......"

With the grief that almost made his heart split in half, Leon only felt that his ears were slightly swollen and painful, and a sadness was tinged with a slight annoyance, but it was also full of worry and reluctant calls, and trembled into his eardrums.

"It's been six years...... How are you doing? ”