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When she felt uneasy, she would go to "his" room, or rather, the front room.

Opening the door with the spare key, he stepped into the quiet room with no human voice. Ichinose Honami was lying on the cold hard floor.

Looking up at the low ceiling, he curled up his body into a ball with his arms and legs, letting his consciousness fall into sleep little by little.

This behavior makes no sense at all, because after Kitagawa Ryo moved out, the house where he lived was empty, with no furniture left.

On a home level, this room is downright terrible. There were no bedding, no blankets, and no pillows. Apart from the advantage of being in a house, it seemed to be no different from sleeping in the wild. Although she did come to clean it often, it wasn't too dirty.

It seems incomparable to sleeping on a bed at home. The princess in the fairy tale will even toss and turn because of a pea under a hundred layers of quilts. Most people should not be able to let girls sleep on such a cold and hard floor. Imagine.

But for Ichinose Honami, it was just because this used to be Kitagawa Ryo's room.

But having said that...if she was greedy for his scent, why didn't she just stay in the hospital? She obviously had this position.

You know, sleeping here is by no means comfortable. I remember when I woke up here for the first time in the morning, my whole body felt like it was falling apart.

Because...what?

Honami Ichinose couldn't find the answer.

This feeling was born from that time.

When I went out, I saw him and Karuizawa Megumi holding hands in a coffee shop, or in other words, it was an ambiguous scene with their fingers intertwined.

No, maybe even earlier.

It started when she first learned that Ryo Kitagawa had agreed to someone else's confession. She knew clearly that it was a "fake love", but she still couldn't help but show off her love for him in front of Karuizawa Megumi that day. He understood that this was something unimaginable in the past.

When the emotion conveyed by his eyes seeped into her body, when his lips rested on the other end of the straw with a love mark, it might have changed some of Ichinose Honami's perceptions. It was like someone had invaded her territory.

The urge deep in my chest hasn't gone away since.

No matter when sleeping or eating, this emotion always overflows in my chest, and it becomes stronger day by day.

However, Ichinose Honami didn't know the name of that impulse yet.

The powerful force without a name was like a magnet, pushing all her thoughts and actions in the same direction.

In this empty room, there were only the girl sleeping quietly and a pile of neatly placed paper cranes in the corner.

Ichinose Honami started folding it when she learned that Kitagawa Ryo was going abroad a few days ago, and she planned to hand it to him on the day of farewell.

The current number is... six hundred and ninety-eight.

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Early the next morning, Kitagawa Ryo felt that his body was much better than yesterday. He still remembered the birthday wish Ichinose Hanami made last night, which suddenly made him think about tomorrow—— The idea of ​​being discharged from the hospital before Hanami's birthday.

"Mr. Izaki?"

He was about to go out to talk to the housekeeper about this matter, but he didn't expect that the other party came to the ward first. His face was more serious than Kitagawa Ryo imagined.

"Um, do I have some terminal illness? Or did Mr. Izaki not sleep well last night?"

After joking as usual, Kitagawa Ryo stretched his muscles:

"I feel pretty good now, can I be discharged from the hospital?"

Mr. Izaki took a look at Kitagawa Ryo, who looked much better than yesterday, nodded and said:

"The doctor will check again in the morning. If everything is fine, let him be discharged. The young master's physical condition is already very good."

"Okay."

Kitagawa Liang waved his arms and cheered. He himself felt that his illness this time was purely the result of a combination of multiple factors and a coincidence as high as heaven.

"Huh? Why is that umbrella here?"

Out of the corner of his vision, he saw the black umbrella leaning against the corner. Kitagawa Ryo frowned and walked up to take a look. The I&K on the umbrella handle proved that it was Ichinose Honami's umbrella.

"It should be...Miss Ichinose forgot to bring it last night."

"Hey, who would forget to take their umbrella on a rainy day? You would notice it when you get caught in the rain."

Kitagawa Ryo moved towards the door of the ward, stuck his head out and looked around:

"Or is Fanbo here this morning?"

"But Miss Ichinose did not take this umbrella last night. I saw it accidentally in the lost and found area of ​​the hospital."

Mr. Isaki's too calm narration made it difficult to tell that he was joking. He sighed and continued:

"Miss Ichinose's situation has been a bit strange recently. Has the young master really noticed this?"

"...So what if I notice it. Anyway, I'm leaving soon. Who knows what will happen when I come back in a year. It may take more than ten years for people to become close, but if they are unfamiliar, they will be separated in a few months." enough."

Kitagawa Ryo curled his lips and pretended not to care.

"Master, do you want to hear my opinion on the relationship between the two of you? I have watched you grow up."

Mr. Izaki spoke like this, and after seeing Kitagawa Ryo nodding, he continued:

"Miss Ichinose has been scared recently. She has never realized the fact that your existence is so important to her. In fact, she has been very sensitive to the possibility of losing you in the past. However, It's different now. Maybe your presence has become too big? So, she is very afraid of the possibility of losing you. Therefore, she behaves more out of line at this stage than usual."

"Maybe the young master thinks it's nothing. You may think that Miss Ichinose has not changed much from before. That's because you still treat her as a healthy girl who is shy and coquettish. However, this is not the case for Miss Ichinose. It's unusual."

"Master, what do you think of her relationship with Miss Karuizawa?"

"Not very good? There is nothing in common between the two of them."

"But if it were before, Miss Ichinose would have been more friendly."

"...She is not someone who must be friendly to everyone, or it is impossible for such a person to exist. If she can learn to make correct judgments on others, even if she shows a little aggression, I think it will be better for Fan. It's growth in every sense of the word."

"Really? Is that why the young master chose Miss Karuizawa?"

"Maybe I did have this intention at the beginning, just like when I deceived Hanami about Maki confessing to me."

Mr. Izaki was silent for a while:

"Is this considered a test?"

"No, it's not."

Kitagawa Ryo stroked the delicate lines on the umbrella handle with his fingers, raised his head and looked directly at Mr. Izaki and said:

"I want Fanbo to seriously think about the relationship between us, and let her... Doesn't it sound a bit strange?"

He smiled self-deprecatingly:

"Just like when I gave Firefly to her, I have been emphasizing that this is her cat. I just want her to know that she also has things at her disposal, that she can create memories by herself, and that she can think about problems first. ...Ichinose Honami himself, I feel that I am almost successful, but I am just one step away."

"If the young master has his own plans, then I won't say anything."

"But please allow me to ask one last question."

"If Miss Ichinose insists on being caught in the rain one day and refuses to go home, how will the young master stop her?"

"The most convenient way is to get in the rain with her, then make her feel distressed, and then you can take her back."

Kitagawa Ryo opened the big umbrella, and the huge black umbrella almost filled Isaki's field of vision. He raised the umbrella brim upwards:

"But what I did was give her an umbrella that could cover two people."

Mr. Izaki nodded, bowed slightly and said:

"I'll get you breakfast."

After Isaki walked out of the ward, he thought about his conversation with Kitagawa Ryo. He didn't think he necessarily knew Ichinose Honami better than Kitagawa Ryo. After all, it was Kitagawa who had been with her until now. However, Izaki still felt vaguely uneasy. Recalling the scene when Ichinose Hanami was sent to the hospital last night, the difference from the scene in front of Kitagawa Ryo was that at that time, Ichinose Hanami was like a doll on the verge of collapse, as if some kind of clockwork in his body had stopped running. , the gears made an abnormal noise.

The personality born in her body will definitely destroy her emotions and lead the future to destruction.

Izaki suddenly had such an idea, but it was just his own imagination.

Miss Ichinose has always stood in a place that ordinary girls cannot reach. Her character is unimaginable to normal people and should not even exist in reality. But when it comes to Miss Ichinose, it is not surprising at all. Nothing unnatural about it. But in this case, those suppressed emotions will explode one day. Maybe at some time in the future, she will abandon all her positions so far for someone.

Izaki sighed leisurely in the direction of the ward.

And that person is most likely Kitagawa Ryo himself.

After the morning examination, Kitagawa Ryo was told by the doctor that it would be best to rest in the ward for another day. He had nothing to do but look at the grass and flowers in the hospital courtyard. It had just rained last night, and the whole courtyard was full of raindrops. The unique earthy smell is neither unpleasant nor unpleasant.

Karuizawa Megumi arrived with Mr. Isaki at 11 o'clock in the morning. She saw no one in the ward. After walking around, she found Kitagawa Ryo in the courtyard who was watching the ants move.

"Senior, are you feeling better?"

As soon as Kitagawa Ryo raised her head, she saw Karuizawa Megumi standing behind her. She was wearing a sleeveless dress with white and blue as the main colors today. She looked clean and refreshing. She saw it on a summer morning. Such a girl next door style will indeed make people relax involuntarily.

"I feel like I'm at a level where I can be discharged from the hospital."

After patting the dust on his pants, Kitagawa Ryo stood up and stretched.

"I didn't see Ichinose-san."

Karuizawa Megumi stood on tiptoes and looked around:

"But there is obviously her umbrella in the ward."

"Fanbo forgot to bring it with him last night, so he should come here to get it today."

"Whoa whoa."

Karuizawa Megumi took out two paper cranes from his bag:

"I forgot to tell senior yesterday. When he fainted, he accidentally knocked over the glass bottle on the bedside. Later, when the medical staff came in and carried senior to the stretcher, they didn't pay attention. Many paper cranes inside were They were crushed and fell apart, but these were the two that I picked up from under the bed that were still intact."

"Yeah?"

Kitagawa Ryo tried his best to recall it, and there seemed to be a crisp movement of breaking something at that time.

"But it's really lucky that senior wasn't scratched by the glass fragments. The bottle fell behind senior's heel at that time. If senior had fallen backward... bah, let's not talk about it anymore."

Karuizawa Megumi looked at Kitagawa Ryo playing with the two paper cranes and asked curiously:

"Is this a gift from Ichinose-san?"

"Well, I was twelve years old at that time, and Fanbo even said that he would fold 1,200 for me."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded the paper crane's head. These little guys were folded very delicately. Even if only a few dozen were handed over to him in the end, it could still be seen how much effort Ichinose Hanami put into them.

"I remember that in the legend, if you fold a thousand paper cranes, you can make a wish."

Megumi Karuizawa still knew the meaning of the thousand paper cranes. She also planned to fold this when giving a gift to Ichinose Maki, but gave up because of lack of time.

"Even though I say that, this thing is the same as the marriage lot in the temple."

"If you like someone, it doesn't matter if you don't stack a thousand. If you don't like someone, you won't fall in love with her even if you stack a thousand."

"If you must take this kind of thing seriously, and think that if you stack a thousand of them, you can save the life of the patient and the heart of the lover like the story..."

General Kitagawa Ryo let go of a paper crane in his hand and watched it being carried by the wind and flying into the sky, disappearing without a trace after a while:

"It will fly away."

ps: Getting wet in the rain is taken from Volume 11.5 of the original plot. Ayanokouji's solution is to get soaked in the rain with Ichinose Honami.

ps2: There are still two chapters left in the second simulation. All the foreshadowing is almost done. Although everyone knows what will happen, it is an introduction after all_(:з」∠)_

The Summer Reappearance of Honami Ichinose: Chapter 20: Fireworks Easily Cold (4)

Kitagawa Ryo is sitting at the table writing a greeting card. There is a mobile phone on his right hand and a cup of hot cocoa on his left hand. He is holding the pen very hesitantly. Ten pieces of white paper used for drafting have been piled up next to him. Several pictures, each with a different beginning.

It has been a long time since he gave Ichinose Honami a birthday gift. Five years have passed since he gave him that umbrella when he was twelve years old.

Kitagawa Ryo and Ichinose Honami started giving each other birthday gifts when they were seven years old, and even formed a wonderful correspondence throughout elementary school. For example, if you give me a handmade product this year, then what I will give in return must also be Handmade crafts, what impressed Ryo Kitagawa most deeply was when he was eleven years old and whimsically wanted to make a pair of gloves for Ichinose Honami. The final result was that Ichinose Honami received a pair of unknown velvet collections.

Of course, Ichinose Honami's gift in return was also completely unusable. She called it a "scarf". The pair of gloves and scarf were finally dismantled into pieces by the two people who couldn't bear it, and then Hotaru Got several yarn ball toys.

At that time, the two of them thought it didn't matter at all, because they would spend many birthdays in the future. Once a year would be enough to experience various firsts.

It is precisely because they feel that there will be infinite next times that they will not care about those first times.

Kitagawa Ryo discarded another beginning and thought carefully about the rationality of sending handwritten greeting cards in modern society, but in the end he scratched his head and continued to start a new one.

Karuizawa Megumi was sitting next to her, practicing folding paper cranes with Kitagawa Ryo's discarded sketches. She suddenly became interested in this skill and did not feel bored at all. When you see this greeting card, "When was the last time I gave you a birthday gift?" and other messy sentences, the papers are all folded into a fluttering paper crane, and the side with the writing is folded inside. , there is no clue at all from the appearance.

Kitagawa Ryo knew the reason for his absent-mindedness. He was just waiting for Ichinose Honami to arrive. A phone call would do. He felt that it was impossible for Honami not to come and get the umbrella, but until now at three o'clock, the door of the ward was still open. He was not pushed away again, and there was no sign of communication from the mobile phone placed on his right side.

He was inexplicably stubborn. Since Ichinose Honami didn't take the initiative to call her, he would not take the initiative to contact Ichinose Honami. Kitagawa Ryo turned his pen and stared at the black screen of the phone, as if it would turn on the next second. It would light up and Ichinose Honami's profile picture would appear, but it would never appear.

Kitagawa Liangfu was tapping his pen on the desk, and he slowly fell asleep. The biggest impact of his illness in the past two days on him was probably his lethargy, as if he was trying to make up for all the sleep he had not had before. Duan's nap didn't last long, but Kitagawa Ryo looked a little strange after waking up.

"What's wrong?"

After Karuizawa Megumi finished folding all the paper cranes, she sat there and looked at her results. Unfortunately, compared with the one she used as an example, the ones she folded were obviously rougher, and she was worrying about what to do. Having improved, she raised her head and met Kitagawa Ryo's thoughtful eyes.