My Romance Simulation with Them

Now that things have come to this, Nanxiang Shi can only continue to observe the progress of the simulation and wait for things to take a turn for the better.

You have learned about Chizuka Nishiki's health condition.

However, she didn't want her deteriorating health to affect 'Rikorik''s' other friends, especially her closest friend and sister, Inoue Takina.

If Inoue Takina knew about her current physical condition, she couldn't imagine what extreme actions that always serious black-haired girl might take.

Therefore, she hopes you can keep this secret for her.

This is the first time she's made a request of you, and you really can't bear to refuse.

You agreed to her request.

[Time continues to move forward. In order to maintain the operation of 'RicoLico', you continue to serve as the head chef. You also persuaded her to temporarily give up her job as a waitress at 'RicoLico' to recuperate.]

To this, she would always smile and say that in the final stretch of her life, she at least wanted to stand in the sunlight, rather than lying in bed quietly waiting for her body to decay.

She continued working.

[Towards 'Rikoriko's' companions, especially in front of Inoue Takina, Nishiki Chizuka always tried her best to maintain her original optimistic and positive demeanor.]

You've noticed all of this, and you'll use your position to increase her rest time.

She didn't reject your deliberate favoritism; she would often lean against you with a coquettish smile, and occasionally, when no one was looking, she would give you a quick kiss while you were working.

Her smile was still as beautiful as ever, and she was still as warm and welcoming to people.

However, within this month, you could clearly sense that her life was rapidly and irreversibly fading away.

Although she still tried her best to appear as normal as possible.

However, the abnormalities in her body may no longer be so easily concealed.

In her job as 'RicoRico,' she frequently makes mistakes, often breaking plates and misrecording bills.

She's been sleeping longer, and the alarm clock seems to have lost its purpose. Sometimes you even need to go to her side to wake her up.

But you've never done that.

When she's fast asleep, you always sit by her bedside, quietly watching her, waiting for her to wake up.

You don't want her to sleep this long, but you also want her to get enough rest.

[She's been spacing out for much longer now; sometimes Inoue Takina has to call her several times before she snaps out of it and flashes a bright, energetic smile.]

Despite this, she still tried her best to act as if nothing was wrong.

But all this pretense was shattered the day she suddenly collapsed.

Her life entered its final countdown without warning.

Everyone knew about Chizuka Nishiki's congenital heart disease, but this sudden and unexpected change was something no one could accept.

Faced with everyone's shock, and knowing that the truth could no longer be hidden, you finally revealed the whole story of Chizuka Nishiki's deteriorating health.

Inoue Takina was deeply resentful of your concealment. She wanted to condemn you, but the words of condemnation remained on her lips, ultimately turning into soft sobs.

Everyone understands that blaming you at this time is pointless.

[In response, you, who had kept everything a secret, quietly apologized.]

[This is Mika, the shopkeeper, who has always been an atheist, visiting a shrine for the first time.]

[Kurumi and Mizuki Nakahara, who have never believed casual information online, spent the entire night investigating folk remedies for congenital heart disease and their feasibility.]

[Inoue Takina stayed up all night with you outside the hospital room.]

There is nothing more you can do.

After the tense surgical procedure concluded, the doctor's slightly regretful expression revealed the result to all of you.

The doctors told you that she had only seven days left to live. Given her fragile health, it's practically a miracle that she's lasted this long.

Unwilling to give up, Inoue Takina still hopes the doctors will continue to try.

But in the end, all they received was a regretful apology.

[You will temporarily close 'RicoRico' and devote yourself entirely to taking care of her.]

Lying in her hospital bed, she was thin and frail; her once fair and rosy face had become bloodless and she looked extremely haggard. But perhaps the only thing that remained unchanged was her sunny and cheerful smile.

Even in her hospital bed, she was still joking with you.

"I command you! Ah Shi! Go and learn medicine right now! Heal me!"

Lying in her hospital bed, she was bossy and full of energy, even making the elderly man on the other side smile.

Each time you heard her make these jokes, you just smiled faintly and urged her to eat.

Taking care of her was actually a form of torture for you.

You are helpless, powerless, and can only watch as she grows thinner and weaker each day, her breathing becoming more and more labored.

On the first day, she still had the energy to talk to you, communicate, and eat.

But in the days that followed, she couldn't even eat anything, although she desperately forced herself to eat, hoping to restore her health in this way.

[But later on, her fragile body could no longer manage to eat; she would vomit everything she ate.]

Every time this happens, she lies in bed with an IV drip, and can only look at you with an apologetic expression.

Her flowers are about to wither.

Chapter 81. You've Started Living Together (4000 words!)

A week passed quickly.

However, she did not perish within a week as the doctors had predicted; instead, she struggled to survive.

Even the doctors at the hospital were astonished—they felt it was nothing short of a miracle.

Her strong will to survive makes you reluctant to turn back.

Because you understand that continuing like this would only be tormenting this cheerful and enthusiastic girl.

Gradually, she became completely unable to eat and lost her initial vitality.

The doctor inserted a catheter for her because she was unable to move, and an IV line was now inserted into the back of her once fair and lovely hand.

You clearly remember her saying before that she was terrified of injections and the feeling of foreign objects entering her body.

Every time it was time to change her IV, hearing her weak cries of pain as she called out "Ashi," you would always turn your face away.

You feel like your heart is breaking, but at this moment, you have no choice but to persevere.

[Inoue Takina couldn't come to the hospital because every time she came to the ward, she would faint from overwhelming grief, her heart breaking.]

Only through your daily perseverance and unwavering commitment can we achieve this.

Gradually, she lost the ability to speak, and her breathing became increasingly labored each day. Her inhalations were long, but her exhalations were short, yet she continued to fight for life.

She kept her word to you—even if she ended up decaying on a hospital bed, she would struggle recklessly.

Even the doctors who routinely checked on her every day were moved by her tenacious will to live.

The nurses at the hospital would secretly wipe away tears every time they changed her IV drip.

They all knew that current treatments were ineffective and could only provide futile prolongation of life.

For anyone, this is no longer treatment, but simply torture.

The doctor specifically contacted you to ask if you would be willing to remove Chizuka Nishiki's oxygen and IV lines to end her suffering.

[You didn't answer, but instead went to the bedside and whispered in Chizuka Nishiki's ear.]

She no longer had the strength to nod or shake her head; she simply struggled to open her eyelids, looking at you with her somewhat dim, red eyes.

You understood the meaning in her eyes, and tried your best to keep your voice calm, instructing the doctor to continue the treatment.

That warm and cheerful woman never gave up until her last breath.

As she always said—life is the most important thing!

However, a person who is extremely weak is actually too weak to speak, and may not even have the strength to open their eyes.

[You only realize this when her life is nearing its end.]

[She lay on the hospital bed with her eyes closed, unable to speak, only letting out long, drawn-out breaths, followed by no exhalation for a long time.]

There was no final burst of energy, nor the farewell words typical of the comic.

Her life, which she had strived so hard for, came to an end.

She lay there, unable to laugh, unable to cry, unable to eat, unable to speak.

Her flowers have truly withered.

You have lost someone who would love you forever.

You have lost the person you will always love.

At her funeral, in accordance with her wishes, you played the last audio recording she had made before her death.

Her cheerful voice echoed once again under the swirling snowflakes.

The simulated memory scene is a blanket of white snow.

Everything seemed to be buried under the white snow.

The only one that wasn't buried by snow.

In the audio, her voice was still cheerful, enthusiastic, and happy.

"Hey, hey, hey? Is anyone there? Let me out! I'm not dead!"

Bang bang bang (simulating the sound of knocking on the urn from the inside).

"Hey, let me out of here already, Toki! Are you really willing to put the adorable Chizuka-sama in such a tiny urn? Get her a bigger one! A deluxe box that can fit her in with you!"

In the audio, Chizuka Nishiki let out two pitiful whimpers.

When Nanxiang was the first to be called out, she only showed a helpless smile as if she had seen her in person.

He didn't know the contents of the recording Chizuku made, but he didn't expect that at the final farewell, she would still be so innocent and lively, bringing smiles to others.

"Wait! Lady Chizuka heard that. Who was that again? Takina! You're crying way too loudly! Honestly, stop crying—or I'll punish you. I'll come to your dreams every night! Hehe."