I am the emotional sustenance of your deceased

Although she didn't know why the girl trusted her so much, this feeling did make Lenai feel warm in her heart.

Today is the darkest day of the year. After all, Chitose Noshiro passed away on this day.

But today is also the warmest day in the past eight years.

At this moment, she caught a [New Chitose] who looked exactly like Noshiro Chitose.

[So cute... so similar.]

Even your sleeping face is exactly the same, you wild cat.

"Mmm, Lenai Lenai Lenai, I'm so cold when I sleep, why don't you hold me tight?"

There are so many requests, so annoying!

Le Na thought about it, but also obediently stretched out his arms and hugged Chitose Haizuka.

She felt like an old mother cat with kittens.

【This is... my new friend. 】

Weird, self-familiar, annoying, likes to take advantage, steals Chitose Sister's tribute in a nasty way, evil... but surprisingly not annoying.

Why?

Kaname Rakuna looked troubled because she had thought about this question more than once on the way to her secret base, Noshiro's old house.

She thought... maybe it was because the other person really looked like Chitose Noshiro?

After all, it's so cute.

And she doesn't have any bad intentions. She's very innocent, very... pure? She's just a little wild cat.

"Are we friends now?"

"Hulu... If you feel that our relationship is closer than just friends, that's fine."

Chitose stretched out her delicate body and glanced at Kaname with a playful look.

【Long time no see, my lovely little girl. 】

"Huh? What."

"It's okay, meow meow~"

Chitose started acting cute and adorable, moving closer to Lenai.

There was nothing Rakuna could do to refuse, and she could only stare at Noshiro Chitose in shock as she was dragged back into the past.

That's the way it is.

……

【Long time no see, my lovely little girl. 】

After getting off the car, the first thing that came into Chitose's sight was the brilliant sunset.

There are no more flying cherry blossom petals under the sunset, and no old cat wandering around with its kittens.

Now, the only ones still wandering around during the Demonic Hour are wild cats and domestic cats.

The wild cat is me, the domestic cat is you; the foam is you, the tobacco is me.

"Today is so beautiful. I'm glad I didn't die yesterday! I'm so happy!"

"Yeah... happy."

Chitose followed behind Kaname Rakuna, jumping and playing hopscotch along the floor tiles, and occasionally walking on tiptoe like a cat.

Lenai was stunned again.

For some reason, she always felt that Chitose Haizuka had some of her past shadow.

"whee."

Chitose narrowed her eyes and looked at Kaname Rakuna out of the corner of her eye.

An innocent girl with short snow-white hair, time flies and you are already fourteen years old.

Compared to the past, my dear, my lovely, my beloved little baby, you have grown twice as big.

So happy, I'm finally grown up!

Compared to the clumsy and naive little girl in the past, what kind of person are you now as a young girl?

The relationship between Chitose and Rakuna changed from older sister and younger sister to peers.

This is the first transformation.

But this won't be the last transformation.

"We're here. This is... my home now."

Le Na once heard Chitose say that she cherished this single-family house very much.

Even no one except Lenai has been invited to visit this place.

Therefore, Lenai also takes special care of the house that now belongs to her. She maintains and cleans it every week. The house, from the external garden to the closet on the top floor, is tidy and clean.

Chitose Haizuka was the first guest she entertained.

"Do you have a very, very, very soft mattress at home?"

"Ah."

"So are there a lot of delicious food? Wow, what a huge refrigerator! Hey... why is it empty? That's so evil."

"..."

"Wow, so many trophies, so many photos... What are you doing?! Why can't you let me see them?"

"This is the only one that won't work."

Le Na pushed Chitose out of the study. She didn't want anyone to disturb the memories left by Chitose.

That was a souvenir that Lenai was reluctant to look at, especially the photo album... which contained countless photos of Chitose smiling at her.

That is a treasure that belongs to Kaname Lenai...alone!

After putting away the photo album, Le Na looked back but Chitose was gone.

"Where have you been? Chitose! Chitose!"

For some reason, when I call her name, I always have a strange illusion, as if my sister Chitose has come back.

Lenai searched around the first and second floors and finally reached the third floor.

She was still holding the clothes that the other person had taken off as they walked. Lenai felt that the other person really trusted her too much.

That's... weird.

"Are you in there, Chitose?"

After pressing the doorknob and then pushing the door open, Lenai frowned.

This is Qiansui's bedroom, and if possible, she doesn't want anyone to enter.

But the little anger in her heart soon dissipated. When the door was pushed open, she saw Chitose Haizuka lying on the bed.

She supported her head with one hand and wore the silver-white yukata that Chitose Noshiro once wore.

Chitose Haizuka waved lazily, the action seemed so familiar.

"Cat, am I pretty?"

"..."

How do you want me to answer you?

"nice."

Ch366. Then, her fingers plucked the strings

"Cat, am I pretty?"

The unscrupulous wild cat who suddenly became dependent on him suddenly spoke like this.

Lenai's brain was running tens of thousands of times in an instant, so that all her thinking ability was burned out.

She opened her mouth, but just opened it.

"..."

Looking at Chitose Haizuka lying on the bed, doing the same movements that she had seen Chitose Noshiro do in the past...Rakuna was speechless.

Suddenly I was back to the evening when I was six years old, the moment when I took a bath and walked barefoot to Sister Chitose's bedroom on the third floor.

Kaname retreated in panic until she bumped into the wooden door.

She pushed the wooden door open as she had done in the past...Now, "Chitose" was back by her side.

Trying hard to suppress the urge to look at Chitose Haizuka, Kaname Rakuna was almost driven insane.

She firmly believed that she had seen [Chitose Noshiro], just as she firmly believed that she had not seen Chitose Noshiro.

[Chitose Noshiro...is dead! ]

When this thought came to her mind, Kaname Rakuna reluctantly recognized the fact that Noshiro Chitose had left.

But she didn't want to accept it!

“It looks good… so good.”

But...she had to accept it.

Her legs went limp and Lenai sat down on her knees.

She panted heavily like a large mammal in distress, staring straight up at Chitose Hizuka, who was lying on the bed with her hair tangled up in her hair.

Kaname Lenai forgot to breathe for a moment.

"Like, very similar."

Is Huizuka smiling at himself?

His smile is so evil, it doesn't look like that of a fourteen-year-old child at all, right?

When she smiles...she really looks like Chitose-nee.

Chitose sister...

【Chitose sister! 】

He jumped up as if frightened, rushed to the bed and held down Chitose Huizuka.

The girl, with her short hair spread out naturally, was pressed on the bed but she did not show any panic at all.

She didn't even blink.

"Who...are you, and why...did you have to follow me back?"

In just a blink of an eye, Le Na seemed to see the shadow of Noshiro Chitose in Haizuka Chitose again.

No... that's not accurate. It should be said that she saw those memories from the past that she thought she had long forgotten.

"I'm Chitose! Going home with you? Actually, there's another reason."

"What is it? Chitose..."

As soon as the house cat mentioned the word "Chitose", her body could no longer remain straight, and she collapsed, and therefore, Chitose Haizuka found the right opportunity to suppress her.

"I'm here to play music! And you have a guitar... Your guitar is so cool, I can't take my eyes off it... Now, give me your guitar! Or..."

"What! No! I can't give it to you, this is given to me by Chitose..."

Lenai couldn't bear to listen to Chitose Haizuka finish her speech.

In panic, he exerted force on his waist and pressed Chitose Haizuka under him again.

"Huh? Why are you interrupting me? You're so rude! You wild cat!"

The corners of Qiansui's mouth trembled a few times, and she felt that the scene in front of her was extremely familiar.

[The last time I simulated Xiao Ai, didn't that silly girl look at me tearfully while rolling on the lawn?]

How rude! That time, I let my school uniform become a habitat for weeds and fallen leaves and flowers!