Faced with the blackened heroine, they actually stopped time

"But your eyesight is really not very good. How can you think we are a couple...right?"

Kiyono Yuri looked at Oreki Gen, and even she herself didn't know what her eyes meant.

Oreki Gen nodded as a matter of course.

"Of course, it's completely blind."

"I think you're blind!"

"Why, I agree with you."

"I want you to agree with me! You make it seem like I'm not worthy of you. Damn it!"

"That's not what I meant..."

"That's what you mean!"

The reminder only brought peace to the two for a few brief seconds.

If we weren't almost at the floor, this meaningless, children-like argument would have continued.

In fact, Oreki Gen didn't even need to know which ward they were in. He just needed to see Kiyono Yuri beside him gradually becoming depressed and nervous, and he knew they had arrived at their destination.

As Kiyono Yuri communicated with the nurse about the visit, she also made a phone call, apparently to the parents of the girl who was lying on the hospital bed and would not know anything about what was happening to the outside world.

Only then were the two allowed into the ward.

The ward is clean and quiet.

Apart from those strange emotions and things like IV catheters, there is nothing more.

The girl lying on the bed was very quiet.

“This is blue and white.”

Kiyono Yuri said softly, bringing a chair to Oreki Gen.

Compared to the photo that Oreki Ken saw.

The girl lying peacefully on the bed was not very old, about the same age as herself.

He looks completely like a young high school student.

Her facial features were beautiful, and apart from the haggard look caused by malnutrition, the girl's natural beauty could still be seen.

Oreki Gen nodded and took a look at the other person's condition. He looked like a sleeping beauty, with even his eyelashes not trembling.

Even the breathing is subtle.

“It looks better than in the pictures.”

Oreki Gen said so.

Qingye Yuri smiled and then sighed.

"Yeah... She's really pretty. In fact, if it weren't for her social anxiety, she would at least be a campus belle, and there would be countless people who want to be her friends. She originally had this opportunity... It's just because of me..."

Kiyono Yuri's voice became lowered.

Oreki Gen looked at the sunlight falling outside the window, shining but unable to reach the edge of the bed.

It seemed to represent that God's favor to this girl had ended here.

"Never take all the responsibility for the disaster on yourself. You can't bear such a responsibility. Besides, at least she is still alive. There is hope as long as she is alive."

Qingye Yuri nodded and took a deep breath.

"You're right. She's still alive, which means she's still holding on, right? Since she's still holding on, as long as there's still a little hope, I can't give up."

There's no need to try so hard... Oreki Gen doesn't want to dampen the opponent's morale.

But some things still need to be said first.

"Manager Qingye, I understand your self-blame and your feelings. But I still want to tell you in advance... You still have to prepare for the worst. You just need to know that you are doing your best for her now."

Kiyono Yuri looked at the handsome young man.

She smiled, not forcefully.

"I understand this, and thank you for helping me. Sometimes I say nasty things to you, but I don't mean any harm. Instead, I want to thank you for your tolerance. I have to admit that in many ways, you are actually more mature than me."

Oreki Gen shook his head.

"It's okay. I'm just too concerned. Manager, you're good enough, otherwise you wouldn't have come to this."

"...Then can we start the experiment a little later today?"

At this point, Oreki Gen couldn't say no.

He nodded.

"can."

"Okay... Then you wait outside for a while. I want to say something to her, even if she can't hear me... But I'd feel a little embarrassed if you were here..."

Oreki Gen smiled and stood up.

"It's okay, take your time. I'll wait for you outside."

Oreki Gen stood up and left, looking at the corridor outside where doctors and nurses occasionally passed by.

Some female nurses would cast curious glances at him, but Oreki Xian didn't care about these things.

He just lamented the fickleness of fate.

But if you think about it carefully, why should you feel sad about this?

After all, in some foreseeable bad ending, one's fate would not be much better than that of Sakura Aoka lying on the hospital bed.

When you have time, keep more compassion and empathy for yourself.

Who knows, it might become a major case and make the news one day.

Oreki Gen smiled.

By the way, I checked my phone and saw a message from my sister.

It seemed to be expressing excitement about meeting on Monday.

Oreki Gen just told the other person: Be careful on the road and pay attention to your luggage.

But soon Oreki Sakura replied to Oreki Gen.

"Brother, are you unhappy?"

"Why do you think so?"

"It seems like you're not in a good mood."

"Can you read what I typed?"

"Of course, we are brother and sister~"

Although the future is uncertain, there are people around me who care about me, which is enough to make me happy.

"Crench."

The ward door was opened.

It was Qingye Yuri who came out with a little red and swollen eyes.

She smiled reluctantly.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

Oreki Gen shook his head.

"Fortunately, I am a man who is good at waiting."

"Pfft... Why are you always pretending to be mature... By the way, where should we go to try..."

Her face also turned red.

An inexplicable ambiguity and tension permeated the air.

Oreki Gen was also a little confused.

"convenience store...?"

"What if we get discovered? It's daytime now... Hotel? I... Will the hotel be weird? The two of us..."

Looking at the other person's shy look.

Oreki Gen let out a sigh.

I always feel like I've been tricked, but there's nothing I can do. Now that things have come to this, I can't avoid it and have to just endure it.

"Okay, stop laying the groundwork and go to my house."

100: How come he is so skilled? (Additional chapter 8!)

"Huh? Aren't you going to your house? Why are you here?"

After leaving the hospital, he did not go directly to Oreki Gen's home, but first went to the supermarket closest to Oreki Gen's apartment.

In fact, what Kiyono Yuri had originally planned was to go to Oreki Gen's house to do that thing.

After all, going to a hotel or something... is too weird. Although a lot of things happened in the dream, and although it seems that I should have some awareness, it will inevitably lead to ambiguity.

But she still couldn't let go of her pride.

For a woman, no matter how old she is, she should not take the initiative to make such suggestions, otherwise she would be really losing face.

Fortunately, Oreki Gen didn't embarrass himself too much and quickly realized the best way.

This also saves me most of the embarrassment.

But...why did he seem so natural? It was as if the nervous person had become himself.

This is too weird, isn't it? I am the older one, how could I lose to a younger brother who is in high school?

At the same time, I also don’t understand why I came to the supermarket first?

Is he going to buy some necessary props? No way... What is he thinking? Could he be...

he...

He's really safety conscious.

However, when she saw Oreki Gen picked up an eggplant and looked at it carefully, Kiyono Yuri realized that she seemed to be thinking too much.

Oreki Gen said calmly.

"Don't you see what time it is now? Are you ready to start without even eating? Are you in such a hurry?"

Qingye Yuri stretched out her hand to fan herself, not because it was so hot, but just to dispel the suspicious blush on her face.

"You're the one who's in a hurry... Can you cook? I just doubt it."

Oreki Gen said with amusement.

"Then who cooked noodles for you when you drank too much that day?"

Kiyono Yuri snorted softly.

"But it tastes just so-so. It's not that great. Cooking noodles is easy, right? I want potatoes~"

She pointed at the round potatoes that seemed to still have mud on them.

Oreki Gen said with amusement.

"Don't you trust my cooking skills? Why are you ordering dishes?"

Qingye Baili said as a matter of course.

"Although I don't have high hopes for your cooking skills, I can still tolerate it. As long as it's not too outrageous, I can eat it."

Oreki Gen couldn't help but laugh and shook his head.

"Okay, I'll have to trouble Manager Qingye to tolerate my mediocre cooking skills."

"It's good to know~"

Kiyono Yuri seemed to be in a good mood and no longer nervous. Instead, she was enthusiastically choosing dishes to eat with the young man.