And the heavy rain outside the house poured down after the rumbling thunder.

The coolness of the floor and the cold wind blowing in from the end of the corridor made the thinly dressed Okino Rinka shudder and come back to her senses.

After wiping her tears with her hand, Okino Rinka collapsed on the ground and uttered a soft "hmm".

With my brain confused by sadness, I was thinking about ways to remedy the situation.

She remembered all of He Shuge's preferences and all of his habits. She knew them all.

Even though my mind was not clear because of sadness and anxiety.

But after thinking for a while, she quickly thought of a way to make up for it.

She remembered that she and Shu Ge loved eating Dorayaki the most.

She remembered telling Brother Shu that as long as she ate Dorayaki, all the sadness and sorrow in her heart would be forgotten.

and so……

“Dorayaki…”

Using cold hands, he propped up his numb legs.

Okino Rinka, anxious to repair the rift between them, staggered down the stairs, holding onto the wall.

After pulling out an umbrella from the umbrella basket at the entrance, he rushed straight into the rain without even putting on another piece of clothing.

Although it was not yet night, the sky was extremely dark.

The fleeting lightning was like a dragon or a python, coiling in the dark clouds.

Accompanied by a deafening thunder.

Under the pouring rain, a petite figure holding a transparent umbrella was walking on the road with difficulty against the wind and rain.

Feeling the chill in the cold wind, Okino Rinka's petite body, soaked by the rain, trembled like a sieve.

I thought about the determination when my brother pushed me out of the room just now.

She couldn't open her eyes because of the rain splashing in her face. She bit her pale and bloody lips and walked slowly and firmly towards the convenience store.

……

Clover convenience store.

Ding bell~

A noise is heard.

Because of the rain, there were few customers, and Haruno Ryoto, who was waiting boredly for the manager to finish talking to Sasaki, turned his head to the side.

tick~

What caught my eye was a girl wearing her school's first-year high school uniform, who was soaking wet and dripping with water.

The girl's face was hidden by her wet chestnut hair.

So Haruno Ryoto didn't see her face clearly.

The only thing that could be seen was the pale but swollen left half of the girl's face and her bloodless lips.

Before Haruno Ryodou's dazed look could recover.

The girl rushed into the store, threw the deformed transparent umbrella in her hand to the ground, and rushed into the food area with dripping steps.

"This……"

Watch the girl disappear into the food section.

Haruno Ryoto thought he had run into a homeless girl and subconsciously wanted to turn around and tell the store manager.

But before he turned around.

The girl, soaking wet and shivering, rushed out from the food area.

After throwing a handful of change at Haruno Ryoto, the girl rushed out of the convenience store like an arrow.

"This……"

Looking at the coins of different sizes on the cash register, Haruno Ryoto looked up at the girl who disappeared outside the door in the rain and came and went like the wind.

Not knowing what was going on, he scratched his head.

Just when he was about to tell the store manager about this.

After connecting with Ayumi, Sasaki walked out from the inner room.

After patting the stunned Haruno Ryoto, Sasaki picked up the coins scattered on the table:

"Why are you just standing there without paying? Is Kasumi-san here?"

Looking up at the empty doorway, Sasaki only saw a deformed umbrella dropped on the ground and blinked in confusion.

"No, I just saw a girl wearing our school's first-grade uniform, but she was soaking wet, coming into the store."

"She came in and said nothing, and just ran straight into the food section."

"Before I could react, she threw a handful of change at me..."

I glanced at the deformed umbrella that was dripping water and listened to Haruno Ryoto's description.

Thinking about what I said to her this morning.

Sasaki suddenly felt uneasy.

Holding Haruno Ryoto's wrist, Sasaki interrupted him.

"Is that girl short and has chestnut hair?"

Feeling the sharp pain in his wrist, Haruno Ryoto almost cried out, but hearing the urgency in his words, he nodded quickly.

Got a definite answer.

Sasaki rolled over the cash register and rushed towards the door.

I saw Sasaki rushing into the rain without even taking an umbrella.

Haruno Lingdou opened his mouth, wanting to remind him to bring an umbrella, but swallowed the words back.

"You're in such a hurry..."

……

Fountain Park.

"Fuck, this is so unlucky. I just lost money and it started raining so hard. Are you really trying to make things difficult for me?"

Under the dark rain curtain, a curse was heard from several figures whose shapes were extremely blurry due to the neon lights in the distance.

Following those swaying figures, I walked to the street lights in the park.

Their faces, hidden in the night, also appeared.

One was a bald old man wearing work clothes and looking quite old.

There were several scar-like marks on the old man's bald head.

It added a bit of hideousness to his already ugly face.

One is a middle-aged man with gray hair on the temples, an ordinary face, but a vulgar temperament and unreasonably disgusting temperament.

One was a tall and strong young man with short hair, long cheeks and sallow skin.

The last one was a fat young man with a broad body, pale skin, and short light purple hair.

The common point of these people is that they are all wearing work clothes covered with dust and have flushed faces.

Coupled with their unsteady steps, it was obvious that they had just finished gambling and drinking.

The curse was uttered by the youngest and strongest of the four.

Hearing the young man's words, the fat man among the four spoke up, his tone slightly complaining.

"I said I was leaving a long time ago. I just got paid, why don't I go and vent a little instead of gambling?"

"I'm betting my own money. What are you talking about? Don't you have nothing now?"

The young man, who was not sober after drinking, felt unhappy when he heard the fat man's complaints.

After stopping, I wanted to push him.

But he was stopped by the middle-aged man walking between the two of them:

"Now, saying this is... eh?"

Halfway through his words, the middle-aged man seemed to have discovered something, squinted his eyes, frowned, and looked towards the roadside outside the park.

His actions also attracted the attention of the other three.

Touched the fat man next to him.

With the help of the street lights, the bald man vaguely saw a petite girl running wildly in the rain with her head lowered not far away.

"Fatty, you have good eyesight. If I'm not mistaken, that's a girl, right?"

"Yes, that's a girl!"

He nodded in confirmation.

While drunk, the desires in his heart were still there and his evil thoughts were rampant.

The fat man grinned and touched the bald head next to him.

But before he could speak.

The middle-aged man among the four was the first to say, "This is money."

They looked at each other.

The four people who wanted to go together, holding umbrellas, ran quickly towards the blurry figure passing by the park.

The evil light flashing in their eyes and the hot air exhaled from their wide-open mouths made their already ugly faces look even more ferocious and terrifying, like evil spirits crawling out of hell.

The four of them ran at full speed, holding umbrellas, like a high wall blocking the girl's way home.

With her head down, her strength declining, and her speed getting slower and slower, Okino Rinka ran headfirst into the high wall that was unbreakable to her.

pat-

Stuffed in his arms were a few Dorayaki that were still warm and had not been touched by the rain.

Caught off guard by the collision, he flew out of Okino Rinka's arms and fell in front of the four people.

Sitting down on the wet and cold ground.

Okino Rinka looked at the Dorayaki that fell into the puddle through her hair and the rain, and tried to reach out to grab it using her hands and feet.

But at the moment when it was about to touch.

A big muddy foot stepped on the Dorayaki that was soaked in water and whose temperature was gradually disappearing.

"Little sister, I'm sorry, I didn't see it. You want to eat Dorayaki, uncle will compensate you, okay?"

The cold raindrops, mixed with malicious words, fell on Okino Rinka's delicate body.

Her already cold and trembling body was made to curl up into a ball because of the bone-chilling cold.

I thought that I still needed to go home and mend the rift between me and my brother.

Okino Rinka grabbed the Dorayaki closest to her and ran behind her without looking back.

But she, who had an average physical condition, was able to run wildly in the rain for a long time without collapsing due to weakness, just by living on her last breath.

Now after stopping suddenly.

The anger dissipated.

The feeling of weakness that seemed to swallow her whole swept over her body like a wave.

Her feet went weak and she fell forward, and a large hand grabbed her wet hair from behind.

"Little girl, uncle hasn't compensated you for the Dorayaki yet, why are you in such a hurry to leave?"

He pulled the wet hair in his hands, ignoring the girl's weak cries of pain.

The middle-aged man pulled her to his legs and, with the help of the light from across the street, looked at her face hidden by her hair.

"Tsk tsk tsk~ Who is so cruel to hit such a cute girl? Look, she's still bleeding~ Tsk tsk~"

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