Chapter 142 Blue and White, Hydrangea and Rena

A small memory scene emerges.

The hospital is located on the edge of the town. Outside the window, the mountains are hidden in the darkness, like accumulated black clouds in the night sky. The outline of the town is like a lake, and the lights are the stars reflected in the sky.

Minami Yuki hates this calm night sky. What he longs for is wind and waves. He wants the biting fresh air, the cold wave hitting his face, and the wind that sweeps the sky and earth. It will stir up the clouds in the sky into white fragments and turn them into goose feather-like snow.

Come down!

However, no matter how determined his will is, he cannot affect the majestic nature.

He closed the curtains and looked at Reina next to him.

The wife was lying on the hospital bed, and the pipeline of the medical instrument that she did not want to get close to eventually touched her body. However, her beauty remained. The pain could take away her life, but it would not damage her elegance. That or

Cool-colored or transparent pipelines, like the damp and gray vines and thorns in the forest, firmly guard her sleeping beauty.

During dinner, Reina woke up in a daze for a while, listened to what he said for a while, and then fell asleep again. Her peaceful sleeping face a few days ago was now stained with some sadness. Minami Yuki couldn't wait to use Yoshida Town.

The first snow comes to purify the nightmare that intrudes on my wife.

He kissed Reina on the face and walked out of the room.

Next door to the ward is the attending doctor's office. A woman in her fifties and of medium height is sitting behind her desk, looking at the examination report in her hand.

She told Minami Yuki: "It's just for a few days, half a month at most."

"...Can't it be longer?"

【In the early morning of December 4th, it snowed.】

He tightened his hands on the railing, and the biting wind, wrapped in cold air, hit his face. He pulled up the hood of his coat and put it on, looking at the dark night in front of him.

Two hours later, the snow stopped.

"We have all tried our best."

Will she miss it this time too?

Minami Yuki thought of last year. At this time last year, Rena had already completed the operation and basically recovered. The girl said she wanted to come over to see the snow. If he had not stopped the girl, the girl would not have to die with regrets.

The doctor's sigh was very soft. She was usually a stern person, but at this moment, she spoke to Yuki Minami in the gentlest tone.

[It snowed all night. By the time you and her two families arrived during the day, the snow had already covered your feet. 】

More and more white is falling from the sky.

Reina was still sleeping. He gently called his wife's name, but she didn't hear his voice and her eyes were closed tightly.

[In the snow, you held a funeral. You had already prepared her coffin and her cemetery. You buried her on the hillside opposite the Hollow Pond. 】

When the first snow falls, the pond will freeze, and the branches of the trees in the pond will be covered with white snow. It is a dreamlike scene. It is a scene that Rena has waited for and missed several times in her short life.

It is the regret of her life.

[Put a bunch of hydrangeas in front of her tomb. When you stood up, you saw the empty pond not far away. 】

By noon, there was no trace of snow.

The snow fell so suddenly that Yuki Minami couldn't believe his eyes. He stretched out his hand, held a few pieces of fine snow, and looked closer.

The next morning, the sun rose, and the small patch of snow left on the grass quickly melted.

[You were ecstatic. You, who had never been to Hokkaido, thought the first falling snow in the sky was the first snow. You quickly learned your lesson. The snow only fell for a while, but as soon as the sun came out the next day, there was no more snow.

trace.】

He quickly ran down the rooftop and ran to the ward on the second floor.

The white snowflakes were quickly turned into white ice by body temperature, and then turned into transparent water.

[At noon on December 3, my wife passed away. 】

At this moment, Minami Yuki felt regretful. He wanted to watch the snow with his wife, share his joy, and share the hope he felt from the fine snow.

Everything is black, only the shades of black are different. The sky is lighter, the mountains are darker, the flower beds downstairs are darker, and the open space in front is darker. His eyes chase the boundaries of darkness and darkness.

, looking for something that he doesn’t even know.

Snowing.

Along with the snowflakes, the sadness that imprisoned joy burst out.

【Three days after the first snowfall, the sky was clear.】

This short-lived and fine snow cannot cover the dead branches of Kongzhichi, nor can it freeze the water of Kongzhichi.

It's snow.

He looked at the hills to the north, and across the black shadow of the hills was the lake that Reina wanted to see. The lake was blue because of the color of the minerals, like the clearest sky in summer. Locals and tourists called it

It is an empty pool.

【However, my wife can't wait any longer.】

[At the end of November, the temperature drops sharply. If you ask the oldest local resident, he will tell you that the real first snow is about to fall. 】

The stinging pain in his heart left him in a daze. He might have said something to the doctor, but when he came to his senses, he was already standing on the rooftop.

[You hang the snow doll by the window, you go to the shrine to pray to the gods, and you seek guidance from Tarot cards in the divination room.]

[You realize how your wife once felt, and the bad fate and despicable tricks she often suffered.]

[My wife has not been able to wake up for two days. Her life is like an origami boat floating on the river on a rainy day. The wind and waves will swallow her up at any time. In the dead of night, you can hear her painful breathing. ]

More and more snowflakes fell on his palm. He put a small piece of white snow on the tip of his tongue, and a little coldness spread on the tip of his tongue.

At first he thought it was because he had stared into the night for so long that his brain was hallucinating. He rubbed his eyes, relaxed his brain, and looked into the distance.

However, no matter how many layers of covering and buffering cloth the knife is wrapped in, it cannot stop its sharpness. The moment it touches the human heart, the blade will pierce through the layers of cloth and penetrate into the flesh and blood.

In this hodgepodge of darkness, he suddenly saw a few dots of white.

Soon, this regret turned into happiness.

He was glad that he could not wake up his wife and did not let fate's trick on him affect his wife.

[Viewed from the hillside, the frozen lake surface is not blue, but greenish-white. The snow wraps the dead branches of the trees that died due to the submergence of the lake. Looking from a distance, the trees look like clear crystals, and the snow seems to be floating on the sky.

The green lake surface.]

[Above the Sora Pond, the sky, which was pale due to snow, lay peacefully upside down, and white clouds floated behind the mountains. It was unclear whether it was the snow that had not fallen or the peaks covered by the snow. 】

[The blue of the lake and the white of the snow, the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds, the sky and the lake, the clouds and the snow, the green and the white, meet and blend in your field of vision, and you are in a trance. The snow is your wife's skin, and the clouds are

Her faint smile, the sky and the lake are filled with light blue hydrangeas in the background.】

[You saw the beautiful figure of your late wife in the first snow of the empty pond.]
Chapter completed!