"Honestly, after seeing your acting skills just now, I thought you would be a voice actor."

Risa Taneda held the written note in front of her. After reading it, Kazuto Mogami couldn't help but have a weird look on her face.

"A voice actor refers to someone who voices voices for animations, movies, games, etc., right?"

"Don't you know about voice actors?"

"Hmm, I don't understand."

"That's really a pity. I think you're quite suitable to be a voice actor."

"I'll just take it as a compliment."

"Of course it's a compliment. I've never seen someone with such a rich voice like yours. We just met yesterday. You can imitate my voice so perfectly."

"It's just a small specialty."

"If this is just a small specialty, then professional voice actors should cry."

Mogami Kazuto did not deny that she was right. After all, this was the ability brought by the panel, and he knew how powerful it was.

"If you become a voice actor, I can become your number one fan."

Mogami Kazuto said calmly: "Sorry, I don't have that idea."

"What a shame."

He smiled slightly.

"I said, can you also imitate the voices of other voice actors? Can you show it to me, such as the famous Miss Hanazawa and Mr. Kamiya?"

Mogami Kazuto was surprised by what she said, but he didn't think about it deeply. He just felt that this girl seemed to be very interested in voice actors and kept talking about this topic.

"I don't know much about voice actors, so I don't know the voices of those voice actors you mentioned."

"Hey~~"

Risa Taneda did not answer in writing this time, but made a meaningful sound.

"You are from Tokyo, right?"

"Indeed, why do you ask?"

"Just ask, don't take it to heart."

What she wrote made Mogami Kazuto a little concerned.

If he guessed correctly, the woman in front of him must be suffering from a throat disease, which is why she has been silent.

In addition, because she knew so much about voice actors, Mogami Kazuto guessed that she was someone who worked with voices, and maybe she was also a voice actor.

However, in Mogami Kazuto's impression, there is no well-known voice actor named Risa.

After all, Mogami Kazuto doesn't know much about voice actors, and he can only name a few. Maybe he is ignorant.

"Miss Risa, is she a voice actress?"

Hearing this, Risa Taneda winked at him playfully.

"you guess."

Her answer was ambiguous, and Mogami Kazuto couldn't judge.

After that, she wrote the last note of the day.

"Let's go look outside the map together."

…

…

"Ah~~The air outside is indeed very sweet. There is always a smell of disinfectant in the inpatient department, which is really unbearable."

When she came outside the hospital building, she raised her arms high, stretched her body to her heart's content, and spoke with a clear and sweet voice.

"Hey! Villager A, please accompany me, this patient, for a walk."

Taneda Risa specifically emphasized that she was a patient, which made Mogami Kazuto helpless to follow her.

Walking in the garden where we chatted last night, she was not the only one wearing patient clothes.

An old woman in a wheelchair is basking in the sun leisurely, with a nurse standing behind her.

A child is playing, and next to him is a young mother who is asking him to be careful not to fall.

There are many patients like this resting in the garden.

Risa Taneda is just one of them.

"Everyone here is struggling with something. Whether they are children or the elderly, everyone is struggling with their lives to prevent the people around them from being sad.

So I often tell myself, "Don't lose! Come on! Risa!"

As she spoke, she burst out laughing.

When she had laughed enough, a look of loneliness filled her pale and weak cheeks again.

"As for me, when I first got sick, I always thought, why does it have to be me?

Why is it a disease of the voice?

Even if there is a heart problem, I probably won’t be as uncomfortable as I am now.”

Mogami Kazuto who was following him couldn't answer the conversation, and he vaguely guessed something in his mind.

"But that's not actually the case. It's not just me, but everyone here thinks this way.

There are always people who are happier than you, and there are always people who are less fortunate than you.

I cannot be secretly happy because someone is less fortunate than me, but I can be happy because others are luckier than me...

and envy.”

Mogami Kazuto could understand her thoughts, and so did he.

Taneda Risa took a deep breath and said with a smile: "What you guessed just now is right."

"What?"

"I used to be a voice actor."

Ever...?

Indeed it is.

he thought.

"But now, he is just a villager in an RPG game."

A girl like a firefly is desperately trying to release the last light in her life.

Faint, swaying.

The spring breeze that made others feel comfortable blew on her body, as if it would extinguish the next moment, leaving only dry remains.

Mogami Kazuto felt the sadness that filled her body.

"Some people can't laugh. People who rely on their voices to make a living have damaged their most important voice."

She said these words with a relaxed smile on her face.

Mogami Kazuto couldn't imagine what kind of mood she was in when she said this.

If it were Mogami Kazuto himself who suffered from a disease that would make him unable to write again, he would have no confidence that he would be able to smile like her.

"Miss Risa is very strong."

"Do I look strong?"

"Well, at least he's much stronger than me."

In the past, Mogami Kazuto was always weak and autistic. Whenever something happened, his first thought was to escape.

Such a mood stems from his distrust of the world.

Because of fear and loneliness, I cannot have courage or gain self-confidence.

It won't be like that anymore.

He sometimes misses himself at that time, but he does not regret the changes he made. He believes that his future will be better.

"No... that's the case. If I were really strong enough, I wouldn't give up on myself."

"Sometimes, giving up requires more courage than continuing."

Taneda Risa stared at Mogami Kazuto for a long time, then burst into laughter.

"You're pretty good at talking, you're just a villager."

She poked Mogami Kazuto's arm with her elbow, smiling happily.

"I finally understand why she said that."

"she?"

Risa Taneda waved her hand: "Don't worry, it's just me talking to myself."

Mogami Kazuto hesitated for a while, thinking that she was once a voice actor, so it would not be surprising to hear his name, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Do you know me?"

"What are you talking about? Didn't we meet yesterday?"

That's right.

The soft sunlight shone on the side of her face, and Mogami Kazuto could see his own shadow on her face.

She narrowed her eyes, opened her fingers to face the sky, followed the gaps between her fingers, and looked at the blue sky.

"By the way, I'm from Tokyo too."
Chapter completed!