Thinking about it, the smile on Koshimizu Nanatsuki's face gradually disappeared, and his eyes dimmed, with a little nostalgia and sadness.
After so many years, when she sees other people’s smiles, she can remember that smile.
At that time, she had not thought that it would be so difficult to find people disappearing in the sea of people, and she was too naive to understand the euphemisms in those words.
Someone picked him up at the hospital that day. She stood by the car, still annoyed by the words "Call me daddy", and didn't quite understand whether he was teasing her about her father, who had never seen her before, and decided that tomorrow
If you see him again, you must not ignore her so easily.
Before he got into the car, he turned to look at her, his eyes seemed to drift behind her, his expression seemed stunned for a moment, and his tone became complicated.
“Xiao Xiaoqi?”
"snort……"
She was still sulking and couldn't help but want to hear what he had to say.
He turned back and approached her, his eyes somber and solemn that she couldn't care less about being angry.
"Xiao Xiaoqi, it doesn't matter even if you are alone. If you feel uncomfortable, you have to make yourself comfortable. Crying is the most useless. If you are weak, you will be bullied. After the most difficult days, it is nothing more than that. If you persist, you will
When you stay, tell yourself to hold on a little longer, got it?"
logue
She still couldn't quite understand it, but just like what he said before, she just nodded and wrote it down.
Hmm, don’t talk back.
When she watched the car drive away that day, she was still thinking about waiting for her mother to wake up and tell her about the awesome Xiaoqi brother she knew, and by the way, ask if she could come to Tokyo in the future.
She thought that once they met, they were friends, and being friends meant that she could see him often in the future.
It doesn’t matter if one is in Tokyo and the other is in Fukuoka, the vacation is very long...
At that time, she had not thought about what the nurse said, "Your mother will be fine." It was just a kind words of comfort. She also did not expect that in the hospital corridor behind her, a group of emergency doctors had already come out and took off their masks.
, looking at her with sad and distressed eyes.
Her brother Xiaoqi saw it, so he told her, "It doesn't matter even if you are alone."
Her mother did not wake up again, and her grandmother took her and her mother's ashes home. After a few days of confusion, life seemed to have become strange to her.
However, she firmly believed that Brother Xiaoqi she met in Tokyo was the most powerful, more powerful than many adults, and he was right.
In fact, she still feels that he was not wrong.
She carried his words through as if they were her thoughts and survived the most difficult and uneasy days without letting herself suffer or be wronged. One day she looked back and thought about it, after getting over it, it was really nothing more than that.
Time can heal a lot of pain, and growth can make the human body realize more, but these two do not seem to be a panacea.
When she realized that she had come out of the pain and uneasiness, the idea of 'wanting to see Brother Xiaoqi' began to grow wildly in her heart uncontrollably, like the wild weeds in early spring, which soon covered the entire forest.
The withered land after winter is still overflowing insatiably.
She had so many things to say to him, saying that she thought about her mother a few nights and was really sad, but she listened to him and persisted in the end. Isn’t she great...
The urge to "find him" was suppressed for more than a year when my grandmother passed away in the first grade of junior high school, and then rebounded with terror.
She persisted once more, and she gained a lot of insights. Now she should no longer be confused about his words, and can talk to him a lot, right?
Go to him, she wants to go find him!
From the vacation of her second grade in junior high school, she began to take the train between Tokyo and Fukuoka.
She had been to the abandoned music classroom, longing to meet someone familiar passing by, and also longing to meet someone who knew what happened back then.
But the place became increasingly desolate, the piano with a corner broken no longer appeared, and a thick layer of dust fell on the floor.
She has also been to the hospital. The hospital has been renovated. The small building has been turned into a high-rise building. The chairs in front of the bushes have been removed and large shading trees have been planted. In the summer, birds will stay on them. But again,
There was no open space or bench for two children to sit and talk, and no pair of sharp and unruly purple eyes appeared there.
She even tried to secretly leave the words Xiao Xiao Qi on the tree.
It was like a secret code between them, or so she thought.
As long as he comes and sees her, he will know that she has been here, and maybe he will leave some message for her next to her.
But the next time she went there, everything was still the same. 'Little Seven' was carved alone on the tree trunk, and nothing new appeared next to it.
One year, two years, three years...
There is a fact that I don't want to believe. He may have forgotten her. He has never been here once, otherwise he should have left something for her.
After graduating from high school, she tried to be a private detective. When she had time, she would run to the hospital and the abandoned piano classroom, and began to search for any information about "Xiao Qi". When she encountered someone with "Qi" in her name
I always pay more attention to the happenings of other people, hoping that one day I will suddenly meet that person with a pair of purple eyes.
But she never gained anything.
Until last year, the place where the piano classroom was was demolished, and the streets outside were renovated.
She stood behind the construction sign blocking the road, watching the large machinery over there waving its iron arms, destroying the once glorious houses bit by bit, and the demolished construction waste was hauled away by the truckload.
Even the ground will be flattened in the end, right?
It’s like nothing ever existed.
That day, several men and women of the same age were laughing and joking, passing by on the street behind her. When she turned around, looking at the happy smiling faces of the two boys, she suddenly felt that she had thought about something, but she seemed to be too worried about it.
.
Will her brother Xiao Qi also live so happily?
No, with Brother Xiaoqi’s personality, he probably wouldn’t smile so brightly, but it’s hard to say, what if life makes him very happy.
In that case, it doesn't matter if you forget her. After all, to Brother Xiaoqi, she is just a crying little girl he met one day, and the acquaintance only lasted one afternoon.
It's just that she suddenly didn't know what reason to use to keep herself going.
It seemed like she would never find him.
What kind of person will Brother Xiao Qi be like when he grows up? It's a pity, maybe she will never know again.
Actually, she was still a little unwilling, so she wanted to do something more to help her best friend, and then plan a big event that could shock the whole country.
The famous high school detectives were trapped on an isolated island and there were serious casualties. It will definitely be reported and cause a sensation across the country and even the world. Her photo will be published and will be kept in the archives. Maybe it will become a suspect.
The deceased may have become a crazed murderer, but no matter what, Brother Xiaoqi might see it at some point and be surprised as to why the people in the photo look familiar.
It should be possible...
She came with this realization, and when she heard that Detective Hakuba would bring one more person, she didn't care if there would be one more person trapped on the island. Until Tsukio Hiroshi opened the door, she
She looked up and saw the person sitting on the right side of the table turning around. She was very tall, with a calm and cold look under her black hair, and her purple eyes did not carry any emotion, but even if she didn't have that special eye color, she could tell her at a glance.
Can be recognized.
It's him.
Regardless of whether he is colder than before, the calmness in his eyes and expression has not changed at all, and the thorough examination that seems to see through many things has not changed at all. It was the force that once made her most at ease.
She almost burst into tears at that time. Even though he really didn't seem to remember her, he still appeared in front of her at this last moment, as if he was blaming her: Didn't I tell you to tell yourself to hold on a little longer?
It didn't matter that he didn't remember her, he seemed to have never given up on her, and no matter how strange the circumstances, she found him again. The moment she saw him, it seemed that all the things that made her uncomfortable and entangled disappeared.
…
Outside the door, Hui Yuan Ai listened to the suppressed crying behind the door. She was stunned. She never knocked down with her raised hand. She turned around and walked lightly back to the room where Conan was staying.
She was sure that she heard correctly. The people in the room laughed before. It was a smile that was thought of something happy, without any adulteration. But soon, the people in the room cried again, and there seemed to be an indescribable sound in their cries.
The grievances and sorrows are so real that it makes people feel depressed.
But why did Detective Yueshui cry?
I cry sometimes and laugh sometimes, but I always feel that something is not normal.
Wait a minute, Detective Yueshui must have met Brother Fei Chi at Qingshan Fourth Hospital, right?
Not long after Haibara Ai left, a black figure came to the door of Koshimizu Nanatsuki's room, stood for a while, and then quietly left without saying a word.
Five minutes later, Koshizui Nanatsuki calmed down and went to the bathroom to wash his face. When he went out, he saw Kotani Kenzo, Hakuba Tan, Hattori Heiji and Conan standing together?
“What? Did Brother Chi say that he won’t go down to dinner with us?”
Hattori Heiji looked surprised and reached out to open Hakuba Tan's door, but Hakuba Tan stopped him with his hand.
"He doesn't seem to be feeling well," Hakuba Tan explained to Hattori Heiji, who looked at him suspiciously, with a complicated look on his face, "Let him have a good rest, I also think he should rest."
Conan noticed that Bai Ma Tan had a strange look on his face and asked doubtfully, "Is Brother Chi's situation very bad?"
"Don't worry, he's not feeling unwell, but he's a little tired." Bai Ma turned his head and looked at the closed door. "He should have recovered now. I'll come back and see him after dinner later."
“Oh?” Junya Tokatsu came out of the room with a smile on his face, “Will anyone be absent from tonight’s dinner? But he is not a detective representative, so even if he doesn’t attend, it probably won’t affect the event.”
“But what about Brother Chi’s dinner?” Hattori Heiji did not insist on opening the door and retracted his hand.
“Leave a portion for him, and when he feels hungry, heat it up in the kitchen,” Bai Ma Tan looked at Jia Gu Rensan, “We can handle it ourselves.”