"Sorry little sister, we don't have ice cream here."
"Ice cream."
"Ice cream? If you want to buy ice cream, you should go to a convenience store, right? We are a fruit shop here and do not sell ice cream."
"Convenience store?"
"Yes, convenience store." The aunt in an apron pointed a direction to Tianhai Zhixue, who looked stupid, and looked along the narrow street full of telephone poles, "We passed the intersection over there.
, just turn left."
Tianhai Zhixue walked forward in the direction the aunt just said, and then she discovered that there was a left turn at the intersection in front of her. There were two directions and it was a fork.
The girl chose the top. No accident, she got lost.
She walked around in a completely unfamiliar environment, looking around in this residential area. The moss-covered stone walls, the telegraph poles with tangled wires, and the entrance of a house filled with green potted plants.
An orange cat yawning in the sun on a branch.
Unconsciously, she had walked from the commercial street into a residential area in the suburbs.
"Lost."
Tianhai Zhixue stood there for a long time before she seemed to understand this fact.
*
*
"That's it for today, you can go back."
At eight o'clock in the evening, in the office of Asuka Law Firm in Minato City, Raku Sakakihara heard what his uncle who was reviewing the case file said to him.
"Uncle isn't coming home?"
"I don't have time. Your mother is busy downstairs today. Just go back by yourself as usual."
Sakakihara nodded and said nothing more.
Today's mission goal is accomplished. I'm already tired, so don't think too much about anything else. Just go home and rest first.
After finishing the information, Sakakihara put the large pile of documents into the desk drawer and locked it.
"Uncle, I will go back first."
"Yeah." Tianhai Maodian responded without raising his head.
Raku Sakakihara nodded to him, stood up, opened the door, and left the office. Going downstairs to say hello to his mother, Raku Sakakihara rode his motorcycle in the parking lot on the first floor of the office building.
Wear a helmet, insert the key, and shift into first gear.
The motorcycle drove out of the station and arrived at the Xinqiao office and commercial district in the port area, which is lined with high-rise buildings and bustling with traffic.
As soon as he parked his motorcycle at the traffic light intersection, Sakakibara saw a lot of office workers carrying briefcases and suits. Most of these people were in groups. Seeing that they were walking in the same direction, Sakakibara felt that they were going to eat.
Eating over the street.
Probably for work and entertainment, they have to go to work indirectly after work. I wonder if there is anyone who can help them when they get home drunk?
Sakakibara couldn't help but think so.
When the green light turned on, Raku Sakakihara continued to drive his motorcycle until he reached the bottom of the apartment building. After pushing the door to go home, he habitually shouted "I'm back."
After changing his shoes and walking into the living room from the entrance, Raku Sakakihara discovered that the little head that used to poke out in the corridor of the bedroom was not in that position.
"Zhixue is not at home? Probably not."
Raku Sakakihara put down his schoolbag on the sofa, subconsciously thinking that Yuki was making music in his room, so he didn't pay attention.
But when he habitually walked to the kitchen first and saw the messy oil and eggs placed near the cutting board, he became suspicious again.
It looks like someone has touched the contents of the refrigerator.
Raku Sakakibara went to Amami no Yuki's room to check and found that there was no one there, and then dialed Amami no Yuki's number.
The phone rang on the sofa in the living room.
Sakakibara walked over and picked up Amami Nozuki's mobile phone.
"I'm not at home, and I don't have my mobile phone..."
But she left her schoolbag at home.
Sakakihara Raku felt strange.
"Why aren't you at home?"
It stands to reason that Tianhai Zhixue is a stay-at-home person. Unless she is told to go out, she will never go out on her own because she doesn't like crowded places.
But now Zhixue has obviously returned home and not stayed at school.
Sakakibara plans to call and ask Suzu.
......
......
Blind tone.
[Hey, hey, hey? What do you want me to do? If you want to ask me about getting off work, I have to go until eleven o'clock.]
[Still working the night shift? So busy?] Raku Sakakihara walked to the balcony, and the night wind blew the hair on his head.
[You are so busy, recording the animation theme song and singing and dancing is not time-consuming?]
[Okay. I'm just calling to ask you if you know why Zhixue is not at home.]
[She's not at home? It's impossible. I went home with her and then came to work in the office.]
After hearing this, Sakakihara thought for a while: [She went out?]
[What is she going out for?]
[Don’t worry about this. Did she ask you anything in the afternoon?]
[Just...you asked me what I like to eat...well, probably a similar question to this.]
Probably?
Well, I can only get this information from my sister.
[How long did it take for her to call you?]
[About five o'clock in the afternoon.]
[Okay, I'll hang up, you come back soon.]
[Hmm! I want to eat beef curry!]
[I just know how to eat.]
Raku Sakakihara hung up the phone.
Ah Ling is not only silly, but also sometimes adds some pressure to herself.
The past few days have been filled with intensive study and classes, and the things in Tianhai’s family are almost making my head burn.
When I get home at eight o'clock, I have to be busy making dinner...
To be honest, Sakakihara Raku really feels tired.
However, the information obtained from asking A Suzu is enough. Based on Sakakibara Raku's understanding of Konoyuki, this delicious mouth must be because she is hungry and there is no one at home. She can't suppress her stomach growling, so
Just walked out the door.
I forgot to take my phone when I left.
As for why she hasn't come back yet, Sakakihara believes there is only one possibility - she is lost.
I have no choice but to turn around and go out.
Raku Sakakibara walked down from the apartment. Even though the night breeze made him cool tonight, his energy after a busy day was gone. He felt like one of those uncles who had to socialize after work.
, the pace of walking is completely lackluster.
Finding snow in such a crowded place in the port area is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Sakakihara Raku is also very worried that someone like her, a silly girl, will be deceived by someone with just a few words. Because she is really stupid and white.
And very rich.
Sakakibara first went to the business center and the supermarket for a walk. On the way, he asked the staff inside if he had seen a girl with beige hair and very beautiful hair. However, after an hour, Sakakibara didn't get any useful information.
Information.
Seeing that it was nine o'clock and there was still no news, Sakakihara ran to a nearby convenience store or snack bar to ask.
After half an hour, there is still no news.
When school was over, I took her to the snack bar and asked everything I could, but there was still no news.
It wasn't until Raku Sakakibara walked around to a shopping street two kilometers away, and faced an uncle who was closing the stall with his family in front of a hardware store, that Raku Sakakibara asked for the news.
"Have you ever seen a little girl with beige hair?"
"Yes." Sakakibara nodded.
"You are..."
"I can be considered her brother. I didn't see her back when I got home, and she didn't bring her cell phone with her, so I went out to look for her."
The uncle looked at Raku Sakakibara several times. Such a handsome young man did not look like a liar, so he calmed down and said, "Yes, I saw her today."
Raku Sakakihara breathed a sigh of relief. After searching for almost two hours, he finally found some clues.
"Today, the little girl came to my store to buy cement. After buying it, she walked over there... No, up the street."
Cement?
Why did Xiaozhixue buy this thing?
Sakakihara Raku did not go into details and quickly ran in the direction the uncle said.
After another ten minutes, Sakakibara asked many people one after another. The bosses nearby all said they had seen her and said she came out to buy ice cream or something.
But after driving around for a while, Raku Sakakibara still didn't see the shadow of Yuki.
After running without rhythm for more than two hours, Sakakihara Raku felt tired even though he was in good physical condition.
Nothing really happened, right?
Sakakibara looked up at the already dark night sky, feeling even more anxious.
He walked out of the residential area, came to the park, and walked around the park again, but still had no clues.
Just when Raku Sakakibara slowed down and checked Suzu's text message saying that she had gone home, he turned around and ran into Yuki Amami walking beside the bushes in the park.
"Finally found you..."
Sakakihara glanced up and down at the real aunt, and after confirming that she was not harmed, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The girl was carrying large and small bags of things in her hands. After seeing Sakakibara Raku, she paused for a moment as usual, and then took all the things in her hands behind her.
"Why is the joy coming?"
"Why am I here? Yuki, don't you look at what time it is?"
"I don't know."
"Why did you go out?"
"...."
"Why don't you speak?"
"...."
Amami no Yuki saw Raku Sakakibara sweating profusely, and the hand holding the plastic bag could not help but tighten a little behind her back.
"Do you know that you will be very worried if you go out like this without your mobile phone and I can't contact you?"
"..."
"Why are you walking so far to buy ice cream? Have you forgotten what I told you again? You are lost. It would be best if you can meet the police. If you can't meet them, go to a convenience store or some other store and ask someone.
You can also pay some money to ask them to call a taxi to our house for you."
"..."
"Zhixue, it's okay if you don't say anything. I don't want to be angry, let alone talk about you. Just remember what happened today and come home with me now."
Sakakihara Rakuzai controlled his emotions very well, and when he saw Zhixue didn't speak, he didn't plan to say anything else. He took her for a while and took a taxi home.
The atmosphere in the car was very heavy. Raku Sakakibara didn't speak, and Yuki Amami didn't speak either. The sound of the taxi's engine could be heard in his ears.
*
Sakakibara closed his eyes for a while to relax. When he opened his eyes, he found that Zhiyuki had kept his head buried.
Did she hear what she said to her?
Did you speak too harshly just now?
With her head buried like this now, does it mean that she will also reflect on what she said to her?
Looking at Amami Nozuki's small face, Sakakihara Raku inexplicably thought of the thousand paper cranes she gave to herself that day. It was an ugly paper crane, but to her, that thousand paper cranes contained something she had never seen before.
The mother I met is concerned about it, which represents the importance of the thousand paper cranes in her mind.
Zhixue said personally that he was a good person to her.
As someone who accepted her Chizuru and was considered a very important person by her, Sakakibara couldn't help but ask herself whether she should have asked Yuki in a more calm tone just now.
"....Le, don't be angry."
"Huh?" Raku Sakakihara heard what she took the initiative to say to him.
"Don't be angry."
Tianhai Zhixue's voice has always been very light and soft. Now she sounded a little apologetic, making her sound even softer and kinder.
Sakakihara took a deep breath, then exhaled through his nose, opened his eyes and looked at her: "I was indeed a little angry just now, mainly because I have been looking for you for more than two hours, and I obviously told you before
What should I do if I get lost?"
"I got lost while walking."
"I know you get lost easily..."
Sakakibara thought about it, and it seemed that his uncle had said that Zhiyuki had no memory because her mother was an advanced mother and had difficulty in giving birth.
I have a better memory now, but I can hardly remember anything when I was a child, and the symptoms are worse than when I was a child.
So I really can’t blame Zhixue for getting lost.
"Dad... seems to have told me this a long time ago. I forget things easily and get lost easily, so it's best not to go out alone."
Sakakihara Rakuyu listened carefully, and after understanding what happened, most of his anger towards Zhiyuki about what happened tonight was gone.
"Well, So Zhixue, why are you going out? Just to buy something to eat?"
He noticed the plastic bag Zhixue was holding, which contained white powder and ice cream.
Raku Sakakihara knew it was cement, but didn’t understand what she was buying cement for.
"Le said before that he was very tired."
"...?Have I told you?"
Amami Yuki probably knew that she had a bad memory, so she took out the "Yuki Life Manual" that she always carried with her from her small pocket, and then opened a page and showed it to Sakakibara Raku.
Sakakibara took the manual she handed over and looked at the Juanxiu font at the top of the page.
This line of text is located in the most conspicuous position and can be seen as soon as you open it.
It clearly says the three words "It's very tiring" and the time - "When everyone is having dinner in a place with cherry blossoms".
Sakakihara Raku remembered that this was the class activity almost a week ago.
I have exchanged some things with Zhixue.
The original intention was just to complain, but Zhixue took the initiative to write it down?
"I understand, I did say that. But what does it have to do with Zhixue you going out?"
"Ling said she likes to eat."
"Ah?" Sakakihara Raku couldn't understand her brain circuit.
"Ling and Le are siblings."
"..."
After getting along for a while, Sakakibara Raku probably understood that Zhiyuki generally thought that Suzu liked to eat, so he also liked to eat it.
Sakakibara couldn't help but look at the things she was carrying, "So, you went out to buy ingredients?"
"Hmm."
"Want to cook something for me?"
"Hmm."
"Fried ice cream?"
"Hmm."
Got it, Sakakibara Raku understands it completely.
Zhixue went out because she accidentally said something to her about how tired she was. Zhixue didn't know why but she remembered it in her heart and always cared about it.
She knew that she was very tired, so she thought about making something for herself.
"Then why buy cement?"
Amami Nozuki glanced down, and then her eyes returned to Sakakihara Raku's face: "It's the white powder mentioned in the video."
"...That should be flour, what you bought is cement."
Tianhai Zhixue: "What's the difference?"
"...The difference is that the thing in your hand exploded enough to choke me to death."
He is really...a complete idiot without common sense.
"Don't you like going out? You've never gone out by yourself before, right? Why do you suddenly think so now?"
"Le, I come back very late every day."
"Well, then?"
"There is no one at home all the time. Xiaoqi, Xiaojiu and Ling are not at home... Le said that he is very tired, so he wants Le to be happy."
Want to make me happy?
Sakakihara tried to find something on her face.
"Even if you have never been out? Have you never made anything to eat?"
"Well..."
Raku Sakakibara probably understood what Yuki was thinking, but he still wanted to ask actually: "Can you tell me the specific reason? There must be a specific reason that makes you so motivated, right?"
"...Everyone is very busy these days, and Le is also very busy. Fans have been leaving messages asking me to update, but I can't edit videos, Xiaoqi, Xiaojiu, Ling... everyone doesn't have time to do it either
To help me, only Le...Le offered to help me... Even though Lecai said he was very tired, he still helped me..."
Trying to recall the situation that day, Zhixue seemed to have been watching her back from behind while he was helping her edit the video.
That is probably the feeling of warmth gained from being cared for and noticed after being ignored.
And what she just said was intermittently.
But Sakakihara saw something in her body and eyes that had never appeared in this girl before.
Her eyes before were always white and empty.
But now, in the depths of her eyes, there is a hint of light hidden under the black pupils.
Sakakibara doesn't know if that can be called emotion.
But at least, he now truly understands that Zhixue has begun to develop a real sense of dependence on himself...