Even the whole world is trying to match us up

Chapter 317: If I Can Shine (Part )
That night.

Natsume Kiyoha returned home.

A lot of things happened today.

There are both happy things and sad things.

What a happy yet sad day.

Sitting on the bed and staring at the ceiling for a while, he immediately called Master Miejue.

"Hello, teacher. Excuse me."

"It's about English. Is there anything you don't understand?" Director Sakurai, who was interrupted during his break, answered the phone.

When he heard the other person's voice, he didn't show any anger, but instead smiled meaningfully.

In her heart, Natsume Kiyoha is the kind of student whom she both loves and hates.

"Is such that……"

Natsume Kiyoha explained his family situation and asked for a long leave of absence from school.

"okay, I get it."

"But remember to study and don't fall behind."

"Otherwise, I will still punish you when we return to school."

On the phone, the woman who was usually extremely vicious said a lot of things.

But he never said anything about Xia's mother.

"I didn't expect that Director Sakurai has such a gentle side." Natsume Kiyohame couldn't help but laugh at this.

"You are the only student who can feel my gentleness." The woman on the phone was amused.

"Okay, thank you Mr. Sakurai."

Natsume Qingyu did not expect that the study leave would be approved so easily, and a tired smile appeared on his face.

"You're welcome. After all... even if I didn't agree, you wouldn't come to school."

"Haha, you are worthy of being Mr. Sakurai, who is known as the top fighting force in the school. You can see through it."

"Okay, stop laughing with the teacher." Director Sakurai really couldn't figure out the boy. It was already a certain time, and he said unhappily.

"Ok."

"You are alone at home, so remember to be nice to yourself."

"Ah."

beep.

The sound of the phone being hung up lingered in the room.

Natsume Qingyu added some dog food to the ball, washed up quickly, and went to bed.

Close your eyes.

But I had a sleepless night.

When he thought about the fact that his mother, who was always funny and playful, was really gone, he thought that there might be no one to support her, and that there would be a void in the Megurogawa home.

Natsume Qingyu's heart would feel a sharp pain.

His mind was in a mess and he couldn't describe what it felt like.

He thought that only those who had experienced it personally would understand.

next second.

He opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling in a daze.

that……

At first...

Did Suzune feel the same way when her mother died?

…………

the next day.

Natsume Kiyoha got up very early.

He rode his bike out before the tram started working.

The continuously rotating bicycle wheels were firmly moving on the ground, crushing the cherry blossom petals.

Before I knew it, I arrived at the hospital.

After parking the car in the special parking area, Natsume Kiyoha walked into the cool hospital building.

After completing the registration, I went to the ward.

Mother hasn't woken up yet.

He also didn't meet Hatsukano Suzune, who had recently gotten up early, in the ward.

It seemed that she didn't go to the hospital when she got up early every day.

However, Natsume Qingyu was only slightly confused and didn't think too much about it.

After all, this is his own family matter.

Even if the other party went to school normally, he had no reason to blame her.

Natsume Kiyohame stayed by his mother's side.

Holding her dry hand, I quietly admired the cherry blossoms outside the window.

The views outside and inside the window are only a few meters apart, but they are two completely different scenes.

This is probably how Ms. Hanada's day goes by, right?

"Qingyu?" Ms. Huatian woke up and saw the boy next to her for the first time, with a look of surprise on her face.

"Mom, are you awake?"

"Didn't you go to school?"

Is it necessary to take this course?

Of course Natsume Qingyu didn't dare to say this out loud, he just muttered it in his heart.

"It's okay, Mom. I will prepare and review well, and I promise that I won't fall behind in my studies." He narrowed his eyes slightly, grinned, and said cheerfully, "Don't scold me, okay?"

"After all this, why would mom still scold you?"

Ms. Hanada reached out and touched Natsume Kiyohama's face, and said seriously, "I never had to worry about anything you did since you were a child. On the contrary, I was the one who was holding you back in everything except work. I didn't even have a say in the trilateral talks."

"No no no."

She shook her head and blamed herself, her voice gradually choking up, "I can't even cook the simplest dishes perfectly."

"I'm such a bad mother."

A dull sound came from Ms. Hanada's abdomen, and a slight vibration was transmitted through her hand to Natsume Kiyohame's cheek.

He knew that it was his mother trying hard to hold back her tears.

Sadness is contagious. Seeing his mother sad, Natsume Kiyohame's inner sadness was also ignited.

"Although everything you said is true, and I am a little angry that you hid such an important thing from me, but... in this era where everyone wants to have a perfect child, you are undoubtedly more thoughtful than most parents. So..."

A line of tears slid down Natsume Qingyu's cheeks, but her brilliant smile still appeared like the sun, "I will never regret the day you took me away from the orphanage."

Natsume Kiyohame said this from the bottom of his heart.

You have to know that his parents divorced early in his previous life, and he followed his father. He had only seen the word "maternal love" in textbooks.

and so……

He didn't mean to blame his mother at all.

But that's exactly why.

He is really sensible.

Ms. Huatian is so sensible that she always feels that she should not cause trouble for her son.

Sometimes... Sometimes...

She really wished that Natsume Qingyu wouldn't be so sensible, and that she would just scold him if he made a mistake.

That way she will feel a sense of accomplishment as a parent, hehe.

after all……

The most distressing thing is the sensible children.

Thinking of this, Ms. Hanada could no longer hold back her tears, and she hugged Natsume Kiyohame and cried like a tearful person.

Natsume Qingyu also fully felt his mother's physical condition.

Dry and thin, as if he had not eaten enough.

If this continues, she might really lose her life.

When I think about this, sadness is like a poison.

In just a moment, the poison reached Natsume Kiyohame's heart.

"Mom...you must be in pain, right? You must be in pain..."

He cried.

He hugged his mother, buried his head in her shoulders, and cried loudly. This was the first time he cried so hard in front of his mother.

When I was a kid, it was never like this when I went to get a flu shot.

Precisely because this is not his first life, he has to act stronger and be different.

But at the moment.

Seeing this, Ms. Hanada stopped crying and smiled.

Slightly smug, it looked like business as usual.

"Come here, come here, mommy give you a hug."

"Stop crying, stop crying."

"Mom, it doesn't hurt at all... It doesn't hurt at all with you by my side..." Ms. Hanada said softly while patting his back gently.

Her voice was different from usual, very gentle, as if she was humming a soothing and hypnotic lullaby for a few-year-old child.

In the season when cherry blossoms are in full bloom, it is April every year in Japan.

A mother makes up a lullaby to a child.

…………

"Hello, doctor, may I ask how my mother is doing now?"

The blooming cherry blossoms outside the window swayed in the wind. Natsume Kiyohame, who came to the attending physician's office, couldn't wait to ask questions before he even sat down.

The doctor sitting in the round chair had very little hair on his head, which reflected the glow of the setting sun.

He looks as professional as the history teacher in school.

"Um……"

The attending doctor turned around in his chair and was about to explain the situation in detail when he saw a handsome young man with a hint of struggle in his eyes.

He was worried that Natsume Kiyohame didn't have enough ability to withstand the reality.

After all, you are so young and have to go through such things.

Therefore, for a period of time afterwards, the attending physician, who looked very professional, didn't even blink, like a fish sleeping with its eyes open.

The room was very quiet, and one could faintly hear the rustling of branches and leaves in the wind.

But this doesn’t explain the answer from the side…

"Seriously?"

Natsume Qingyu had just sat down, and being good at observing people's expressions, he immediately read important information from the doctor's eyes.

"Your mother has an extremely rare disease. The symptoms are similar to ALS. All the organs in the body will slowly fail together, but it is different..." The doctor's hands kept gesturing, but his eyes were not looking at him.

“Is it not curable?”

Before the doctor finished his nagging, Natsume Qingyu interrupted him with a completely unconvincing remark.

He cared more about this than understanding the more or less specific symptoms.

"It's hard to say. Like I just said, it's a rare case, and there are only a handful of such cases in the world. Our pharmaceutical progress is not fast at the moment, so I can't guarantee that when we develop a specific drug, the patient will still be... in the best treatment stage. So in the next period of time, you can choose to spend more time with your family." The attending physician spoke like a robot.

Even with such a tactful statement, the smart Natsume Kiyohame understood it.

Isn't it just saying over and over again that there are too few cases like this, we have no experience, so... we can't give a definite answer?
"So... it's the first time in the world? Will it be named after you or my mother?" Natsume Qingyu almost laughed.

He really didn't expect that there would be such a 'comic' day in his life.

When everything is going smoothly and everyone is happy, some unexpected things will happen.

It's true that when people are speechless, they can't help but laugh.

"No, it's not the first case in the world, so it won't be named after me or your mother." Faced with the ridicule of the patient's family, the attending physician did not get angry. He just pushed his glasses and continued.

"?!"

Natsume Qingyu widened her eyes slightly and stared at him quietly as if she saw hope.

"Based on my decades of experience working in this hospital in Tokyo, although such cases are rare, they are definitely not the first, which means that others have experienced them before. In the medical field, no matter whether the patient survives in the end, there will be relevant observation and treatment records. As long as we can find the records of the last treatment, maybe... who knows, it may change something... So, until the last moment, we will not give up hope of saving every patient."

The doctor listed a lot of things in one breath, but Natsume Kiyohame knew.

The man was just trying to find a way to comfort him.

Silence fell quietly.

When he came out of the office, Natsume Qingyu looked like he had lost his soul.

but.

Before leaving his mother's ward, he patted his face hard again, forcing himself to smile decently so that his mother wouldn't worry about his mental state.

When he opened the door, he was stunned.

Suzune Hatsukano, who had her hair tied in a ponytail, was feeding Ms. Hanada nutritious porridge with a small spoon.

She was afraid of scalding the patient, so she pouted her lips and blew it in a huffing and puffing sound, which looked quite cute.

"You didn't go to school?!" Natsume Qingyu asked subconsciously in surprise.

"Is this a must?"

While feeding the boy porridge, Hatsukano Suzune glanced at the boy with a naughty look, "If it is really necessary, you, as the second in the grade, should work harder, right?"

"..."

Natsume Qingyu was speechless after being criticized.

after all.

In his eyes, it seemed that Hatsukano Suzune could easily surpass him just by reading extracurricular books.

wrong.

Can't she read minds?

Did you read the answer?
Although Natsume Kiyohame didn't think that Hatsukano Suzune was that kind of person, he still glanced at the girl and made malicious assumptions.

The feeling of stealing is very strong.

When Ms. Hanada saw this picture of 'a big boy being tamed at an early age', she couldn't help but laugh happily.

The house was filled with joy.

For a moment, everyone forgot that this was a ward.

Visiting hours are over and it's time for the patient to rest.

The two men stepped out.

As soon as Hatsukano Suzune gently closed the door, she asked casually, "You have such dark circles under your eyes, what did you do last night?"

"Is it that obvious?" Natsume Qingyu touched his eyes.

"answer the questions!"

Hatsukano Suzune bit her lip, moved closer to him at a pace so fast that it was hard to see clearly, and spoke word by word.

She gently stood on tiptoe, and raised her little face higher and higher, until her forehead almost hit Natsume Qingyu's face.

"Nothing... I just didn't sleep well."

Natsume Qingyu was startled by the girl who suddenly approached him. He scratched his cheek with his index finger and turned away embarrassedly.

"Did you forget to eat breakfast too?"

Hearing this, Suzune Hatsukano raised the thermos in her hand and smiled faintly, "I still have some leftovers from Auntie Hanada. If you don't mind, would you like some?"

"Can't you read minds?"

Natsume Qingyu, who was indeed a little hungry, felt that she was asking a question she already knew the answer to, so she muttered.

"Oh, if you don't want to eat, forget it."

Hearing this, Suzune Hatsuka wrinkled her nose and snorted with a little disdain, "You are so old, but you are still so pretentious. If you want to eat, eat. If you don't want to eat, forget it."

The girl didn't indulge the boy. She simply hid the thermos behind her and turned away.

Act as if nothing happened.

"Eat, eat, eat."

Natsume Qingyu compromised, as if afraid that Hatsukano Suzune would run away in the blink of an eye, so he held her back and added a condition, "But I want you to feed me."

There was a brief silence.

Those watery eyes just looked at him quietly.

"……no?"

Natsume Qingyu saw his own figure in her clear eyes and felt inexplicably guilty.

I don't know whether to look away or not.

When Suzune Chu Luye saw his cautious look, she stroked her lips and burst into laughter.

"Row."

She said with a smile.

The cherry blossoms outside the window are in full bloom, and the spring breeze blows past, making a soothing rustling sound.

Natsume Qingyu was thinking...

With her around, maybe my life isn't that bad.

(End of this chapter)