...Sakakihara Raku frowned, followed the voice, tried to recall, and remembered...it was at noon on a Wednesday before his uncle's birthday.

In the classroom, I was looking up at the sky outside the window, and suddenly I heard Tianhai Zhixue, who was sitting at the next table, say these words.

I turned my head and suddenly found a painting in front of me.

In the painting, I am holding a gel pen and looking out the sunny window. The books on the desk are slowly blown by the wind... and at the same time, the leaves of the zelkova tree extending to the window are also moving.

...

Although it is just a sketch, it is so exquisite that you feel that every stroke is very sophisticated.

Even though there was no painting of his own face, only the back of his head, Raku Sakakihara could still tell at a glance that he was the one in the painting.

"...Why did you draw me again?"

He raised his head and looked at Tianhai Zhixue, who was holding the corner of the A4 paper with both hands and showing it to him.

"Sister Zi said that we should practice painting more."

"You don't have to keep drawing me to practice, right?"

"Sister Zi said that painting is to paint the most beautiful scenery in your heart. Also, as long as the painting is completed, others will also like it."

"...You have to call me Teacher Zi at school...Besides, what kind of scenery are you painting me...?"

"...Don't you like it?" Tianhai Zhixue took the painting back and looked at it, then asked him in a lower voice.

"It's just so-so, yuki should change it again, ha~~~ Come on, yuki will be good enough if he paints ten more landscapes!"

Compared to himself, who was half asleep and careless, Tianhai Zhixue's eyes were very serious.

"Really? I just need to draw ten more landscape paintings and I will like it?"

At that time, because Qijiu's problem had just been solved, I was very tired every night and had little time to take care of Zhixue. I almost just wanted to send her away with a careless look, go back to her own seat, and let myself take time to take a good nap.

So he casually said:

"certainly."

"Then I'll paint."

Tianhai Zhixue immediately left her side and sat back in her original seat. She took out a new piece of A4 paper, took out a sketch pen, and began to draw seriously.

This move made Sakakibara Raku's sleepiness gradually dissipate, and he stared at her serious expression for a long time.

So...she started painting this kind of painting just to make herself like it from the very beginning?

So serious...so focused...

When he thought of this, Sakakihara Raku felt a little sour in his heart...a feeling of pity arose spontaneously.

What I just said to you was just to send you back to your seat... Why do you have to be so serious?

But once he saw her painting seriously, the idea of ​​calling her stopped.

...

The first painting was not finished until the second period in the afternoon, and she still painted it secretly behind the teacher's back.

The moment she finished the painting, she came over and gave the painting to herself.

"I'm going to draw the second one."

As she said this, she returned to her seat, asked Liuli in front of her to help sharpen her sketch pen, and then began to draw seriously again.

Sakakihara Raku looked at the "landscape painting" he had drawn in his hand, and was in a daze.

*

...This is considered cheating, right?

Staring at the manual standing on the desk, Sakakibara couldn't help but think as he recalled the past.

Deceiving her innocent feelings...

Just deal with her wonderful blessings to you...

Treat her like a child.

Be casual about her emotions...

If you think about it carefully, Yuki has always been true to her feelings.

But he has been trying to use the "brother and sister" relationship to avoid her feelings for him.

Isn't this "perfunctory"?

"Really? I just need to draw ten more landscape paintings and I will like it?"

——This sentence comes to mind now.

It seems like she just wants to make herself happy...

Yuki drew ten pictures because of what he said... He just thought it would make him happy...

Looking at the crumpled "Snow Manual" in front of him, Sakakihara thought of the scene when she handed the manual back to him——

Saying sorry...

Keep apologizing...

Her movements, her eyes... were full of reluctance to give up the manual in her hand... but she still insisted on giving it back to herself... and said words like "please let me go back"...

Sakakihara Raku suddenly understood.

Yuki...from the beginning to the end, she just wanted to make herself--just wanted to make Sakakibara happy.

Even if she chose to leave on her own initiative, it was because she realized that she was causing trouble for herself.

yuki, has grown up.

...

"call--"

Sakakibara put his hands on the desk and took a deep breath.

While she was growing up, he, the person who had single-handedly facilitated her growth, chose to abandon her...

Is... am I too cruel?

Even though I didn’t get along with Yuki for a long time.

But as the scenes unfolded and the time spent together... I already had feelings for her that were hard to let go of.

...

"Brother! Brother!!"

At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open.

Sakakihara Suzu hurried to the door. She was panting, holding on to the door frame with both hands, and her shoulders were still slightly wet from the raindrops.

It looks like he just came back.

"Why? So anxious again."

"I do! I have news about yuki!"

"..." This made Sakakihara hesitate for a moment.

Sakakihara Suzu covered her heart, took a deep breath, and then walked in proudly: "Then it has to be me! When I went to Tianhai's house today, I called a taxi in advance and waited near the door for Uncle Ying.

After he went out, I followed him quietly... Hum~ I found him as expected."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Good thing." Sakakibara just said.

"Of course it's a good thing! But finding Yuki is a good thing... but the next news is not so good..." Suzu Sakakihara said unhappily.

"What?"

"I followed Uncle Ying all the way to the hospital... and even outside the ward... Sure enough... Yuki got sick again, and it seemed to be particularly serious this time... She has been staying in the hospital for the past two weeks.

"

"Have you been...in the hospital this whole time...?"

Sakakibara muttered and repeated.

"Then!" Sakakibara Suzu became anxious, her hands flying in the air, "Then Uncle Sakura said that he wanted to send Zhiyuki to some fourth lady! What is the situation of the fourth lady? I have never heard of it."

"...Maybe she's Yuki's sister. I've seen her family's files. It seems that her family settled in Kyushu."

"Kyushu?! It's too far, too far! No, we can't let yuki go there! Brother, didn't you hear what sister Zi said? None of the yuki sisters are good to yuki. They are all dissatisfied with her because of yuki's birth."

Sakakihara shook his head, "The specific situation is not clear yet. Let's ask Qiyue and Liuli, they happen to be at home."

Just as Sakakibara Raku was about to walk out, he was grabbed by Sakakibara Suzu.

"What?" Sakakibara turned around.

Sakakibara Suzu took his arm and raised her face: "No! You can't tell Qi Mingyue and Jiu Liuli!"

"...Are you afraid that they will take advantage of the situation and send Yuki away?"
To be continued...