Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 486 Blood and Traces
Despite all his efforts, Morimi failed to drag Naruse out of the river. Instead, he slipped and fell into the water, unable to get up for a long time.

In the end, Naruse fished her out and dragged her back to the shore.

He put her down in the pebble shallows that were just below her ankles, and he also lay down. The bathrobes on each other's bodies were already completely soaked.

During the struggle, Morimi drank several mouthfuls of river water and couldn't stop retching at this time.

"Cough, cough!"

After spitting out a little more river water, she turned over and lay on his shoulder, breathing heavily for a while.

He didn't move at all.

"Are you still alive?"

She raised her hand and touched his chest, feeling the heartbeat inside. She lay down for a while, then sat up again.

The river flooded his head and flowed by. He stared at the moon in the sky and glanced at her.

"If you really want to die, I can't stop you." Morimi looked down at him.

He said nothing, turned his eyes, and looked at the moon again.

After sitting next to him for a while, she took off her soaked and heavy bathrobe, raised her head, and let her upper body bathe in the moonlight.

"Why did it come to this..." she murmured.

He still didn't speak and took a deep breath.

"It's my responsibility," Morimi said, "It's also your responsibility."

She paused, "If you die here, it will all be my responsibility..."

"I don't want to die." He finally said, "I just want to calm down."

In other words, it was because he was stimulated by the cold river water that he calmed down again from the deeper and deeper feeling of guilt.

After hearing what he said, Morimi finally breathed a sigh of relief and lay on his chest, his voice becoming choked again.

"sorry."

"..."

Naruse closed his eyes, but could not remain silent.

Every tear that fell on his chest was extremely heavy, making him miserable.

"I am the one who should say I'm sorry. Whatever you want to do to me now, I won't have any complaints...even if you want to strangle me."

She raised her head, wiped her eyes with her hand, and then touched his face.

"I want you alive."

He opened his mouth and closed it again.

"Send me home first, I feel pain everywhere." She added.

"..."

No one knew the source of the pain better than him.

Naruse sat up and found that his body was unusually heavy, and this was not just because his yukata was completely soaked by the river water.

"I have no strength." Morimi also said.

He gritted his teeth and stood up, the river water rushing under him.

Pulling her up, the two of them supported each other and climbed back to the bank from where they had just entered the river.

The two of them came out barefoot and didn't wear any shoes. They didn't feel much when they came here just now, but now they feel a little unbearable after just a few steps.

"You wait here, I'll go back and get the shoes." Naruse said.

"Are you leaving me here alone?"

"..."

"Let's go." She hugged his arm tightly, "This is how I came here just now."

The two slowly walked back to Morimi's yard.

Arriving in front of the motorcycle, he finally had time to turn off the engine and turn off the lights.

The courtyard returned to darkness, and the moonlight fell, providing a lot of light.

It was already midnight.

Naruse sat down next to Yuan, and Morimi sat next to him, looking back at the mess behind him.

The slanting moonlight illuminated a few traces of blood on the floor, which seemed to have dried.

She pursed her lower lip and looked inside again. The sliding door of the living room was originally locked from the inside, but he knocked it open with brute force and fell to pieces on the ground inside.

"If my parents find out that the sliding door is broken tomorrow, I will say that I accidentally fell and broke the door."

Naruse also turned around, looked at it twice and said, "I will pay for it."

"Of course you have to pay."

Morimi said, climbed to the other side, and picked up the mobile phone that had been silent for a long time.

There was no response after pressing it twice, so she pressed and held the power button again to try.

When the screen turned on, she first breathed a sigh of relief, and then her face fell again.

"You broke the screen."

"..."

Watching her get the mobile phone in front of her, Naruse was silent again, "I will give you a new mobile phone as compensation."

Morimi smiled and said, "Just fix it and it'll be fine."

He didn't say anything, and he stopped sitting around, and stood up to clean up the mess he had made.

"Just throw the broken sliding door into the corner on the right side of the yard... By the way, you put on your shoes first."

She was half-dressed, but she had the thought to let him put on his shoes first.

"Just step on it, the floor will be wiped later." Putting on his shoes, Naruse packed up the things on the ground, carried them back and forth several times, and moved the broken sliding door to the corner of the yard for stacking.

"If it weren't for the delivery day tomorrow, my parents would definitely come over, and they probably wouldn't notice the missing or new sliding door," Morimi said.

The lights in the living room had already been turned on, and Naruse glanced at the elf shed in the corner.

She also looked over and suddenly sighed.

"The soul really does not exist, otherwise you would have been struck to death by lightning just now when you faced me in front of so many ancestors."

"..."

He was speechless and looked at her thigh again, which seemed to be stained with a little blood that had not been washed away by the river water.

"You have to wash it carefully later." Noticing his gaze, Morimi said, "You too."

"Ah."

"You can't possibly go back tonight, right?" She looked at him and asked.

"...I won't go back." Naruse shook his head.

"That's good." She smiled and continued to pack.

Except for the broken sliding door, which will have to be installed with a new one tomorrow, the remaining traces were almost cleared up in a short time.

Finally, he took a wet cloth and wiped the floor on the edge. Morimi picked it up and took a look. The blood stains had changed color.

"I didn't expect that my first night would be here..."

She murmured, and Naruse pursed his lower lip, trying to pretend not to hear, but she looked over and smiled at him.

"Cleaned up."

"Ah."

"Go take a shower."

"Go and wash first."

Naruse lowered his head and glanced at the yukata on his body. Until now, since they came out of the river, the clothes on each other's bodies are still wet, but they are no longer dripping.

"Let's take a shower together, it's getting late."

Seeing him looking over, she added, "You've already done it, do you still need to care about this kind of thing?"

Naruse was speechless, and the two of them came to the bathroom together.

Untying her hair, she took off the last bit of covering in front of the mirror and looked at her body.

"..."

She looked at him in the mirror, "Do you hate me?"

"..."

Every word she said was hard to answer.

"I said before..."

"I can't say I hate you," Naruse said, "It's just..."

"Very angry and trying to break me."

The two looked at each other again.

She turned around, helped him take off his clothes, pulled him inside, took off the shower head, and rinsed him.

"Rinse first and wash your hair later."

She could always avoid him when he raised his hand to take the nozzle, but to no avail, he just let it go.

"...It would be funny if it couldn't be washed off."

"..."

"You can help me wash it later."

"……Um."

After she rinsed his body clean, the nozzle finally reached his hand.

Morimi's eyes didn't stay on his hands, but on his face, "Why is there such an expression? Isn't this all caused by your bite?"

"sorry."

"That was not what I meant."

He opened his mouth and said "I'm sorry".

"We all made mistakes." Morimi leaned over, pressed her face against his, and stared into his eyes, "It's irreversible, the mistake of two people."

"Have you ever had sex with Naoko?" Morimi suddenly asked.

"……No."

"It's your first time too?"

"Ah."

She was silent for a while.

"Should I be happy?"

He didn't speak.

After each other's bodies were rinsed off, she pulled him and sat in the bathtub together.

He leaned against the bathtub, and she leaned against him. It was a little reluctant to squeeze the two of them into the bathtub, which was not that big.

Naruse looked at the smooth back in front of him, with many marks on it.

"It's better to turn off the lights." Morimi suddenly said, "I still like to stay in the dark."

(End of this chapter)