Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 580 November (please vote)
It's November and it's freezing cold.

Waking up from his sleep, Hikaru Takigawa opened his eyes slightly, looked at the dim room, and then closed his eyes again.

The extremely low temperature also cooled down people's desires other than sleeping. It was still early, and she wanted to sleep a little longer.

But just as the idea of ​​snoozing went around in his mind, he hit a wall on a certain planned plan. Takigawa Hikari opened his eyes again and stared at something in a daze for a while.

"..."

Struggling, she sat up, sat for a moment, and climbed out of bed again.

And once out of the warm package, the subsequent movements will be much faster.

After changing into her uniform, she went downstairs to wash up. After saying goodbye to her parents who were still preparing breakfast, she wrapped herself in a thick cotton coat and prepared to go out.

"How about breakfast?"

"Go to the school to eat."

After riding the motorcycle, she gathered the thick scarf wrapped around her neck and rubbed her hands again.

It's already November, and the first snow of this winter fell a few days ago, making the weather even colder.The obstacle to riding out in the morning is not the icy road, but the pervasive cold wind.

In two days, even if it doesn't snow, she won't go out on a bicycle.

Takigawa Hikari thought this, turned the car, and rode into the path leading to Naruse's house.

Parking the car in the yard of his house, she looked back at the house opposite, and was in a daze for a while.

When she reached the door of Naruse's house, she bent down to move the flowerpot, picked up the spare key from underneath and opened the door.

"excuse me……"

It was almost as cold inside the room as outside. Exhaling a puff of white air, Takigawa Hikaru closed the door with his backhand and went directly to the second floor.

"Haruhai, are you awake?"

There was no response from the room.

She pushed the door open and walked in, feeling a warm breeze blowing into her face, slightly diluting the coldness she felt along the way.

Only this room has air conditioning on.

After closing the door and drawing the curtains in the room, it was dark. Hikari Takigawa walked to the bed and sat down slowly.

She knew that the person on the bed was already awake.

"Good morning, Harumi."

"..."

Most of his face was buried in the pillow, and one of his exposed eyes opened slightly to look at her, then closed it again.

Takigawa Hikaru knew that this was his response.

She leaned down and buried her head on the pillow, leaning against him.

And he tilted his head and buried his face deeper into the pillow.

"It's time to get up."

After leaning against him for a while, but unable to wait for his response, Takigawa Hikaru didn't say anything, got up, walked to the window, and opened the curtains.

wow.

Looking at the other tightly closed window opposite, she exhaled and looked up at the gray sky.

"It seems to be colder today."

"Even if I'm wearing cotton clothes, it's unbearably cold while riding on the road."

"I wonder if it will snow today..."

She seemed to be talking to him, but the only person she was talking to was herself.

After standing by the window for a while, Hikaru Takigawa returned to the bed and said, "I'll go down and prepare breakfast. Harumi, get up early."

He turned over, facing away from her, and finally spoke.

"I won't go to school today."

"..."

Takigawa Hikaru pursed her lips.

"Harumi hasn't been to school for a week."

And he seemed to have fallen asleep again without any response.

She lay on the bed, hugged him through the quilt, and closed her eyes.

The two of them didn't talk to each other, and after lying down for about ten minutes, Takigawa Hikaru finally got up.

"I'll come over after school."

He made a vague sound, not sure whether he agreed or refused.

Kissing him on the cheek, Takigawa Hikaru closed the door and left his room, slowly going downstairs.

I went to the kitchen and took a look. His dinner yesterday seemed to be instant noodles again.

Tonight, she would have dinner with him before going back, she thought.

He closed the door and left, got on his motorcycle, and before he could ride out of the path of Naruse's house, he met Morimi who was riding towards him.

The two stopped at the same time.

"He still won't go to school today?" Morimi had already guessed.

Takikawa nodded.

"That guy..."

Morimi frowned deeply, but didn't know what else to say.

"Is Kazuyo going over?"

"I'll go take a look... No, let's forget it. I've said all the good and bad things, and I have nothing to say when I see him." She pulled the scarf around her neck, "Come here after school."

"Okay." As soon as Hikaru Takigawa finished his voice, another motorcycle appeared at the intersection.

"..."

After looking at the two of them, Haixing looked into the path again, "Isn't Harumi going to school today?"

"Ah."

"I'll go take a look." She bypassed the two people's cars and rode straight inside without anyone stopping her.

Looking at her back until she was out of sight, Morijian raised his head again and exhaled a cloud of white mist.

"How long does he plan to be decadent?"

Takigawa Hikaru didn't answer, and she didn't know the answer.

The two waited at the cold intersection for nearly 10 minutes before Haixing rode out again.

Facing their looks, she just shook her head.

Morimi was not surprised. He held the handlebar again and said, "Let's go. If we delay any longer, we'll be late."

"Um……"

Without further delay, the three of them rode all the way to school.

"Good morning, One Leaf."

"Good morning."

"Kazuye rode his bicycle to school today. Isn't it cold?"

"I woke up late this morning. I won't be riding again in two days."

When he arrived at school, he responded to the greetings of acquaintances. Seeing that he had something else to do, Mori had to go to the staff room and separated from Haixing and Takigawa Hikari in advance.

When she came out of the staff room and passed the bulletin board outside, she stopped again.

After the cultural festival, the activities in the school were as dead as the weather was getting colder. The results of the comprehensive examination a month ago were still posted here and had not been torn off.

And the top spot in the second grade was her name.

[The first one: Mori sees one leaf]

She returned to her former top position in grade, and the name she had been unable to surpass this year, as well as the name that was chasing after her and seemed to be about to surpass her, disappeared from the list.

——Both of them gave up the exam.

"..."

Morimi clenched his fists and stood in the empty corridor, feeling his body getting colder and colder.

"That idiot..."

The idiot she called him turned over on the bed, glanced at the opened curtains, and closed his eyes tightly again.

Curling up in the bed where only he was left, Naruse continued to sleep until he couldn't sleep anymore and his stomach began to protest.

He picked up the phone, looked at it and put it down again.

"Is it noon?"

After lying there for a few minutes, he sat up and looked out the window.

The gray weather and the cold that could be felt through the glass discouraged him from getting up.

goo—

But the hunger in his belly was equally real, forcing him to get up.

He got out of bed and put on a coat. As soon as he walked out of the room, he was forced back by the cold outside, so he had to put on some clothes carefully before leaving the room.

Going downstairs to wash up and looking at himself in the mirror, Naruse realized for the first time that his beard could grow to such a sloppy level.

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he went to the kitchen to sort out the leftovers from last night and threw them into the trash can. He took a pot of water and boiled it to prepare instant noodles.

While waiting, he went to the living room outside and looked at the house opposite through the glass window.

"..."

Shangzi has completely left for more than half a month.

The night she witnessed the betrayal, she moved back to her home and never came here again.

For the next half month, she cut off contact with everyone and stopped paying attention to anyone - including him, of course.

Except for the first few days, she went to school as usual and went home directly after school.The club has also withdrawn, causing a lot of turmoil in the handicraft club.

Being shut out of the house all the time, physical contact could only be met with indifference from her. He couldn't be tough with her, and he didn't have the slightest position to take a tough stance. He could only follow her when she went out as much as possible.

Everything he and they had tried to hide had been completely exposed in front of her, and the only room for change was a change in her own attitude.

And when any words or actions were meaningless, he could only wait for the opportunity for change to come.

Until one morning half a month ago, the two buses before she was late for school had left - it was impossible for her to take his motorcycle again - and he could not wait for her to go out.

He thought she just didn't want to go to school suddenly. When he went to her house and knocked on the door, he found that the doors and windows were locked and there was a letter on the ground at the door.

A farewell letter to him.

Shangzi left, his whereabouts are unknown, all contact methods have been deactivated, and he does not even know whether he is alive or dead.

Besides him, the only people who received the final notification before she left were her adoptive parents who were far away in the institute.

In the message, she said goodbye to her parents and said she would repay them for their kindness in raising and caring for her over the years.

The information they have is also extremely limited, and they can only roughly judge that Shangzi will not embark on the road of suicide for the time being.

Other than that, I don't know anything.

After going to school, he learned from the teacher in Class C that she had gone through the entire process of dropping out of school without him knowing.

She wouldn't want to die. If she had no intention of living, she wouldn't do such unnecessary things.

But she won't come back either.

For half a month, he asked every person he could think of who had contact with Shangzi, tested, coerced and even followed some of her friends who were close to her, but there was still no result.

Shangzi really disappeared.

Gone forever, never heard from again, taking half of his soul with him and completely leaving his world.

"..."

There was a sudden noise in the kitchen, waking him up.

Is the water boiling?
The water is on.

After a while, he suddenly remembered the meaning of boiling water.

Naruse went to the kitchen to turn off the fire and prepare instant noodles, only to find that all the instant noodles at home had been eaten.He could only go out to a convenience store and buy a large bag of instant noodles.

"Harumi, aren't you going to school today?"

The convenience store clerk looked at him with worry on her face, "Chunhai has been eating instant noodles lately, right?"

"Yeah." Apart from paying, this was his only response.

After returning home, he soaked the cup noodles and closed the lid amid a large puff of white air. Naruse waited when his phone suddenly vibrated.

"..."

It's Song Chiaki's call.

He didn't answer or hang up, pretending that he wasn't next to the phone.

The phone vibrated for a while before hanging up.

And within a few seconds, the phone vibrated again.

"..."

After exhaling, Naruse answered the phone.

"Spring Sea."

"Ah."

"Didn't you go to school again today?"

"Ah."

There was a sigh from the other side.

"I understand. I'll be back this afternoon."

"..."

He closed his eyes, lay down on the dining table, and buried his head between the arms on both sides. After a while, he finally said, "What are you doing here?"

"I'll come back and see how long Chunhai will be decadent."

"Do not you have a job."

"Chunhai thinks mom is still interested in working now."

"..."

Naruse was silent for a while.

"I know. I'll go to school in the afternoon."

"Really?"

"real."

"Don't try to fool your mother, Haixing will tell me everything."

"Really." He once again made an unconvincing guarantee.

The other end of the phone also fell silent, and after a while he spoke again: "Shangzi still doesn't have any news."

"Ah."

"What is Harumi going to do?"

"do not know."

Matsu Qianqiu hesitated for a moment and then said, "Sawako said that Shangzi transferred a large sum of money to them yesterday."

"Where!" Naruse sat up suddenly, "Where is the bank?!"

"I don't know." Song Qianqiu said, "It's an online transfer."

"..."

"That kid..."

She sighed, "I want to give back all the money the couple spent on her over the years."

Naruse didn't say anything. The bit of new news about Naoko could only cheer him up for a short while, and then he collapsed again.

"What is Harumi going to do?"

"do not know……"

"Mom is talking about your future affairs." Matsu Qianqiu said, "Including your relationship with Haixing and the others."

Naruse was silent again.

Shock, anger, despair and even self-hatred, all the complicated emotions happened half a month ago, and now she is only filled with tiredness.

"Does Harumi plan to continue like this?"

He opened his mouth, "I don't know."

"Then Mom... I don't know what to do." A heavy sigh came from the other end of the phone, full of powerlessness and deep exhaustion.

"..."

Naruse sat up straight, feeling his chest was heavy and painful.

"I will go to school in the afternoon." He said, "I will also think carefully about future matters... Don't think too much."

"Just tell me if you have any plans." Song Qianqiu said, "If Harumi hadn't hidden it from me before, he wouldn't have reached this point now."

"……I see."

She paused for a while, "Has Harumi gotten up?"

"Woke up."

"Pack up and get ready to go to school."

"Ah."

Song Qianqiu hung up the phone.

Naruse stared at his phone in a daze for a while. When he thought about his instant noodles again, they had already soaked.

He ate it anyway and finished it in a hurry.

After filling his stomach, he returned to the room upstairs and turned off the air conditioner - he originally planned to eat something, so he came back and continued to lie down.

After putting on his winter uniform, Naruse opened the window and looked at the house opposite for a while.

"Shangzi..."

On the day Naoko disappeared, the couple rushed back from the research institute.

He was also able to enter Naoko's room and found that she had taken almost nothing with her except some clothes.

Shangzi didn't explain anything to his parents, but he took the initiative to confess everything.

["Chunhai doesn't understand that you are Shangzi's only reliance... It's so disappointing for Harumi to do this."]

Various means of contact and search were tried to no avail. The couple stayed at home for nearly a week before leaving worriedly.

After that, no one entered the house again.

"..."

Taking a deep breath of the air-conditioning outside, Naruse recovered his thoughts, picked up his schoolbag that he hadn't touched for a week, went downstairs, got on his motorcycle and went out.

With the cold wind blowing, I came to school. It was still lunch break time.

Went upstairs to the classroom of Grade [-] Class A. Just as he was about to enter, someone came out and the two of them almost bumped into each other.

"Be careful... Naruse?"

Xiao Lin was stunned for a moment, then immediately came over and looked at his face constantly, "You are finally willing to come to school."

Naruse forced a smile.

"Why do you look so unshaven? You haven't shaved in a few days?"

Half a month, he thought.

"forgotten."

"What the hell happened?"

"Nothing." Naruse shook his head.

Xiao Linzheng stared at him for a while, patted him on the shoulder and said nothing more.

Naruse's arrival attracted the attention of many people in the classroom. One of them kept staring at him when he walked into the classroom until he walked over and sat down in the empty seat behind him.

Morimi turned around and looked at him for a while.

"Have you figured it out?"

"Ah."

"I figured it out."

"do not know."

"..."

She stared at him, frowning deeply.

"Forget it...at least it's better than staying at home alone."

Morimi sighed, turned around, leaned back again, and continued: "Have you had lunch?"

"Ah."

"Instant noodles?"

"Ah."

"It's dinner."

He looked out the window and said, "I don't know."

She turned back and stared at his unshaven face for a while.

"Will you still come to school tomorrow?"

don't want to come.

Naruse wanted to answer this, but another sigh sounded in his mind.

He pursed his lower lip and said, "It will come."

She didn't say anything, just grabbed his hand and held it for a while.

"Narase—"

The two of them turned to look at the source of the sound, and the classmate who greeted them pointed at the door of the classroom.Yanagisawa Gang looked here and waved his hand when he looked over.

"Looking for you."

"Ah."

Naruse stood up and followed the teacher to the staff room.

"What's going on during this time, Naruse?"

"Physical discomfort."

Yanagisawa looked at him and said after a while: "If you feel unwell, remember to ask for leave from me first."

"forgotten."

"Can Naruse come to school tomorrow?"

"Ah."

The teacher was slightly relieved and then said: "Although Naruse's grades have always been very good, if he is absent from school too many times, this semester will still be a bit dangerous."

He nodded.

"Also, for the last comprehensive examination, I changed it to 'absent due to illness' for Naruse."

Naruse looked at the teacher and said, "Thank you."

Yanagisawa just shook his head and then waved his hand.

"Okay, Naruse, please go back to the classroom first. There is nothing else to do for the time being."

"Ok."

　It's the end of the month, ask for a monthly ticket

　　
　
(End of this chapter)