Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 67 Delayed Sleep

Book restoration is still an incidental service when the main business of Morimi Kohonen is buying and selling second-hand books.With the gradual shift of business focus in recent years, this service also quietly declined until it was completely cancelled.

As for Mori Jianyiye, he had been fascinated by it since he was a child, and he helped repair it several times by himself. He is not proficient in technology, but it is not far behind;

After all, most of the books only need to be repaired to the point where they can be read normally, and the truly valuable ancient books will not be sent to her store.

"Is it in this room?"

Turning on the light, he walked into a room where the sundries were stored on the first floor. Mori Jian rummaged through the sundries for a while, then opened a few more cabinets, but found nothing.

"Not here."

The tools for repairing books were probably brought over during the shop cleaning two years ago, but she really didn't have the slightest impression of where they were put.

pat.

After turning off the lights and closing the sliding door, she went back to the corridor and found the next room.

The houses her family inherited from her ancestors were so big that she didn't even know what was in which room, so she had to look for them one by one.

"..."

Before opening the door of the second room, Senjian suddenly went dark, and his body shook.

She leaned on the wall and stood for a while.

Her footsteps were sluggish, her head was hot and dizzy, the consequences of lack of rest and sleepless night finally appeared, and she squatted down and rummaged for a long time just now.

"Chunhai..."

She suddenly panicked and yelled in a low voice.However, the sound was too low to even pass through the corridor, and Naruse, who was far away in the living room, couldn't hear it at all.

She didn't yell a second time either.

After a while, Morimi opened the door, walked into the nearest room and sat down.

"...I thought I was going to die."

If he really died suddenly, he would probably be scared to death.

She couldn't help laughing, leaned back, lay down on the tatami, and looked up again.

This was her previous room, and she moved up because she preferred to stay upstairs, but there are still a lot of her old things here.

"The tools for repairing shouldn't be here..."

Closing his eyes, Morimi relaxed and let his body lie completely on the tatami.

"Is it in Mom and Dad's room, or has it been taken to the warehouse..."

No impression, totally unexpected.

After lying down, tiredness flooded in like a tide, and she simply stopped thinking about it.

"a little cold……"

After a whole night of sleepless nights, Naruse came to the door suddenly. She was exhausted and had no strength to change clothes, so she came down in her pajamas. She lay still and felt cold very quickly.

"It's so cold."

The more she lay down, the less she wanted to move, so she could only keep curling up, trying her best to retain the remaining warmth.

"It's so cold...so cold..."

Gradually, the whisper between the lips lost the guidance of consciousness and turned into an even breathing.

Hugging herself, the girl curled up into a ball.

Putting down the half-read book, Naruse stretched his waist, and looked at the entrance of the living room.

"Haven't you found it yet... It seems like a long time has passed."

Having been reading, he has only a vague sense of the passage of time.

"It's so cold."

The living room of Mori Jian's house is so empty that people feel cold just looking at it, not to mention he has been sitting there for a long time without moving.

The sun shone on the closed lattice door, Naruse got up and went over, opened the door, the light touched his body, and he immediately felt the warmth.

There was no wind outside, he thought for a while, and simply sat on the edge with a book.

And in the depths of the Japanese house behind Naruse, in a certain room, Morimi, who was curled up in a ball, suddenly moved, waking up from his sleep.

"It's so cold..."

She hugged herself tightly, opened her eyes, and found herself lying on the ground.

Struggling to sit up, Morimi looked around, feeling a little dazed.

How could she be sleeping here?
She hadn't slept all night, and the huge inertia of sleep was still pulling her. At this moment, she just wanted to fall back and continue to sleep.

However, the cold is also constantly stimulating and cannot be ignored.

"Quilt……"

Morimi crawled to the nearest closet, took out the quilt and spread it on the floor, and hugged the quilt again.

After getting into bed, after a short period of cold, the thick warmth hugged her tightly, and the drowsiness that subsided a little swept over again.

So warm... I seem to have forgotten something...

do not care.

She closed her eyes and quickly stopped thinking.

"..."

After more than ten minutes, standing at the door of the opened room, Naruse was silent for a while.

I haven't seen anyone for a long time, who would have thought that she was sleeping here?
"This seems to be Morimi's former room."

At the door, he looked at Morimi who was huddled under the blanket, and then casually looked inside the room, but Naruse didn't go in, and closed the door behind him.

It seemed that she hadn't found the tool yet, and he didn't intend to rummage around in other people's houses, so he had to come back later.

Leaving the broken book to be repaired here, Naruse left a message on the phone and went home first.

In the room, Morimi, who had been severely lacking in rest for several days, slept deeply, and didn't wake up all day until dusk.

"..."

Looking at the dim ceiling, she was stunned for a long time before she gradually understood where she was.

Some things are blurred like dreams.

"Did Naruse come here...well, have you been here, or am I dreaming...what time is it?"

She turned over in the bed, and lowered her head to sniff again. There was a faint musty smell on the bed, which was the result of not being in the sun for a long time.

After all, she doesn't live in this room anymore.

After being dazed for a while, Mori Jian sat up, touched his glasses and put them on.

From the clock hanging on the wall, she knew the current time.

"Five o'clock...five o'clock in the afternoon? Did I sleep all day?"

Realizing the practical meaning of sleeping all day, the irritability in the bottom of my heart also followed.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"I wanted to correct those papers today..."

And when he was completely sleepless last night, this plan could no longer be realized.

——She failed the school exam again.

The pressure surged like a dike, and she couldn't remember how she returned home from school yesterday.

Although reason kept telling her that failure at this time was not a bad thing, and even beneficial to her, she couldn't help but care about it.

She cared all night.

As soon as she recalled these, those dark and depressed emotions that made her chest tight also emerged again.

She fell back and closed her eyes again, but after lying all day, she couldn't fall back to sleep.

"I'm bored..."

She couldn't help sobbing as soon as she opened her mouth, and buried her face deeply in the pillow.

After sleeping all day, I will definitely not be able to sleep again tonight. Do I have to catch up on sleep again during the day tomorrow?

But what should I do when I go to school the day after tomorrow?
In the dimly lit room, negative emotions kept coming in like a tide, but they would not recede. They piled up on her chest and became heavier and heavier, making her unable to breathe.

"..."

No.

At a certain moment, she suddenly woke up.

You have to do something to distract yourself.

If she couldn't sink deeper and deeper into this emotion, she would collapse.

do something...

She couldn't help but put her hand into the bed.

She closed her eyes, let out a sigh, and relieved the pressure.

"Um……"

The breath gradually became heavy, accompanied by an unconscious low moan.

"—See you, Mori, are you awake?"

The sudden sound in the corridor made her tremble.

Naruse?

It's been a whole day, and he's still staying at her house, hasn't he gone back? !
Morimi's consciousness instantly became seven or eight points awake, but his body was out of control.

"Wait... uh!"

Hearing her "response", Naruse opened the door that he closed before leaving.

Four eyes facing each other.

She bit her lip and faced him with an unreserved attitude.

Naruse froze.

The huge impact caused him to temporarily lose his ability to speak, and he opened and closed his mouth several times.

Maybe it was only a few seconds, or maybe half a century later, he finally came back to his senses.

"……Sorry for disturbing you……"

"Wait a moment……"

He closed the door immediately.

thump, thump, thump——

Amidst the frantic footsteps rolling and crawling inside the door, there was a scream with a crying voice.

"Wait a minute for me——"

(End of this chapter)