Short Story "Light and Shadow"

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Have you ever tried to love someone and feel happy just by being with them.Even if he loses, as long as he can do even one thing for him, no matter what the price is, it will be worth it.

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Ryosuke hid in the corner of the hospital, the wound on his back was stinging, he covered his mouth and nose to try to minimize the sound of breathing.The wound on the back appeared to be open.All he could feel was dizziness.In order to get her husband cleared of the suspicion, Hanekawa has done everything in a seamless manner.He needed new evidence, but the recording on the phone was destroyed just now.

What else can he do.

With his mind in a mess, he hid at the end of the corridor.A raised pillar just blocked his figure.The lights in the corridor were turned off, and on the long floor of the inpatient department, there was only a little soft light in the room.He stared blankly at the light, feeling very sleepy.

What he ran into was not his own ward, but the old inpatient department of the hospital.

"I'm going to be killed by... you..." Ryosuke could hardly make a sound, the pain spread from his back, taking all his strength. "Ryosuke has no evidence to prove that Yu Chuan is the murderer of the rape case. Even if he goes to the emergency department for help now, he will be killed sooner or later."

The place Tengyi desperately told himself to come to was a place of burial no matter how he looked at it.

——Then this is not a good place either.

He couldn't open his mouth, he could only suppress the severe pain caused by his breathing and looked behind him.The old inpatient department had only 6 floors, and Hanekawa followed him along the way like a cat playing with a caught mouse.If the opponent comes up, he has nowhere to escape.

There was a sound of slow footsteps not far behind.Step by step, approach Ryosuke.He pressed his body against the wall.The other party may not be able to see me because of the pillar, but as long as the other party walks to the end of the corridor...

The sound of a bullet being loaded can be heard.The other party stopped at the door of the nearest ward.He squeezed his mouth shut.In the darkness, all senses began to become sharp.He unexpectedly discovered that Hanekawa's breathing began to become extremely rapid.It wasn't the joy of a wild beast finding its prey, but a cry that was suppressed by force.

"……Got you."

The pores all over his body were trembling, and Ryosuke closed his eyes in despair when he heard Kei Hanekawa's voice approaching.

>>>>>>

□□Numbers on the LCD screen, the handsome boy is sleeping quietly in her arms.

The night wind made Hanekawa's eyes hurt.She smiled quietly, her husband's favorite smile.She rubbed the boy's hair and raised her head: the stars in the sky were gorgeously beautiful like shattered and shining glass shards.

A year ago, she hugged her husband like this, sitting quietly on the roof of this hospital.The remaining body temperature of the other party dissipated little by little.A large number of wounded were sent in batches.She watched the group of people whose hearts were still beating were carried into the hospital on a stretcher, hugged her husband tightly, and buried her head into the cold neck of the other party.

She felt her breath getting colder.She pressed her face close to the boy's cheek.The warm temperature penetrated through the skin.

He carefully planned this killing feast from one o'clock in order to clear all the evidence about Sato Kazuya. She doesn't care what kind of person he is to the world, she only knows that for herself, Sato Kazuya, He is the nicest and gentlest person in the world.

"You can finally leave cleanly. Kazuya." Hanekawa smiled, tears streaming down the boy's face to the ground.

Not far away, all data is cleared here.

Have you ever tried to love someone.Until the body lost consciousness and the breathing began to decline, I still kept thinking about it.I just want to put my heart in an ancient box, even after thousands of years, it still beats clearly.

Even then you have forgotten your name, lost your memory, lost your life...

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"Hey, Ryosuke, are you going to faint again?" Teng leaned his head on the glass, Ryosuke and him leaned on each other through the glass, and he fell on the glass door not far from the emergency department.Hanekawa's unexpected departure gave him time to call for help, but his body no longer has the ability to move forward.

He stretched his hand against the glass, and the other party was forced to do the same as himself.He has been used to this feeling countless times.Like a temperature held from the world in the mirror.For him, Asakawa Fujiichi is not an illusion, not a ghost, but a real person.

But at this moment, the other party's expression was very calm, just like when he first saw him.

"It seems like it's time to say goodbye." Fujiichi laughed, "So cheer me up a little bit, Ryosuke."

The hand close to the glass paused, Ryosuke slowly touched the other's face through the glass and asked. : "Have you remembered everything you should remember?"

"Well. Something very important." In a pleasant tone, "won't you congratulate me?"

"I wouldn't be so kind to celebrate you. In order to let you remember, I got hurt all over." Ryosuke closed his eyes, opened and closed his mouth, repeated several times, and asked, "This guy Asakawa Fujiichi , is it really that unlucky to die a year ago?"

"……Um."

"That's it." His hand gradually clenched into a fist on the glass.

"Hey, Ryosuke?"

"..." Ryosuke opened his eyes, and saw the person in the mirror looking at him with a smile.

At this moment, Fujiichi was like a child, suddenly had an excellent idea, so he said to Ryosuke. "Let's kiss."

He stared blankly at each other, tears streaming down his face unexpectedly.

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"Head nurse, the patient in bed ten in the old inpatient department is gone!"

"Bed number ten?"

"Asakawa Fujiichi. It's the child sent by the bombing a year ago."

"How is it possible!" She strode towards the third floor of the inpatient department in amazement, "Even if a vegetative person regains consciousness, he will not have the strength to act. Quickly adjust the surveillance video."

She ran quickly.The moment she rushed out the door, she saw a huge thick smoke bursting with flames in the distance.The sound of the explosion pierced her eardrums.in her pupils.The bright red flames almost burned the sky.

For a long, long time, it was like a long dream, they fantasized about their future.They meet and leave.Fortunately, they all seem to have found the answers they were looking for.

Not far from the burning building.A pair of similar teenagers were quietly kissing through the cold glass, with the flames spreading from behind them.Asakawa Ryosuke opened his eyes slightly, watching the figure of the man gradually disappearing, the cracked lines inside the glass in front of his eyes spread.

As beautiful as a painting.

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——Hey, Ryosuke, it's really a wonderful thing to be alive.

——During the year of losing consciousness, I have been living in an empty space in a daze.Until you tear open that space and walk in with it.

——Can breathe, can talk, can feel everything around, can see the sun shining on this world.

——Because I can exist by your side, I have realized that it is kung fu.

——I have always wanted to stand in front of you as a complete Asakawa Toichi.

—You see he is here now.

——So Ryosuke...

Kiss me, like we used to say.

Perhaps in some world, we have met side by side, close to each other.

But from now on, past and future, living and dead, we will be together.

until the breath is over.until the heartbeat stops.

My thoughts will accompany you like a shadow.

FIN.