I'm putting on a vest

What's it like looking down from the 17th floor?

The earth will be condensed into a piece of cloth, the trees will be the green needles inserted one by one on the cloth, and the human heads will be black dots.

Elliot stretched out one foot and felt the wind blowing from below. She was a little afraid that her shoes would fall off, so she retracted her foot again.

After stepping on the floor, Elliot checked again, the dot symbolizing the boy in the next ward was indeed approaching steadily on the map.

"I'm going to do it anyway."

[I said no. 】

"Who listened to you?"

She heard the door of the roof being opened, and Elliot withdrew her hand from the guardrail, and took a tentative step forward.

Outside the guardrail of the roof, there is only a small area, and if she takes a step and then moves forward by three centimeters, she will step into the air.

If you fall from this height, you won’t die until you hit the ground. You will bump into something protruding from the window in the middle, such as anti-theft nets, mop handles, etc., and they will be cut into several pieces in mid-air.

Elliot stretched out one foot.

Because of this movement, she shook her body slightly. The tendency of the shaking was to move forward first, then backward, and finally moved forward sharply.

The last sudden forward movement caused Elliot's body to form an almost 45-degree angle with the floor of the roof from the side. It was impossible for her to turn back by herself, and she could only fall down.

Seeing that she was about to fall off the roof, her water-colored long hair obeyed gravity and swayed in mid-air earlier than herself. When her face was down, her expression was not frightened, but a little dazed.

Even when she was cut into several pieces in mid-air, she would only have this expression, feeling a little pain.

Just then.

A hand grabbed her firmly.

"Wait...wait a minute!"

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"Look." Elio said to the system, "My luck has always been good."

Yukimura Seichi grabbed her arm and pulled her to an absolutely safe place, the center of the roof alone was not enough, he kept pulling her close to the door before stopping.

After doing all this, he looked at her, and found that the girl had been silent. Her expression was not the kind of desperate expression that someone who wants to commit suicide would have, but more of a daze.

Her eyes fell on him, and then looked at the sea in the distance, her eyes wandered between the two, and finally chose to stay at the sea.

'I have nothing to tell you. ’ This sequence of actions is like trying to show that.

Yukimura Seiichi opened his mouth and wanted to say some persuasive words to her, but seeing this, he remembered that there were not many people in this ward who were not in pain. For them, life was sometimes more terrifying than death.

The daily dialysis, the tubes inserted into the body and the extremely expensive medical expenses, this girl must have her own sorrow.

His mouth opened and closed, and finally he just said, "Calm down, maybe there's a better solution?" Better than suicide.

"..."

The girl looked at him more blankly.

Yukimura felt that she didn't understand what he meant at all.

This doesn't look like a suicide attempt at all, Yukimura Seichi wondered for a moment if he might have made a mistake.

But it is true that she got the key to the roof from nowhere and opened the door here, and got into the outside of the guardrail, and stretched out a foot.

If he hadn't caught her in time, she would really have died here, and he would have heard of her death that night.

So he asked cautiously, "Are you going to jump off just now?"

The girl nodded, then shook her head again.

"I'm not sure," she said.

This was the first sentence she spoke to him, and listening to her was like sitting in the management room receiving radio waves from a spaceship.

As she spoke, she stretched out her finger and pointed to the sea over there. Looking at the sea from the 17th floor, it was nothing more than a larger blue drop of water on the ground.

"But I want to be closer to it."

"…what?"

The reason was so strange that Yukimura Seiichi was stunned.The girl continued talking.

"They won't let me go down, and they won't let me out of this building, but if I jump from here, maybe I can fly all the way there with the wind."

...did she really say the word 'fly'?

Yukimura Seiichi looked the girl up and down, her body was thin and slender, she was wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, and she couldn't see a hang glider hidden anywhere.Of course it didn't grow wings.

Then how is she going to fly?

Forget it, ignore this for now.

Yukimura Seiichi decided to ask her a question that she could understand from common sense.

"What are you going to do at the beach?"

"Go find the aliens."

"..."

There is no way to communicate with this person.Yukimura Seichi understood this.

Once you know this, you can start to relax.

The girl is more young than young, she is still at school age, if she wears a school uniform, she should be a junior high school student, and she will definitely not be out of elementary school for a long time.

Yukimura Seichi also has a younger sister who is about the same age as her. He has obtained a lot of information about girls of this age from his younger sister. He is wondering if this is the so-called second-year illness.

Secondary school disease, believe what you want to believe, do a lot of things that are unbelievable in the eyes of ordinary people, generally speaking, it will gradually improve after a few years, and then you will think of what you did in the second period. Start to regret.

But this girl, if he hadn't arrived in time just now, she would lose her life for her actions, and she would never regret it, and would never grow up again.

……

For some reason, Yukimura's heart surged with anger.

He didn't like to see others disrespecting his own life so much, and he also wondered what the child's parents were doing, and whether they educated her properly?

But facing that dazed face that looked like a lost child, he couldn't say anything serious.

"Let's find a place to sit," he simply said.

After knowing that she was not suicidal, he was much more relaxed, because if she was, Yukimura would not know how to speak to her, and preaching was not acceptable, and persuasion would be counterproductive.

But if it's just the second disease, you can treat it like a child talking in your sleep, and chat happily together.

After all, he doesn't have many people to talk to here.

Yukimura Seiichi sat with her on the floor by the door, and spread his coat on the floor for the girl to sit down.

The girl was very cautious when she sat down, as if she suspected that his coat would suddenly turn into some kind of piranha that would wrap her up and eat her, but after confirming that it would not be like this, she relaxed and said thank you.

This is a very polite kid.

"Why are you looking for aliens?" Yukimura asked gently as if talking to a child, but he didn't treat her as a fool, and he was indeed very curious about this.

The girl was silent for a few seconds.

For a few seconds, her water-blue eyes looked Yukimura up and down, as if evaluating whether it was worth revealing her secret to this person.

Perhaps it was what he did in the past ten minutes that gained her trust, but she finally opened her mouth slowly.

"I…I want my memory back."

"…what?"

This is a word that is too realistic compared to the previous 'flying' and 'alien'.Yukimura Seiichi couldn't help being a little surprised.

The girl asked him in turn.

"Do you remember what you did a month ago?"

A month ago, it was the day when the girl was hospitalized.

He thought for a while, "Read a book, and then do rehabilitation exercises."

"A month ago and the day before?"

"My classmates came to visit me, and we ate bento together."

"One more day."

"I finished reading Baudelaire's collection of poems."

The girl nodded to express her understanding, then hugged her legs and buried her face on her knees.

Her shoulders trembled slightly, for a moment Seiichi Yukimura thought she was crying, but in fact she just let out a long sigh.

When she raised her head, her bangs were a little messy, and her eyes were looking directly at the sea in the distance.

"I, since I was hospitalized a month ago, and then moved forward for half a year, I don't remember all these things."

Yukimura Seiichi froze in place.

"So I'm going to find aliens."

"I have to get my memory back from them."

The logic of her discourse that day was very strange.

Amnesia, but why do I have to go to the sea?Why are there aliens in the ocean?And why do you want to get your memory back from aliens?

I wanted to ask more questions than the mountain, but the girl stopped talking after I finished talking.

When she returned to the ward, her footsteps were shaky, Yukimura Seiichi was worried that she would fall halfway, but she didn't.The door of the ward opened, and the light inside shone on the girl's face. She walked in, and the door slammed shut.

In the days that followed, Yukimura Seichi observed her, and some things were not discovered before, but as long as one looked carefully, it was very obvious.

He knew now why the police kept coming for her.

This is learned from the mouth of the nurse.

"That child suddenly disappeared last summer."

"I've been missing for half a year, and when I was found, I was floating at sea, and I don't remember anything."

These are the words of the nurses.

Up to now, it has not been determined who the criminal is, because the person concerned himself is unwilling to say more. There are no shocking scars on Elliot's body, and even the clothes he wore are the same as the day he disappeared.

She just disappeared from the world for half a year inexplicably.

But it was because of this blankness that it seemed even more terrifying. Yukimura Seiichi couldn't even think about how she was treated during the six months of her disappearance.

Sometimes the nurse will bring the patient what she wants, usually some books. Yukimura has seen it a few times, and they are all academic books related to the outer space of the universe.

"She seems to have been interested in this aspect before." The nurse said softly, "That child wanted to be an astronaut before."

It is not difficult to explain why Elio believes in aliens.

She suddenly lost her memory for half a year, and the whole world continued to operate as usual during the past six months, while Elliot searched the entire earth and could not find her figure. For her, there is no better way than being kidnapped by aliens. explained.

It's much better than telling her, 'You've probably been hurt by someone so badly for half a year, and then you forget about it because of some kind of stress disorder'.

Elliot would love to go to the beach, the color of her eyes and hair reminds me of the ocean, but she'll tell you if you ask.

"I don't like the sea," Elio said, "I just want to go there."

She was found floating at sea in January, when the waters are at their coldest.

Just like if Yukimura Seiichi hadn't held her back on the rooftop, she would have fallen straight down. If she hadn't been rescued, she would have been swallowed by the ocean like this, and just drifted to the depths of the cold ocean.

Yukimura Seiichi is a pacifist, and had no objection to Japan's abolition of the death penalty before.

But sometimes, he thought, sometimes, should we also put shooting and electric chair on the penalty list for some particularly vicious criminals?

For example, the scumbag who abducted a girl who had just entered junior high school for half a year, and then threw her into the sea like garbage.

But apart from those, there is one more important thing.

Seiichi Yukimura has an ordinary happy family, and also has his own friends at school. His teammates from the tennis club will come to visit him every once in a while, and they have made an appointment to enter the national competition together.

It is for this reason that he does those hard, even painful rehabilitation every day.

"But Elliot..."

She has been missing for half a year and has been hospitalized for more than a month now. Her parents have never visited her.

"Not even a word."

Seiichi Yukimura sat on the hospital bed, looking at the small ocean outside the window.

That's where Elliot was found, where she'd always wanted to go and was terrified.

"Aliens?"

He knows what to do.