I'm putting on a vest

It was four o'clock in the afternoon when Ryota Kise entered Fuji and Elliot's ward.

Since the time for rejecting visitors in the ward is five o'clock, it seems that it is not worthwhile to say that he can only visit for one hour after taking a full two-hour tram ride.

When he skipped the tennis club training in the morning, he thought he could see her earlier, but in the end he had to fill out a lot of weird application forms, and was allowed to enter after repeated inspections. It was also sprayed up and down many times by the nurse lady with a spray that smelled weird.

Although it didn't smell like disinfectant, he somehow felt that it should be a super invincible upgraded version of disinfectant. After going through this once, he had a refreshing feeling that all the bacteria on his body had died.

Wait a minute, think about it this way, could it be that my body is full of bacterial corpses now?

Shaking his head, he decided to put aside these messy thoughts and enter that room.

Fortunately, at least the last hour of visiting time was won.

The ward was not empty. Elliot was sitting quietly on the hospital bed. When she turned her head, her hair drew an arc in the air. The light passing through the gap in the window turned into wind, blowing her hair Particles drifting in space were blown towards him.

Kise Ryota felt dizzy for a moment and covered his eyes with his palms.

She saw him, or could not be regarded as seeing him.

The prerequisite for seeing is to be able to recognize this thing.When we look at our palms, countless bacteria are also imprinted on the retina, but because the bacteria are too small, we don't feel their existence, so we can't think that we see the bacteria with the naked eye.

Elliot turned his head to Kise and it was just a similar existence.

She heard the sound of the door opening, and felt the wind blowing from the corridor as the door opened, so she turned her head away, and the figure of Kise Ryota was also reflected in those water-colored eyes, but did she recognize him? The existence of is another matter.

This is something that can't be helped, because from when Kise Ryota picked her up until he sent her to the hospital, Elliot was in a coma with her eyes closed.It's like the little mermaid who rescued the prince in the daughter of the sea but didn't survive to the end. Kise Ryota is just a stranger to Elliot.

He had a lot to say, really a lot to say.He had already written a three-page call directory on the tram, and it had made assumptions about every possible way of speaking and answering Elliot.

But with those eyes, he couldn't say anything.

In the end, he just raised his hand stupidly and waved it in front of him, like a windshield wiper.

"…Hello?"

"..."

Elliot's eyes gradually focused, and she only became aware of his existence after hearing this sentence, Kise Ryo understood this too well.

There are more than a billion humans in the world, but only when those humans want to interact with her can she be clearly aware of their existence.

The first thing Elliot did after realizing his existence was to curl up his body slightly.

It's like hermit crabs on the beach, you touch them and they yank themselves into their shells to protect themselves.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.Elliot opened his eyes and looked at Kise Ryota warily.

Three seconds later she finally blinked.

At the moment of blinking, the eyelashes drooped like two small fans, and when they opened again, they nodded cautiously to him.

It's really impossible to communicate at all, right?

Kise Ryo's hands and feet were numb due to embarrassment.

There was no place to sit in the room, but there was a stool, but since no one knew how to use it, it was being pushed under the table.

If you go over and pull out the stool now, just the sound of the stool feet rubbing against the floor can scare Elliot next to you.

The time to decline visitors is 5 pm, and I entered at 4 o'clock sharp.

He thought, should he stand here for 5 seconds... Ah, no, it should be [-] seconds now, wait until the nurse invites him out at [-] p.m., right?

At this moment, he heard another footstep in the corridor, and a figure walked past him and spoke to Elliot inside.

"I see," said the man, "I'll take you to the beach."

Like Ryota Kise, just the fact that that person intruded into her private territory, which was this ward, put Elliot on alert.

But unlike Kise Ryo, Elliot's eyes lit up at the person's words.

The particles lurking between her hair rose violently as if excited, illuminating the whole room. Kise Ryota was frightened by the light, and could only see Elliott lips open and close.

"...good," she said.

Just talking was not enough, she got off the bed abruptly, stepped on her shoes, and didn't intend to put on the shoes at all, and took another step forward on the floor.

"Take me," she said.

Kise Ryota himself didn't know why he came out with him.

Maybe it's just because the young man has already started to move his feet, and Elliot also stumbled barefoot, following like a kid following a shepherd, so he had to follow naturally, because a person Always feel silly standing in the doorway.

And he was not very relieved to let Elliot go to the beach.

The young man walking ahead should be two to three years older than him and her. Just two to three years old is already an insurmountable moat for middle school students.It feels like an adult.

Viewed from the side, the boy's face is as pretty as a girl's, but he has an aura that can be believed.It is the kind of reliable temperament that today is the end of the world and the world is in chaos, if he tells you to follow me, you will follow without asking a word.

Is it because of this temperament that Elliot will obediently follow behind him?

Kise Ryo was thinking wildly, and when she went out, she found that although they had no intention of hiding, they did not meet a few nurses along the way, as if they had specially observed the places and times where nurses were less frequent, I chose this path.

He didn't know if the patients here were allowed to go out, but he didn't see any signs of patients coming in and out at the door of the ward all the way, so it seemed that they were really not allowed to go out.

But now that boy violated the rules and wanted to take Elliot to the beach...?

Kise Ryota felt lucky not to let the two of them go out alone.

Because no matter what, Elliot is also a beautiful girl who will be told by her parents that if she is outside at night and sees a suspicious opposite sex walking towards you, remember to run in the opposite direction.

But Elliot himself seemed to be completely unguarded, just stumbling along with the boy in front of him. If there is any very friendly relationship between the two of them, it's not necessarily that they have a brief relationship of trust. This trust relationship is based on the sentence "I will take you to the beach" that the boy said before, and the sentence "Take me to" that Elliot replied.

She seems to be so easy to trust people.

Did she grow up in a sterile room before?

Kise Ryota, who has been active as a part-time model for a while, thinks she is more mature than others of her age, is worried.

The seaside is special.

That's why he had to take the tram for two hours to come here to play during the winter vacation.

The beach is very soft. Because it is built around the hospital, no one will come here, so there is no litter everywhere.Stepping on it is similar to the delicate touch of sand in the gift hourglass sold in convenience stores, with small shells hidden inside.

Elliot stepped on it with bare feet, she was much more sensitive to these things than Kise Ryo.

She looked like she really wanted to squat down and pick up a shell. Speaking of which, she was indeed at the age to do such a thing, but in the end she didn't do it.

She just stepped on the sand-wrapped shell even harder, and then followed the boy in front of her.

Fortunately, Kise Ryota was not the one who was invited, nor was he responsible for leading the way, so he could pick up the shells that Elliot wanted to pick up but didn't do so after they left.

He wiped the sand on it with his hand, then put it in his pocket, thinking that if she still wanted it then, he would give it to her.Consider it a gift for this visit.

Originally, when visiting a patient, he should bring a wreath or a fruit basket, but he didn’t think about it when he got on the tram, and he didn’t see a shop selling this when he got off, so forget it.

And Kise Ryota's unhurriedness, and Elliot's hesitation-this kind of hesitation is like a child playing in a mall, every time he sees something interesting, he always wants to reach out Take it, but worry that my mother will tell her seriously 'this is not allowed to buy'.The purpose of the teenager is very clear.

He's been there for this from the start.

The young man took Elliot all the way to the beach. He didn't hesitate when his shoed feet touched the sea water. He walked directly to the sea. The sea water wet his shoes and trouser legs. He walked all the way until the water rose to It didn't stop when the knee was there.

On the contrary, the moment her bare feet touched the sea water, she shuddered as if she had been hit by static electricity.

She first took a few steps back, leaving small footprints on the soft sand by the tide, and then tentatively put one foot up on tiptoe and stretched forward.

But when the sea rose up and touched her toes, she was frightened again, and she retreated further than last time.

But because the boy continued to walk forward, Elliot looked at his back, and finally walked forward as if he had made up his mind.

No, not walking, but running.

She ran forward and grabbed the boy's arm, as if she wanted the boy to save her even if she was in danger again here.

This behavior is correct.

Kise Ryota walked behind and saw the corner of the boy's mouth slightly raised.

The boy didn't take Elliot too far. If he took Elliot to the point where the water was above the waist, Kise Ryota would go and pull them back, even if he had to fight him there. ——He would not allow the boy to do this.

Because Elliot looked terribly frightened.

In ancient Greek mythology, the princess who was tied to the reef waiting to be fed to sea monsters might not be as afraid of sea water as Elliot, because the princess had not suffered any harm, but Elliot really almost lost her life in this area in the sea.

The boy and Elliot went all the way to the place below the knees that was blocked by the sea. Elliot's hospital gown was slightly bulged by the tide, and finally looked not so thin.

Then the boy turned her around.

When the two faced each other, Elliot shrank suddenly, and her body wanted to lean back as if fleeing.But the consequence of going all this way is definitely falling down and struggling in a panic due to choking on water.

The boy's reaction was simple and clear. He held Elliot's arm in turn, making her look at him in the original position.

When he spoke, his voice was full of majesty and lacked a sense of intimacy, so there was no room for him to refuse.

"You lost your memory for half a year," he said.

Kise Ryo didn't know about this matter, so he withdrew his fingertips.

"Yes, it is."

Obviously it was her own business, but Elliot's voice sounded very unconfident.

As if to cover up this lack of self-confidence, her next voice became louder.

"I was abducted by aliens and my memory was stolen by them."

"Aliens live in the sea?" the boy asked.

"Maybe they live in the sky, in a spaceship, but it's also near the sea."

"So I want to jump off the roof and fly all the way here."

"Then it's okay to grab their arms and force them to return my memory."

Kise Ryota looked at Elliot, she was holding the boy's arm tightly at this time, is she using this behavior as a practice for the next step?

He kept thinking about this, and he didn't want to think about the meaning of the phrase 'jump off the roof'.

"I stopped you." The boy said.

Elio pursed her lips.

Her expression didn't mean to resent that the plan was hindered. It seems that she also knew that if she jumped off the roof of that building, she would be more likely to die like this than seeing aliens who didn't know whether they existed or not. big.

but…

"But if you had the chance, would you do it again?"

The boy's voice appeared in this space almost like a solid body, not covered by the sound of the ebb and flow of the tide. Until a few seconds after he finished speaking, his voice was still suppressed in the hearts of several people.

"..."

Elliot was taken aback by these words.

She looked at the boy, his lips opened and closed, opened and closed, looking almost like a fish breathing in the sea.

Then she took a deep breath, two deep breaths, and finally nodded.

"I'll...I'll do it," she said.

Elliot's answer was like the last straw, and the boy made up his mind.

He also nodded, and held Elliot's hand a little harder, and Elliot couldn't care less about the pain at this time.She is very excited.

"Then I'm going to tell you something."

Yukimura Seiichi said seriously.

"Don't look for a spaceship, you haven't been abducted by aliens—you're an alien yourself."

"..."

"…Eh?"

Kise Ryota was dumbfounded.