shadow of nothingness

"Hey, didn't you just go there yesterday?"

Ichigo felt a little strange, of course he knew who Qianqian was referring to, it was nothing more than her brother, the man named Shimizu Uichiro who felt a little strange to him.

"But..." Qianqian lowered her head, bit her lip, her silver hair drooped down, and her red eyes were full of unwillingness. "I want to get my memory back. Use this last bit of time."

"Huh?" Ichigo didn't understand the meaning of Qianqian's words at all, and sighed after looking at her for a while, "Can't we go on the weekend, I have to go home now."

"but……"

She is afraid that she has no time...

Senior also disappeared suddenly after one night, maybe she will disappear suddenly like this...

never see him again...

Thinking like this, Qianqian suddenly felt an inexplicable pain in her heart, obviously it was a ghost that shouldn't have feelings...

"Kurosaki-kun." A strange voice interrupted Ichigo's pace of going forward, Ichigo looked back, and then suddenly narrowed his pupils. "Shimizu... Sang?"

Standing behind Ichigo is Shimizu Uichiro in black clothes, with a smile on his handsome face.

"Eh?" Qianqian was also frightened when she raised her head, anyone would be surprised that the person she was looking for just now appeared in front of her so suddenly.

"Kurosaki-kun, can you take a step to talk?" Shimizu smiled and offered the invitation.

"..." Ichigo silently looked at Qianqian who was full of expectation, and then looked at Shimizu again, "Okay."

"Thank you, Kurosaki-kun!"

"Thank you, Kurosaki-kun!"

The same words came from the mouths of the two people in front and behind, and Ichigo suddenly sighed for some reason.

He and Shimizu found a remote coffee shop and sat down, Ichigo looked into each other's eyes, "What's the matter, Shimizu-san?"

Shimizu shook his head with a smile, then looked around again, and confirmed that no one around could hear his voice before speaking. "Kurosaki-kun's shallow knowledge is definitely not what you said yesterday?"

Although it was a question sentence, Shimizu's expression seemed to be very positive.

Ichigo frowned tightly, looking at the man opposite him seriously.

"..."

Lifting up the coffee in front of him, he took a sip carefully, and Shimizu continued, "If I'm not wrong, the one next to you should be my sister Qianqian."

"!"

"!"

What he said immediately shocked the two people on the opposite side.

Qianqian pointed at herself excitedly, "Can you see me?"

Qing Shui didn't move at all, and it didn't look like he could see Qian Qian at all.

"Can you see it?" Ichigo asked after a moment of silence.

Shimizu shook his head, put the coffee cup in his hand on the table, and crossed his fingers together, "I can only vaguely feel that there is a figure over there."

He said and pointed to where Qianqian was now. "I know everything about Qianqian, so I'm sure you didn't know her before, let alone know where our family lives. Coupled with what you said in my room, it's easy to guess gone."

Ichigo turned his head to look at the slightly excited expressions around him, and then turned back to look at Shimizu, "It's true." Ichigo said after a pause, "But I think it's very strange."

"how?"

"The reason for her death is not what Auntie said." Ichigo's brows furrowed deeper, and what he heard from Shimizu's mother yesterday felt very strange.

Qing Shui smiled lightly, "Didn't Qianqian tell you?"

Shaking her head, "She has already forgotten, that's why she asked me for help."

"That's it..." Qing Shui groaned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "Then let me say it again, Qianqian."

Qianqian didn't know how to react to those red eyes that were so familiar to her.Intuition told her that the people in front of her were her relatives, but she seemed a little strange without memory.

"It can be said that Qianqian died because of me." Leaning his elbows on the table, his clenched hands supported his forehead, neither Ichigo nor Qianqian could clearly see his expression, they could only feel it through his tone of voice.

"Things are actually very complicated, so let me briefly explain..."

Ichigo and Qianqianan listened quietly to Shimizu's intermittent narration.

"...In short, that's how things are. They were a little scared of Qianqian's accident, and they haven't come to me since then. And because I was afraid of my parents' scolding, I lied and persuaded them to move to the next door .”

He raised his head slowly as he spoke, with a bitter smile on his face and moist eyes, "I'm sorry, Qianqian."

"It's okay, brother~" Qianqian smiled slowly, tilted her head to look at him, her voice was sweet. "I don't regret it, Mom and Dad will please brother~"

"She said it's okay, she doesn't regret it." Because Shimizu couldn't hear the shallow voice, so Ichigo conveyed her meaning for her.

"Really..." Shimizu smiled weakly, but gave Ichigo the feeling that he was about to cry. "Thanks……"

Tears finally burst out uncontrollably, slid down her cheeks, and then dripped onto the table.

Qianqian stood up and walked to the side of Qingshui.Still looking at him so tenderly, she reached out her hand to comfort him, but her hand went straight through.

"..." Qianqian who silently withdrew her hand smiled again, "Goodbye, brother."

that's it……

all……

I remembered.

Taking a deep breath, Qianqian turned her head to look at Ichigo who was still sitting there. "Kurosaki-kun, it's time to go. Natsuri-chan and Yuko-chan will worry about you if you go back later."

"... Oh." Ichigo stood up, his eyes wandering between Shimizu and Qianqian.Finally sighed, reached out and patted his shoulder when passing by him, "She said, goodbye."

"Goodbye..." My heart felt a slight pain as if it was pinched by something.

"goodbye……"

"Is this okay?" Ichigo asked with a frown, holding his schoolbag behind his back.

The forward pace stopped, Qianqian raised her hand to cover her forehead, and looked up at the sky, "Because I'm dead, I'd better not continue to come and go, otherwise..."

"otherwise?"

"No, it's nothing." Qianqian turned her head and said with a light smile. "By the way, Kurosaki-kun, buy me another JUMP~"

"……I reject."

"Eh—why?"

"Didn't you just buy it yesterday...it's a weekly magazine..."

"But I really want it..." He stared at Ichigo resentfully, his red eyes full of expectation. "Last week's is fine~"

"Really, what are you..." Ichigo froze before he finished speaking, looked at Qianqian in silence for a moment and then sighed, "Okay, I get it..."

"Kurosaki-kun is the best!"

Handing things to Qianqian's hands when there was nothing around, Ichigo seemed relieved, "That's all right, it's time to go back, but what do you want to do with the pen, what do you want to write?"

He walked forward while talking, and he didn't notice the behavior of Qianqian behind him flipping open the JUMP and writing on it.

"No, let's go back." As she walked forward, Qianqian secretly noticed whether Ichigo's gaze was looking at her. Although it was difficult to write while walking, she still completed it smoothly.

Seeing that he arrived at Kurosaki's house, a touch of black suddenly appeared in his shallow vision.

Right on...

that person's eyes...

The hand holding JUMP suddenly tightened, and my heart was flustered. Qianqian looked at the person not far away and smiled, and slowly walked towards her.Uneasy premonition spread in the bottom of my heart.

"...Kurosaki-kun, I think you should go back first."

"Well, what's the matter?" Ichigo walked forward without looking back, not noticing the slightly trembling body behind Qianqian.

Although her body was trembling slightly, Qianqian still tried her best to keep her voice in a normal state, "It's nothing, I just want to stay outside for a while."

"... Whatever you want, remember to come in early." Thinking of what happened just now, Ichigo also somewhat understood Qianqian's feelings in his heart now, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and went straight to the door and entered the room.

The boulder in his heart fell to the ground suddenly, and a wry smile appeared on his shallow lips.Softly, "I know..."

Seeing the figure getting closer and closer, Qianqian dared not make any movement at all.

That person can see her, and she knows it when she meets that person's eyes.