Falling in Love with a Sick Girlfriend Twenty Years Younger Than Me

Kaori nodded irrefutably.In this regard, the old man was very satisfied and laughed.

"I'll just say it, how could I be wrong. That kid you're thinking about is really lucky, to be able to win the heart of a good woman like you, it's just jealous, isn't it?"

"I-I didn't say that the person I'm looking for is a man, okay?"

Kaori tried to resist for the last time and stubbornly retorted.

"Who are you lying to? Your eyes are almost overflowing with thoughts of him, okay? If it's not a man, can't it be a woman? ... Ah!? Difficult, do you think you are!?— —”

The old man's slightly narrowed eyes instantly widened!Some people looked at Kaori in disbelief, her face flushed red, and she couldn't say a word with her mouth open.

"Eh? Missing a woman... ahh!! It's not! He's a man, he's a man, right?"

Kaori took a beat before she realized what the old man meant, and immediately stopped hiding her thoughts, and explained with shame and indignation.

"Huh... I scare the old man. I thought, little girl, you are... a person with unique interests. In that case, it's really a loss for men in this world."

The old man rubbed his chest exaggeratedly, causing Kaori to puff out her cheeks in anger.But his subsequent unintentional remarks made Kaori feel a little embarrassed in an instant.

"This, this is too exaggerated, I'm not that good... not at all."

However, Kaori, who was a little shy at first, gradually became depressed as if she remembered some bad memories.After he finished speaking, he just lowered his head quietly and played with his fingers, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Aware that Kaori was in a bad mood, the old man did not continue to tease her in a rude manner.He just silently took out the sake he prepared from the bag and took a light drink.

"(Grumbling)...Tsk, ssh~~~~ Ha!"

"Ok?"

"Sure enough, when viewing cherry blossoms, it is most comfortable to drink sake. Little girl, do you want a drink?"

"Eh? My words... It's a little inconvenient to drink now."

After all, it is still a sick body, and it is better to avoid contact with things that hurt the body such as wine.

Facing Kaori's refusal, the old man shook his head in a lonely way, shouting a pity.

"Really...then there's no way. That's right, you still have things to do, so just wait until after that."

"matter?"

"Ah, aren't you going to find a man? Alcohol or something, you prefer to drink with your loved one than a bad old man like me? Go! My granddaughter is coming soon, wait for her to come. After that, it will be troublesome if you want to leave."

"How do you say that?"

"You've taken care of me for so long. If my granddaughter, who has clear grievances, sees it, she might drag you to go shopping."

Seemingly having a headache for his granddaughter's temperament, the old man gave Kaori a rather helpless expression.

And Kaori also seemed to remember someone, and made a helpless expression as a reply.

"That's really bothering... Then, I'm rude."

"Well, let's go."

Don't stop here, it's not very far from the starting point of the Meguro River for cherry blossom viewing.Kaori looked at the flow of people around, and after randomly choosing a route with fewer people, she walked over slowly.

After a while, her figure completely disappeared from the crowd.Only the old man who was still sitting on the stone bench by the river was left, a little lonely, drinking the fragrant sake alone.

"Hush~~~~ Ha..."

In fact, the elderly do not like drinking very much.Rather, he doesn't know much about drinking.

Liquor with a slightly higher degree of concentration can make him unconscious with only three or two glasses.Even with a low degree of beer, as long as he drank two bottles, he would feel dizzy for a whole day, and would have a headache for a while afterwards.

He seems to have a poor adaptability to alcohol by nature. No matter how many times he practices, he can never be as good at drinking as his son.

However, sake is not included here.He was born unsuitable for drinking, but unexpectedly he was able to drink sake.

Therefore, he prepared a whole bottle of treasure today, just to be able to rest while drunk.

At this moment, he sipped the sake in the glass while quietly watching the cherry blossom tree beside him...under the tree.

The reason why he drinks here is not only to pass the boring time waiting for his granddaughter, but also because the purpose of his trip has already been realized.

Under the tall cherry tree beside him, there were two clumps of welcome spring flowers, which were trying their best to compete with the big tree for nutrients, and were blooming stubbornly.

How can there be jasmine flowers under the cherry trees specially planted for cherry blossom viewing?

The old man, who knew this, snickered proudly.

This is the winter jasmine that he and his wife planted with their own hands 20 years ago.Originally holding 'what if it's still there? 'I came looking for this kind of mood, but I didn't expect it to still be there.This small surprise immediately filled his heart with joy.

"Really...you're still waiting for me...Chiyoko."

The two clumps of spring flowers shook briskly as if they understood the old man's self-talk.

The old man also seemed to have seen the scene of the spring outing with his lover many years ago, and his expression gradually became more serene.

"If...going over there...would..."

Turning his gaze to the slowly flowing Meguro River behind him, the old man's eyes were extremely calm.He didn't shake his expression in the slightest because the option of committing suicide appeared in his mind.

His life should have ended more than ten years ago.Even if you lose it now, there is nothing to regret.On the contrary, it will be a spiritual relief.

"grandfather!--"

——But...a familiar voice rescued him from this thought.He was still in a trance, following the source of the voice, looking for the two most important people in the world today.