Substitutes are not a problem

Chapter95

"Xiaoyuan, do you want to go out?"

"Well, I have an appointment with Saeko, and I will go to her house."

"Be careful on the road... Ah, remember to bring an umbrella, the weather forecast says it will snow today."

After saying hello to Nana Sawada, Gena took an umbrella and went out.

Before I got to the station after going out, snowflakes floated in the sky, falling silently little by little.

"The snow fell a bit late this year...it's almost February..."

Reaching out to catch a few snowflakes, Yuan Rina sighed softly, feeling the coldness melting in the palm of her hand.

It's snowing again, she has been living as Rina Araki for three years.

That winter three years ago, it was a family named Sawada who welcomed her as a newborn into this world.

Yes, like a newcomer, because she... doesn't remember anything.

The memory of the past is blank, but Sawada Nana and Sawada Tsunayoshi left the first touch of color on her white board.

She passed out near Sawada's house on a snowy day.Then she was taken in by the hostess of the house, Nana Sawada.

According to Sawada Nana, that day, she was wearing clothes that didn’t fit well and passed out in the snow with a high fever. Her left hand was seriously injured, and Dang even sent her to the hospital for treatment.

After receiving treatment in the hospital, the high fever quickly subsided, but the left hand could not be healed, and the trauma of the left hand could be healed.

However, the internal nerves were severely damaged and basically could no longer exert force.Can't even hold on to things for long periods of time... it's kind of half useless.

After waking up, she could only shake her head with a wry smile to Sawada mother and son's question about her origin, because she really didn't know anything.

Even her name, Rina Araki, and her age were all known from the bracelet she was wearing when she was in a coma.The rather simple-looking bracelet had her name and birthday engraved on the inside.

It was the male owner of the family who finally helped her determine her origin.

The male owner named Sawada Iemitsu, who has never seen his head and tail, finally returned home after learning that his wife had suddenly taken in a child who appeared out of nowhere.

Although Mr. Sawada Iemitsu looks like an unreliable silly uncle.But she almost instinctively sensed a dangerous aura from this man. This man is definitely not as cheerful and harmless as he appears on the surface...

However, Nana Sawada, his wife, and Tsunayoshi Sawada, his own son, seemed completely unaware of this.

Mr. Sawada Iemitsu quickly asked a friend who is said to be working in the household registration department to find out her background——

She comes from a remote small fishing village in the countryside. A tsunami destroyed the entire village a few years ago. Later, the government's rescue work missed her, and she became a missing person.And all her relatives were buried in that tsunami.

And it took a lot of effort to find a photo of her registered when she was a child in the household registration department database. The photo shows a blond-haired, blue-eyed mixed-race little girl, which matches her appearance.

Wow, it turned out that her life experience was so tragic... Damn, she soon determined that her own background was definitely not so miserable and simple.

Mr. Sawada Iemitsu soon left home after finding out her background, saying that the oil mining team on the Antarctic side was still waiting for him.

However, she soon realized that as soon as Mr. Sawada Iemitsu left, people around Sawada's house were under surveillance...or to be precise, they were watching her.

The watchers didn't have any malicious intentions, they just wanted to confirm her every move, as if they were trying to judge whether she entered this home with ulterior motives.

This made her more convinced on the one hand that Mr. Sawada Iemitsu is definitely not an ordinary person, and on the other hand, it also made her sure that her past was definitely not that simple...

Which ordinary high school student would realize so quickly that he was under professional surveillance.

So she thought, if she was really Rina Araki, she must have experienced extraordinary things during the years of wandering outside after the tsunami, and had been specially trained.

Or...she wasn't Araki Genarina at all, before she lost her memory, she pretended to be Araki Genarina's identity to disguise herself.

Some inadvertent little things that happened in her life later also made her more convinced that she was special in the past.

For example, when she met a door-to-door salesman of health care products and heard the salesman’s hype about the product, she couldn’t help but sneer in her heart, almost opening her mouth to refute the other party with a bunch of technical terms, but when The mouth is barely stopped...

Those professional knowledge, no matter how you look at it, shouldn't be something a middle school student should understand!After fooling the salesman away, she searched the Internet for a bunch of medical and biochemical papers published in professional journals, and found that she could understand them all.Not only can you understand it, but you can even point out where there is a problem.

So, what was she doing in the past!

Full of doubts, she started a new life as Rina Araki.After confirming that she should be harmless, Mr. Sawada Iemitsu also revoked the monitoring of her, which is considered to have approved her to settle in this home.

And she didn't insist on finding her lost memory.If there is really an old person who cares about her, then she just waits for the other person to come to her;

If no one came looking for her, then past relationships meant nothing to her, so why didn't she just start a new life.

She's not the kind of person who likes to dig into dead ends. For this kind of thing, it's good to be connected, and there's nothing to be depressed about.

Moreover, her new life is indeed quite comfortable.Sawada Nana is so nice to her, and Sawada Tsunayoshi is also full of trust and dependence on her. Even if there is no blood relationship, she can be a very good family member.

In addition to gaining two family members, I also met many good friends from Bingsheng Junior High School to Lihai University Senior High School.

Although many times when she looks at these peers, she feels inexplicably... that she is looking at immature children, but the innocence and sincerity unique to children are not annoying.

Before I knew it, three years had passed.In the past three years, no so-called old friends from the past came to her.

And she gradually forgot the idea of ​​looking for the past.It doesn't matter if she was boiled with a frog in warm water, her body instinct told her that she just liked and enjoyed the current life very much.

That being the case, there was nothing wrong with continuing the life she liked.

Just like her left hand is half useless, she learns to hold chopsticks with her right hand and write with her right hand.Although the process is difficult, it is not all done in the end.

There is no past that cannot be let go.

……

"How, how, Yuan Rina, do you think there is hope?"

In an ordinary two-story single-family house, Yuan Rina nodded to her friend slightly against her will while drinking hot cocoa.

Saeko is a good friend of hers in the class, and she has always had a heart to debut as an idol.

But this time, I finally decided to take action and went to a recruiting interview for a well-known entertainment company on weekends.

During this period of time, Saeko has been practicing singing and dancing in a surprise manner. Today I asked her to help take a look and simulate the interview on the weekend.

To be honest, Saeko's singing and dancing skills...at most, I can give it a passing grade, but now when recruiting idols, singing and dancing skills should not be the most important thing.

Just look good.

The development and evolution of the times is such a reality.

"Gen Rina, Yuan Rina, can you accompany me to the scene on the weekend, and help me strengthen my courage?"

After thinking about it, I didn't have any plans for the weekend, so I just took it as a trip to downtown Tokyo, and Minamoto Rina agreed.

At this time, she never thought that this promise would trigger the crazy butterfly effect in the future.

……

After leaving Saeko's house, on the way to the station, I saw a small shop specializing in used books, and walked in with some interest.

The shopkeeper is a gray-haired old man who has collected many old books in his life, some of which were even published half a century ago.

Maybe fate is so indescribable. In this quaint bookstore, among the thousands of old books, Yuan Rina reached out to a very old magazine.

"Boss, I want to buy this one."

is a periodical published 23 years ago that contains many short stories.

Among them, her favorite one is...

Outside the house, the snow is still falling profusely, and it is getting bigger and bigger after nightfall.In the house, Yuan Rina sat on the bed in her bedroom, looked at the novel called "Bubble" spread out in front of her eyes, and brushed her favorite sentence in the novel lightly with her fingers——

[Life is short, feel happy with the snap of your fingers, if you don’t laugh out loud, you won’t regret it in the future. 】

For some reason, she always felt that there was an inexplicable bond between herself and this novel, as if...

She had read this novel a long time ago.And just like at this moment, I fell in love with it at a glance.

The fingers lightly placed on the page moved slowly, and moved to the name of the author of the novel——

"Mori... Rintaro..."

Muttering the name, calling it over and over again in my heart, I felt like drinking poison to quench my thirst.

At this moment, a small movement outside the window brought her back to her senses and looked out the window.

I saw that on the tree in front of the window, a branch couldn't bear the weight of the snow, and it broke when the last snowflake that reached the limit of the weight fell.

【You said... how much does a snowflake weigh? 】

【It is true that not everything in this world can be accurately calculated individually... Some things have already accumulated so much and so heavy without knowing it...】

[In my heart, the last snowflake has already fallen, how about you? 】

Who, who was speaking these words to her?

Who was the person who said these words to her...

These words suddenly echoed in his mind, and his fingers instinctively stroked his cheeks.

It seemed that in such a snowy day, someone said these words and kissed her lightly.

……

The next day, under an inexplicable impulse, Yuan Rina asked a tattoo artist to give her a tattoo.

She has a scar on her left lower back that she always feels is related to her lost memory.

But now, she frantically wants to cover up this trace that symbolizes the past, as if she wants to cut off all the pain in the past, and everything in the past has nothing to do with the current Rina Araki.

As written in that novel, a person's life is so short, it is rare to encounter happiness.Then, seize the moment of happiness and laugh out loud.

In the end, she asked the tattoo artist to tattoo the German name of the novel—Schaum.

Schaum refers to both foam and bubbles.

Why use German?Maybe it's because the story background of that novel happened in Germany, maybe it's because of the unique significance of Germany to her in the past?

Probably there is, because when she thinks of Germany, the first thing that comes to her mind is neither the Rhine nor a medieval castle, but a street decorated with cherry blossoms.

However, these are no longer relevant.

It's all just Schaum.

It's all just a bubble of the past.

……

On the weekend, Yuan Rina accompanied Saeko to the entertainment company in downtown Tokyo to sign up for an interview as scheduled, and when she sent Saeko in, she was about to leave...

"Miss, do you want to try it too?"

The interviewer suddenly extended an olive branch to her, a passer-by who was just accompanying her.

The first reaction, Minamoto Rina naturally refused decisively.

Later, because of a sudden accident in the Sawada family, she was finally forced to be really fragrant.

Helplessly looking at the paper contract that he signed in his hand.As everyone knows, the gear of fate, which has been suspended for three years, quietly rotates again at this moment.