Summer of Fireflies

What kind of feelings have quietly deteriorated in my heart, so when we parted, the surging reluctance and loss spread to every heart, but we couldn't wave goodbye happily.

"I'm leaving." I rubbed my fingers.

"I know." The young man's voice was faint, and there was no sadness or joy.

"Isn't Tsunaji-kun planning to say goodbye?" I gritted my teeth and looked at the young man's face.

The young man raised his hand slowly, paused, and quickly retracted it. His silence made me feel suffocated. I looked away sullenly. JOY was waiting for me in front of me. I didn't want this strange silence to continue. Going down, I forced a smile and joked to him: "Gangji-jun, although your fishing skills can't be used in the kitchen, but if you want to catch live fish, I can be your instructor for free." Although I think he It is impossible to come to me, but I want to keep a thought for myself.

"If you don't leave JOY, it's time to miss me." I suppressed my smile and turned around, stopped at the first step, and turned back sideways: "Gang Ji-jun, see you next time...you don't want me to be so gentle to you from now on." It's gone." His gentleness is a kind of poison, which makes me have the urge to fly moths to a flame.

Before I had time to see the young man's expression, I trotted to JOY's side, "Finished?" JOY's tone was laziness.

"Well, let's go."

I took JOY and got into the taxi. The glass of the taxi was half open. When the car started, I sat in it and watched the young man's back getting smaller and smaller in my sight until he was lost in the crowd.

To the young man just now, there is actually another sentence that I did not say, and probably will never have the opportunity to say:

——I like you, and, before I can tell you this, we have to separate.

You are on the other side of the world, and I am on this side of the world. The distance between us is more than just an obstacle in the world——

The author has something to say: Well, congratulations, I’m stuck again. Sure enough, if I don’t update after a while, I won’t be able to find the feeling at all.

Congratulations, I finally finished writing this matter, and the heroine will not see 270 for a long time, so I won't tell you that I am gloating...

Pierce: This article will definitely be customized after it is finished. It makes no sense that the book cover is ready. Before I am busy looking for a job, I will definitely finish this article as soon as possible. Do you really want to open a new hole?

44. Two dreams

In the summer when the cicadas were singing, I met him in the woods. I was only 6 years old when I first met him.

It is said that there are monsters in the forest of the mountain god. I lost my way in the forest and ran around looking for the exit.Finally I was too tired to run.

Just when I was crying out of loneliness and fear, he appeared in front of me.

"Hey, little one, what are you... crying for?"

I looked up and saw a boy wearing a fox mask, wearing a red T-shirt inside, a white button-less shirt outside, black trousers with clogs, dressed in a leisurely attire, as if he was walking in the forest in summer generally.

The shadows of the trees are swaying all around, and the cicadas are singing.

The young man stood behind the tree leaning on the trunk, his silver hair twinkling under the mottled shadow of the tree.

Seeing the boy, I jumped towards him excitedly as if I saw a savior, but he dodged me, causing me to fall hard.

"I'm sorry." The boy apologized to me, and then explained: "You are... a human child, right? If you are touched by a human, I will disappear."

The young man said he was a monster. I was very excited when I saw the legendary monster for the first time, and because I didn’t understand what was going on with the “disappearance” in his mouth, I tried to touch him, but he beat him with a stick instead. It hurts my head.

I lay on the ground with my head in my hands and was beaten and cried by him. I was convinced that he was really not a human being. Is Nima a human being who beats a child with a stick? !

Later, the boy said that he was willing to lead me out of the forest when I was lost. I was grateful and rushed towards him once, and the boy gave me another stick on the head in reflex.

Although it is a deep mountain wild forest, it is undeniably a beautiful forest. There is an old shrine at the exit of the forest.

The stick that held us together was about half the length of an arm. The boy was holding one end of the stick, and I was holding the other end. The two of them walked down the long stone steps of the shrine step by step, letting the water pour over their heads. The sunlight below casts dappled shadows on us.

"It always feels like a date." I smiled cheerfully as I walked.

"It's really a date with no fun at all."

"My name is Takekawa Hotaru, how about you?"

"My name is Silver."

The young man's voice as clear as emerald echoed in the wind, and soon disappeared with the wind.

Every summer vacation after that, I looked forward to going to my grandpa in the country to spend the summer where the cicadas and insects sang, and Yin was with me. I don’t know why every summer vacation is so enjoyable every year.

firefly every year

The flying midsummer is looking forward to meeting you.

So, year after year.

……

There was a small cry of a child in the depths of the forest. I was lying on a tree to sleep. I took off the lotus leaves covering my eyes, and jumped down from the tree.

I followed the crying sound to find it, but I saw a crying child hiding under a tree. I put the fox mask back on my face and walked towards the child: "Little ghost, what are you crying for?" I squatted Going down to look at him, the child turned around.

The boy's fluffy brown hair reminded me of a rabbit in the woods, and his chubby face was immature and delicate, with traces of tears remaining on it.

"You you you... who are you?" He stammered and staggered back a step, as if he was frightened by my rash appearance, otherwise he wouldn't even forget to wipe his tears.

"Who are you and me?" I looked down at him and raised my eyebrows: "Little devil, why haven't you told me why you are hiding here and crying?"

The clear and innocent eye sockets were red and swollen, he looked at me as if he was still a little scared: "I, I, I... I'm lost!"

"Ah, did you get lost?" I smiled at him with my chin in my hand, feeling that this kind of scene seemed familiar, "Isn't it just lost? A man is hiding here crying, kid, you are too worthless, right?! You won't ask for directions if you get lost?"

"But, but... there is no one here to ask..." The boy twitched his bright red nose and looked at me with innocent eyes.

"Who asked you to ask human beings?" I raised my eyebrows again, and seeing the doubts in the boy's eyes, I sighed: "I'll take you out first."

"Really, really?" Quenuo's eyes were beaming with joy at this moment, I picked up a short stick on the ground and nodded his head: "Hold it." I asked the boy to hold the short stick One end, while he was pulling the other end, the boy blinked and wondered: "Why use a stick?"

"Because I can't hold hands, I will disappear if I hold hands." I walked ahead and took him through one tree after another, and finally saw the shrine I was most familiar with.

"Where are your parents?" I asked casually.The steps of the shrine are very long, and the child has short legs, so I have to accommodate him not to walk too fast.

"My father is at the foot of the mountain." The boy pursed his lips.

"Then how did you get lost on this mountain?"

"Dad played hide-and-seek with me, let me hide on the mountain, and he will come to me again."

"Your father finally came to see you?"

"...I didn't see Dad." He hung his head in frustration.

I lowered my head and thought, this forest is so large, it seems

It seems that it is not easy to find someone, but... playing hide-and-seek with my son, unless the other party does not know the terrain here, I think his father deliberately left him here!

"Here we are." I stopped at the last step and pointed to the path down the mountain: "Go straight down from here, and you should be able to go home."

"By the way." Before leaving, I turned around suddenly: "Little ghost, what's your name?" It also shows that it is a kind of fate to meet here.

"Sawada Tsunayoshi...well, what's your sister's name?"

"Takekawa Hotaru, you can just call me Hotaru——ほたる (hotaru)."

……

"woke up?"

JOY poured me a cup of hot water for me lying on the recliner. The water in the ceramic cup was steaming hot, and my hands warmed up along with it.

"How do you feel?" he asked sitting across from the sofa.

"I had two dreams." I blew on the hot air and took a small sip. "In the first dream, there was a silver-haired ghost boy, and a black-haired girl named 'Takegawa Hotaru'." Because since the cruise ship incident, , I have always had some scattered dreams over and over again, which is why I am now receiving psychotherapy in JOY's office.

"Ghost boy?" JOY's eyes flashed after hearing this.

"Abandoned by humans and raised by monsters, the mountain god cast a spell on him. As long as he touches humans, he will disappear."

The silver-haired boy in his memory seems to have a pair of beautiful golden pupils, and the gold in his pupils...is a very warm color.

"It's interesting." JOY rubbed his chin and hooked his lips, "What about the second dream?" JOY used the method of hypnosis to recreate the vague fragments buried deep in my memory in the way of dreams. Now in my dream.

"In the second dream, there is a girl named 'Takekawa Ying', but her hair color is light blonde, and she is also a ghost. I don't know how she turned into a ghost." Intuitively, I feel that the girl in the first dream and the girl in the second dream are the same person, but one is human, the other is a ghost,