[SD] Hainan?Hainan!

Machiko shook the glass, and the ice cubes hit the wall of the glass with a crisp "clang".

The sushi plate in front of them had been cleaned up, indicating that the dinner time for the two of them was coming to an end.

Make up your mind.Delaying it for longer will only make things worse.

Machiko felt a little uncomfortable when the cold touch pierced her hand through the glass.

Still, she spoke.

"There's one thing I haven't asked you."

"?" Zhu Xing bit the straw and raised his head.

"Do you have a target college for the college entrance examination?" Machiko tried to pretend to be indifferent, but in fact, sweat was already dripping from her hands.

Zhu Xing put down his cup and rolled his eyes: "No."

"..." Machiko twitched the corners of her mouth, "Have you never thought about where you want to take the exam?"

Zhu Xing thought about it carefully: "Some sports universities have approached me before, but I never thought about becoming a professional athlete..."

Machiko raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"I actually prefer to study architecture."

Seeing Qingmei's slightly sluggish expression with her mouth open, Zhu Xing yelled kawaii in her heart.

"...Actually, it's quite suitable for you." Machiko recalled, Zhu Xingda's sketches seemed to be considered a talented type.

"Where's Machiko?"

What about me.

Machiko blinked, her eyes falling on the table.She didn't dare to look up into Zhu Xing's eyes, it made her feel inexplicably flustered.

"actually, I……"

……

The words stopped abruptly in the middle of the speech, followed by sudden dead silence and uncomfortable dizziness.

The last image Machiko's eyes caught was of Morohoshi leaping across the table towards her.

After one hour.Machiko put down the receiver in her hotel room.Her hands were still shaking when she walked to the bathroom, and the clear water from the faucet managed to regain her composure.

The earthquake in the east coast was felt even by her as far away as Hiroshima, not to mention her parents at home.But fortunately all is well.

fortunately.

——It would be great if I was so lucky five years ago.

Machiko, who lives in Nagoya, was driven by her father to her ancestral home in Kanagawa during the summer vacation of the second grade. In name, she was to accompany the elderly. In fact, the 8-year-old Machiko knew very well that this was the punishment for her mistakes.

She was the only one who was sent out, without Mu Shenyi is the best proof.

——After all, it wasn't the younger brother who fought, but her elder sister.

This is also the strategy that Mu's father and Mu's mother came up with after discussing all night: It is right for a sister to defend her brother, but fighting is really not what girls should do...

So Machiko was taken to the ancestral house of the shepherd's family for "wholehearted" "lady education".

——After all, that person in the ancestral house is quite important.

After a summer vacation, the mu father who came to pick up the child was pleasantly surprised to find that his daughter had really become a lady.

Behavior is more like a lady, polite and well-behaved.No matter how you look at it, she is not the same as the girl who hit someone with her fist without saying a word.

Overjoyed, Papa Mu ignored the "Sophie's World" under his daughter's arm.

By the time Papa Mu noticed the abnormality, there was already a layer of books classified as "Introduction to Philosophy" in her daughter's bookcase, and her daughter was looking forward to continuing to spend the summer vacation in Kanagawa next year.

So he made a phone call, but got a comment from Grandma Mu that her daughter was "very intelligent".Papa Mu hung up the phone dejectedly.

——Her old man took all the energy that failed to train herself to be a philosopher to train her granddaughter.

Mu’s grandfather and grandmother, who met and fell in love at Dongda University, are both students of the philosophy department, so they naturally hope that their only son will also embark on this path.However, after her son firmly entered the business world, Grandpa Mu passed away due to illness, so it makes sense for Grandma Mu to put her hopes on her granddaughter who will accompany her... right?

Papa Mu burst into tears: Sooner or later he will have to pay back when he comes out to play around...

Although she made indirect remarks on her daughter several times, Machiko also said that she didn't quite understand what most of the books meant, but she still insisted on gnawing on them one by one.

"Because grandma seems to be very happy when she talks about these books."

——Father Mu was finally defeated by his daughter's innocent words.

What Machiko said was indeed the truth. When she was just getting started, she had only a half-knowledge of those books, but Grandma Mu patiently led her to explain sentence by sentence, and she finally figured out the idea slowly.

As an honorary professor of Yokohama National University, Grandma Mu is very patient with students, especially her granddaughter who is cute and studious. Coupled with Machiko's own interest, she has already achieved a good understanding of philosophy as a child most.

And Machiko still spent the unusual summer vacation in Kanagawa in the sixth grade.

The closest one to the living room of the ancestral house in Kanagawa is the guest room, opposite to it is the study room. Opposite the study room is the room that Machiko stays in every summer vacation, which is opposite to Grandma Mu’s room.

"Grandma, what do you mean by this sentence?" Machiko sat on the wooden chair in the study shaking her feet, and the ponytail on her head danced accordingly.

Grandma Mu pushed the reading glasses to take a closer look.Then she smiled, reached out and touched her granddaughter's head: "This sentence is still a bit difficult for you to understand, your life experience is too shallow."

Machiko blinked half-understanding: "Then when will I understand?"

Grandma Mu also thought about it with some distress: "You can wait until you really grow up."

So Machiko carefully annotated on the margin of the page that "you can only understand after you really grow up."

Grandma Mu couldn't help laughing at her granddaughter's serious look, but seeing Machiko studying seriously, she felt that it was better not to disturb her, so she simply walked out of the room to go shopping for lunch.

The moment she walked to the entrance, a familiar feeling of dizziness hit her.She hurriedly supported the door frame to stabilize her figure, then dropped the wallet in her hand and rushed into the room.

Machiko was a little late when she felt the shock. She jumped off the chair and saw Grandma Mu rushing into the room. Before she could say "Grandma", she was pushed away and fell on the After falling to the ground, there was the dull sound of heavy books on the bookshelf hitting the flesh heavily.

"...Grandma?" Machiko called out with a trembling voice.

No one answered.

"Grandma?" Machiko shook Grandma's arm, but Grandma Mu didn't respond as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.When Machiko raised her hand again, she found that her hand was already stained with blood that hurt her eyes.

Machiko forced herself to hold back her crying and screaming, ran to the phone to call the hospital, and went barefoot to the house of her mother-in-law Fujisaki next door for help.The noon sun was covered by clouds, and Machiko grabbed the iron door and yelled five or six times, but found no answer. Remembering that her neighbor was picked up by her son yesterday, she had to run back home again.

She is the only one who can help grandma.

The blood on the floor was accumulating little by little. Machiko could only cover her grandmother's wound with a towel, but she dared not do anything else.

She remembered that the teacher told her that there are some wounds that cannot be moved.

The ambulance from the hospital roared in and took away Grandma Mu and Machiko.

After that, Machiko watched grandma being pushed in in front of the operating room, the door was closed, and the warning light in front of the operating room was on.

A young nurse sister wanted to comfort her, gave her a candy and told her a story.Machiko leaned on her shoulder and bowed her head in a calm manner, and at the same time said nothing.

Half an hour later, she offered to call her family.

Mu Shenyi had just returned from the stadium, and was still sweating. He threw his clothes into the laundry basket and was about to take a shower, but was interrupted by the sound of the phone.

"Hi, this is Mujia."

"... Gentleman?"

Mu Shen blinked his eyes: "Machiko?"

Hearing her younger brother's voice, Machiko held the phone and suddenly couldn't say anything.Thousands of words stuck in her throat almost made her breathless.She took a deep breath, tears streaming down her face.

"Hello? Hello??" Mu Shen had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Grandma... woo...Grandma was hit on the head by a book on the bookcase, and she is now in the hospital..." Machiko spoke intermittently, with a crying voice that made Mu Shenyi realize the seriousness of the matter.He was only 12 years old at the time, he could only comfort his sister clumsily, and then quickly called his parents.

But it was already four o'clock in the afternoon when the shepherds arrived at the hospital.

It was quiet in front of the operating room. Since the patients in the room were issued critical illness notices, many nurses entered the operating room to help, and Machiko curled up alone on the plastic chair at the door.

Seeing her daughter's appearance, Mu's mother was about to break her heart, so she rushed forward and hugged Machiko in two steps at a time.Machiko just trembled all over, but couldn't make any other reactions.

At 04:30, Granny Mu's body was pushed out.

Afterwards, the funeral and so on, Machiko no longer wanted to recall, for her, it was not as impressive as her walk into the operating room.

As the only family member present at the time, she went up and held grandma's hand.Granny Mu, who was hit in the head by a heavy object, was already speechless, and there was an inexplicable emotion in the eyes that looked at her.

Machiko froze and held grandma's hand, unable to utter a word.Until the doctor sent her out, all she could think about was "Grandma is going to die".

"Life and death are two sides of the same coin. When one side becomes bigger and clearer, the other side also becomes bigger and clearer. Only with a clear awareness that one day she will die eventually, can she You can’t appreciate how good it is to be alive. You can’t appreciate being alive if you don’t realize that you’re going to die.”

Machiko suddenly remembered this sentence when she sank in the bathtub of the hotel.

——She once asked grandma this sentence.

Why?Why die?

Grandma said that when she really grows up, she will understand.

For the first time, Machiko felt that grandma's word was a prophecy.At least on that dreary afternoon, she grew up all at once.

She became quiet, silent, sensible, able to endure, deal with many difficulties rationally, and cherish everything in life, but at the same time, she also became insecure, afraid of strangers, afraid of change, and afraid that she would be like a mayfly The same life and death.

— just like a grown-up.

Grandma Mu didn't expect that Machiko would realize the issue of life and death at such an early age, nor did she think that it would be related to herself.But there are so many inevitability in everything.

Machiko let out a sigh.Trying to expel the repression of memory together with the stale air.She tried to distract herself, and then she saw the small cardboard box on the table outside the bathroom door.

Well.

This should be something Zhu Xing gave after sending him back.However, she was a little flustered and wanted to make sure that Mu Shenyi was safe and didn't take it apart to check it at that time, and she didn't find time until she returned to the hotel.

What could it be?

After tearing off the edge of the box covered by scotch tape, Machiko smelled the aroma of chocolate.

"Ah." She seemed to know what it was.

Compared with Machiko's kitchen nemesis attribute, Zhuxing's cooking skills are full.The udon noodles he made were praised by Mama Mu, the chef of Mujia.

Machiko poked the cute chocolate Daifuku, and thought of what she couldn't say at the sushi restaurant.

Machiko made a small dumpling.

How long will Zhu Xing like herself?

This question will never be solved for her.

She smiled suddenly, and took a small bite of the snack. The rich chocolate taste smeared in her mouth, and the warmth flowed from her mouth to the blood vessels of her whole body.

When thinking of the earthquake, Zhu Xing rushed over foolishly, hugged her and stuffed her under the table, Machiko couldn't laugh or cry.

But this kind of atmosphere is not so much dumbfounding as it is a feeling of "losing to you".

But...it doesn't feel bad.

Who made Machiko...just like Zhu Xingda like this.

And... On the list of Machiko's nemesis, the number one is not Fukatsu Kazunari, as everyone agrees, but, it has always been, Zhu Xingdai.

……well.I really lost to you.downright.

As if Machiko had made up her mind, she picked up the phone again.

The author has something to say:

sudden return~

This chapter tells the story of Machiko’s past, which can be regarded as the evolution history from a violent loli to a quiet lady. =

What Machiko asked Grandma Mu came from "Sophie's World"

A very important reason why Zhu Xing was able to chase Machiko, but Xiandao failed was that he knew Machiko so well that he was unconscious, but all the (bad) girl chasing techniques he used hit Machiko's point...

If you’re in a bad mood, I’ll give you cats/You like sweets and I’ll make delicious ones/You don’t feel safe and I’ll keep chasing you and never give up… There are many, many things (if I have a chance to write about it later XD)

But the idea is good, two people have to go a long way if they want to be friends really together