[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

33#Flowers in black water

Erika Di Xiaolu clearly knew that she was dreaming.

The icy lake water poured down her throat, and the piercing chill made her subconsciously let go of her breath. The water gushed into her trachea, and her lungs began to ache. The pain of suffocation made her stretch out her hand unconsciously, towards the figure on the water, struggling struggling.

However, there were two voices, vaguely heard across the lake.

"Why don't you go down and save her!"

"The water is so cold! It's not like you don't know my legs! It will hurt for another day after being in cold water! It's winter now! But you, you are her mother, why don't you go down and save her?"

"My makeup will be ruined in the water!"

The woman's scream reached her ears through the water, making her forget about struggling.So, just like that, sinking down.Has been sinking.

However, the argument between the two continued.

"Go get someone to save her!"

"Where is anyone else now..."

Erika couldn't hear what else was said later.

She just feels cold.

The pain of suffocation seemed to burst her lungs, but she suddenly didn't want to struggle anymore.

—Anyway, no one wanted her to live, did they?

Just when she was thinking this way, a person jumped into the pool, swam towards her desperately, and grabbed her hand.

That person is—

***

"you're awake?"

Erika opened her eyes in a daze, and met a pair of gentle and concerned water blue eyes.She blinked, barely able to see the face clearly.

"...Yes, Mana-chan?"

"It still seems to have a fever." Mana reached out and took the towel off her forehead, twisted it in cold water a few times before putting it on her again, "I saw that you didn't come to school today, so I asked the teacher for yours Address, I knocked on the door and heard the sound of you falling to the ground, but I didn’t see you open the door. I took the key from under the flower pot at the door and came in by myself. When I came in, I saw you fell to the ground...why don’t you go to the hospital? ?”

"...I don't want to go." Erika grabbed Mana's hand in a daze, and pressed it against her cheek, "It's so cool..."

"Erica, be good. If you wake up, take the medicine first, be obedient."

Mana reached her arm under Erika's neck, half-supporting and half-hugging her, letting her lean against her.First pulled the quilt under Erika's neck, wrapped her up, and then reached out to get water and medicine from the bedside table, and fed her to eat.Erika wrinkled her face from the bitterness of the pills, buried her face in Mana's chest and rubbed it, and prolonged the ending sound like a baby.

"...It's so bitter, I don't like it. My whole body hurts, can Mana-chan hug me? I heard that hugging won't hurt."

"Why do you look like a child?"

Mana smiled helplessly, reached out and hugged Erica into her arms, wrapped the quilt tightly for her, and patted her on the back gently.Erika curled up as if afraid of the cold, and shrank into Mana's arms.The high fever made her cheeks flush, and Mana caressed her worriedly, secretly startled by the temperature.

"The fever is so bad, can you go to the hospital?"

"No, no." Erica shook her head dizzily, "Erica's illness will be cured soon, don't go to the hospital, don't get an injection, it hurts... Erica is most afraid of pain... ...don't go to the hospital."

"Be good, be good. If you don't go to the hospital, you won't go to the hospital." Mana hugged Erica, like coaxing a baby, "Erica, please lie down for a while, okay? Just drink a bowl of it and sleep well."

"No. I want Mana-chan to stay with me."

"Erika, I'm just going to get the soup and I'll be right back. Eat something, it's good for your health." Mana thought for a while, and added, "I won't go anywhere, I'll always be with you Erica."

Erika reluctantly let go of her hand, opened her wine-red eyes that were burning with mist, and looked at Mana pitifully, causing Mana to pat her forehead helplessly and angrily.

"Come back soon." She tugged at the corner of Mana's clothes and reluctantly let go, "Be sure to come back soon."

"Uh-huh."

Erica was lying on the bed, listening to Mana's busy voice in the kitchen, her wine-red eyes were covered with mist due to the high fever, quietly staring at a certain point in the void.

"Mana-chan..." she muttered to herself, "Why are you being so nice to Erica?"

Naturally, the air would not answer her, Erica slowly closed her eyes, and hid her face under the blanket.The long eyelashes trembled unconsciously.

It wasn't until a cool hand touched her forehead that Erika opened her eyes again and smiled at Mana as usual.

"Get up and drink the soup. I also got some rice, let's eat a little." Mana persuaded softly, "You don't have any medicine at home, I bought some, you remember to eat it at night. Eat a few slices before I leave Let me tell you. Come on, let’s have a stomach pad first.”

This time Erica didn't act like a baby anymore, but obediently ate all the food.After Mana cleaned up the dishes, she reached out and grabbed the corner of Mana's clothes, slowly leaned on her thigh, raised her arms to wrap around her waist, and snuggled past her.

"Mana-chan, you are always so gentle." Erica smiled a little dazedly, "This is not okay... If you are so gentle with everyone, it will make people think badly, Mana-chan."

"Eh?"

"It will make people look bad..." Erica said in a daze, probably because the effect of the cold medicine had taken effect, she closed her eyes drowsily, and her breathing became even after a while.

Mana gently stroked her curls.

A little bit, very gentle.

***

Erica had that dream again.

But the difference is that in the dream, there is always a soft and warm hand holding her, preventing her from falling deeper into the darkness.

She hesitated, but finally took the hand back.

Tight and never let go.

***

Erica, who went to class the next day, was already very energetic.

"Feeling better today?" Mana asked.

Erica nodded with a smile, and said, "It's much better, thank you Mana-chan... Woohoo!"

She frantically took the things Kugaoi threw, and stared at Kugaoi with wide eyes in surprise.The long and straight girl snorted, folded her arms around her chest and turned her head away.

"I heard that your house doesn't even have cold medicine... This is a medicine cabinet. You idiot will never think of buying medicine yourself."

"Thank you Kui Jiang! Kui Jiang is such a nice person!"

"Hey, hey! Don't rush over! No! You can't even rub! It's so hot on a hot day! Don't kiss me if you have a cold! No! You can't even when you have a cold!"

"Just a kiss! Kiss the sunflower sauce! =3=~~~~"

"Not even once, you bastard want to infect me!"

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

"Don't say the same as when I loved you!"

"Kui Jiang is so cruel qaq."

"...I can't be cruel to you, okay?"

"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

Kugaoi looked at Erica looking at her pitifully, with a dejected expression that even shrugged her ears, pursed her lips and hesitated for a long time, then gritted her teeth, pinched her chin and kissed her cheek hard, and then very Pushing Erica away in disgust, she snorted and turned her head away.

"Okay, I've kissed you, don't make any more trouble... Don't keep acting like I'm bullying you, looking upset."

"I knew Kui Jiang was the softest!" Erica swooped.

"I told you not to come here!!!"

Mana looked at the two of them and smiled, until when Aoi was getting entangled by Erika and was about to turn into anger, she interjected aloud and relieved Aoi.

"I made soup for Erika, Aoi will have some too later."

"..."

The two stopped at the same time and looked at Mana together.

"Great!" Erika let go of Aoi, flew onto Mana, hugged her and rubbed her, "Mana-chan is the best!"

"You invited me like that..." Aoi looked away and replied awkwardly, "Then I'll just try it out."

"Hi hi."

Mana smiled helplessly, bent her hand back, and patted Erika's head.

"By the way, the boy at the door seems to be looking for you, Erica. He has been looking this way."

"Huh?" Erika opened her eyes wide and looked towards the door, meeting the boy's dodging gaze, "Then I'll ask."

***

Erica Dikoji walked with the boy to the corner of the stairs.

"What can you do with Erica?" She asked with a smile.

The boy blushed all of a sudden, looked around helplessly, and finally opened his mouth hesitantly.

"That... my name is Shota Nishiyama... I... I have liked Fute Koji-san for a long time! I hope you can date me!"

The boy blushed and yelled out this sentence with the mood of "the fish dies, the net breaks, the jar breaks and you fall to death, forget it".He timidly opened one eye, carefully watching Erica's expression.After seeing her expression that seemed to be smiling even though she didn't show her dimples, he gradually settled down in his heart.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Erika Futekoji's sweet voice sounded in the dark stairwell.

"You said you liked me?"

The boy blushed and nodded vigorously.

"like me?"

Erica asked again.The boy raised his head, and when he saw those indifferent wine-red eyes, he suddenly felt his heart go cold little by little.

'...It seems that something is not right...'

"Do you like me...?" Erica's voice was still sweet, but it made people feel chills down the spine, "What do you like about me? What do you know about me? Just say you like me without knowing anything. After all, you Is it just for self-satisfaction?"

"Do you know what I like? Do you know what kind of person I am? Do you know how I miss you?... I don't know anything, just say I like it, it really makes me feel sick to the point of vomiting."

"To show off? To be able to talk about how Erika is when I'm bragging with my companions? Is it different? Or do you think it's cute so you want to tease it?"

"Well, just kidding. But well, I won't date you."

The boy stared at the girl in front of him dumbfounded.

For the first time, he discovered that her lips were naturally upturned at the corners of her mouth, even if she was not smiling, she seemed to be smiling.There was no way of telling whether she was happy or not.

That innocent and pretty girl who was always smiling only existed in his fantasy.

The strange girl in front of him took a step towards him, her sweet voice with a slight smile poured into his ears like poisonous poison, and the scorching poison penetrated into his heart all the way.

"As for why—isn't that obvious? I don't like you. I don't want you to like me."