[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

37# Rose dedicated to Aoi

When Mana went to see Aoi, she barely recognized her.

"...you can laugh if you want." Jiugaoi, whose head was wrapped into a rice dumpling, said sullenly.

Mana sighed, and touched her head helplessly and distressedly, putting the force on her hand very lightly, for fear of hurting her.

"How did you make it like this?"

"During the quarrel, I accidentally fell down the stairs." Kugaoi said flatly, "I hit my head, but it's fine."

"...Does it hurt?" Mana gently held Kuga Aoi's hand, looking at her with worried blue eyes, "Does it still hurt?"

"What a big deal." Jiugaoi turned her head awkwardly, "How could it hurt so much... Do you think I'm you?"

Mana has long been used to Kugaoi's hard mouth, so she just smiled when she heard this, and stretched out her hands for Kugaoi to brush the loose hair from her sideburns behind her ears.

"Yeah, our Aoi is the strongest." Her smile narrowed slightly when she touched the bandage, "But next time, don't be so stubborn, we will all be sad if you get hurt."

"...Hum." Kugaoi snorted muffledly, and looked away unhappily.

"I know what Aoi is for, but for us, Aoi is the most important thing." Mana said softly, "It's more important than anything else."

"Sud, why are you saying such nasty things all of a sudden!" Jiugaoi blushed, and hurriedly avoided Mana's hand, "I, I, I, I don't need your concern! Ah, Kaoru's big mouth! Next time I see him I will definitely beat him to death! Keep your mouth open all day long!"

"Okay, okay, don't be angry." Mana smiled and pulled Aoi, and put the snack box she brought on her lap, "Here, here are the snacks I made for you, see if you like it?"

"……Humph."

The food box was opened, and exquisite snacks were placed inside, as well as small and cute buns specially pinched, snow-white and pink, looking so cute that people couldn't bear to eat them.Aoi took one and played with it in the palm of her hand. It was soft and had a hint of heat. She bit it down. The chestnut filling was extremely sweet, covering a whole chestnut. The lukewarm filling made the sweetness of the chestnut more obvious.It's a wonderful taste.

"How about it, is this sweet enough?" Mana asked.

Aoi blushed slightly, and looked away awkwardly: "That's it...you can still enter."

"As long as you like it." Mana smiled and poured a cup of black tea from the thermos for her, "If you think the tea is hot, blow it on and drink it."

Kugaoi took the black tea, the tea from Mana's house was naturally not as good as the tea she was used to drinking at Kugao's house, but the tea was a little hot, which was the most suitable temperature for drinking, Aoi narrowed her eyes slightly, the mellow aroma of black tea diluted the dessert in her mouth The sweetness, the indescribable feeling, can only be said to be just right.

"...It's okay." Kugaoi praised awkwardly.

"Is the person at the door Aoi's father?"

Mana suddenly brought up the topic.Jiugaoi's face turned cold, and his eyes were once again covered with that layer of frost-like chill.She glanced at Mana expressionlessly, then turned to look at the white smoke rising from the teacup in her hand.

"what."

Seeing this, Mana swallowed what she wanted to say, and only patted Aoi's shoulder lightly.Slightly sighed.

"Does Aoi hate her father?"

"It's because he hates me." Jiugaoi said coldly, "After his mother divorced him, he hated the children she gave him, especially me. I look like my mother. He especially doesn't want to see me. "

Mana was speechless for a moment, she could only gently embrace Kugaoi's shoulders and let her lean into her arms.

Kugaoi quietly closed her eyes.

She couldn't tell Mana how much her father hated the child born to his betrayed wife, so hated that he didn't even want to look at her, even if she shed his blood, she was just a disgrace to that man .

She also couldn't say how much she hated the mother who gave birth to her, and how much she hated herself.

Only for that miserable man, she had more complicated feelings than hatred.

She still remembers that when she was very young, her mother hadn't betrayed her father. Although the two often quarreled at that time, when they were quiet, her father would always touch her head and say, I'm sorry, Aoi, I'm sorry.When they quarreled badly, the older brother would come and take her away. Sometimes it was the eldest brother, sometimes it was the second brother. The eldest brother would read fairy tales to her, and the second brother would give her his toys to play with. The two of them took turns to accompany her. She plays all kinds of games.

Before my mother left, my father always brought Aoi various gifts every time he went out, put her on his shoulders and twirled around, and even gave her a big horse to ride.In fact, Kui's father taught her the piano hand in hand. On her mother's birthday, the father and daughter played the birthday song together four-handed, which made the usually serious mother laugh out loud.Every day my father would cut two roses from the garden and put one in my mother's room and the other in her room. He said it was a rose dedicated to his queen and little princess. I've been jealous.

……

Kugaoi opened her eyes, leaned against Mana's arms and looked blankly at the bedside table, where there was a white porcelain vase with a rose in it, with slender branches and fiery red flowers.She looked at the rose quietly and closed her eyes again.

Maybe it was the injury that made people weak, and she remembered the past.

Over the years, she rarely recalled the past, and she wanted to discard all the tender past, so that she could hate with confidence.But now she realizes that the warmth of the past still binds her tightly, and she cannot get rid of it.She hated that memory so much, and it was so hard to let go of it.

"Hey, Mana, is there any way to forget everything about the past?"

Aoi murmured a question, probably not expecting a response, a rare wry smile appeared on her face.

However, Mana gave an answer.

"When you no longer remember, you probably forgot."

"...It would be great if you really can't remember."

The wry smile on Aoi's face deepened, she pushed Mana away and buried her face in the pillow.

"I'm tired, you go back first."

With one hand gently stroking her long hair, Mana's voice sounded beside her, so soft and warm.

"I don't know what happened to Aoi, and I don't know why Aoi is sad, because I am not Aoi, I have not experienced what Aoi has experienced, so I don't know what I should say to you at this time... But, Aoi has to believe that we all like you, and everyone will like you. Because Aoi is such a good girl, although she is a bit stubborn, but... she is the most soft-hearted girl I have ever seen."

"So, be a little more frank, okay? Be a little more frank with the people you care about, try to ask, they may be waiting for you to do something for you. Don't always say 'I don't need'… ...If you keep being pushed away, the other party will not know what to do."

"I'll put the dessert here first, and I'll put the black tea bag together. If this dessert doesn't go with tea, it will be a little greasy. Take a good rest and go downstairs if you want to see me."

"Goodbye, Aoi."

The door was closed.

Jiu Wokui rubbed her face on the pillow indiscriminately, the pillow had absorbed the moisture, showing a little wet marks.

"……Hate."

she whispered.

"Such words... are the most annoying."

The door was pushed open again, Kugaoi's back stiffened, and her eyes were tightly closed.The man's footsteps gradually approached her bedside, and he raised his hand to pull the quilt up to her chin, and tucked in the corners of the quilt.The left hand wearing the ring seemed to want to touch her cheek, but it finally stopped on top of her face, stiffened for a while, and then retracted.

"That little girl... just told me not to hit you again. Such a weak little girl has the courage to say such things to me. "

The man's voice was still cold and hard, but it was different from usual.What's the difference, Kugaoi doesn't know, it's just a feeling.

"That's really a little girl who is very good at talking. I was almost convinced by her." The man smiled wryly, "Thinking about it, what she said is not unreasonable."

Kugaoi's breathing tightened slightly, and then she heard a man's deep voice.

"I'm sorry, Aoi. It's been causing you so much pain."

"Since your mother left, I haven't looked at you carefully. I just made all kinds of demands on you. You must be in pain."

Kugaoi's eyelashes trembled and trembled, and a tear silently leaked out of the eyelashes, which was sucked clean by the pillow, and no one saw it.

It seems to have returned to that time again. Because he could not bear the dark and oppressive atmosphere at home, the elder brother ran away from home in the name of studying abroad, and the second brother ran away from home in pursuit of his dream, leaving her alone in the family that was on the verge of breaking down.The parents quarreled every day, and even fought on Doll's Day, smashing all her Hina dolls to the ground.Later, they finally stopped arguing, and under the tough attitude of their mother, they divorced.The mother pushed her into his father's arms, ignored her crying and left without looking back.

After that, my father also changed.

He no longer looked at her face, and only made such and such requests to her, and beat her if he couldn't do it.He no longer has patience with her, no tenderness, just rough plans and rough demands.

The man went on.

"I hope you can become the best child. Both of your older brothers are unwilling to inherit the family business. I can only rely on you, so I have always wanted to shape you into the kind of heir I want—no The heir to be torn apart by those old foxes at the mall."

"I hope you can become a talent in the future, so that you can protect yourself. There are as many people staring at my family for a long time. I hope you at least have the strength to protect yourself."

"But it seems that I am the one who makes you suffer the most."

The man smiled wryly.

"However, from now on, you can do whatever you want."

"I've... won't ask you like that again."