[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

41# The most distant star

The fireworks that exploded in the night sky were colorful and dazzling.The artificial light is better than the light of countless stars, and the white light is thrown high into the sky, and the girl is the center of the light.

"That was our last concert."

Kuroko Mana hugged Nura Rikuo from behind, quietly watching the dvd of her concert playing on the TV.The girl on TV wore exquisite eye makeup, and her long blue curly hair was scattered behind her like waves. She stood in the center of the stage and sang dreams and hopes.

That's mana.

That's bios.

"After that concert, you lost your voice, right?"

Lu Sheng asked in a low voice.

He thought of the news again.

Bios lead singer Mana was poisoned at the backstage of the concert, ruining her voice and losing her voice.

Mana's hands trembled slightly.Her voice suddenly dropped, revealing an indescribable depression.

"……Correct."

On TV, the concert has come to an end.After both aoi and erick bowed and left the stage, a solitary beam of light hit the girl on stage.Fans waving fluorescent sticks didn't know what happened, and the noisy venue gradually fell silent.

In the disturbing silence, the girl smiled, it was a pure and gentle smile like white flowers in summer.

She said softly, thank you everyone for tolerating my waywardness.

"The last song, I want to give to my younger brother."

Those water-blue eyes stared intently at a certain direction off the stage, and those eyes softened the cold and cold makeup, so warm and concerned.

"Azhe ver."

ver, never give up.

She didn't say anything else, but started singing amidst the piano playing slowly, like flowing water.

"'t talk about

(some things we don't talk about)

rather do without and just hold the smile

(Let's not talk about it and just keep smiling)

falling in and out of love

(Love in and out of life)

her all the while

(Ashamed and proud coexist)

see

(you can never say never)

..................................................................

iwillalliscrumbling

(When everything dies, I'll be your protector)

adyyourhand

(I will hold your hand firmly)

see

(you can never say never)

………………………………………………………”

Nuliang Rikusheng quietly looked at the girl at that moment.

It was the phantom left by the never-returning yesterday, like the light of a star millions of light-years away, falling into his eyes in such a way.

That is the beautiful brilliance emitted by the long-dead stars in the unreachable past.When he saw it, when he touched it, it no longer existed anywhere.

—the most distant star.

"What happened then?"

Lu Sheng asked.

Mana lowered her eyes quietly, her long eyelashes cast a dim shadow, covering the emotion in her eyes, and after a while, she opened her mouth softly.

"...In the national competition in the third grade of junior high school, the final match was between Diguang Middle School and Mingming Middle School. Azhe's best friend when he was young was in the basketball club of Mingguang Middle School. They had made an appointment to meet at the national competition."

"...Because Teiko High School won the competition?"

Lu Sheng was a little puzzled.Mana glanced at him quietly, then looked away.

He only heard her voice, suppressed and calm.

"In that game, the final score was 111:11."

"..."

Counting the points of the game, Lu Sheng could imagine how contemptuous and humiliating it was.

"Azhe has quit the basketball club since that day." Mana unconsciously grasped the hem of her skirt until her fingertips turned white. "After that, he couldn't play basketball at all."

"..."

"I tried to find Chenghao—Ogiwara Chenghao, that friend of Ah Zhe—and my friend. I wanted him to talk to Ah Zhe, but I didn't know until I went to Mingkou Middle School... Mingkou Basketball All the members of the club have retired, and Cheng Hao has transferred to another school—he will never play basketball again.”

Mana slowly closed her eyes.

"During that time, I moved back home from the company's dormitory...I was very worried about Ah Zhe's mental state. Can you imagine? Ah Zhe, who used to practice until he vomited and refused to let go of the basketball, would actually touch the basketball Started throwing up."

The girl on the TV sang "don'go" over and over again, showing a gentle smile towards a certain direction off the stage. Through the camera, one could vaguely see the blue-haired boy behind the crowd.

Looking at the blurry figure flashing past in the camera, Mana gave a complex and indescribable smile in a trance.

"This concert is the final stop of Bios' national tour... I originally planned to be here to encourage Ah Zhe to stand up again."

There was a subdued calm in her voice.

"...But I let him here, and saw with my own eyes that I was destroyed."

Someone poisoned the water glass, ruining his voice.

***

"I watched my sister fall with my own eyes."

Hei Zizhe also said softly.

His expression was so quiet that it was almost dead silent, and you would never be able to find the horror on his face when he watched her fall down at that moment.

"Then they took her to the hospital. The doctor said her throat had been destroyed by the poison, and if she was lucky enough to be able to speak later, it was impossible to sing again - never."

Mao Lilan put a cup of tea on his table, hearing the words subconsciously hugged the tray tightly to his chest, showing a sad look.Mori Kogoro and Edogawa Conan sat opposite Kuroko Tetsuya, listening to him quietly.

Hei Zizhe also took a deep breath, and the scene of that day seemed to come back to him again.

At that time, when he went backstage, he wanted to say to his sister who encouraged him on such a big stage, that it’s all right now, I’ll cheer up, I’m sorry for worrying you.

But before he had time to say anything, he saw the water glass in Mana's hand suddenly fall to the ground, and with a bang, she reached out and grabbed her neck and fell to the ground, screaming inhumanly.

Hei Zizhe had never heard that kind of voice before, it was a shrill, desperate, heart-piercing neigh.The hoarse hoarseness went down quickly, and finally only the extremely painful gurgling sound remained in his throat.

That voice still resounds in his nightmares to this day, causing him to sit up suddenly, with large drops of cold sweat sliding down his forehead, his back was soaked from the beating, and he could no longer fall asleep.

"Three days after that incident, my sister..."

He didn't lose any part of his body, but he lost half of his body forever.

He has been incomplete since then, no longer complete.

Death took her... no, the murderer took her.

After Mana's death, their home was almost destroyed.

The mother tried her best to preserve all traces of her sister's existence, even the room she lived in, and even the unfolded quilt when she left that day.She stopped trying to cook those hellish dishes and lost interest in everything.She told everyone she could talk to about Mana about her miss for her daughter and her regrets—until no one listened to her anymore.

The father fled this home full of memories everywhere, buried himself in the company, and used work to escape and numb the pain of losing his daughter.He didn't even dare to look at his son's face, for fear of finding the lost face on that face.Hei Zizhe is also used to try his best to weaken his sense of existence at home, and he doesn't want to evoke his father's pain.

And grandma... her Alzheimer's disease is getting worse rapidly.She always lived in the time when Mana hadn't died, asking over and over again, where did Mana go, why didn't she come back?

So what about himself?

What about Heizi Tetsuya?

"I want to find the murderer who killed my sister." He tried his best to maintain a calm tone, but there was a quiet anger burning in his voice, "I can't forgive...I can't forgive him for not getting what he deserves so far." punishment."

—to take her punishment from their lives forever.

As long as the murderer is not caught for a day, the pain will still burn in their hearts.

Hei Zizhe has never been able to forget that moment even for a moment.

The moment when the lights in the operating room went out and the doctor came out and said, sorry we did our best.

He, they, will always live in the time when she lost her.

Yes, the sun rises as usual, the earth still revolves, they still have to continue their lives, nothing will be solidified into eternity because of Mana's death, nothing will be unsustainable because of Mana's death.

The bios cd is still out.

Everyone got into their respective high schools and made new friends.

And he, too, can continue playing basketball, continue his studies, and even here, talking to a detective about his dead sister.

But the pain never went away.

"So, please, Detective Maori—find me who killed my sister."

Only then can Mana rest in peace.

And the souls of us living can also find some comfort in the sea of ​​pain.