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Chapter 184 And so they welcomed the New Year.

When Mochizuki Haruka woke up, the voices around her had disappeared, leaving only the sound of falling snow and the crackling of charcoal fire.

The girl turned her head and saw Jun Matsueda lying on a recliner, his right hand resting in front of him, sleeping peacefully.

She looked at the boy's sleeping face quietly, and the waves that had been churning in her heart for the past few days calmed down and turned into gentle ripples.

Jun Matsueda opened his eyes. The sky had become dark due to the heavy snow, and the dark red color of the charcoal fire became particularly conspicuous. He looked at the chair beside him. The girl had woken up and was looking at him.

"I'm leaving." Mochizuki Haruka said to him.

"So soon?" Matsueda Jun was a little surprised. "The dean probably wants you to finish dinner before leaving."

The girl shook her head. "If I stay any longer, I won't be able to resist the urge to get closer to you again."

He looked at the wind and snow in the courtyard. The girl continued, "It's better to come to the welfare home less often in the future."

"The better I feel now, the sadder I will be when I go back. This short-lived sweetness will drive me crazy."

Jun Matsueda walked into the room and came out with a golden amulet in his hand. "I bought this at Imado Shrine. It can bless the cat with good health."

The girl blinked at him and meowed softly, which made people feel itchy.

Jun Matsueda held up an umbrella and walked Mochizuki Haruka to the street at the door. A black car was parked on the side of the road, and there was already a thin layer of snow on the roof.

The car had arrived long ago, and the girl had intended to leave while he was asleep.

After all, I can't bear to do it.

Wang Yueyao held her hands in front of her, her fingers curled around her sleeves, and a soft breath drifted from her rosy lips into the snow outside the umbrella.

The girl raised her head and looked at the black umbrella above her head. This was her entire sky, held up by the boy next to her.

"The balcony of the apartment has been dismantled." She looked at the National Astronomical Observatory across the street. The hemispherical observatory looked like a large snowball that had fallen on the roof of the building.

"understood."

Jun Matsueda watched the black car leaving two tracks on the snowy road as it drove away.

Miyamura Aya, who had disappeared for the entire afternoon, appeared beside him. "A guy like Jun-nii is what's called a womanizer, right?"

"What? You went to the shrine yesterday, and now you've awakened your divine power and can see other people's physiques?"

Jun Matsueda spun his umbrella, and the snow and water on it splashed everywhere. The girl screamed and dodged away.

"Just play with your phone."

He returned to the welfare home and lay back in his chair. He would be going back to his apartment tomorrow afternoon, so he had to take advantage of this opportunity to enjoy some quiet time alone.

Aya Miyamura sat on the chair next to Jun Matsueda and recorded a video of him resting with her mobile phone.

The young man was sitting on a recliner, with a dark red charcoal fire flickering at his feet. The background was a long corridor and flying snow, blowing his bangs.

The girl felt that she had mastered the essence of photography - just pick good-looking people to take pictures of.

On the afternoon of January 2nd, with the charcoal fire on the corridor and the wind and snow outside the eaves, Jun Matsueda's New Year finally calmed down.

Dinner was cream stew, and Jun Matsueda was eating a bowl full of broccoli, which was specially given to him by Caijiang. The girl didn't like to eat this green thing.

As he put the last bite of broccoli into his mouth, Jun Matsueda received a call from Kurusu Yoshi.

"Hey?"

"Matsueda, I'm going back to the apartment tomorrow. How about I come to the welfare house to play with you?"

He could hear another woman mumbling on the other end of the line. He swallowed the broccoli in his mouth and took a sip of the stew.

"It just so happens that I'm going back to the apartment tomorrow."

"Ah? Okay." The girl's voice was a little regretful, but then became excited again. "What time are you going back to your apartment tomorrow?"

"afternoon."

"Okay, then buy less groceries." "Are you still on Mount Fuji?" Jun Matsueda took the bowl into the kitchen and returned to the corridor. The wind had stopped, and only snowflakes were slowly swirling in the air.

"Yeah! I'm about to take the bus back to Tokyo. There's a lot of snow on Mount Fuji~"

"It's snowing quite a bit here in Mitaka."

The two people who looked up at the sky at the same time across the phone felt similar to the feelings of youth.

"Then I'll see you tomorrow afternoon. We'll see if we can build a snowman or something."

"See you tomorrow."

Jun Matsueda put down his phone, and Caichan, who was sitting on a recliner playing mobile games, looked up at him.

"A girl again?"

He didn't say anything, which was considered as his agreement. The girl sighed and shook her head.

"I hope Chun-ge's life won't be ruined by a woman."

Matsueda Jun thought for a moment and said, "If it must be destroyed, it's better to destroy it at the hands of a woman than a man, right?"

"sophistry!"

On his last night in the welfare home, Jun Matsueda summed up his past year, and every single event flashed through his mind.

What a complicated year!
For a child, a year would seem so long that it would make one faint. For an adult, a year would pass by in the blink of an eye. But for Jun Matsueda, a year was just the right length.

Time passed by in a hurry but was ever-changing. Good things and bad things rushed towards him without stopping, and were finally left behind.

"In short, just like life, the future will always come, and the present will always pass. No matter whether it is good or bad, long or short, we can only accept it for the time being."

"What weird nonsense are you talking about again?" Kurusu Yoshi opened the door of the apartment and looked at him standing at the door.

"It's nothing. Seeing you still look like this, I feel relieved."

Jun Matsueda dragged the cheap suitcase into the living room. The sound of the pulleys became lighter on the wooden board, leaving two wet marks.

"Songzhi, you're back just in time. Come build a snowman with me!"

"No, I have to clean up my room first." The boy's voice came from the bedroom.

"Then I'll wait for you. Leave the cooking and dishes to me at night!" The girl supported herself on the back of the sofa with one hand, jumped into the familiar position, and let out a comfortable moan.

While Matsueda Jun was mopping the floor in the living room, Kurusu Yoshiyo played a rerun of "The Birth of an Idol" on TV. The girl who had been shining brightly on the stage was now singing the same song in the living room.

"Even if we walk into the dark night of sorrow~"

"Please continue to shine brightly without wavering~"

The girl turned around and lay on the back of the sofa, looking at the boy who was mopping the floor under the dining table.

"Matsueda, I'm so handsome!"

"Indeed." He nodded and put the mop back in the bathroom. "You can go out now."

"Great!" the girl jumped up from the sofa, "I want to build a huge snowman!"

The two stood downstairs of the apartment building, and Kurusu Yoshi looked at the thin snow on the grass.

"You can't build a big snowman at all."

"After all, the snow stopped last night." Matsueda Jun rubbed his shoes against the ground. "The snow on the ground and the road has also been swept away."

"hateful."

Finally, a small snowman was erected on the corridor fence at the door of Room 507.

(End of this chapter)