Let's do it again, Yukino.

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It's nice to occasionally witness Xiaoxue's jealous, girlish side.

It's quite cute.

Don't you think so?

……

Just as Chunri was thinking this, she felt a sudden heaviness in her body.

All I could see was that Xiaoxue had grabbed his tie again.

"I know it's a bit wrong to do this, but I'm still a little unhappy."

Xiaoxue said again.

"How about I, Fat Tiger, sing you a song to cheer you up? I recently learned a song that goes like this: 'Lemons on the lemon tree, you and me under the lemon tree...'"

"It sounds awful, and I don't need you to coax me. I'll do it myself."

"Hey??"

Xiaoxue, nestled in his arms, suddenly let out an alluring, coquettish sigh.

Then, in the boy's view, Yukinoshita Shizuka was puffing up her cheeks in anger, and her grip on Haruhi's tie tightened.

Under the influence of gravity, Kasuga Gian's face also moved closer to Shizuka.

immediately

Their lips met at that moment.

The soft touch is like the clouds in the sky.

Then, only a soft moan from the girl was heard.

Silence fell over the warehouse.

That lingering

That longing,

Everything is truly happening.

but.

Daio Yuigahama,

Please accept my condolences.

that moment,

Looking at the girl enjoying herself with her eyes tightly closed, Kasuga Gian felt nothing.

In the quiet warehouse, the faint sound of a young boy singing could still be heard.

We sit in the front row of the lemon tree

One wave of sourness followed by another.

(P.S.: I originally planned to continue writing tomorrow when I was in a better mood, but after thinking about it, three chapters are still too few, so I'm releasing this one directly. If you feel that the two chapters written this afternoon were not very satisfactory, please forgive me. I'll take a nap, calm down, and continue updating tomorrow.)

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Chapter Forty-Seven: Sharing Our Hearts

"At that time, I had a dream."

"In my dream, I found myself transformed into a middle-aged man with a full beard."

In the warehouse, Chunri scratched his head and, without hiding his previous experience, told the girl in front of him everything he had dreamed about in the classroom.

"However, Xiaoxue and I finally saved up enough money to buy an apartment in Chiba City. Although it's a second-hand apartment and the decoration and facilities aren't very luxurious, it's no longer as dilapidated and old as our previous apartment. However, I have to slowly pay off the nearly twenty-year mortgage with my salary."

"In the years after we got married, Xiaoxue, you also quit your original job, and I went to work at your father's company. During the day, you helped clean the apartment, do laundry and cook. Our apartment was always spotless because of you."

However, perhaps because he was too busy with work, even on Saturday, he went out early in his dream to take the subway.

"But……"

This should have been a wonderful dream.

If it were a family of three, even springtime would probably be immersed in that kind of dream.

He lay down on the warehouse mat, using the double pillow, gazing at the light hanging from the ceiling. A breeze blew in from the high window not far away, and everything in his dream felt as if he had just experienced it.

Recalling the dream, Yukino wore a beautiful long dress, looking so stunning that Haruhi's heart fluttered. Yet, this beautiful woman would occasionally encounter lively and adorable little boys on her way to the supermarket, and a lonely expression would appear on her cool face that broke Haruhi's heart...

"In my dream, I wondered if it was because of that one misunderstanding that we lost the treasure we should have had."

The boy clenched his fists silently. In the ending of his dream, the two were happy and grew old together, but in the end, they had no children.

"That was just a dream, you don't need to take it to heart."

Xiaoxue couldn't help but grasp the hand that Chunri was holding tightly.

Springtime nodded, then took the girl's soft hand in return, his smile as desolate as the one of the woman he had seen in his dream.

"Yes, it was just a dream, but I also know that if neither of us were reborn, then this would definitely be our final ending. Actually, marriage has always been a very vague and uncertain thing for me. Xiaoxue, to be honest with you, when you called me to tell me you were pregnant, I felt really guilty and scared because I wasn't sure if I could give you the happiness you deserve."

"For two people who are attracted to and like each other, isn't marriage a natural thing for them? So why should I be afraid?"

"Hachiman told me that it was a perfectly normal pre-wedding jitters, and he often had these thoughts before he and Yui got married."

"However, I also think of my mother. She was never brought back to the family by my father until the very end. She gave birth to me without ever experiencing a wedding. But do I really deserve to have what even my mother never had?"

As he spoke, his body, lying on the mat, trembled slightly.

If the dream he had today hadn't been so vivid, so real that it caused him immense regret and heartache, he wouldn't have exposed his most vulnerable side to the girl he liked at this moment.

"Fear means vulnerability, vulnerability means giving up, and giving up means failure. So, does that mean marriage is a failure for me? If it's a failure, then it means a mistake. Xiaoxue, do you think marriage is really a mistake?"

He suddenly felt a sense of bewilderment regarding his past life.

In his confusion, his fingers grasped Xiaoxue's icy touch.

After an unknown amount of time, Yukinoshita's face came into the sight of the boy lying on the mat.

Because she suddenly wanted to comfort the boy.

So Xiaoxue placed her slender hands on either side of the boy's head, and then her long, black hair cascaded down, landing less than centimeters from Chunri's face, and a pleasant shampoo scent wafted into his nose.

The boy saw the girl purse her lips and reveal a warm smile that she had never shown him before.

"I used to like a boy. Yes, when I realized it, I really did like him for no reason at all."

She said this while nodding again, as if she were speaking very seriously.

"Yeah, from the first time I met him, I don't know why, even though he's such a reckless guy, with low emotional intelligence, and doesn't study hard, he always acts very assertive, but he's also very lazy. He relies on brute force to protect himself from anyone in this world. He's such an unreliable boy, he has no opinions of his own, and he gets carried away as soon as he's given a little bit of sweetness, he's so..."

If you asked her to list the boy's flaws, she could probably talk for an hour without stopping.

The sound of their breathing was exceptionally clear in the quiet warehouse.

"But, from the very first moment I saw him, I knew he might be the only boy in my life I would ever have a one-sided crush on. It was so frustrating. A guy who seemed almost worthless to others was the one who attracted my attention. Don't you think I was a little abnormal back then?"

"However, perhaps only I know that the boy was not entirely without merit."

"Like me, he doesn't want to lose to anyone, enjoys helping the vulnerable, and is unwavering in pursuing what he wants. Even if he and his friend fall for the same girl, he will never back down. Because he always firmly believes he is the strongest and absolutely invincible."

"I don't force the boy I have a crush on to like me back, but when I later found out that it wasn't a one-sided crush, to be honest, at that moment, I was really happy, extremely happy."

"Xiaoxue..."

Springtime gazed for a long time at the girl who had poured out her heart to him.

"I'm not trying to comfort you, I'm just telling the truth. There may be some distance between us, and sometimes we may even have secrets that we can't tell each other. That's life, after all. Life is always full of trivial things that we have to face together."

After Haruhi told her everything, she, too, confided her own feelings to Haruhi.

Spring looked up at her with some curiosity.

"And now? After everything you've been through, do you still like that boy?"

"Like?" Yukino shook her head without hesitation when Haruhi asked her question: "After two years of university life, that feeling of unrequited love has long since disappeared. After all, it was just a momentary passion."

"..."

Slowly, seeing Chunri's inexplicably disappointed expression, the delicate body that had been supporting Chunri went limp, and with a soft laugh, she leaned heavily onto the boy.

In a mournful cry in the spring,

"After saying all this, I still want to say the same thing: no matter what the future holds, you are not allowed to let me down again in this life. I am also a person who can be hurt."

Shizuka Yukinoshita murmured in an exceptionally soft voice.

That kind of innocent, youthful affection

But as time has passed...

It has transformed into a love that, seven years later, would make me willingly spend my life with you...

……

that moment,

In this warehouse

Like a snow scene,

Like the feeling of spring,

It fell silent for a moment.

Chapter Forty-Eight: A Single's Letter That Has Witnessed Seven Pure Love Stories

evening,