I am the emotional sustenance of your deceased

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"Lixi...will you come with me to a place?"

"Where?"

"Don't talk yet... Hold me for a while... Well, we still need to buy a projector and movie discs. Do you know where we can buy these?"

"I..." Li Xi thought for a moment, and seemed to have guessed what Noshiro Chitose wanted to do, "I know."

As expected of Noshiro Chitose.

Whether in reality or in dreams, she is a person who loves watching movies.

……

An empty harbor, a half-open park gate, and a fairly busy street.

Sidewalks, traffic lights, intersections.

The scene was like a dream, and Li Xi swore that he had definitely seen this scene in a dream.

But unlike in the dream, in reality Qiansui only walked half a body faster than her.

She held her hand, and a silent yet gentle atmosphere lingered between the two of them.

Chitose Noshiro walked and stopped, as if she was trying to find her way.

Where is she taking me?

[I don’t know, but I’m really looking forward to it.]

"Xiao Sui, are you cold?"

"I'm not cold, I'm hot because being close to you makes my face blush and my heart beats faster."

"Ha! Where did you learn that..."

Shiina Riki's heart softened after hearing this.

The girl beside him is still pretty and lovely.

The fresh air was mingled with the spicy yet sweet scent of mandarin oranges from Chitose Noshiro.

[Is this the girl I want to protect forever? ]

The dream that is about to come true, the hard-earned time alone, the revival of the desire for romance... these are all what drive Shiina Tatsuki Shiina Tatsuki to continue to follow Chitose Noshiro.

She couldn't stop moving forward, and she was willing to go to the end of the world.

【I really regret meeting Xiaosui. 】

After meeting her, Li Xi's life was wasted.

【But I am happy! 】

"arrive."

"what?"

"Come inside with me...don't just stand there in a daze."

"here it is!?"

"Haha, little Lixi," Qiansui blinked, "This is the secret base I found not long ago."

Siheyu Street, Xisi Road…

We're back! We're all back...

Everything is still so familiar.

Shiina Riki and Noshiro Chitose walked to that place along the road they could never forget.

[This is Xiaosui's home! Could this also be fate?]

There was sadness in Li Xi's eyes.

[Although this isn't Chitose's residence, Chitose still has a connection with it... Does that mean it's also a disease?]

She remembered the medical record.

The grass and trees are still there, as if they are storing the shared memories between her and Chitose Noshiro.

"Year-old, walk slower... I'm a little tired."

Memories pulled at my legs and I couldn't move forward.

Lixi looked at the grass beside her, where they had caught insects to feed the birds in the park.

And there is the flower bush where they took the materials.

In the wide alley behind them, there is a beverage machine that swallowed their coins but did not deliver any goods... everything is so familiar.

Everything in the world was stained with the color of Chitose Noshiro, and just a glance at it seemed to bring back memories that she thought she had forgotten.

"Xiao Sui... I, I seem to have been here before... Will you believe me if I tell you?"

Even though Chitose Noushiro was right by her side, she still felt depressed and distressed.

Shiina Riki felt his neck being tied tightly with circles of chains.

The shackles are made of memories, imprisoning Lixi and preventing her from moving forward.

"I believe you! Have you forgotten that we bumped into each other here when we first met... and you even got bruised. Don't you remember?"

Qiansui pointed at Lixi's healed wound and smiled sweetly.

"Ah? Ha! Yeah... no wonder. It must have been too dark and I couldn't see the road clearly."

In front of the empty abandoned apartment, the girl held the girl's hand.

The apartment buildings in this area have long been unfinished and have been abandoned for many years, making it a gathering place where stray cats, dogs and homeless people are likely to choose to rest.

Shiina Riki was walked forward in the arms of Noshiro Chitose, the projector and movie discs in the bag in her hand were lighter than memories.

She looked around at the familiar but overgrown building, and for a moment, the unpleasant memories of her last search filled her mind again.

"Hehe, how's it going! My little secret base!"

Pointing at the furnishings around the hall, Chitose led Lixi deeper into the hall.

Midnight may not be the best time to visit this place, but it is definitely the most memorable time.

There were still traces of the corridor that Lixi had cleaned up last time. In the end, Lixi followed Qiansui to the place he had been longing for.

The last time, when she reached the half-open door, she didn't dare take another step forward.

And this time...

"Let's go! Let's go in and watch a movie. It must be fun to watch a movie in a place like this! After all, I always feel like it's missing a touch of fantasy."

The cell phone in the bag kept ringing. Qiansui guessed that it must be Xiaodeng or Su Shi sending her a short essay again.

It was normal to receive long essays from girls in the middle of the night, and Chitose Noshiro would read them carefully and reply every time.

When it comes to matters of the heart, you can't be careless at all.

But it's not a big problem! After comforting her little Lixi, she will go to comfort her other little girls!

"Ah… okay."

"Don't be afraid... I'm scared too, my Taki-chan."

A smile lit up the dark night. Qiansui gently hugged Lixi and felt the other's accelerated heartbeat.

"I like Taki, I like Taki the most... Because Taki is here, I'm not afraid at all."

Foul!

Li Xi wanted to scream but finally wilted away.

"I... like... Chitose too... I like years old the most."

Is there something missing from this evening?

Chitose folded the blanket used to cover the dust on the sofa in the middle of the living room and placed the projector on the tea table.

She always felt that things could be more interesting.

The phone rang again and again, and Chitose chose a movie disc.

That's the way it is.

Ch338. Kiss your sleeves, wishing you were like a flower falling in your hair

See a movie.

Chitose didn't know which movie she was watching.

She asked Lixi to pick one at random, but it seemed pretty good so far.

"What did you say it was called? This movie."

"Well... it's a remastered version of a very old movie called 'The Tears of the Broken Flower'."

Lixi chose the one that might attract Qiansui's attention. She always believed that her choice would satisfy Qiansui's desire to watch movies.

She turned her eyes and when she saw Qiansui's satisfied smile, she knew that she had made the right choice.

Abandoned buildings, silent films of the last century, and flying dust did not stain the girl's white skirt. Li Xi tried to hold Noshiro Chitose's little hand.

And just as she expected, she did not fail, and was even able to hold her hand down on Chitose's behalf.

Half an hour passed, and Lixi occasionally heard Qiansui's cell phone ringing, but she was considerate enough to turn the ringtone to the lowest level.

This way, no one can affect the gradually warming atmosphere between them.

"Xiao Sui, do you like me?"

It seemed sudden, but in fact Li Xi had been planning it for a while.

"Yeah, I like you."

"Then...if I say I like you too...will you still like me?"

The movie goes on, but some people can no longer suppress their restless hearts.

In response to Shiina Riki's question, Noshiro Chitose just smiled and blinked.

"What a stupid question! Isn't the answer obvious?"

"Hey! Hey..." Li Xi could clearly feel Qiansui's grip on her hand increasing in strength.

She seemed to want to express the love that she wanted to rub into her body.

"But…"

Li Xi suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart and continued trying hard to concentrate on the movie.

The story seems to have reached its climax, with the protagonist getting close to the heroine and making a kissing gesture.

Are they going to kiss next?

【No. 】

The thin protagonist stared at the petite heroine infatuatedly, but before the kiss he did not move closer, but just looked into her eyes as if he had completed a soul connection with her.

In the end, he just kissed the corner of her clothes, crushing the love into the air, which shocked Shiina Riki in front of the screen.

"What's wrong, Lixi, what do you want to ask me?"

Chitose Noshiro stared straight at the screen, her face illuminated by white light, which reminded Li Xi of the scene in his dream where he met Chitose again ten years later.

"I don't understand what like and love are."

I don't understand what love is, because I have little experience, and many of these words are only passed on to me orally or through writing.

Lixi stood up and did something that she didn't dare to do in her dream ten years after Qiansui's death.

She walked in front of Chitose, blocking her view, and bravely lifted the white-haired girl's chin.

The girl's beautiful eyes were gentle, and Li Xi understood that this was the best time to express his feelings.

【Go ahead! 】

"I don't know about that kind of thing... but I have wonderful positive emotions because of you... that's enough to make me happy, even if I can't face you completely without reservation... but I am willing to do that, I am willing to open my heart, and I am also working hard... working hard for you to accept me, working hard for myself to accept myself."