I went to the hospital and rehabbed while keeping my feelings from slipping away.

Well, the results were scattered.

After I get home, I write one letter in my room.

I owe it to my sister to have something as spilled as a letterset.

I emailed him before I went to rehab and he bought it for me.

I manage to finish writing an unfamiliar handwritten letter and call Lu Dou.

Lu Dou said he was just finishing dinner, and he came to the house, troubled.

"Yo, I heard you meet Snow Sister."

"Did you hear that from the snow noise?

"Who else is going to tell me?... Well, he only told me that he'd seen me."

"Oh well. Well, we couldn't talk properly."

"That's what Snow Sister said. He looked fine, but I don't think he's calm inside."

Lu Dou tries to speak brightly, but the content is quite heavy.

It would be Lu Dou's concern not to get heavy to the tone.

"So, what did you call me for?

"Oh, I want you to give this to the snow noise"

…… A letter? Well written in this day and age. "

"Even Lu Dou would have gotten a love letter, wouldn't he?

"... you know me well. Basically, that's all you get."

Oh, haven't you been to see him once or so?

When I asked her about it, she said that she would like a child to come and see me directly from herself.

... people's preferences are different.

"So, I don't mind giving this to Snow Sister, but I won't even guarantee that you'll read it?

"I don't mind.... I'd really like to hand it to you directly."

"... Exactly, that's tough. Snow Sister, it doesn't seem to be sorting out your feelings."

"Right. So, Lu Dou, nice to meet you."

"Okay. Why don't you text me when I give it to you?

"No, I don't need that either. I'm sorry, but I'm on it."

"Aye, I've been entrusted. Bye."

Lu Dou took the letter home looking important.

Well, I guess the snow noise will read the letter after that.

"... I have to get up early tomorrow, and I'm off today already"

Whatever the outcome of the letter, it doesn't change what I do.

For today, let's go to bed early and get ready for tomorrow.

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The next day, school is closed, so I head out to the neighborhood park early in the morning.

The snow is falling slightly, and cold protection measures are in place.

You go out for a long time of your own free will, but if you catch a cold, you're just an idiot.

The park ahead of us is a place we used to play at a young age.

Snow noise, Akiho, Yaohua, Lu Dou to me.

You and the five of us played a lot together.

For the most part, Lu Dou or Yaohua were impotent and angry with Akiho.

... That day, for sure, my mother was taking me home because Yaohua and Lu Dou were helpless and injured?

I don't really remember either.

Well, I came to the park because that's where I designated it in the letter I gave you yesterday.

The letter said I wanted to meet you at this park this afternoon.

Of course, I don't know if the snow sounds will come, and it's unclear if you might be able to read them in the first place.

Still, I wanted to come to this place.

Even to put a bully on myself.

"... this park has changed too.... No, I just feel that way because I've changed better?

The park was also a playground for neighborhood children in the winter.

For that reason, I don't know who was doing it, but it was regularly snow cleared and served as a park.

But now it's covered in snow, and it's hard to get inside.

... Should I have worn boots without worrying about appearance?

"... well, if this looks like it, you can't go inside the park, and suppose to wait here"

Hold both hands in your pockets and I'll wait on the spot.

It's snowing, but the wind's barely blowing, so it's never that cold.

... I wonder which is quicker to cool down to the core of your body or lunch is coming.

"... I knew you'd been here in the morning, Yo-kyun"

It hasn't been that long since I've been here.

Yet my waiter came here.

"You can't keep him waiting while he's cold."

"... if that's what you say, so am I. It's been a really long time since I've seen you over here."

"Oh, right. I was worried you'd come, Snow Sound."

The snow sounds that have come on are wearing a lot of them.

Over there, he seemed to envisage waiting here for a long time.

When I look at the snowy face, it looks a little bit more obnoxious than what I remember.

After all, the days that went on in the middle of the night were harsh, both physically and mentally.

"... it was this morning that you saw that letter, wasn't it? What would you have done if I hadn't come?

"... well? When you didn't come, that's when. I only thought."

In fact, I didn't really think about what I would do if I didn't come.

I believed that the snow sounds would come, rather than say, I didn't have that much thought.

"As always, there's just a place to go, isn't there? Yukun."

"Right.... So, it's okay to talk to me about you coming, right?

"... I think you'll be fine. When it didn't work......, could you call an ambulance?

The complexion of the snow sounds is not good, but my mind seems to be much weaker as well as in my physical condition.

... I need to finish this conversation early.

"Snow noise, remember this place?

"Yeah, I remember. It's the park where you were hanging out with your Autumn Sisters."

"Oh. Since that incident, I haven't been close to anything."

"Right.... after all, care for me?

"There's that, too, but we didn't want to get near it either."

At first, we bury our memories one by one.

To each other, to evoke memories that were sinking at the bottom of our memories.

"You've always had a hard time with Yaohua and Lu Dou being impotent"

"Right. When I jumped off Blanco and got hurt, it was really hard."

... That's definitely Ludou.

Yaohua landed without difficulty even jumping off the blanco.

"And then there's... swinging off with rotary play gear or something?

"... I don't know, don't just remember Ludou's past"

"Every time, we took care of him."

Lu Dou was a real mess in those days.

At the same time, he was flat even if he was injured.

"... time to get down to business? If we keep discussing memories like this, we're gonna catch a cold, okay?

"... right"

Let's just say I'm ready, too.

You just have to think about what happens after this is all over.

"First, the snow sounds. I think we should split up."

I say heavy words even though it's the first.

If it doesn't start here, nothing starts.

"... right? I can't replace your sister forever."

"Oh. Let's stop chasing Akiho's shadows on each other already"

I was pulling the strings about Akiho too.

With the snow noise together, I was relieved to find Akiho's shadow in the snow noise.

Akiho is still with me.

"... tough, but you have no choice. I miss being unable to be with you."

The snow noise, while nagging, accepts my goodbye.

I guess the snow sounds have been made ready, too.

Because I feel weak, but clearly willing.

Okay, that's a paragraph.

... From here on out, it's a big battle.

"So that's it, snow noise.... uh, the"

"What?"

"... yeah, what the hell"

... I'm going to be ready, but I still hesitate.

I didn't think it would be more terrifying to say a word.

Talk about Lu Dou yesterday, that's not funny.

"... what's wrong?

"Oh.... snow noise, please again. Will you hang out with me?

"What?"

Yeah, I could say it right.

Because I couldn't write this in a letter.

I wanted to tell you in my own words.

"... you said we were going to break up earlier?

"... I wanted to stop following Akiho's shadow with you. It's not like I don't want to be with the snow noise."

"... what is it. It's convenient, isn't it?

The snow sounds just a little, but I'm smiling.

"That's certainly convenient. But I knew it would be fun to have snow noises by my side."

"... Really?

"Oh. That's what matters to me."

"Oh well. It is."

Oh, yeah.

In the end, without the snow noise, I can't either.

"... Okay, Yu-kun. I want to be with you."

"Right.... Good."

Oh, Chickshaw.

You really have the courage to tell him directly, not in a letter.

"... hey, it's just getting cold. Why don't you eat something warm somewhere?

"Somewhere near the convenience store."

"Well, there. I, Amman, want to eat."

"Okay. Let's go."

"Yeah. Yo-kyun's treat, huh?

"Yes, sir. Come on, let's go"

... In the end, it just went back to normal.

Still, I'm sure.

Believe me, something must be different.

The snow, which had fallen until just now, had stopped and the blue sky was also beginning to be seen from the gap between the clouds.