Episode 53 

River water is cold in winter.

So I caught a cold.

I know that if I go back into the river to search for the ring I still can’t find, I may catch a cold as well and cause trouble for Kohime.

Still, I had no choice but not to search for the ring filled with memories that I could never get no matter how much money I piled up.

No matter how many times I catch a cold or how long I’m searching without finding the ring, I will never stop looking for it.

I would definitely find the ring, even if it took all of my life to do so.

Because I’m so determined, I didn’t just go into the river where the ring was thrown away without a plan.

It is obvious that I will catch a cold if I enter the river in my uniform as before.

As a measure to avoid catching a cold, I wear waterproof pants called [kappa,] which are worn by fishermen and sold cheaply on the Internet, to enter the river.

These pants not only keep my uniform from getting soaked, but also keep me warmer than when I was in the river in my uniform because the water does not touch my skin.

You may wonder why I would go to the trouble of buying such clothes to look for the ring when Kohime says I don’t have to look for it anymore, because  she was just being stubborn and deep down inside she must have been quite shocked at the loss of the ring.

So even if she had told me not to look for it, I absolutely had to find the ring.

I put on pants and went into the river, and thanks to the kappa, I was able to search for the ring for an hour or two longer, but I still couldn’t find it.

Although I was searching in a wider area, it would be difficult to find the ring if it was stuck in a crevice in the rock, and I would have given up by now if I thought about it normally.

No matter how determined I am to find the ring, I inevitably feel weak while searching in the river.

What if I can’t find the ring, what should I do, get a part-time job and buy a new ring? No matter how hard I try, a student’s part-time job is not enough to earn 100,000 yen in a month…….

If I want to steer clear of buying a ring instead of finding an engagement ring thrown in the river, I need to steer clear as soon as possible and use the time you spend looking for a ring to get a part-time job.

Then I don’t have to be looking for a ring anymore……

I’ve thought about this many times, but no matter how much I think about it, that engagement ring is filled with Taketsugu san’s feelings for Chikage san and the memory of Chikage san’s cherished possession of that ring is engraved on it.

No matter how expensive a ring I give her as a replacement for that ring, it won’t replace that engagement ring.

“……It has to be that ring. I will definitely find it.”

The moment I made that decision, I felt a cold sensation on my cheek.

As if to interfere with my determination, large drops of rain began to fall from the sky.

It should rain infrequently this season, but God is really mean to me that it started raining just when I made up my mind to look for the ring…….

When you think about it, God has been mean to me for a long time.

If God was intending for Sumika to dump me, to have me persecuted by my classmates because of false rumors, to have my father die of illness when I was a child, to have Kohime’s mother die of illness two years ago, then God is mean.

The only thing I have to be thankful for is that he let me meet Kohime.

I have to be so thankful for that that even if I sit on the ground every day, it won’t be enough, but even then, there are too many mean parts.

If God has been so mean to me, at least let me find the ring.

I’m never going to find anything like this again unless it’s by the power of God…..

No matter how much I beg, I can’t find the ring, but the rain has only just begun to fall.

The search for the ring continued without giving up, but little by little the rainfall increased and the river became more and more difficult to search.

It is too dangerous to continue going into the swollen river.

It would be fine if I only caught a cold, but if the water rose, I would not only catch a cold but also risk being swept away and losing my life.

However, it seems that I can still continue my search, so I will do so and search for the ring just a little longer, keeping an eye on the situation until the very last minute.

Thirty minutes pass after that thought, and the water level in the river increases.

I continued to search the river as the situation worsened, but I couldn’t find the ring.

I guess I’ll have to give up for today and look for it another day.

……Well, I might have to give up on finding the ring today.

If the water is this high and the current is this fast, there is a chance that the ring has been washed away.

And if she not only loses the ring but also my life, Kohime’s heartbreak will be even deeper.

Well, that’s assuming that Kohime still likes me.

……Yeah. I’m going to give up looking for a ring now.

The next moment I started thinking that, I heard a voice calling my name, and I turned around to look at the voice.

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