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“It’s been raining all day.”
It was a day of heavy rain. I was in my room, looking up at the outside and murmuring.
It has been raining for a long time now, and today is another day of heavy rain.
I can’t even go out with someone when it’s like this. …… I decided to do my best to love Hiyori today.
It was at that time. I was free, and I was feeling a bit flirtatious. I was free, so naturally I picked up the phone with a cheerful feeling.
I thought I could hear Hina’s voice, but then I heard the sound of water rushing ……. What is this disgusting sound ……?
“Ryoma-kun …….”
I hear Hina’s weak voice.
”Hina, what’s going on!”
“…. help me.”
“!? Where are you?
Yes, I can send you my location!”
I ran out of the house in the heavy rain. I heard the sound of water and Hina’s voice that sounded like it was about to disappear. Thinking that there was no way, I headed toward the river where the location data indicated.
The location indicated by the location information was near the river that runs through the center of the city, close to the bridge.
Why am I in such a place on such a rainy day? I rode my bicycle to the location.
I arrived at the location and looked around. Where is she?
Was she already washed away? I was chilled by a bad premonition, but I decided to look for Hina frantically.
“There she was! Hina!”
I found her. There she was, clinging desperately to the raging river.
I approached the side of the river. It would have been suicide to enter the river in the heavy rain.
However, I could reach her if I reached out my hand, so I went into the river while holding on to her.
With this momentum, I should be able to make it. I wanted to save Hina so much.
In retrospect, it might have been better if I had called an adult or had an escort come with me. After all, I was just another ignorant junior high school student.
“Hina, are you all right!?”
“Ryoma-kun …… you came to see me.”
Hina seemed to have used up a lot of her strength. I supported her firmly.
“What happened…?”
“I had a fight with my sister… She found out I was with Ryoma and got angry, so I ran out. I went to the bridge in the rain and the ribbon my sister gave me a long time ago flew away…”
It fell on the river side and she went to pick it up, but she slipped and fell into the river. She slipped and fell into the river. She was clinging to a big tree but couldn’t move, so she called me.
“She didn’t answer the phone. ……”
“I know she dotes on you, but at a time like this?”
I know it can’t be helped, but I feel a little angry towards senpai. But what should I do? The river is getting a little stronger, and I wonder if I can get out of here with Hina.
Should I call someone? While I was thinking in circles, the river was gaining even more momentum.
“Ugh!”
Hina is at her limit. I pushed her toward the land.
It was a gamble. If I could just get Hina onto land and get myself out as well…
“Ryoma-kun, it’s dangerous!”
“Eh?”
Just before we reached land, a strong, muddy current rushed in. When I woke up, I felt something big hit my left eye.
The pain and shock almost made me feel faint. I wonder if I’m going to be swept away like this.
But well… it might have been good if I could have protected Hina. My consciousness then faded away.
“Oh,…….”
The next time I regained consciousness, I saw a white ceiling and was lying on something soft. I vaguely realized that I was in a hospital room.
“Ryoma, you’re awake!”
“Nii nii”
I turned my eyes toward the familiar voice. There I saw my mother and Hiyori, who was as cute as an angel.
“Oh, I’m so glad. ……”
My normally stouthearted mother was in tears. Oh, I’ve worried you, haven’t I?
I see that I was saved. But I have one question.
“Hey, Mom, why is my left eye bandaged?”
“That’s from ……. You had a serious injury in your left eye. I thought maybe a rock hit you.”
“I see”
Come to think of it, I think I had a strong impact on my eye before I passed out.
“The girl who was with me is safe?”
“I heard she is safe. She wasn’t with us when we rushed over, but she’s being treated in another hospital room.”
“I see. I’m glad to hear that.”
Hina was safe. I was glad. Maybe I was tired. I fell asleep that day. But from here on out, hell was about to begin for me.
“You have low vision”
“…Eh? Does that mean the reason I can’t see well with my left eye is because my eyesight has deteriorated?”
I talked to the doctor for the treatment of my left eye. Compared to the right eye, the vision in the left eye was much worse. I think it was probably an aftereffect of the accident.
“You mean I just need to correct it, right?”
If glasses or contact lenses could make it normal, it would be better than nothing. But what the doctor said to me next was so extraordinary.
“Low vision can be diagnosed….. No, I can’t say for sure because it varies widely, but your low vision will not improve even if you correct it. It’s not likely to get better from where you are now. You can go about your daily life without any problems, and if you don’t fall any lower, you will most likely be able to get your driver’s license.”
“So, ……, airplane pilots?”
The doctor’s eyes widened.
“I don’t know much about it myself, but I think …… it would be difficult.”
At these words I got up and walked out of the hospital room. I ran through the hospital without hearing my mother or the nurses who had attended to me.
My dream, which I had worked so hard to achieve, was cut short by a single accident.
I had studied a lot about my eyesight. I may be able to get a job with this vision. But …… that’s not the dream I’m after.
And I’m sure I’ll only get hurt if I make my dream come true with such a dangerous bomb in my hand.
I stopped and was about to become desperate.
At that moment, I was approached by a person dressed like a nurse.
“You, perhaps you are the friend that Konohana-san mentioned?
She was a woman about the same age as my mother.
“I was wondering if you knew Hina! Where is Hina now?”
“I heard she was moved to a hospital room further ahead. I spoke to Hina last night. She was really upset last night when she found out you had hurt your eye. She was lamenting that it was all her fault, so if you don’t mind, please cheer her up. You!”
Before I could finish, I ran to Hina’s hospital room. I wanted to see her
I found the hospital room and went inside. I saw Hina getting up in bed. She was looking at the window.
“Hina! You’re safe. I’m so glad. I’m really glad.”
“……”
“Are you hurt?……
I’m fine. But thank God. After all that happened.”
” …….”
Something seems strange about Hina. She looks at me with lightless eyes. It’s as if it was the first time we’d met. Hina’s mouth falls open at the sight of me.
“Who are you?”
“Who are you?”
“Eh?”
“I don’t know you.”
Yes, Hina had amnesia. I was so shocked that I couldn’t speak either.
How did this happen? I injured my eye and Hina lost her memory?
“Hina!”
Konohana-senpai came into the hospital room. She hugged Hina.
“It’s your sister. Don’t you remember that too?”
“My sister ……? You are my sister?”
“Yeah… I couldn’t protect you… I’m sorry. I’ll never let you go again.”
The family must have been informed that Hina had amnesia. That’s why she came here. Konohana-senpai turned around and stared at me.
“Why are you here? What were you doing with Hina? It’s because of your involvement with Hina that this happened!”
“That’s not right! If you look at the original situation…”
“Shut up! There is no such thing as a mistake! Hina is ……. I will protect her from now on.”
Unable to talk to Hina any more, I had no choice but to leave the hospital room. I never thought it would end up like this… I waited to see what was going on, and then headed to Hina’s side when Konohana-senpai and her relatives were not there.
But that chance didn’t come easily, and when it did, a few days had passed.
“Hina.”
Hina notices my entrance.
“You are the one who came before this, aren’t you?”
“Yeah…. How is your memory since then?”
“I can’t remember anything. However, I seem to have vague memories of my sister and my family. So I was able to enter easily.”
“What about me?”
“I don’t remember. But it seems that my sister hates you very much. She told me never to talk to you.”
“Ugh…..”
Hina smiled gently.
“Because I have lost my memory, I still don’t know what happened on the day of the incident. Why did I lose my memory?”
I see. The only parties involved in the incident were me and Hina. The fact that Hina lost her memory means that I am the only one who knows the whole story of the incident.
“I don’t know who I was before I lost my memory, but I can tell you two things.”
“Two ……? What are they?”
“It seems I don’t want my memories back. Trying to recover them gives me intense headaches.”
Before she lost her memory, I heard that Hina found out about my eye injury. I wonder if that might be the cause of her memory loss.
If she regains her memory and finds out that my dream of becoming a pilot was ended because of my eye injury…. She is not a strong person. She would be even more shocked.
“I heard that writing novels was one of my hobbies. And it seems I fantasized about many stories and wanted to bring them out into the world.”
“I see.”
“It’s like all those memories have disappeared. I’ve lost my purpose in life.”
That’s…. Our dreams are disappearing.
“If this accident is something that I caused,……, then I have to take responsibility.”
Both my dream of becoming a pilot and Hina’s dream …… disappear miserably. Then I don’t remember much. I’m sure I went back to the hospital room.
The day of discharge from the hospital was just around the corner.
“Is she going to be okay? I heard that she doesn’t eat at all. She’s getting weaker and weaker because she doesn’t have a purpose in life anymore.”
“Her sister is trying hard to talk to her, but it doesn’t seem to help at all.”
“Why did she have amnesia in the first place? There’s no record of it, is there?”
“She was in a coma, so we were supposed to ask her about the details the next day. Then I heard that she had amnesia.”
I heard the whispers of the nurses and recognized it as Hina.
I was so apathetic that I was just like her, and she looked as if she had given up on everything.
I too had become lethargic and no longer wanted to hear about the airplane that I had loved so much.
So I guess Hina has also lost her novel and has become lethargic.
But she also has amnesia. And she is showing signs of not wanting to get her memory back. At the root of this is her desire to atone to me for having caused the incident. To be honest, I could just walk away.
But… there’s no way I can do that. Because I love Konohana Hina.
I will take away the …… responsibility she says she is responsible for
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