Symbiosis 29
"I'm leaving, Nozomi," Ichinose Saku walked slowly to Nozomi's side. After this period of recuperation, he finally got rid of the splint and crutches and could walk normally, but a little slowly. It would probably take some time for him to run and jump. "The luggage has been packed."
The girl blinked and turned her head to look at the boy's face. She looked as if she had just woken up from a dream. It was already late at night. There were only two small figures left in the corridor of the Gospel House. The courtyard was covered with a layer of snow, emitting a faint white light under the moonlight. "That's great, Shuo." Tong Xiangwang raised the corners of his lips, his black hair fell on both sides of his cheeks, and his dark eyes reflected the face of the person opposite him. "Congratulations to you and Mr. Honda, Shuo."
"Thank you for your help, too," Ichinose Saku looked at the girl steadily, grinning widely, "I guess only you and dad will call me 'Saku' in the future." Probably tired of standing, he sat down on the porch, patted the seat beside him and motioned Kirigo Nozomi to sit down as well, "After I leave, I will live the life of 'Ishii Kazuki'..."
"Where's your mother?" Tong Xiangwang accepted the intimacy readily, sat down, took out a piece of white paper from his sleeve, lowered his head and folded it, "I thought you would plan to go find her..."
"No, no thanks," Ichinose Saku shrugged, holding his chin with one hand and watching the white paper gradually changing into another shape as Kirigono's fingers flew, "The nightmare should be over," the one who escaped should not face the remnants of the nightmare. He was not the fruit of love. His biological father believed that by making his wife a mother, he could completely control a woman. Even after she escaped, his biological father still held the idea that as long as the child was there, his wife would come back. As if to change the subject, the boy asked a question like a casual conversation, "By the way, where is your mother? What kind of person is she?"
Ichinose Saku saw the girl pause for a moment, and the wings of the nearly completed paper crane became crooked, turning from a beautiful work into a defective product. "She is a person who has difficulty controlling herself," Kirisato Nozomi's sigh was as light as the wind. "She always thinks too simply, thinking that if she loses too much, she will win the next time. She put me on the gambling table the last time, but luck still didn't favor her..."
One mistake leads to more wrong steps, until everything is lost and you slide into the abyss.
"What about your father?" Ichinose Saku nodded. He was not surprised by this situation. There were no normal people in the Gospel House, or it was difficult for normal people to be favored by Kirisato Nozomi's father. "Is he the same person?"
"I don't know," Kirigo Nozomi shrugged, "He left before I was born because he couldn't stand my mother's bad habits. At that time, even my mother didn't know that I existed." She picked up a thousand paper cranes with two fingers and waved them in front of Ichinose Saku, "How is it?"
"It's pretty." But the left wing is a little crooked. Ichinose Saku exhaled a puff of white mist, and his exposed skin clearly felt the coldness. "You still call her mom."
"She treated me well," Tong Xiangwang stated the facts without any emotion. She reached into her sleeve again, as if groping for something. "She worked hard to buy me toys, cooked my favorite meals, and was willing to play with me no matter how tired she was when she got home from work..." She took out a lighter from her sleeve, and with a light press, a small, light blue flame appeared. "Because she was pregnant with me, she tried hard to be a good mother. She said she would change for the better to ask for my father's forgiveness and give me a complete family..."
"That man was also good to my mother," Ichinose Saku stared at the flame. The slight warmth was fleeting, leaving only the paper crane whose shape was gradually distorted by the heat. The white paper was stained with yellow, and the smell of burning filled the night. "So she hesitated for a long time." He propped his hands on the corridor and closed the distance between himself and the girl. "What about you, Wang."
"Is your father good to you?"
Not the man she had never met, but the man who won the daughter from her mother.
"Maybe?" Tong Xiangwang tilted her head. She reached out and touched the boy's cheek. The coldness from her fingertips reminded them of the time they had spent in the night. "I don't know."
Anyway, good intentions will eventually become reins of control, so why bother about whether it is true or false? Even if it is true, not everyone will be grateful; even if it is false, we cannot deny what we did in the past.
"Hmm..." Ichinose Saku seemed to be thinking about something. He put his hand on the back of Kirigo Nozomi's hand on his face, and his brown eyes looked directly into the latter's black eyes, "Let's be friends, Nozomi."
"Bai Shi and the others said that you often go out with your father to do things. Um... you must know the address of my new home. If you are free, come and see me... Ah, my father also said that he will bring gifts to thank you for your help when he is free. I can come with you. Anyway, let's keep in touch!"
"Okay," Tong Xiangwang blinked, and in order to avoid appearing too cold, she added, "Is there any benefit?"
"...I still haven't repaid the debt of favor owed to your family," Ichinose Saku accepted the girl's frankness well, "Okay," he thought for a moment, "If you get into trouble in the future..."
"Say 'help me' and I'll descend from the sky to show you!"
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