About the fact that I unintentionally raised my sister to be a cripple

rain.

Continuously and softly hitting the black hat brim of the old building, like old glass marbles, raindrops fell from the eaves. A soft and hazy rainy atmosphere enveloped the corridor leading out of the living room. The sky exudes the scent of plum rain, and all the plants are surprisingly green in the humid air.

[I] seemed to be looking up at the light rain, my legs shaking unconsciously on the edge of the verandah.

Wet stones, wet moss, swaying green trees, and the gentle ringing of wind chimes on the brim of a hat.

Such a picture comes into view.

Jingle bell bell~~

Two sounds of wind chimes, like coming from the depths of the soul, made Sakakihara suddenly wake up.

This voice——

He was totally impressed.

[Myself], started to move.

Then, like a movie camera, the perspective slowly shifted to the crisp wind chime under the brim of the hat.

[Myself], was staring quietly.

"Ale, go get the lighter for me."

The sound of the wicker chair shaking was squeaking on the side, accompanied by the man's commanding tone.

"good."

The perspective suddenly changed. [I] slowly propped up my body, glanced at the man lying on the wicker chair, turned around, and walked into the living room.

[I] opened the drawer and started looking for something inside.

Sakakihara Raku's perspective was shaking. He obviously didn't make any movement, but his slightly immature hands found an old pulley lighter from the drawer as if with a clear purpose.

What an amazing experience.

"Ale, have you found it?"

"found it."

"Well, bring it then."

[He] walked back again and handed the lighter in his hand to the lazy man lying on the wicker chair with a cigarette in his mouth.

With a little pull, the man's finger slid the pulley of the lighter, sparks came out, and he lit the cigarette.

"Ale, you know, dad is unemployed. If you don't go to work, you and your sister will have nothing to eat."

The man puffed away with melancholy and told [himself] about his recent move.

These are all grown-up stories.

Sakakihara Raku knew roughly, but didn't want to hear it.

He was even more curious about his state now.

Is this the world in dreams?

According to the familiar yet unfamiliar environment around him, he should be in his childhood home now.

The man on the wicker chair in front of me is the bastard dad who will run away in the future.

And he can't control [himself].

It's like the first-person perspective when playing a game, watching [oneself] replay the memory traces of the past.

This must have happened when I was a child, right?

Seeing the old man whose appearance he had almost forgotten talking about the old things that he had almost forgotten, Sakakihara Raku also felt a sense of emotion in his heart.

He didn't expect that when he saw this person again after so many years, it would be in Qi Mingyue's dream.

What an irony.

but.

Isn’t this Qimingyue’s dream?

Since it was Qi Mingyue's dream, why was he still here?

Qi Mingyue definitely has no memory of talking to her father alone.

Taking advantage of the boring break between dad and [myself] chatting.

Raku Sakakihara rediscovered the detailed description of the [Dream Corridor] props.

In Regulation No. 334, a description of the dream connection is found.

[334. If the dreamer and the dreamed person have memories of the same time period, then the dreamer will automatically enter the same identity in the dreamed person's memory. At the same time, the dream environment will be created by the memory of the dreamer]

This explanation is a bit difficult to pronounce.

Just explain it briefly.

This is the current dream, which is equivalent to a dream space built based on the memories of two people.

During this time period, Raku Sakakibara and Nanami Nanami took on the roles of their childhood selves.

As for why there is no Qimingyue now?

Sakakihara Raku guessed that the timeline of this world has not yet reached the time when the two met.

Qi Mingyue should still be recalling her own affairs.

In her memories, the person "Sakakihara Raku" has not yet appeared.

Why does it feel like playing an online game?

Sakakihara Raku was a little depressed.

The most important thing is that I can't move yet, it's just like watching a movie.

But that’s fine too.

Anyway, I don’t remember anything, so watching a “movie” from my childhood can be regarded as reminiscing about the past.

After the bastard dad complained for a while on the wicker chair about his grandparents not wanting him to move away from his hometown, he waved his hand and sent him away [Sakakihara Raku].

Obviously, he had little interest in a seven-year-old kid and didn't expect him to help him solve his problems.

He was just using his son as an outlet for his complaints.

It's best to listen. If you don't obey, lecture.

After a few minutes, suddenly a little girl with a ponytail ran over from outside.

"Brother, brother!"

Raku Sakakihara smiled when he saw her.

Of course, because he couldn't control his childhood self, he only smiled in his heart.

Sakakihara Suzu, little Sakakihara Suzu, who was only five years old, ran over crying.

As soon as she got home, she told [Sakakihara Raku] that someone was bullying her.

"Who?"

"The skinny monkey selling snacks, and the fat guy selling oranges."

It can be said that Sakakihara Suzu cried to herself as soon as she came back, feeling aggrieved, tearful and pitiful, holding two broken bamboos in her hands.

"Varied--"

"You little girl ran out to play on a rainy day?"

When the father heard his daughter crying, he looked back while holding a cigarette between his fingers. He happened to see Sakakibara Suzu who had been soaked in the rain. He was already angry because he was laid off, so he launched an attack on his daughter. angry.

Sakakibara Suzu was already very afraid of her father. When she heard him yelling at her, she felt scared and became even more sad. She couldn't stop crying.

"Crying again?! Still crying. If crying could solve the problem, I wouldn't have to worry so much!"

"Dad, don't say that to A Ling, she is still young."

"So are you, brat! If I hadn't paid to support you - forget it."

When the father saw his daughter like this, he felt upset, naughty and disobedient. He impatiently waved to his son to take her elsewhere to cry.

"Go, go, go."

Sakakihara Suzu stood behind her brother. She was so young that she couldn't hold back her tears and kept wiping her tears with the clothes on her elbows. And because she was afraid that her father would talk to her again, she tried not to cry out and could only wipe her tears with her hands.

Alas, Sakakihara Raku, as a bystander, couldn't help but feel distressed when he saw these memories that were so far away that he had forgotten them.

Fortunately, [Sakakihara Raku] also felt very sorry for this sister and kept comforting her with words.

After her father waved his hand twice, he took her away from here. Along the corridor around the house, the two came to the other end of the yard.

[Sakakihara Raku] asked her what exactly happened.

Sakakibara Suzu tried her best to hold back her tears and showed him two bamboos held in her dirty hands.

Raku Sakakihara remembers this thing.

Isn't this a bamboo gun?

Stuff a wet paper towel inside the bamboo, then poke it with a thinner bamboo, and it will make a "pop" sound when it is launched.

It's quite painful to hit someone.

Xiao Sakakihara Suzu cried and said: "They... they broke this of mine and used theirs to beat me. There are so many of them, I, I can't beat them."

Hearing A Ling's milky voice, long-standing memories seemed to suddenly come to life.

By the way, it seems that when A Ling was a child, she didn't have to deal with the children in the two shops that sold oranges and snacks in the village.

Ah Ling always said they bullied her.

It is said to be bullying, but in fact it is just children playing around.

Ah Ling is very competitive and can't compete with them, that's why she said this.

But this time the other party seemed to have gone too far. A Ling said that they used bamboo guns to hit her and bully her alone. She could not fight with the bamboo guns of the two of them, and her friends did not dare to fight with those two. The naughty boy is against him.

She ran out of bullets and the other party chased her and beat her, and ran all the way back home.

The bamboo gun made for her was stepped on while running.

They kept laughing at the bamboo gun her brother made for her, which was trash and terrible.

While Xiao Sakakihara Suzu was unable to do anything to them, they were so angry that she wanted to cry.

"I, I, wuwu, I said it was not rubbish, but they, they still said you should be me. me."

"Okay, okay, don't cry. If something is broken, it's broken."

"But. But"

(This is childhood)

Seeing the crying little Suzu, Sakakibara felt emotional and at the same time thought she was quite cute when she was a child.

"A Ling wants to be better than them?"

"Hmm. They are, too, too much." Sakakihara Suzu cried, but nodded seriously.

"Okay, then come out with me." [Sakakihara Raku] kept touching her head.

"What are you going out for? Brother. Brother, aren't you afraid of being told by dad? It's raining outside."

"Let's do it secretly, just don't let him find out."

[Sakakihara Raku]'s smile made Xiao Sakakihara Suzu feel at ease. When she heard that her brother was taking her out again, she wiped her tears and nodded.

She followed her brother to the woodshed and watched him pick up the hatchet and then pick up a roll of tape in the tool box.

The ignorant little Sakakihara Suzu didn't know what her brother was going to do, but she knew that all she had to do was follow him.

Her brother would give her delicious food and play with her. Even the bamboo gun just now was a toy he made for her.

"Come on, let's go out."

"All right."

Xiao Sakakihara Suzu followed Sakakihara Raku all the way to the door, walked through the dirt road covered with weeds, came to a hill near her home, and came to a clump of bamboo near the roadside.

[Sakakihara Raku] looked at the bamboo and selected it for a long time, then selected the target and chopped off the small bamboo with a knife.

Kosakihara Suzu probably knew what he was going to do. By this time her sobbing had gradually subsided.

"Brother, do you want to make another one?"

"of course."

"But, I still can't beat them both."

"Don't worry." [Sakakihara Raku] said to her sister to relax while wielding a hatchet to cut off the bamboo.

The plum rain was drizzle, and the chopped bamboo rustled overhead.

[Sakakihara Raku] First cut off a section of small bamboo, and then select a smaller section of bamboo as the firing pin for launching the bamboo gun. The firing pin was pushed into the barrel of the gun to give it a try.

The size isn't quite right.

[Sakakihara Raku] I guessed that the size of the bamboos did not match, so I cut a few more in succession, compared them carefully, and compressed the progress of the bamboo gun to the limit.

After cutting five bamboos, I finally made a bamboo gun with a firing pin and a barrel that fit perfectly.

It looks like a very exquisite gadget.

He took out a napkin from his pocket, dipped it in the rainwater from the puddles on the roadside, and then stuffed it into the bamboo gun to test its power.

The sound of "Pa!" was quite powerful.

Kosakakihara Suzu had played with the bamboo gun a lot, she could hear the sound, and could see that the one her brother made was much more powerful than before.

Her eyes sparkled.

[Sakakihara Raku] It can be seen that Xiao Sakakihara Suzu wants it very much.

"Don't worry, I'll modify it for you."

Xiao Sakakihara Suzu didn't understand anything and just nodded.

[Sakakihara Raku] used a knife to cut a rectangular hole in the barrel of the bamboo gun, then picked a larger No. 2 bamboo and hollowed out both sides.

Then, push the No. 2 bamboo vertically into the bamboo barrel so that it is nested in the hole of the bamboo barrel, forming a cross shape.

In this way, a bamboo gun with a magazine is a small success.

Sakakihara squeezed several wet paper towel ammunition into the bamboo magazine at the top, and pushed the firing pin back and forth several times.

"Papa pa pa"

At this time, the bamboo gun did not make a "pop" sound, but several times in succession.

Xiao Sakakihara Suzu saw stars in her eyes when she saw the gadget her brother got for her.

"Okay. You can fire continuously."

"Wait a minute, I'll tie it up for you."

[Sakakihara Raku] used the plastic tape at home to tie the assembled continuous bamboo gun, and tied it back and forth with three layers on the inside and three layers on the outside using a cross binding method.

After confirming that it was secure, he handed the toy, which was half the length of A Ling's hand, to her.

"Okay, take it."

Kosakakihara Suzu took this "artifact" from her brother's hand as if she were receiving the Holy Grail.

She looked at this particularly delicate-looking bamboo gun with a curious look on her face.

"You know how to use it?"

"Well, put bullets on it!"

"Smart, but you have to prepare bullets in advance. It's best to use those small fruits. Whenever someone bullies you with a bamboo gun, use this to deal with him."

Kosakakihara Suzu nodded repeatedly, eager to try, and the tears she had shed before were gone.

"However," [Sakakihara Raku] said seriously to Xiao Sakakihara Suzu, "don't hit other people in the face with this, you know? Just hit it in the stomach or hand. If you don't obey, I will take this from you. came back."

"I, I understand, thank you brother."

[Sakakihara Raku] smiled again and touched his sister's head, "Okay, let's go out and play. The rain has lightened up now, so be careful."

"Yeah, yeah."

Xiao Sakakihara Suzu couldn't wait. Although she was young, she knew that the thing her brother made for her was much better than theirs!

The one selling oranges and the one selling snacks, if they knew they could do this in a row, they would definitely envy themselves to death!

"Remember."

"good."

[Sakakihara Raku] smiled as he watched his sister trotting down the hill happily.

At the same time, Sakakihara Raku, who witnessed this incident from a first-person perspective, was also filled with emotions.

Continuous shot bamboo gun.

With this thing in her hands, Ah Ling will definitely become the king of the kids among those little brats, right?

It’s really a nostalgic gadget.

The perspective continues to move with [itself].

[I] walked down the mountain and headed back home along the narrow field ridges where the mountains were intertwined.

The plum rain is still falling. Although it is very small, if you stay under the rain for a long time, it will inevitably leave layers of fine raindrops on your head.

[I] was carrying a hatchet used for chopping firewood at home. It seemed that I had the habit of admiring the scenery while walking. I occasionally turned my head to observe the highway lanes parallel to the field ridges.

A car passed the country station across the fields, making the sound of tires in the rain as it drove.

The rainy days made the dim sky heavy, which also made the surrounding scenery dim. The wind in the plum rain continues to press on the tender green straw in the fields, turning them white and rustling one after another.

[Myself], suddenly stopped.

The angle of view involuntarily went to the little girl sitting alone at the rural station. The conspicuous flaxen hair and the light blue dress soaked by the rain involuntarily attracted [himself] on the field ridge across the road.

The little girl's face was gloomy, and she looked indescribably lonely.

He just sat alone, without shaking his legs or turning his head.

Sakakihara Raku also saw it.

He understands how [he] feels now.

Curious - curious as to why she is here.

I wonder why she is still sitting here alone in the rain.

[He] stood on the field ridge and watched for a while. Probably out of concern, he crossed the field ridge, crossed the highway, and came to the station.

".Are you OK?"

In order not to make himself look like a bad person, [Sakakihara Raku] lowered his voice very softly.

The little girl was not wary of him and did not raise her head. Of course, no words were spoken.

She is very eccentric.

That’s what [Sakakihara Raku] thought at the time.

Today's Sakakihara Raku thinks the same way.

If I remember correctly, Qi Mingyue should be only five years old at this time.

A little girl about the same age as her sister.

Why does she have that calm expression of nothing?

[Sakakihara Raku] asked her softly twice more, and then the little girl responded.

She raised her face.

issued the most common question.

"Who are you?"

Well, Sakakibara Raku had to admit that even Miss Amami's voice was quite cold in her childhood.

He continued to read.

[Myself] is answering:

"Who am I? Just call me Le. I live in the house opposite the field bank. I'll point it out to you. Well, that's right there. I'll live there."

The little girl did not look in the direction he pointed, but turned her sky-blue eyes to see the hatchet and the unused roll of tape in his hand.

"Are you here to kidnap me?"

As expected of Miss Tianhai, she had such a personality even in her childhood.

"If so, I hope you will hurry up."

Even so, Sakakibara Raku felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart when he saw such a young Nanamigetsu showing a sad expression.

The perspective continues.

"Of course not, I'm just curious why you are here."

"Well, I'm right here."

"?"

"Kidnap me quickly."

The little girl said this and held out her arms to him with their wrists together.

it's wired.

"I'm not here to kidnap you. I'm holding a hatchet because I just chopped bamboo."

"Yeah, that's such a pity." The little girl put down her hand and continued to lower her head. After being quiet for a while, she raised her eyes again and asked, "Why are you talking to me."

"You stay here alone on a rainy day and you're wet. No one will care."

"Really, but I've been sitting here for a long time, and my mother hasn't come to see me." The little girl looked down at her stained skirt.

"how long have you been here?"

".I don't know. I only know that it was raining heavily at that time."

"Is it raining heavily? It must be at least noon, but it's almost five o'clock in the afternoon now, and you've been sitting here all afternoon?!"

"Probably"

This place is close to the sea and is a rural area on an island. Except for a car that will pass by for a long time, no one will pass by here at all on rainy days.

Alas, a five-year-old girl got caught in the rain and sat at a rural station for hours on end.

Even if Sakakihara Raku sees it now, he can't help but ask.

[I] thought the same way at that time. After hearing the little girl's answer, I couldn't help but frown:

"I haven't seen you in the village. Are you not from the village?"

"My mother, sister, and I are here to travel."

"Travel. Oh, are you staying at the Clement Hotel? That place has just been repaired."

"It seems...that's the name."

"That place isn't too far away."

The little girl didn't speak. She seemed to like being alone like this.

[Sakakihara Raku] saw her wet little skirt.

"You'll catch a cold like this."

"Um."

".A cold can be very uncomfortable."

"Um."

".Do you understand what a cold means?"

"Um."

Raku Sakakibara watched from the perspective of watching a movie that Xiao Qiyue responded with three "hmm" in a row when asked by [him], and couldn't help but sigh at Miss Amami's weird personality when she was a child.

"Where is your home? Do you want to go home?"

"I want to wait for my mother to come find me."

"But you waited from morning to noon and now."

(Aunt. Alas, no matter how bad a woman she is, she would not leave five-year-old Qi Mingyue here like this!)

"Um."

Still "Yeah."

This proves that what he said makes no sense at all now.

"It's raining a little less now, maybe you can try walking back to the hotel first?"

"I have to wait for my mother. She should come to me."

"How about you follow me first?"

"."

Xiao Qi Mingyue didn't answer, she was too stubborn to listen to what he said.

She seemed reluctant.

This is normal. For her, [she] is just a strange peer.

How could a mother come so close to me?

He was a little worried about the little girl, but he had no reason to take the little girl away. He was probably thinking that he would call her mother to pick her up when he returned to the village.

[Sakakihara Raku] This stranger did not stay here for long, turned around and left the station.

Because this road is close to the sea, even though it is June, the wind from the seaside can still make people feel chilly at night.

After walking for a while, the sea breeze blew over. Even though his clothes were not soaked by the rain, the cold wind penetrated his body and still made him feel cold.

He was already so cold, and the little girl was all wet. How cold could it be?

Looking back again, the little girl with flaxen hair at the foot of the station was lowering her head, her body trembling in the cold rain and wind.

[Sakakihara Raku] It was quite distressing to see:

"How about I take you to the village? Maybe your mother is looking for you in the village."

"You're back again, are you really going to kidnap me?"

"I really didn't mean that. Look, the village is on the other side of the road. Let's just go there."

The little girl then looked in the direction he pointed.

She seemed to know that was where she came from.

"Um."

"Still, unwilling?"

"You are a stranger."

"It's a good thing that you are wary, but it doesn't matter if you sit here now. It will be very uncomfortable if you catch a cold later. You see, you are also very uncomfortable with the cold now."

Maybe it was because her body was too cold or because she had been sitting for so long that the little girl couldn't stay here any longer.

"Let's go, I'll take you there."

"I can't leave."

"Why?"

[Sakakihara Raku] Only then did he see that her feet were obviously muddy and had scars from a fall.

There was also an injury on the knee, but it was blocked by the skirt and I couldn't see it right away.

"It was an injury from a fall on the mountain just now. I can't walk. It's very painful."

"A sprained foot?"

The sea breeze blew over again. At this time, the little girl was obviously a little colder, and her drooping face turned pale.

Sakakibara could see that there were signs of a cold on her face.

"I'll carry you there."

This is the only way right now.

"Do you want to?"

"You won't carry me and jump into the sea, will you?"

".How could you have such a strange idea?"

"My sister said you can't just trust the uncles outside."

"But I'm not an uncle, I'm an older brother and you look like my sister."

"Yes. You are not a strange uncle."

The little girl nodded and said that after a few exchanges, she relented. Although the reason for relenting was very strange, she did let [Sakakihara Raku] carry her on his back.

"Hands, you can try to hold my neck, hold it tighter."

"Um."

"Just put your body on my back. Relax, I won't take you to jump into the sea."

Her body is small and her arms are soft, with the unique lightness of a little girl.

It's not too strenuous to carry, but it's a little wet.

Although Sakakibara Raku couldn't feel the feelings in the dream, as [himself], he experienced such a scene personally.

I still subconsciously imagine the feeling of carrying a wet little girl on my back.

"Sit tight."

[Sakakihara Raku] Carrying Xiao Nan Mingyue on his back, he walked on the side of the road and started to head towards the village despite the slight plum rain.

"it's wired."

"What's weird?"

"Why didn't mom come to me?"

But probably because she had been wet in the rain for a long time, her body was trembling all the time, and her speech was softer than before.

Her face was pressed against [Sakakihara Raku]'s shoulder.

"Maybe she doesn't know you're gone? Or maybe she's looking for you in the village now."

"Really?"

"Of course, no mother would care about her daughter. Your mother must be very anxious to find you."

This sentence seemed to make Xiao Qi Mingyue feel at ease a little.

She put most of her strength on [Sakakihara Raku]'s back.

"May I have your name?"

"Tianhai."

"Tianhai what?"

"Qimingyue (Jerky Chinese)."

"Strange, you can also speak Chinese?"

"Well, because mom said it's hard to spell my name in Japanese."

"Then what should I call you?"

"July. That's okay, that's what my mother called me."

"Okay, I'll call you Qiyue."

"Well, what's your name, brother?"

"As I said just now, music, the music of Kagura."

"Can't spell it out."

"It's okay if you can't spell it out. I can teach you, but don't sleep. You will definitely catch a cold if you sleep."

"Yes, I understand. Isn't it uncomfortable for my brother to carry me on his back?"

"It's okay, just a little wet."

"Um."