Chapter 57 The final chapter

Strong gas smell. Came back from a far away place.Fly a great distance.With this momentum, he jumped up. It's in my room.A study desk stacked with notebooks and reference books.On the seat with slightly less springs, there is a checkered seat cushion sewn by my mother.Dictionaries and scientific magazines lined the iron shelves.On the back of the book are the strategy manuals and comic books for the game, as well as his secret money box, which contains the pocket money he saved for the purchase of "Romantic New Gaston Saga III". is my room.my home. However, the smell of gas was pungent.The air conditioner was off, and the smell mingled in the stale air of the summer night, uncomfortable and dangerous.

The siren of the gas leak began to sound sharply. Gen lifted the quilt at once and jumped up from the bed. "Mother!" Gen shouted and rushed into the living room.The door to Mother's bedroom was open.There was a strong smell of gas coming from the kitchen.Mom deliberately opened the door to let the gas easily pour into her room. Holding my breath, I went into the kitchen and wanted to turn on the light. When I touched the light, I suddenly realized: I can’t turn on the light, it’s dangerous!Sparks may cause an explosion.He retracted his hand, groped to find the gas plug, and tightened it firmly.

Then go back to the living room and open all the windows.He rushed into his mother's bedroom with a rattle, and saw his mother's face pale and haggard in a coma.Mom lay on her back with her head resting on a pillow.Although she was only covered with a thin summer quilt, her body curve under the quilt could hardly be seen, and she lost weight in a short time.Because sad, because sad. But don't die.It is wrong to want to die. The curtains in the dormitory were very heavy and difficult to handle, and I was so anxious that I couldn't pull them open.Gen Fei flew over and hung on the curtain cloth, and rolled to the ground together with the curtain with a "chiliu", entangled together.However, Wataru cheered in his heart.He struggled to his feet and opened the window.

In time!Mom is safe, I saved it!I can save mom! Returning from the fantasy world to the present world is precisely at this juncture.It was at this juncture when Meihe first helped Gen, Meihe helped Gen first. The gas smell is much thinner.However, Gen was still extremely careful, his body collided with the wall and furniture left and right, passed through the dark room and corridor, and rushed out of the house.Will the neighbors wake up to the sound? "I'm sorry, please lend me your phone! Sorry, I'm Sangu, my neighbor! I need to call an ambulance. Please lend me your phone!"

On this present night, the moon did not come out.The fluorescent lights in the public corridors quietly watch Gen's struggle. Uncle "Lu" drove here from his home in Chiba.In the early hours of the morning, the two sat side by side in the corridor outside the emergency room. The doctor said that because of the early detection, the situation is fine. "Until the patient regains consciousness, he must be carefully observed. However, there is no danger to his life. It is your credit, kid." Doctors are young.When the ambulance came straight through the emergency entrance, he still looked sleepy.However, he perked up as soon as he saw the stretcher.Doctors and Highlanders are the same, Wataru thought.

Gen also saw a doctor.Do your eyes sting?No.Feeling tight in your chest?not at all.Have a headache?No pain. I'm fine.Can I wait here for my mother to wake up? Then the rescuer and his uncle sat like this all the time.The benches in the corridor are designed for grown-ups. Once you sit on them, Gen's feet will hang up and dangle.I'm an excellent Highlander, how can I sit like a child? I remembered.I am no longer a highland guard, and I don't have the sword of the brave, and Baoyu's power is gone. I am Migugen again. "City gas can't kill people." "Lu" Uncle muttered suddenly.His shoulders slumped, his large hands hung between his legs.

I have heard this sentence before.By the way, it was Meihe who said so.City gas can't kill people.But it would be great to explode. Meihe—he is no longer here.Are you really gone?Did not return to the present world? "Geng, aren't you sleepy?" "Road" Uncle asked.Because of the long beard, the chin and mouth area are blue and black.The eyes under the double eyelids blinked sadly. Just like Kee Kimah when he was depressed.Big man, mother-in-law heart, all the same. "I'm not sleepy, it's okay." "If you can't hold on, you can lean on uncle to sleep."

"Oh." Although Bray, he was suddenly overwhelmed by uncontrollable strong emotions, and leaned against his uncle, who stretched out his arms to stir Heng's body. For a while, just be silent. "I'm sorry," said the uncle. "A grown-up's waywardness makes you uncomfortable. It's too much. It's really too much." With a hoarse and trembling voice, the uncle's heart was crying inside his body, the crying did not bring out tears, but it was mixed in the uncle's tearless, grown-up voice. "uncle." "Ok?" "I, have you met my uncle?"

Uncle turned his head and peeked at Gen's face from above. "Where do you start?" Uncle's tired and bruised face was blank, he really couldn't figure it out. Ah, yes, when I got the second gem, when I returned to the present world through the passage of light, I came to the room where my mother was hospitalized, and when I was about to leave, my uncle came.So, those are things that are going to happen in the future. However, I have already returned to this world, so those things will no longer happen. Time has returned.The time spent in the fantasy world is not counted as time in this world.This finally had a real feel.Going back to the juncture of "Gas Night," that's all.

If so, there are more things to worry about.Where is Mizuru Ashikawa?How about Omatsu Kaori?Speaking of which, there's that Kenji Ishioka... Uncle touched his face with his thick palm.Gen wanted to comfort his uncle.I'm fine——Wan wanted my uncle to go beyond the meaning of "all right" to "all right". However, I don't know where to start.All of a sudden, I even have the urge to cry.It's not sad, but when I have feelings that are overwhelmingly overwhelming, I cry.Because he was still a child. Because Won is no longer a hero. Gen leaned on his uncle soothingly, leaning on his whole body.Uncle's body was warm and smelled like lotion.

"uncle." "Ok?" "As soon as I feel relieved, I feel sleepy. Can I sleep?" "Of course." He closed his eyes.As soon as you fall into light sleep, you immediately fall asleep.It was a dream of riding in a Darubaba, with Ki Kima on the driver's seat, urging Darubaba with a vigorous voice. At this time tears flowed.The tears shed at last after returning to this world have a nostalgic taste. After dawn, he couldn't see his mother in the end, so he and his uncle went home temporarily. McDonald's for breakfast.In the morning, the McDonald's shop was empty. A man in a suit sitting in the smoking area read a newspaper while blowing out smoke rings. The smoke drifted to Wat who was swallowing pancakes. "through." "Oh?" Uncle held a plastic coffee cup in one hand and tilted his head slightly. "What's up?" Uncle put the cup back on the tray, frowning in embarrassment. "You, uh." "Oh." "You seem to have become stronger all of a sudden." Although it was a calm tone, it contained surprise.There was an element of "observation" in the uncle's gaze. Heng smiled.Like warm water overflowing in the heart, I felt the expansion of warmth and gratitude and indescribable glitter. Not "all of a sudden strong", ah, uncle.I've been traveling and just got back. "I think it's great that my mother is alive." Gen said, "You can't die, right?" Uncle nodded, instead of "yes".His eyes are moist. School is on summer vacation.I can't see anyone at school.Wataru went directly to the apartment building of Ashikawa Mizuru and my sister-in-law. In the morning, the administrator is transporting garbage to the dumping point.When Wat ran into the lobby through the automatic door, he ignored it, and when Wat came out panting, he stopped what he was doing and looked at Wat strangely. "What's the matter, kid?" "That, that..." Ashikawa's nameplate is gone.On the house number of the mailbox, there is a brand new, snow-white nameplate. "Excuse me, has the Luchuan family moved out?" "Ashikawa?" "A family of a young woman and a boy my age. I was friends with the kid." The administrator thought about it with his hands on his forehead.Oh, he said, patting his forehead. "Moving away." "when?" "It's just recently. The day the school starts summer vacation." "Did you see them go away? Two people? Is there the boy?" The administrator couldn't hold back Gen's questioning.However, he is a seasoned adult at any rate, he immediately switched from offense to defense, and turned to stare at Gen. "Why are you asking this? You should be friends with him, shouldn't you have known?" "Honestly, what are you doing here? Hey, you seem to have seen it before." ——The administrator put his hands on his waist, and when he started to use his authority, he disappeared. Who should I ask?Although he wanted to see Ake sooner, he was not familiar with Ashikawa. Find Miyahara.Yutaro Miyahara.They are both top students, and Miyahara and Ashikawa are very close.Still in the same class.Oh, where is Miyahara's house? In the garden of the old wooden house, Yutaro Miyahara was tending morning glories and sunflowers with his younger siblings.The wobbly little sister is holding a cute red watering can.Miyahara was adding wooden poles to support the sunflowers that were taller than him. Put your hands on the iron shed in the courtyard and say hello: Good morning.Miyahara turned around abruptly, seeming quite surprised. "Hey, isn't it Sangu? Good morning - what are you going to do early in the morning?" Miyahara also walked over to the iron shed, trying to find an excuse.Miyahara's siblings were not interested in Wataru, and were happily counting the blooming morning glories. "Hey, that - Miyahara. Do you know about Ashikawa?" "Ashikawa? From our class?" Miyahara responded casually.correct!Ashikawa is here, and Ashikawa Mizuru is here. "What's the matter with that guy?" "Do you know where he is... now?" "Where is it?" Miyahara blinked, "It's moved away." Oops, it's still the same answer. "Aren't you a transfer student? Moved again?" "Oh. It's really a toss. But there's something at home, so there's nothing I can do about it." A nonchalant tone. "That's right... Lu Chuan, what do you think?" Only then did Miyahara become puzzled, he looked carefully at Gen's face, looked up and down, as if he was talking to a cosmic being dressed as Mitani Gen. "You have to ask what kind of person he is..." Then laughed. "Strange. But Sangu doesn't know Luchuan, right? They're in different classes." "We go to the same cram school." "Really? But, haven't you talked? That guy doesn't like to talk." Has what happened to the Ashikawa family sparked discussion?Are the mothers talking about it?Combined with the Ishioka Kenji incident, Ashikawa is not regarded as a "problem child", right? I really want to ask.However, it seems that no matter how you ask, you will not answer the point. In the present world that Wataru returned to, the Ashikawa Mitsuru that Wataru knew no longer existed.there is none left. It has disappeared without a trace, as if it never existed in the first place. "Mitani," Miyahara called out.This time he put one hand on the iron shed, next to Gen's. "That." As soon as he spoke, his younger brother yelled, "Brother! Mayumi is making trouble, I can't count the morning glories!" The little sister cried "wow".Miyahara hesitated between Gen and his younger siblings: Should it be better to be an older brother, or to care about Gen's friend? "The little one is crying." Gen urged. "oh oh." Miyahara withdrew his hand from the iron shed and turned to his siblings.At this time, he was a little hesitant again, and said a word quickly, as if he had spit it out before changing his mind. "My classmate's mother loves to chat." "Oh?" "There was a parents' meeting before the summer vacation, and there was an inquiring aunt, so my mother said a little..." What Miyahara wanted to say, Wataru understood.For a moment, he thought, has word spread about the attempted suicide by turning on the gas?It's too fast.Miyahara's mother heard about it, probably from the previous rumors. Although there are no classmates in the apartment building where Heng lives, there are children in the same grade.Probably they or their parents have heard about it, and it was rumored. Grandma Chiba's voice is too loud. "You said something happened to your family?" "Oh." Gen nodded frankly.The other party is someone you can associate with with confidence.And Wataru also became strong enough to accept the facts peacefully. "My mother, look." Miyahara touched the bottom of his nose embarrassingly, "Because my father remarried, it's a mess." My sister's crying stopped.The two squatted down at the root of the morning glory, as if they were digging something. "I also... feel very annoying. At that time." "Oh, I see." Miyahara showed a smiling face: "But it's not too bad now. Sister and brother are very cute, although they are very noisy." This time it was the younger brother who cried.He was hit by Tiny with a red watering can. "Oh." Gen said.His chest was hot and he couldn't say more. So, Miyahara made himself a little embarrassed, "Then what...how should I put it?" Come on.He said, looking relieved that I got the right words. "Oh." brother, brother!Brother and sister burst into tears at the same time.Miyahara, "Come on, come on!" kept running over, still looking very happy. Hey, how many morning glory bloomed? On the way home, Gen's mind and heart went blank, all he could think of was the blankness caused by Ashikawa Mitsuru's absence and the warmth Miyahara gave him. So, I didn't even realize where I was walking.From the other side of the road, Ake walked over while yawning.An attendance card for radio gymnastics hangs around his neck.However, he turned a blind eye to it—there was still time before he could react. "Morning morning... good." Ake waved to Gen.What he seemed to want to say was "good morning". He stopped and stared at Ake. Komura-kun, do you remember Mizuru Ashikawa, the transfer student? "What? What are you doing here so early in the morning? You don't do radio gymnastics here, do you?" "Ake." "what the hell?" Ake's jaw closed: Work hard, Sangu, it's early in the morning. "You help me release the bird, thank you." "Ok?" There is no need to see Ake's reaction clearly.That didn't happen either.In terms of tense, that also happened in the future. "Nothing." Gen smiled. "Haven't you washed your face yet? Maybe you haven't slept yet?" Before he answered "yes", Ake's shrewd brain turned "gulugulu": "Could it be?" Ake showed a worried look, "What happened at home? Is your father?" Can't lie to Ake.However, don't say it at this moment, let him worry, let's talk when he is calmer. "Ake." "what?" "How is Ishioka in sixth grade?" "Ishioka Kenji? That guy?" "Yes." Gen said carefully, "Did he... lose his memory? His whereabouts are unknown, and after finally finding him, he seems to have lost his soul?" Ake came closer to wipe Gen's face.Then he leaned forward, put his hand on the tip of his nose and shook it. "Can you see it? How small is it?" "Of course I know." Gen laughed loudly, but Ake didn't stop. "The reason why you didn't sleep last night was because you were playing "Detective Medeus Series: The Disappearance of the Client". As a reasoning adventure game, it is hailed as the highest masterpiece of the series. It is said that if you are fascinated, you will definitely stay up all night. Mitani-san, wake up Wake up. In our real life, no one is missing." Gen's stomach hurts from laughing.Ake grabbed Gen, and shouted "Sangu Sangu hold on" while shaking, and continued to shake while laughing. "Ishioka hasn't disappeared, and he hasn't lost his memory. However, I heard he has become more honest recently. Maybe someone caught that guy and taught him a lesson." Hearing this is enough. That afternoon, the hospital called.At that time, Grandma Qianye had already arrived, but only Heng and Uncle "Lu" went to the hospital. When I entered my mother's hospital bed, I asked my uncle to wait in the corridor. Mom is crying.Gen also cried.Mom apologized, and Wataru also apologized. When the two finally stopped their tears, important words gurgled out of their mother's mouth. "When she was in a coma, my mother had been... dreaming." "What dream?" Gen just looked at his mother's pupils and understood.For the fragments of that dream remain. "It's an incredible dream. A dream of another world... just like your favorite video game. You travel in it, to train yourself to be a hero. You and a big lizard man, a woman with cat ears Travel happily together." "Mom, do you remember what kind of trip it was?" If you don't remember, let me tell you.Tell you without reservation.And probably what I've brought back from this trip. "I remember, I remember all of them." Mom said, "Wen, you are an outstanding brave man." "Then, Mom," Gen said, "we don't have to worry about anything." Instead of torturing ourselves by lamenting what we have lost, we can cherish who we are right now. "Even if Dad...won't come?" Mom asked in a low voice. "Oh." Gen nodded, "Because the world still exists." My fantasy world, my present world. In the mother's pupils, it seems that Mina's blue-gray pupils are superimposed, and the pupils of "Helan Katz" who is still inspiring at the last moment also appear faintly, and also reflect the blue pupils of Captain Lummel, the captain of the knight. The gift is to see you off. Mom hugged Gen tightly. After a few days. Mom is out of the hospital.She and Gen are going to stay at grandma's house in Chiba temporarily.Although grandma felt awkward, she said, "The one Kuniko really wants to go to should be Odawara's natal family."But when my mother said, "Please, I want to calmly talk to grandma about the future", she breathed a sigh of relief, her tense face eased, and she went back excitedly. Dad also called back several times.Mom talked for a long time, but she stopped crying and shouting. "I'm sorry, Bangzi." Grandma's statement occasionally came to my ears. First you have to tell Ake.If Ake's parents allow, Ake will also come to Chiba's hometown to play later. Uncle "Lu" said, it's fine to stay for the whole summer vacation. "In exchange, you two have to help me work hard." Of course Ake was very happy. "Uncle 'Lu' is difficult to deal with. We have to fight 'Split Watermelon'." "How is this going?" "It's cutting watermelons. It's not just one person who is blindfolded and holding a stick, but everyone." "Hey hey hey!" When he was about to leave Ake's house, Wan wanted to invite Ake to a place.He didn't have the courage to go alone. But when it came time to "bye bye", Gen made up his mind to go alone. Then, he steps towards Mr. Omatsu's ghostly mansion. How is that place?I haven't had the courage to see it with my own eyes yet.Probably nothing has changed.There is no reason to change.Scared to confirm this, though.Reinforced steel structures shelved under construction stand wrapped in faded blue tarps. The "Building Plan Announcement" sign was crooked, and the melted words were a bit blurred.If you see such a scene, really, really everything is over. ——The magic is broken. Scared to feel that for real. So go slowly.His eyes lowered unconsciously. However, a voice was heard. It is the roar of heavy machinery.When Gen looked up, he saw bulldozers and cranes busy on the road in front of the ghost building. The tarp has been removed, revealing the ghostly building.The front end of the boom of the crane is hung with corroded steel bars. The Ghost Building is being demolished.Run up. The iron staircase, the place where I met Rao's mentor, leading me to the passageway to invite Yufei - is being dismantled from the main body of the building, slowly moved away, and transported away.While watching all this, someone patted him on the shoulder from behind. "Hey, Sangu-kun." When he turned his head, he saw President Omatsu looking down at him with a smile. "Hello." "Surprised?" The president waved his hand at the steel structure that was about to disintegrate. "It's ruined." "Yeah. It's raining and sunburnt. It's completely damaged. Let's just tear it down and rebuild. Funding has finally been raised, and it's going to be a great building this time." The ghostly mansion is about to disappear from the ground. Vision is slightly blurred.The roar of heavy machinery covered Wataru's sigh. goodbye. At this time, President Omatsu suddenly walked aside, leaned over, and whispered to a person kindly.He found someone hiding on the other side of the president, and was covered by the president. "What's there to be embarrassed about!" The president smiled happily, putting his hand around the shoulder of "that person". "Mr. Sangu met him before, you may not remember." It is Omatsu Kaori. She does not use a wheelchair.Slender, beautiful legs, a knee-length sleeveless dress, and a dazzlingly white skin.The braids tied into ponytails are black and shiny, reflecting the strong summer sunlight. "She's getting better recently." President Omatsu caressed Kaori's shoulder like touching a treasure. "I wanted to go for a walk today, so I came out. Hey, Kaori, say 'Hello!'" The girl stared at Wataru in fascination.It looks familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it.Although I remember speaking, I forgot the content. Trying to remember it still doesn't make sense, but I do know you.Her dark pupils said so. Although the memory is very thin. "I……" The soul has returned to you, has indeed returned to you. The little white bird on my shoulder. "I once sneaked into this building and fell a lot. I ended up taking care of it at the president's house." As soon as Gen came back to his senses, his mouth started to gush.As if it wasn't his own voice. President Omatsu smiled: "Yes, yes, this has happened." He stared at Kaori Omatsu intently.Kaori also stared at Wataru. "Hello," she said. Give me your sword of slaying demons.It was the voice of that time.He stretched out his slender hand to Wataru—that was how it was then. That arm inspired Wataru who was about to leave the fantasy world.Lovingly hugged him.These will never be forgotten. You were my goddess of fate. "Say hello when we meet for the first time. Mitani-kun, right?" Kaori Omatsu looked back at her father with a bright smile.That smiling face was brighter than the midsummer sun, reflecting President Omatsu's face. "Hello." Watanabe said. Vesna Esta Horicia. Until we meet again. In the fantasy world, in the present world. The Son of Man has a finite life, but his life is eternal.