"Gangxiong, knee pillow."
Takeo Saeki was taken aback.
"No, don't you need it?"
Sadako smiled.
"Gangxiong, I used to get a good score in the exam, or when I encountered sad things, my grandma also gave me a knee pillow. If you want to share your happiness with me, can you let me share my memories with you?"
Sadako clasped her hands together.
"Please, this is really important to me."
Takeo Saeki: "..."
If it's just a knee pillow... it doesn't even count as a kiss.
Takeo Saeki turned sideways, landed on his back, and rested his head on Sadako's thigh.
Elastic soft feedback in the back of the head.
Sadako put both hands on Takeo Saeki's head, and the girl's soft palm gently stroked Takeo Saeki's head.
Takeo Saeki didn't know if this stroking technique counted as a massage, but it was quite comfortable to press on his head.
Sadako lowered her head, looked at Takeo Saeki who was resting on her lap, and said softly.
"Very good, Mr. Saeki, you have done a good job."
"You are already a very powerful child..."
"It must be hard to live such a hard life, right?"
Sadako narrowed her eyes.
These words are what Sadako would say when she was pillowing on her grandma's (actually grandma's) lap when she was a child.
"I have seen your hard work. The gods like children who love to laugh. Mr. Saeki, you must always laugh."
Takeo Saeki smiled lightly.
"Is this something you would say to a child?"
Sadako nodded.
"Isn't it bad to be a child? Mr. Saeki, you also snuggled in the arms of grandma and were a happy child, right? Looking back now, how does it feel?"
Takeo Saeki smiled.
Snuggled in grandma's arms, happy as a child?
Sadako chanted softly, her spiritual power surging.
"The red dragonfly in the evening glow,
Where are you, I met you in my childhood,
what day was that
Take the little basket and go up the mountain..."
Takeo Saeki pursed his lips.
I don't know if it's because of the magical power of Sadako's ballads, but a completely different song from Sadako's songs gradually sounded in Saeki Takeo's mind.
"On the banyan tree by the pond,
Cicada was calling Xia Tian loudly.
On the swing by the playground,
Only butterflies rest on it..."
Takeo Saeki's eyes flashed past the elementary school in summer, the children throwing Coke ice into their mouths, and the classrooms filled with the sound of teachers writing on the blackboard with electric fans turning.
Eventually, Takeo Saeki came to a black room.
On the bed in the room, the terminally ill grandma held Zhou Heng's hand and said to Zhou Heng.
"Grandma is useless, no need to spend money."
Zhou Heng's grandma had cancer, and the treatment cost 500,000 yuan. Zhou Heng's family couldn't afford the money, so he could only bring grandma back and wait for her to die naturally.
Zhou Heng watched his grandma, who was full of vitality, lose her hair with his own eyes.
Watching grandma lying on the bed unable to get up.
Watching grandma endure the severe pain of cancer with grim facial features every day because she doesn't want to be ashamed in front of her children and grandchildren.
After that, I couldn't say a word.
Skinny and dead.
Takeo Saeki got up from Sadako's lap.
Takeo Saeki, a man in his thirties, couldn't help the surging emotions in his heart for a while, and the hot emotions rolled down the corners of his eyes.
Sadako stepped forward and hugged Takeo Saeki tenderly, just like her grandmother in the past.
"It's okay, it's okay."
"No one will laugh at you, cry in my arms."
A cold knowledge, if you want to get close to a sensitive person, and want to draw in the relationship between people, you must not say that I can save you, I am here to help you.
The best way is to say "I am the same as you".
Looking at Takeo Saeki crying in his arms, Sadako seemed to see her past, the little Sadako who had suffered countless grievances but could only cuddle up in the arms of her relatives to cry.
Waves of tenderness and affection swept through Sadako's heart, and Sadako suddenly realized what her grandmother thought when she was holding her back then.
I really want Mr. Takeo Saeki/Sadako to be happy.
Unfortunately grandma died.
Fortunately, Sadako is still alive.
An hour later, Ishikawa Supermarket.
Kayako, who was hiding in the corner, looked at the time and waited to lower his head when a familiar figure came into view.
Kayako was overjoyed and walked towards the familiar figure.
Kayako walked up to Takeo Saeki who was walking over.
Takeo Saeki sniffed and cried.
"Gakko, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."
Kayako looked at Takeo Saeki's red eyes in confusion.
"Gangxiong, you? Are you okay?"
Takeo Saeki wiped his eyes.
"It's nothing, just eating with my colleagues just now, I was recommended some devil's pepper ramen, I just took a bite, and I haven't recovered yet, **** it, it's not something people can eat at all."
Takeo Saeki sniffed, wondering if it was Sadako's spiritual power. When Takeo Saeki was being pillowed on Sadako's lap, the scene of his grandmother's death that had been buried in his memory for twenty years popped out.
Strong and sincere feelings also explode with the appearance of these images.
Takeo Saeki cried like a tearful man in Sadako's arms. Even now, when he thinks of the scene of his grandma dying, Takeo Saeki still has the idea of crying in his arms.
Kayako: "..."
"Stop talking."
Takeo Saeki put his arm around Kayako's shoulders.
"Let's go home."
Takeo Saeki took Kayako out of the supermarket, got into his car, and just after entering, Kayako frowned.
"It smells so strong."
Takeo Saeki spilled alcohol in the car before returning.
Takeo Saeki nodded.
"The colleague drank and couldn't drive, so I sent her home."
Kayako sniffled again, frowning.
"Smells like women's perfume?"
Takeo Saeki: "..."
Dear, your nose is too sensitive, right?
"Yes, it's a female colleague."
Takeo Saeki rubbed his nose, it seemed that the strength had subsided, and Takeo Saeki's voice began to return to normal.
Kayako frowned.
"who is it?"
Takeo Saeki started the vehicle.
"Megumi Mizukami is the girl from Tokyo Skytree at that time."
Kayako clenched his hand on his lap.
"Isn't that girl dating Natsume?"
Takeo Saeki sighed.
"Gayako, you don't know, do you? Natsume is dead."
Gayako was taken aback.
"died?"
Takeo Saeki nodded, took out his phone, found the search engine, and entered Takuo Natsume.
After a period of investigation, the deaths of Natsume Taku and the security guard were reported by the local police as a suicide under pressure, and then released by some online news platforms. However, because there are too many people committing suicide in the Neon Country, it is the same as Kawakami Dainaru and Tsuchimikado Chihiro. No one cares that Natsume Taku is a daily suicide.
"Look at Kayako."
Takeo Saeki handed the news of Natsume Taku's death to Kayako, who took it over and looked at it, but the wife was stunned. The news of the death was accompanied by a photo, so Kayako could recognize that the deceased was Natsume Taku, not the person with the same name.
Gayako took out her mobile phone again and typed Natsume Taku, and the result was the same as before.
Gayako couldn't believe it.
"This, this is dead? Is that child still so young?"
Kayako still remembered Natsume Taku's high-spirited look when he met Natsume Taku a few days ago.
In the end, this high-spirited appearance was already the last?
Is life such a fragile thing?
Takeo Saeki responded.
"Do you know? Comedy stars have a higher rate of depression than other types of stars. Natsume Taku's child seems to be very sunny, but who knows if there is something wrong in his heart, suicide... I can only say, respect his choice."
Kayako nodded. She really didn't know Natsume Taku's true character and experience. She couldn't make an in-depth evaluation of suicide, so she asked again.
"Then Mizukami, that child?"
Saiki Takeo said while driving.
"The girl was very sad when her boyfriend died. She was crying when she went to work. The manager of Shencha thought she was pitiful, and the constant crying not only made her unable to work, but also affected other people, so she was given a few days off. When I saw her an hour ago, the girl was drunk and walked a little wobbly. I was afraid that something might happen to her at night, so I took her to eat something and sent me home."
Kayako asked back.
"Why do not you take me?"
Takeo Saeki also asked back.
"Gako, you don't think you are qualified to give Mizusami Hui psychological counseling, do you?"
Kayako: "..."