Chapter 114
[The summer sun is scorching; even though the sun has only just risen above the horizon, the temperature is already high. After walking in the sunlight for a while, you start to sweat.]
[Nakaima Reina hasn’t experienced this kind of heat in a long time; she finds it refreshing. The garden scenery, which she had become very familiar with in her hospital room, suddenly looks unfamiliar from this new perspective.]
[You push her towards the flowers, encouraging her to smell the pollen. She smiles.]
[At the end of the garden, you circle around from the other side and stop in the pavilion in the center of the garden. The pavilion’s roof casts a cool shadow. You and Nakaima Reina sit in the shade; she looks out, while you watch her.]
[Nakaima Reina’s gaze gradually shifts away from the garden, and she looks towards a distant point. In the southeast of the garden, she sees a small mountain standing against the blue sky. The mountain’s slope is lush and green, with the sun hanging above its peak.]
[She is first surprised to find a mountain nearby, and then even more surprised that she had never noticed it before, despite it being directly in view from her window.]
[You tell her that it’s called Azuki Mountain.]
[As the sun rises higher, the sunlight becomes even more intense, and you push Nakaima Reina back to the hospital room.]
[Back in her bed, the familiar garden comes into view again, but what occupies her mind is that unfamiliar perspective.]