CHAPTER 488: CHAPTER 337: DAILY SWEETNESS (2)_2

She was gazing out the window, sunlight illuminating her face.

Uesugi Sakura was watching her, her appearance filled with an indifferent forest within her heart.

He couldn’t help but speak, "Hanabi..."

Hanamaru Hanabi turned around like an anime heroine.

Just when Uesugi Sakura was about to confess with "I like you."

The train arrived at the station.

The hateful broadcast and bell sound interrupted this most beautiful moment.

The crowd began to alternate at the train doors, stepping out with chaotic noise.

"Sakura-kun, we’ve arrived." Hanamaru Hanabi tilted her head questioningly.

"Yeah," Uesugi Sakura replied, "let’s get off the train first."

After getting off the train, they continued walking towards the station exit.

The pedestrians were bustling, walking amidst the crowd, yet it felt like only she and he were walking side by side.

Others were blurry, only the girl’s steady walk was exceptionally clear.

This feeling of heading to a date, like youth, like something beautiful, was hard to describe.

"Just now... what did Sakura-kun want to say by calling Hanabi?"

Uesugi Sakura decided, just like an anime male protagonist who’s been interrupted during a confession, not to say "I like you" again.

"I think we should watch a horror movie."

Hanamaru Hanabi immediately stopped in her tracks, her pupils contracted, and she hurriedly shook her head:

"No, you can’t."

Uesugi Sakura also stopped, waiting for her: "Hana-chan, you haven’t watched a horror movie since you were little, right? It counts as trying something new."

"I don’t want to..."

"Just watch one, I’ll watch it with you."

Hanamaru Hanabi twisted her small hands in front of her, and weakly said: "I can’t watch horror movies..."

She seemed genuinely afraid.

But Uesugi Sakura just wanted that feeling of her desperately burrowing into his arms.

"Watching one won’t be a big deal."

Hanamaru Hanabi took a small step back, repeatedly shaking her head: "Then... let’s go on another date tomorrow with Sakura-kun..."

"Tomorrow I’m Uesugi the cat."

"Then the day after tomorrow."

"The day after tomorrow I have to practice Sword Dao."

"The day after the day after tomorrow!"

"The day after the day after tomorrow I have to practice Kyudo."

Hanamaru Hanabi weakly pleaded: "Sakura-kun... can we not watch a horror movie..."

"Just act a little spoiled and sweetly call me hubby."

"No... we’re not married yet..."

"Then we have to watch a horror movie today."

"Then Sakura-kun... Hanabi is leaving... don’t be sad, okay..."

"I would definitely be heartbroken to death."

Before he finished speaking, a silhouette flashed by, and she was really gone.

Gone...

Gone?

Gone!

Uesugi Sakura immediately panicked, looking left and right trying to find her.

Perhaps it’s because Hanabi once vanished into the illusion world, making him extremely anxious.

Turning around, he realized Hanamaru Hanabi was sneakily circling behind him, hiding like playing hide-and-seek.

Uesugi Sakura’s tensed heart relaxed immediately: "Don’t scare me."

"Then... can we not watch a horror movie..." Hanamaru Hanabi, seeing she really scared him, felt a bit guilty and lowered her head.

"Alright, we won’t watch."

Hanamaru Hanabi was afraid of watching horror movies.

And for Uesugi Sakura, her sudden disappearance was like a real horror movie.

"Do you want some ice cream?"

"Sure!"

After leaving the train station, Uesugi Sakura bought her a vanilla ice cream at the intersection.

Watching her gently licking it in front of him, his earlier anxiety finally calmed down completely.

"Here, Sakura-kun, have a bite too."

Uesugi Sakura saw the marks where she had licked on the cone: "This counts as an indirect kiss."

"Sakura-kun... can eat from the other side..."

Uesugi Sakura lowered his head, eating from the side she had eaten, and said to the girl gleefully:

"Besides the vanilla flavor, there’s also the taste of Hanabi."

"Hanabi... what does it taste like...?" Hanamaru Hanabi blushed and asked.

Uesugi Sakura laughed: "I haven’t tasted all of her yet, not sure, but just lips alone, they are sweet, soft, with a warm flow."

"You’re so bad..."

"It’s more like you like it."

The two of them locked eyes for a while.

Hanamaru Hanabi lowered her head again.

Seeing her inexplicable shyness, Uesugi Sakura tentatively asked: "Later when watching the movie... should we kiss?"

Hanamaru Hanabi turned her head, taking small bites of the ice cream he had just eaten.

Though she didn’t respond, Uesugi Sakura noticed her ear tips turning a bit red from behind, showing her embarrassment.

Knowing that little Hanabi was thin-skinned, Uesugi Sakura didn’t expose her.

Later everything was as if she was forced by him.

Kissing too.

Yes, that’s right.

...

Arriving at the cinema, there were definitely horror movies.

But Hanamaru Hanabi completely dared not take a look.

Uesugi Sakura went to the self-service machine to buy two tickets for the back rows, choosing a romantic literary movie "Love Letter."

Buying two buckets of popcorn and two bottles of cola, he led the girl to Hall 3.

The people there were not too many or too few, he expected that romantic literary films would have many couples coming to watch, but most of them were single males.

They arrived early, so no one paid attention to the two of them sitting at the back.

The cinema hall was dark, often making people sitting at the back want to do naughty things.

Uesugi Sakura couldn’t help but glance at Hanamaru Hanabi beside him, perhaps she knew something or was prepared, she kept eating popcorn without speaking.

The movie started, the scene opened up to a snowy day.

Snowflakes filled the sky, pure white snow, the camera focused on a suffocating woman.

She closed her eyes, lying in the snow, releasing her breath, like experiencing something.

In the movie, it was the third of March, the Girl’s Festival, a group dressed in black was commemorating the female protagonist’s fiancé.

Today was the second anniversary of Fujii Tatsuki’s death, friends, and family were placing flowers.

When it was the heroine named Boko’s turn to offer incense, it was blown out by the wind—Boko just thought it was a joke between her and him.

The camera shifted to the home of Fujii Tatsuki’s mother, where Boko opened a wooden box.

"Doll?"

Uesugi Sakura glanced at Hanamaru Hanabi beside him, she also had one.

The doll was passed down from mother to daughter, generation after generation, filled with the air of an era.

Boko clearly missed her fiancé very much, looking at the photos his mother gave her, she flipped through a primary school address book.

She found the address where her fiancé used to live on the classmate list.

She wrote it down on her hand with a pen.

And when his mother came, she asked about the situation.

His mother said that the old place was occupied and turned into a national highway, so they moved.

Boko felt regretful in her heart but continued to cherish her deceased fiancé.

Unable to suppress her longing for her late lover, she sent a letter she thought was heading to heaven, following the address.

The movie was beautiful, the female lead’s longing was shown through her eyes and fingers.

Uesugi Sakura suddenly understood why Boko lay in the cold snow at the beginning—she was reminiscing.

"Does Hanabi think that Boko will receive a reply from heaven?"

Hanamaru Hanabi turned to look at his face, her hand stopped midway from reaching the popcorn: "She definitely will..."

Uesugi Sakura smiled: "After all, it’s a movie, always beautiful."

"If I disappeared like in the movie—"

"Hanabi... would find Sakura-kun."

In the dark cinema, the girl’s determined eyes reflected the dim light from the screen, using a weak voice to interrupt his next words.

Uesugi Sakura smiled, adding: "Through every lifetime."

"Yes!"

The snow in the movie looked cold and indifferent, full of tranquil indifference, and it seemed like the cinema had also lowered the air conditioning greatly to fit the movie.

"Is it cold?"

"A little..."

"Then Hanabi, come closer, I’ll hold you."

"Okay..."

Actually, it wasn’t that cold, Uesugi Sakura just found an excuse to hug her, and Hanamaru Hanabi went along with it.

Uesugi Sakura looked at her soft lips, wanting to kiss them, but realized her attention was all on the screen, so he temporarily abandoned the thought.

The movie was cold, but the girl nestled in his arms was warm.

And the heroine Boko, did receive her letter from heaven...

Only this return letter seemed to be quite teasing...