"Hishiro said this was your first time attending a Fireworks Festival. Don't tell me it was also your first time seeing fireworks?"
"Please don't treat me like an idiot. I have seen them in videos."
"Got it, got it." Lin Yan nearly laughed out loud. Normally, it was impossible for someone to have never attended a temple fair, but Hishiro Chizuru was the first. She really was different from everyone else.
"Still, fireworks seem a little sad, too."
"Really?"
"No matter how spectacular and thrilling they are when they bloom, their disappearance is just as disappointing. But perhaps that fleeting, intangible feeling is one of the reasons fireworks are so beautiful." As Hishiro Chizuru spoke, her final words were drowned out by the fireworks and the cheers around them. "Lin Yan, you're just like fireworks."
A Confession That Couldn't Be Heard
"Sorry, I didn't catch that. What did you just say?" Lin Yan had not heard Hishiro Chizuru clearly, so he asked again.
A subtle change came over Hishiro Chizuru's expression. She seemed a little shy and nervous as she shook her head at Lin Yan.
"It's nothing."
A trace of bitterness filled Hishiro Chizuru's heart. The happier and more precious things were now, the more painful and reluctant the parting would be. Hadn't she gone through this countless times already? No matter how deeply she invested her feelings, it would always end in farewell.
Sometimes, feelings were simply beyond one's control.
Her heart was unbearably restless.
No matter how brilliantly fireworks bloomed, they vanished in an instant. The boy before her was like the fireworks filling the sky, destined to disappear from her world. The fireworks abruptly came to an end, and so did the Fireworks Festival. The adults' festivities continued, while the minors had to head home.
"Today