Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 113. The Most Valuable People. 2
Under two large beach umbrellas, Ryou sat alone without looking at the person sitting nearby.
“Ryou...” Kino calls her sister
“.....” Ryou was speechless and did not reply
Kino stood up and opened the large ice box beside her. He saw a lot of juice and cold canned fruit drinks. He took one for his sister and gave it to her.
“Ryou, you haven't drank yet right? Here, there's your favorite melon juice”
Ryou did not see Kino at all and continued to put on a pouty face.
“Ya already if you do not want to drink it. I put it here huh. Later Ryou drinks while father and mother buy snacks”
“Berisik”
“.....” Kino lowered his head without looking back at the sister's face
With a sad expression, Kino placed the canned juice beside her sister and sat down away. He took the apple juice that was not cold anymore and spent it alone.
From the other side, Ryou glanced beside him. He looked at Kino who was sitting alone while drinking the juice of his box with a sad face. At that moment, he recalled the conversation between him and his father a while ago.
[You mustn't blame others for your mistakes, Ryou. After all, if the game was in your bag, would Ryou choose to play with that game instead of playing with us?]
[Of course I would swim on the beach and play ball with my dad like this, after that play water with my mom too]
[Just playing with mom and dad?]
[..Main..with Kino as well].
Ryou becomes sad and begins to think that it is not the brother's fault. Despite that, his harsh and selfish nature still dominated until then.
At first he wanted to ignore his brother and go play beach ball by himself. Suddenly he felt like he had forgotten something.
“Bolanya...none?!” Ryou was panicking
Kino, who had finished his juice, intended to take chocolate for his sister. But the intention was undone after he saw Ryou's strange behavior. Ryou looks like he's looking for something around where they are now and starts to panic.
“Ryou, is there anything you are looking for?” Kino approached and asked the confused Ryou
“My policy is gone!”
“Bola? What ball is it?”
“The beach ball is patterned picture of fish, yellow with blue and red lines that my father bought last week to the beach is gone!” Ryou was panicking
Kino tries to calm her sister.
“Ryou calm yourself yes. I'll ask the coast guard. You don't go anywhere and wait for our parents to come back ya”
“.....” Ryou just shut up without saying anything
Kino started running towards the beach leaving her sister.
On the beach, there are so many people passing by that Kino almost got hit and fell several times. He watched the kids playing beach ball.
“Beach ball picture yellow fish with blue and red stripes.where can I find it?”
Kino started going around and occasionally asked the adults she met, but the results were nil. He began to ask the lifeguard he had accidentally met not far from where he was now.
“Excuse me, sir..”
“Yes. What's up, young man. Are you lost?” ask the coast guard
“Sorry, can you help me find my brother's beach ball. He was sad and almost crying because his ball was missing”
“Bola beach yes. What are the features?”
“Etto..beach ball yellow color fish picture with blue and red stripes. About like that the characteristics of” said Kino clearly
“Well, when I meet you I will announce yes. You better get back before your parents worry. Can you come back alone?”
“Can. Thank you very much sir”
“Sama-sama. Careful yes son sweet”
The coast guard immediately left and was seen looking for something. It's likely that he's starting to do his job to find the missing thing. Kino breathed a little and finally decided to return.
Just now that he wanted to go back, he remembered something.
He recalled that his father went to play beach ball with his sister when he and his mother were playing water around the beach.
“Maybe the ball...”
Kino then ran towards the beach where there were many people.
**
In the shade belonging to the Yuki family, Ryou is still waiting for Kino alone. He started to see from a distance the figure of the older brother. However, because the number of people walking makes his view difficult to focus.
“Where is he? Why not come back?”
“Ryou!!”
From a distance, a familiar voice sounded to him. It was his father and mother. They came with lots of food like takoyaki and yakisoba for lunch.
Ryou with a panicked face ran over to his parents who were still walking towards him.
“Dad, mom...Kino no!”
“Eh?” my mother was surprised to hear it
“No...I mean no how?” the father asked his son
“Bola..”
“Bola? What ball?” ask the mother
“Ball the beach that Dad bought. I tried to find him but didn't meet him. Then Kino said he would ask the coast guard. But..but.hiks...huwaaaa”.
Little Ryou cried and hugged his mother. The mother tried to calm her child by rubbing her small back and hair gently.
“It's been, don't cry. We'll find it later. Come on, we're back to where ya” used to be
Ryou who walked with his mother's hand walked while crying while the father who brought the food walked first and put all the snacks down.
After reaching under the big beach umbrella back, Ryou runs to hug the father.
“Dad understands. I'll find your brother. Wait here with your mother”
Ryou looked at his father's face with constant crying.
“I...not yet apologized to Nii-chan. Hiks..hiks...”.
“Dad understands. Later if you have, apologize to your brother ya” the father hugged his son back and spoke to his wife “please take care of our child for a while huh. I'll find Kino first”
The mother nodded and said to her husband to be careful. Father went to the crowd on the beach that afternoon and Ryou could only hug his mother.
After a while, the mother and son sat down together.
“This, drink” the mother gave him a bottle of cold water
Ryou only looked at the water and did not accept it. He took the juice of a canned melon that was nearby. That is the canned juice given by Kino some time ago.
With tears still coming out, Ryou looked at the canned juice.
“Mother..”
“Ya?”
“I'm sorry..hiks..” Little Ryou apologizes to his mother.
The mother simply smiled and hugged her sweet son gently to comfort her heart.
“Listen, I just want you and your sister to have fun. I'm sure you're not really mad at your sister, are you?”
“Umm..” Ryou nods his head in the arms of the mother
“I apologize to your sister later. Kino won't be mad at Ryou. I'm sure it”
“I. I'll apologize to Nii-chan. Hiks.I want him to come back and play with me. Hiks..”
“Dad will find it. Nothing bad will happen to him. Trust”
The mother kept hugging him and said things that made him calm. Ryou who kept tightly grasping the canned juice in his hand did not let go of the mother's embrace.
**
On the beach, in the watery region, Kino walked by continuously looking to the right and left. Many children play beach ball with their family and friends. Since that day is the second day of summer, although not as crowded as expected but still crowded with people who come for a vacation.
“What was my estimate wrong? I remember Ryou being carried by father and not carrying a ball or anything like that. If it is true that the object is still there with him earlier, it means that the ball is still there when he plays with father on this beach”
Kino thought as he continued walking around the watery side of the beach. After quite some time, he finally gave up looking for her there and intended to return to Ryou's place. However, something unexpected happened.
From a distance, we heard the cries of adults calling out to him.
“Bokah, get out of there!!”
“Eh?”
BUUUK
Kino's head is hit by a beach volleyball which accidentally leads to him. The volleyball hit his head hard enough to make him faint at that spot.
‘Darkness..Ryou..certainly cry because the ball is gone. I really..a bad brother..’.
**
Somewhere in the shade, there were some people waiting for a child lying there.
“Mmm..”
The boy finally opened his eyes and saw that there were many people around him.
“This..where?”
There were a woman and a man smiling happily as well as another boy who hugged him as soon as he woke up.
“Nii-chan!! Huwaaaa..Nii-chan..Nii-chan.
“R–Ryou?”
Kino, the child who had just woken up from fainting instantly got a hug from the sister who was crying nonstop. His parents hugged and kissed the boy.
“You all right, Kino? How are you feeling, my dear?” ask the mother about her child
“Kino, does your head still hurt?” the father stroked his hair gently
“I...I'm fine...emm...who....the brothers?”
Kino saw some teenagers who looked down their heads and looked so regretful. They even bowed their bodies as a sign of regret.
“We're really sorry, little sister. We should have been more careful”
“.....” Little Kino just fell silent while looking in the direction of all those teenagers
After hearing stories from his parents, Kino finally found out that he was hit by the volleyballs of the teenagers when they played on the beach. And when the teenagers were trying to help her, Kino's father saw the incident and took her to one of the posts on the beach. The father who took him immediately called mother and Ryou to find out Kino's condition.
Ryou continued to cry in the arms of the older brother.
“Hiks..forgive me for being mad at you, Nii-chan. Hiks..huwaaaa”.
Seeing her sister cry made Kino also cry.
“I also apologize for leaving you. Because of me, your favorite game is left at home. I'm sorry, Ryou. Hiks..hiks...”.
“I was wrong. I shouldn't have yelled and blamed you for my own carelessness. Hiks..sorry me..huwaaa”.
What a funny and heartwarming view of the two sweet children. Not long after, the beach clerk who previously met Kino managed to find the missing beach ball.
However it seemed, there was a slight change with the attitude of the two sisters. Ever since Kino woke up, Ryou had not left her and continued beside her. He kept calling her Nii-san even started to forget about her beach ball.
Until his time to go home and sit in the car, he even kept close to the older brother and was reluctant to sit away from Kino.
Both parents can only smile happily to see the change in attitude of the two children. It may be because of Ryou's guilt, which is angry with his brother, causing Kino to get hurt and experience something bad.
From that day on, Ryou is so protective of his older brother and does not let Kino do anything strange and dangerous. He even decided to pursue the achievements of the older brother in order to get into the same school as him and be in the same class in order to protect the older brother.
He still does that to this day.
“Because you are the most important to me, I will try to do my best to protect you”
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