I'm not a hero, but I didn't say I couldn't beat you.

"Hey……"

After a long time, Fu'er, who was lying on the sofa, finally took the ice water that had lost its temperature from his forehead, drank it all into his stomach, and let out a long sigh.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with what I just said? Or are you feeling unwell?"

Sylvia said as if she was concerned about the other person's physical condition.

But Ful's anti-persecution radar kept alarming. This guy must be having fun with himself.

"I think there may be a slight cognitive gap between the two of us regarding daily life."

Fu Er said weakly.

Yes, it's really a little bit. You can fit a little bit as big as the entire universe between your index finger and thumb.

"Isn't it? Let me ask you, is there any big difference between your daily routine in class today and usual?"

Sylvia replied nonchalantly.

"Isn't it a big difference that a quantum ghost that only I can see doing all kinds of little tricks in front of me???"

Fuer retorted with a black face.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, so why are you coming back? You can't come back to me so soon just to have fun..."

"Can't you?"

"You damn meow——um————"

Before he could finish uttering the traditional swear word in China, his mouth was covered by the other party.

"Don't say rude words to girls——"

"……………………"

"Okay...but there has to be a reason."

Fu'er was helpless.

"The reason is very simple...think about it-"

"Suppose that no one in the world can see you now, and you can't interfere with anyone or anything, and then I don't know how many years have passed, suddenly! Someone can touch you, and you can also talk to you. You chat, how would you react to that?”

Sylvia smiled and analyzed her situation to Fu'er nonchalantly, and quietly waited for the other party's answer.

Fu'er frowned deeply.

If we simulate according to this hypothesis, no one in the world can see ourselves now, and we can't do anything, because we can't interfere with anything, which means that even the cheapest way of entertainment, surfing the Internet , he can only be a bystander. Even if he sees something interesting, there will be no netizens to share it with.

"...That's really...terrible——"

Fu'er couldn't help but think of this.

"So now, can you understand me?"

"...Although I always feel like I'm still being teased by you, I have to admit that I can understand how you feel."

"Right, right? So as I said at the beginning, although I am conceptually a [Quantum Ghost], you should understand me as a more appropriate [Spirit Behind]."

"……………………"

Obviously, like a drowning person bumping into a piece of driftwood, if the positions of oneself and the other party are reversed, no matter how embarrassing or shameless, oneself will tightly hold on to the only person with whom he can communicate.

"It seems...I can't get rid of you?"

Fu'er sighed and couldn't help but start to worry about his daily life in the future.

"No, that's not right."

Corresponding to Fuer's helpless look, he had never seen Sylvia's serious look before.

"Is there anything wrong?"

"Of course something is wrong."

Sylvia said every word with utmost seriousness.

"You have the right to choose. If you don't want me to appear in front of you, even if you are my only observer, I will not disobey your wishes. I will honestly disappear from your daily life. , will never appear in your life from now on."

"Although I have emphasized like you that I am not an [abnormality] or a [disaster], but I am a very reasonable existence after all. Even if it is not out of my own will, you who are entangled with my [matters], in the future It is destined to be forced to be involved in all kinds of strange disturbances."

"So, if you still want to maintain an ordinary life and spend your life peacefully, then you should reject me now. Then, I will comply with your wishes and leave your daily life."

"…………"

Fu'er lowered his head and was silent for a while, then asked.

"To be honest, you first throw out the important factor that I am your only observer, and then let me put myself in my shoes and understand it from your perspective to highlight the importance of 'I' to 'you'. Then he gave me this major problem of whether to refuse or not and asked me to make a decision alone. Isn't this really kidnapping me morally?"

"Of course not. Since I hope you can make a choice that follows your heart, shouldn't you at least understand the situation I'm in before making a choice? Only in this way, no matter what you finally make, What kind of choice will you make without leaving any room for regret for your future self?"

Facing Ful, who was in a whirlpool that was like a century-old problem, Sylvia just looked at him quietly, waiting for him to give her an answer.

"Of course, if you really can't make a choice, it's not impossible. I will still try to stay away from your life to ensure that your life will not be involved in those extraordinary events. That is, if sometimes I feel like I am wandering outside. When I'm lonely, I just need to chat with you occasionally. That's all..."

What answer should you give? Should he keep his distance from her and maintain his ideal ordinary life, or should he take her hand and embark on the unknown from now on?

After a long absence, Fu'er felt confused.

And when he raised his head and looked at the other person's slightly lonely expression, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

That is... such a familiar expression.

Just like my former self.

Like a little kid, trapped alone in a dark room.

Once people see it, they will never be able to move away.

Thinking of this, Fu Ermo made a decision

"No... we don't need so many options anymore. I've already made my decision."

Fu Er took a breath and then said.

"Yes, I am different from those who have lofty ambitions. From a long time ago, I gave up the ideal of getting ahead and gave up those unrealistic dreams."

"I don't know if this is considered premature, or if it's a weird character forced to develop by a withdrawn child who lost his parents early. Because of this, I cherish my ordinary life very much, because this is the only thing I have left. , the most precious treasure.”

"My wish has always been very simple. After finishing an ordinary high school and an ordinary university, my savings will probably be enough for me to settle down in this second-tier city at the bottom after I finish university. Maybe I can I will be engaged in a job that I don’t like very much, maybe I will spend my life with a woman who can barely understand each other, and finally raise a child who at least recognizes his parents, and finally pass away in the presence of relatives and friends.”

"This is what I expected, an ordinary life."

Fu'er spoke with great weight about his ordinary wishes that couldn't be more ordinary and realistic.

"Really...I understand..."

Seemingly understanding the hidden meaning in the other person's words, Sylvia nodded in relief.

"Then...I will comply with your wish, we..."

"No, you don't understand..."

"????"

Hearing Ful's denial, Sylvia looked confused.

"Yes, I am pursuing an ordinary life, but no one has stipulated that a person can only have one pursuit!"

Fu Er looked at the other party's slightly dull expression and couldn't help but laugh.

What, even if I face a girl, I can get the upper hand~ I can definitely use it in the next battle with Bai Sheng.

So I am definitely not the straight guy that my deskmates say I am!

Although the other party is not an ordinary girl at all.

"I hate heroes because they only leave me with bad memories, but I admire heroes because they are the ones who bring hope to people. No matter what the contemporary [Sword Holder] is, or the [Utopian Heart] ], or, perhaps, he is just one of my elders who has never had the inscription of [Hero]."

Recalling the past few years, his aunt guided him through his daily life, followed his opinions, and tried to make suggestions as perfect as possible. She was like a hero to him when he lost his parents.

Taking him out of the dark room and back to ordinary life.

"So, I will become your partner, and I will also seize the ordinary life I pursue. This is my answer..."

"What do you think of this answer?"

Quantum Ghost looked at the confident and vowed look of the silly young man in front of him, and couldn't help but froze, and then laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha, Fu'er, do you know? What you are pursuing now is a dream that is more difficult to realize than those ideals of getting ahead. If you put it in a bolder way, you are now trying to fight against [ Destiny] Ah.”

"【destiny】?"

Fu'er couldn't help but sneered.

"What kind of fate do you think a big bad guy who draws cards every time and can't help but choke his teeth after drinking cold water will believe in fate?"

"If we follow the toilet paper novels in Japan, shouldn't a boy like me, who owns a car, a house, and both parents have died, have a successful career and drive like crazy? Even if he is unlucky, he should still I bumped into a beautiful girl, and then some indescribable welfare plot happened! But unfortunately, I am just an unlucky guy, the kind who will choke when I drink water. So what kind of bullshit [fate] is on my side, That’s [destiny].”

"Really, that's how you understand it."

It was as if all the haze had been swept away, and the expression of that innocent and cheerful woman with a hint of joking, or in other words, disdain, appeared on Sylvia's face again.

"Then, let's make an oath here, Fu'er——"

Sylvia stood up straight, or "floated" straight, and closed her eyes that were as blue as the sea.

"I, Sylvia, the visitor of the record tape, make an oath with Ful at this moment."

"He will be my anchor in the world, and I will be his eyes to understand the world."

As each sentence of Sylvia's oath progressed, the light on the other party became stronger and stronger, and the other party's original stable form also changed as if it had just seen him last night and began to become erratic.

Correspondingly, as the light on the opponent's body gradually shone, the white light of the same color in Fu'er's pocket also shone together.

It's a token she left to herself.

"From now on, he will observe and anchor everything about me, and I -"

"I will also observe and watch over all of him."

"Okay, the oath has been made, now let's sign the contract."

Sylvia smiled and stretched out her hand to Ful.

"Contract? How to sign it?"

"Come on, let me teach you. Stretch out your right hand, then retract all the other fingers, leaving only one little finger, and then hook it with my little finger."

"that's it?"

Although he didn't know whether it was due to his lack of knowledge or whether he had unknowingly gone awry in his understanding of the anomaly.

Why does this contract look like... a child doing Gou Gou?

"Then, the contract is reached, and under the witness of the quantum recording tape, our oath——"

"Til death do us part——"

Then, the light quietly dissipated, and Sylvia's figure regrouped, no longer like an erratic bubble like before.

In other words, it feels even more solid than before.

Is this also the role of the oath?

Although the little fingers of the two people hooked together have long been released, Fu'er seems to still be able to feel the soft fingers of the other party and the faint connection with himself. Together.

"Then, please take good care of me from now on, my sworn one."

Miss [Quantum Ghost], once again, extended her hand to her pledge.

"Yes, yes, even though I was just trying to break the deal, I am not someone who would do such a shameful thing as regretting breaking the contract after just signing it. All in all -"

"Please take good care of me from now on, my Miss Oathkeeper——"

The arrogant person who resisted [destiny] also extended his hand to his pledger.

Then, their palms overlapped again and they clenched.

Witnessed by something called a "tape," the two made their vows.