Lost Narrative Poetry

"So the point is really to get me off the planet?"

Xia Ran asked with a subtle look on his face, seemingly distressed by this.

"The specific distance is actually not the point at all?"

"It's great that you can understand this..." Yukinoshita said coldly, not hiding her resistance at the moment. She didn't want to talk to this person at all now because she was really angry.

Very, very angry, even though she felt that the anger seemed a bit inexplicable.

The other party had already explained the matter about Mordred and sworn that he had done nothing... Yukinoshita was willing to believe it, but even so, she still felt that there was no way to let go easily.

Because not long ago——

Mordred's sudden "Father" had a far greater impact on the girl than imagined.

At that moment, she really felt that she was going to lose Xia Ran... At that time, her brain felt dizzy, and she even subconsciously had an idea, wondering if the other party had deliberately arranged this because she couldn't say it in person. As soon as it comes out.

Just to let myself understand and accept the reality...

So, she was really angry, very, very angry...or should I say, actually scared.

The girl subconsciously understood it vaguely, but she really couldn't control this instinctive emotional reaction. Behind her anger and indifference, she was actually subconsciously covering up her uneasiness and fear.

Maybe... maybe there's really no way...

The girl looked away depressedly, looking at the ground, and pursed her lips tightly.

Although I am very reluctant, maybe I should be more rational and just keep my distance from now on...

At this moment, she suddenly felt that the surrounding scenery seemed to suddenly change. She didn't know whether it was the roar of time and space, or the pull of some invisible force. In a daze, she escaped at an incredible speed. atmosphere.

It was as if only an extremely short moment had passed. When she came back to her senses, she found that the surroundings had turned into a dark and silent scene, and beyond the distant space under her feet, there was a blue gem-like planet.

This scene seems familiar...

Yukinoshita was silent for a moment, her depressed heart rippled inexplicably, but she didn't want to show her emotion at all, so she could only press her lips together hard and look up at the young man in front of her.

"Since the key point is for us to leave the earth, let's leave the earth..." Xia Ran smiled and rubbed her hands, and said calmly.

"...It's not me who wants you to leave." The girl replied with a sullen face.

"Is that so...Then I'll take you back now?" The magician blinked and didn't care, but said pointedly, "Are you going to open a gap to talk like Zi did? In this case, no matter the distance, It doesn't matter how far you go, it's just a little troublesome..."

"you……"

Yukinoshita couldn't help but clenched her fists and unclenched them. Repeated this several times, she felt even more angry, but more of a feeling of powerlessness.

This person's meaning is very clear. 12,756 kilometers is not a distance at all, let alone leaving the earth. Even if he is not within the solar system, it will not affect his continued entanglement... I am angry because of this person's pretending to be stupid and feeling powerless. It was because she found that common sense didn't apply to this guy at all.

Of course, in addition to the anger and powerlessness, it is unknown whether there is also some unconscious relief and relief.

After all, if Xia Ran really stopped entangled with her and started to keep a distance from her, then...

"Okay, no more joking, Yukinoshita-san."

At this time, the boy opposite also calmed his expression and stared at her very seriously. The profound look in his eyes made her feel panic subconsciously, and she could only look away, not daring to look at him.

The magician got the opportunity, but he was still unhurried and spoke very calmly. While carefully paying attention to the girl's expression, he was slowly thinking about how to organize the language. He didn't intend to commit any low-level mistakes now. mistake:

"Forget the long explanation, I think this is definitely not what you want to hear. Besides, I have said it many times before..."

Yukinoshita snorted, but she didn't show any obvious rejection of others like before. She just glanced at Xia Ran, then immediately turned away and closed her eyes, as if Thinking about something.

It seems that he listened...

Xia Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought about it very carefully just now, sorted out the ins and outs of the whole thing, clarified the threads involved, and found that the key to the problem was actually very simple.

Originally, he thought that as long as he took Yukinoshita-san to "dream in wonderland" together, this method would be enough to make her feel at ease.

But now it seems that it is a bit too naive after all. This method always has limitations, and they are still very obvious limitations.

In fact, either we all know it, or we don't know it at all; either we are in the same world, or we completely separate it into two worlds without intersecting each other. This is the most correct approach.

Because the feeling of the middle ground between the two is actually not good at all——

On the contrary, letting Yukinoshita participate in it but not being able to complete the journey is likely to have the opposite effect...

the reason is simple.

It did not allow her to fully integrate into her own world and gradually understand and tolerate everything. Instead, it made her feel the gap between the two worlds more clearly, deepening her subconscious idea of ​​"not being from the same world." , intensifying her feelings in this regard...

——This is the main reason for the sense of crisis and uneasiness.

So Xia Ran also understood that Yukinoshita Yukino's current behavior was actually because she had had such a sense of crisis and uneasiness before... Although it was not much every time, it seemed that she had not noticed it, but it was always a little bit. It’s been a little bit of accumulation until now.

This time it was only triggered by this incident as an opportunity.

Gather armpits to form fur, gather sand to form a tower, that's all.

There is nothing strange about the magician. He just feels that he was careless before and was not careful enough... because he should obviously know that everyone is an independent individual with his own thoughts and emotions, and he likes certain things. Joy, or disgust and dissatisfaction.

These are all very normal things.

Yukinoshita's position is not that he is his vassal, nor does it mean that she can never have her own independent personality and will... Now that she has misunderstood and is depressed, what Xia Ran has to do is to reassure her and make her happy again. .

He wanted to do it, it was as simple as that.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind. The magician paused, took a deep breath, stared at the girl in front of him seriously, and said:

"...After a situation like "last night", it will probably continue. I don't know when it will change, so I'm sorry...and what I promised you before seems not to be the case now. There is a way, so I thought about it and decided not to do it in the future..."

The long, straight black girl's eyes moved slightly and she opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but held back.

Her cheeks seemed to bulge slightly, and she reached out to brush her hair as if to hide her dissatisfaction, but she was quite calm.

Just like the previous emergency, Yukinoshita was still very calm and suppressed her emotions. She felt that this person was not just trying to tell her about this incident, so this was definitely not the final result. .

In fact, it is true——

"Let's change the method -" the magician continued, his eyes watching the girl closely, paying attention to the most subtle changes in her expression and eyes, not sparing any detail.

"……what way?"

Yukinoshita was silent for a moment, then asked calmly as if she had no hope.

"We..." Xia Ran smiled softly. He took a step forward to close the distance in the void of nothing. "Shall we become each other's shadow? Although it is just the beginning, let's exchange a part of our lives." , we will be inseparable from now on...Is this okay?"

"..."

"..."

"You...you you you...what stupid things are you talking about——?! Can you be serious? I, I don't have time to joke with you..."

It seemed that she was completely shocked, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses. Yukinoshita's body was shocked when she reacted. Although she tried very hard to maintain the same cold expression as usual, her cheeks suddenly became swollen. Turned red.

His heart was pounding, his hands were so cramped that he didn't even know where to place them, and all the previous emotions were forgotten unknowingly.

This sentence seemed to have some foul magic, leaving her with only a panic and strange feeling in her heart.

But, but! You can't blame her at all!

——Becoming each other’s shadow or something...

——Exchanging parts of their lives and so on...

What on earth does this man mean... Could he... Could he... be, be...

The girl's brain was in chaos. If this was in some animation or comic world, according to the form of expression, then at this time, her cheeks should not just be red, but the top of her head would be spraying out like an old-fashioned steam engine. Water vapor is the right thing.

"This is a very serious proposal, not a joke..." Xia Ran showed a confident smile and took a step forward again, "What do you think? Is this okay? Yukinoshita-san."

"I...I, I, I...I don't know..."

The girl panicked and spoke incoherently. She took a step back and was so shy that she almost cried. She really wanted to get an explanation that satisfied her, but she never thought it would be such an explanation!

It was too fast, too sudden, she had no preparation at all!

How can anyone be like this?

"I don't know?" The magician frowned slightly in confusion, "Why don't you know? If you think it's possible, then you can. If you think it's not possible, then I'll think of another way. Isn't this very simple?"

How could it really be that simple? !

Is this person pretending to be stupid, or is he really stupid?

"I, I, I..." Yukinoshita Yukino was so frightened that she began to tremble. She never thought that one day she would be so flustered and embarrassed. Again, she had no sense at all. preparation.

"No, no, it just won't work... I, I haven't thought about this issue yet, and it's impossible for my parents to agree..."

Fortunately, even though her spirit suffered a greater impact than before and her whole mind was in chaos, the girl was still able to stick to the bottom line rationally and stammered out a clear answer.

"No, this...what does it have to do with parents' consent?"

The magician was silent for a moment and asked in a strange tone.

"This, this kind of thing, don't you need your parents' consent? What on earth are you thinking!" Suddenly angry, Yukinoshita said to him through gritted teeth.

"Well, I really didn't know such a thing..." Xia Ran blinked, and then nodded obediently, indicating that what the girl said was right.

At the same time, he opened his mouth and continued to ask:

"That means, as long as your parents agree, Yukinoshita-san, will you consider this issue?"

"This is...your business...I don't know..." Yukinoshita was angry and anxious. She opened her mouth in a panic, but she still couldn't think of any suitable words. All she could say was evasion and excuses. Perfunctory.

She really felt that her face was on fire, and she wanted to escape from this place and never appear in front of him again.

Why is this person so stubborn? Can't he leave a little bit of reserve for himself?

"This is really troublesome. How about... let's try to exchange it now?" The magician raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively. "I will discuss it with your parents later. I think they will understand..."

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"..."

There was silence.

Try exchanging it first...?

"Wait, wait! Did you... didn't mean that?"

Suddenly thinking of a possibility, Yukinoshita Yukino, who opened her mouth, reacted belatedly and looked at the person in front of her in disbelief.

"What do you mean? Isn't it obvious what I mean?"

Saying this cautiously, Xia Ran seemed to sense something was wrong, and he slowly took a step back.

"Didn't I say it from the beginning? This is how we exchange each other's shadows. I think this should be a good solution to the current problem..."

"..."

"..."

So, is that really what it means?

So what did you just do? !

In this way, I completely misunderstood the other party's meaning just now, thinking that he wanted to ask me... that what?

The girl was completely stunned on the spot, her face was full of astonishment and speechlessness, and her spirit seemed to be in a trance. She couldn't believe her reaction just now. She was really thinking about it, worrying about it, and feeling uneasy about whether it was suitable.

That overwhelming sense of shame, shyness, worry, love...and sadness.

At this moment, everything seemed to recede as quickly as the ocean tide, leaving only the strongest...

shame.

This made her ears turn red and even her eyes reflected mist.

Bullying……

"Don't, don't, don't-!! Don't do this, don't do this..." Xia Ran was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt at a loss. He originally thought that Yukinoshita would get angry next, but under the huge psychological pressure, no matter how energetic he was, It's normal to be weird.

But the only thing I didn't expect was that it would be like this.

Something must be said.

Whatever it is is fine.

He stepped forward without thinking, directly grasped one of the girl's hands, stared into her eyes very seriously, and corrected him: "Actually, that's what I meant, I was joking just now..."

That’s right, it has to be something if it’s not.

The girl wanted to open the man's hands, but was unable to do so. She bit her lower lip hard with her teeth, leaving a slight mark, and looked away for a moment——

"I hate you……"

Although the volume was very low, she still stubbornly squeezed out these weak words.

He is truly an extremely cute and troublesome person who is both extremely fragile and frighteningly strong...

Xia Ran couldn't help but chuckle. After a short breath, he said, "I like you, even the annoying parts."

(PS: Repeated deletions, well... this is the only way, I tried my best...)