【Sen no Kiseki】【Crolin】The Guardian of the Morning Sun

Before going out in the morning, Li En stared at himself in the mirror for a while, carefully thinking about whether he had brought all his belongings.As he grew older, he found himself occasionally forgetting things, such as the manual or keys.

In fact, he is only 22 years old, so how can he age prematurely.Although the chances of this happening were rare, it undoubtedly attracted his attention, so he had to check his belongings before going out every time.Manual, ARCUS, keys, wallet...all on me.Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and was about to go out, a voice behind him stopped him.

"Your glasses."

He was startled, and turned around to see the silver-haired man behind him holding the flat glasses in his hand, with a slanted smile on his lips.

"Sorry... I forgot again."

He reached out to pick up his glasses with some embarrassment, but the other party shook the thing, as if teasing him.Li En was thinking about what this guy wanted to do again, when the glasses were placed on the bridge of his nose in the next second.The man was so close that he could almost see the narrowness in his eyes.Looking up, the forehead is unaccustomed to emptiness, and the silver hair is messed up.

"You should get used to it by now, glasses. It's been three months?"

"Three months ago, I never wore glasses, so it's not surprising that I forgot." Li En replied angrily.

Really, candid guy.The silver-haired man muttered irrationally, then took out the key in his pocket, pushed him out and locked the door.

Like this, in fact, even if you forget to bring the key, there will still be another person who will remember it.

However, for some reason, Li En always had to bring his own key.Is it because he doesn't want to rely on this person, or is it meaningless even if he remembers these trivial things.

Because of this person, he just forgot the most important thing.

Sunlight leaked from the shed, casting a warm glow on the door of Lotus Apartment.The two young people greeted the old lady who was knitting a sweater on a bench, and walked to the other end of the East Street.It is a lively neighborhood with a completely different atmosphere from the old city streets.The buildings with strong oriental flavor, the bustling street vendors and residents, the delicious and cheap Longlao Restaurant, all of them are the most life-like scenes in Crossbell.

And in this bustling street market, the wooden signboard is the most dazzling.After the recovery, Cross Bell is still riddled with holes, so this building is very popular.Three months ago, Li En and Ku Luo passed the exam here and officially became two quasi-guerrillas.

Pushing open the door of the Guerrilla Association, Michelle, who was cleaning, smiled at the visitor.

"Good morning, Crow, Rean."

"Good morning, Mr. Michelle." Li En greeted.

"Morning, do you have any tasks for us today?"

Kuro scanned the commissions on the bulletin board with a bored look on his face.Michelle checked on the newly configured Guidance computer, and said that there are several commissions just received.They were all simple commissions, nothing more than delivering goods, or finding lost keys.

"Hmm - isn't there any more powerful commission? For example, hunting down wanted monsters or something." Kuro scratched his head, looking very disappointed.

Michelle looked at him with a smile on her chin.

"It's not that I don't trust your abilities, but you've only been here for a while, and I still hope you can get used to it for a while. And doesn't peace at all mean that this place is slowly recovering?"

"It's okay, Mr. Michelle, everything is under your arrangement." Li En glared at Kuro, then nodded politely to Michelle. "We're going to go out and complete the commission."

"Be careful on the road, don't push yourself~"

Jingling, after the door of the Association closed, the room returned to silence.Michelle looked at the door thoughtfully, as if she wanted to watch the figures of the two departing through it.

Those glasses really didn't suit him.Michelle thought of the helpless face of the black-haired young man when he first put on the glasses, and smiled slightly.

After accepting the entrustment from the village chief of Almorica, the two quasi-guerrillas received a few entrusted items and headed straight for the Holy Ursula Medical University.They handed items over to the front desk nurse and were about to leave when they ran into someone they didn't expect.

"Mr. Arios, and little Shizuku. Why are you here?" Li En asked in surprise.

As a senior and a fellow brother, the Sword Master of the Wind glanced at his daughter beside him: "I brought Shizuku here for a follow-up visit, and the doctor asked her to come for a check-up every once in a while, just in case."

"The doctor said my eyes are completely fine." The girl raised her face and smiled, and Li En also smiled and patted her head.

"Entrustment?" Arios noticed what Kuro was holding in his hand.

"Oh, it will be finished soon, do you want to have lunch together?" Kuro invited without thinking, and Arios shook his head.

"No, today we agreed to go to Lloyd's side."

And Chia made lunch.Shizuku-chan added, and Crow whistled.

"That's really enviable. That girl's cooking skills are really nothing to say. By the way, Mr. Arios, you ran too hard. Michelle also said that sooner or later you will be in that house It's work."

Li En coughed lightly twice, and the reproachful eyes he cast on him clearly said that he should not be serious when talking to seniors, but Kuro shrugged his shoulders and didn't take it seriously.

"Then, Mr. Arios, let's go first." Li En bid farewell to the senior and Shizuku, but was called when he was about to take Kuro away.Arios who stopped them hesitated to speak.

"I know a psychiatrist who is very good at the field of spirit and memory, and may be helpful to Crow. I can introduce you if necessary."

Hearing this, Li En subconsciously turned his head to look at the silver-haired man. He looked even more indifferent than Rios, as if this was not something worth worrying about.

A familiar, slight tingling pinched the apex of his heart.Li En withdrew his gaze, and once again thanked this senior for caring about them.

"Oh, everything tastes good when you're tired..."

Crow sat on the grass where he could see the clear water of the lake, eating a sandwich and sighing.Li En silently nibbled on the slightly dry sandwich, and threw the bread crumbs into the lake to feed the fish.

Just now they met Miss Cecil in the staff cafeteria of the hospital. She wanted to invite the two of them to lunch, but Li En declined.Because he was still at work—leaving this reason, he pulled him away before Kuro could express his dissatisfaction.What he is complaining about at the moment is really imaginable with breadcrumbs.

"Speaking of which, the doctor introduced by Arios, you don't seem to be very interested." Kuro threw a stone into the lake, and all the gathered fish were frightened away.Li En's expression suddenly became subtle, but it was not because of his childish behavior.

"Please don't make it seem like it has nothing to do with you. It's your own business, and it's up to you to decide whether to go or not."

"Really, but I'm used to it. There's nothing wrong with it, it's easier to forget everything."

After finishing the last bite of the sandwich, Kuro stretched and lay down on the grass.Li En turned his gaze to the calm lake and lowered his eyes slightly.

"Don't want to remember?"

"Do I remember better?"

When Kuro asked back like this, Li En was momentarily at a loss for words.The wind with the slight fragrance of grass leaves blows by them. Three months ago, no one could have imagined that they sat side by side peacefully in a foreign country like this.

Will it be better to remember?This question has been entrenched in his mind since the day he knew that Craw had lost his memory.

Like flesh and blood, a person's past has been torn apart like this.Li En once thought it was unforgivable, but it might also be the grace of the goddess—the last ray of possibility for the deep and irreversible fate of this person.

In the decisive battle between Huang Demon City and Scarlet Final Yan Demon King, Kuro suffered fatal injuries, but miraculously recovered his life.He had been in a coma for a whole year, sleeping through the Civil War and the evacuation of the Republic Army from Crossbell.When he finally woke up, he couldn't remember anything.Name, identity, past... He erased everything and turned it into a blank again.

The Jagged Sons, who thought he was directing and acting by themselves, conducted a rigorous interrogation on him, and used the most advanced guide force lie detector. After several months of treatment and trial, they finally came up with a shocking truth. Conclusion: Crow Ambust really lost his memory.

Everyone in group VIII, President Towa and the others, the time spent in the military academy, the death of his grandfather, the Imperial Liberation Front, the failure to assassinate the prime minister, the civil war, the blue knight, the fact that he almost died... everything is crucial Existence, all disappeared from Kuro's memory.For a person, this is undoubtedly a heavy blow.However, once he remembered, something even more terrifying would happen—as a war criminal in the Civil War, he was constantly being watched by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Railway Gendarmerie.

I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune, no matter how he was treated and stimulated, Kuro couldn't recall it at all, so he was placed under house arrest in an army hospital for observation and treatment.And during this period, only Li En has been taking care of him.But when faced with some of Clow's questions, he often couldn't answer them.For example, what kind of person Clow Ambuster was before, and what was the relationship between the two of them.

Forgetting allowed Kuro to escape a catastrophe, but it couldn't be more cruel to Li En.That was nothing less than a kind of betrayal.

"……I have no idea."

If he just didn't remember anything, would Kuro live his life so easily?Is this really what he expected?Forgetting the past is tantamount to forgetting your sins.The people he's hurt, the people he's saved, the sacrifices and the choices he's made—without all of this, is he still Clow Ambuster?

This is wrong.Li En knew in his heart that only by recovering his memory could Crow face up to the past and become his true self.However, while he was thinking this way, a certain voice in his heart would sound: even if he can't remember, it's not bad, at least right now in Kuro's life, there is no war and no shackles called hatred.

After all, there is no solution.This kind of contradictory mood is afraid that there will never be a day when it disappears.Thinking of this, Li En couldn't help but feel melancholy.

——At this moment, a solid chestnut was hit on his forehead suddenly.

"It hurts!" Li En covered his forehead and glared at the perpetrator.The latter laughed heartlessly, and ravaged his head again.

"Don't always put on that expression, it's not your fault that I lost my memory."

"That's what I said..."

Seeing his relaxed expression, Li En was half angry and half relieved.Who do you think I'm worrying about for?However, even the little things like his fondness for touching his head and the way he speaks in jokes are the same as before.If it wasn't for him never mentioning the past, and not calling himself "junior", Li En would often forget the fact that the man in front of him lost his memory.

"Anyway, let's try it first."

"Eh?"

"I said that the doctor introduced by Arios should go see him next time."

Li En's eyes widened in surprise.What's the matter with your reaction, Kuro let out a dissatisfied mutter.

"...No, I just didn't expect Kuro to be so active."

"Then I really don't know whose blessing it is, you keep showing me a bad face." Kuro said helplessly, "As long as I say that I don't want to remember, you will be full of depression."

Li En, who was criticized, was startled, and a wry smile appeared on his face.His eyes were glued to the empty forehead, where there had always been a headband as long as he could remember, but since Crow was seriously injured, the headband had never been worn again.It seemed to die with the old Crow, who was reborn, a new life like him but not like him.

Thinking of this, Li En unconsciously fell into a trance, and touched his forehead with his fingers unconsciously.When his fingers lightly brushed the opponent's skin and forehead hair, he was suddenly caught by another hand.Craw stared at him like a warning, and when he wanted to back down, he showed a slightly sad look.Li En seemed to be attracted by that emotion, but just stared blankly at the pair of red obsidian eyes that he had been fascinated by since before.

When he was in a daze, the other party took his hand and was forced to lean forward. At the same time, a warm touch touched his forehead.

"!?"

The unprepared black-haired young man's face turned red.He shook off Kuro, and received a triumphant smile from the other side.What is this, what is this? !His heart was in a mess, and he clutched his forehead that had been kissed secretly in resentment.

Compared with his partner who was ashamed and angry, Crow seemed to be in an overly happy mood.

"This expression is much better, I like it."

Like a ghost!Li En resisted the urge to yell at him, and squeezed out a few words through his teeth: "What are you doing?"

Kuro folded his chest and answered as a matter of course:

"Because I feel nostalgic when I do this."

"what……?!"

"Could it be that I always did this to you in the past? Aha, maybe this can stimulate memory recovery? You mean my good partner?"

"...Stop talking nonsense!"

Li En punched him without saying a word, and the man who didn't dodge in time was hit on the shoulder and screamed in pain.

——This is their daily life, innocuous and peaceful.But the two people who seem to be the closest are actually clearer than anyone else: there is an unreachable distance between themselves and the man called a partner.