gentle and affectionate

Chapter 47.

That evening, I came back humming a little tune, and as expected, I received more eyes than usual.

I was originally very eye-catching in appearance, not to mention acting in a low-key manner, but uncharacteristically humming and ostentatiously passing through the market. Anyone who catches a glimpse of such an abnormal picture will have to take a few more glances; I gave a surprised look, because even if my body is not weak, I seldom walk as fast as today, so it's no wonder that I don't attract people's attention.

Not only can I walk like flying, I really almost flew.

Ignoring most of the sightlines, I greeted familiar faces with a smile, but somehow the smile seemed to be much deeper than usual. Slipped away with a little apology for not being able to explain the details to them.

Because this is something that can only be said to him.

In the end, it was as if it was agreed——when I was chasing the sunset and rushing back before it was completely dark, Heigang had already had dinner and was standing in the yard in his coat, letting me in as soon as I entered and saw him.

"Wow~ Is Hei Bao waiting for me~"

Seeing my big smile, even Hei Gang, who has always been calm, was inevitably taken aback, but it was only for a moment.Seeing me happy, he lowered his head in relief, then turned around without saying a word, and was about to go back to his room. He looked very indifferent, but I accurately caught the flashing smile in his eyes, and trotted after him , completely disregarding the image.

"Hey? It's rare for me to be so happy. Heipeng said something!"

"... long-winded."

"I have something good here, Master Hei, do you want to see it?"

"..."

Hei Gang glanced at me who was smiling hippie beside him, and said nothing, but his overall expression was quite relaxed.

It's no wonder he's worried since I've been gone for so long.Recently, I have been very emotionally unstable. I often talked calmly one second, and cried inexplicably the next second. Sometimes I was immersed in memories and talking to myself, and nightmares followed one after another... Hei After Gang woke up, once the spirit relaxed, the sorrow of a hundred years broke out in one fell swoop like an appointment. From losing her mother-in-law to almost losing Hei Gang later, the long memories were full of fear and sadness, which made me almost sink into it. Extricate yourself.

Fortunately, I didn't lose Heigang, and he was always with me.

Every time when I was immersed in grief and couldn't wake up, he always pulled me back to reality at the first time, hugged me who was almost collapsed into his arms, coaxed me like a child, and quietly listened to my incoherent cries.The generous embrace conveyed warmth to me continuously, allowing me to listen to his steady and powerful heartbeat, and I was able to gradually calm down, and then I heard him whisper my name in a low voice, a kind of softness that I have never had before. That was born spontaneously from the bottom of my heart.

I vaguely understand that it is probably the feeling of happiness.

The sad things in my heart flowed away with the tears, and the vacant place was re-occupied by happiness and warmth. In this way, as time goes by, it seems that happiness has gradually become an easy thing, and I can bring a touch of happiness every day. Waking up with joy, even breathing is much easier than before.It’s just that after going through heavy pressure, my mentality is still unstable, crying and laughing for a while, even I am very worried, but Hei Gang didn’t say anything. I was sad and accompanied me as before. Seeing that I was happy, he let me go Tossing, quarreling and quarreling every day, and then go to see Sakura together as if nothing happened, and get into the bed together to keep warm at night, repeat the next day.

So more than half a month passed, the two of us nestled together every day, one to heal the wound, the other to nourish the heart, which can be called the perfect combination of patients.

And when I came back today, the servants were withdrawing dinner.Of course, I didn’t blame Hei Gang for becoming a vampire, but I was also very sorry that I could no longer taste the taste of human food. If I ate too much, I would suffer from indigestion, so it’s impossible to eat with me. So I took advantage of that time to go out for a walk, so as not to embarrass him by eating and watching. Today I went to visit Xiaolang and the others. Xiaoying was still asleep, but her injuries had healed, and even the expression on Xiaolang's face was gone. Much better.

Sitting on the soft tatami, thinking of what happened just now, my already good mood suddenly became a little bit better, which made me smile and curl my lips.

"What do you think?"

When I came back to my senses, I realized that all the servants had retreated, and only the two of us were left in the room.Heigan sat across from me, looking at me intently.

"I was thinking, Miss Witch is really a good person."

I also specially emphasized the word "really", deliberately mentioning which pot is not opened.Hei Gang's face darkened immediately, exactly as I expected.But he thought he would explode next, but he paused for a second, and then grabbed my wrist, which made me almost unable to maintain my balance, and quickly put my hands on the ground.

"Have you gone to find that witch?"

"I……"

His expression changed instantly, and he looked very angry.I didn't expect him to react like this. I didn't know how to explain it for a while, and felt a little pain from being clenched on my wrist.

"What are you looking for her for?"

"Master Hei, don't be like this... I'll just show you..."

"Varied……"

He was stunned before he finished speaking, and the look of pure surprise was a bit like me just now.

It was a lifeless butterfly.

"this is not……"

The whole body is blue, and the edges and body are rich and pure black.

"Well," I turned my face away, feeling a little heat on my cheeks, "...that's the one."

The blue butterfly is as beautiful as when I saw it on New Year's Eve, but it is not the same as when he sent it to me in a cardboard clip. It lay quietly in a delicate transparent box, and its wings were fixed well. It is well preserved to this day.

"Later, I went to King Yaksha and asked him for help. The power of Sakura Feather was just enough to save it... After that, Tomoyo said that it could be done in this way..."

"You kept it?"

He interrupted my rambling explanation, looked at me deeply with phoenix eyes, and his eyes flickered a little.

"Hmm... If you don't count throwing it away along with the clothes," I licked my lips, "I just found out that it was at Miss Witch's place, and they said it was included in the price of the clothes, so they gave it to me directly."

After asking Zhishi to prepare the specimen, he put it in his pocket together with the red note. Later, he left in a hurry from Reklut (the land of memory), and he took it back from Miss Witch when he was about to go to Thrace. I touched the inner pocket and found that the red note was still there, but the specimen box was gone. I was exhausted at the time, and I didn’t feel ashamed to ask Miss Witch in front of me. I thought it was lost, but I didn’t expect it... because it was not in the same place with the clothes. She found it one step too late, she thought that we would go to Thrace to face hardships and dangers, and this thing was not easy to keep, so she kept it for me until today.

However, if I had known that this could be done earlier, I should have asked Miss Witch to help keep both items, so the red note would not have been... But then again, at the saddest moment before going to Thrace, if Without this little bit of red comfort, I really don't know how to get through it.

After all, I have to sigh that fate tricks people.

"Oh," I sighed, and muttered in a low voice, "but it's still early for Chinese New Year..."

"Want to celebrate the new year?" Heigang couldn't keep up with my rhythm.

"Isn't there only red envelopes during the Chinese New Year?" I sighed dejectedly.

"……Red envelope?"

He first looked at me puzzled, then at the butterfly specimen I held in my hand, paused for a moment, then suddenly remembered something, turned his face away suddenly, and his Adam's apple moved suspiciously.

"You said that..."

I nod.I think it was written by him himself, and it was the first gift he gave me. Even if it doesn’t have magic in Thracian, it is his sincere blessing. I feel a little sad when I think about it in my heart; and since it's not a Chinese New Year holiday, I'm too embarrassed to ask him again... I'm too embarrassed to look at him, I just lowered my head silently and didn't speak.The latter coughed slightly as if he couldn't stand my negativity.

"If you want... I can write another one another day."

My eyes lit up.

"is it okay?"

"Ah."

"Hey? So the New Year's sign can be written casually?"

I speak from my heart.Hei Gang turned his head and gave me a sideways look, his eyes looked a bit like looking at an idiot.

"Hey, what's that look?"

"stupid."

"Who is stupid! Master Hei is... um..."

The waist tightened suddenly, and when the lips were kissed again, the body seemed to be passed by an electric current, and the fiery breath enveloped the whole body instantly. I felt that this scene was inexplicably familiar.

Like... kissing him for the first time, that New Year's Eve.

I secretly opened my eyes to look at him, he closed his eyes accidentally and innocently, and deepened the kiss intently.In the night, our lips and tongues are intertwined, even if there are no gorgeous fireworks, just a crescent moon hanging high, it is so beautiful that people want to remember it forever.

His thick black eyelashes are close at hand, and the squinted phoenix eyes are beautiful and sharp, but the wrinkles between his brows are much shallower than before, which adds a little bit of tenderness to this man. Come this far?

We are no longer the same as before, but throbbing is the same as before.

I closed my eyes and listened to our rapid heartbeats in sync.

I don't know where I was moved, this kiss lasted longer than before, and after the first kiss, Hei Gang was not willing to let me go, and even leaned together to look at the stars.

It is said to be looking at the stars, but how can the mind be on the stars.After communicating with each other, the two of them had nothing to hide, as if they wanted to make up for the previous cold war, they were tired of being together every day like Siamese twins, and they didn't bother them, and gradually they had more physical contact.

But to be honest, I, who lived alone for a long time, was very repulsed by this kind of intimacy, but he seemed to like it, and especially liked to hug my waist like this-the big hand wrapped around my waist and gently rubbed it until I was ticklish. After stopping, he finally settled down.

"Hei Pu is really perverted, as expected of someone who has been reading beautiful manga for a long time."

"Who reads a beauty manga! It's a shonen manga about ninjas!"

"Wow, Black PP actually said that he is a teenager."

"..."

Hei Gang has always disdain to argue with me for the advantage of words, although I always think it is because he knows he can't win.

Leaning against his neck, I heard his very light sigh and couldn't help laughing.Looking out of the window, Japan has a lot of stars, and the night sky is dark blue, which makes the cherry blossoms in the courtyard extraordinarily beautiful.

I wanted to take a deep breath of the scent of flowers, but...

"Master Black."

"Ok?"

"How long has it been since you took a shower?"

……

Now I understand why people sometimes spoil the atmosphere without being aware of current affairs.

I just practiced it myself for a while, lying on the carpet, looking at Hei Gang who had been a little black mouse for me for no reason, and couldn't stop laughing.

Truth really comes from practice.

Hei Gang waited with a dark face for the servants to make the hot water ready. He was very disdainful of my behavior of destroying the atmosphere, imposing what I didn't want on others, and slightly making things worse, because I was always by his side. In terms of how many days he hasn't bathed, of course I can't be more clear, including his wounds, after he stopped bleeding, I was basically taking care of them, even if Princess Tomoyo's healing magic speeded up the wound recovery, The most serious wound penetrating the abdomen and the severed wound on the left shoulder have just healed. It is obviously unrealistic to take a bath now, and it is normal to accumulate a little sweat.

And I obviously did it on purpose, thinking of the fact that I couldn't take a bath because of my injury when I was in the Night Demon Kingdom, I didn't know it, and I felt a little gleeful, and I smiled at Heigang's black face, holding back my internal injuries.

The latter glanced at me sitting next to me who seemed to be leaking air, worthy of the title of the number one ninja in Japan, and waited quietly for the servant to leave, then grabbed me who was getting up and trying to escape when the situation was not good, and gave a slight smile He pulled me down to the ground with all his strength, pressed half of his body up, and stretched out his big hands towards my waist...

tickle my itch.

"Hahahahahaha... Hei Wang... No no no Hei sir haha... Don't make me wrong hahaha..."

It is said that two punches are hard to beat with four hands, but my two hands are against Mr. Hei with one hand, and I am able to lose the wind. I think this is all because of the cold-blooded and ruthless guy in front of me. No matter how I scratch it, it doesn't itch. Let me try all kinds of things. In this way, I will stand still; but I am on the contrary, I am the type who itch at the touch of a touch, so naturally I can't get any advantage when I meet someone like him.

To say that this person is also true, he is such an adult, and he still cares about such a trivial matter - isn't he just smiling at him?To actually use this method to retaliate against me is simply more naive than me.

After arguing for a while, he finally let me go until I burst into tears from laughing. After the alarm was lifted, I lay on my back on the mat and breathed heavily.

"Still laughing?" He looked at me condescendingly.

"No...don't laugh..."

Finally, I had enough trouble, so I rolled up my sleeves and went to wash Mrs. Hei's hair.

Master Hei's hair is very thick and a little oily, but the overall length is so short, it's not difficult to wash.But one hand is always a bit strenuous, trying to raise it can easily affect the wound on the abdomen, so I reluctantly washed it for him as compensation for laughing at him just now.

He sat cross-legged across from me, lowered his head, and let me soak his steel wire-like hair with water, and then put soap locusts on it.

"Master Hei is tired with his head down?"

"good."

The two who had been jubilant just now became quiet in an instant, which is a bit unbelievable to say the least.But if you think about it carefully, between me and Heigang, silence actually occupies most of the space.Hei Gang didn't like to talk at all, at first he and I were disgusted by seeing each other, even if he could not talk, he would basically fight with each other, he was full of calculations, and I could count on one hand the serious things I said to him .

Afterwards, I got a little more familiar because of cooperative operations, but I rarely managed to get down to it seriously, part of the reason was because I was avoiding it.The ninja's nerves are too sharp, and they can always find out my disguise at the first time. At that time, I was on the balance of crime. Whether it is Wang and Fayi, or these companions who are traveling together, neither side wants to hurt The only way is to hide it, thinking about hiding it until the day the balance disappears—that is, the day I disappear, and let everything end.

Let me bear all the sins alone, it doesn't matter if I go to hell, as long as I can protect the people I love.

...However, fate does not rotate according to people's ideas, it prefers to be unexpected.So, I, who worked hard to protect them, became the one being protected, and the disguise that I thought was perfect was exposed by this person in front of me bit by bit, and finally because they mustered up the courage to face everything, I was finally taken away by him, letting go of the heavy burden The past, reborn.

His heart became soft in an instant, and the movement of rubbing his hair was also relaxed.The suffocating silence in Infinity City has now turned into a touch of warmth; just thinking about how I treated him at that time, how hard I pushed him away at that time, guilt and longing flooded my heart like a tide, Thinking of his care in every possible way, I want to be nice to this man even more from the bottom of my heart, and give my all to make up for and love him.

Maybe I can't give you happiness, but at least let me do my best to protect you.

"……What's wrong?"

"fine."

I breathed quickly and steadily, thinking that this guy is really too sensitive.

After a while, he spoke again:

"You... have you gone to find the witch today?"

I knew it would be hard to fool him, but I didn't want him to know so soon, so I sighed in my heart.

"I want to say that I happened to meet Mokona chatting with her... Master Hei won't believe it?"

"Ah."

The corner of my mouth twitched, this man was straightforward.

"You have too many criminal records."

He smiled slightly.

"Master Hei doesn't show mercy."

"Oh."

"..."

"So, you are going to find the witch."

"...That's right."

After getting my affirmative answer, he paused almost subconsciously.

"What... can't you tell me?"

"..."

He didn't ask any more questions, but responded silently, which was very different from the aggressive ninjas in the past.Because he is familiar with my temperament, he has to worry about my safety all the time, and because of this, he can't always ask me, even if he is worried to death, he can only look at me silently alone, and bear the burden with his own body. The safety of the two of us, even if forced, will pull me out of the quagmire.

I suddenly felt cruel.Hei Gang really put me in a special place and loves me, but I used to treat him like that, let a person who loves me so much lose sleep all night because of worrying about me, and let him rush into the pouring rain I was looking for someone whose life or death was uncertain, but I didn't even say sorry to him.

Rinse off the scum with lukewarm water and dry him with a clean towel. I'm glad he still has his head down so he can't see my reddened eyes that don't know how to look at him again.

But now, what if I apologize?How can a mere sentence of sorry make up for that sincerity?The clenched right hand under the black steel sleeve showed his worry. I think I really have a lot of criminal records, but I made him feel so insecure with just a few words.

As I helped him dry his hair, I breathed slowly and deeply, feeling the warmth in my chest ready to come out.

The towel was folded and put aside, one hand was placed on his face, and the other hand was squeezed into his clenched right fist, interlocking his fingers willfully.

"What happened today...can't talk about it yet, but,"

"I... want to promise Master Hei."

I quietly watched this man who put my life before his own, looked straight into his wine-red eyes, and made such a sincere promise for the first time in my life:

"I promise you, I will never hurt myself again."

I hugged him gently, and then he hugged him back tightly, as if afraid that I would disappear if I let go.

So I promise from the bottom of my heart:

—I will never hand over anything that touches my life again.

——I will live a good life.

——Because I still want to protect you.

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It was updated last week, I somehow didn’t post it here... I’m really sorry, there should be two chapters updated this week