[Ultraman] Lonely Heart

The consequence of getting up in the middle of the night to look at the flowers is that they both slept until noon the next day.

Due to the limited capacity of the tent, and the fact that the child sleeps in an unrestrained position, Sylvia was not surprised to find that the other party was lying on her chest like an octopus when she woke up.But this is just an innocuous trifle, and of course she doesn't care about it if she is as broad-minded as she is. Except for the slightly rough way of waking Sai Luo up, she feels that she is simply a model of repaying evil with kindness.

Sai Luo, whose head was swollen by a blow, said, "..."

As long as you are happy.

They spent some more time walking in the forest.Curiosity is stronger than Sai Luo, so he naturally wants to explore deeper, but this idea has not been supported by Sylvia.After all, the second Otto Tower is a relatively sensitive place, and the nearby forest is not without restricted areas. As far as she knows, behind the vast deep forest is the tomb of the ancient Otto warrior.That is the place where the souls of heroes return, and the ideal land built for the dead. Maybe one day she will have the opportunity to take Sai Luo to have a look, but right now, they don't have the heart of awe to pay homage, so they still don't want to bother. good.

And since she said so, Sai Luo naturally wouldn't force it.Before packing up his things and leaving, he folded a silver flower and took it with him. It is said that it symbolizes life and bondage. As long as there is water, it can survive for a long time, and it will also light up a light light at night.It seems that it is not a meaningless thing to leave a memory of this trip and the bright streamer that night.

When the sky once again imitated the crimson sunset, they had already returned to the familiar streets.

A bit exhausting from the two-day journey, more vivid but always pure pleasure.Sero took Sylvia's hand through the crowd, the excitement on his face hadn't faded, and he even started planning for the next "reward".

"If I improve at the end of the semester, will you still take me there to play?" He blinked, his eyes were surprisingly bright.

"Of course," Sylvia thought for a while, and agreed very readily: "I can even take you around other cities. You haven't taken the intercity train of the Kingdom of Light yet, have you?"

After finishing speaking, before the child showed yearning expression, she added another sentence: "But this is for the future, you will have class tomorrow, go back tonight and have a good rest, so as not to affect your study any more."

"I know!"

Boys have a mechanical dream.Still coveting the light rails connecting the major cities in the Kingdom of Light, Sai Luo looked at Sylvia as if he was looking at a wishing machine, and now he just wanted to hug her and say, "I will work hard Yes, you must take me there!!"

Sylvia smiled and nodded.

Once the "deal" is done, the rest is pure camaraderie time.Since Sai Luo's excitement hadn't passed yet, she didn't force him to calm down and go home immediately, but instead took the child for a walk for a while and let him play for a while.

"I want to eat pudding!"

I am used to living a good life, and I have also learned not to be polite to each other.On the way back to the school dormitory, Sai Luo pointed to the fancy dessert shop in front of him, and spoke to Sylvia confidently.

"Okay." She had no reason to refuse.

However, when they passed by a narrow alley, the two of them keenly heard a burst of weeping along with the wind at the same time, intermittently, mixed with choked sobs from time to time.

Sylvia was slightly taken aback, and looked into the depths of the narrow alley.It was found that a child who looked younger than Bi Luo was sitting on the ground alone, crying very embarrassingly.

"What's the matter with you, kid?"

After raising a cub, I can't see such a scene, not to mention that the Kingdom of Light is not without danger, but it is indeed not appropriate for a child to sit alone on the street at dusk, and Sylvia can't persuade I just ignore it.

So, she knelt down and asked the child so gently.He didn't notice the expression on Sero's sudden rise behind him.

"I miss Mom and Dad." The child kept sobbing, answered in a low voice hoarse from crying, and hiccupped.

It is not difficult to ask the reason from him.The children's parents are both working in the Space Guard. Now it is the reconstruction period after the interstellar war. Everyone is almost busy, and it is difficult to spare time to go home and have a look.Although the child is taken care of by a robot nanny at home, it cannot give him emotional comfort after all, so he sneaked out when the nanny was not paying attention, and wanted to go to the security team to find his parents, but lost his way halfway , I can only sit here and cry.

"Can you take me to my parents?"

In the end, the kid tortured Sylvia humanely with his big watery eyes open, without giving her a chance to say no at all.

...that's fine.

He only felt that he was destined to take care of the child. Sylvia nodded, and reached out to hug the child, but was pulled by the wrist forcefully.

She looked back, and met Sai Luo's face with an unattractive expression.

"I want pudding, you promised."

He suppressed a certain emotion surging in his heart, but he couldn't suppress the sudden impulse in his bones, and said something that he didn't even think he would say:

"It's getting dark, and the headquarters of the Space Guard is far away. You have to ask where this guy's parents are one by one... The best way is obviously to send him home. There will be no surprises, will there be?"

This sounds really reasonable. Sylvia thought about it for a while, and finally shook her head: "I think it's better to go to the police force. I haven't seen my parents for almost a month. The kid is so pitiful, so I'll do you a favor." It seems nothing."

"...I've never met my parents yet!"

Sai Luo yelled such a sentence in a low voice, but because the voice was extremely suppressed, Sylvia could only hear a few intermittent words, and couldn't help being confused.

"What are you talking about, Sai Luo?" She lingered on his face suspiciously: "Are you unhappy?"

The child did not answer directly.He was silent for a while, only to feel that the thorn in the bottom of his heart suddenly had a sense of existence, as if a hand was constantly fiddled with, and the most delicate and long-lasting pain appeared in the softest place.

"Will you be so kind to everyone who feels pitiful?" The young man clenched his hands, "Just ask you, can you give this tenderness to anyone?"

He couldn't help but think of the assertion that annoying classmate once made in his ear.It used to be so harsh, but now it seems that it has become a prophecy.

'Do you think that the fact that she picks you up from school and holds parent-teacher meetings means you are special to her? '

'...It's just that you are too pitiful, she can't bear to refuse you anything, and she would do the same to someone else. '

'It's just cheap mercy, Cyro. '

mercy.

So it wasn't just him, if it was someone else who made the request to her that day, she would be by his side as well as by his side now.

He was never as special as he thought.

"G……"

Feeling that the other party's emotions were wrong, Sylvia wanted to stand up and observe his expression carefully.But on the way, he was caught by a crying child who wanted to find his parents, and he froze in place for a while, unable to move.

Seeing her like this, Sai Luo's eyes became darker.Finally, he took a deep breath, took a step back, and made way out of the narrow alley.

"You take him there."

He tilted his head, trying to hide the hurt and unwillingness in his eyes: "I can go home by myself."

He didn't need to be sent home with such a big fanfare, but he just wanted to spend more time with Sylvia, so he always acquiesced and even deliberately pestered her to walk a little longer.

But in the future, no more.

"...I'll be back soon."

I can't guess what kind of temper he is throwing again, but I can't really let it go.Sylvia picked up the child, nodded to the boy, and tried to ease the solemn atmosphere in the air: "You can wait for me here, I will treat you to eat pudding when I come back."

"..."

Shiro is noncommittal.

He just watched the back of the other party gradually going away, and stood there for a long time.Cracked self-esteem was intertwined with a strong desire to catch up, which almost tore him into two opposite halves.But the rising unwillingness stopped the young man's footsteps. The fantasy that Sylvia gave him was so intoxicating that the moment he thought he was awake, the pain of loss turned out to be more unforgettable than the anger.

Why, why did it become like this!

Shiro pursed his lips.In the end, he closed his eyes, tore off the silver flower on his body, turned around and walked in the opposite direction.

So, at the end of the day.When Sylvia left the child to Sophie, who couldn't explain anything, and ran back as fast as she could, there was no trace of the boy at the place where they left.

Only a solitary silver flower was left lying in the middle of the road, scattering silver light all over the place.