Ema's younger brother

"Master, Master, Master!"

The child who kept screaming as soon as he ran into the courtyard saw the person he was looking for, jumped on the person without hesitation, and then burst into tears.

"Master, they beat me again!" Ryu Xiangchen grabbed Bei Daozhi's clothes with both hands, raised a teary face and complained aggrievedly, "Master, can you beat me back for me?"

Executive Kitajima:  …

"Good boy." The ghost pretending to be a human patted Ryu Xiangchen's head, "Master won't do these things for you, you have to fight back by yourself."

The indifferent ghost has no intention of interfering in the struggle between human beings.

Children are always sensitive to the outside world, especially Hinata Chen, who has lived under the strange eyes of others since he was a child. Therefore, after vaguely sensing Bei Daozhi's indifference, Hinata Chen closed his mouth obediently, and stretched out his hand to touch the corners of his eyes. tears are also wiped away.

After this incident, Hinata Chen didn't come to Zhi Bei Dao for three days.

The ghost doesn't care about this, and even enjoys it.

Until the fourth day, Hinata Hinata who was covered in injuries staggered and fell into the courtyard, approached him step by step under his astonished gaze, and smiled brightly at him with his bleeding cheek .

——"Master, I called back myself."

——"So... can you stop hating me."

I will never ask you to protect me willfully again.

So please don't abandon me.

Bei Daozhi fell silent.

The smile on the child's face melted little by little in this silence, tears gradually filled his dark red eyes, and his heart was also filled with the sudden swelling of anxiety and despair.

"sorry."

"I was wrong."

The ghost listened to the child's apology in astonishment.

"I'm sorry master."

The blood was still running down his forehead, over the cut on his left cheek, across his chin and onto the ground.His body was covered with purple swellings, and his hands and feet were covered with wounds visible to the naked eye.

But this child who was supposed to be in constant pain kept apologizing to him.

Ghost opened his mouth in a daze, but found that there were really no words to describe his mood and comfort the broken Hinata.So he stretched out his fair and slender hand, and gently placed it on Ryu Xiangchen's hair.

——The cry of apology stopped abruptly.

"Hey, Master will help you treat the wound."

Hearing these words, Hinata cried even more fiercely. He obediently lifted up his sleeves and trouser legs and stretched the injured area in front of Bei Dao's body. Tears fell patter without making any sound.

After the ointment was scattered by tears again, Bei Daozhi helplessly stopped what he was doing: "Why are you crying?"

"do not know."

Hinata, whose eyes were swollen from crying, answered Bei Dao's persistent question with a hoarse voice.

His eyes were originally dark red, and his surroundings were swollen from crying, and his hair was as smooth as satin. He looked like a rabbit who had wronged Bala.

"puff--"

Bei Daozhi, who wanted to comfort his apprentice, couldn't help laughing.

"Crying like a rabbit." The ghost put down the ointment and pinched the uninjured area of ​​​​Ri Xiangchen's face, "Really, if you cry again, Master will despise you."

"Don't despise me."

Hinata, whose face was pinched, uttered these words indistinctly, and then held his breath and began to hold back tears, until his face turned red, but he couldn't stop the tears from flowing.

Executive Kitajima:  …

"Who told you that you can't breathe if you hold back your tears."

The ghost frowned, and slapped Hinata Chen unbearably on the head a second before he suffocated.

"Cough——" Hinata Chen, who was caught off guard and recovered his breath, coughed a few times. The wound on his head that was no longer bleeding was split open again under this slap, and blood soaked his hair and flowed down.

Gee.

fragile humans.

Bei Dao, who felt that the blood was very eye-catching, used his strength to speed up the healing of the wound without even thinking about it. He put his hand on Hinata Chen's forehead: "Don't move!"

"How could I have such a stupid apprentice like you, who obviously has a much stronger physique than his peers, yet was beaten so badly." He murmured in a low voice while he was being treated, "Do you have to be beaten by a group, no? Will you challenge them one by one?"

"Ah, it's so stupid that it makes people a little angry."

Feeling Bei Daozhi's different dangerous aura than usual, Hinata listened to him silently, without saying a word—in fact, those who gathered to beat him were also beaten badly by him.

While muttering, the ghost accidentally healed all the wounds on Hinata Chen's body.

ghost:......

"Master is so powerful." Hinata Chen, who was completely pain-free, looked at his hands and legs in surprise, and then threw a bright smile on Bei Daozhi, "I like Master the most."

Bei Dao, who habitually catches him:  …

He knew that the child would pounce on him when he recovered!Or beat him to death?That way he won't pounce on it again.

Bei Dao, who was thinking about a hundred ways to beat up his apprentice in his mind, unexpectedly looked at Hinata Chen's star-studded eyes, and his mind went blank for an instant.

Otherwise, let this stupid kid go this time.

Anyway, a hug won't hurt.

The ghost who didn't know how many times he had compromised calmly touched Ryu Xiangchen's soft hair, and there was a faint but very real smile in his dark eyes that had not wavered all year round.

- Dust like a fool.

He thought life would go on like this forever.

But that's just what he thought.

One morning, he found that his strength was weakening, and he couldn't even maintain the entity for a long time.So he reduced the time to meet Hinata Chen, and in the end he could only see him once every two weeks.

Wraiths stay in the world because of the obsession at the time of death.

Naturally, it will also disappear when the obsession dissipates.

My...obsession?

Bei Dao stared in confusion at the palm of his hand that had been emptied for a moment, and turned his head to rest his gaze on Hinata Chen who had grown into a delicate young man.

"Xiaochen." The ghost smiled softly, "Is I important to you?"

He saw the young man frowned, and answered him in a natural tone: "Master is of course important."

"Then... If one day, you and I can only have one person alive, how will Xiaochen choose?" The ghost picked up the teacup in a concealed manner, half-closed his eyes to hide all emotions.

"Master lives on."

This is the tone of course again.

The corners of Bei Daozhi's lips suddenly bent down for a moment, and the sourness in his heart made him feel like crying for the first time—but no, Xiaochen is still here, how can he cry.

The ghost put down the teacup and smiled.

Hinata Chen's blood can turn him back into a monster.

But he has been unable to start.

The vitality of an ordinary person can keep him alive.

But once it is contaminated with human flesh and blood, it can only maintain a greedy and ugly appearance forever.

——His mind will disappear the moment he devours humans.

So the best ending, in fact, is to calmly wait for death, right?

The light of the fire that day spread into the eyes, and there was an excruciating burning sensation on the body. The thick nose smoke permeating the air curled up into the sky, and the limbs were gradually burned into charred black.

He didn't cry out in pain, but just quietly watched the group of murderers who were relieved.

He lowered his head, closed his eyes, and a strong emotion suddenly surged in his heart.

——[This kind of world is really disgusting. ]

Sitting in the empty courtyard, Bei Daozhi slowly opened his eyes.He looked at the cherry tree that was planted together with Hinata Chen, his brows and eyes slightly bent.

It turned out that my obsession before death was to loathe this world.

It turns out that I can love this world again for you.

little dust.

—I don't want to say goodbye to you.