Ema's younger brother

"Fengdou?" Hinata knocked on the door, "I'm coming in."

There was no sound from inside the door.

"Are you asleep...?" The boy murmured in confusion, and then gently turned the doorknob - the person lying on the bed had his eyes tightly closed, his messy hair was spread on the soft quilt, lost. After the frame covered the dark circles around the eyes, it was very obvious against the fair skin.He didn't sleep particularly peacefully, his brows were tightly frowned, and his clothes were wrinkled.

Yimu, who crawled from the hat onto Hyugachen's shoulder, blinked, stretched out his small hand and poked the boy's ear: "Do you need me to help him change his position? He will probably ache all over when he sleeps like this."

"Well... let's change it." Hinata Chen nodded, and walked to the bedside after the monster manipulated the wind, turned on the bedside lamp, and pushed back Fengdou's bangs, "It's really blue."

He seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and stopped unscrewing the lid of the medicine oil: "Is there a way for Yimulian to prevent him from being woken up by my movement of applying the medicine?"

"No."

The youkai who could only manipulate the wind shook his head.

The boy who got the answer hesitated for a while, but opened the lid resolutely, poured the medicated oil on his hand and wiped off the bruise on Fengdou's forehead.Yimulian thought for a while, and then dispersed the strong smell of medicine in the air.

"Brother Yachen...?"

Sleeping drowsily, Fengdou called out his brother's name indistinctly.

His eyes opened slightly for a while, and then closed weakly: "Good night, Brother Yachen." Ryu Xiangchen, who was regarded as the eldest man, was tangled in silence for a long while, and then replied "Good night" in a low voice.

What made people breathe a sigh of relief was that Fengdou never woke up again after saying good night, and Hinata could finally let go of his hands and feet to loosen the bruise, without worrying about waking Fengdou up and turning on a A tearful battle——if he remembered correctly, Fengdou seemed to be getting up?

Yimulian sat quietly on Ryu Xiangchen's shoulder, watching the young man concentrate on applying the medicine, and reaching out his hand to help him catch the hair that slipped from his ears from time to time.

"Thank you." The young man covered the medicated oil and thanked him softly. His voice was as clear as a trickle flowing into his ears, and his figure was reflected in his magnificent red eyes.He shook his head in silence, showing a slight smile.

Hinata Chen turned off the desk lamp and walked out of the room, went to the kitchen to wash his hands covered in medicated oil.

"Hey, Yimulian, do you want to try the feeling of wandering on the street in the early morning?" Hinata boy who just woke up not long ago, so energetic, proposed to the monster on his shoulder with great enthusiasm, and the brilliance flowed in his bent eyes.

The monster who had waited for the dawn countless times in the wee hours of the morning nodded in agreement with his proposal without hesitation: "Maybe you can see a very beautiful starry sky."

"Beautiful starry sky." The young man's voice was filled with anticipation and longing. He went back to the guest room and took his bamboo knife, checked all the electrical switches before going out with confidence, "Sure enough... very beautiful .”

If you are interested, go out and look at the sky in the early morning... At that time, the sky is full of stars, and the meandering Milky Way will span the entire starry sky, which looks as pure as white satin.

Because the street will be very quiet, so this beautiful scenery will be precious and rare.

"Today's weather is very good." Yimulian's cool and pleasant voice sounded in his ears, "It's rare to see so many stars recently."

"Then our luck is really good." Ryu Xiangchen's exquisite eyebrows and eyes were stained with a smile, and he walked towards Asahina's house by the faint light of the street lamp, "Speaking of it, this seems to be the first time I've lived in so many years. Looking at the stars in such a relaxing way—with Momoko by your side, those ghosts wouldn’t dare to approach them at all.”

The world in my eyes.

It was so clean and peaceful for the first time.

"I've seen the stars many times...but only this time, I think they are very beautiful."

"Eh? Is it because I'm by your side?" Hinata Chen said this in a teasing manner, not expecting a response from the monster.

But Yimulian gave a gentle 'hmm' with his eyes: "Chen, I don't like the feeling of loneliness. Whether it's the gods at the beginning, or the monsters now - obviously they have always existed with a long life, but I hate it very much. lonely."

"So I couldn't abandon those people who prayed, and ended up blinding my right eye. At the beginning, I did receive faith and felt that I was loved by humans... But one after another, humans left the land I guarded, and never I haven’t been back, and the power of faith I can feel is getting smaller and smaller.”

He told the legend that Hinata had heard from Bei Dao.

"So I finally realized that compared with my long life...human beings and human beliefs are extremely fragile and short-lived existences-I shouldn't pin my hope of eliminating loneliness on them."

"Chen, you are the first human being I have come into close contact with." The monster's cool fingers caressed his cheek, "When you came to me with that sign, I finally understood that sentence that has been around for a long time. What do you mean by 'don't get close to humans'."

Hinata stopped under a street lamp, the moths hovered in the light, and were scalded back by the scorching heat from the bulb.He couldn't help but think of Bei Dao's obscure eyes when he looked at him persistently - obviously very gentle, but there was a bit of indifference and resistance in his mind.

——That is the helplessness of never being able to kill.

"Why...can't get close to humans."

He heard his voice hoarsely asking why.

"Because humans are too warm."

Eh……?

The answer Yimulian gave exceeded his expectations. He thought that the monster would say something like 'human beings love to exclude others', 'human beings are easy to change their minds', 'human beings are too easily blinded by the fear in their hearts'. He died tragically at the hands of humans—but Yimulian said, 'Because humans are too warm'.

"warmth?"

"Yeah." Yimulian nodded, he jumped off Hinata Chen's shoulders, and returned to his normal size, "A monster and a monster rarely do anything for each other, and between a god and a god, there is very little. They seldom do anything for each other—everyone believes in the power of the strong, and instead of sitting together and chatting in a friendly way, everyone prefers to devour each other and plunder each other's strength."

"Humans are different."

"I haven't come into contact with many humans, so I can't give too many examples."

Yimulian stared at Hinata Chen's magnificent red eyes, and suddenly stepped forward and hugged him: "I only know that human beings said to me in a tone of trust that surprised me when they first met, 'God will protect me. of'."

"When we met for the second time, he handed me the finished plaque with his injured hand and apologized to me...the reason is that he didn't show up when I needed it."

So he also made behaviors that he found incomprehensible—whether he took the initiative to enlighten the child, or gave away his own earrings.

The whispers of monsters coiled in their ears, and the light wind that blew past caused their hair to tangled and intertwined in the air.Ryu Xiangchen hesitated for a while, then slowly stretched out his hand and hugged Yimulian back.

Look.

Humans are always like this.

I can't bear to see other people's expectations fail.

Work hard for others again and again.

Obviously puzzled and even despised this kind of tenderness.

But it is inevitable to sink into it.

"A few days ago, my sense of you was cut off suddenly. When I sensed you again... At that time, you should not have seen the scenery Yunu created for you—when she disappeared, the There's a very beautiful rainbow on the coast."

"In that rainbow, I felt her demon power."

"She's saying 'thank you' to you."

"If you think about it this way, maybe the current good weather is also affected by her." The monster let go of his hand and stood opposite him, "Chen, I must also solemnly thank you—— I really, really appreciate that you were willing to go to that dilapidated shrine and believe in a god who fell into a monster."

then.

Paint that monster's lonely and boring life with brilliant and gorgeous colors, making his faded world suddenly brighten up, and warming his cold heart.

"Thank you so solemnly... I suddenly feel a little at a loss."

The young man under his gentle gaze visibly flustered, and then seriously bent down: "Then, I also want to thank Lian."

"Thank you for giving me the courage to step out of my own little world, thank you for protecting me when I was exhausted, thank you for always cherishing me carefully, thank you for saying 'thank you' to me seriously - let me Knowing that I also have the ability to warm others."

I who have been sneaking in the dark for so long.

It turned out to be light.

"It's great to meet Lian."

His words made Yimulian silent for a while.

The monster suddenly reached out and stroked his soft hair: "Me too... It's great to meet Chen."

Human life is so short.

Monsters have such a long life.

——It’s great to have such a big gap.

I can protect your future.

And you'll never have to suffer the pain of losing me.

I thought about it seriously.

This feeling of wanting to protect you.

This feeling of wanting to be with you.

Is it really love?

Probably...not right?

It is said that whether it is family affection, friendship or love, human beings are mixed with possessiveness.But I am willing to dedicate all the good things in the world to you, but I don't have the slightest idea of ​​hiding you, nor am I afraid of being abandoned by you.

I want to send you flowers.

I want to give you sunlight.

I want to give you the moon and stars.

I want...to let you live in such a gentle and sunny way forever.

really.

Humans are very dangerous existences.

but……

The heart is so warm for the first time.

The brain experiences happiness for the first time.

For the first time, I couldn't help but want to say - 'I'm so happy'.

This feeling, if you stay by your side all the time... you will understand sooner or later, right?

The author has something to say:

Thank each other for friendship.

And the next one is Subaru, Zao, and Julie.

The cp of Ema's article is Subaru ww