non-human secret history
Chapter 32
I didn't sleep well all night.
In the beginning, I was angry with that brat, Yueyan, who was so courageous that he dared to belittle me casually, but later, I was angry about why I didn't rush up and beat him to vent my anger——
But with his current shabby body, if I really go to beat him up, I'm afraid I will directly recruit the black and white brothers of the ghost messenger's family.
If that's the case, Mr. Susan probably can kill me with his eyes.
I can't be rough on him, but I definitely don't want to just take advantage of him.
So I fell into deep thinking, what should I do to make that bastard kid suffer a little bit without killing him.
As a good ghost who keeps himself safe, in the past years, when encountering any unsatisfactory things, I usually do it directly-this is not because of my combat power, after all, I have the weakest combat power of the ghost clan It's not something worth bragging about, but looking at the entire ghost clan, apart from Chikage Kazama's stern leader, no one really dares to take action seriously with me.
Because I am a history person, if I carefully add two black histories to the record, the consequences will be quite dire, so under normal circumstances no one would dare to offend me.Yes, since I was a child, I really haven't encountered a problem that can't be solved by force.
But Yueyan is more difficult to deal with, he can't do anything in literature or martial arts, so how should he be warned for his attempt to cross the line?
My experience in this area is about zero, and I thought about it all night and finally came up with an idea that I thought was brilliant.
——This is a real "suffering" for him.
And when I showed up at the pharmacy with a pair of dark circles under my eyes from fighting all night, the little drug boy Xuecun was shocked.
"Miss Ya, are you not resting?" Xuecun asked, "Do you want me to give you a prescription for sleeping?"
"It's okay, it's okay!" I waved my hands again and again, and even opened my eyes wide again, proving that I was in good spirits.
However, maybe the smile on my face was too malicious, Yaotong Xuecun's doubts were not dispelled, but intensified instead.
"What do you want to come here?" He stopped weighing the medicine and looked up at me.
"I think it's very hard for Mr. Xuecun to come to decoct medicine every morning, so I came here to help." I slightly controlled the expression on my face, trying to make my purpose not so obvious.
Yaotong Xuecun's eyes were full of suspicion.
"Anyway, my mother is also a master of medicine. I can still do the job of decocting medicine."
I felt that I was very sincere in my explanation, but this sudden initiative was nothing more than courteousness, it was like announcing that I had some plans.
Xuecun squinted at me, and started to work again, while saying: "I advise you to take a good rest. If you want to tamper with Mr. Yueyan's medicine, you are not afraid that Mr. Xu Zuo will eat you!"
"Hey, I've only heard rumors of ghosts eating people, but I haven't heard of people eating ghosts." I shrugged, and since Xuecun had already exposed what I was thinking, I stopped hiding it: "Besides, I don't I will do something excessive, but I may have left out the honey that suppresses the bitterness, so I don’t think it will cause any serious disaster.”
"That kid is annoying me, so it's okay to warn him a little bit?" I put on an aggrieved expression: "Besides, it's not like I don't know how to prepare honey and the like, after all, I'm just a big-hearted person." Good ghost."
"Besides, Yukimura-kun—" I took a few steps forward: "Because of Yue Yan's matter, Mr. Susan has lost his temper with you for no reason. Wouldn't someone be willing to express a little anger for you? Yes. I will always bear the consequences, and it has nothing to do with Yukimura-kun—"
"I'm not you!" Yaotong Xuecun gave me another supercilious look without hesitation.
But he said so, but his body gave way to me very honestly: "Let me tell you, it's just this time! Later you will help me take care of the koi in the pond for a month."
"Okay... eh?"
After answering, I realized that I seemed to have been beaten by this Xuecun kid, but this is not a big deal. Compared with arguing with him, it is better to take this opportunity to solve the historical problems with Yueyan .
Thinking of this, I rolled up my sleeves and went to the table, and got busy following Mr. Susan's prescription in a dignified manner.
Because Yue Yan's disease is really lingering, and the prescription Mr. Xu Zuo gave him is also really complicated. I am a half-hearted person, so it is inevitable that I will be a little flustered when I start my hands suddenly. Fortunately, Yukimura didn't really let go.
In short, after a lot of twists and turns, I finally managed to cook out that pot of black and white soup——
"To be honest, let alone the taste of this medicine, just the color makes people feel disgusting..." When I pinched my nose and transferred the soup medicine from the jar to the bowl, I said with a look of disgust: "Tsk , now I suddenly feel that kid Yueyan is really a man. I can't bear this stuff..."
"Then you suddenly realized that you were going to let him go?" Yaotong Xuecun leaned against the corner and folded his arms and gave me a sideways glance.
"Hiss... how do you say that?" I put down the medicine jar, raised my head and said solemnly: "Let me tell you this is not a bad thing, if this kid didn't go too far, I wouldn't bother Zhang came to beat him."
Xuecun shrugged his shoulders, with a look of resignation on his face.
I didn't pay attention to Xuecun any more, I just took the bowl and walked to Yueyan's room.It was still early in the day, and the first morning light had not even penetrated the eastern stratus clouds, but there was already light in the corridor.
It's just that after a long, dark night just now, although the light is brighter now, the temperature in the air is cooler than the night.
Even though ghosts have a lower body temperature than humans, I still feel a little cold.So I couldn't help speeding up my pace, and finally arrived at the door of Yue Yan's room before the steam in the bowl dissipated.
There was still a little warm light in the room, and a little detection showed that the child was awake at the moment.
I pretended to knock on the door twice, but there was no movement inside.I didn't hesitate much, just pushed the door open and walked in.
The door hinge made a "squeak" sound, and my footsteps seemed to have finally caught the man's attention.
"Is it Xuecun?" He didn't even turn his head, but just stared at the table in front of him intently.It was only then that I noticed that he was sitting at the table wearing a thick feather kimono, his long hair was only tied with a ribbon casually, and he looked rather special.He was still holding a pen with a fine pen in his hand. Hearing the movement, he raised his hand that was not holding the pen, pointed to the short table beside the bed, and only said: "Put it there."
I was a little puzzled, not knowing what he was doing here so early in the morning.So I ignored his instructions and walked towards him with the soup in my hand.
My footsteps are very light, and it is said that with human perception ability, I can't even notice that I am approaching him, but Tsukihiko, who was sitting there quietly, suddenly became short of breath, and then he turned around suddenly, showing a very rare expression A moment of panic—
"It's you?"
"It's me." I paused and tilted my head slightly: "Can't you?"
The expression on Yue Yan's face was slightly stiff, he opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak.
"On weekdays, I always hear you keep paying attention to me, but now you can't tell me apart?" The corners of my lips were lightly raised, and my tone was a little mocking.
"I was surprised when I realized you were here." Yueyan finally stood up and greeted me, but there was a subtle sense of disobedience in his demeanor: "I always thought that you might not don't want to see me."
"Because of what happened yesterday."
"..."
For a moment, I didn't know whether to sigh that this kid is still self-aware or angry that he still has the face to mention such things.Maybe it's because I felt an inexplicable cautiousness in his words, or maybe it's because his face is so unbearable, but at this moment, my desire to beat him is actually extremely weak.
Bah, I'm not the kind of ghost who is so superficial that I will be dazzled by beauty!
After calming down, I put on a straight face and handed over the medicine in my hand——
"I didn't even think about coming to see you, but I just felt sorry for that brat in Xuecun who worked so hard getting up early."
"It's really gentle." He smiled, somewhat playfully.
I really didn't want to pay attention to this guy anymore, so I rolled my eyes, not wanting to look at him again, and he didn't argue with me anymore, just took the soup and took a sip with his head raised.
Feeling his movements, I couldn't help but sneak a peek in his direction. After all, I don't want to miss the expression on his face when he drank the extremely bitter soup.
However, it was just a sneaky glance, and I unexpectedly met his half-smiling eyes.
His expression remained unchanged, even softer than usual.
"It seems to be sweeter than usual," he said.
"Huh?" I couldn't control my emotions for a while.
"It's sweeter than usual." Yue Yan repeated again with certainty.
His performance was really unexpected, so my brain was short-circuited for a while.For some unknown reason, I snatched the bowl that still had some soup left in it, and before the pungent smell passed my nose, I let the sticky liquid flow over the tip of my tongue—— —
Then I threw up without incident.
What kind of taste buds does this kid have?To be so miserable and still have a calm face, so this guy's mental power is too strong!
Suddenly there was a chuckle in his ear.
I think I must be very embarrassed at the moment, but I can't just admit it.
Having settled down, I turned back and forced the bowl back into Yueyan's hand, pouted and said, "I'm not sick, and I don't need to try this kind of thing. You drink this up quickly, and I'll give it to you." Xuecun is sending it back!"
"Probably because it's you." Yueyan brought the bowl to his lips again, and said in a warm voice, "Because it was you who sent it, I always feel it's a bit sweeter."
Yue Yan spoke these words extremely proficiently, but even though he knew that he just liked to show off his quick tongue, but this sentence still made my ears feel a little hot unconsciously.
While I was dazed for a short while, Yue Yan had to take a step forward.Fortunately, I was not really disturbed by that guy, at least before his next sneak attack came, I turned my head very precisely.
"you……"
Just as I was about to explode, my eyes suddenly swept across the table——
There was a portrait, or rather a sketch, spread over there, the ink still wet.And the outline outlined in those scribbled lines is clearly... what I look like?
I turned my head abruptly and looked at those eyes that were close at hand.
However, Yue Yan took a half step back in a panic, and his breath suddenly became a little flustered like when he first saw me.He turned his head a little stiffly, but I still noticed a thin layer of crimson on his pale face.
Like a kid who got caught doing something bad.
I opened my mouth halfway, I wanted to say something, but after thinking about it for a long time, I still didn't know how to say it.
——What the hell are you doing?
There is really no need to ask such unnutritious questions.
——What are you doing this for?
I think I can guess the answer, and I really don't want to hear his nonsense anymore.
"you……"
"This is...not finished yet." His voice was a little dry: "...I can't sleep at night, so I simply..."
"Looks like it's time for Mr. Xu Zuo to add a hypnotic prescription for you." I bit my lip and thought for a long time before I answered.
He lowered his eyes slightly, allowing some slender eyelashes to cast a shadow on his face, but he couldn't hide the color on his cheeks.
"But the dream is full of you."
He murmured softly.
A burning sensation spread from the base of my ears all the way to my cheeks, as if I was hit by something, and I couldn't move for a while.
There was still a slight aftertaste of bitterness in my mouth, and I suddenly regretted making such a plan—it was clearly just a whim, but I didn't know that it turned out to be a cocoon in the end.
The rhythm of the heartbeat gradually became chaotic, and I thought maybe I shouldn't stay in this place anymore.
So I turned around and planned to flee towards the door, but before I could take a step, there was a sudden resistance from my wrist.
Not strong, even a little hesitant, but enough to hold me in place.
"Don't go."
He said.
This is the second time he has said such words to me in two days, and before that, I seem to have never heard him use such an almost pleading tone.
When he was not noticed, even he was quietly becoming strange——
But why?
I looked at him a little puzzled.
And he turned his gaze a little unnaturally.He probably wanted to maintain his usual toughness, but the inadvertent trembling when he spoke revealed a very rare, perhaps unprecedented, emotion hidden in his heart.
It was uneasiness. Would a person like him feel uneasy?
"Even if you leave, I will always find you." He said in a calm voice, "Because from the day I saw you, I never thought about letting go. As long as I concentrate, I always seem to be able to vaguely know where you are, I can always find you, but..."
"You also want to see me?"
When he said this, he secretly turned his eyes to look at me, but he avoided me at a loss when he met my gaze.
Although he said it in a flashy way, but in the end it was nothing more than sternness and softness.
But what is he?You have been shamelessly pestering me for so long, and only now do you think of asking me in such an uncertain tone?
Of course I—
Thoughts suddenly froze.
This question is too cunning, say whether you are willing or not...
At least based on the fact that he will bear the name Oni Wu Tsuji Mumi after a thousand years, and that he is the target of my mission, and he just has an unclear account with me, I should also want to see him, or I can’t. not to see him.
But what is going on with this sick and weak human being?I want to avoid him, but I can't help but want to pay attention, and want to fight back against his every word and deed.I hate him for pestering me all day, and causing me to be rolled eyes by Mr. Susan from time to time, but after hearing that he was treated like that by Nikkyo, I would impulsively run to complain for him.I hate that guy who has survived for thousands of years with this body, but I still can't help reminding myself that the human being in front of me is just Yue Yan.
"At least..." After a long silence, he said again: "I only hear Mr. Susan and others call you Miss Ya, so at least tell me your name."
"I'm not a ghost, but I want to be by your side."
I lowered my gaze slightly, looking at the wrist held by him.It was so warm that it was almost scorching hot, and I always felt that at such a temperature, something seemed to be melting gradually.
I can feel that I seem to be on the verge of danger, but under the cover of such a temperature, everything around me seems to be nothingness. I don't know where to hide or how to hide.
"Genji..." I took a deep breath, I didn't know which nerve in me was wrong, but I really followed his meaning and said: "...Chiya."
Yue Yan was taken aback by my reply.He suddenly raised his head to look at me, his eyes were uncertain for a moment, and then they were gradually stained with a light of joy that I had never seen before—the pupils were clearly ordinary human pupils with a very light color, but at this moment they looked even darker than those of ordinary people. After becoming a ghost, the red color is even brighter.
"Aya..." He spat out two words with trembling lips: "Will calling us that way make us appear closer?"
For some reason, when I heard him say those two words, I even choked for a moment.So I simply held my breath, settled for two seconds, and then took another long breath of relief.
The mood seems to have finally calmed down.I drew back my wrist and glanced sideways at him again.
"I can tell you your name, and I'm not tired of seeing you." I said, "But you know, you and I..."
"After all, it is not the existence of a world."
After that, I walked straight to the door.
But before touching the door panel, a man's voice came from behind.
"But at least for now, we are living in one world." He said: "In the future, we will."
I didn't respond to that and really didn't know how to respond.
When I returned to the prescription with a somewhat melancholy expression, what greeted me was ruthless ridicule from Yaotong Xuecun.
"Failed?"
"You can't blame me, who would have thought of that kid..." I pursed my lips a little dejectedly, and put the empty bowl on the table.
"He has saved a lot." Xuecun picked up the bowl, scooped some water from the water storage tank and washed it, while saying something casually.
"what?"
I didn't react for a while.
"Those paintings. I've seen them a few times." Xuecun didn't even look up.
"...Ah?" I was stunned for a while, and then I suddenly realized that something seemed wrong: "Wait a minute, Xuecun, why are you playing eavesdropping?"
"I'm not eavesdropping." Xuecun shrugged: "Although I'm only half blood, I still have a bit of inspiration from the ghost race. I can perceive this distance casually. What can I do?"
"you……"
This little devil!It is clear and enjoyable to listen to the shameful act of listening to the corner, but now I am pretending to be innocent!
But unfortunately, I have nothing to do with him at the moment, so it can be said that I am very angry.
"But I'm really puzzled." After putting the cleaned bowls into the cupboard, Xuecun finally turned to look at me: "Miss Ya, why do you always pretend to be indifferent?"
"Huh?" I was complaining in my heart, and I didn't understand what he was saying for a while.
"But you are obviously bound by this fate, and you obviously never thought of avoiding it." Xue Cun tilted his head, and there was real doubt in his tone.
I just felt like I was hit hard by something, and I didn't know how to react for a while.
"What are you... talking about?" With trembling lips, what blurted out was a guilty question that even I couldn't bear to listen to.
"I can only recuperate in this clinic." I said, "Besides, it was Mr. Susan's request to take care of Tsukihiko. I..."
"So you just obeyed, didn't you?" Xuecun spread his hands, and then turned around to fiddle with the herbs in the cabinet beside him: "Even if something happens in the end, it will be Mr. Susan's fault after all, and it will also be fate after all. And you..."
"Just rejoice in these 'fate-imposed vicissitudes'."
"You are really cunning."
silence.
It is quite embarrassing to say that the things in my mind that I have never dared to face have been punctured by such a boy who looks only thirteen or fourteen years old. Surprisingly, I felt relieved.
Perhaps sometimes, facing it is a better solution than avoiding it.It's just that in many cases, before things become unavoidable, I always want to hide around with a little luck.
"But why do you want to avoid it?" Xuecun suddenly turned around: "Although he is a bit domineering, at least he treats you with sincere love—"
"It's different." I was taken aback, then sighed lightly.
Of course, I have already noticed my wavering, and it is even more impossible to ignore the man's increasingly hot emotions, but after all, there is a blood curse in it-even if I don't talk about the deep-seated resentment formed by blood, if this relationship It was caused by the blood curse at all, so apart from removing this layer of curse, how much sincerity was mixed between me and him?
If my relationship with him is the shackles that bind fate imposed by the blood curse, then bowing your head like this is not letting yourself down?
"The curse can only cause stumbling, but it doesn't care about emotion." Somewhat coldly, Yaotong Xuecun said this sentence suddenly.
I suddenly opened my eyes wide.
"...Mr. Qingming told my mother to listen to it." Xuecun raised the corners of his lips lightly: "But from this point of view, it seems that there was indeed a curse between you and him..."
It was only then that I realized that this guy in front of me was cheating on me.
"It turns out that Mr. Xuecun is also so cunning." I curled my lips and said somewhat awkwardly.
"I..." He ignored my dissatisfaction, but turned his head, busy with the work in hand, and said in a hurry: "I heard from my mother that the one who should be The man I call 'Father' is actually the head of a pure-blooded family of ghosts. He shouldn't have come to tease my mother, he knew it very well, and my mother knew it too, but I was born in this world."
"...Huh?" I was a little surprised.This is the first time this half-blood boy talked about his life experience with me.
Genji and the Yukimura family really have no intersection, not to mention that after the accident at the end of the Tokugawa period, the direct line of the Yukimura family seems to have been severed, and the remaining collateral lines have no contact with the Genji who has been in the main family all year round because of their blood or status. Chance.
——Although I'm not sure that the boy in front of me is the exiled blood of the Xuecun family, but since he has such a surname, I'll just assume so.
"My mother never resented that man. She always said that she was willing, even if meeting was an unavoidable curse and an unavoidable calamity, but she never felt that there was anything wrong with such a choice. "
"...Even if the ending is so bad."
When he said this, his voice was somewhat sad.
After all, there are many stories in this world that only cause people to sigh when they end, but no matter what, the courage and awareness of the woman described by Yaotong Xuecun should be worthy of my envy—at least she welcomed herself. ending.
And I didn't even dare to touch the beginning.
It's obviously halfway there.
Funny to say.
"I probably care a little bit about his affairs." I pursed my lips lightly and thought for a while before I finally said this sentence, and then hastily added: "But it's only a little bit."
There was a chuckle in his ear, slightly mocking, and the source of the voice was naturally a kid who was still a little dazed just now.
I just feel a little hot on the face.
It was just a whim, or because I was a little self-defeating after being seen through by him, in short, I still said everything that should be said and should not be said.
Now that the words have been spoken and there is no way to take them back, I can only forcefully roll my eyes and say: "This kind of words should not be said to children like Mr. Xuecun, you should concentrate on packing your medicinal materials Bar."
Xuecun gave me a meaningful look, but said nothing else.
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, only the rustling sound of the young man tidying up the herbs.
"Well... this kind of thing doesn't matter anyway." Putting the last pack of medicine into the cabinet, Xuecun said again: "I just care about the fact that you promised to take care of the koi in the courtyard pond for me. "
"Don't forget!"
Mr. Susan's courtyard layout is actually quite elegant.
Even a layman like me who has no experience in garden design can see at a glance that it takes a lot of thought to make the yard look like this.
The high and low scattered miniature rocks divide the yard along the corridor of the house, and the vine trellis in one corner is covered with vines.In the middle of the yard are scattered flowers and plants of all seasons. After the weeping cherry blossoms in spring have withered, the roses below are in full bloom.The bright red double flowers exude a strong aroma, which makes the atmosphere of the whole courtyard very warm.
There is a clear pool on one side of the courtyard, in which there are many koi with strong spiritual energy—maybe because the yard is very spiritual, so the koi raised are brighter than those in other places, or it is precisely because Because of the spiritual power of these koi, this yard is more lively.
Cooking these koi is not too much trouble.Because this kind of creature has quite good spiritual power, and its vitality is always stronger than other creatures. In addition, the pond of Mr. Susan's house is the source of running water, so it is only simple to feed them with some bait on weekdays. Just eat it.
Although this job is easy, being forced to come over by that kid Xuecun is not a pleasant thing in itself, and the other thing in exchange did not end up as I wished.
——There is a sense of sight that steals chickens but loses rice.
But when I look at those fish, I always feel a little resentful in my heart.
Although I was born as a historian of the ghost clan, I can be regarded as a serious literary department, but to be honest, I really don't have much attainment in aesthetics.Granted, some people find it quite calming to stand by a pond admiring koi, but my only thought when I see these guys is that they look delicious.
And because koi itself is a psychic species, even for ghosts, the nutritional value is quite high.
It's a pity that I also know that Mr. Susan loves this group of koi very much—after all, they are rare spiritual creatures. When encountering difficulties and miscellaneous problems, he will occasionally mix some of the most spiritual parts of koi into medicine .So if these little guys are really caught and eaten, Mr. Susan will definitely not let me go easily.
As a result, I can only drool eagerly when feeding those little guys with bait every day. Those who don’t know may think that I want to grab food from those fish.
The weather is gradually warming up. Even in late spring, the heat at noon is somewhat unbearably hot for the ghost race whose body temperature is much lower than that of ordinary humans.So the time I went out gradually began to move to early morning and evening.
Personally, I still prefer dusk.When the setting sun spreads, the entire water surface will be dyed a beautiful red gold.It's just that the water surface is still warm from the day, so those koi fish are still swimming very leisurely very close to the water surface.
When I approached, those psychic little guys rushed towards the bank of the pool as if they had sensed my breath.I casually sprinkled the bait into the water, and the koi immediately huddled together, splashing the water, and it was very lively.
"It's a carp." The man's deliberate emotion sounded from behind.
Of course, I have already noticed his breath, since he walked around the corridor and approached me.But maybe I have long been used to this breath around me, but when he approached, I didn't even think about the need to make any deliberate reaction.
"It's koi." Casually, I agreed, but still didn't look back.
"I am happy," he added.
"what?"
I couldn't keep up with his thoughts for a while, so I turned my head to look at him with some doubts.
And Yueyan walked slowly to my side and stood still, while continuing to say: "I am happy when you say that you care about me 'a little bit'."
"...Huh?" I was taken aback for a moment, and then took half a step back——
Where did he hear that!
When chatting with Yukimura that day, I was sure that there was no third person present, and as a human being, Tsukihiko certainly couldn't perceive the scene in the room from a long distance like Yukimura.
... Xuecun, this bastard!
"Looks like it's time for me to have a good talk with that guy from Xuecun," I gritted my molars and said with a bit of resentment, "about how to control my mouth."
"It has nothing to do with him." Yue Yan was still defending Xue Cun—presumably he didn't want to lose this microphone.He covered it up with a clumsy lie: "I just happened to hear it."
"But why don't you just tell me what you're saying?" He took half a step forward: "Even if it's just a little bit, I'm always happy to hear that I finally have a place in your heart."
His eyes were a little hot, even more unbearable than the temperature at noon.
"Is it koi?"
"You're being self-indulgent—" I turned my head away: "I just..."
Before I could finish speaking, a strong pulling force suddenly came from my wrist, and my center of gravity was a little unstable for a moment, and I fell forward obliquely, and the umbrella I had been holding in my hand fell to the side.
Suddenly, the direct sunlight enveloped my whole body like a flame.
The remaining blood in the body that cannot see the sun is almost gone, so of course I will not die because of this level of light, but because of the existence of this little bit of blood, the burning suffocation makes people have nowhere to go escape.
So in the man's arms, I couldn't stop trembling.
Yue Yan also immediately noticed my abnormality, and his breath became panicked in an instant.Hastily loosening the arm around me, he fell into a very rare state of being at a loss.
And I, who was free from the restraints, squatted down and tried to curl myself up—as if I could avoid the sun shining down by this way.
"Aya, you..."
"Sunshine..." In this almost tormented state, I had no time to think, and just said subconsciously.
It was only then that Yue Yan came to his senses, and quickly reached out to grab the umbrella that had fallen to the side, and covered it over my head.
So the burning sensation finally disappeared, replaced by air that was much colder than sunlight.I still hugged my knees and crouched on the spot, shivering unconsciously.
Tsukihiko also got shorter and stood in front of me with one knee touching the ground.He reached out his hand hesitantly, as if he wanted to caress my back, but he didn't dare to make any further movements.It's just that the temperature emanating from his palm can be clearly captured at this moment.
"Come here (koi)..." The voice was a little trembling, and I muttered.
"Huh?" He hesitated.
I raised my head slightly, and met his panic-stricken gaze: "I said..."
"come over."
Stretching out my hand tremblingly, I pressed against his palm.As a result, the warm body temperature instantly spread throughout the body through the skin.
At that moment, such a thought flashed through my mind.Maybe liking him is not that unbearable, because it is instinctive to be greedy for warmth.
I can't compete with it.
Just think that my brain was burned out by that moment of sunshine, which made me choose to fall into such a situation.
Maybe there is nothing wrong with this, at least it ended my hundreds of years of loneliness with this subtle sympathy.
Slowly intertwine my fingers with his, this is the first time I intertwined with him like this.
"It's love."
I say.
Therefore, whether it is a human or a ghost, it is always easy to make some wrong decisions under impulse, so that after recovering, I wish I could slap myself twice.
When I returned to the room with a bright red double-petalled rose that Tsukihiko quietly picked from Mr. Susan’s bushes, I was in a state of “who am I, where am I?” what to do" state of confusion.
——So in the end, what's going on, I just went to feed a fish and then I managed to hold hands with that kid!
The fragrance overflowing from the flowers in the bottle and gradually filling the room reminded me of what happened just now. I buried my head in the quilt, trying to escape this fact like a roe deer plunged into a snowdrift.
At this time, there was a very inappropriate knock on the door.
I didn't want to pay attention to it, but I had to get out of the quilt and open the door bravely - what caught my eye was Mr. Xu Zuo's gloomy and slightly sullen face.
The scent of flowers in the room was still strong, and I felt even more guilty. I wanted to cover it up with some ordinary greetings, but Mr. Susan didn't allow me to speak at all.
"There are clues." Without any foreshadowing, he said straight to the point, but it was not the words of the stolen rose at all.
"What?" I asked subconsciously.
"That kind of medicine has a clue." Mr. Xu Zuo said so
In the beginning, I was angry with that brat, Yueyan, who was so courageous that he dared to belittle me casually, but later, I was angry about why I didn't rush up and beat him to vent my anger——
But with his current shabby body, if I really go to beat him up, I'm afraid I will directly recruit the black and white brothers of the ghost messenger's family.
If that's the case, Mr. Susan probably can kill me with his eyes.
I can't be rough on him, but I definitely don't want to just take advantage of him.
So I fell into deep thinking, what should I do to make that bastard kid suffer a little bit without killing him.
As a good ghost who keeps himself safe, in the past years, when encountering any unsatisfactory things, I usually do it directly-this is not because of my combat power, after all, I have the weakest combat power of the ghost clan It's not something worth bragging about, but looking at the entire ghost clan, apart from Chikage Kazama's stern leader, no one really dares to take action seriously with me.
Because I am a history person, if I carefully add two black histories to the record, the consequences will be quite dire, so under normal circumstances no one would dare to offend me.Yes, since I was a child, I really haven't encountered a problem that can't be solved by force.
But Yueyan is more difficult to deal with, he can't do anything in literature or martial arts, so how should he be warned for his attempt to cross the line?
My experience in this area is about zero, and I thought about it all night and finally came up with an idea that I thought was brilliant.
——This is a real "suffering" for him.
And when I showed up at the pharmacy with a pair of dark circles under my eyes from fighting all night, the little drug boy Xuecun was shocked.
"Miss Ya, are you not resting?" Xuecun asked, "Do you want me to give you a prescription for sleeping?"
"It's okay, it's okay!" I waved my hands again and again, and even opened my eyes wide again, proving that I was in good spirits.
However, maybe the smile on my face was too malicious, Yaotong Xuecun's doubts were not dispelled, but intensified instead.
"What do you want to come here?" He stopped weighing the medicine and looked up at me.
"I think it's very hard for Mr. Xuecun to come to decoct medicine every morning, so I came here to help." I slightly controlled the expression on my face, trying to make my purpose not so obvious.
Yaotong Xuecun's eyes were full of suspicion.
"Anyway, my mother is also a master of medicine. I can still do the job of decocting medicine."
I felt that I was very sincere in my explanation, but this sudden initiative was nothing more than courteousness, it was like announcing that I had some plans.
Xuecun squinted at me, and started to work again, while saying: "I advise you to take a good rest. If you want to tamper with Mr. Yueyan's medicine, you are not afraid that Mr. Xu Zuo will eat you!"
"Hey, I've only heard rumors of ghosts eating people, but I haven't heard of people eating ghosts." I shrugged, and since Xuecun had already exposed what I was thinking, I stopped hiding it: "Besides, I don't I will do something excessive, but I may have left out the honey that suppresses the bitterness, so I don’t think it will cause any serious disaster.”
"That kid is annoying me, so it's okay to warn him a little bit?" I put on an aggrieved expression: "Besides, it's not like I don't know how to prepare honey and the like, after all, I'm just a big-hearted person." Good ghost."
"Besides, Yukimura-kun—" I took a few steps forward: "Because of Yue Yan's matter, Mr. Susan has lost his temper with you for no reason. Wouldn't someone be willing to express a little anger for you? Yes. I will always bear the consequences, and it has nothing to do with Yukimura-kun—"
"I'm not you!" Yaotong Xuecun gave me another supercilious look without hesitation.
But he said so, but his body gave way to me very honestly: "Let me tell you, it's just this time! Later you will help me take care of the koi in the pond for a month."
"Okay... eh?"
After answering, I realized that I seemed to have been beaten by this Xuecun kid, but this is not a big deal. Compared with arguing with him, it is better to take this opportunity to solve the historical problems with Yueyan .
Thinking of this, I rolled up my sleeves and went to the table, and got busy following Mr. Susan's prescription in a dignified manner.
Because Yue Yan's disease is really lingering, and the prescription Mr. Xu Zuo gave him is also really complicated. I am a half-hearted person, so it is inevitable that I will be a little flustered when I start my hands suddenly. Fortunately, Yukimura didn't really let go.
In short, after a lot of twists and turns, I finally managed to cook out that pot of black and white soup——
"To be honest, let alone the taste of this medicine, just the color makes people feel disgusting..." When I pinched my nose and transferred the soup medicine from the jar to the bowl, I said with a look of disgust: "Tsk , now I suddenly feel that kid Yueyan is really a man. I can't bear this stuff..."
"Then you suddenly realized that you were going to let him go?" Yaotong Xuecun leaned against the corner and folded his arms and gave me a sideways glance.
"Hiss... how do you say that?" I put down the medicine jar, raised my head and said solemnly: "Let me tell you this is not a bad thing, if this kid didn't go too far, I wouldn't bother Zhang came to beat him."
Xuecun shrugged his shoulders, with a look of resignation on his face.
I didn't pay attention to Xuecun any more, I just took the bowl and walked to Yueyan's room.It was still early in the day, and the first morning light had not even penetrated the eastern stratus clouds, but there was already light in the corridor.
It's just that after a long, dark night just now, although the light is brighter now, the temperature in the air is cooler than the night.
Even though ghosts have a lower body temperature than humans, I still feel a little cold.So I couldn't help speeding up my pace, and finally arrived at the door of Yue Yan's room before the steam in the bowl dissipated.
There was still a little warm light in the room, and a little detection showed that the child was awake at the moment.
I pretended to knock on the door twice, but there was no movement inside.I didn't hesitate much, just pushed the door open and walked in.
The door hinge made a "squeak" sound, and my footsteps seemed to have finally caught the man's attention.
"Is it Xuecun?" He didn't even turn his head, but just stared at the table in front of him intently.It was only then that I noticed that he was sitting at the table wearing a thick feather kimono, his long hair was only tied with a ribbon casually, and he looked rather special.He was still holding a pen with a fine pen in his hand. Hearing the movement, he raised his hand that was not holding the pen, pointed to the short table beside the bed, and only said: "Put it there."
I was a little puzzled, not knowing what he was doing here so early in the morning.So I ignored his instructions and walked towards him with the soup in my hand.
My footsteps are very light, and it is said that with human perception ability, I can't even notice that I am approaching him, but Tsukihiko, who was sitting there quietly, suddenly became short of breath, and then he turned around suddenly, showing a very rare expression A moment of panic—
"It's you?"
"It's me." I paused and tilted my head slightly: "Can't you?"
The expression on Yue Yan's face was slightly stiff, he opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak.
"On weekdays, I always hear you keep paying attention to me, but now you can't tell me apart?" The corners of my lips were lightly raised, and my tone was a little mocking.
"I was surprised when I realized you were here." Yueyan finally stood up and greeted me, but there was a subtle sense of disobedience in his demeanor: "I always thought that you might not don't want to see me."
"Because of what happened yesterday."
"..."
For a moment, I didn't know whether to sigh that this kid is still self-aware or angry that he still has the face to mention such things.Maybe it's because I felt an inexplicable cautiousness in his words, or maybe it's because his face is so unbearable, but at this moment, my desire to beat him is actually extremely weak.
Bah, I'm not the kind of ghost who is so superficial that I will be dazzled by beauty!
After calming down, I put on a straight face and handed over the medicine in my hand——
"I didn't even think about coming to see you, but I just felt sorry for that brat in Xuecun who worked so hard getting up early."
"It's really gentle." He smiled, somewhat playfully.
I really didn't want to pay attention to this guy anymore, so I rolled my eyes, not wanting to look at him again, and he didn't argue with me anymore, just took the soup and took a sip with his head raised.
Feeling his movements, I couldn't help but sneak a peek in his direction. After all, I don't want to miss the expression on his face when he drank the extremely bitter soup.
However, it was just a sneaky glance, and I unexpectedly met his half-smiling eyes.
His expression remained unchanged, even softer than usual.
"It seems to be sweeter than usual," he said.
"Huh?" I couldn't control my emotions for a while.
"It's sweeter than usual." Yue Yan repeated again with certainty.
His performance was really unexpected, so my brain was short-circuited for a while.For some unknown reason, I snatched the bowl that still had some soup left in it, and before the pungent smell passed my nose, I let the sticky liquid flow over the tip of my tongue—— —
Then I threw up without incident.
What kind of taste buds does this kid have?To be so miserable and still have a calm face, so this guy's mental power is too strong!
Suddenly there was a chuckle in his ear.
I think I must be very embarrassed at the moment, but I can't just admit it.
Having settled down, I turned back and forced the bowl back into Yueyan's hand, pouted and said, "I'm not sick, and I don't need to try this kind of thing. You drink this up quickly, and I'll give it to you." Xuecun is sending it back!"
"Probably because it's you." Yueyan brought the bowl to his lips again, and said in a warm voice, "Because it was you who sent it, I always feel it's a bit sweeter."
Yue Yan spoke these words extremely proficiently, but even though he knew that he just liked to show off his quick tongue, but this sentence still made my ears feel a little hot unconsciously.
While I was dazed for a short while, Yue Yan had to take a step forward.Fortunately, I was not really disturbed by that guy, at least before his next sneak attack came, I turned my head very precisely.
"you……"
Just as I was about to explode, my eyes suddenly swept across the table——
There was a portrait, or rather a sketch, spread over there, the ink still wet.And the outline outlined in those scribbled lines is clearly... what I look like?
I turned my head abruptly and looked at those eyes that were close at hand.
However, Yue Yan took a half step back in a panic, and his breath suddenly became a little flustered like when he first saw me.He turned his head a little stiffly, but I still noticed a thin layer of crimson on his pale face.
Like a kid who got caught doing something bad.
I opened my mouth halfway, I wanted to say something, but after thinking about it for a long time, I still didn't know how to say it.
——What the hell are you doing?
There is really no need to ask such unnutritious questions.
——What are you doing this for?
I think I can guess the answer, and I really don't want to hear his nonsense anymore.
"you……"
"This is...not finished yet." His voice was a little dry: "...I can't sleep at night, so I simply..."
"Looks like it's time for Mr. Xu Zuo to add a hypnotic prescription for you." I bit my lip and thought for a long time before I answered.
He lowered his eyes slightly, allowing some slender eyelashes to cast a shadow on his face, but he couldn't hide the color on his cheeks.
"But the dream is full of you."
He murmured softly.
A burning sensation spread from the base of my ears all the way to my cheeks, as if I was hit by something, and I couldn't move for a while.
There was still a slight aftertaste of bitterness in my mouth, and I suddenly regretted making such a plan—it was clearly just a whim, but I didn't know that it turned out to be a cocoon in the end.
The rhythm of the heartbeat gradually became chaotic, and I thought maybe I shouldn't stay in this place anymore.
So I turned around and planned to flee towards the door, but before I could take a step, there was a sudden resistance from my wrist.
Not strong, even a little hesitant, but enough to hold me in place.
"Don't go."
He said.
This is the second time he has said such words to me in two days, and before that, I seem to have never heard him use such an almost pleading tone.
When he was not noticed, even he was quietly becoming strange——
But why?
I looked at him a little puzzled.
And he turned his gaze a little unnaturally.He probably wanted to maintain his usual toughness, but the inadvertent trembling when he spoke revealed a very rare, perhaps unprecedented, emotion hidden in his heart.
It was uneasiness. Would a person like him feel uneasy?
"Even if you leave, I will always find you." He said in a calm voice, "Because from the day I saw you, I never thought about letting go. As long as I concentrate, I always seem to be able to vaguely know where you are, I can always find you, but..."
"You also want to see me?"
When he said this, he secretly turned his eyes to look at me, but he avoided me at a loss when he met my gaze.
Although he said it in a flashy way, but in the end it was nothing more than sternness and softness.
But what is he?You have been shamelessly pestering me for so long, and only now do you think of asking me in such an uncertain tone?
Of course I—
Thoughts suddenly froze.
This question is too cunning, say whether you are willing or not...
At least based on the fact that he will bear the name Oni Wu Tsuji Mumi after a thousand years, and that he is the target of my mission, and he just has an unclear account with me, I should also want to see him, or I can’t. not to see him.
But what is going on with this sick and weak human being?I want to avoid him, but I can't help but want to pay attention, and want to fight back against his every word and deed.I hate him for pestering me all day, and causing me to be rolled eyes by Mr. Susan from time to time, but after hearing that he was treated like that by Nikkyo, I would impulsively run to complain for him.I hate that guy who has survived for thousands of years with this body, but I still can't help reminding myself that the human being in front of me is just Yue Yan.
"At least..." After a long silence, he said again: "I only hear Mr. Susan and others call you Miss Ya, so at least tell me your name."
"I'm not a ghost, but I want to be by your side."
I lowered my gaze slightly, looking at the wrist held by him.It was so warm that it was almost scorching hot, and I always felt that at such a temperature, something seemed to be melting gradually.
I can feel that I seem to be on the verge of danger, but under the cover of such a temperature, everything around me seems to be nothingness. I don't know where to hide or how to hide.
"Genji..." I took a deep breath, I didn't know which nerve in me was wrong, but I really followed his meaning and said: "...Chiya."
Yue Yan was taken aback by my reply.He suddenly raised his head to look at me, his eyes were uncertain for a moment, and then they were gradually stained with a light of joy that I had never seen before—the pupils were clearly ordinary human pupils with a very light color, but at this moment they looked even darker than those of ordinary people. After becoming a ghost, the red color is even brighter.
"Aya..." He spat out two words with trembling lips: "Will calling us that way make us appear closer?"
For some reason, when I heard him say those two words, I even choked for a moment.So I simply held my breath, settled for two seconds, and then took another long breath of relief.
The mood seems to have finally calmed down.I drew back my wrist and glanced sideways at him again.
"I can tell you your name, and I'm not tired of seeing you." I said, "But you know, you and I..."
"After all, it is not the existence of a world."
After that, I walked straight to the door.
But before touching the door panel, a man's voice came from behind.
"But at least for now, we are living in one world." He said: "In the future, we will."
I didn't respond to that and really didn't know how to respond.
When I returned to the prescription with a somewhat melancholy expression, what greeted me was ruthless ridicule from Yaotong Xuecun.
"Failed?"
"You can't blame me, who would have thought of that kid..." I pursed my lips a little dejectedly, and put the empty bowl on the table.
"He has saved a lot." Xuecun picked up the bowl, scooped some water from the water storage tank and washed it, while saying something casually.
"what?"
I didn't react for a while.
"Those paintings. I've seen them a few times." Xuecun didn't even look up.
"...Ah?" I was stunned for a while, and then I suddenly realized that something seemed wrong: "Wait a minute, Xuecun, why are you playing eavesdropping?"
"I'm not eavesdropping." Xuecun shrugged: "Although I'm only half blood, I still have a bit of inspiration from the ghost race. I can perceive this distance casually. What can I do?"
"you……"
This little devil!It is clear and enjoyable to listen to the shameful act of listening to the corner, but now I am pretending to be innocent!
But unfortunately, I have nothing to do with him at the moment, so it can be said that I am very angry.
"But I'm really puzzled." After putting the cleaned bowls into the cupboard, Xuecun finally turned to look at me: "Miss Ya, why do you always pretend to be indifferent?"
"Huh?" I was complaining in my heart, and I didn't understand what he was saying for a while.
"But you are obviously bound by this fate, and you obviously never thought of avoiding it." Xue Cun tilted his head, and there was real doubt in his tone.
I just felt like I was hit hard by something, and I didn't know how to react for a while.
"What are you... talking about?" With trembling lips, what blurted out was a guilty question that even I couldn't bear to listen to.
"I can only recuperate in this clinic." I said, "Besides, it was Mr. Susan's request to take care of Tsukihiko. I..."
"So you just obeyed, didn't you?" Xuecun spread his hands, and then turned around to fiddle with the herbs in the cabinet beside him: "Even if something happens in the end, it will be Mr. Susan's fault after all, and it will also be fate after all. And you..."
"Just rejoice in these 'fate-imposed vicissitudes'."
"You are really cunning."
silence.
It is quite embarrassing to say that the things in my mind that I have never dared to face have been punctured by such a boy who looks only thirteen or fourteen years old. Surprisingly, I felt relieved.
Perhaps sometimes, facing it is a better solution than avoiding it.It's just that in many cases, before things become unavoidable, I always want to hide around with a little luck.
"But why do you want to avoid it?" Xuecun suddenly turned around: "Although he is a bit domineering, at least he treats you with sincere love—"
"It's different." I was taken aback, then sighed lightly.
Of course, I have already noticed my wavering, and it is even more impossible to ignore the man's increasingly hot emotions, but after all, there is a blood curse in it-even if I don't talk about the deep-seated resentment formed by blood, if this relationship It was caused by the blood curse at all, so apart from removing this layer of curse, how much sincerity was mixed between me and him?
If my relationship with him is the shackles that bind fate imposed by the blood curse, then bowing your head like this is not letting yourself down?
"The curse can only cause stumbling, but it doesn't care about emotion." Somewhat coldly, Yaotong Xuecun said this sentence suddenly.
I suddenly opened my eyes wide.
"...Mr. Qingming told my mother to listen to it." Xuecun raised the corners of his lips lightly: "But from this point of view, it seems that there was indeed a curse between you and him..."
It was only then that I realized that this guy in front of me was cheating on me.
"It turns out that Mr. Xuecun is also so cunning." I curled my lips and said somewhat awkwardly.
"I..." He ignored my dissatisfaction, but turned his head, busy with the work in hand, and said in a hurry: "I heard from my mother that the one who should be The man I call 'Father' is actually the head of a pure-blooded family of ghosts. He shouldn't have come to tease my mother, he knew it very well, and my mother knew it too, but I was born in this world."
"...Huh?" I was a little surprised.This is the first time this half-blood boy talked about his life experience with me.
Genji and the Yukimura family really have no intersection, not to mention that after the accident at the end of the Tokugawa period, the direct line of the Yukimura family seems to have been severed, and the remaining collateral lines have no contact with the Genji who has been in the main family all year round because of their blood or status. Chance.
——Although I'm not sure that the boy in front of me is the exiled blood of the Xuecun family, but since he has such a surname, I'll just assume so.
"My mother never resented that man. She always said that she was willing, even if meeting was an unavoidable curse and an unavoidable calamity, but she never felt that there was anything wrong with such a choice. "
"...Even if the ending is so bad."
When he said this, his voice was somewhat sad.
After all, there are many stories in this world that only cause people to sigh when they end, but no matter what, the courage and awareness of the woman described by Yaotong Xuecun should be worthy of my envy—at least she welcomed herself. ending.
And I didn't even dare to touch the beginning.
It's obviously halfway there.
Funny to say.
"I probably care a little bit about his affairs." I pursed my lips lightly and thought for a while before I finally said this sentence, and then hastily added: "But it's only a little bit."
There was a chuckle in his ear, slightly mocking, and the source of the voice was naturally a kid who was still a little dazed just now.
I just feel a little hot on the face.
It was just a whim, or because I was a little self-defeating after being seen through by him, in short, I still said everything that should be said and should not be said.
Now that the words have been spoken and there is no way to take them back, I can only forcefully roll my eyes and say: "This kind of words should not be said to children like Mr. Xuecun, you should concentrate on packing your medicinal materials Bar."
Xuecun gave me a meaningful look, but said nothing else.
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, only the rustling sound of the young man tidying up the herbs.
"Well... this kind of thing doesn't matter anyway." Putting the last pack of medicine into the cabinet, Xuecun said again: "I just care about the fact that you promised to take care of the koi in the courtyard pond for me. "
"Don't forget!"
Mr. Susan's courtyard layout is actually quite elegant.
Even a layman like me who has no experience in garden design can see at a glance that it takes a lot of thought to make the yard look like this.
The high and low scattered miniature rocks divide the yard along the corridor of the house, and the vine trellis in one corner is covered with vines.In the middle of the yard are scattered flowers and plants of all seasons. After the weeping cherry blossoms in spring have withered, the roses below are in full bloom.The bright red double flowers exude a strong aroma, which makes the atmosphere of the whole courtyard very warm.
There is a clear pool on one side of the courtyard, in which there are many koi with strong spiritual energy—maybe because the yard is very spiritual, so the koi raised are brighter than those in other places, or it is precisely because Because of the spiritual power of these koi, this yard is more lively.
Cooking these koi is not too much trouble.Because this kind of creature has quite good spiritual power, and its vitality is always stronger than other creatures. In addition, the pond of Mr. Susan's house is the source of running water, so it is only simple to feed them with some bait on weekdays. Just eat it.
Although this job is easy, being forced to come over by that kid Xuecun is not a pleasant thing in itself, and the other thing in exchange did not end up as I wished.
——There is a sense of sight that steals chickens but loses rice.
But when I look at those fish, I always feel a little resentful in my heart.
Although I was born as a historian of the ghost clan, I can be regarded as a serious literary department, but to be honest, I really don't have much attainment in aesthetics.Granted, some people find it quite calming to stand by a pond admiring koi, but my only thought when I see these guys is that they look delicious.
And because koi itself is a psychic species, even for ghosts, the nutritional value is quite high.
It's a pity that I also know that Mr. Susan loves this group of koi very much—after all, they are rare spiritual creatures. When encountering difficulties and miscellaneous problems, he will occasionally mix some of the most spiritual parts of koi into medicine .So if these little guys are really caught and eaten, Mr. Susan will definitely not let me go easily.
As a result, I can only drool eagerly when feeding those little guys with bait every day. Those who don’t know may think that I want to grab food from those fish.
The weather is gradually warming up. Even in late spring, the heat at noon is somewhat unbearably hot for the ghost race whose body temperature is much lower than that of ordinary humans.So the time I went out gradually began to move to early morning and evening.
Personally, I still prefer dusk.When the setting sun spreads, the entire water surface will be dyed a beautiful red gold.It's just that the water surface is still warm from the day, so those koi fish are still swimming very leisurely very close to the water surface.
When I approached, those psychic little guys rushed towards the bank of the pool as if they had sensed my breath.I casually sprinkled the bait into the water, and the koi immediately huddled together, splashing the water, and it was very lively.
"It's a carp." The man's deliberate emotion sounded from behind.
Of course, I have already noticed his breath, since he walked around the corridor and approached me.But maybe I have long been used to this breath around me, but when he approached, I didn't even think about the need to make any deliberate reaction.
"It's koi." Casually, I agreed, but still didn't look back.
"I am happy," he added.
"what?"
I couldn't keep up with his thoughts for a while, so I turned my head to look at him with some doubts.
And Yueyan walked slowly to my side and stood still, while continuing to say: "I am happy when you say that you care about me 'a little bit'."
"...Huh?" I was taken aback for a moment, and then took half a step back——
Where did he hear that!
When chatting with Yukimura that day, I was sure that there was no third person present, and as a human being, Tsukihiko certainly couldn't perceive the scene in the room from a long distance like Yukimura.
... Xuecun, this bastard!
"Looks like it's time for me to have a good talk with that guy from Xuecun," I gritted my molars and said with a bit of resentment, "about how to control my mouth."
"It has nothing to do with him." Yue Yan was still defending Xue Cun—presumably he didn't want to lose this microphone.He covered it up with a clumsy lie: "I just happened to hear it."
"But why don't you just tell me what you're saying?" He took half a step forward: "Even if it's just a little bit, I'm always happy to hear that I finally have a place in your heart."
His eyes were a little hot, even more unbearable than the temperature at noon.
"Is it koi?"
"You're being self-indulgent—" I turned my head away: "I just..."
Before I could finish speaking, a strong pulling force suddenly came from my wrist, and my center of gravity was a little unstable for a moment, and I fell forward obliquely, and the umbrella I had been holding in my hand fell to the side.
Suddenly, the direct sunlight enveloped my whole body like a flame.
The remaining blood in the body that cannot see the sun is almost gone, so of course I will not die because of this level of light, but because of the existence of this little bit of blood, the burning suffocation makes people have nowhere to go escape.
So in the man's arms, I couldn't stop trembling.
Yue Yan also immediately noticed my abnormality, and his breath became panicked in an instant.Hastily loosening the arm around me, he fell into a very rare state of being at a loss.
And I, who was free from the restraints, squatted down and tried to curl myself up—as if I could avoid the sun shining down by this way.
"Aya, you..."
"Sunshine..." In this almost tormented state, I had no time to think, and just said subconsciously.
It was only then that Yue Yan came to his senses, and quickly reached out to grab the umbrella that had fallen to the side, and covered it over my head.
So the burning sensation finally disappeared, replaced by air that was much colder than sunlight.I still hugged my knees and crouched on the spot, shivering unconsciously.
Tsukihiko also got shorter and stood in front of me with one knee touching the ground.He reached out his hand hesitantly, as if he wanted to caress my back, but he didn't dare to make any further movements.It's just that the temperature emanating from his palm can be clearly captured at this moment.
"Come here (koi)..." The voice was a little trembling, and I muttered.
"Huh?" He hesitated.
I raised my head slightly, and met his panic-stricken gaze: "I said..."
"come over."
Stretching out my hand tremblingly, I pressed against his palm.As a result, the warm body temperature instantly spread throughout the body through the skin.
At that moment, such a thought flashed through my mind.Maybe liking him is not that unbearable, because it is instinctive to be greedy for warmth.
I can't compete with it.
Just think that my brain was burned out by that moment of sunshine, which made me choose to fall into such a situation.
Maybe there is nothing wrong with this, at least it ended my hundreds of years of loneliness with this subtle sympathy.
Slowly intertwine my fingers with his, this is the first time I intertwined with him like this.
"It's love."
I say.
Therefore, whether it is a human or a ghost, it is always easy to make some wrong decisions under impulse, so that after recovering, I wish I could slap myself twice.
When I returned to the room with a bright red double-petalled rose that Tsukihiko quietly picked from Mr. Susan’s bushes, I was in a state of “who am I, where am I?” what to do" state of confusion.
——So in the end, what's going on, I just went to feed a fish and then I managed to hold hands with that kid!
The fragrance overflowing from the flowers in the bottle and gradually filling the room reminded me of what happened just now. I buried my head in the quilt, trying to escape this fact like a roe deer plunged into a snowdrift.
At this time, there was a very inappropriate knock on the door.
I didn't want to pay attention to it, but I had to get out of the quilt and open the door bravely - what caught my eye was Mr. Xu Zuo's gloomy and slightly sullen face.
The scent of flowers in the room was still strong, and I felt even more guilty. I wanted to cover it up with some ordinary greetings, but Mr. Susan didn't allow me to speak at all.
"There are clues." Without any foreshadowing, he said straight to the point, but it was not the words of the stolen rose at all.
"What?" I asked subconsciously.
"That kind of medicine has a clue." Mr. Xu Zuo said so
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