[Spell Return] Beast of Despair

85.

—August 2018, 8, Tokyo, Old Shipyard—

So Zhi threw the broken knife aside, and the hard steel fell into the blue sea water, sinking silently.

Without hesitation, he broke the knife he took from his grandfather, so he didn't feel that he made a reckless and arbitrary decision.She also doesn't like this knife very much, it is full of magic power that does not belong to her, and using it is like wearing someone else's clothes.

And it was a rather inappropriate size, which made her feel quite uncomfortable.Now that I can finally get rid of it, I just feel relaxed.

She looked at the dark figure crawling out of the frog.

In fact, Zhi still has not revealed his true appearance.She wrapped herself in black water and looked like a black doll.It reminds me of an assembled doll gashapon I bought before, and the finished product is very similar to the current Shizhi.

"Why don't you come out and see me? Are you ashamed to face me?"

So he took off the naginata on his back.She carried more than one weapon today.

She didn't do that before.

"You know? I grew up learning how to use many different weapons. Halberds, spears, nodachi swords... all kinds of weapons. I'm not good at learning, but I at least learned, it's just that I don't use jutsu very often. It’s just refracting the damage of these weapons. I’m not going to do that now either. I won’t exorcise you with the Yae family’s spells.”

She is adding bondage to herself.And the black figure seemed to be losing its camouflage little by little.

"By the way... Speaking of which, can you spy on my current emotions now? You can't. Because I am stronger than you. The life you took away has already become my bondage, and you will never be able to Manipulate my emotions like they manipulated them. But I will tell you that I am in a good mood. Very good."

It wasn't a lie, she was really light-hearted at the moment--quite lightly.

"You know? When I was young, as long as I took the exam with a light heart, I would definitely do well in the exam. The power of emotions is so powerful, you must understand this more thoroughly than me... You finally appeared, good afternoon .Today I will exorcise you."

The black doll became its original appearance.Shizhi felt like she was standing in front of a mirror, because she and Shizhi were so similar.

People are always terrified when they see something similar to themselves.Yes, what I was most afraid of when I was a child was the dolls that looked like people on the store shelves.And when she saw Shizhi for the first time three years ago, what she thought in her heart was why this cunning curse spirit turned into her appearance.It's not just pure fear, she even has a bit of hatred, feeling as if she has been cursed to take away her identity.

Then she saw Shizhi's past, and realized that this resemblance was not anyone's fault.

If you really want to talk about crime, you have to hold DNA accountable.

But instead of being human, the branch has turned into a curse.No matter how similar they are, they cannot be the same.For example, Ye Zhi has a mechanical left hand, but Ye Zhi's hands are substitutes condensed by mantra.

Just like the gods squeezed out human beings out of soil, she used black water to make herself a new hand.Not a bad idea.

Yezhi watched her walking towards him step by step, quietly clenched the naginata, and turned his head slightly - otherwise his head would touch the other magic tools behind him.

"Are you..." Her voice sounded like bubbles gushing out of the water, "A child of the Yae family who was pardoned?"

"Don't use the term 'pardoned', I did not commit any sin."

"Oh... come here, okay?"

She stretched out her hand towards him, but the arrows that fell were cut off between them.It wasn't a real arrow, it was just the damage refracted by the spell. It wasn't a concrete object, and it couldn't be blocked at all. There was no other way to resist it except for dodging.

It is through this fine rain of arrows.Despite her best efforts to avoid the falling arrows, she was inevitably stabbed.A hole was pierced in the palm of the left hand, but it was still able to move normally.

The mechanical hand is really good... no wonder.

"I once heard a poem. 'A branch is a root in the air, and a root is a branch in the ground'. It is a branch. I must have grown up with your pain, and you have relied on our emotions to survive until now. Our Yae family All people are tightly coiled branches and roots. I can actually understand your experience because I have felt similar feelings. But I cannot forgive you. You killed my family - we killed together Killed our family."

Neither of them spoke frankly what should have been said earlier, and they were all wallowing in regret.As Wujo Satoru said, it is everyone's fault until now.

Whether it is hope or despair, they will be passed on from generation to generation along with the continuation of life.There is only now, and only once, the chance to right the wrong.Otherwise, the same mistakes will happen again in the future.

The rugged mountains spread outwards with the sea water until they touched the boundary of the domain.When the eighth mountain disappeared without a trace at the far edge, the zenith of the domain slowly disintegrated, revealing a clearer, more real sky.

Therefore, the "account" was lifted.Her knife pierced the heart of the djinn, and it felt as real as if she had pierced a human body, even though she had never done so before.

The dream that has been indulging in for a long time should finally come to an end.

It seems that Kee has not seen such a wide sky for a long time.

She stretched out her hand, and her fingertips seemed to touch the distant blue.

"Why do thorns grow at the bottom of the well?"

She still doesn't know the answer to this question.Even if she had peered into the depths of the well, she was still ignorant.

"Maybe the birds brought the seeds into the well. That's how a lot of plants get out of their habitat."

"Is it a bird? Well, I see..." She lowered her hand, "Six Eyes... When you and Six Eyes...are together, do you laugh?"

"meeting."

Yezhi sat down beside her slowly.With belated pain from the puncture wound, her shirt turned completely red.

She touched the ring on the necklace.She touched Gojo Satoru's name.

"Being by his side, I can smile more happily than ever, because I love him." Just like at this moment, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, "I can say the word 'love' without hesitation , rather than the more implicit 'like'."

"That's good……"

Shizhi was also laughing.

"I seem to know my emotions."

The frog melted from the inside out, and the branches gradually melted into the thick black juice.Before disappearing completely, Yezhi seemed to hear a soft "thank you".

Obviously she doesn't need to be thanked at all.

In the frog's completely disintegrated body, there are still hidden parts that were swallowed that night three years ago.Those severed limbs cling tightly to her hand, just like when they sang the song "Garland" in the glass greenhouse when they were young, everyone embraced her.

Yes embraces them who are broken.

"Sorry...sorry, I'm late..."

In a trance, the summer wind roared like the sound of a speeding train.She squinted her eyes, embraced the incomplete corpse, and her consciousness was a little fuzzy.

She fell into a daydream.

She dreamed of a train—the silver train, the one she had longed to catch.

Now the train is stopping on the track not far away.Someone got out of the car, it was her younger brothers and sisters.

They walked up to her and hugged her, their warm bodies were so real.The last one to get out of the car was the self in front of her in the past, and she also hugged him.

The train started slowly, carrying the younger brothers and sisters away with her in the past, heading for the endless night.Ye Zhi stayed in the dawn of dawn, smiled and waved, and sent them away.

Only then did she burst into tears.

She doesn't have to chase her past anymore.

86.

—September 2018, Tokyo, Rehabilitation Nursing Home—

A small colorful plastic house was placed on the table, but the walls and roof were hollowed out into various shapes such as circles or stars.I have to say, this is really not a qualified house.

Gojo Satoru stood on the edge of the table with one hand, watching Yezhi pick up the small star-shaped cube with her left hand, her curled fingers still felt indescribably stiff, but she still smoothly inserted the star-shaped cube into the hollowed out box. section.

She then picked up the round cube, and Gojo Satoru heard her whispering: "I feel like a kindergarten kid now...why do I have to play with this children's educational toy?"

"No way, this is the task of the nurse. It seems to be... the training of hand-eye coordination?"

He put the square cube into the hollow groove, and unexpectedly found that this silly-looking children's toy is actually quite interesting.

Yezhi responded with a dull "Oh", but still couldn't understand the good intentions of the nurses and doctors.

This is her hand.Even if it is a hand that "has not been used for a long time", it is still her property.These trainings only made Shi Zhi feel that her hands didn't seem to belong to her.

She doesn't like it.

She lowered her hand, she simply didn't bother to continue matching the remaining few squares, and quietly watched Gojo Satoru playing with this children's toy.

"Why don't you wear a ring?"

When the last cube was inserted, Gojo Satoru suddenly asked.

Yes, I remembered that I answered this question only yesterday.

"Because it would be very uncomfortable to wear, so I didn't wear it for the time being." She repeated what she said yesterday, "The doctor doesn't advise me to wear jewelry either."

"But the engagement ring is different——" Gojo Satoru muttered dissatisfiedly, "And you said that you will end up with me after getting rid of the curse spirit of the Yae family, but after the incident, you didn't mention it at all. Don't use the word 'marriage'. Don't tell me, you are trying to abandon me."

My head hurts hearing this.

"Who ever made a promise with you that 'we'll get married after everything's over', which sounds like a flag promise?"

"You. You said so yourself."

Yeszhi resolutely denied: "I didn't, you can't frame me."

"I don't care, you just said it!"

Gojo Satoru suddenly broke out, throwing his head up and arguing non-stop, just like an annoying brat.

"Hurry up and marry me! Don't wait, don't wait, don't wait, the child is dying of waiting! You are already the strongest magician, but why is it so difficult to get married! The strongest magician The magician said he wanted to show off his wedding ring in front of other colleagues!"

Ye Zhi leaned against the back of the soft seat and watched Gojo Wu Sapo rolling with a calm face, without even twitching the corners of his mouth, until he finished speaking, and then said slowly: "I..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Gojo Satoru forcefully interrupted her.

"Listen well Yae, from now on, only you can talk about topics related to marriage. I will not reply to anything else!"

"I'm hungry, can I go to eat? It's the pizza place nearby. We went there together last week."

"it is good!"

Gojo Satoru betrayed what he just said without hesitation, and took Yesichi to eat the pizza she wanted.

According to their habit, they still sat by the window where they sat when they first came.It was still early at this moment, there were not many people in the store, and the atmosphere was surprisingly comfortable.

In the small glass vase on the table are still the same light pink daisies as last week, but the edges of the petals are slightly yellowed.Yezhi caressed the tender petals, but still couldn't feel much reality.

"That..." She said slowly, "There is something I want to tell you."

"Using such a statement as a preface, I doubt that you will have anything pleasant to say."

"Don't guess."

Yezhi crumpled up the paper towel, threw it towards his head, and hit him on the head with a soft "pop".

"I want to travel." She said, "Go alone."

Gojo Satoru curled his lips and kept shaking his head: "The more it sounds, the more it sounds like a temporary idea to not marry me."

"Guess again!"

The Kleenex Two was launched, successfully hitting Gojo Satoru, and then landed on his lap with a rumble.He picked up a corner of the paper towel ball, muttered in a low voice, "It's not okay to litter," and put the paper towel on the table.

"Where do you want to go?"

"I want to go anywhere." Shi Zhi gave such a general answer, and then said, "And I'm going to use your money to travel."

"Eh—? Think I'm a cash machine?"

Yezhi nodded seriously, and replied solemnly: "That's right."

Gojo Satoru laughed despite the obvious words without conscience.

"Really? Then it seems that I can still use money to tie you firmly."

He patted Yezhi's little head lightly.

"Go ahead, if you want to. Have a good trip."

87.

Her journey has begun.

She didn't say when she would come back, so Gojo Satoru had to wait alone.

But it's not that lonely, because she always brings gifts.

At the end of September, I received a big Lieba from Russia. Wujo Wu suspected that she knew that there was a lack of a hammer at home, so she sent such a hard thing.

November finally got the gift that was supposed to be sent home in October.This time it's an Austrian nutcracker, made of tin in the shape of a little soldier.Gojo Satoru remembered that next spring there should be a tour of the stage play "The Nutcracker".He booked two tickets at random.

Go see it with her if she can come back in the spring.

In December, I received a bottle of clear water with a small narwhal doll floating in it, from the North Pole.Gojo Wujo thinks that maybe before the long journey, the water in the bottle was once the snow of the ice field.

January got a wool felt panda, but it wasn't a gift for him.According to the message that Ye Zhi wrote on the postcard, this is a gift for the panda classmates in the second grade.

Giving a panda a panda, Wujo Satoru didn't understand what he was thinking, but he still gave the gift out.The panda classmate who received the gift was a little surprised, after all, to it, it can be said that it is a completely unfamiliar senior.

Then came the silent February and March, Wujo Satoru suspected that he had been forgotten, otherwise how could it be possible that he would not give him anything.

At the end of the long journey was April Fool's Day, Gojo Satoru received the last gift, which was given to him by Yezhi, their engagement ring that he bought a few years ago.

"What does it mean?"

Gojo Satoru felt that his marriage plan had been challenged again.

Yezhi shrugged, and said in a tone of indifference: "You said you wanted it before, so I will give it back to you now."

"Hmm... I don't think I meant that at the time."

You know, when he rescued the suicide attempter from the roof that day, his original words were "get back the ring before you die".If it is true that you really want to abide by this agreement with him, then the next step is...

"Don't worry, I want to live a good life now. The meaning of returning the ring to you is that I want to tell you that it will be difficult for us to go back to the past."

Neither the pain nor the scars would go away, nor would all the distrust and meanness she had felt towards Gojo Satoru be completely hidden now that they were able to talk properly.

She suddenly wanted to quote the story of Franklin and the nail on the wall, but this passage was too long.After thinking about it, she still didn't say much.

She knew Gojo Satoru would be able to understand what she was thinking.

Gojo Satoru did understand what she was thinking, but he couldn't help but look at the ring in his palm for a long time, feeling a little complicated inevitably.

"Are you going to break up with me again?"

"What 'again'... In my opinion, we are not in a relationship at all now." She spread her hands helplessly, "I mentioned breaking up."

Gojo Satoru was in a hurry: "I didn't agree at that time."

In other words, they have never broken up at all, both emotionally and rationally.

Yezhi didn't listen to his strong words very seriously, and just insisted on his own statement:

"But I mentioned it. So the reality is, we're not in a relationship... By the way, lend me this."

Ye Zhi stood on tiptoe, took off his blindfold involuntarily, and didn't care how messy his hair was made by this sudden action.

She put on Gojo Satoru's eyepatch, and fiddled with the broken hair on her forehead, trying to make it stand up, but her hair was a little too long, so it could only hang down limply.But it doesn't matter, she doesn't mind such small details very much.

He cleared his throat, lowered his voice, imitated Gojo Wu's tone, and said casually:

"If I say I like you, will you be my boyfriend?"

Gojo Satoru realized almost immediately that she was imitating the confession she had made in the past.

He smiled and poked Yeshi's forehead lightly, saying that this is the worst cosplay in the world, and she didn't learn the essence at all.For such an evaluation, Ye Zhi still doesn't mind.

She waited for Gojo Satoru's answer.

He seemed to have been pondering for a long time, but in fact he didn't wait too long, so he heard him pretending to be serious: "People of my age will only engage in love with the premise of marriage."

"Coincidentally, so do I."

Gojo Satoru raised the corner of the blindfold and looked at her with a smile.

"The goal is the same. Then let's date."

He said.

Cutting off the past from this moment, what they will embrace is an infinite future.

-THAN-

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