After choosing a big adventure at Lupine's Bar

Mingyin just watched "The Fall".

About 3 years ago.

I found it in a second-hand magazine in a bookstore.

At that time, he was in the summer vacation of the third grade of middle school, and Xiao Yu was in a different school.

Every day, I was out of tune with the tense and depressing atmosphere of going to school. I went to school alone, studied alone, and ate alone. There was no school I wanted to go to, and no future ideals.

Just keep breathing because you're still breathing.

I don't think there is anything wrong with this kind of life, but I still feel bored after all.

So, do something you've never done before.

He checked the job magazines in the bookstore for the jobs he thought he could do, searched around, and found a comic magazine from nearly 20 years ago in the old book section.

Very "by chance" it was the issue that published "The Fall".

Very "accidentally", I turned to that page as soon as I flipped through it.

After reading the whole story, he felt that he was moved by the story.

This is a very cliché story of a human and a monster falling in love.

Because a human girl was born able to see monsters, she was feared, excluded, and bullied by the people in the village. Finally, one day, because she could no longer bear all this, she broke into the forest that surrounded the village, which was said to be "absolutely inaccessible", and stumbled. came to the edge of the cliff.

I don't want to trouble others anymore.

I really want to be alone.

If it can't be realized, then, as long as I disappear.

With such thoughts in mind, she looked at the distant sky and jumped off the cliff.

Then, dramatically, he was caught by a young youkai with wings on his back and floated in the air.

Here is a close-up of the wide black wings first, followed by the sharp beak, but the wings gradually dissipated in the air, and the beak gradually disappeared. When the appearance of the arrival came into the eyes of the girl, it had already turned into a human being. shape.

[Humans can't fly. 】

【Where are you looking at?Where do you want to go? 】

The human girl who had no name from the beginning to the end had tears overflowing from the corners of her eyes at some point.

[Just, I want to leave here. 】

There is only this small village in the girl's world.

[What's on the other side of the sky?I really envy you, if you have wings, you must be able to go anywhere. 】

When she was young, she was stroking the little head of the crow with injured wings that she had saved, talking to herself.

After the crow's wounds healed, he went to various places, so he was sure.

[The world is vast. 】

He said this to the girl in his arms.

【So, I'm here to pick you up. 】

Next, they traveled to various places together.

There are places that reject them and places that accept them; there are gentle people and there are cruel people; there are warm lands and cold snowy lands.

Studying, working, and making friends, the girl has become more and more confident and cheerful.

Just when readers thought that this was an inspirational story about healing, the painting style suddenly changed.

[My age will soon exceed yours. 】

The girl said casually, with a wry smile.

But beyond the girl's and readers' expectation, the other party smiled lightly.

【Will not. 】

[...I just mentioned it casually, but it would be fine if you never leave before me...] The girl was talking, and then realized what this person actually said, [... Eh? 】

【Will not. ] He still smiled as always, and said it again, stroking the girl's cheek with one hand.

【It will not happen. 】

The crow was originally just an ordinary weak monster, who couldn't even transform into a human form.However, in order to be able to accompany the girl, he wanted to speak to her in the form of a human, and exchanged the form of a human with the god at the cost of his future life, and could never change back.

【I'm probably going to disappear soon, my lifespan is over. 】

【You are my benefactor... I obviously haven't been able to repay you...】

【No, all of this is just my repayment. 】

Because of an injured wing, he escaped from the flock of birds and landed alone in a closed human village. When he was bullied by a group of bear children, he was rescued by kind people.

He broke away from the sky and the group, and fell into this mountain village full of unreasonable things.

At the same time, when being protected by the girl in her arms, my heart also fell here.

[No...] The girl always feels that there is something wrong, [It shouldn't be like this...]

She gritted her teeth and put her hands on the young man's shoulders.

[Go again, that cliff! 】

They came to that cliff.

【Fly. 】

【Eh? 】

Under the astonishment of the young man, the girl threw herself into his arms, and under the force of gravity, the two fell off the cliff together.

He lost his wings.

Can't fly.

Like the day of powerlessness, the day of separation from the group.

It just keeps falling.

【hurry up! 】

Unreasonable request.

I don't know what she is thinking at the moment.

She already has a human body, but she still can't understand her heart.

When he was about to fall to the ground, the young man used his body and hands to protect the girl's neck and head.

In the darkness, there was a sound of breaking through the air.

A group of huge crows grabbed their clothes.

[Sure enough, you were the crow that day. 】

The girl cried.

[They have been wandering in this forest, so this forest is forbidden to enter.I just connected these things together, so I was looking for you. 】

[Falling is definitely not necessarily a bad thing. 】

[Just like I met you. 】

Hearing this, under the girl's smile and surrounded by the flock of birds, the resentment and sorrow that the young man had deliberately ignored with the obsession of repaying his kindness have been insignificant.

[It should be that I met you. 】

After saying that, it turned into a spot of light and disappeared.

It's a slightly stream-of-consciousness story.The main line should be a two-way redemption, but those dark places are deliberately ignored, and the emphasis is on amplifying the subtle emotional changes and the inner contrast between appearances.

It feels very tender, but also very sad.

Mingyin thinks.

I can also draw this kind of thing.

That's why "It's Falling Time" was created.

Of course, the style is completely different.

He is a complete heretic.

But that's where his focus on the story ends.He saw this post today and found out that the author did not continue to create after this short story won the award.

Well, there are probably various reasons.

He thought so.

I deliberately ignored the bad feeling in my heart.

"Mingyin-jun—!"

Mr. Roommate shouted at him from outside the door.

"This snake has been clamoring for you to help him inquire about the account of friends. It's so noisy." He held the Dengguo with a disgusted expression on his face, "Why don't you make it into snake soup."

"Huh? You bastard! You'd better show some respect to my uncle..."

"Okay, okay, I'll go tomorrow, okay?" Mingyin rubbed her temples, rolled over and got up.

the next day.

"That... have you heard of the account of friends?"

Ming Yin caught a little monster along the way and asked, but all the results she got were shaking her head in a daze, or running away after being frightened.

Until they interrogated a middle-level youkai in a kimono who looked a little more advanced, they had a different reaction.

"Oh, isn't this Reiko? Long time no see."