I'll retire when I'm done

Life in Yokohama is surprisingly quiet.

Peace, tranquility, not to mention imaginary noise, she has never heard even an ordinary quarrel.

Bai Hong vaguely felt that the environment she was in was a bit too quiet.

——The most obvious normal is the abnormal here.

If we compare the information left by the Ability Secret Service Section, then the place where Baihong lived should have been a gray area in the chaotic period after the war, full of violence, chaos and bloody smell. It's a safe zone, but it's too unfair to have heard no sound of fighting for such a long time.

Bai Hong doesn't want to doubt his subordinates, but it doesn't mean she won't doubt.

"Tang Tian, ​​explain, don't think that because I can't see, I don't know anything."

The voice on the other side of the phone was full of helpless distress: "No, I just noticed this problem too... I'm very sorry, but this is indeed an accident, my lord."

——All possible threats near your residence, even the most low-level gangsters... were killed by your brother.

Faced with the chief's question, Taneda Shantou answered in this way.

"……Is it."

When he put down the phone, Bai Hong was silent for a long time.

Shir again.

"aunt?"

She was quiet by the table for too long, Fu Heihui tugged at her sleeve with some doubts.

"Ah, Hui."

Bai Hong smiled, lowered his head and touched the top of the child's head.

She has never paid much attention to Fu Heisher's whereabouts. That guy doesn't always stay here, and he often doesn't notice his breath when he looks back, but he can always guarantee that he will come back every day. As for Fu Hei even Whether Er was too lonely to find a woman or something, Bai Hong believed that he had nothing to do with him, as long as he didn't bring those messy things to his nephew, she didn't care what Fu Heisher wanted to do.

This should be the first time she took the initiative to ask Fuheshier where he went.

"Where's your father?"

"do not know."

The child subconsciously shook his head first, then realized that his aunt couldn't see him and immediately added, "I don't usually see him either."

"Ah, so."

Bai Hong was thoughtful.

After a while, she suddenly raised her mouth and squatted down in front of Fu Heihui. "Hui hasn't gone out since coming here, do you want to go out for a walk with aunt?"

"Auntie is going out?" the child worriedly stretched out his hand to touch the white silk covering Baihong's eyes, with a sense of maturity beyond his age. "It doesn't matter if I don't go out to play, it's enough for me to stay here with my aunt."

"Then just go out with me." Bai Hong smiled with a gentle tone. "Or is it that Hui doesn't want to go out? It doesn't matter if you don't want to go out, so it doesn't matter if you stay at home by yourself?"

Fu Heihui quickly grabbed her hand, and immediately changed his words: "Then I have to go out too, I'm with my aunt."

Bai Hong thought for a while and agreed.

"If you go out with me, don't run around." She touched her little nephew's cheek and lowered her voice: "Because my aunt can't see it, it will be very troublesome if Hui runs to a place where I can't feel it."

After feeling Huili's vigorous nod, she asked the child to change into clothes suitable for going out.

As for Bai Hong herself, after thinking for a few seconds, she chose to change into a light-colored long skirt that was completely different from the previous style, and put on a loose and comfortable coat. Her long, smooth hair hung down her back. She was already slender, with thin flesh and bones. The complexion is pale, if Bai Hong deliberately suppresses the aura around his body, Bai Hong's appearance is a little thin and a little too delicate, plus the solid wooden cane left for her by farming before, the whole person looks gentle and harmless, and can't be seen A half-point threat.

A beautiful but blind young woman, such a pair is already eye-catching on the street, plus they are foreigners who are unfamiliar with their place of life...Compared with her previous style, if she goes out this way, she is very suitable for deceiving people. dress up.

Fu Heihui quickly changed into his favorite set of hands and feet, and the life of the Buddhist monastery cultivated a super self-care ability that did not match his age, which saved Bai Hong a lot of time.

The child happily grabbed his aunt's hand and left the current home with her. No matter how he pretended to be obedient and sensible, the current Fu Heihui was still just a child who had never seen the outside world.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart, trotted around in circles beside Bai Hong, looked left and right, obviously his eyes were already glued to the shop windows by the roadside, but he still ensured that his aunt was there anytime, anywhere. Where it can be encountered—I don’t know whether it is due to nature or the child has been trained to take care of others. Fu Heihui always takes it for granted that her aunt cannot see, so she needs her own care.

Bai Hong faintly sensed the child's hesitation, and stopped in his tracks.

"What did Hui see?"

She turned her head away based on feeling and asked with a smile.

The little boy who was almost stuck on the window turned his head with sparkling eyes. Before he could think for a second, he gave up the new thing he had never seen before, turned around and grabbed the hand extended by his aunt, and happily used the thin vocabulary of a child Try to describe to her what you see.

Bai Hong was not in a hurry, he stood there with a smile and waited for the child to keep going, and when he heard his speech slow down and his voice became a little hoarse, he asked warmly, "Is Hui thirsty?"

The child blushed and nodded.

"...a little bit."

Bai Hong did some calculations in his mind, and it has been almost an hour since he came out. The atmosphere in the street is complicated, and Hui's body might not be able to bear it if he walks aimlessly, so he didn't continue walking, but Let Hui take a look at the nearby shops: "Let's take a break first, take a look, is there any place nearby where you can sit and drink?"

"...Well," Fu Heihui didn't dare to run away, and only vaguely saw a shop sign that looked like an ice cream painting. He turned his head and grabbed Bai Hong's hand, looking up at her expectantly : "There is a store there, I'll take my mother there."

Bai Hong: "...?"

Mother?

Because he can't see and can't observe other people's reactions, since the magic eye has replaced his normal vision, Bai Hong will pay more attention to controlling his emotional ups and downs so that others won't notice, even if he suddenly hears this kind of name, she is just dull After a moment, he asked calmly, "...your father asked you to call him that?"

"En." Originally, Fu Heihui was still hesitating whether to carry out this agreement, but after walking around, the number of people staring at her aunt far exceeded her imagination, which greatly aroused Fu Heihui. The vigilance and resistance to strangers outside, so the child no longer hesitated, and called out that name without hesitation.

"...Can't you call it?" The disappointment in the boy's voice was too obvious, Bai Hong's heart softened, and he sighed and took a step back: "You can't call that when your father is around."

Fu Heihui nodded vigorously.

This is natural.

If there were only two of them, Fu Heihui would think it would be no problem to call her mother, because the "mother" on this occasion would undoubtedly belong to him alone; but if that man was there, he would rather see him for the rest of his life I don't even want him to get too close to my aunt.

The child held his aunt's hand, he walked slowly, and tried his best to take care of Bai Hong's eyes, while walking, he carefully observed the road conditions on the ground, even a small stone would be kicked away, and when it hit the steps and corners He will also remind seriously on the side, attracting passers-by to look sideways, and leaving some envious and amazed comments on the overly sensible children.

But it really is because of my mother's eyes that I am so sensible...

What a pity, she looks so young and beautiful...

If the eyes are not good, it will be troublesome in the future, right?

Has it been abolished?After all, with children, generally no one would want an oil bottle.

……

People's understatement of sympathy is cheap and simple, flitting past the ears, causing Fu Heihui's slight dissatisfaction.

Auntie is not trash.

The boy opened his mouth to argue, but soon a slender and warm palm lightly landed on the top of the boy's head, suppressing all the roiling anger in his heart.

"Don't worry, Hui." Bai Hong said warmly, "It's not a big deal."

"But--"

The boy pursed his lips, with obvious anger on his face. He stared hard at those talking nonsense, then turned around and threw himself on his aunt, with a slightly aggrieved tone: "...they said you!"

"Xiaohui."

Bai Hong changed to a more intimate and soft address, and his voice became more undeniably gentle and tough: "Didn't you still say you want to take me to the store?"

"...I don't want to go."

Hui whispered, grasping the hem of her aunt's skirt.

"...There are a lot of dirty things around here."

Bai Hong was startled for a moment, but then he came to his senses.

Dirty things... are curse spirits.

On the contrary, since before, I have always felt that there is an uncomfortable atmosphere around me... Is it a curse?

"Is Xiaohui scared?"

The boy beside her shook his head, then nodded again.

Bai Hong laughed lightly, "Why are you shaking your head and nodding?"

"I'm not afraid." Fu Heihui replied in a low voice, with a strangely depressed voice: "But I can't beat them."

Auntie is wearing a beautiful dress today, it will get dirty.

"That's what happens when there's a lot of people."

Resentment, hatred, complaints, fear... small negative emotions converge into a powerful torrent, which is combined into a so-called mantra.

Human beings have never been stingy about expressing malice, and always feel that a little curse can't cause trouble to people, so they always vent their emotions unscrupulously—should I say it is arrogance, ignorance, or both?

No one will restrain themselves until they themselves are cursed back.

"It's okay, Xiaohui," Bai Hong turned his head, and precisely pointed in the direction of his little nephew, "It's better that we don't come to crowded places next time."

The child nodded, indicating that he remembered.

"Mom doesn't like crowded places?"

Bai Hong smiled.

"Strictly speaking, I don't like places where people are disobedient."

They have already arrived at the store that Fu Heihui pointed out before. The store here is not very busy but quite good. Hui led Bai Hong to sit down at an empty table. This wonderful combination attracted the attention of many people. , when the mother chose to sit down, and the much younger child took the money to buy things, this scene immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of many people.

A passerby with a strong sense of justice came up to criticize this unreliable elder, but after seeing the white silk covering Baihong's eyes and the slender walking stick that was pointing on the ground as a blind stick, his original dissatisfaction changed again. It became pity mixed with contempt and sympathy.

what the hell.

Looking so beautiful, it turned out to be blind.

So people left muttering, leaving some superficial comments, and some even stingy with a little bit of false kindness.

Baihong looked calm, as if he didn't realize it.

This is not a war, it is just the most common daily life.

Compared with the pure killing intent on the battlefield, the malice that human beings reveal in their daily life seems thin but too complicated. Some of them cause great harm to others, but to the person who made the speech, they feel that it is not at all. what a curse.

——She knew very well that since she walked into the downtown area of ​​Yokohama, the malice around her has never stopped.

The major general, who was on vacation, stroked the cane in his hand and sighed helplessly.

I just came out of the Chanyuan home, so I don't really want to cause trouble for the time being...

She was thinking about whether to do it first, and get rid of the curses that made her children hate on the road before the child came back, but almost at the same time she was thinking, those disgusting filthy smells disappeared. ——

The speed is too fast, the murderous intent is too shallow.

Rather than being easily exorcised by a conjurer, it is better to say that he was directly crushed and obliterated by an overly powerful existence.

Bai Hong was stunned.

...Is there a magician around here?

She subconsciously touched the white silk on her eyes.

Xiaohui hasn't come back yet, so it's inconvenient to get up and leave immediately...

As she was thinking, the sound of slow footsteps approached from far and near, and stopped beside her.

Ah, can't see it.

Bai Hong regretfully put down his fingers touching his eyes.

Even if he took off the white silk, he didn't know what the magician looked like, and he could only see the black world and vague outlines... and dense scarlet lines of death.

The only thing she can feel is that the other party is looking at her—looking at her with a rather strange and complicated deep eyes, the feeling of being watched by such eyes cannot be called pleasant, Bai Hong has been stared at for too long, Can't help frowning slightly.

The sense of gap caused by the premise of unequal information is something she hates very much, but she hasn't left after watching it for so long, is it someone she knows?

Bai Hong was not sure.

But most of the people who left the island did not have the courage to stand in this position and look at themselves with such eyes.

Sitting here, Bai Hong could only use his instinct and breath to detect that the distance of the other party was not normal. He only needed to raise his hand to touch the other party... But at such a short distance, he still couldn't feel the other party's emotions .

"……Excuse me."

She decided to take the initiative to break the ice, even if it was not a wise move: "Do we know each other?"

The other party did not answer.

Bai Hong didn't move either.

"……you do not know me."

After a while, the other party spoke in a subtle tone, even with a weird and gloomy smile in his voice.

His voice is unexpectedly young, and it belongs to a boy's clear and beautiful voice.

Bai Hong tilted her head and tried to search for a similar voice from her memory, but she didn't come up with any results, but she was a little unhappy even if she deliberately restrained her temper after being watched so condescendingly for a long time, "Should I know you, Shu?" Teacher?"

The other party didn't answer, just a slow chuckle.

The laughter was brisk, but also extremely cold, Bai Hong felt a chill behind his back when he heard it, and intuitively felt that there seemed to be something wrong.

"...you know conjurers."

His tone was soft and calm, without any flaws.

"But you don't know me."

Bai Hong kept his composure and replied patiently: "The conjurer's words, I have only come into contact with them when I was a child—"

"Oh——" the other party draws out the ending slowly, with a subtle smile stained between the lines, but Bai Hong can't hear the slightest sense of joy in his voice, and always feels that there is a bit of cold, resentful, suppressed anger in his tone.

He paused, and repeated it meaningfully: "When I was young, I met... the people I knew when I was young, can't you remember now?"

Bai Hong frowned slightly, feeling something was wrong: "Do we know each other?"

"... Ha! Who do you think you are, of course we don't know each other."

The other party's tone was flat, without distinguishing between emotions and anger.

After the young man finished speaking, he seemed to feel unwilling, and added another sentence through gritted teeth.

"...It's hard to feel sorry for others, just asking for a friend."

Bai Hong: "..."

Why are you so angry if you don't know him? ? ?

Now that she has been exposed in front of the magician, she can't get around those people no matter what she chooses, not to mention relying on the power of the Wutiao family, if she can't remember the answer now, will someone be able to kill him immediately?

She was silent for a moment, then changed her answer.

"I'm blind, sir." Bai Hong's face was full of sincerity, and his tone sounded extremely sincere: "You can't bully me who I can't see, and make me recognize someone I haven't seen for many years."

"...Really can't see it?"

"I can't really see it."

The other party's tone gradually slowed down, but the content of the question was not polite at all: "...how long have you been blind?"

Bai Hong: "..."

Bai Hong's half-smile: "Since you don't know each other, why do you need to ask me about my situation in such detail?"

The young magician was stunned, and his tone softened, a little aggrieved for reasons he couldn't explain.

"...Is it okay for me to ask for help?"

Bai Hong stopped talking, and the other party didn't continue to speak, and an awkward silence spread between the two.Just when Bai Hong thought that this silence would continue to spread forever, the other party suddenly pulled the chair and sat down directly.

"..."

Bai Hong waited for a while and saw that the other party had no intention of leaving, so he turned his head away based on his feeling, and repeated the previous question again.

"...Sir, do we really not know each other?"

This time the other party was silent for a long time before he said bluntly, "I don't know you."

He stretched out his arms quite familiarly, grabbed Bai Hong's hand and shook it, and introduced himself rather perfunctorily: "My name is Xia Youjie, a first-year student in the High School of Conjuration."

...Well, I really don't know.

The distance between the tables was not short, and the other party grabbed him easily but did not hear the sound of the chair moving——

Bai Hong was thoughtful.

This kid is not short.

I have never come into contact with such a tall young man in my memory.

... Could it be that I was thinking too much?

"What is Mr. Xia You still doing here?"

When the second round of silence was about to start, Bai Hong took the initiative to speak, with sincere words: "Is your work over yet?"

"……what?"

The young conjurer who called himself Xia Youjie was a little too late to react, "Not yet."

Bai Hong heard the momentary hesitation in his ears, and always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the name.

It's not that the name is wrong, but that the other party's reaction to the name is wrong.

...Is it a pseudonym?

But since the other party has no intention of using his real name to talk to him, he probably doesn't want to communicate in depth.

--very good!

"Since you still have something to do, I won't bother you." Bai Hong stood up actively, and habitually pulled out a distant and elegant smile from the corner of his mouth: "Excuse me."

She got up before the other party could react. At this moment, Fu Heihui came out of the store with two glasses of drinks in his hands. He was cute and sensible, and the passers-by had more preference and privilege for him, and they all followed suit. The narrow road that children are allowed to walk, let the children happily find their parents——

"mom!"

The little boy's voice was clear and crisp, and before the voice landed, his soft body had already thrown himself into the arms of his aunt who was welcoming him. Hui Gao held two glasses of drinks high, and was very careful not to spill them on his aunt's beautiful new dress The eyes are full of excitement showing off: "The things are back!"

"

Xiaohui is amazing—"

Bai Hong squatted down and gave his little nephew a warm hug, but just as she opened her mouth, there was a crackling sound behind her, and everyone ran away in panic and screams. Bai Hong was close at hand but did not dodge. The child guarded in her arms to block the flying dust behind her back, and she turned her head in the direction of the sound when the sound faded away and the dust subsided.

Fu Heihui peeked out from her aunt's shoulder, and saw that the table where her aunt was sitting had already been shattered into a pile of powder in the smoke, and a black figure was still sitting on her seat as motionless as a mountain. He is tall and slender, with long legs and leaning on a simple wooden chair, full of unrestrained arrogance and sharp youthful arrogance.

A beautiful silver hair as white as the first snow can be seen vaguely in the lingering smoke, the smoke and dust cleared, and the man's face was finally discerned.

He is very young, so young that he can't even be called a man, he can barely be described as a youth; on the bridge of his tall nose, there are exquisite and weird round sunglasses half-hiding a pair of clear and clear blue eyes like ice beads. The young face was distorted and ferocious for a moment, terrifying like the raging Yaksha Shura from hell.

Fu Heihui blinked, he never misunderstood the other party's hostility towards him, it's just that children have his privileges, he narrowed his eyes, and flinched in his aunt's arms.

"what happened?"

Bai Hong was protecting his nephew, a little unclear about the situation.

"Oh it's all right."

The young sorcerer maintained that rather arrogant sitting posture as motionless as a mountain, showing a perfunctory smirk.

"Hand slipped."

The youngest genius in the magic world replied so confidently.