The found Tuo is three and a half years old

"What are you doing?!"

I was so taken aback by the boy's sudden movement that I didn't even pay attention to what he was saying.

what happened?I was touched on the head by that brat? !

This guy really wants to go to heaven!

However, Fyodor's expression didn't change in the face of me, who was furious. He just curled his lips in a small arc calmly.

"Haruko's hair is messed up." Fyodor said softly.

Probably because his deep pool-like eyes are too quiet, so that the rising anger on my side seems to be frozen.

Fyodor's fingers ran along the top of my hair all the way to the side of the ear, until he gathered some scattered hair behind my ear.

The temperature that inadvertently swept across my skin made me a little dazed unconsciously.

"I got the blue other side flower."

Seeing that I didn't respond, Fyodor said it again.

"what?"

When I realized what the boy was talking about, I couldn't believe my ears.

"That special medicinal material that is said to allow Haruko to walk in the sun." Fyodor's tone was very serious, without any hint of joking.

"The Shibusawa family asked me to help them find their lost young master, and I will pay you with blue Higan flowers."

Turning his gaze slightly to the side, Fyodor pointed to the boy who appeared with Gogol.

"Shibusawa Tatsuhiko."

"Even if it's a game like this, there's nothing to be surprised about." The boy said in a sleepy manner with the corners of his lips drooping.

His eyes are beautiful red—but they are not the same color as the eyes of the adult I am familiar with. Shibusawa Ryuhiko's eyes are not so bloody and deep, and his pupils are more like being drawn A ruby ​​encased in unmelting ice.

There is no living color, but it is also very eye-catching.

"It's nothing beyond my expectations. But the reward you ask for is nothing more than a flower that is nothing special, so this result is not too disappointing."

The voice is cold and arrogant.

"Unfortunately, that guy is dead and can no longer be your material." Fyodor glanced at Alexei who was lying on the ground.

"It doesn't matter." The white-haired boy lowered his eyes: "Anyway, his ability is not what I want."

Fyodor said nothing more.

After Alexei's death, the entire "Necromancer" fell into unprecedented turmoil.Different from previous situations, after Alexei's ten-year expansion, the "Necromancer" is much stronger than before. There is no one who can be called a successor.

Several cadres divided their forces, and other forces that had survived under the "Necromantic Society" were also eager to try, and everyone wanted to take advantage of this chaos.

So for a while, no one came to pester us, the chief culprit who killed Alexei.

"But it's only a matter of time," Fyodor said.

After that battle, Ivan, Gogol, and Shibusawa Tatsuhiko all temporarily stayed at my house.

Gogol was purely on a whim, and Shibusawa Ryuhiko was temporarily "detained" here by Fyodor because he had to wait a few days for the handover of the blue higan flower

Ivan was different from either of them.Apart from my house, Ivan has nowhere to go at this moment.

That incident had a huge impact on Ivan.After all, he can be regarded as being brought up by Alexei.

When dealing with Boristley before, Ivan's mother completely lost the ability to take care of herself, and passed away after a few years of persistence, so Alexey always took care of Ivan's daily life like a father.

No matter what purpose that man had, he was the closest person around Ivan after all.I don't know how Ivan felt when he knew that guy was his enemy, and I can't imagine what was going through his mind when he shot.

But no matter what, that incident was an indelible trauma to the young Ivan.

Fyodor helped Ivan remove the "painful part" as he said before.Then the whole boy became different.

Ivan, who lost everything, regarded the last person left by his side as a god.And he became Fyodor's most loyal servant.

"Right now, I only have happiness in my life."

said Ivan.

"It was given to me by the master."

I don't know what happiness is.

Although there are three and a half older boys in the house, it doesn't look crowded.In the past ten years, Alexey has carefully expanded my house once, and specially repaired the corridor and side walls to imitate the Japanese-style decoration.

That guy wasn't a nice guy, but he did help Fyodor and me a lot in the past.

That's what I thought as I sat on the porch looking at the stars.

Even in June, the nights in Siberia are still a bit cool.But as a ghost, I don't care about these, or for me now, this kind of night is my time.

"What are you looking at?" Fyodor's voice suddenly sounded behind me after an unknown period of time.I turned around and looked at the boy in the long cape.

"Aren't you asleep yet?" I asked back.

"Haruko isn't here." Fyodor took the opportunity to sit beside me and looked at me sideways: "So I want to come out and see what Haruko is doing."

The boy's figure is slimmer than Ivan's and Gogol's, but at this moment he is already taller than me by a piece.I didn't have any deep feelings when we got along with each other in daily life before, but now he suddenly sat next to me, and after careful observation, I realized that this guy has changed a lot.

"I didn't do anything, I just sat around." I turned my gaze back and looked up at the sky again.

So Fyodor also looked in the direction of my gaze, and after a while, he asked again: "Does Haruko like the night?"

"There's nothing I like or dislike." I tilted my head lightly: "I can only move around at night when there is no sunlight."

"Because it's only at night, so I should like it. I used to always look at the stars alone."

Fyodor didn't answer, but vaguely, I felt his gaze on my face.It's just that when I turned my head to look at him, he turned his gaze elsewhere.

"Has anyone ever watched the stars with Haruko?" Fyodor asked in a low voice after a short silence.

I thought about it for a while and replied seriously: "It's not that I never did it. Although it's not to accompany me, my former boss used to watch the stars with me."

"It started when I was still in Yoshiwara. At that time, I was secretly crying in the attic. Mr. Wu Mi probably felt noisy, so he came up to find me."

A layer of thin clouds floated from the sky, infecting the Milky Way in the sky, but it was washed away by the bright white moonlight in an instant.

"There were a few times after that, mostly when I wanted to be lazy during the mission - that adult can peek into all our thoughts through the blood buried in our bodies, so every time I want to be lazy, he will run away Come out and watch over me."

"You may not believe it, but my strength is the weakest among the ghosts. At that time, adults always said that I was stupid and useless. Thinking about it, it seems that I never used it when I was under that adult's hands use."

"At that time, I was worried every day, for fear that one day the adults would kill me because they disliked me. I have seen too many such things—"

Probably because the night made me feel so at ease, I actually just said a series of irrelevant words.

I would never have said that to Fyodor before.Because I want to maintain my strong image in front of him, I don't want him to know that I still have such weak and frightened years.

But in fact I am not strong, and Fyodor is stronger than I imagined.

Like this time against Alexei, it was Fyodor who saved me.

Although I am a bit unwilling, but at this time, I probably don't have any need to bluff.

"So that man..." Fyodor pursed his lower lip lightly, and before lowering his eyelashes, some special emotion seemed to flash in his purple pupils: "Was Haruko dating that guy... at that time?"

"How is that possible!" I retorted without thinking, "It's true that I am that lord's subordinate, but that lord has many subordinates, and I'm just the most inconspicuous one among them—the one who is also the most useless one. "

"It's too late for that adult to dislike me. It's impossible to have a relationship or something."

"You are special." Fyodor retorted, "Haruko, you are different from everyone else."

"Otherwise, it's impossible for you to be the only 'ghost' left in the world."

I looked at Fyodor with some puzzlement.

"There is a record in the information about the 'ghost killing team' that Alexei collected before, saying that after killing the 'ghost king', all the 'ghosts' in the world will disappear."

Fyodor gazed into my eyes.

"But Haruko didn't disappear. She didn't turn into a human either."

"So?" I blinked.

"The only man who can do this kind of thing." Fyodor looked at me.Because of his height, he looked down at me a little bit.

And when such words flowed out of his mouth, I just felt as if my heartbeat missed a beat.

"Haruko once said that that man always said he didn't like weak and useless things, and would even kill his subordinates casually. But even if he kept saying that Haruko was not good enough, he never really hurt Haruko. "

"It's like Haruko always said that she would eat me, but Haruko still took care of me for so long."

"Because I'm used to tips being around me." I replied like this.

"But Haruko has always protected me, since she was very young." Fyodor refused to back down: "If it's just a habit, you won't want to protect me."

I looked at the boy under the moon in astonishment.A cool halo penetrated the shallow clouds, covering the young man's thin body. Under the cold halo, Fyodor's expression seemed to have an inexplicable persistence.

"I also want to protect Haruko."

He looked into my eyes and said seriously, word by word:

"Because I like Haruko."