The days when I fell in love with Nagato Yuki

After leaving the apartment where Nagato and Lin Lu lived, Haruhi walked ahead without saying a word, and Ah Xu followed her helplessly, and the two walked aimlessly along the railroad tracks.

Seeing that they were getting farther and farther away from home, Ah Xu finally couldn't help asking Haruhi where they were going next.

"I'm not going anywhere!" Haruhi, who had been walking forward with a dull head, seemed to have just recovered, and said angrily after stopping.

"Then can I go home?"

After Ah Xu said these words, Haruhi suddenly stopped her steps, and when she turned around, her expressionless face was as cold as Nagato's.

"Have you ever realized how small you are on the earth?" Haruhi asked Ah Xu in a cold voice, and before he could answer, he turned around and continued, "I have had this experience , will never be forgotten."

"What are you trying to say?" Ignoring Ah Xu's confusion, Haruhi spit out a series of words like a machine gun.

"It was in the sixth grade of elementary school. Our family went to the stadium to watch baseball. Although I had no interest in baseball, I was shocked when I entered the stadium because there were people everywhere. The audience on the other side of the stadium looked It was as small as a grain of rice, and it kept moving. At that time, I thought that people from all over Japan had gathered in this space. So, I asked my dad how many people were there. My dad replied that because the audience was full, there should be 5 people! After the game, the road leading to the station was full of people. I couldn't help being stunned by the sight. There are so many people in front of me, but they are only a small part of the total population of Japan. Because I learned that Japan has a population of more than 1 million in social class, so after returning home, I used a calculator to calculate, only to find that 5 people are only one-twentieth of the total population. Then, I was stunned Stop. It turned out that I was just one of the many people on the football field, and the seemingly many people on the field were only one in two thousand of the total population. Before that, I always felt that I He is a very special person. Not only does he get along well with his family, but he also feels that his class has the most interesting people in the world.

But at that moment, I realized that things were not like that at all.What I thought was the happiest thing in the world I experienced in my class actually happens in every school.For the people of Japan, there is nothing special.When I found out about this, it suddenly felt like the world around me faded.Brushing teeth to sleep at night, getting up and eating in the morning, this kind of thing can be seen everywhere.It's so boring to think that this is the ordinary life that everyone is living.I firmly believe that since there are so many people in the world, there must be some people living extraordinary and interesting lives among them, but why not me? Before I graduated from elementary school, I kept thinking about this.It finally dawned on me that it's no use waiting for something interesting to happen.Therefore, after entering junior high school, I decided to change myself.I want the world to know that I'm not a girl who just waits, and I think I tried my best, but the result is still the same.In this way, I went to high school without knowing it, and I still believe that life can have some changes..."

Haruhi poured out as if she was participating in a debate contest, but she suddenly stopped talking, then turned her back to Ah Xu angrily, raised her chin and looked up at the evening sky .

That stubborn gesture seemed to be trying to restore her usual majesty as the head of SOS, but in Ah Xu's view, it was just that this always strong girl regretted showing her fragility and was trying to be brave.

At this time, the tram whizzed by on the railroad tracks beside the two of them. Thanks to the rumbling sound, Ah Xu had time to think about what to say to the girl in front of him, whether to continue asking, complaining, or quoting Some philosophical points to perfuse her.

But in the end, when the tram left, he just spit out a dry sentence: "Really?"

Facing himself who could only say such an answer, Ah Xu felt a little melancholy in his heart.

Haruhi didn't have any special response to Ah Xu's response, he just stroked his hair blown by the air current brought by the passing train, and said flatly: "I'm going back."

The girl's back clearly revealed the message "Don't follow me", so even though she was heading home in the same direction, Ah Xu had no choice but to stand still and watch Haruhi off until she couldn't see anyone.

"What the hell am I doing..." Ah Xu thought so, when he returned home by bicycle, he found Koizumi waiting for him at the door.

"Hello." He was wearing a uniform and carrying a schoolbag. He looked like he just finished class, and he waved to me enthusiastically--that smile, as if seeing an old friend, really looked like a false one to Ah Xu. Mask, "I want to fulfill the promise I made to you last time, so I am waiting for you here. I didn't expect you to come back so early!"

"Hearing your tone, it seems like you know where I just went." As for Gu Quan, Ah Xu was somewhat resistant in his heart, so his tone of speech was not very good.

Koizumi continued with a smile on his face, "Can I spare you a little time? I want to show you a place."

"Is it related to Suzumiya?" Ah Xu asked with a sigh.

"It's related to Suzumiya-san." Koizumi confirmed Ah Xu's question with a smile.

Ah Xu opened the door of his house and put his schoolbag in the entrance, then told his sister who happened to be at the door that he would be back later, and then walked back to Koizumi.

A few minutes later, the two got into a taxi stopped by Koizumi.After Koizumi reported the location, the car started.Although it would be cheaper to take the tram in that place, but he is not the one who pays anyway, so Ah Xu didn’t say much—hey, is the real reason why Ah Xu doesn’t want to see Koizumi because ordinary people are envious of tall, rich and handsome? (just kidding)

"By the way, what did you mean by the promise you just said?" After getting in the car, Ah Xu first raised the topic.

"Didn't you say before that if I really have superpowers, you should tell me to show evidence?" Koizumi replied with a calm smile.

He replied, "Now I just have this opportunity, so I want to invite you to accompany me!"

"Is it necessary to run so far?" Ah Xu was puzzled by this.

"Because I have to be in a certain place and under certain conditions to exert superpowers. And the place we are currently going to,

Just met all the conditions. "

Afterwards, what Koizumi said did not leave any impression on Xu, well, I heard a little bit about Haruhi--except that Haruhi has the power to change the world, Koizumi told him why they don't want Kasuga I have learned that I have such power.

"If Suzumiya-san thinks that superpowers are commonplace, then there will be a big problem. The laws of physics we know: the law of conservation of mass, the law of heat... will be distorted, and when it comes to Nagato-san Aliens from the outside world, people from another world like Lin, maybe the whole universe will become a mess."

It seems reasonable to say so, but since Haruhi has the power to gather the future Asahina-senpai, the psychic Koizumi, Nagato and Hayashi-san, but she doesn't know about it, isn't it too strange? Ah Xu asked Koizumi back.

"Maybe the real contradiction is Suzumiya-san's heart." Koizumi replied to Ah Xu's question, "She is looking forward to the existence of aliens, people from the future, and people with superpowers, but her common sense tells her There are no such things at all, and these two kinds of thoughts are constantly seeing each other in her heart. Although her words and deeds are explosive, her thinking mode is still the same as that of ordinary people. The stormy spirit of her middle school days, these few Yue has gradually stabilized, and we are also happy to see her stabilize, but we did not expect that there has been an astonishing change like a tornado recently."

It's all because of you, Koizumi said--because of Ah Xu's suggestion, Haruhi came up with the idea of ​​establishing the SOS group, so several forces that care about Haruhi Suzumiya gathered together.

"Although the reasons are more than these, you must take responsibility no matter what." Koizumi concluded

Regarding this, Ah Xu really wanted to shout "I'm wronged", but because they had reached their destination, the driver's voice interrupted the conversation between the two.

The driver didn't take their money, so Ah Xu wasn't surprised—the conversation between the two of them was no better than this elderly gentleman, so the taxi driver who kept calm and drove the car was probably also the same organ Otherwise, he and Koizumi might have been regarded as some new cult members and sent directly to the mental hospital.

After getting off the car, the two stood on the sidewalk with people coming and going. Koizumi suddenly held Ah Xu's hand and asked him to close his eyes for a few seconds.

Although Ah Xu felt very uncomfortable, since he was already here, there was no reason to just shrink back like this.So he felt awkward and closed his eyes.

Feeling that I was being led by Koizumi to move forward, one step, two steps, three steps, suddenly the sound of footsteps, the sound of car engines and the uninterrupted human voice that filled my ears just disappeared!

"It's done." Said Koizumi next to him.

Ah Xu slowly opened his eyes, the whole world in front of him was dyed gray.

It's really dark.He couldn't help but look up at the sky, and he couldn't find the sun that was still emitting a dazzling orange light just now.The sky was shrouded in dark gray clouds.Is that really a cloud? The flat space without gaps stretches infinitely before the eyes, covering the surroundings dimly.A hazy phosphorescence took the place of the sun, blooming faintly across the gray sky, saving the world from total darkness.

No one can be seen anywhere.

Except for Ah Xu and Koizumi who were standing in the middle of the intersection, the crowd that had filled the sidewalk just now had disappeared somewhere.In a wide field of vision, only the traffic signal signs flashed in vain, and then changed to red lights.The other lane turned green, but there were no cars on the road.The surroundings are so quiet that one can't help but wonder if the rotation of the earth has stopped.

Locked Space - that's the name of this world.According to Koizumi, this place is located in the gap between different dimension faults, it is a closed space completely isolated from the world we live in, and the intersection just now is the entrance here.As if to prove it, Koizumi stretched out his hand, and then stopped in mid-air as if blocked.

Ah Xu stretched out his hand dubiously, and sure enough, he touched an invisible elastic barrier, and his hand couldn't move forward after penetrating about ten centimeters into it.

"The radius of this locked space is about five kilometers. Usually, it is impossible to get in with ordinary physical methods. One of the abilities I have is to be able to enter such a space." Koizumi and Ah Xu walked in this empty space. In the world, he explained, "Although I don't know the details, this world is a different-dimensional space not far from the world we live in... Let's put it this way. Just now, a different-dimensional fault occurred in that place , and then we have entered the gap between time and space. At this moment, the outer space still continues the same life. And mortals... hardly get lost here by mistake."

"The closed space happens completely randomly. Sometimes it appears every other day, and sometimes it appears after several months. However, the only thing I know is..." While talking, the two entered In a mixed apartment, "As long as Suzumiya-san's spirit is not stable, this space will appear."

It was very dark around, and while listening to Koizumi's words, Xu had to concentrate all his remaining energy to watch the road so as not to trip.Finally, after climbing the long, dark stairs, the two arrived at the top of the fourth floor.

"As long as the locked space appears, I can explore it, and so can my companions. Why do we know, to be honest, we don't know. Anyway, we can know the location and time of the locked space, as well as the method of intrusion. It’s a feeling that cannot be described in words.”

Ah Xu leaned on the railing of the roof and looked out. He couldn't feel the wind at all, because the heat generated by climbing the stairs made him feel a little uncomfortable: "You brought me here to see this? But, there is nothing here. ah."

"No, what's next is the main event, which will start soon." Gu Quan said with an inscrutable smile.

"Stop playing tricks on there!" Ah Xu thought impatiently.

But Koizumi pretended not to notice Ah Xu's impatience, and said with a smile: "My ability is not just to find out the closed space and invade its interior. To be honest, I also have the ability to reflect Suzumiya-san's rationality. This world is like Suzumiya The pimples produced by the mental fluctuations of my classmates, and I am the medicine to treat pimples."

"Your analogy is really difficult to understand." Ah Xu slightly mocked Gu Quan.

"People often say that. However, you are also amazing! Seeing this situation, you are not afraid at all." Koizumi admired.

Ah Xu thought about Asakura Ryoko who almost killed him and the mature version of Asahina-senpai in the department room during the lunch break, and thought that he had a lot of experience in facing supernatural events.

Suddenly, Koizumi picked up his head and looked at a certain point in the distance: "It's started."

It doesn't take Koizumi to say that Ah Xu also saw it--a giant with blue light appeared in the gap of the tall buildings in the distance.

It is a head taller than a twenty-story commercial building.The slender body that was covered in dull dark blue seemed to contain a luminous substance, constantly emitting light from the inside of the body.Because the surrounding area was too dark, its outline could not be seen clearly, and there were no facial features on that face.Except for the dark eyes and what looks like a mouth, everything else is flat.

Afterwards, the blue and white luminous giant started to destroy the city like the monsters in all the Japanese special films—fortunately, no one exists in this closed space, so it did not cause people to panic.

"We think this is the embodiment of Suzumiya-san's inner anxiety. It seems that whenever her inner entanglement reaches a certain critical point, this giant will appear and destroy the surrounding to vent the pressure. But we can't let him in If the real world messes around, it will definitely cause great damage, so this kind of closed space is created so that he can destroy it inside. Isn't it very rational?" Koizumi explained in a timely manner.

Indeed, every time the blue-lighting giant waved its arms, the building would be interrupted in the middle and then collapse, while the giant stepped forward on the wreckage of the building.Just imagining if this monster appeared in the real world, Ah Xu felt a chill.

"From a physical point of view, a giant like that should not be able to stand due to his own weight. However, he walks around as if he is in a state of weightlessness. Although the act of destroying the building involves a change in mass. But this The principle does not seem to apply to him. So even if the army is dispatched, it must not be able to stop it." Koizumi sighed with a smile, and Ah Xu said that the other party's smile looked really annoying at this moment.

"Then let it mess around here?" Ah Xu couldn't help but asked, pointing at the giant wrecking havoc in the distance.

"Of course not, in fact that's why I'm here."

What happened next once again enriched Ah Xu's worldview that had been subverted several times--Gu Quan's body emitted red light, and soon his body was swallowed up, and his whole body became a huge ball of light .

Then he flew to the giant, and joined the colleagues who he introduced to Ah Xu earlier, who looked like red light spots from a distance, and started to attack the giant of light together—by the way, the agency where Koizumi works The giants called them "god-men."

Compared with the giant Kamito, Koizumi and the others are like sesame seeds in front of the watermelon, but with such a huge gap, the result is surprising. Whenever the small light spot flies around a certain part of the giant's limbs, that part It will be cut cleanly from the body of the god man, and then turned into light and dust and dissipated.Kamito learns from action and has no intelligence, and Koizumi and the others are obviously not the first time they have fought against them. They cooperated skillfully and attacked, and they won the victory very quickly.

After Kamito disappeared, the other spots of light left like a superman who had completed the task of saving the world, while Koizumi returned to Ah Xu's side. The two witnessed the shocking collapse of the locked space, and then returned to reality world.

In the end, the two took the same taxi back to Ah Xu's home.

"Please pay more attention to the behavior of Suzumiya-san. Her originally stable mental state has shown signs of activation. The situation like today has not happened for a while." When Ah Xu was about to get off the car , Koizumi said so, and the expression on his face became rare serious.

"Even if I pay more attention, what can I change?" Ah Xu sighed in his heart, and walked into the house with tired steps after Koizumi left.

Afterwards, Haruhi, who had been absent from the SOS group activities for several days, resumed her normal routine. It seemed that the impact of the Ryoko Asakura incident dissipated like the Kamito who disappeared in the closed space.But is that really the case?

After the incident that alarmed everyone in the SOS regiment, Ah Xu called the calm during this period "the calm before the storm".

It was also after this extraordinary incident that the relationship between Lin Lu and Nagato, which might have been stagnant, took a new step.

The author has something to say:

I went to a wedding during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I originally wanted to write a long chapter this week to make up for it, but the time is limited, so I will post this chapter first, so it can be regarded as a Mid-Autumn Festival.

I really didn't expect that Koizumi could write so much, but because the subsequent events have to be described from Lin Lu and Nagato's perspective, this chapter must be written in detail, so that I can explain the experiences of Ah Xu and Kasuga later.