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The half-new spring bed sagged slightly, Xia Youjie put his hands on his knees, hunched his back, and sat quietly on the outside of the bed in a slumped posture.

The wet hair hangs down along the arc of the ears, and tightly adheres to the bare neck, which is exposed to the air, adding a bit of coolness to the cold night air.

Small droplets of water gradually converged and enlarged at the tips of the hair, and turned into large droplets that hung tremblingly on the hair, dripped down quickly, and rolled into the collarbone buried by the collar.

The intoxicating coldness was fleeting.

The glass covers of old light bulbs on the walls were filled with dead flying insects, and the faint yellowish light struggled to fill the empty room.

Xia Youjie's dark shadow was stretched thick and long by the light bulb, extending from the edge of the bed all the way to the corner of the opposite wall, like a group of mysterious black shadows with self-awareness, lurking on the ground treacherously.

With his head lowered, his dark eyes were deep and heavy, as if an invisible and thick barrier had been erected, completely blocking the already dim light from the outside, and nothing could light up the turbulent shadows in his eyes .

It seems that he is thinking carefully about what to explore, but he also seems to be thinking about nothing, just simply motionless and in a daze.

Bang!

The howling wind outside suddenly knocked open the window, and the painted wooden frame was blown back and forth against the wall with crackling noises, and the wet hair that was obediently attached to the side of the face suddenly rose up.

……

……

Since elementary school, he found that he can see many things that ordinary people cannot see.

The first time was at the circus performance scene. The trainer swung his arm vigorously and swung the thick thick rope with his thumb, and whipped the scarred elephant hard with the sound of breaking through the air.

This kind of scene slightly caused Xia Youjie, who was still a primary school student, to feel uncomfortable. Fortunately, his parents were different from the frenzied crowd around them, holding his hand and preparing to leave early.

At this moment, Xia Youjie accidentally looked back and froze in place.

A huge blood-drenched sphere suddenly appeared in the sky above the performance venue, and like an eye, it peeled off its skin, revealing the eyeball full of vicious emotions hidden underneath.

Like a ferocious beast staring at the unconscious trainer, bloodshot eyes quickly covered the corners of its gray eyes.

"Mom..." Xia Youjie looked at this scene in shock, and subconsciously grabbed his mother's hand, "Did you see... that eye on the stage...?"

The expression on the mother's face was very gentle, and she even bent slightly to be level with him, but what she said made him feel like falling into the ice cellar: "Jie? What eyes are you talking about?"

The eyeballs hanging in the air suddenly stared at this side!

Xia Youjie, who was still young, felt cold all over his body, dense goose bumps crawled all over his body in an instant, and he was sweating profusely.

It's not the cold, it's the trembling caused by subconscious fear in the face of some unspeakable existence.

His feet were weak, and he immediately moved his gaze down to stare at the elephant in pain on the stage, his pupils trembling violently.

— can't be found!

—can't... let the thing know it was seen.

The small heart suddenly beat violently, pounding violently against his chest, and there was a strange humming sound in the ear canal for no reason, even his own voice was covered.

"Eyes...eyes..."

Xia Youjie's mind went blank, as if it wasn't his lips that were moving at all.

"I'm talking about... the elephant's... eyes on the stage..."

He stared at the barely performing elephant on the stage, and forcibly suppressed the trembling of his body.

"It... seems to be crying..."

Yes, that's right, what he was talking about was the performing elephant.

There are no monsters.No eyeballs either.

Mother seemed to smile when she heard this, and seemed to pat his head?I don’t remember, I can’t pay attention to this kind of thing at all, there is only one thing on my mind——

That eyeball, did you spot him?

"Jay is such a kind boy."

His mother and father held his hand together, one on the left and one on the right, walking towards the exit with their backs to the stage.

The back was exposed to the sight of the monster, and the thin clothes couldn't stop the sinister gaze of the eyeball from sticking to his back like a shadow.

Suddenly, there was a chill behind his back.

The cold and sticky Grim Reaper wrapped himself around his neck, as long as he turned his head for a moment——

You can immediately meet that huge eyeball!

Every step forward led by parents is as terrifying as crossing the line of life and death.

The existence clinging to the back of his neck was light, and his neck didn't feel oppressed at all, but his heart was as heavy as a thousand catties.

Just as he was about to step out of the circus, a monkey-shaped toy flew in from outside the gate, flew straight to Xia Youjie, hit him on the neck, and wrapped his shoulders skillfully.

The parents exclaimed, and quickly bent down to ask how he felt.

Only Xia Youjie knew that the moment the monkey toy touched the back of his neck, it punched and killed the terrifying eyeball stuck to his body.

...is it really just a toy?

A young man ran up from a distance, rubbed the back of his head embarrassingly and said with a dry smile, "Sorry, my toy accidentally hit this child."

Xia Youjie looked at the man over his parents' body, stared at him directly, and asked before his parents could speak, "Is it really just a toy?"

The man's originally apologetic eyes became suspicious.

"...Of course, it's a toy I made myself." He glanced at Xia Youjie, then turned his gaze to the child's parents, "May I treat this child to a cone?"

"That's the one." He said, pointing to the opposite street.

Xia Youjie: "Okay."

The man helped his forehead helplessly: "I'm asking your parents."

The parents didn't agree immediately, they looked at each other, and said a little warily: "No need. Jie, be polite, and quickly say thank you uncle."

"Uncle... Uncle...? Ah, please wait a moment." The man's eyes were dull for a moment, and he quickly took out his teacher's ID card from his arms, "I'm a teacher at a high school in Tokyo, I just feel sorry so I want to invite this The child eats a cone."

Xia Youjie's parents took the teacher's card hesitantly, and when they opened it, it was indeed the man's appearance, with his surname on it, "Noctua...Mr.?"

The man named Night Moth nodded and admitted, "It's me."

Xia Youjie hugged the monkey toy on his shoulder, raised his head and said to his parents, "Mom, there is no danger. I want to go."

"...Jay?"

This child has been very independent since he was a child. Even when he was still staggering when he was walking, he would not take the initiative to play a rogue and ask for a hug from adults.

He rarely asks his parents.

"...We will follow behind." In the end, the parents agreed to Xia Youjie's rare request.

Ye Mo took Xia Youjie's little hand and walked in front, while his parents followed in the distance, holding Ye Mo's teacher's card in their hands.

"Being treated as a suspicious guy." He sighed in distress.

Xia Youjie looked straight ahead and tightened his hands holding the monkey toy: "They are just worried about me."

"It's okay, I don't mean to blame." Noctua patted Xia Youjie's head lightly, and laughed, "It's normal for parents to worry about their children."

They stood in front of the crosswalk, waiting for the countdown red light to turn green, and vehicles roared by from time to time.

"Jie...it's called Jie, right?"

Xia Youjie let out a "huh" and looked up at the night moth. His eyes were as calm as a sparkling lake, but extremely far away.

"Can you see that thing?"

"You mean that monster that looks like an eyeball?"

Night Moth smiled slightly: "Yes, that's the one."

Xia Youjie hugged the monkey toy tightly: "Yes. I can see it."

drop--

When the red light turned green, the surrounding crowd lifted their feet and passed them, making them look like aliens who were incompatible with the crowd.

Noctua sighed, lowered his head, and looked at Xia Youjie tenderly, until the latter also looked up at him as if aware of it.

As if anticipating that he would hear something completely different from the past, Xia Youjie took a step back involuntarily, but was pulled back by Ye Moth's hand.

"Do you know... the curse spirit?"

All irrelevant scenes in the line of sight retreated rapidly, as if trapped in a different space outside the world.

"……what?"

Xia Youjie suddenly opened his eyes wide.

……

……

Bang-dang-!

He jerked awake from the memory.

The wind slammed the window fiercely again, and the latter hung on the edge of the window frame with difficulty, precariously.

He raised his hand and stroked his loose hair. He didn't know how long he had been sitting here in a daze. His hair had been completely dried by the strong wind blowing in.

Not having the energy to care about the rattling windows, Xia Youjie buried his head on the bed, his messy hair immediately covered his entire face, only his bloodless lips were exposed.

The old bed quilt exudes a strange smell like this room, which is a smell similar to decaying wood.

Even if the wind kept blowing in from outside the window, it invaded every corner of the room, the tangled dark curtains were blown and rattled, and the poor-quality fabric was blown by the wind and projected on the walls of the entire room, turning into monsters with teeth and claws .

The smell still echoed in the room for a long time.

Just like...

The smell of the storage box in the attic at home is old and stale, but lingers with an inexplicable sense of security.

Intellectually, he knew that this was not a safe place. From the moment he entered this room, he summoned several magic spirits to guard every corner, guarding against all possible attacks.

but……

This rotten smell made him involuntarily close his eyelids and fall into a deep sleep.

……

……

Back to when I was in elementary school.

That day when he was going to school, he forgot to bring the monkey curse skeleton presented by Noctua Moth. On the way home, he bumped into a low-level curse spirit again, and ran for three whole streets to get rid of it.

Panting heavily, he pushed open the door and then slammed it shut, his chest heaving up and down dramatically.

Can't... take those things home!

because……

"Jie?" The mother came over with a slight frown, squatted down and stared at his knees worriedly, wanting to reach out but afraid of hurting him, "Did you fall down?"

"...Hmm." Xia Youjie lowered his head and replied in a low voice.

The mother looked at him hesitantly, wanted to ask something, but didn't ask anything, took out a medicine box from the cabinet in the entrance, smiled reluctantly: "Then mother will help you to bandage it."

Xia Youjie silently stared at his mother's cautious movements, hesitated, and lightly touched the bun on the back of her head.

"Mother…"

"Don't worry...I'm fine..."

The family atmosphere at dinner was a bit strange, but the parents still tried their best to put on a warm appearance, and Xia Youjie accepted it passively.

After he lay in bed for more than half an hour, his father gently opened the door and came in to see if he was asleep, and tiptoed out after getting an affirmative answer.

While his father was leaving, Xia Youjie opened his eyes.

He got out of bed with bare feet, stepped on the cold wooden floor, leaned his ear against the door panel, and listened to the faint conversation outside.

and also……

sobbing.

Xia Youjie choked for breath.

"Jie...has been getting hurt all the time lately..." My mother's usually gentle and warm voice choked up, "I'm worried...I'm worried that he's being bullied by bad kids..."

Covering his face and crying, "But he won't say anything..."

The father comforted the mother with rambling words, and the man who propped up a family on his shoulders also uttered a little bit of his heart: "I quietly followed Jie after school, and I didn't meet anything...Maybe I just fell down..."

"Why do you keep falling!" Mother raised her voice slightly, but was suppressed by father's hissing.

……

Can't take those things home.

because……

Parents are ordinary people.

Xia Youjie sat on the ground with his hands around his knees, his chin resting on his arms, and he quietly closed his eyes, the eye sockets gradually becoming moist.

—I want to learn spells.

The thoughts that had wandered for many days finally settled down and fell heavily on his heart.

—I need to learn spells.

He supported the door frame and stood up, slowly returned to the small bed, pulled the quilt to cover his face, and gently wiped away the tears that gushed out.

for……

for……?

The short-lived dream was completely shattered by the sudden self-inquiry, and merged into a blurred and twisted chaos, deeply plunged into endless darkness.

……

……

That's weird.

Can't remember at all.

In the beginning he decided to learn spells, what was the reason for it?