What's it like to hold a breathing puppet?

Just like it is now.

The bare skin was warm, and she could even clearly see the slight ups and downs of her chest when she breathed, but her eyes were almost dead.

I used to cry in that dark red and broken world, but now that I'm out, I can't even cry.

He just stayed quietly in his arms, his pure black "eyes" staring in a certain direction without moving, stiffer than a wind-up toy.

Gojo Satoru tightened his arms around his shoulders, the slightly higher than normal temperature passed through his clothes to his hands.

Only at this time, he felt that what he was hugging was not a puppet.

Passing through the entire periphery of Meteor Street, the tight metal net firmly blocked the road leading to the outside world. In front of all the scavengers, he jumped over the five-meter-high protective net in one breath and walked into the desert outside.

The weather conditions were very bad, the sky was dark while the temperature continued to drop, the strong wind kept rolling up the gravel on the ground, and mercilessly smashed it in all directions.

"A sandstorm is coming."

Gojo Satoru looked at this phenomenon, and said something softly, as if he was talking to the person in his arms, or talking to himself.

"..."

He didn't get a response, but he didn't care, and began to set the teleportation route.

The boundless Gobi desert is not a problem for Gojo Satoru at all. Instead, it is more convenient to use teleportation. After all, there is no need to worry about bumping into anything in an uninhabited place.

Activate the spell, and immediately appear at the entrance of the desert town.

The wind that carried the yellow sand was blowing harder, and the wooden houses in the town were creaked, and the wooden roofs fixed with iron nails struggled to support under the howling wind.

In the next second, dark yellow smoke and dust quickly struck from behind, directly covering the entire town, fine sand grains kept hitting them, and were blocked by the infinite spell.

He sighed slightly: "Troublesome weather."

The visibility of the naked eye in the sandstorm is very low, but in this world, there is no way to judge the path through the mana residue on the buildings, so we can only watch while walking.

On the top of the ruins on the front right, the wind-blown flag caught his attention.

In the dim world full of dust, the red flag was very conspicuous, not to mention it was planted on the ruins, so he only took a few extra glances.

Suddenly, Anna moved, and turned her head to "look" at the flag——

To be precise, it is to "look" at the ruins.

Gojo Satoru stopped immediately, lowered his head and asked her, "What's wrong?"

It was the first time she had shown that she noticed something.

Originally thought that she would not get an answer this time, but she actually said, "The tavern is gone."

When speaking, he "looked" at the ruins.

He immediately approached her with his arms in his arms, barely able to find all kinds of broken wine bottles, overturned tables and chairs, and a faint smell of wine from the gaps in the ruins.

Because he hates alcohol, he is extremely sensitive to the smell.

Even he could only faintly smell a little bit of alcohol, which meant that the ruins had been around for a while.

"Is it a place you often go to?" Now that he had finally opened his mouth, Gojo Satoru naturally planned to ask more things, so that he could get to know her better.

But Anna did not answer his question: "This is the tavern that Long Nose cherishes the most. If he is still alive, it will not become like this."

"He's dead too."

Then he retracted his gaze and became quiet again.

Gojo Satoru was silent for a moment.

She would say the word "also" because it must be associated with other people, and this person knows who it is without guessing.

Can't stay here any longer.

You can go anywhere else, you can't let her stay in a place full of memories.

Thinking of this, he turned around and left, and even used a short-distance teleportation technique to stay away from this place as fast as possible.

When the weather was extremely bad, the airship would not operate. Before the sandstorm hit, he took Anna on the last airship.

Before entering the ticket hall, Gojo Satoru lowered his head and asked her, "Can I go?"

Anna neither nodded nor shook her head, nor even gave her a look.

"Well, you don't have to go if you don't want to."

He compromised, put her on the ground in a half-squat, took out a black sunglasses from the deep pocket of his jacket, and placed it lightly on the bridge of her nose, blocking those unusual eyes.

In the past, she would not have agreed to this kind of behavior. After all, his sunglasses are very special, and he can't see anything at all when he wears them.

Now, like a puppet, let him move.

The purpose of covering her eyes is to avoid unnecessary trouble. As long as she doesn't open her mouth, no one will notice that her mouth is also different from ordinary people.

Judging from her current state, she would definitely not be able to speak.

After the sunglasses were set up, Gojo Satoru moved his head back a few inches and praised: "It's not bad, it's very suitable for wearing sunglasses~"

Without expecting her to answer, he wrapped his arms around his thigh, picked her up like a child, and adjusted his position slightly.

The sunglasses on her cheeks were knocked down slightly, and his free other hand helped her to straighten her upright again, and she didn't enter the hall until she covered her eyes tightly.

There were many magazines introducing travel routes on the shelf in the waiting room. He glanced at it and picked the one that was the most pleasing to the eye intuitively. He compared the airship routes while reading the travel introductions.

There was a tourist city known as the "Pearl of the Night", and he happened to be on the airship route of this desert town, so he directly bought a one-way ticket to this city.

Before boarding, the staff responsible for checking the tickets was a woman. She glanced at them several times, with a curious but embarrassed expression on her face.

Gojo Satoru of course chose to ignore this gaze.

Not interested in explaining to strangers.

During the flight, a sandstorm suddenly surged into the sky, causing the airship to tremble violently. The five Wuwu eyes quickly caught the fallen sunglasses and put them back on the bridge of Anna's nose.

This process was extremely short, and most people were immersed in the fear of the airship trembling. Only a middle-aged man sitting opposite them saw this scene, and saw Anna's eyes.

While staggering, he was staring at Gojo Satoru in astonishment, then his eyes flicked to Anna, and then quickly moved back.

ah.was seen.

Gojo Satoru looked back and smiled at the middle-aged man. There was no malice, but absolutely no good intentions, and even a faint warning.

With the index finger in front of his lips, he stared at the middle-aged man without blinking: "Please keep quiet, or I will help you to be quiet."

...! ! !

The man froze for a moment, and then realized that he was being threatened. The color of his face changed again and again, and he didn't dare to refute. After all, the eyes of this white-haired guy looked very difficult to provoke.

In the end, he could only hold up the newspaper aggrievedly, pretending that he hadn't found anything.

After making sure that the man wouldn't talk nonsense, Gojo Satoru turned his head to look at Anna. She had been "staring" out of the window, not responding to the situation just now, and was not worried at all about being discovered weird by strangers.

The scene in the Scarlet World where she had no desire to survive and even took the initiative to seek death flashed through her mind, and she suddenly said, "Isn't it because I've been staring outside because I want to jump out? I'll hold you back."

She looked away, bowed her head, and withered alone.

Seeing this reaction, Gojo Satoru instantly understood.

—she really wanted to jump out.

Complicated emotions immediately came to mind.

He didn't know whether to be angry that she wanted to jump out or happy that she believed what he said.

The two emotions mixed together, forming an indelible gloom in his chest, but he didn't say anything, he just raised his hand and gently placed it on her hair.

"Sorry." I ignored your wishes, but I still couldn't let you die.

Because the sandstorm reached high altitude, the airship slowed down. The original three-hour trip took five hours and arrived at the destination at eight o'clock in the evening.

According to the guidance of the travel magazine, he took Anna to a luxury hotel, which had the highest floor in the city, and the luxury suite on the top floor could clearly enjoy the night view of the city, which was praised as the pearl.

After paying, the waiter led them to the VIP elevator. When there were only the two of them left, Gojo Satoru said to her, "That magazine definitely cooperates with this hotel. Ordinary people would not choose a hotel at this price."

While talking, he took the room card and dripped it on the sensor.

"But as long as you have money, this is the most comfortable place."

Opening the door, the living room of nearly [-] square meters came into view. The floor was covered with expensive and soft velvet carpets. After the room card was inserted into the card insertion machine, the delicate glass lamps lit up with a warm pale yellow light.

Gojo Satoru put her on the sofa in the living room and got up to check the other two bedrooms in the suite.

Six Eyes noticed that the energy fluctuations belonging to her had begun to move, and was heading towards the balcony of the living room. He walked directly to the balcony of the bedroom, and jumped to her side with one hand on the railing.

Why go to the balcony, do you want to jump down again?

"This height—"

He leaned over and took a look, then turned his head and said seriously, "With your physical fitness, you can't fall to your death, it will only hurt."

"And I'll still hold you, don't even think about jumping off."

But Anna's focus was not on the floor height.

She took off the sunglasses and put them on the coffee table. At this moment, those dark "eyes" were facing the shining Ferris wheel in the distance, and said, "I have been there."

Gojo Satoru suddenly raised his heart, feeling a bad premonition.

She continued: "The first time I left Meteor Street, I came here."

He understood instantly.

That heart dropped heavily.

……

It's so funny.

This was the city where she had the most fun in her memories, and it was also the place where An first taught her the social rules outside.

He tried every means to take her away from the familiar place, but in the end he took her to another place that was more impressive.

Thinking stagnated for half a second, he pursed his dry lips, raised a smile, stretched out his hand to block her eyes, picked her up with the other hand, and walked into the room.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you've already been here, so let's change to another place tomorrow."

Hold it to the door of the bedroom, put it down: "Okay, it's time to go to bed now - can I take a shower by myself? Do you need to call the waiter to help you?"

He didn't realize that he said anything strange at all, and looked down at her very seriously.

Anna didn't make a sound, didn't even turn on the light in the bedroom, and went to the bathroom with the light coming in from the living room.

Gojo Satoru looked sideways at the switch on the wall, only the bedroom light, and the switch to control the bathroom light was in the bathroom.

But she had already gone in, so without saying anything, he retreated to the living room, walked to the sofa and sat down, leaning his head on the soft backrest.

It was dinner time, and Anna didn't need ordinary food after she left her human body, he needed it.

But now I can't eat anything.

The chaotic thoughts became a mess in my heart, tightly intertwined, stuck in the chest, and I couldn't find the right way to pull it out.

It seemed that some unfamiliar emotion he had never been in contact with wanted to break out of the ground, but was firmly pressed down by this pile of vague thoughts, unable to move.

There was a pattering sound of water in the bathroom, and he just sat quietly on the sofa, emptied his mind, and didn't think about anything.

Not long after, the sound of water stopped, the bathroom door opened, and the sound of pattering on the floor stopped after only a few steps.

Gojo Satoru stood up and stopped when he reached the door: "Is it convenient to go in?"

No sound.

It's not that he doesn't understand the sense of proportion, it's just that he doesn't care about these things at all all the time, and he can do whatever he wants, regardless of whether this sense of proportion is the consensus of other people, it has nothing to do with him.

but now--

If the bedroom door was closed at this moment, he would never go in without authorization.

Looking at the open door, he said again: "I'm coming in."

After waiting for a few seconds, she stepped into the room. Anna was already lying under the quilt, her long curly hair like seaweed was scattered on the snow-white bed, and she looked extraordinarily fragile.

Gojo Satoru walked over and touched her hair, it was dry.

The soft hair slipped through his fingers, he held it for a while, but didn't catch anything, the soft hair lightly passed over his fingers, and fell down.

The empty hand tightened slightly.

He didn't like the feeling of being unable to grasp anything.

He lowered his eyes and whispered, "Good night."

Just as he walked to the door, Anna suddenly stopped him: "Gojo Satoru."

He turned around in surprise, only to hear her say——

"When will you kill me?"

Wujo Wujo froze in place.

She sat up with her back against the wall, her black, empty "eyes" were looking straight at him, her voice was so calm that there was no emotion.

"Can I use the pickle at that time?"

Originally, she was not afraid of pain, and even felt that pain could make her live more like a human being.

But when he tore open his chest and dug out his heart with his own hands, and endured extreme pain but couldn't save An-

Suddenly I started to be afraid.

I don't want to suffer even a little bit of pain anymore.

Whether it's the weapon she manifested, or Damocles' telekinetic ability, it takes pain to die.

But Gojo Satoru's move can destroy the body in an instant, so he can't feel the pain.

"I don't want any more pain."

Anna seriously discussed with him, as if she had already put this matter on the agenda, and was only waiting for the right time to execute it.

He made his own decision without asking him what he thought.

……

……

He should be angry.Wujo Wu thought to himself.

Once again she made her own decision.

However, he only felt cold in his heart and couldn't say anything.

The distance between the two people is obviously very close, but it is as far away as if they are standing at the two ends of the corridor, looking at each other from afar.

This realization made his heart sink, and he moved subconsciously, and walked back again.

The height of 1.9 meters made him look condescending and arrogant. In order to weaken this feeling of looking down, he sat on the edge of the bed with his knees bent, and the soft mattress sagged slightly.

Her eyes moved simultaneously with his movements, still waiting for his answer.

At this moment, Gojo Satoru suddenly wanted to get angry, he wanted to say——

Since you have been unwilling to answer me before, I don't have to answer you now.

He even thought about the tone, and even the words rolled to his lips, but he swallowed them again half a second later.

He could no longer harbor angry thoughts.

Closing his eyes, he smiled and said half-jokingly, "There is a charge for that."

Anna was taken aback, lowered her head, and stirred her hands together on the quilt, her voice was so soft that she almost floated: "I have nothing to give you now."

The loneliness that couldn't be concealed even by the calm tone broke through layers of obstacles and rushed out wantonly.

"I have nothing left."

The two hands clenched even tighter, so hard that the knuckles began to turn white.

Suddenly, Gojo Satoru held down her hand.

He didn't know how to describe his mood at this moment, it was unprecedentedly weird, like a mixture of soreness and pain, mixed with some inexplicable astringency.

……

……

nothing left?

No, isn't there yourself?

Disturbed by the chaotic mood, an inexplicable annoyance quietly emerged from the bottom of my heart, mixed with some dark emotions——

Now that you have decided to give up on yourself, it doesn't matter to me.

Driven by impulse, he almost asked her directly for herself.

"Then..."

The moment she was about to blurt out, she suddenly realized that in her paranoid thinking, only death is the only way to fully own, and she would even ask him to kill her.

The gloom was instantly suppressed, and the words hidden between his teeth were also chewed and swallowed by him. While she was waiting for an answer, she changed her original thinking.

"Then... come and see the world with me."

The world information I queried when I used Yashiko's hunter license some time ago suddenly popped up in my mind.

"The monster forest shrouded in mist, the icy lake in the extreme north of the continent, and the hot and humid jungle along the coast..."

These places are all forbidden areas marked by the Hunter Association, mysterious and dangerous, and hunters disappear inside every year.

"Have you been there?" He asked again to prevent the situation like today from happening again.

Except for the last hot and humid jungle, Anna has never been to the first two, but Anna didn't say it, keeping her head down all the time: "I don't have the strength to go to those places anymore."

The hand holding her tightened slightly.

"It's ok."

He suddenly lowered his head, and lightly touched the back of her cold hand with the tip of his nose. The latter flinched slightly, and was held tightly by him again.

"I'll take you."

He raised his head again and looked at her seriously.

"After I have been to these three places, I will carefully consider killing you."

After saying this sentence, I realized that I had missed the process of asking for the other party's opinion, so I added it again: "How about it?"

She didn't speak, Gojo Satoru was not in a hurry, and waited patiently.

After a long time, she said in an erratic tone: "You don't have to kill me..." As long as it doesn't hurt, anyone can do it.

Wujo Wu interrupted loudly: "No, I came first. Others are not allowed to jump in line. I am very domineering."

This sentence was so unreasonable that even the stagnant Anna was aroused by his natural attitude.

"……what?"

"Since you made a request to me first, you must be responsible."

A trace of discontent can be vaguely heard, but the next sentence that he blurts out magically has a sense of comfort.

"Until then, I won't give you any chance to die."

He spoke calmly, but the content was unexpectedly strong, just like him, he seemed to be careless on the surface, but in fact he had the tenacity to stick to what he believed in.

Immediately, Gojo Satoru met her gaze.

It doesn't matter if he thinks he is domineering or whatever, the most important thing now is to forcibly drag her out of the place where she wants to die.

Even if it's just temporarily pulled out.

Under the dim light, his blue eyes reflected the clear moonlight outside the window, and his tone suddenly softened.

"This sentence is serious."

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