Thirteen brothers urged me to get married

70.

"I like you."

"I have liked you for a long time."

"I won't give up this time."

Like an auditory hallucination, what Zhou Fangzun said before flashed by Xuezhi's ears.

Xuezhi's wavering heart became firm.

"If you want to repay me, you don't have to." She said, "I didn't do that four years ago because of you. It was for the lives of more innocent people. You don't have to thank me."

Zhou Fangzun did not agree with her statement.

"But you saved me," he said. "It's true."

Of course Xuezhi knew this was the truth, but she still wanted to say: "By the way, you don't need to take this matter to heart."

Zhou Fangzun paused under her gaze for a few seconds before speaking again with a dull voice: "You know it's impossible."

Xuezhi inexplicably read the grievance from his attitude.

"Cough." She put away her untimely conjectures, and put on a serious expression to fool him: "Nothing is impossible, you can act as if you didn't think about it."

Zhou Fangzun looked into her eyes: "But the fact is that I have already remembered."

"Then just pretend you didn't remember it." Xuezhi said in a cheeky manner.

"I've said that you don't need to repay me. I'm not being polite to you. I'm telling you what I think seriously."

"Can you stop caring about what you think? You don't want your reward to bother me, do you?"

It was obviously just an excuse to change the subject, but when it came to the end, Xuezhi herself couldn't tell whether she was talking about an excuse or the truth.

Zhou Fangzun looked at her tightly pursed lips, and sighed imperceptibly: "I see."

Just when Xuezhi thought he had fooled the past and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Zhou Fangzun said again: "Then can you tell me, what did you exchange?"

Xuezhi: ...

Why can't I get around this one?

Xue Zhi stared at Zhou Fangzun with vigour: "You have to know what to do? You haven't given up yet, and you want to do something secretly, right?"

Zhou Fangzun looked away: "No."

"Just want to know."

Xuezhi looked carefully at Zhou Fangzun's expressionless face, but didn't see anything.

"No, you don't want to know." She said deliberately

"Anyway, it's not something important, it's a superfluous thing like an appendix. Losing it has no impact on my life at all, and you don't have to apologize to me for it."

Zhou Fangzun paused again and fell into a longer silence than before.

After a while, he said softly, "I see."

"Finally got it over with."

Xuezhi closed her eyes and let out a long sigh of relief in her heart.

Once the tense spirit is relaxed, fatigue and sleepiness will surge up like a tide.

Xuezhi felt that her head was a little groggy, her eyelids became especially heavy, and her vision gradually became blurred.

Zhou Fangzun sat there with his eyes downcast, seemed to be lost in his own thoughts, and didn't speak for a while.

Xuezhi finally couldn't support the heavy eyelids, and Zhou Fangzun's figure was blurred into several in his sleepy eyes, interlaced with reality and reality.

She gave up resisting, letting exhaustion and sleepiness overwhelm her.

"It shouldn't be my fault. I lost my diligence and became like this."

This was Xuezhi's last thought before falling into a deep sleep.

……

Probably due to the wrong time and place, Xuezhi slept restlessly this time.

She felt her consciousness was very clear, she was very aware that she was dreaming, a lucid dream.

Between half-dream and half-awake, it seemed that something was pulling her nerves, and it seemed that there was a fire burning her.

She was in an empty space in the middle of a raging fire that burned her without actually hurting her.

Across the boundless sea of ​​flames, she saw a familiar figure reflected in the jumping flames.

Could it be because Zhou Fangzun was by her side before falling asleep that she dreamed of him?

Xuezhi looked at that figure from behind, and was dazed for a moment.

He has red hair that is hotter than flames, his broad shoulders are like his broad heart, and his firm arms once brought her an indescribable sense of security.

"later……"

The flame danced, and his back appeared and disappeared.

"What happened next?"

The flames burned more and more intensely, and his back became more and more illusory.

"Ah, later, later he disappeared."

His figure rose higher and higher with the dancing flames, and finally fell apart the moment he reached the top.

Fine sparks drifted down from the sky, like a red snow, and finally merged into the flames.

"fraud……"

Whispering with a slight trembling, like fragile glass, like clouds that disperse easily, like fallen leaves in winter, which can be blown off by a slight gust of wind.

Zhou Fangzun stopped when he covered Xuezhi with a blanket.

He looked at Xuezhi, she was curled up in the corner of the sofa, a pitiful and cute little ball.

He saw her slender, curly eyelashes quivering uneasily.

"Are you so restless in your dreams?"

Or it is precisely because in the dream that it reflects the truest state of his heart?

Zhou Fangzun gently covered her with the blanket and stroked her hair carefully.

Because of supernatural powers, his palms were warmer than ordinary people, and the stroking movements seemed to dispel her inner anxiety, her trembling eyelashes stabilized, and her rapid breathing became even.

"The liar...are you talking about me?"

Zhou Fangzun looked at her soothing eyebrows quietly, and painted her appearance in his heart with his eyes, just like what he has often done these years.

Only this time, she was real in front of him.It was not something he had imagined based on his long-awaited memory.

Zhou Fangzun's thoughts drifted away uncontrollably, towards their first acquaintance.

Xuezhi is a very approachable person, completely different from him who is cold and inarticulate.

Many people want to be friends with her, and she is very happy to be friends with them.

At that time, he didn't even remember how many people there were in the class, and there were not many who could be named.

Xuezhi and him happened to be sitting next to each other since the first grade of middle school.So they got acquainted logically, and then became acquainted with each other under the surprised eyes of everyone, and became friends.

The two of them, together with his only other friend Kusanagi Izumo, naturally formed a fixed action team.

Such a fixation lasts for four years. I don't know who said first that we will always be friends and stay together.When they came back to their senses, the hands of the three of them were tightly overlapped and inseparable.

Zhou Fangzun still remembered the bright smiles on the faces of Xuezhi and Izumo, the eyes that were more dazzling than the sun in the sky, and his shining eyes reflected in their pupils.

Later, he was selected to become the new generation of Red King.

The Red King of the previous generation fell to his sword and died, taking all his clans and [-] innocent lives in Kanagawa.

The lesson learned from the past was in front of him, and it was firmly pressed on his heart.

That is the fate of the Red King.

At that time, he had vaguely understood his feelings for Xuezhi, and it was precisely because he understood that he had no choice.

For the first time in his life, he chose to escape.

It was also the only time in his life that he chose to escape.

Not long ago, he thought he could firmly say that he did not regret his original choice.

But at this moment, he finally understood that it was because he was too self-righteous, and it was because he didn't understand Xuezhi too much.That's why he makes decisions on his own and is obsessed with obsession.

Perhaps, he was wrong.

Zhou Fangzun watched Xuezhi's sleeping face quietly for a long, long time.

……

When Xuezhi woke up from the sofa that day, she found that she was not only covered with a blanket, but also with Zhou Fangzun's thick coat.

At that time Zhou Fangzun had already left the Pavilion of Dawn.

In the next few days, Xuezhi didn't see Zhou Fangzun again, and even asked Yusuke to bring him the coat by the way.

Xuezhi, who successfully concealed the disappearance of [Love] in exchange for the Dresden Slate, was not in a relaxed mood as expected.

She vaguely sensed that something in her heart was quietly changing, but she couldn't tell what it was.

This question bothered her and made her a little absent-minded for several days.

The brothers thought it was because she was about to go to the armed detective agency.Even her explanation that she was actually willing to go to the Armed Detective Agency didn't change their minds.

Maybe it's mainly because she just denied their guesses, but she couldn't tell why she was so absent-minded—it sounded like she was trying to perfunctory them.

So the younger brothers began to come to Xuezhi from time to time, or say some sweet words to make her happy, or do some silly things to make her happy, or implicitly persuade her not to force herself to do things she doesn't want to do.

After experiencing at least five waves of such things, Xuezhi finally broke away from the state of absent-mindedness and became dumbfounded.

But it is undeniable that the goals of the younger brothers have been achieved.

She felt warm in her heart.

Xuezhi decided not to think about it if he couldn't figure it out, let nature take its course, and the boat would naturally go straight to the bridge.

Maybe without her having to think about it, the answer would pop up to her one day.

She tidied up her mood, adjusted her mentality, and recharged her energy for the upcoming social animal life.

Although he looked willing in front of his younger brothers, he really thought so in his heart.But due to laziness, Xuezhi will inevitably procrastinate in his actions.

Then she harvested a hardworking Mr. Snail.

Atobe with super mobility? Mr. Snail? Keigo, when chatting with Yukie, heard her casual complaint, and volunteered to send her to Yokohama.

Xuezhi didn't think much about it at the time, and agreed without hesitation.

When she hung up the phone, she realized that it seemed to be a little troublesome for him.

However, after half a day, she changed her mind.

Listening to the younger brothers discussing who would send her to Yokohama, and even scrambling to live with her in Yokohama like Mi did last time, she had to be thankful that she had agreed to Keigo Atobe.

This would give her an excuse not to let her brothers follow her.

After all, this time is different from last time.

The last time I was going to visit relatives, it didn't matter at all to bring my brother to live with me for a few days.

But this time she was going to work, and it would be a bit rude to bring her younger brother with her when she went to work.

The younger brothers in her family have their own things to do, and they cannot go to work in the Armed Detective Agency like Tanizaki Naomi, the younger sister of Tanizaki Junichiro, the detective of the Armed Detective Agency.

After Xuezhi and her younger brothers stood at the door to say goodbye one by one, they sat in Keigo Atobe's co-pilot and breathed a sigh of relief.

"The love of my brothers is really a sweet burden."

Xuezhi thought so.