I paid too much for Feiwuluo

The two-day midterm exam is over.

After the exam, she did the stupid thing Misaki Hatta told her not to do, such as "checking the answers with other classmates". I fell to the bottom.

In fact, Alice knew that she shouldn't be so sad, or rather, she knew that she didn't deserve to be so sad.

After all, Kusanagi never asked her how many points to take in each exam, or how many grades she got in the whole grade, and Alice herself rarely put "study", which is the most important thing for students, at the top of the list.

In this era when children from other people's families are sent to cram schools for various interest classes on weekends, wishing to throw other children two blocks away from the starting line, the freedom that Alice can get, in the eyes of some parents In fact, it is quite "excessive".

She never previewed the textbook before class, and seldom completed the exercises other than the homework assigned by the teacher. Even the cramming before the exam, Alice was not serious this time.

To put it bluntly, Alice deserved it for her "failure" this time.

However, the regret of not studying and reviewing well is uncontrollable, especially at the beginning and end of the exam, and this depressing emotion can be magnified and overly obvious.

In this kind of remorse, Alice thought of her tuition, meals, and textbooks, and that Izumo had to go on business trips abroad to make money from time to time, and also remembered that she was wrong on many questions where everyone else was right and only she was wrong...

She is so useless...

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

Warm tears pattered on Alice's knees.

In a few months Alice will be eight years old.

Eight years old means one year older than seven years old-although this may seem like nonsense, Alice has only recently realized it.

Because when she woke up last week, she suddenly found that a small red sweater that she liked a lot in the past two years, which didn't make her neck itchy, suddenly had a short sleeve, and the neck and shoulders became tighter. up.

She tugged for a while before pulling out her head, which had been put into the collar with great difficulty.

Alice's hair was messed up.Although her hair was untidy when she first woke up, it became more messy all of a sudden, which made her a little angry.Because the hair is messier, it means that the time to comb the hair will inevitably be prolonged, and there may be several more knots that will pull the scalp to be combed smoothly.

At that time, Alice's first reaction was that the clothes must have shrunk.

Izumo became a father for the first time, and no one else told him that "children grow up fast, and their clothes need to be two sizes larger to be cost-effective".

So Alice's clothes have always been tailored to her body length, arm length, leg length.

She has encountered the shrinking of clothes more than once. The first time it happened was when she needed to follow the teacher's request-asking them to wash the clothes by themselves at home.Alice directly stuffed a pure wool sweater of her own into the washing machine, pressed the operation buttons on the big box randomly, and went to sleep.

The last miserable woolen sweater, shrunk to the size of a three-year-old, was fished out of the washing machine by ten bundles of Tatara.

She got into trouble, but that time Alice was not scolded for "doing her own laundry".

Because Izumo said that there is a first time for everything, and it is normal not to do it well. I just hope that when she does the laundry next time, she will remember which clothes cannot be put in the washing machine, which clothes need to be soaked in warm water, and which clothes will fade So care must be taken to rinse separately.

He taught her little by little.

Of course the little idiot Alice couldn't remember so many things at once.

So they spent more time on that day making small notices, and the finished small notices were pasted next to the washing machine. Alice also used crayons to paint a lot of villains and flowers in the blank space on the top, so that she went to the next day Zhou Fangzun, who was using the washing machine, was taken aback by her soul explosion.

Alice went downstairs with the tighter and shorter clothes, and told Izumo that her sweater had shrunk again.

But Izumo just took a look and smiled, saying that it wasn't that the sweater had shrunk, it was because you had grown taller, and your hands and feet had become longer.

"Did you forget that you have grown almost six centimeters this summer? Liz." Izumo touched her head, "Speaking of which, it seems that you have grown a little in the past two months. Do you also need shoes? Buy you a new one? Is your leg still hurting these two days?"

Alice shook her head and said it didn't hurt.

Recently, she has been eating calcium tablet jellybeans and drinking bone soup.

There are several empty boxes of calcium tablet jellybeans under the coffee table.

Although they are all transparent plastic products, they are shaped like bears, dogs, and rabbits. They are all cute, and Alice is reluctant to throw them away, thinking that these small jars can be used as piggy banks in the future.

She wants to save some money.

Although Izumo said that Barbara would never go bankrupt, what if?

Thinking of this, Alice couldn't help crying again.

However, there was no one on the first floor of the Barbara at the moment, so Alice whimpered softly for a while, and then gradually calmed down on her own.

This kind of change is not bad, it's just that when everyone thought "ah, now Liz is going to cry again", and then looked at her, they found that she didn't know when she learned to hold back her tears, but she just pursed her mouth in aggrieved way. When she spoke, it made those who watched her grow up feel a little lonely.

Alice was crying—it was easy to see that in her red eyes.

"Who bullied our Liz?" He squatted down holding Alice's hand, and was a little surprised to find that the previous posture was no longer exactly at the same level as Alice's line of sight.

It seems——no, it really grew a lot taller...

Tokata Tara realized with a little belatedly.

Alice faltered and told him that no one bullied her, and that she was crying because she failed the exam, which was too sad.

"I'll definitely study hard next time..." Alice lowered her head in shame, staring at the toes of her shoes.

Of course it would be great for her to have this kind of self-awareness. After all, Tokuta Tara himself has no interest in books. If he is asked to "persuade students" on this occasion, it will hurt his conscience.

But he still has things he can do.

"Then, in order to reward Liz for her serious introspection—" Shi Shu said while standing up, still not letting go of Alice's hand.

Her hands are still small.

Even a guy like him who "looks like he'll fall if blown by the wind" can wrap his palm around her clenched fist.

"Shall we go to the supermarket to buy some snacks?" Shishu Tatara suggested softly.

Not long after the supermarket opened.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see the turntable placed on the open space at the entrance. As long as you spend 8888 yen at one time, you can come here to participate in a lucky draw.

Since Alice has not yet established a clear concept of money, every time she sees a large amount of uncertain value, she will use her favorite ice cream to convert it in her heart.

An ice cream is 150 yen.

8888 yen... Alice borrowed Tatara's mobile phone to use it, and calculated 59.25333 cycles, which is nearly 60.

You have to buy [-] ice creams in one go to get a chance to participate in the lucky draw.

"It's so expensive!" Alice exclaimed, and said, "We don't want to participate, Tatara!"

"Don't worry, I don't have that much money anyway." Duo Liang laughed heartlessly, pulled out a shopping cart from near the entrance, opened the small stool inside and pointed, "Liz, do you want to buy a shopping cart?" Sit here?"

"Izumo said last time that I can't sit on it." Of course Alice wanted to sit on it. "I'm too heavy and I'll crush the stool." What's more important is that she might get stuck in it, then Too dangerous.

"That's it..." Tokuta Tara could only express regret for this.It's a pity that I didn't leave a photo of Alice in the supermarket trolley.

In fact, he seldom does anything with Anna or Alice, because most of the time, ten bundles of tatara are wasted on other than barbara. After all, he wants to buy, learn and want too many things, and If Anna read it correctly, his life was a little too short.

Alice obviously remembered the saying that he didn't have much money on him. Every time she took something off the shelf, she would find ten bunches of Dotara and ask for a mobile phone to perform an addition and subtraction, and then asked him "a lot Do you have enough money?" "May I ask for this?"

So cute.

Feeling that he was hit, Toku Tatara rubbed Alice's face violently, and said "you can buy it, of course you can buy it" with forgetfulness.

Anyway, he still has a fund card for Baru Wuluo to go out to buy ingredients, if it doesn't work, he can "borrow" a little from it.

With such confidence in mind, Shi Shu led Alice to start queuing outside the cash register.

He watched the queue shorten little by little, and he couldn't help but feel that his time and life were constantly passing by in this form of "waiting".

—even if it keeps passing.

But there are always moments when its disappearance is particularly identifiable.

Alice bought some biscuits and jelly, and Shi Bunch bought some ingredients to be used to reproduce potato and beef patties. The total consumption of the two of them was less than 5000, so they were not eligible to participate in the lottery.But outside the entrance of the supermarket, as soon as they arrived, they came across a somewhat unexpected person who they hadn't seen for a long time.

Half a month after the friendship between the Akagumi and the Colorless King, Alice met Yatogami Kuro again.

At this time, the young man was worrying at the entrance of the supermarket. As for what he was worrying about, there were a lot of good guesses, and it probably had something to do with the sharpened knife hidden in the sword bag in his hand.

The Seventh King, the Colorless King, Mr. Miwa Kazuko was hospitalized.

As his only "relative", Yatogami Gouro ran to the supermarket with a knife, wanting to buy some daily necessities, and then remembered that this kind of controlled knife cannot be brought into crowded public places.

Although he doesn't know how to draw a sword, letting Yatogami Gorou do such a "violation of rules and regulations" seems to be too much a condemnation of conscience for an honest child like him.

How about a locker outside the supermarket?

The answer, of course, is no.

Lockers are electronic locks after all.This kind of thing connected to the Internet is mostly unreliable in the mind of Yatogami Gorou, who grew up in the mountains.

What if the electronic lock is broken?

What if the door suddenly opens?

What if the knife placed inside is taken away by someone?

What if the video outside is not complete?

These thoughts swallowed him up.

No matter how precious the sword in his hand is, Yatogami Kuro hesitates.

What could he do now that he was back in the hospital?

Now when I go back to the hospital, I can probably only see Master Yiyan lying on the hospital bed with a pale face.

Yatogami Kuro only had a strong resistance to that kind of picture.Although he had already made considerable psychological preparations before that, when the thing really happened, he realized that those psychological preparations were just a piece of paper, and the reality was easily torn to shreds.

When he heard someone calling his name, he was a little unbelievable again.

After all, there was no one he knew around here, until he later realized that he had entered the territory of the Scarlet King.

The man who took Alice, Yatogami Kuro learned at the last party that this seemingly weak man was actually the third person in the Barbara.

He was really shocked by this, but he didn't show it on his face.It's polite.

Only when the other party offered to take the initiative to help him keep his sword, Yatogami Kuro's eyes on the man changed slightly.

"Is that something important?" the man asked, "If it's inconvenient to bring it in and you feel embarrassed, I can take Alice here and wait for you."

Honestly, he didn't offer any guarantees that Yatogami Kuro would trust him.But maybe it's because men don't look too bad to be bad guys, or maybe people who can raise a child like Alice aren't that bad at all. gave them.

"Trouble, I'll be back soon." After finishing speaking, he ran to the supermarket and completed the purchase in less than 10 minutes.

The hospital that Miwa Yiyan stayed in was the hospital under the name of the Golden Clan where Alice went for an infusion last time. It was not far from Zhenme Town, and the distance from this supermarket was only three stops by bus.

Originally, when Yatogami Kuron thought they were going to part ways, Alice suddenly said, "I want to go see Uncle Yiyan."

This is a fairly normal request.

After all, the last time we met, Alice hugged Miwaichi's waist and said loudly that I really like Uncle Yiyan.

Then go for it.

Yatogami Gorou thought.

It just so happened that he didn't want to face Master Yiyan who was in a coma alone.

This is already the number of times Alice has come to the hospital.

This place is really familiar to her.

Alice has a very good idea of ​​what to do every time she comes to the hospital.

But as a healthy person, it is the first time to visit a hospital.

Walking all the way to the door of the ward, as an elder, Shifu Tatara remembered that they had brought nothing except biscuits, jelly, beef and potatoes.

Fortunately, Yatogami Kuro didn't mind this.

"Your Excellency won't mind a word." He had already put his hand on the doorknob when he said this.

After pushing open the door of the ward, Miwa Ichiko, who was in a coma when Yatogami Kuro left, had woken up.

"Gou Lang, you brought the guests back." The man leaning on the hospital bed smiled at them.

Except for his slightly pale face, the man's appearance was almost the same as that at the dinner party that day.

But just like when you see the sunset, you will know that the night is coming. When you see such a word in three rounds, people will also inexplicably have the cognition of "ah, this person probably won't live long".

The force from the slate consumed him, without stopping for a moment.

As the Sanwa Yiyan of the Colorless King, his ability is foreknowledge.

But it is only a very limited foresight.

It's like he can predict that Yatogami Kuro will bring guests, but he has no way of knowing who the guests are.

Miwa Yiyan was surprised by how many members of the Red Clan visited.But when he saw that the people who visited were the ten bunches of Tara who had invited him to have a meal that day, and Zhou Fang Alice, the adopted daughter of the Red King who suddenly expressed a great affection for him, all this seemed reasonable again.

It can be said that it was a visit to a doctor, but Alice, who was too familiar with the hospital wards, turned her back on the guest.

She didn't regret coming to visit, but when it came time for Alice to watch cartoons every afternoon, she was going to watch cartoons!

So after getting Miwa Yiyan's consent, Alice happily ran to turn on the TV.

The TV was facing the three-wheel one-word hospital bed. Of course, it was impossible for Alice to climb onto the bed. She just dragged a small bench and sat beside the three-wheel one-word hospital bed.Shaking his head and humming along with the cheerful OP inside, like a happy pig.

According to Tokuta Tara's understanding, the end of the cartoon is followed by the viewing time of Alice's unshakable fearless knight every day.

After confirming whether his little princess would move out for a while, Tokuta Tara walked out of the ward, called Kusanagi Izumo, and told him that he didn't have to wait for them for dinner, and that he would take Alice out to eat before going back.

—— After watching the cartoons and special photos, saying goodbye to Mr. Miwa, leading Alice to her favorite family restaurant to eat a hamburger, and finally returning to Barbara, a fulfilling day will pass like this.

At least that's what Juku Tara planned before Sanwa Yiyan's sudden respiratory failure.

But when they left, only the noisy footsteps and conversations of the nurses and doctors, and Yatogami Kuro's apology of "not far away" were left in their ears.

The TV that was playing the opening song of the Fearless Knight was regarded as the source of the noise, and the main power was directly unplugged.

Alice didn't like the hamburger meat for dinner.

The little guy might be scared.

Ten beams of Tatara felt very guilty about this.

He held Alice's hand tightly all the way back.

"Totara..."

When they were two streets away from the Barbara, Alice suddenly asked, "Will Zun, Tatara, and Izumo all die before Anna and I?"

Toku Tara was taken aback by her sudden question, and then thought for a while before answering: "If there are no accidents, it will."

"Would you be if you weren't sick?"

"I know how."

"Then, can you guys live long enough for me and Anna to grow up?"

Alice stared, with an expression that seemed to say, "I've already relaxed so many requirements, so it's okay now!"

But after a lengthy silence, Todara stretched out his hand to straighten Alice's soft hair, and promised her in a voice that was neither too loud nor too small, and with a bright smile from the heart: "We are all happy to live until the end of our lives." that time."

While talking they returned to the Barbara.

After the afterglow of the setting sun bid farewell to the empty streets, a deep black drowsiness soon came from all directions, embracing the whole city.

Before going to bed, Alice lay on her side and told Anna about what she had seen and heard throughout the day.Their diametrically opposed hair strands are intertwined, and after looking at them for a long time, they don't feel that black is black and white is white, but gray.

"Anna..."

Alice was sleepy and yawning.

"Will Uncle Yiyan recover from his illness?"

Anna didn't speak, nor shook her head and nodded.

It was rare for her to remain absolutely silent about Alice's questions.

Maybe this question is too difficult, and Anna doesn't know.

Alice's eyelids were heavy, she was very tired today, but just as she was about to fall asleep, Anna spoke again.

Anna said, "What does Liz think?"

"……feel?"

"Liz hopes that Mr. Yiyan's illness will recover?"

"...um..." Alice was sleepy, but she nodded.

Alice couldn't remember whether Anna spoke again after that.

She didn't know how long she had slept, but when she opened her eyes again, the surroundings turned white.

A boy with extremely light blond hair stood in front of her.

Alice remembered him, and remembered that he had said that people usually called him [Slate].

But wasn't he sleeping at home just now?

Alice looked around, back and forth, until a long sigh made her look back at the boy in front of her.

"The price of this wish cannot be offset by illness, have you really considered it? Alice."

His voice was as indifferent as ice and snow.