I paid too much for Feiwuluo

Alice returned to Barbara a week later.

When I could feel the colder winter, Izumo Kusanagi arrived at the gate of Barbara on time at [-]:[-] am as usual this morning.

He parked his car in a parking space about 200 meters away from Barbara.

Regardless of whether it is in the scorching summer or the bitterly cold winter, Alice will think that the 200 meters is too long.

In order to avoid the harsh sunshine and bleak air, she will always work harder than in physical education class, and launch a full charge like burning her life during the 200-meter distance.

Occasionally she would fall because she was running too fast, and occasionally she would stop in the middle of the rush, and then stand there waiting for Kusanagi Izumo to come to her side and reach out for a hug.

But no matter whether it is two sets of footprints or one set of footprints, those accumulated water after wading through the sprinkler, fluttering from the sky and piling up on the road, the direction of the toe of the shoes is always aimed at the Barbara.

He took out the key and turned the lock cylinder. Behind the heavy mahogany door, in the bar with a faint smell of alcohol, Sigma was checking the sanitation.

"Mr. Kusanagi, good morning."

Yesterday's sanitation was done by Hatta and the others who had a game club here, and it seems that all the snacks left over from that time have been cleaned up.

As for everyone else besides Sigma, none of them are up yet.

Kusanagi Izumo smiled, and he put the insulated box in his hand on the bar, letting Sigma eat his breakfast first.

It's cold in winter, and things cool quickly. It's okay to eat together after everyone wakes up in summer.

Kusanagi Izumo came to the second floor of Barbara.

Standing in front of Anna and Alice's room, he knocked on the door with poor sound insulation - if the sound insulation effect was too good, he was worried that Alice would deliberately pretend not to hear the door when knocking on the door on class days .

The child grows up day by day, and becomes more and more ghostly every day.

Knocked three times, waited another 3 minutes, then clicked, and the door opened.

The small silver-white head peeking out from behind the door was Anna who was already dressed, but her hair was still a bit disheveled, it seemed that she hadn't washed it yet.

"Good morning, Anna." Kusanagi greeted her.

"Good morning, Izumo." Anna burst into a small smile, like a hexagonal snowflake falling into the palm of her hand.

"Is Liz up?"

Ana shook her head, then she took a step back to let Kusanagi Izumo out of the way.

So Kusanagi Izumo came to Anna and Alice's bedside.

He said two years ago that he would change the beds for the two of them.

The kind with bunk beds, the kind with slides.

At first Alice was delighted with the proposal.

But after she found out that she slept with her sister and could roll into each other's bed when it was cold, she changed her mind.

So far, Kusanagi Izumo has not been able to put this plan on the agenda again.

"Liz, Liz—" He patted the bulging bun made of quilts, knowing without even thinking that Alice was curled up in it.

She recently started to like to sleep on her stomach for some reason, and took her back to the apartment to live with her on weekends, and when she woke up, Kusanagi Izumo could see her sleeping like an arch bridge.

Xiao Shanbao trembled.

But it was limited to shaking.Then nothing happened.

"If you don't get up again, breakfast will be cold."

Kusanagi Izumo could only pat and shout again, and repeated the same steps several times before Alice slowly came out of the bed.

Kusanagi Izumo waited for her to recover.

Because only Alice who has come to her senses can communicate. Before she can react, no matter how much she says, she will go in and out of her left ear and right ear.

"...Izumo, good morning."

After another 2 minutes, Alice lying on the bed blinked her eyes a few times.Recently, her baby fat has gradually begun to fade significantly, and the round and cuteness that belongs to young children on her body has gradually melted away like cotton candy.

"Bonjour, Machérie." Kusanagi bent down and kissed her cheek, it was a little hot, it seemed to be a low-grade fever, or the heat from being covered in the quilt for too long.

"Are there any discomforts?"

Alice shook her head.

In short, after being wiped clean by Kusanagi Izumo while saying "uuuuuuuuuuuu", Alice who was carried downstairs was favored by the thermometer again.

"Ah, Liz, are you sick again?" Ten bunches of Tatara came over and fed Alice half a strawberry.

"Beep-"

A number jumped out on the electronic screen, 37.2.

Although she is not yet old enough to become a doctor after a long illness, she now has an accurate understanding of the normal body temperature of ordinary people.

"That's why I'm not sick!" Seeing the number on the thermometer, Alice immediately retracted her stretched neck and retorted confidently.

However, although her flushed cheeks look very cute, it still makes people worry about her physical condition.

"Oh——" Shiji Tatara prolonged the ending, with a smile on his face.

He put those blueberries that Alice didn't like very much back into her small bowl - because of quality control issues, the little girl had eaten a few sour ones before, so sour that she wished she could shrink up , Since then, I have become wary of the fruit blueberry.

"Then in order to prevent diseases, you should not be picky eaters."

Alice had no choice but to frown and swallow these small fruits that were occasionally sour.

At about nine o'clock, the wild Red King appeared on the first floor with short, limp hair that hadn't had time to gel.

This is rare, after all, he usually wakes up late and can't even keep up with laughing at Alice's slow eating speed.

Everyone looked at him with a look of "wow, it's going to rain red in the sky".

Zhou Fangzun frowned, dissatisfied: "What are you doing?"

However, everyone turned their heads, and no one answered the question. Only Kusanagi Izumo asked him if he wanted some fruit salad.

"Is there any meat?" Zhou Fangzun asked.

"No."

"Then no." The Red King flatly refused, and then he dug out two pieces of thick bacon from the refrigerator, cracked two eggs into the pan, and fried two slices of bread.

He took the tray back to the bar and sat down. Alice, who had already jumped off the high stool, lay on his knees, eagerly watching.

"Call me Dad." Zhou Fangzun said while cutting a small piece of bacon.

"Father!" Alice opened her mouth immediately after yelling, like a chick waiting to be fed, grandly welcomed this kind of smoked food that Kusanagi didn't usually give her.

But a fruit salad, a glass of oat milk, a small scone, and a piece of thick bacon are obviously a bit too much for Alice.

Within half an hour after the meal, she began to hiccup.

Kusanagi proposed to take a walk outside, and Alice immediately agreed, but she had other requests.

"Izumo, can I take Ryuko with me?"

Liuliuzi is the big goose that Bishuiliu turned into. This is the name Alice gave him.

It is probably because she has been separated from her pet several times, and Alice does not love it as much as she does for Big Black and Little White.

But having a very special pet seems to be a good thing for children, not to mention that it is quite smart, and can even help Alice write arithmetic problems with a pen dangling from its neck... Although Kusanagi Izumo found out This unhealthy trend was immediately stopped, and Alice's favor for this big goose has increased a lot.

"But supermarket rogues can't go in." Kusanagi Izumo patted her head, "Leave it at home, shall we go for a walk in the afternoon?"

"Okay." Alice didn't insist.

Kusanagi took her by the hand, put Alice on the back seat and fastened the seat belt, and then drove her to the nearest shopping mall from Zhenmecho.

The Ocean Ball Park in the shopping mall is still in operation, and the business is still booming, but Alice is no longer as interested in it as she was when she was a child.

"Because Alice is an older child!"

Now Alice probably prefers more exciting amusement parks with more projects.But her righteous claim still made Kusanagi couldn't help laughing.

If nothing else, it should be a peaceful day.

Going to the supermarket to buy vegetables together, discussing what I want to eat today, going home to cook, reviewing what I have learned before, watching cartoons, this is Alice's day.

But the accident still happened—simply impolite, maybe meeting the biological parents of an adopted child is not an accident, but Kusanagi Izumo subconsciously used this word.

He met the couple at the gate of the Barbara.

What made Kusanagi Izumo instantly understand the situation was not Alice who called "Mom and Dad" after looking at them in silence for a long time, nor was it the self-introduction made by this gentle and elegant couple to him.

It's their eyes, their noses, their mouths...these things can only be resembling if they are irreplaceable and come from blood.

Apparently, Alice inherited her father's eye color and her hair color and facial features a little more like her mother's.

Duo Liang served them coffee, and the couple added several cubes of sugar to it, just like Alice—or, like them, Alice had a slightly sweeter taste.

As for why Alice is so spoiled, he seems to have found the answer from the parents who allowed Alice to hang around their necks like a little koala.

So, what are they doing here today?

Didn't you say you've been traveling abroad?

...is planning to take Alice with...

"Kusanagi—"

"Kusanagi—"

"Kusanagi Izumo!"

"Yes!"

He straightened his back and drove away the things that kept him thinking about in his mind, and then found that everyone was looking at him worriedly.

"Coffee, I spilled it on my clothes." Zhou Fangzun tapped the brown water stain on his skirt with his chin.

"... Ah... sorry." Kusanagi Izumo returned to his usual look of ease, "I made you two laugh."

But if he was really comfortable, he wouldn't be able to forget what Alice's parents had said in the past half hour.

"Izumo?"

Alice, who was hanging around her mother's neck, came to him, hugging his leg and shaking it.

Ahh... Kusanagi Izumo looked at her, wanted to stretch out his hand, but dropped it again.

always feel...

In front of real parents...

It sucks to be a fake self.

After all, when Alice was by his side... she suffered a lot, didn't she?

"Is Izumo uncomfortable somewhere?"

This problem seems to have arisen only this morning.

It's just that the person who asked the question and the scene where the question was asked are very different, or, in fact, there is no difference, it's just that the person being asked is in a different state of mind.

"No." He smiled and touched her cheek, as if it was not as red and hot as when he just woke up.

"Then, it's almost time, and we should go too."

The Arisugawas put down their coffee cups and stood up.

"Eh?!"

Realizing his gaffe, Kusanagi Izumo was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly reacted: "Aren't you two going to stay and have dinner together?"

And what about Alice?

Didn't he come...to take her away?

From the half-bucket of adopters, and bring her back to something better for her.

"No need, seeing that she is doing better than before as Kusuo said, we have nothing to worry about." Mrs. Arisukawa laughed.

Alice's dimple resembled hers, but not so much that it was impossible to tell them apart.

After all, they are different individuals.

Linked together by blood ties.

"However, can you talk to me alone before you leave, Mr. Kusanagi."

Facing Alice's biological father's proposal, Kusanagi Izumo could only nod: "Of course."

They came together outside the barbara's door, compared to the inside where the heating was fully turned on, the outside where there was only a light snowfall at night was much colder.

Alice's biological father was an ordinary person, and he shivered as soon as he walked out the door, but Kusanagi Izumo was not disturbed by the chill outside at all.

He said many words of thanks to Kusanagi Izumo.

Kusanagi Izumo didn't dare answer a word.

He also said a lot of entrusted words to Kusanagi Izumo.

From these sentences, Kusanagi Izumo could fully understand how much they loved her.

"But why not stay with her?" Or take her along.

If you really love her.

Kusanagi Izumo couldn't help asking.

And his question made Alice's real father stunned for a moment.

Then, this ordinary man who gave birth to an extremely unusual child with his wife raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

"I asked that question too," he said.

"Eh?"

Hadn't Alice asked them that question?

As if seeing his doubts, the man explained again: "It's my wife who asked me. I also asked myself."

"If I really love my daughter so much, why don't I stay with her? If we really love our daughter, why do we feel pain because of her.

"Obviously they are parents, but they left her behind and went abroad to pursue their dreams, and they did something like—no, just evading responsibility..."

Kusanagi Izumo remained silent. He had never experienced Alice's childhood, nor had he experienced the experience of being dominated by Alice with words.

He could not make any accurate evaluation of this, so he could only keep silent.

"Then, Mr. Kusanagi, do you want to guess? Who answered our confusion." Alice's father looked at him.

"Answer..." Kusanagi Izumo really couldn't figure it out.

If he just said "understand" or "reassure" them, Kusanagi Izumo might still use Alice's name as an answer.

But what this man is talking about now is "answer".

It is a more calm, more clear, and more able to reach a reconciliation with everything you are attached to.

"I feel like you've already guessed it but you're not sure..." Seeing him stunned for a long time, Alice's father laughed, "Actually, it was also Alice. However, the child was already 12 years old at that time, and now he can only act like a baby." She still looks quite different, haha. To be honest, I haven’t seen her like this for many years...I kind of miss it.”

"I'm also starting to look forward to Liz's 12-year-old appearance."

Kusanagi Izumo spoke his truth.

But he was still more curious about what 12-year-old Alice said.

Alice's father quickly answered his doubts.

"She told me that everyone's love is in a box."

Because it is packed in a box, it is usually not shown to outsiders; because it is packed in a box, the quantity is limited, and everyone who cannot meet will give a little.

Because there is more than one person who can love, so the love in the box can be distributed to others is also limited.

And when I was very young, I already received a lot of love from my parents, so when I grow up, it is only natural that my parents can no longer give me as much love as they did when I was a child.

Sorasuke said, I have overdrawn my parents' love - no, I don't think Sorasuke said too much, because it really makes sense...

So... If only, when I was born next time, I could be an ordinary child.

"My wife held her and cried for a long time. It doesn't matter to tell her that she is not an ordinary child. We are still willing to love her..." The man smiled reminiscently and with a little bit of bitterness.

"It's just that we are really tired..."

"So, Mr. Kusanagi."

"Thank you."

"thank you all."

"Alice, please."

"Please go on, please go on, keep her by your side like your own child."

Standing at the door to see off Arisugawa and his wife, and turning back a few meters inside the Barbara, Kusanagi Izumo felt as if he was stepping on clouds with every step.

It wasn't until he bumped into a corner of the bar and hurt himself that he realized that Alice, who had been by his side, was looking at him continuously and worriedly.

"Izumo... you really don't have any discomfort, do you?"

Looking at those big blue eyes that were about to cry, Kusanagi Izumo felt that if he answered affirmatively now, this little guy would burst into tears on the spot, and then put the news of "Izumo is stupid" Spread throughout the Barbara.

So Kusanagi Izumo took her question very seriously.

"No." He picked up Alice, weighed her up, and looked straight into her eyes, "Really not."

"Really?"

"Really, really."

"Really really?"

"Really really really."

"Won't Izumo find me annoying?"

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

"Because my mother just said that she came back to see me during the Chinese New Year, and I asked her 'really, really, really', and my mother asked me if I usually talk to Izumo like this."

"and then?"

"Then I said yes. Mom said I won the first prize..." Alice mumbled, holding Izumo Kusanagi's neck tightly, and muttered in a low voice, "But I didn't win the lottery."

"Does Liz want to win the lottery?"

"Think about it!"

"why?"

"If you win the lottery, you can give it to Yun Anna Zun Tatara to buy a lot of things! Misaki also said last time that she wants a new skateboard! Oh! And Li Fu! Li Fu said that he has gained a lot of weight and wants to buy new clothes, but he is running out of money Woolen cloth……"

Alice babbled out every wish she remembered, like pouring beans.

Until lunch, dinner, returning to the apartment with Kusanagi Izumo, and before going to bed, she was still struggling with the question of whether she would win the lottery and buy gifts for everyone.

"Okay, my dear little money fan, it's time for you to sleep."

Kusanagi turned on the night light by the bed and patted her back lightly.

"All right……"

After a while, Alice fell asleep.

She slept soundly and peacefully.

It's just that Kusanagi Izumo knows very well that although this little guy looks really good now, in the middle of the night, she will start doing radio gymnastics and military boxing in bed again.

But she is still cute.

Even if she is always crying, always making trouble, and always making people worry, she is still cute.

Thank you, a certain god who is afraid of cockroaches, for sending you to the door of Barbara on that snowy night.

Kusanagi Izumo kissed her cheek.

"Good night."

Dearest Alice.