soul stone

After taking a bath, I changed into the summer clothes of the monastery on a snowy night.The pure white cotton dress that originally dragged to the ankles could barely touch the knees at this moment.The black round-toed cloth shoes were more than one size too small, and they squeezed my feet.Xue Ye struggled for a while, finally threw off her shoes, wrapped the three-section gun in wet old clothes, carried the same wet boots, and walked out barefoot.The corridor at the door was empty, and there was the faint sound of marbles colliding at the end of the gray stone bricks.She followed the sound to the corner, where the green-haired child was squatting and playing with marbles.The moment he saw her, he immediately got up as if he had been electrocuted, his big green eyes widened with surprise.

"Have you come out? I didn't hear footsteps at all. You are indeed the 'Queen'!"

Xue Ye approached him, her tone was indifferent: "Where is Sister Moelle?"

"My lord nun is presiding over the graduation test, so I'll be your guide." Casey smiled shyly, her mouth curled into a crooked arc.

"..." Xue Ye blinked, "You... how old are you this year?"

"13 years old. Graduated last year." The little boy ran up and down while answering, "And won the title of outstanding graduate, hehe."

Xue Ye followed him closely.Casey's movement looks easy, but the speed is fast.She deliberately slowed down, and Casey in front of her also stopped, turning her head to look over.

"What's the matter, Lady Queen, I'll be at the restaurant soon."

Xue Ye pursed her lips and continued to follow.

The two came to the restaurant with a deep layout, the confessional room where the graduation exam took place 15 years ago, and the bell tower with the rusted iron gate.Everywhere she went, Kathy recounted what she had done there, every detail——

"When you first came here, you used a wooden spoon to goug out other people's eyeballs. It's really amazing!"

"You can take the graduation test at the age of eight, you are indeed the 'king' and 'queen'!"

"I spent a day and a night in this kind of place in winter. This kind of tenacity is a role model for Casey!"

Looking down from the bell tower, it seems that the corpse that was pushed down the stairs was still lying there hard.

"Hey, Mrs. Queen."

"……what?"

"Do you want to go and see Xia Tian?" Casey pointed to the cemetery on the hillside not far away, his black front teeth shaking.

"No need." Xue Ye turned and left.The iron door made the noise of a cat scratching at the blackboard, making her inexplicably irritable.

"Hey? Why?" Casey caught up with curiosity.

"He...has gone elsewhere."

The little boy nodded knowingly.He thought that Xue Ye was referring to the kingdom of heaven, but what Xue Ye thought in his heart was that it existed in the real world, somewhere thousands of miles away.

"I want to see the old room."

"Yes." Cassie took Xue Ye's hand and led her to a cold and narrow bedroom.There are two single beds in the room, and a cat with pointed ears sits by the window.Hearing the human voice, the cat turned its head quickly, looked around the faces of the two, patted the window sill with its fluffy tail, then turned its head slowly, and continued to look out the window.

"This cat, I saw it 15 years ago." It was it that witnessed Villar steal Xia Tian's soul stone.

"Hey~? Are you kidding me, 'Queen'? A cat can't live more than 15 years. This one, maybe it's its offspring." As he spoke, the little boy rushed over with lightning speed, Pick up the piece of fur on the back of the cat's neck and bring it to Xue Ye.

【Hello, remember me? 】

Xue Ye tried to say a few words to it, but the other party turned a deaf ear to it, stretched its legs and feet and scratched in the air.After several attempts, Xue Ye turned her back and said, "Let it go."

"Hey? Why?" Casey's big eyes flickered, and she rushed to Xue Ye with the cat in her arms.

Xue Ye bit her lower lip and clenched her fists.

"Hey, tell me, why?" The little boy didn't notice Xue Ye's emotional changes at all.

"There are so many whys!"

The sudden outburst startled Kathy.He took half a step back and asked tremblingly, "What... what's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"

In the little boy's green eyes, Xue Ye reflected himself that Xue Ye had never seen before.She held down her rapidly rising and falling chest, barely calmed down, and said softly, "You did nothing wrong. Well, give me back my things."

The moment she looked into her eyes, Casey suddenly trembled all over, as if she had been shocked by an electric shock.He froze for a while, then nodded stiffly:

"OK."

Without warning, the stone slab under his feet began to shake, like squares on a puzzle board, left and right, up and down, misplaced and spliced, and the removed floor was dark and bottomless.Just as Xue Ye was concentrating on the changing ground and maintaining balance, the field of vision was suddenly filled with white.Taking a closer look, she saw a thousand paper cranes resting on the tip of her nose, fluttering its wings slowly.Just as I was about to reach out to grab it, it suddenly flew away.

"This is……!"

Relieved, she finally saw clearly that the whole room was filled with colorful origami cranes, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple, illuminating the dark hut like stars, each hovering in the air like a hummingbird, flying at high speed. The flapping wings are difficult to identify with the naked eye, like a group dance of butterflies or a gathering of elves.

"As you ordered, I brought your things." Kathy's watery green eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and she squeezed the pointed-eared cat's neck tightly with both hands.The cat's suffocating neigh pierced the illusion-like beauty in front of him.

"Let it go." Xue Ye stared at Casey's hand.

"Why?" Kathy tilted her head, her fingers sunk deep into the cat's fur, out of sight.

Xue Ye lowered her eyes, quickly switched to the "extreme" state, walked up to the boy, stared into his eyes, and said word by word:

"I said, let it go."

Before the words were finished, the white paper crane just flew over quietly and turned into a dazzling white light——

Boom!

A sudden explosion echoed across the room.Casey shook her hands, and the pointed-eared cat fell to the ground with a hoo hoo panting sound.The little boy took half a step forward, stepped on a few drops of fresh blood on the floor, rubbed his cheek with his hand, and opened his palm.There was a bright red in the palm.As the smoke and dust cleared, he stared at the girl with unsteady steps in disbelief, his innocent face suddenly distorted.

"It's you, it's what you want to see! Now, it's not my idea, it's what you want."

Opposite him, Xue Ye's body swayed twice, the viscous liquid bound her black hair into locks, staining the white dress from her shoulders to her waist red.She slowly raised her head, the left half of her face was bloody and bloody, while the right half of her face was as pure as snow, no pain, no anger, no sadness, only...

From a very high place, overlooking the night scene, it seems to be numb and indifferent.

The green-haired kid blinked twice, and suddenly laughed loudly: "You're not the 'Queen', and the 'Queen' wouldn't be so ugly! Hahaha, ugly! Ugly!"

Xue Ye threw off the clothes that wrapped the weapon, and the air around her body extended to the blade of "Chun Weng" - Nian's advanced application skill "Zhou"!

"Kathy... What did that paper crane say when it exploded just now? I didn't catch it."

"That's right, the sound of the explosion affected the playback effect. Let's add a delay next time..."

Casey lowered his head in thought, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the girl who was close at hand, grinning, revealing the black holes in the front teeth.

"Like just now, if I feel that I am in danger, they will surround me." The little boy narrowed his eyes, "You look like a king, right?"

At this time, two cold lights flashed, and the thousand paper cranes ran towards her like a loyal guard.In addition, the blade of "Zhou" splits flying bombs one after another, and in the gap between the explosions that rise and fall like waves, Xue Ye captures the intermittent whispers of Zhihe:

"...January 1 Today is the second day since I started keeping the diary. I found that... I can't talk. Except with Villars."

"...Villard came to see me on February 80, 2. He stole the nun's... but I didn't take it."

"...I asked him on the 3rd, but he...he said he was not qualified."

"August 1980...ask again, he has some...but I won't give up."

"...October 10th I want to get well. I want to go out and live safely in the outside world... I really want to."

"...November 11, 21 must first win the support of..."

"December 1980, 12, finally figured out what to do. But he never said yes."

"...January 81, 1 is almost a year old. Anyway, I want him to nod..."

Like a precisely programmed machine, the origami cranes exploded in sequence according to the order of the diary.Those diaries were written by her during the period of aphasia, and after she finished writing, she folded them into thousands of paper cranes, one a day, and lasted for a whole year.Now, these origami cranes have been turned into flying bombs, blowing up the cemetery where memories are deeply buried, leaving it in a mess, with bones everywhere, and devastated.

Xue Ye spun around with the knife, and the paper cranes that rushed towards him were like a nebula surrounding a center.She no longer needs to use her mind ability, so she doesn't need to enter "jue", use "week" when the blade touches the bomb, use "hard" when the skin touches the bomb, and use "hard" if multiple points touch at the same time.Of course, Casey, who can't read, couldn't notice these quick switches invisible to the naked eye.The paper cranes around him left him, and he lost the feeling of "king", which made him very unhappy.At this moment, the girl with only half of her face stopped in front of him, and he realized that all the hundreds of bombs had been dealt with.

"Wow...that's amazing, as expected of the 'Queen'! Casey was wrong! Casey knew it was wrong!" He backed up while shouting, but was forced to the wall.

"Where did you find them?" Xue Ye looked into his eyes and asked.

"While digging the tunnel." The little boy's eyes suddenly became dull.

"Did you dig the tunnel when you came here?"

"To dig outside, I went to every room in the monastery to determine the location of the excavation. However, I didn't seem to have fun in it after I went out, so I came back again."

"That's it." Xue Ye closed her eyes, then opened them again, "Hey, there is another white paper crane... where is it?"

According to the count just now, there are 360 ​​or five paper cranes in total.At first glance, there was no problem, but no one remembered her clearly—1980 was a leap year!

There should be 360 ​​six in total, and the most critical and last one has not been encountered so far!

"Kill me." Casey's voice was tender, like a new shoot after the rain.

"?"

Caught off guard, Xue Ye was pulled forward.With a grunt, the barbed point pierced Casey's heart.The little boy held the blade with both hands, covered in blood.With a wave of Xue Ye's right hand, Casey fell to the ground.

Looking at the small body under her feet, the girl frowned.

The little boy himself chose death.Is it because "Qi" is used too much, and the control ability becomes weak...?

Without thinking about it, she took a few steps closer, and the remaining "Qi" in Casey's body flowed towards her, along her feet and legs, and finally gathered in her upper abdomen.At this moment, looking over Casey's shoulder, Xue Ye saw something that she had just forgotten under the wall.

At this moment, the whole body of the pointed-eared cat was bloody and bloody.It was implicated in her death.But more important facts occupied her mind than guilt—

She didn't hear its cry for help when it was dying.

Until now, she has finally determined that the ability to communicate with animals that has accompanied her since she was born has been lost with "that event".

An ominous, suffocating feeling like falling from a high altitude struck.Her heart stopped for half a beat.The moment the heartbeat sounded again, white light flashed in the gaps between the floor, walls, and ceiling, and the irresistible force carried the heat wave, sweeping across the sky and covering the sky.

Like lightning flashing across the night sky, a thought flashed through Xue Ye's mind——

Casey's death is the switch that activates the 360th sixth "paper crane"...