you turned on the love game

You are walking on a street that is both familiar and unfamiliar, and all the shops along the street have posted exquisite banners at the door, and everyone's face is filled with joyful smiles, looking forward to the celebration after sunset.

There have been quite a few discrepancies between the city's architecture and memory.

The elegantly decorated full-star hotel is located in the original unfinished building, surrounded by various shops like Tetris, no one would have guessed that this place was still desolate seven years ago.

You look in another direction.

In the past, if you walk 500 meters further back, you will see slums, but now those dilapidated old houses are completely gone, replaced by bustling and prosperous business circles.

All this is a change of time.

Guides pass you by waving small flags:

"Attention all tourists, we are now in the city of Moligu, which has unique customs, please keep my pace..."

You don't look back, only to hear a voice behind you.

The sound of discussions one after another, the sound of scattered footsteps, and the exclamation of tourists because of their novelty, pass by you one by one.

After coming out on the street, Abaki has been immersed in his own thoughts, chaotically following behind you, you lead her around for two whole streets, and finally stop in front of a small stall selling souvenirs.

You pick up a mobile phone pendant with a drawing of the city mascot, put your hand in front of Abach's eyes, shake it, and said with a smile, "This one is very cute."

She trembled slightly as if she just came back to her senses, and her eyes slowly moved to your face, with shame in her eyes: "Martha, I'm sorry..."

"It's ok……"

You paid the vendor, wrapped the rope of the pendant around your finger twice, looked at the cartoon mascot on your finger in a good mood, and said to her briskly, "Anyway, I also had a good time shopping. .”

Abaki gives you an apologetic smile.

Before he came out, he still had an expression of "I have something to tell you", but now he unexpectedly didn't say anything, as if the two of you came out just to buy necessities.

After buying all the things you need, you stand in a remote corner to see if there are any omissions. After checking that there is no problem, you turn your head and ask Abach: "Is there any place to go?"

Abach shook his head lightly: "No more..."

Then he looked up into your eyes, pursed his lips uncomfortably under your calm gaze, and whispered, "Martha..."

Her shoulders slumped suddenly, her broken hair drooped by her ears, and she looked dejected, "I'm sorry, I called you out and didn't say anything..."

You didn't expect her to apologize again for this, the corners of her lips curved slightly, and she smiled helplessly: "It's not something important."

Abach lowered his head and slowly said what he wanted to tell you, and when you listened to it, you suddenly realized her depression——

It turned out that he was frustrated in the process of learning to read with Hisoka.

In Abach's words, Hisoka is a rare super genius.It took her nine months to learn how to wrap, while Hisoka learned even the final exercise of the basics in just one week.

"During this period of time, I have always felt that I am useless, so I want to chat with you." She smiled shyly, "But..."

"I came out today and saw that most of you are actually ordinary people, and I felt that I was too arrogant."

Abaki said: "It is a very lucky thing to have the talent of learning to read, but it is really bad to always focus on others and not focus on training yourself."

You listen quietly to her.

The world is never fair.

Some people are born with the ability to read, some people can acquire the ability through learning, and some people will never be able to.

The gap between ordinary people and those with the ability to read is not only that there is no learning channel, but more importantly, there are very few people with talents.

Members of the Meritonio troupe, except you and Abaki, who have no talent for learning to read, now add one more Hisoka.

Abaki also talked about some other feelings one after another, and finally concluded: "So I slowly figured it out. Improving my ability is the most important thing. My goal is to become a hunter."

Her interest was renewed, and she returned to the energetic Abaki, "I can't stop because of such a trivial matter!"

You looked at her and smiled: "That's good."

Abaki pursed his lips and smiled shyly, and said, "Martha, thank you for listening to my long-winded words."

And asked curiously: "How long did you learn to practice?"

You smiled and replied, "Two weeks."

Abach: "..." QAQ

When you come to the fork in the road ahead, you stand still and say to Abach: "I have some personal matters to deal with, can you go back by yourself?"

She nodded immediately: "I'm fine!"

Then he looked at the bag in your hand and said, "Do you need me to help you take everything back?"

You laughed and said, "You don't need girls to do this kind of thing."

Then he turned his head and looked around, and finally saw a few young people standing against the wall under the eaves next to a shop, walked over to explain a few words to them, and turned back to wave to Abach after paying the money.

"I've already paid, and they will help bring the daily necessities back to the troupe. You just need to follow and lead the way, Abach."

The girl stared dumbfounded at the young man taking the heavy object, and asked you in a daze, "So there is still this kind of business in this city..."

The young man said with a smile: "It has always been there, but the tourists who just arrived don't know it, and only the locals know about it."

Another person also said: "We were also shocked when this strange lady who had never met before came here."

Abach stared at you blankly: "How does Martha know?"

The young man answered quickly: "It must be because this lady lived in this city before."

You didn't answer their questions, but just said to Abach: "Don't worry about their evil intentions. They have all registered with the city government. If they run away with something, just call the police."

"Miss, don't be so cruel!"

You ignored the strange screams of the young man, waved goodbye to Abaki who was looking at you, turned and walked on another road.

Abach watched your figure disappear at the end of the road before he was about to go back. Just as he turned around, he heard the young man mumbling strangely: "I really don't know why that lady went to such a place..."

"What's wrong?" Abaki asked. "Where?"

"It's the new city in the past, and now the old city. There's nothing interesting there." The young man scratched his head and said.

You walk through dark alleyways to what was once the city center street.

The fountain that was always gurgling has stopped running, and the bustling neighborhood in my memory now has a sense of bleakness. Compared with the newly built buildings, the place here is very old, like an old man in his dying years.

There are very few pedestrians walking on the street, the high-end stores have been closed for a long time, and the rest are some basic daily necessities stores, as well as slow-paced stores like bookstores.

Even the missing persons notice posted on the telephone pole was two years ago.

The neighborhood has been completely sealed off from the outside world.

You walk slowly along the street, and there is no cleaner to clean up the mottled marks on the walls. The salesperson in the shop has a loose expression on his face, even if a customer enters the door, he does not move, without the slightest enthusiasm.

You walk into the grocery store to look at what’s still on sale, and you stumble across a TrickOrTreat candy box in the corner—a toy that ceased production three years ago.

You bought one with great interest, and you were not in a hurry to open it. You continued walking along the street, and then stopped in front of a closed newsstand.

There are front-page reports from different periods in the interior, from "Mayor of Morigou Selects New City, Slums Are About to Disappear" to "Morigu Won the "Best City for Tourist Experience"", recording the changes in the past few years.

Your gaze gradually moved to the right, and suddenly stopped on a front-page report, with indescribable emotions floating in your eyes.

"The Moro family was attacked by gangsters, and the only daughter died in a sea of ​​flames..."

The matching picture is the burning Morrow Manor, with thick smoke billowing, even if it is just a black and white photo, the astonishing fire can be seen from it.It is a pity that there is no mention of any follow-up about the remaining personnel of the manor.

I wonder how Linna is doing now?You are lost in thought.

At this moment, the sound of slow footsteps suddenly sounded behind him.

Unhurriedly, again and again.

Intermittent and strange laughter accompanied by the approaching footsteps, miraculously merged with the beating frequency of your heart, boom, boom, like the god of death approaching you with a sharp scythe.

"Lu, Xi, Ya?"

You turned around and saw the red-haired boy standing not far away.

The delicate facial features seemed to be shrouded in a thick layer of shadow in the backlight, and the beautiful golden eyes inexplicably turned into a gloomy dark gold.

He stares at you like a wolf.

The gentle breeze blew by, and the hair swayed its tail.

At this moment, you seem to be brought back to the distant past by this breeze, lightly closing your eyelashes, sighing slightly, bending your eyes and smiling at him: "Hisuo?"

You responded softly to his words: "What's wrong?"

It's as if everything never happened.

The moment he saw your smile, the expression on his face disappeared, and his whole face seemed to be covered with white paste, which was eerie.

"Lu, Xi, Ya."

He called out your name word by word, and his words were full of malice, as if he wanted to eat his flesh and shave his bones.

Then he covered his face with his hands.

His shoulders trembled uncontrollably, his vocal cords trembled, and manic laughter kept overflowing his throat.

The five fingers were quietly separated, revealing a pair of cold golden pupils.

Like inorganic glass beads.

"It's really you..."

As soon as the words fell, he stood up from the ground and rushed towards you like a bolt of lightning.You jumped back a few steps to avoid his attack, and with a bang, he broke several cracks in the glass of the newsstand.

"Huh? So fierce."

You lightly landed on the ground, still looking at him and smiling.

Although there are few pedestrians on the street now, they are still attracted by the movement of you and Hisoka. Two people took out their mobile phones and stared at you closely, as if they were considering whether to call the police.

You quickly looked around and pointed Xi to a remote corner.

In just a few steps, you changed countless positions, dodged all the attacks from behind, and finally jumped up with your strength, stepped on the iron box with a thud and turned over to avoid the flying cards.

Hisoka stood not far from you, with a mocking arc on his lips: "Hehe... so you want to die in this kind of place?"

You seem to be totally unaware of the seriousness of the current situation, sighed depressedly, and said to him as usual: "No, this place is too remote, I prefer a grand way of death."

Meeting his eyes, turning a blind eye to the indifference and gloom inside, you smiled and said to him: "Just like before..."

A poker shot at you suddenly!

You immediately judged that it was not aimed at your vitals, so you simply stood still, the sharp poker brushed your neck and nailed into the wall.

The corners of the red-haired boy's mouth were opened further, and four playing cards of different suits were held between his fingers. His tone suddenly became cold, making people tremble with cold.

"To shut up……"

Perhaps because he realized that he was easily irritated, he laughed a few times in a low voice, and his tone returned to normal: "Don't say meaningless things..."

There was a tactile sensation of liquid sliding down the neck where the playing cards were scratched, and it was blood without a guess.

You look sideways at the cards stuck on the wall.

Originally wanted to see what suit it was, but after seeing the card clearly, his eyes widened slightly in surprise.

It turned out to be a ghost trump card.

Hisoka's ghost ace is only used when killing the enemy with the last blow, even if he threatened you in the corridor before, he only used the little ghost card.

He used the ghost ace, but he missed your vitals.

——What does this represent?

The surge of your thoughts is only completed in an instant, Hisoka lowered his body slightly, his eyes locked on you tightly, and the power of thoughts entangled in his body.

"Aim at your throat this time..."

The playing cards whose suits cannot be seen are rushed over faster than last time!

As he puts it, the poker is aimed at your throat.

At this moment, you can even feel that death is approaching you step by step, and your heart beats uncontrollably at a high speed.

But you didn't move at all.

No attempt was made to escape.

At the moment when this poker is about to be inserted into your throat, another poker suddenly hits from another direction!

--"Snapped"

The cards of Ace of Hearts and Little Ghost King slowly fall in front of you.

The red-haired boy who threw out the second poker stood there stiffly, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of indelible frost, and the maliciousness rolling in his eyes became thicker, as if it would swallow him at any time.

But he didn't move any more.

You looked at him and couldn't help but smile.

what……

Sure enough, as you guessed.

Your pup has no intention of killing you at all.

He is just angry.

"Hisso?"

He was very angry.

You stretched out your hand to him in the cold breeze, your voice was incredibly soft, and the smile in your tone was almost overflowing.

"come here."

"..." The atmosphere was so quiet that it made people panic.

Those golden eyes stare at you coldly, as if looking at a dead object.He is like a vigilant and angry beast, just standing still can make others feel the fear of danger.

But you are the exception.

You were never intimidated by him.

"Hisso?"

You tilted your head slightly in doubt, stared at his delicate face with black eyes that were completely different from the blue purple ones before, shook your palm playfully at him, and said softly to him again: "Come to me."

【come here. 】

【Ha ha. 】

The beautiful red-haired boy let go of his hand, and the playing cards immediately fell all over the floor with a clatter. He suppressed all the sneer on his face, and finally turned into an expressionless face.

As if it was finally boring.

He turned away without looking again.

You stared at his back, slowly retracted the hand that was outstretched in mid-air, and then frowned slightly in distress: "Ah, I'm really angry..."

Still holding the candy box of "TrickOrTreat" in your hand, you press the button of "Trick" casually, and a familiar strange clown pops out from it, with stickers of stars and water droplets stuck on its face.

This is what Hisoka bought a lot before but didn't open it.

Now it was opened by you at once.

You touch the sticker on the clown's face lightly, as if you were touching another proud child through it, and your mood suddenly brightens.

"Lucky." You say.