[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

After a short period of weightlessness, Reiko felt down-to-earth again.

This is a black and white world, and the space without borders is not like the inside of a box at all, but has a feeling of endlessness.

One after another, things resembling children's toys floated in the air, emitting a faint light.

Reiko stretched out her hand and lightly touched a black and white stone, a memory flowed into her mind.

……

It's still a black and white world.

The thin girl was leaning on the bed, her eyes were somewhat empty looking at the wooden door not far away.

"Crack!"

A hand covered in mud pushed open the door. The boy put down the hoe and shovel in his hand, walked up to the girl, and showed a gentle smile.

"Axia, how are you doing today?"

The girl's empty eyes were dyed with light, she grabbed the boy's sleeve with her weak hands, and softly called out: "Brother."

The boy raised his hand to rub the girl's hair, but when he saw the mud on his hand, he wiped it on his clothes in embarrassment, then took out a small stone from his arms and placed it beside the girl.

"This is a stone I picked up when I was working in the field. It's very beautiful. I just want to bring it back to you."

The girl looked at the gray stone and lowered her eyes, but when she looked up again, she still showed a very happy smile: "Thank you brother! I like it very much!"

"Just like it!" The boy was dazzled by the girl's bright smile, turned his head and scratched his head uncomfortably, "I'm going to work in the fields, you should have a good rest."

The girl grabbed the boy's sleeve again: "Brother, can you stay?"

The boy hesitated for a while, but still shook his head: "I'm sorry, Axia, I haven't finished my work today. When my brother gets the money, I will buy you delicious food to nourish your body, and you will be fine soon." Get up!"

The weak hands could not stop the boy from leaving, the girl looked at the closed door, her eyes slowly became hollow.

Feelingless legs, colorless eyes, and an extremely weak physique... Can such a body really get better?

The girl carefully placed the stone under the pillow, then looked up at the open window.

Sunshine... like that stone, probably all gray.

……

Reiko withdrew her fingertips, and once again touched a wooden comb engraved with delicate patterns.

……

The thin girl sat on the bed, quietly looking at the items carefully arranged in a row.

Small stones, rough wooden horses, beautiful shells, smooth hair bands... the gifts have become more and more exquisite from the humble beginning.

It's just that, no matter how beautiful things are, they are all equally monotonous in the eyes of girls.But even so, everything is still carefully wiped and preserved.

"Crench!"

The girl's gaze was attracted by the sound of the door opening, and a thoughtful figure appeared at the door.

"Brother!" The girl showed the most beautiful smile.

"Axia, how are you doing recently? Did the mother-in-law I hired take good care of you?" The travel-worn young man walked quickly to the girl's bed, and gently stroked her hair.

The girl took advantage of the situation and leaned on the young man, sniffing his unique scent: "I'm fine with everything, I just miss my brother."

The young man smiled indulgently, and then took out a wooden comb with exquisite patterns from his arms, and put it in the girl's hands: "This time's gift, Axia's beautiful hair, must be taken care of properly. "

The girl accepted it with a smile on her face, and then asked the question she was most concerned about: "Will brother stay longer this time?"

The young man seemed a little embarrassed: "This business is very rare. My partner and I made an appointment to leave tomorrow. Ah Xia, I'm sorry, I will build a big house for you when my brother earns money."

The girl lowered her head, looking at the ever-increasing row of gifts beside the bed: "But... I don't want anything, I just want my brother to spend more time with me."

"When I earn enough money, my brother will definitely accompany Ah Xia every day! However, if Ah Xia is lonely, how about my brother finding a friend for Ah Xia?"

……

Reiko's hand reached out to a dilapidated doll again.

……

When the young man came back again, he held a delicate doll in a kimono in his hand.

"Ah Xia, here! From now on, when you're bored, talk to the doll, so that you won't feel so lonely."

The girl looked at the doll's smeared pale face, and reached out to take it: "As long as the doll is with you...you won't be lonely?"

"Maybe!" The young man was a little uncertain, "But when I delivered the goods to the house of the noble lady, I heard people there say so. So, Axia treats the doll as her friend, and she can solve any troubles. Doll said."

The girl hugged the doll, and was a little lost for a while: "The doll can always be with me... It would be great if my brother is also a doll."

The young man couldn't help laughing at the girl's childish words: "What nonsense! You need to get better soon, so that my brother can take you out to play."

The girl hugged the doll in her hand tightly and did not speak.

Her body probably won't get better.Not to mention the legs that will never feel feeling, even if someone is holding them, every joint will protest with a slight bump, and there will be constant buzzing in the brain.

Only by lying quietly on the bed like this can I feel a little more comfortable.

My brother's world is very big, but her world will always only have such a small bed.

……

Reiko's hands touched one thing after another, and various words echoed in her mind, and these words gradually formed a vortex, forming a picture together.

……

It was a very handsome box, with black lacquer and beautiful patterns drawn on it.

"You have more and more things. My brother bought you a box. You can store all your things in the box in the future." The more mature young man stroked the girl's hair skillfully and said with emotion, " I have already given you so many gifts in a blink of an eye, and Axia is getting more and more beautiful."

The girl quietly leaned against the young man without speaking.

The young man looked at the delicate girl who hardly looked like a human being, and felt a little emotional.When God deprives a person of something, it will often give compensation, and the appearance of a girl is like this.

The girl's frail body cannot withstand any wind and rain, and the medicines she needs are by no means cheap.So he has been desperately making money, wanting to give his sister the best care.

But it wasn't until he met the person he fell in love with that he realized that the girl's attitude at this time was definitely not what a normal peer should have.

In the past, the practice of keeping young girls out of contact with their peers in order to protect them was, perhaps, wrong.

"Axia, let me find you a friend, a real friend."

……

The story in Reiko's mind finally showed a third person, a girl with a round face and cute dimples when she smiled, named Xiaodie.

After Xiaodie was bought back by the young man, she has been by the girl's side all the time.

"Miss Axia, the young master brought you a beautiful kimono this time!"

"Miss Axia, the cherry blossoms are blooming outside today!"

……

"Axia, the young master is getting married, but I think you are more beautiful, hehe!"

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"Axia, I seem to like Brother Zhuzi next door..."

Everyone's time is constantly moving forward, only the pale girl lying on the bed is stagnant, and can only wait silently forever.

Even if there is a man who is willing to love the girl wholeheartedly, can he guarantee that he can consistently accompany the girl in the long decades?

"Why do you have to leave one by one? I don't want money, I don't want these gifts that are always black and white, I just want... someone who will always be by my side, just like... a doll."

The girl wiped the gift box over and over again with empty eyes, and then hugged it tightly—this box is the only thing she has and will never leave her.

She put all her happiness and joy in it.

"I just want someone to be with me all the time. Whether it's brother or Xiaodie, they will have new and more important things, only me..."

The box slowly filled with black air, wrapping the girl in the black mist, and a fragment gradually formed at the bottom of the box, looming.

[Since you want it, why not keep them all?It's such a simple thing to let them belong to you completely and stay by your side forever, isn't it? ]

To be with you forever... How could such a thing be possible?She, if there is no one to help, is a useless person who can't even get out of bed.

[As long as you pay the price, there is nothing I can't do. ]

cost?Could she have anything else to pay for it?If there is, then take it!She just wants someone to be by her side forever.

[One word, for sure. ]

……

The girl sat quietly on the bed, next to Xiaodie who had a sweet smile on her face.

"Axia, I'm going to get married in two days, and I may not be able to stay with you all the time recently. But after I get married, I will come here often."

A strange look appeared on the girl's face: "Why must there be someone else? Isn't it just the two of us?"

"Axia is joking again! It's impossible for us to meet only one person in our lifetime. Axia also has her own brother, doesn't she?"

The girl lowered her head, half of her face was hidden in the shadows.

Yes, she has a brother.Only now, the elder brother already belonged to another person.

She became greedy. Originally, she thought that as long as there was someone who could accompany her, it would be fine.But now, whether it's Ah Xia or her brother, she wants it all.

The girl grabbed Xiaodie's wrist: "Don't go, Xiaodie, stay with me, stay with me forever!"

Xiaodie didn't know why, so she showed a sweet smile: "I will always be with you, and I will come back when I finish my work!"

"I'm sorry, Xiaodie, I'll come back to accompany you when I make money."

The voice of her brother came from the girl's ear.

Liars, all liars!

You must be sad that you can't do what you promised, right?In this case, it's up to her to help them fulfill their promise!

The girl's pale fingertips touched Xiaodie's face, Xiaodie looked at the girl in confusion.

"Xiaodie, I like the way you smile, so keep smiling at me!"

Xiaodie tilted her head in doubt, and agreed with a smile.

then……

A burst of black mist gushes out from the box, enveloping Xiaodie.

Fluttershy fell to the ground and turned into a smiling doll.

"Crack... Kick..."

A strange sound came from the girl's legs. The girl lifted the quilt and saw her lower body turned into a doll.

The girl touched her leg, but she was still unconscious.

"The price...it doesn't matter at all!"

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Reiko broke free from the vortex of the girl's memory, and finally determined that the fragment of the Kusanagi sword was the so-called box.

The girl was pitiful, but what was wrong with the dead Xiaodie?

The human heart, no matter whether it is lured by external forces or not, is so complicated.

Reiko shook her head, put those incomprehensible emotions aside, and stretched out her hand to find a way out.

Then, she touched something that looked like hair.

Reiko looked up and saw a man's head floating there.