[Noragami] I was not there

Yes, she should have found out sooner.

This incident was weird from the very beginning, as for what Chaoyu's purpose was, she couldn't figure it out, and now the only person who can explain her confusion is Chaoyu herself.

Fortunately, Liao was very familiar with the surrounding areas. He said that according to the direction Chaoyu left, she was most likely going to the ferry, and as he expected, they really found Chaoyu at the ferry.

There was nothing wrong with her feet, and she was hugging a young man in plain clothes at this moment, with an expression on her face that she had never seen before, and it might be called "happiness".

"Ah! It really is here!" Liao on the side opened his mouth. After seeing Chaoyu again, he tilted his head again and murmured, "Huh?... This sister looks familiar too. .”

Hearing the movement, Chaoyu raised her head and saw the two people in front of her eyes. A trace of surprise flashed across her face, but she soon regained her composure, but the emotion in her eyes was no longer what it was before, and perhaps she no longer needed to hide it. What.

"Miss Chaoyu..."

After a little brainstorming, she can figure out something. The reason why Chaoyu made an excuse to leave alone should be the man who embraced her tightly. The power of love may be so great, but what she doesn't understand is why Chaoyu To hide it from her and Yato?There is no essential conflict between fleeing Yoshihara and returning to his parents and being with his lover.

Now is not a good time to sit down and start from the beginning, but she still wants to clarify some issues, and her intuition tells her that some things may not be as simple as she imagined, but those questions have not yet been uttered, and Chaoyu made a sound first— —

"Miss Jiuyin, thank you very much." Chaoyu pulled away from the man's embrace, wiped the corners of her eyes lightly, and then introduced to the man with a smile, "You Zhu Jun, this is Jiuyin who helped me escape from the Butterfly Tower." girl."

"So you are the great benefactor that Chaoyu said! Thank you so much!"

The man named Yusuke walked over to her and bowed repeatedly to thank her. The happy and grateful smile was so real that she was speechless for a moment.

"If possible, Chaoyu and I really want to thank you for spending time with another benefactor." Youzhu was apologetic, and after thinking for a while, he took out a money bag from his waist, "The money is not too much, but It is also our heart, and I hope you can accept it."

"Eh?" She didn't regain her composure, the development seemed to be going off track, she quickly waved her hand and replied, "No, no, no need."

"Don't refuse, or we won't feel at ease when we leave." Youzhu forced the money bag into her hand, and took Chaoyu's hand behind him, "It's getting late, Chaoyu and I have Leave as soon as possible, we will never forget this kindness."

She looked back, and sure enough, there was a small boat parked there, and it seemed that they were indeed going to flee.Although she really wanted to say that she wished her lovers a happy marriage, she did not forget what her purpose was this time.

So Yusuke took Chaoyu and only turned around two steps. The girl who was behind him a second ago suddenly appeared out of thin air and blocked their way. Compared with Yusuke's shock and bewilderment, Chaoyu's expression was obviously cold And indifferent a lot.

"Miss Jiuyin, you..."

"I'm very sorry." She interrupted the man's words, and blocked the way with her hand, "It's okay for you two to leave, but before that, Miss Chaoyu forgot to promise us something."

"About the promise?" You Zhu obviously didn't know about Chaoyu's parents, so he turned to ask Chaoyu, "What's going on?"

"This..." Chaoyu covered her eyes, and said in a calm tone, "It will take a little time to talk about it."

At this moment, there were scattered and hurried footsteps from far and near outside the ferry.

She tilted her neck, looked over Chaoyu and Yusuke, a little annoyed, but also a little expected, these people appeared at the right time: "But I didn't expect so many to come."

There were about 30 people who chased after them, all of them were strong young men, still holding sticks in their hands, but wearing different clothes from the ones just now. They didn't look like people from Butterfly House, so they must be the groom today. Someone sent by the official.

"Chaoyu, you are really here!" The man in the lead is a little older, and his two thick eyebrows are very distinctive. Guess that if you leave, you must go to the ferry!"

"Tsk, back off." She hid Yusuke who wanted to go up desperately and Chaoyu who didn't say much, and then squeezed her fists. The current situation is obvious. This group of people must be put down before the debt is settled.

But if it's like before...

She shook her head vigorously, and she couldn't bear to think about it now.

Before she stepped forward to pursue the soldiers, she punched the nearest man on the nose with her fist, and shouted at them: "If you want to fight, come here first!"

"Whoa! My nose is ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

"Hey! Where did this person come from!"

"Being beaten like this by a woman! How dare you yell! Fuck me!"

So in the chaos, her fists came into play again, but just as her feet exerted strength, the sound of a sharp knife piercing into the flesh and a loud exclamation suddenly came from behind, which was enough to make her fists stop.

"..."

The thugs in front of her also stopped their movements, and the sticks they held high were also frozen, staring straight behind her, completely stunned by what they saw.

what happened?

She withdrew her fist, and thought about all kinds of possibilities before turning her head to look, but she never thought about the scene in front of her——

Chao Yu tightly grasped the dagger, and the sharp other end had penetrated into her Airo's chest at this moment, Yusuke's astonishment and confusion seemed so sad and helpless under the huge pain.

"Chaoyu..." He looked down at the dagger buried in his chest, and then followed the hand holding it to look at the face of his beloved woman in disbelief, "Why...why do you want to... "

Chaoyu's eyes were also full of sadness and pain, as if she was stabbed by the knife, but she didn't say a word, the hand holding the dagger continued to pull it out from Yusuke's chest, warm blood stared A little splashed all over her face.

Yusuke pinched his wound hard, but how could he stop the bleeding that had severed the artery, the bright red blood flowed out from his fingers, maybe he knew that his death was coming, and there was only a few seconds of silence , he let go of his hand, stretched out to hold Chaoyu's face, and looked tenderly and affectionately at the woman he had loved all his life——

"Is that your answer?"

Chaoyu didn't answer, didn't explain, maybe she still wanted to say something, but she opened and closed her mouth a few times before closing it. She lowered her arm, still holding the dagger, and the blood belonging to her lover fell from the tip of the knife to the ground drop by drop. .

The man chuckled, as if he had understood something, he had lost too much blood to support his standing, and leaned against Chao Yu's body, this may be the last hug, the head resting on her shoulder turned slightly, thinking Get closer to her ear, and then say softly——

"I love you."

After the words fell, he also slowly fell to the ground along her body, his blood-stained palm left long marks on Chaoyu's face.

Everything happened so suddenly, and when she realized what happened, it was too late to do anything. She ran to the side of the fallen Yusuke, covered the wound on his chest that was still bleeding with both hands, and shouted loudly. With his eyes lost, he shouted: "Hey! Hey! Don't close your eyes! Hold on!"

"..."

"Hello! Mr. Yusuke!"

"It's useless, sister Jiuyin." Liao, who didn't know when he came to the side, suddenly stared at the man on the ground with his eyes fixed, as if he was making sure of something, and after a while, he said with certainty, "This brother is going to die soon. gone."

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Yusuke's death was only a matter of time, but it was a bit weird to say it from Liao's mouth in such a tone, but she didn't think much about it, she just stubbornly pressed the wound and shouted to go on.

It's a pity that she can't bring back such things as vitality. After all, the man slowly closed his eyes, only the corners of his mouth remained——

Yusuke died.

Chaoyu stood there quietly looking at the man from the beginning to the end, with a dark expression on his face, until he was really out of breath, she slowly raised her head, and she looked at those who were chasing her, suddenly bright With a smile: "Great, you are finally here."

The dagger in his hand immediately fell to the ground with a bang, which shocked everyone present to recover from the sudden occurrence.

"Miss Chao, Miss Chaoyu?" The leading man with thick eyebrows spoke first. He was shocked and didn't know what to say. Looking at the beautiful woman approaching him, he felt chills in his heart.

"I was forced to leave the Butterfly Tower." Chaoyu was still in shock, stroking her chest and said, "If you hadn't come, I wouldn't have had the chance to escape. Thank you very much."

"Ah... um." He was stunned for a moment before he nodded, coughed dryly and calmed down and said, "So that's the case, I said how could it be possible for Miss Chaoyu to elope with a man."

Chaoyu smiled gently, and wiped the corners of his eyes: "Then let's go back quickly, don't let Master He Mao misunderstand and get angry."

"Okay." He nodded, and then shouted to his subordinates behind him, "Send Miss Chaoyu back to the mansion, and tie the living ones back!"

"Don't bother to do it."

Frightened by the voice suddenly coming from beside him, the man took several steps back, staring at the weird girl who suddenly appeared by his side with wide eyes in disbelief: "Huh?! When did you—"

The hypocrisy on Chaotama's face disappeared again, she straightened her body unnaturally, the dagger resting on her back was being held by the girl, it was the one she was holding that pierced Yusuke's chest just now.

"Maybe we should have a good talk, Miss Chaoyu."

"Hey! You woman!"

"It doesn't matter." Chaoyu waved his hand and stopped the men who were about to attack again, "This lady is just talking to me, I believe she won't hurt me."

She rolled her eyes and didn't deny it, she just dragged her tone and whispered in Chaoyu's ear: "Is that so?"

But seeing that Chaoyu had said that, those people did not dare to act rashly again. Under the signal of the other party, they stepped back and turned into the alley not far away. They could only see the two of them clearly, but could not hear the conversation. words.

After confirming that the people sent by Hemao had gone far away, Chaoyu put down his pretentious expression just now, and even laughed easily. The sharp blade on his back seemed to have no effect on her: "Talk? What's there to talk about?" of?"

She took away the dagger and threw it on the ground. This kind of thing was just for the pursuers to see. As for Chaoyu, she wasn't ready to kill her: "Don't you think you should tell me something?"

"There is nothing to say." Chaoyu lowered his head, and there was no emotional ups and downs in his words, "I just wanted to leave with Yusuke, but I didn't expect it to become like this. Yusuke sacrificed himself for me. I did it from the bottom of my heart. thank him."

"No." She looked at the blood-stained woman and denied what she said, "Those people were attracted by your secret message, and the dagger that killed Mr. Yusuke was also prepared early in the morning."

Chaoyu was startled, and then raised his eyes and looked at the girl in front of him seriously: "This really surprises me, why do you say that?"

"Because I believe in Yato, it's impossible for him to be spotted so quickly." She said firmly, without any hesitation, "Even if his outfit is so bad that he can't fool Kazuo and the others, it's impossible for him to leave after we Someone chased me when I was in the Butterfly Tower, so it can only be that someone released the news, and neither Yato nor I would do it, so it's only you."

"It's a stupid guess." Chaoyu suddenly laughed, rubbing her shoulders that seemed to be sore, as if she had turned back into the woman who was wearing no clothes and smiling wantonly when we first met, "But I guessed it right."

"So you..."

——Why do you want to do this?

"It's very simple." Chaoyu propped up her chin and said lazily, "I love Youzhu, but I love the life of rich clothes and good food even more."

Yes, that's Asahi's answer.

"I'm a wandering girl from Yoshiwara. Yusuke is just a grocery seller. We met and fell in love by chance. He said more than once that he would redeem me for me, but I refused. Later, I fell in love with Master Hemo. He said that he wanted to take me as a concubine, and the date was quickly settled. After Yuzhu found out, he entrusted someone he could trust to bring me a letter, saying that he would take me to elope, and he would always wait at the ferry... Yes, He said that he would take me to elope—" Chaoyu kept looking at the gray sky when he said this, as if the words had nothing to do with him, until the end he suddenly showed a happy smile, but soon his expression changed, and he recovered Originally expressionless, she lowered her eyes to look at the girl in front of her, and asked her back, "But how could you agree? Let me put down everything I have and live a hard life with him...I will never go to that kind of situation again." Life! There is a meal every day, and I have to watch my father and mother being beaten and scolded by debt collectors! Do you know what this kind of life will turn into in the end?!"

The more Chaoyu talked, the more excited she became, and in the end it was as if she was asking her a question, but she gave the answer herself: "I tell you, it will become a life that can't live on in the end, so sell me for some money... ...Ah, I can barely survive this way, right? That’s right, it’s exactly the same as that time.”

"But why don't you go? Why do you want to do this?"

"You are so strange." Chaoyu looked at her in confusion, raised the corner of her mouth and said as a matter of course, "I have said that I love Yousuke very much, so how can I accept that after he leaves me, he will be with other women again?" together."

She was speechless, and at this moment she finally understood that this woman might have gone crazy long ago, from the moment she was sold to Yoshihara.

"I've been waiting for an opportunity, and then you showed up. I still don't know what your purpose is, but you can really help me, so I simply agreed to cooperate with your escape plan to find Youzhu, but I How can I really run away from marriage, so I arranged for someone to call someone in a timely manner early in the morning, so that they can see that I am an outsider and think that I have been coerced, and I can finally come to see Yusuke in time and end everything with my own hands." Chao After Yu finished speaking, she suddenly burst into laughter, but she shed tears again, "I can finally choose my own life."

"Yes, your life is indeed chosen by yourself." She looked at the sickly woman, not knowing whether to be annoyed or sympathetic, "but this is the worst choice."

"What do you know!"

"Isn't it? You can be reunited with your parents and your lover, but you want to ruin everything for the most insignificant vanity."

"Miss Jiuyin, is she still going to lie to me?" Chaoyu's eyes widened, her pupils constricted violently, and her pretty face became hideous at this moment. She pointed at the girl in front of her, and suddenly became agitated again. It seems that she caused her to fall to this point, "I don't know what your plan is! And who sent it! But put away the ridiculous remarks like gods as soon as possible!"

She was a little helpless, it turned out that Chaoyu still didn't believe that Yato was a god: "We were indeed entrusted by your parents to find you back—"

"My parents are long dead."

"...Huh?" She was taken aback, and something suddenly collapsed in her mind, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Is it still necessary for you to tell such a lie?" Chaoyu lowered his arms and looked at the ground blankly. Everything that happened in those years is vivid in his mind, "My parents are betraying me. I was starved to death at home in the second year, how could I ask you to come to me at this time?" Chaoyu's parents... all starved to death? !

She was stunned, and the two thin and simple couples appeared in front of her eyes. The words she wanted to ask her daughter to forgive were still in her ears, but now their daughter said that they had already starved to death.

She looked at the woman who had lost her soul in disbelief, and continued to argue: "Your parents are still alive, and they are just outside the city south—"

The second half of the sentence was cut off in her mouth, because she suddenly thought of it, no matter how poor the life is, no matter how dilapidated the residence, their small house is too quiet and unpopular. It looks like there are no traces of use anywhere else.

So...they're already dead?

"Dead...dead, all of them are dead." Chaoyu shook her body a few times and reached out to support the wall. She walked step by step to the person sent by Hemao, still saying, " Dead dead dead..."

She subconsciously stretched out her hand to pull Chaoyu back, but another person who suddenly appeared grabbed her wrist. She turned her head and saw the dark hair of the person passing by——

"Yato?"

"Ah." Yato replied lightly, with no superfluous expression on his face, and he didn't know how long he had been here, but judging by the look of his clothes and wig all messed up, it must be true that he came here in a mess.

"Chaoyu...and that couple..." She didn't even gather the amount of information herself, and she really didn't know where to start.

"I've been here for a while, and I knew that the couple died a long time ago." Standing beside her, he turned to look at Chaoyu who was walking away step by step, "I just didn't expect You can be so dull."

"It doesn't matter if I'm slow or not!" She was a little anxious, but she still wanted to stop Chao Yu who was about to leave, and then faced Yato's stop, she could only say, "It doesn't matter whether the couple is dead or alive. , Whether it’s a human or a ghost, they really want to see their daughter Kyoko again, and isn’t this the commission you received? If you don’t do it, no one will believe that you are a god.”

If it is acceptable after hearing the first half of the reasons, then after hearing the second half of her sentence, Yato was really taken aback. He didn't expect her to think of it. He was a little helpless and annoyed, but deep down She had some strange feelings, and after struggling for a while, she flicked her finger on the head: "What does it mean that no one believes it! No one believes that I am not a god?!"

"But!"

"Don't do it!"

Yedou exhaled, and turned his gaze to Chaoyu who had left with those people, those monsters began to cling to her body without fear, and the reason why the Butterfly Tower was overwhelmed by monsters seemed to be found.

He withdrew his gaze, this was the last time he looked at this woman, he turned around and rubbed the pile of white powder on his face with the back of his hand, and when he spoke again, there was no emotion in his tone, just straight Bai narrated the reality he saw: "Even if she is forced to take her there, it doesn't make any sense. Their daughter Kyoko died probably on the day she entered Yoshiwara, and the present Chaoyu may not even be called alive."

"...Walking dead?" She could sum up Yato's words in this way, but in any case, it was Chaoyu's own choice.

In the end, they didn't say anything more, they stood there and watched Chaoyu disappearing at the end of the street following those people for a long time.

"Let's go."

"……Um."

As the sun went down, there was no words all the way.

For her, this was the end of her first mission.

To be honest, she felt very uncomfortable. She couldn't say that the middle-aged couple who sold Kyoko to make her survive did something wrong, and she couldn't say that Chaoyu, who had experienced ups and downs since she was a child, was wrong. Be pitied.

She seemed unable to blame anyone but the world, this era.

"But what about this entrustment?"

She had to give priority to this matter, the look of hope and regret in the eyes of the couple was deeply imprinted in her mind, if Ling would fall into the devil's way, then this matter would be a fatal blow to them, she didn't want the pair Kind couples step into the other side of no return.

"There is nothing I can do if I can't bring Kyoko back, and they are not human beings in the first place, so I can ignore this petition at all." Yato shrugged his shoulders, but he didn't hide the displeasure on his face. The result is still really exciting."

Yato kicked a small stone in the road, stopped and watched it cross an arc, then turned his head and stretched his face at a certain kid who had been following the girl since just now— —

"Also... who are you—?!"

Liao blinked twice, quickly hid behind the girl and grabbed her arm tightly, then poked out half of his head and stuck out his tongue at Yato, grimacing: "I won't tell you!"

The corner of Ye Dou's eyes twitched, and he noticed that there was still a burden hidden behind the kid with sharp eyes, and pointed at him with one foot: "What the hell are you going to do, you brat?!"

Liao didn't answer Yeto, but raised his head and held the girl's hand tightly, with a pair of smiling eyes: "Sister Jiuyin, can I follow you from now on?"

"Eh? Follow me?" She pointed to herself in surprise.

"Actually, I was kicked out by the boss for various reasons." Liao pulled the burden on his back and hugged it to his chest, blinking innocently.

But before she could respond, someone exploded first.

"Huh?! How could it be possible for you to follow?!" Yato put on a super unhappy expression, and stretched out his hand to grab Liao from her. Unfortunately, although the other party is small, he is not bad at his skills, and he picked it up with a sway. The burden dodged and ran around her, just so that he couldn't catch it.

"Stinky boy, stop!"

"Are you stupid! You say stop and I will stop!"

"Ah, ah, don't let me catch you!"

But after two laps, if Yetou can't catch Liao again, he can really point at him and laugh. He jumped up and jumped in front of Liao, who slammed on the brakes and turned around. He missed it a little bit. But he still quickly grabbed the package he threw behind his back.

Both sides exerted strength at the same time, and the burden became a torment. The cloth was torn apart at once, and the things inside fell to the ground in a mess.

This time, Yato and Liao stopped moving, and they looked at each other so that she covered her face——

"Have you had enough trouble?"

"Oh." x2

Yeto muttered to himself that he really knew something like a child, and squatted down to help him pack up the things that had fallen on the floor. He didn't expect that he had so many things when he opened it. God knows what he was. How did it get stuffed in, but besides some clothes, there are also some inexplicable things inside, such as masks, leather balls, and half-eaten candied haws.

"I said, are you a burden or a trash can?" Yetou threw him a chopstick with only one left in disgust, and it was already worn out.

Liao scratched his face, and acted as if he saw it for the first time when it was clearly his own: "It's because the boss is in a hurry, I just tidied up in the room and went out, and I didn't see what I was stuffed. What came in... Huh?"

"Huh?" Yato glanced over.

"This is..." Liao took the chopstick just now and rubbed it against the sun, and when the layer of dirt faded away, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Ah! I remember seeing that sister somewhere!"

"what?"

Yato and she were attracted by Liao's exclamation, and looked along what he was pointing at. There seemed to be something engraved on the end of the chopstick-shaped thing, which vaguely seemed to be——

"……apricot?"

"Is this really okay?" She tugged uncomfortably at the clothes, which she had just borrowed from a clothing store.

"No problem." Yato wrote a date of birth on the note, rolled it up on one end of the hairpin, and threw the brush back, "For the kind of spirit that has existed in the world for a long time, it may be better than bringing a real person." It's more useful to come here."

Liao squatted on the ground, folded her previous clothes, and looked up at Yato, who had been busy for a long time: "But I still think it's too much."

Yato punched his head hard: "A seven-year-old kid who said 'the wooden hairpin was given to me by sister Kyoko 12 years ago' is not qualified to say such a thing."

Liao hugged his head in pain, and said angrily: "Ah! It was indeed given to me by Sister Xingzi the night she entered the Butterfly Tower!... To be precise, it wasn't a gift, but I just wanted to throw it to the side of the road when I was desperate. Irrelevant people."

In the end, he was also a little bit disappointed, but he stubbornly raised his head and shouted to Yato: "That's why I said it! I'm not lying!"

"It's strange to believe you."

"..." Liao didn't argue any more, and squatted back to the ground angrily.

Yato handed the wooden hairpin with Kyoko's birth date on it to the tense and silent girl with a stiff complexion: "It's okay, trust me."

"Oh." She nodded dully, took over the wooden hairpin and was about to pull up her long hair, but she couldn't control the direction of her hair, which was usually loose, and failed after several attempts.

Yetou saw that his eyelids were twitching, and finally couldn't help shouting: "Tsk, give it to me."

As he said so, he took the wooden hairpin from her hand, and curled her long hair skillfully so that it wrapped around the hairpin and fixed it firmly, his technique was much better than his as a woman.

"Okay." He let go of his hand and looked at her twice, then poked her head with one hand, "You're so stupid."

She didn't say a word, she pushed her hair with her hands, she really felt good, but she couldn't help but wonder how this guy could even help a girl's hair up, but just thinking about it, she got another light poke on the head.

"I know more than you think."

She rubbed the place where she was poked, and nodded again dully: "...Oh."

But after all this, she also relaxed a little bit, although the method of wearing Kyoko's birthday hairpin to pretend that she was going to meet her biological parents was indeed the same as what Liao said - very nonsensical.

But she believed in Yato, he was a well-informed god anyway, and this was the only way to keep the couple away from the devil.

——Let’s go on like this!

She stood in front of the dilapidated house and took a deep breath, with Yato and Liao behind her as the backing, and then mustered up the courage to open the door and enter. As expected, she saw the same scene as a few days ago, the husband and wife sitting around cooking together .

Even now, she couldn't believe that they were already dead.

Her throat was a little dry, and her open mouth stayed awkwardly, until Yato's deliberate cough sounded behind her, and she shouted——

"Father, Mother... I, I'm back."

The husband and wife were stunned, looking at each other with shock and disbelief in their eyes. After a long time, the lady stood up tremblingly, reached out to the girl standing at the door, but took it back hesitantly, and waited. After walking in, it seemed that I had exhausted all my courage to ask——

"You, are you Kyoko?"

"Well, I'm Kyoko." She nodded, and she knew it worked.

"Ah, ah, my daughter—" After receiving such an answer, the woman cried and rushed forward, her eyes filled with tears. The expression of wanting to cry and laugh at the same time made people feel sore.

The man at the back looked completely dumbfounded until his wife turned around and yelled before catching up in a daze. A big man also cried like a child: "Xingzi...Xingzi, you are suffering, it's our fault, it's our fault. It's not right!"

She shook her head: "No, I already know, you are forced to do this to keep me alive."

"No, no, no...it's us who are too selfish, it's us." The woman broke down in tears, raised her hand to smooth the hair of the daughter in her eyes, and touched her face, as if she wanted to take a good look at her face, "Xingzi... I'm sorry, Really sorry."

"It's okay, it's really okay." As if infected, her tears suddenly burst, "Xingzi will know your difficulties."

"Then how are you doing?" The woman seemed to be expecting something, even her voice was trembling.

"...Me." She hesitated, but still nodded reluctantly, "Xingzi is doing well, and she will never go hungry again."

"Ah..." The woman nodded again and again, her face full of tears softened, "That's good, my child can still live in this world well..."

The man supported his wife's shoulder, and also smiled very relieved: "This way our wish is fulfilled."

She nodded and agreed with her husband: "Well, yes."

The two of them smiled with a faint golden light all over their bodies, and they could go home with peace of mind without the only thing they cared about in the world.

Looking at the slowly thinning bodies of the husband and wife, she was a little comforted and a little guilty. After all, they failed to bring back the real Kyoko in the end, and could only use such white lies in exchange for their becoming Buddhas.

She clasped her hands tightly behind her back, lowered her head and looked at the almost invisible golden light, the corners of her eyes were a little moist, but she could only silently say sorry in her heart——

Sorry, I couldn't actually bring the apricots.

I'm sorry I couldn't make her understand your difficulties.

Sorry for not being able to tell you the truth.

It's just that the sudden light touch on the head made her startled, it was a warm palm——

"It's okay...it would be great if you were really our daughter."

"..."

turn out to be--

She raised her head again, but saw that their smiles were gone, and only a soft voice was left in the empty house——

"Thank you."

It turned out that they already knew.

It was as if nothing had happened in front of us. The dilapidated house was blown in by the wind, and the pots and bowls that had long been unused were covered with a thick layer of dust, but it was this silence that made people suddenly feel extremely at ease.

Yes, which parent would really admit their child wrong?Maybe all they want is a sentence that Kyoko is still okay.

She smiled, rubbed her eyes with her sleeves, and felt more relaxed than ever before. She turned around and said to the two people behind her, "Let's go."

After saying that, she stepped out of the room first.

Yato and Liao looked at each other, and after three seconds, they ended up with the grimace of the latter, and followed the girl walking away as soon as they turned their heads.

Yetou looked at the back of the two leaving, curled his lips and turned to a corner of the room, which was where the couch was. The couple sold the money they got from selling their daughter.

"I really didn't touch the money until the end."

That's why I'm starving to death.

After looking at it for a moment, he curled his lips and closed it again: "Forget it."

"Hey! Yato! What are you still doing there?!" A girl's voice came from afar.

He stood up, went to the door and said to her: "ah, here we come."

Well, that's it for a while--

"Hey, Sister Jiuyin, what are we going to have for dinner?" On the way back, Liao La pulled her sleeve with anticipation.

"I don't know, just ask Brother Yedou." She shrugged her shoulders, as poor as she was.

"cut."

Yetou burst a tic-tac-toe on his forehead: "You little brat, what are you cutting!... In other words, we didn't agree to follow at all?!"

"cut."

"you!!"

"It's all over now, Yato and we really haven't eaten all day." She smoothed things over.

"Tsk, okay, I'll take you to a place where you can eat for free."

"Wow! Is there such a place!"

"Yes." Yato lowered his head, and twitched the corners of Liao's mouth when he asked such a question, "But you have to be careful."

——If you get too close to her, you will be in bad luck.