The end of the song. In the aftermath of the piano, Sayo applauded, "It's good." ”

Seeing Xiao Tian looking sideways at him, Xiao Ye immediately raised his eyes to the already round Pichu, "Look, it's not sleepy after listening." ”

“......”

Xiao Tian didn't react for a moment whether this was a compliment or not, so he had to shake his head helplessly, reach out and touch Xiao Pichu's head.

"Xiaotian, how long have you been learning piano?"

"About five years. Xiao Tian stepped down from the piano bench, and when he saw Xiao Ye, he immediately cast a reverent gaze after hearing the answer.

"Remarkable. Xiao Ye was in awe, "I have also learned a little piano before, and I feel that it is more difficult than swinging the knife 10,000 times a day. ”

Pichu still didn't understand what a piano was, but after hearing Xiao Ye say this, he suddenly trembled with empathy, which made Xiao Tian start to wonder if he had invisibly overcome some terrible hellish obstacle.

"Do you want to play?" Xiao Tian made a "please" gesture, with a rare curiosity in his eyes. There is no other reason - not to mention Xiao Tian, Xiao Ye himself feels that he is not like this piece of material at all.

"No need. Xiao Ye waved his hand again and again, "I've only learned one tune, and I don't know how to play it at all." ”

"Then try that tune?"

“......”

Well, with some inquisitive glances on Shang Xiaotian, Xiao Ye felt that she had no way to refuse.

Xiao Ye, who was driven to the shelves, sat down on the piano bench in despair as if she was about to face a Spanish speaking exam, but the flowing chord sound that followed made Xiao Tian raise his eyebrows in surprise.

Although it is a piece that he has never heard before, Xiao Tian can still hear the proficiency of the performer from it, and this level is obviously not just a "little bit".

Sayo's fingers flutter between the keys, playing melodies that don't exist in this world. In the world where she was born and raised, this piano piece has an almost household name and carries a beautiful compositional technique. The melody of one voice follows the other from beginning to end, and the same melody intersects, chases each other, and entangles each other, like two people who are inseparable from each other, deducing the ever-changing vitality in the resonance.

This is the first time it has been played in a strange world.

When the last end note also fell, Xiao Tian also applauded like Xiao Ye just now, "It's great." ”

"No, I really barely learned piano. Xiao Ye immediately hurriedly explained, "Actually, I don't even know staves. ”

Xiaotian was stunned, "Then how are you ......?"

"How did you learn this tune?" Saya looked aside with a weak heart, "I had to learn a piece in the fastest time possible, but it was definitely too late to learn music...... So I downloaded the tutorial video of the piece and memorized the movements of the player's fingers. ”

Xiaotian: "......"

Seeing that the silver-haired boy's expression was almost split into eight pieces, Xiao Ye suddenly felt a sense of guilt, "Other than that, I will only play the little star...... Well, let's change the subject. ”

"Little star?" Xiao Tian barely came back to his senses, and caught a term he had never heard before.

"Well, a children's rhyme. Seeing Xiaotian's expression, Xiao Ye was a little puzzled, and reached out to press the 1155665 melody on the piano keys, "This is it." Little day you ...... Probably haven't heard of it?"

"Not really. Xiao Tian shook his head.

Isn't that right...... It's a nursery rhyme from another world after all. After Xiao Ye, she realized that she had said the wrong line, but fortunately, it was not "braised small ribs" that she blurted out, otherwise she would have been suspected by Xiao Tian of trying to catch Pokémon and eat it.

"I'm better at playing the flute than at the piano, really. You've heard that, haven't you? "Saya tries to save her image - yes, she knows how strange it is to learn piano music with the movement of her fingers in the backrest.

This time, Xiao Tian learned a lesson, and asked cautiously: "How many tunes do you know?"

Xiaoye: "...... One song. ”

Xiaotian: "......"

I can't talk about it this day.

The two were relatively speechless, and Yuka knocked on the door and walked in, breaking the awkward atmosphere of enigma. She stuffed a pear fruit into Xiao Ye and Xiao Tian's hands respectively, "Here, this is your dessert after dinner." ”

"Thank you. ”

"Ya-chan, do you want to take a nap in a while?" Yuka rubbed Saya's hair affectionately, "You can come to my room and sleep with me." ”

"No need, it will disturb you, right?" Xiao Ye quickly shook her head, "I don't have the habit of taking a nap." ”

It's not like Saya never takes a nap. But occupying someone else's bed in someone else's home...... She felt more comfortable lying on the tip of a knife.

The orange-haired woman pursed her lips, looked at Xiao Ya, who was sitting upright, with a depressed expression, and suddenly stretched out her hands and pinched Xiao Ye's face, and pinched the face that had never been beautiful into a lively expression.

"Night-chan, don't always be so restrained. Yuka's expression was unusually serious, "You're a friend of Ten-chan, so it's good to treat this place as your home." ”

"You must have a place where you can relax completely, not guard against anything, no matter how tired you are, and feel at ease just by looking back? At least for today, think of this place as that kind of place, okay?"

When she looked at the orange-haired woman's bright smiling face, Sayo could only smile back and nodded in reply, "yes" - though she didn't understand what Yuka was talking about and why she suddenly said something like that.

Completely relaxed, unguarded...... What should I do if I encounter an enemy attack?" thought to Xiao Ye quietly.

Of course, Sayo knew very well that now was not the time to discuss thirty ways to deal with the enemy's night attack, and Yuka didn't give her time to discuss them.

"Since you don't want to take a nap, let's go to the backyard to fight? Yuka warmly launched the invitation like a roadside insect catcher, no, a girl, "Old rule, one Pokémon per person, how about you two team up to fight me?"

When listening to Yuka say this, Xiao Ya was a little hesitant at first - two to one is obviously not a fair battle, and it is difficult not to lose immediately in such an absolute disadvantage. Xiaotian agreed without thinking about it, and the two followed Yuka to the backyard together.

Soon, Xiao Ye understood why Xiao Tian agreed so simply.

At Yuka's strong request, she and Xiaotian both use their strongest partner, Charizard. And these two mighty fire-breathing dragons...... The wonderful frog flower which was unfavorable to the attributes of Yuka was pressed to the ground and rubbed it within three minutes.

The one-sided battle continued into sunset. When Yuka still retracted his hand, Xiao Tian whispered to Xiao Ya that his parents were childhood sweethearts when they were young, and they set off on a trip on the same day, and they always acted together in the first year of becoming a trainer. Even the young but amazingly talented teenager Hoshimi often loses to Yuka in battles.

To this, Sayo can only say: "......"

Is it too late to shout for help?

After dinner, Xiao Ye's "Little Heavenly Home Day Tour" ended safely. Xiaojie, who was next in line, came over with curiosity, and finally endured it, but still didn't ask anything - it was said to ensure freshness.

Although Saya thinks ...... Xiao Jie seems to have mistaken Xiao Tian's house for the map of some adventure RPG game.

It wasn't until the three of them took turns to go to the Koten's house and had dinner together at Dr. Ohki's institute that the jubilant atmosphere brought by the May Festival gradually subsided. A group of young trainers are back to their days of hard training, preparing for the Quartz Alliance.

During this period, Xiao Zhi, who likes to fight, often grabs familiar friends on the street, and starts a brawl on the spot, and the good-natured old woman who is so angry that the fruit stall orders Kirby Beast to use Mount Tai to press the top, and almost smashed the bear boy to destroy the corpse. And after losing to Xiao Tian one time, Xiao Zhi stubbornly announced to Xiao Tian, let's go to the Quartz Alliance to divide the winners and losers.

However, Xiao Tian gave Xiao Zhi an answer that shocked him - Xiao Tian told him that he and Xiao Ye, as well as Xiao Jie and Xiao Ling, would not participate in this quartz alliance.

The single-celled black-haired teenager didn't know what terrible reason his brain had made, and stumbled and fled. The next day, the news spread in the small circle, and even Dr. Ohki was surprised to ask why.

In the end, it was Xinghai who came forward to say that he had invited these four children to participate in a mission together, and Dr. Oki was relieved, and Ash had to give up lobbying stupidly.

- Of course, this is not the case.

June 6, afternoon.

Tomorrow is the time for everyone to set off together for Mihara City, the venue of the Quartz Alliance Competition. Xiaojie and Xiaoling, who like to have dinner the most, naturally caught Xiaotian's family and Xiaoye again, and called it a parting dinner.

Obviously, everyone is going to Mihara City, and I don't know who they are parting to.

Originally, the meeting place was the backyard of Dr. Ohki's research institute, but due to sudden rain, everyone had to change the location indoors.

It's not Dr. Ohki's research institute, it's the Koyo family.

The institute is not spacious, and it certainly can't fit so many people. And the only place that can accommodate two adults and four children to eat together is the small house - the huge living room has no furniture at all, and it is the perfect place for indoor picnics, which can fully accommodate double the number of people sitting on the floor together, and even release a few Pokémon.

Though...... None of this makes Saya proud.

Everyone present felt that the preparation of dinner should be done by themselves, and as a result, all six of them crowded into the kitchen, almost squeezing all the vegetables and fruits. As a result, the two "bulky" adults were kicked out first, leaving only the four children busy in the kitchen.

Xinghai and Yuka, who were swept away, had to look at each other silently. Yuka was the first to accept this fact, and in a matter of minutes, she put down the burden of "mature adult" and went to the market to hang out.

Standing under the eaves, watching the back of the fragrant wind go away against the drizzle, Xinghai shook his head amusedly. Just as he was about to push the door back to the house, he saw a middle-aged man in a postman's uniform hesitantly approaching the remote wooden house, looking around.

"What is the matter with you?" asked the star sea.

"Oh, are you from this household?" the middle-aged man wiped the rain from his face, "Is this No. 196 Outer Street of Zhenxin Town?"

"Yes. Xinghai didn't explain the postman's misunderstanding of him in the first half of the sentence, "Is there a letter sent here?"

"That's right. The middle-aged postman let out a long exhale, "But I'll be able to find it." Really, how can this dilapidated house be built in such a hellish place, and there is no house number and no house number......"

"I'm sorry, but I'll contact the ward office to solve the problem with the household card, and I won't bother you again next time. ”

The middle-aged man looked at the silver-haired young man with a smile on his face, and his anger suddenly disappeared by half, "Hey, little brother, you speak very nicely." He pulled out a letter from his satchel, "Here, your letter, be careful not to get wet." ”

"Thanksgiving. ”

When the postman rode away on his bicycle, Xinghai smiled helplessly and shook his head. I didn't expect to make a cameo appearance in "this family", so hurry up and hand over the letter to Xiaoye......

His gaze casually swept over the envelope, and Xinghai's gaze froze.

On the front of the envelope was written the name of the recipient - it was a handwriting that Xinghai had seen more than ten years ago, and it was almost unfamiliar.

It shouldn't be here, and it shouldn't be written with this name that should have nothing to do with it. Why?

Could it be ......

Xinghai shook the seal tentatively. Sensing that the paste wasn't very secure, he lowered his eyes and made a decision in his mind.

Xiao Ye had never worked in a kitchen crowded with four people, and after a lot of work, he only felt that there was a lack of oxygen in the air. The first phase of work came to an end, and Xiao Ye planned to go to the door to breathe, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw Xinghai also standing under the eaves, as if enjoying the rain on a summer evening.

"Mr. Xinghai. ”

"Oh, Saya, just in time. The silver-haired young man smiled mildly and handed the letter in his hand to Xiao Ye, "This is your letter, the postman sent it just now, and I will accept it for you." ”

"Well, thank you. Xiao Ye took the letter from Xinghai, and the question turned in his heart.

She didn't tell her address to friends other than her fellow villagers, so who would send the letter?

Although he had confirmed the contents of the letter and memorized every word and sentence in it, Xinghai still seemed to inadvertently focus all his attention on Xiao Ye. In the afterglow, he saw Xiao Ye open the envelope, take out the letter paper in it, and start reading, revealing a somewhat complicated and meaningful expression.

Xinghai frowned slightly, feeling that something seemed to have developed completely beyond his expectations.

And then......

He saw Xiao Ye flip the letter in a circle, stared at it for more than ten seconds, and then turned it directly to the back and looked at the sky for a long time.

"......" Xinghai's heavy thoughts all turned into a daze, "Xiaoye, what are you doing?"

"Mr. Xinghai. Sayo's expression became more complex and meaningful, and she held up the letter in her hand, "You...... Can you read what's written on it?" she thought, and then added cautiously, "Is it our usual language?"

Xinghai: "......"

Only then did he realize that, because he was so familiar with the handwriting of the letterwriter, he had forgotten for a moment that the man's handwriting was more sloppy and abstract than a dragon flying and a phoenix dancing, and that it was impossible to make out the contents of the handwriting unless he had been in contact with it for many years, as he had done for many years.

“...... Hahaha. The heavy feeling suddenly faded a lot, Xinghai couldn't help but chuckle, and replied with Xiao Ye's inexplicable gaze, "I can't understand it at all, maybe it's a small country's script." ”

"Sure enough?" Xiao Ya completely believed Xinghai's words, and after looking at it for a long time, she had no choice but to stuff the letter back into the envelope, "Maybe it's some strange advertisement." "She did leave her address when she competed in tournaments such as the Green Field...... But do ads really need to be written in a language that no one knows?

Seeing that Xiao Ye's puzzled appearance clearly showed no trace of forgery, Xinghai pondered for a moment, but still couldn't help but speak.

"Sayo, I have a question for you. ”

The girl's quiet light purple eyes stared obediently at the questioner, causing him to pause the words that were already on his lips.

“...... I know you moved to True New Town when you were nine years old. So...... "Where were you before this?"

"Little Night!"

The door slammed open. Xiaoling rushed out like a trumpet Kentyro, and Xiaoye wondered if her door would be knocked off the spot.

"The break is over, it's time for us to continue!" the double-ponytailed girl grabbed Xiao Ye's wrist without saying anything, "Mr. Xinghai, I'll let her talk to you when we're done!"

Xiao Ye was made to cry and laugh by Xiao Ling's strange words, and in a hurry, she could only put the strange advertising letter on the windowsill and show an apologetic smile to Xinghai.

The busy girls are back in the house. Looking at the letters that were casually thrown on the windowsill and the familiar handwriting on them, the smile on Xinghai's face gradually receded, and the unfinished words turned a few times in his heart, and his ice-blue eyes became dark.

He would have seen that the letter was a mere accident, but from it he did learn something that could not be ignored and that had further expanded his doubts.

...... Master, what exactly are you doing?

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When you see my handwriting, you should know who I am.

There was a glitch with the remote link, and I couldn't communicate with you directly, so I had to use letters. Now I will give you a command:

First, go to this quartz alliance competition. I'll send someone to test your performance and hopefully you'll show me the results I want.

Second, from this moment on, stay away from the people on the "list" and stop having deep friendships with them.

That's all my instructions. Looking forward to your performance, we'll see you at the end of the year.