Hearing Reed's request, Calvin hesitated. It was a quick hesitation, but Reed caught it.

"Let me see—"

Reed repeated, the days of coma had made him weaker and paler than ever, but the strange, intimidating temperament of his facility had grown stronger.

Calvin looked back at him calmly, "My injuries are not serious. He emphasized.

"But I still want to see your wounds," Reed said, his eyelashes casting a faint bluish shadow under his eyes, "And besides, you had Fugg examine the wound before, didn't you?"

Calvin stared at him dumbfounded, "Wait, are you just trying to probe my injuries or are you jealous—eating your own vinegar?"

Reed paused, and he made a pensive face, and it took several seconds before he said solemnly, "I think it's both." “

"For God's sake......

Calvin muttered helplessly, but halfway through the sentence, he couldn't help but laugh himself.

"Okay, Reed. You win. ”

As he spoke, Calvin raised his hand and began to unbutton his shirt that had been buttoned up to his neckline.

Reed's gaze involuntarily focused on Calvin's fingertips and the little open fabric.

The obvious ambiguity suddenly appeared between the two of them, and Calvin's eyelashes drooped, somewhat subtly avoiding Reed's gaze. Perhaps to break the somewhat viscous atmosphere, Calvin's lips pursed slightly, and then Reed heard him whisper softly.

"I really don't want you to look at this - it's a bit embarrassing, to be honest. ”

As the words fell, Calvin took off all his shirts, and he sat down on the edge of Reed's bed, leaning sideways in Reed's direction so that he could see the remaining scars on his body.

"Damn—"

Reed let out a somber curse as he saw Calvin's wounds, which were still in a terrible state, and he reached out uncontrollably, his fingertips touching Calvin's wounds.

Calvin's whole body trembled slightly, but he did not avoid the tracing of Reed's fingertips.

Reed glided weakly down the back of Calvin's neck to his waist, then his stiff wings.

A thick layer of black gel-like ointment covered Calvin's black-and-red burns, and Reed smelled the scent of many of the drugs used for analgesia.

Calvin's wound had very obvious signs of treatment from Fugg. It was clear that his injury was getting better, but that didn't hide the extent of his injury before that.

The ugly and hideous wound covered almost the entire left shoulder of Calvin, and his back. His wings...... The pair of wings, which had the whitest and softest feathers in the world, were now covered with a thick bandage.

Just looking at the bandages made Reed feel a palpitation.

He was almost out of breath—

"You say it's 'not serious'?"

Reed said in a very cold, very calm voice.

Calvin shrugged.

"Compared to yours, of course. He was quickly met with Reed's almost condemning gaze. He had to add: "It's not all without benefits, you know, I always thought it was terrible to have a pair of wings before this, but when my feathers, I mean, the feathers on the damn wings were scorched, I thought they were pretty good compared to the pair of soft and fluffy bird wings I had before." It's better than carrying a pair of roasted wings on your back that seem to be ready to be ripped off at any time. ”

"Ha, ha. ”

Reed let out two dry laughs, with a strong perfunctory and protesting smirk.

"It's not funny, Calvin. He said.

"You're getting less cute too, Reed. Calvin replied.

His gaze inadvertently intertwined with Reed once again.

And Calvin finally backed down one step ahead of Reed.

"At least I'm alive. He sighed, then reached out and gently stroked Reed's foot, which he still couldn't move, "That explosion is beyond my imagination, and the fire...... It still scares me when I think about it. You know, before that I thought that as a member of modern human civilization, I had given up the fear of fire. But ......"

After so many days, once again remembering what happened that day, and the explosion, the fire, Calvin can still taste the fear that he has hidden in the deepest part of his heart.

"I've never seen fire like that. ”

He muttered, unsure if he was speaking to Reed or himself.

"The flames can ignite the steel, they burn on the cloth, the wallpaper, the plastic, but I didn't expect them to ignite the marble on the ground and everything you can see...... Those flames...... Oh my God......"

Everything in the flames is twisted, and in the scorching air they seem to be partying, dancing. The light of the fire was so bright white that Calvin didn't even see the smoke and dust he expected.

The only thing he saw was white light—white fire.

The explosion rained down the bricks in the emergency tunnel, and he carried Reed on his shoulders, but he felt the steps under his feet soften like hot butter.

As for the few shadows belonging to human beings that he occasionally saw at a glance, they burned even faster. Obviously, one second, the man was running for his life past Calvin with a bloody face, but the next second his hair was burning with a whirl.

The man burned from scratch like a torch that had been lit.

"It must have been very hot there, and the guy must have had hairspray on his hair. ”

Hearing Calvin's account, Reed tapped the back of his chair and commented.

"I don't know...... Maybe...... I also saw a woman who was wearing a skirt, that kind of retro-style tug, and I always thought that women looked beautiful in that kind of dress. But in an instant, her skirt also burned, and in the blink of an eye, the skirt rolled upwards and enveloped the whole woman.

"Cloth ...... polyester"

Reid muttered.

Calvin felt a strange uneasiness at Reed's steady, calm voice.

Of course, this uneasiness did not arise on this night, in fact, Calvin had a vague sense of something wrong from a long time ago.

He watched Reed from a stealthy angle.

Compared to the first time they met, Reed became a lot more embarrassed, and this time the burns really took a lot of toll on him.

But that wasn't a reason for Calvin to find Reed occasionally unfamiliar.

Reed was a little too aloof. Calvin didn't want to admit it, but he had to face it—as he spent more time together, he had noticed that the mask on Reed's face seemed to crack.

In the beginning, Reid appears calm, reliable, and sexy...... He encapsulates almost all the good qualities of the lover of his dreams.

But now, the indescribable coldness and cruelty inside his body have faintly revealed some traces.

Calvin remembered the frightening excitement and darkness that came to Reed as he dealt with Glien. Calvin may still feel pain from the struggle of human nature, but in Reed's case, he only feels pleasure.

Calvin even had a feeling that if the person he wanted to kill was not Grien, but the innocent Casey, or any of the innocence people in the hotel, Reed would not have cared in the slightest.

And if Reed wanted to, he could easily come up with many reasons to justify the shame and damning of those people.

And at this time, Reed, who had been observing Calvin, frowned, and then he suddenly reached out and hugged Calvin, whose body was trembling slightly.

"I shouldn't have fainted, I shouldn't have left you there to face all of this - I don't know how you did it. But I'm really glad that I still have the opportunity to sit here and have a conversation with you like that. ”

Calvin stiffened for a moment, then his shoulders relaxed a little, and finally he let himself fall into Reed's arms. It might be a bit weak, but he really needs to be up close and personal with Reed like this for a while.

Otherwise, he couldn't help but feel that what he was experiencing now was so illusory.

He snapped, and then came back to his senses.

The idea that slipped into his head a few seconds ago had become so ridiculous and ridiculous, even a little mean.

The one who really committed the sin was himself, Calvin Holden, the evil angel of the Cult of Sin, the coward and the coward—and if it weren't for him, I believe Reed would still be living a life free of danger and murder on his gentle and comfortable college campus.

But now, he's going to appease his guilt by putting the ruthless hat on Reed.

Calvin couldn't help but hug Reed back, he hugged him hard, and then he forced himself to focus on the previous explosion instead of the horrible ramblings.

"And I did think we were going to die there. Calvin's voice was suddenly lowered at this point, and Reed could clearly make out the uncertainty in his tone, "Then I saw a boy, I'm not sure if it was my hallucination, but I did see him at the time. ”

Calvin felt Reed's body tense a little.

A trace of doubt raced through his mind, but soon he was dragged back into his own memories.

He ...... Dressed up weirdly. It's like the kind of documentary that came out of the last century, he wears that shirt and shorts, and he looks very ...... in the fire."

Calvin paused, picking out words with some difficulty.

"Ease?" said Reed for him.

"Yes, well, now that I'm telling you this, I feel more and more that the boy is my hallucination, and if not, it's my adoptive father or God is saving me in another way - I want to save the little boy, I think he got separated from his family in the fire, and I sinned. And by the time I came to my senses, I had been following the boy all the way out of the fire. Of course, I was hurt, and so were you, but we got out anyway. I don't know why, but those flames seemed to be hiding from him, so we had a way to escape...... By the way, that boy is cute, and I even think he's a bit like you. ”

“……”

Reed fell into an eerie silence.

Calvin looked up uneasily, startled at the first time he could see Reed's face, which looked terrible now.

"Are you not feeling well?!Oh yes, I shouldn't disturb your cultivation, you've just woken up—"

"No, no, my body is fine. Reed blinked and said, his previous bad face disappearing in an instant, as if that terrible expression was just Calvin's hallucination.

"But what you just told me, that little boy, sounds like a ghost story. I'd say it's even a little scary. ”

Reed smiled at Calvin, and Calvin's gaze lingered for a moment on Reed's perfect smile. Instinctively, Calvin sensed that Reed disliked the little boy part of the escape story.

He didn't talk to Reed about the boy again because of that.

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