"So what reward do you want to give me?"

Ji Ming blinked his eyes and said, he knew that the more he gave way to the girl, the more he would have to make inches, so he had to tease the other party in turn!

"Mingjun can do whatever he wants. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Rita's lotus root-like jade arm quietly placed on Ji Ming's body, and the loose clothes set off the fragrant shoulders and became even more white and greasy, and she continued to take the words crookedly unmoved.

"Oh? Are you sure? ”

Seeing the dangerous light shining in Ji Ming's inky black eyes, Rita's heart was messy for a moment, to be honest, she was indeed as Ji Ming thought, bold in her speech, shy and conservative inside.

This is because she found out that Ji Ming is a gentleman! If it was a dangerous carnivorous man, she would definitely not dare to make such a move!

"Forget it, don't tease you, you can continue to watch TV, I'm going to eat."

Sensing the dodge of Rita's big blue eyes, Ji Ming smiled indifferently, he knew that this was the case, and he took a step back as a further girl, and sure enough, it is still necessary for men to be appropriately strong sometimes.

Ji Ming secretly wrote down this experience.

When Ji Ming's back disappeared into the spacious corridor, Rita breathed a sigh of relief and continued to sit on the clean leather sofa with her snow-white thighs cocked, casually watching the variety show on TV.

Although she looks laughing at the Japanese, she really doesn't feel anything, and to be honest, she doesn't really like watching Japanese reality shows because the actors in them always give her a feeling that they are too exaggerated.

Thinking it was because of the different national conditions, Rita didn't think much about it.

At this time, a drawing board in her hand, a calm face suddenly appeared in her sight.

Because she agreed with Ji Ming, she no longer persuaded Zhenbai to return to the UK, so the relationship between the two has become as harmonious as before.

Speaking of which, Mashiro is indeed very childlike in some ways, which makes Rita have a feeling of helplessness that she can't use.

"Mashiro, what's wrong?"

Looking at Zhenbai, who was hugging the drawing board like a baby, Rita showed a complicated expression, but the next second she returned to her usual bright smile, just with a little hypocrisy.

"Go to the bathroom."

The succinct answer made her speechless, since you went to the bathroom, put down the drawing board for me, hey!

Could this be the gap between himself and Mashiro? Because she can't immerse herself in painting as fully as she does?

No, no, no, it's okay with this!

Rita, who was seriously thinking, complained about herself.

Shiina Mashiro, who came back from the bathroom, saw his friend's appearance, tilted his little head in confusion, and didn't rush back to his room to paint for a while, but sat next to Rita.

With a blank face, Mahaku saw Rita, as if she suddenly remembered something, and she gently placed the drawing board on the desk, "Rita." ”

"What's the matter?"

Rita made herself a cup of tea with a paper cup, turned her head and asked strangely, because painting art is an extremely time-wasting thing, and Mahaku is not good at talking, and there is very little communication between them.

"Ming's comic is running out of time, let's help him together!"

Obviously, Mahaku also noticed Ji Ming who was bursting her liver, she was drawing the illustration of "Moon Hime", and she didn't have time to help Ji Ming anymore, and she didn't know Ji Ming's painting speed very well, so her eyes, which had never asked Rita for anything, had a hint of hope in her eyes.

This clumsy girl actually sees everything in her eyes.

Rita, who was drinking water, didn't come back to her senses at first, and after a while, her face changed, she hurriedly wiped her red lips, and forced a calm smile: "If it's this thing, I refuse." I am not worthy of true whiteness on my own. ”

"How is that possible?"

Mahaku's beautiful eyes widened slightly, a look of confusion, she didn't understand what Rita meant.

As if feeling that this was not enough to show his attitude, Mashiro's originally slender voice raised a little, and he said anxiously, "Rita is very good at drawing. ”

"Please don't do that, I don't paint anymore. I've decided never to paint again. ”

What, what!

What is this?

Mock me?

Every word of Zhenbai seemed to her like rubbing salt on her bloody wounds, and Rita's petite body even trembled slightly because of the pain, she clenched her teeth, and the smile on her face could not be maintained even if it was fake.

"No, Rita loves to draw as much as I do, and she does it very well!"

Mashiro still looked confused, and she shook her head again to deny Rita, probably because of her excitement, her words were extremely fluent.

Once it comes to drawing, Mashiro becomes completely like a normal girl.

Rita lowered her head, unable to see her expression clearly, and she didn't have to look at her to know how terrifying and scary her expression was.

"No kidding......"

"Rita?"

Because the cold voice was too different from the gentle and considerate before, Mashiro shrank slightly behind the sofa in fright.

Fortunately, at this time, Ji Ming, who had already eaten a good meal, came to the scene, which eased the frozen tension a little.

"What's wrong?"

Because the conversation between the two girls didn't make too much noise, Ji Ming, who didn't know what was going on, asked in confusion, this atmosphere is a little wrong.

Rita took a deep breath, her face no longer filled with sunshine and gentle smiles, her body temperature and the expression on her face faded like waves. "Mingjun should be clear, I don't know how to draw anymore."

"Yes, although it's a bit regrettable, I'm not an outsider to say anything about this kind of thing."

Ji Ming spread his hands, he could already be sure that this was Rita's knot in Rita's heart for Mashiro, speaking of which, the relationship between the two girls was much longer than him, and the relationship was not worse than him, so this kind of thing, he really didn't want to say anything.

Both of them are gentle and good girls, maybe it only takes an opportunity for her to fully recover, but when this opportunity will appear, he doesn't know, and he can't force it.

"No, no, Rita is no worse than me at all......"

Zhenbai raised her head and rarely refuted Ji Ming, she mustered up the courage to look at Rita with a cold face, and her determined eyes made Rita panic.

“…… Joked. ”

The sound was so low that it was almost inaudible.

"No kidding...... It's just you, only you can't joke with me, it's so white......"

Rita pointed at Mahaku with a slightly trembling finger, and the expression on her face was indescribably distorted or vindictive, or fearful, maybe both. The emotions she had suppressed for many years finally erupted irrepressibly.

Listening to her emotionless voice, it sends chills down the spine, and there is even an illusion that this voice is impossible to come out of a girl's mouth.

"Why ......?"

Mashiro's heart is not delicate enough to understand the feelings of her friend for many years, and she is confused by Rita's sudden change, she just repeats this sentence with a blank look in her eyes.

"Why do you even ask?"

Seeing the appearance of Zhenbai, Rita shivered angrily, and she suddenly smiled, like a beautiful flower being pinched.

"Who do you think did the murder?"

"I don't know ......"

The successive questions made Mahaku slightly breathless.

Whenever the true white eardrum catches Rita's voice, instinctively gets scared.

Looking at Rita, whose face was a little hideous, Ji Ming frowned, and finally slowly relaxed, still didn't stop her, some things are good to say, so as to save a hypocritical listless smile on her face every day.

"Who do you think made me give up drawing?"

"Isn't it all really in vain?"

Rita's hollow eyes pierced through the white, making her stand still.

“…… Why? ”

Afraid to hear Rita's next words, Zhenbai tightly clutched the corner of Ji Ming's clothes, as if this was a little safe, she just kept repeating this sentence as if she had forgotten other words......

"I'm not the only one who was hurt by Mahaku to give up painting, you know?"

"You really don't know, but this is what we want, we can't catch up if we want to, and I'm more hateful than anyone else."

"Do you remember the children who studied painting with me and Mahaku's studio in Grandpa's studio?"

"Yes."

"Did you notice that the kids were disappearing from the studio one by one every month?"

“……”

"When someone disappeared, do you remember?"

“…… I"

"Mayaku probably doesn't even remember his name or face, right?"

Speechless, her silence confirmed the truth in Rita's words.

"The children in Grandpa's studio are not the same as the innocent children in the painting classroom. They are children who have come from all over the UK and the world in order to learn professional painting and become famous painters. ”

At first, Zhenbai and Rita were like this, Ji Ming quietly covered Zhenbai's hand that was so cold that there was no temperature, trying to give her some warmth.

"Everybody has great expressiveness. Even though they are children, they are already artists. However, in an art studio where only geniuses gather, even geniuses become ordinary people...... Because it was the first time since I was born that I had met an opponent who was better at painting than me...... The studio is one such place. Knowing that there will be competitors, there are several people who give up immediately because they can't stand it every year.

Because I always thought I was special, but it turned out to be different, and the reality presented in front of the eyes of children is very cruel. However, as long as it is in the world of talent, these are things that can be taken for granted. Yes, it was a matter of course, but our situation was a little different at that time, because Mashiro existed......"

"I ......"

"That's right. No matter how hard you try, you can't become the same as Masaki, and we can't compare to it at all. The real white eyes didn't look at us at all...... Mashiro uses an invisible knife to chop up the children who are just alive and gathered in the studio just to paint. The dream of his peers to be a painter was ravaged as painlessly as now. When you look at the painting, you think, 'Ah, our world is different.' 'Experiencing first-hand what a true talent is. Even so, I still believed in myself, struggled in pain, and when I looked up thinking that I was moving forward, I only saw that Mahaku had reached the place ahead...... It's as if she's the only one with wings......"

Saying so much in one breath, as if she had said all the words that had been accumulated in her heart for many years, Rita gasped slightly, her face was tingened with a strange flush, and she didn't know if it was guilt or the pleasure of revenge.

Ji Ming gently hugged Zhenbai, who was overwhelmed by the emptiness in his eyes, and glanced at Rita.

It's still the same sentence, because he was also an ordinary person without any talent before, he can understand Rita's feelings, but he doesn't dare to agree with her approach.

After all, it's just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who hasn't grown up.

"Is it all over? After saying that, I went back to my room to sleep, it was not early. ”

Perhaps infected by Rita, Ji Ming's voice also became cold.

Compared with Rita, who has known each other for a short time, he is obviously more towards the true white who gets along with him every day.

"No! I'm not done! ”

Rita's blue eyes were full of bloodshots, she opened her mouth, and she wanted to continue to vent her feelings, only to find that her throat was as uncomfortable as burning, maybe it was because she yelled too hard just now, she walked directly to the table barefoot and ignored it, picked up the paper cup just now and drank the rest of the water, it was much better.

This small action made the girl's accumulated momentum disappear all at once, and Ji Ming, who was originally a little angry, had a strange face, if it weren't for the occasion, he really wanted to laugh out loud.

"Rita ......"

Mashiro, who has always been ignorant about these things, can't breathe smoothly because of the discomfort.

There was a feeling of depression in her heart, and Rita, who had a lot of words that did not spit out and was unhappy, continued to talk to herself.

"There were so many children in the studio, and in the end I was the only one left, and I gritted my teeth and persevered until now, but ...... I really can't hold on anymore! ”

"I can't forgive that kind of truth...... Therefore, I hope that you will disappear and hope that you will disappear soon, which will help you become a manga artist, teach you how to use a computer, and even help you go through the procedures for coming to Japan. It's all about trying to make your favorite but boring comics, criticized as worthless, and then not going well, and you'll know how we're feeling when you're traumatized. It's just that I didn't expect you to make your debut! ”

Because the feelings were too intense, Rita's beautiful big eyes were stained with layers of blood again, and she looked extremely terrifying.

Ji Ming shrugged his shoulders, he knew that this was the case, but when it came to his debut...... Should it be a credit or what? It seems that it was because he was ......

Rita's painful and distorted expression was so white that she clutched her chest in a frustrated pang of pain that was about to be torn apart.

"Rita ......"

As she spoke, a layer of mist appeared in Rita's eyes.

"I've been painting around Mashiro since I was a child, so I've dreamed of Mashiro more than anyone else."

"More than anyone else, I recognize Mashiro's talents."

"But why...... Why can't I catch up with you no matter how desperately I can!! ”

"I really can't forgive you for taking away the goal from others, what I can't get no matter how much I pray, try, and longing for something that I can't get, but who I easily have and discarded without interest, it's really !! in vain"

"But why did you hurt me like this, I still can't hate you, I can't give up your talents, why......"

……