Chapter 25: Nothing is immortal

Nothing is immortal, fate and time will bury everything in history!

Saturday, May 28, 2016. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The early morning sun shines through the transparent glass and shines on the coffee table in the living room. Next to the coffee table with all kinds of things in chaos, the girl curled up on the sofa with flat rest opened her blank eyes, and continued to play the computer of anime not far away, the corners of her mouth squirmed slightly, and she whispered unwritten words. "...... Flower ...... Flower name ......"

The living room is still in the same layout as yesterday, and videos of the same content are playing on the computer. Everything is the same, but compared to yesterday, it seems so empty now.

Originally, emptiness was the norm here, and the place where she was the only one who existed was originally empty. And their arrival made this place lively. However, the excitement of the past two days seems to belong to this space, and it seems so illusory. Because it is illusory, it will eventually collapse...... Isn't it? However, Midorihime is real! Why did she collapse into a sky of greenery that she couldn't hold onto, and disappear in front of her?

Midorihime...... Why do I feel so heartbroken when you disappear? Obviously...... at the beginning I just treat you as a pawn that can be used as a pawn to get close to Zhang Zhou! But why...... Why did I stop that plan for a while and actually accompany you to do the things you wanted to do?

Midorihime...... What the hell are you for me...... What does it mean? What do I see in you?

Because of your purity and trust, I will feel guilty for taking advantage of you when I can deceive anyone. Because you make me feel that I am needed and dependent, I don't care about the life and death of anyone else, so I want to try to take care of you. Because your life is as fragile as a candle, I have never thought of helping anyone since then, so I am so desperate to fulfill you. But...... However, there are still so many things to do, and so many scenery to see, but you have left my life forever! I...... What should I do with you? What should I do with you, who have unknowingly taken over a part of my heart?

I know that if I forget, if I forget that you have happened in my life, I will not be so miserable. And the person who takes care of you with me also has the ability to make people forget, and even make people dilute a certain attachment (although I don't know how long the memory can be forgotten, and to what extent). If I want, he will definitely grant my wish as soon as I propose...... But, Midorihime, how can I be willing to forget you?

Li Ai curled up on the sofa and silently bit her lower lip.

Now, Midorihime. I downloaded a lot of anime that you like, and I'll try to make those cakes that you like to eat, so, can you ...... Could you please come back to me...... At the very least, let me see you again.

Click. The lock of the entrance security door made a crisp sound, and then slowly opened. Such a small sound seemed extremely large in the empty room, making it feel even more lonely.

Li Ai did not react. She knew who was coming. The person who came was Zhang Zhou, who had taken care of Lu Ji with her for the past two days. The one who held her hand when he watched Midorihime turn into Luhua and disappear in pain to the point of breaking his liver and intestines, and asked to be her companion again, a well-known secondary and second disease patient from the same school and class as her.

This is the impression of him in the eyes of the world. However, she knew that he was not just a simple secondary two disease. The power he described was actually present in him. In fact, not long ago, there was another 'person' who knew about this. But...... She's ...... Li Ai tightened the sheet on the sofa and hugged it tightly in her arms, as if there was still a body temperature on it that was lower than that of ordinary people.

"Li Ai......" Zhang Zhou, who closed the door, turned his head to look at Li Ai, who was still curled up on the sofa, and called her, but did not get a response. He shook his head helplessly, then changed into slippers, walked to the dining table near the floor-to-ceiling window, put the things in his hand on the table, and then sat down on the flat sofa that once belonged to him, staring at the computer screen playing anime. The living room fell silent again.

For a long time, it wasn't until an episode of anime was broadcast that Zhang Zhou moved his eyes to Li Ai again. From yesterday afternoon until last night, he had been with her, who had completely lost the desire to move. If he wasn't there, she'd definitely be curled up on the couch all the time, motionless. It is absolutely impossible to go on like this, he can't stay by her side forever!

"Li Ai......" Zhang Zhou called Li Ai's name again, and she did the same as last time, and did not respond at all. Do you want to ...... Goodbye Midorihime? Hearing his words, Li Ai's body curled up on the sofa trembled. Then Li Ai, who had been facing away from him, turned his head and stared at him deadly. It seems that he is going to pounce on him and eat him alive when he notices that he is showing the slightest sign of lying! But after looking at it for a long time, she didn't see the slightest hint of deceiving her in the expression on his face. She slowly propped herself up, rolled over and got off the couch, tucked her feet into her slippers, and then stood in front of him, reached out and grabbed his sleeve, and said in a hoarse voice, "Take me, take me...... See her. ”

Zhang Zhou closed his eyes and suppressed a trace of pain in the depths of his eyes. Then grit your teeth hard. He opened his eyes and looked at Li Ai, and said in a low voice, "I can take you there, but until then, eat these things." He held out his finger and pointed to what was on the table in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, which was the breakfast he had packed for her.

Li Ai's gaze moved to the direction of his finger, and then he walked quickly to the dining table, grabbed the steamed bun that had no temperature, and ate it in a big gulp......

"That's ...... Is that really right? Zhang Zhou muttered in a low voice, asking Li Ai to witness the death of Lu Ji again, and did so...... Is that really right? He didn't know the answer, but he couldn't find any other way to cheer her up.

In the morning, he left the apartment and went to the place where Midorihime had come to this world. Standing in the narrow alley that few people had passed, he uncovered the forces that he had smeared on the spatial rift to prevent it from hurting passers-by and speeding them to heal. Luckily, those cracks haven't fully healed.

So he turned on the positioning function of the phone, stretched out his whole hand, and then took a screenshot to leave the location information there. He also took a picture of the scenery on that side with his phone, so he understood what Midorihime was.

Seeing that Li Ai had eaten all the food he had brought back, he looked up at him fixedly. Zhang Zhou tugged at the somewhat tight neckline, and then picked up the water cup on the coffee table. "Let's go, we'll have to walk a long way, because Midorihime is now far away, almost hard to reach." He stretched out his hand to Li Ai, "It may be difficult for us to come back within today, so you have to be invisible......

……

In a valley far from the people, a century-old tree is about to die. The once dense foliage of the tree's canopy has turned yellow, and the flakes are scattered, in stark contrast to the many young and vibrant things around it.

It is about to die, withering and decaying in a corner that no one knows about, no one cares about...... It was supposed to be like this.

But now, beside it, stood two strange creatures that had never appeared in this world before. Among them, the girl with long hair looked up, silently and sadly, as the yellow leaves on her body fluttered.

"Midorihime." She smiled as if she was happy, and hugged it into her arms. "I see you." It's just that compared to this old tree, her arms are too small.

Rustle. The leaves were falling in the wind, and it seemed that the old tree was also expressing its joy.

She hugged it, as if she was holding Midorihime at that time, and her face showed a lonely and painful expression.

As if feeling the pain in her heart, the old tree she was holding suddenly trembled violently, and then in her painful gaze, it shattered into a cloud of debris, leaving only two palm-sized puppets that fell into her and Zhang Zhou's palms.

"Midorihime--" She held the puppet in frustration, standing among the falling embers, hissing her name, but the valley did not give her the slightest response.