The cold temperature of her palm was still in the palm of her hand, but there was a long distance between him and her. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He clenched his fists unconsciously, as if he wanted to keep the cold touch in his palm forever, unwilling to forget. In the dim light, on the empty streets, there was a long silence between him and her.

She silently lowered her head and walked in front of him. He followed her in a trance, silently staring at her somewhat scattered shadow under the street lamp. If this path continues...... Having denied eternity, he had now made such fantasies, which made a little ridicule rise in his eyes.

I said the phrase "there is no such thing as eternal and unchanging" not long ago, but now I hope that such a thing exists. Human beings are really contradictory. He laughed in his heart, mocking himself as he existed.

Yes, no matter how long the road is, there will be a time when it comes to an end, and it will not become endless because of anyone's prayers, and there is no god in this world who responds to requests. So...... The journey home will inevitably come to an end. When the shadow that belonged to her in his field of vision stopped moving, he knew that the place of separation had arrived.

He raised his eyes and stared at Li Ai's back with his glass-colored left eye, erasing her from the world little by little. This process lasted almost half a minute. He could have done this kind of thing in a very short time, but this time it took so long......

For some reason, he suddenly saw her disappear from the world's sight that he would never have seen, and this appearance coincided in his mind with the scene where Midorihime disappeared as a point of light. As he erased her heel from the world's presence, he felt the same or even more intense panic as Midorihime had completely disappeared from his presence. He couldn't help but reach out and grab the green point of light floating in the sky.

The moment the name "Li Ai ......" blurted out, he suddenly returned to reality. In the real vision, Li Ai's body was intact there, and it didn't disappear like Midorihime. And, as if hearing his cries, she stopped her progress and tilted her head back slightly, but did not look at him. Faced with such a her, Zhang Zhou was at a loss for a while. He curtly lowered his outstretched hand, lowered his head and fell silent.

Li Ai waited for a long time, but after all, she didn't wait for his follow-up words, so she silently turned her head and walked step by step towards the completely unguarded apartment gate in Zhang Zhou's enchantment. She slowly opened the door to her apartment, walked back into the delicate cage, and finally disappeared into the darkness.

It wasn't until her figure disappeared into the darkness that Zhang Zhou raised his head and looked at the apartment that locked her inside like a delicate cage, and laughed silently, his hoarse laughter echoing hollowly in the enchantment where he was the only one left. He can see, he can see...... The cage had a hole open......

After a long time, he finally stopped laughing, and looked up at the sky obscured by the dim light, but he could not find a star. The wind on a winter night is really dry and cold...... It's so cold that my eyes are sour. Zhang Zhou leaned against the door of the apartment, looking up at a gloomy sky, and sighed silently.

"Na, Zhang Zhou, why did you choose that option at that time?" Two and a half years later, Li Ai stood in the alley next to the cake shop, stroking the wall of the alleyway that had been unrecognizable, and whispering to the person who was no longer around.

"Obviously at that time......" her fingertips twipeed over the stone, outlining certain scenes in her memory. Experienced...... On her seventeenth birthday, he took her out of here.

"Now, Zhang Zhou, it's my birthday in half a year...... But this time, will you come to accompany me again? She leaned against the uneven wall, her eyes full of nostalgia.

Two and a half years later, Li Ai is calm and reliable, while Li Ai two and a half years ago just curled up behind the door, burying a face deep in his bent knees. She clutched Midorihime's wood carving and sobbed in the dimly lit room.

Her long-standing belief was torn apart by the people she trusted, revealing her vulnerability and her pain. Leaving her alone in a cold and cruel world, helpless......

She thought that nothing had changed, that nothing would change. As long as she doesn't forget, as long as she doesn't let it, none of this will change...... So she left her time there, leaving herself alone from the world. Ditch words and avoid all forms of communication that interact with the outside world...... Compared to the world shared by everyone, all she wanted was this isolated world. She is indifferent to the world and uses lies to weave a membrane from the world.

She was afraid to communicate with others because it would create new memories that would overwrite the memories she valued. So she built a high wall with silence, grounded herself, exiled herself, turned her back on the bustle and hustle, and embraced the bitter loneliness alone. She gave up her expectations of the outside world, but the world was so wonderful that it kept tempting her.

But she didn't want to go out, she didn't want to leave here with this memory. That's why she has such a preference for human observation. The telescope that was originally used to look up at the starry sky was used by her to observe the filth of human beings. Seeing too much of this kind of filth can make her deter because she hates the outside world. She cools her world with loneliness, turns hatred into a door of confinement, locks herself in, and lets the cold drown herself, even if she suffocates, she doesn't breathe.

That's it. As long as you will use lies, indifference, and alienation to anchor yourself in this world, Mom and Dad will never go too far; As long as you confine yourself to this world, you will never be harmed; As long as you anchor yourself in this world, nothing will change...... That's it......

She thinks so, but when she really faces people who are good to her, she can't cope with it. The originally smooth lie couldn't be said in front of the teacher who cared about her, the originally cold refusal couldn't be said in front of that person, and the pity that she wouldn't have flooded when she met Midorihime......

It turned out that when she stopped time in the same place, she also stayed where she was, never moving forward. No matter how much she used lies, indifference, and alienation to arm her heart, she was still the innocent girl she was when she was ten years old. She will work hard to keep her grades excellent for the expectations of her parents, and she will be sad for the departure of her friends. She's still innocent, she's still vulnerable...... It's just a transformation from exposing these emotions to most people to suppressing them in the bottom of their hearts.

Lies, indifference, alienation, she weaves a world with which only she and memories exist, keeping everything out. Such a world, coupled with the apartment that she has tried her best to protect, carries memories, and constitutes an 'eternal' world for her. She was in this world, and she held that treasure memory in her arms and had a dream that lasted for seven years.

And now, wake up from the dream!

Zhang Zhou, why are you the one who is destroying all this? Why did you tear open my wounds? Why you...... I thought you would...... Is this retribution? Is this retribution for lying to you? Sure enough, the relationship built on the foundation of lies really can't be strong.

Sure enough, people like me don't deserve to have companions who can stand side by side and feel each other's existence. She gritted her teeth, but she couldn't hold back the tears that came out of her eyes. She clutched Midorihime's wood carving, her lips quirming, silently questioning. Midorihime, Midorihime...... What am I going to do? What should I do? ZHANG Zhou...... How do I deal with you?

Who's going to ...... Who's going to tell me the answer? She curled up in the darkness, asking hoarsely, for an answer.