Curtain XXXIV The Life of the Upright NINE
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Alice, who was shaking her head as she poured the black tea into the cup on the coffee table in the living room, looked a little angry, but unexpectedly felt that the corners of her mouth seemed to be smiling. Yutong Shiai sat on the sofa a little cramped, and was so embarrassed that she wanted to turn her head away from the other party to prevent her from seeing her face.
How do you explain this? It's impossible to say that I suspect you're a ...... Ahem, I suspect you're cursed, right?
So Yutong Shiai can only remain silent.
"It's a pleasure for me to say that Ten Love relies on me like this. But it's strange in every sense that it's all too sudden to be this level today. ”
Alice was obviously dissatisfied with Yutong Shiai's silence, and after she put the teapot away, she looked sideways at the young man's somewhat empty eyes.
"I think you're hiding something from me."
"Uh-huh......!"
Yutong Shiai was looked at like this by the other party's suspicious gaze, and felt a little unbearable on his face. He scratched his face.
"Isn't Alice also hiding something from me all the time?"
A concealment is three years, and Yutong Shiai also put this relationship on hold for three years.
Yutong Shiai has indeed felt Alice's bits and pieces in the past three years, but she also feels guilty about Alice's emotion because of this, [If you can tell me earlier] Such thoughts are not uncommon. It's just that it doesn't seem to make sense to say this now, and what Yutong Shiai needs to think about is how to bring Alice back - take her back to the original mansion, and let her be with him as the puppeteer Alice, instead of hiding in her own world as if she was abandoned, hoping for something that has no hope, and tasting loneliness alone.
He wants Alice to see him as Yutong Juai, the Yutong Juai she met in the Western-style Pavilion, instead of the man who originally existed in her memory, and then the Yutong Juai he met in the Western-style Pavilion will take her back, and Alice will get her mother again, and she will be able to continue to look forward to the mature magician Patchouli again, and she will be able to take care of the novice magician Marisa again, and she will be able to play the soft tune of Obon night under the moonlight.
No, maybe she should teach herself Beethoven's poem to Alice. Yutong Shiai nodded like this.
But before that, he still had to face Alice, who tilted her head in some confusion.
"I'm not hiding anything from Ten Loves. From the time we met, until I returned to my mother's arms, I hid nothing from Shiai. ”
Yutong Shiai frowned slightly, Alice's words can be said to be upside down and incomprehensible if they are understood according to the logic of ordinary people, but Yutong Shiai got a considerable degree of information from the explanation of the night knife Ji at the time, and he also successfully deduced Alice's memory replacement through this, so now he wants to try to make Alice recall the real past between him and her.
Either way, that's where they really began.
"Well, I'll be honest with Alice."
Yutong Shiai decided this, and he turned his head to look at the lush but gloomy forest outside the house.
"The first time I saw Alice was when I came out of the forest and saw this mansion."
As soon as Yutong Shifu spoke, the expression on Alice's face suddenly froze. Yutong Shiai paid attention to her look, instead of telling the past on her own, so she was also keenly aware of her stiffness, but Yutong Shiai did not stop his narration because of this, but reached out and grabbed Alice's right hand, which was slightly clenched, in the palm of his hand.
This also shows that he attaches importance to Alice, not to deny her memory. This behavior may have worked, Alice's originally nervous expression eased a little, and her hand softened, and she was caught by Yutong Shiai.
"When I first arrived in Gensokyo, I was on this land for the first time, I walked through this forest, and then I came to the door of Alice's mansion. Although Alice was a little cold at that time, I have to say that this is still the most beautiful and cutest girl I have ever seen in my life. ”
Alice's hand twitched a few times in the palm of Yutong Juai's hand, she didn't seem to be completely unresponsive to Yutong Juai's words, but if you look at it from her face, she just listens to it, and she will smile gently at Yutong Juai's observational gaze.
It's really a woman who always hides herself.
"It was really rude at the time, staring at it all the time, hahaha. After that, too......"
"Ten loves."
Alice looked at him and interrupted his words. The girl took his hand with her backhand and clenched it hard, as if to cheer herself up, and as if to confirm some facts.
"You're dreaming like this again."
“…… Huh? ”
Alice looked at Yutong Shiai's surprised expression, and couldn't help but clench the other party's hand.
"Your mind hasn't really cleared up when you get off the electric chair, and you're always talking to me things I don't understand, Gensokyo, Yakumo Murasaki and whatever. Although I am surprised that Ten Ai has such a rich imagination, I still want Ten Ai to stop saying that. ”
She covered the boy's hand with her other hand as well.
"I don't know anything about that world, but Shiai seems to know everything about that world. It's by my side, but I always have the feeling that the ten loves will leave me and go to that world. I hate this feeling, Shiai, obviously went through so many things, whether it was the electric chair, the torture, or the war that followed, we all survived, and finally we came to this foreign mansion, but you started talking about these things, these things that I didn't know at all. ”
Alice frowned and showed a sad expression.
"What the hell are those, I don't know, Ten Loves. What the hell is it, those unknown things, I can't understand, why you have to change and forget those things for the sake of those things, even the memories we had together, the first time we met, you have to change and forget it......"
Her voice was as soft as the hot air rising from black tea. Yutong Shiai looked at her sad look, and there was also a sadness of the same origin in her heart. This feeling, he is the same, this Alice firmly believes in their past, and Yutong Shiai also has a past that he himself believes in. Both of them bet on the memories of two people to confront each other.
It is precisely because of this that Yutong Shiai must not back down, he must, and can only use everything he remembers to overwhelm the other party, because this must also be what Alice wants. Even if she deceived herself, Alice must have remembered the past of the two of them in the depths of her memory, let alone here, sitting in this mansion where they met.
So Yutong Shiai looked at his hand, Alice's offensive was obvious, since Yutong Shiai grabbed her right hand, she used her hands to tolerate Yutong Shiai to show her firmness. Yutong Shiai pursed her lips, grabbed the other party's hand with her right hand, and then pulled it into her arms, pulled the girl over, and pulled out her right hand in Alice's exclamation, and hugged it. The girl's soft body was suddenly restrained by him.
"Those are true. I didn't talk in my dreams, Alice. Right here, right in this Western-style Pavilion, I met you for the first time, I knocked on the door of the Western-style Pavilion, you opened the door and saw me. I won't deny that, and you definitely won't, you must remember, and you must remember! ”
Alice, who had just put her hands on each other's shoulders because of the boy's pull, blushed, grabbed the boy's shoulders tightly with both hands, and bit her lip.
"No...... No, the first time we met was in the torture chamber ......"
"Not really!"
Yutong Shiai interrupted him unceremoniously, and said in a calm voice in the other party's ear. He hugged the girl tighter.
"My encounter with Alice was not so tragic, the first time I met Alice, the sun was great that day! Alice's face is also beautiful in the sun! Are all these Alices willing to forget? Are you really willing to do it? ”
Alice seemed to be restrained from breathing, and seemed to be affected by Yutong's words, she gritted her teeth and let out an animal-like cooing.
"I, I don't remember anything like that......"
"Even Alice would be angry if she forgot our past."
Again, Alice made a sound that seemed to be choked by her throat. But at the same time, Yutong Shiai also felt that the girl in her arms was trembling all over, his face was caressed by the other party's soft blonde hair, and then the earlobes were invaded by the girl with a hot breath.
"Please, Ten Loves, I really ...... Can't think about it anymore. ”
Pleading, Alice's hands were a little weak to push Yutong Shiai, but Yutong Shiai couldn't just let go. He pressed his face against the girl's.
"Please, please remember."
Please, Alice.
Yutong Shiai has given up the war, the agreement with Sanae Dongshitani, and the right to leave the first time Alice gave him, but he can't give up the memories of Alice no matter what. A being, memory is the most precious thing, proving that you are you and proving your life. Yutong Ten Love will not allow Alice to possess him like this, in this case, wouldn't Alice fall in love with the original him, and his original love for that Alice will also become love for another Alice?
This is absolutely not allowed.
But the girl in her arms was trembling, and she got her strength out of nowhere, and pushed away Yutong Shiai, and directly pushed him from the sofa to the ground. Alice took a deep breath with a harsh expression. Ignoring Yutong Shiai, he stretched out his hand and raised a cup of tea.
"I, let me ...... Calm down first, I'm sorry ......"
She held the teacup in both hands, but the liquid in the cup kept rippling with the trembling of her hands. The girl took another deep breath and looked at Yutong Shiai, who had risen from the ground, and then gently lifted the teacup to her lips. Yutong Shiai was originally regretting the failure of the action just now, but now seeing Alice put the teacup to her lips and took a sip, she suddenly remembered something, and her heartbeat intensified again.
"Alice!?"
He was going to sit down, but remembering something made him immediately urge him to move forward and reach out to pat the teacup in the girl's hand, but before he could touch the teacup, the cup of tea slipped off Alice's hand, and the hot tea spilled on the girl's sky-blue dress, and the teacup smashed to pieces on the floor.
Alice's eyes widened and her mouth opened, and Yutong Shiai hurriedly put her hands on her shoulders.
"Alice! Alice, are you alright? ”
Tears began to well-up in Alice's azure eyes, but a smile welled up at the corners of her mouth, and she smiled softly in a voice that had somehow become hoarse.
"Great...... It's so good......"
"Great? What's wrong, Alice? ”
Yutong Shiai nervously observed Alice's face, but Alice only narrowed her eyes, tears running down her cheeks. She lifted her hand and put the boy's shoulder-clasped hands on her face, letting the boy hold her cheeks, and then the girl smiled beautifully, her face full of satisfaction.
"Ten loves, I remember. The best encounter that morning. I remembered......"
Then the girl laughed like this, and her hands slashed feebly from the boy's wrists and hung down to her side. Yutong Shi's heart jumped and missed a beat again, and his heart felt as if he was being poked in by a file and constantly stirred. The boy gently shook the cheek of the girl he was holding in his hand, but the girl who closed her eyes no longer responded to him, but smiled quietly, shed tears, and closed her eyes as if she was asleep.
After all, something beyond Yutong Shiai's expectations happened, and the girl in front of her was neither a cowardly nor a witty person.
A mature person who drinks poison for love.
Yutong Shiai held her cheek and looked at her beautiful face like she was sleeping. A sour feeling came from his heart, and he felt that he might want to cry a little.
What, this woman, hiding so deeply, forcing herself like this.
He felt that he had to do something, that he had to do something, so his gaze slid over the girl's face, and finally he buried his head and kissed softly on the corner of the girl's lips, which still kept a slight smile.
"Well, I'll always remember that."
Definitely not forget.