When An Ke arrived at Xiami's house, Lily, Misaka, and several other Level5 superpower subordinates were all around Xiami. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoA mature beautiful woman sits on the side, sometimes sobbing quietly, and every time this happens, there is a shallow comforting sound of shrimp.

An Ke had never seen such a pitiful look of the shrimp, he was stunned, without tears, as if he was weak and helpless like a young beast, which made him feel congested for a while.

Quietly walked to Shrimp's side, An Ke opened his mouth, but found that he didn't know how to comfort her, so he had to call her softly: "Shrimp!" ”

Hearing An Ke's call, Shrimp raised her head slightly, revealing an unpretentious smirk, "Ah, young master, you're here." ”

It's not a forced smile when you're sad and sad, and it's not a smile when you're happy. Smirk, the same giggle after being bullied by the young master on weekdays.

The girl is very innocent, sunny, cheerful, and sincere. She is used to facing the world with a smile, because her parents have hoped that she can face the world happily since she was a child.

"Shrimp, you, why don't you cry?"

An Ke looked at the girl's silly smile, and suddenly felt distressed. It's been more than half a year since I've known Shrimp, and he noticed a small detail that he almost subconsciously ignored in his impression, in every meeting with Shrimp, Shrimp seems to always be that energetic young girl, happy smile, sad smile, depressed smile. It seems that everything in this world that can tug at her heartstrings can be replaced with a smile.

Is it disgusting? It is true that a creature that can be replaced with a smile, whether it is sadness, pain or even any negative emotion, is enough to make people disgusted with her from the depths of their hearts, and even enough to make some people physically uncomfortable.

But An Ke knew in his heart that Xiami was absolutely, definitely not a girl who closed her heart in her own small world and then faced everything around her with a hypocritical smile.

On the contrary, the girl is very optimistic, optimistic until her father's death, she can calmly face the ups and downs of life with a smile.

However, sixteen years, neither long nor short, is enough to make this girl who always keeps a smile forget how to make a sad expression.

And now, this girl with such a strong heart, when she faced the unbearable weight of life for the first time, she really felt the pain caused by the parting of life and death, sadness, sadness, and the strong heart could no longer resist the invasion of negative emotions, she wanted to vent her emotions, but forgot what kind of expression to make at this moment. She told herself that she should face life strongly, and after thinking about it, she decided to show a smirk when she was often bullied by the young master.

Shrimp tilted her head blankly and thought for a while, "Crying? Don't understand! Suddenly, the girl showed a bright smirk, "Young master, teach me." ”

Suddenly, a sourness flowed through An Ke's heart, his eyes swelled and cracked for a while, An Ke tried to stop the tears from flowing out, but there were a few thin sobs in his ears, and in a blink of an eye, not only the mature beauty, but even Lily, Mikoto Misaka and others were reddened by tears.

An Ke suddenly felt that how to make her cry was more important than how to comfort the shrimp, so he nodded heavily and said, "Okay, I'll teach you." ”

……

In the evening,Shrimp's father's funeral has been taken care of with the efforts of the logistics department of the school plane,The deceased has passed away,Although the murderer has not been caught,Shrimp's mother still decided to send her husband's body back to her hometown for burial after the farewell ceremony。

The farewell ceremony began in a very low-key situation.,Only a few relatives and friends of the shrimp and two directors who attended on behalf of the school plane,Doing this,Not only is the school plane in order to protect its reputation,It's also to not startle the snake.,Let go of the hateful criminal.。

The ceremony continued, and the silence made An Ke feel a little bored, so he simply walked to the wide balcony. The sun is about to set, the reddish sunset in early spring is still a little cold, but it can't feel a trace of temperature on the cheeks, and the light evening breeze blows, bringing a trace of coldness, but it can't take away the irritability in An Ke's heart.

"Less, young master?" A delicate call sounded behind An Ke, and An Ke raised his eyebrows, because this was not Xiami's voice, in fact, one of the legion commanders under his name, as well as the four deputy legion commanders, now only Xiami usually calls him the young master.

Looking back, An Ke was surprised to find that the person who called him the young master was none other than the party who usually called him a pervert, Lily.

Seeing that it was a lily, An Ke nodded slightly, then turned his head back and continued to look at the sunset in the distance, "What's wrong?" ”

"Well, I want to talk about it alone."

"Okay, go out and talk."

After that, the two bypassed the mourning hall and walked to a quiet grove, at this moment, An Ke showed a tired face and pinched the acupuncture points on the bridge of his nose. In front of this girl whose strength at the same level can far surpass his own, An Ke doesn't mind revealing his weakness.

"The environment here is good, if there is anything inconvenient to say just now, let's talk about it here."

Listening to An Ke's words, Baihe did not rush to speak, but was silent for a while before saying, "About Prinath...... No, Shrimp, how much do you know about her? ”

An Ke smiled slightly, and was about to speak, but fell silent. Yes, since I have known Shrimp for half a year, whether it is on the Internet or in reality, the two often meet, laugh together, laugh happily together, it seems that unconsciously, Shrimp has become a part of his life, so intimate that he subconsciously thinks that he already knows the girl with the nickname Shrimp very well.

But in fact, he knows too little about Xiami's family, Xiami's past, and all kinds of Xiami's life. Thinking of this, An Ke shook his head, his eyes looked at Lily longingly, he had already guessed the purpose of Lily calling him out.

The evening breeze blew gently, Lily's hair was gently blown, a strand of hair was blown up by the breeze and stuck to the corners of her mouth, and for a while, the white-haired girl gently talked about a dusty past with memories.

……

The lights are on, and the sun is setting.

The Tower of Babel stands tall in the center of the city, and as night falls, the lights attached to the outside of the building come on, attracting the attention of countless tourists.

The shining Tower of Babel naturally attracted the attention of the two, Lily stretched out her finger, pointed to the Tower of Babel in the distance, and said lightly with a reminiscent gaze:

"Perhaps, the original story should start with this Tower of Babel."

"Sixteen years ago, in this Tower of Babel without doors and windows, with a transformation operation ending in top secret, with the birth of the Capable Rough Stone, a vigorous Transformation Program of the Ability began."

"Although the transformation technology at that time was mature enough, in order to temporarily keep the progress of the ability plan of the school plane secret, the first batch of 500,000 ability people to undergo transformation surgery were all children under the age of two。

"Wait, half a million? Isn't there only 100,000 people in the first batch of capable legions that belong to me? Interrupting Lily's words, An Ke exclaimed.

"Can you stop making a fuss?" Lily glanced at the guy who was ruining the atmosphere, "Ability and qualified people are equally talented, although the threshold is much lower than that of qualified people, but there is also a 'literacy' thing that judges the future of people with ability. At the beginning, the 500,000 junior ability people have grown up to the present, and most of them have stopped at the Level 1 and Level 2 stages, and for them, there is too little room for further growth, so there is no need to stay in the ability army. ”

"In short, the 500,000 children of that year, most of them were orphans who lost their relatives like me, but there were also a few parents who maintained a good relationship with the school plane, and sent their children to this ability program, and Prinath was the best of these few."

"In the first few years, 500,000 of us children lived in this completely closed Tower of Babel, playing together, being examined together, developing their abilities together, and we were all like a family."

"It didn't last long, and gradually, the children with loved ones were able to leave the closed world in the tower and be reunited with their parents. Every time, the children outside the tower can always tell the children inside the tower something amazing. ”

However, the children who returned from outside the tower did not always bring amazement and admiration to the children inside the tower, and jealousy and rejection also breeded. To be honest, if a child's negative emotions are not properly guided, the damage caused may be more difficult to control than that of adults. ”

"'Why do they have mom and dad who love them and I don't?' 'Why can they get out of this damn tower, and I can't?' Probably a similar sentiment is that the few children who have families begin to be ostracized by their own small circles. ”

Of course, Prinath is not surprised, she is thin and small, but it is not surprising that she has become the object of rejection and bullying by children. Lily said, glancing at An Ke with complicated eyes, "In our small circle, there are only rough stones like waste materials, as always, they spoil her and protect her, obviously they can't beat those little ghosts who have the ability, but they always open their hands to block her in front of her, don't you think it's ridiculous?" ”

"Yes! It seems really ridiculous to me, but what is even more ridiculous is that I actually unconsciously admire the original stone brother who is simply a waste in the eyes of all my partners. ”

"Even if he doesn't have the ability, Brother Yuanshi's back still looks so reliable. Closer, closer, closer, slowly, I finally became a member of the circle of Brother Primoshi and Prinath. ”

"Lily - this is the nickname that Brother Yuanshi gave me on my fifth birthday, he said that it was the name of a plant, the white lily was very similar to my temperament, I liked flowers very much, and besides, I was an orphan, so I took it upon myself to change my name to Lily."

On that day, Prinath was there, and she rushed to take Brother Yuanshi's hand and asked him to give her a name. My brother smiled and gently touched her head, and said to her, "You, you have been thin and small since you were a child, like a crumbling bamboo pole, but the name of the bamboo pole is not good, so it is better to call it shrimp." ”

"Lily, shrimp." An Ke gently muttered these two names that seemed fresh and cute, and now he knew that the name of the lily and the nickname of the shrimp were actually related to himself.

"Heh, shrimp. If it hadn't been for Prinath, I'd never have remembered her nickname like that. Lily continued in a slightly sarcastic tone, "It's been almost twelve years, since the day after my fifth birthday, Brother Primashi was taken away, and for so many years, no one has mentioned this name, but I didn't expect Prinath to still remember the name left by Brother Primashi before leaving. ”

An Ke was silent, and he suddenly understood why Lily cared so much about his past memories, because they carried too many longings and fantasies from her young girlhood. So much so that when An Ke discarded the memories before the age of seven, Lily would be so angry that his strength would go berserk.

"I'm sorry." An Ke said softly, "If you want, even if the memory is lost, I am still willing to be your original stone brother." ”

"Hmm." Lily tilted her head awkwardly to the side, and then said in a voice as thin as a gnat: "Hmph, who rarely wants you to be my original brother." ”

"Let's talk about Prinath." Lily did not divert the topic and continued: "That child is actually very simple, even the experience when she was a child did not change her character, and any troubles encountered can always be faced with a smile. Although sometimes I like to play pranks, I can't always get angry. ”

"In the years since you left, in addition to your daily exercise and practice, what Prinath has remembered the most is the original Brother Yuanshi, and now Young Master An Ke. The girl thought that one day when she saw the young master, she could pat her chest proudly and tell him that she was already a slim girl. When they meet again, the girl finds that her brother, who has been thinking about it day and night, has regarded her as a stranger. Lily glanced at An Ke with a lonely expression.

"Uh......" An Ke scratched his head in embarrassment, he understood that Lily was not only referring to the shrimp, but also to herself.

"Prinath please."

"Huh?"

Lily's red pupils stared at him tightly, and said word by word: "If you are really the original stone brother in our memory, then it must be no problem." With you by Prinath's side, I'm sure I'll be able to take care of her and get her out of this predicament. ”

"What, that's just this little thing." An Ke also stared at the bright red pupils full of seriousness, and said with a smile, "If you don't say it, I will do it too." ”