I didn't feel anything. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The man's hand passed through my body without hindrance, as if one of us was a ghost.

I stretched out my hand and shook it in front of the middle-aged man's eyes, but he didn't react at all. It seems that he can't find me, and I can't seem to image him. When I found out this, I suddenly wanted to play a prank, and I reached for the part that the man had hand, expecting his hellish look when he found out that the prepared part was missing. To my surprise, though, my hand didn't touch anything, and I missed the part and crossed the table.

It seems that not only can't I touch this person, but I also can't touch anything here.

When I found out, I suddenly felt a little bored. I looked at the assembly of parts in the middle-aged man's hand and saw that he seemed to be finished, and took the case out of the box and prepared for the final steps.

Looking at the parts of the shell, I realized what this man was doing.

It's a pocket watch.

The middle-aged man skillfully and quickly completed the final assembly, and a silver pocket watch was born in his hands.

I don't know about pocket watches, and I don't see how much this watch is worth, but I think it's pretty good. A silver shell with a snowflake-like shape made of finely chopped diamonds. A thin silver chain with a delicate anchor-shaped pendant at the end.

The middle-aged man looked at the pocket watch in his hand with satisfaction after finishing it, and finally gently put it into the box.

I'd love to see it again, but unfortunately the middle-aged man didn't give me any time. He carefully picked up the box and walked briskly towards the door.

Without giving me time to react, I was pulled by a force towards the door, and then passed through it.

But the scene switched faster than I expected. I probably moved straight to another house. It's the same wooden house, but the décor is much better than the one before. It is full of retro-style European furniture, and the scattered accessories are also full of warm colors. I didn't miss the middle-aged man standing there, holding the box and waiting with a smile in his eyes.

I couldn't hear anything, I could only see the middle-aged man with a scruffy beard slowly turning his head and looking at the door.

opened. The blonde woman covered a child's eyes and pushed the door open, then let go of the hand that was blocking the boy's view.

I could see this scene in slow motion. The boy's expression of surprise, his eyes widened and his smile was undisguised. He threw his arms out at the middle-aged man, who I think was his father, and threw himself into the other's arms. The middle-aged man squatted down and handed the box in his hand to the boy. It must have been a gift, to see that child smiling like the sun in the middle of summer.

They look so happy.

"yes, that's the first time I met him. At that time he was the son of a Swiss watchmaker, and I was a work of his father. ”

The old butler's voice was full of emotion, coming from behind me.

When I turned around, the family of three and the wooden house around me disappeared, and I suddenly returned to the living room where I was.

It didn't seem to be long before Kuroko was still by my side, and Mr. Yu was watching.

The old butler withdrew his trembling hand: "You should only be able to see so much, but this is our fate, when it is knotted." ”

"Your ...... You guys? ”

"That's right, this is fate, you don't know when it's connected, it's not easy to figure it out."

"Who are you? Is that the boy? ”

"How could it be. That was hundreds of years ago. ”

"Then you are...... The pocket watch? I asked, skeptically. Because I can't believe that a "youkai"-like existence is as old as it is now. I've always thought that these guys are like Kuroko and Baizi, and they are old immortals with no concept of time.

The old butler sat across from me, did not speak, and nodded amusefully at my amazed look.

Kuroko looked at me with the "I don't know this shameful guy" next to me, and I was a little embarrassed to see it. But then he rightly ignores his gaze, and the ignorant are not guilty! Look at what I'm doing?!

Since the old butler is an antique, the boy I saw should be its first owner: "So, what about that boy, what happened to him?" ”

"Later, he had a very ordinary life, neither good nor bad, it can be said to be 'mean'."

"And then?"

"He spent his old age in peace and died peacefully."

"Huh?" I was stunned. I thought that their so-called "relationship" would happen to some earth-shattering and legendary things, and at the very least, there must be some strange differences, how could it be so prosaic?

"He was indeed a very ordinary man, but he carried me with him all his life." The old housekeeper closed his eyes slightly, as if he had remembered something, and smiled again, "The fate of the newly born device is generally twists and turns, only less and less stable." With him, I had a stable life for decades. This is our fate, and this is what I want to be grateful to him.

"It's just that I didn't quite understand what the stability he gave me meant to me. It wasn't until after he died that I was sold by his children. I've traveled across the oceans and visited many places. At that time, I was still very weak, and I couldn't even transform into a human form, and I couldn't fully protect myself. It was also at this time that I thought of the stability he gave. I wanted to find him, so when I could finally integrate into human society, I started my search. ”

"Blend in?"

"It's when I get stronger, I can become a person. Only then can I move freely. Otherwise, whether it was then or now, a pocket watch that can run and talk is a bit scary, right? The old butler seemed to be amused by his last words, and laughed twice and coughed again.

"Then why are you looking for him?"

"I didn't know it at the time, I just wanted to find it. But now that I think about it, it's not a retribution or anything like that, it's just a kind of attachment. "The old housekeeper was very patient and didn't get impatient with my questions.

I nodded thoughtfully, not interrupting him again.

So the old butler took us into his memories again: "But my ability is equivalent to that of an ordinary person, to find a person who only knows the past life in the vast world and the vast sea of people, even if I have endless time, I may not be able to do it." ”

At this, he paused, as if remembering something very important, and sighed.

"I'm glad I was a bit of a fool at the time, knowing that this thing was impossible, and I still insisted on looking for it. So I got to know a lot of guys I wouldn't have met before, and I knew who I could hope to help me find the person I was looking for.

"I was introduced by a friend, and I found Mr. Yu."