After returning from the Lost Bamboo Forest, he carried Remy, who had been sitting on his shoulder halfway and fell asleep leaning on his head, back to the room, and by the way, he changed her into pajamas so that she could rest well, and Chen An came to the door of the Red Devil Pavilion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Yo, Misuzu."

After saying hello to Misuzu, he sat down against the wall with the hem of his robe on his side.

Misuzu was still lazy to sleep, but when she heard Chen An's voice, she screamed and woke up.

"Sakiya, I'm not lazy!"

When she opened her eyes, she looked nervously left and right for a while, and when she didn't see the figure of those throwing knives, Misuzu breathed a sigh of relief and put down the hand covering her forehead.

"Ah, it scared me, I thought it was Sakiya coming."

Chen An smiled.

"Don't you want to be so sensitive, how do you hear my man's voice like Sakiya?

And lazy, you don't even open your eyes to know that you're not lazy, are you a conditioned reflex? ”

"I've been stabbed too much by Sakuya with a knife."

Meiling stuck out her tongue cutely, and just like Chen An, she sat down beside him with the hem of her cheongsam.

Without hesitation, Misuzu took Chen An's arm and snuggled up to him.

Although the season is late spring and summer is approaching, the temperature in Gensokyo cannot be said to be very hot. Even because there are too many trees, the environment is too good, and it is a little cold.

And the Red Devil Pavilion is close to the lake, so the temperature will naturally be lower.

It's true that Misuzu is a monster, but she is not afraid of cold and heat like Chen An, but now she only has a cheongsam and martial pants on her body.

- As soon as the cold temperatures began to warm up, Misuzu had already withdrawn her thick winter clothes.

Chen An glanced at Misuzu.

"Misuzu, isn't it cold to wear only this little bit?"

Leaning her head on Chen An's shoulder, Misuzu smiled lightly.

"No, I'm not like Xianggong, but I'm not a fragile guy, so it's out of the way."

"That's ......"

Chen An didn't say anything, but after thinking about it, he finally felt a little uneasy, so he simply asked Misuzu to let go and took off the robe on her body.

Putting on Misuzu's robe, Chen An sat down again.

He shrugged.

"Although you said that it was not in the way, I was still afraid that you would be cold and sick."

Holding Misuzu's shoulders and letting her lean against her chest, Chen An teased:

"If you get sick, I'll be the one who will be in trouble in the end."

Tightening the robe on her body, Misuzu felt really warm in her heart.

She hummed obediently.

"Well, I see, Xianggong."

Touching Misuzu's soft hair, Chen An looked into the distance.

The sun was rising in the east, and the golden sun was already hanging on the top of the mountains.

The sun does not hesitate to sprinkle the fiery sunlight between the sky and the earth, falling on the body, making people feel warm.

Chen An stared at the foggy lake not far away, and vaguely, he seemed to see something glowing in the fog.

"Well, it's unexpectedly fast."

Chen An muttered softly, then withdrew his gaze, and he asked:

"Misuzu, where did Lumia and Fran go, why haven't you seen it?"

Today, Lumia and the others don't need to go to school in the temple house, but Chen An didn't see any of them on the way back to the room when Chen An sent Remy back to the room.

I've been sitting here for so long, and there's not any movement at all.

If they were all in the Red Devil Pavilion, Chen An would not be so peaceful.

Especially Lumia and Fran, the two pestering little ones, who have a more nose than a puppy when they look for him.

If it was really here, it would have been found for so long.

"Second Miss......"

I don't know if Leng Meiling shrank into Chen An's arms.

"Because Xianggong is not here, the second lady went to play in the Enchanted Forest with Lumia, Kiruno, and Luna in the morning, and it seems that she wants to pick mushrooms to eat."

She hesitated, then added:

"And Méticy, who said she wanted to find Alice and Marisa, and went with her."

Marisa ......

Chen An was stunned and suddenly fell silent.

Sensing this, Misuzu couldn't help but raise her head and look at the silent Chen An, her eyes showing worry.

"Xianggong, are you worried about Marisa?"

Unlike the others who didn't understand why Marisa left the Red Devil Pavilion, Misuzu was present that night, so she knew very well what was going on between Chen An and Marisa.

She still knows Chen An quite well, naturally, and she also knows that after Marisa leaves, he will definitely not feel good in his heart.

"Marisa isn't a child, so I have nothing to worry about."

Chen An flatly denied Misuzu's speculation. He tugged at the corners of his mouth, showed a hearty smile, and rubbed Misuzu's hair a few times.

"Well, don't be cranky. Tell me, in addition to Lumia, where did the little girl and the cute wolf go, is it also the Enchanted Forest? ”

"Xianggong, don't rub my hair!"

Misuzu protested dissatisfiedly against Chen An's ravaging of her hair, but she still changed the topic with interest.

"Because today there is a temple fair in the temple. So the herons and herons all played with the temple in the small umbrella area. ”

Speaking of this, the corners of Misuzu's mouth couldn't help but smile.

"Listen to the little umbrella said: When they go to the temple fair, they have to do a big job, and look at the herons and their high-spirited appearance, the temple should be very lively today."

As for the crappy scaring kung fu of the little umbrella, as well as the ability of Nuoluji and them to help nothing but add to the chaos, the temple fair in the temple today will definitely be very lively.

It seems that I also thought of the excitement that Misuzu said. Chen An laughed.

"Hey, it's all about the excitement. Don't be caught and scared when you're doing a big job. Otherwise, the White Lotus and the others will definitely come to me for trouble. ”

"I think...... They shouldn't be that stupid, right? ”

Chen An raised his eyebrows and looked at Meiling playfully.

"Oh, really?"

"This ......"

Misuzu's attitude in reply was very hesitant, and she hesitated for a long time, then looked up at Chen An, who had a playful expression, and suddenly hung her head and became depressed.

She muttered:

"Okay, okay. None of them are very smart. ”

"The truth."

Chen An smiled and did not continue to dwell on this issue.

He looked at the sky.

The sky was blue and big. The hidden end is far away and cannot be seen.

Chen Anleneng looked into the distance, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became stronger and stronger for some reason.

Finally, he faded from silence and said so.

"Misuzu~ If Marisa comes to the Red Devil Pavilion to play in the future, please remember one thing."

"Huh?"

"Remember, Marisa and I have never had a deep bond. She and I were never husband and wife, just friends of the opposite sex who had a lot of fun. Do you understand? ”

Meiling Huo Ran raised her head and looked at Chen An with wide eyes.

"Xianggong you!?"

Misuzu is not stupid. Although Chen An didn't say it directly, she almost guessed something.

Did he do anything to keep Marisa from suffering from that bond?

Chen An didn't seem to see Misuzu's shocked look, he pillowed his hands behind his head, the smile on his face remained unchanged, he just closed his eyes and sighed softly.

"Please, Misuzu."

Looking at Chen An, who was still smiling even so, Misuzu bit her red lips, and her nose suddenly felt a little pantothenic.

Losing someone important, is it painful?

Isn't that a matter of course!

Isn't that the most painful thing in the world?

But in fact, the most painful thing in the world is not the loss of an important person.

Rather, after you lose her, she is still standing in front of you. But she doesn't recognize you anymore, and you can't hug her like you used to.

You and her have become a funny, absurd, and inexplicable relationship.

You know her as well as yourself.

And she - doesn't know you!

Misuzu couldn't figure out how she felt in her heart right now, but she was just thinking about the scene in her heart.

An Chen became Marisa, and she became An Chen.

He was still the same person he knew, but he had become a stranger in his eyes.

Suddenly, a hysterical pain came from my heart.

At this moment, Misuzu suddenly understood. I understood why Chen An had been hiding in the old hell instead of returning to Gensokyo on the ground.

Because it hurts!

The pain of suffocation makes the brain pause, the heart stops!

What a desperate pain it was...... No! It should be even more desperate pain!

Because that funny relationship doesn't seem to stop at the shallow familiarity and strangeness.

Ah~ The key, important, and painful word is...... Friends!

Suppressed emotions and hidden past. The once deep bond has become the kind of good friend who is familiar and strange, with a sense of comical!

Misuzu's eyes were hazy with tears, and her voice was even more crying.

"Xianggong~!"

"Huh?"

Misuzu's tone of voice made Chen An stunned, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Misuzu in tears.

Chen An panicked, hurriedly reached out to wipe the tears from Misuzu's face, and comforted her with a good voice.

"Stupid, I'm just telling you to remember not to say it when the time comes, what are you crying for some reason. Don't cry, don't cry. ”

Chen An was not comforted, but as soon as he was comforted, Meiling's suppressed emotions exploded, and she cried louder.

"I'm sorry, Xianggong, I shouldn't have forgotten you in the first place."

Chen An was stunned, and his eyes instantly became extremely soft.

He sighed softly.

"Really, it's been so long, and now I'm inexplicably saying something stupid."

As soon as he bent down and put his hands in the gap between Misuzu's back and the wall and her knees, Chen An hugged the crying Misuzu in his arms.

Chen An put one hand around Misuzu's shoulders and the other on her slender waist, and said softly:

"Alright, don't cry. Crying so sadly, if someone sees it later, they will say that I bullied you. ”

"But, the prime minister ......"

"Nothing."

Chen An interrupted Misuzu's words, not letting her say what was going on.

He said in an unquestionable tone:

"What is in the past is in the past. Besides, I did that good thing myself, and I deserved it, Misuzu, what do you blame yourself for? ”

He pressed his chin against Misuzu's head and said softly.

"What about you, just play the role of my little wife, and then take care of Lumia's little girls, and be happy yourself, understand?"

Misuzu pouted secretly.

"Xiang, Xianggong, I'm not small. And I'm a doorman, not a nanny! ”

"In the Red Devil Pavilion, does it make any difference?"

Chen An thought about this question seriously for a while, and then had to laugh and realize that it was actually no different.

A second lady who is innocent and ignorant of the world, and a young lady who is full of majesty and hopelessly willful.

There are two of them, as long as they are not decorated like those fairy maids in the Red Devil Pavilion, everything they do is the same as being a nanny, right?

Chen An laughed at the self-proclaimed majestic lady in his heart, but in fact, she was more than five hundred years old, but she was still as willful as a little child, and explained to Meisuzu in a serious way.

"It's okay, if you don't want to be a nanny, you can be a mother. Come to think of it, whenever Remy and Fran have nothing to do, don't you and Saki end up cleaning up the mess for them like parents?

So relax, let's not be a nanny, it's better to be a mother.

…… Wait, you and Sakuya!? ”

When it came to the end, Chen An was suddenly stunned.

He glanced at Misuzu, thought about Sakiya again, and decisively slapped his thigh and burst into a foul mouth.

"Damn, Uncle Ben was actually pried into the corner by his own people, and it was twice!? Is there a mistake~! ”

Misuzu: "......"

She blushed and thumped Chen An's chest.

"Xiang, Xianggong!"

Although it sounded a little weird because of the sobbing, Misuzu's coquettish protest still made Chen An surrender.

"When I didn't say it, when I didn't say it."

Chen An muttered that he had to watch closely in the future, telling Remy to be honest and not really let others pry his own corner to be funny, while coaxing her to sleep in Misuzu's angry expression.

"Alright, alright. Not much nonsense. Shrinking into the arms of this person, Misuzu, don't you feel the reassuring warmth?

Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it. Don't hesitate to take this opportunity to get some sleep. You know, my arms are very precious~"

"Flim-tongued narcissistic husband."

"What a flamboyant narcissistic man, I'm telling the truth, telling the truth!"

gave Chen An a roll of his eyes angrily, and Misuzu shrank in his arms and fell asleep in his arms amid his dissatisfied expression.

Chen An looked down at Mei Ling's peaceful sleeping face in her arms and smiled softly, and wiped away the tears on her face with her thumb, and then quieted down.

……

Time passed, and the peaceful morning passed quickly.

After Misuzu woke up from her sleep, because Lumia and the others had not returned, Remy was resting again, and Chen An had a rare quiet lunch at the Red Devil Pavilion.

After that, he went around the Red Devil Pavilion with Sakuya, and helped with some chores.

Later, they parted halfway, and Chen An had nothing to do, so he simply went to the library.

When he came to the library, Chen An found that apart from the little devil, Patchouli and Motoju Xiaoling couldn't even see a shadow here.

Honju Xiaoling is okay to say, after all, I didn't see her at lunch before, so I learned from the little devil that she also went to play with the little umbrella at Meiren Temple.

But it's a little strange that Pachouli is gone, you must know that I saw her at lunch before, and I was a picky eater who was still fighting with him at that time.

Chen An turned his head to look around, but he still didn't find Patchouli, which was really more and more strange.

Could it be that you also ran out to play?

Too lazy to waste his brain cells, he simply took the book there, and the whole person looked listless and drowsy, and the little devil who was about to fall asleep asked Pache where he was.

"Little devil, where's Patsy? Why aren't you here, are you going out for a walk? ”

The little devil blinked, rubbed his face vigorously with his hands, and tried to lift his spirits before shaking his head.

"No, Patchouli-sama just went back to take a nap."

Getting this answer, Chen An couldn't help but pout, and he felt bored in his heart.

Originally, in addition to reading books to pass the time, I came to the library just to tease Patchouli and watch her fried hair. As a result, the person was not there, and the mood was really bad.

Complaining in his heart that it was really for nothing, Chen An sat next to the little devil, and he reached out to put his hand on her shoulder.

"Little devil, it's okay if Patchy goes to take a nap, why don't you look listless?"

I don't mind Chen An holding his shoulder, the little wings on the little devil's head swayed unconsciously, and suddenly it was as if there were no bones, and he let himself lie on the table softly with a hula.

"I—I don't want to. But I didn't rest all night last night, and today Xiaoling went out again, I'm busy here alone, super sleepy~"

As he spoke, the little devil couldn't help but yawn, and then complained to Chen An.

"You too, if you don't come back at night and don't give notice, you will be so bad that Lord Patchouli has been waiting for you all night, and even staying up late with me.

Woo ~ really bad luck ~ "

The little devil babbled these words, and for some reason, he suddenly became annoyed, and then grabbed Chen An's arm beside him and bit it down hard.

The little devil moved very quickly, and his strength was not small, and before Chen An could react, he was already tragically bitten by the little devil.

He almost didn't jump up in pain.

"Little devil, why are you biting me! Loosen up, let go! ”

The little devil refused to let go, holding Chen An's arm with both hands, and biting even tighter.

Because she was biting Chen An, her voice was very vague.

"It's all you, it's all you, so that I was cleaned up by Lord Pachouli in three days, bite you to death, watch me bite you to death......"

"Hey, what do I do, will be cleaned up by Patsy is not because you are stupid, which pot will not be opened all day long?"

Chen An was extremely speechless, trying to persuade the little devil to make her understand that it was not his business that she was often unlucky, but only halfway through speaking, he found that the little devil didn't hear it at all - she was asleep!

The little devil is a good demon, but after she came to the Red Devil Pavilion, she has long been accustomed to the same way of resting as ordinary people, and she is occasionally broken, which is really a little unbearable.

I had been holding on before, but now that Chen An is here, after biting him to vent his grievances, he relaxed and fell asleep anyway, and the library also had the idea of Chen An watching and couldn't help but fall asleep.

Discovering this, Chen An was really depressed.

He shook his arm, and looked even more depressed as he watched the little devil swaying with his arm.

Really, isn't it just that he often harms the little devil to copy books, and as for being so resentful, he doesn't forget to bite him even when he is drowsy and half-asleep?

And bite him, and have to ask him to help look at the library, it's too much!

Chen An complained in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the little devil who was asleep and still holding his arm and biting it.

"Alas, what a troubled arm."

Shaking his head, bending down and picking up the little devil with his empty hand, Chen An went to the depths of the library, the little devil's room.

……