"What's your name?" The youth asked.

"Maria Morita is four years old." The little girl's voice was soft and waxy.

"My name is The Lion King, and this year... Belch... How old am I? Hey, I forgot, it doesn't matter. The youth introduced themselves.

"Brother The Lion King." The girl greeted politely and she loved this beautiful big brother.

"Haha, so good." The Lion King pinched the girl's cheek, "Come and play with me often!" ”

So the whole summer vacation girl asked the Lion King to take to watch fireflies, climb trees and pick fruits, go down to the stream to play in the water, catch fish and grill fish, and saw little Mary having fun at her grandmother's house, her parents simply put her at her grandmother's house, and the two went to Hokkaido for a honeymoon for an unknown number of times. Everyone thinks that the Lion King is the child of a relative and neighbor next door, only grandma can see a little clue, granddaughter can be liked by the gods and she is too late, every day by the Lion King to pick her up to go out to play, grandma is not at ease at all, anyway, every evening on time at half past four to go to the shrine, you must see granddaughter sitting on the steps alone waiting for her to take home. Compared with the grandmother with a wide heart, the uncle who lives next door is a little worried, and always says that such a cute girl can't be hidden. Mary didn't know what it was, and her uncle explained to her that she was taken away by the gods and never came back.

"It's okay, I'm willing to be taken away by Brother The Lion King." Mary said that all the family members did not take her to heart as a fairy tale, and no one knew that Mary really liked the Lion King's brother, so much so that even if she was taken away by him and never came back.

The summer vacation is over in a blink of an eye, Maria is about to start school, and the time for her parents to take annual leave from the company has also arrived. Before leaving, Maria took the Lion King's hand and cried, crying and unwilling to leave, the Lion King patted the back of the girl's hand, took off the glove and stretched out his left hand to show her, and the girl saw that the Lion King had a thin red line on the little finger of his left hand, which was the same as the birthmark on the little finger of his right hand.

"Don't worry, we have the same imprint and will meet again."

"Really," the girl replied, still twitching.

"Really, the gods don't lie!" The Lion King smiled softly.

When Maria was seven years old, when she was just in elementary school, her parents took her back to the East Island during the summer vacation according to the annual custom, and took her to her grandmother's house for her honeymoon, but Maria was not sad, because the gentle Lion King brother had been with her.

Maria wore a small bun tied to her grandmother's head, and walked around in front of the Lion King in her elementary school uniform, and the little girl asked him delicately, "Is the Lion King brother good-looking?" ”

"It's good-looking, Maria looks good in everything."

The Lion King touched the girl's head and looked far away, and in his memory, the person also wore a small pink and orange dress, with a small bun combed on the top of his head, and asked him delicately, "Lion King sauce, is it good-looking?" ”

"Great!" The girl smiled happily, as before.

The two slept in a small tree behind the shrine for an afternoon, and the Lion King saw that the time was about the same, and got up to carry the girl back to the shrine.

"Why does Brother The Lion King want me to come home at this time?" The girl was lying on the back of the Lion King and wondered.

"Because grandma is here to pick you up!" The Lion King's voice came through his back, sounding sullen but still happy.

"I can ask grandma to come later..."

"No, you can't! It's almost time to meet the devil, this time is not good, you can't stay in the back mountain! ”

"Why not?"

"Because something bad will come out, Mary has to go home obediently."

"Maria wants to be with her brother, if only we could be together all the time..."

Hearing that the Lion King was stunned, he still smiled and comforted the girl. "We will always be together in the future, brother will come to you tonight?"

"Really? Brother The Lion King can't lie to me! ”

"Really, the gods don't lie!"

The girl rubbed the Lion King's broad back, and she knew that the Lion King's brother was the best!

That night, the girl's parents returned to their hometown without warning, and the two quarreled so much in their hometown that even the grandmother could not dissuade them, and the beautiful and gentle mother on weekdays made a lot of noise and smashed the cups and plates, while screaming in Russian to insult her father as a pig, and the father also changed his gentle and rude voice and scolded his mother as a shameless slut, and beat his mother. Maria was so frightened that she ran back to the back hill in a puff of smoke, she wanted to find the Lion King's brother!

Running to the back mountain, the warm and bright place during the day has an eerie feeling at night, the temperature has inexplicably become very low, and occasionally a few beast roars are heard, and I always feel that I am being stared at by something. The girl didn't dare to turn back, and stepped up her pace to run in the direction of the shrine, and halfway through the run, she tripped over something, and stared at a black, thick and wriggling vine wrapped around her feet, and the girl couldn't help but scream.

"Ahh Help me! ”

The vines wriggled and dragged her towards the edge of the woods, and Mary's hands clutched the ground in a bloody trail, but she couldn't stop herself from being dragged back. Finally grabbed a tree and just wanted to catch her breath, but the trunk opened two blood-red eyes and stared at her, Maria was startled, her hands suddenly let go, and she was swept backwards by the vines. This time the girl saw clearly that the vine had a bloody mouth at the end, and it was opening its big mouth full of sharp teeth to eat her.

"Help, help!"

The girl cried loudly, no wonder the Lion King's brother never let her stay too late at the shrine, it turned out that the back mountain at night was so terrible! She will never be disobedient next time, who will save her!

"Maria!" The Lion King's voice came from above, and the feeling of dragging disappeared, and she was picked up. Mary saw the Lion King with a long knife in his hand and protected her majestically behind her.

"Get out!" With a swing of his long knife, the Lion King slashed through the vines stretching out from all directions, protecting her from the water.

Repelling the vines and slashing down a few little monsters that wanted to lean over, the Lion King picked her up with one hand, frowning at the girl who was crying until she couldn't do it.

"Didn't I say I would look for you, why did you come here by yourself?" As soon as he arrived outside Maria's house, he heard someone making a lot of noise inside, and he couldn't find Mary anywhere, but he heard Maria's screams near his own realm, and when he rushed over, he saw that the charm was about to eat her, so he was so frightened that he rushed to the rescue, but fortunately he finally caught up.

"Dad, Mommy... Quarrel, it's terrible... Maria was so scared, I thought Brother Shikamaru came over. ”

Maria hugged the Lion King and cried loudly, rubbing her tears and snot on the lion head ornament decorated on the other party's shoulder, and the Lion King held the knife helplessly around Maria, and kept telling herself: She is still too young, not yet, not yet...