Masao Sakura picked up the phone-

"Hey, hello...... Yes, that's right, I'm Masao Sakura. ”

The voice on the other end of the phone seemed to confirm the identity of Masao Sakura.

"Yes, that's right, it was our family who applied for adoption of Sally......"

Hearing that the content of the call seemed to be related to Sally, Yuko stopped what she was doing and looked at her father.

"What do you say?! Good...... I understand...... I'll go right over! ”

When Masao Sakura heard what the person on the phone said, his face turned pale.

After hanging up the phone, he put on his clothes with a serious expression, picked up the car keys on the table, and prepared to go out.

"Yuko, stay at home and lock the doors and windows, Dad is going out."

Yuko put down the doll she was holding in her arms, looked at her father blankly, tilted her little head and asked, "What's wrong, Dad, is something wrong with Sally?" ”

Masao Sakura stopped putting on his shoes at the door, he hesitated for a moment, and then shook his head: No, it's okay...... Don't worry, stay at home and I'll be back in a moment. ”

"Daddy lied to me!" Yuko said angrily, "Dad, we have been hooking since we were children, you can't lie to me about anything, I want to go together!" ”

After that, Yuko ignored Masao Sakura's opposition and began to change clothes and shoes in a hurry.

Masao Sakura knew that he couldn't beat his daughter, so he sighed and went out with his daughter.

……

As the sun sets, the afterglow of the setting sun once again spills into the small courtyard of the orphanage.

It was supposed to be a calm and peaceful evening, but at this time it was filled with a chattering crowd.

Among the crowd were residents of nearby streets, employees and children of the orphanage, and community police.

At this time, they all focused on the fifth floor of the orphanage—Sally was sitting on a small table outside the window with the window open, her hands on the windowsill, and her bare feet dangling.

Her face was expressionless, and her golden hair brushed gently on her delicate face like a doll. The rays of the setting sun shine through her blonde hair, making her hair feel like it has its own soft light filter.

If you have to use one word to describe Sally at this time, it is probably an angel who has just woken up.

People looked at Sally worriedly as they discussed.

"Hell, what's the matter with this kid, how did he run out of the window, how dangerous it is!"

"She usually likes to watch the sunset from the windowsill, but today it's different, she's too close to the outside, and she's locked herself in her room for days and hasn't come out."

"How so?"

"According to the staff, it seems that because she and other children grabbed a robot toy, the dean didn't care about right or wrong, so he locked Sally in the room first and didn't give her food."

"Not to mention, the last time a community volunteer visited this orphanage, they brought some cookies for the children.

As a result, the little guy hid in the corner with a bag of biscuits and devoured it, and even ate the wrapping paper outside into his mouth. ”

"Tsk, I heard that this female dean is very powerful, and will only cultivate those who are healthy and can repay her when they grow up. Sally, an abandoned baby, has been in an orphanage since she was a child, helpless, and has various mental problems, whether she can successfully become an adult is two words.

Unable to create reliable income for herself in the future, the dean naturally regarded her as a burden. It was also privately rumored among the staff that the dean had secretly embezzled the welfare funds counted on Sally's head to buy expensive cosmetics for himself. ”

"Hey, it's hard to be such a cute little girl......"

"Anyway, why hasn't the fire ladder truck come yet?"

"It's said that the road is blocked, but I hope Mr. Police will open the door first."

The people chattered and looked at the dean with all kinds of complicated eyes.

At this time, the dean pretended not to hear the surrounding discussions, pretended to hide her face and cry, and muttered to the people next to her: "I never expected this child to be so willful, it just broke my heart, hey, but I feel sorry for me...... Woowoo woo ......"

At this time, Sally in the room listened to the discussion of the people downstairs, as if all these topics had nothing to do with her.

There was a knock from the community police at the door: "Little girl, are you inside?" Open the door...... You are safe, no one can hurt you, uncle is here to save you. ”

The room was still so quiet that it seemed to be heard as if a pin had dropped.

"What to do, Sheriff?"

"There's no way, the ladder truck is stuck in the road, we can't afford to drag it, let's try to knock the door open first."

"Hey, little girl, don't act rashly, uncles will go in and save you at once."

Bang –

A dull thud rang out in the matchbox-like hut, and Sally shrank back.

The three small steel pipes she pinned to the door were bent and made a high-pitched and piercing sound.

At this time, Sally heard a lot of voices circling around her head, as if there was a knock on the door, and these voices were more numerous.

"Abandoned Baby ......"

"Abandoned Babies and Abandoned Infant ......"

"Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Babies ......"

"Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, ......"

"Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, ......"

Sally hugged her head, her blond hair fluttering messily.

"Don't !!" She screamed.

The terrible scream pierced the dusk sky, and the crowd of onlookers downstairs fell silent, and the people swallowed their saliva and looked at Sally with different expressions.

The banging at the door of the small room also stopped abruptly, and it was clear that the officers behind the door did not dare to provoke Sally anymore.

With a squeak, the Toyota car driven by Masao Sakura stopped at the door of the orphanage, and Yuko slammed the door before the car stopped.

"Yuko!" Masao Sakura shouted from the cab, but Yuko apparently didn't hear her father's shout.

She ran forward in a panic, and one of her sandals ran away, but she didn't bother to pick them up.

In Yuko's black eyes, only Sally's shaky figure dangling her little feet on the windowsill remained.

Sally, wait for me, Sally!

I'll tell you the good news that you'll finally be able to escape this prison-like place.

I'll lend you my doll, give you my snacks, and we'll sleep cuddled in my big bed.

I'll take you to Daddy's lab and show you the big talking robots.

You don't have to starve, you don't have to be afraid of others bullying you, I'll protect you.

Yuko ran, tears streaming from her big eyes.

"Sally !!!!!" She gasped for breath as she called out to Sally as hard as she could.

But now Yuko is still a young tooth Lori.,This kind of running has exhausted most of her strength.,She's running and running without strength.,Although she wants to shout loudly.,But the voice that comes out is a hoarse bass.。

Looking at the group of people surrounding in front of her, Yuko began to squeeze forward, she wanted to go to the front of the crowd, but the force of the crowd was too great, and her small figure was quickly drowned in the swaying figures......

Seeing that Sally was getting more and more excited, the police outside the door retreated while softly reassuring Sally.

At this point, as the policemen retreated and the crowd of onlookers downstairs fell silent, the small room where Sally was staying was quiet again.

"Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, ......"

"Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Infants, Abandoned Infants, ......"

"Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Babies, Abandoned Babies ......"

"Abandoned Babies and Abandoned Infant ......"

"Abandoned Baby ......"

The silence of the world around her made the murmur in Sally's head quickly collapse, collapse, collapse......

With this collapse, Sally felt that the world around her had completely lost its color and turned into a black and white film state.

Finally collapsed to a final origin -

"Uhh Sally hugged her head and wailed, "Out of my head, get out, get out!" ”

In the midst of her struggle, Sally unconsciously glanced at the crowd below out of the corner of her eye.

She saw the dean hiding his face and crying, and she also saw the boy who snatched his robot toy copying his hands as if nothing happened, and a picture flashed through her mind—

The dean locked himself in his room when he saw himself trying his best to retrieve the toy from the little boy's hands.

I heard from other children that the biological father and mother of this little boy were about to come to claim him, and the dean would definitely get a large amount of thank you money at that time, and now the dean would definitely not let him be wronged at a critical moment.

The last words the dean said to her rang in her ears: "You abandoned baby is not as useful as the robot in the factory. ”

Bang –

The origin in Sally's mind finally exploded, like the Big Bang, intense, crazy!

In the end, it was calm again.

She felt the world around her appear in color again, but strangely, the world seemed to be upside down, why were the clouds underfoot, and why was the ground overhead?

The only thing that is normal is the sunset that exudes afterglow.

She faced the wind of the hunt, stretched out her immature five fingers, and once again let the afterglow of the setting sun pass through her fingertips.

She also saw this sunset a few days ago, when she watched it with Yuko.

Thinking of Yuko, Sally suddenly felt a throbbing pain in her heart, and she hugged the scarred robot in her arms, which was already missing arms and legs, even tighter.

A tear flowed from Sally's eyes, blown into the air by the wind.

"Really...... Is this the 'Tears of Truth'...... I'm sorry...... Yuko...... Looks like I can't keep my promise......"

Sally squinted slightly, her entire vision filled with the glow of the setting sun, and she fell......

Yuko, who was squeezing forward in the crowd, saw this scene, and her brain went blank for an instant.

"Yuko!" At this moment, Masao Sakura rushed up, held his daughter in his arms, and then covered her eyes with his big hands.

Yuko's eyes were dark, and all she could hear was the panicked shouts, screams, and shouts of the crowd around her.

Mixed with this sound is the sound of something soft falling to the ground.

After that, there were the voices of the conductors, the cries, the sounds of the ambulances......

"Sha...... Sally ......"

Yuko finally called out and lost consciousness completely.

……