On the fifth day of the Snow Festival, Ted, who was chained to the ceiling, finally stopped struggling violently, and his gaze stopped looking at me with a vicious look, so I untied the golden chains that bound him and ungailed the ball.

"I see!"

As soon as the restraint was released, Ted flapped his wings and landed in front of my eyes, flew around me a few times, and then nodded his head "mmmmmm ”

"What do you mean?"

I put my clothes on my body and felt a little inexplicable.

"Ain! You are Ain! ”

Ted muttered loudly. Its body was round three days ago, no bigger than a medium-sized dog. But now it had swelled to the size of a tiger, a pair of stacked wings that could cover a fifth of the room when spread, and a steel whip-like tail with a row of meniscus-shaped nails that whistled through the air as the tail flicked.

"Why do you say that?"

I got dressed and was about to wash up when I heard it stop at its words. In fact, in my conception, Al Ain is a character of a creator who has never appeared in a positive position, and after creating the world, he fell into a slumber like the creation gods of various myths - I have never perfected his setting, so how should Ted, as my fiction, understand Ain?

"Breath, breath can't be wrong."

Ted fell to the ground, and it prostrated itself in awe, "There can be no mistake, you are Ain." I've only seen you when you created me, but you can't be wrong with that feeling, your body is connected to the world and is where it all began. So the breath of all things in the world is your breath. ”

"That's ......"

I didn't take Ted's words to heart, and this apparently flattering remark seemed to me to be nothing more than a flattering gesture of submission to me—who knew better than myself whether I was Ain or not?

I'm an Asian who traveled through time and space from a thousand years ago to Earth a thousand years later, and that's it. Ain is just a fictional character of mine, or I am in some way equivalent to the creator of "Ain", but I can only say that Ain is my incarnation, and I am not Ain myself.

"Your body is estimated to get bigger and bigger, go live outside in the future, don't look for me if you have nothing to do."

Ignoring Ted, I walked to the bathroom and took the time to wash up. The adult group of the non-magic carving competition is today, and tomorrow it will be our turn to compete in the junior group, although so far in the carving practice process has been able to completely shape the form of the concept, but in some places it is still not perfect, so we must seize the time to practice again.

"El Ain! I want to be there for you, maybe I can help. ”

Ted followed behind like a pet dog, and due to its size, part of its body slammed into the door frame and wall on the side of the illusion, directly smashing the fragile door and wall to pieces. On the real-world side, it's straight through the wall – for the fantasy realm, it's real. And for the present world, it does not exist.

"Whatever you want. Please try to be quiet, though, I won't answer any of your questions. ”

Recently, by hitting the side and asking the yarn, it was confirmed that the fantasy leak had stopped, so there was no need to worry about it being "seen" by other people. As long as it's not too noisy to bother me, I don't care if it follows.

After breakfast, Jing went straight out first. My mother, who was still cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, looked at me: "Fold, don't you think your sister has been a little strange lately?" ”

"It's a little, speaking of which, it doesn't seem to be so difficult for her to get up in the morning lately, probably because her body has improved."

I wrapped my light brown scarf around my neck, walked over to the fireplace, closed the door, and lost air, and the flames burning inside would soon be extinguished.

"It's true, Jing hasn't relied on you to rest for a while when she gets up early in the morning these days, could it be that you made her angry?"

The father put down the unknown book in his hand, held his chin, and showed a playful expression on his mature face. I shrugged my shoulders and rolled my eyes at him, "How is that kind of thing possible, I think it's 'Father' that you made her angry." (The one used here is お父さん,The protagonist uses the father さん on weekdays)"

"Nonsense, I'm a good father."

"Yes, Father, please take your book and your hands away, it's a big problem. (お父さま)"

I wiped the table with a rag and waved my father to remove his hand from the book on the table, and he muttered a few words and took the book to the study. Seeing this scene, the mother shook her head and smiled, and the yarn that was helping her mother wash the dishes also pursed her mouth and snickered.

……

On the ice by the river, more than a dozen adults shuttle back and forth like flying birds, and with the support of shoes with skate blades, perform all kinds of difficult but dazzling tricks.

"I really want to skate."

Seeing the performance of these skaters, Mika was both envious and jealous, and she wanted to rush up and snatch their skates and play herself—she had grown tired of the monotonous carving two days earlier, and her interest in ice sculpture had shifted to skating at first.

"Is there anything you don't want to see?"

Rina was allowed to go out yesterday, but she had to dress tightly and was not allowed to play in the snow. So she just sat by and watched, and when she was bored, she argued with Mika.

"Yes, I don't want to pay attention to you."

Meijia has been stimulated enough, and now she has learned smartly. She squinted at Mamura again, and saw that he was holding a fist-sized specimen of amber balls and insects, looking at it meticulously, as if he were looking at the most precious treasure in the world.

This thing is a treasured treasure to Mamura, but it is simply the most disgusting thing to her. Seeing the white-haired spider with teeth and claws in the amber ball and hairy limbs, she almost got goosebumps all over her body, and subconsciously raised her hand to slap Mamura's head, and then snatched the amber ball and threw it into the sky.

But as soon as she raised her hand, she felt that she might have gone too far, so she stopped stupidly. Although she occasionally likes to "bully" children younger than herself to show closeness, she also understands that once things exceed the limit, then closeness will become real bullying and will become annoying.

Out of sight and out of mind, she simply turned her head away, neither looking at the group of people skating nor at Rina, but at the folded yarn that was finely carving the ice cubes that had been formed more than ten meters away. Both of them were intently carving ice cubes, using chisels and hammers to carve scales, and yarn was polished with files to make it smooth and beautiful.

The two have a clear division of labor, tacit understanding, hands and feet are very dexterous, not long ago was still a bare person erected, as if jumping out of the water of the goldfish ice sculpture has been mostly covered with scales, at a glance, neat and neat, concave and convex, arranged in rows and rows, giving people a sense of orderly beauty.

Sometimes they would stop to talk, and then both would smile knowingly, and the atmosphere would be warm and harmonious, like an inseparable whole.

Mamura and Rina probably feel the same way, so I'm sitting here and not bothering them. Although the yarn looks the same to everyone, Ori is definitely special to her, because she never takes the initiative to mention other people's affairs in private except for Ori. And the fold should have the same idea, right?

Thinking like this, Mika's mood became a little complicated, and she muttered to herself, "It's so good...... But it doesn't seem like much. ”

"What's nothing?"

Rina cast a strange gaze. I won't tell you - Meijia thought so and pouted: "Nothing is nothing." Speaking of which, the good things in each store were almost picked out a few days ago, and Rina came so late, so I shouldn't be able to pick anything good today. ”

"Okay? Is it the ones you chose? ”

Rina was merciless in words: "I heard that there is a string of wind chimes in your hand that you chose, right?" After choosing, he found that the sound was unpleasant, so he threw it to the fold, and he was not allowed to change it. There is also a pipa that I got with a discounted quota, and I heard that it was broken that night, right? The next morning, I took it for exchange, but I was taught a lesson by the owner. ”

"You...... How would you know? ”

The secret was revealed, and Mika was angry and annoyed, glaring at Rina through gritted teeth, but there was nothing she could do.

"My father is a supporter, he saw it."

Rina casually brushed her ponytail tied in two bunches, and her long bright hair was particularly conspicuous, and Mika began to think about whether she should grow her hair long.

"The wind chimes are a gift from me, and they look pretty. As for the pipa, it's completely the owner's bad craftsmanship, and it has nothing to do with me. ”

Although she couldn't fight her, Meijia didn't admit defeat so easily, and after arguing a sentence, in order to avoid being counterattacked, she dropped a sentence and ran in the direction of the bathroom: "Forget it, I don't want to talk to you." ”

"Remember to come back soon, it's almost time for dinner, and we'll leave first when we come back late."

Rina didn't care, waved her hand, and came to Mamura's side to observe the amber ball in his hand together.

"Got it."

Mika turned back and grimaced at her, looked around, and saw that there were indeed not many people left, only a forest of formed ice sculptures. In the past few days, the ice sculptures that have been carved are placed on the river beach, with different shapes, human shapes, insects and birds, flowers and trees...... It's all cold, and there's almost no one around, so looking at it makes people involuntarily feel a weird and terrifying sense of panic.

"It's okay...... Nothing bad will happen. ”

The red scar under the corner of her left eye stinged slightly, and Mika reached out to stroke it, comforting herself, and continued to walk forward. The washroom was in the direction of the west, and from here it used to cross most of the snow festival venue, so she thought about it, changed directions, and walked towards Maolun Township, where she remembered that there was a common washroom, near the park.

It's a short distance to get there, but it's much closer than walking through most of the snow festival venue.

The park is a large, flat land surrounded by a stone path, with a crunchy lawn planted with pine and maple trees, and a seven- or eight-meter-high observation deck in the center that overlooks the mouth of the Tone River, a tributary of the Tonegawa River, and a lonely stretch of the coast.

Meijia visited once last summer, when the maple trees were covered with bright red maple leaves, the lawn on the ground was so soft that it felt like walking on clouds, and from time to time there were fluffy and fluffy little squirrels picking pine cones and holding them with both hands to eat. The landscape is very pleasing to the eye and refreshing.

Now it's hard to see, and it's full of bare maple trees, and the pine trees, though they still have needles, are also wrapped in snow and become bloated fat men, leaving only the high observation deck isolated, which is very abrupt.

However, Meijia did not come to see the scenery, she walked towards the alley not far away, and when she reached the intersection, there was a sound of footsteps in front of her. She looked at it in confusion, and suddenly her heart beat heavily.

I saw four figures in front of the intersection between the two rows of houses on the left and right, two were middle-aged men in white robes, and the other two were wearing wide black cloaks, and their whole bodies were covered under the black cloaks. One is tall and the other is short, the tall one is as tall as a normal male adult, and the short one is only as tall as a child about ten years old.

Ratification!

Although the two figures were covered in black cloaks, Mika recognized them at a glance as the two rats she and Saya had seen together on the first day of the Snow Festival. The other two middle-aged men were wearing white clothes with blue stripes, which she looked very familiar to her - of course, none of this was important, what really mattered was that one of the men was holding a blue pajama-style top with butterfly patterns on the back, shoulders, and cuffs.

Isn't this Mamura's pajamas?

Mika reacted quickly, she lived very close to the Mamura family, and often went to the other party's house, and occasionally saw him walking out in this set of pajamas. Realizing this, she hurriedly turned around and hid her body behind a pine tree, and looked at the two two-person rats dozens of meters away, and found that the man holding Mamura's pajamas handed the pajamas to the dwarf rats.

The dwarf rat leaned its head close to its pajamas, as if sniffing for something, and after a while its hooded head bobbed up and down, as if nodding.

There was a buzzing in her head, and Mika staggered back, an inexplicable panic that quickly turned into fear. She didn't know what she was afraid of, but she felt that something terrible would happen if she didn't hurry back and tell Mamura and the others the news.

"No, I'm going to go back and tell Mamura and Fold them."

Muttering to herself, Mika slowly retreated in the direction she had come, hiding her figure until she was sure that the two men and the two rats were out of sight, and then quickly ran in the direction of the glacier.

However, she didn't see that the two rats, one tall and one short, were looking in unison in the direction she had left after she ran away—rats had more sensitive noses than dogs, and they were no exception.

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The previous chapter was written a little carelessly, and it missed the plot of the real village, but now it has been changed.