In less than half an hour's journey, it took Sacha and me nearly an hour to arrive at the Second Hospital, which is known as the maternity hospital, because on the way we passed through a hill that had become tattered last night, and Saki stopped there for a long time, the shallow smile on her cheeks faded, and she bit her lower lip and did not speak.

The originally picturesque hillock looked miserable at this time, like a gnawed apple, with only a core in the center to support it.

"It's okay, if you use mana, it's easy to get back to the original state."

After I repeatedly comforted the veil, her face recovered, but she was still not in a good mood, just lowered her head vigorously and touched the cat in her arms.

In this way, we walked along the gravel road next to the paddy fields, watching the blue sky after washing, listening to the sound of the water tinkling in the river beside us, and gradually forgetting what we had just seen.

Finally, in small talk, we arrived at the maternity hospital; It is a three-and-a-half-story reinforced concrete building, which is rare in the town, and is usually built of concrete for large public buildings, and most of the houses are made of wood.

Perhaps because of the attack yesterday, when you look through the spacious entrance of the hospital, you can see that there are many people walking around, and it has changed from the usual deserted appearance.

"A lot of people were injured last night. Mika was also injured and I don't know if she was in the hospital. ”

I saw a few women washing clothes and sheets in the river in front of the hospital, and under the influence of the magic power, the textiles swirled in the water, like jellyfish floating in the river. Suddenly jumped out of the water in the next moment, soft, white, floating in the air in the sunlight without clouds and mist, as if incarnated as a bird, rustling and revealing a lively breath.

A girl wearing a light blue cotton hat and holding a few sheets in her arms passed by, suddenly stopped beside me and whispered, "Mika Hasegawa, here." ”

"Uh......"

Although the girl's voice sounded familiar, because she was lowering her head and covering her face with the sheets piled up like a hill in her hands like a guessing puzzle, I couldn't figure out her identity for a while, and scratched my head a little embarrassed: "May I ask who you are?" ”

"Really, we met yesterday, why are you so forgetful?"

The girl raised her head and pressed the sheet down with her rounded chin, revealing a delicate and beautiful face, and at the same time her face was full of "I'm unhappy": "Do you need to introduce yourself again?" I'm Shion Aoyama. ”

As soon as she showed her face, I naturally recognized this girl who was vaguely rejected by Jing, and knew that she was deliberately making fun of herself, so I also pretended to cover my head, shook my head again and again in annoyance, and smacked my lips with "oops, oops": "I'm sorry, I seem to have been hit by hail yesterday, and I can't remember many things clearly." Do I know you? ”

"Ah, it turned out that my head was smashed, it's really pitiful."

Shiyin Aoyama clenched her right hand into a fist and tapped the palm of her left hand, revealing an expression of sudden realization, but the next moment she laughed out loud: "What, do you want me to knock twice for you, and make sure you remember everything." ”

As she spoke, she clenched her fists and leaned over to knock me on the head, but I had to wave my hand again and again to avoid being subjected to violence: "No, I suddenly remembered again." By the way, did you see Mika? ”

"See, she's in the Wild Lily ward on the second floor, and I just changed the bandages for her - I remember you're yarn, right? Good morning. ”

Shion Aoyama spread her fists and greeted Saa with a smile, and Sata stepped forward, bowed her head politely, and responded softly, "Good morning." ”

It was a simple morning greeting, but I noticed that Shiyin Aoyama's eyes lit up, revealing the kind of expression I often see on Mika's face, probably similar to the feeling of a little girl staring at her beloved plush toy with sparkling eyes, and then she suddenly threw the sheet in her hand at me, opened her hands and hugged the veil in front of her, and buried her face in the fluffy snow-white shawl of the veil and rubbed it around: "It's so cute!" I wanted to hug it like this yesterday. ”

There is no doubt that the almost pure white yarn has a transcendent charm, and the white fluff on the fluffy coat, shawl, and boots decorates her like a jade rabbit foraging in the snow, which is particularly endearing, and makes people can't help but want to touch her at a glance, and even hold her in their arms.

The suddenly hugged yarn blinked, the expression on her face was confused, and she looked at me in confusion, looking like she didn't know what to do, and at the same time, the cat in her arms also poked her head out of the crook of her arm, its whiskers were crumpled, and she stared at me and meowed for some reason - although she was often suddenly hugged by Mika, and was sometimes played with as a doll during the time she lived in my house, it was probably the first time that she was suddenly hugged like this by someone who was not very familiar.

I hurriedly threw the clean sheet that Shiyin Aoyama threw over with both hands, and saw the eyes of the yarn who came over for help, so I stepped forward with a smile and stretched out a hand to pat Aoyama Shiyin's shoulder: "Aoyama, Yarn is very shy, don't bully her." ”

"Don't be so stingy, just hug it."

Aoyama Shiyin not only didn't let go, but hid behind the veil at once, and sniffed between her neck with her nose, and then showed an intoxicated expression: "It's really the same as what Mika said, it smells very fragrant...... Well, there are many floral and grassy scents mixed together, irises, lilies, wisteria, epiphany, tulip, peony and cherry blossoms...... Strange why it smells no difference at all. ”

I don't know why, Shiyin Aoyama suddenly frowned, she finally let go of the hands holding the yarn, hugged her arms to her chest, and looked at the yarn with a strange look. After being let go, Saya immediately distanced herself from her, hid beside me, and after sorting out the position where the clothes were messed up, she examined herself under the strange gaze of Shiyin Aoyama, and then cast a pleading look at me: "Fold, is there anything strange about me?" ”

"No, it's the same as usual."

I didn't see anything unusual on Sa's body, so I asked Shiyin Aoyama directly, "Aoyama, did you listen to some mess from Mika?" ”

"'Shiyin, seeing that you have worked so hard to take care of me, I will tell you one thing quietly, the yarn is as comfortable as a fluffy puppet when you hold it, and it smells very good, especially when you suddenly hug her, it is very interesting' - she said so, so I wanted to confirm one thing."

Shiyin Aoyama coughed twice, raised her right arm, and made it look like she had bandages on her arms and hands, and imitated Mika's mysterious tone, which looked quite similar.

"Confirm one thing?"

"Well, you know, I'm a prepared shrine maiden, and I'm also a shrine maiden who specializes in ritual dances related to flowers. So when I was three or four years old, I began to identify all kinds of flowers, including their smells—not that I could tell the genus of most of the flowers I had ever seen, even if they were mixed together. ”

Shiyin Aoyama nodded, pointed to her nose, and her expression was extremely serious: "But last night, I found something very serious - my nose failed. ”

"Failure?"

I couldn't figure out what she meant, so I pointed to the hospital in front of me: "Don't you ask the doctor on duty what the reason is?" ”

"My nose isn't broken, it's just 'dead'."

She looked at Sha again, her eyes flickering on Sha's brilliant red hair: "I was helping out in the hospital last night, and when I was helping a woman with the same special red hair as Sa, I found that she had a very good smell of flowers, like the smell of many flowers mixed together. I made it carefully after changing the sheets, and at first I recognized it, but after a while, my nose smelled ...... Well, what should I say? ”

Aoyama Shiyin became distressed, her fair and smooth brows were twisted out of the Sichuan characters, and finally gave up and spat out: "It's stinky." What used to smell as a fragrance in the nose gradually turned into a pungent and uncomfortable smell, almost like the smell of flowers and plants starting to rot. The smell was horrible, and even when I left the woman's room, it felt like it was all in the air, and it took a long time for my nose to return to normal. - I've never seen this happen before, only in that very beautiful woman. After that, I heard Mika say that the woman was Sasa's mother, and that Sa's body also had a strange fragrance, so I wanted to make sure if it was my delusion. ”

At that moment, I saw that Sha's face suddenly turned pale, and he paused to touch Raff's right hand in his arms. I knew that the yarn must know something, but I didn't say it, just pretended to be casual and glanced at Shiyin Aoyama: "It's just your illusion, is there also that kind of smell on the yarn that makes you feel 'uncomfortable'?" ”

"Not really."

Shiyin Aoyama shook her head, but her expression was still very strange: "But the smell is really exactly the same, and at first I could recognize the difference between the scents, but in the back, I couldn't tell anything clearly, and only the simple fragrance was left - sure enough, it was the same smell." Speaking of which, why do you mother and daughter have such a complex smell, do you use all kinds of shower liquids extracted from flowers when you take a bath? ”

"I don't know, it's my mother's own handmade bath gel and bath dumplings."

Yarn bit her lower lip lightly, she glanced at Shiyin Aoyama vigilantly, took a step back again, and completely hid behind my back: "Mom doesn't like to give things she makes to others. ”

"Well, that's a pity."

Shiyin Aoyama, who was seen through her thoughts at a glance, blinked, put away the longing expression on her face, and became serious: "Actually, I'm just curious, I want to know how this smell came about." ”

I have long noticed that Miss Sawa Rokuchi has the same and unique fragrance of flowers and plants, but because I have not studied flowers and plants, I can't tell what flowers are similar to them, but one thing I can confirm is that the smell on their bodies is not from external objects, but purely from their own unique body fragrance.

Of course, I won't say this kind of thing, and I don't intend to continue the conversation on this topic, so I pulled the topic away: "Speaking of which, Aoyama, did you and my sister know each other before?" ”

"Your sister? I guess I don't know each other. I have the impression that yesterday was the first time we met her when you introduced her. She didn't give face and walked away, but the girl who was with her at the time, Shi on Ho Ko, I met this morning, was a very gentle child. In particular, the pronunciation of my surname is the same as my first name (aoi ya ma shi on). ”

Shiyin Aoyama tilted her head to make a thoughtful look, and after a while, the corners of her lips curled, revealing a naughty smile: "Think about it carefully, she really meets my taste, she is younger than me, she has a gentle personality, and she is as obedient as Xiaolu, so she wants to snatch it away." ”

What is this......

Her words made people cry and laugh, and I couldn't understand why a girl who looked like she was only about twelve or thirteen years old had these messy thoughts, so she hurriedly made a stop action: "Actually, I found that my sister seems to hate you a little, so I want to ask you if you have any clues." ”

"Hate me? That's interesting. ”

Shiyin Aoyama restrained her joking expression and became serious again, she held her cheek and looked pensive, and suddenly raised a finger: "First of all, I like my younger brother Xiaolu the most, so people who hate me must also like my younger brother." ”

I couldn't help but reach out and cover my eyes, and finally realized that the girl in front of me also had the same unreliable personality as Meijia, but the difference was that Meijia was a big sister head style, and this one was a little devil style with a bad personality.

"Second, the people who hate me must have the same qualities as me, such as onions or something. Playing hide and seek others like to hide, but I like to catch people the most, and I am especially good at catching people; Also, something new ...... of your own."

"Stop, stop!"

I hurriedly interrupted her fingers and shook my head with a smile: "Why do people who hate you have the same traits as you?" Are you a magnet? ”

"Oh, Shiraishi, you're so smart, you guessed it with a guess."

She deliberately pretended to be surprised, raised her hand and approached, with a soft smile on her face: "A smart and good boy like Shiraishi, my sister actually likes it a lot." Maybe it's because I'm too close to you that I'm hated by your sister. ”

"Don't make a fuss."

Because both hands were holding the clean sheet, in the case of dodging, her head was touched several times by her hand, making a look of wanting to bite, she took the sheet in my hand with a smile and trotted away, turned back to me and Sha Yanran and smiled: "Okay, that's the end of the chat, I'm going to help, I'll come to play with you when I'm free - by the way, in order to save you from wasting time, Mika Hasegawa is in the Xinmao ward on the second floor, and Sa's mother is in the Gengzi ward, you don't have to ask." ”

As soon as the words fell, she trotted into the hospital and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After she left, I looked at each other for a while, and then I realized that both of us had been "teased" by the girl.

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