Chapter 16: Different Pupils
The roar of the trolley from the station could be heard from afar, and the lights of the occasional passing car on the street cast through the half-open windows into the moonlit room, and into the golden pupils that had no lustre.
"How did you do that, you can't be an alien, right?" The breeze gently blows across the lake, bringing ripples and the aroma of grass to it; Yukina Ezaki leaned against a wooden fence by the lake, her navy-blue pleated skirt swaying in the breeze, and her black over-the-knee socks stained with gray-white dust.
Wade stood beside her, leaning forward slightly against the wooden fence; He faced the bustling downtown area with many high-rise buildings across the lakeshore, leaving an extremely handsome side face facing Ezaki Yukina.
"Of course I'm an earthling, but how do you do that...... It must be a secret, right? He suddenly turned his head to face the girl beside him who had been staring at him, and showed a big smile.
"You...... Hum! Thank you this time, but don't think I'm going to change my attitude towards you, you dude! In the face of Wade's sincere and bright smile, Ezaki Yukina suddenly became a little incoherent, her pretty face was slightly red, and her two ponytails swayed smartly with her movements.
"Say, what kind of return do you want? I don't really like to owe favors to others, especially yours. Esaki Yukina suddenly changed her words, her swaying eyes and shy expression disappeared; Wade almost didn't laugh out loud as he looked at her sudden seriousness.
He knew that Ezaki Yukina was trying her best to hide her emotions.
"What kind of return is possible?" For some reason, when he said this, Wade felt that the atmosphere seemed to become a little weird; The bright and sincere smile on his face also began to pervert.
"You!" When Ezaki Yukina heard this, she immediately raised her slender jade hand and slapped Wade on the cheek.
Seeing Wade's gradually perverted expression, she seemed to already know what strange requests Wade would make; So, she raised her hand again, and she wanted to slap it again.
"Wait a minute!" Wade rubbed his cheeks, which were still red and hot, with the other hand, blocking his face and motioning for Ezaki Yukina to stop.
"Ezaki-san, why are you so impulsive? I just hope you can take off your blindfold and show me, not to ask you to take it ......off" Wade looked at the angry girl in front of him with an aggrieved face, like a child who did a good deed but was wronged, and felt a little pitiful.
After hearing Wade's request, Ezaki Yukina was slightly stunned; She was silent for a moment, her arms hanging slowly at her sides.
"It's as simple as that?" Yukina Ezaki muttered softly.
"It's as simple as that." Wade nodded, and there was nothing in his golden pupils except for the girl's slightly thin figure.
"Okay." Esaki Yukina nodded knowingly, and the next moment she lowered her head to take off the blindfold, a look of pain suddenly appeared on her face.
Because she bowed her head, she pulled the wound on her neck.
"Are you alright, or I'll take it off for you?" Seeing the bitter face of the girl he liked, Wade came to Ezaki Yukina with a single step, and said with some distress.
"Okay." Esaki Yukina hesitated for a moment, then nodded obediently; This, she thought to herself, should be a reward for Wade risking his life to save herself.
After getting the girl's consent, Wade did not delay any longer; He immediately stretched out his hands and carefully untied the string that bound the back of the girl's head, rubbing it over her hair for a while.
Wade removed the dark red lace blindfold and took a small step back, staring silently into the girl's eyes.
Then, he froze; So much so that the blindfold he was holding lightly in his hand was almost blown away by the night wind, and he didn't react at all.
He saw a dull golden pupil, like pure gold that had been sealed for many years, luster and dull; But it faintly exudes a sacred and inviolable atmosphere, so that those who have been staring at it for a long time instinctively feel the coercion, the coercion from the superior.
Wade's golden eyes, which shone like the scorching sun of the galaxy and were as clear as jewel water, suddenly dimmed a lot at the moment when Ezaki Yukina's right eye appeared; Even the colorful neon lights emitted by the high-rise buildings on the other side of the lake looked even dimmer in front of the dark golden pupils that had no sudden luster.
All the brilliance became dull in front of the seemingly dull and matte dark golden pupils, and the dazzling light was no longer the one before.
"What are you...... Heteropupils? At the moment, Wade's mind was blank; For some reason, the moment Yukina Ezaki's eyes met, he seemed to return to the night when the comet fell.
The shock brought to him by the crimson comet that had changed from dark green appeared again, but only because of a seemingly ordinary alien pupil.
"Naturally, in order to prevent this from happening to you, I had to wear an eye patch all the time, and I would only take it off when no one else was around." Yukina Ezaki retrieved the blindfold from Wade and put it back on.
She gently brushed the dust off her skirt, then turned to face the city, where brightly lit buildings were reflected in her dark eyes.
"Uh...... I'm sorry, but I think it's pretty good. Feeling the increasingly strange atmosphere, Wade immediately made a decision and immediately began a textbook strategy operation.
"Thank you, I have class tomorrow, so I'll go back first." Esaki Yukina's eyes actually drifted away for a moment; She took a deep breath and turned to leave.
"Is it okay for you to go home alone?" Thinking of today's experience, Wade had a sense of foreboding.
Shortly after waking up, he noticed the pattern underneath the picture Nosa had sent him; He searched for the pattern on the Internet with the mentality of giving it a try, and when he got it, he got the result that he didn't want to get - it was the Yamada gumi group emblem, one of the three yakuzumi organizations in Osaka City.
In other words, today's seemingly ordinary gangster is actually from the behemoth of the Yamada group, and judging from the fact that he can mobilize guns, the status of that gangster is definitely not low.
"No need, I can call back." Yukina Ezaki refused Wade's request, and then walked away with a light step, disappearing from Wade's vision in a short time.
Wade was the only one left on the lakeside under the bright moonlight, and the silhouette that was much lighter because of the variety of light sources was infinitely elongated until it disappeared.
"It can't be to make her angry, right? But why is she a different pupil in reality, or is it ......" Wade didn't continue to speculate, because as soon as he thought about it, it seemed that a biting cold wind climbed up his back.
It's scary to think about.
"Is it hypoglycemic? Sure enough, it's the same as in the comics.,That's right.,The law of conservation of energy.,How much energy you use is how much energy you consume.。 Wade, who was lying in bed, suddenly remembered what the doctor in the hospital had said, which reminded him of a clip from the first season of the American drama "The Flash".
He slowly sat up from the bed, his arms reaching out to his eyes and grasping lightly, as if trying to see something in them.
"It looks like I was struck by lightning and got my superpowers, but ...... What about the comet? When he thought of the bizarre experience in the factory in the morning, Wade immediately thought of the comet that had crashed in Tokyo three months earlier.
Strange to say, in the few days he woke up, he never seemed to see any reports about comets on the Internet.
There were only a few reports on the pages on the screen, and looking at the expected result, Wade couldn't help but sigh lightly: "This kind of thing is really completely sealed by the government, and it seems that those gentleman's websites just don't want to be blocked." ”
Just as Wade was trying to find out more about the comet, a sharp knock on the door suddenly came to his ears.
"I think this isn't Tony's home either." When he heard the knock on the door, Wade immediately became alert; He put down his phone and looked up, but he didn't see anything outside the iron door downstairs.
"Wade." An icy electronic synthesized sound sounded behind Wade, like a cold wind, stimulating Wade's tense nerves.