Chapter Ninety-Eight: Li Xiao's Story
When the bell rang for the end of school, the students began to pack their school bags, and the quiet class immediately became noisy. Beibei sat obediently on the corner of the desk, watching Li Xiao put the textbook into her schoolbag blankly. After coming to school, Li Xiao remembered that Beibei was a witch, and ordinary people couldn't see her, so Li Xiao generously took Beibei out of her schoolbag and let the little guy come out to breathe. And Beibei was really obedient, she moved within Li Xiao's desk, and she didn't let Li Xiao worry about it all day.
After packing the schoolbag, Li Xiao put the schoolbag on the table, and without speaking, Beibei immediately consciously climbed in. Li Xiao rubbed Beibei's little head with satisfaction, took out a piece of cheese candy and fed it to her.
"Let's go home." Li Xiao smiled at Beibei, and then stood up with his schoolbag.
When he walked to the school gate, Li Xiao saw Madoka and Sayaka standing at the school gate, and the two of them were talking about something.
"I'm sorry, Madoka, you go back first today, I'm ...... Something. Sayaka smiled apologetically.
Madoka was a little surprised: "Huh? Are you going to visit Kamijo-san again? β
Sayaka nodded a little embarrassedly: "Well, I found a super nice violin song and want to play it to him, hehehe." β
"Alright then, be careful on your way." Madoka smiled softly.
After Madoka and Sayaka separated, Li Xiao stood at the school gate, looked at Madoka's departing back, and then looked at Sayaka's back, he seemed to suddenly remember something, with a thoughtful expression on his face. After a few seconds, Li Xiao seemed to have made up his mind, the expression on his face became resolute, and he took a step and walked in the direction where Sayaka had left.
Peggy's voice immediately sounded in his head: "This is not the direction of home, you are going to find Sayaka?" β
Li Xiao said "um" with a serious expression: "I have something I want to say to Sayaka." β
Now, Sister Ma Mei's head has been saved, and Beibei has also been tamed by Li Xiao. Then Li Xiao's "HAPPYEND plan" will enter the second stage, and his next task is to keep Sayaka.
In the original plot, Sayaka made a wish to become a magical girl for the sake of her crush Kyosuke Kamijo, but after Kamijo's left hand was restored, it was snatched away by her good friend Hitomi, and she made a wish for love, but what she got was betrayal. Under the huge blow, Sayaka went bad. She becomes self-defeating and refuses to purify the soul gem with the seed of lamentation, and in the end, Sayaka's soul gem is completely infected by despair, and she transforms from a magical girl into a witch - a mermaid witch.
Sayaka is too naΓ―ve, her love for Kamijo is blind, she still doesn't know how much she will pay for her love, and her efforts will not be reciprocated after all.
In fact, Li Xiao didn't know how to change Sayaka's ending, he could help Sayaka defeat the witch, and he could collect the seeds of sorrow for Sayaka, but he didn't know how to make Sayaka get her love, and things like "feelings" could never be exchanged equally. Besides, in Li Xiao's mind, Sayaka and Apricot are a pair, and red and blue have been out of it since ancient times. Li Xiao now only hopes that her words can wake up Sayaka and make her understand that her efforts may not be rewarded with what she expects, the greater the expectation, the greater the harm, and there is no harm if there is no expectation, so that even if Kyosuke Uejo is snatched away by Renmei, Sayaka may not be so sad if she is mentally prepared, and she may not give up on herself and eventually become a witch.
This is Li Xiao's thoughts, but to be honest, Li Xiao is very unconfident in his plan.
Li Xiao followed Sayaka far behind, he didn't plan to catch up with Sayaka, he just followed Sayaka from a distance, looked at Sayaka's back, and thought about what he was going to say to Sayaka for a while.
Half an hour later, Sayaka and Li Xiao arrived at Takihara Municipal Hospital one after another, Li Xiao watched Sayaka walk into the elevator, and then he found a random place in the hospital lobby to sit down and wait for Sayaka to go downstairs.
About twenty minutes later, the same elevator opened again, and Sayaka stepped out of it.
Sayaka's face was shrouded in sadness and pain, and it seemed that the visit was not pleasant. Seeing Sayaka come out, Li Xiao immediately stood up and greeted him.
"Hi, Sayaka." Li Xiao walked up to Sayaka and raised his hand to say hello to her.
Sayaka was still immersed in sadness, unaware of Li Xiao's approach, and when she heard Li Xiao's voice, she woke up suddenly, raised her head to look at Li Xiao, and widened her eyes in surprise: "Hey! Xiao, why are you here?! β
Li Xiao smiled helplessly: "I'm here specifically for you, Sayaka, I have something I want to talk to you about, let's talk about it while we go." β
As the sun set, the whole city was shrouded in a warm orange light, and Li Xiao and Sayaka walked on an empty street one after the other, and the shadows of the two were pulled in the sunset.
"That...... I said, "Xiao, what do you have to say to me?" Sayaka couldn't hold back the doubts in her heart and took the lead in asking.
Li Xiao did not directly answer Sayaka's question, but asked rhetorically: "Today's visit is not very pleasant." β
"Huh! No, I don't. Sayaka smiled reluctantly.
Li Xiao continued to walk forward, and continued without looking back: "You can't lie, when you came down from the upper floor, your expression had already betrayed you." Your friend's name is Shangjo, right, I heard that he is a violin genius. β
Sayaka was a little surprised: "You know all this, did Madoka tell you?" β
"It's not Madoka, as long as you ask about this information, you will know it all." Li Xiao stared ahead, the expression on his face hesitated slightly. "Sayaka, you like Kamijo, don't you?"
"Oops! I'm ...... Nope! Sayaka's face turned red all of a sudden, and she hurriedly denied it.
Li Xiao smiled softly: "I just said, you can't lie, Sayaka." β
"By the way, Xiao, is that all you want to say to me?" Sayaka showed a puzzled expression, her eyes narrowed, staring at Li Xiao's back and looking carefully, as if she wanted to see through Li Xiao's thoughts. Then, as if she suddenly thought of something, the expression on her face suddenly became enlightened, and she said to Li Xiao. "Xiao, what's that, you...... You can't like me, right? β
Li Xiao almost drove headlong into the drainage ditch next to him, he stopped, turned around suddenly, and looked at Sayaka with a look of disbelief: "I said, which brain did you make the wrong mistake to come to such a brain-opening conclusion?" β
Sayaka grabbed her short blue hair and smiled: "Just kidding, because you suddenly asked me about Kyosuke with a wary face, and I couldn't help but think about it." β
Looking at Sayaka's innocent and lively smiling face at this time, Li Xiao couldn't help but think of Sayaka's final tragic ending, and his face instantly became gloomy: "Sayaka, you want to make a wish for that Shangjo, right." β
Sayaka's face was immediately stunned, she was surprised that Li Xiao had guessed her thoughts, and she couldn't help but chuckle in her heart. Then, she hurriedly smiled perfunctorily, wanting to perfunctory in a joking tone: "What are you talking nonsense?" I haven't decided if I want to be a magical girl yet. β
Li Xiao's two black eyes stared at Sayaka motionlessly, his gaze was as sharp as two knives: "It's useless to lie, I can see your lies at a glance." β
"Uh......" Under the gaze of Li Xiao, who seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, Sayaka struggled a little, and finally lost helplessly. She lowered her head slightly, a little afraid to look at Li Xiao's eyes. "I ...... I do have that thought. β
Li Xiao looked at Sayaka and sighed helplessly, then he turned around and continued to walk forward: "Sayaka, let me tell you a story." β
"Story?" Seeing that Li Xiao was gone, Sayaka hurriedly followed.
Li Xiao took a deep breath and began his story as he walked:
"Once upon a time, in the depths of the sea lived a happy little mermaid, the little mermaid had the most beautiful sound and the most beautiful tail in the sea, she was the darling of the sea. Originally, the Little Mermaid lived a carefree life, but one day, because of a shipwreck, she fell in love with the human prince. But the prince is a human being, and she is a mermaid, in order to get the prince's love, the little mermaid prays to the sea witch and exchanges her beautiful voice for a pair of human legs, but from then on, the little mermaid is dumb, and she cannot express her love to the prince.
Eventually, the prince marries the human princess, and the sea witch tells the Little Mermaid that as long as she kills the prince and lets the prince's blood drip on her legs, she can regain the fishtail and return to the bosom of the sea. But for the sake of the prince's happiness, the Little Mermaid chose death, and she threw herself into the sea without hesitation and turned into a foam ......"
After hearing this story, Sayaka seemed to understand what Li Xiao meant, she stopped, with a confused expression on her face, and even her voice became a little trembling: "Isn't this "Daughter of the Sea"? I knew this story when I was very young, why are you telling me this? β
Li Xiao also stopped, turned around, and looked at Sayaka with burning eyes: "Sayaka, not all efforts will be rewarded, you have to understand that the wishes you make with your soul may not get anything in the end." Can you accept such a cold reality? β
Sayaka slowly lowered her head, her expression shrouded in shadows, she hesitated, she was thinking. After a long while, she finally slowly raised her head again, looking at the sunset far away in the sky, under the warm orange light, Sayaka had a happy and sweet smile on her face: "I just want to hear him play the violin again, that will be enough." β
Li Xiao's heart seemed to be pinched suddenly, he looked at Sayaka's happy side face, and his heart couldn't help but flow with sadness. Li Xiao knew that Sayaka was lying.