Xiao Nan~

She's a good boy...... Yes, it is a good child in the traditional sense, good at studying, polite, and cute.

She is what your parents call "someone else's child"!

Don't think too much, there is no but, there is no twist, and there is not so much darkness hidden in her heart...... She is the kind of person who is destined to be named a scholar in elementary school, junior high school, high school and even the whole life, and use a beautiful and intellectual image to make everyone envious or jealous.

But!!!! Well, there are still but~

All that seemed to have changed on that day

As far back as she could remember, it was a not-so-sunny afternoon when she walked into the library as usual.

She prefers cats to read something in the library than boys who run around the yard with children chattering and bully boys their age.

It's a bit out of the heart of a teenager, but ...... That's what she is.

That afternoon, she sat in her usual seat...... To be honest, this library is basically not frequented by many people, so Xiao Nan, a child, has become a frequent visitor here...... Of course, he was also liked by the curator here.

Continuing that afternoon~ she came to the library, and opposite her usual seat, sat a very ordinary old man.

He's ordinary, and at first glance he looks like every 60-year-old man you see on the street corner, in the vegetable market, everywhere. It makes people not feel any wary.

This old man ...... Reading a book.

Xiao Nan sat opposite him very politely, in fact, according to her usual personality of liking to be alone and quietly watching something, she should have changed her seat, but that day, she sat there abnormally and normally.

"Little sister...... Would you like to read this book? The old man was so abrupt that he said to her without even saying hello.

But in the same way, Xiao Nan didn't have the slightest vigilance, as if she was already very familiar with each other, and when she was familiar with each other, she should talk to each other in this way.

"What kind of book is it?" Xiao Nan asked politely.

The old man smiled slightly: "A fairy tale~."

Xiao Nan's answer was still very polite: "Ah...... Well...... I should have seen it already. ”

She didn't say she didn't want to read it at all, because it would be rude, and it was true that she had been out of the fairy tale stage a long time ago.

"It's not one of those fairy tales you've read, it's a little different...... I think you're going to like it. The old man said, and pushed the book to Xiao Nan.

Xiao Nan looked at the fairy tale book in front of him, which was poorly printed and the cover was not even illustrated, and was stunned.

"Hmm...... Perhaps, it's really interesting! She thought like this, she didn't even know why she thought like that, anyway, she had such a thought in her heart.

The old man smiled: "Oh, then, let's make a deal, I'll show you this book, but ...... Every time you finish reading a story, you tear it off~ How about it. ”

Trade??

Tear up the book??

What is this?

A strange old man and a little girl say the word "deal" in this situation, how pseudo-harmonious! Besides, what kind of painful requirement is "tearing the book".

But in this kind of conversation where others have a big problem after listening to it, Xiao Nan did not have the slightest doubt.

"Okay!" She agreed.

Tear up the book?? Well—whatever

She didn't think about it that much now, because the curiosity in her heart was getting stronger and stronger, and a voice was urging her

"Read it—",

"Read it————"

"Read it, ahh!!hh

Xiao Nan opened the cover page and read it.

One by one, the stories completely subverted her understanding of previous fairy tales...... It's novel, it's scary, and it's fun!

She unconsciously fell into it, reading it with relish, not even noticing when the old man on the other side had left, nor did she notice that the world around her seemed to become blurry, and she didn't notice that the images in those fairy tales began to condense and take shape in her mind, and began to move.

She finished reading the first story, and then the ghost sent her to tear the first page off.

She didn't know why she was doing this, but the thought came to her head naturally.

She didn't pay much attention to this completely hypocritical behavior, because she had to read the next story......

These stories are so interesting.

She didn't notice that the torn pages were beginning to burn out of thin air, and she didn't notice the occasional deafening roar and miserable scream outside the library.

She couldn't notice anything, she couldn't notice how long she had been reading...... I don't even notice if I'm reading...... Is it just sitting here and looking like a puppet?

Until someone took the book out of her sight!

The rest of the story, everyone knows......

All of this was reduced to nothingness under a spell that no one could understand.

The tea-billed finches and laughing birds didn't even notice when the monster they were fighting with had disappeared.

However, they all realized one thing right after that......

"Cheng ...... It worked? ”

Everyone stared blankly in the direction of the library, and above that, the distorted canopy seemed to have changed, a force dissipated, and the light, which had not changed since the beginning, began to come alive again...... Time is free. Everyone looked into the distance, and through the dim sunset, the large and indistinct anomaly in the distance reflected that the detector began to see clearly, and the sound of the machine turning re-entered the ears.

"Hah....... Hahaha-"

People laughed, each sound tugging at their scarred bodies and emitting heart-piercing pain. Some couldn't even laugh at all, such as the fat man, who collapsed to the ground, the flesh of his body had shriveled up like a dehydrated cantaloupe, and the red hair was already lying motionless on the ground, with a broken expression on his face that didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and his body was covered with bullet holes that seemed to have been shot by the gun in his hand.

But...... Everyone can be sure of one thing......

Myself, survived!!!

......

......

The door to the library was pushed open a little more, and a hunched, emaciated figure stepped out of the door.

Behind him, followed by a little girl with glasses and a double ponytail.

She stared blankly at the mirror image in front of her, at the buildings that had been destroyed a few streets away, at the smoke drifting in the distance, at the night that was fading in the sky, at the town that had changed beyond recognition...... A completely indescribable emotion flashed in his eyes.

She slumped on the ground with her legs limp.

Finally...... Choked up with tears.

......

......

......

"emmmm———— do you like cake?"