As a result, it may be the relationship of going to bed early, and the summer scene wakes up before dawn.

However, it was not only Xia Jing who got up early, but also everyone else.

Finally, they had breakfast in the early morning hours, at five or six o'clock.

And the time for him to leave was naturally advanced.

Although Ye Ya wanted Xia Jing to stay and have lunch before leaving, Xia Jing was embarrassed.

What's more, there should be a chance to visit in the future, so it is inconvenient to linger here for too long.

So, at nine o'clock, Xia Jing decided to follow the guide down the mountain.

But......

The guide who greeted him down the mountain surprised Xia Jing very much.

No, it should be said quite a surprise.

“…… No problem? ”

Xia Jing stared at the girl walking beside him, Lin Yu, with suspicious eyes.

Lin Yu raised his gaze and looked up at Xia Jing.

"Don't worry too much, I'm not going to kill you in the mountains, probably."

Lin Yu said something that made Xia Jing uneasy.

"What's probab, what do you want to say about this kind of thing, is it good to be categorical......"

Xia Yi thought that if it weren't for Anye, who was also going down the mountain, it would be at least Anai.

In the end, the answer was revealed, but somehow it was actually this guy - Lin Yu.

Ye Ya naturally entrusted the task to her, so Xia Jing didn't even have a chance to protest.

Anno is really, and it seems that last night's argument still can't help but make her feel a little embarrassed. didn't take the initiative to say that he wanted to accompany Xia Jing down the mountain together, but said with a smile of shame: "We met once a week." ”

Alas, there is no way.

In addition, since you want to continue to get along with the people of the Deer Clan in the future, it is necessary to find a way to get acquainted with this suspicious girl...... Although it feels like the problem of whether or not it can be mixed is with Lin Yu and not Xia Jing.

"Go this way."

While shuttling through the forest, Xia Jing headed in the direction indicated by Lin Yu.

"Oh, uh...... Lin Yu's little sister. ”

"Just call me Lin Yu, Brother Xia Jing."

Is it? Then I'm not going to call you by name.

"Lin Yu, how old are you this year?"

As soon as Xia Jing finished speaking, Lin Yu turned around on the spot.

"What do you want to do when you ask the lady how old she is? Are you planning to calculate how much I am worth in the criminal group to which Brother Xia Jing belongs?"

"I'm not working under that kind of group! I'm just talking to you. If you don't want to say it, forget it!"

"I'm eleven years old."

"Why did you say it obediently all of a sudden...... Still an elementary school student? ”

It seems that he is basically more than 10 years old.

"I'm not in school."

"That's right."

I remember that Anye also said that he didn't go to junior high school, and Ye Ya Bacheng is the same.

"Are you going to go to junior high school until you go to school?"

“…… Brother Xia Jing. ”

"How?"

Lin Yu looked at Keisuke again. Is it because you are too careful? I always felt that her vision was a little piercing.

She opened her mouth and asked a rhetorical question: "Is Brother Xia Jing Pedophilia?" ”

"What?"

What does Pedophilia mean? Xia Jing thought left and right to find the meaning of the word. Uh, I remember it seems to be-

"Do you like Lori?"

Just when Xia Jing racked his brains to think about the answer, Lin Yu deliberately asked in a different way.

"Not really! Why did you come to this conclusion?"

"Really? Don't you like Lori...... I thought that Brother Xia Jing was doing a thorough investigation of my net worth, and then there were dirty thoughts churning in my heart. ”

"I don't know what's in your head! It's purely homely, and it means nothing else! I just want to pass the time! It's just to ease the jerky atmosphere that I just met!"

"Then please ask Brother Xia Jing to make me smile with a funny conversation."

"How do I feel like I've been asked for something like that by other guys on the weekend......"

"Doesn't that imply how boring your usual conversation is?"

is not only suspicious, but also has a poisonous tongue. Why is this little ghost so annoying?

"That's right. I'm so sorry I'm so humorous. ”

It's just that for herself, who is known as the black-hearted glasses, frankly speaking, there is an inexplicable sense of closeness to her.

Xia Jing smiled bitterly and shrugged his shoulders, ready to move forward again.

"Huh?"

Lin Yu stood still and didn't move, his gaze still staying on Xia Jing's body.

"Huh...... Did I do anything? ”

Xia Jing looked around nervously, but he didn't find anything unusual on himself or in the scenery around him. After looking at Lin Yu in surprise, I saw her sigh softly and muttered, "I don't understand where this man is." ”

“…… I always feel like someone has said something super rude to me. ”

"Forget it, it's useless to talk about it. Anyway, it was my sister's own choice. ”

"And it feels like a heart has died......"

"Yes, frankly speaking, I personally don't trust you, Brother Xia Jing."

When the words are spread out and said so clearly, there is a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

No matter how hard you try, it seems that there is no way to resolve the estrangement between each other, Xia Jing sighed.

"Really, you can't control your suspicions. I'm trying so hard to be good friends with you! Don't be so far away from me. Are you traumatized about human beings? ”

These words are just Xia Jing's unintentional words.

But at the moment when the words came out—

"Brother Xia Jing."

Lin ...... Feather? ”

At a glance, it was obvious that her expression had changed.

"Do you want to know?"

Lin Yu smiled.

“…… Hey? ”

"If you want to know, I'll tell you?"

It seems to be a little pleasant but cruel, and it feels like there is something unfathomable. Xia Jing frowned. After seeing Xia Jing's reaction, Lin Yu, who was smiling even more happily, lowered his head slightly and said, "Look at this." ”

At the same time -

Lin Yu raised his hands high.

Then she faced Xia Jing, lowered her two arms, and stretched them out straight.

Xia Jing's expression suddenly froze.

“……！”

It's too miserable to see - Xia Jing can't even take out the courage to open his eyes.

The first thing that catches your eye is a scar that stretches from the back of your left hand to your elbow. And I am afraid that it has not been properly treated, and the skin fit is distorted and deformed, forming a raised line.

It's not all.

The number of scars is incalculable, and the skin is blackened due to repeated internal bleeding.

These scars covered the skin densely as if they were snatching territory on Lin Yu's arm.

In addition, there is nothing below the wrist of the right hand. On the left hand, there are five fingers, all of which have twisted and strange shapes.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it works properly.

"That's ......"

"It's not just arms. And the feet, the stomach, and the neck down. ”

Not because the scar is ugly and disgusting, but because Xia Jing has an imagination.

Were the scars on the young body caused by an accident?

No, no matter how you look at it, it can't be an accident.

This...... It's -

Xia Jing pounded his mouth with his hand and began to remember.

Lin Yu always sits on Ana's lap, just like a princess, Anai does everything for her. Whether it's drinking tea, spinning the roulette wheel of the game of life, or moving chess pieces, even dinner and breakfast are fed by Anai's own hands. Originally, I thought that her little girl was really an overly pampered little princess and didn't think so, but it turned out that this was not the case. It's not that she doesn't want to do it herself—it's that even if she has the heart, she can't do it enough.

Whether it's holding a teacup in your hand, spinning a roulette wheel or lifting a chess piece, or bringing food to your mouth.

Putting his hands down again, Lin Yu looked at Xia Jing with a scrutinizing eye.

"It's a human creation, so I can't trust humans."

Sinister violence.

Is it a poisonous hand by an adult? Or is the other party a child? In any case, this is undoubtedly a malicious intent inflicted on an existence that should otherwise be protected by society.

"Is this your original body?"

Xia Jing finally asked the question, and Lin Yu shook his head.

"I went through the ceremony two years ago."

"Then you ......"

Isn't it just to abandon your normal body and replace it with a scarred body that can't even move your hands normally?

"Isn't it scary?"

Lin Yu asked with an innocent smile on his face, "Are you afraid of me?" Or is it this body? Or is it the one who created these scars? ”

Xia Jing couldn't answer.

Once answered, it is equivalent to acknowledging.

Acknowledging the horrors of humanity – that's what humans do.

“…… Please, don't ask me. ”

Xia Jing struggled to squeeze out his voice.

"You've probably heard of me...... No...... Have you heard about Fang Yuan? ”

Fang Yuan is also sympathetic. She was bullied, and the other party kept turning the invisible thing of malice into tangible violence on her. As soon as he saw Lin Yu's injury, Xia Jing remembered it with emotion. For herself who didn't have time to reach out to her, a helpless sense of powerlessness came to her heart.

"I can't say anything heartwarming right now."

"yes, I think so."

Lin Yu was still smiling.

Without changing the smile on her face, she said completely cruelly: "So Brother Xia Jing, please keep in mind, I will never believe you!" I wouldn't trust humans. Even if you become Sister Yaya's husband in the future, as long as you are a human being, I will never believe you!"

That was a proclamation.

To put it bluntly, it means "don't try to trap me".

- Don't think you can get acquainted with me.

"Then let's go."

After saying what he wanted to say, Lin Yu turned his back to Xia Jing and took a step forward again.

That distance is so far away.

Xia Jing could only follow her. You can't pat her on the shoulder, you can't touch her head, you can't even say a word. It seems that no matter what you do or say, everything is nothing but hypocrisy and deception.

Humans and deer.

The difference between the races was nothing more than insignificant—it was undoubtedly a warning to Xia Jing, who had thought so at first.

In an awkward atmosphere, after a while, you can gradually see the asphalt road appearing at the end of the mountain road down the mountain.

Being able to successfully reach the human realm through the labyrinthine mountain path made Xia Jing let go of a big stone in his heart.

During the period when the two of them went down the mountain without saying a word, Xia Jing also sorted out a little clue somewhat. Although he was frightened for a while after looking at Lin Yu's body, he calmed down and thought about it, those scars were not from Xia Jing's hands. Even if it is the work of mankind, there is no need to feel unduly guilty about it.

"Thank you."

“…… Thanks for what? ”

"Thank you for giving me a ride."

"Because it was Sister Yaya who asked me."

"But it's true that you sent me back. There's no rule that I can't say thank you. ”

“…… Is it? Then I got it. ”

I don't know what she's thinking.

Anyway, I'm not in a hurry to mingle with her. As long as you show patience and perseverance, you should be able to get closer sooner or later. It doesn't matter if the relationship doesn't have to be good enough to be liked, it's enough that she can trust me to the point where she doesn't need to be warned.

"Just send me here. Once I got to the road, I knew how to get to the bus stop. ”

"No, I'm going to take you to the road. Because once someone witnesses the picture of a big man taking a little girl down the mountain, it is likely to cause an uproar. ”

"From an objective point of view, there is no room for me to defend myself!"

If she hadn't mentioned that Xia Jing hadn't noticed it, the situation was really bad.

"It's better to make it a national event in the news."

"I don't want to be in the news! Hey, wait a minute......"

Xia Jing thought to himself while chasing Lin Yu, who was humming a nose song and walking towards the road. I'm going to take back the preface! If I don't try to win her trust, my future will be bleak. If she continues like this, sooner or later she will jump into the big pit she dug.

Xia Jing followed Lin Yu and walked out of the end of the forest to the road.

"There shouldn't be anyone......"

Before he finished speaking, Xia Jing, who looked around, was silent.

“…… Ahh

There really is.

- Two people.

Two teenage girls.

One of them, dressed in the uniform of the same school as Xia Jing, with shoulder-length straight hair and thin-rimmed glasses, stood on the side of the road and read with a library book. But the gaze of the article is unusually sharp, and the description of the Discipline Committee member is more appropriate than that of the book committee.

As for the other one, who had been turning his back to this—

“…… Well? ”

Perhaps sensing the existence of Xia Jingliang, he suddenly turned around.

- It's miserable, I hope you don't be treated as a suspicious person.

However, such worries in the next moment-

“…… Oops, oops. ”

Through the sight of the rendezvous, it disappeared in one breath.

"Found it!"

The girl—

If you want to put it in a word, it's an anomaly.

A very absurd fancy dress.

“……”

Xia Jing unconsciously took a step back.

The other party didn't take Xia Jing's fear to heart, and raised his hand with a smile on his face.

"Good morning. It's been a very comfortable morning, it's really a very comfortable and refreshing morning. ”

The greeting sounded particularly uplifting, and the tone was so intimate that it felt unnatural.

At the same time, the other girl also stopped reading the library book in her hand and raised her head. Although her eyes were closer to ordinary people, she still glared at Xia Jing and the two with obvious hostility.

How nervous Lin Yu's breath was on the side, Xia Jing didn't need to turn his head to look at her, and he could understand it.

These two people are from the Deer Clan, and they are prosperous.

The girl said, "Winter mornings make you want to go out for a walk." Walking in the fog while trampling the snow and mowing the grass on the side of the road feels so beautiful. ”

"Ade."

The bespectacled girl continued to speak.

"You don't talk nonsense."

"Why are you doing this? Ah Ye. What's the point of being noisy. ”

"Your high-pitched voice sounds harsh."

"Then I can also say that your gloomy face makes people angry when they see it? Ahaha, each other. ”

Can't be wrong!

Adai and Aye –

Both were on the list given by Anno on the side of the prosperous faction.