"Li Qi, why is this?"

Ye Ya was calm on the surface, but his tone sounded cold.

"Don't you like it, so why do that kind of thing?"

"I ......"

Li Qi lowered his head and replied a little weakly: "But that person rejected me." ”

She pursed her lips and continued: "I obviously regarded her as a good friend, I really liked her, and even told her my secrets, expecting her to understand me, but in the end, I was betrayed and treated like a monster by others, and I can't forgive ......"

"So, you hurt her?"

"Well, that way, I'll be able to ......"

"Your cooking is horrible!"

"But, in that case, I'll be able to stay with Pear forever. I did that to her because I wanted to be with her. I can't do anything else. I had no other way to be able to be with Pear. ”

Xia Jing couldn't help but ask loudly: "Then why are you bullying Fang Yuan?" ”

After school that day, Fang Yuan stopped Xia Jing, and he had always been very concerned.

She was confused and asked him why he invited her to play with him.

The reason why I asked this at the time was probably because of the presence of Li Qi among the people who went with me.

That's why her heart feels so uneasy.

No, maybe what Fang Yuan was thinking in her heart was that Xia Jing knew that she was being bullied by Li Qi and deliberately asked her to play as a joke.

Xia Jing felt guilty for making a cruel invitation to Fang Yuan without malice.

It's even more brutal.

Lizi is Fang Yuan's relative and friend. For her, Pear is a character who is so precious that even after disappearing for several years, she is still reluctant to delete data from her phone. Why does she have to accept the cruel treatment of her relatives and friends in the past?

It's so unreasonable. This should not be allowed to happen.

"Aren't the people of the same clan inheriting the memories and feelings of their original bodies? It stands to reason that you should also be good friends with Fang Yuan...... That's right. ”

“…… Pass. ”

Li Qi's answer was faint, as if he was muttering.

"I used to bully her before. I also know that she likes Ah Jing. Because he knew that she liked Ah Jing, Ah Jing would beat her up when he talked to her. I...... Always silently watching the people of the volleyball club do this to her. I thought I would be able to vent my resentment. As long as Pear is shown to look at her helpless and embarrassed appearance, Pear will definitely be disappointed. In this case...... The pears will be glad that they chose me...... But why is that? ”

Soon her voice began to twitch from choking.

"It's just pain to look at me? Only...... Suffering. ”

And finally - too vague to speak.

And her choking—

"Alas, why? Why do humans go so far? Why do I do something that hurts even for a bystander who is also a human being? I hate that kind of behavior! At least I can't laugh at that kind of picture like those people! But it's ......! But it's just that! ”

It gradually turned into screaming.

"If those people are worthy of being called humans, then what am I who am considered monsters by such humans! If that behavior is taken for granted to humans, then I disdain humans! Even if we were a human race, we would be treated as monsters by humans, and then killed while laughing at ourselves like that! ”

“…… So you betrayed me? ”

"That's right! I can't take it anymore! I can't live in peace with humans! But...... I hate deer too! Monsters that can't die shouldn't exist at all! Including Ye Ya, Anye, and Lin Yu! And Yako, they are all prosperous! ”

Li Qi's breathless crying appearance made Xia Jing speechless.

- I'm just like the people she spoke of.

I said that Li Qi is a monster.

I also suspected Anno and Yaya, who were afraid because they were different from me in nature.

Even Pear, the easy-going and kind Pear, once rejected Li Qi.

"Li Qi ......"

Xia Jing couldn't help but want to get closer to Li Qi, but suddenly a sleeve blocked his way.

That person was none other than Yaya.

"You're wrong, Li Qi."

Ye Ya quietly spat out the words.

"Don't kid yourself, stupid fellow. You should like humans and deer. ”

She stared intently at the person she was talking to.

"You hate...... Betrayed themselves, right? ”

The more cold the look, the harsh the attitude.

At the same time, because the more gentle the heart, the more painful the appearance.

"Stop hating yourself, and stop hating others. Whether it's you, me, or humanity...... Everybody is born like this, half-catty creatures. Indeed, there is a vile and ugly place in our bodies. The human heart is the same, it has a place that feels vile and ugly from our point of view. But why did you get fascinated by humans in the past? Although he is fascinated by humans, why can't he leave the village like Anno? ”

Ye Ya had a faint smile on his face and said with self-deprecation.

"Deer are no different from humans. Both are equally defiled, and both are equally sick; But it's just as moving, just as beautiful. Therefore, there is no need to overly strive for perfection or expose scars. ”

Did these words touch Li Qi's heart?

Xia Jing didn't know.

But after a brief silence, Li Qi raised his head-

"It's too late, Ya."

She smiled as if she was ready to come to her senses.

"I can't go back to either side, and there's no place for me on either side. Because I hurt Pear. And he also did vicious things to Fang Yuan's classmates, and also betrayed Ye Ya. Do you know? That night...... What was I doing when my house and village were set on fire? I'm hurting people...... And then innocently pretending to have escaped from the fire, and running to cry to you about how good it is to be alive. ”

Li Qi's smile was so lonely, and-

"I couldn't turn back anymore but to sprint forward. Now I have no other way but to continue to sprint until I am weakened and perished. I'm sorry, Yaya. So ......"

Even though the tear-soaked eyes were hidden in the night, they still looked red.

And then—

Li Qi raised his hand holding the iron fan again, and faced Ye Ya and posed sideways.

"So you're going to disappear under my hands too."

"Yes."

Ye Ya did not move like a mountain.

Maintaining his original posture, he declared, "Then, it is my duty as a friend and relative to stop you." ”

Even Xia Jing could feel that there was a tense atmosphere between the two.

Although Xia Jing's knowledge of martial arts has only occasionally been seen on TV, even if he is close to the ring of the match, he probably can't feel this atmosphere. It had nothing to do with blood and fighting spirit, but was as cold as a winter snow.

"Anai."

Ye Yazhi stared at Li Qi in front of him, and called to the back behind her and Xia Jing.

"Knives."

"Yes."

Anai lowered the box behind his back, and the rectangular box looked like a coffin.

Anai opened the lid and took out a white scabbard from it.

"You don't want to keep a hand, Yaya."

"Are you going to ...... With that kind of silver sword? ”

Li Qi waved the iron fan, and a whistling sound sounded like the previous demonstration against Xia Jing, and the ground at Li Qi's feet was immediately cut into a chasm—as if it had been cut open by a knife.

"I don't mind if you take it out and use it......."

"Kill chickens with a knife."

As if mocking, Ye Ya sneered.

"You know a thing about it, right? It was the sword of the clan...... It would not be worth it if the blood of your ancestors was stained by the reserved and fearful blood of your forgotten people. ”

And then he said.

"Besides, your purpose is nothing more than to bring that sword back to the Prosperity Faction, right? The proof that the sword resembles the head of the family is also something coveted by the prosperous faction, and the interest in it is even more than my life. I'm not stupid enough to show up in front of my enemies. Wrong...... Or is your consciousness to use your sword to completely wipe out us and the Prosperity Sect? ”

"Ye Ya, I don't think you have the guts to kill me, right?"

"Would you like to give it a try?"

The two were at loggerheads and provoked each other.

Li Qi picked up the fan and put it in a frame position, and Ye Ya, who took the knife, quickly pulled the knife out of the scabbard.

"It's going to start." Xia Jing, who was thinking like this, was suddenly called by a voice.

"Summer view...... You can go back. ”

The one who spoke out was Ye Ya.

"What's going to happen next is none of your business, and it's not something you can relate to...... It was my mistake that implicated you and involved you. ”

"I suggest you do as you are told, Ah Jing."

Li Qi also chimed in.

"Because I plan to take your life after killing Yaya...... If you're still here. If you escape, I will not hunt you down, and I will not jeopardize you by going on with your life. ”

Xia Jing's position suddenly changed from a bystander to a party, and he stiffened after being said like this.

Frankly speaking, this is not a matter of listening to the two of them say "you go back quickly" and "it has nothing to do with you", and you can just touch your nose and forget it.

For Xia Jing, Ye Ya and Li Qi's killing each other has other meanings.

To put it bluntly, this is equivalent to Fang Yuan and Lizi, a pair of former relatives and friends, hurting each other. Do you want to leave as if you didn't see this? Forget all about it all and live happily? It's no different from the past.

But what can I do by staying here?

Li Qi also said that Xia Jing was also one of the targets of the killing. In this way, Ye Yafei had to fight while protecting Xia Jing. Not to mention that the weapon used by Ye Ya seems to be more disadvantageous, is there really a way to be distracted to protect Xia Jing in this situation? Even if it could, Xia Jing would definitely become an oil bottle that got in the way.

“…… Summer view. ”

Ye Ya spoke again to urge.

"Let's go. Then forget about it all. You shouldn't have come to us. ”

"I ......"

Iron fan and knife - the knife held by the two At present, Xia Jing found that his feet were trembling.

Both of these are genuine and out-and-out foggers. Not only that, but one of them has an anomalous power that defies common sense.

- That's right.

A voice rang in my head.

What is there to hesitate about. Do you want to die?

The front is the realm outside the person. It's not a place you should step into.

The trembling of the feet is the strongest proof of this.

- What will be a bloody battle next? How could a high school student resist. The end must have been a whimper in three or two hits, and it was in the unbearable pain of moving the head and piercing the intestines.

Forget it.

Forget about it all. Pear, Fang Yuan, and sister are not dead. They are just missing, and they are currently living a glamorous life in distant cities such as the capital.

I just thought so like I used to, didn't I? What's the trouble with that?

The excuse of terror obscured the thought in the blink of an eye.

“…… I know and I know. ”

Xia Jing muttered in a hoarse voice. The moment I made up my mind, my feet began to fall backwards.

After all, the body is still loyal to the survival instinct. After pulling a full fifty-meter distance, Xia Jing turned around on the spot.

Just run away.

With his back to Ye Ya and Li Qi, towards the darkness, the other end of the school gate.

Towards the ordinary daily life that I have lived so far.

Once you run forward, there is no room to look back.

Because the sound of swords and swords was loud at the same time. It was not the same sound as what you heard on TV and in the movies, it was a very thick and heavy scream of blades striking each other. It was like a storm coming towards him from behind.

Come on, this is no joke.

Xia Jing used his usual jokes to hide his fear and fled from the scene.

As for the sentence "You have to live well" that Ye Ya said when she turned around and fled, Xia Jing didn't listen to it at all.

The slashing blade swung into the air.

The tornado set off by an upward-swaying fan only as far as it swept down its sleeve.

The battle lasted for a long time, and both sides remained unscathed.

In order to take a breath, the two invariably retreated to keep their distance and distance themselves from each other.

"Sure enough, he's very skilled."

A grim smile hung on Li Qi's face.

"It's not funny at all."

Ye Ya frowned at this praise and rebuked unappreciatively.

"What nonsense is someone who hasn't lost a game of mine so far."

"The competition can't be compared with the actual fight against each other."

The conversation between the two is like small talk between friends.

But what the two of them held in their hands was neither a wooden sword nor a bamboo sword.

"That's right...... You're the kindest of people. Is it because you are holding a real sword now? How can it be weaker than when it was in the competition? ”

"I'm not sluggish. I think it's Ye Ya, you've become more vigorous than usual, right? Do you hate me so much? Do you want my life so much? ”

"Hmph...... It's the difference in concentration. Speaking of which, every time you read and practice calligraphy, you are often absent-minded. Often distracted looking out the window at the birds, and then reprimanded for being inattentive, isn't it? ”

"It's not all because reading is boring."

"Otherwise, do you like to slash and kill, I always thought you didn't like to fight."

"I'm just as annoying it now...... However, liking it or not and not doing it are two different things. ”

"Really?"

"yes. So, I'm pretty much ...... I've got the real thing. ”

"I can't ask for it. If I can defeat you in the losing streak, it will be very pleasant. ”

"Don't laugh!"

A loud shout.

Li Qi jumped up low in the air on the spot and spun around his body. The trajectory of the iron fan, which depicts a circle, turned into an invisible blade that flew across the gap on the spot, slashing towards Ye Ya.

Ye Ya bent down and let the invisible knife whizz over his head, while lowering his center of gravity and rushing forward with an arrow step, stabbing out the silver-white blade.

But the knife was dodged. At the same time as his body finished spinning and landed on the ground, Li Qi kicked the ground again and avoided it to the side.

Although Ye Ya immediately changed the forward stab to a horizontal split, the knife that he did with all his might was easily parried by the iron fan that waved casually. Li Qi's lips opened slightly.

"—Retreat."

A gust of wind blew out of the iron fan.

Li Qi ...... Let me teach you what it means to be truly strong. ”

……