In the end, Ahnshiro fled and left there.

He forgot whether he had agreed to Young Master Tao's commission. In my impression, only the overwhelming sweet smell, the light and light music, and the gorgeous and blurry oil paintings constitute the short, non-existent illusory time.

Only the burning sensation that remained in the throat was extremely real.

The remnant sun is like blood.

The coastline at dusk shimmers with sparkling waves, like fine pieces of gold leaf colliding with each other, and it is clear and extinguished.

Ultramarine and Yuewango sat on the concrete-clad shore, their backs against the rusty railing.

Occasionally, you can feel a splash of Mercury on your feet.

"Recently, is there any news. ”

"Nope. What about you?"

The air at the pier was still faintly salty. Yue Wange didn't reply, and the wind wantonly messed up her long hair that wasn't tied tightly.

After a while, she spoke.

"Actually, it's okay if you're a little more honest. ”

"I don't understand what you mean?" Ultramarine turned her head to look at her.

"It's not just the two of us here. ”

Ultramarine fluted slightly.

But she quickly regained her composure and smiled softly.

"You're really sharp. ”

At some point, Konai lay on the railing behind them, looking at the endless sea level.

She didn't wear that shiny robe, just a small ordinary cloak. Her dress is simple, with no cumbersome necklaces and no cumbersome jewelry.

Jiang Shuo leaned his back against the railing, his eyes wandering on the wide pier.

"No, it's not. So, I'm here from the future. ”

"Then you must know the purpose of our tailgating?" Jiang Shuo did not look back.

"You know I'm investigating the gray-haired teenager. I also know that you will ask me next what is the connection between the two children, the Calyx Warbler and the Calyx. ”

Her voice was soft. But every word, the other three heard it clearly.

Feeling embarrassed, Ultramarine straightened the straps of her canvas bag, stood up, and bowed slightly in apology.

"I'm sorry I didn't explain it to you in advance, and I feel rude. ”

"It's okay. ”

Yue Wange's gaze was still on the sea.

The sea slowly eats away at the orange-red sun.

"Dusk is beautiful, isn't it?"

Konai braced his face. No one spoke, and she went on on with herself.

"You have a child at school, and the family believes. They believe that dusk is the time of the demons, that is, the time when yin and yang are intertwined. That is, dusk is the time of day when life and death are connected. ”

"Jiang Shuo's friend has news. ”

Yue Wange suddenly said this, and she didn't look back. Jiang Shuo took out his phone.

"No, right...... Huh?"

On the originally clean message interface, Ancheng's information jumped out.

He clicked on it and looked at it.

"I couldn't find my way home. ”

Jiang Shuo thought about it, he shouldn't be referring to the school. He was about to reply, and new news arrived.

"When did Anjiu get out of touch?"

His heart tightened, and he subconsciously patted Konai's arm.

"What nerves do you have?"

Konai took the phone and glanced at the screen.

Suddenly, her pupils contracted in the setting sun. In the next second, Conai threw Jiang Shuo's mobile phone into the ocean.

There is not even a trace of spray in the majestic water.

"You're the one?!"

Compared with the news, the store manager's reaction was more bizarre.

"Your friends shouldn't be living in this world at all!"

The noisy sound of the sea suddenly became quiet, as if someone had blocked Jiang Shuo's ears.

No.

Live in.

Only a few broken phrases lingered in my ears.

What do you mean?

Ultramarine, who had always been calm, did not hide her surprise. Apparently, although she didn't know about it, she was frightened by the store manager's unusual reaction.

Only Yue Wange is still that vast and indifferent. She also stood up and looked at Ultramarine.

"That's the problem. As I said before, we can't find what we want if we can record it. ”

"Hmm. ”

"I seem to be wrong. ”

“...... What?"

"I flipped through the school history museum for a long time, and I pulled out a newspaper from a corner. ”

"And then?"

"The newspaper is old and the date on it is blurred. But judging by the texture of the paper, it will take at least a few decades. But the big caption and the photo are more obvious, and I saw two people from our survey appear on it at the same time. ”

"You mean, that kid, reconcile Professor Huaichen?"

The text on it looked as if it had been blistered, and some of the ink was mixed together, and only a little meaning could be read intermittently. It is about saying that a genius boy who has won the championship of the physical and chemical biology competition for several consecutive years has been admitted to our school exceptionally. Among the tutors who took a group photo at that time, Professor Huaichen's face was the clearest. ”

But that was a long time ago newspapers, and their age should not appear in this era. Ultramarine's brain raced.

Moreover, in the newspapers after that, the notices of the deaths of the two men were published one after another. ”

"What?"

It's the exclamation of three people at the same time.

"A professor who was assassinated by extremists who touched the interests of religious groups while giving an important astronomical academic lecture, and a teenager who went out at night and accidentally died in a gang fight......"

Yue Wange said word by word. Ultramarine subconsciously ruffled her hair and diligently combed through the information:

But they are alive now. Could it be ......

"The world does not allow the appearance of the dead?"

"That Jiang Shuo's friend is also ......"

"No ......"

The wind was a little strong, and Koney's hands gripped the shawl. There are traces of jewelry between her fingers.

"I only recently figured it out. I don't have a way to read the perspective of some specific people...... For example, Changsheng, such as Anseong, it's like fate has arranged that I can't do this. So I confirmed this idea from Jiang Shuo's perspective, and in fact, I found a lot of himself, as well as another kind of memory fragment that we didn't experience at all. ”

"It's like a parallel world, something that happens in another world?"

Ultramarine was keen to suggest the idea, and Konai reluctantly nodded.

"Why are you so obsessed with this child?" asked Yuewange.

"An identical face, his classmates called him Calyx, but people outside of her called her Calyx. ”

"This doesn't hold. If he changed his name, only his classmates would know?" Ultramarine asked rhetorically.

"Gender. ”

"What?"

"For the classmates who have the memory of Calyx, in their eyes, Calyx is a little crazy little girl. But the Calyx Warbler is a crazy, utterly insane. ”

The waves crash against the shore.

It was already dark, and a faint light danced on the surface of the sea, like the last struggle of a drowning man.

Ultramarine silently removed the trim on the side of the canvas bag, which wasted her effort.

The tiny hourglass lay in the palm of her hand, flowing and flickering in the last light of the dusk, as if trying to store this faint light.

"...... this?"

Yue Wange looked at her puzzled.

"A gift. To apologize...... Not valuable, but important. Take it, I'm still your friend, right?"

Yue Wange nodded and stretched out her hand hesitantly.

"Of course, we've always been ......"

Always.

Occasionally, a car sped along the road not far away, and the lights cast their shadows on the place where the sea met the shore.

Elongated, shortened, twisted, elongated again, bizarre.

As she took the hourglass, an indescribable shiver swept through her.

It's as if a computer is running a complex program, and there are a lot of logical errors and redundancies.

Memories are broken and messy, like beautiful bubbles, reflecting the real and turning the front and the back upside down.

The field of vision becomes black and white, then color, and black and white again.

It's like, the tape makes a cacophony of cacophony.

It's like, the song suddenly breaks blank and resumes.

It's like, snowflakes appear on the TV screen in the cafeteria, repeating over and over again.

"We've been ......"

"Y-What's wrong with you?"

Ultramarine rushed up to help her, for fear that her center of gravity would be unstable and she would fall sideways. She knew how much it hurt.

"Stuck in ...... all the time"

"Stuck in what?"

Konai stared into her eyes and grabbed her hand, trying to find out something, only to be pushed a few feet away like an electric shock by an invisible force.

Jiang Shuo rushed over to help her up.

"In dreams, or rather, in memory of the community. ”

The voice was small, soft, soft, but clear.

Each word struck straight at the eardrums of the three listeners, and at a place of turmoil in their hearts.

The surging tide crashed towards the sky, swallowing the last rays of this dusk.

But it was terrifyingly quiet.

Like a cocoon.

Community of Memory.

"One of the popular science I saw before was that people's memories are actually very large. Sometimes what you forget is not completely forgotten, but hidden by the snow. When you see similar scenes, they flash ......"

Her voice was like a gossamer, her long hair, torn apart by the wind, dancing wildly in the air.

That is to say...... The newspapers you find are real things that you have swept away. I'm a transfer student, so I have no memory of any of these things!"

Ultramarine grabbed her with some excitement.

"The rules of this world need to be broken by a paradoxical paradox in order to restore the previous order. ”

Yue Wange muttered as if chanting, and suddenly grabbed Ultramarine's arm. Her strength came from nowhere, just like the return of a dying person. Ultramarine could feel the hourglass hurting her arm.

The original sentimental face was replaced by a sharp grudge.

Like an ascetic who sees through all the sorrows of the world, Yue Wange looks at her with a transcendent gaze.

"The rules of this world are not that the dead are not allowed to appear......"

A breathtaking sense of horror.

"Be careful!"

Jiang Shuo pulled out a sharp knife from his waist at an extremely fast speed and ran towards Yue Wange.

He didn't even have time to think why, and he didn't even know where the knife came from.

He just did it subconsciously.

But it was too late.

Ultramarine was suddenly thrown at the guardrail, and she instinctively grabbed it, and Yue Wange was pushed under the high concrete platform by the reaction.

The raging sea stretched out its hand.

"It is not allowed to be misanthropic......"

It was the last voice she heard from her as a friend.

Until the end, her friend clutched the hourglass as well.

A strong feeling of suffocation captured her senses.

In Jiang Shuo's stiff movements and dumbfounded.

In Konai's frightened face and speechlessness.

In the look of remorse and hoarseness of the ultramarines.

The embrace of the sea embraced the world's first misanthrope.

And the last one.

This child, who came from the future, disappeared like this.

At the moment of the handover of life and death, it disappeared like this.

Along with the last rays of this world, gone.

Then, the flood was raging and the waves were terrifying.

Then, it fell apart and the earth shook.

Together with the last light of this world.

- To be continued -