"Did you forget? The first time I saw you, you were covered in fire burns, and it was scary. I was also frightened by you, but after thinking about it, I think that you are pitiful enough to be burned like that, and if I look at you in a strange light again, then you will not be even more pitiful? Ai Tingting explained.

I understood: "That's why you decided to come to me to get a tattoo, just to help me in your way?" ”

"Hmm."

I couldn't help but laugh.

Ai Tingting glared at me: "Who knew that in a few days, your skin burned by the fire would fall off and become a handsome guy, I was really blind at the time and felt pitiful for you." I don't think you need anyone's sympathy at all! ”

After a pause, she looked at me suspiciously: "Little brother, it's like being burned by fire to disfigurement, and finally being able to restore your original appearance by molting, are you really just an ordinary person?" ”

I smiled and said, "It's normal for me to heal, and the doctor said it's okay." ”

"Really?"

"Hmm." Look at my sincere eyes!

But Ai Tingting couldn't really believe my words, because if she was burned by fire and could shed off her burned skin and grow new flesh, then there wouldn't be so many disfigured people in this world.

I comforted her: "You see, my little brother, I was burned by fire three months ago, and in the end I can transform into a handsome guy." Maybe this growing caterpillar in your hand will also turn into a beautiful butterfly? ”

"Butterflies?" Ai Tingting glanced down at the ugly big fat worm, and finally appeared with a hesitant expression.

Caterpillars eventually metamorphose into butterflies, everyone knows.

This worm has grown fat enough, but I don't know if it will pupate into a butterfly in the last month?

Ai Tingting said hesitantly: "This worm will grow up...... Maybe you'll turn into a butterfly in the end! Does it really turn into a butterfly? ”

When she said her last words, she raised her head and looked at me curiously.

I shrugged, "I don't know either." If it's really as amazing as you say, and the tattoo will grow on its own, then maybe it will be in the end? If that's the case, then you have a prettier tattoo. Butterflies, aren't they all beautiful? ”

"You really don't know about tattoos?" Ai Tingting asked me suspiciously.

I shook my head, looking innocent.

I'm half-truthing.

Falsely, I know about tattoos;

Really, I don't know what the story of this tattoo is, what fate it has with Ai Tingting, and I don't know what it will become in the future.

All I know is that when the three-month period is up, regardless of whether the fate between them can be good or not, I will personally pick up the "ta".

"Do you still want to get your tattoo washed?" I asked.

Ai Tingting hesitated, shook her head, and said, "Not for the time being." If this is really a magical tattoo, maybe it will change again and become a beautiful butterfly in the future. I wonder what it will look like in the future! ”

"Aren't you afraid?"

She shook her head and touched the tattoo, and at this moment, her eyes became very gentle: "I don't know why, I always feel that this tattoo gives me a very kind feeling, and when I see it, my heart becomes very warm." So most of the time I'm not scared of it, but since it gets bigger, scares my friends into turning around and running away when they see me, and when I feel like it's going to bite me like it's alive, I'm scared of the unknown. But when I came here today, after seeing you, little brother, I was not so scared. ”

"Why?"

"Because you told me that caterpillars turn into butterflies!" Ai Tingting smiled cutely and said, "You can be handsome from the ugly side yourself, maybe there will really be magical things in this world!" I'm going to wait until the day when the miracle happens. How cool would it be if the caterpillar on my hand actually turned into a butterfly! Who can happen to such a thing? When it does turn into a butterfly, I'll take it to those who see me and run away, envy them to death! ”

I laughed, I think the current child is really cute, she doesn't feel terrible when she encounters strange things, and there are some dreams and innocence in her heart, which makes her more cute.

I turned around, went and got my tools, and said to her, "Since I'm here, I'll give you some more tattoos, or you'll run for nothing." ”

"Another tattoo?" Ai Tingting did not resist, but asked more curiously: "What will you tattoo for me?" ”

I smiled and said, "Tattoo, you'll know." ”

She nodded and handed me her other hand.

I patted it away, pointed to her right hand and said, "That's it." ”

"And this one?" Ai Tingting was puzzled and handed me the hand tattooed with a caterpillar, "What else do you want to tattoo?" ”

I smiled and didn't say a word, took water to wash her arms, and after disinfecting them, I began to tattoo them on the underside of the caterpillar......

"Wait!" Ai Tingting suddenly screamed.

“？” I stopped and looked at her in bewilderment.

She stared at my tattoo pen and asked, puzzled, "What is this......?" That doesn't seem right! The last time I came, you lit incense and made tea, why didn't you have anything this time? And you didn't use this tool to tattoo me last time, you used needles last time! And it hurt me so much, this time it didn't hurt at all. ”

I smiled and told her, "This is a professional tattoo pen, and all tattoo parlors use this set." The last time you visited, the tattoo machines in our shop were all broken down and we could only tattoo you with the oldest and most traditional tools. The tattoo tools of the old era were tattooed with pain, and the invention of the new era is not so painful. ”

"But what about tea......

"If you want to drink tea, there's a pot next to it, but you don't think it's cold tea." I smiled and pointed to the tea set next to me, it was the tea I usually drink, not the tea made for guests when I stabbed souls, and the two were naturally different.

This time, I just made an ordinary tattoo for Ai Tingting, and of course I didn't use the same set of tools as the soul stabbing.

After getting my explanation, Ai Tingting stopped talking, and I helped her tattoo a delicate flower with peace of mind.

When the flowers took shape, Ai Tingting asked curiously, "What kind of flower is this?" How come I've never seen one? ”

I smiled and looked at her, "Is it good-looking?" ”

"Beautiful!" She nodded, clearly pleased with my tattoo.

"This is Manju Sawah, the most popular name is the other side flower, so you should know what kind of flower it is, right?"

"Oh! This is the flower of the other side? Ai Tingting said in amazement, "I thought that the other side flower was just a legend, and there was no other side flower in this world!" ”

"No, there is really a Manju Sawa in this world, if you don't believe it, you can go to the Internet and check it." I said with a smile, carefully surrounding the flower next to the caterpillar, in order to make the caterpillar look less conspicuous, this time I chose the color of the flower to be a similar cyan to the caterpillar, and when the enchanting Manju Sawa blooms around the caterpillar, it will not be so inconspicuous - in doing so, it should not be so easy to scare others.

When it was done, Ai Tingting loved this tattoo more and more, and she looked at it many times, and her appreciative smile couldn't stop.

"Little brother, how much?" She asked delightedly.

I put the tools away: "No money. ”

Ai Tingting giggled: "Do you, the Buddhist shopkeeper, eat Dongfeng?" The last time I came, you said you didn't want money, this time you don't want money, you haven't had a business for three months, and you don't collect money, so how can you live? Don't you have to pay rent, don't you have to eat? ”

I smiled: "Beauty is free." ”

"I'm really good at talking, but I'll be embarrassed if you're free." She took out a hundred and handed it to me, "Let's be the same price as last time!" ”

I shook my head and didn't take it: "It's a complimentary service, no tipping." ”

After saying that, I turned around and left, and put the tattoo machine back in the corner - I really haven't touched this modern technology once in hundreds of years, after all, I am a proud assassin, not an ordinary tattoo artist.

"Complimentary services? Do you mean this worm? Ai Tingting entangled curiously, "Little brother, you make it clear, don't you really know what this worm is all about?" ”