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Philip and I were in a stalemate with each other, and it wouldn't let go, and I wouldn't speak.

"You two... Have you seen it before?" Blue Finger was a little embarrassed, his tall body circled between me, who was several times shorter than him, and Philip, who was several times shorter than me, as if he didn't know how to break the deadlock.

"I haven't seen it. I said.

"Yes. Philip bit my arm and slurred her words.

Almost in unison.

I looked at it with wide eyes, and I saw it? Where have I seen it?

Philip finally let go of my arm, leaving a row of small tooth marks. It did a quick backflip and landed steadily on the ground in a beautiful arc, its tail standing straight, still looking at me vigilantly.

"Have we really met?" quickly searched for memories in my head, but in the end I couldn't remember when I had offended this little guy.

The little raccoon cat with the white tail didn't speak, looked at me and then at the blue finger, and his expression suddenly turned 360 degrees, and he cried.

"It's because you came to Yugu that the letters that Blue Finger wrote to me have disappeared a lot!" Philip cried as she blew her nose and bubbled her nose.

"I???" made me even more incomprehensible.

"Philip and I met through letters," Blue Finger gently pinched Philip, who was dozens of times smaller than him, and put it in the palm of his hand, "Didn't you activate the hourglass of the Emperor River, so those letters are gone." ”

It seems to have something to do with me...

"Is it an important letter?" I asked, "you two, pen pals?"

"I guess I met through letters by chance. "It should be quite important to Philip." ”

"Isn't it important to you?" the little tanuki looked at the giant with teary eyes.

"Haha, of course it's important," Blue Finger smiled heartily, "Although a few important letters have disappeared, we still know each other, which is even more important." ”

Hearing the giant say this, the little tanuki seems to be in a better mood?

"Philip, you said you had seen me, where was it... Ouch! Can you stop biting me!" This time it was Philip who grabbed the little finger.

"I noticed you the first time you came to Yuya! I should have chased you away!" the little guy slurred his words, and he didn't forget to bite me hard.

The first time I came to Yuya, I remember what it was like... Nothing special, except for Blue Finger...

Oh yes! When I first arrived at the lake, a figure flashed past me!

"I remember! that dark shadow is you!" I raised the hand that was bitten by Philip to eye level, and the little raccoon cat with the white tail seemed to be hanging from my little thumb, its teeth showing no sign of relaxing, and its eyes were staring at me dissatisfied, "Your eyes seem to be biting you to death..."

"I wanted to bite you to death!" As soon as Philip opened his mouth, the teeth that bit my fingers did not hang, and fell directly, it tried to balance with its tail, but it tripped over its own tail and sat on my lap, just like an angry child.

"Alright, alright, Philip don't lose her temper anymore. Lan pointed out and persuaded him, "The little boy didn't mean it, he helped a lot of monsters with infectious diseases." ”

"Blue Finger... Shall we discuss something?" I said.

"What's the matter, little girl?"

"Can you stop calling me a little girl..."

"Okay, little girl!"

......

Philip seemed to be a very sleepy fellow, and he lost his temper at the table for a while, and kept his ass at me, but after a while he curled up in a ball and fell asleep.

"It must be an important letter when it's so angry, right?" I asked Blue Finger, "how did you meet?"

"A person of my size is a good friend with such a small monster, can't you imagine?" Blue Finger couldn't hide the pride between his words, he carefully put Philip in a small basket, it seemed that he had carefully prepared a nest for Philip, "Actually, Philip's letter should have been replied by another monster." ”

I felt a little thirsty, hesitated for a while, but still took a sip of tea from a cup the size of a basin, "Another youkai?"

"No, that youkai is in Yuya, it's an ordinary little youkai, Philip and that little youkai are very good friends, because Philip often hides XC, so the two youkai maintain friendship in the form of correspondence, and agree to exchange letters by the rocks by the lake every week. "It's just that its friend died in an infectious disease." ”

“......”

One day I accidentally saw Philip through the lake, at that time I didn't know that it was a monster that could relieve sorrow, and I thought it was an ordinary tanuki, but I saw it for many days, and every time I came with full expectation, and walked with a sad face, I was a little curious, so I took the initiative to greet it. ”

"It's such a sensitive guy, it must have run away, right?"

"Haha, it's not just running, it's almost like running away. "Later, every time I saw it, I would take the initiative to say hello, but it didn't pay attention to me once, and always hid in a panic." Until one day, it rained heavily in Yuya, and the soil by the lake could not support the weight of the stones, so the stones with letters were washed into the river and fell in front of me. ”

"Philip's letter to his best friend?"

"Yes, the little monster is even a little letter," said the giant, "but even it seems to me that there are quite a few, but there is not a single reply from my friends, no wonder Philip is in such a hurry, I thought, how about I pretend to be his friend, and write back to it? ”

"You?" I said, looking at his huge frame, "the envelope you're using is bigger than Philip!"

"Hahaha, that's right, I didn't find out this problem until I finished writing," Blue Finger smiled while holding his stomach for a while, "so I found a piece of paper about the size of the letter paper that Philip used, dipped the tip of a needle in ink, and took a magnifying glass to write on the piece of paper one by one, and it took a whole night to write a piece." ”

"How many sheets did you write to succeed?" I thought of the giant replying to the civet with the tip of a needle.

"I can't remember... Ten sheets, thirty sheets, oh it doesn't matter, anyway, it was written in the end! I made an envelope!" The thin voice of the blue fingertips sounded a little warm, "How cute the little thing is!"

"It's easy to spot," I said, "the content, the font, the stuff." ”

"Then you are too underestimate the giants, don't look at our size, the people of the Great Nation are known for their skill and care," said Blue Finger, "Philip and his friends sometimes reuse envelopes, so I imitated the handwriting of his friends on the envelope and gave him a letter that I thought looked very real!"

"What did you write?

"There's nothing inconvenient or inconvenient until now," said Blue Finger, "and I said in my letter, 'Philip, I'm going on a trip, and I'm not coming back for a long time, so take care of yourself!'"

The typical blue-fingered tone...

"Then I tied a rope to the stone, tied the letter to it, and threw the stone to the shore. Blue Finger mimicked the original movements.

"Tie a rope... You're too easy to spot, aren't you?"

"No, there are a lot of weeds near the lake, and it's not easy to see. "I thought that Philip should be relieved this time, and that his friends would have gone on a trip, and he wouldn't write again, but unexpectedly, the next day, Philip's reply appeared on the stone." ”

Sure enough, it was discovered...

"I saw that this was not going to work!" and then I wrote a letter with the tip of a needle. After coming and going, I actually talked to Philip!" Blue Finger said, "Slowly I got used to keeping in touch with Philip, and slowly learned that it was the monster that could solve their worries, but although it could help others solve their worries, no one listened to their own troubles, so I thought I might as well be a listener." ”

"How did it find you?" I asked.

"Haha, actually, it was discovered a long time ago, but I didn't know it all along. "One day I received a letter from Philip that he would not write to me again because he was going to live in another place. ”

I looked at the sleeping Philip, and the little guy moved his ears, probably having some good dreams.

"I'm a little sad, after all, it's not easy to have a good friend to talk to, even though I'm just a pretending friend. But my original thought was to ask Philip to stop thinking about writing letters, so I finally wrote back to him, wishing him all the best and thanking him for all the joy it had brought me. Blue Finger shook his head and said, "The only way to solve my worries is Philip! But when I open the door the next morning, guess what I saw?"

"Philip is here?"

"No, no, no, what appeared at my door was the big rock with which I had a rope to it, and there was an envelope on it, and there was only one sentence in it, 'I'm coming here to live.'" ’”

"Haha, so it's living in your house from now on? I said, "It's so grumpy, it's not angry with you, and it hasn't been hiding it for so long and won't tell who it is." ”

"Of course I'm angry!" said Blue Finger, "because as soon as I read the letter, I felt that I had been bitten by a mosquito on my hand, and when I looked closely, I saw what kind of mosquito it was, and the little raccoon cat with the white tail was biting my finger viciously!"