How can a youkai be a human child? It's so weird anyway!

"Don't you believe it?" it may be that I took too long to react, Shi Xia asked.

"Hmm... Your tone makes me think you're not lying, but—" I wanted to find the most appropriate words possible.

"However, it is impossible for youkai and humans to be related by blood. It said it calmly.

"That's true, so... Well, it's just my curiosity," I said, "I'm not qualified to ask that much, the letter has already been written, and I can just come over next time I need it." ”

Outside the window, it still didn't show up, but a hand came in, which looked indistinguishable from a human.

"You've seen a lot of monsters and humans," it didn't leave, "what do you think the relationship between us and you should be?"

This question stopped me.

yes, what is the relationship between youkai and humans? I've asked myself this question countless times.

"Why don't you speak?" Shi Xia asked.

"I used to think that there should be an invisible red line between humans and youkai, and that respecting each other's lives and not intervening and not affecting each other's lives is the best way. I replied, "However, after becoming a ghostwriter, I have seen a lot of youkai genuinely liking humans, and I have seen many humans seriously responding to the hearts of youkai, so now I think that as long as humans and youkai have the same heart, then it is good to keep it up." ”

Shi Xia didn't speak for a long time, so long that I thought it had left.

"Even if it is, will it hurt the other party?" and suddenly, it popped up.

"Hurt? Why?"

"If I tell you my own story, can I get the fee waived for ghostwriting?"

“... You're such a guy who doesn't play by the rules. I said.

"Isn't it enough to pay the service fee..."

"No, it's just that there's no precedent. "I said, after all, the old youkai told their own stories while paying...

"Do the other youkai tell why they wrote their letters?"

"Well, a lot of it. ”

"Sure enough, the monsters are all lonely..."

"So you're not a lonely youkai. I laughed, "And you should have a very good relationship with humans, otherwise how would you be so tight-lipped about your secrets, like..."

It's like it's really a human being.

"I... Can you come in and talk?"

"Of course," I opened the door, "I could have come in a long time ago." ”

I didn't expect Shixia to look like this, most of the monsters that come to me are either weird or extremely beautiful, and Shixia in front of me in a T-shirt and jeans is simply ordinary.

If it walks down the street, no one will suspect that it is a youkai, and it looks good at talking, and its resemblance to a human is almost 100%.

Such a monster,If you have the idea of wanting to do something bad.,But it's a little troublesome.,Fortunately, it looks like a peaceful guy.。

"Excuse me. Shi Xia said when he walked into the house.

"What to drink?" I said, "tea, juice, or beer?"

"Fruit juice," it said, "room temperature." ”

... What normal youkai would say something like "room temperature"!

"Okay, wait a minute. "I'm already frying in my heart, but I'm still as calm as possible.

It would be nice if Tsubaki was here at this moment...

"Thank you. It smiled kindly as it took the juice.

"You're really—" I could feel myself laughing awkwardly, "like a normal person." ”

In the past, I thought Bi Fang could already play a human being very well, but even it would make people feel a little disobedient when he spoke, because it was really open-minded and not like a normal person.

And the summer in front of me is really no different from my classmates in college.

"Well, because I've been with my mom for many years. It said, "My daily life is also with humans, except that I am essentially a monster, but I can actually be regarded as a person." ”

"Your mother," I asked, "would you write to her often?"

"Well, often. "Actually, it's quite strange, after all, there are not many people who write letters now." ”

"How do you know her?" the curiosity in my heart drove me to ask bluntly.

"In the park. Shi Xia said, "Although I am a monster, I have the appearance of a human being, and I like to be with humans, but my appearance will not age because of age, and it was a summer when the street park was first built, and I like to go there, there are a lot of fitness equipment, which is very interesting." ”

It's obviously a monster who is not young.,It's still like a child in my heart.。

"But there are a lot of people besides me who like to go there, especially children. Shi Xia snorted disdainfully when he said this, it seemed to dislike children very much, "They are domineering and unreasonable, and always occupy the most interesting equipment, but for me children are very easy to deal with, and it didn't take long for them to dare to deal with me because they were afraid of me." ”

"Kid King," I laughed, "I didn't expect you to have this kind of experience." ”

"I had a lot of fun for a long time, until the children found their parents," it said, "and I was educated by a couple of adults, and the children looked at me with a very condescending expression, and at first I didn't care, but one of the adults asked me a question, and he asked me, 'Where are your parents?'"

Shi Xia undoubtedly has no parents.

"At that time, I had no concept of my parents, youkai, one person feeds the whole family without hunger, and every day is free, how troublesome it is for a parent," it said, "yes, that's what I thought at that time, so I didn't pay attention to their words." But then I noticed that the children who often came to play looked at me with pity, and often whispered, "Oh, that child has no parents," and something like that. ”

I imagined that tone, and it was still quite sad.

"One day I was very impressed, it suddenly rained heavily, very heavy, the children who came to play were huddled together to hide from the rain, and soon their parents came to pick them up with umbrellas one after another, the adults whispered softly, the children cheered, and finally I was the only one left. Shi Xia said, "That time I suddenly felt very cold, not because the weather was cold, but because my heart was cold, and I began to envy those children who had parents." ”

"And then your mother showed up?" I asked.

"No, not yet. "It said," I began to find a way to reach out to those children who had parents, wanted to fit in with them, wanted to see what kind of existence parents were, but they rejected me without exception, and when they saw me, they all looked like they saw the plague god, and shouted about motherless children and so on, and over time, I began to hate them, and every time they were having fun, I would play pranks, using my ability to make them invisible, hitting them with stones, and dipping gum on their seats, until they were scared to tears,"

"In today's terms, you're a bear kid. ”

"Haha, indeed. "Then one night, I was putting oil paint on my chair when suddenly a very nice voice said to me, 'You can't do that.'" The voice was so gentle, no one had ever spoken to me so gently, and when I looked back, I saw my mother. ”

"Was that the first time she had seen you?" I asked.

"Well, because the children had already gone home at that time, I was relieved to appear in the park as a human being, and I didn't expect to meet people, and I was still such a beautiful person. Shi Xia said, "She bent down to look at me, her eyes laughed into a line, and she couldn't hear any reproach in her tone. ”

"Listen to your description, he is a very gentle person. ”

"Yes, very gentle. "I was a little overwhelmed by the way she smiled, and I tried to use my body to block my mischievous paint, but I couldn't, and my face was so hot that I wanted to find a crack in the ground." ”

"It's not easy, you will be embarrassed by the bear child. ”

"It's really amazing to think about it now," said Shixia, "I thought at the time that I felt warm because she was so beautiful, and I didn't know until today that the encounter with my mother was the most beautiful summer in my yokai time." ”

(End of chapter)