The old man named Dracula sat in a rocking chair with his eyes closed, and heard a babbling sound below, constantly amplifying, and the visitor was coming down the steps of the tower. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Are you coming?, he thought.

"Excuse me, anyone?" Suzu poked her head out of the steps, the goblin's gaze wandering around.

"I think people should be there," Lyle stepped out from behind her, and at first glance saw the old man sitting in his chair and turn around, "I'll just say there's a person." She beckoned to the bell.

So Suzu jumped up from the steps, and when she saw the old man with an old face full of wrinkles like dry bark, she did not shy away from suspicion, and looked carefully with his hands behind his back, his expression mixed between curiosity and seriousness, as if he was looking at the cultural heritage of the last century.

She tugged at Laler's sleeve and motioned for him to lean over his ears while she put her mouth up.

"As soon as you say it's the soul of your ancestors, I always thought it was a skeletal appearance, wrapped in a shabby linen coat, and my nostrils spewed yin," Suzu bit her ear quietly, "Sure enough, it's really the most classic image of old bones!." ”

"Even so, they are quite energetic and energetic. The two exchanged ears.

The old man silently watched the two young men huddle together and muttered secretly, and he was not angry or bored by it, he actually knew what these two were talking about, and admitted that he was indeed old like a piece of crumbling paper, if he was the same age as them, he would probably point and shout directly, "Is this old man a dry corpse?!"

He just missed a little nostalgia, nostalgia for the time at that time, the picture of Lyle and Suzu next to each other, blurred in front of his eyes for a moment, as if he saw his past self, and the still living Fina.

In my memory, the girl's face resurfaced, on a silent night, on the path that was accustomed to walking alone, she suddenly appeared in front of the road, as if she was destined to wait for you on the way forward, smiled and asked you to help her push off the car, and from then on they were inseparable from each other.

He said in his heart, the face of the bell in front of him overlapped with the face of the man in his memory.

The old man sighed quietly and looked at the fiery atmosphere in front of him.

"Hello grandpa. Suzu turned her face, and she suddenly realized that she hadn't introduced herself yet.

"I know you, your name, your character, and parts of your experiences," the old man said in a flat tone, "I've seen it through Lyle's eyes. ”

"I always feel like you're being compared to a camera for voyeurism. Suzu glanced at Lyle.

Lyle shrugged, speechless.

"Have you made your decision? The old man asked.

"Although I really hope that the old man can tell me everything he knows," Lyle nodded, "but no matter what, I will go to the back mountain again, and sure enough, there are some things that I have to see for myself." ”

"Three questions, I want to see your proof that you are a precious iron that can be forged, or just a piece of driftwood that can be found everywhere in the ethereal sea. The old man looked at Lyle in a solemn tone, as if a harsh trial would follow.

Suzu subconsciously rubbed her arms, the night breeze here was different from the outside world, a little cold.

"The place you're going to may be hell, are you really determined to go, even if you're going to be a knife to the love of your time. The old man's face was indifferent, but the words he said were like unbearable torture.

"It means that I already had a reason to swing the sword at that time," Lyle clenched his fists, "My sister once taught me that since you chose to hold the sword, don't let go, there are people behind you who need to be protected, and there are people who need to be saved in your eyes." ”

"Even if you have to look at that old favorite face and send the blade into it with your own hands. The old man's words were cold, and he looked Lyle in the eye, wanting to see if the light in the boy's pupils would dissipate, after hearing this piercing and cruel question.

"If it was at that time, it would have been the best, I had come to my senses," Lyle said firmly, "I'm not the kid I used to be. ”

The old man closed his eyes, he had already got everything he wanted when he got here, the young man in front of him did have the possibility of his own needs, there are always some unavoidable times, even if you are burdened with the heavy pain of going up the mountain, you still have to swing that knife with all your might.

For thousands of years, he sealed his consciousness in the knife for a certain reason, so that the knife will be passed down from generation to generation, he needs someone to help him complete what he has to do, that person must be his own descendants, only their body will appear possibility, in the long history, he has appeared in front of many people holding black knives, he taught the other party to master power, but also confirmed whether the other party has that possibility.

"The last one," the old man's voice softened, with a hint of sadness, "even if you have to carry that person's death and continue to live." That person will fall asleep forever in your arms, you used to have only her, but now you have to feel her temperature gradually disappear into your arms, she died because of you, and you lived. ”

The old man sighed heavily, as if exhaling a thousand years of sediment.

"She never resented you, but you might, will never be able to forgive yourself. ”

Lyle was a little trance-like, the question just now, there was no temperature in the words, the words were like a knife blade, and when he heard it, his heart was cut, bringing heartache to the bone, not so much a question, but like a torture about life and death, the worst case you will face hell, so you have to have the psychology of the abyss and cannot be annihilated to stand up straight.

But only in the end, it seems to have become an ordinary sigh, with regret and sadness, with self-blame and powerlessness.

This question, on the contrary, made Lyle unable to answer for a while.

"Actually, this third question can not be counted, just when I didn't say anything......" The old man showed a tired smile, like self-deprecation, Lyle's stunned can be imagined, even if you fought all the enlightenment at that time, but the residual regret afterwards, but can not be erased, that regret is the price of your enlightenment, like a ghost, in your future time, constantly haunting you.

Remorse is the most terrible of the devil, it represents irreparability, so it will always be there.

"If regret is really unavoidable," Suzu suddenly interrupted the old man, stepping forward and holding Lyle is hand at the same time, "I am willing to carry that painful feeling with it." ”

The old man was stunned, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the light in Suzu's eyes.

He suddenly wanted to cry, even if he was an elder to show an ugly posture in front of his juniors, if he had been in the past, he would have borne some great regret or pain, if that person was alive at the time, she would hold her hand and say such things, and then use her actions to comfort and encourage herself.

If I could, I would have liked to do nothing when I passed away and go to that world to find you.

How many times had such a thought flashed in his mind, but he knew that he couldn't.

"If you dare to say anything about refusal, be careful that I beat you fat," Suzu pouted, glancing viciously at Lyle, who was just about to speak, and Lyle swallowed the words back," I can see it, boys like you, all of them are awkward in their hearts, and no one has been good to themselves, so they suddenly meet someone who is good to them, and they don't care if they want to go to the soup and throw them away, please don't always be strong, people will be good to you, not for your return, but for you to be good to you, but you don't want to show your life in front of people, it will only make people feel uncomfortable. She puffed and puffed.

An old man and a young man, who were dubbed "dead awkward boys", looked at the girl blankly and vented their hearts.

"I've been holding it for so long, and it's much more refreshing to finally say it today," Suzu rubbed her chest, looking like "tired old lady me", "If you want to carry this kind of thing, it will occupy Lyle's future, and I also want to decide to become his future, so this kind of relationship is not to rob me of a man! If Lyle falls into passivity and neglects me because of this feeling, I think I will also be unhappy." ”

"So I'll share it too," Suzu patted Lyle on the shoulder, "and when you want to cry, remember to throw yourself in my arms." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, what you say, listen to you, just be happy. Lyle smiled wryly and nodded, the scene was a sign that the future life would develop into a strict wife.

But Suzu's words spoke to his heart, maybe it was true, because he had been living in a corner of the shadows, and suddenly someone brought in the sun, so he wanted to pounce on the sun even if he would be burned to death.

He suddenly felt a force coming from his shoulder, and turned his head to see that the old man got up and walked to his side at some point, grabbing his left shoulder.

"You have met two such people," the old man smiled kindly, "and you are a lucky man who has been taken care of by God." ”

"I used to think I was the only one who was abandoned by God, and then I felt like the whole world hated me," Lyle laughed happily, "and now, I'm the same as you think." ”

"See me off, old man," said Lyle, who suddenly turned around and distanced himself from the old man, "I have done as you say, and you have made good on your promise to tell us the rest of the story." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, what about a good story?" Suzu remembered this time when she first came in, and Lyle told herself, as if the trip was just to listen to people's stories, "Wait until you have already told me more than half of the story, then I will be very disadvantaged." ”

"Actually, if the previous part is regarded as a complete story, it is enough, and the two of us become family and end up," the old man sat back in his rocking chair and looked to the side, Lyle noticed that the old man's gaze was within reach, and immediately understood, the last time she came, the woman sat quietly in that position and read the book, "It's okay girl, I'll simply repeat it." ”

"What about her, old man?" asked Lyle.

"I have reproduced all her daily habits and arrangements from my own memory," said the old man, "and she has been resting in her room for this time, and since that incident she has become very weak, and needs twice as much rest as usual." ”

"Who are you talking about?" Suzu was confused.

"It's the old man's favorite person, probably equivalent to you to me. Lyle said.

Suzu nodded "oh-oh" in response, and Lyle's words made her heart blossom.

"Old man, is the third question you just said referring to yourself?" Lyle sensed something and asked.

"Then I'll tell you," said the old man, who seemed to be getting older for a while, and had become a real old man, and that youthful strength seemed to have vanished, "the last story. ”

"Heaven gave her to me, but not the future. ”