He found himself standing in the backyard of the mansion, which was a colorful courtyard, planted with all kinds of flowers and plants, and the ancestors who had raised flowers and plants dozens of generations ago had an elegant sentiment for raising flowers and grasses, and as the owners of this mansion changed every few decades, the types of plants in the courtyard also increased, and over the past hundred years, Plath's garden seemed to be a miniature of the world's flowers and plants, containing thousands of species, some of which Lyle had never heard of. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The memories contained in this courtyard also change, and every few decades pass, new men and women take a walk or stop in this quiet place.

Lyle also walked here, and there was the laughter of the girl like a silver bell in the flowers.

He stopped and looked around, always felt that there was a strange and close figure walking quickly between the flowers and plants, he could clearly hear the laughter of the figure, joyful and enviable, and illusory like a dream, he felt that the figure seemed to love to avoid himself, every time he appeared, he quickly flashed behind him, but when he turned around, the figure was still invisible, leaving only intermittent laughter, laughter, mixed with the woman's soft words, the man's loving gaze.

"Hey, my lovely daughter, don't run so fast, you know there's a rhizome here that hasn't had time to remove the thorns, and we don't want our hair to get tangled, do we......" said a woman who seemed to say.

"I'll only win if you catch me, Mommy," the girl's voice said, ...... the girl's voice said.

"Let your mother win once, good daughter......" seems to be mixed with men's words.

Lyle judged what this was, he thought it should be the warmest conversation in the world, belonging to a happy family of three, although the usual scenes in those books and TVs are all fathers letting children ride on their necks, and mothers are sweating and cooking on the side, looking back from time to time at the cheerful father and son or father and daughter playing, but here the mother replaces the father's task, and it is estimated that the red-haired woman is more impatient and quiet and more playful.

He suddenly reached out on his right side to pluck a cluster of dense flower branches, and finally caught the figure, no, it was those figures, in the bright moonlit afternoon, the mother finally caught the daughter running in front, and the father was sitting at the tea table drinking hot tea, watching his wife and daughter play happily in front of him, and by the way, he paid attention to whether his daughter would be accidentally injured.

How nice, said Lyle, he was genuinely happy for his sister, who had had a form of happiness that he had not understood.

But in the blink of an eye, these were gone, and the originally small but warm place instantly became silent, there was no frolicking mother and daughter, no father sitting at the round table, no laughter in the air, and the flowers and plants were silent as if they couldn't wake up. Lyle rushed out of the flowers, looked around at the deserted surroundings, walked out into the hallway, glanced at the teacup poured on the table, the remaining liquid dried on the cup, I don't know how long it had been, and then Lyle pushed open the door and entered the mansion.

The hallway in front of me was in total darkness, and the whole mansion was immersed in darkness, as if the house was also empty, no one lived in it anymore, and the lamps were covered with thick dust. Lyle looked at the corridor, it was also familiar and strange, familiar because this was the place where he lived, strange because he had never seen such a mansion, the corridor seemed to be infinite eyes, and countless doors were lined up on both sides.

It is the corridor of memories in the black knife, which is also a seemingly infinite extension, surrounded by the memories of the former users, and Lyle suddenly understands that he is walking in the corridor of memory, which is different from what he sees in the black knife, this is the perspective of his sister Lena's heart.

He walked all the way, pushed open the door continuously, and he saw that when his mother gave birth to his brother Rhine, his sister at that time was still able to smile like in the garden, lying in front of his mother's window, reaching out and gently caressing his mother's bulging belly; he saw his sister really hold the knife for the first time, and at this time she had a different expression on her face, no longer the innocent and carefree smile, but more resolute, she waved the wooden stick day after day in the name of the Sword Saint of the Wind, gradually leaving her past self behind; Lyle saw her sister first become a knight, and she was inevitably ridiculed and teased by the men as a woman, she was still inexperienced and bumped behind everyone, but she still gritted her teeth and survived......

He kept pushing open the door, remembering what was on display in his eyes, and then closed it again.

Suddenly remembered the sound of the door opening behind him, he turned around, and saw a little boy with silver hair and red eyes running out of the house by himself, running along the corridor to that end, Lyle felt that he saw his childhood self, but no, the child's face had a different expression from his cowardly self, it was his brother, it was Rhine's childhood, where was he going in his sister's memory?

Lyle followed him, watching him run to the front hall, to the back of the door, which was connected to the other end of the house, which should be outside.

When he also walked to the door, he paused for a moment with his hand on the handle, and he saw so many of his sister's as he walked all the way, and felt that when he got here, it seemed that everything should come to an end. He pushed open the door and saw that the sky outside was red with blood, and the eastern corner of the night sky seemed to be burning.

On the steps in front of the door, the younger sister hugged the younger brother, comforting, stroking, and talking.

"We must be strong to live. ”

Is this the day I was born, Lyle thought to himself, the day he was born, the day his parents died, the day his sister and brother had a new brother, and the day they lost two loves.

Because your parents are gone, but you have to protect and take care of your two younger brothers alone, you are still so young, you have to start to shoulder the responsibility of parents, Lyle walked over, leaned down and wanted to touch his sister's cheek, but it was a phantom, and his hand passed through it directly.

So, from this moment on, you become stronger than anyone else.

Lyle suddenly felt very sour in his heart, and with a suffocating sting, he retreated behind the door, stumbled into the house, and simply closed the door, stacking it on the door to adjust his disordered breathing.

However, he found that he was not inside the house, but went straight back to the backyard, and the passage in the mansion seemed to disappear. He walked through the courtyard again, seeing so much that he wanted to go only to one place, the place that contained the fond memories of him and his sister, at the end of the woods, where the two of them sat next to each other.

"Sister?" he walked out of the iron door and looked at him in surprise.

In that place, someone had already arrived first, the red-haired woman and the silver-haired red-eyed boy were sitting next to each other on the ground, this time the silver-haired and red-eyed boy was himself, and his sister was also the older sister who grew up in his memory.

The mournful chirping of the birds sounded overhead, Lyle turned sharply to look up, in the field of vision, the blue-feathered birds stopped on the tower, yes, every time he and his sister sat there, it was when the moonsongbirds left the nest, but now, those moonsongbirds were falling to the ground one by one, they were all dead, and on this night, in the whole flock, only the last bird remained, left alone on the roof of the building to make a sad chirp.

His heart hurt as if he was pinching, and Lyle looked back to see that the young self who was leaning on his sister's side was constantly turning into particles of light and disappearing.

"No, don't, Lyle, don't leave me!Please, my brother, don't, leave ......me behind," Lena cried out in tears, waving her arms wildly, trying to grab the light particles, but the light particles eventually dispersed, and the young Lyle was gone, leaving Lena alone.

It turns out that you are not only the moonsong bird that guards the death of your beloved, but also the moonsong bird who is sad and painful after losing all your love.

"I've always been afraid that you would leave me one day, and I never thought that you would be so sad if we separated," Lyle said, walking over to the crying man, "In the past, I would only think about myself, only what would I do without you, now, let me care about you, and if you will be sad because I am not there, then I will definitely be by your side." ”

He sat down next to Lena, as he had done countless times before, with the two siblings sitting next to each other.

But this time, it's no longer the child who simply wants to rely on his sister in the past, but the real thing, the two of them have to snuggle up to each other.

"Don't cry," Lyle stretched out his hand, his fingers suspended in mid-air for half a moment, he was apprehensive, worried about the huge sense of loss when his fingers touched the air again, but finally reached over, until the soft and warm touch came from his fingertips, his eyes widened, surprised and delighted, "Don't cry, sister, I didn't leave you, I won't leave you." ”

Lena stopped crying, and she turned her head to see Lyle, her pupils flashing with excitement.

"Is that you, Lyle, are you with me?" she threw herself on top of Lyle and put her arms around his neck, and the two hugged tightly.

"It's me," Lyle hugged Lena, tears streaming uncontrollably, "Finally, once again, to be able to sit with you again." ”

I finally came to you, he said in his heart, this time, it was no longer the phantom of memory in his arms, but the real Lena, his sister.

"I'm scared," said Lena, "I don't know if you're real, maybe you're the comfort I created for myself in my consciousness." ”

"No, no, I'm the real Lyle, your brother, not your fantasy," said Lyle, "I'm here to get you out." ”

"Yes, it's really you," Lena withdrew from her embrace, her eyes teary-eyed, her trembling hand touching Lyle's cheek, as if she couldn't believe that everything in front of her was real, "I thought I would never see you again, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't keep the agreement, I couldn't go back to accompany you that night, you must be very sad." ”

"I'm very sad, but it's not because my sister missed the appointment, I know that sister, you are in danger, I will never say that sister, you missed the appointment," Lyle held Lena's hand, "I just feel sorry for ignoring your hard work and dedication sister." ”

Lena shook her head, with a look of self-reproach, "No, it's my fault, I did break the appointment, the day my parents left, I swore that I must protect the two of you, but I'm still not strong enough, I haven't been able to fully fulfill my responsibilities, you must have suffered a lot over the years, I can't even keep the agreement with my brother." ”

The surrounding scenery changes in an instant, and it is no longer a forest path, but a cemetery unique to the Plath family, where the souls of the Plath family are buried for generations. Lyle looked around in a bit of panic, they were sitting in the middle of two rows of tombstones, a picture he had seen once, in his sister's memory.

In front of the two of them were four tombstones, father's, mother's, brother's, and his own.

This unrelieved self-blame is the most fragile feeling in my sister's heart, Lyle thought, too much responsibility on her own body, and when she can't do a good job, she will be afraid and afraid, afraid that her family will be hurt because of her mistakes, and afraid that the last brothers will also leave her.

After losing her parents, she is the saddest and most scared person. But he had to be the strongest person.

"You've done well enough, our daughter. ”

Lena looked back in surprise, her eyes full of incredulity, as if she had seen the most fantastical thing in the world, and she stammered, "Dad, Mommy, really, is it you? Why, you are here, why ......"

Lysia and Esty dragged their wounded bodies to their children, they were wounded, and the battle with the Blood Demon must have been difficult, but they still won, and their presence here at this moment is the best evidence.

The two held Lyle and Lena in their arms, and the family of four leaned close to each other. Lena stuck to her parents, finally, she couldn't hold back anymore, crying like a child, in front of her parents, she returned to the former child, in the arms of her parents, no longer have to worry about everything, crying and venting at will, the tiredness, confusion, self-blame, pain and sadness accumulated over the past few decades were all poured out with tears.

"Cry, my child," said Leshua, "there is nothing to be afraid of by our side, there are no villains who take advantage of your cowardice and wait for action, and there are no people who will laugh at you for it, but only us, your family, so weep all the bitterness in your heart all along." ”

"You've done well enough," Esty stroked the woman's hair, "After we left, all the burdens were shouldered by you, whether it was as the new Plass parent, or taking care of the two younger brothers, you were clearly just a child at that time, and you had to endure so much before you got out of your immature body, but you have been working hard until now, it is really good and good, you are our pride, you are the best daughter." ”

Lena grabbed her parents by the hem of their clothes and wept bitterly, tears staining their clothes.

Lyle glanced at the tombstones beside him, the two tombstones that existed next to his parents' monuments, which should not have existed, gradually disappeared with the wind, the worst thoughts of the two brothers in Lena's mind that they died because of their own powerlessness had been dissolved, and she no longer had to be bound by that exaggerated responsibility.

Every Plath who has fallen because of the blood demon is because he has his own knots, the most fragile part of his heart, Dracula is not accepted by anyone, when he is about to fall, Fina accepts him, Lyle is lonely, when he loses consciousness, Suzu warms him, and Lena, what she is afraid of is that the family she failed to protect because of herself will leave her, but now, these are also relieved, her family, at this moment, is by her side.

"Sister," Lyle said with a smile, "welcome home." ”