The southeast of Alada has always been known for its beautiful flower fields, with patches of blooming lavender echoing the snow-capped mountains on the east side, and the clear air with the fragrance of flowers is simply a paradise on earth. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Eko was now in a courtyard near the flower field, he stood by the wall with a blank face, occasionally swaying from side to side and walking a few steps, but the range of his steps was always the size of a wheel, and what Eko didn't know was that on the other side of the courtyard, there were two people who were stunned by his extremely obedient and unusually regular behavior.

"He, what's wrong with him?" said the little girl named Düdi looked at her mother with a worried face, and his mother turned her head to look at Sailor, one of the stewards of the Nexus, who had accompanied them to visit Eko.

"That's it after that fall?" asked the elven woman named Liz.

"Actually, it wasn't that way at first. When he first explained to him that he jumped the waterfall because of his mental differences, he scoffed at it, but it didn't take long...... His mental condition plummeted like a waterfall. Sailor sighed.

"Is it because I'm driving him crazy? I say he's a damn guy, but that's not what I meant. Dudi hung his head, depressed like a wilted flower. Liz sighed and hugged her daughter, her face full of guilt.

"No, actually, that's not a blame for you at all. Seeing the two of them in such pain, Sayler couldn't help but sigh.

"Ekko's experience was horrible, so scary that we couldn't share it. We should have expected him to have a mental breakdown at any moment, but we whimsically shoved him into your house, and thought it was called integrating into Elada. If anyone is at fault, it is also our fault. But maybe now is the easiest time for him. Sailor shrugged his shoulders.

"Will he be okay?" asked Duti suddenly looking up. She glanced at Eko again, then flattened her mouth.

"Actually, when he first got here, he was a little demented. We were counting on the air and the quiet to heal him...... The good news is that he's been like this for almost a month, and it doesn't seem like it's going to get any worse. By the way, there is an interesting thing about him. Sailor raised his chin at where Eko was.

"Once, one of the troublemakers who was in charge of his escort smeared white lime on the soles of his shoes, and after half a day he drew a circle on the ground, as if it were a compass. ”

Listening to Saylor's "joke", Duti couldn't help but show a look of confusion, but Liz didn't know what to think at all. She opened her mouth slightly for a few moments before she asked Saylor, "Can I get a closer look at this kid?"

"Oh, of course! In fact, we're helpless against the unveilers. Maybe he'll be able to react a little bit to his family. ”

Liz nodded and asked Duti, "Are you going to stay here for a while?"

"No, I want to go over. Doodi bit her lip.

Mother and daughter walked slowly towards Ekko. At first, Eko was still swaying heartlessly from side to side by the wall, but when the two of them were only a few steps away from Eko, Eko's body stiffened significantly. A very simple idea came to his near-blank mind - they didn't like me.

Immediately after, Ekko's neck shrunk. He watched the mother and daughter tremble as if he were a ghost, and retreated diagonally away from their side. This look of shrinking at the sight of people made Liz's heart cold. She tried to reach out and grab Eko and ask him what was the matter, but she only took a step forward, and Eko crouched on the ground and picked up her head. Seeing this, Sailer hurriedly ran over.

"He hates us?" asked Liz with a sad face.

"It's hard to say, it's just an evasive reaction, maybe he's afraid of offending you, or he's afraid that you don't like him, there are too many possibilities, it's better not to force him. ”

Saylor explained as he pulled the mother and daughter away from Ekko's side.

"I don't understand. Dudi then asked again.

Meaning, while his reaction was sad, it was an improvement over none at all. ”

Sailer smiled kindly, and then asked Duti, "I'm going to have something to discuss with your mother alone, can you wait here for a while?"

Duti nodded, and Liz and Sayler walked not far away to start talking.

"Ma'am, I'd like to confess to you that we may have made a series of mistakes regarding the treatment of Ekko, and in fact, there has been a lot of disagreement within the Hub on how to deal with Ekko. Said with a serious face.

"Need I help me with something?"

"You're on the point, I need your family's help too much. Let's put it this way, when Eko returned to the Hub due to her injuries, she was first placed under custody and then force-fed with tranquilizers. If it hadn't been for the fact that his heart was overwhelmed, he might have had to swallow more pills. After that, he was moved here again, but the situation did not improve in the slightest. His friend who had returned from D'Estaing had a new idea, and he told me that Ekko's relationships were on the verge of collapse, and that being sent here to isolate and recuperate would be to cut him off from society, and that this might be the case when people were out of society. ”

That's all that Sayler said, but Liz heard the words: Eko had nothing to do and no one to talk to, he didn't know what to do or what to say, and the others, though alive, were like dead......

At night, Liz, who slept with her husband Monte, kept tossing and turning.

"Are you alright?" Monte asked.

"I always think of that child, and the other child we lost. Liz sighed.

"When the boy first came to our house, I found him slightly better than Eko in every way, he spoke and acted with great care, and even his appearance was impeccable, but the better he was, the more I could not help but sneer...... And then I saw him like that today, and he dangled around the wall like he had lost his soul, and I felt broken again......"

Liz choked up and said, "How did I throw a pearl into a ......ditch at will? I felt as if I could hear our children sighing in the spirit realm. Why am I so ridiculous?"

Monte sighed and took Liz into her arms, letting her rest on her shoulder.

"I'll try to write to the highest levels of the Nexus, and I'll ask for Ekor to be pulled back into our world from quarantine and recuperation, and if he gets a chance to come back to our house, I'm not going to avoid him. He promised.

A few weeks later, Eko made his first stop in society. It's not Songlan Ranch, it's not Ekor Siddle's home, it's the Ring Mountain Library that has been rebuilt in Elada.

Ecco seems to wreak havoc every once in a while, standing in front of a bookshelf and smashing books one by one, tearing them in half if someone tries to stop him. Eventually, everyone in the library figured out a pattern, and after he had smashed twelve books, he could go over and pick them up. At that time, Ekor would obediently watch others clean up the mess and be thoughtful. Only Egger knew who Ekor was missing.

After about half a month, Ikor was able to sit quietly at the table facing an open book like a normal person, and as for whether he had really read something, Egger couldn't say. During this time, the three members of Siddle's family had all come to the library, and Ekor didn't hide from them as he had at first, but he seemed to have forgotten his fate with the family. In any case, it is already the most gratifying thing that he can gradually get better. It's a pity that the patient himself is always the last person to find out that he is improving.

For Echo, his return was still a sign away, and that sign finally came on a clear day.

That day, Ekor was sitting at the table facing an open book as usual, when suddenly a little girl climbed into the chair opposite him and sat across the table from him, the sun shining on her palm-sized face, and her smile warmer than the sun.

"Ekko. The little girl whom he had never met called his name in a familiar voice, and then she began to sing, "Elada."

"It's time to wake up. The little girl said after singing.

Ecco suddenly found several people standing beside him, and he looked at his compatriots around him in some inexplicable confusion, and was told that he had just sung "Elada", and the singing was so moving that everyone put down their books and ran over to find out.

Echo looked ahead again.

There was no little girl, just a ray of sunlight shining on the table.