Chino took a tacit attitude towards the departure of the Shangguan siblings, and while he sighed in his heart, he raised his eyes to Niko, and asked silently, "You are not smart. Why don't you go with Shangguan and them, and come back to me? ”

"You should know that with your power there is no place to help me. Wouldn't it be nice to leave this land of right and wrong and live quietly? ”

"I'm different from my sister and brother Shangguan, I don't have anywhere to go." Niko looked into Chino's eyes and said unwaveringly, "Your side is my only place to be. ”

Chino held his forehead, and he didn't know what it was like to hear this, and after a long time, he nodded lightly, and his voice was very soft: "Then walk with me for a while, and now go and rest first." ”

"Yes." Niko was already tired from a long journey, and the stone in her heart fell to the ground, so she was not hypocritical at this time, and turned around to rest.

Not long after Niko left, a small furry head popped out of the corner of the office.

The little black cat like a night elf jumped on the table and wagged its tail at Chino.

Chino scratched its chin, "There's no one left, you can talk to me." ”

The black shadow flickered, and the little black cat turned into a human form.

Hanyi sat lazily on the desk, looked in the direction of Niko's departure, and said, "This girl is such a fool, she could have gone far away, but she wanted to run back to this dangerous place." ”

Chino: "I seem to hear some regrets? Do you want to leave like Shangguan Xue? ”

Hanyi grabbed a strand of hair, played with it around his fingertips, and said lazily: "I can't leave without me." I was poisoned by you, and I had to take the antidote regularly every month

Otherwise you will die. Without you, I won't live more than a month. ”

"Yes, but not forever." Chino took out a small box from his arms, and when he opened it, he saw a small white pill inside, he handed it to Hanyi and said, "This is a permanent antidote, eat it, you will be completely free, and you will no longer be bound by me." ”

Hearing Chino's words, Hanyi sat there and didn't react, and after a long time, she lay on her back on the table, without taking the small box, the pair of cat pupils looked at Chino, glowing with a mysterious light: "Are you driving me away?" ”

Chino stroked the hair of the winter coat for a while, as if he was combing her in the form of a cat, and said lightly: "It's not a rush, it's just a reward." ”

"You've been with me for so many years, and I've always had to give you something back, but I never know what to give you. The departure of the Shangguan siblings inspired me, and I decided to give you something unique - freedom. ”

"Shangguan Xue doesn't want to be in the strife anymore, and wants to take her younger brother back to the countryside - no problem, I won't stop it, this is the freedom I gave her."

"Niko wants to come back to me, thinking this is where she belongs - no problem, I don't refuse, that's the freedom I give her."

"You too, I give you the same freedom." Chino's hand reached into the chin of the winter coat and rubbed it lightly, "You first came to me because you thought the life of a desert assassin was boring and wanted to come to me to do some interesting work. ”

"In previous years, I did give you a lot of exciting tasks, but as time went on, the difference in strength between us kept changing

…

Great, like I said to Niko—with your power, there's no place left to help me. ”

"In the same way, I can't give you a more interesting life. You're starting to get bored too, aren't you? ”

Hanyi let Chino stroke his chin, his dangling calves swayed leisurely, and his half-open and half-closed eyes looked a little confused: "Yes, since the throne was settled, you haven't handed me anything." ”

"My daily life is to eat, sleep, and bask in the sun, and often I don't have to change back into human form for months on end, as if I really live as a lazy cat. It's boring~"

Chino shook the box containing the small pill and said, "So, if you want to find a more interesting life, but you are worried about the poison in your body, now is the best time to get rid of me." ”

"Swallow the antidote, and you're free."

As soon as Chino's words fell, Hanyi suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed his face, and dragged him over without saying anything, their faces facing out of place, but their eyes were looking at each other in the same vertical line.

Hanyi smiled playfully: "You haven't had a cat before, have you?" ”

Chino did not deny it: "I have teased a lot of wild cats, but I really haven't raised them at home." ”

What Chino said was indeed the truth, when he was a processor in his previous life, he often took orders for months, or even half a year and was not at home for a year, not to mention raising cats, turtles may not be able to stand it.

His usual love for cats only stops at buying some canned cat food to seduce little wild cats.

After hearing this, Hanyi chuckled lightly and said lazily: "I can see it, I say how much I like cats, but I don't know anything about cats." ”

"You know

Is it? Those little wild cats who grow up outside have untamable wildness in their bones, and they are difficult to raise. Even if they follow you back home, they are just greedy for good food and warm nests. ”

"Don't look at them kissing you and sticking to you, coquettish to you, that's just a feedback of eating and drinking, what they have in their hearts has always been a life of catching butterflies and birds."

"There's only one thing stopping them from leaving—the door. If the owner doesn't open the door to the outside world for a day, they will continue to stay at home, continuing to pretend to be intimate with you. ”

"Many owners have the illusion of intimacy, thinking that the little wild cats are already very dependent on themselves, so they are relieved to boldly open the door of the house, let them go outside to play, and feel that they will come back by themselves when they have had enough."

"But in reality, the little wild cat that runs out of the house doesn't linger. Many times, when they look back before they run out of the house, they will be the last time they meet their owners. ”

Saying this, Hanyi took the small box from Chino's hand, and without hesitation, put the antidote in his mouth and swallowed it.

The door that blocked freedom was completely opened from this moment on.

Hanyi got up and jumped off the table, walked one cushion after another, and came to the door of the office briskly, the bright sunlight shining on her, as if it were real and illusory.

From coming to Chino in 512 and escaping into the shadows, to 526 in 526, when he broke free from shackles and returned to freedom, Hanyi walked into the sun for the first time in 14 years.

"Only one out of a thousand little wild cats will always love their owner." Hanyi looked back at Chino, who seemed to be more playful than ever in the sun, "Cat, it's very bad."

”

"Slightly~" She stuck out her tongue at Chino and grimaced, stepped outside the house, symbolizing the sunshine of freedom, and disappeared from Chino's sight.