The night was silent.

Xu Qiansu and Nine-Tails silently left the forest and went to the nearest town.

The silver moon hung high in the sky, and a cold light fell outward.

After walking for about half an hour, the dim light appeared in front of me.

Phew————

The gentle sound of the waves crashing on the beach rhythmically reached Xu Qiansu's ears.

He silently looked up and saw a lighthouse standing by the sea, and on the inside of the lighthouse was a small but elegant town.

The town is surrounded by a large plain covered with colorful flowers that wade in the moonlight.

Xu Qiansu's mobile phone was out of battery, and he had no cash on him, and even his alliance card was lent to Scarlet...... Now I have no money, not even a single identity credential...... If you want to go to Yuanzhu City, you can't go.

Before his phone ran out of battery, he could still scan the code to buy food, and then ...... You can only eat tree fruits.

Xu Qiansu wanted to go to the Pokémon Center to borrow some money from Miss Joy and return to Yuanzhu City.

So he walked slowly along the path of the flower field towards the town.

The fragrance of various flowers in the wind penetrated the tip of Xu Qiansu's nose, which was enough to refresh people, but Xu Qiansu did not have any interest in these flowers at the moment.

At the end of the flower path, in front of the town's door, there was a young girl.

She was carrying a big guitar case, with her back to Xu Qiansu, looking up at the signboard in front of the town, and muttered in a low voice, "Jihua City? It's not a big scale......"

Xu Qiansu walked directly past her and walked towards the town.

The girl's afterglow glanced at Xu Qiansu, then withdrew her gaze, and after a while, she suddenly moved her head again, staring at Xu Qiansu's back tightly, "Xu, Xu Qiansu!?" ”

She tightened the shoulder strap of the guitar case, then trotted to catch up with Xu Qiansu, stretched out her hand, and patted him lightly on the shoulder, "Xu Qiansu!" ”

Xu Qiansu paused, silently turned his head to look at the girl, and after a while, he frowned slightly, "Naoko......"

Yes, she is the daughter of the proprietress of Fengqiliao, who ran away from home for a year, and was a singing girl who had a two-sided relationship with Xu Qiansu...... Naoko.

Naoko was stunned, thinking to herself, how could Xu Qiansu know her name?

She shook her head slightly, swept away the distracting thoughts in her heart, raised her eyes slightly, and looked at Xu Qiansu, but she took out a pink box in her satchel, and opened it...... It's a few sandwiches.

She handed it to Xu Qiansu and said with concern, "Why are you emaciated like this?" Would you like to eat some sandwiches? Sweet tree juice, omelette, ham, cream ......"

Saying that, Naoko remembered that Xu Qiansu was an out-and-out rich man, what delicious food had he not eaten?

…… Would he really be willing to eat the leftover sandwiches he ate?

“…… Well, although it's relatively simple, it tastes good. Naoko stretched out her hand and scratched the side of her face, tilted her head and quietly glanced at Xu Qiansu, and whispered.

Xu Qiansu glanced at the sandwich handed by Naoko...... On the pink shell of the lunch box, there are also several stickers of speaker crickets.

Xu Qiansu reached out and touched his face, "Haggard? ”

He shook his head slightly, then picked up the sandwich, "Thank you, I'm hungry." ”

Xu Qiansu squatted down and fed the nine-tails to eat, and then he took a bite.

It's already cold, so the taste is inevitably bad.

Xu Qiansu said, "It's still delicious to have an omelette." ”

"Omelette? There's an omelette. Naoko sneered, then tilted her head slightly, puzzled.

Xu Qiansu did not answer.

Naoko closed the lunch box and put it in the satchel, then looked Xu Qiansu up and down, pointed to the bench on the side of the road, and asked, "Let's talk?" ”

Xu Qiansu nodded.

The two sat down on the bench, the street lamp shone dim light, and the nine-tails lay next to Xu Qiansu, resting his chin on his lap.

Naoko glanced at Xu Qiansu again before asking in a low voice, "What about Liliai?" ”

"Lilia ......"

Speaking of Liliai, Xu Qiansu inevitably thought of Rongyue.

But when Rongyue gets along with him, she uses Liliai's body.

When he was in the love hotel, he also used Liliai's body......

The warmth, softness, and wetness that Xu Qiansu felt...... Everything is Lilia...... But that comes down to the melting moon.

Such intricate senses made Xu Qiansu distracted for nearly ten seconds before he reacted, shook his head slightly, and said, "I guess I am still waiting for me to go back in Yuanzhu City." ”

"Sure enough, Yuanzhu City...... I saw you in the news. Naoko stretched out her hand and patted her side cheek gently, looking like she had seen a star, and said, "I heard that you are the hero of the extermination of Team Rocket, and you account for at least eighty percent of the success of the operation." ”

Saying that, Naoko said indignantly,

"However, the fact that you smashed the Silver Building with the Tower of Bells has made many bald monks and conservatives resentful...... They've been clamoring online to punish you or something......

…… It's really annoying, the Tower of Bells is just a dead thing, and it's better to be used as a weapon by you than to stand there as a useless mascot...... Why do you scold you with such nasty words? According to me, they just want to make money on your topic. ”

Xu Qiansu didn't respond, whether it was Team Rocket or Interpol, what the whole world thought of him...... At this moment, Xu Qiansu didn't even want to pay the slightest attention to it.

His memory of Rongyue was too vivid, as if Rongyue was still slowly stepping back with his hands behind his back, looking directly at him with those turquoise eyes...... But Rongyue is no longer in this world...... Even the body is not her own.

Xu Qiansu remembered that rainy night, Rongyue squatted in front of the coffee shop, looked at the broken flower pots, held the dirt and the broken magnolia and violet with her hands, and then stared at him with her head crying.

Xu Qiansu only thought of Rongyue slightly, and the memories and pictures of his time with her poured down on him like a torrential rain, drowning him and avoiding it.

Xu Qiansu glanced sideways at the side of the bench...... Unknown flowers are also planted there.

Flowers are also planted in the windows of the surrounding buildings.

Jihua City ...... It is a famous flower capital in the Johto area.

Presumably, evening primrose is also planted.

Now it's almost June, and the evening primrose is about to bloom.

Ah, Xu Qiansu suddenly remembered.

The month when the Melting Moon first met the Six Tails...... It's June.

Then, that night, she cut her waist-length black hair short and went on a trip with the six tails......

"Xu Qiansu!"

Naoko's voice pulled Xu Qiansu's thoughts back.

Xu Qiansu silently turned his head to look at him, and Naoko was looking at him worriedly.

Naoko asked, "What's wrong with you?" What's going on? What about Shanaiduo? What about your Pokémon? Why is it only the Nine-Tails who follow you? ”

Xu Qiansu didn't want to talk to anyone about Rongyue, so he just whispered, "A person who is very important to me has died. ”

Naoko was stunned, she looked straight at Xu Qiansu, and then silently looked away, reached out and pulled her long hair hanging down to her ears, and was unspeakable for a long time.

Xu Qiansu shook his head slightly, signaling that Naoko didn't have to care about him.

He dug into his pocket, then pulled out a pendant from it.

Naoko tilted her head and looked at it, the tip of her heart suddenly trembled, and she exclaimed, "How can you hold it!?" ”

This is Miss Reiko's gift to Xu Qiansu...... She hopes that Xu Qiansu will be able to help her after seeing Naoko again, although at this moment, it seems that the person who is being helped is Xu Qiansu.

Because this pendant is small and easy to carry, Xu Qiansu has always carried it with him, lest he meet Naoko one day but can't take out the pendant.

"When I was in Yuanzhu City, I went to Fengqiliao and met your mother there."

Naoko looked at Xu Qiansu without blinking.

Xu Qiansu hooked the string with his fingers, and the pendant swayed gently in front of the eyes of the two of them with gravity, Xu Qiansu said in a low voice, "...... She took this pendant as a reward, and wanted to ask me to help you when I met you. ”

Naoko was silent for a moment before saying, "This ...... It's a token of their commitment. ”

She reached out and took the pendant, held it tightly, pursed her lips tightly, and said no more.

"Miss Reiko misses you very much, I heard that you haven't been home for a year......" Xu Qiansu paused slightly.

How similar is he to Naoko now?

Xu Qiansu sighed lightly and said in a low voice, "It's better to go back and accompany her more." ”

Naoko didn't speak.

After a while, she said, "Modern transportation is so convenient, as long as you want to see it, you can always see it again, right?" ”

Xu Qiansu frowned, "People generally don't take the initiative to meet someone, and they always feel that they can meet again in the future...... But after saying goodbye, you will never see you again, and you have been wandering outside, and sooner or later, when you go back and want to see Miss Reiko......"

After the words, Xu Qiansu did not say any more.

Naoko was slightly stunned, and reacted, what was she talking about just now? In front of a person whose lover has just passed away, he says that he can see it as long as he wants to...... What kind of bastard talk is this?

Naoko was silent for a moment, and then she reached out and scratched the side of her face, revealing a shallow smile, "Liliai also said that she wanted me to go back to Yuanzhu City, and now you say the same......"

She looked up at the night sky, "Maybe I should really go back......"

As she spoke, Naoko looked at Xu Qiansu again, and she said, "A year ago, my father and I had a big fight, and I slammed the door because of some trivial things...... When I returned, he had committed suicide. ”

Xu Qiansu silently withdrew his gaze from Naoko's face, and reached out to caress the head of the Nine-Tails.

"Actually, he was already depressed...... An inexplicable illness, such a healthy, energetic person, turned out to be psychologically stressed because of the dilapidated building of the Bell Tower a hundred and fifty years ago, and then suffered from depression...... It's inexplicable. ”

Naoko continued to herself, "Mom said, that's not my fault, after all, depression is the kind of thing that doesn't make sense...... But at that time, when I looked at my grief-stricken mother, I always felt that something was about to break in my heart, and a thought that arose in my heart was the same as that of my father...... If only I could die, it would be easy, and I wouldn't have to see my mother in such pain. ”

"But if I die, my mother will have nothing, so I want to live, live strong and tenacious, far stronger than my father, and I will never leave my mother as casually as my father did...... But staying at home, I only felt the pain of day after day, so I left. ”

As he spoke, Naoko looked at Xu Qiansu and pulled a reluctant smile, "This kind of approach is really too irresponsible...... But I don't know what I can do......"

Xu Qiansu closed his eyes and did not speak.

But as soon as he closed his eyes, the voice and smile of Rongyue appeared in front of him, so that he had to open his eyes again and silently look down at the Nine-Tails.

Naoko looked at Xu Qiansu and took a long breath a few times before asking, "Mom...... Looking healthy? ”

"Unhealthy, very emaciated." Xu Qiansu replied briefly.

Naoko withdrew her gaze, her eyes lowered, her hands on her thighs, and she held them tightly.

After a while, she looked back at Xu Qiansu and asked, "Do you want to go back to Yuanzhu City?" ”

Do you want to go back to Zhu City?

Xu Qiansu wants to return to Zhu City now.

I want to meet the Pokémon, I want to meet Miss Marry, Gadelia, I want to talk to Lilia.

I want to see them, I want to talk to them, but I can't see them, I can't talk about them.

Not without them.

Therefore, Xu Qiansu bowed slightly, "Let's go back together." ”

The two of them then stood up.

Although Jihua City is a famous flower capital, it has not built an airport, and if you want to go to Yuanzhu City, you can only take a train.

Naturally, there are no tickets for the two of them now...... We can only wait for tomorrow.

Xu Qiansu invites Naoko to spend the night at the Pokémon Center.

Naoko looked suspicious, "Can a person like me go to live in a Pokémon center?" I didn't join the ...... of the Cityscape Alliance."

"It's okay." Xu Qiansu didn't want to say much at the moment, he shook his head lightly, and walked towards the Pokémon Center with Naoko.

But Xu Qiansu then realized that he was too cold, so he asked again, "How did you come to this place?" ”

Naoko tilted her head and explained, "When I was in Mizufune, I had planned to continue my travels in Galar...... But Lilia persuaded me to go back to Yuanzhu City, but I didn't dare to go back, but I also missed it so much, so I wanted to travel in the Johto area for a month to relieve my mood. ”

Xu Qiansu didn't speak again, and the two of them followed the street sign to identify the direction, fortunately, the area of Jihua City was not large, and they found the Pokémon Center after a while.

The Pokémon Center is still lit up, even in the middle of the night.

Walking to the front of the Pokémon Center, through the transparent glass door, a pink-haired woman in uniform can be vaguely seen sitting at the front desk...... It's Miss Joy.

At this time, didn't she sleep either?

Xu Qiansu thought silently.

The two walked into the Pokémon Center, and the warm air, bright lights, and the unique floral fragrance of Jihua City were mixed together.

Xu Qiansu looked at Miss Joy who was sitting at the front desk, and then stood in place.

Naoko, who was walking beside her, walked past him, took a few steps forward, and then looked back, "What's wrong?" ”

Xu Qiansu stared directly at Miss Joy at the front desk, and after a while, he said, "Miss Dale...... Why are you here. ”

Naoko was slightly stunned, who is Dale? Joey? Xu Qiansu recognizes Joey in Jihua City?

She tilted her head to look and reacted.

This Miss Joy's uniform is not pink and white in the Johto area, but gray.

Dale raised her eyes and looked at Xu Qiansu, those blue eyes with inexplicable emotions and moist luster, looking at Xu Qiansu without blinking.

She said, "If it weren't for the fact that you lost contact, I wouldn't have come all the way to this place...... Xu Qiansu. ”

(End of chapter)