When I walked out of the arcade, it was close to noon.

The rain had weakened a lot, but it didn't stop.

The sky was shrouded in gloomy clouds, as if covered with a gray veil. The pedestrian streets are sparsely populated, only a few umbrellas can be seen passing through the water curtain, and the street is filled with moisture, mixed with the smell of dust, which brings a hint of coldness.

The trees on the roadside were pouring rain and dew downward, and the leaves were whispering in the breeze. The signboards of the shops are covered with rain marks, and the lights reflect the rain curtain dimly and gently.

Two umbrellas, one tall and one short, walked side by side in the street, and Delphinium and Xia Liang walked under the umbrella, a little silent for a while.

And in the end, it was the delphinium that spoke first: "Is this really good?" ”

"How?" Xia Liang asked back with a chuckle.

"You know."

"I don't know."

“…… Why help them intercede? ”

Delphinium sighed: "At that time, you squeezed your eyes at me, isn't that what you meant?" Let my tactics not be too drastic. ”

To be honest, when she first saw Xia Liang being entangled badly, and even the other party had almost harmed Xia Liang's "friends", her first reaction was to call the police directly.

Magical girls are not policemen, and there is no obligation or need to punish ordinary people, but calling the police is something that everyone can do.

Even if the other party is just a group of minors, Fangting City has a special youth guidance team responsible for punishing and supervising young people who have violated the rules.

It's just that Xia Liang doesn't seem to want to do this, so he repeatedly hints to the delphinium at that time.

Delphinium chose to respect the wishes of the person concerned, and in the end only forced the other party to apologize. So much so that the slapping and warning were only carried out in places where Xia Liang didn't see it, just because she was really a little blind.

There were many people in the arcade, and she didn't ask Xia Liang why she chose this way at the time, but now, she had to ask clearly.

"I didn't mean that, I'm just looking forward to you, junior, showing off your might."

Faced with the question of the delphinch, Xia Liang smiled and spoke, but after seeing the somewhat calm and serious eyes on the other side, he gradually closed his mouth and gradually withdrew the smile from the corner of his mouth.

The boots and the waterlogged ground struck crisply, and there was only the sound of footsteps and breathing under the umbrella for a while.

“…… If I have to say it, it's because we're all the same people. ”

She said softly: "If you are not loved by your relatives and not by the collective, you will eventually get together and want to make yourself look stronger." ”

"Some people have gradually embarked on the wrong path, and some people have gradually given up their efforts, but everyone has been abandoned by the collective, or even by their relatives once, will be extremely afraid of being abandoned again and begin to fall together."

"Sometimes, I look at them like I'm looking at my other self. If I hadn't met Lu, the seniors, and the Mokos, one day I would have become like them. ”

"It's a strange mentality, isn't it? It's like seeing another self that has not been redeemed, even if you know that this is futile, but you still can't be ruthless. ”

Two umbrellas swirled around the corner, drops of rain falling from the surface of the umbrellas and splashing on the concrete curbs of the sidewalk.

"But they're trying to hurt you."

Delphinium calmly replied, "In the face of the malice of others, the overflowing kindness will only harm yourself." ”

"Even then, I chose to give them a chance. Because even if it is short-lived, Li Yaqing has been kind to me. ”

Xia Liang said equally seriously: "When I was alone surrounded by rumors, ridiculed and isolated by other classmates, she said to me, 'This is cool' and wanted to be friends with me. ”

"If I hadn't had her at that time, I probably wouldn't even be living here, and I would have done something more impulsive, after all, when I first lost my parents, I thought about suicide."

"If I had committed suicide at that time, I wouldn't have been able to meet the junior now."

"So, it's actually a bit of selfishness on my part, but I'm wishful thinking that she can get better."

"It is precisely because we used to be 'friends' and pursued 'love' together, so I hope that her ending is also to be able to recognize what is right and wrong, come out, and become happy. And if you are targeted by the youth guidance team, then there is only punishment left."

Xia Liang's words seemed a little fluctuating in the rain, accompanied by thoughts, densely intertwined, leaving behind

"So I agreed, but I'm only going to give them one chance."

Delphinium kept a straight face and looked at the gradually faint rain curtain: "I also hope that the words I left for her will make her realize what can be rewarded and what will be punished." ”

"If they have learned a lesson and seen a reward, but they still can't get out of it, then they can't blame the outside world, and at that point, human nature is the hardest thing to change."

"Just like magical girls, every magical girl was originally chosen with a pure heart, but when the magical girl begins to be evil and sinful, we can't excuse her with 'she was a good child'."

"Good deeds should be rewarded, bad deeds should be punished, even if the world is not like this many times, we should keep this heart."

Eventually, the two stopped at an intersection where they happened to be in the middle of a pedestrian mall, and a traffic light stood at the intersection to stop them.

- "It's really, so serious, junior. ”

Xia Liang suddenly smiled: "Today is our date, let the little episode in the middle pass like this, if this topic interferes with the original good mood, that's what really makes me feel sad." ”

"It's not a 'date', is it?"

Hearing her words, Delphinium forced herself to stretch her eyebrows, let out a long breath, and glanced up at Xia Liang: "It's just going out to play together, this word is a little out of place." ”

"Huh? But I'm serious about dating. ”

Xia Liang said this, and leaned closer to the side of the delphinium, bringing the distance between the two of them closer: "Look, go out to play with people you like, go to places with memories, and stage a hero to save the beauty, isn't this a perfect dating script?" ”

"Every word can be correct, but every specific concept has been stolen."

The delphinium drooped her eyelids and commented, "What do you mean by a 'person with a good feeling'?" Is it more accurate to say 'friend' or 'partner'? ”

"Hehe, isn't it more romantic to say it like this?"

Xia Liang chuckled, but suddenly realized something, and raised his head at the sky: "Ah, has the rain stopped?" ”

The delphinium also raised its head and looked out along the boundary between the umbrella and the sky, only to see that the dark clouds in the sky had already opened a gap, and a little sunlight pierced through the clouds, illuminating the otherwise dark street.

"Before the second half, let's go have lunch."

Putting away the umbrella, Xia Liang smiled and said to Delphinch: "Today's date, but it's far from over, right?" ”

(End of chapter)