The next day, Jiang Yuanshen lay on the window, and the white and yellow lines of the asphalt road were repainted, which was very dazzling in the sun.

From time to time, there would be several large trucks on the road, with a large piece of cloth hanging in front of them—

Words like "environment", "aid", "crucus" and "international relief" came to mind from time to time, but he didn't have the heart to think about where the cars were going.

Jiang Yuanshen didn't know how long Kurosawa had been waiting in Mano Port, whether it was alone, and whether he would be able to see her again this year.

But in the end, he still didn't go to the place where he talked to her, and he couldn't sleep all night.

But when he thought that this sleepless night was caused by himself, Jiang Yuanshen felt more and more that he was in the way, and he was not qualified to leave with her at all.

Trees and debris several meters high are piled up on the side of the road, and wooden signs and iron fences are erected that read "Debris accumulation area, no entry".

Jiang Yuanshen sweated slightly, like a fledgling looking for a home, from time to time searching for people on the street who might be familiar to him.

But soon, he squinted as if stinged by the sun, and found that his behavior was inexplicably disgusting, and he felt indescribable guilt and pain.

"What am I doing?"

Jiang Yuan muttered cautiously and turned away, peeled off the silver wrapper of the chocolate from the desk, and took two bites to himself.

Step out of the room and head downstairs.

"Good morning."

When he arrived in the living room, Azusa Kawa Takaku greeted loudly in a good spirit that he shouldn't have.

He was dressed in casual clothes as usual, but his unshaven and messy hair was still ugly, and he looked so unreliable.

Jiang Yuanshen felt that he was looking at his gaze arbitrarily, and had to say, "Good morning, have you eaten?" ”

"I bought my own coffee to drink, do you want it?"

"Make a drink."

Azusa Kawa glanced at him, walked to the kitchen and took out the coffee powder packet, and pretended to be calm and said, "You have a very bad face, what's wrong?" ”

"I can't think about it after lying in the hospital for so many days." Jiang Yuanshen sat on the sofa and covered his face.

Azusa Koku came up to him with a cup and smiled hypocritically.

"I think you're the queen of Zhitori Island, right? Something wrong with your relationship with a girl? ”

Hearing his teasing words, Jiang Yuanshen's nose twitched slightly.

"I'm not a woman."

"Anyway, I haven't heard that the queen must be a woman." Azusa Kawa said with a smile.

What is the difference between this sentence and "girls are not necessarily women"?

He smiled, took a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, shoved one into his mouth, and lit it with a lighter.

As soon as the smoke appeared, sweat oozed from his forehead, but he still looked relaxed.

"What are we going to do now?" Azusa Kawa Takaku suddenly spoke, "Masato Jinghai does things every day, and what can I do?" ”

Jiang Yuanshen didn't know what to say, so he could only remain silent.

According to now, he should go to Jinghai Shenyue and find out why he can't get out of the island, which is the first thing.

However, I felt like my brain was being sprayed with paint, which made me dizzy, and I didn't even want to make any movements.

"Jiang Yuan, what will you do if one day I am gone?"

"——?"

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at Zichuan Xiaokong, his gaze was so straightforward, as if the words would become reality in the next second.

"Shenyue is my daughter, but I'm just an ordinary person, and I can't do anything about it."

"So?"

"Now that there is a monitoring on Zhitori Island that needs to be reinstalled, I may be able to kill Jinghai Yaren now, no one knows about it, if you can, I will be more relieved if you take Shenyue away."

Looking at his eyes mixed with some pleading, Jiang Yuanshen was stunned, and immediately stood up, his heart beating wildly with extreme anxiety.

He thinks that Azusa Kawa Takaku might really do it.

"Do you know what's in your mouth? Do you know what it is to kill someone? ”

The suffocating silence came, and the birdsong outside the window was inexplicably lonely at the moment.

Azusa Kawa Takaku's eyes are very resolute:

"Because I'm no longer useful, and I can't go anywhere now that I want to do this kind of thing, if Shenyue can get rid of Jinghai Yaren, let me do anything."

Jiang Yuanshen couldn't simply comfort him, "There is a way", Azusa Kawa Takaku's troubles are from the heart, and he is sincerely troubled with him.

But in the end, I couldn't express anything well.

"I think the mayor alone can't stop Jinghai."

Jiang Yuanshen's tone was very uneasy, Jinghai Yaren had been with him that day, where would he have time to disturb Jinghai Shenyue again.

I'm afraid that someone else will appear, causing something to happen in the deep moon of Jinghai, and in the end, I dare not or even can't go back in time.

"Why didn't the earthquake destroy all of Chitori Island?" Azusa Kawa struggled with his hands on his forehead as if hair was fluttering around the drain.

Jiang Yuanshen lowered his head and said coldly: "Anyway, you can't do it. ”

Azusa Kawa Xiaokong also noticed that the atmosphere was becoming more and more solemn, and then raised his hand to touch the back of his head and said with a smile: "Just kidding, I always spare my life!" ”

"I'll go out."

"Where?"

"Look for Shake Apricots."

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Under the eye is a pastoral greenery, the wind blows the grass, and the ripples like waves are all over the ground.

Several rooftops along the way are dazzlingly reflecting the sun's rays, and electricians climb power poles several meters high, and the wires seem to divide the scenery.

Chitori Island's buses have resumed operation, but they have changed to once an hour.

Jiang Yuanshen walked along the street for a while, the scenery along the way was not much different from the one in his memory, and he was really lucky to be able to find the outline in his memory.

The car makes a rustling sound on the road, and the cries of cicadas and frogs are interjected.

Halfway through, the bus came, Jiang Yuanshen walked up, and found that there was no one.

Arriving at the station, he walked a little further, passing the level crossing of the tram line, and now that the tram was not yet running, he passed under the fence.

In the end, Jiang Yuanshen did not go to find Chaokong Shaoxing, but arrived at the residence of Jinghai Shenyue.

Surrounded by high walls and hedges, it is almost impossible for people from the outside to see inside.

But the door of the compound was open at this time, Jiang Yuanshen walked to the door, and the scenery that greeted him was the same as before, a very well-maintained courtyard.

Passing through the stone path, the flowers in the flower beds on both sides are in full bloom, and the colors turn into a pool of colorful water that will not merge together, making people's hearts feel a burst of warmth.

He subconsciously slowed down, followed the flowers, and finally moved to the door.

The doorbell rang, but no one responded.

This is normal, Jinghai Yaren is the mayor of the town, and the earthquake has kept him busy.

But Jinghai Shenyue, what is she doing at the moment?

I rang the doorbell again, and no response was heard, but the doorknob was knocked down.

The crack in the door opened at a slow pace, as if a vertical black hole had opened in space.

At this moment, a woman in her early thirties quietly popped up, her long black hair tied up in a bundle and hung down on her chest.

She was wearing a fluffy white shirt, with a beauty that Jiang Yuan was familiar with, and a slight smile was revealed between her slightly cherry lips.

However, Jiang Yuanshen could detect that at that first moment, she glanced at herself, as if she saw something in the way.

But the gentleness she shows now is so real that he can't help but wonder if he is too worried.

"I see you've been looking at the flowers, do you like it like it?" Her tone was unusually gentle, but her smile was like a tear.

"I" wanted to respond, but the information that came out of his brain took up all his words.

The person in front of him, who he had seen in the photo of Asakura Masamune, was the photo of Jinghai Shenyue and her mother.

He immediately realized that something was in front of him that wasn't supposed to be.

Yami's skin peeked out from the loose sleeves of his shirt, as white as if it had not been exposed to the sun, pure white like a wooden lotus petal floating on a quiet river.

"It's really rare for me to see a boy who likes flowers, you're so special."

The woman in front of her narrowed her eyes gently, tilted her head slightly and looked at Jiang Yuanshen and said,

"If you like, you can pick as many flowers as you want from the flower garden here, after all, the flowers are stronger and longer than you think."

Jiang Yuan was stunned and petrified in place, and the voice of the previous empress was finally engraved on the eardrum.

"You can pick the flowers in the garden outside, but you can't pick the flowers in the house—"

Seeing Xun Yu's expression at night was very lonely, like a lonely girl, she lowered her expression and said,

"I don't have anything left, but I just want a beautiful flower that belongs to me."

Her words pierced Jiang Yuanshen's chest mercilessly, turning into thorns, stinging the softest part of his body.

I didn't say anything, and when I saw Xun Yu at night, I had a dead expression, dejected, and desperate to the extreme.

"Me"

Jiang Yuan stood cautiously and stopped, not knowing what to do.

"I heard from Yaren that you lost the last of your family in the previous earthquake?"

Seeing that Xun Yu suddenly took his hand gently, stroked the back of his hand and said,

"If you don't mind, I can make it up to you, take care of you, whatever you want, I'll do my best to give you."

Jiang Yuanshen was stunned by her words full of emotion, her hands were not as hot as the words, but rather a little cold.

He even suspected that he was having an ethereal and terrible dream.

"Xiao Shen, do you want to hug you now?"

Yami stretched out her arms, and the light from outside illuminated the silhouette of her figure, which looked like the statue of Jesus hanging from the walls of the hospital.

At this moment, Jiang Yuan's cautious and soft sensibility was subverted by her, and this sentence made him resist even his imagination, as if he had fallen into an illusion that reality was distorted by her.

"What are you doing?"

Just then, there was a slight sound coming from inside.

Jiang Yuanshen saw Xun Yu's side from the night and peeked at the scene inside.

Jinghai Shenyue stood in the stairwell wrapped in light, and under the light, she was like a disembodied, illusory and hazy shadow.

She was wearing a bright red apron, which looked like she was doing housework at this time, and she looked inexplicably mature.

"There is a very gentle guest." The sound of the night has not changed.

Jinghai Shenyue found Jiang Yuanshen, just walked over, and said with a cold face: "Why are you here?" ”

Jiang Yuanshen didn't seem to understand her words.

"I want to see you."

"Can you go? If not, just take a few more looks, and then don't come to me. ”

"Hmm."

Jiang Yuanshen really looked at it a few more times, then turned around and left without the slightest pause.

"Xiao Shen, you can come over often in the future, as long as you come, I will always accompany you."

Seeing Xun Yu at night, he showed a gentle smile, but Jiang Yuanshen felt indescribable horror from it, and even felt a full sense of disobedience from it.

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On the way back, Jiang Yuanshen sorted out the current situation a little.

I'm afraid that the biggest variable now is not the Masato of Jinghai, but the sudden appearance of the night to find the oak.

Asakura Masamune personally said to himself that the queen jumped into Lake Kamo, but why is she alive and well now?

It didn't appear again after the first big earthquake, why did the deep moon suddenly appear when Shizumi was leaving?

Could it be that the body of the night see Xunyu still retains the power of the queen of Zhitori Island? This is the reason why Jinghai Shenyue can't go back?

At the moment when Ben was thinking, he suddenly saw something, Jiang Yuan stopped in place, and his lungs couldn't help but yearn for air.

It is the intersection into Kurosawa's house.

Suddenly, a sense of powerlessness and guilt came over me, and above my head, crows swarmed up.

The fragrance on her body is still around her, and that thing is already in her heart, helplessly.

As an outsider, he was so clear in his heart that he couldn't pretend not to see it and not pay attention.

When he came back to his senses, Jiang Yuanshen had already walked in and came to Kurosawa's house.

The gate was wide, and the flower beds in the courtyard were still beautifully trimmed, but there were no golden flames jumping around in them.

From inside Jiang Yuanshen's body, an emotion similar to anger suddenly emerged, which was anger towards himself.

"What's the matter?"

A voice came from behind him, startling Jiang Yuanshen.

"Good morning, good morning." He replied in a panic.

"What's the matter?"

He was a boy about his own age, his skin was very white, and his face was sharply contoured and elegant, unlike the people who often lived on Chitori Island.

"No, just passing by."

"Really, you've been looking inside to steal something?" The boy smiled, as if his smile lightly smeared the air around him.

"It's not just my friend who lives here."

"Huh?" The boy made a stupid voice, "Probably not, my family bought this place." ”

Huh? Really? ”

This time it was Jiang Yuanshen's turn to make a stupid sound, and for some reason he suddenly became stupid.

Then, the boy unlocked the door in front of him.

"Huh."

"I'm sorry."

Jiang Yuanshen made an unconfident voice, and in the eyes of the young man, he fled on the spot with sweat in his heart.

"Whether you come here or not, I'll go back—"

The cicadas in her ears were replaced by Kurosawa's loving voice, and her words and bodies were like silent fragments that came to mind one by one.

Jiang Yuanshen felt that his body seemed to become empty all of a sudden.

(End of chapter)