The sun was shining brightly and sometimes dark, and the cool wind blew into the attic in the hazy afternoon.

The shadow of the grid window was stretched out and cast on the ground, and a faint halo of light enveloped the side faces of teenagers and girls. Shamingway sat against the wall; Rin Kiyotake stayed across from him, lowering his eyes and reading a book.

Xia Mingwei was waiting for an answer, but even if he didn't, he already had an answer in his heart.

"Yes," Kiyotake Rin said slowly, "eat your own kind, that's what I said...... The first way to curb the will of myth. ”

Xia Mingwei's heart throbbed violently, like a boulder falling into the abyss, and then shattering into powder at the far bottom.

He took a deep breath, opened his mouth slightly, and asked:

"Why is this way possible?"

"Swallowing the other mythical carriers will keep you sane for a long time, because the two mythical wills will fight each other, one of the mythical wills will be destroyed, and then the remaining one will be very weak." "Not only that, but if the mythical carrier you eat is strong, you can also gain a part of the power." ”

"So, Poseidon, the god of the sea, wants to eat us?"

"To be precise...... Before you came, he had his sights on me. ”

"And now?"

"Now," Kiyotake Rin paused, and then said, "I am the food of the god of beauty, and I am the food of the god of the sea." ”

The afternoon sun was obscured by the clouds for a moment, and with the light of the attic, the hue of the tall buildings returned to a dull blue, and the hoarse crows could be heard.

In the brief darkness, Xia Mingwei's face twitched slightly.

He lowered his head and was silent for a while before he asked, "So, we were divided equally by them?" His voice was a little hoarse, and he was almost out of breath, because he was just a doppelganger standing here at this time, even if he was eaten by Poseidon, the god of the sea? But Kiyotake Rin is really staying here, and once she is eaten, it will be a real death...... Irretrievable death.

"It's evenly divided." Rin Kiyotake whispered, "And the sea god is about to get out of control next time, so he'll be in Tokyo soon." ”

"You said before that the adults of the Afterlife Society didn't want us to leave Japan, and that's why."

"Yes, we were kept in captivity, like domestic animals."

"Can't we run away then?"

"The Sect Master is a believer of Poseidon," said Kiyotake Rin, "as soon as we leave, the Sect Master will find out immediately and report to them, we are not opponents of the god of beauty and the god of the sea, they all have the ability to enter the mythical body, and it is as simple as stepping on a worm to death against us." ”

"What about us killing the Master?"

"Once the sect leader breaks off contact with them, they will immediately come to us, the sea god can perceive the entire sea area, and the beauty god can manipulate the spirit of others thousands of miles away, we can't run away."

"No other way?"

"Nope."

"Can you just wait for death......

Qingzhu Rin was silent for a long time before she said, "Originally," her voice gradually lowered, "I had already given up...... As long as you don't show up, it's fine. ”

“…… Why? ”

"What's the use of running farther?" "The sequencers see us as enemies, the mythical carriers see us as food, and even if we run farther, the whole world will be ...... Our enemies, even if they survive, will still lose control and become monsters and self-destruct. The pencil she had clipped to the book fell, tapping lightly on the floor.

"But are you willing to be eaten by them like this?"

"I'm willing, I'm already mentally prepared to die like this......" Kiyotake Rin put down the book, hugged her knees, and lowered her eyes to look at the pencil that fell on the floor, "but someone suddenly appeared." The hem of her skirt hung down in front of her knees, covering her calves.

"He told me...... I'm not alone, he reads books with me, watches movies with me, goes to bookstores with me, buys clothes, dances with me on cruises. ”

"Although the world of life is still very narrow, so narrow that you are almost out of breath."

"But, for the first time since he came here, I felt as if I was still alive, and I even started to think......" She paused, then continued:

"I really want to keep living."

Xia Mingwei was silent.

Qingzhu Rin obviously didn't mention his name in a word, but it was him.

"Robert, I'd like to see a lot of places." "Iceland, the United Kingdom, the North Pole, the Antarctic, I want to see the polar bears, I want to see what the penguins look like, and if I can, I want to be buried in the deep sea, only there are no people there who want to kill me and eat me." ”

"But once I get out of here, I don't have anything."

"Without the protection of the church, those sequencers will soon find me, I don't like to fight, I don't like to be chased, I don't want to linger, I don't want to be like a monster with eight heads."

"But staying here is just waiting for death." Xia Mingwei said in a deep voice.

"At least you can sit down and read a book, can't you?" Rin Kiyotake said softly, "It's better than being chased by sequencers all over the world." ”

"Are you serious?"

"Seriously." Qingzhu Rin lowered her head, her voice mixed with dissatisfaction, "I thought about it very seriously, obviously I was mentally prepared, but ......" She slowly hugged her ears, and asked after a long time, "Why did you appear?" ”

Xia Mingwei froze in place, as if a thorn was stuck in his throat, and guilt climbed to his chest like a thorn.

Perhaps, it was really his appearance that made this girl think that she had a kind of person to sympathize with, but he was just an out-and-out liar, full of lies...... But it was such a lie, but she listened to every sentence so seriously, like a lonely person who finally grasped the straw.

Xia Mingwei lowered his head, the strands of hair hanging down covered his eyes, but they couldn't hide his twitching cheeks.

Silence hung between the two for a long, long time. On the brown wooden floor, the afternoon sun ripples the shadows of the grid windows.

"Actually...... The London, Iceland, the North Pole, and the South Pole are not as far away as you think, and you only need a ticket to get there. Xia Mingwei said suddenly.

"What about the sequencer?"

"Kill one by one until they're scared of us."

"What about Poseidon and Aphrodite?"

"If they chase us, I'll smash their heads with a golden rod, and then make the carcasses of these two stinky dragons into yachts, and we'll go around the world on them, and stomp on them a few times, and write with a pen 'Robert and Kiyotake Rin here.'"

Xia Mingwei's mouth said words that even he felt inexplicable, almost incoherent and illogical, like a fairy tale for children.

But Kiyotake Rin was listening attentively, hugging her knees and quietly watching the shadows of the swaying windows on the floor, the afternoon sun falling into the attic with the snowflakes.

"What if...... Are we out of control? She asked.

"Then we'll go crazy together and ruin this damn world." Shamingway replied decisively, his voice as calm as if he were stating the facts.

Qingzhu Rin was stunned for a long time, and teased shallowly: "This kind of thing...... It's really strange to say it from the mouth of your domestic robot. ”

"I'm sorry, I just studied there in Russia, and now I'm a combat robot."

"Oh, and what about my home robot?"

"Buddies are free to switch between 'home' and 'combat', and they can be on call at any time." Xia Mingwei learned Ji Lang's sloppy tone.

"Yes."

"Yes." Xia Mingwei is serious.

"Hmm......" Rin Kiyotake catered to him, "It's my personal robot, I approve of you." As she spoke, she suddenly picked up the book of "Snow Country" to cover the lower half of her face, and coughed twice, as if she was holding back a smile.

Xia Mingwei stared at her face seriously, and said slowly, "Qingzhu Rin, I will protect you." ”

Qingzhu Rin raised his eyes for a long time and met his gaze: "Really? ”

"Really. So we want to live together, and we've pulled the hook before, right? ”

"Okay, let's live together."

In the narrow attic, they make vows face to face, like two trapped beasts driven by the world into a corner, and the window is Tokyo with snow falling.

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