"I've already found a way to get through the obstacles, so why didn't you stop us when I was fighting with Aoi Hoshikawa?"

With half of the stage left, Hikari asked seriously.

She was so puzzled and puzzled by this that she even put the contents of the notes that had been spied on in second place.

"Wow, you guys fight so hard, I don't want to be like Mephistopheles who meddled in the middle of the way!"

The childhood friend ignored his gags and continued to sit on the floor staring at Li Wu.

It seems that there is no way to pass it so perfunctorily.

After defeating the Demon King Army cadres, the scene still hasn't changed, and the other two who have disappeared haven't jumped out, maybe like the first seal, you need to read the logs that appear to trigger the change.

He simply sat down cross-legged in front of her.

"Because Hikari really wants to fight."

Her eyes widened, as if she hadn't expected such an answer.

"Although I don't really understand the specific reason, but after all, I've known each other for so many years, and you're not messing around, but seriously trying to distinguish the winner from the loser, which I can still tell more or less."

Li Wu added, "And it's a victory, it's amazing, light." ”

Hikari, who received the praise of hope, still turned his head unhappily: "It's a victory won by cheating." ”

"Can tactical things be called cheating? But don't tell Hoshikawa about this, she said it to me. ”

"I'll tell her."

As if she had figured something out, she relaxed and lay down on the ground, grabbing Li Wu's sleeve to pull him down as well.

"But, Hoshikawa...... Miss Witch, she doesn't really want to fight me. ”

"It's true, but after losing, it ignites a wonderful sense of victory."

"In other words, compared to her thoughts, Xiao Wu chose to take care of my feelings."

Because of a moment of surprise, Li Wu was dragged to the side and lay on his side opposite his childhood sweetheart.

It's like stepping into a pre-set trap and being caught, he can't refute it.

“…… Anyway, it's not a big deal, and she won't care about this kind of problem all the time, and she just looks quite serious, so she can't rise to the height where she needs to make a choice. ”

"Is it an excuse?"

"It's not."

"If I talk to Miss Witch like that......"

"Don't!"

Hikari didn't continue to dwell on this, but put his hand on the other party's right hand and pulled out the notebook with the blue cover in it.

That's right, just this level of answer is enough for the time being.

The battle she had to win even if she was a fool was not for nothing, and it didn't matter if the other side was quibbling or really thinking so, just knowing which side the scales were tilting in favor of was enough to continue adding new fuel to the long wait.

"I also want to ask why your enemy is biting at this time......"

The fact that the loot had been siphoned off alerted Li Wu, and he was ready to take back the lead in the conversation.

"Xiao Wu, let's take a look at it together, open this dark book that records the secret of the second seal."

"Ignore this trick?!"

The two lying on the ground were like huddled under the covers and opened the comics when they were children, spreading out the logs they had obtained in front of them.

*

That was two weeks after that conversation on the way to start junior high school.

As the band-aid tore open, the flesh on the edge of the wound adhered to it, causing Li Wu to let out a hissing sound of baring teeth.

"It's okay?"

Dressed in a dark blue sailor suit, Hikari pulls out a new replacement from his small bag, which also depicts different types of sea creatures.

She carefully peeled off the seal and applied the replacement band-aid flat to the mark on her face.

"It's okay, it's just a minor injury."

The person receiving care is not accustomed to leaning back and distancing himself from the delicate face that is too close, "Leave it alone and it will heal on its own." ”

Sensing the other party's intentional avoidance, the light paused, and slowly withdrew his hand after pasting.

"If you don't do that, Xiao Wu will be infected with the T virus within ten minutes."

"My wounds are not from zombies!"

In the background of the bustling crowds, the conversation between the two middle school students on the bench naturally did not attract anyone's attention, not to mention the outdoor stage set up nearby and the band playing on it had already attracted the attention of most people, and the banner that read "Sanbaihua Music Festival" fluttered lightly in the wind.

Now, they are theoretically on a teaching tour at this specialized high school called the Sanbaihua Conservatory.

But don't say that the teacher who leads the team, and even the classmates around you can't see a single one.

"Everyone disappeared, and I just saw Maruyama-sensei squatting there eating something red."

"Don't talk about zombies on such a scary topic, no one is because we took the initiative to run out of the team."

Li Wu scratched the new Band-Aid uncomfortably, "Why do you have a fin whale drawn on the Band-Aid?" ”

"When it comes to whales, there's a strong feeling."

"To say that strong is very strong, is it to encourage the injured person to continue to challenge himself and fight again?"

After the other party's words continued, Li Wu sighed and said, "But there has already been a fight, and they shouldn't come to find fault in the future." ”

Junior high school students, in a sense, are more susceptible to stimulation than elementary school students.

The concept of good and evil is initially clear, but there is a lack of concrete cognition, and at the same time the sense of self-consciousness is high, and at the same time, he begins to feel the constraints of the collective, and learns to adapt to the so-called atmosphere, so that if he throws a spark, it will immediately become a bomb and detonate.

And Rinko Hori, she's not Mars, she's the bomb itself.

While most people don't target a girl for her strange behavior, there will always be a handful of people who are committed to satisfying the strong sense of self-esteem that begins to develop at this age by showing their "authority" in front of their peers.

That is, the so-called bad teenagers and bad girls.

According to the general "rules of the rivers and lakes", as long as you are soft, admit to the girls who come to the door and dress up fancy that they are deliberately attracting the attention of others, and then apologize to reflect their "superior status", this matter will be over.

However, at that time, they met Li Wu, who was a little short-tempered because he had just started living alone, and was also at a flammable and explosive age.

In short, after a friendly exchange between the two sides, the status quo became like this.

The bad guys don't dare to make trouble anymore - after all, they are just "students in fancy clothes", and they can't even reach the level of knife-wielding gangsters - but ordinary students are no longer willing to approach these two sources of trouble.

"Having said that, it was clear that they were together at the time, and the light was unscathed."

"Xiao Wu, excellent hate-absorber."

It's a compliment you don't want to hear.

Several young girls dressed in ornate costumes and cloaks walked past the benches and walked hand after eye into a nearby building with a curved roof.

"It looks like you're going to perform an opera, do you want to go in and see it?"

Li Wu adjusted to the feeling of a new piece of fabric on his face, and turned his head to look at the light.

She nodded, jumped off the bench and spun around to hold out her hand to him, the navy blue sailor's skirt that was tied to the uniform of her blouse lifted slightly.

Li Wu avoided the slender white fingers, and only grabbed the cuffs at his wrists and stood up: "Thank you, but my leg is not injured, and it is not to the extent that someone wants to help me." ”

He quickly let go of his hand and walked ahead, the eyes that fell behind stared anxiously at the other's fading back, thinking about something she had never thought about.

The building that the girls enter is a theater on the campus of the Conservatory, and on a field no smaller than the outside, singing and dancing are intertwined to create a charming stage.

It tells the story of the dispute and collision of beliefs between the eight goddesses of the stars, and the story that occurs around chasing their dreams.

Guang looked very interested, sat up straight the whole time, and unconsciously put his right hand on the armrest between the two, firmly grasping Li Wu's palm.

When the curtain was down and the actors bowed together, he withdrew his left hand, as if he was dodging a dangerous soldering iron.

"I want to be like that."

As the crowd left, Rinko Hori announced.

"Opera singers? I also think light is a good fit. ”

She looked at it with a "what are you talking about" expression.

"It's about becoming the goddess of the stars."

“…… Huh?"

Rinko Hori, thirteen years old, dreams of becoming a god.

What a big ambition.

"If you retreat to the next best, you can be a brave man."

"It's the same as buying discounted goods, and the two you mentioned don't have anything to do with each other."

Walking side by side on an unfamiliar high school campus, just looking at the passers-by.

"It feels strange to think that we're going to be in a place like this three years from now."

Li Wu distanced himself a little, wanting to change the topic.

"Will Xiao Wu still stay with me at that time?"

She paused, narrowed the distance she had been pulled away, and looked up and asked.

"Why did you ask this ...... all of a sudden?"

Just when the two of them stayed in place, the crowd suddenly intensified the noise, as if something had happened.

Guang and Li Wu were dragged forward for a while, only to realize that it was the band that had performed on the outdoor stage before that something had gone wrong, and a female member was half-kneeling in front of a girl she was pulling rigidly, as if begging her to stay.

The surrounding crowd gave full play to the spirit of watching and having fun, and pieced together the whole picture of the matter in the exchange of gossip.

Probably the girl who was pulled was originally a partner in the same band as the girl who knelt on the ground, but then the team was disbanded in a sudden change, and a generation of old people was replaced by new people.

Breaking through all the way and leaving the gathered crowd behind, the two finally stopped in front of a mobile ice cream parlor that had probably been accepted for admission today.

"Will we be like them?"

Hikari asked, grabbing his clothes as if he was going to continue the conversation he had just had.

"Like whom?"

Li Wu felt that his childhood sweetheart was a little strange today.

"The person I saw before was finally separated from the original partner, even if I knelt down and begged her, there was no way to get it back."

She said with some gloom.

"No, why do you think that?"

My little friend thinks that something is wrong! You can't help but take this seriously!

"Because Xiao Wu has obviously been avoiding me lately...... Or are you entangled in the curse of not being able to reach others? ”

"There's no hiding from you, and there's no curse like that."

Li Wu corrected her, but the other party began to count his charges with his fingers.

"When you use healing magic, when you hold hands, when you're in the theater...... Xiao Wu in the past would not have reacted like he does now. ”

Leaning against the side of the ice cream truck, the soles of his shoes rubbing anxiously on the ground, "You wouldn't say anything to me." ”

"What kind of words are that?"

"While I was reading the summoning rituals of demons."

Li Wu quickly remembered the conversation on the way to school.

"You misunderstood me—"

He was only halfway through his sentence, "And after all, we are all middle school students, isn't it a little bad to get along like before?" ”

"Why?"

Hikkari tilted his head, took a step forward, and pressed the other person's chest, "What will happen?" What does Xiao Wu actually mean? ”

Because of the momentary fast-talking, he was forced into a corner.

He could only pick an easy explanation first: "Because the first time I saw Hikari wearing his current school uniform, I felt strange." So I think that after junior high school, the light is still the same as before, which is reassuring and even relieved. ”

"Hmm."

The force coming from his chest relaxed slightly, but he was one step closer, "Why can't it be like before?" ”

How do you answer this question?

Fortunately, Hikari didn't continue to ask, but let go of his hand and walked around to the front of the car.

When she returned, she had an ice cream cone topped with cream, part of which was partially gone, and only the trace of the girl's mouth could prove its final whereabouts.

"Let's sign the second contract."

The ice cream that had been bitten was pushed in front of him, and the girl holding it made a request, "Then, Xiao Wu came to prove that he would not suddenly run away one day like the sister of that band." ”

Obviously, there is no need to ask her what the way to sign the second contract.

Li Wu hesitated, opened his mouth and took a bite on the white snowball.

The cool, sweet taste seeped into the internal organs, as if there really was some invisible connection between the two.

Although there was no expression, Li Wu could still feel that the light was very happy to take back the mutilated dessert and bite down on a piece in the same position.

"I hope Xiao Wu can always watch me, watch me realize my dreams, and stop saying things like that again."

"Achieving your dreams?"

"Hmm."

The girl raised the ice cream in her hand like a torch, "I didn't give up on my dream of becoming someone special!" ”

*

"The second contract...... Speaking of which, after that day, I did go back to the old way of getting along. ”

Li Wu couldn't help but cover his face.

The shame that he finally grew up about "isn't it good for boys and girls to stick together all day" was wiped out after only two weeks.

On the other side, the light was still looking down.

At the end of the narrative, which looks like a diary, there is an additional paragraph.

(End of chapter)