"In a sense, I'm actually quite grateful to the guy who created this otherworldly crisis."

Li Wu let go of his hand slightly and wanted to step back, but Hikari immediately followed.

One advances and one retreats, leaving no room to avoid.

The two men, who looked like they were waltzing, were speechless for a while, but finally turned around and walked out of the cave, leaving them room to be alone.

"I might not have deliberately recalled, but all kinds of things I experienced with Hikari in the past felt like I had experienced them all over again."

Encounters and acquaintances, sharing absurd fantasies, and spending time together here, as if the original blurred photo frame had recently been wiped again, once again polished and cleared the past time and placed it in front of him.

"Me too...... So going back to that time, always, all the time, nothing has changed, okay? ”

Hikari raised his head hopefully, and Li Wu inexplicably felt that that expression coincided with the way he said to Shiratori Mao on the moon in August that it would not be good to maintain the status quo.

It's a big boomerang that hits me in the head.

Perhaps since they met each other that winter and grew up together, they have influenced each other to put chains on each other that make their respective steps stagnate, and treat other people and things they meet with such an attitude.

Until his life was suddenly kicked into another orbit in high school, with strange magical girls, vampires, and new friends he made in high school.

And she staggered the timing of her enrollment because of a mischievous car accident by the gods, so that the two of them, who had gradually become in the same pace, finally had a different rhythm.

"It can't be done."

Li Wu denied his past answers.

Just by virtue of the impulse to convince Shiratori to stay in the human world, he hastily handed over the answer, thinking that friends will always be friends, and childhood sweethearts will always be childhood sweethearts, and he has already eaten the recent lesson.

"Whether it's light or me, I can't stay in elementary school or middle school all the time."

Li Wu looked directly at her, "Even if you write down your past and hide it like the ancient warrior who set the seal, it can only become a memory to be read, and there is no way to save the time that has passed." ”

"Yes...... If you can do it, I can do it too, because we are partners in the covenant. ”

Hikari shook his head stubbornly, and the strand of hair that had been hanging down twisted and twisted, adding a bit of comical to the serious scene.

Li Wu couldn't help but want to laugh, but in a blink of an eye, he realized that now was not the time for the two of them to play around.

"Isn't it also the light that Shiratori said that he was moved to establish a club?"

He pointed out the contradictions in the words of the other side.

If you really just want to stay in the past, you won't make new connections with others, and you'll put your childhood fantasy about another world into practice.

She choked slightly, and after thinking for a while, she hesitated to speak: "That's because I want to be with Xiao Wu......"

"Really? Even if there is such a reason, is it true that Hikari has never felt happy with everyone as he said last night? ”

Li Wu asked rhetorically.

She fell into silence like an unconvinced child, racking her brains to pick out the reasons for the rebuttal.

"Even if it's not always like this, I'll still be sad to see the relationship between Xiao Ai, Hoshikawa Aoi and Xiao Wu get better."

Hikari stood up and grabbed the clothes in front of him tightly, leaving a crumpled mark on it, "Xiao Wu and Hoshikawa Aoi have become lovers with each other, if one day, will you and Xiao Ai also establish a relationship of taming and being tamed?" By then, I-"

"Let's make a third contract."

Li Wu interrupted her.

The first contract he made shortly after they met, and the second contract he made when he was in middle school, was the first time he took the initiative to mention the agreement between them.

"What is it?"

Hikari asked distrustfully, and the crystal liquid was about to flow down the corners of his eyes, "Is Xiao Wu finally going to break the covenant?" ”

"It's not! Don't cry yet! ”

Instead, the proposer panicked first, reaching out to wipe away tears that were rarely seen on her face.

The warmth and softness of the skin and the cold liquid are intertwined with the two touches that pass from the fingertips to the arms, infusing them with a numb sensation that reminds people of a girl's mood at the moment.

"The first time, I agreed with Hikari to be partners, and the second time, I also said that I would watch you until you achieve your dreams."

Neither of them regarded it as a nonsensical agreement between children, and they both decided to keep it all the time, so Li Wu hoped to continue to use this method to make the current light feel at ease.

"No matter what happens, Hikari must still be someone special to me."

The so-called childhood sweetheart,It's a relationship that binds memories into a stack with an agreement.,Rely on them to connect them later.。

It was impossible to go back to the past, but he could first untie the chains that the two of them had put on each other, and then take the initiative to replace it with a new one.

“…… Won't leave? ”

"Won't leave."

"Even if you kiss Arisa or more people casually, you don't just look at me, and you won't forget our agreement?"

"I think you're very problematic!"

"Even if Hoshikawa-san hates you?"

“…… Even if it makes her hate me. ”

Li Wu imagined the scene at that time, and felt a little bitter.

Light stared at him for a moment, as if assessing the credibility of the man in front of him.

She stood on tiptoe suddenly, her small white face approaching, and it seemed that it was about to occupy the entire field of vision

He faltered, instinctively trying to back off, then forcibly restraining his body before his body could make a move on his brain's command.

"The contract is established—"

It sounds like I've signed a contract with some unscrupulous organization.,The voice of the childhood friend poured into my ears.,It's as crisp as a broken glazed tile.,Getting closer and closer-

Then the petite body, which gave a soft impression, fell into his arms, and hung down his hands and feet without any reaction.

Shocked by this sudden turn of events, Li Wu almost thought that she had suffered some kind of secret injury.

Fortunately, it's just a fainting - after all, it was a person who defeated the town guard cadre of the third seal, and was attacked by the demon king, so it's better to say that persevering until now is a miracle created by obsession that doesn't know where it came from.

Li Wu tried to change his posture, wrapping his hands around the back of her neck and knees, and holding up her bare body.

"Good work."

For a while, with only the feeling that the other party was so light, Li Wu walked outside.

So, when Shiratori Mai walked into the cave with Hoshikawa Aoi and Airisa, he was met by the two who came out of the princess's hug.

(End of chapter)