I don't think it's a secret that my body can repair itself. There are no secrets in the military, let alone secrets about the unnatural.

I don't even have a trace of war. It's a miracle that I'm physically intact and healthy, and that I'm on a battlefield where countless injuries are inflicted every day, not to mention that I'm actually back from the front.

"Don't you have supernatural abilities too?" I asked him rhetorically.

In the same way, he didn't hide the fact that he had supernatural abilities in front of me. He's all performing in front of me and making metal bookmarks out of thin air.

"yes." He said, "My powers, like you can see, are just little tricks on metal. Its name is [Relic of Winter]. ”

"[Winter's relics]?" I repeated the name, "So you also gave the anomaly a name?" ”

I'm interested in this, it turns out that the ability still has a name. It never occurred to me to come up with a name for my abilities.

Perhaps he didn't expect me to ask such a question, he was stunned for a moment, and then he was dumbfounded: "Strange ability...... It's more like something that is born to exist, like human instinct. Just like a person eats when he's hungry and sleeps when he's sleepy, I naturally know his name when I use my supernatural powers. ”

Is that the case?

The first time I heard this, I felt a little lost. I also have supernatural abilities, but I never knew the name of my supernatural abilities. Every time I cast my powers, it wasn't of my own volition, and I couldn't name it.

"I don't know the name of my supernatural abilities." I told him with certainty, "I don't have a name. ”

Tachihara didn't care about his [Innate Ability] theory being overturned, and he smiled good-naturedly: "That's pretty good, isn't it?" Compared to the name of the supernatural ability that was born with it, Ka-kun can choose a name he likes. ”

He's right.

I nodded approvingly.

"Although it is true that abnormal abilities are only a minority for the general public, on the battlefield, the probability of abnormal abilities appearing is much higher than outside. In addition to recruiting people with special abilities to fight in battle, these various abilities can at least reduce the mortality rate of the army. ”

"What about your powers? Is it easy to use? "I'm curious about Tachihara's abilities. If his ability is to manipulate metal, it should work well on a battlefield full of metal elements, right?

"Not really." When it came to this topic, he was a little gloomy, "Although my ability is to manipulate metal, the effect of it is very poor. It's okay to use your abilities to make some gadgets, but when you actually go to the battlefield, you can't do anything. ”

In other words, his abilities are of no use to large-scale warfare.

"But you're amazing." Lihara changed his words, "Your special ability can minimize your losses, such as injuries. These soldiers have been on the battlefield for so long, and what they don't want to face is nothing more than death. ”

"It's good that you don't have to die." Tachihara's eyes were bright, with a bit of longing and envy, "If you die, there is nothing." ”

Maybe I've died many times, and I can't receive the envy of Tachihara Shoaki. I have become numb to death and can no longer find the joy of resurrection.

That's not true.

I have never rejoiced in the "resurrection."

It's just that Tachihara looked at me with such eyes, and I can't help but think of my former comrades-in-arms who died on the battlefield on the front line. They would look at me like that, and it made me feel depressed and guilty about being persecuted.

If they didn't look at me like that, they wouldn't be nice to me because of my abilities...... Am I not going to have to stand in front of them?

I was still wandering, but suddenly I heard Tatehara's gentle voice full of apologies.

"I'm sorry Ka-kun, did I accidentally cause you to break your heart? Your face is very bad. ”

Only then did I come back to my senses from thinking about my former comrades-in-arms. After carefully understanding Tatehara's apology, he shook his head. This had nothing to do with Tachihara, and he didn't have to apologize to me at all. And his eyes are just pure envy, and there is no such admiration and worship that ordinary people look up to in the face of people with abnormal abilities.

Tachihara is also a stranger.

He's my kind.

"Tatehara." It occurred to me that I thought, "Why don't you give my abilities a name?" ”

I don't want my abilities to be left without a name.

Or rather, I want to make this world a little more complete.

"I don't know how to read, and I can't think of nice names." I calmly dissected myself, "So can you help me come up with a nice name?" ”

Tachihara was stunned, touched the book next to him with his hand, and agreed to my request with a smile: "Okay." But can I wait for such a solemn thing as naming my abilities when I have inspiration? ”

"Uh-huh." I nodded happily, and my heart was already looking forward to it.

*

Because of the experience of helping each other out (I helped him sit on the bed, and he promised to come up with a nice name for my ability when he was inspired), I became friends with Tachihara who were not friends.

Actually, I do prefer Tachihara Shoaki a little more than other soldiers.

He was not agitated, and he did not have the anger and flesh that he had been contaminated with in the baptism of war like other soldiers. He was calm and natural, and never gave up hope of winning the war. In addition to this, he reads poetry and novels in his few free moments, which he says are his hobbies.

I like to be around people like that.

When Ueno hadn't recovered from his injuries, I was with Tachihara Shoaki more often than not.

I returned to the front with the main force and took over the task of garrisoning the front line, alert for an invasion that could come at any moment. In fact, after the last war, the overall war situation has shown a downward trend. The soldiers stationed on the front line are suffering casualties of varying degrees on a daily basis, and new populations are constantly replenished every day.

I see fresh faces on the front lines every day.

It's just that the number of garrisons has increased this time, and some trivial tasks such as building defensive lines, cleaning up the battlefield, and filling trenches are no longer my turn. After all, my age and strength are there, and if I go, I might slow down the progress of the soldiers.

In fact, the front line is boring.

Of course, there are also a few funs.

On their first day at the front, some soldiers discovered new ways to pass the time. On the seashore near the side of the warship, where the reef was rocky and washed by waves all day and night. And on those reefs, there are some dense oysters.

"Kazama, are we going to pry oysters together? After eating the canned food for so long, a bird faded out of its mouth. "Someone put their arms around me and pulled me over with a grin.

"No, I have other things to do." I declined the soldier's invitation, broke free from his arm, and ran away.

I'm going to find Tatehara.

I also have my own pleasures.

I ran to the barracks where Tachihara was. Not surprisingly, Tachihara was holding his precious book to read. His books include, but are not limited to, poetry collections and novels.

"Tachihara!" I called him.

When Tachihara saw me, he habitually gave me a place. Without hesitation, I squeezed to his side, and then he took out half of the book in his arms and brought it to me.

"Are you going to continue to read me poetry today?" Looking at the dense long and short sentences on the page, I judged that this was a collection of poems.

"How many words can Kami-kun recognize now?" Tachihara asked me rhetorically.

"Well......" I replied cautiously, after a moment's thought, "my name." ”

This is something I agreed with Tachihara. When I asked him to name my anomaly, I told him I didn't know how to read. So after returning to the front line, in order to pass the time and find something to do for myself, Liyuan simply offered to teach me to read and write.

And the form of teaching is that I read books with him. In the process, I will read the words in the book, and I just need to memorize them in the process.

Of course, I can't remember much, and it's already hard to remember hirakinaka, let alone the more complex shapes of kanji. Still, I learned my own name along the way.

"Then you try." Tachihara handed me a pencil and handed me another piece of paper.

I was in a state of flux and realized that Tachihara wanted to test his teaching. I wrote the words "風間hunting" crookedly on that piece of paper.

"Yes, yes, I can write my own name." Tachihara was very satisfied with my homework, and clapped his hands with a smile, "After Naka-kun leaves Tokoku Island after the war is over, he won't have to worry about being cheated if he can't understand anything and sign a contract." ”

"Good!" I nodded heavily.

Tachihara is happy, and I'm happy.

It's just that I left the island to look for a job or something, I didn't think about it at all.

After testing my learning, Tachihara began a new day of teaching (in fact, he just started reading poetry for me). His voice was clear but gentle, completely different from Dr. Sen's magnetic voice that would make you want to sleep as long as you lower it and slow down.

It's just that the art of poetry is something I can't understand by nature.

Tatehara: "The stars of the frost flower / Came with the / dark fish that opened the way of dawn." ”

Me: "Why are the stars and the fish together?" And what is Frostflower? ”

Tachihara: "The sun strung together / On the gray and black wilderness." ”

Me: "Why can the sun be strung together?" Isn't the wilderness yellow? ”

Tachihara wasn't annoyed, but just patted the top of my head with his free hand as a warning. I took his warning hint and shut my mouth quietly.

If you don't understand it, you can't understand it.

I don't understand anything anyway.

After a few days of poetry reading training, after barely getting to know some hiragana and katakana, my attention can barely keep up with the speed of Tachihara's poetry reading. At least I can tell where Tachihara reads.

It was just that when I followed his voice and saw a certain line, my whole spirit was lifted and I was instantly excited. But thinking of Tachihara's warning to me, I reluctantly swallowed the words that were about to blurt out.

I waited anxiously.

Wait until Tachihara finishes reading a whole long, long poem.

After he finished reading, I couldn't wait to turn the page to the previous page and show him only a certain line of text in a certain place. Tachihara looked at the line of text for some reason, and then looked at my obvious excitement, and read those lines of the poem again in a good temper.

"Fields, lakes, forests, streams, oceans / All that inhabits this wonderful earth, ...... all that inhabits life"

"Here—" I pointed to the word and repeated it again, "Sen." ”

The glyph is the same as the name on the plate on the chest of Dr. Mori's uniform, and the pronunciation is the same. I was as excited as if I had discovered a new continent in a book, a character that could be associated with Dr. Mori, and it was Dr. Mori's name.

"Sen? Truly...... There are no forests on Tokuen Island. A wasteland, where even trees are rare. Tachihara muttered, and it suddenly dawned on him, "Kami-kun has been on Jodark Island for too long, do you want to see the forest?" ”

Forest?

I shook my head, "I haven't seen a forest. After thinking about it, I asked, "What is a forest?" ”

This question stopped Tachihara. He thought for a moment before he said, "Ka-kun has seen a tree, right?" ”

"Well, yes."

There are still trees on the island of Changdark, but those trees have been bombarded into dead trunks, without any leaves, and stand bare. There are a few dead tree trunks standing here and there in the wasteland, and people walk through the sand and raise dust at the same time, which is not a beautiful sight.

Seeing me nodding, Tachihara explained more and more fluently: "Many, many trees grow together, and you can't see the end at a glance, it's the forest. In the forest, even the air is moist, with the fragrance of plants. The shade of the trees is very thick, and the forest will look very dark at this time. Occasionally, however, the sun would shine through the cracks in the leaves and sprinkle it on the ground like broken gold. ”

It was probably a beautiful sight.

Tachihara smiled on his face, and his tone was full of yearning.

"It would be nice to have a chance to see the forest again." Tachihara touched my head, "Take you with me." ”

"Good!" I nodded, and secretly made a note of that [Sen].

Forest.

Sen of Dr. Sen.

It's the forest.

There are many, many meanings of trees.