Chapter 5 Paper Man 05 “…Why are you in my house?…
Of course, this suggestion was vetoed by Mars.
"don't want."
Mas looked at you aggrievedly.
【I can’t speak after I change back】
The dark eyes were full of sincerity and desire.
【Mas wants to talk to you】
It seems like it's been a long time since anyone said this to you.
I have to say, sincerity is the killer skill.
Faced with this kind of look, no matter how hard-hearted you are, you can only choose to surrender.
But the troubles that monsters encounter when they transform into humans are not limited to this.
You just turned around and prepared to leave, but before you took two steps, you heard the sound of something heavy falling behind you.
You turned your head and saw the black-haired young man lying on the ground carefully raise his head with an innocent look like a small animal that had gotten into trouble.
[Mas wants to try walking without using tentacles]
What else can you do? You really have no temper now.
"Okay, I'll teach you how to walk first."
You bent down slightly, stretched out a hand and placed it in front of the black-haired young man: "Put your hand here."
But you found that the black-haired young man didn't move at all, just staring at you blankly. You looked at him and couldn't help laughing: "What? Don't you know what a hand is?"
Hearing you say this, he hurriedly put his hand on yours, as if he was afraid that you would regret it the next second.
The touch on your palm is very warm, which makes you dazed for a moment.
"stand up."
You didn't expect that after the little monster transformed into a human body, its body became so heavy.
It’s not as good as before. You can carry it whenever you want.
Fortunately, Mars is a very obedient monster. As soon as you open your mouth, he will stand up on his own.
You don't want to waste too much time, so you start teaching the little monster how to walk. As you walk, you say, "Okay, just like me, take your left foot first..."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep moving your right foot! Great, that's it!"
You wanted to praise Mas for his quick understanding, as he could walk properly within just two minutes of teaching. But the next second, you watched Mas fall flat on his face in front of you.
"How did you do that, tripping your right foot with your left?"
The black-haired young man just looked at you innocently.
You're already a little regretful about why you pinched the little monster's eyes to be so cute, as a result, now you can't even say a harsh word just by looking into his eyes.
“It’s okay, we’ll take it slow,” you sighed helplessly, bending down to help Masi again.
However, the man just stood up and fell again after taking two steps.
…
You are not a particularly slow person. After seeing Mars fall repeatedly several times, and the postures of each fall were exactly the same as the replica, you finally felt that something was wrong.
Especially the tentacles on Mars' body that were originally well hidden, now emerged and swayed from behind him.
His eyes were filled with the joy of success.
Okay, I know I can't keep you here just by talking, so I've started to find another way.
He actually tried to kill time by learning to walk.
When Mars fell again, you stood still.
Mars looked up in confusion.
"You can use your tentacles to stand up again." You drank the water slowly and threatened fiercely: "I'll wait for you for another ten minutes. If you still can't learn to walk, I'll abandon you and leave on my own."
This is of course false. If you want to walk back to the starting point of the gallery by yourself, it will definitely be a time-consuming and laborious task.
But Mars didn't know.
Sure enough, after hearing what you said, Mas jumped up from the ground.
"Yes... Mars will."
As if afraid that you wouldn't believe him, the black-haired young man began to pace back and forth in front of you. His movements seemed very smooth, and he didn't look clumsy at all like he had just fallen to the ground.
Obviously, it was all acted out before.
You are also in a complicated mood. You have underestimated Mars, always thinking that it is simple and brainless. You didn't expect that it is so petty.
Think about it this way, wanting to become the person you like is also to seduce you to stay.
What a cunning monster.
Although you understand its thoughts and are willing to be friends with it, you don't plan to stay here for it.
You sighed, then looked at Mas seriously: "I don't want to stay here forever. I have family and friends, and they will worry about me."
"If you really consider me a friend, shouldn't you respect my wishes?"
Maybe your attitude was firm enough, or maybe Mars finally understood that humans and he really lived in different worlds. He finally stopped talking and just silently helped you carry the wooden board and the heavy bag.
But your arrangements are actually not very useful.
As Mas said, this world in the painting is like his home, and it is very easy for him to take you back to the starting point of the gallery.
Green sky, red river, blue trees, when you see this unusual picture before your eyes, you know that you have returned to the starting point of the gallery.
This is the first painting in the gallery.
Just walk through this painting and cross that crack, and you should be able to leave this fantastical world in the painting.
You turn around and look at Mas, and you think it will be hard for you to forget this wonderful journey in the painting and Mas, your "special friend".
"Thank you, Mars, and...goodbye."
Mas, who had been looking listless with his head down, finally smiled after hearing your words.
You thought Mars had finally come to his senses and wasn't obsessed with keeping you as a human friend. He said with relief, "You'll have many friends in the future. There may be many people like you in this world of paintings."
You stepped on the plank to cross the last gap.
In my memory, the last scene was Mars raising his hand, waving and saying "goodbye" to you with a smile.
…
When you opened your eyes again, there were quite a few people around you.
"Is he alright?"
"Little girl, do you want me to call 120 for you?"
"Is there something wrong?"
The people next to me were talking to each other.
Through their description, you learned that you fainted in the gallery, and not too long had passed, only a few minutes at most.
When you look up again, the paintings in the gallery are all very normal, no longer the same as you saw before.
"It's okay, it's okay. It might be a little low blood sugar, an old problem. Sorry." You struggled to stand up and explained to others.
Seeing that you really didn't look like anything was wrong, the crowd finally dispersed.
You stood there in a daze.
I couldn't help but wonder, could it be that... everything I experienced before was just part of your bizarre dream?
That's too real.
You lowered your head and smiled helplessly, even feeling a little regretful.
To be honest, before you came out, you were still thinking that if you had the chance, you could come to the art museum to visit Mars again.
But you didn't expect that all of this was made up by you.
Forget it, let’s go home.
After this experience, you no longer have the heart to visit art museums.
You dragged your somewhat tired body back to your empty home.
This is a place you are familiar with, but you feel a sense of loneliness that you haven't felt in a long time.
As you grow older, the people who once walked with you have all gotten lost at crossroads for various reasons, and in the end you are still walking alone.
What's the difference between you and Mars?
You think, maybe it is a reflection of your inner self, you long for someone to always be with you and not leave you because of anything.
…
You are not a fragile person and you quickly sorted out your feelings.
You washed up and prepared to go back to the bedroom to sleep.
However, you just opened the bedroom door and froze in place. The reason was nothing more than seeing a painting on the wall that stood out of place.
You like painting.
You love painting and buying paintings, and you have many paintings hanging on the walls of your home, but you remember very clearly that there are no paintings hanging in your bedroom.
For you, the bedroom is for sleeping and there is no need to decorate it fancy.
But it just happened.
Moreover, this is a portrait, and the man in the painting looks very familiar to you, after all, you created him yourself.
The person in the painting is smiling at you.
To be honest, this is a very scary thing.
But you have experienced so many things this day, this one really is not enough, and your emotions are unusually stable.
As steady as death.
You were silent for a moment, then walked over to the painting and asked, "...Why are you in my house?"
Mars had a bewildered look on his face.
Then, two rows of small characters appeared in the blank part of the painting.
"You said goodbye."
"I've thought about it. Since you don't want to live in my house, then I'll come to yours."
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