Chapter 248 I was careless. I didn't dodge. I kissed you again.
The mine on the mountain had long been abandoned. In order to commemorate the mine, the residents of Umezuji Town built a wooden temple at the entrance and exit of the mine, and a custom was derived from it -
If a boy was born in the town, a carp flag would be hung on the rafters. If a girl was born, a porcelain doll would be placed under the eaves.
Lu Mingfei put Hui Liyi down, and she curiously leaned over to look at each porcelain doll.
Being placed outdoors for years and exposed to the wind and sun, many of the porcelain dolls have faded in color, and some have even lost their paint due to bumps and collisions. When viewed from a distance at night, they look a bit like ghost dolls, which is a bit creepy.
However, when Lu Mingfei rekindled the fire to dispel the darkness, the terrifying atmosphere disappeared.
Eri wasn't too fond of these dolls as they looked dirty and she happened to be a bit of a germaphobe.
So he quickly looked away and looked at the cliff in the distance.
There is wind and sea there.
She stood up and extended her hand to Lu Mingfei.
A Ming took A Li's hand on a starry night.
There were no planes flying overhead, nor were there any shooting stars streaking across the night sky. The world was completely silent, as if only the young boy and girl were left.
The road ahead was no longer broken, and they no longer had to lean on each other. Hand in hand, they came to the edge of the cliff, and what they saw was the endless sea.
The moon had set, and the distance where the sea and sky met was turning pale.
The dark tide was surging and the water was sparkling. To use the words in the textbook, it was like the moon breaking into pieces and scattering on the sea.
The endless sea is quiet, and the small towns scattered along the coastline at the foot of the mountain are also sleeping peacefully. From a distance, they seem to be sealed in time.
Lu Mingfei jumped onto a huge rock on the cliff, sat down cross-legged, and with a little effort, he brought Huili up with him, with her buttocks resting on his legs.
"It's pitch black and I can't see anything. Will you be disappointed?" He looked at the girl in front of him. Her rosy red eyes reflected the dark sky and sea, the quiet wind and moon, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
"I can see it." The boy's hands wrapped around Eri's slender waist, as if he was afraid that the mountain wind would be too strong and blow the boneless girl off.
She placed her left hand on Lu Mingfei's left hand, and gently lifted her hair that was messed up by the wind with her right hand. She was like a human cub who had just left the cradle and saw the outside world, staring at the vast world that she had never experienced before without blinking.
"And..." She retracted her gaze and looked at the boy who had never taken his eyes away from her, her lips and eyebrows curved into a bright arc:
"The day will come."
Lu Mingfei stared blankly at the smiling girl in his arms, his heartbeat slowing down.
After a while, he nodded gently and put his arm around her waist: "Do you want to listen to some music?"
He prepared a long playlist yesterday, but it was not used, and Eri was forced to listen to the clapper music for so long.
The girl was full of expectations for the beautiful scenery and the wonderful music, but she found that the boy who was so close to her did not take out his mobile phone. He just turned his eyes away from her and looked at the pale sky in the distance.
“I don’t know where to start
Time passes silently
Those words came to my mind but disappeared without a trace..."
Lu Mingfei's clear voice mixed with the sound of the tide rang out leisurely in the evening breeze. His fingertips lightly tapped Eri's small hand, again and again, as if it was a musical instrument playing to the beat.
Eri's eyes sparkled as she looked at the boy who was singing to her, and she felt as happy as if she had become the heroine of an anime.
In the dream, when the boy named Chu Zihang proposed to the girl he liked, he seemed to be playing the piano for her and singing a song.
Although Sakura can only use her hands as a piano due to the current environment, does this mean...
Pink bubbles suddenly popped up in her mind. Eiry imitated what was done in cartoons and movies, and carefully leaned her head on Lu Mingfei's shoulder, staring at his clean and clear jawline, his lips that opened and closed, and his Adam's apple that rolled up and down without blinking.
"The rain is about to stop in this evening that belongs only to the two of us
On that day, at that time, at that place
If I had never met you
We will always be strangers..."
In their previous life, their meeting was due to a coincidence.
On that evening when the sun was setting, he was conducting the orchestra on the stage to play the chapter of love. She followed the sound and came over from the audience, with her hands behind her back, looking over here like a curious red-haired elf.
If Lu Mingfei had not retreated behind the scenes at that time, but stayed on the stage to serve as the atmosphere group, then perhaps he would have missed his destiny.
If at that time, Eri had not stayed away from the crowd and watched from a distance because of her shy personality, perhaps he would not have been able to accurately capture the red thread among the colorful hair.
Just like the song says, if he hadn't met her that day and that night by the river, perhaps they would always be strangers.
Fortunately, he seized the opportunity and used his two magical skills of being shameless and persistent to impress his brother-in-law and successfully won the beauty.
"I like you more every day
Love you more than now
I use everything I have to cross the barriers of time and space to come to you
I want to turn into wings and protect you tightly
I want to turn into the wind and embrace you tenderly..."
There is not much technique in his singing, it is all emotion.
What he sings is not just a song, but a promise, cause and effect, and the fate of past lives.
The image of the poor guy in front of the TV trying hard to hold back his tears emerged in my mind again. He seemed to know this song, and I also remembered him learning to sing this song by memorizing the pronunciation.
It’s really simple and beautiful.
So, when I sing it now, it feels so sincere.
The sea breeze carried the last echoes far away. Lu Mingfei lowered his head and looked at Eri. Their eyes met. There was no charming atmosphere and no sudden ambiguity, but both of them saw themselves in each other's eyes.
"Sakura is so amazing." Eri grabbed the five fingers that were lightly tapping on her palm and applied a little force, unwilling to let him leave.
"Eri is also OK." Lu Mingfei held her with his backhand and rubbed the wind-blown hair on her forehead with the side of his cheek.
"I didn't know anything before. I wasn't good at studying, sports, or interpersonal relationships. The only thing I was good at was playing games."
Eri looked at him and imitated him by squeezing his palm: "I only know how to play games."
“Yeah, playing games can also make you a very powerful person.” Lu Mingfei nodded. What he had heard the most since he was a child was that playing games was of no use other than harming people.
But this did not prevent him from going all the way down this path and becoming the god of games who overlooks all living beings.
He had no intention of telling Eiry about his past. The past was not good, so he just had to move forward and not look back.
"Eri, do you want to see the outside world?"
"Yes." Upon hearing this, the first image that came to Eri's mind was France, the place she and her brother had always dreamed of.
"Then I will accompany you to many, many places in the future."
"good."
This simple promise is engraved in the hearts of both people, without the need for pinky promises.
The inky black in the east began to fade, and human voices could be heard faintly at the foot of the mountain. The fishermen who lived by the sea had gotten up, ready to start a new day of fishermen and the sea.
"Are there mermaids in the sea?" Eiry looked up at Lu Mingfei.
"There should be, but it may not be what you think." In Europe and the United States, mermaids are not as beautiful and nice as in fairy tales. They are monsters like sirens who lure ships on the sea with their singing, drag the crew into the water, drown them, and eat them.
Lu Mingfei felt that the legendary mermaid was probably the snake-like Deadpool he had encountered before, half human, half fish, covered in scales, ugly in appearance, and would attack anyone it saw.
Just like the mermaid in Japanese mythology.
"Are there sea monsters?" Eri asked again.
"Yes, this is real." Lu Mingfei held Eri's hand and said seriously:
"There are giant nautiluses and Yamata no Orochi in the Pacific Ocean. In the future, there may be more monsters from outer space. Humans will have to drive giant mechas to defeat them."
"Do airships and moving castles really exist?"
"It will take a long time for the airship to be designed, but there is a moving castle, but it does not walk on four legs, but on four wheels." Lu Mingfei joked, "We call it a motorhome, but it is not as big as Howl's, and its functions are not as comprehensive."
Eri nodded, not quite understanding, and continued to snuggle in his arms and ask questions:
"What about hell and heaven? Are there any?"
"Only the dead know this. When we catch Herzog, I'll let him explore the way, but he can only go to hell, not heaven."
“Who is Herzog?”
"Bad guy."
"Oh." Eri nodded, "Are the A-laws and the Celestial Beings still fighting?"
"The A-laws have been disbanded. The Celestial Beings have suffered heavy losses, but they are still working hard to maintain world peace."
"Is the Armstrong Cyclotron Jet Armstrong Cannon real?"
"It's fake, that's a big banana imagined by Sorachi." Lu Mingfei lied without changing his expression.
"When did the Kingdom of Britannia end its enslavement of Area 11?"
"When Lelouch died, he was stabbed to death by that bastard Suzaku. The rule of the Kingdom of Britannia collapsed, and the enslaved nations regained their freedom."
Hearing this answer, Eri couldn't help but frown: "The Demon King is dead, what should the witch do?"
"The witch picked up the devil's body, resurrected him and brought him with her. They traveled around the world together and even found time to get married."
Lu Mingfei thought to himself that it was a good thing that he watched the movie before traveling through time, otherwise a knife would be placed on Ohnogi Ichiro's neck tomorrow, forcing him to revive Lulu immediately.
Hearing this, Eri let out a small sigh and relaxed.
But when he thought about the Demon King and the Witch getting married and traveling around the world, and what Lu Mingfei had said in the song before, about liking her, loving her, protecting her, and hugging her, his eyes blinked.
So, Sakura was really confessing to me just now?
Or... a proposal?
But Sakura didn't explain it clearly like the boy named Chu Zihang in her dream. He was now describing the world on the other side of the sea to her.
"The Middle East has oil, so it breeds U.S. troops."
"Otaku culture is prevalent in Japan because it has been a re-incarnation country since 1945."
"Asan puts a red dot between his brows to make it easier for the British Empire to aim."
"Americans always lose at pool because they like to hit the black ball first."
“Before a black man runs away he always leaves a gift for his loved ones – their children.”
"Why is Finkel always complained about nuisance? Because he is extremely poor."
"The Chinese national football team cannot make it to the World Cup because they are too pure and just play blindly."
Lu Mingfei talked eloquently, and Eri nodded her head:
"So this is what the world outside is like."
"Yeah, the real world is even more outrageous than cartoons, and it's full of hellish jokes. Wouldn't that be disappointing?" Not much of Lu Mingfei's introduction was serious, and by the end it almost turned into a brain teaser.
"No, I'm not disappointed." Eri looked at the rising rays of light in the distance with a scorching gaze: "I like this kind of world. This kind of world is very interesting."
Her worldview is different from that of ordinary people and is filled with various game and anime characters.
The medical staff on the first floor had been monitoring her and knew that all her indicators were very stable when she was watching cartoons, but they did not notice that a distorted and bizarre world was gradually taking shape in her mind.
Lu Mingfei was not in a hurry to correct her distorted worldview. The future was long, and he would take her to travel all over the world.
The power of language is sometimes scarce and sometimes very sharp.
With just a few simple words, Lu Mingfei let the fantasy world that Eri had spent years building collapse, and he was reluctant to let it go.
He would rather fill the illusions in her world with bits of reality.
The two chatted aimlessly. One second they were discussing Chinese cuisine, and the next second they jumped to how to make a fortune in Gotham, whether Xiaozhi was a mixed-blood, and what was the relationship between his mother and Professor Oak...
I don’t know how long it took, but the pale sky on the horizon completely faded away, and the golden-red halo split the sea and sky, dyeing everything with a light golden color.
The black sea surface turned golden red and sparkled.
The forest awakens from its slumber, a breeze blows by, and the rootless water reflects the colors of the morning sun and slides down the leaves.
Voices of people could be heard one after another in the town, smoke from cooking fires could be seen in the distance, and the streets gradually became noisy with the hustle and bustle of people and cars coming and going.
The Ferris wheel in the distance cast a reflection. At the distant train station, a yellow slow train lay quietly. The uniformed staff were yawning in the sea breeze.
As the red sun rose, the whole world was dyed golden.
The warm sunlight shines on my body, dispelling the chill that had accumulated overnight.
It's dawn.
Eri's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her rosy red eyes seemed to be preserved in amber for billions of years, wanting to preserve forever the beautiful scenery of the sea and sky blending into one vibrant color.
Lu Mingfei took out his Apple phone with a new screen, switched it to selfie mode, and slightly adjusted the angle to capture the two of them, the town, the sea, and the sunrise in the frame.
"Eri, smile."
Lu Mingfei looked at the girl whose eyes were filled with emotion on the phone screen and patted her waist gently.
How can such a beautiful scenery be without a beautiful smile?
Eri looked at the perfect composition in the camera, then looked at the smiling boy, clenched her fists, and felt that she should respond.
So she leaned forward slightly and gently pressed her pink lips against the boy's lips.
Feeling the soft touch on his cheek, Lu Mingfei's hand trembled and he pressed the shutter.
“Crack!”
The young man with wide eyes and a look of surprise, the girl with a smile on her face as if she was wearing a layer of golden gauze, and the beautiful sunrise and sea view were all frozen in time.
(End of this chapter)
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