Chapter 249: Inazuma Ronin
"The moment I saw it, my gaze froze.
“…”
After seeing it clearly, I can’t describe my feeling, but I kind of understand why Aha looks like this.
This light cone is basically the same as the one you have seen before, except for one place - a corner that is shattered like a mirage.
The hand controlling the butterfly, the face half in shadow, the scarlet eye, and the cracks on the other half of the face where the eye is, all converge into a blurry reflection of color...
That's you.
To be precise, there are two people in this cone of light, An Su who is teasing the butterfly, and you who are hiding in her eyes.
In the light cone you've seen, you can't clearly see the face that should belong to you. This is normal. If she insists on her own ideas, just as the light cone says -
"There are some memories that even the stars have no right to engrave."
Then, no one can collect her memories.
Fu Li is no good either.
But after seeing it clearly, you feel a little numb.
The pretty girl who sent flowers...
Thinking back on these words, considering the awkward situation you had before, you tried hard to hold back the words in your throat, but in the end you couldn't help it, "Aha, are you stupid?!"
There's nothing I can do about it. Everything else is fine, but you, in the light cone, are simply delivering flowers. The only thing worth mentioning is that it can be reflected in An Su's eyes, from the perspective of the person receiving the flowers.
...You don't want to recall the past, you just think the filter is too strong, and the twelve or thirteen-year-old primary school students in school uniforms have been turned into pretty little boys.
A golden texture, a tiny corner of the background, and a flowing hemp effect, Party A's happy color—a vibrant white. A young man with a bright smile held a bouquet of flowers, the color stained by the sunlight through his hair, turning it into golden hair.
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It was obvious that Ah Ha had snatched the fragments of memories from someone else. As a star god, he actually learned to eat grain like a human! Really...
Before you could say a few words, Ah Ha rushed over crying and wailing, holding the light cone in both hands, "Wa ...
“It’s gone! It’s all gone!!!”
Putting aside the screaming Ah Ha, you took away the light cone and looked closely -
You are broken.
Well, you in the light cone are shattered.
It appeared, it was the legendary long-range curse!
...I always feel that this scene is inexplicably familiar. You think, putting aside the facts, isn't this what the candy-colored scarf killer in the genius club often does?
There is no portrait of her left in the whole world, and now, there is no portrait of you left either.
Ah Ha rolled around at your feet, "Compensation! Compensation! Ah Ha finally got this little beauty——"
He would jump up and dance wildly, then lie on the ground and roll around in death, making more noise than 2,000 ducks put together.
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Some problems are already annoying without an external brain, and you immediately want to give Aha a couple of punches to let Him know how powerful you are!
At this moment, Aha seemed to have sensed something from your increasingly unfriendly eyes, and he rushed in front of you.
All the masks have turned on the lighting effects, red, purple, blue, yellow... They don't look like Cyclops, but they are more like light balls than disco light balls.
"Got it!" His eye sockets sparkled, "Friend, please, this is a once-in-a-lifetime request from Aha!!!"
“To be honest, as the protagonist, you don’t remember exactly when the part of the light cone that was covered up happened.
There are so many similar scenes that you can't remember exactly when that sunny afternoon happened.
It's not the first time you sent flowers that you felt special. You remember that day, you were home after school, and on impulse, you bought flowers. As a result, you awkwardly exposed them to direct sunlight, and the edges of the flowers gradually turned a burnt red...
And your expression is not as smiling as the one in the light cone.
You didn't even look at her face!
"Are you ready?" Ah Ha asked nervously and quickly, laughing while carrying a camera whose lens diameter was the same as your height.
Then, White Gloves snapped his fingers.
“Flowers!”
In the White Fox Field, unknown little flowers fell from the sky, landing everywhere, almost drowning you.
Another snap of the fingers.
"Sunlight!"
A clear beam of sunlight, clearly distinct from the surroundings, comes straight into your face like a spotlight.
"Finally, 3, 2, 1—"
The mouth on Ah Ha's clown mask grinned more and more exaggeratedly, and when you were not paying attention, he took out a familiar button and inserted it into the camera.
Before you have an ominous premonition and take action, joyful giggles suddenly come closer and louder, erupting from near and far, and white gloves frantically snap the shutter.
He said—
“There has to be laughter!!!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of salutes and airbursts continued one after another. You saw Aha's clear, handsome, and smiling face emerging from the shadows amidst the rain of masks falling. Then—
Then my vision flickered as if the signal was bad, and I suddenly felt a tiny weight on my head. I raised my hand and touched it, and it was a mask.
...to be exact.
"Great! It's the [joyful] [A Chong]! We are saved!" Aha looked like he had won the lottery, and he hugged and celebrated with the people around him like a normal person.
The two children who play the people around them: ?
“…”
You took off the mask on your head and touched it curiously. When Aha walked in front of you and it was his turn to hug you, your expression darkened and you immediately covered Aha's head with the mask.
Her two hands found his face precisely and pulled it to the sides. "Bullshit! Aha, are you okay?! What are you acting like to me?! Do you think I don't know you?!"
Yes, you knew from the beginning that Aha was a rare normal guy. Unlike other people or star gods with their own obsessions, Aha could be regarded as a more competent audience, outsider, and bystander than Fu Li.
He can get involved in disputes even between the forest worlds, and can also withdraw unscathed at any time.
...But he just keeps chasing you.
Ah Ha smiled and let you rub his cheeks like dough. His voice was lively, but the tone was deliberately disguised as heavy. "Oh, my dear, who told you to give me humanity?"
Click, click.
A crisp sound was heard, and dark and deep cracks gradually spread across Ah Ha's face, which was full of curiosity, expectation, and restlessness.
“…”
You open your eyes little by little.
Click, click.
Ah Ha's voice was filled with excitement:
"Are you going to kill me, friend?"
“Aha.”
"Here~"
"You idiot."
"Okay~"
You were once the imaginary god of the quantum sea, and now, so is Aha. He lost, not shut down, his power, handing his fate over to others.
"I'm going to watch you die!" You gritted your teeth, wishing you could tear Aha apart on the spot.
"Hahahahahahahahahaha!" Ah Ha was about to laugh tears up, "Great, Ah Ha is going to become the Achieveri that you hate the most!"
“Shut up!” You gave him a cold slap in the face. “It’s not fixed yet. I never take meal replacements!”
"Oh~" Ah Ha said in a strange voice with a long ending. Before you slapped him again, he pretended to be obedient and closed his mouth.
"Then Ahaha means something to you."
At the end, His voice was so sure."
"A familiar scene.
Now you understand why it was Aha in the beginning.
[Creation], [freedom], and adjacent to this pair of twin life paths is [joy].
Before, when Aha asked you what your relationship with Him was, you refused to give a direct answer.
Neither this nor that
Both this and that
——relationship.
It is impossible to trust each other completely, but they are very close, and there is someone hiding the relationship.
A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor, and this probably refers to you.
Creation and freedom were originally distant destinies, but it was you and your sister's insistence that allowed them to intertwine and resonate. And so, you gathered, gathered, drawing closer to joy.
As masters of two different destinies, your sister cannot freely master [Free and Easy], and you cannot freely use [Creation]. This is a proficiency gap of 90% and 10%.
But Aha can.
To Him, there is no such thing as closeness or distance; all destinies are strange yet close.
Therefore, Aha did not answer you about His relationship with Asu.
But unfortunately, from past experiences, the person between you and your sister has never been able to really get close to you.
——Aha also wants to force it.
So, did He succeed?
…
A person almost breaks apart in front of you.
This sense of déjà vu almost makes you become a literal furry.
The question that Shikanoin Heizo asked casually and jokingly not long ago was - Is my sister your secret?
Not entirely.
Growth is your secret.
Dark, sticky blocks of color will inadvertently invade your attention bit by bit. Before the world is drowned and blurred by tears, you think you will be swallowed by red first.
After you turn 14, you decide not to cry anymore.
Just like Shikanoin Heizo and Kuki Shinobu, and every younger brother and sister, you are very dependent on your sister, from your brain, your mouthpiece... to your ability to handle things with ease.
...everything after losing her parents, the police, the government, the neighbors, the teachers...you watched her handle everything despite her disability.
Life gradually returned to normal, and then An Su... went crazy? You couldn't tell, maybe it was the silence that drove her mad, or maybe it was because she had lost too much and there was too little left worth cherishing.
In short, because of you, her emotions exploded.
Not home, not sunny, not daytime.
You don't know where she found this bad guy who is not cool at all and not even qualified to dig mines, but just like the secret between you in elementary school, you walked through the narrow, dark and scary alleys and found her...
An Su's prosthetic left leg was dragging abnormally, and blood spots were clotted on her forehead. She looked indifferent, "You know what? If it weren't for you, I would have wanted to die a long time ago."
"Why don't you want to be like before with me, Chong?"
Whether then or now, you think that you may not understand her very well. The telepathy between twins is like a weak diode between you. She can read all your thoughts, while you sometimes make mistakes.
It is not known whether it is due to rare characters, polyphones, or cognitive bias.
You don't seem to understand her very well.
But no matter what, the expression is sad.
Lowering eyebrows, blinking eyes, pursing lips, and naturally bent hands trying to grasp something tightly... "
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