Chapter 7

Araki returned to his residence and saw the world of truth almost soaked in water in the pond. He was almost startled and quickly jumped into the water to pull the world of truth out and returned to the shore. The servants nearby were stunned and looked at each other. They rushed over and said, "You should change your clothes quickly! It's terrible to have wet clothes in this weather! What's wrong with your hand?"

The servants were about to scream.

Araki sincerely felt that they were very annoying, waved his hand, let them separate quietly, and returned to the vicinity of the bedroom.

He didn't bother to change his clothes, and first found a towel to wipe the body of the world of truth. The feathers were all wet, and water was dripping out. The world of truth squinted his eyes, and looked half asleep and half awake, as if he was about to die. Araki covered the body of the world of truth, and suddenly felt an indescribable panic.

The body of the world of truth was cold, and the closer he got to it, the more he felt that it was clearly dead. He thought that being alive was just an illusion in a trance, an absurd illusion in an illusion.

Araki gritted his teeth and murmured, "Please don't die, please, please don't die..."

The world of truth was awakened by him, shivered, felt the warmth of his palm slowly fading away, opened his eyes, and still saw a hazy scene in front of him, like the world after taking off glasses for severe myopia. The world of truth squinted his eyes, trying to see Araki's expression clearly, but he couldn't see it clearly, he just felt that Araki seemed very sad, so sad that he was about to cry.

But why was Araki sad?

The world of truth moved, trying to knock on its head, but failed. Then it realized that its body had become a bird instead of a human. It had no hands to knock on itself, only fluffy feathers that were still wet. It fell down all of a sudden, but Araki immediately noticed that the world of truth had awakened. He held the world of truth in his hands and asked joyfully, "Are you awake?"

The world of truth nodded perfunctorily.

Araki smiled and said, "I knew it! A spirit beast like you won't die so easily. I was right. You must not die at this time. I will be very sad."

The world of truth made a sound in its throat. It felt strange and wanted to ask, you and I are not familiar with each other, what are you sad about?

Araki seemed to know what the truth world wanted to ask, smiled, and whispered: "They are all annoying. They are different from you. You are the most special. I like you, whether as a pet or as a friend, I can't live without you. From the time I saw you, I felt that you should be my friend. You must not die. I finally found a friend like you.

It's not that they can't be considered friends, but they are not the same as the friends I imagined, and they are not the same as the friends I need and hope for. They are not you. There is no way. I can't look at them the same way I look at you. They are

getting more and more annoying, and everything is annoying. But you didn't do what they did to me, so you must not abandon me. What to do Everything is fine, just don't go.

Don't worry, something like what happened today won't happen again, because I won't leave you alone in a place where no one is around. As expected, they are two-faced and hate me to such an extent that I have caused you to suffer. I'm sorry, don't mind it, I won't be friends with them, I won't like to be with them, I won't betray myself, and I won't betray you.

I mean this from the bottom of my heart, don't be afraid of me, I didn't mean to leave you here alone, I didn't ignore you in the first place, I swear, it won't happen again, it won't happen again."

Araki's lips trembled a little, he closed his eyes, he couldn't tell whether it was tears or pool water that flowed down his cheeks and fell on the top of the head of the world of truth, it was cold.

Zhenli Shijie touched his head. The feathers were still wet. It was neither fluffy nor beautiful, and even a little pitiful.

He didn't know why Araki was so sincere.

Zhenli Shijie didn't quite understand. They had not known each other for a long time, and had spent even less time together. The time they had been in contact was almost zero. Was Araki transferring his feelings?

He had wanted to have a pet before, but failed. Now he could finally make his own decision and raised a bird. So, was he happy for accomplishing something he couldn't do?

Or was it an obsession?

Araki was reluctant to let go of Zhenli Shijie. He always felt that Zhenli Shijie would disappear in the next moment.

Zhenli Shijie looked at his pale face and rubbed his hand.

Araki squinted his eyes and smiled: "I like you, your feathers, your color, your eyes, the way you look at me, and your response to me. In any case, it's better than nothing. The day I saw you, it seemed that everything was different. I didn't quite understand what was going on at the time, but now I know. They always say that those things are theirs and have nothing to do with me.

I don't like it.

You belong to me completely. I am very happy.

I will be sad if I lose you, so from the moment I saw you, I hoped that you would wait until I die before leaving.

This is not difficult, but unfortunately, they are unwilling to go along with it. "

I know that too, it's not just today."

He stood up and said, "Come with me to the bathroom to take a shower. You don't have to change clothes, but I will. I will turn on a very hot lamp, and the light will dry your feathers. There will be no loud noise, and it won't be particularly hot, and you don't need to touch it. I think you won't be scared when you see that thing. You can't stay so wet all the time and get sick easily.

There are veterinarians here, but not many veterinarians treat birds. I'm worried that you will be killed. Even people can be killed by doctors, let alone a bird."

Araki suddenly sighed and stopped talking.

The Mari World blinked its eyes, but there was nothing to say. Besides, as a bird, it couldn't say anything. Theoretically, birds like parrots can talk, but without practice, they are unlikely to be able to. Their voices are different from those of humans, so it is troublesome and difficult to speak. It's better not to mention it.

Araki put the Mari World in a place where it would not be splashed with water. It was a bit high, close to the hot lamp above its head. The Mari World squinted its eyes, felt very hot, and simply closed its eyes. It lay in the place Araki had reserved for it, breathing up and down, and gradually fell asleep.

Araki took a shower, changed his clothes, wiped his hands, and rubbed the Mari World. The Mari World woke up, called out twice, and asked Araki what he meant with some confusion.

Araki whispered, "Wake up. I don't know if the water in that pond is clean or not. I want to wash you again. Don't fall asleep. I'll use a towel to dry you off. Just dry off a little and then you can go back to sleep."

The Mari World reluctantly opened his eyes and nodded. He stared and looked like he would fall asleep at any moment.

Araki put the Mari World in a small cup of warm water. Araki murmured to the Mari World, "I don't know if the things here will make you lose hair if you wash with them. I won't let you use soap or anything like that."

His hand suddenly paused, and he picked up a feather in confusion and asked, "Do you usually shed so much hair?"

Do you know that you shed so much hair?

Araki's eyes were fixed on the world of truth.

The world of truth suddenly shivered from sleepiness, as if it felt a little cold, and looked at Araki, and happened to meet Araki's eyes. Inexplicably, it felt a little guilty and looked away, wondering why Araki suddenly stopped, and it was planning to finish washing and go to bed early.

Araki casually put the feather aside, touched the world of truth and asked: "How about I find a veterinarian to take a look at you? I think you will become bald soon if you keep losing hair like this."

He also deliberately repeated to the world of truth: "Bald. I don't think you look like a rabbit. However, rabbits have more hair than you, so they shouldn't be able to bald easily."

The world of truth blinked, and suddenly took a breath of cool air, his heart pounding, and for a moment he didn't know whether he was more angry or found it more funny.

If it wasn't difficult to talk now, the world of truth would have wanted to curse at him, at least to ask, what's wrong with you?

How can you tell others that you will become bald? This is not a nice thing to say.

The world of truth took two steps, turned his back to Araki, squinted his eyes, and made a sobbing sound in his throat.

The sound was very faint, but Araki heard it and quickly whispered: "I'm sorry, I was just talking nonsense, don't take it to heart, it's all fake, you will definitely not become bald, you will not become bald, don't be angry?"

The world of truth snorted.

Araki smiled secretly and whispered: "Don't be angry~"

The world of truth grumbled and didn't answer.

Araki asked: "How about, continue washing? After washing, go out and sleep, okay?"

The world of truth tilted its head and glanced at Araki, Araki nodded, the world of truth snorted, and didn't say anything.

Araki took it as its tacit consent.

After taking a shower, Araki found a towel to wipe the feathers of the True World, put the True World in the previous position and said: "Wait here for a while, I will pack up the things here, wash my hands and take you out. You can leave the laundry to others, do you mind?"

No answer, it is assumed that he doesn't mind.

Araki whispered to the True World: "I don't know if you have heard of this thing called obsession. I have heard others say that the more others try to stop a thing, the more likely it is that the person involved will resist. This kind of resistance is usually called rebellion by others. Whether it is actually undecided or not, maybe you think that I like you because the people around me didn't allow me to have a pet at the beginning, which is indeed one of the reasons.

But it's not all.

I don't like you because they stop me, I just like you more because of the stopping."