"I knew you were there."

While muttering softly, she first took a sip of oolong tea. As the coolness and sweetness spread in her mouth, her whole body was suddenly startled, and she stood there as if she was under a spell.

It was not until a minute later that she came back to her senses and took another bite of bread in a dull manner...

"Is it tasty?"

A soft voice sounded in his ears, Hui Mo nodded silently in response, tears flowed into his mouth, the refreshing sweetness was mixed with a hint of sad saltiness.

"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you well."

Did I fail to protect myself this time or that time?

Facing this extremely gentle apology, the girl slowly shook her head. She took another bite of the bread until she swallowed it, and took another sip of oolong tea before she said softly, "Where have you been all these years? Did you accompany me to grow up?"

"I've always been with you."

The soft and magnetic voice responded firmly: "The year you graduated from elementary school, I secretly stole your father's wallet. When you were locked in the gymnasium in junior high school, I also took the teacher's clothes from the office to the gymnasium."

"When I went to the aquarium with Liumei and the others, I tore up their tickets. The day before yesterday, you suddenly became dazed while shopping with them, and I was the one who prompted the teacher to call you out of the blue."

The voice paused and added: "Didn't I tell you? Even though you can't see me, I'm always by your side."

"I see. But why didn't you stop me from being ignored today?"

The girl took another bite of bread and asked vaguely, "I was left alone in a strange city. I didn't eat a single bite of food or drink a sip of water the whole day."

"Your stupid friend fell asleep as soon as he got on the bus and used your small backpack as a pillow. Because you informed the teacher in advance, the guy looked at everyone on the list and checked them, and then naturally forgot about you... I tried hard to give you food and water, but I failed only now. I have tried my best... But, I'm sorry."

Suddenly, the voice became a little reproachful, "But why did you come to this park alone? Why didn't you go to the police station? Why didn't you ask someone to pick up the charger? Why didn't you contact your family?"

"Yeah, why?"

Hui did not answer this series of questions, but turned her head to look at the empty side, as if there was an invisible figure sitting next to her.

"Because everyone ignores me, my father, my mother, my sister, my teachers, my friends, my classmates... I am tired of being ignored."

She stared at the air and whispered, "It's also because I remembered. The moment I watched the bus leave, I remembered that I had someone I loved. I knew he was by my side, quietly protecting me."

The girl put down her drink and reached to her side. Although she didn't touch anything, she still smiled sweetly.

But the next second, that smile turned into deep self-blame, as if he had committed an unforgivable sin.

She choked up softly and said, "Why would I forget you? You are everything to me, how could I forget you?"

"Mei, this is not your fault, because... I can't interfere with your past life."

"You are one of the eight million gods. I know you are bound by certain rules. But you have interfered! You appear in my life, appear in front of me every time I need you, bring me warmth, and make me deeply dependent on and attached to you."

The girl's palms gently stroked the air, and in her clear pupils, there seemed to be the reflection of a handsome man with silver hair and rosy cheeks.

"When I cried the most sadly for the first time, you called me 'crybaby' in the most gentle tone, lifted me up from the dark feet, and asked me why I was crying."

"You hugged me and comforted me by saying that it was only eight o'clock and that the Flash Girls show had just started. You said you wouldn't eat me, that you were an earthbound spirit that protected children, and that you would protect me and wait for my mother with me."

The girl seemed to be lost in sweet memories, her twinkling eyes as dazzling as the Milky Way that night.

She said in the softest voice, as if confessing, "That night I sat in your arms, leaning against your chest, following your heartbeat, listening to you tell stories, and singing nursery rhymes to me. You just waved your hand and dispersed the dark clouds, letting the most beautiful Milky Way appear before my eyes."

"You pointed at the stars and told me how to distinguish the constellations. You told me the address of the earth, so that I knew clearly where we met..."

The girl smiled and withdrew her hand. She took another bite of the bread, feeling the sweetness of the chocolate and the softness of the bread. Her smile was very sweet.

Because no one except me could see him, he stayed by my side all the time. He stood beside me during kindergarten classes. He taught me to make origami better than the teacher during craft classes.

When I was lying on the bed during a nap, he sang a lullaby to me in the most gentle voice, coaxing his daughter to sleep like a father.

After entering primary school, his attitude towards getting along with himself changed.

He still watched the anime for young girls with me, and we often discussed it together, and sometimes we would argue. Although it was still childish, the tone of coaxing a child was gone.

At that time, I felt that he was sometimes an older brother and sometimes a peer. In short, I felt very comfortable with him, without any pressure at all, and he knew when to use what attitude to get along with me.

But gradually, I don’t know when it started, I talked to him less and less, and sometimes I even ignored his existence.

On his tenth birthday, the birthday he had been looking forward to for a long time was forgotten by his family. That was also the last time he talked to himself.

Since then, I can no longer feel any trace of his existence, and in the rest of my life, I will still be ignored by others from time to time. But the strange thing is that every time I am ignored by my relatives, friends, and teachers, they will soon realize that they have ignored someone through various accidents or coincidences.

"In the ten years you've been with me, every time you called out, every time you called my name, I couldn't hear you, couldn't respond... That feeling must be very sad, compared to me, you are the loneliest, right? Why... do you torture yourself like this?"

"..."

This question did not receive a response, and Hui did not seem to need an answer, because she could imagine the feeling of loneliness. As he said, loneliness is loneliness, a word that does not even have an antonym.

"But why? Why did you appear in my life? Why did you protect me for ten years? Why me?"

Hui softly repeated the words on the greeting card, "There are tens of thousands of people with the last name Kato in Japan, and tens of thousands of girls named Hui..."

She was a little confused. "I am the most ordinary one among them. I am a passerby who would never attract anyone's attention when walking on the street. Why did it have to be me?"

At this time, the voice finally spoke again, and he responded softly: "Because there will always be someone who discovers your brilliance..."

"For example, you? That reason doesn't make sense."

The girl chuckled and shook her head. She wiped the tears from her cheeks and asked bluntly, "Why did you fall in love with me? When we met, I was still a kindergarten kid. I don't think you're a pedophile or a pervert."

"Because, although you are always by my side, whenever I go to the bathroom or take a shower, your voice always rings outside the door. I can clearly feel you waiting at the door, and I can also feel that you haven't done anything perverted."

The voice fell silent again, as if he didn't know how to take this straight ball.

In fact, when Hui found her lost memories today, she knew that the ghost brother who had protected her growing up loved her deeply. It was not the love of an elder for a younger person, but the love between a man and a woman.

Because only to the one you love deeply can you give so unreservedly.

He did everything for me without reservation and silently, and endured lonely night after lonely night, patiently waiting for me to grow up. But as I grew older, I gradually forgot about him.

Then, after being silent for nearly ten seconds, the voice said softly, "Yes, because I love you, Hui."

I love you, such heavy words made the girl's body tremble slightly, and she seemed to be in a trance. Because this I love you, she felt that it was a word she would never hear from him.

But the next second, Hui calmed down again, as if she had never heard these words.

She stuffed the last bite of bread into her mouth, swallowed it, and drank the drink in one gulp...

"Why? What's the reason?"

"Reasons..." The voice trembled with sadness, guilt and self-blame, "Love is love, there is no reason."

Hui's voice became cold. "Before elementary school, I always called you Big Brother. When I entered junior high school, I only vaguely remembered that there was a very important person, but when I graduated from junior high school, I almost completely forgot everything about you. We have known each other for ten years, and I don't even know your name, but you said that you love me."

"benefit……"

Hearing the painful call, Hui's stern face collapsed, and her eyes softened a little. The softened tone was even more choked with sobs, "You can't tell me, right? It's okay, let me tell you, idiot!"

Hui suddenly stood up from the bench, turned around and said condescendingly: "Because you didn't dare to look my feelings in the face at first, because you already have someone you love deeply, your morals and your bottom line don't allow you to be a philandering scumbag, because something happened that I don't know about, so you decided to face me honestly..."

A dark thread appeared out of nowhere in her clear pupil, and the chaotic thread quickly expanded and filled the entire pupil.

"Because I have to live my entire life before being chosen, and you can't interfere with my life. But you can't help but get close to me, want to talk to me, want to make me happy."

"Wow—"

The devil's wings stretched out from behind the girl. Her pupils were now replaced by green evil flames, and two slender horns grew on her head. The scorching eye ridges shot out, scorching the air and tearing the space apart... The world began to twist.

The quiet park is gone, replaced by a lush green forest. The silver moonlight shines on the earth, and the faint fragrance of flowers penetrates into the nostrils.

At the dreamlike lakeside, the evil flames in the demon hunter's pupils gradually dissipated, and the demon wings and terrifying horns slowly retracted into his body. The short-haired girl, who looked like a fairy in a painting, pressed the silver-haired big brother under her.

Drops of clear tears dripped on his face like pearls that had broken off a string. His eyes were gentle, and only deep love was reflected in his watery pupils.

"We met not in... kindergarten, but on an expedition cruise ship bound for Antarctica."

She stared at the face of her 'big brother' and whispered, "We entered the Iron Blood Pyramid, and you mistook me for her and held me in your arms... You were very cruel. You wanted to kill me, but you immediately denied your idea."

"Not only did you give me the core, you also saved me once... After the mission, you were so excessive that you allowed me to enter that illusion trial."

"benefit……"

Beiyuankong reached out his hand, gently wiped her tears, and asked softly: "When did you remember it?"

"I remember now. I remember everything. Just now, when I ate the bread you gave me and drank the first sip of oolong tea."

The girl cried and laughed at the same time, "I finally remembered why I was so strong that I could crush the handrail easily. I finally remembered why I hated and disliked Amai-san, because he was so scared that he peed his pants, which made me feel sick. Because he left me and ran away when the aliens launched the attack."

I remember it. I remember it all.

She finally understood why her life was like a slide show, sometimes slow and sometimes fast-forwarded, because it was just a memory, the life she had experienced.

I finally understand why my world is sometimes black and white, because without him, the world loses its color.

The girl finally remembered why the whole world ignored her except him.

Because after that trial, he had solemnly promised that he would never neglect himself again.

He did what he said. He actually didn't need to show up, but he protected me for ten years and added a touch of color to my incomplete childhood.

He also said that he would give himself a birthday present. Although it was the same jasmine flower hairpin, the meaning of this hairpin was different from that time.

"Hey, stupid senior."

The girl slowly leaned over, rested her forehead against Kitahara Sora's, and asked intimately: "You just said you loved me."

"Well, I told you, I love you, Hui."

Smelling the sweet breath of the girl and feeling the bitter taste of tears in his mouth, Kitahara Sora said softly: "I have fallen in love with you a long time ago, but I have never dared to face my feelings, so I have caused you such great harm. I am really sorry."

"Is this why you chose to protect me quietly?"

"Because you are also quietly protecting me."

Beiyuan Kong stretched out his hand and gently hugged her soft waist, "Without you, no one will hand me a can of Coke when I'm thirsty, and no one will open the pull ring for me."

"Without you, when I am lost and confused, no one will comfort me or enlighten me. Without you, no one will help me rebel. Without you guarding me in the shadows, I will always feel anxious. I can't lose you, Hui."

"Really? So that's it."

The girl's tone was once again filled with tears. She sobbed and spoke intermittently, "Actually... I have never been loved... well by anyone. I just want to... find someone who will never ignore me..."

"So... as long as someone is a little bit nice to me, I will think that I have met the right person."

Her eyelids, which had just been wiped dry, became wet again, and crystal tears fell like pearls from a broken string on Kitahara Sora's cheeks, pupils, nose tip and mouth.

"As for me, I know that I am a despicable third party. I know that I cannot do anything to let you down. I once launched a despicable attack, but I saw your struggle and pain. So, I said to myself... I am sorry if I disturbed you. I am sorry."

I have never been loved well by anyone, so as long as someone treats me a little bit better, I will think that I have met the right person. I am sorry if I disturb you, I am sorry...

Is this what you really think? That's why you have been like an assassin in the shadows, sneaking around and carefully guarding the one you love and your most sincere feelings.

A hot tear fell from the corner of Beiyuan Kong's eyes. At this moment, the girl was crying like a pear blossom in the rain. As she sobbed and confessed, it was as if someone was using a knife to cut out pieces of flesh from her heart one by one.

How could I have the heart to reject a girl like this? How could I be so cruel? !

Isn't it too much to owe her?

But before I could reply, her crying voice entered my heart again, and she almost shouted loudly as if to vent her anger: "You, you think... if you say you love me, I will be happy? I... I already knew that you love me a long time ago, so what?"

"I used up all my courage to dare... to kiss you, to give up completely... but why are you so annoying... why did you want me to come back? Don't you know... how much courage it takes?"

After many years, the girl sobbed again, just like the scared cry she made when she hid alone in a dark corner in kindergarten. It was a sad and extremely aggrieved sound.

At this time, her voice became intermittent and she was almost unable to speak because of crying.

She cried and said, "Wu——You, you idiot, why did you come into my life? Why did you make me fall in love with you again... This time, I have liked you since kindergarten. I have liked you again for a full ten years... Now I can no longer give up."

"Have you been cultivating your strategy of seducing girls since kindergarten? But, since there is no way for me to respond, why are you being so nice to me? Idiot, pervert, uh... pervert, scumbag!"

Yes, no matter how much the senior loves me, he can’t let go of the senior.

I already knew about your feelings for me, but so what? Why did you say it today? Will you say, "I love you, but I can't respond to your feelings?"

If that's the case, why do you want to save yourself? Can't you just let yourself sleep forever?! Also, why do you want to be so nice to yourself? It took you ten whole years to make yourself, who didn't know you at all, fall in love with you all over again!

From the age of six to sixteen, a full ten years!

"..."

Faced with the girl's questioning, the heart-wrenching pain made Beiyuan Kong feel like it was difficult to breathe. Thinking back to his past self, he even wanted to dig his heart out with a knife!

He opened his mouth slowly, his voice trembling as he said, "Yes, if you don't start cultivating from kindergarten, then there will be no chance! I made you like me again for ten years, and I also punished myself for ten years. After that, I will use my whole life to respond to your ten years. Are you willing to accept my response?"

As soon as these words came out, the sobbing girl was suddenly startled.

Amidst the silent sobs, the pupils filled with tears were instantly filled with countless emotions: astonishment, surprise, disbelief and... joy?

She was just venting her emotions by using her feelings of grievance and heartache. Only at this time did she dare to make some intimate gestures to vent her emotions, because she could only vent them today.

Hui had already prepared herself to be rejected again. She had never thought that the senior whom she loved and hated would say something that she would never dare to dream of.

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