My mother's love song

It was raining in the evening.

Speaking of which, she can be said to have a connection with rain.

Before Fujino met Rod, she would often go out alone on rainy days to get wet in the rain.

This shouldn't be considered a quirk, right?

Because you see, Miss Shiki walks around with a knife every night.

Yes, compared to her, I am normal.

Fujino likes to get caught in the rain. The warm rain falling on her body is very comfortable, and the process gives her a sense of liberation.

Later, Fujino met Rod.

Just because they passed each other in a coffee shop, he arbitrarily changed her entire life.

The girl still remembers her encounter with the boy very clearly.

Rod must have known that I liked her, but there was one thing that even he didn't know.

What really touched Fujino was not that Rhode cured her painlessness, but the fact that he found her in such a huge crowd.

Fujino has been abnormal since she was a child. When she was only five or six years old, she was bullied by her peers because of the special power of her eyes.

Later, painlessness replaced the mysterious eye as her abnormality.

Fujino felt no pain and also lost the sense of being alive.

Painless has a lot of trouble in life, but she has never asked anyone for help.

I don't want to ask anyone for help.

"I'm astonished that you can endure it until now, doesn't it hurt?" "Does it hurt?" "Don't you feel a lot of pain?"

That's what everyone would say whenever she asked for help.

Fujino hated facing these questions.

"I don't want my mother, my father, my teachers, my friends or anyone else to find out that I don't feel any pain."

"I have to at least be treated as a normal person by the people around me, otherwise I will definitely collapse."

At this time, it was Rhodes who appeared in front of Fujino.

He didn't say anything. He didn't ask "Why are you like this?" "Are you okay?" "Do you need my help?" He didn't ask any of these.

Rhode just took care of Fujino's abnormality on his own.

"Does it hurt?" "Does it hurt you?"

Rod didn't say a single word of these mindless lines of concern that Fujino didn't want to hear.

He simply cut Fujino's skin without any gentleness, letting her experience the pain.

Rod was the gentlest man in the world at that time, Fujino thought secretly, I like his machismo.

After that, Rhodes told her that your ability is not something heretical, but is valuable.

"From now on, you will have to repay this unrequited favor with your body."

It really makes me happy.

Not only was he relieved of his pain, but he was also told the value of his existence.

From that moment on, Asagami Fujino decided that this life would only be lived for Rhodes.

The girl strolled through the forest behind the Liyuan school building, heading towards the chapel.

Because it was raining, the forest was covered with a thick gray fog.

While walking on the rotten leaves, Fujino sniffed the air intently.

Like a gushing spring, the air carries a fragrance.

It has a sweet smell like ripe fruit, and there are many landscapes where time moves slowly forward. Being in it makes people feel like they are floating in a watercolor painting.

"I'm tired of your pretentious big lady look. Don't act like a good girl in front of me, Fujino."

Recalling his words.

The corners of Fujino's mouth rose with joy: As expected of you, Rod-kun, you saw through my disguise at a glance.

Asagami Fujino, who pretended to be a good girl in front of Rod, was not the real me at all.

The real me should be more

"But there is no other way... Even if it is Rhode's request, I simply cannot do such a thing as resisting Rhode."

Just then, a voice came from behind.

"Where are you going, Fujino?"

Ryougi Shiki, wearing the Reien uniform, walked towards her, stepping on rotten leaves.

"I'm going to find Lord Rod."

Fujino replied calmly.

The voice was clearly very low, but it could be heard incredibly far away.

"What to do when you find him?"

Fujino stared at Shiki, paused and said, “I want to stay with Rod-kun.

I don't want to be an enemy of Luo Dejun. I will do whatever he asks me to do, and I will go through fire and water for him in whatever he wants to do."

In this way, even if I am a useless child, Lord Luo will definitely keep me...

Shiki frowned and said, "That idiot has already said it, I hope you can show the corresponding value.

He said that not because he wanted you to do something for him, but because he wanted you to show some backbone."

Fujino bit her lip in silence.

Shi saw that her expression was somewhat relaxed, so he said, “Come back with me.

Let's beat up that arrogant guy together tomorrow and tie him back."

"No. I can't be an enemy of Rod-kun..." Fujino shook her head violently, "I still have to go find him."

"I really can't explain it to you..."

Shiki scratched the back of his head speechlessly and threatened: "You will be killed."

"Rod-kun wouldn't do such a thing." Fujino said affirmatively.

"Yes, indeed, it would not be, for it would not be a painful punishment."

Shiki laughed and said something that scared Fujino more than "death".

"...You will be thrown away by him."

"don't want!!!"

Fujino shouted loudly.

The scarlet eyes sparkled with boiling emotions.

The ancient courtyard was distorted and broken in the girl's sight like a dead tree or rotten wood.

At the same time, Shiki started running.

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Three days have passed since the investigation into the Liyuan fairy incident.

Over the past three days, Xianhua has been investigating and collecting evidence everywhere.

Although we have talked to several students from Class 4 who have returned to the dormitory, everyone's story is the same, which is of little help to the investigation.

After all, it is impossible for them to open their hearts to flowers, an outsider.

Everyone was suspicious and stayed in their rooms, breathing rapidly and with dazed eyes, just like drug addicts.

But the two-day inquiry was not completely fruitless. Xianhua at least found out that everyone in Class 4 had received prank letters.

In conclusion, they all believed in fairies.

That is to say, everyone has forgotten memories and received letters.

Moreover, one thing is certain.

All the students in Class 4, Grade 1 have united to hide something... Although we don't know what it is, what cannot be hidden is that it is definitely related to the former mentor, Hideo Hayama.

That morning, Xianhua broke into the empty chairman's office and retrieved the relevant files of Ye Shan Yingxiong.

"Hey... after the arson incident, Ye Shanying still stayed and worked in this school."

Xianhua bit her lips, and the truth gradually took shape in her mind.

Because it was a task assigned by Orange personally, Flowers originally thought that the investigation would take a little longer, but it went unexpectedly smoothly.

It was rather too smooth, as if someone was guiding her towards the truth from behind.

Xianhua, who had almost figured out the whole story and was in a good mood, suddenly ran to the burned-down student dormitory and took a look around.

More than half of the east building was burned down, and the entire east wall of the room disappeared, as if it had been slashed by a monster's sharp claws.

The areas that had been part of the room were now all burned and collapsed, and it felt like they would turn to ash if touched.

The western corridor opposite it, on the contrary, has survived intact.

If one were to just walk down the corridor, one would be amazed at how intact it was and think that there had never been a fire.

But after opening the door of the burnt room, all that was left was the scenery outside and the ruins with only a little foundation left.

Flowers are strolling in such a building with strong contrasts and avant-garde art.

Suddenly, something that definitely shouldn't be here attracted the flowers' attention.

She found a doll in an abandoned room deep in the dormitory.

A puppet so exquisite that it approaches the moral limit.

Its appearance is like a motionless human being, but it also clearly shows that it is a puppet that will never move.

A puppet that is obviously not a human, but looks like it can only be a human.

A chill covered my back, and the flowers murmured and made trembling sounds.

"This is... a puppet made by the teacher..."

Heitong Hana is just a newcomer who has been practicing magic for less than two years and does not have an excellent level of appreciation for puppets.

There is no clear reason, but just from this I intuitively think that this is the work of the top puppet maker Aozaki Touko.

This abandoned doll is so perfect that even an outsider like flowers can deeply understand its supremacy.

"Why would the teacher's puppet appear in a place like this..."

Aozaki Touko is the employer who commissioned Hana and the others to investigate the Reien incident.

But now, the employer himself seems to be related to this incident! ?

When the mystery of the goblin incident was finally solved, a bigger mystery suddenly appeared in front of the flowers.

"Did the teacher trick me into doing this?"

After the sun went down, the somewhat deflated flowers returned to the dormitory building.

When she returned to the room, she found Shiki and Fujino, who were soaked like drowned rats, sitting on their beds and changing clothes.

"What's wrong with you two!?" Flowers cried out in surprise.

Shiki said as she put on her fresh school uniform with flowers on it, "This worthless girl was planning to defect to the enemy, so I beat her up."

"what……"

Only then did Xianhua notice that the left side of Fujino's pretty face was red...it looked as if she had been hit hard by a punch.

Actually hitting a girl in the face... Perhaps only Shiki could do such a thing, Xianhua sighed.

The school rules at Liyuan are extremely strict, so the lights are turned off very early.