Neighbors in forbidden land

"Yimi, won't you come down?" I yelled to Yimi who was sitting on the beach.

"Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr; (Yi come to play!)" the little goo beside me also shouted excitedly.

"How do I get off my clothes..." Yimi slightly raised her hand and shook the loose sleeves of the black dress.

"Is it okay to take it off?" I tried to ask.

I remember Yimi told me that human beings cannot stay in water for a long time, otherwise it will cause physical diseases.

The so-called disease was like Yimi's fever, and her whole body looked like she was smoking.

That's why Yimi always pays attention to shelter from the rain to prevent her clothes from getting wet.

I took off my cloak, put down the flower crown on my head, and untied the clothes that tied up my long hair.

The cloak fell apart quickly in the sea last time, and I still understand these things.

Looking at it now, my hair seems to be shining with bits and pieces in the sun.

...it seems so.

"Xiaohei, what do you want to do..." Yimi covered her chest with her hands, showing an awkward expression.

"Of course you want to play together?" I floated on the sea and stretched out my hand to Yimi.

"Gulu Gulu! (Come and play!)" Little Goo yelled at Yimi, flicking her silver tail fin.

"..." In the end, Yimi just lowered her head slightly, and pulled a bunch of long hair in front of her.

It seems that there is no such meaning.

I remember that Yimi seldom went to the sea before, which seems to have something to do with humans' fear of water.

"You... what are you doing again?" Lan Xue narrowed her red eyes and looked at us suspiciously.

"Are you playing?"

"I'm just asking what you guys are playing..."

"water."

"Gulu~(water yo~)" Little Goo came around behind me and opened up a linear spray.

"You guys... really can't understand..." Lan Xue just put her hips on her hips and shook her head slightly.

"What do you usually play, Lan Xue?"

"Let's fight, I'll fight with other people if it's okay, in order to grow into a giant dragon like the former king and brother."

"..."

"And playing with water... It's something only larvae can do."

"Aren't you coming down?" I still tried to ask.

"Can't you understand me... Besides, I don't like water, let alone poof—"

As a result, before Lan Xue could finish her sentence, she was sprayed with water all over by Xiao Gu who suddenly shook her head. Bright light.

"Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, however, Xiaogu blinked his white eyes and shook the sharp fins on his body.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like it's ready...

"You two guys..." Lan Xue lowered her head and let out a low growl almost from her throat.

"No? I didn't do anything?"

As I explained this--

"You really treat me like a human if the dragon doesn't show its power!" Lan Xue yelled and jumped into the sea, setting off waves several meters high.

Then Lan Xue disappeared...it seemed to have sunk into the sea.

"I always feel that human beings are underestimated..." Yimi, who was sitting on the beach, sighed softly.

But at this time we have no time to take care of these.

Because the sea water began to spread to the surroundings from the position where Lan Xue disappeared, and the wave after wave was in the process of unfolding...still.

Because it's freezing.

"Is this right?" I hurriedly waved my wings to move away from where Lan Xue was, but the speed of freezing was not slow, and blue and white ice crystals began to gradually cover the surface of the sea. The location where it disappeared lit up, piercing through the ice covering the sea surface, and it was known without confirmation that it was Lan Xue's eyes.

"Gulu Gululu? (What's the matter?)" Although Xiao Gu still looked like she didn't understand the situation, she could also see that the freezing of the sea was a bad omen.

"You two..." A deep voice came from the sea below the ice layer, pushing the ice crystals to spread towards the sea surface.

"Don't run if you can!"

"Gulu! (Yeah!)" So Goo turned around and swam away. His huge body drove the silver-white tail fin to shatter part of the ice crystals, but it didn't stop the tendency of the ice to spread.

"So what did I do wrong?" Although I don't know why, I turned my head and swam with Goo to avoid being covered by the submerged ice crystals.

Why neither Yimi nor Lan Xue have ever explained their actions...

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"Have you played enough?" Yimi helped me put on the cloak woven from vines and leaves, with an extremely calm tone.

But there was a smile on his face.

"Hmm..." I nodded, just now I was swimming around with Xiao Gu, but I was hit by an ice crystal flying from behind.

It didn't work for me, but Xiao Gu didn't seem to have any problems.

Those ice crystals should not be aggressive from the beginning.

"What about you?" Yimi stretched out her hand casually, and tore off a few pieces of kelp that had been entangled on the huge head of Little Goo who was leaning over, and asked softly.

"Gulu... (Woooo...)" Xiao Gu just blinked his eyes and let out a deep voice.

"And you..." Yimi stretched out her hand, patted the off-white grains of salt on Lan Xue's shoulder, and sighed softly.

"Don't touch me!" Lan Xue wanted to raise her hand to knock off Yimi's hand, but in the end she couldn't lift it up and put it down, "And you can't see? Why are you so clear about our location? "

"Why..." Yimi pondered for a while, and the smile on her face became softer, "Relying on voice, head, and—"

Yimi raised my arm and slipped it under the cloak.

"—Get used to it, I'm a local."

"..." Lan Xue was silent, but her big red eyes were full of doubts.

After the ensuing silence, Yimi tidied up the salt and kelp on me, Xiao Gu, and Lan Xue. Although Lan Xue looked unhappy, she didn't have any resistance. "I'm going back." After a long time, Lan Xue lowered her head and said these words softly.

"Are you going back?" Yimi asked softly.

Lan Xue didn't speak, but slowly spread her wings.

Then, without a word, he flew up and left without looking back.

"Welcome again..." Yimi spit out these words softly, "...After all, they are all children, and there is nothing wrong with making noise between children."

"Are we all children?" I tried to ask Yimi as she put the woven flower crown back on my head.

"Gurgling? (What are you talking about?)"

"It's not 'us'." Yimi tapped the tip of my nose and the blue-black scales on Goo's head with her fingertips.

"Yes, you guys, ah."

Me... and Xiaogu?child?

I thought about Yimi's words for a long time, but I didn't quite understand them, but Yimi didn't give any further explanations.

After that, we bid farewell to Xiaogu and came to the river ditch. Yimi said that he would help me wash my hair and body.

Putting down the corolla and letting my hair loose, Yimi started splashing water on my hair like last time.I carefully felt the coldness flowing between the long hair and the skin and the warm touch of Yimi's fingers. I don't know why, but I hope these things are not recorded in the diary, but engraved in the memory.

"Is it cool?" Yimi would still ask me that.

"No." I was still the answer.

Just after my long hair was soaked, Yimi called out my name:

"Little black?"

"I'm here."

"What are we going to do next?"

"what?"

"I mean..." Yimi stroked my long hair with her hand, and explained softly, "The potatoes are gone, what are we going to do next..."

this...

"I do not know either……"

After all, for me, it's not what I want to do.

It's about what Yimi wants to do.

"Before you met me... Xiaohei, what were you doing?" Yimi splashed water on my long hair again, and asked the same question that she had asked before.

"In a daze, watching the sea, writing a diary." I said the same answer as last time.

"So it's not a lie to me..." Yimi's voice was a little surprised.

"Yeah." I nodded slightly, because this is the truth.

"How long?"

"..." But facing this question, I hesitated.

Yimi, who was behind me, raised her other hand and lightly put it on my single wing, and continued without waiting for my answer:

"Not 14 years?"

"...Mmm." I could only nod my head.

"Aren't you alone?"

"Lonely? What is loneliness?"

"..." After I asked this question, Yimi fell silent, even stopping the movement of her hands.

"Lonely..." Yimi put her hand down, and a faint voice sounded behind me, but she just called my name, "Xiao Hei."

"what happened?"

"Didn't I go back for a while before?"

"Ah."

"During that time, what were you doing? What were you thinking?"

"I……"

I seem to have been lying on the beach?What are you thinking?what do you think...

"I forgot."

What I was doing during that time, what I was doing, I can't seem to remember.

I originally thought that Yimi was going to say that I was stupid, but Yimi just said lightly: "It's the same..."

"What's the same?"

"That's loneliness."

If this is loneliness...

"Before I met Yimi, I didn't feel lonely." This is what I thought.

From this point of view, maybe Yimi taught me this feeling?

"Is that so..." Yimi just sighed softly, then poured water on my back and began to help me take a bath.

Although Yimi insisted on washing my back only, I still couldn't figure out how to wash my body.

After a while, Yimi's hand left my body, and there was a rustling sound behind me.

"Yimi—" "You will die later." "..."

I just called Yimi's name and was about to turn back, but Yimi stopped me with an extremely fierce tone as if she knew what I was going to do.

"I want to take a bath too...Xiao Hei, you also pour some water on me...and don't look around!"

"Why are you willing to let me help this time?"

Although I always wanted to help Yimi, but every time Yimi took a shower, she would throw me aside.

"I'd love to! Can't you?"

"clear."

I tried to turn around slowly, and what caught my eyes was the long light orange hair like the sun, and the snow-white skin on the back looming between the loose long hair.

From here, you can only see clothes and cloaks stacked together, and Yimi who is sitting on the ground with her arms wrapped around her, with patches of blush under her ears.

I don't know why I wanted to reach out and touch Yimi's body, but I couldn't do it after all.

Just following Yimi's example, she took some water from the ditch with both hands and sprinkled it on Yimi's long hair.

"Hiss—it's so cold!"

"Eh? Eh?"

Yimi shrank her body abruptly. This reaction made me a little overwhelmed, but she just rubbed her arms with both hands, and whispered softly: "Continue..."

"Huh? Oh."

I hastily followed Yimi's request and continued to splash the water. Although Yimi didn't make a sound, she trembled slightly every time the water splashed on her skin.

nothing... right?

Under the sun, Yimi washed her body with gentle movements, while I kept pouring water on her body.Tiny drops of water are dotted on the long light orange hair, and there are long and thin traces on the snow-white back.

The sun shines on Yimi's body, showing a hazy color, but I think... Yimi is the sun.

"Okay, the next step is to wash my hair, splash more water on my hair..." Yimi turned her head back slightly, raised her hand to tie up her long hair, and said softly to me.

After I splashed the water, Yimi gently rubbed her slender hair with her hands, her slender white fingers slid from the top to the end, as if dancing in the sun or stroking the sun. "Okay! Turn around!" After Yimi's hair was about to be washed, Yimi yelled, so I hurriedly poured the water in my hand on myself, then turned around, wrapped my arms around to the legs in front of the body.

The next moment, the soft touch and smooth filaments gently attached to the right side of my back, which is where the lost wingspan was.

"According to" "Don't, turn back, head." "..."

Hearing Yimi's words, I just sat quietly and raised my head——

The back of her head seemed to be touching the back of Yimi's head, and her long hair and mine were lightly entangled and slid down beside us.

It seems... Now I am sitting with Yimi back to back.

Yimi, what is it like now?

silence.

I didn't ask, and Yimi didn't say a word.

Only the whisper of the wind, and Yimi's breath.

"That's it... just for a while?" Yimi who was behind me asked me softly.

"Um……"

In fact, it’s okay even if you don’t ask.

As long as it is your request, I am willing.

I want to be with you forever.