[1bitHeart] The closed world of you and me

After being delayed by Xi's reply and subsequent incidents, it's not too early, and just now I saw all kinds of delicious-looking meals on the restaurant menu, and I just woke up because I didn't feel well, At this time, the door felt hungry belatedly.

I'm a little tired of always eating takeaways...By the way, speaking of which, which flavors of instant noodles are left in stock at home?

Rubbing his stomach that had already begun to insist on his own sense of existence when he regained his senses, when he thought of the time it would take to wait for the takeout, he was not too enthusiastic about ordering takeout. While thinking about this problem, he closed the extra windows, Just when he was about to get up and go to the kitchen, he heard a sound from the entrance, and at the same time, Nanessi's voice sounded a little surprised.

"Brother Men? Don't you have to go to work today?"

The gatekeeper was still at home, and Nanessi tilted his head with a surprised expression, probably because he felt hot, asked and put the bag he was carrying aside casually, he immediately took off his coat and put his shoes aside on the cabinet.I don't know whether it was because of the increasingly hot sunshine outside, or because he was tired from walking for a long time due to poor physical strength. No one knows that Nanessi is as poor as his own physical fitness, and looking at him, he might think that he has just finished exercising.

At this age, Nanessi almost never left his body whenever he went out. What he wore under the large white coat was not the sailor suit and shorts he was used to, but a set of clothes that he bought for him not long ago—from the cuffs From the hem to the neckline, the same wide, in some respects, it looks like a light-colored top with a few holes cut out of a cloth bag and a slight seam. It is painted with some casual-looking strokes that look like shooting stars. The same gold pattern, paired with dark trousers that only come up to just above the knee.

At first I chose this top because I thought it would be very comfortable to wear, but now I think I may have bought the wrong one, probably because Naixi is too thin, and this suit is not as good as the fake one. People look so stylish when they wear the sample clothes, but they look empty as if they are covered with a thin sheet, which makes their figure thinner and more fragile than the original clothes.

However, this dress is the kind of bold wide neckline dress that exposes the shoulders. It looks as if the clothes will fall off at any time, and it is too loose. You can't help but look sideways as if you could blow that dress away. It was okay to wear a coat at first, but now that the coat is taken off, this top that looks too fluffy is particularly eye-catching.

Seeing that Naixi didn't know if he didn't realize it, or if he knew it but didn't take it to heart, and the way he was wearing that suit calmly, even though he was inexplicably concerned, he hesitated for a while and still didn't say anything, just answered Naixi's question :

"I overslept a little, and I plan to go after lunch later. By the way, have you eaten, Nanessi?"

Originally, this question was just a passing question. After all, it is already past two o'clock in the afternoon. As long as Nanessi didn't sleep until the afternoon like him, unless there was an accident, he would have already eaten.As expected, Nanessi nodded and replied:

"Well, I've already eaten. By the way, I got my money today, and I got my salary from a part-time job for the first time in my life. I went to buy a cake to celebrate—do you want my brother to eat it too?"

In the middle of answering, Nanessi suddenly remembered the pink and colorful paper bag at her feet, picked up the bag again and showed it to the door, asking like this.

Ah, get the money so soon?

I didn’t expect that I just chatted with Hu, and Hu quickly paid Naixi the salary the next day. The door was a little bit unexpected, but it’s not unreasonable when I think about it. After all, it’s the end of the month now, and Naixi has also been working for a while It's probably because the time just happened to move so fast, so I didn't ask any more questions, just smiled, and teased with a bit of a joke:

"Okay. But I'm so excited to receive the money, and I bought a cake to celebrate it, so don't spend all the money all of a sudden and come to borrow money from my brother."

"I won't do this again... By the way, I will return the money I borrowed to my brother now."

Probably because he was a little embarrassed by the words, Nanessi gave a dry cough, but after Men said this, he seemed to remember that he still owed Men a sum of money, and was taking out the salary bag stuffed in his trousers pocket to open it, when Men opened his mouth and stopped. :

"It doesn't matter if you keep it first, I'll just deduct the money I paid you in advance next month."

In fact, the door didn't really want to recover the money given earlier, if it wasn't to prevent Naixi from developing bad habits, in his eyes, he and Naixi didn't need to care about and figure out the relationship between this kind of thing──even if Nanaixi is not her past self, but really just a relationship between cousins. As an older brother who is still an adult and has a stable income, he will not care about the money for his younger brother who is underage. Parents also regularly remit Nanessi's living expenses, even if such a sum of money is missing, it will not affect his normal life.

And the reason why he didn't say no need to give it, but said to deduct it from next month's money, was just to let Nanessi remember the lesson and not waste money at will, and he didn't really want the money for urgent use, so he stopped it Naixi paid for it──Of course, part of the reason is that the door felt that even it was me, but it felt a little weird to take money from a junior high school student with a young age like some bad adult.

"Oh, then I'll put it away first! I'll put the cake on the table first, and I'll go to the kitchen to get a drink of water and pick up the plate by the way. Brother Men, wait a moment."

But Nanaixi didn't object when she heard what the door said, she simply stuffed back the salary bag she had just taken out, returned to the original topic as if nothing had happened, finished speaking in a brisk tone, and put the cake carton on the table After getting on, he trotted to the kitchen.

Ah... Speaking of cakes, since I went to study abroad, since I usually stay in school on my birthday, I hardly eat cakes much.

Menya finally turned his attention to the cake, thinking about it with some emotion.

And it’s probably because the family rarely bought cakes as snacks except for his birthday. In my impression, cakes are almost equated with birthdays. Unless it’s his birthday, he rarely wants to eat cakes and rarely buys them. ──Like last night, I had something to celebrate, but I chose to order a pizza instead of a cake.

At home, even if it wasn’t the Runnian that appeared on his birthday on the calendar, his parents would celebrate his birthday at the end of February. Although he really liked the feeling of receiving his parents’ blessings and gathering with the whole family, if he was alone, He is not so keen and memorizes his birthday, let alone celebrates it.Sometimes it’s okay to be busy with other things and forget to miss him. Occasionally, when you remember, you may not be free to buy a small cake to celebrate yourself.

So now that I think about it, it's been a long time since Men have eaten a cake. After noticing this, I can't help feeling a little nostalgic.

However, this bag does not look like the style of the store in Coco Alley. Where did you buy the cake?

Looking at the girly pink paper bag that contained the cake, Menzheng felt a little surprised that Nanessi had already come out of the kitchen with two stacked plates, which were more like clothes than clothes. It was the clothes hanging on Nanessi's body that once again drew attention from the door.

"Here comes the cutlery--this is brother's, and the other is mine."

Nanessi didn't notice this, and just put two plates and forks on the table respectively—the one in front of the door was blue, while the one in front of him was pink.It is probably the relationship between the color tones of their respective rooms. Even if they have not agreed in advance, generally speaking, the two of them will use the daily necessities of the corresponding colors of their respective rooms by default. In a few exceptions, the distribution depends on the situation.

And with Naixi's movements, the clothes swayed again, looking more shaky than when they were not moving, as if the collar would slip off the shoulders in the next second, the door was a little bit unable to continue pretending not to see it, look at Naixi Well, when I was about to reach out to the paper bag, I called out to him:

"Nai Naixi, come here first."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Nanessi looked a little surprised, but she still followed the door and moved closer, and at the same time sat down on the sofa.And when the door saw that Naixi was coming, he reached out and picked up the collar on his side. Unable to understand, Naixi subconsciously shrank his shoulders to avoid it, only to realize that his actions were quite strange if he didn't explain. The door opened and explained:

"Your collar looks like it's about to fall off! Don't move, I'll pin it on for you first. Wait and see if you want to change your clothes. Don't wear this set when you go out in the future."

As he said that, he took out a hair clip from his pocket and clamped it to his collar──Although he said that he had been used to the bangs that covered half of one eye for many years, but in order to pretend to be "Aisakamon", he lengthened the bangs to The degree of covering half of the face is actually a bit too much, and it will hinder his sight, which is fine at ordinary times, but when he concentrates on his work and there is no one else in the workplace, he will pin up his hair so as not to let the Obscured vision affects efficiency, so he keeps a few bobby pins with him as spares, which come in handy in unexpected places.

"Does it really look that exaggerated? When I wear it, I just feel that the clothes seem a bit wide, and it's not convenient to do larger movements."

Probably because he knew the reason for the sudden movement after listening to the door's explanation, Nanessi just didn't move and let the doorknob pin the hairpin on his clothes, just observed his movements from the corner of his eye, and at the same time confirmed that Asked the door like.

"Well, yeah, maybe the clothes are too big, so they look a bit sloppy, and it's not decent to wear them out, so I think it's better not to wear them out even if you want to wear them...Okay, let's do it like this first!"

Replying in his mouth, his hands kept moving, and at the same time he fastened his collar on both sides of Nanessi's shoulders.After pinning it, the door adjusted the neckline a little and confirmed the symmetry between the two sides before letting go.Although the clothes still look baggy, they are no longer as distracting as they were before the hairpins were dangling and seemed to fall off at any time.

"I always feel like pinning myself like this is like turning into a clothes hanger... But, Brother Men, you carry hair clips with you?"

And Nanessi also turned her head to look a little at the clothes with pins on her shoulders, and honestly expressed her feelings—in fact, she also felt this way after the door was fastened—but she looked like she was using The clothespin on the clothes hanger did not cause any trouble to Nanessi. He quickly changed the subject, staring at the hairpin with cartoon animal patterns on it, and asked the door in surprise.

"Well, the hair in front of me is very long. Occasionally, when I need to use a clear vision, there must be something to clamp the hair."

Although he knew that using hairpins with this pattern was a bit girly, but anyway, he only used them when no one was around, so the door didn't care much, and answered calmly.But Naixi stared at the fringe of the door for a while, and asked curiously:

"Ah, that's right. It's just that since it will obstruct the line of sight, why don't you just cut it shorter? I think my brother would still look handsome even if he changed to a lighter hairstyle."

As she said that, probably because she was suddenly curious about the face on the side of the door covered by the hair, Nanessi reached out to brush the door's hair.

"Uh, don't touch it! I'm not used to showing too much of my face in front of people, so please forgive me."

Of course, the door wouldn't just let Naixi open his bangs in a daze, and quickly passed Nanaixi's hand sideways, seeing how he stopped and looked at him in surprise, he found a reason to prevaricate, Raise your hand and beg for mercy.

Before he went back to the past, although his bangs were slightly longer, they were not so long. It was only one of them that they would completely cover his eyes, and the second was that it would be very hot in summer. On the spur of the moment, I wanted to leave some loopholes for the child who would come later to find out, so I didn't directly cover the special-shaped mole at the corner of his eye with a phantom created by the program, but chose to use hairstyle to cover it up.

It’s just that even Nanessi, who doesn’t know the inside story, may at most be surprised that their cousins ​​have such a commonality after seeing this flaw. The possibility of guessing the truth right away is not high, but the door just doesn’t want Nanessi to see it— ─If you want to show it to him, it will only be after the moment when his role-playing game of 'Brother Men' is over, and before that he doesn't think about doing it.

"Hey—why? Brother Mingming used to be able to get a girlfriend with just a face... Could it be the sequelae of being dumped?"

Nanessi didn't seem to understand the door's excuse a bit, and in the middle of speaking in surprise, he suddenly came up with a whimsical hypothesis.

"No, it has nothing to do with that matter, you think too much."

Naixi didn't mention it, and almost forgot that she had an ex-girlfriend once again. Because of the rich imagination of her past self, she was a little dumb for a few seconds. After sighing because of her past self's completely wrong guess, the door opened He simply and neatly denied Nanessi's guess.

Not to mention that he has a rich history of being cut off from friends, except that the current family relationship has not been broken because his great parents have never given up on him. All kinds of friendships will always be cut off in the end, and he is almost used to it.What's more, it was only a few months before he formally communicated with the other party. The older he got, the more he became familiar with other people's feelings, and he was dumped before he had time to develop deep feelings for the other party. The impact is not without, but it is not as far-reaching as others think.

Even after the breakup, he has continued to use the self-proclaimed name he changed at the time, but it has been maintained because of the praise of other people who knew his previous self-proclaimed name, not because of old friendship or something like that.

"That's why you don't cut it? Doesn't Brother Men also think that the hair in the front is too long and it will get in the way occasionally?"

For some reason, Naixi got into a fight with the hairstyle question, and asked persistently and with great interest.

"Hmm... If I really want to say it, I feel a sense of security, right? You see—the bangs here cover half of your face, like half a mask, right? Incident, even if you don't have the confidence to show a calm and calm look, but when you think about the expression because the hair is half covered, like wearing a mask, even if it doesn't look so impeccable, you may not be noticed immediately, and your mood will be unconscious. It'll calm down a bit."

Men didn't expect that Nanessi would be so interested, and just now he was just perfunctory, and now he had to turn his head to come up with this set of excuses in order to lie, but after he finished speaking, he also realized that it was not completely fake ──It also carries a part of his true feelings.

The bangs on the mole on the corner of his eye are deliberately longer. It’s a habit since he was very young. At first, he only imitated it after watching a certain character in cartoons with such a cool look, but he has kept it until now. So, maybe he didn't have the sense of peace that people would see through his facial expressions partially covered, sometimes embarrassed or unable to cover up immediately, which made him maintain this habit.

It's just that if he hadn't been forced to sort out these remarks and say them out of Nanessi's questioning, even he himself would not have realized that he subconsciously maintained this hairstyle for so many years, it would be because he relied on this even his original haircut deep in his heart. An invisible sense of security that I didn't even notice.And after realizing this, the inner feeling of the door is a bit complicated-he has never had this level of cognition before, and the feeling he suddenly discovered at this time is very subtle and indescribable.

"Is it a mask that will bring you a sense of security... But Brother Men can't hide behind the mask forever, right? Are you really not considering changing your hairstyle? Maybe it will bring a new feeling to your life."

As if trying to understand the idea of ​​the door, Naixi was a little confused but frowned slightly as if she had understood something, but she didn't make any extra comments, she just put forward her own opinion, staring at the bangs of the door seriously asked, as if he wanted to cut off those too long bangs.

"...Let's talk about it, I'm not in that mood yet, I'll think about it someday when I want to change myself."

Although he would not mind changing his hairstyle if other people strongly wished for it, he himself did not have such a strong desire, so Men politely rejected Nanessi's proposal, but he didn't say anything, and after a smile, he said so with.

"Well! If you need it at that time, it's not impossible to ask me to help you cut your hair!"

Nanaixi didn't know whether she ignored the door's refusal attitude, or simply regarded this as an agreement that was not being made now, but said so in a bright voice with the confidence in her hair-cutting skills that she didn't know where she came from .

The author has something to say: Recently, I watched a certain Japanese 1bitHeart live broadcast. It was only because of a bullet screen that I found out that Teijin, one of the protagonists of The Headless Horseman's Odd Records, also reads Mikado in Japanese. I don't know if I don't check it. ...Probably because I couldn't open this animation when I was interested in Headless. Every time I opened it, I always got stuck on the screen of the motorcycle wheel at the beginning, so I watched Headless in Chinese. I completely gave up on the novel version and the animation. At that time, I was almost crazy about the animation that could only see the opening title, so I didn’t realize that Teijin also read Mikado, but it’s also Mikado, 1bitHeart The author's official Japanese kanji is 'door', the relationship between Japanese kanji and pronunciation is really a mystery... (feeling) (←People who have never formally learned Japanese)

By the way, the chapter is changed here again. After all, the last chapter was long enough, and it is almost time to change it.The title of the chapter hesitated for a long time between "germination" and "breaking the cocoon", and finally chose "breaking the cocoon". But I'm going to try and try to pick up the pace, uh.