[Haijin] Kiss the Fairy Feather
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Captain~ Long time no see! ! "
"Oh, Ben! Here you come! I haven't seen you in a hundred years and you are still the same!"
The tall, slender-eyed, silver-haired young man gave Meliodas a skillful high-five when he came up.
"Boss, you too, why did you suddenly think of asking me to come to the party?" He looked around with his hands on his hips, "Hey! It's so grand, what is it to celebrate?"
"Why, didn't Marlene tell you?"
"I just want to help you inform, Your Excellency, Commander, it's better for you to explain things yourself." Marlene who came later said with a smile.
"What is it, making it so mysterious?"
In the end, I still have to take on this drudgery by myself!Meliodas touched the back of his head helplessly: "Well... just think about what day it is today, it's not hard to guess."
"What date? April [-]st, April Fool's Day? Haha" Ben laughed a couple of times, then the smile froze on his face suddenly, "Hey, hey... isn't it? Are you sure it's not an April Fool's Day joke?"
Meliodas shrugged and said, "He's probably playing with his friends in his room right now."
Before the words finished, Ban had already run out.
The door on the third floor was pushed open abruptly. Roommate B was startled and turned to look at the door.
"Where's that guy?!" Ban glanced around the room and yelled without seeing the person he was looking for.
"Eh? Who? Who are you??" Roommate B asked in a little panic.
"What's the matter?" Roommate A also took off the VR glasses on his face.
"Where's Kim?" Ben asked again.
"Ah, Kim! Go upstairs with his girlfriend!" Roommate B said.
"Girlfriend?!" Ben's face became even more gloomy.
"Yes, yes..."
Ben turned and went upstairs.The confused conversation between the two teenagers could be vaguely heard from behind.
"who is this?"
"I do not know……"
☆、Chapter Eighteen of the Present World
The light in the study room on the fourth floor is relatively dim, and one can see at a glance that the door leading to the small roof at the other end is open, and the sunlight shines in, projecting the two figures next to each other on the ground, stretching them into elongated lengths.
Ban's long legs arrived at the door in three or two steps. The two people on the roof were startled, and they all turned their heads to look.
"..."
Ben stared closely at Harlequin, who took the opportunity to stay away from the girl. His rapid breathing and red eyes made his sharp appearance even more terrifying. Harlequin only felt that he was being stared at furiously. Not daring to meet his eyes.
It was the girl who spoke first: "Excuse me, are you...?"
"... Jin... is it really you...?" The young man opened his mouth, but his voice trembled, and his body fell to his knees as if he had lost his strength. He pulled Harlequin over and hugged him tightly.
Those strong arms were so excited that they wanted to rub Harlequin into his body.Harlequin felt that his bones were about to be pinched and fell apart. He struggled a few times but couldn't get out, so he subconsciously looked at the other person present, his eyes full of helplessness.
As if receiving a distress signal, the girl stepped forward and tried to break Ban's hand, and asked angrily, "Hey! Who are you? Let go! Didn't you see Harlequin suffering?!"
"..." Ben raised his head to look at the girl, his murderous gaze became even more frightening against the backdrop of his red pupils, and the girl unconsciously let go of her hand in fright.
However, the girl's goal was achieved. Ben let go of Harlequin, looked down at her, and said coldly, "Who are you?"
"Me? I, I'm Harlequin's girlfriend!" The girl summoned up her courage to declare her ownership.
"Girlfriend?" Ben sneered disdainfully, supported Harlequin and picked him up like a doll, and walked downstairs without looking back.
"Wait...! Let us down! Hey!" Harlequin patted Ben on the shoulder hard, trying to jump off.It's really embarrassing. As a man, he is held like a child in front of his girlfriend, but he has no power to resist.No...it's because this guy is too tall and strong, it's not because we are too weak!
In the end, the stranger said in a coaxing tone: "Don't move around, be careful not to fall."
"Then let us down!"
"Harlequin!" The girl followed closely, trying to save her again.
The two roommates heard the movement outside and opened the door, only to see the stranger walking downstairs carrying their roommate, followed by the roommate's girlfriend, who stared at each other in astonishment.
"What exactly is going on?"
Ben carried Harlequin all the way back downstairs, and asked Meliodas with a happy face: "Can you explain what's going on, when did you find this guy, leader?"
"Let us go!" Harlequin protested persistently.
"Tsk, okay, okay" Ben smacked his lips and put Harlequin on the ground.
Harlequin stepped back quickly, trying to stay as far away from this inexplicable stranger as possible, the girl also caught up, took his arm, and stared at Ben warily together.
"And it caused me such trouble." Ben pointed at the girl with a smile, but that smile was chilling.
"The girlfriend matter has nothing to do with me, this is Jin's freedom." Meliodas spread his hands, "Anyway, I found him for you, and the next thing is up to you, right?"
Ben was silent for a while, and said: "That's fine, as long as people are here, the next thing can be discussed." He licked his lips, stared at Harlequin with the eyes of a big bad wolf who found a little white rabbit, and said with a smile, "Lao Tzu will soon let him know who he belongs to"
"What, what is this man—! Harlequin, what's going on?" The girl hated and feared the arrogant young man in front of her. How could Harlequin's brother know such a person?
"We...we don't know..." Harlequin whispered.
"Huh? You haven't introduced yourself yet? Don't you think Kim still recognizes you, Ben?" Meliodas heard this conversation in a different way, and he waved to Harlequin, letting He comes over.
Harlequin hesitated, but he still walked to the head of the group, and the girl was close to him, for fear that if he didn't catch him, his boyfriend would be swallowed alive.
"Let me introduce, this is my best friend I mentioned to you before, his name is Ben." Meliodas introduced, "His cooking is delicious! Do you want to eat Whatever, just let him do it for you."
"Uh..." Harlequin smiled awkwardly, but hearing that this person is the best friend of the head of the group, he mustered up his courage, bowed politely, and said, "Please, please give me some advice, Mr. Ban." .”
"You can just call me Ban." Ban laughed, "How about it, as the head of the group said, just say what you want to eat, and I will make it for you."
"We... that..." Harlequin didn't know how to answer this man's words.
"How about egg cheese toast? Or cheese tacos? Ah, and cheese balls are one of your favorite cheese dishes, right?"
"How do you know..." Harlequin wanted to ask, how did you know that we like to eat cheese, but he quickly reacted and asked, "You, you also know us...a long time ago?"
"...Yeah" Ben's smile became very gentle, he patted Kim on the head and said, "Come on, I need your help and a tasting"
Harlequin looked at Meliodas, who nodded with a smile.
He looked at the girl again, and the girl frowned and shook her head. Harlequin pondered for a while and said, "Do you want to help too? We don't think Mr. Ban is a bad person."
Although his actions at the beginning did scare him, when he learned that he was also one of the people who knew his former self, Harlequin couldn't get angry for some reason.Maybe he's just so happy to see "us" again?Harlequin thought.
"..." Although the girl was reluctant, she thought that that person was a friend of Harlequin's brother. As a guest, it's not easy to be angry with the host's friend, right?They followed together.
Ban first checked the existing ingredients, then skillfully took out the pots and pans, and commanded Harlequin to help him.
At this moment, I said: "Go and take out the eggs, beat ten parts, and put them in different bowls." After that, I added another question, "Will you?"
"This, this level—!" Harlequin, who felt despised, immediately ran to get the bowl.
"Don't break the eggshell into it"
"Will not!"
After a while, another sentence: "Wash and peel the potatoes over there. It's a little harder than the one just now, is it okay?"
"It's been done many times!"
"Then if you know how to cut it, cut it into pieces by the way!"
After finally finishing the pot of potatoes, Ban's next instruction came again.
"Oh! The knife skills are not bad. Next, I washed and cut up the basket of mushrooms."
"Oh." Harlequin obediently moved to the pool again, and began to carefully wash off the silt on the surface of the mushrooms.
Repetitive work made his thoughts drift away quickly. He suddenly remembered that he had eaten raw mushrooms in the capital of the dead, and he couldn't help but put a freshly washed mushroom that looked tender and plump in his mouth and bit it go down.
The person who was working quietly at the side suddenly coughed violently, causing the pan in Ban's hand to almost fall to the ground.
The girl also hurriedly stepped forward to stroke Harlequin's back, and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Ah...why do you eat mushrooms like this? Are they still raw?"
"Ahem... no, nothing... just accidentally distracted... cough cough..." Harlequin coughed and threw the mushroom that he had bitten and vomited out half into the trash can, but he was quite worried. Shocked, I thought, it was so delicious back then, why is it so hard to swallow now...
But the listening class said unhurriedly: "...you are a human being now, of course you will vomit if you eat it raw. Moreover, the ingredients in this era are not as good as before, so we should eat less raw things in the future. Come and taste this." Bring the freshly baked egg and cheese toast to Harlequin's mouth.
"..."
This person... sure enough, he also knew that we were "fairies" a long time ago...
Harlequin thought to himself, silently looking at the man in front of him smiling like a fox.
Seeing Harlequin not moving, Ben asked with a smile, "What? It's too hot?" He blew on the toast before handing it to Harlequin.
Harlequin had to take a bite cautiously.
"How about it?"
"……good to eat……"
After a small accident, the two continued to work together.While Ben made Harlequin do this and that without a break, he completely ignored the girl's existence.Harlequin, who was so busy, couldn't spare the time to greet his girlfriend.The girl had to take the initiative to help.
She couldn't figure out why she hated the tall, thin man she met for the first time, just because of his aggressive words and deeds towards her boyfriend?But after thinking about it carefully, he felt wrong, no matter what he was a man, those words and actions should be more like joking with an old friend, right?It can also be seen from their conversation that the man has known Harlequin for a long time, but Harlequin doesn't remember him.Is it because Harlequin was little when they met?
But why is he so uneasy?
Yes... She felt very disturbed, was it her intuition as a woman?Her intuition told her that this man was unusually threatening.
Watching Harlequin's resistance to men from the beginning, to the tacit cooperation like friends who have known each other for many years, one is skillfully making the dishes, the other is helping to pass the ingredients and seasonings, and by the way, taste the dishes when they are finished, and then amazed Shouting "delicious!"
"B-Is it more delicious than what I made?!" The girl finally couldn't help but asked unconvinced.
"..." Harlequin couldn't bear to affirm it face to face, so he tore off a piece and brought it to the girl's mouth, saying, "Do you want to try it?"
The girl frowned slightly, bit the piece of toast and ate it into her mouth.
...It's really, really delicious...It's much more delicious than the ones made by myself...No, it should be said, it's better than any food she has ever eaten. To this extreme... She has never eaten such delicious egg cheese toast!
...No, no, don't admit defeat so quickly!Maybe this person is just good at egg cheese toast?
It's a pity that her luck was quickly shattered by the second and third courses.
But...it's nothing.Because Harlequin has been feeding her with a smile from the very beginning, which has never happened before.Although the tall and thin man turned his head to feed Harlequin from time to time, she selectively ignored them, so although he lost to him in cooking, the girl was in a good mood.
☆、Chapter Nineteen of the Present World
It was getting dark, and as more and more guests arrived, Harlequin had to leave to entertain his friends.As soon as he left, Ben dropped the spoon and announced "no more".
"Hey, Ben, don't give up halfway like this, okay? If you don't do it, what will everyone eat? What about the party?" Meliodas hurriedly persuaded.
“I’m not here to be a volunteer”
"Even so, Jin is also a part of it, and he has to eat it! You should just make a few more by the way."
"There are so many people, how can there be only a few servings? Besides, I think that guy is almost full, and I have nothing to do with the rest."
"Don't say that! Anyway, it's Kim's birthday party hosted by me, you won't lose face, right?" Meliodas put emphasis on the words "I" and "Kim", and stretched out his index finger Said, "Just this once, huh?"
"..." Ben narrowed his eyes and said, "Then I will live here tonight?"
"Okay, no problem!"
"Old room?"
"Of course, that's your room."
Only then did Ben raise his eyebrows in satisfaction, and picked up the spoon again.
"Ah, if you want to make it, don't just make cheese dishes, but also make something else. Here is the menu."
"...You really push your limits, Commander"
The dishes made by Ban Qingqing have been well received by the guests, especially the Harlequin students who are underage and unable to taste the famous wine of the Pig Hat Pavilion. In the tavern, you can eat such delicious things every day.
"No, it's not." Harlequin said honestly, "It's also the first time for us to eat the dishes made by Mr. Ben. In the past, the dishes in the store were all made by Lady Elizabeth. Ah, the food made by Lady Elizabeth is also very good Eat! If what Mr. Ban cooks is hotel-level luxurious delicacy, then what Lady Elizabeth cooks is home-level simple delicacy!"
"Ah, Master Jin can really talk~" Elizabeth said happily.
"Really? Then can we come to your house to taste the dishes cooked by sister Elizabeth?"
"Of course, everyone is welcome to come here often!" Elizabeth said with a smile.
"Well, of course we are very welcome to come as guests!" Meliodas strolled from the tavern to the banquet place outside, and Ben followed closely behind.His work is finally finished, you know he has been busy for several hours, but he still hasn't eaten a bite!
So far, the hosts and protagonists of the party have all arrived, and the atmosphere on the scene has been pushed to a climax again.
The carnival lasted for more than two hours before it gradually calmed down. The boys and girls were full of food and drinks, and gathered together in twos and threes to chat. The vice president of the tailor club also got acquainted with someone who had painted oil paintings with Harlequin. A female classmate accidentally created a good story.
Harlequin was also very happy to see everyone having so much fun.However, there is one more important thing waiting for him to complete.
According to the leader's suggestion, he must show his attitude to the girl before midnight.He wasn't sure when everyone was going to go back, and it was definitely not good to talk about it when there were too many people.However, if you want to play all night, you have to choose a place with few people...
In any case, it was impossible to go to Heilbram early today.
"Hey..." Harlequin sighed softly.How much he wanted to celebrate with Heilbram on a day like this...
"Why are you sighing, Harlequin?" The girl asked concerned, "Are you tired?"
"Ah, no." Harlequin waved his hand quickly and said.
The girl covered her mouth and smiled, "Really? If it was normal, you would have gone to bed by this point, right? Ah...are you... still worried about your friend?"
Harlequin was taken aback.Only then did he remember that the girl didn't know about the reconciliation between himself and Heilbram, so he said, "No, we have already reconciled with him."
"That's it...Speaking of which, I don't seem to see your friend. Didn't he come to the party?"
"Ah, um. He... is too far away to come."
"Hey - it's a netizen, no wonder you say he disappeared suddenly." The girl suddenly realized.
Harlequin, unable to explain, had to remain silent.
After another hour of hesitation, it seemed that it would be past midnight in more than half an hour. Some girls suggested that it was time to go home, so others also expressed their intention to leave one after another. After all, they had to go to school the next day. For five or six-year-old boys and girls, it is time to go home.
As Harlequin's close girlfriend, the girl certainly wouldn't leave so fast, and said she would stay and help clean up the scene.
"Oh, what an embarrassment. We can clean it up, it doesn't matter." Elizabeth smiled.
Meliodas on the other side started to wink at Harlequin.
Harlequin nodded slightly, walked up to the girl, and whispered softly: "That... we have something to tell you."
"Yeah?" The girl who thought that Harlequin was going to have a private conversation with herself couldn't help being elated, and replied expectantly, "Okay!"
Avoiding the eyes of others, they walked to the river bank some distance from the pig hat booth.It was already midnight at this time, and the surroundings were quiet, only the bright moon and the street lamps gave off a cool light.
"It's all right here, what do you want to say?" The girl lay on the stone railing beside the river embankment, stroking her hair that was blown by the evening wind behind her ears.
Harlequin stood in the shadow of the street lights on both sides, lowered his head, gritted his teeth for a while, and then whispered apologetically: "That...although it's a bit hard to say, but..."
He was silent for a while, but still said "break up".
Although the voice was so small that Harlequin was worried whether the other party had really heard it, he still felt the air pressure around him drop suddenly.
"You... what are you talking about, disgusting!" The girl laughed, "Are you going to make an April Fool's joke at the last moment to scare me? Really, I won't be fooled!" She tried her best to smile It doesn't look so forced.
"We're not joking..." Harlequin bowed deeply, "I'm sorry!"
"..."
The girl turned her head silently, facing the river bank.
"...Is there something wrong with me?" She asked quietly.
"No, no, it's not your problem, it's us..."
"Please tell me the reason." Perhaps because of trying to restrain herself, the girl's voice was so flat as to be cold.
"...We have... someone we like..."
"Then why did you promise me in the first place?!" Her voice suddenly rose.
"……sorry."
Harlequin had to bow again and apologize sincerely.Although at that time he didn't know his true intentions, but now he said it like he was trying to excuse himself.This was originally his own fault.
Unexpectedly, another voice answered for him: "That's because this guy only knows who he should like today."
At the same time, someone grabbed Harlequin's waist and lifted him up.
"Ban, Mr. Ban?! You, why did you come here?" Harlequin was stunned for three seconds before remembering to struggle to get down.
"It's fine if you tell me to take the class, sir, you're too out of touch." The young man continued to speak frivolously as before, and tightened his grip on Harlequin's hand.
"Uh, but..."
"There's nothing wrong with it." Ban smiled and raised his eyebrows at the girl. "That's the way it is. This guy is my property, so you can break up quickly."
"Huh?!" Although it was difficult to tell the truth from the false, but the man's frivolous attitude made the girl's already bad mood fall to the bottom. At this time, she didn't care about the etiquette, and asked angrily, "What's messed up, aren't you today? Did you just know each other?"
"Who told you? We have known each other for thousands of years."
"Ah?" The girl asked Harlequin pointing at the young man with a disgusted expression of "is this person sick?" "This is the person you said you like?!"
"This, this..." Thinking of Heilbram saying that if he told others that he liked the friend in his dream, no one would believe him, so he didn't know how to explain it for a while.
His hesitation, from the girl's point of view, is that the two people in front of him really have an improper relationship, so she can't help but become more and more annoyed.
What kind of reason is bad?Actually lost to a man who appeared out of nowhere? !
What's even more infuriating is...
"Since you are a HOMO, why did you agree to associate with me? Treat me as a test subject!"
Being called HOMO face to face, Harlequin was a little hurt.However, thinking that Heilbram was also of the same sex, there was nothing wrong with calling him that, so he silently accepted it.
His repeated silence made the girl speechless with anger, and she yelled, "Enough!", then turned and left.
"Ah, let's, let's see you off!" Harlequin jumped out while the class was not paying attention, and chased after him.
He was worried that the girl's mood would be unstable, and there would be an accident on the way back.
The moment his fingers touched the girl's arm, the girl suddenly turned her head and slapped her hard on the face. The crisp sound made the surroundings fall into a deeper silence.
"...Hey, you—!" The rehabilitated class shouted angrily, and wanted to rush forward to teach that woman a lesson. It was so courageous, even his men dared to beat her!
Harlequin held him back, shook his head, and watched the girl leave straight away, until he was almost out of sight, before taking steps to keep up.
"Where do you want to go?!" It was Ben's turn to stop Harlequin this time.
"We'll see her off and come back."
"what?!"
"It's okay, we'll just follow behind, we won't let her find out." Harlequin turned his head and smiled at Ben, then bowed slightly, "Thank you for what happened just now." After speaking, he left towards the girl chased in the direction.
☆、Chapter Twenty
Harlequin followed the girl through the dark alleys and came to the main road. He saw the girl hailed a taxi, and then went back with confidence.
When he got home, all the guests had gone back, and the party venues arranged on the grass outside the store had also been cleaned up. Elizabeth urged him to go to bed early, and he had to go to school tomorrow.
"Well, let's take a shower and go to bed." Harlequin said obediently, "Is the aftermath work over? Is there anything we can do for you?"
"Oh, it's okay, Marlene has helped clean it up." Meliodas said, "By the way, Ben is going to stay here today, so he will sleep in your room. Do you want to sleep with him or You can even sleep in a hammock."
"That's it... okay."
Harlequin remembered asking the head of the group why there was always a hammock hanging in his room. The head replied that it was to provide an extra place to sleep when there were guests. For the first time, what the leader said was verified.
When Harlequin was a child, he would sleep in a hammock on a whim. When the weather was fine, he could still look at the beautiful starry sky through the window.I remember that the last time I slept there was two or three years ago, can I still sleep at this moment?
He thought all the way, back to his room, when he opened the door and went in, Ben was already lying on his bed sprawled and snoring, his long arms and legs stretched out, almost occupying the whole bed, Lian Ha Le Kun's favorite pillows have all been taken up.
...Well, who made this person a guest?It's impossible to let him sleep in that small hammock.
Harlequin yawned silently, gently opened the drawer, took out a change of clothes, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
When he came out after washing, he found that Ban had changed his sleeping position, leaving half of the bed empty.But Harlequin didn't even think about going to bed together.
He covered the guest with the discarded quilt, took an air-conditioned quilt from the closet, walked straight to the hammock, climbed up with difficulty while the hammock was swinging, and wrapped himself in the quilt like a cocoon.
Because the spirit body has to sleep in the capital of the dead, the body in reality will maintain the same posture all night, so in order not to wake up sore in the morning, it is necessary to find a comfortable enough posture.
Harlequin, who had been struggling for a long time, was finally satisfied, closed his eyes with peace of mind, and went to where Heilbram was.
The consciousness sank and floated, and the scene in front of him had changed into a familiar forest.
"Helbram!" Harlequin began to call his best friend's name from a long distance, but unexpectedly found that Heilbram did not come out to greet him as usual, thinking that the other party had fallen asleep first, Harlequin floated up, Find out where they meet most often.
In the shadows shrouded in mist, the elf boy curled up with his back facing the outside, hugging his knees.
"Helbram?" Harlequin flew forward without knowing why, and put his arm around the opponent's shoulder.
"Ah!" Heilbram trembled in shock, and hurriedly turned around, "I, I thought Nai wouldn't be here today..."
"How could it be! We have to come to tell you that we have successfully separated from that child!"
"Hmm...I saw it by chance."
"Then why are you crying?"
"...Huh?" Heilbram wiped his face subconsciously again, and said stubbornly, "I-I didn't cry."
"Stop lying, you haven't wiped away the tears here!" Harlequin showed a helpless and gentle smile, and helped Helbram wipe away the tears on his face.
"I... I'm so happy." Heilbram continued to argue, but tears welled up again.
"...Telling us that you are happy with this expression is really not convincing at all." Harlequin gently hugged Heilbram into his arms.Although he didn't understand why Heilbram was crying like this, he felt that what his best friend needs now is not his questioning, but a real cry to release the boredom in his heart... So he said, "If you want to cry, just cry." Cry out, we won't laugh at you. But after crying, you must tell us why?"
The hand gripping Harlequin's sleeve tightened, and Helbram wrapped his arms around Harlequin's waist and buried his head in his chest.
The whimper gradually formed into a faintly audible murmur.
"Eh? Did you say anything?" Harlequin asked.
Heilbram said something again, but Harlequin still couldn't hear clearly, so he moved his ear to Heilbram.
"...I know I'm self-willed to do this...I just asked Nao to break up with Nao's girlfriend, and now...but..." Heilbram buried his head deeply and sobbed, "Please...definitely Stay away from that person, only that person... Be careful with him..."
"You, who are you talking about?" Harlequin asked in confusion.
"It's that... the one I met today..."
"..." Harlequin thought for a while, most of the people who came to his birthday party today were classmates from the school, and among the friends from the group leader, only Mr. Ban met for the first time.
"You mean... Mr. Ban?" Harlequin asked tentatively.
Heilbram's body froze suddenly, and the arms around Harlequin were trembling constantly.
Why...why do things always go for the worst?Just sent away a girlfriend, and a bigger threat came... No, compared to human women, that guy is the most terrifying existence!Why is that guy still showing up!Why come to pester Harlequin!
Rather than being sad, it is better to say that I am afraid.He didn't want to see Harlequin get hurt because of that person again... But what should he do?Since before, I have been unable to help at all and watched tragic things happen again and again. Can I really protect my important friend this time? !
He should have thought of it earlier... The leader of the Seven Deadly Sins found Harlequin, tried his best to train him to be the closest to the goblin king, and then went to inform that terrible human... They are close friends, and he will definitely help him get Harlequin LeCun...
Thinking of Heilbram here, the crying stopped abruptly. He grabbed Harlequin's arms in horror and asked loudly, "Where is that guy now! Has he gone back?!"
"Eh? That, that guy? Are you talking about Mr. Ben?" Harlequin was taken aback by Heilbram's sudden change. It was the first time he saw Heilbram showing such an expression. Fear distorted face, like a ghost.
"It's the sin of greed! That human named Ban!"
"Ah, he...he should be sleeping." Harlequin didn't understand why Heilbram cared so much about Mr. Ban.
"sleep?!"
"Yes, yes... After the party, the head of the group said that he would stay overnight, but there was no spare room at home, so he slept on our bed. We slept in a hammock today." Harlequin replied truthfully, with the feeling in his heart. There are more and more questions.
Why didn't Heilbram see this?Is it because he has been hiding here?
"What?! Nai, Nai said he was sleeping in Nai's room—?!" Helbram almost screamed hysterically, stood up and pushed Harlequin away, saying, "Go back! Then leave that Room, hurry——!"
"Ah, ah? Why, why?" Harlequin was obviously frightened by Heilbram's actions. He wanted to ask what was going on. Heilbram seemed to be very afraid of Mr. Ban... what happened between them What happened?
But Heilbram was still yelling at him: "Go back! Come on! Please—!"
"I know, I know!" Harlequin didn't dare to neglect any more, left a sentence "Let's come back later", closed his eyes and left the capital of the dead.
Maybe you'll know what's going on when you go back?he thought.
☆、Chapter 21
His doubts lasted only three seconds before he got an answer.
After opening his eyes, in front of him was a face enlarged to infinite closeness, something soft was moving and sucking on his cheeks and lips, and the body that regained consciousness also felt a burst of coolness, the quilt on his body... ...or rather, even the pajamas are missing.
……what's the situation!
Harlequin violently pushed away the tall man on top of him, jumped off the bed and fled to the corner, trembling from the shock.
"You, what are you doing?!"
"Oh, I finally reacted, you." Ban also jumped down calmly, and slowly approached the shivering boy like a little white rabbit, "I'm still thinking about what's going on with you, don't care I stand upright like a dead man in everything, although it’s good not to resist, but I still prefer to have feedback.”
Harlequin couldn't hear what the man said, fumbled in the side drawer in a panic, took out a coat from it, put it on, and prepared to flee towards the door.
He never expected this to happen to him.Although this person also said some strange things during the day, Harlequin thought it was because he was so happy to meet himself whom he had not seen for a long time. Those strange-sounding declarations might just be a way for this person to express his joy, so Harlequin didn't take those words to heart, but just now—!
Is this what Heilbram is afraid of?Is that why you let yourself come back quickly?God...he couldn't imagine how his body would be treated if he didn't listen to Heilbram's words and didn't come back in time!
Is this person really the leader's friend?Why would you do this to yourself? !Does the head know this? ...Shouldn't you know?How else would they be allowed to sleep in the same room?
Harlequin's heart was overwhelmed. Seeing that the man was about to grab him, he ducked to avoid the outstretched hand and ran to the door.
"Oh, Ben! Here you come! I haven't seen you in a hundred years and you are still the same!"
The tall, slender-eyed, silver-haired young man gave Meliodas a skillful high-five when he came up.
"Boss, you too, why did you suddenly think of asking me to come to the party?" He looked around with his hands on his hips, "Hey! It's so grand, what is it to celebrate?"
"Why, didn't Marlene tell you?"
"I just want to help you inform, Your Excellency, Commander, it's better for you to explain things yourself." Marlene who came later said with a smile.
"What is it, making it so mysterious?"
In the end, I still have to take on this drudgery by myself!Meliodas touched the back of his head helplessly: "Well... just think about what day it is today, it's not hard to guess."
"What date? April [-]st, April Fool's Day? Haha" Ben laughed a couple of times, then the smile froze on his face suddenly, "Hey, hey... isn't it? Are you sure it's not an April Fool's Day joke?"
Meliodas shrugged and said, "He's probably playing with his friends in his room right now."
Before the words finished, Ban had already run out.
The door on the third floor was pushed open abruptly. Roommate B was startled and turned to look at the door.
"Where's that guy?!" Ban glanced around the room and yelled without seeing the person he was looking for.
"Eh? Who? Who are you??" Roommate B asked in a little panic.
"What's the matter?" Roommate A also took off the VR glasses on his face.
"Where's Kim?" Ben asked again.
"Ah, Kim! Go upstairs with his girlfriend!" Roommate B said.
"Girlfriend?!" Ben's face became even more gloomy.
"Yes, yes..."
Ben turned and went upstairs.The confused conversation between the two teenagers could be vaguely heard from behind.
"who is this?"
"I do not know……"
☆、Chapter Eighteen of the Present World
The light in the study room on the fourth floor is relatively dim, and one can see at a glance that the door leading to the small roof at the other end is open, and the sunlight shines in, projecting the two figures next to each other on the ground, stretching them into elongated lengths.
Ban's long legs arrived at the door in three or two steps. The two people on the roof were startled, and they all turned their heads to look.
"..."
Ben stared closely at Harlequin, who took the opportunity to stay away from the girl. His rapid breathing and red eyes made his sharp appearance even more terrifying. Harlequin only felt that he was being stared at furiously. Not daring to meet his eyes.
It was the girl who spoke first: "Excuse me, are you...?"
"... Jin... is it really you...?" The young man opened his mouth, but his voice trembled, and his body fell to his knees as if he had lost his strength. He pulled Harlequin over and hugged him tightly.
Those strong arms were so excited that they wanted to rub Harlequin into his body.Harlequin felt that his bones were about to be pinched and fell apart. He struggled a few times but couldn't get out, so he subconsciously looked at the other person present, his eyes full of helplessness.
As if receiving a distress signal, the girl stepped forward and tried to break Ban's hand, and asked angrily, "Hey! Who are you? Let go! Didn't you see Harlequin suffering?!"
"..." Ben raised his head to look at the girl, his murderous gaze became even more frightening against the backdrop of his red pupils, and the girl unconsciously let go of her hand in fright.
However, the girl's goal was achieved. Ben let go of Harlequin, looked down at her, and said coldly, "Who are you?"
"Me? I, I'm Harlequin's girlfriend!" The girl summoned up her courage to declare her ownership.
"Girlfriend?" Ben sneered disdainfully, supported Harlequin and picked him up like a doll, and walked downstairs without looking back.
"Wait...! Let us down! Hey!" Harlequin patted Ben on the shoulder hard, trying to jump off.It's really embarrassing. As a man, he is held like a child in front of his girlfriend, but he has no power to resist.No...it's because this guy is too tall and strong, it's not because we are too weak!
In the end, the stranger said in a coaxing tone: "Don't move around, be careful not to fall."
"Then let us down!"
"Harlequin!" The girl followed closely, trying to save her again.
The two roommates heard the movement outside and opened the door, only to see the stranger walking downstairs carrying their roommate, followed by the roommate's girlfriend, who stared at each other in astonishment.
"What exactly is going on?"
Ben carried Harlequin all the way back downstairs, and asked Meliodas with a happy face: "Can you explain what's going on, when did you find this guy, leader?"
"Let us go!" Harlequin protested persistently.
"Tsk, okay, okay" Ben smacked his lips and put Harlequin on the ground.
Harlequin stepped back quickly, trying to stay as far away from this inexplicable stranger as possible, the girl also caught up, took his arm, and stared at Ben warily together.
"And it caused me such trouble." Ben pointed at the girl with a smile, but that smile was chilling.
"The girlfriend matter has nothing to do with me, this is Jin's freedom." Meliodas spread his hands, "Anyway, I found him for you, and the next thing is up to you, right?"
Ben was silent for a while, and said: "That's fine, as long as people are here, the next thing can be discussed." He licked his lips, stared at Harlequin with the eyes of a big bad wolf who found a little white rabbit, and said with a smile, "Lao Tzu will soon let him know who he belongs to"
"What, what is this man—! Harlequin, what's going on?" The girl hated and feared the arrogant young man in front of her. How could Harlequin's brother know such a person?
"We...we don't know..." Harlequin whispered.
"Huh? You haven't introduced yourself yet? Don't you think Kim still recognizes you, Ben?" Meliodas heard this conversation in a different way, and he waved to Harlequin, letting He comes over.
Harlequin hesitated, but he still walked to the head of the group, and the girl was close to him, for fear that if he didn't catch him, his boyfriend would be swallowed alive.
"Let me introduce, this is my best friend I mentioned to you before, his name is Ben." Meliodas introduced, "His cooking is delicious! Do you want to eat Whatever, just let him do it for you."
"Uh..." Harlequin smiled awkwardly, but hearing that this person is the best friend of the head of the group, he mustered up his courage, bowed politely, and said, "Please, please give me some advice, Mr. Ban." .”
"You can just call me Ban." Ban laughed, "How about it, as the head of the group said, just say what you want to eat, and I will make it for you."
"We... that..." Harlequin didn't know how to answer this man's words.
"How about egg cheese toast? Or cheese tacos? Ah, and cheese balls are one of your favorite cheese dishes, right?"
"How do you know..." Harlequin wanted to ask, how did you know that we like to eat cheese, but he quickly reacted and asked, "You, you also know us...a long time ago?"
"...Yeah" Ben's smile became very gentle, he patted Kim on the head and said, "Come on, I need your help and a tasting"
Harlequin looked at Meliodas, who nodded with a smile.
He looked at the girl again, and the girl frowned and shook her head. Harlequin pondered for a while and said, "Do you want to help too? We don't think Mr. Ban is a bad person."
Although his actions at the beginning did scare him, when he learned that he was also one of the people who knew his former self, Harlequin couldn't get angry for some reason.Maybe he's just so happy to see "us" again?Harlequin thought.
"..." Although the girl was reluctant, she thought that that person was a friend of Harlequin's brother. As a guest, it's not easy to be angry with the host's friend, right?They followed together.
Ban first checked the existing ingredients, then skillfully took out the pots and pans, and commanded Harlequin to help him.
At this moment, I said: "Go and take out the eggs, beat ten parts, and put them in different bowls." After that, I added another question, "Will you?"
"This, this level—!" Harlequin, who felt despised, immediately ran to get the bowl.
"Don't break the eggshell into it"
"Will not!"
After a while, another sentence: "Wash and peel the potatoes over there. It's a little harder than the one just now, is it okay?"
"It's been done many times!"
"Then if you know how to cut it, cut it into pieces by the way!"
After finally finishing the pot of potatoes, Ban's next instruction came again.
"Oh! The knife skills are not bad. Next, I washed and cut up the basket of mushrooms."
"Oh." Harlequin obediently moved to the pool again, and began to carefully wash off the silt on the surface of the mushrooms.
Repetitive work made his thoughts drift away quickly. He suddenly remembered that he had eaten raw mushrooms in the capital of the dead, and he couldn't help but put a freshly washed mushroom that looked tender and plump in his mouth and bit it go down.
The person who was working quietly at the side suddenly coughed violently, causing the pan in Ban's hand to almost fall to the ground.
The girl also hurriedly stepped forward to stroke Harlequin's back, and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Ah...why do you eat mushrooms like this? Are they still raw?"
"Ahem... no, nothing... just accidentally distracted... cough cough..." Harlequin coughed and threw the mushroom that he had bitten and vomited out half into the trash can, but he was quite worried. Shocked, I thought, it was so delicious back then, why is it so hard to swallow now...
But the listening class said unhurriedly: "...you are a human being now, of course you will vomit if you eat it raw. Moreover, the ingredients in this era are not as good as before, so we should eat less raw things in the future. Come and taste this." Bring the freshly baked egg and cheese toast to Harlequin's mouth.
"..."
This person... sure enough, he also knew that we were "fairies" a long time ago...
Harlequin thought to himself, silently looking at the man in front of him smiling like a fox.
Seeing Harlequin not moving, Ben asked with a smile, "What? It's too hot?" He blew on the toast before handing it to Harlequin.
Harlequin had to take a bite cautiously.
"How about it?"
"……good to eat……"
After a small accident, the two continued to work together.While Ben made Harlequin do this and that without a break, he completely ignored the girl's existence.Harlequin, who was so busy, couldn't spare the time to greet his girlfriend.The girl had to take the initiative to help.
She couldn't figure out why she hated the tall, thin man she met for the first time, just because of his aggressive words and deeds towards her boyfriend?But after thinking about it carefully, he felt wrong, no matter what he was a man, those words and actions should be more like joking with an old friend, right?It can also be seen from their conversation that the man has known Harlequin for a long time, but Harlequin doesn't remember him.Is it because Harlequin was little when they met?
But why is he so uneasy?
Yes... She felt very disturbed, was it her intuition as a woman?Her intuition told her that this man was unusually threatening.
Watching Harlequin's resistance to men from the beginning, to the tacit cooperation like friends who have known each other for many years, one is skillfully making the dishes, the other is helping to pass the ingredients and seasonings, and by the way, taste the dishes when they are finished, and then amazed Shouting "delicious!"
"B-Is it more delicious than what I made?!" The girl finally couldn't help but asked unconvinced.
"..." Harlequin couldn't bear to affirm it face to face, so he tore off a piece and brought it to the girl's mouth, saying, "Do you want to try it?"
The girl frowned slightly, bit the piece of toast and ate it into her mouth.
...It's really, really delicious...It's much more delicious than the ones made by myself...No, it should be said, it's better than any food she has ever eaten. To this extreme... She has never eaten such delicious egg cheese toast!
...No, no, don't admit defeat so quickly!Maybe this person is just good at egg cheese toast?
It's a pity that her luck was quickly shattered by the second and third courses.
But...it's nothing.Because Harlequin has been feeding her with a smile from the very beginning, which has never happened before.Although the tall and thin man turned his head to feed Harlequin from time to time, she selectively ignored them, so although he lost to him in cooking, the girl was in a good mood.
☆、Chapter Nineteen of the Present World
It was getting dark, and as more and more guests arrived, Harlequin had to leave to entertain his friends.As soon as he left, Ben dropped the spoon and announced "no more".
"Hey, Ben, don't give up halfway like this, okay? If you don't do it, what will everyone eat? What about the party?" Meliodas hurriedly persuaded.
“I’m not here to be a volunteer”
"Even so, Jin is also a part of it, and he has to eat it! You should just make a few more by the way."
"There are so many people, how can there be only a few servings? Besides, I think that guy is almost full, and I have nothing to do with the rest."
"Don't say that! Anyway, it's Kim's birthday party hosted by me, you won't lose face, right?" Meliodas put emphasis on the words "I" and "Kim", and stretched out his index finger Said, "Just this once, huh?"
"..." Ben narrowed his eyes and said, "Then I will live here tonight?"
"Okay, no problem!"
"Old room?"
"Of course, that's your room."
Only then did Ben raise his eyebrows in satisfaction, and picked up the spoon again.
"Ah, if you want to make it, don't just make cheese dishes, but also make something else. Here is the menu."
"...You really push your limits, Commander"
The dishes made by Ban Qingqing have been well received by the guests, especially the Harlequin students who are underage and unable to taste the famous wine of the Pig Hat Pavilion. In the tavern, you can eat such delicious things every day.
"No, it's not." Harlequin said honestly, "It's also the first time for us to eat the dishes made by Mr. Ben. In the past, the dishes in the store were all made by Lady Elizabeth. Ah, the food made by Lady Elizabeth is also very good Eat! If what Mr. Ban cooks is hotel-level luxurious delicacy, then what Lady Elizabeth cooks is home-level simple delicacy!"
"Ah, Master Jin can really talk~" Elizabeth said happily.
"Really? Then can we come to your house to taste the dishes cooked by sister Elizabeth?"
"Of course, everyone is welcome to come here often!" Elizabeth said with a smile.
"Well, of course we are very welcome to come as guests!" Meliodas strolled from the tavern to the banquet place outside, and Ben followed closely behind.His work is finally finished, you know he has been busy for several hours, but he still hasn't eaten a bite!
So far, the hosts and protagonists of the party have all arrived, and the atmosphere on the scene has been pushed to a climax again.
The carnival lasted for more than two hours before it gradually calmed down. The boys and girls were full of food and drinks, and gathered together in twos and threes to chat. The vice president of the tailor club also got acquainted with someone who had painted oil paintings with Harlequin. A female classmate accidentally created a good story.
Harlequin was also very happy to see everyone having so much fun.However, there is one more important thing waiting for him to complete.
According to the leader's suggestion, he must show his attitude to the girl before midnight.He wasn't sure when everyone was going to go back, and it was definitely not good to talk about it when there were too many people.However, if you want to play all night, you have to choose a place with few people...
In any case, it was impossible to go to Heilbram early today.
"Hey..." Harlequin sighed softly.How much he wanted to celebrate with Heilbram on a day like this...
"Why are you sighing, Harlequin?" The girl asked concerned, "Are you tired?"
"Ah, no." Harlequin waved his hand quickly and said.
The girl covered her mouth and smiled, "Really? If it was normal, you would have gone to bed by this point, right? Ah...are you... still worried about your friend?"
Harlequin was taken aback.Only then did he remember that the girl didn't know about the reconciliation between himself and Heilbram, so he said, "No, we have already reconciled with him."
"That's it...Speaking of which, I don't seem to see your friend. Didn't he come to the party?"
"Ah, um. He... is too far away to come."
"Hey - it's a netizen, no wonder you say he disappeared suddenly." The girl suddenly realized.
Harlequin, unable to explain, had to remain silent.
After another hour of hesitation, it seemed that it would be past midnight in more than half an hour. Some girls suggested that it was time to go home, so others also expressed their intention to leave one after another. After all, they had to go to school the next day. For five or six-year-old boys and girls, it is time to go home.
As Harlequin's close girlfriend, the girl certainly wouldn't leave so fast, and said she would stay and help clean up the scene.
"Oh, what an embarrassment. We can clean it up, it doesn't matter." Elizabeth smiled.
Meliodas on the other side started to wink at Harlequin.
Harlequin nodded slightly, walked up to the girl, and whispered softly: "That... we have something to tell you."
"Yeah?" The girl who thought that Harlequin was going to have a private conversation with herself couldn't help being elated, and replied expectantly, "Okay!"
Avoiding the eyes of others, they walked to the river bank some distance from the pig hat booth.It was already midnight at this time, and the surroundings were quiet, only the bright moon and the street lamps gave off a cool light.
"It's all right here, what do you want to say?" The girl lay on the stone railing beside the river embankment, stroking her hair that was blown by the evening wind behind her ears.
Harlequin stood in the shadow of the street lights on both sides, lowered his head, gritted his teeth for a while, and then whispered apologetically: "That...although it's a bit hard to say, but..."
He was silent for a while, but still said "break up".
Although the voice was so small that Harlequin was worried whether the other party had really heard it, he still felt the air pressure around him drop suddenly.
"You... what are you talking about, disgusting!" The girl laughed, "Are you going to make an April Fool's joke at the last moment to scare me? Really, I won't be fooled!" She tried her best to smile It doesn't look so forced.
"We're not joking..." Harlequin bowed deeply, "I'm sorry!"
"..."
The girl turned her head silently, facing the river bank.
"...Is there something wrong with me?" She asked quietly.
"No, no, it's not your problem, it's us..."
"Please tell me the reason." Perhaps because of trying to restrain herself, the girl's voice was so flat as to be cold.
"...We have... someone we like..."
"Then why did you promise me in the first place?!" Her voice suddenly rose.
"……sorry."
Harlequin had to bow again and apologize sincerely.Although at that time he didn't know his true intentions, but now he said it like he was trying to excuse himself.This was originally his own fault.
Unexpectedly, another voice answered for him: "That's because this guy only knows who he should like today."
At the same time, someone grabbed Harlequin's waist and lifted him up.
"Ban, Mr. Ban?! You, why did you come here?" Harlequin was stunned for three seconds before remembering to struggle to get down.
"It's fine if you tell me to take the class, sir, you're too out of touch." The young man continued to speak frivolously as before, and tightened his grip on Harlequin's hand.
"Uh, but..."
"There's nothing wrong with it." Ban smiled and raised his eyebrows at the girl. "That's the way it is. This guy is my property, so you can break up quickly."
"Huh?!" Although it was difficult to tell the truth from the false, but the man's frivolous attitude made the girl's already bad mood fall to the bottom. At this time, she didn't care about the etiquette, and asked angrily, "What's messed up, aren't you today? Did you just know each other?"
"Who told you? We have known each other for thousands of years."
"Ah?" The girl asked Harlequin pointing at the young man with a disgusted expression of "is this person sick?" "This is the person you said you like?!"
"This, this..." Thinking of Heilbram saying that if he told others that he liked the friend in his dream, no one would believe him, so he didn't know how to explain it for a while.
His hesitation, from the girl's point of view, is that the two people in front of him really have an improper relationship, so she can't help but become more and more annoyed.
What kind of reason is bad?Actually lost to a man who appeared out of nowhere? !
What's even more infuriating is...
"Since you are a HOMO, why did you agree to associate with me? Treat me as a test subject!"
Being called HOMO face to face, Harlequin was a little hurt.However, thinking that Heilbram was also of the same sex, there was nothing wrong with calling him that, so he silently accepted it.
His repeated silence made the girl speechless with anger, and she yelled, "Enough!", then turned and left.
"Ah, let's, let's see you off!" Harlequin jumped out while the class was not paying attention, and chased after him.
He was worried that the girl's mood would be unstable, and there would be an accident on the way back.
The moment his fingers touched the girl's arm, the girl suddenly turned her head and slapped her hard on the face. The crisp sound made the surroundings fall into a deeper silence.
"...Hey, you—!" The rehabilitated class shouted angrily, and wanted to rush forward to teach that woman a lesson. It was so courageous, even his men dared to beat her!
Harlequin held him back, shook his head, and watched the girl leave straight away, until he was almost out of sight, before taking steps to keep up.
"Where do you want to go?!" It was Ben's turn to stop Harlequin this time.
"We'll see her off and come back."
"what?!"
"It's okay, we'll just follow behind, we won't let her find out." Harlequin turned his head and smiled at Ben, then bowed slightly, "Thank you for what happened just now." After speaking, he left towards the girl chased in the direction.
☆、Chapter Twenty
Harlequin followed the girl through the dark alleys and came to the main road. He saw the girl hailed a taxi, and then went back with confidence.
When he got home, all the guests had gone back, and the party venues arranged on the grass outside the store had also been cleaned up. Elizabeth urged him to go to bed early, and he had to go to school tomorrow.
"Well, let's take a shower and go to bed." Harlequin said obediently, "Is the aftermath work over? Is there anything we can do for you?"
"Oh, it's okay, Marlene has helped clean it up." Meliodas said, "By the way, Ben is going to stay here today, so he will sleep in your room. Do you want to sleep with him or You can even sleep in a hammock."
"That's it... okay."
Harlequin remembered asking the head of the group why there was always a hammock hanging in his room. The head replied that it was to provide an extra place to sleep when there were guests. For the first time, what the leader said was verified.
When Harlequin was a child, he would sleep in a hammock on a whim. When the weather was fine, he could still look at the beautiful starry sky through the window.I remember that the last time I slept there was two or three years ago, can I still sleep at this moment?
He thought all the way, back to his room, when he opened the door and went in, Ben was already lying on his bed sprawled and snoring, his long arms and legs stretched out, almost occupying the whole bed, Lian Ha Le Kun's favorite pillows have all been taken up.
...Well, who made this person a guest?It's impossible to let him sleep in that small hammock.
Harlequin yawned silently, gently opened the drawer, took out a change of clothes, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
When he came out after washing, he found that Ban had changed his sleeping position, leaving half of the bed empty.But Harlequin didn't even think about going to bed together.
He covered the guest with the discarded quilt, took an air-conditioned quilt from the closet, walked straight to the hammock, climbed up with difficulty while the hammock was swinging, and wrapped himself in the quilt like a cocoon.
Because the spirit body has to sleep in the capital of the dead, the body in reality will maintain the same posture all night, so in order not to wake up sore in the morning, it is necessary to find a comfortable enough posture.
Harlequin, who had been struggling for a long time, was finally satisfied, closed his eyes with peace of mind, and went to where Heilbram was.
The consciousness sank and floated, and the scene in front of him had changed into a familiar forest.
"Helbram!" Harlequin began to call his best friend's name from a long distance, but unexpectedly found that Heilbram did not come out to greet him as usual, thinking that the other party had fallen asleep first, Harlequin floated up, Find out where they meet most often.
In the shadows shrouded in mist, the elf boy curled up with his back facing the outside, hugging his knees.
"Helbram?" Harlequin flew forward without knowing why, and put his arm around the opponent's shoulder.
"Ah!" Heilbram trembled in shock, and hurriedly turned around, "I, I thought Nai wouldn't be here today..."
"How could it be! We have to come to tell you that we have successfully separated from that child!"
"Hmm...I saw it by chance."
"Then why are you crying?"
"...Huh?" Heilbram wiped his face subconsciously again, and said stubbornly, "I-I didn't cry."
"Stop lying, you haven't wiped away the tears here!" Harlequin showed a helpless and gentle smile, and helped Helbram wipe away the tears on his face.
"I... I'm so happy." Heilbram continued to argue, but tears welled up again.
"...Telling us that you are happy with this expression is really not convincing at all." Harlequin gently hugged Heilbram into his arms.Although he didn't understand why Heilbram was crying like this, he felt that what his best friend needs now is not his questioning, but a real cry to release the boredom in his heart... So he said, "If you want to cry, just cry." Cry out, we won't laugh at you. But after crying, you must tell us why?"
The hand gripping Harlequin's sleeve tightened, and Helbram wrapped his arms around Harlequin's waist and buried his head in his chest.
The whimper gradually formed into a faintly audible murmur.
"Eh? Did you say anything?" Harlequin asked.
Heilbram said something again, but Harlequin still couldn't hear clearly, so he moved his ear to Heilbram.
"...I know I'm self-willed to do this...I just asked Nao to break up with Nao's girlfriend, and now...but..." Heilbram buried his head deeply and sobbed, "Please...definitely Stay away from that person, only that person... Be careful with him..."
"You, who are you talking about?" Harlequin asked in confusion.
"It's that... the one I met today..."
"..." Harlequin thought for a while, most of the people who came to his birthday party today were classmates from the school, and among the friends from the group leader, only Mr. Ban met for the first time.
"You mean... Mr. Ban?" Harlequin asked tentatively.
Heilbram's body froze suddenly, and the arms around Harlequin were trembling constantly.
Why...why do things always go for the worst?Just sent away a girlfriend, and a bigger threat came... No, compared to human women, that guy is the most terrifying existence!Why is that guy still showing up!Why come to pester Harlequin!
Rather than being sad, it is better to say that I am afraid.He didn't want to see Harlequin get hurt because of that person again... But what should he do?Since before, I have been unable to help at all and watched tragic things happen again and again. Can I really protect my important friend this time? !
He should have thought of it earlier... The leader of the Seven Deadly Sins found Harlequin, tried his best to train him to be the closest to the goblin king, and then went to inform that terrible human... They are close friends, and he will definitely help him get Harlequin LeCun...
Thinking of Heilbram here, the crying stopped abruptly. He grabbed Harlequin's arms in horror and asked loudly, "Where is that guy now! Has he gone back?!"
"Eh? That, that guy? Are you talking about Mr. Ben?" Harlequin was taken aback by Heilbram's sudden change. It was the first time he saw Heilbram showing such an expression. Fear distorted face, like a ghost.
"It's the sin of greed! That human named Ban!"
"Ah, he...he should be sleeping." Harlequin didn't understand why Heilbram cared so much about Mr. Ban.
"sleep?!"
"Yes, yes... After the party, the head of the group said that he would stay overnight, but there was no spare room at home, so he slept on our bed. We slept in a hammock today." Harlequin replied truthfully, with the feeling in his heart. There are more and more questions.
Why didn't Heilbram see this?Is it because he has been hiding here?
"What?! Nai, Nai said he was sleeping in Nai's room—?!" Helbram almost screamed hysterically, stood up and pushed Harlequin away, saying, "Go back! Then leave that Room, hurry——!"
"Ah, ah? Why, why?" Harlequin was obviously frightened by Heilbram's actions. He wanted to ask what was going on. Heilbram seemed to be very afraid of Mr. Ban... what happened between them What happened?
But Heilbram was still yelling at him: "Go back! Come on! Please—!"
"I know, I know!" Harlequin didn't dare to neglect any more, left a sentence "Let's come back later", closed his eyes and left the capital of the dead.
Maybe you'll know what's going on when you go back?he thought.
☆、Chapter 21
His doubts lasted only three seconds before he got an answer.
After opening his eyes, in front of him was a face enlarged to infinite closeness, something soft was moving and sucking on his cheeks and lips, and the body that regained consciousness also felt a burst of coolness, the quilt on his body... ...or rather, even the pajamas are missing.
……what's the situation!
Harlequin violently pushed away the tall man on top of him, jumped off the bed and fled to the corner, trembling from the shock.
"You, what are you doing?!"
"Oh, I finally reacted, you." Ban also jumped down calmly, and slowly approached the shivering boy like a little white rabbit, "I'm still thinking about what's going on with you, don't care I stand upright like a dead man in everything, although it’s good not to resist, but I still prefer to have feedback.”
Harlequin couldn't hear what the man said, fumbled in the side drawer in a panic, took out a coat from it, put it on, and prepared to flee towards the door.
He never expected this to happen to him.Although this person also said some strange things during the day, Harlequin thought it was because he was so happy to meet himself whom he had not seen for a long time. Those strange-sounding declarations might just be a way for this person to express his joy, so Harlequin didn't take those words to heart, but just now—!
Is this what Heilbram is afraid of?Is that why you let yourself come back quickly?God...he couldn't imagine how his body would be treated if he didn't listen to Heilbram's words and didn't come back in time!
Is this person really the leader's friend?Why would you do this to yourself? !Does the head know this? ...Shouldn't you know?How else would they be allowed to sleep in the same room?
Harlequin's heart was overwhelmed. Seeing that the man was about to grab him, he ducked to avoid the outstretched hand and ran to the door.
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