Silver Blade and Rose

Back at No. 179, they went upstairs one after the other. Zals originally planned to go to Elvins to study the problem of the meteor box in private later, but Edwin stood at the door of his room, with a blank expression on his face. Reach out your hand: "Give it to me."

"what?"

"Meteor box." Edwin said, "Don't pretend, I know you brought it back."

"..."

Zals had no choice but to take out the small box from his pocket and give it to him, and said cautiously, "Are you still angry?"

Edwin just glanced at him.

"I'm angry?" He asked without answering, "How do you know that?"

"I almost wrote this word on my face." Zales felt a little funny, and reached out to touch the slightly raised crease between his brows. Talk with a stinky face—I know you feel uncomfortable, if you want to talk to someone, you can call me."

After finishing speaking, he belatedly realized that the words seemed a little too intimate, and added embarrassingly, "...or Ivan."

After being "manually intervened" by him in this way, Edwin's frowning brows relaxed, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and repeated what he called him just now: "When did you start calling him Ivan?"

He remembered that not long ago, Zals still called Ivan the Earl of Elvins in a stiff and unfamiliar manner. In a blink of an eye, before he knew it, it seemed that the two had become friends.

Zars was suddenly diverted from the topic, and he was taken aback before explaining slowly: "He told me not to be too unfamiliar, so I just called it... Is there any problem?"

Edwin shook his head, and walked to his room with the meteor box. Zars stood there watching him, and suddenly felt that Edwin's back looked a little like Emily.

Of course he is tall and straight, even if he is in a bad mood, he walks with his shoulders straight, like a statue with good manners, but he is not a statue, he always has real thoughts that can be felt by others, in Zars' eyes now Edwin...

a little lonely.

Like Emily, like a child who thinks that the people around him can't understand him, so he becomes lonely on his own.

So Zars couldn't help but call out to stop him.

"Are you sure you don't need some psychological counseling? I'm quite experienced."

The so-called experienced refers to having a lot of coaching experience.On the eve of graduation, because of an accident during the mission, he was suspected of having psychological problems. He had contact with no less than five groups of assessment and counseling personnel, and finally concluded that there was nothing wrong with him, but he could not immediately accept that he shot and killed a living person The fact that it takes a little time to buffer just.Zars himself knew all about these things, but he also made it clear that no one would believe or feel at ease, so he didn't resist, and obediently accepted several overt and secret tests before he got a letter of recommendation from the school and planned to go to the police. Team.

Including the "accident" he experienced, Edwin probably didn't know anything about it. In the eyes of the other party, he should have always been a harmless ordinary person...Zars was still thinking about how to explain it to him. Edwin had already closed the door, kicked Kururu away who was blocking the way, and then fell heavily on the bed.

Zals stood a little far away from the bed, staring dumbfounded at him rolling around twice, pulling up the quilt and wrapping himself into a human-shaped cocoon.

"that……"

He hesitated to speak, but was interrupted by Edwin's muffled voice through the quilt: "Shut up."

Zars immediately stopped talking, and it was only after a while that he heard the other party whisper in the quilt: "I'm tired and want to sleep for a while."

"You go to sleep," Zals negotiated very well, "I'm here to accompany you, if you need anything, you can call me directly."

It's not that he insists on being in bed, Edwin has hands and feet and is not sick, but he is not in a good mood, and he will recover even without him.But Zals looked at the "cocoon" wrapped in the quilt, and suddenly felt that maybe it was a better choice for him to stay.

Edwin is not like this usually, and his needs are different from usual.Zals thought.

He took care of Edwin with the careful intention of taking care of children, but the latter was inexplicably cared for by him. He felt that the air would freeze because of the presence of two people in the room, so he lifted the quilt and sat up to look at him: "Why are you suddenly clinging?" I don't want to let go?"

"Just..." Zars felt that he was baffled just like him, and explained bravely, "I don't know why, but I just want to accompany you."

Obviously, the other party has a good friend like Elvins, and theoretically does not need him to accompany him at all, but he is determined to stay here, so he has a thick skin, and decides to stay no matter what Edwin says.

As a result, he punched the cotton, and Edwin looked at him blankly for a while, then changed his words suddenly.

"To take a bath."

"……what?"

Edwin lifted the quilt and got off the bed, tossed the sheet and quilt cover and threw it to Kururu, then said while taking off his coat, "Aren't you going to give me psychological counseling? Come back after taking a shower, it's too dirty. "

Kururu ran after Edwin in the dirty clothes basket under Zals's dull gaze, put away the sheets and quilts, and collected the dirty clothes he took off, rolling back and forth because the basket was too full. Shen also bumped Zals once.

When Edwin even took off his bottoming sweater, and only wore a pair of trousers with his back facing him, Zals jumped up like his butt was on fire, and ran away from the door.

"I, I, I will go back to take a shower! You wait for me!"

Edwin glanced at his fleeing back, raised his eyebrows and asked Kururu who was holding a basket next to him: "Is it scary for me to take off my clothes?"

Kururu lifted the dirty clothes basket up, carefully observed his expression, and shook the things in his hand after confirming that he was not angry, and promised: "It's not scary, you are the number one handsome man in hell. He may I just ran away because I was scared by the scars and masculinity on your back."

Of course, Zals would not be scared away by any masculinity or scars. Edwin saw him exercising in the yard upstairs, and the other party had a lot of scars on his body. It was a body that had been trained and injured, but it was not like He is so concentrated in one location.

Uncompromising about its flattery, Edwin untied the belt and threw it in the laundry basket, beckoning Kururu to wash it for Mun, while he took a nightgown from the closet and took it into the bathroom, and looked at the mirror after closing the door in myself.

Although there is always a mirror in the bathroom, to be honest, he doesn't see himself in the mirror very often.

There is a story among the white people, the specific content of which he can't remember clearly, it is roughly a legend about a girl's adventure alone.The first half of the story is similar to most warrior legends. The protagonist comes from an ordinary background, but has gone through many experiences and becomes a hero who saves himself and the world.These are all clichés, and he found it very boring when he heard it, but he was deeply impressed by the ending: the girl defeated the demon, defeated her inner fear, and decided to face all the darkness in her heart, but saw an extremely ugly picture in the mirror. s face.

What is more unacceptable than all the difficulties she has overcome is that she is not the perfect warrior she imagined from the beginning to the end, but a thin and ugly one, rotting from the face, and she is no longer human.With such a face, she killed the demon who laughed at herself, and finally found that they were not lying, and she was the one who knew nothing about herself.

The girl eventually committed suicide in front of a mirror.

Such a story is used to teach children to learn introspection, and frankly, Edwin does not agree.In his view, the protagonist did nothing wrong at all. Even if she is really ugly and dirty, it is not a reason for being spurned and hurt. She is just retaliating for the hurt, but because of her wrong perception and hope of herself , and was eventually killed by himself.

Because of the story, he was not keen on looking in the mirror all the time.Although he knows what kind of face is in the mirror, but because he has a complete and comprehensive understanding of himself, he doesn't want to see himself often.

He knew what kind of existence was under his skin, and he was afraid that one day he would see his rotten face in the mirror.

Edwin stared blankly at himself in the mirror for a moment, then reached out to turn on the shower switch, hot water poured him from head to toe, and the steam quickly diffused, smearing him in the mirror into a blur.