Silver Blade and Rose

Zals maintained his supine position and thought about his life for a while. He heard Edwin chatting with Elvins outside. The voice was vague through the door panel. He didn't know what he was talking about, and he was not interested in listening.He couldn't figure out what he was struggling with, and he didn't come back to his senses until a snake crawled onto his bed.

"What are you thinking? Why are you here alone in a daze."

The snake hung upside down from the head of the bed, hissed a message above his head, and asked with some doubts.

"You don't understand," Zales said, "I'm thinking about something very important."

He didn't know why he suddenly seemed to be back in his youth. It was just a kiss, but he thought of many things that he didn't care about before.

This is probably the trouble of being in love, Zals thought.

He clearly understood that now was not the time to think about these things. Grant's life and death were still uncertain, and there were still many things he should have done but didn't do. Edwin had even just assigned him a case.But he did, like most first-timers, start to think about his fledgling love.

The snake hissed and swam around him for a while, and saw that he didn't respond, so he coiled himself into a lump and rolled up on the bed to look at him: "Young man, are you a little too weak, you're just in a relationship, why don't you seem like Lost even your soul?"

Zals thought to himself, if I have Edwin's proficiency, I don't have to think about these things.

He raised one hand to cover his eyes, forcing himself not to look at the emotions on the ceiling, and the heat in his body gradually receded as time went by.The room was very quiet, there was only one person, one snake, and one door. He lay down with his mind empty for a while, and when he let go, the face on the ceiling had disappeared.

Someone knocked on the door twice, and then Elvins opened the door and came in. Seeing him lying on the bed, he asked with some doubts: "Didn't you just wake up not long ago, and you're sleepy again?"

"No," Zals said, "I was just thinking about something. I saw you all went out, so I lay down casually."

He got up from the bed, picked up the snake next to him, stuffed it into the cage and locked it up, then said: "Then I'll go out first."

Elvins nodded and didn't say anything else. After watching him leave the room, he was full of doubts: What the hell is Edwin doing?

There was no movement in the "door", and with Elvins guarding, it was not his turn to worry.Zars stared blankly in the corridor for a while, not knowing what to do, but seeing the weather outside the window, he decided to go downstairs to play with Cerberus.

It’s rare that there’s a bit of sunshine in winter, the sun is shining warmly, and the yard is not as deserted as usual. Even Cerberus didn’t retreat into his house to sleep, with half of his head exposed, playing with Zars. his doll.

It is obviously still a puppy, but its appearance is already that of an adult dog. Only when it is lying on the ground playing with toys, does it show a little cuteness that matches its age.Zars sat cross-legged next to it, stroked its head, and said, "Come bask in the sun with me."

Cerberus nodded half-understanding, put the toy in his hand, and wagged his tail in a friendly way.

The weather was fine and the wind was not too strong. The lawn in the yard was almost dry, looking like a yellow and dry natural carpet.There was an open space next to the dog house, Zals felt very comfortable sitting on it, so he simply lay on his back on the ground, and sighed at the clear blue sky.

It seems that when I first came here, I didn't have anything to do, just play here with you all day long.

He remembered how he was when he first arrived. At that time, he was not familiar with everyone in No. 179, except for Muen and Cerberus who had brought him to familiarize himself with the environment.At that time, he felt that Mun was a living person no matter what, and Cerberus was just a big docile dog who couldn't speak, so he seemed to get along better in comparison. Under the influence of this kind of thinking, staying with a dog We spend more time together than people.

It wasn't until later that he started to go on missions with Edwin that he gradually got better. Leaving aside Muen, who was originally easy to get along with, even the relationship with Hannah eased a lot.

He likes this place and everyone here from the bottom of his heart. Even though he now knows that Muen and Hannah are just puppets, he still treats them with the same attitude as before.

It's just that he didn't expect that he would fall in love with Edwin before, and even developed the relationship with him into the current relationship. He knew that his status in No. 179 had not changed, but because of his "underground relationship" with Edwin, he seemed right. Everyone is on guard, vigilant all the time, afraid of revealing their little secrets.

He was afraid that everyone would find out about their relationship. Since Edwin had no plans to make it public for the time being, he had to avoid other people every step he took. Strictly speaking, this seemed no different from a campus romance.

Although it is a bit magical to start a school romance after the age of 20, it is not impossible for him to accept this sweet burden, if Edwin really thinks so.

Zars was lying on the dry grass, covered in the smell of hay. Cerberus was obediently playing with toys beside him, flicking his big tail, occasionally bumping into him, and looking back See if he was damaged by himself.

No. 179 is at the end of Rockhill Street. It is a very remote yard. Except for the neighbors who leave early and return late, almost no one passes by.It was a rare fine weather in the afternoon. Zars, who didn't sleep well last night, lay down on the lawn, next to the warm Cerberus, and fell asleep not long after.

He only wore a not-so-thick coat. Fortunately, the sun was just right and the grass was quite warm, so he wouldn't feel cold lying on it.After playing for a while, Cerberus found that his breathing was gradually slowing down, and he was obviously asleep, so he turned to look at him, put the doll he liked by his hand, and leaned over himself, resting his chin on his body, Then close your eyes.

On the dry and yellow grass, a person and a dog slept soundly next to each other. There were no people or cars to disturb them, and the sun shone on them, like a quiet painting.

Edwin wanted to sleep for a while after returning to the room, but he couldn't sleep in bed.He got up and drank a glass of water, and when he opened the curtains to look downstairs, this was the scene he saw.

Zals slept long enough for this afternoon nap, and when he woke up again, the sky outside the window was already dark.

He got up from the familiar yet unfamiliar big bed, and after a moment he realized that he was in Edwin's room, not the small and narrow guest room downstairs.

Naturally, Cerberus, who was sleeping with him, would not be allowed to enter the clean freak's room. He put on his coat and went to the terrace to have a look. A big black tail was exposed at the door of the dog house. After shaking it twice, he shrank back. Replaced with Cerberus' big head.

The big dog turned its head around and came out of its own house, wagging its tail at him who was upstairs in the night, but obediently did not bark.Zals waved at it to show that he saw it, but he couldn't help wondering when Edwin brought him up.

He was the only one in the room, and the master was obviously not there. Zars tidied up the quilt that he had messed up, washed his face in the bathroom, and then opened the door to go out to find Edwin.

It wasn't hard to find, the other party was in his room, occupying the only chair, so that Elvins, who was very polite and didn't move the bed, was leaning against the door with nothing to do, and raised his eyebrows when he saw him open the door and come out He turned to look at Edwin.

"Hey Abel, your baby is awake," he teased.

Zars froze for a moment, stopped and did not move forward, feeling as if he had heard something wrong.

"Baby" should... not be talking about him?

As he thought about it, he heard Edwin's voice from the room: "After all these years, you still haven't learned one thing."

Elvins cooperated: "What's the matter?"

"Shut up if you can't speak."

"Okay, okay," the reprimanded person raised his hands to express his surrender, smiled and glanced at Zars in the corridor, made a "please" gesture, and said, "Then I'll just shut up and leave. You talk slowly."

His attitude was a bit weird. Zars watched Elvins go downstairs, and suddenly didn't know whether he should ask Edwin what was going on.

I always feel that I will get a weirder answer, every time.

Edwin in the room seemed to have heard the voice of retreating in his heart, and said leisurely: "What are you doing standing outside? This is your room, come in."

Although this is true, his room has already been requisitioned, and Zals is a little flustered now that this is the case.

He entered the door slowly, and saw Edwin sitting with his back facing him at a distance from the cage. The snake was aggrieved and coiled up in the cage, obviously ordered to stay as far away from him as possible. Zars entered the door and even cast him a begging look.

Zals stared at Edwin's neatly ironed back collar of his shirt, and asked bravely, "...you brought me here?"

"Hmm." Edwin said naturally.

As if it was just going downstairs to get a glass of water.

"But I played with Kerr on the grass for a while in the afternoon, and then fell asleep lying on the grass again. My body may be... very dirty."

"It's quite dirty." Edwin agreed, "so I took off your coat so you don't have to change the sheets at night."

Zars didn't expect to get such an answer, he was stunned, a little unresponsive: "Huh?"

Edwin just turned around to look at him, and saw that he opened his mouth stupidly, and couldn't help but smile.

"I'm so sleepy that I can fall asleep on the lawn, why don't you come up to sleep at night?"