[Digimon 06] Purple

"I've heard this song before."

When Zi said this, Fei He was holding a bottle and drinking.The cold carbonated soda slid down his throat comfortably, but because of Zi's seemingly light words, he accidentally went astray.Fei He lowered his head and coughed uncomfortably for a while, and managed to catch his breath.But her breathing was easy to slow, and the "shock" that those words brought to her just now was not so easy to erase.

"What did you say?" She turned her head in disbelief and looked at her friend who shared the same pair of headphones with her.

"I've heard this piano piece before." Zi turned her head and looked into Feihe's surprised eyes.

"...Are you sure?" Rao heard Zi repeat her words again, Fei He still seemed a little skeptical.There is no other reason, who makes Ruoye Zi one of the very few people she has seen since birth without any talent in the field of art.It's unbelievable to say that when she first made friends with Ah Zi, she couldn't even tell the difference between "Fur Elise" and "Dance of the Little Swans", which all kindergarten children would hum.She is clearly a top student at the private Huajing Academy, a female school with both appearance and talent. I am afraid that no one will believe that she is completely ignorant of music and art.

It is said that God is fair. He gave her a beautiful appearance, outstanding intelligence and excellent physical ability, so naturally he has to take something away accordingly.

Zi didn't know what was going on in Fei He's mind, and Gu Zi nodded honestly, "It's the girl I mentioned to you just now, she hummed this song and left after saying goodbye to me." She lowered her head and rubbed her thumb Looking at the CD that Fei He handed her, the cover of the record was reflected through the transparent plastic box, a half crescent moon hung in the corner of the sky, and the lower half of the picture outlined the rising and falling waves of the ocean with a few strokes.The color of the whole picture is only monotonous black and white, as if it is a random sketch drawn from the messy manuscripts of an unknown painter in the last century.

"You mean, the girl you met in your dream? The one with Nanamon Digi-Xros?"

Just before turning on the music player, Zi just fully narrated to Feihe what she experienced in the dream.The only thing I don't know how to explain is the unknown tune that the girl hummed when she left.She didn't know how to describe that voice to Feihe, she could only explain it in thin words, saying that it was like the siren beast's song she had heard before, once she heard it, she would never forget it again.

"However," Feihe stared at the CD with a frown, as if there was a puzzle that she couldn't solve with all her brains hidden in the painting on the cover, "If you want to count the time carefully, this CD was released when Ah Zi woke up. It was released the day after…”

Feihe seemed to be thinking about it for a while, but quickly gave up because she couldn't figure it out—it was very in line with her style of acting, "Since you can perform Digi-Xros with Digimon, let's predict a song in advance. There is nothing surprising about the song that will be released soon... Uh, where did I say it before?" Being interrupted so suddenly, she didn't know where the words that were on her lips were thrown.

"Auntie." Zi reminded her in a low voice.

"Yes, aunt." After Zi's reminder, Feihe proudly picked up the topic again, "Isabel Lancaster, her mother and my grandmother are sisters, so she is my mother's youngest aunt, that is, my aunt."

Accompanied by her low-pitched narration, the eyes of the two people invariably stayed on the string of beautiful cursive letters in the lower right corner of the CD cover.

Isabel Lancaster.Even if Zi is not very sensitive in terms of music, this name is not unfamiliar to her.One is because there are several CDs of piano music with this name neatly placed on Shiori's bookshelf.Furthermore, the news of the sudden death of this famous British pianist has been overwhelmingly reported in the newspapers recently.

The death brought the Lancaster lady's popularity to the highest point again.The background music of the coffee shops in the shopping street has been going on for a while, and it is the cycle of the popular piano songs composed by her; the CD shop has opened a special counter for her, and the albums she released in the past are arranged in chronological order. The stack was sold out quickly, including the one that Zi and Feihe are listening to now. The original release time is scheduled to be two weeks later, and this "genius posthumous work" will also be used to meet the public in advance.Shiori also reluctantly mentioned at dinner yesterday that several colleagues who worked together simply planned to use this as an opportunity to send their children to a training class to learn piano.

"Three minutes of heat." Fei He sneered at the sudden frenzy.

As a relative who had to attend the funeral, Fei He learned the news a week ago—much earlier than the gossip media buzzing like mosquitoes.But this also means that she has to temporarily put aside all her affairs in Japan—studies, digimon hunting, etc.—and make all preparations for traveling across the ocean to participate in the ceremony.

"You have to know that it's not my turn to attend this kind of occasion." On the first day of her leave, Zi went to her home to give her the day's study notes.Just watched Feihe stuff the clothes into the suitcase in a mess, and complained angrily, "It's not my unreliable mother, she hates the gloomy and depressing atmosphere in her hometown the most, every time She tried every means to find an excuse to push it away, but if she couldn't push it, she used my daughter as a shield..." She rolled her eyes towards the sky, and casually rolled up a skirt and threw it into a box, "At this time, she still remembered that she had a daughter."

Regarding the complaints from Feihe's parents that may appear from time to time, Zi has always been noncommittal.After thinking about it, she brought the topic back to the deceased lady herself, "Isn't she still very young?" Although all her impressions of Isabel Lancaster came from Shiori's narrative and those few photos A CD with a beautiful cover, and the exclamation expressing regret is nothing more than following the crowd after reading a little article, "It's such a pity."

"Yeah." Fei He nodded and responded lightly, but the movements of finishing his hands slowed down unknowingly.Maybe she didn't want others to notice her emotions, but at that time, Zi still found a trace of sadness on her face caused by the death of relatives.

Sitting on the train heading to Haneda Airport now, Hizuru brought up this topic again.Unlike the previous superficial touches, she told Zi about her connection with Isabel Lancaster in more detail without hesitation.

"I saw her once when I was a child. I heard that my great-aunt is taciturn and gloomy. It is said that it is because of her poor health. She seldom goes out and shuts herself in the piano room all day long."

"I was still young at that time, and it was the first time I visited the old house as my mother's daughter. Like my mother, I didn't like the old lady in the Lancaster family, so I took the opportunity to sneak out to other rooms alone Expedition, ran in a hurry, and accidentally bumped into her."

Fei He couldn't move her eyes away from the name on the CD cover, but judging by her expression, she had already fallen into childhood memories.

"She...is different from what the servants said. She is very beautiful and has a gentle voice. She invited me into her piano room, gave me small snacks, and taught me how to play the piano...I I think it must be because of her that I was willing to learn piano later..."

In his own narrative, Fei He dug out memories that had become somewhat blurred over the years.She thought of the sunshine of the same color as the hair that fell on the tip of the woman's hair, the black and ivory piano keys arranged in a row, the curvature of the white gauze curtain turned by the breeze, and the way a woman is like the ocean. Azure eyes.

Very beautiful, but very... lonely.

Thinking of the aunt's lonely and short life afterwards, Feihe inevitably sighed again.

It's rare to see Feihe look so quiet, Ziyi didn't know what to say for a while.She wanted to pat Fei He's shoulder as comfort, but her fingertips trembled but she still didn't reach out.After staring at the English letters on the cover for a long time, she suddenly said awkwardly, "This is the first time I know, Xiaohe, you are also of mixed race."

"Haha." Hearing this, Feihe laughed dryly twice, laughing at herself, she didn't notice the strangeness in Zi's words at all, "Mixed race? I think it's more like a mix of brandy and whiskey."

Seeing the security checkpoint in front of him, Fei He suddenly turned around and opened his arms to hug Zi, "Ah Zi, you have to take care of yourself when I'm gone!" Recalling Zi Shenmian's coma experience in her dream, still makes her feel She had lingering fears in her heart, "Be careful of that guy hiding in the dark." After she let go of her hand, she thought for a while and added, "Although there are Hualamon and Amano-kun here, I think we still have to put this thing away." Tell Senior Daqi about it! With his help, it will be much better than being suspicious here by ourselves.” At that time, after hearing Zi’s suspicion, she immediately listed all the hunters she knew for interrogation in her mind, but it was a pity that there was no one. Evidence leads to no reason.

Listening to her earnest instructions, Zi could not help but laugh.Even with that kind of experience, Fei He still has [-]% trust in Daqi.

"Okay. Then Xiaohe, don't forget what I told you. You are alone in England. If something happens, we won't be able to get there right away, so you have to be careful." After speaking to Feihe, Zi He still didn't forget to lower his voice and say to the tabby cat, "Piebald cat, Xiaohe will leave to you."

Now that the digital grain world has appeared in Hong Kong, it cannot be ruled out that it may encounter the same situation in the UK.

"Don't worry, just leave it to me." The voice of the spotted cat came out of Feihe's trouser pocket, "I will take good care of Feihe, and I won't let her mess around!"

"Who is taking care of whom?" Feihe muttered with her mouth curled up, and seeing Zi's solemn expression in a blink of an eye, she immediately laughed and joked, "Ah Zi, don't worry, if you really want to meet someone you can't beat Digimon, at worst, I'll do Digi-Xros with Tabmon."

"That depends on the will of the tabby cat." Zi said seriously.

"I don't want it!" The spotted cat beast quickly came to disrupt the stage.

After laughing for a while, Feihe seemed to suddenly remember something, and leaned forward again to Zi's ear, "Almost forgot, there is also the matter of Amano-kun." She was a little proud to find that this name successfully made Zi His fair face quickly turned red.

"I know that his words must have shocked you, but don't let his confession become a burden on you. As for what you think about Azi, no one should know better than you, I said Right?" After explaining everything, Fei He straightened up, "Of course," she pretended to be serious, "I don't mind that you find a boyfriend before me, Ah Zi!"

Leaving those words behind, Fei He turned around decisively and dragged the box towards the security check.Before stepping through the door, she turned around and blew a kiss to Zi Bing.

Zi kept watching Feihe, who was carrying the little bear backpack, disappear into the queue of people, then turned around and walked in the direction he had come and gone slowly.Probably because Fei He's words before leaving were still circling in her mind, so that the phone rang for a while before she noticed that someone else was calling.

"Hello, Dad? Well...the radio at the airport is too loud, I didn't hear it." Wanting to hide her thoughts at the moment, she subconsciously lied to her father.In addition to the short-lived guilty conscience of lying to her father, who is a lawyer, she was even more surprised by how her father, who was still busy with work, would suddenly call her.

"It's fine." She couldn't tell whether her father had seen through her lame lies, but the leader's voice was always full of tenderness that reassured her, "How about it, shall we have dinner with Dad tonight?"

So two hours later, the father and daughter sat facing each other in an ordinary family restaurant near the office where they worked.

While waiting for the food to be served, Zi looked at her father with a calm demeanor, "Father," she took a light breath, but she seemed to be sighing, "Just tell me if you have anything to say."

The leader secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.He knew how sensitive his daughter was in this regard, so he gave up trying to beat around the bush. "Your mother and I have discussed this matter. We both think it's better for you to make your own decision." He tried to state the matter to Zi in a gentle tone.

"She wants to see you."

This pronoun does not have any identity modifiers, but Zi realizes who this "she" is in an instant.

"Zi, do you want to see her?"

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