[Digimon 06] Purple

The meeting was scheduled for four o'clock in the afternoon.But Zi still arrived at the agreed coffee shop at 03:30.She first chose a seat by the window, then ordered a glass of ice water, holding the glass with both hands and sipping.

"If you want to see her, we won't stop you; but if you don't want to, don't force yourself, and we won't let her disturb your life again." I remember that at the family restaurant, the leader said to her of.

His tone was as soft and peaceful as when he was just asking her "Would you like to attend a cram school".

Her adoptive parents must be the best people in the world to her, only this point Zi has always been convinced.

Since she was a child, she and Yuto shared the same love as Shiori.They gently taught her right and wrong, and never shy away from any of her capricious requests.The most exaggerated one was when she reached the school age, because she thought the school uniform of Huajing Academy was very beautiful, so she clamored to go to this private girls' school. In order to realize her wish, the leader actually thought of some ways to get her to attend The qualifications for the entrance examination of that school... She grew up unscrupulously under the doting of her parents. Even if she occasionally noticed that her appearance was not the same as theirs, she never thought about the possibility that she was not her parents' biological flesh and blood. .

But this pride came to an abrupt end one day in the first semester of the second grade.

Yuto pulled out her adoption certificate from the bottom of Shiori's drawer.The boy who was still in kindergarten couldn't recognize a few Chinese characters, so he handed this piece of paper to his sister who seemed to be able to do anything in this world. At the same time, he also carefully guarded the secret of his parents for seven years. Cruelly exposed in front of her eyes.

After that, every time she looked at the family photo in the frame, she would feel that there was an invisible line dividing her and the other three people in this family into two worlds.Every time she took a second look, she would find a feature in Uto that belonged to Ling or Shiori, but no matter which feature she had, she never had it.In the end she simply put away the family portrait, hiding it in the bottom drawer just like her adoptive mother did.

Since joining the track and field department, she has devoted more time and energy to study and community activities.On the one hand, the fear of being abandoned forced her to do everything her best, and on the other hand, she wanted to use this to paralyze herself. She ran hard on the track and field, just wanting to forget this in the howling wind. painful reality.

She knew that Ling and Shizhi would not be unaware of her increasingly alienated attitude towards her family, but what made her even more disturbed and apologetic was that their attitude towards her was the same as before, as if she was still the one who could let them An excellent daughter to be proud of.

She thought that the relationship between her family and her family would continue peacefully in this white lie.She even planned to move out of the house after finishing high school, and then continue to maintain a relationship with her so-called family.

She never thought that "she" would appear in front of her.What she didn't expect was that since the accident in Haizhiri last year, "she" was still living by her side.

Hearing the crisp sound of the wind chime hanging on the edge of the door in the coffee shop, Zi raised his head subconsciously.But after just a few weeks, she saw the tall woman again.Different from that time, this time she took off the sunglasses that covered most of her face after entering the room, reflecting the wavy long hair dyed wine red, and a pair of purple pupils hidden under the lenses eyes.

"I want to see her." The moment Zi met the woman's eyes, Zi recalled the answer he gave Ling that day.

The woman approached her step by step.During this period, Zi never took his eyes off her.

She escaped once a year ago, and she will not escape again this time.She had to see "her" once, otherwise she might never be able to untie the knot that was entangled in her heart.

Fujii Ayako sat down on the soft chair across from Murasaki cautiously.Probably the tense factor in the air is mass-conserving. Seeing the woman's hands and feet bound, Zi unexpectedly relaxed a lot.

The winking waiters showed up next to their seats with menus when they saw customers coming.Her arrival slightly eased the embarrassing atmosphere that had been lingering since Ayako sat down.

Ayako habitually took the menu from the waiter, glanced at the half glass of ice water in front of Zi, and stiffly smiled at the girl sitting across from her, "Do you want a drink?" What would you like? Juice or soda?"

"It's okay," Zi Dandan said, "I'll just drink water."

Ayako's fingers on the page froze in the air for a moment, but in front of the waiter, she still maintained a decent smile and casually pointed at the menu, but she didn't really care about what she chose.

After the waiter left, the familiar solemnity returned to the small space isolated by green plants.Compared with Zi's calmness, Ayako is obviously more at a loss.Since she sat down, she wanted to take a good look at Zi's appearance up close, but just as her eyes raised a little, they quickly fell back to the original place timidly.

"Yes, that's right." Maybe talking non-stop can ease the flustered emotions a little bit, Ayako who thought so raised the topic again, "This is for you..." As she spoke, she picked it up from her handbag Zhong took out a small dark blue box and pushed it in front of her, "I don't know what style you like..." Her voice gradually dropped.

Zi's ​​eyes fell on the small and exquisite dark blue box that was pushed in front of her eyes, and she sneered secretly in her heart.She had seen this kind of jewelry box with a silver logo printed on it at Fei He's home, and even though Fei He hadn't deliberately mentioned it to her, she also knew that the jewelry of this brand was expensive.

But this is the field that this woman is good at, and Zi is not surprised at all by choosing to give her jewelry in order to please her.

Ever since she recalled everything and realized that her "natural mother" was the owner of that pink toy and accessories store, she seldom passed that street again. I am quite annoyed when I have done something.Seeing her such flattering behavior again now, the familiar feeling of irritability floated up in Zi's heart in a blink of an eye.

"Our school doesn't allow you to wear jewelry." Zi replied coldly, not letting her eyes linger on the exquisitely shaped box for a moment.

Ayako opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.However, she soon realized that the so-called school regulations were just an excuse that Zixin came up with at her fingertips. Even if she wanted to persuade her to accept it for other reasons, she could still come up with corresponding reasons for declining it one by one.

Seeing the woman's disappointed expression, Zi immediately felt the joy of revenge in her heart.She did it on purpose.In any case, she couldn't allow herself to create a harmonious atmosphere with Fujii Ayako by pretending to be magnanimous and hypocritical.

But Ayako didn't take back the gift box, but stubbornly let it stay where it was - as if it had been left there long enough for Zi to change her mind. "Well, how is your body recently?" However, she didn't get too entangled in the gift, and switched to another topic.

"Well, as you can see." Zi felt that there was no need to report everything to her, so he casually said something.

"I'm really sorry, Sachiko, at that time you had been in the hospital for so long, but you couldn't come to see you..."

Ayako was talking to herself, suddenly realized something, and the ending stopped abruptly.She anxiously turned her eyes back to Zi's body, only to see that she tilted her head slightly, and her lips curled up in an indifferent arc.Ayako knew that she had a cold face very similar to her own, and seeing her put on such an emotionless smile on her face—the same expression as her teenage self—healed better. I found that my heart and mouth were in unbearable pain.

"Xingzi?" Zi asked back, her voice low as a whisper, "Is this the name I should have?"

"Xingzi, I..." In desperation, she wanted to explain, but Zi turned her eyes away from the window, the refusal in it was obvious.

Yes, she had clearly agreed to her adoptive father, and the name "Sachiko" was already an irretrievable past tense for the girl in front of her.However, when she actually sat face to face with the girl, watching this face that inherited her facial features, without thinking, the name hidden deep in her heart blurted out as a matter of course.

That's her luck.She is extremely looking forward to a child who can have a happy life.

Zi stubbornly turned her head and looked out the window.

It was almost evening, and the weakened sunlight moved towards the western sky.The orange-red light poured into her eyes through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the coffee shop, and at the same time fell into the misty mist that filled her eye sockets at some point.

Zi blinked, and she raised her head slightly, trying to force back the inexplicable tears.She thought she could wear this mask of indifference until the end of this meaningless meeting.But he didn't expect her to be defeated easily just by calling out the name that should belong to her softly once.

Unexpectedly, the sun at dusk was still so dazzling, causing her eyeballs to hurt slightly.In addition to being able to feel the presence of tears, it actually made her hallucinate: she seemed to see the figure of the Digimon reflected on the glass window.

Two slender mechanical arms appeared out of thin air, and the hands wearing red gloves accurately grabbed the body of a girl who was talking with a friend, and dragged her upwards.

wrong!

Zi suddenly realized something, she suddenly stood up from her seat, turned her head to look in that direction——

At the same time, screams rang out, completely breaking the silence in the room.She only had time to see the girl's legs in knee socks hanging in the air - like a lifeless doll - being dragged into the different space bit by bit by those hands.

After the last uniform leather shoes disappeared, the circular passage suspended in mid-air disappeared, as if it never existed.The pair of girls sitting at the round table, now there is only one left: the child fell backwards in a panic and fell to the ground, whimpering indistinctly and full of fear.

The accident happened in the center of the coffee shop, and almost every pair of eyes witnessed the process of the girl disappearing.

After a few seconds of silence, the room instantly became chaotic.Everyone rushed to the narrow exit, hoping to escape from this terrible place as soon as possible.

However, the closed cafe has long been a hunting ground for Digimon.As the chaotic situation gradually expanded, the gap in the space quietly opened again, and the pair of slender mechanical arms reappeared, almost unnoticed, and it was very close to its next target.

"careful!"

Before joining the fleeing crowd, Zi was suddenly pushed aside by a strong force.When she regained her senses dazzled, she saw Fujii Ayako being carried up into the air by those hands, her head had already been submerged in the blue-green data cluster connecting the real world and the digital crystal world.In the next few seconds, her figure completely disappeared from Zi's vision.

Zi stood there dumbfounded, even though the opening connecting the digital crystal world had disappeared long ago, she still stared at it with straight eyes.

"Don't be in a daze! Get out of this ghost place first!"

It wasn't until the familiar scolding sound came from the pocket of her uniform skirt that Zi came back to her senses.Facing the chaotic crowd, she reacted quickly, squeezed into the crowd and walked out of the cafe along with the crowd.

Most of the people who left the room first did not leave, and the second incident of fishing in troubled waters caused a new round of commotion among the onlookers.Therefore, no one noticed that a girl in a uniform skirt left the coffee shop and squeezed out of the crowd with a short body, then turned around and turned into a dark and narrow alley.

"TimeShift!" Reason told Zi to avoid other people's eyes when opening the entrance of the digital crystal world, but her anxiety made her have no time to care about the surrounding conditions. While calling up the analysis interface of XorsLoader, she gave an order to the Digimon, "Track the traces of that Digimon!"

The moment he reached the Digital Crystal Realm, Zishun released the Hualamon from the XrosLoader.It's just that the first thing the flower did after regaining its freedom after being suppressed for a long time was not to move its long-stretched muscles and bones, but to grab Zi's wrist with a petal-like palm—to stop her from super-evolving. action.

"Calm down first."

If there were bystanders on the sidelines, they might find this scene a bit funny. Hualamon, who has always been at the forefront of everything, would actually say "calm down" to Zi.This is a complete role reversal.

But only Zi knew that her irritability and anger almost made her unable to maintain her calm appearance.

First Shiori, then "her"... Digimons who don't know what to do or what to do are attacking the people around her again and again, which makes her unable to bear it any longer.

"I know." After taking a deep breath, Zi trembled and replied to Hualamon, "But this guy," she sneered in anger, "I will never forgive him!"

The author has something to say:

There is a less important setting that I forgot to mention earlier.Zi's ​​birthday is at the beginning of February, which means that when the plot progresses, she is not 2 years old like a normal junior high school student, but 13 years old.

This is the fourth event in the second volume. The completion of the second volume means that the plot of the second volume is over half~ After that, there are two more events that will break into the ending part.

Speaking of which, a girl asked me before if Xinying and Qinhui would appear in the episode. I said no because they both showed their faces in the main text. The title of the second volume is called the "chain of miracles" because there is something The meaning of connection, but their stories are not very important here, the most important thing here is to tell Zi's story~

Seriously, DT's new radio drama gave me another shot in the arm, my mind was full of "Li Jianliang graduated from Stanford at the age of 28", and then the spoiler of triChapter 6 I saw today quickly gave me a mouthful.It's really complicated.