[Net King] It's just that the butterfly doesn't want to

Light poured in from the windows.

Ogata Yui opened his eyes in a daze, and stretched out his hands to press his temples, as if something throbbed in his brain with pain.

She sat up with some difficulty, and the dizziness in her mind became heavier and heavier.

There was a light knock on the half-closed door.

"Just come in directly."

Yui Ogata turned her head and picked up the measured thermometer from the table. The number displayed on it made her eyebrows twitch.

One hand took away the thermometer in her hand, and put a cup of hot water with a suitable temperature in her hand, Yagyu Hiroshi seemed to sigh, "Don't stay up late anymore."

"..." Ogata Yui bowed his head knowingly.

Perhaps because of so many days of lack of rest and flu season, I've been feeling ill since last night and finally this morning developed into a little ailment that required a day off.

Ogata Yui took the medicine obediently, and caught sight of the armband on the boy's shirt, "Is Bilu Shi on duty today?"

"Ah."

She turned her head to look at the clock. In order to take care of her in the morning, the time of the strict discipline committee member had been delayed until 45:[-], "The school patrol is going to be late, why don't you go to school?"

"Leave when you fall asleep."

"..."

Ogata Wei lay down, pulled the quilt to cover half of his face, "Okay, I fell asleep."

There seemed to be a chuckle in his ear, which was as invisible as a hallucination.

Gradually in a drowsy consciousness, she seemed to hear the sound of the chair being pulled away. Liu Sheng sat down by the bed, opened a book casually, and silently accompanied her as she did every time she fell ill.

This familiar feeling reassured Ogata Yui, she gradually closed her eyes, and soon fell into a chaotic dream under the effect of the medicine.

At the moment before the bell of the class ended, Yagyu Hiroshicai walked into the classroom with a calm expression under the disbelieving eyes of the teacher in the first class.

On the table are the math test papers that have been handed out.

The front seat turned his head quietly, with a surprised tone: "You didn't write the last question!"

"..."

Liu Sheng's eyes fell on the unfolded roll, and he heard the front desk say:

"I thought you, a top student, would at least struggle a bit."

This conversation was a small episode that had never happened in the previous cycle. The strange feeling was alerted in his mind, but his face remained calm. Liu Sheng asked, "Who issued the test paper?"

"Ah... Liu Lian Er brought it over early in the morning. I read the answer sheets of the whole class, and no one did the last question."

The teacher on the podium couldn't bear it anymore and coughed in warning.

The front seat shrank his neck, quickly picked up the textbook to cover his face and turned back.

Therefore, he didn't see that after the chat was over, the gentle top student pushed his glasses, and under the lowered eyelashes, a certain emotion quietly crept up like a dark shadow in the water.

With only one blank question that doesn't match his style, will Liu Lianer find anything?

This vague speculation in Yagyu's mind was finally confirmed in the quiet classroom in the afternoon.

The summer air carried a tinge of restless heat. Across the two ends of the long corridor, Liu Lianer walked into the classroom of Group A. Standing in front of the familiar seat, he hesitated to pull out a book.

at the same time.

Yagyu Hiroshi turned and went downstairs, the warm sunlight hit his face, falling on his skin, there was a tingling pain like an illusion.

Not long after he walked out of the school, the short bell rang in the empty street.

Liu Yu pressed the call button.

--"is it you?"

Liu Lianer on the phone asked firmly.

In a trance, as if he was at the origin of intertwined fate, Hiroshi Yagyu responded casually, the road lights jumped, and he took a step forward, walking towards the more twisted road in his imagination, without any pause.

The familiar voices of his teammates kept coming from his ears, and the warm sunlight seemed to blur his vision.

Every question fell on the eardrum, like a long overdue fate trial.

The trick of time is always in the hands of those who can use it.It's not difficult to guess the truth, it's just to overturn preconceived misunderstandings. The boy's white shirt was brushed in the sun, and there was no emotion in his calm tone:

"How did you find out?"

"The first doubt is that I have clearly quit but have not lost my memory."

Liu Lian'er spoke slowly, seeming to come to a conclusion while thinking:

"If there are really rules restricting everything, how can there be such negligence? If it is not negligence, why do other people lose their memories? So I guess, the loss of memory has nothing to do with the end of the branch, it is only related to time. And only awakened people, Memory is not affected by time."

"There are not many reasons for me to be an exception. The most likely one is that Yui Ogata woke up. In order to prevent her from noticing, so this period of time and my memory have not been reset."

"So, now the rules are not restricting her, but accommodating her."

Liu Lian Er thought of something, he took one last look at the empty classroom, turned around and walked towards the office.

"Ever since I learned that the main selection of the tennis club can affect the time, and the awakened person can retain the memory, I have been wondering if someone will wake up from the abnormality, turn themselves into a [manager], and manipulate the time."

"In the beginning, I even suspected Jingshi, but I didn't suspect you."

Liu Lian Er paused for a moment:

"But if it was Jingshi, they would never choose the period of hospitalization.

"Really," Liu Sheng asked, "Why did you doubt me later?"

Subtle and messy footsteps came from the phone, but Liu Lian'er's voice was still steady, "Because I had doubts a long time ago——Ogata Yui trusts you too much."

"what is this……"

"This is the evidence." Liu Lianer interrupted him.

"..."

"Even if you keep resetting the same time, what happened will still leave traces on her body."

While talking, Liu Lian Er finally walked into the office.

He was alone in the corner of the office, reaching out to open the attendance sheet of Group E of the third grade, looking down, there was an impressive "leave" marked behind Yui Ogata's name.

In the dark, the gears of fate are tightly stitched and rotated again.

But he still went on to say, "She was more relaxed when facing King Ni, and she was more patient with Chi... However, how many times did she go through reincarnation before she trusted 'Yagyu Hiroshi' so much? The answer to this question , can you count it yourself?"

The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Yagyu Hiroshi did not answer.

"Am I right?"

A lot of indescribable solemnity seemed to be compressed in the brief silence, Liu Lian asked again.

"Yes."

"So far, there is actually only one doubt in the whole thing-why?"

Liu Lian'er left the office and lowered her head in thought in an empty corner, feeling both absurd and unbelievable.

In the time of the cycle, experiencing everything that has happened boringly, but so meticulous that even the test scores have to maintain a 'normal' appearance, no matter who actively chooses this kind of life, they need to pay a price far beyond the ordinary.

"Back then Nioh strongly recommended you to join the club because the tennis club needed a sensible person. Then, Hiroshi Yagyu, as the most sensible person among us, why did you do this?"

Liu Lianer didn't even take out a pen and paper to record, he just simply asked.

Yagyu Hiroshi walked slowly along the long street. At this time, the answer or silence was no longer important. He closed his eyes, and at the same time, there was darkness in front of his eyes, mixed with countless pictures that repeated again and again.

--why?

The meaning of this question has faded in the incalculably long time, and the answer seems to have been left behind in those pale time, becoming elusive, he said slowly: "Ogata Yui is a blank paper that is too easy to write on. "

"So, you actually hate the marks left on her body, and you always keep a distance from her." Liu Lianer stood in front of the window, his voice was vague and distant amidst the summer wind, "It's also Because of that, you go back in time again and again."

"You want to erase their memory and Ogata Yui."

"You want Yui Ogata not to be influenced by anyone or anything, including yourself."

After a brief silence, Yagyu Hiroshi finally spoke slowly.

"It seems that you have already guessed my plan."

"You are going to see Ogata Yui," Liu Lian Er said, "just like you have done countless times before—"

In the endless cycle of time, the boy spent many days and nights alone, analyzing the movements of every minute and every second, and using the rules to master them.He is too smart and too rational.

When Liu Lianer saw the attendance records in the office, she knew that everything was irreversible.

"—You have to reset everything that happened today, and my memory."

"Yes."

Yagyu Hiroshi stopped in his tracks. He was already standing in front of the gate of Ogata's house. The key was turning in the keyhole, and the truth twisted with subtle movements, like a sign that everything would return to the original point of fate.

"Among all the people, you are the first one to wake up." Liu Lianer asked, "You could have her, but you didn't; you could let her go, but you wouldn't.  … ...So, Yagyu, what exactly do you want?"

"……'want to'."

Liu Sheng repeated it in a low voice. His voice seemed to pass through a long time. When it fell on his ears, it was heavy like a solemnity that contained countless past events and resentment, and it was soft like a weak sigh: "Why do you always expect What do you get from her?"

Liu Lian'er paused for a moment, he realized that a certain word had touched Yagyu Bilu Shi's already frozen barrier.

"Is truth so important?"

Liu Sheng seems to be asking him, but also seems to be asking something more distant.

"Ogata Yui is such a person. She doesn't belong to you, nor does she belong to anyone. She is carefree, never thinks wildly, and shouldn't sleep all night. When I meet you at school every morning, she greets you with a smile. "

Some seek possession, others seek the truth.

But for Liu Shengbi Lu Shi, what is more important will never be anything else, but the simple "good morning".

There was a slight electric sound from the phone, and Liu Lian'er seemed to realize something, and he sped up his speech, "But Yui Ogata is no longer the same as before."

"Is it."

"You can hide it from her because she really trusts you." Liu Lianer said, "So she won't suspect that after she wakes up, a whole semester's time backtracking has nothing to do with Marui, but is actually your masterpiece .”

"..."

In the microseconds when thoughts are passing by, all things are connected in series in the mind, and those unsolved mysteries and self-consistent logic gradually form a clear closed loop.Liu Lian-er went on to say:

"She clearly knows that going back in time can only change the "scene" where both parties are present. "

"Even if you were the only one standing beside her on the first day of school, she didn't suspect you at all, Liu Sheng."

"You thought she rejected Marui, and this branch line is over. Unfortunately, unexpectedly, Marui did not give up at this point, and Ogata Yui...has woken up."

"One day, she will find these clues."

The warm sunlight was hidden behind the door, Yagyu Hiroshi's figure crossed the junction of light and shadow, he turned and closed the door, the broken golden light gradually faded in his eyes, and turned into something pale and tired.

"you're right."

Liu Sheng affirmed softly, and his emotions were suppressed in a corner where no one knew.

"Someday...but not today."

Communication cut off.

Yagyu Hiroshi went up the stairs of Ogata's house, pushed open the half-hidden door, Ogata Yui was still asleep, his face was slightly pale due to illness, and he seemed a little uneasy in his dream.

He buckled the bedside alarm clock on the table and sat down on the chair.

Ogata Yui seemed to be aware of something in a daze, she opened her eyes in a half-dream and half-awake state, "Hiroshi, you are back."

"Well, how are you resting?"

"I'm still a little dizzy." Ogata Yui said, "But I dreamed about my childhood."

"Is it?"

"In my dream, I remembered a story you told me before, but I couldn't remember it clearly when I woke up."

"which one?"

"It seems to be "Dolls and Little Boys"..." Yui Ogata closed his eyes, and whispered as if dreaming, "Please tell me again, starting from 'a long time ago'."

long long ago--

A little boy passed by the window and was attracted by the beautiful doll behind the transparent glass. He stood on the street every day and looked at the doll through a layer of glass.

The shopkeeper asked, "Do you want it? I can sell it to you."

"What about after you buy it?" the little boy asked.

The shop owner told him: "Then she is your doll, you can eat with her, play together, and travel to distant places together. In a long time, you can do many, many things together."

"Is that so..."

"Be careful, though. The hot soup will splash on her white dress, the sand from the sea will make her hands dirty, and the long journey will make her hair unsoft."

"Can't I protect her all the time?"

The shop owner disagreed: "She's just a doll. She doesn't care about that."

"I care," said the little boy. "If taking her out of the window would hurt her, I'd rather she stay in the window."

The shopkeeper shook his head and laughed at him: "Even if she is in the window all the time, someone else will take her away. She is a beautiful doll."

The little boy bowed his head in thought, and he thought for a long time.

What if she didn't care about the world outside the window, but the world outside covered her with sand and sand?

"Lock her up."

he concluded.

"What? That's too bad."

"It's okay, I can stay with her."

The owner said, "But you will grow up one day and go to the distant future. Besides, you are not a doll, and a little boy cannot be put in a window."

"Then I don't want the future, I can pretend to be another doll."

said the little boy.

"Inside and outside the window, there is no difference to the doll, but it is different to you. Pretending to be a doll will lose a lot of things, this is a small cabinet. You can no longer breathe fresh air."

"It's ok."

"Ah..." the owner asked hesitantly, "Then do you want to bring something else home?"

The little boy shook his head, he turned and climbed into the window, holding his favorite doll with both hands, he said finally.

"—I've got everything I have, please close the door, put down the lock, and throw away the key."

After the story was told, the light outside the heavy curtains changed.Time is like a flowing tide. If someone opens the curtains now, he will find that everything in his field of vision is going backwards.

tick, tick-

The sound of the clock ticking, subtle and impossible to ignore.

When the clock on the table finally moved to the direction he expected, Hiroshi Yagyu stood up and was about to leave when he heard Yui Ogata still in his sleep wondering about the ending of the story.

"Will they be together forever?"

A faint arc of light flashed in Yagyu Hiroshi's downcast eyes, they were entangled in his eyes, gradually sinking in, it was a kind of loneliness that could overshadow even the sun in midsummer.

"Yes. They'll be together forever."

He stretched out his hand to tuck in the slipped corner of the quilt, stared at the girl's sleeping face, and answered softly.

In the morning light, Hiroshi Yagyu opened his pocket watch, and the silver watch chain made crackling noises in the wind. He checked the time one last time.

The young man tidied up his sleeves slowly, and the discipline committee, who has been meticulous since the beginning of dressing, has always been strict. Accident and out of control are words that he cannot bear in his dictionary.

Today is just the beginning.

He had to go to the office to get the test paper before Liu Lianer, and no one would discover the secret hidden in the last math problem.He will buy a new teaching aid and correct the accident that was neglected for a while.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner in the mind.

In the first class, the teacher will roll call and let Genichiro Sanada answer the questions; in the third class, the English teacher went to the wrong classroom and made a joke; someone fell in the indoor gymnasium in the afternoon and asked for a week off; When escaping training was discovered, Sanada punished him with [-] swings, while Nioh only completed [-] swings...

But what does this have to do with him.

Day after day, at the same time, Yagyu Hiroshi only does one thing. He is almost obsessed with maintaining the routine of repeating the same mistakes, so as not to be found abnormal if he is careless.

He is a discipline committee member, and what he is best at is following the rules.

And this repetitive and seemingly normal world is a rule that he personally made and no one can violate.