After the leader of He Sen

The man in front of her stared at her.

The deep purple eyes are like the diamonds on the necklace that my mother wore before she died. It is a gift from that man to her mother, and she has always cherished it.But after the mother died, the body cooled down.

The diamond was finally heated up a little, and the temperature quickly dropped.

The cold touch climbed up from the tailbone, and Mei realized that Mori Ogai was not joking when she said she wanted sharks.

No matter how precocious she is, she is only a four-year-old child. The survival instinct makes her take a step back and show her hole card prematurely: "The Eye of Time and Space—"

"open!"

The real scene behind Mei melted and reorganized into chaotic black, and a wine-red eye opened in the darkness.It's like a pond where a pool of red wine is gathered.

She jumped and her body was submerged in the water.

Mori Ogai did not dare to act rashly.When the little girl in front of her disappeared with that eye, she felt an itchy feeling in her throat.He bowed his back, covered his mouth and began to cough hard.The blood stained the white gloves he was wearing today bright red, and some blood dripped from between his fingers and fell to the floor, turning into small flowers blown out by watercolors.

It seems that Mei's ability is the [Eye of Time and Space] just now. It is probably an ability that can control the time of landing but not the specific landing place. picked up by someone.

There is still room for improvement in operational precision.

So is Mei planning to use this ability to bring Lixiang to another time and space?

Hopefully she's now descending several hundred meters below sea level, or directly into the crater.Even the bones were eroded clean.

Coughing, Mori Ogai thought viciously while walking slowly to the bed.

Lixiang fell into a deep sleep.The sound of breathing is very light.

Only when she was asleep, or when she became a little mermaid and had no original memory, could Mori Ogai approach her without any scruples like this.

He stood by the bed, quietly waiting for Lixiang to wake up.

*

How long did I sleep, and when I woke up, the night outside the window had changed from pure black to white.Stretch your body under the quilt and change your posture.

Wait, bed?

Did I go to bed by myself yesterday?The memory was broken the moment I entered the door.

Immediately jumped up from the bed, lowered his head to check his clothes.Except for the coat that was taken off, the close-fitting sweater and underwear were well worn on him, as were the pants.

I breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that nothing bad enough to make the social news happened.

Mr. Eri Aiba leaned back on the chair next to my bed and fell asleep.There are faint shadows under the eyes, probably due to the influence of the curse and not having a good rest for a long time.

I lightly prepared to get out of bed, I thought I was careful enough with my movements, but I still woke him up.

"Teacher Lixiang." He opened his eyes and called my name.

It seems that he belongs to the type of people who sleep lightly.

"Mr. Aiba, thank you for taking me home last night." I put on a slipper on one foot, but not the other.When I looked down for slippers, I saw that the socks were pure white.

He smiled, "What are you talking about, I was right by the door, and it was a breeze to send you in. Because you fainted suddenly, I was not at ease and kept guarding. It seems that everything is fine now. It's great. .”

"Did you watch me all night?" The faux pas was too much.

"It wasn't even a night. In the second half of the night, I was in a state of being completely unconscious." He stood up, and the exhaustion all over his body was shaken by the movement of standing up. "Since you are fine, I'm leaving."

Naturally, I couldn't let him leave like this, "If you're not in a hurry, let's eat something before leaving, and the ring hasn't been found yet, right?"

"Teacher Lixiang can make it for myself, I don't have much appetite. As for the ring, I have already found it." He took out the shiny ring from the pocket of his jacket, "Look."

There is a honey-colored gemstone in the middle of the silver ring.

"It's the first time I've seen a diamond of this color." Usually the most common are emeralds and pigeon blood.

"Did you mean honey yellow?" he asked.

"Correct."

"This is a variant of topaz-grade corundum. It's originally golden yellow," Aiba Eri stroked the small diamond with his finger bones, and the tenderness in his eyes was like the warm ripples in the sun. "But I prefer honey diamonds." Yellow, um... it’s not actually honey yellow, it’d be nice if the texture was a little more brown.”

"Is it a color similar to honey?" Of course, I haven't seen honey brown in real life, but in comics I like to use this color to indicate high quality.

"That's right, it's my favorite..." He looked up into my eyes, "Color."

In fact, I am not very good at taking care of myself. My daily diet and exercise can be said to be a mess. I only pretend to care for a few days when my health is sounding the alarm.But when I see others who don’t care about their bodies like me, I can’t help persuading them, such as now.

"Mr. Aiba, if you don't eat breakfast, you will easily get stomach problems, so stay for breakfast."

"Thank you, Teacher Lixiang, for your kindness, but I really don't have any appetite, cough, cough, and sitting next to a patient who is always coughing up blood would be very unappetizing." He squeezed out a forced smile.

"There is no such thing. The cough is uncontrollable. What's more, it's a curse, not a disease. It's much more serious."

Unable to withstand my repeated persuasion, Eri Aiba stayed.

This is the second time we have had breakfast together.

This time I didn’t eat a Chinese breakfast. After all, it took a while to cook rice and miso soup and other side dishes, so I simply chose a convenient and time-consuming Western breakfast.

Smoked sausage, eggs, slices of toast and milk, these things are ready-made and can be eaten hot.

Aiba-sensei eats as much as I do, my God!I really want to persuade him to go to the hospital for a gastro-intestinal checkup, but I feel that such constant nagging gives people a bad impression.

Am I caring too much?Although it was out of good intentions, it might be a burden to Aiba-sensei.

"No such thing." Aiba Eri finished his breakfast after drinking the milk, and was using a tissue to clean up the milk stains on his lips, "I didn't feel nagging, nor did I feel it was a burden."

I put down the knife and fork in my hand and looked at him in surprise.

Is the look on my face too funny?His expression was very happy: "I was thinking about why Aiba-sensei would know what I was thinking when I didn't say it out loud?"

Me: Double shock!

"Actually, my special ability is to hear other people's voices." Aiba Eri put away his joyful expression and said solemnly.

"Mind reading? It's amazing!" I looked at him in amazement.

Other people in front of him couldn't hide their little secrets, how much gossip he was forced to listen to every day!

Seeing my expression change from admiration to worry, Aiba Eri burst out laughing, "It's not good that Lixiang teacher is so easy to be deceived."

Me: ...was tricked.Those assumptions just now are futile.

"But...how do you know what I'm thinking?"

"Observe the facial expression, plus the character of Mr. Lixiang, it is easy to deduce it." Mr. Aiba really likes this posture of holding his cheek. Take off the childishness.

I thought about it, and put my palms together to cover my face, "What about this? Can you guess what I'm thinking?"

"What is this, tell me the correct answer directly?" He laughed exaggeratedly this time, I could see his shoulders trembling with laughter through the fingers, and then I put my hands down.

"Ms. Aiba seems to be in a bad state recently, please smile more." I lowered my head and continued to cut the fried eggs on the plate, not paying attention to the too much darkness surging in his gaze.

After breakfast, we really have to say goodbye.He still has math class in the morning and has to go back to school, but I can stay at home until the afternoon.

I put the spicy crab and meat sauce into two small jars, and put the sealed biscuits in a box. These scattered things were finally put into a shopping bag for Mr. Aiba to take back.

"These are..." He took the bag suspiciously, "Are these for me?"

"Well, the spicy crab and meat sauce are made by my aunt, but the portion is too much, I can't finish it at all, and it may affect the taste if I keep it in the refrigerator. Please share some with me, Mr. Aiba. It’s delicious to eat directly with bibimbap.”

"Then this little biscuit?" The biscuit he took out was in the shape of a deer, with eyes made of chocolate jelly beans.

"I got up and baked it when I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. I accidentally made too much, so I just wrapped it up and gave it as a small gift." There are still a lot left, and I will share some with Tomoko and Tianchuan when I go to school in the afternoon.

"Is this true for everyone?"

He said so softly that I couldn't hear him: "What?"

"It's nothing, I just want to thank Teacher Lixiang for the gift, I will eat it seriously." This time Teacher Aiba bent his eyes and smiled, but I couldn't see whether the smile was really reflected in my eyes.

After Aiba-sensei left, I did a simple cleaning at home. The room wasn't considered dirty, but it didn't take much effort.

After that is a bath.Halfway through undressing, the phone that was left on the sink buzzed.

The person on the caller ID is still Mr. Kunikida who hasn't been contacted for a long time. Is there something urgent to call me at this time?

It is urgent indeed.

The little girl I met last night who called me "Mom" is missing.

"Ms. Qing Zhi, did you see that little girl again after parting with Tun last night?"

"I haven't seen it before." Reflected in the mirror in front of the sink, I looked a bit dazed.

"I was wondering if Mei would secretly go to see you, it seems that this possibility has to be ruled out." Kunikida's tone sounded a bit distressed.

After I hung up the phone, I didn't move for a long time.

Is it because what I said last night hurt Mei too much, that's why she ran around?

She was so young that she didn't know what danger she would encounter outside, and it was still at night.

The more I think about it, the more frightened I feel when I think about it, and I am a little absent-minded even in the shower.

But soon, something even more terrifying appeared.

After the shower, I put a basin of water to take a bath and relax for a while. I also dripped nerve-soothing essential oils and shampoo in the tub, but it didn't take long before I sat down.The supposedly still water in the bathtub spontaneously and magically flows to form a vortex.

The little girl whose whereabouts were unknown in Kuniki Taguchi swirled out of the vortex, her hair soaked in water was clung to both sides of her cheeks.

"Mom!" She cheered and rushed to hug me, her movements were exactly the same as yesterday.

Wait a minute, I'm not wearing anything right now, even if you're a kid...

Moreover, why do people emerge from the water out of thin air? This is bath water, not living water like the sea or river!what is going on!

The brain burns out with too many things to think about at the same time.

"Mom!" Mei cried and clinged to my chest, she raised her head after being coquettish enough, "Let's go back together."

It's another word I don't understand.

"Go back? Go back to where?"

"Eye of time and space! Open!"

She didn't answer my question, and I didn't care about the answer to that question anymore.

There was endless darkness behind Mei, like a bottomless abyss, or an endless starry sky.

A burgundy eye opened in the darkness.

Mei took my hand and slowly touched the wine red color, gradually soaking her body into it.I thought I would smell red wine, I thought I wouldn't be able to breathe.

not at all.

It wasn't cold or hot, but I subconsciously felt it was dangerous.

I touched my heart with my left hand, and I haven't had time to make a wish to get out of the current situation.The wine red in front of me turned into an illusion of alternating black and blue, and the butterfly curse spirit was casting a unique magic on me.

Mei's voice slowly faded away, she was still holding my arm, but now she no longer has the feeling of skin-to-skin contact.

When he opened his eyes again, there was water in front of him, endless water, and swaying seaweed, as if in the depths of a certain river or a certain sea area.

I:?A few seconds ago, I was obviously still taking a bath at home!

Subconsciously struggling in panic, he found that his legs had turned into fish tails.

Fish tail? ! !

No wonder I didn't find it difficult to breathe in the water, did I become a mermaid again?

Fortunately, this time I become a mermaid and have my own consciousness, don't panic, wait for me to surface and then let the butterfly curse spirit turn me from a mermaid into a human, it will be fine, it will definitely not happen what Gojo Satoru said last time The kind of oolong who begs for a hug.

I swung my tail and swam upstream easily. The water was very clear, and the water flow washed the scales from the waist down, which felt a little exciting and happy.

For a moment, the previous troubles were thrown away, and he swam carefree.

It was getting brighter above, and it should be approaching the surface of the water.

thump--

A black thing fell down, and I was so frightened that I stopped where I was, and my tail trembled and dared not move.

After observing quietly for a while, I found that the vertically falling thing seemed to be a person. Did someone fall into the water?

It's better not to be seen by strangers, or they will be caught by Frankenstein for experiments...

But what if the person who fell into the water drowned?I weighed it over and over again, and I decided to swim in the direction of that person and save him first.

It was still sinking slowly, and there was no movement of struggling at all.Speed ​​up the swinging frequency of the tail and swim with all your might.

It's a boy with silver hair... He's so tall, so it should have nothing to do with a "boy" in adolescence, but a "man".

He heard the movement and glanced at me.

Eh, are you still conscious?

Blue, jewel-like eyes met mine.

He was taken aback, and so was I.

Five...five five enlightenment? ! !

No, it seems to be the younger Gojo Satoru?Take a closer look.