[Shaman King] He has a cat

The clock in the kitchen said ten fifteen at night.

The stove slowly turned from medium to low heat, and the blue flames became smaller and smaller, and finally died down completely.

Shen Du returned to the table with the noodles just out of the pot, and opened the half-written document. Before her fingers landed on the keyboard, she paused and slid the phone away. The lit screen was still stuck on the chat with no reply interface.

There are only three chat records with the other party, and the last two are all sent by her.

"Do you know that adult can read people's hearts?"

"I know, what's wrong?"

"If you need anything, you can always come to me."

The two messages were like muddy cows falling into the sea, the other party sent the first sentence abruptly, and there was no further text. If the chat records were not clear, she would almost suspect that the original message was imagined by her.

Shen Du put the phone back on the table.

The minute hand on the wall turned slowly, at this time Little Heitan had already gone upstairs to sleep, before returning to the room, the little one kept looking at her with a pitiful expression on his face, and his big tearful eyes hesitated to speak.

The blinking cursor stayed where it was, and she typed out a line of words, and after a short pause, she deleted the content of that sentence word by word.

Staring at the screen of the notebook, she tapped the backspace key word by word, and said to Rakist next to her:

"Can I not intervene in this matter, or should I pretend that I don't know anything?"

The man who picked up the black coffee did not pause at all: "What do you mean?"

"I think you all seem to have forgotten one very important thing." After deleting the last word, she put her finger on the keyboard again and revised the previous grammar.

"I used to be an onmyoji, and I am now. In other words, I am a psychic just like you."

"..."

"What's that thing called now? Oh yes, the magic power value. Judging by the magic power value, you are his strongest subordinate."

Shen Du hit the Enter key to switch to a new paragraph.

"Leaving the most capable subordinates with me, what does he think?"

Rakist held his coffee and didn't speak.

A man who is so loyal to Ma Cang would not answer her words, Shen Du sighed: "...forget it."

She closed the laptop: "I'll go upstairs to see if the minors are asleep or not."

Minors are in the stage of growing their bodies, and adequate sleep is very necessary.

This surprise inspection found that there was one less minor upstairs.

Ma Cangye's three friends looked at each other in blank dismay.

"...Where is Ye Jun?"

"do not know."

Shen Du nodded and was about to close the door.

"Wait a moment."

She didn't communicate much with the three of them, maybe it was because Ma Canghao was always very nervous, every time he appeared, all the people present were busy guarding against him, and it was impossible to enter a relaxed chat atmosphere.

It was rare for Ma Cang to be away today, and the three obviously had something to say, and it seemed that they had been holding back their words for a long time.

"Is that true?"

"what's up?"

"It's just..." The next words seemed a bit unspeakable. Huoluohuo hesitated for a long time, and grabbed his hair irritably. Finally, Chocolate Love gave a thumbs up: "It's you and that guy. thing."

Dao Lian: "...why do you compare your thumbs?"

Chocolate Love hesitated: "To ease the embarrassment?"

"..."

Shen Du suppressed a smile: "It's true, but why do you ask such a question?"

"...because it's unimaginable."

Holo Holo clicked his tongue: "You feel completely different from that guy."

"Idiot." Dao Lian folded her arms and leaned against the window, "A thousand years is enough to change many things."

Shen Du felt that she seemed to understand a little bit.

"What you want to ask is whether he has changed a lot?"

The three stopped talking.

"...How should I put it?" She raised her head and thought for a while, "The cells in the human body have a metabolic cycle of seven years. From a physiological point of view, we are completely different from ourselves seven years ago, and we are different from ourselves seven years ago. Afterwards, I was completely different.”

"Even now, the composition of cells in our body is different from what it was a second ago. People are changing every moment, and no one will remain the same."

After a slight pause, Shen Du continued: "...I actually don't like people saying 'you have changed' to me, because usually when people say that, what they really mean is that you have become different from what they expected gone."

But people are not obliged to respond to the expectations of others, nor are they obliged to stay for others or change themselves.

"Because I don't like it myself, I generally don't say the same thing about other people."

And, maybe she's changed too.Unknowingly, he became different from himself who stayed in Heian-kyo thousands of years ago.

The flow of time cannot be stopped. Once some tracks are staggered, it is difficult to overlap. The past is called the past because it cannot be changed.

"...Sorry, I may have given a useless answer."

Shen Du looked away.

"But what it means to span millennia, I have no way of empathizing."

It would be fine if it was only a few hundred years, maybe she could try to stretch her imagination, but a thousand years lay before her eyes, and she couldn't guess it based on her experience.

She didn't know what he had experienced these years, where he had been, what he was thinking, and what supported him for thousands of years.

She laughed: "So I can't tell."

——"You have changed." Such words.

……

The ruins were surrounded by a sea of ​​flames, and the air was twisted in the heat wave. The person sitting on the ruins looked at the young man below, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Is this the power you obtained in the practice of hell? This armor-bound supersoul The body is pretty good."

Wing-like armor surrounds Ma Cangye's side. He holds the Fudu Soul Sword in his left hand, and controls the white long knife extended from the armor with his right hand. The white armor-bound super-spirit looks like a white swan with wings spread , an excellent integration of offense and defense.

Ma Cangye smiled helplessly: "It's nothing compared to your 900 years of cultivation in hell."

Ma Cang was noncommittal: "Do you want to stop me with this?"

"No, since you can read minds, you should understand. I just want to have a good talk with you."

Ma Canghao smiled and said, "That's why you are meddling in your own business, Ye."

The dazzling flames surged, and the surrounding scenery was crimson. The fire spirit with its huge mouth wide open stopped in front of the stiff bodies.

"Peyodai originally wanted to die in my hands, and now I'm just fulfilling his wish."

Ma Cangye looked directly at him and said, "What about the others?"

Ma Cang let out a sigh of relief, and smiled while holding his chin and replied: "It is my soul, so it doesn't matter if it is eaten by Huo Ling?"

"..."

Intermittent laughter rang out, and Peyodai said to his pale companion, "I told you, he doesn't care at all."

"Our beliefs are based on a lie, our lives are nothing from the start, it's all just a sham, we're the only ones who believe it's true, what's the life we've had so far, of course it's nothing Calculate."

Peyodai laughed and burst into tears: "I don't care about anything anymore."

Ma Canghao bent his eyes, and said to Ma Cangye with a pleasant face, "Look."

He raised his hand, and the gigantic fire demon opened its jaws towards the small figure on the ground in the sea of ​​burning flames like a stone statue alive.

"...Okay!" Ma Cangye's face changed, and he was about to rush over with his weapon tightly grasped.

Amidst the sound of the sea of ​​fire burning, the phone rang without warning.

The vibrating sound continued to hum, especially clear in the eerie silence. The fire spirit stopped moving, and even the crackling fire seemed to die down for a short while.

The phone screen lit up, Ma Canghao suppressed his smile, and looked down at the caller number on the screen.

It seems to be a long time, but it seems to be just a moment later.

Just before the ringtone was about to disappear, he swiped away from the screen and pressed the answer button.

"……Hey?"

Shen Du held the phone and stood by the window.

She didn't know where to look, so she just stared at her own reflection in the window.

The people over there were silent.

Both of them were silent, and as an adult, she felt that she should take on the responsibility of opening her mouth to find something to talk about.

"...Is the signal on your side not very good?"

There are strange noises in the background, as if something is rumbling.

Ma Canghao's voice paused: "No."

Those strange voices disappeared quickly, and became quiet and docile, as peaceful as the moonlight outside the window at this time.

Assuming the physical distance between the two was far enough now, it occurred to her that this was the first time the two of them had talked without him being able to read his mind.

The person on the other end of the phone didn't know what she was thinking, and she didn't know what he was thinking either.

No, maybe both of them were thinking the same thing.

"I am..." Shen Du paused, "I want to say sorry for what happened today."

"..."

She looked out the window at the moon.

"In the shopping park, I might have gone a little too far."

"You make me miserable."

"But you were right at the time." Ma Canghao's voice was very gentle.

Even though she knew he couldn't see, she shook her head.

"That's not true," she said. "Just because I'm not wrong doesn't mean I should say it."

She folded her arms and stood by the window.

"Compared to being right or not, your emotions are more important to me, so it's wrong to say that."

In many cases, people have no way to control the thoughts welling up in their hearts, but people can choose what to say.

Therefore, sometimes the spoken words are more representative of a person's real choices than the things in the heart.

"sorry."

"..." The person over there didn't reply for a long time.

He was silent for so long that she had to confirm it aloud, "Are you still listening?"

"I am listening."

"Then... do you want to come back for supper later?" Shen Du thought for a while, then added, "I made some noodles."

"……I am looking forward."

The call is over.

Silence spread and spread, the disappearing fire did not leave scorched burn marks on the ground, the misty moonlight leaked from the breach again, a soft sound came from the ruins, and the exhausted man fell to the ground, knowing that he was brushing against death And pass.

Ma Cang turned around and didn't look at the others.

"You just said that you want to talk to me." The cloak was lifted by the wind, and he jumped off the ruins lightly and neatly, and came to the dazed Ma Cangye.

"Then hurry up." Asakura said, "It's not suitable for talking here."

With a bang, the flames spread behind him, and the fire spirit that appeared again held Ma Cangye in his hand. When Ma Cangye came back to his senses again, the two had already reached the top floor of the tall building where the night wind was howling.

Far away on the ground, the downtown of Los Angeles is full of traffic, dazzling lights seep into the dark crevices, and the streets are dotted with neon lights.

"Okay, no one here will disturb our conversation." After the wind died away, the silent moonlight covered it.

The pentagram earrings swayed with the movement of Ma Canghao's head, and he added with a smile: "Aren't you afraid?"

Ma Cangye slowly released the handle of the knife: "No."

"If it was before, I might really be a little nervous."

"……Oh?"

"But these days I've figured it out," Asakura Ye laughed in a relieved voice, "what's your weakness."

"..."

Ma Canghao narrowed his eyes slightly: "Pay attention to your next words."

Ma Cangye didn't speak immediately, he looked up at the night sky, the moon is not very bright tonight, the silver coin-like moon is missing a hole.In the distant clouds, the lights of the plane's tail twinkled like stars in the dark.

"Among the five elves of the Paqi tribe, why did you choose Fire Spirit at that time?"

There are few stars in the night sky of Los Angeles, but the river of light on the ground is extremely bright. The lights of the stars gather together and weave into a band of light that winds in the dark.

"Because it's a wonderful satire on humanity."

The night wind roared again, and the cloak was blown violently in the wind. Asakang replied with a smile: "The flame has brought the light of civilization to human society, and it is very appropriate to use the same flame to end human civilization."

"Really." Ma Cangye looked at the night sky and said, "It's actually for revenge, right?"

"..."

"The stock master told me everything." He retracted his gaze, "Including what happened thousands of years ago."

Ma Canghao's expression turned cold.

"Are you sure you want to destroy human beings?" Ma Cangye asked him.

"The reason why you haven't shown that you have a spirit is very simple, isn't it?"

In the sky far away from the ground, the eternal moon illuminates the figures of the two of them.

The boy said gently:

"You're worried that she's afraid of fire."

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