reversal impulse

Jia Ruozi stood in the rain watching this childhood memory that he had forgotten.

The remote streets and convenience stores in Guanbuzi City.

A heavy rain traps six-year-old Xiao Niatzi and a strange boy under the same roof.

The convenience store quickly turned off the lights, and the store manager hurriedly left through the back door with an umbrella, and the rainy night lost its only light source.

Little Glass squatted in the corner, with his head held high, he glanced at the young man with a gaze that he thought had no trace.The other party's expression was the same as that of the rain behind him, showing a boring quality in the dark, but not cold.

Hunger and exhaustion made his eyes subconsciously stop on the plastic bag on the opponent's wrist.

The thunderstorm exploded, and when the wind blew, Nitro shuddered subconsciously.He covered his mouth to suppress a sneeze, but before that, there was a gurgling sound from his stomach.After he pressed his stomach again——

"Ah-chirp!" A sneeze came out.

The standing boy let out a sneer.

This was the first time he looked straight at the boy squatting beside him tonight, his eyes were completely devoid of exploration, as if the sap was just a stone on the side of the road, or some flowers and plants that could be seen everywhere.

Hungry flowers and plants staring at other people's things.

"Flowers, Flowers, Plants" quickly looked away, covering her mouth with one hand and her stomach with the other, thinking a little confused about where she was going next.

While he was thinking in this weird and funny posture, a shadow came up against the wall.

"Shadow" touched Little Glass's leg with his steamy head.The child who was in a daze was so hungry that he had no energy, and was knocked down to the ground.

The culprit was a medium-sized tabby-colored dog that looked exactly like a Shiba Inu, but more aggressive.The ears are raised, the eyes are small, and the tails of the eyes are slightly slanted, and there is a brown collar around the neck.

This should be a domestic dog.

After arching the "flowers and plants" blocking the way, it left in no hurry. It squatted in front of Xiao Nizi and raised its upper body, staring at him with dark eyes.

"You are looking for the wrong person, I have nothing to eat." Little Glass muttered vaguely, "I am also pitiful, and I am still..."

"What are you doing?" the boy interrupted suddenly.

"In..." Little Glass shifted his eyes to him, hesitated for a moment, and said softly, "Wandering?"

Although the six-year-old child's clothes are not luxurious, they are also neat, and his embarrassment and embarrassment can't overshadow his good upbringing.It can be seen that he is indeed the kind of boy who is well-raised by his family.

When he squatted down and uttered the word "wandering", it was not as if he was describing his situation, but more like he was reading out the words in the dictionary, with a sense of naive comment.

After hearing Nitro's answer, the young man's eyes blurred, and the lower half of his eyelids drooped again.

Little Glass didn't know why this person spoke suddenly, and after getting the answer, he looked a little impatient.

"You're hungry, so is it."

Nitro nodded.

The boy sneered: "It deserves it."

Nitro: "..."

Where did I offend him?

Little Nitrate tilted his head, subconsciously observed the other person's expression, this is a skill that has been learned without a teacher in the long-term dependence.

There was malice in the young man's ridicule this time, his slightly retracted jaw made the whole face more exposed, his smile grinned at the scar at the corner of his mouth, and the bloody breath that didn't match his age just melted into the rain.

"Why are you angry?" Nitro asked puzzled, "Did the word 'wandering' offend you?"

After asking, his eyes rolled around, as if he understood something, he turned his head to look at the quiet medium-sized dog again, and stopped talking.

The conversation started off inexplicably and ended abruptly.

The rain seemed to last forever, but it was much smaller than before, and the occasional two bangs of thunder seemed a bit bluffing.Little Glass unconsciously lost his mind while staring at the dog in front of him.

He thought old-fashionedly, there are still many cases of minors running away from home in Japan, and he can come across one of them.

He is still a minor who has a bad temper and will vent his anger on children.

"This is a Shikoku dog." He said suddenly, "Here."

Nitro was still thinking wildly, but didn't realize that the words were addressed to him. After two or three seconds, Nitro blinked: "Shikoku?"

He slowly turned his head to look at the boy who had a bad attitude just now.

The other party took out a rice ball from the plastic bag, and was stretching out his hand to hand it to him.

This action made Little Glass decide to settle the feud with him, but he squatted on the spot without moving.It wasn't until the boy frowned impatiently that he pursed his lips and asked in a low voice, "Can you hand it to me?"

"..." The young man stared at him and raised his eyebrows, "Do I need to unpack it and feed it to you?"

"No." Little Glass raised his head and explained sincerely, "I've been squatting for too long, and my legs are numb."

"..."

The expression on the young man's face made Nitzi think that he would say "serve it right" again, but this time he actually took two slow steps and pulled himself up from the ground with his other hand.

While pulling, he also conveniently stuffed the rice ball into his arms.

"Hiss—" The sensation of being bitten by ants in his legs made Xiao Nizi gasp, and he almost lost his balance. He subconsciously raised his hand and grabbed the boy's haori in front of him. Don't forget to cover the rice ball.

"Thank you."

After thanking Nizi, he began to unpack the onigiri, because it had completely cooled down, the plastic film and dried seaweed were almost inseparable, and the rice of the cheap onigiri was very loose, and it would split into two pieces if pulled a little.

He thought for a while, then raised his head and asked the people around him: "Can dogs eat balls?"

The boy lowered his head and glanced at him: "It doesn't need it."

After saying this, the Shikoku dog whimpered a little, and rubbed Nitro's calf pitifully.He immediately stepped back a little bit, showing a vague tendency to hide behind the young man.

"Don't, don't rub, my legs are still numb."

The rice ball is not big, even if you swallow it in small bites, it will be eaten quickly.Although the taste is not very good, at least Nitro is not as hungry as before.He put away the packing bag, looked around, and ran towards the trash can at the left back corner of the convenience store.

When he ran back again, the rain was already very light, and the boy squatted on the ground and scratched the Shikoku dog's chin indiscriminately.

"Did you hurt your right hand?" Nitro stood in front of him, his eyes were almost at the same level as his, "I saw it just now."

Hearing this, the young man raised his right hand, and the cuff slid down his forearm, and the rusty smell from the cloth was more obvious.

The wound was on the inner side of the forearm. The wound was long and deep, extending to the wrist. The flesh at the wound was slightly turned outward, as if it had been forcefully struck by the sharp claws of a large beast.

"You saw it just now, and then?" the boy asked.

If it was an ordinary six-year-old child, he would probably look away and show a panic-like reaction.But Niatz's expression remained the same, instead he moved closer to examine the wound carefully.

He thought about the reversal technique that he hadn't fully mastered, pointed to the wound, and asked, "If I say that I can make you feel better, would you believe it?"

He didn't directly talk about such things as spells. On the one hand, he didn't want the people in front of him to think that he was out of his mind. On the other hand, he himself didn't know much about it.

The boy said indifferently, "Whatever you want."

After getting approval, Nitro stretched out both hands, and slowly held the palm of the other's right hand under the surprised gaze of the young man.

He moved very carefully, put the thumbs of both hands on the palms of his hands that were a circle bigger than himself, and began to try to use his own spells to heal the opponent.

The child's hands were cold and soft, and he was quite focused, but he was very unlucky, and the operation simply failed.

Nitro felt that he shouldn't give up easily, so he didn't let go, and just started trying again and again.The boy ignored him and scratched the medium-sized dog's chin with his left hand.

"It's time for you to go home." The boy suddenly said in the silence, his tone of voice was as flat as saying why the rain hadn't stopped.

Nitro was taken aback for a moment, but before he could decide what to answer, his mouth started to move: "But I already..."

"You can't even afford a 100-yen rice ball, and you have 'I'm easy to do' stickers all over your face." He opened his eyelids and glanced at the distressed little Nitzi, "Even the dog in the convenience store We all know not to stay too far away from the dog leash, but you are worth more than dog meat."

The Shikoku dog barked twice in favor.

Nitro didn't expect that one second he looked quite easy to get along with, and the next second he started scolding people on the spot.

Combined with his previous record of taunting and then throwing food, Nitro can barely think that this is a disguised form of persuasion... maybe.

In fact, the boy is right, his age is not even up to the standard of "employing child labor".

After thinking for a long time, Little Glass lowered his head in frustration, looking at the docile medium-sized dog.

"It's cute, I like it very much, but I don't even want to give it a little bit of rice balls." He said, "I wanted to wander, but I feel that wandering is very pitiful-I will probably be with the little girl who broke away from the collar. Let the dogs freeze to death on the street together."

The boy put his hand on the Shikoku dog's head for a while, thinking that this kid is really interesting.

The runaway puppy who broke free from the collar is childlike and cruel.

The domestic hound that was tied up with a rope from childhood will only wag its tail and beg for mercy when it is outside, leave the house with a collar, and docilely wait for luck to send a cheap cold rice ball on a rainy night like the dog in front of it.

A collar is a bondage, a benchmark that does not belong to one's own nature.

He said that he had to break free from his collar when he left home, and he also said that the ending would be to freeze to death on the side of the street.

Before waiting for the other party's response, Little Glass changed the subject, "Does your right hand feel better?"

The originally cold hand was finally covered with heat. After too many attempts, Nitzi himself didn't know whether the reversal technique was successful.

The boy didn't care about the dog at his feet anymore, and the warmth came from the place where his palms were touching.He looked at the wound, and then looked up to the outside of the eaves.

The rain stopped completely.

"It's a little bit better," he said in a low voice.

The dream stops here.

The alarm clock rang on the cell phone next to the pillow, and Jia Ruzi woke up.

He lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling for a long time.

Nitro subconsciously reached for the cigarette case next to the bed. He looked at the lottery ticket, wondering why he suddenly had such a dream.

Maybe it's because of an unexpected reunion with the person I met as a child during the day, or maybe it's just because the rain last night was too heavy.

He put the lottery ticket and cigarette case back on the side of the bed, and the phone rang again while resting his hands on the side of the bed.

Nitro rubbed his somewhat messy hair, picked up the phone casually, but was completely stunned the moment he saw the screen, he didn't know if he was still in a dream.

It was a text message from Aozaki Orange.