Daily overtime in winery

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Chie's strength was a bit strong, and Gin was hit by her and even took two steps back.

The silver-haired man standing in the morning light still had icy vapors on his body, Chie could smell the ice and snow on his coat, it seemed that he had been waiting here for a long time.

She sniffed and buried her head in his arms without saying a word.

Gin didn't say a word either, he could tell that Chie's state was not right, but he still chose not to ask anything.

Although Chie thinks she has figured out something, but in truth, those words are self-deception to comfort herself, she has always been very timid, and prefers the kind of unchanging and unchanging life, which will make her feel uncomfortable in a strange environment peace of mind.

She didn't want to think about what happened in Heizhu Academy last night. On the way back, she looked at the classical town that was getting farther and farther outside until she could no longer see it.

A dried up maple leaf was stuck on the car window at some point, Chie pushed down the car window and took the maple leaf in.

"I thought you knew that this kind of behavior was dangerous." There were no other cars around, Gin still reminded.

"Um......"

Responding casually, Chie lowered her head and rubbed her fingers unconsciously against the maple leaf.

She remembered the day when she first took Gin's car, it was freezing rain, and she saw that leaf, which was homeless like her, was thrown on the side of the road like garbage.

Is it different now?

"Do you still remember the first time I went to dinner with you?" She held her chin and said, "It was obviously not long ago, but I actually feel that it has been a long time."

"how?"

"...No, nothing."

She shook her head, and continued to stare out of the window in a daze, not seeing Gin's hesitant eyes.

"Is it really okay to just say nothing? Shu, you should know something?"

In the room on the second floor, the blond vampire asked the silent monarch.

The iron gate outside Yuezhiliao is not high, and the power of the vampire can easily see farther. Just now everyone went back to the room, but a Tuoma followed Jiulanshu into the study.

The black-haired vampire took off his jacket, and was wearing a shirt in the cold weather, playing with the chessboard in front of him. His eyes did not look at a Tama, but the low air pressure around him was still prohibitive.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and said, "One, have you heard the story about that puppet?"

His tone was as casual as a chat, but for some reason, Takuma felt a subtle sense of nostalgia from his tone.

"I think everyone in vampire society has heard the story," said Takuma, "the puppet named 'Scarlet Alice'—but what does that have to do with Vivian..."

That can almost be said to be the childhood shadow of most vampires... However, halfway through a Tuoma's words, he suddenly realized something, looked at Jiu Lanshu in astonishment, and froze in place.

The monarch who proposed the terrible thing did not stop playing chess, and the white queen in his pale hand tapped lightly on the chessboard, making the dull sound of wood colliding.

"'Scarlet Alice', the cursed puppet, slaughtered/killed nearly [-]% of the pure-blooded vampires at the beginning...It was just a poor child that was made in the beginning."

Jiu Lanshu looked at the White Queen chess piece in his hand, and put the chess piece in the corner of the board.

"She shouldn't be here at this time...and never should be."

Such a sentence sounded a bit inexplicable, but it made Tuoma feel cold all over his body. Originally, vampires were creatures that would neither feel cold nor heat, but he still felt a chill for no reason.

"Scarlet Alice" has disappeared for many years, why did Shu mention... Could it be that Vivienne has something to do with "Scarlet Alice"?Or is she just—

Yituo Ma didn't dare to think about it.

That was a story from a long time ago, so long ago that even vampires with long lives regard those histories as stories in legends.

The story goes like this, a long time ago, there was a pure-blooded vampire who sacrificed his own life to make a weapon that could kill pure-blooded species and ended the protracted war, but left his beloved partner alone in the world forever, So the partner who was left alone in the world, desperate to live, used the blood from his heart and the remaining flesh and blood of his partner to create a unique doll in the world. He sealed all his love and thoughts for his partner into the doll body, and then into eternal sleep.

The created doll was given the name "Alice", inherited the minds of the two "masters", and gradually eliminated the root disaster, that is, the pure-blooded vampires, over the long years.

The doll has no soul, but by chance, it has become like a curse spirit, because the "love" in the body is reserved for the lover at the end of time, but the doll itself does not understand the so-called "love" meaning.

But these are all things that happened later, no one knows.

As for what Ogiwara Chie's past was like, if you just say that everyone is an ordinary person, then Chie doesn't want to care.But the body and identity of someone else she used to bring the dead back to life, shouldn't she also be responsible for what happened to her?

Whether it’s ordinary people or people with weird identities, although the past belonging to Ogiwara Chie has nothing to do with her, not everyone can accept that the person they once loved has become someone else like Gin. The lone ghost who came came to replace the existence... Just thinking about it this way, she couldn't continue to escape with peace of mind.

Those things must be resolved before she can feel at ease, yes, they must be resolved.

She can't let go of everything and start a new life, as long as those potential dangers are still there.

It was dusk when we returned to Tokyo, and Gin said that there was still something to keep Chie from waiting for him.

Chie opened her mouth, she felt a little cold, not the kind from the outside, but the coolness coming from the depths of her body, as if something terrible was dormant, which made her terrified.

She really wants to ask if you can stay with me. I'm so scared and I'm very uneasy. Only when you are by my side can I feel at ease.

But this is too childlike. She is not a child, and she is always used to carrying it alone, so even though she wishes so much for him to stay, she still smiles and says:

"it is good."

A perfect smile, nothing wrong.

After she got home, she took off her coat, only to realize that the dead leaf in the pocket of the coat had disappeared at some point.

Feeling empty in her heart, Chie found that her hands and feet were cold from the very beginning, and her palms were full of cold sweat. She had to run to the kitchen, only to find that yesterday's hot water had already cooled down and had to be reheated. Hot water can be boiled in minutes. I don't know why it is so slow today. She looked at the hot water kettle so cold that she kept stomping her feet. Even turning on the air conditioner and heating didn't help.

Cold, still cold.

Both body and heart.

For a moment, she even felt that the beating heart in this body was an imitation of a clock. Now that the gears were rusted, it was almost time to stop, and all her efforts were to speed up the progress of death.

It was as if something was urging her, urging her to jump into a bottomless black hole, and inside the black hole was boundless despair.

The hot water was boiling, and the sound of the switch snapping brought her back to her senses.

She shook her hands and poured warm water to drink, thinking it would be better, but it didn't work.

"crunch-"

There was the sound of a sharp object dragging on the floor, right in the living room, the sound was getting closer and closer——

"crunch--crunch--"

A sharp, piercing sound came through a translucent kitchen door.

She saw that the living room where the light was turned on was pitch black. It wasn't that the light was broken, but that there was something bigger than the door that blocked all the light and trapped her in the small kitchen.A dark shadow squeezed in through the crack of the door, making harsh creaking sounds.

It was clearly a scene from a horror movie, but before changing it, she would have screamed and fainted, just like in that haunted house before.

But at this moment Chie felt that she was unusually calm.

She could clearly feel the gradual sweat on her forehead, and the sweat slid down the bridge of her nose again, which made her very uncomfortable, but extremely excited, as if she saw what she was thinking of——

Want to eat something.

Chie swallowed subconsciously.

Then, the door opened.

When I woke up, it was the familiar ceiling. The lights on the ceiling were not turned on, and only the bedside lamp was shining with warm yellow light.

Chie blinked, wondering if she should be here.

But where can it be if it can't be on the bed?

It took her a few seconds to restart her mind, and when she turned her head, she found a person sitting beside the bed.

"Gin? When did you come back?—who's pissing you off again?"

The man's bad face made her a little puzzled.

"You passed out in the kitchen when I came back." Gin frowned, his tone was genuinely angry, "Why didn't you tell me something was wrong with your body?"

"I..." Chie opened her mouth, subconsciously grasped the quilt under her hands, and said tremblingly, "I'm very scared...but if you have something to do, I can't keep you... ...."

Just how sensitive is it that he thinks so much and hides everything in his heart?

Gin really wanted to say that she could rely on him once in a while, it's okay, it's just a fight with Rum, it's not a big deal at all, but in the end he still didn't say anything.

Seeing Chie like this, he couldn't say anything.

He could only reach out and pat her head lightly.

Chie raised her head to look at him blankly, but received a kiss from someone that smelled of smoke.

This kiss seemed to be different from the previous ones. Gin's kisses before were very aggressive, making people feel like they were bitten prey and could not move, but this time it was not.

If I had to describe it, it was like a cautious temptation and comfort. Of course, it didn't mean that Gin would be so cautious, but Chie had to admit that in this gentle kiss, she felt that her panic and heartbeat gradually calmed down.

Yes, as long as he is by his side, she can be fearless.

Because that's Gin.

"Where have you been?" Chie asked, turning her face sideways.

"Take something."

He didn't know where he brought a thin box and stuffed it to Chie. Chie looked at the plain box and asked in a daze, "Is this for me?"

"Anyone else here?"

"Thank you."

She carefully opened the box. After opening the lid, she was stunned by the contents. She even squeezed her sleeves in disbelief, but couldn't say a word.

Lying quietly in the box were two pieces of amber, Chie recognized this thing, she did it in the experimental class in elementary school, this is also artificial turpentine amber.

But the things sealed inside she knew were two maple leaves, the one she picked up.

"Thank you..." Taking a few deep breaths, she felt that she was about to hold back her tears.

"I've thought for a long time about the significance of you bringing it back," Gin said.

He seldom expresses his inner thoughts to other people, so he is always ridiculed as a silent and old-fashioned guy, and the whole person is boring in capital letters. Then he looked at Chie who was trembling slightly, and said such a sentence by accident .

Chie looked at him in surprise.

"You are not alone, at least you still have someone to ask for." He said so.

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The author has something to say:

The Gin in this chapter is so fucking OOC

I can't stand it

But I don’t know how to change it, I’ve been stuck for a day so I didn’t update yesterday

Woo woo