To the eternal you

"Taste and think, the world is like a rock; whoever expects the floating world, it is difficult to stay."

In the quiet and elegant house, no light penetrates in, and the paper windows around are sealed tightly without leaving a single gap. The old furniture smells of damp, and the frost-haired girl kneels on the tatami, her voice is bleak.

"Uuuuu...don't say such sad poems, miss Ayaka."

The small white-haired fairy turned over in pain, clutching her belly, it seemed that the confinement these days was about to break her down.

"Ah...sorry, I forgot that little Paimon is here too."

Linghua gently stroked the top of her head with pity. Although she had a crown of unknown purpose, it was in a floating state, so it did not prevent Linghua from smoothing the hair of this little guy.

"You don't need to apologize, after all, it's all the fault of that traveler."

Paimon rubbed Linghua's fingers slightly, and complained for her.

However, Kansato Linghua who heard her words did not agree, but lightly stroked her hair, and said in a low voice calmly.

"No, it's just wishful thinking on my part."

It's wishful thinking, but it's so unreasonable.

"But she shouldn't have left Miss Linghua and ran away at such a time! And she's going to put you in confinement for ten years..."

Paimon flew up from the ground and sat on Linghua's shoulder with worried eyes.

"This is already the result of Lord General's benevolence...It is also my punishment for disobeying the gods and causing His Royal Highness to disappear."

As the person who brought the traveler in, Kamisato Linghua naturally did not escape the interrogation. Of course, due to her identity, she would definitely not use methods such as torture to extract a confession.

It's not so much an interrogation, but an inquiry. Kujo Sara personally came to ask people to ask, and then sent them back safely. It's just a pity for Ayato's brother. After the stupid thing he did, he hurried to plead guilty to Thor.

He can be punished instead of his younger sister. For a nobleman with a stable official career, it can be said that as long as he follows the steps, he will be the future patriarch of the society and hold a party's authority. This ten-year confinement can be accepted without any hesitation.

My younger sister is just reaching her young age. If she is imprisoned for ten years and then charged with the crime of disobeying the gods and causing the disappearance of the little Highness, she will definitely not be able to hang out in the aristocratic circle in the future, but for Lingren, this is not the most embarrassing He can't accept it.

The society has not yet fallen so low that it needs to use Shenli Linghua as a political tool, or get married.

For him, the most unacceptable thing is how long Linghua's youth is. If these ten years are really punished, when Linghua comes out, things will already be different, and the past relationship network will be completely broken. Living under the low wall of the Kamisato house.

There are still so many years of loneliness and pain, and he can't bear it just thinking about it, which is why he hurried to plead guilty to Thor.

And to be precise, it was because he mistrusted the traveler and handed over the heavy responsibility of security to the other party without authorization. He did not expect the other party to take advantage of his sister's innocence.

I hope that if you want to punish him, you will also punish him, and transfer the punishment of ten years of confinement to him.

But it's a pity that the general never saw him again after that (he was pestering Qi), and he didn't say anything about the apology, which made Aya more uneasy.

Thanks to this, the little fairy who was traveling with the traveler, that is, Paimon, did not directly hand it over to the shogunate, but instead asked her about the traveler.

Even though the matter has come to this point, and he has to express his hostility to the traveler, but in fact, according to Thomas' report a few days ago, he tentatively agrees with the other party, but the approval belongs to the approval. You are cheating my sister. What does it mean to run?

Even if at that time, the traveler took Shenli Linghua away, as an elder brother, he would be worried at most, as long as he knew it was safe later, it would be acceptable.

But after doing this, no matter how broad-minded he is, he can't really pretend that it didn't happen.

For this reason, Paimon was also thrown into confinement by him. More precisely, he asked her to accompany Shenli Linghua under the pretext of punishing the criminal and his fellow criminals.

Otherwise, he would be alone in confinement and would not be able to see anyone all day long. Except for regular delivery of food and daily necessities, he would have to live in such a secluded place for ten years. His sister's personality was fond of thinking, so he was really worried.

But judging from the results, what Ayato did did ease Ayahua's emotions.

At least, one person being locked up and two people being locked up together are two different concepts.

One of them, in particular, is a living treasure.

These days, she also feels pretty good when she hears Paimon tell the traveler's story from another perspective.

It also made her feel hopeless.

Even though she was abandoned, she still couldn't help but want to know about the other party. Ling Hua was extremely distressed about such a self.

However, perhaps it was precisely because of this innocence that she survived the initial gloomy period.

Because, the traveler in Paimon's mouth will never give up on others.

Even if it was Paimeng comforting herself, or she wanted to believe it instinctively, and deceived herself with a stable mentality.

She doesn't even want the person she likes to abandon her companions so easily, not to mention that the original intention of Linghua and Ying to walk together is to gain the courage to face the doubts of others.

In a small space, Paimon's stomach growled again, and every time Linghua would take out the portion she had saved and didn't eat.

However, there seems to be something wrong with today's meal delivery time. Although it is difficult for people to perceive the flow of time in the outside world, most of them can only rely on the estimation of heart pulse, and the accuracy is not completely reliable, but the biological clock does able to maintain a relatively stable state.

Just as Paimon sighed, there was a light knock on the door.

"Ah! It's finally here, Paimon is almost starving to death!"

Paimeng, who could almost be said to have tears in his eyes, was the first to fly and flew towards the door. Usually, the food delivery person knocked on the door, put the plate on the ground, and waited for Linghua and the others to take it in. The person delivering the food will leave directly, and will not pick up the lunch plate until the next time the food is delivered, minimizing the chance of meeting.

It's just that the person who knocked on the door today seems to have changed, which makes Shenli Linghua also have doubts. At least from the dull knock and the sound of footsteps that haven't gone away, it can be felt that maybe the other party wants to meet Own.

Will it be a brother?

But didn't they just meet each other the day before yesterday, and in order to avoid suspicion, brother Lingren can't do such things often, otherwise the confinement will be the same as fake.

She got up and came to the door, at the same time the person outside the door finally spoke out.

"...sorry."

It was her familiar voice.

Kamisato Linghua held the doorknob in a daze, and Paimon also looked panic-stricken.

"Traveler?! How did you come back! Hurry up and leave! If you are caught this time, Miss Linghua and I will be completely finished!"

The criminal came back to see his accomplices, did he think that ten years of imprisonment for her and Linghua was not miserable enough?

"...wait for a few more days, the day when we truly meet again will come sooner or later."

After the words fell, there was the sound of footsteps leaving in a hurry at the door.

Kanli Ayaka opened the door, the dinner plate was quietly placed on the ground, and a thin golden hair lay across the corner of the dinner plate.

She didn't know what the mood was like now, it was very complicated, a strange feeling of wanting to cry and smile at the same time.

Do you want to trust her again?

There was a voice in my heart, telling her.

Even wishful thinking, you are my courage.

At the same time, far away in Liyue——

Ying, who was thrown into his arms by His Royal Highness, seemed to feel something, and was slightly lost in thought.