What to do if you are too obsessed with Natsume

Tokyo, Townmecho, [-]:[-] a.m.

Being followed.

A young man with soft short hair stopped in front of a stall selling takoyaki, and said gently to the stall owner, "Please give me one, the weather is really nice today."

Shishu Tatara was fiddling with the camera at hand while chatting casually with the stall owner. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced vaguely at the fruit stall more than ten meters away. An old woman was picking fruits by the cart. The middle-aged stall owner had a cheap cigarette dangling from his mouth, and he kept puffing it out.

His intuition told Tatara that there was something looking at him.

A takoyaki was ready very quickly, because Tokuta Tara was a frequent visitor, and the proprietress occasionally chatted with him, "It seems that I often see Mr. Tokusu running around with a camera in the past few days. Is there anything urgent to do?"

Shi Shu then smiled gently, and nodded his head lightly when he spoke. When the sun fell on his flaxen soft short hair, his talking eyes seemed to be shining, "Yes, I'm preparing a little surprise."

He paid the money and took the takoyaki made by the proprietress, took a big bite, and said, "It's delicious!" Then he shook again, wandering the street seemingly aimlessly.

A colorful butterfly flew in front of Ten Beams, and its wings reflected a beautiful red in the sunlight.

"A red butterfly, Anna will love it!"

The youth chased the fluttering butterflies and walked deeper into the streets.

— gone.

A girl who was as delicate as a doll came out of the shadows. Her messy short silver hair hung down her thin shoulders. Her pupils were bright blue, but there was no light inside. The body of a child was covered with Wearing a large gray coat, staring at the young man's back.

—Like the person in memory.

Her thin body passed through the turbulent crowd, passed through the ghosts and monsters wandering in the air, and trailed behind the young man like a wandering spirit.

—can't let him slip away.

"Hey, kid, did I say you don't look at people when you walk?"

The tall middle-aged man picked up the child, grabbed her by the collar of the back of her neck like a kitten, and sprayed the breath of cheap cigarettes on the girl's pale cheeks, "Your parents didn't teach Are you basically polite?"

The girl raised her head, her neck turned slowly like a rusty machine, but she just looked at the alley where the butterfly flew in, her eyes became hollow again.

"You kid, are you dumb—"

He raised his fist.The girl's eyes reflected the scene of another world.

shasha~

A long monster with blue-black skin and three eyes lay on the man's shoulder, with cloudy white eyeballs turning around in the eye sockets, and its soft tentacles stretched out in front of the girl, as if inviting something.

Nausea.

The girl stretched out her unrestrained hand, staggered the man's fist, and pressed hard on the long monster's body. There were strings of blue veins protruding from the back of her hand.She raised her head and raised a pair of gray-blue eyes that were blindfolded.

"Ahh, brat, what are you doing—"

Bearing an unbearable weight on his shoulders, as if an overweight truck had run over him, the man subconsciously let go of the hand that was holding the girl's collar, and staggered back a few steps.

"It's just a child, isn't it?" "That's right, a man who uses violence against children is too shameful." "This kind of person is the scum of society!" Pointing.

"What are you looking at! Get the hell out of here!" He showed fierce eyes, pushed aside the crowd and walked away cursing. It was not until he was far away that his back that had been tense was relaxed, and he let out a fierce breath. "What the hell is going on with that brat?"

He clenched his fists, and the fear from the bottom of his heart invaded his emotions, "What a hell!" He spat, and walked away clutching his painful shoulder.

--Where did you go?

Ignoring the noise behind her, the girl stood in front of the fork, and the wind poured in from her empty cuffs, as if her thin body would turn into a piece of paper in the next second, and drift away to an unknown distance with the wind.

That person has a warm but not hot, flame breath...

Is it the alley on the right?

She trotted up, and the wind whistled into her ears. In this world that lacked a sense of reality, painful and blank memories shook the girl from the bottom of her heart, and something was about to flood out.

What is the meaning of existence in this world?

No.

The girl tried her best to restrain herself. Apart from the pain and darkness, there must be some warm memory that she had forgotten.

【I'm always here】

The soft laughter when that person spoke, the hands that gently touched his hair, the body temperature from the hug, and the name that will never be forgotten.

—Could it be him?

The figure of the young man just now reappeared in the girl's mind. She remembered that under the sun, his soft flaxen short hair seemed to be plated with a layer of shining gold, and the gentle smile on his lips was very much like the person in her memory.

The girl ran again, but her movements were as silent as a stray kitten. A cloud of shadows slid across the mottled wall illuminated by the sun. As the position moved, the shadow also disappeared into the deep alley where the sun could not find it. middle.

...can't find it.

Leaning against the wall, she squatted down and curled up into a small ball hugging her knees, and sighed very lightly.With his head down, he looked like a wilted white mushroom.

A few seconds later, the footsteps of "Da da... da da..." came to the girl's ears from not far away. When the girl raised her head, she saw the person she had been chasing standing there, within reach of her hand. not far away.

Under the wide sleeves, the girl's small hands were clenched into fists, and she looked at him without blinking.

"Eh……"

Shishu Tatara looked at the child, with a thin body wrapped under a large coat, short fluffy silver hair hanging down to his shoulders, he was tilting his head, looking at him with a pair of clear eyes that looked like blue glass beads.

A girl with tiny hands and feet, like a doll.

It's another Anna... No, no, or a girl younger than Anna.

So this is "stalking" your own little tail?

After a short distance, Shishu Tatara and the girl looked at each other in the air... It seemed that they saw Anna when she was younger again. Thinking of this, Shiju Tatara couldn't help but a smile appeared on his lips, and slowly turned to her. As she approached, the sunlight falling on the corner of the somewhat antique camera in his hand refracted gleaming light.

"Oh, look what I found, are you lost?"

He squatted down, put one hand on his knee casually, and showed her a very gentle smile. If the smile had temperature, it should be the temperature of the sun shining on his body at this time.

But the girl in front of her didn't respond to Ten Beta Tara's words, she just tilted her head slowly, and kept staring at his face, as if confirming something.

Shishu Tatara seemed to see his own reflection in the girl's clear water-blue eyes. He thought a lot about this girl's identity, but he didn't rush to speak, but kept a gentle smile all the time.

About a minute later, the girl spoke, her voice was a soft and waxy child's voice, which was somewhat inappropriate to her appearance.

"Your name is--"

There seemed to be something different in the little girl's eyes.

"Me?" Although it was strange, Tokuta Tara laughed, "My name is Tokuta Tara."

——The name is wrong.

As soon as the words fell, Shi Shu felt the eyes that had been on his face move away. The girl lowered her head, her long eyelashes drooping to cover up all the colors in her eyes, and the little finger hidden under the wide sleeve also curled up , There is an unspeakable sadness overflowing from the little child.

At this moment, the image of the girl crying with red eyes had already automatically circulated in Shishu Duoliang's mind, so he frantically flipped through the backpack he was carrying with him, and found a pack of tissues and It was only after a few lollipops that I breathed a sigh of relief.

But the scene of him rushing to coax the child did not appear, and he didn't even have time to send out the lollipop in his hand. The girl kept a blank face and left from his side.

"that……?"

Now he somewhat realized that this girl might be a little different from other children, but letting such a young child wander the streets was impossible.

"Are you looking for your parents?" he asked softly.

There was silence for a moment.

"No." The girl looked up at the ten bunches of Tatara's faces, but another face with a certain shape appeared in her mind.In her limited memory, mom and dad are distant and insignificant people to her.

Shishu Tara squatted down again, and looked at her with his gentle eyes, "Then are you looking for someone?"

He shook the antique camera in his hand, blinked, and smiled slyly, "Can you tell me? Maybe it's someone I know?"

"what……"

The girl opened her mouth, and a single syllable came out of her mouth.

The fingers under the wide sleeves curled up again, looking at the ten bundles of Tatara with wide blue eyes, and pursed his lips, giving Tatara the feeling that he was like a beautiful little white cat who didn't want to talk to anyone. Thinking about how to get the dried fish from humans.

"Or, can you tell me your name first?"

"Natsume……!!"

Ten beams noticed that the girl's eyes lit up.

"Is Natsume your last name? What about your first name?"

"No."

"Um……??"

"Natsume, I'm looking for a man named Natsume."

The girl raised her head, grabbed the clothes on her chest, and said each word seriously: "He is a very important person to me."

"Hmm..." Toku nodded, "Natsume? I remember it, so what about your name?"

"... Xuezhi."

"So Xuezhi, where does that Natsume live and what kind of person is he like? Do you remember his age and appearance?"

Xuezhi fell silent again, lowering her eyes.

After a while, she said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I don't remember."

Shi Bean had an intuition that he should not be the one who said sorry.

He opened his mouth, subconsciously wanting to say something comforting, but the girl spoke before him.

"Mr. Shishu, you are a bit like him."

The gentle wind in the afternoon blows the girl's silver hair. When Xuezhi raised her head again, a smile appeared on her face for the first time. A small dimple was faintly visible on her snow-white cheeks. Because of this smile, she felt the distance between her and this girl. Feel a little closer.

It is no longer a conversation through a transparent glass cabinet.

"If you don't mind, let me help you."

Under the golden sunlight, Ten Beams reached out to her.

But the girl tilted her head, her blue eyes seemed a little confused, she stared at his face and asked, "Why?"

Why should strangers who are not familiar with each other help? There is no unreasonable kindness in this world.

"There's no reason for that." With a childish smile on Shi Shu's face, he said simply, "It should be as natural to me as breathing."

weirdo.

The girl lowered her eyelids again, put her hands in her wide pockets, and once again showed a kind of indifference on her face, "No need, this is my own business."

He is really a stubborn child, Shi Shu sighed helplessly.

"Cuckoo..."

When passing by, Shishu heard a suspicious gurgling sound from the girl's stomach, and he quickly found an excuse.

"Are you hungry? Let me treat you to udon noodles."

His belly was empty, Xuezhi hadn't eaten for a whole day since he woke up, but he couldn't even take out a five-yuan coin in his pocket.

It's a tempting invitation.

The feeling of being hungry is actually not good. Thinking of this, a bit of hesitation flashed across Xuezhi's pale face.

"It's okay, let's go together."

The young man with a bright smile approached again and took her hand.Mr. Ten Beam's hands were dry and warm, just like the man himself.When the sun fell, the soft light-colored hair seemed to glow, and Xue Zhi squinted her eyes.

Suddenly, this scene felt a little familiar.

"Xuezhi, let's go to a wider world to see—"

Who said such words in her ear, she stroked the position of her heart, and felt its existence for the first time.

The corners of the eyes are a little wet.

Natsume, I really want to see you.