Madara walked around the wounded man covered in blood on the ground a few times, and leaned over to smell the "breath" carefully.

"...Strange, this aura...is almost exactly the same as Jing..."

Natsume Takashi didn't understand what Shiba was worried about, and said anxiously: "Mr. Cat, he is seriously injured. Let's save him! Take him to the hospital!"

"Don't—" Madara always felt a little uneasy, shook his body, and turned into a prototype, "This guy may be the grandson of an acquaintance... The hospital can't heal his injury. Take him back to Yayuan. Natsume, take him Move up."

"Oh." Takashi Natsume carefully moved the unconscious wounded man onto Madara's back, and climbed up himself, asking a little uneasy, "It's still broad daylight, won't there be any problems?"

"If you continue to delay time, there will be problems."

Madara didn't say any more, soared into the sky, and flew back to Yayuan with the two of them directly.

Along the way, Natsume Takashi was worried about whether this person would lose too much blood, but he was surprised to find that the other person's wound slowly stopped bleeding by itself, and his breathing gradually stabilized.

"Mr. Cat, he seems to be better."

Madara rushed to Yahara in a hurry, and replied casually: "If this kid is the grandson of that guy in Jing, he can't die--as long as their clan has awakened their blood, it will be difficult to die. You don't have to be so careful, don't look at him like this, Much stronger and more resistant to tossing than you."

Natsume Takashi twitched the corner of his mouth helplessly.

"Cat teacher……"

"Tch, if you don't believe the old man's words, if you get a little blood from him and water the flowers, even the dying flowers will come back to life."

Madara shook his mane as he spoke, almost shaking the wounded man off his back.

Natsume Takashi hurriedly supported Shiina Kyo, and said a little unhappy: "Mr. Kitty, don't move around—"

Baba snorted and didn't speak.

Since Shiina Kyo's injury looked terrible, Natsume Takashi didn't dare to take him home, so he had to send Madara to the shrine, and ran home to get bandages and potions, but when he ran back, he Surprised to find that the comatose wounded had woken up, and sat opposite Madara, the atmosphere was very dignified - Natsume Takashi had rarely seen Madara so serious before, he was affected by this atmosphere, and subconsciously lightened his steps .

In fact, when Madara sent Shiinakyo to this deserted shrine, Shiinakyo had already regained consciousness. When Natsume ran to find medicine, Madara was trying to make a bad move and shake the person to the ground. Shiinakyo turned over, lightly Landing on the ground, he subconsciously wanted to call out Sirius, only then did he notice that the monster opposite looked very familiar.

The familiar gesture awakens all the dusty memories.

Those brilliant, warm, and never faded memories merged with the scenery in front of me in an instant.

"……spot?"

Shiina Kyo was in a trance for a moment.

He subconsciously relaxed his vigilance, and returned to normal from the posture of preparing for battle. Looking around, he would be a little dazed whenever he saw a familiar scene. After seeing it, he felt a psychedelic feeling like in a dream.

"It's this shrine...Yahara...have I come back yet?"

However, the scenery here is a little different from the memory.

This deserted shrine is even more dilapidated.

It was as if years of ups and downs had been experienced since he and Reiko came here.

Did he go back to Yahara?

Is it real now, or a dream?

Shiina Kyo looked around aimlessly in a daze, and after a while, she finally stopped her gaze on the familiar big monster again.

"Madara... where is Reiko? Are you not with Reiko?"

Banner's heart trembled, and his mane stood up with nervousness for a moment, and he yelled in a low voice, "Boy, who are you?!"

"I'm Jing. Madara, don't you know me?" Shiina Jing looked at Madara suspiciously. Because he was so shocked, he felt that the speed of his thinking had slowed down at this moment. After a while, he continued to ask , "Don't tell me...you don't know Reiko yet?"

Madara felt the absurdity more and more. This unbelievable sense of absurdity aroused anxiety, and even evoked an emotion that he was extremely unfamiliar with but instinctively resisted to touch. The anxiety turned into vigilance, and the beast monster instinctively assumed a fighting posture.

"Boy! You say you are Jing, show evidence——!"

Is Madara's memory messed up?

Thinking of this, Shiina Jing called out the demon sword Sirius in puzzlement, slowly drew out the five-foot-long knife, waved his hand, and the sharp blade reflected light into Madara's eyes.

"This knife... Madara should remember it? We had a fight the day we met."

"Sirius..." Madara walked over slowly, carefully sniffing the blood on the long sword, "That's right, this is indeed the demon sword Sirius. So, are you really Jing?!"

Madara walked over, put her nose on Shiina Kyo's body, and stuck out her tongue to lick the wound that hadn't completely scabbed over.

"There's nothing wrong with this smell. But, how could you still look like this? You don't have a demonic aura, it wasn't changed by a monster. You bastard, could it be—"

Shiina Kyo was taken aback by Madara's action, and quickly put away Sirius, complaining in his mouth: "Madara, please tell me in advance, Sirius is too sharp, it almost scratched you."

After Madara accepted the fact that the young man in front of him was really Kyo Shiina in confusion, he backed away a few steps, paced back and forth a few times, sat down suddenly, and said hesitantly: "Kyo, there is something I want to tell you. you……"

"Please tell me." Shiina Kyo knelt down and sat down.

Ban Rare hesitated, not knowing how to explain.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps gradually approaching.

In this unusually quiet shrine, even the sound of falling leaves would be caught by the tense person and demon at the moment. Natsume Takashi never expected that he just took a step forward from the torii gate, and immediately received two messages With scorching gaze, he saw the expression of the boy who woke up change from stunned to bewildered.

"Reiko..."

That boy yelled.

Natsume Takashi smiled habitually, shook his head and denied the other party's address.

"Reiko is my grandmother. I'm Takashi Natsume. Hello, do you know... grandmother too?"

"Grandmother?" Shiina Kyo was stunned by this address, and it took a while to realize what this address meant—that is to say, the boy in front of her was the child of Reiko's son, and he was Reiko's grandson.

The Natsume Reiko in Shiina Kyo's memory is a beautiful 16-year-old girl. He couldn't connect the titles "Reiko" and "grandmother". After being stunned for 2 minutes, Shiina Kyo seemed to understand a little bit.

Why has this shrine become more dilapidated?

Why did Madara seem to not recognize him at first?

Why... the 16-year-old Reiko has a grandson who is about the same age as him?

Because this Yahara is not the Yahara that 15-year-old Shiina Kyo returned to.

Even if he stood in the same place, he would never see the same scenery or see the same people again—because there are decades between now and the past.

15-year-old Kyo Shiina is no match for time.

16-year-old Kyo Shiina is still no match for time.

One can only go back to the "now", and the other cannot go back to the "past".

Shiina Kyo looked at Madara blankly, and said with a fluke, "Mara... Reiko...is still alive...right?"

When she asked this sentence, Shiina Kyo already knew the answer.

If Reiko was still alive, why was there never an attempt to contact him?

It is precisely because of such guesses that Shiina Kyo never dared to go back to Hahara—he was afraid that as long as he saw a scene different from his memory, he would have to admit the power of time.

Happy, sad, passionate, quiet...all the pictures in memory, the road the two walked hand in hand, the scenery they saw together, the future they had looked forward to...then all Memories will be washed away in the long years to nothing left.

Even if Reiko rejected him, he didn't want to hear about Reiko's death.

If you don't look or listen, you can pretend you don't know—you can tell yourself that Reiko is living a happy life.

However, that happiness has nothing to do with "Shiina Kyo".

Madara turned her head uncomfortably to avoid Shiina Kyo's gaze, but she still felt uncomfortable where those eyes were staring at, so she simply turned around and walked away a few steps.

Shiina Kyo took a deep breath, looked at Natsume Takashi, tried her best to control her emotions, trying to calm herself down.

"Natsume...Takashi-san...please tell me, Reiko...Reiko she..."

Natsume Takashi vaguely understood what the other party wanted to ask, and the sadness in the other party's eyes almost poured out. For the first time, he felt that the answer he was going to say was so cruel.

"Sorry……"

"Enough... I know..."

Shiina Kyo immediately reached out his hand to stop Natsume Takashi from continuing to speak, a sharp pain rose from the bottom of his heart, pierced his whole body, spread like thorns, tightly wrapped around his body, and nailed his feet to the ground , Even if you want to turn around, you can't do it.

He was in so much pain that he couldn't breathe, every breath seemed to touch the wound, blood and tears flowed down together, something was stripped from every inch of his bones, and disappeared bit by bit.

Shiina Kyo raised her hand with difficulty to cover her eyes, sobbing, "Don't...look at me...don't look...sorry..."

I'm sorry, Reiko.

Sorry to be so late.

sorry……

I always wanted to see Reiko again, even if Reiko fell in love with someone else——

No.

No.

Not at all.

He didn't hope that the most important thing in Lingzi's life would be another person, and he didn't want someone else to spend her life with Lingzi. However, he was so powerless, what did he do for Lingzi from the beginning to the end?

Even the condolences... came so late.

For 40 years...

During the time he passed, Reiko had gone through the whole life.

Madara heard the suppressed cry, looked back, swept Natsume Takashi with his tail, and turned his head away.

Natsume Takashi nodded knowingly, followed Madara out quietly, and gave this place to the crying boy.

Outside the shrine, Natsume Takashi asked curiously: "Mr. Cat, who is that? He is not a monster, why did he know grandma?"

Madara's heart was also in a mess, and she simply changed back into the appearance of a beckoning cat, and jumped into Natsume Takashi's arms.

"How do I know—that guy, he looked like this when he met my Reiko! He left so suddenly, I thought he was already dead, but I didn't expect him to be alive. If he was still alive, why didn't he come back? Ah! Damn——!"

Natsume Takashi pushed back Madara who jumped out, hesitantly said: "I think...he must have some difficulties. Because...he is so...sad..."

Banner fell down dejectedly.

"...Of course. Because he loves Reiko deeply..."

"Huh?!" Natsume Takashi was taken aback, "That means...he is..."

After a while, Madara whispered: "At that time...we all thought...he would be with Reiko. They were really happy when they were together, Reiko was always smiling...Don't look at that Kyo guy He looked weak, and his sword skills would scare even big monsters... Then one day, Reiko was captured by a soil spider. When I got the news and rushed to save people, the soil spider had been burned to ashes by that guy's flame. Reiko said, Jing I went home. We stopped mentioning this name in front of Reiko. Why did he show up now...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Natsume Takashi became more and more confused the more he listened, and couldn't help turning his head to look at the shrine from afar.

Teacher Kitty means... the boy in the shrine, did he almost become his grandfather?

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