365 days of playing the knife

"Well, how long will you stay..." Natsuo turned his head, and the silver-white-haired Wakizashi looked over in response.Facing his brother's seemingly indifferent but cute purple pupils, Cattail laughed, and tilted his head at Butterfly Ninja who was waiting for his answer, "This time I can play with Xiao Ninja for a long time!"

"That's not playing!" Having said that, the joy on the face of the little girl who is only a head shorter than Gemini can't be concealed.

The Butterfly House is very large and is a typical Japanese-style residence, and their current location is the open space outside the house.Under normal circumstances, this open space will be used for rehabilitation of patients, training of individual members of the Ghost Killing Squad, and a place for the children in the Butterfly House to work and play.

It's just that I have been fighting with ghosts for many years, just like the master's residence and the swordsmith's village, the Butterfly House has to change residences from time to time, but it is a medical center after all, and the general pattern will not change.

And here, when there are no special circumstances, there is also a room that is just suitable for the twins, and the twins are welcome to come back to live at any time.

After saying hello to Sister Butterfly, Cattail pushes the bone to make him and Butterfly Shinobi practice against each other directly on the spot, on the grounds of checking whether Shinobi has been exercising well.

The speed (maneuvering) of the bone ghoul is faster than that of the cattail, and compared with the always smiling cattail, the bone ghoul seems to be more professional when training people.

Well, of course not only for this reason.

"Little Ninja, stab right!" Sitting under the eaves, the kid in Butterfly House on the right had prepared refreshments. He looked at the one-on-one practice in front of him, and stuffed a piece into his mouth, but his articulate words were still clear. "This tastes good... Shinobu, pay attention to the top!"

"Sure enough, tea with sweet pastries is really a blessing—Xin Shinobu, the backside is exposed! Mmm, it's really delicious——"

"Ninja, feet!"

"If you don't have enough strength, you need to go faster. You can't let the enemy catch you! If you catch it, you're finished." Just by looking at it like this, it must not be a cattail. He picked up a few not-so-sharp stones on the ground , with a little force, he filled the gap in the bone ghoul's attack and hit Butterfly Ninja's shoulder.

Before Die Die Ren could open his mouth, Cattail explained, "Who knows how many ghosts there will be, the sneak attacking enemies will not take the initiative to remind you."

Cattail is very good at throwing hidden weapons, no matter what props he can accurately throw at anyone.At this moment, compared to the bone ghoul's upright and even water attack, the catfish tail stone is hard to avoid.

When the stones on the ground were all thrown away, Cattail grinned, grabbed a few handfuls of soil on the ground and kneaded it into a ball, shouting "The goddess scattered flowers——" Waiting for Butterfly Ninja's knife and Guhou's Wakizasa to strike together That moment was lost.

Due to the collision, the clods of soil that were not very firm at first dispersed immediately, and all the sprayed soil was scattered on the faces of his brother and Butterfly Shinobi. The two reacted quickly and immediately blocked their faces, but they were completely unable to prevent themselves from becoming disgraced. the result of.

Seeing the two people in distress, Cattail immediately covered his stomach and laughed.Because of this move, Die Nin, who had been holding her breath from the beginning of the practice until now, couldn't bear it after all. She held the knife, lowered her head, and her whole body seemed to exude the aura of an evil spirit.

"Is it funny?" She asked word by word.

Cattail's smile froze from the terrifying aura, he waved his hands in horror, and turned his eyes to his brother for help.However, his indiscriminate clod attack just now made his brother silently look away at this moment. "Wow! Brother, you traitor!"

"Ninja! Calm down! Calm down!"

"I'm doing this for—for—oh! In case there is some special training that makes you invisible with some kind of ghostly ability——Wow! Ms. Kanae, help me!"

"It's really fun." Miss Kanae, who was talking about Nyuwei, stood next to Gu Kui at some point, and looked at the black-haired Wakizawa who could easily escape, but still played with Butterfly Ninja. The curved eyebrows look very gentle.

"Hmm." Gu Gu patted his dirt-smeared hair, the silver-white hair made it very obvious, making him look extraordinarily embarrassed.

"Every time you come back, Shinobu will become much more lively than usual." Kanae said with a smile, and then handed over a clean white handkerchief with butterflies sewn in the corner.

"Thank you." Gu Gu didn't refuse.He seemed quieter than usual when Cattail was not around.

It seemed that she didn't want to keep the two of them waiting for a long time, or that Die Die couldn't bear to show a bad image in front of her sister, so she quickly let Cattail go.

The little girl standing in front of her elder sister had a clean and fair face that was gray. It was unknown whether it was because of shyness or after exercising, her cheeks looked a little red.Butterfly said hello to her sister, and then quickly ran to her room, apparently to change a piece of clothing.

After Butterfly Ren left the spot, Cattail sneaked out from the corner of the wall.

"Phew... as expected, Ms. Kanae has a solution." Catao said so, and then looked at his dirty brother pretending to be surprised, "It's so rare! Why do you look like you are rolling in the dirt? A circle! Brother, you are no longer a child!"

This person seemed to have completely forgotten why Gu Gu was in such a mess.Knowing his brother's temper, Gu Gu sighed helplessly, then nodded to Miss Kanae, motioning for himself to leave first.

Looking at the back of Gu Gu leaving, Kanae led the cattail back to the position where he was sitting just now.The tea is already cold, but more than half of the pastry is still unfinished, Kanae blinked, "Isn't it to your taste?"

"It's delicious! It's just that if you eat too much, you'll get a little tired." Cattail said with a smile.

"That's it." Kanae nodded understandingly, "Xin Shinobu doesn't like things that are too sweet and too greasy." Skimming the simple homework, Kanae took the initiative to change the subject with a little worry, "Okay, take the initiative Send Gu Gu and Xiao Ren away, what happened when you came back this time?"

Hearing this sentence, Cattail, who had been laughing all the time, paused suddenly, and he was silent for a while before lowering his eyes and speaking. "...Miss Kanae is really amazing, you can see it at a glance."

"How should I put it..." Nanwei thought for a while, held the cold tea, and whispered, "Does Miss Kanae have any sleeping medicine?"

"What?" Kanae was taken aback.

"Recently...brother has been having nightmares." Seemingly unaware of Kanae's reaction, Natsuo looked down at the tea stalks floating in the tea set, "The first time I noticed it, I thought it might be because We have been running outside, because we are too tired physically and mentally. So we stopped in Kyoto for a long time."

"...But it's useless, bro, he's still being disturbed by nightmares all the time." After practicing with Butterfly Ninja for a long time, the sky is getting late now, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the body of the cattail, but in the cattail Unfathomable shadows formed on his face.He seemed to smile wryly, "We are twins, I know what his nightmare is."

"I don't know if I mentioned it to you?" Suddenly, Cattail asked, but he didn't need to answer, and continued on his own, "My brother and I have never had any memories of the past."

Butterfly Kanae opened her eyes wide and covered her mouth in disbelief.

"Although I always feel that even if I lose my memory, I don't need to be entangled in the past-but my brother is different from me. He has always cared about the lost memory very much."

"'Sorry. I don't have much memory left.' That's the first thing he said to me in my memory—the first, first time I saw him. Well, maybe that's what I said too .”

Kanae didn't know what Nanao's expression was like at the moment, but she felt sadness from the bottom of her heart.It wasn't until now that she heard what Cattail said, she had a sudden feeling.

No wonder these two children always gave her the feeling of being separated from the world by an invisible barrier.

How uncomfortable and sad it would be if he couldn't even grasp the memories of his most closely related twins in this world and forgot everything.

"Obviously we have never been in contact with the flame that ruined everything for us..." Cattail said softly as if talking to himself, he shook his head, and brought back his usual smile, "Well, that's it."

"For ordinary sleeping pills, I don't think you will come back and ask me." Kanae couldn't laugh. She has always been a very gentle woman, and even felt sad for the ghost who is the mortal enemy. So at this time, her brain had already begun to think about the solution.

"Hmm," Cattail scratched her hair embarrassingly, "Ordinary medicine is useless to us."

Kanae noticed Natsuo's words sensitively, and her purple eyes, which were as beautiful as glass, re-examined the black-haired Wakizawa next to her, not surprisingly, she saw a little fatigue.Cattail was so well hidden that even his brother didn't notice.

Kanae suddenly understood that Natsuo would notice his brother's nightmares all night long. Doesn't that mean that he also didn't have a good rest during this time?And... isn't the nightmare of the bone ghoul the same as the nightmare of the cattail?

As twins who have been together since birth and have never been separated, it can be said that when the bones were not stable, it can be said that the catfish tail also followed, reliving the sad disaster again and again.

Butterfly Chanahui collected her thoughts and was about to say something when Butterfly, who had already changed her clothes, ran towards them with a smile. She smiled happily and shouted, "Sister!"

Gu Gu, who was following Butterfly Ninja, also showed his figure, as if sensing something wrong with the atmosphere, he subconsciously looked at his brother and asked, "What's wrong?"

Of course, it is impossible for Nanwei to tell the truth, otherwise why would he avoid the bones and look for Kanae alone?Cattail, who is always good at making excuses, blinked and said quickly, "It's nothing—we're talking about Shinobu!"

"Huh? About me?" Butterfly Shinobi, who was in the center of the topic, immediately narrowed his eyes vigilantly, "Quickly answer! Did you say something bad about me in front of my sister!"

"I'm not going to speak ill of people behind their backs!" Cattail bared her teeth and made a grimace.

Kanae said cooperatively, "I was just talking to Catao about that matter, about your plan to use poison to kill ghosts. They often walk outside, and they may notice some special herbs."

Butterfly paused and frowned slightly. This was not dissatisfaction with her sister, but dissatisfaction with her own body—too petite, not strong enough to even cut off the ghost's neck.If not, she doesn't need to go this way at all.

Seemingly understanding Shinobu's thoughts, Kanae reached out and touched her sister's head, "If possible, my sister hopes that Shinobu can be safe and secure, and get the happiness that belongs to ordinary girls."

"...Sorry, sister."

"You don't need to apologize, Shinobu." Kanae straightened Shinobu's hair, her eyes curved, "My sister likes the way you smile, Shinobu~"

"elder sister……"

"It's such a good relationship—we've been completely ignored, brother." Cattail suddenly said pitifully, "But, Miss Butterfly, when can we have dinner?"

"Why are you still here!" Butterfly Ninja immediately raised his eyebrows at the cattail who didn't look at the atmosphere, looking quite unwelcome, but in the next second, in the smiling expression of his sister, he muttered, "Dinner Already prepared."

"Oh! Then let's go quickly! It's not good if the food is cold!"