When the Juggernaut Comes To the Second Dimension

Looking at Tina's fingers, Yong Ye couldn't help but lose his voice.

The boy, who was about the same age as Tina, was holding a balloon and a cone in one hand. Both hands were very busy, but he was still coquettish to his mother.

But... looking at the boy and the girl next to him, Yong Ye immediately sensed a sense of discord and abnormality, because there was a very big difference between the two sides.

The boy who is coquettish to his mother is a very normal child, but the child next to him... doesn't look like a ten-year-old child at all. To a certain extent, sixteen and eighteen-year-olds don't seem to be so mature.

It always feels like... like those... cursed children who have experienced the sinister life of the world?

"..."

Staring at Tina seriously, and then looking at the little boy who was still licking the cone and acting like a spoiled child, Yong Ye really felt that the difference between the two was so clear that the gap between the two was so big that they did not live together in the same world. generally.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been with a mature child like Mibu Asaka for a long time, or maybe it’s because the first two times Tina showed a different maturity than a ten-year-old girl, but she always looked sleepy and elusive, so I have never noticed the abnormal Yongye on Tina, and now I have met an ordinary child, and I immediately realized the unusualness of Tina.

...is it the cursed child? So why do you like to pester yourself?

When walking towards the dessert shop to sell the cones, Yong Ye rubbed his chin with one hand, tilted his head slightly and looked behind him without revealing any traces, and lowered his head again with a gloomy expression on his face, Tina who didn't know what she was thinking. .

Tina is unexpectedly no longer confused today, perhaps because she is a night owl? So because it's evening now, did you recover your spirits?

Tina, who was wearing a dark green dress, was unexpectedly neat today. It seemed that she was very clean. Her delicate and lovely appearance with the dress was like a porcelain doll. No matter how she looked, she didn't look like an ordinary child in the peripheral area.

If it is determined to be the cursed child, then she must be the partner of a police officer and the initiator of the frontal combat.

Since she is the initiator, what is the purpose of her contact with her?

After paying the money, Yong Ye, who was holding the cone, kept thinking about Tina's purpose, but since he didn't feel any hostility from Tina, it was difficult for him to judge what Tina wanted to do.

Since we can't judge Tina's purpose, and Tina has no hostility, then let's just observe the situation for the time being and act accordingly?

Thinking like this, Yong Ye temporarily stopped speculating and handed the cone into Tina's hands.

"thanks……"

After politely thanking, Tina licked the dessert in her hand like a cute little animal, still with her head down and unhappy.

After waiting for a while, Tina, who was absent-minded, finally remembered that she was with Yong Ye, raised her head suddenly and stretched out her hand towards Yong Ye.

"Mr. Yong Ye, can we hold hands? I have a place I want to go to."

"place?"

"amusement park."

"…amusement park?"

"Ah... If you think there is a problem with money, then you don't have to force it, because I don't have much money on my body. If I go to the amusement park, I can only rely on you, Mr. Yong Ye, and it will be difficult to return it to you in the future. ...I'm really self-willed when you think about it, sorry... I made a willful request, please pretend that you haven't heard it."

Noticing Yong Ye's hesitation, Tina immediately noticed her self-willedness.

Unlike herself, Yong Ye is a normal person, I am afraid she is just an ordinary child, right? Since it is a child who is not very familiar with, this request is obviously unreasonable and arrogant and arrogant. After realizing this, she immediately bowed her head and apologized.

"No, you misunderstood... Money is not a problem. I'm not short of money recently. I just think it's a waste of time to go to an amusement park, and I'm inexplicably repelling places like amusement parks."

"Then... change the place?"

Tina scratched her cheek gently, hesitating for a while, then she mustered up the courage to grab Yong Ye's hand, and pulled him into the distance.

Twenty minutes later.

Yong Ye and Tina sat side by side on a bench under the shade of a tree by the small river, each with a hot takoyaki in their hands.

Obviously I just ate takoyaki yesterday, but Tina still said she wanted to eat this kind of thing, and this time, it was the first time that Tina paid Yong Ye.

But in contrast, Yong Ye was asked to send an ordinary, not very valuable silver-white pocket watch.

Yong Ye always felt very inexplicable. She was treated harshly and asked to send a small thing. From Tina's wallet, it could be seen that she didn't have much money, two ordinary 500 yen. The takoyaki that totaled only 1,000 yen basically emptied her wallet.

It should be Tina's promoter, don't want to waste too much money on Tina, the initiator? Thinking of this, Yong Ye put the takoyaki into his mouth with a strange feeling.

Looking towards the western sky, the sloping reddish sunset lit the river surface as if it were on fire, and the sun should have completely set in five minutes.

Looking at the sinking sunset is one of Tina's few hobbies. The beautiful sunset often makes her heart beat. Whenever, the sunset can slightly heal her inner pain.

However, at the moment Tina did not pay attention to the beauty of the sunset. She just stared blankly at the watch. It was not very well made. It could only be said that it was an ordinary pocket watch. second hand.

"...Time, if only it could stay in the present forever."

The voice of the girl muttering to herself, as light as a gust of wind can be blown away, and easily dissipated in the air, but Yong Ye heard this sentence really because of superhuman hearing.

"Although I don't know why you think this way, I can't accept it if time stops. After all, there should be infinite possibilities in the future, right?"

"…Infinite possibilities? It was possible before, but not now."

Tina sighed and put the pocket watch in her arms, closed her eyes and listened to the sound of the river flowing not far away in order to free herself to think.

At this time, a long whistle sounded from the distant sky. It must be that the ship operating within the scope of the megalithic monument chose to end the day's work and began to return.

The girl narrowed her eyes and looked at the sunset that was more than half-sinking in the west. After being silent for a long time, she blurted out a topic that was completely irrelevant and full of jumping topics.

"Mr. Yong Ye, if fate is like the pointer in the pocket watch is damaged, dialed to the last circle, when I am no longer me, when I have become something else..."

"No, wait a minute, I don't understand what you mean at all, you jumped a bit too much on this topic, didn't you?"

The unexpected topic was too difficult to understand. Yong Ye couldn't help but put a hand on the girl's blonde hair, which had become extremely beautiful in the last rays of the sunset, and wanted to interrupt her.

However, the girl was not affected, she just raised her head and looked at him, showing a smile that was a little lonely and a little like crying.

"Even if it's just wishful thinking... I hope that no matter what I look like, you can still look at me with those same eyes."

"...What you said, I really don't know how to respond better."

Rubbing the girl's smooth blonde hair, Yong Ye was completely confused by the child's series of inexplicable words, like a monk Zhang Er.

"Can you feed me again?"

"...you don't seem to be going to explain anything?"

"The matter has not yet been determined. When it is completely dark, I will explain it well, so... please wait a little longer?"

"...I don't know what you're thinking at all, but since you said so, so be it."

A series of inexplicable things made Yong Ye a little depressed, but when these depressions met the sadness in Tina's eyes, they could only choose to temporarily let them go.

In the end, he shook his head and stopped investigating this perhaps irrelevant issue, preparing to wait for Tina to explain herself.

The food in her hand was finished, and when she was about to go back, Tina made a request to send Yong Ye a ride.