Accompany you to the end of the world

Chapter 15

Similar times six years ago.

The color of the sky is clearer and more transparent than now, and the weather is hotter. The sunset has dyed the whole world pink, and the air is filled with the irritating smell of sweat.

The distance from my home to Maimang's is only a few hundred meters, and the street gets tighter the further I walk.

The foul-smelling sewage on the edge of the sidewalk is always dry, and under the eaves are always sitting women with melon seeds and spittle flying together. The tofu skewers that seem to be deep-fried with slops are swaggering in the car exhaust and dust, which is unappetizing.

In addition, the little girl next to her was chattering all the way for a few Cheetos and Three Kingdoms cards.If the distraught Ihara hadn't been ordered by his mother to send her home safely, he might have left her by the side of the road.

This kind of big trouble, no one would be willing to abduct it even if they gave money to traffickers.

——That’s what I thought at the time.

So when she muttered and took out the key, Ihara felt relieved, and when she heard her "Hey", he couldn't hide his annoyed tone: "What are you doing again?"

"The door is unlocked." The little girl held up the useless key to the half-hidden door, and looked up at her brother in confusion.

Ihara frowned slightly, pushed her to the side, put the other hand on the doorknob, gently pushed open a gap, looked inside for only two or three seconds, and immediately closed it again.

"What's the matter?" Mai Mang grabs Jing Yuan's arm and leans over curiously, "Is mom going home first?"

Ihara swallowed his throat and called out "Mai Mai", but found that his voice was very hoarse.

"Huh?" Puzzled.

Glancing at the entrance of the alley farther away, he calmed down after taking a deep breath, and his throat was no longer dry. Ihara tried to understate what he said next: "Now, as long as you do one thing, I will The whole set of Three Kingdoms cards that have been collected will be given to you."

"Really?" Maimang's eyes sparkled.

"Well, go to the entrance of the alley and count from one to one thousand. Close your eyes, cover your ears, don't stop, make your voice so loud that I can hear it standing in the room."

"Just close your eyes and cover your ears and count aloud without interruption?" It seemed that he still didn't quite believe it.

"Well. I'll give it to you after counting. All of them."

There are some pictures that you don't want you to see.

Some voices don't want you to hear.

My sight suddenly extended to the distance. When you were a child, you stood in the bright sunset and ran to the entrance of the alley, closed your eyes and covered your ears and counted aloud, which was always fixed in the center of my world.

A second ago, I thought you were more annoying than a slug, but a second later, I suddenly realized that in order to see your innocent and bright smiling face again, at that moment, I had to make a promise of "I will give you everything after counting".

... 998. 999. 1000.

(End of this chapter)