A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

It was a quiet embrace, a tranquility like never before.

"I will find you, I will."

The girl hugged Yabu tightly and told Yabu about her goal, but the emphatic words were more like marking her prey and making a declaration than telling Yabu about her goal.

She could feel that her voice was a little unclear because she pressed her face against Yabu's body, and she also understood that as long as she moved back a little, her voice would become clearer.

But she didn't want to lose the hug for a moment, and greedily sought this peace.

"Well...how about changing a goal that is more related to yourself? Find me as the goal. This feels quite strange."

"I want this." As he said this, the child held the cloth with both hands harder.

"...Okay." Yabu gently combed the child's short, sticky black hair and comforted the strange child softly, although he didn't understand why the child's goal sounded strange. But he is still sincerely happy for people who have their own goals.

"Well, I don't understand why, but congratulations on having a goal. It's something worth celebrating, kid."

He didn't understand what this child had gone through, nor could he understand what she meant by quietness, but he could feel that this child had suffered a lot that was not meant for her grade.

"How about you go eat something good to celebrate your recovery from health? I put some money in your pocket. You can go eat something you like. Oh, by the way..." Yabu's voice It is always a little slow, but this slowness is not objectionable. Instead, it has a reassuring sleep-aid effect like white noise.

"Crown for you."

"what is that?"

Although she was reluctant to leave Yabu's arms, the girl was even more unwilling to ignore every word Yabu said. She was afraid of missing some key information. She raised her head and looked at Yabu, asking what the words he just said were mean.

"It's a blessing. This will help you achieve your goals in life."

"...It's so strange, it's true."

Rather, this person is very strange. He has no racial characteristics and would not dislike himself for being a patient with mineral sickness.

And the strangest thing is that there is something vague and unclear on his chest for some reason. It seems to be...

An upside-down white heart?

"Of course, this is the elf's blessing." Yanbu winked his right eye at the child childishly like a child, and said to her in a tone that didn't seem to be saying goodbye at all, "I want to Come on, kid, don’t be sad, we’ll see you next time.”

"Next time... ah"

Without any prelude, the child felt the warmth in his arms disappear as if it had never existed.

She didn't even react for a moment, she just waved her arms blankly in the air, wanting to hug something more.

"...Za Bu?"

But no one came.

He's gone...just as he came.

"Surprisingly, as you can see, there aren't that many sounds." The child stretched out his hands in front of his eyes, tilted his head as if he had just woken up, but then he frowned, showing a slightly painful look. , "But it's still noisy..."

After having been exposed to that tranquility, even though it is no longer as noisy as before, it still makes people feel completely unsatisfied.

The child stood up from the depths of the muddy alley, holding on to the wall unsteadily, and walked out into the sunny alley, but she kept her head lowered and kept mumbling.

"I will find you...I will find you..."

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"Tsk..."

The doctor, who was trying to put the knowledge in the book into her mind, suddenly felt a little distracted. She stopped browsing, lowered her head slightly, and covered her chest with a grimace.

I feel a little stuffy and have a bad feeling.

The doctor is obviously not the kind of person who would deal with a bad premonition by saying, "I have a bad premonition, it must be an illusion."

Although it is not ruled out that it may be psychological anxiety and obsessive thinking, since there is a bad feeling, it means that your brain has automatically concluded something inadvertently.

Just like a program running in the background, I collected some important information that I ignored, and fed back such a bad premonition to myself, but because there were only results and the process was too inconspicuous, I couldn't remember why for a while. .

After thinking for a moment, the doctor roughly figured out where his bad premonition came from and came to a conclusion.

——I want to find Yabu myself.

"..."

The result was ridiculous, and even she herself felt it was a bit unreasonable.

'Haha, isn't this just because you are unhappy that Yabu is no longer with you? You have gone through so much nonsense to find a reason for yourself to go to Yabu. To put it bluntly, isn't it just that the child misses his mother? '

Maybe it was because he had read too many books and was a little confused. The doctor felt that there was another self laughing at him for being dishonest.

Snapped--

The doctor suddenly closed the book with some irritation, dispelled the somewhat awkward thoughts in his heart, stood up from the chair, put the books back to their original places, left the bookstore, and walked straight towards the hotel where he was staying. go.

"I just... thought Yabu might be in trouble because of his illiteracy. Yes, I was just confirming."

Even though there was no one around him, the doctor still talked to himself with a guilty conscience, trying to explain his behavior.

"And... yes, it's time to have lunch too. I can bring some lunch to Yabu on the way. He hasn't been back for so long. He must have gone back to sleep and overslept. I can give it to him Bring something to eat.”

Having said that, in order to make his actions more convincing, the doctor reluctantly changed his original path of action, deviating a little from the fastest route to the hotel that he had prepared in his mind, and happened to pass by a restaurant. , and after waiting impatiently for two lunches, the doctor returned to the hotel by the shortest route.

He strode to the door with long strides, but with a calm expression as if nothing had happened, he knocked on the door.

"Yabu?"

"Huh? It's coming, it's coming."

As a burst of footsteps approached, the hotel door was opened from the outside inward. After seeing that the person who opened the door for him was indeed right in front of him, the doctor's anxious feeling calmed down and he followed. Boo walked into the room behind him.

"Doctor, why are you back?"

"Seeing that you haven't come back for so long, I was wondering if you had overslept after sleeping in the cage, so I brought you some food." The doctor repeated the explanation he had thought up before and said to Yabu He raised the two lunches in his hands, as if he was really simply coming back to bring some food.

"I brought burgers, I'm afraid you won't be used to Usas's food."

As for fast food, they are basically the same, they don’t have such strong specialties, and they are basically all edible.

"Actually, doctor, you can just buy whatever you want to eat. I will eat everything and I am not picky about food."

"It's really easy to make a living..."

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*? c: 3%

*Crown for you, crown you.

*Source Stone tastes quite unpleasant.

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Chapter 15 What did you say you ate?

Yabu was right in front of him, sitting on a chair nearby, holding a burger in his hands and chewing happily. The look of him eating quietly and seriously made people feel comfortable just by looking at him.

But I still feel like there's something about it that makes people a little uneasy.

"Doctor, why are you staring at me? Your burger is getting cold." After chewing the food in his mouth and swallowing it, Yabu spoke to the doctor who had been staring at him, "But doctor, if you can , you should actually eat something healthy, but if you like it, Doctor, I can try to make some for you when conditions permit, I am still good at this."

"I know, I know."

Very chatty.

But this kind of behavior that completely leaves the choice to oneself and then provides care on top of it will not make people feel depressed, and it will not make people hate it at all.

At other times, the doctor would probably be willing to chat with Yabu, but now she was answering Yabu's words absentmindedly, focusing entirely on Yabu's sleeves.

His cuffs were a little dirty.

Although the color of the clothes itself is relatively dark and cannot be seen without looking carefully, the doctor still noticed some details of the changes in Yabu's body.

For example, there seems to be some muddy water on the cuffs, there is some wall dust on the back that has not been patted clean, and there is a little dirt on the sides of the shoes and trouser legs.

In other words, the clothes on the right half look like they have a lot of wrinkles.

It was like... being hugged.

Judging from the location of the wrinkles on his body, the person holding him should be a person of the same age... No, Yabu should be sitting on the ground, which means that person might also be a child.

There is no need to think too much about this information at all, they are like labels clearly attached to Yabu.

"..."

That's weird.

How could I remember that when Yabu left before, didn't he say he wanted to go back to the hotel?

Then why does he look more like he went out secretly behind his back?

And even hugged someone else?

"By the way, Yabu, what were you doing in the hotel? Did you go back to sleep?" The doctor mechanically stuffed a mouthful of hamburger into his mouth, made himself eat, and asked Yabu casually. What did Budu do.

She would not list all the strange things about Yabu, because that would be like pressuring Yabu to force him to confess what he had done. Although this would have a higher chance of getting the answer she wanted, it would not affect the relationship between them. The relationship may also cause irreversible damage, and that result is not what the doctor wants.

"That's not true. I went out to find a way to make money."

"A...way to make money?"

Seeing the traces of being hugged on Yabu's body and the fact that he had found a way to make money, the doctor's heart suddenly stopped. She asked with a somewhat uncontrollable expression: "What...what method?"

"Yeah." Yabu put the last bite of burger in his hand into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, and then continued to talk to the doctor.

"It's the purest source stone. Doesn't the purest source stone purify the source stone? I can just do it."

"Ah...ah, the pure source stone."

Hearing Yao Bu's answer, the doctor was glad that it was not what he thought. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. However, he did not pay attention to the purification method Yabu said and ignored it for the time being. .

so far so good......

"So just find the source stone and purify it. It's best to find a way to continuously produce the source stone."

Just sell pure source stones...

"So I ground the Origin Stone into powder and ate it. When I got sick from the ore, I would have an endless supply of Origin Stone."

I thought it was for sale...

......

...?

Perhaps what Yao Bu said was too unbelievable. After receiving the language from Yao Bu's mouth, the doctor's brain shut down for a moment because he could not understand what Yao Bu was saying.

"...What did you eat?"

Etc., etc......

What did he say he ate just now?Suffering from what?

Ah, I understand, it’s duck egg yolk, oh, it’s true, isn’t it just that I admitted my mistake once and was laughed at by myself? Why do I have to make such a joke...

"...Um, I ground the Origin Stone into powder and ate it?"

In fact, he originally wanted to stab himself, but when he wanted to do that, he couldn't do it because he was afraid of pain, so he simply crushed the source stone into powder through the bag, and then made a big bang. Swallowed.

How should I put it? It tasted like I was buried in the earth, as if I had eaten a mouthful of ashes. I poured a bottle of water into my mouth to suppress the nausea.

"Doctor, don't worry. I have taken care of all the things that were touched by the Origin Stone. I put them in several layers of bags and sealed them before throwing them into the trash can outside. The sanitation workers who collect the garbage will not touch them. As for mineral sickness, it’s not dangerous to me..."

Things like mineral sickness can be solved by cutting it off yourself.

He originally wanted to say this, but the somewhat strange reaction of the doctor in front of him made him instead care about the doctor's situation.

"......PhD?"

pat-

The doctor's hands unconsciously loosened due to confusion, and the burger he was holding fell from his hands, and the sauce rubbed onto the doctor on the way down.

But now she had no intention of caring about the stained clothes. She felt as if her organs were being held and she was out of breath. The dizzy discomfort made her hands tremble uncontrollably. , as if suffering from hysteria, opening his mouth but unable to make any sound.

Ah...if you think about it carefully, it's not that there are no clues. Maybe that's why I feel uneasy.

Why did Yabu suddenly ask himself questions about the Origin Stone?

And he actually gave a very detailed answer...

Part of her thinking ability tried to deceive herself that the information she had just received was false, but her brain kept giving her clear feedback that it was the truth.