stand-in creed

Humming a wonderful little tune.

Nero walked leisurely on the streets of Moriou Town, towards the alleys where he could not turn back.

As for Kawajiri Hayato in the hotel?

Look at how bold that brat is following Yoshikage Kira alone, could it be that he got lost?I can't lose it and I can't lose it. Honestly, I will do my homework in the hotel and wait.

Soon.

Nero saw the girl in front of the Orson convenience store.

The girl also showed a happy smile when she saw Nero come back.

"Suzumi!"

"Nero!"

Suzumi flew into Nero's arms as if she were doing the same.

Nero laughed and hugged Suzumi's waist and spun around several times, and then a princess hugged Suzumi in the midst of Suzumi's exclamation.

"I said it's fine to wait for me at home, why did you come out and wait again?"

"People are worried about you!"

"Hehehe, what is there to worry about? I am a man who makes the impossible possible!"

"Yes, yes, Nero is the best!"

"Hey hey hey."

Nero smiled like a child.

Sugimoto Suzumi buried her flushed face into Nero's chest, not daring to look directly.But besides shyness, other emotions flashed in his eyes.

Hesitant.

lost.

melancholy.

Nero was just a smiling princess holding the girl in her arms, striding towards Sugimoto's house deep in the alley.

But when he walked to the door of the house, Nero looked around.

"Huh? Where's Arnold?"

The dog is gone.

Suzumi Sugimoto put her arms around Nero's neck: "After the soul of Yoshikage Kira left, Arnold also became a Buddha."

"That's it."

Nero nodded.

Immediately, he gently pressed his forehead against Sugimoto Suzumi's, and looked into the girl's pink eyes.

"From now on, it's just the two of us together."

"Um……"

When answering, Suzumi Sugimoto looked slightly absent-minded.

This time Nero finally realized that there was something wrong with Sugimoto Suzumi, and he closed the door and asked, "What's wrong, Suzumi."

"That, Nero..."

"Um...uh!"

Suzumi Sugimoto kissed her suddenly.

Nero was a little at a loss. Although the girl's kiss was so sweet, he always felt that there was something wrong with this girl.

After a long kiss, Suzumi Sugimoto smiled and hugged her beloved man gently: "Nero, I've thought about it for a long time, and I think...it's time to say goodbye."

"Hey?"

Nero froze.

Suzumi Suzumi put her hands behind her back, and took a few steps back in embarrassment: "I am an earth-bound spirit who can't leave this alley. Although Nero said that he would like to live with me in this alley , I am indeed very happy, but... I really can't do this.

"Nero's words should live in a wider world.

"Go to every corner of the world, see every scenery in the world, and then find a girl who is more normal, not an earth-bound spirit like me.

"I like Nero.

"Although I have only known Nero for less than a month, I like Nero very much, so...if I don't say goodbye now, I'm afraid I will never be able to say it."

"bell……"

"Don't say anything, Nero!" Suzumi Suzumi clenched her fists and shouted suddenly, two lines of tears flowed down the corners of the ghost's eyes, "I understand, I understand what Nero wants to say , please! Don’t say anything! Don’t destroy my hard-won resolution!”

Golden sunlight shone through the windows into the house.

It shines on the girl's back.

Suzumi Sugimoto looked at the floor melancholy: "I know, Nero is a very strong guy, so... let me be a little bit stronger like you. Just like you did not listen to my advice, you must Like taking the risk to investigate that Yoshikage Kira, this time I will be strong and self-willed."

Nero froze.

Nero, who had seen all kinds of scenes, had never seen anything like this.

He didn't know what to say at all, he just stretched out his hand to the girl in front of him.

Suzumi Sugimoto took a step back cautiously.

A relieved smile appeared on the face with two tears streaming down it.

"Farewell, Nero."

Golden sunlight shrouded the girl's body.

In the holy light, Suzumi Suzumi's body floated up into the air little by little, and then——

It slipped around the ceiling and floated to Nero's side.

"...?"

Suzumi Sugimoto blinked.

In the eyes filled with tears, there was a little more confusion.

what's the situation?

Shouldn't you become a Buddha?

Why did I fly back out of nowhere?

"..."

Nero's expression is also very exciting, but in just a few seconds, he has gone through four stages

at a loss.

panic.

fear.

And the last one - bewildered.

"..."

Suzumi Sugimoto tried to distance herself further.

However, when she retreated to a position about "two meters" away from Nero, the girl felt an inexplicable gravitational force bound her, making her unable to leave Nero for half a step again, just like... and when she could not leave this alley The situation is exactly the same.

A smile gradually appeared on Nero's bewildered face.

arrogant smile.

Nayutabe's smile was even more arrogant than Dior's.

"Sugimoto↗Suzumi↗↗"

Seeing Nero's gradually abnormal expression and listening to Nero reciting his full name in cadence, Suzumi Sugimoto was a little nervous.

Maybe maybe maybe, something is wrong?

Nero stretched out his hand and gently squeezed Sugimoto Suzumi's chin, and looked around at the ghost who liked to talk to himself.

"You want to stab me?

"You bitch want to kill me?

"You actually imagined a plot in a romance novel that ordinary boys would never be able to read for more than 3 minutes?

"Although I'm not an onmyoji like Abe Seimei, just like a third-rate novelist who can't understand the heavenly scriptures taught in mathematics classes in top universities, I don't understand what ghosts are! But the result is enough! I don't I need to know why one plus one equals two, I just need to know the result of one plus one equals two!

"From the results point of view, you are still an "Earth Bound Spirit", but what binds you is no longer this alley that cannot be turned back——

"—It's me, Nero Zeppelin!"

The corner of Nero's mouth almost reached his ears, and he pointed his thumb at himself arrogantly.

Suzumi Sugimoto felt slippery.

But the problem is, it doesn't seem to slip away.No matter how Suzumi Suzumi moves up, down, front, back, left, and right, no matter which angle she is at, she cannot open a distance of more than two meters.Seeing Nero gradually stretching out his claws, Suzumi Sugimoto began to tremble.

"That, that, Nero, listen to my explanation..."

"Okay, I'll listen, I'll listen slowly—after I've taught you a lesson!"

"Teaching, lesson? Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Like a girl from a good family who was robbed by a bandit, Suzumi Sugimoto was directly carried on Nero's shoulders.

Go to the bedroom.

After a while of jumping around.

Nero gently hugged Suzumi Suzumi lying on his body, and gently stroked the girl's pink hair with five fingers.

"Suzumi."

"What's wrong, Nero?"

"Let's marry."

"……Hey?"

Postscript Hydrangea

August [-], [-].

Qixi Festival.

Morioh Town, Sugimoto House.

It's not the haunted house in the alley that can't be turned back because of strange reasons, but the real Sugimoto's house that actually exists somewhere in Morioh Town.

After Nero and Suzumi Suzumi, who made the current head of the household look like he had seen a ghost, generously re-purchased the property from a distant relative of the Sugimoto family who has the right to inherit, experienced a professional team recruited by the SPW consortium After two months of refurbishment, Sugimoto's house has taken on a new look.

Koi swim leisurely in the water.

The deer by the pond tapped on the stones by the pond, going round and round.

The courtyard next to the stone lantern is covered with bright green moss, carefully decorated with green pines, red leaves, rocks and gravel arranged by the gardener, and a Buddha statue of an unknown deity is enshrined in a hidden corner of the greenery.

In such a well-arranged courtyard, there are several pink flowers blooming.

"Hey, Kakyoin... what kind of flower is this?"

A Frenchman named Jean Pierre Polnareff looked curiously at the flowers in the garden.

Beside Bobo, Noriaki Kakyoin, who had somehow adjusted a black kimono to look more formal in today's occasion, shrugged.

"Polnareff, why do you think I know such things?"

"Because there is a 'flower' in your name? "

"I! @#￥%..."

Kakyoin's expression was a little tense.

But at this moment, a voice came from not far away.