The faded person who shuttles between the everyday and the extraordinary

"That's different. This is downstairs of my house. I just took a look at it, but you came here specifically to see it. Your nature is worse than mine."

"It seems so?" He didn't care, nodded casually, and then changed his words: "Speaking of which, you seem to have a lot of weird potions, right?"

"How much are you prepared to pay?"

"I can help you make super delicious and super expensive bread! It's better than the president's or prime minister's dinner, and it's custom-made by the chaebol! The ultimate bread that doesn't require a budget at all!"

"..."

This condition made Irena instantly silent.

Although she also wanted money, as a staunch bread lover, she could not refuse the delicious bread that An Yan said.

So, she leaned over and asked softly: "What type of potion do you want?"

"It depends on what you have."

"Rejuvenate youth or make objects speak? But the objects in this world can't speak... Can they make people or objects smaller? Absolutely unable to laugh? Or can they make the brain stupid or turn back time to heal injuries? By the way? I mention that except for the last one, the others are all time-sensitive, and the last one is sprinkled on the body. It cannot be drunk and can only treat injuries on the spot. It will not be effective after a long time. Of course, there is also a magic potion that can quickly speed up the healing of the body. , probably more suitable for your current situation."

"...What the hell are you talking about? Just treat my injuries... No, I also want to make my head stupid."

"Then when are you going to give me the super expensive bread? By the way, you need at least two portions of bread if you want two kinds!"

"I'll find a way to get it for you next time you come over."

"we have a deal!"

Irena, who preferred bread to delicacies, agreed to the barter deal and rushed upstairs to get him the hidden potion.

It was Irena who just left. Du Du rushed over in a hurry, slipped a shovel under the table in front of him, and curled up into a ball with his hands on his knees. A person murmured there: "Sure enough, a place like this, Only then can I feel at ease..."

"...You really like this kind of dark and narrow place." Hui An Yan was dumbfounded and leaned down, sighing and touching her head: "But you are so lonely and you are a shop owner." As a member of the Communist Party of China, this is a big step forward, right?"

"Yeah, yeah! I think so too~!" Du nodded vigorously, with a smile on his face.

On the stage not far away, a band had already started performing. Hong Xia, who had no one to buy drinks in the store, followed him and sat on the chair at the same table, watching him naturally caressing Du, and then looked at Du looked happy and unconcerned, but he couldn't help but complain:

"Isn't your friendship a bit deformed??"

"How could it be? She just happened to be down there, so I just touched her. This is also a sign of friendship!"

"Just, that's it!"

"I'm really worried that you, Pochi-chan, will be betrayed by this guy..."

"Don't worry, if Xiaodu is really kidnapped, how could I be willing to sell it? I will definitely take it home to treasure."

"...Do you really want to abduct me?"

Hongxia, who instantly leaned forward on the table, narrowed her eyes to the extreme and was extremely suspicious of him.

"You have to ask yourself." He casually left the topic to Du, causing her to raise her head blankly: "Me?"

"Can I kidnap you?"

"Eh? Eh-Ehhhhh?!"

The strange question made Youyi forget even the rejection for a moment, and he looked completely at a loss.

Rachel sat quietly aside and never spoke. Rachel, who had been working on the questions, finally looked away from the book, slowly raised her head and looked over expressionlessly: "Don't be ridiculous, I don't want to go to the police station to see you. .”

"It's okay. After actually agreeing, it can only be regarded as an elopement at best."

"Elope...?"

The girl, who showed no emotion on her face, murmured softly but unconsciously clenched the book tightly in her hand, causing the page in her hand to be scratched.

Seeing this scene, Hong Xia instinctively wanted to dissuade her, but when she met the blue eyes that were as calm as the calm lake in the night, she was inexplicably frightened and instinctively swallowed the words in her heart.

An Yan also noticed this, couldn't help but rub his temples with a headache, and advised:

"Don't be so serious. This is obviously a joke...and if you made the book like this, Hongxia must have settled the score with me in the end, right?"

"Your joke is nothing like a joke."

"But even I can't really do such a thing. If it doesn't work, just think I'm teasing?"

"...Not even possible." Rachel was silent for a moment, but her tone became even lower.

"I've obviously treated you like this before, but you didn't do this..."

"The things that don't work are the things that don't work."

He wanted to say something, but Rachel immediately glared over, clearly showing her dissatisfaction, and made him shut up obediently.

This scene made Irena think a little, and she nodded to herself, but Hongxia smoothed things over for him with a dry smile: "Anyway, anyway, let's introduce it first, and what is your relationship? No. Maybe he was kidnapped, right?"

"Well, this child is Rachel. Rachel Gardner, she is my... friend? And..." He hesitated and chose the friend who would be the least noticeable. Ci, then stretched out his hand to guide Hongxia and introduced: "This is Hongxia. Yi Di knows Hongxia. My friend is also a great person. You can also look for her when you are short of money."

"Hey! What kind of introduction is this?" Hongxia's face was full of black lines and she lightly hammered the table: "You just paid back the money, do you want to get it back now?"

"Well... let's put this aside for now. Xiao Du's name is Goto Du, but he can also be called Pochi. He has a very interesting personality, and you will know it in the future~" An Yan smiled and patted her again, starting from her own Goto Doku emerged from below.

Du placed his chin on the table, carefully looked at the young doll-like girl not far away, and said softly: "First time we meet... I, I am Pochi..."

"Pochi? Du?" The two names made Rachel look a little confused.

"Just call me Pochi!"

"Yes, then Bochi." Rachel nodded slightly to show that she remembered. An Yan looked at the pink-haired girl with obvious joy on her face, and couldn't help but ask: "Would it be better if I was also called Bochi?" good?"

"Yeah!" (nickname~it's really awesome~!)

Goto Du... Pochi has been looking forward to being called by a friend outside by a nickname. He nodded immediately like a pound of garlic. The range and frequency of movements were even so high that Anyan was worried that her neck would not be able to bear it. .

But he was almost used to this exaggerated reaction. He turned to look at the gray-haired girl who appeared next to him and introduced: "This is Irena. Although she is not a good person, she is still very reliable occasionally."

"Huh? You...?!" The words were obviously very appropriate, but Irena stood up suddenly, wanting to have a clear break with him.

However, just after she stood up, An Yan said that she had something to discuss, while pulling her outside, and shouted to Hong Xia: "——Rachel, please leave it to you for now, we will discuss it later." go back."

After saying this, the two disappeared from the door of the store.

"..." Rachel silently watched him leave. Although she wanted to follow him at first, she quickly stopped and turned to look at Hong Xia beside her, hesitatingly speaking. Qi Yingchun: "What is the relationship between those two people?"

"What's wrong? Do you care?" An enthusiastic smile appeared on Hong Xia's face, and she leaned forward unconsciously, asking Rachel to step back slightly, and then frowned and said: "... .I care a little, but you are too close."

"It doesn't matter that we are all girls~! And wasn't that guy closer to you just now?"

"That's different." Rachel replied instantly without thinking.

"Hey~ where?"

"An Yan is... special."

"Special?" Hong Xia always felt that this was a word that could not be easily ignored, and asked cautiously: "What is special specifically?"

"Specific?" Rachel also realized that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, but she turned her head slightly, closed her eyes and thought for a moment, then did not intend to explain, and instead said: "....He and I had an agreement, oath."

"——Promise? Oath?! Could it be, is it an oath of eternal love?!" Boqi was frightened.

Hongxia smiled dryly and waved her hands: "Impossible, impossible~ Pochi-chan, please calm down... Even An Yan would not be able to attack such a young child."

"But, but..." (Although I really want to trust my friend! But why! I always feel that no matter what strange things he does, it is not strange? Is it really because I lack trust in my friends? It turns out that I am Such an unreliable person?)

Boqi, who was so troubled, held his head and kept shaking his upper body, his face full of pain and entanglement, and even unconsciously murmured the source of his troubles: "——It's Anyan after all! His words... His words... ..”

"Well, well... Indeed, his words... gave the impression that no matter what he did, he would not be surprised. And just now he had been unwilling to say what the relationship was... which is quite suspicious when you think about it. "

Hong Xia, who wanted to defend An Yan again, couldn't help but cover her face with her hands at this moment, apologizing to An Yan in her heart that she couldn't explain to him anymore.

Rachel looked at these interesting two people, and drank a Coke while calmly smoothing the wrinkled paper, and continued to answer the questions... As for how An Yan will be viewed when he comes back, then... It's not something she should think about.

In other words, this was her way of venting her little unhappiness.

........................

Outside the store, the sky seemed to have spotted the time for An Yan to go out, and a drizzle began to fall towards the ground.

The sticky and unbearable humidity that enveloped the entire sky became thicker and thicker, and the gray sky completely turned into a lead color.

"Oops...Is it raining? It's a little cold. Did you bring an umbrella?"

The gray-haired girl, who was caught in the cold wind, looked at the drizzle outside the eaves and rubbed her arms while asking.

"It will probably stop after a while."

"Then? Why did you suddenly call me out?"

"Of course it's healing! But don't heal them all, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

"Chenghui~[-] yen!" Irena smiled and stretched out her hand to him.

He couldn't help but roll his eyes at him: "Can you stop talking about money all the time?"

"If we don't talk about money, should I still talk about love with you?"

"Are we friends?"

"Okay, okay~ I'll give you a discount, no interest on credit." Irena smiled playfully but didn't say much. She looked around and after making sure no one was around, she took out her wand and flicked it at him.

A white light that was cold and inexplicably warm instantly enveloped his whole body and was absorbed by the wound. He immediately felt that his head no longer hurt, and even the wound healed a lot.

As the highest-level magician, Irena controlled the magic accurately, and the wound was healed only in the deep parts. Even after removing the gauze, she would find that it didn't actually look much better.

However, the deep healing of the wound also made An Yan feel much better. Even the ribs were reattached. The current condition could only be regarded as a skin injury.

"Then~ Why are you injured like this?" Not caring that he was removing the gauze to check the wound, and touching her waist and abdomen to check the results, Irena just turned her head and closed her left eye, and said helplessly: "No. Is it really because he was caught riding on a few boats?"

"How is that possible! I just accidentally got into a perverted building and participated in a strange survival game."

"Then you kidnapped a blond loli?"

"Don't say it in such a weird way! ...Although it's true to a certain extent." It was too troublesome to explain the details, or maybe he didn't want to say too much about Rachel's condition, so it was just so vague. He brushed off the question and quickly fled back to the store after taking the potion in a small glass bottle to avoid being questioned.

But...when he returned to the store, he found that for some reason, Boqi and Hongxia seemed to look at him differently than usual.

Boqi was scared, but Hongxia was angry.

This made him recall what he had done, and he asked tentatively: "...What's wrong? Why do you all look at me so strangely?"

"Come here! I want to have a good talk with you!" Hong Xia stood up suddenly and pulled the confused man directly into the recording room.

Then, just like the former Hayasaka Ai, she slapped his ear, raised her head and glared at him fiercely: "Be honest! What on earth did you do to that child?!"

"Then it's a long story..."

"It's okay, I have plenty of time!"

"This involves some privacy that is difficult to discuss." He looked embarrassed but did not want to go into details.

This made Hongxia feel more and more suspicious about him, and couldn't help but ask: "You didn't really make some eternal vow with that kid, did you?"

"?? We vow to each other...?"

There is an agreement, but isn't the idea of ​​an oath of love... a little strange? ——He thought blankly and quickly shook his head: "How is that possible? You probably misunderstood."

"Still saying no? Can a child lie?!"

"I lied at the age of three, bullied others at the age of five, and kidnapped your child and ran away with him at the age of nine. Do you think my child can lie? I can get married at the age of 13!"

"What kind of country does it mean to get married at the age of 13! By the way, you are so embarrassed to say such a thing..." I didn't expect that he could be so confident and directly throw the black history on his face. Hongxia's face was covered with black lines. She was extremely speechless: "How can we be the same as other people? Especially that child is so cute, completely different from people like you!"

"Is this how cute Rachel is?! Are you looking at her face? It's too superficial! You don't even know what she did to me!"

He almost realized that Ruijie was deliberately trying to trick him, so An Yan deliberately induced her when speaking, pretending to be aggrieved and painful, as if there was a past that was unbearable to look back on.

....To a certain extent, it was hard to tell people, and it was quite painful for him personally, whether it was being stitched or being washed with alcohol.

Although cute lolita always make people tend to subconsciously, just like even the police will instinctively turn to weak children, but An Yan's words that move with emotion and reason, and the painful look that does not look like acting, also make people laugh. Hong Xia was a little unsure as to what happened to these two people, so she couldn't help but cautiously asked: "What do you mean?"

"...Actually, that child...that child has always wanted to be with me, and even forced me to marry me, asking me to become her family...if she didn't agree, she would hurt herself, There’s nothing I can do! Really... there’s nothing I can do!”

He accused Rachel angrily, as if he was the victim. To a certain extent, he wasn't lying, so it was true.

In terms of acting skills between the two, An Yan had the absolute upper hand. After all, Ruijie never spoke without any emotion, so Hong Xia gradually turned away from her.

Just when he finished saying this, Irena's curious inquiry came from the door:

"What do you see in this guy?"

Turning around to look, I saw the door that was not closed. As expected, there were Rachel, Irena, and Pochi standing there. Irena couldn't help listening to the conversation inside, and asked about Rachel. So I fell in love with his weirdo.

And An Yan - he knew from the beginning that these people would be listening outside, and he looked at Rachel with a little contentment to see how she would respond.

However... things soon developed beyond his expectation.

Even though he suddenly tried his best to counterattack, Rachel just walked over unhurriedly and said bluntly: "That's right, I forced him to do everything."