Stray Chapter 132: Long time no see
"Just that one time, didn't you help me pick up a hat during spring break? A white beret." Kato Megumi said calmly, explaining to Anyi Lun why she wanted to thank him.
"Ah~~ is that the case...? Sorry, I don't remember at all."
An Yi Lun also seemed a little puzzled, probably for a while and really couldn't remember such a thing.
"I think so too. After all, it was more than a month ago." Kato Hui thought for a moment, and then nodded in agreement, but his expression remained calm.
Probably think this kind of thing is normal, like most people don't remember what they ate more than a month ago.
An Yilun didn't care too much either, just nodded politely to the female classmate, and then smiled at Xia Ran. Just when she was about to say something, her eyes suddenly widened.
Looking like he was quite surprised, he turned his head and stared at the female classmate with his mouth open, and said loudly—
"No, wait a minute!"
"Huh? What's wrong?" Kato Megumi was also a little surprised, as if she was frightened by the other party's reaction, and she leaned back slightly subconsciously, pulling a little distance.
"No, no, you are, you are..." An Yilun also seemed very excited, and the words he said were incoherent, and then he made gestures, probably wanting to use sign language to assist communication.
Unfortunately, even Xia Ran couldn't understand what he meant, let alone Megumi Kato.
"What's wrong with me?"
"At that time, wearing a white... dress! Yes, a dress!"
"A white dress? Huh, ah, I seem to remember... I think there is?" Kato Megumi muttered, and her tone also showed a very uncertain feeling.
"...as if...?"
"Because generally speaking, most people don't remember the clothes they wore a month ago." Kato Megumi answered confidently.
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"That's right... Ordinary, speaking." An Yi Lun also seemed to have been poured a basin of cold water over his head, and his originally excited expression cooled down because of this, smiling. Also a little reluctant.
The memory from more than a month ago was revived, and the whole scene was vividly brightened in his mind. It was on a certain day in the spring when he met fate...
The evening sun shone, and the wind that became slightly colder blew past, and the sand and dust were raised on the way home.
And, at the top of the ramp alone... the female classmate number two standing alone.
However, dreams are beautiful, reality is cruel, and memories are often beautified. It's just like the reason why many things happen is purely accidental, but human beings will forcibly put so-called special meanings on them based on their own thoughts, concepts, and speculations.
As it is now, An Yi Lun has always felt that what happened on that day more than a month ago was an encounter between himself and his destiny.
But the ruthless fact is that the other party is a girl in the same class that he knows by name, and he has not recognized it at all. And the other party didn't care too much about the events of the day, and he didn't think it had any special meaning.
——Although I still remember that incident, I even forgot what clothes I was wearing at the time, so I don't think it was a fate.
And most importantly, I seem to have made up my mind that I want to finish "schooldays", and now I realize that it seems too late... The boy lowered his shoulders in frustration and returned to his seat. sit down.
"That... did I say something I shouldn't have?"
Seeing that An Yilun is also like this, Kato Megumi frowned slightly, looking back and looking at the boy at the front table with some puzzlement.
"Don't worry, there's no problem... After all, there are always a few accidents in life..." After thinking about it, Xia Ran said this cheerfully, comforting the girl.
"That's what I said, but I think... it's better not to casually add surprises to other people's lives?"
Kato Megumi's eyebrows trembled, and she said this with a somewhat subtle expression.
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Time flies by.
The huge fireball in the sky also unknowingly shifted from the position in the middle of the sky to the west, and finally the afterglow of the setting sun became soft and weak, and the heat contained in it was almost negligible.
Xia Ran sat in the classroom all day today, and he was a little relieved that he was not always regarded as a giant panda in the zoo and was surrounded by people.
No matter how new a thing is, after the novelty has passed, it will be like that. Moreover, many people have their own things to do, and they are more reserved. Even those girls often don't rush over immediately after class, pointing to the inside in the corridor outside.
This made Xia Ran a lot more relaxed-although there were still many people passing by, they would glance at the classroom outside, and look exactly in the direction of his seat, but this is more than the beginning. Much better.
After 3:30, the people in the classroom have also finished walking one after another. If they have not gone home from school, they are participating in club activities. Some love to do, some mate friends...
Occasionally, someone was walking in the corridor outside, which was dyed orange by the sunset, and from time to time there were some voices of chatting and laughing.
Xia Ran was still sitting in her seat, slowly flipping through the book in her hand. Because Kato Megumi just went out and will come back later, it will not be too late to clean the classroom by then.
As his fingertips stroked the rough and historically textured pages, lines of text messages flowed into his heart under the invisible tentacles of spiritual power.
After a whole day of reading, he has not even finished a book now, because he has never had such an experience before, and the problem that he always encounters in self-study is that he can't understand certain problems, and no one Be able to guide him by the side.
Therefore, I can only read and speculate over and over again, trying to understand the context... Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning may not be self-evident, but it is definitely better to chew the bones than to swallow the dates whole.
And he is not completely without gain. After all, this is a book about the basics of illusion, and he is more or less entry-level in this department, even if he only uses the additional reinforcement brought by the skill scroll to increase him. Some necessary illusion knowledge, but this is the beginning.
Combining her own superficial insights and insights during this period of time, Xia Ran does feel that her understanding of illusion has gone a step further, and she has a deeper understanding, which also negates some of the previous misconceptions.
In addition, although it is a discussion of the principle and mechanism of illusion, the content of the book itself cannot be so strict that it does not involve some specific spells at all. , how many will bring a few examples of spells.
It doesn't explain how to cultivate that spell in detail, but briefly mentions what the spell does, and what principle it is used for.
This is very commendable, because it pointed out the correct way of thinking for Xia Ran, or a reliable reference direction, and gave him some inspiration.
Although I know that I am not qualified to toss any self-created skills, but if people have no dreams, what is the difference between them and salted fish? Besides, he doesn't necessarily need to create his own complete skills, optimize and adjust his existing abilities, and develop some auxiliary tricks. This can still be considered.
"Xia Ran, can we start?"
The sound from behind interrupted his thoughts, causing his fingers to pause slightly.
He turned around and found that Kato Megumi had returned to the seat behind him at some point.
"How do you walk without a sound?"
"Huh? Is there any? Could it be that you were too focused on reading, so you didn't hear it?"
She tilted her head slightly and brushed her hair.
"And speaking of it, you are the one who walks without a sound. You walk past me many times, but I don't hear a sound..."
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Xia Ran silently closed the book and stood up: "Let's start, clean the classroom first?"
"Yes." Megumi Kato replied succinctly with a calm expression, not feeling like she couldn't keep up with the jumping topic.
"Then it's the corridor... In other words, is it enough to just sweep it? There's no need to mop the floor and sprinkle water, right?" Xia Ran looked around, estimated the workload, and felt that it seemed to be completely acceptable.
It won't take too much time, after all, it's just the inside of the classroom and a small corridor outside.
"This..." Kato Megumi wanted to answer.
But right there, a cold voice sounded——
"It turned out to be here, I thought you didn't come to school today."
Xia Ran raised her eyebrows, looked at the door of the classroom, and found a slender and beautiful girl appeared in the corridor outside that was dyed orange by the sunset, with black hair blown by the evening wind. A little orange-red stained by the afterglow.
"It's Yukinoshita-san, it's been a long time!"
The boy suddenly showed a hearty smile, and he raised his hand and waved, as if seeing each other again after a long absence.
"The way you say hello is really unbelievable? It's been a day before, it's been a week now, this kind of "long time no see" is too cheap..."
Yukinoshita frowned slightly and pointed out the truth mercilessly.
"This? No, no, I said it from the bottom of my heart." Xia Ran looked at the girl sincerely, "You can't just look at appearances, you must know that there are always some common sense in this world that cannot be explained. After you understand me, you won't say that..."
"This statement is really perfunctory, and let's forget about understanding you. If I do that, I'll feel like I've stepped into a realm that doesn't belong to human beings." Yukinoshita heard the words, first He sighed and replied calmly.
"Do you mean that I'm disqualified as a human being?"
"I didn't say that, you said it yourself." The girl smiled, and there didn't seem to be any malice in the smile.
"That...Xia Ran?"
At this time, there was a somewhat flat voice that seemed to be boiled water, which caught Xia Ran's attention and made him turn his head.
"Huh? Kato-san, are you still here?"
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"I've always been here." Kato Megumi's expression changed slightly, it was a subtle look of loneliness, a trace of sadness, and then a trace of resignation.
(ps: It was suddenly notified that it was not possible to do yearbooks or something... But the epidemic still can't stop blind dates, I no longer understand what they are thinking (troubling...)