Stray Chapter 8: All sugar to ice

"So the point is actually to get me off Earth?"

Xia Ran asked with a subtle look on her face, as if she was quite distressed about it.

"The exact distance isn't really the point at all?"

"It's great that you can understand this..." Yukinoshita said coldly, not hiding her resistance at the moment, she didn't want to talk to this person at all now, because she really very angry.

Very, very annoyed, although she herself finds the annoyance somewhat inexplicable.

The other party has already explained the matter about Mordred, and he has also sworn to guarantee that he has done nothing... Yukinoshita is willing to believe it, but even so, she still feels that there is no way to let go of it easily .

Because not so long ago—

Mordred's sudden "Father" had a greater impact on the girl than she had imagined.

At that moment, she really felt that she was going to lose Xia Ran... At that time, her brain was dizzy, and even subconsciously, a thought appeared, wondering if the other party did it on purpose because she couldn't say it herself. Arranged such an out.

Just to make myself understand and accept the reality...

So, she was really angry, very, very angry...or should I say, it was actually fear.

The girl has already vaguely understood it subconsciously, but she really has no way to curb this instinctive emotional reaction. Behind the anger and indifference, she is actually subconsciously covering up her unease and fear.

Maybe...maybe it really can't be helped...

The girl looked away in depression, looked at the ground, and pursed her lips tightly.

Although I am very unwilling, maybe I should be more rational, just keep a distance from now on...

At this moment, she suddenly felt that the surrounding scenery seemed to burst into flames. She didn't know whether it was time and space whistling, or was pulled by some invisible force. speed out of the atmosphere.

It seemed that only a very short moment had passed. When she came back to her senses, she found that the surroundings had become a dark and dead landscape, and beyond the far space below her feet, there was an azure blue the jewel-like planet.

This scene seems familiar...

Xuexia was silent for a while, and her depressed heart was inexplicably rippling, but she didn't want to show her emotions at all, so she could only press her lips hard and looked up at the young man in front of her.

"Since the point is to let us leave the earth, then let's leave the earth..." Xia Ran rubbed her hands with a smile and said kindly.

"...I asked you to leave, not me." The girl replied with a sullen face.

"Is that so... Then I'll take you back now?" The magician blinked his eyes and didn't care, but said if he had something to say, "Do you want to speak in a gap like Zi? , no matter how far it is, it doesn't matter, it's just a little troublesome..."

"You..."

Yukinoshita couldn't help but clenched her fists and released them again. After doing this several times, she felt even more annoyed, but more of a feeling of powerlessness.

The meaning of this person is very clear, 12,756 kilometers is not a distance at all, let alone leaving the earth, even if he is not in the solar system, it does not affect his continued entanglement... Annoyed because this person pretends to be stupid , the sense of powerlessness is because she found that common sense simply does not apply to this guy.

Of course, in addition to anger and powerlessness, there is some unconscious relief and relief, which is unknown.

After all, if Xia Ran really does not bother, and really starts to keep a distance from her, then...

"Okay, no kidding, Yukinoshita-kun."

At this time, the boy opposite also restrained his expression and stared at her very seriously. That kind of meaningful eyes made her subconsciously panic, and she could only look away, not daring to look at him.

The magician has won the opportunity, but he is still in a hurry, and he speaks very calmly. While carefully paying attention to the girl's expression, he is slowly considering the language of the organization. Now he does not intend to What a stupid mistake again:

"Forget the long-winded explanation, I don't think this is what you want to hear, and I've said it many times before..."

Xuexia snorted softly, but she didn't show the obvious refusal to be thousands of miles away as before. She just glanced at Xia Ran and immediately turned her face away and closed her eyes. , seems to be thinking about something.

Looks like I'm listening...

Xia Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had already thought about it very seriously just now, and he had also sorted out the ins and outs of the whole thing, and figured out the clumps of threads, and found that the key to the problem was really simple.

In the past, he thought that as long as he brought Yukinoshita classmates to "Wonderland" together, this method was enough to make her feel at ease.

But now it seems, after all, a little too naive, and this method is always limited, and it is still very obvious.

In fact, either you know everything, or you don't know; either it is the same world, or it is completely divided into two worlds that do not intersect with each other. This is the most correct way.

Because the feeling of the middle ground between the two is actually not good at all——

On the contrary, it is this kind of situation where Yukinoshita is involved, but not able to complete the process, it is very likely that it will only have the opposite effect...

The reason is simple.

It did not allow her to fully integrate into her own world and gradually understand and embrace everything, but it also made her feel the gap between the two worlds more clearly, deepening her subconscious "people who are not one world" ”, which strengthened her feelings in this regard...

——This is the main reason for the sense of crisis and anxiety.

So Xia Ran also understands that Yukinoshita Yukino's current performance is actually because she has had such a sense of crisis and anxiety before... Although it is not many each time, it seems that she has not noticed it herself, but always It's accumulated little by little until now.

This time, it was only triggered because of this incident as an opportunity.

Gather armpits into furs, gather sand into pagodas, that's all.

There is nothing strange about the magician, but he feels that he was careless and not careful enough...because he should know that everyone is an independent individual with his own thoughts and emotions. things like joy, or dislike dissatisfaction.

These are normal, normal things.

Xuexia's position is not his vassal, nor does it mean that she absolutely cannot have her own independent personality and will... Since she has misunderstood and is depressed, what Xia Ran has to do is to reassure her, Be happy again.

He wanted to do it, it was as simple as that.

Many thoughts flashed through my mind, the magician paused, took a deep breath, stared at the girl in front of him quite seriously, and said:

"... After the situation like "last night", it should continue, and I don't know when it will change, so I'm sorry... and what I promised you before now seems to be It doesn't seem to be a solution, so I thought about it, and I think it's better not to do it in the future..."

The black long straight girl's eyes moved slightly and she opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she held back.

Her cheeks seemed to bulge slightly, and she reached out and stroked her hair as if to hide her dissatisfaction, but she was quite calm.

Like the previous emergency, Yukinoshita was still very calm and suppressed her emotions. She felt that this person should not just tell her about this, so this is definitely not the end. processing result.

In fact, it does—

"Let's do it another way—" the magician continued, his eyes fixed on the girl, paying attention to the slightest changes in her expressions and eyes, not letting go of the smallest details.

“…what method?”

Yukinoshita was silent for a while, and then she asked indifferently as if she didn't hold any hope.

"We..." Xia Ran smiled softly, he stepped forward in the void of nothing, and narrowed the distance, "Become each other's shadows? Although it is only the beginning, let's exchange each other. A part of life will be inseparable from now on... Is this okay?"

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"You...youyouyouyou...what nonsense are you talking about—?! Seriously, okay? I-I don't have time to joke with you..."

Looks like she was completely stunned, and it took a long while before she came back to her senses. Yukinoshita's body was shocked when she reacted. Although she tried very hard to maintain her usual indifferent expression, her cheeks twitched. became red.

My heart was pounding, and my hands were so cramped that I didn't even know how to put them. As for my previous emotions, I was unknowingly forgotten.

This sentence is like some kind of foul magic, leaving only a panic and strange feeling in her heart.

But, but! Can't blame her for this!

——becoming each other's shadows or something...

——Exchange a part of each other's life or something...

What the **** does this person mean... Should he... Shouldn't he be... Yes, is...

The girl's brain is in chaos. If this is in the world of animation or manga, according to the form of expression, then at this time, she should not just have red cheeks, but an old-fashioned steam engine on the top of her head. It's just like spewing out water vapor.

"This is a very serious proposal, I'm not joking..." Xia Ran showed a confident smile and stepped forward again, "How about it, what do you think, is this okay? Yukishita-san. "

"I...I I I...I don't know..."

The girl was flustered and incoherent. She took a step back and was so shy that she almost cried. She really wanted to get a satisfactory explanation, but she never thought it would be such an explanation!

It was so fast, so sudden, that she wasn't prepared for anything at all!

No one is like this!

"I don't know?" The magician frowned slightly with some doubts, "Why don't you know, if you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, then I will think of a way. Isn't this very simple?"

How could it be so simple? !

Is this person pretending to be stupid or really stupid!

"I, I, I..." Yukinoshita Yukino was so scared that she began to tremble. She never thought that one day she would be so flustered and embarrassed. There is no preparation.

"No, no, in short, no... I, I haven't thought about this, and it's impossible for my parents to agree..."

Fortunately, although the spirit was hit even more severely than before, and the whole person's thinking was in chaos, the girl was still able to rationally stick to the bottom line and stammered to give a clear answer.

"No, this... what about parental consent?"

The magician was silent for a while, and asked in a strange tone.

"Don't you need parental consent for this, this kind of thing? What the **** are you thinking about!" Suddenly angry, Yukinoshita said to him through gritted teeth.

"Okay, I really don't know such a thing..." Xia Ran blinked, and then nodded politely, indicating that what the girl said was right.

He continued to ask at the same time:

"That is to say, as long as your parents agree, will you consider this issue, Yukinoshita-san?"

"This is... your business... I don't know..." Yukinoshita was furious and anxious, she opened her mouth in a panic, but she still couldn't think of any suitable words, all she could say was Only dodge and perfunctory.

She really felt that her face was on fire, and she wanted to escape from this place and never appear in front of each other again.

Why is this person stalking, can't he leave a little bit of restraint for himself!

"This is really troublesome, or... let's try to exchange it now?" The magician raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively. "I will discuss with your parents later, I think they will understand..."

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“…”

A moment of silence.

Try a swap first...?

"Wait, wait! Don't you...you don't mean that?"

Suddenly thought of a possibility, Yukinoshita Yukino, who opened his mouth, reacted a little later, and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.

"What do you mean? Isn't it obvious what I mean?"

Carefully speaking, Xia Ran seemed to sense something was wrong, and he slowly took a step back.

"Didn't we say it from the beginning? We exchanged shadows of each other, that's it, I think this should be a good solution to the current problem..."

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“…”

So, it really means literally?

What did you just do? !

So, just now, I completely misunderstood the meaning of the other party, thinking that he was trying to tell me... that what?

The girl was completely stunned, her face was filled with consternation and speechlessness, and her spirit seemed to be in a trance. She couldn't believe her reaction just now, she was really thinking, worrying, and uneasy about whether it was suitable or not.

The shame, shyness, worry, liking... and sadness that are so intense.

At this moment, all that seems to recede as quickly as the tide, leaving only the strongest...

Shame.

This caused her ears to turn red, and even water mist in her eyes.

Bullying people...

"Don't don't don't-!! Don't be like this, don't be like this..." Xia Ran was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt at a loss. He originally thought that Xue Shishita would be furious next, but under huge psychological pressure, No matter how strange the spirit is, it is normal.

But the only thing I didn't expect was that this would be the result.

Something must be said.

Anything is fine.

He took a step forward without hesitation, directly grasped one of the girl's hands, stared at the other party's eyes very seriously, and opened his mouth to correct: "Actually, that's what I meant, I was just joking..."

That's right, it doesn't have to be.

The girl wanted to break the man's hands, but was unable to do so. She bit her lower lip with her teeth, leaving a shallow mark, and she looked away for a moment—

"I hate you..."

Although the volume was low, she stubbornly squeezed out the weak words.

He is a very cute and troublesome person, who is both too fragile and terrifyingly strong...

Xia Ran couldn't help laughing softly. After a short breath, he said, "I like you, even the annoying part."

(PS: Repeated deletion and modification, um... that's all I can do, try my best...)