Overturned Tower

But he wanted to eat well... He couldn't find anything to eat.

When the bread is finished, you can only take pills to fill your stomach.he thought.

Before that, he took out all the pills at home while he still had strength.

Toothpaste should also be edible.The toothpaste tastes like fruit... Dad won't let it, but it should be fine now.

So he thought so, and took out the toothpaste.The final reserve is the flowers grown at home.They should also be edible.

But not long after eating the bread, he started to feel pain in his stomach.

If you are sick, you have to take medicine——Thinking about it, he took all the medicine he could take.

But the body is more uncomfortable.

There were waves of chills in his body, but his eyelids and ears were hot.My limbs hurt so much... I can't breathe.

He curled up on the couch, and the high-pitched laughter coming from the TV was sickening to listen to.stabbing headache.

But instead he let go of his heart...

I'm going to die.

He thought at ease.

After you die, you won't be hungry...

Just then, he heard a voice coming from the door.

"—Fira!"

It was a crisp sound.

It was the voice of his playmate Shirley.

"I am here……"

He managed to pull himself together, and replied weakly: "I'm so uncomfortable..."

"Are you sick? Haven't you eaten? Can you open the door now!"

Her voice was urgent and a little dialect.

There was a cry in his voice: "I can't open it...the window is locked...it's locked from the outside..."

"You wait!"

Soon, Shirley's voice disappeared.

He actually wanted to say, you are here to talk to me...but he didn't even have the strength to say that.

He could only whimper and mutter gibberish that only he could hear.

He felt dizzy and felt hot.An uncomfortable feeling in the abdomen.

The whole person seemed to have fallen into an abyss, and felt that the sofa began to spin.

He didn't know how long it had passed when he heard a knock on the window.

"Fila, you are here!"

"Come down, Shirley, it's dangerous!"

The voices of Shirley and a grown man sounded from outside the house.

Fila raised her head reluctantly and looked out the window.

I saw a Maltese girl with black hair jumping out of the window of his house somehow.

But his house is on the fourth floor...

Shirley lifted a rock and slammed it hard against the window.

There were iron bars on the outside of the window, and she had to stretch her arm in to smash the window.

The windows were not smashed, but the alarm was set off.

The sharp whistling sound finally attracted the attention of the neighbors.

"Shirley, come down!"

"Dad, put the ladder up!"

"Father is here to open the window, come down quickly!"

"what happened?"

"The father of the boy on the fourth floor was taken away by the company, and he was trapped at home alone for almost a week..."

"Is there still this?"

The voices outside gradually became louder, and the winter silence was broken.But Fila slowly lost consciousness.

He took one last look out the window.

Outside the window like a birdcage...

The snow is about to stop.

Chapter 10 One Man Hero

At this point, the memory came to an abrupt end.

Those memory fragments that belonged to the Blue Robin floating in front of him... at this moment, it seemed so close.

What he just saw was the lowest memory in the mask of "Blue Robin".

Russell still remembered that Fira should be the real name of the blue songbird.

And Shirley seems to be Morgan's name before he got the code name...

"...I seem to understand."

He murmured in a low voice: "What am I afraid of..."

Russell and the voice of "The Godfather" overlapped: "What are you afraid of..."

His deepest fear...is loneliness.

And these "masks" also have.

The fear of being abandoned by the whole world, the loneliness that no one can help you-that is the despair that will permeate the whole body only when one person is absolutely unable to solve the problem in front of him.

——From the very beginning, his idea was wrong.

He was able to turn these people into his own "masks", not because he had inherited the will of the other party, nor because they had any great talents.

He has inherited too many wills.

There are countless people imitated and learned by him...

And before he met Morgan, he never "swears" at all, but he still triggered his psychic power and saw the traces Morgan carved in the non-existent history.

Therefore, if it is said that it is the oath and the bond, there seems to be something missing...

Now Russell finally knows.

The common denominator that really brings them together - is that hopeless loneliness.

That feeling of despair when you are alone and facing a career that you can never accomplish.

It was the fear that was similar to Russell's origin that aroused his psychic resonance.

——There is no love for no reason in this world, and no hate for no reason.

The blue robin will never leave Morgan until his death. It is not without reason that he sacrifices himself in exchange for the other's peaceful love.

His fear of the "birdcage" and his hatred for the company were engraved deep in his memory when he was a child.

He may have forgotten about it himself, leaving only residual impressions.

But the kind of warmth and touch when someone broke the cage in despair, like approaching a warm fireplace on a winter night, made Russell's body still warm enough to shiver.

Morgan's words seemed to echo in Russell's mind:

"Back then, I actually wanted to be a [hero]."

"In the beginning, I wanted to have 'admirers.' After that... I wanted to be his hero alone. Be his hero."

"The hero is the wind, the light. Any force in time enough to change everything."

"I was there whenever he needed me...

"—I think that's 'hero'."

It turned out to be the case.

I see.

Russell murmured in a low voice: "At the beginning... it was here."

Closed cage inside and outside.

In the heavy snow covering the sky and the earth.

The "hero" who broke the cage and the caged bird waiting for the hero's rescue... the fates of the two lonely people are intertwined with each other.

He finally knew why the "caged bird"'s psionic power had never been upgraded.

Because he didn't understand at all what "a bird in a cage" meant to a blue robin.

That's not a cage.In other words, its meaning is not in prison.

— but in releasing.

The blue songbird is not someone who hides in a cage to survive, nor is it a demon who wishes to imprison others... The meaning of a prison is to break the cage.

It's about waiting for a hero who can come in time and change everything.

"……sorry."

Russell said softly, "I'm late."

His voice that overlapped with "Godfather" only remained when he said this sentence.

It was Russell's own voice.

"It's not your fault."

A deep and hoarse voice sounded from behind Russell.

When Russell turned around, the broken void around him suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Even the previous church disappeared.

There is only a huge mirror lying in front of him.

And Russell sat in the chair, just like the conversation with the director of Torquay Fart before.

From his ankles, his palms, and his chest, a chain with the color of the starry sky spread out, submerged into the mirror——locked symmetrically on the limbs of the person in the mirror.

——And the person sitting in the mirror is the blue robin.

Like a real godfather, he leaned back with his legs crossed, his hands crossed and placed in front of him.It's very different from the upright sitting Russell's movements.

And the Blue Robin in the mirror had a rather complicated expression: "It is a luxury to hope that the hero will never be late.

"After all, 'heroes' don't owe them anything, after all."

"them?"

"I don't think I need to be saved by a hero."

Blue Song Robin said gently: "There is only one person who can save me. And she also fell into another kind of suffering at that time.

"Maybe what I resent... is that there are no heroes to save her.

"Or rather, what I resent is myself.

"Why am I so weak? Why am I so incompetent?

"Why can't I save that... always at the most timely moment, my hero?

"Or... what I resent is precisely this world that insists on heroes."

Russell looked at him, silent.