Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

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Come back home.

Come back home.

Such a stubborn and paranoid idea had taken root deep in Su Qing's heart like a weed and was growing rapidly.

It doesn't matter if I like them at the same time.

What should I say when they meet? Will Mahiru and the others dislike my previous actions? Will everything get better or worse after I come back?

These worries and concerns are so insignificant in the face of life and death.

I really want to see you, where are you?

Su Qing glanced at his cell phone. There were only about fifteen bars of battery left - he hadn't charged it during the days he was in suspended animation. After Yukino called, he rushed back to Tokyo without stopping.

Is it four o'clock in the afternoon already?

Su Qing's pace slowed down a little, and he had less and less concept of time.

By this time, Mahiru should have finished school, right?

"I really want to see you, Hiru..."

The young man paused, and tears burning hot suddenly burst out from under his dirty black hair.

Then, it seemed as if his tears were held back, and his pace became even faster than before.

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"Haha, how about it, is it fun to grab eggs?"

The automatic revolving door of the supermarket opened with an electronic female voice. After walking out of the supermarket, Mahiru asked the somewhat decadent girl beside her with a smile.

"It's totally not fun at all! Are those aunties too scary?"

Yui never dreamed in her life that she would see a scene like thousands of troops in a supermarket.

Is this still a supermarket?

It's like a battlefield!

So that's how it is. Yui felt like she had finally understood. Her eyes sparkled and she stared at Mahiru with admiration.

"Mahiru-chan, grocery shopping is war!"

"Huh?" Mahiru was confused.

"I just think that you are a great general for snatching eggs from those aunties!"

Yui looked at herself, her hands were empty, then pointed at Mahiru's hands full of spoils and praised sincerely.

"I'm fine." Mahiru smiled happily, then her eyes dimmed for a moment, but she still kept smiling.

"Qingjun was so good when he was grabbing eggs before. Those aunties couldn't beat him at all."

"Xiaoqing snatched the eggs?" Yui said in surprise and confusion, "The image is a bit disjointed, it doesn't seem like something he would do."

After thinking for a while, she added:

"Although you are such a lady, Mahiru, I couldn't imagine it when I wasn't familiar with you."

"Well... Qingjun knows all my not-so-good sides, but he's still willing to accompany me in my childish or 'bad' side."

Mahiru slowly looked into the distance, where the sky was burning into the color of flames.

The light is becoming increasingly calm and soft, but at the same time, it is also becoming increasingly cold.

A gust of wind blew from the distant north, and the girl's eyes became moist.

Mahiru whispered to Yui, to herself.

tell him:

"I kind of... miss Qingjun."

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It's Mahiru! And Yui!

How come they are here?

Su Qing was originally on his way back to Mahiru's apartment. According to the time he remembered, the other party should be home by now.

But when he noticed the shopping bags in the hands of the two women, he suddenly realized.

Although I am curious why Yui is with Mahiru, it doesn't matter anymore.

Finally, I see you guys.

The corners of Su Qing's lips began to rise uncontrollably, and he approached them little by little, like night approaching dawn.

His black eyes also gradually became brighter.

As if it was lit and illuminated by some kind of flame.

It is time to go home from school. Besides college students, there are students of various ages walking on this road.

Su Qing's behavior actually seems a bit strange to outsiders.

In particular, he had a head of dirty black hair, and probably hadn't taken a shower for a few days, and there was a strange smell on his body.

It's just that he himself can't spare the extra brain time to think about these things.

The distance between the three people was getting closer and closer.

The two figures that I had dreamed about at night but seemed to exist only in my memory gradually became solid.

As the breeze blew past, Su Qing could even smell the fragrance unique to young girls.

Mahiru, and Yui.

It’s great to see you. Suddenly I found that I still have a lot to say to you.

No matter how angry or disgusted you are, I will not leave this time.

Su Qing suddenly stopped, and his quiet and gentle gaze focused on the girls along with the orange-yellow light, which seemed to fall on their shoulders like delicate white snow.

In that tiny moment, the distance between the three of them was suddenly pulled very close.

Under the drunken red sky, the young man smiled and began to care about the quality of his voice and his tone.

Obviously, he just needed to call them over simply, but he felt like he was about to perform on the most grand stage in the world, so he had to rehearse it countless times.

Finally, he was ready.

"Mahiru..."

"Mom, is this person a beggar? He is so dirty, um..."

The child's tender voice suddenly stopped, and it made a whimpering sound as if it was about to be abducted.

Su Qing's smile and the lines that he had recited in his mind thousands of times also came to an abrupt end, making a sound like a broken mirror.

"Children should not be restrained in their words, children should not be restrained in their words." The middle-aged woman pulled the child beside her and bowed desperately, the mother's face full of apology, "I'm really sorry, the child is so ignorant..."

Mother is synonymous with tenderness.

She thought that since the other person was so young, he must have suffered a lot while wandering around, otherwise he wouldn't be like this.

But when the mother and daughter raised their heads from their bow, they were surprised to find that the boy opposite them had disappeared...

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Me, dirty? ?

The boy hid in a corner not far away, a shadow that was not favored by the sunset.

He took out his cell phone in disbelief, turned on the camera, switched to selfie mode with trembling fingers, and then his eyes were more confused than ever.

Looking in the mirror, his hair was like a messy bird's nest. A few strands of hair hung wantonly in front of his forehead, greasy and tangled, completely losing its former neatness and cleanliness.

The eyes that once looked at the girl with such tenderness were now bloodshot, empty and confused. He only saw the remaining fatigue and despair.

Is this me?

Is this me!

Is this still worthy of Mahiru...and Yui's crush?

Su Qing leaned against the wall, and slid down little by little as if all his strength had been drained away. His clothes rubbed against the wall, making an unpleasant, hoarse sound.

Su Qing held his head and bit his lower lip tightly with his sharp teeth.

Calm down, calm down, calm down.

He told himself to stay calm, otherwise he would go crazy at this moment.

I finally figured it out and came back here, and finally saw them. I absolutely cannot destroy myself because of such a small thing.

Yes, it's just a small thing.

Su Qing comforted himself in his heart.

That's right, all I need to do is find a hotel, take a shower and change into clean clothes.

Compared to the fact that Mahiru might get angry and ignore me after they meet, and Yui might be disappointed because I didn't say goodbye, this is nothing!

Correct.

Nothing.

But he... absolutely couldn't go see them in his current state.

I don't want them to think I'm playing misery, I don't want them to have any chance of feeling sorry for me, I don't want to...

His thoughts became more and more messy like needle and thread, and his eyes became more and more stubborn like reefs on the sea, stubborn to the extreme.

Only these are definitely not enough...

Dusk has fallen.

The setting sun beneath the grass trees.

The brook under the bridge gurgles, and children are laughing and playing on the lawns on both sides of the river. The sounds are mixed in the wind, cheerful and harsh.

Gradually, the dim and gloomy sunlight filled the world like the night.

Walking under the sunlight, the boy's shadow was suddenly stretched very long.

But no one can tell whether the person is dragging the shadow away, or the shadow is desperately trying to keep the person.

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