The nth time I met my puppet

He could feel that the device Escher gave him was always protecting him, and he even felt that it was doing its best to protect him.

But the curious one laughed at himself. How could he have such an illusion?

But this was not an illusion. Where he couldn't see, Wan Nan was really trying her best to protect him.

The furthest distance in the world is probably like this: I am right in front of you, but you can't see me.

Wan Nan looked at Qingqizhe's hands, wanting to touch them but unable to. Qingqizhe had never suffered any serious injuries under her protection. Now that she was gone, there was no one to protect him anymore. During her absence, Qingqizhe had suffered many grievances.

But she couldn't protect him anymore.

"Does it hurt?"

In a trance, the curious guy seemed to hear Wan Nan's voice asking him if it hurt, but when he turned around, there was nothing.

He laughed at himself and suddenly burst into tears. He didn't cry when he decided to die. He didn't cry when his hands were burned, but he imagined hearing her voice the moment he heard it.

He felt indescribable grievance. How could he not feel pain when Wan Nan had always protected him so well?

"It hurts... It hurts so much... You promised to protect me forever. Where are you? It hurts so much..."

How he wished to get her response, but the whole world was empty with only the echo of his voice.

……

"Great, you're still alive."

Escher looked at the curious man and seemed genuinely happy for him. But in fact, this was not surprising to him.

"What's in here? I feel like it's protecting me."

The curious person looked at the device with some confusion and asked Escher, but Escher did not answer, but turned on the device.

Inside is a heart.

The curious person's pupils suddenly shrank, and his eyes were full of disbelief.

"Lord Niwa fled, fearing his crime, but he left a gift for you. It is said to be something you have always desired, taken from an innocent follower."

As Escher spoke, he took out the withered heart.

The curious person never imagined that the object of his desire would appear before him in such a cruel form. The heart obtained by killing someone is an ominous thing, but it can protect him from filth...

But this was never what he really wanted. He wanted a heart, but not this kind of heart.

Because it does not contain any blessing, it is just a sacrifice wrapped in a friendly appearance, full of selfishness, hypocrisy and cunning.

The curious man felt that he was completely betrayed by Niwa, but it was this betrayal that allowed him to survive.

Driven by anger, the curious person threw the heart to the ground and turned away without looking back.

Wan Nan hurriedly chased after him and followed behind the strange man, but her soul could not leave the corpse too far, and she watched the strange man's figure getting farther and farther away.

"007, is there any way he can hear me?"

007 was silent for a moment. This was also an illegal operation and he would definitely have to pay a price, but he didn't want to disappoint Wan Nan or make her worry, so he said nothing.

“Yes, but not too long.”

Wan Nan no longer cared whether he could hear her or not, and shouted towards the figure of the strange man.

"Idiot! Remember what I said? No matter what happens, I will come back to you one day! So, remember me! Wait for me to come back!"

"Host, we should leave. Once he's gone, his soul can only stay near his corpse. We can't follow him."

007 just wanted to take Wan Nan away as soon as possible. After all, every extra second of staying was torture.

'Well... let's go.'

The heart on the ground, along with the body preserved by the doctor, turned into starlight and disappeared into the sky.

The curious man suddenly turned around, but there was still nothing, only a few stars dissipating in the wind. However, he seemed to have heard a sentence clearly. Maybe he was hallucinating again...

But at the same time, he also remembered that Wan Nan did say such words.

At that time he didn't understand what death meant, but now he understands that the dead cannot be resurrected, so how can she come back to him again?

fraud…

This is simply impossible. Maybe she just said that to appease the child. Did she really think he was a child who believed in fairy tales?

But in his heart, there was still a glimmer of hope that she would come back to him.

Wait…who is she?

In an instant, part of his memory about her suddenly disappeared, although he clearly still remembered her.

I remember every little detail of being with her, her little habits, her love of staying in bed, her love of spicy food, but the only thing I have forgotten is her name, her appearance, and her voice.

It was as if in an instant, all traces of her disappeared, as if she had never come into this world, and all she had was just his imagination.

Impossible! He ran to the house where they used to be in disbelief.

This place was already a ruin, and there was no trace of her. He was at a loss, as he could not find any evidence that she had ever existed.

Why did the lover who clearly existed suddenly disappear? Why didn't even leave any memory behind? He looked at the ruins in confusion.

I quietly noticed that after a heavy rain, new sprouts had sprouted in the ruins at some point.

It was a rose, and this was the proof of her existence that he was looking for.

He suddenly remembered the words.

Wildfires cannot burn them all, and they will grow again with the spring breeze. Fire cannot kill them. One day they will still break through the ground and bloom into beautiful flowers.

He dragged his tired body and struggled to the new sprout. He took a deep breath and began to dig.

~Digging and digging in the small garden. The soil was mixed with hard stones and unburned charcoal, making the digging work extremely difficult.

He used his hands, all ten of his fingers burned off, to dig carefully, trembling with pain. Every movement was filled with pain, but he still persevered.

The stones in the mud repeatedly scratched his palms, causing bursts of stinging pain. Blood mixed with the mud and stones, and new wounds were added to the old wounds, making his hands even more broken.

However, he did not stop what he was doing, as if he had forgotten the pain, with only the new sprout in his eyes.

Finally... he dug it out intact.

The hand with ten fingers burned off dug out the new sprout from such muddy land, as if holding hope.

The house full of roses was finally burned down and turned into ashes.

In the ruins, new sprouts broke through the soil after the heavy rain.

He picked up a new sprout from the ashes.

It's like retaining the only remaining hope.

Finally, he carefully took the new sprout away. It didn't matter where he went, he just didn't want to stay here anymore, that was all.

……

This time, the doctor watched helplessly as the heart data on the ground turned into starlight and disappeared.

He felt a little unwilling. In order to figure this out, he studied Wan Nan's body for a long time, but there was no breakthrough at all. Everything was the same as that of an ordinary person.

The last time the transformation was fleeting, he didn't observe anything. But this time, he observed the entire process, watching the heart gradually transform from reality to digitalization until it finally disappeared.

Why didn't it disappear before, but disappeared after the curious person left?

For some reason, he had a hunch that Wan Nan must not be dead yet.

"How interesting... What secrets do you hold?"

(End of this life)

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