【Yo Deng】Badger and Snake

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Down the Rabbit Hole (1)

Koito Yu stepped down the steps of the main entrance of the castle, and let out a long breath in the fine snow that was flying all over the sky.Even though it was clear that this was only Nanami Dengzi's memory, she couldn't help wrapping her thin spring robe tightly.

Not far in front of her, Saeki Samika was looking back at Nanami Dengko standing in front of the steps.Saibo was wearing a dark green robe that looked very warm, with a furry silver collar, and a little snow fell on the golden unilateral glasses, and his expression was softer than Yu had ever seen before.

"Dengzi," she said softly, "how...how are you going to spend Christmas?"

Yu turned her head, Nanami's complexion was even paler in the snow scene.

"I will still stay at Hogwarts," she smiled slightly, "Samixiang is going home?"

"Yes... I'll bring you a present." Zuobo followed Qihai and walked down, and the two walked side by side to the lake.Yoo strolled a few meters behind them, guessing that the next class for these two seniors would probably be Protection of Magical Creatures.

——When will this memory end?

Yu was puzzled, she felt that she had intruded rudely into a private area.

After finishing the third place match with Slytherin, Yu began to devote himself to the preparation of the OWL exam.Qihai was very trustworthy, and tried her best to take the time to guide her in spell practice. The theory-oriented courses used another method——she moved her pensive to the private dressing room in the prefect's bathroom, and regularly took five Let You "read" the classroom memories of the grades by himself.Although it was very awkward at first, Yu soon discovered that this learning method is particularly effective: the somatosensory time in the Pensieve is different from that of the outside. Just a few minutes.

After getting used to this feeling, Yu came to listen to it almost every day, but today’s memory didn’t end after the class for some reason, but continued to extend forward; the fifth grade Saeki Samixiang and Nanami Dengzi are still in the She walked and talked, and there was no sign of an end in sight.

She suspects that Qihai accidentally put a little more memory in, but she doesn't know how to get out of this memory.

Just as Yu was racking his brains to recall the knowledge about the Pensieve that he had read, the surrounding scene suddenly changed.Moth-eaten black spots entered the field of vision one by one, and the black streaks spread from the boundary between the sky and the earth. In the blink of an eye, she came from the silver-clad outdoors to a dark corridor, where bronze candlesticks were scattered on the corridor. The faint blue fireballs converged and scattered within the lampshade.

Yu was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly heard a creak behind him.She turned her head and found a little girl trembling with the wooden door, looking into the room through the crack.A hoarse voice became clearly audible as the wooden door opened: "...absurd! Absurd!"

Yu took a few steps forward and saw the girl's face clearly.That was—she thought it should be—the Nanami Lantern.

To be exact, it was the very young Qihai Dengzi.The black hair just reached her shoulders, and her head only reached her waist; her face was still immature, but her raised blue eyes could already be seen a bit of her current softness.

She was trembling, and Yu knew it without touching it.Xiao Qihai's facial features were tightly wrinkled, her mouth was tense, and she looked like she was going to cry at any moment.This familiar stubbornness made Yu's chest tremble, and she wanted to touch her head very much, but the outstretched hand penetrated the other person——

She can't touch her.Here and now, she is just a bystander, a ghost lingering in other people's memories, unable to do anything.

Clenching his fists, Yu went straight through the wall and entered the room.

"...Drop out of school, drop out of school for me! Are you kidding me, I will never allow Qi Hai's surname to be engraved on the wall of Slytherin!"

In the middle of the room, an old man with white beard and eagle brow stomped on his crutches, spitting all over a pair of witches and wizards.The wizard's hair was turning gray, but he still bowed in trepidation, while the witch argued: "Father, she has already attended the sorting ceremony. Hogwarts has never dropped out of school in peacetime—"

Yu noticed that the witch's facial outline was almost exactly the same as Nanami's, and her nose and mouth were quite similar, while the wizard's eyes were slender and upturned, with azure blue color.Presumably these are Qihai's parents.

"——There is no precedent, so let her be a 'precedent' for future generations," the old man looked calmer, "I will arrange for her to go back to Japan to go to school."

"Going back to Japan? Studying in a magic school?" Nanami's father was taken aback. "This—please think again! Toko is only 11 years old, and we don't know each other in Japan—"

"—then let her be educated at home." The old man interrupted him coldly, and the wizard seemed even more anxious: "What—what? What will happen to her without a degree from Hogwarts Work? Merlin, why are you so demanding on a child! Although we are a Ravenclaw family in name, we are just a collateral line after all—"

The old man knocked on the ground vigorously, and began to yell something, but the sound turned into grains of sand blown away by the wind before it reached Yu's ears.The sky-blue walls and bronze-colored furniture swayed, mingled and separated, and recombined into a familiar place: platform nine and three-quarters.

Yu looked around and found that there were only a few scattered people on the platform.Xiao Qihai stood a few meters away, and a young woman with black hair reaching her waist was squatting in front of her and exhorted: "...It's okay, sister will find a way, and won't let you go to Japan to study alone."

She wrapped her pale sister in layers of scarves.Qihai Dengzi pulled the indigo cloth up to her chin, and whispered in a strong nasal voice: "Sister, don't hate me..."

"How could it be?" Nanami Mio hugged her tightly, "Dengzi is a good boy, and the Sorting Hat will sometimes miss it... Sorting into Slytherin doesn't mean you have to mix with those people, you can get in touch more Some people from other colleges..."

The figures of the Seven Seas Sisters and the bright red Hogwarts Express behind them were blurred and distorted, covered by overwhelming darkness.After the dark curtain receded, Koito found herself standing in the auditorium of Hogwarts Castle, Qihai timidly huddled at the corner of the long mixing table, the only Slytherin on the table.

People around were chatting and laughing loudly, and she mustered up the courage to talk to the little Ravenclaw girl opposite, but the other side ignored her and moved away with a plate.

Yoo stood behind her with his back tensed, and heard pointing voices from the Slytherin table: "Hey, what's the matter with that freshman?" , she is not too dirty..."

Yoo gritted her teeth and glared at them, wanting to push the onion soup on the table to the faces of the two of them, but before she even touched the pot of soup, the scene changed again—this time, it appeared in What she saw were the curved roofs and the walls studded with cobblestone reliefs.

The light in the room was very dark, only a candlestick was lit on the round table beside the bed, but this did not prevent Yu from identifying the owner of the room.Xiao Qihai huddled behind the curtain of the four-poster bed, buried her head in her knees, and curled up into a ball.Inappropriately, Yu recalled the appearance of this senior curled up against the wall on her bed, and couldn't help but sighed in his heart.

She took two steps closer, and saw clearly that Xiao Qihai was holding a piece of crumpled letter paper tightly in her hand, and some places on it were still wet.You spent a few seconds thinking about the current situation, but Xiao Qihai answered all her doubts just by raising her face——

She is crying.

Yu didn't make a sound, so Yuu didn't notice it.

He didn't make a sound, but the tears rolled down like broken beads, mixed with the snot, and smeared his face and chin.

It was the first time Yu saw someone cry like this.Those tears clearly hit the paper drop by drop, but they hit Yu's heart like a hammer; her outstretched hand penetrated the other party again, and sank into the wall powerlessly.

"... Mio sent you back to school without permission, which made your grandfather lose his temper. Your mother and I will try to persuade him to let you come back for summer vacation, but Christmas and Easter..."

The letter paper was squeezed into a ball again by Xiao Qihai, but the few words Yu glimpsed were enough to make people understand why she was crying.For a moment, her heart was filled with anger, and there was nowhere to vent this anger. She could only swallow it forcefully, melting into a full stomach of pity, prompting her to open her arms and hug the crying girl even though she knew it was meaningless. .

Yoo didn't need to look in the mirror to know that her posture must be awkward and ugly—but she had to do something, she couldn't just watch anymore.

The light in the room brightened.Yoo raised his head, and the girl in his arms had disappeared without a trace.

She straightened up and saw a dark-haired woman with blue eyes standing in front of the fireplace with another letter in her hand:

"...Aren't you coming back this year? You haven't celebrated with us for four years..."

The Slytherin prefect cast the letter into the fire, eyes downcast.The tongue of fire crackled and swallowed the paper, casting a blurred shadow on Nanami Dengzi's face.

She turned and left expressionlessly, and passed by Koito Yuu.The scene dissolves behind her, melts away, and returns to darkness.

This time, there are no more scenes.Yuo floated up in the familiar feeling of lifting, and returned to the changing room of the prefect's bathroom.

The room is full of sunlight, and the robin's chirping can be faintly heard outside the window, but Yu's thoughts are still rolling and spinning in the ever-changing darkness, until a call suddenly pours into his ears——

"Koito-san, are you done with class?"

Qihai Dengzi leaned against the window, looking at her with a smile, holding a piece of parchment full of words in her hand.

"—Wow!" Yu took a step back, grabbing the robe on his chest in shock, "Senior! You——scared me to death! When did you come?"

"Just a few minutes ago," Nanami said as he rolled up the parchment, "you said, you surprised me when I came in. It's only 07:30 in the morning, so you're working too hard ?”

"I have a test today." Yu looked carefully at Qihai's face, "Senior, you are... why are you here at this time? Do you want to use a Pensieve?"

"No, I'm here to take a shower." Qihai frowned tiredly, her eyes turned dark.

"Have you been up all night?"

"Well, hurry up for a paper." Qihai threw the parchment on the shelf, and began to untie the tie of his coat.

Yu was surprised: "The paper is due the day before the Easter holiday? What class?"

"History of Magic, a compulsory course—so don't even think about running away, just accept the baptism obediently." Nanami took off her sweater neatly, and moved her hand to the button of her shirt: "Student Koito, can you turn on the faucet for me before you leave?" ? Just open No. 11 from the right and the second from the left.”

"..." Yu didn't agree or move.

"What's wrong?" Qihai paused, "Is there any problem with the class just now?"

"No...I just want to say, senior, you are so tired, is it okay to take a bath? Wouldn't it be bad if you fell asleep...or...ah."

Yoo scratched his head a little irritably, and suddenly remembered that water heaters and showers do not exist in the magical society.Qi Hai obviously failed to understand what she swallowed, and she resolutely refused: "No. I won't touch the bed without washing."

Seeing that You still looked worried, she couldn't help but slow down her tone: "I won't fall asleep, don't worry."

Yu rubbed the floor twice, and seemed to want to say something, but finally responded.

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When Nanami came out of the dressing room wrapped in a bath towel, Yuko Koito was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the square bath, playing with a faucet spraying purple bubbles.Qihai walked up to her and said helplessly, "Koito-san, I really won't fall asleep in the bath."

"Even if you say that," Yu looked up at her, "wouldn't it be more reassuring to have someone with you?"

"...Usually he is obviously a good talker, but at this time he is very stubborn." Qi Hai lifted up the corner of the bath towel and said with a smile: "Could it be that you actually want to watch me take a bath?"

Yu turned 180 degrees without changing his expression, turned his back to her and said, "They're all girls, what's so interesting about it."

"... There are girls who are interested in girls, right?" The sound of entering the water dispersed, and Qihai's voice was surrounded by dense mist, which made her feel a little more lazy and ethereal.You sat back and checked the water temperature: "I'm not, please don't worry." After denying it, she changed the subject: "It's the tone of the senior...it sounds like you have a lot of experience in this regard?"

"Me? I have been confessed by a girl before." Qihai rested her head on the edge of the pool and looked up at her.The woman's temple hair was wet against her cheeks, and there seemed to be steam flowing in her eyes, which was more charming than usual, even Yu, who was the same sex, couldn't help but stare blankly for a moment.

"...Is that so?" Yu wiped away the hair on her forehead that blocked her view, "Then how did senior reply?"

Qihai seemed to be enjoying her vague touch, she closed her eyes slightly and said, "Of course I refused, how can I have time for a relationship?"

"That's right." Yuu murmured.The hand that brushed aside the forehead hair moved to the top of the head, subconsciously rubbing it.Qihai glanced at her, and found that the other party was staring at the pool of water in front of her in a daze, wondering what she was thinking.

Yu still couldn't get out of that fragmented memory.Overly strong emotions sprout and grow like a devil's net, tightly entwining the heart.

Qihai Dengzi's black hair was shiny and supple, and her complexion also returned to rosy under the action of hot water; but her figure overlapped with that thin figure in a trance, which could not be distinguished or touched.

She looked at Shang Qihai's inquiring gaze, and her eyes flickered.

—— Qihai Dengzi obviously didn't know what kind of things he saw in the Pensieve.This recognition made Yoo feel an inevitable sense of guilt: what she saw was a scar that had been torn apart repeatedly by her master and had not healed until now, entrenched in the most inaccessible secret place; if she knew that she had broken into How would you react if you entered this forbidden area?

"You look so serious, Koito-san." Nanami Dengko raised her hand and poked her chin.Two drops of water flowed from the woman's fingertips, slid down the curve of the girl's jaw, and wet the collar of the robe.

"What's wrong?" Qihai turned around and lay down on the edge of the bath, "Are you worried about today's exam?"

"Well, well..." Yu replied vaguely, "It's okay."

"is it?"

Qihai curled the corners of her mouth, looked at her meaningfully, and then turned on a faucet beside her.A string of lavender-colored bubbles spewed out from the mouth of the golden faucet, rolling down the water one after another, flickering and crowding at low altitude.The black-haired woman blew on the densest ball at hand, and the bubbles exploded, splashing a lot on Yu's face.

"Hey!" Yu wiped his face vigorously twice, and the rich lavender fragrance rushed into his nostrils.She was about to complain, but when she took a closer look, she saw that the perpetrator ended up in a worse end than her: Qihai's shoulders, collarbone and chin exposed on the water were all stained with spots of lavender.

Yu was stunned for two seconds, then laughed loudly: "Ha, hahahaha—senior, you—"

Half ashamed and half annoyed, Qi Hai patted the water a few times, gesturing to splash it on her body: "What are you laughing at? What are you laughing at? This is shower gel! I just want to put it on my body!"

"Wow, no, I didn't bring a change of clothes!" Yuu took two steps back on all fours, causing Qihai to burst out laughing: "Come back, I'm just kidding! Seems to scare you."

Yu stared at her suspiciously; Nanami smiled even wider.This pretty smile fell on the bottom of Yu's eyes, which was a different scene. She couldn't help but recall Xiao Qihai's face that bit her lip and refused to cry.Joy and pity mixed and blended in the bottom of her heart, encouraging her to reach out her hand and catch the fleeting thought in her mind.

"Senior," she clenched her cuffs tightly, "do you have any arrangements for the Easter holiday?"

"Huh?" Qihai stopped laughing, "I will stay at Hogwarts. What's wrong?"

"Uh, that's it." Yu rubbed his neck uncomfortably, "I was thinking, if you are free, senior...would you like to come to my house for two days?"

"..." Qihai's expression froze instantly, as if she hadn't expected her to propose such an invitation suddenly.Seeing this, Yu bit his tongue annoyedly, and was about to smooth things over, but found that the other party's expression began to soften again, and in the end even revealed a bit of unspeakable joy:

"Um... ok."

Down the Rabbit Hole (2)

After buttoning up and putting on his coat, Qihai Dengzi took off the rubber band in his mouth and tied it into a high ponytail.

After reconfirming that the attire was neat, she stuffed the double-sided mirror on the dressing table into the satchel, and then threw the wand in it.This movement was done very neatly, but the person doing the movement hesitated after completing it.

For wizards, this unremarkable thin wooden strip is a shield, a sword, a medium of power, and a symbol of status; everyone was in danger during the old war, and basically they never left their bodies when they slept.

But now it's different.During the peaceful years, the International Law of Secrecy and the regulations on the management of underage wizards became more and more strict. Nowadays, wizards under the age of 17 use magic without reason outside of school, and even first-time offenders may be accused of appearing in court.

What's the point of wearing a sword without its sheath?Why not just throw it back in your bag and save yourself the hassle of always wanting to use it.

—That's what I said, but the feeling of letting go of the wand was indeed too disturbing.Qihai Dengzi hesitated for a few seconds, then fished out the thin wooden stick and stuck it in the inner lining of his coat.She can't remember when she became easily restless. People always praised her for being sharp and vigilant, but she only thought that she probably lacked a sense of security.

It is difficult to feel safe in a place where there is no sense of belonging.It was like this every day in Slytherin, and it was like this when he was about to meet Yu Koito and visit Muggle society.

After confirming that everything was packed properly, Qihai Dengzi left Room 216 where she was kept for one night.

The Leaky Cauldron at ten o'clock in the morning was very noisy, even more crowded than usual due to the Easter holiday.Qihai carefully walked around a drunk man who was sitting slumped on the stairs, shaking a bottle and whistling, and stood firm on the crowded first floor.She glanced over a few tables of people discussing the endgame of Wizard Chess, and caught the familiar orange color in front of the bar without much effort—Yo Koito was talking happily with the bar owner Hannah Longbottom with her elbows on her back. White Fang showed his smile, and Qi Hai couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth, not knowing why his junior was so amused by his words.

"Koito-san," she walked over quietly, and patted the girl's left shoulder gently, "I'm coming down."

"Ah-eh?" Yu subconsciously looked to the left, but missed it, and then turned around to find Qihai standing on the right, with a face of successful mischief.

"Senior! You—uh..." After seeing Nanami clearly, Yu swallowed her complaints abruptly.She stared and swept Qihai from head to toe, and then back from foot, and said in a long while, "You...why are you dressed like this?"

"Huh? Is there any problem?" Qihai hurriedly looked down: the bow tie is not crooked, the collar of the shirt is not turned up, the trousers are not stained, the size of the tuxedo jacket is just right, and the waist is also natural.

Yes, that's right - Nanami Dengzi wore a tuxedo.The kind for men, the kind for dinner parties, the kind that Koito has only seen in real life at relatives’ wedding ceremonies.

Yu closed and opened his mouth several times before saying, "No, this... this is..."

She struggled to sift through the words, and finally settled on the simplest one: "...would only be worn by Muggle men."

"What?" Qihai's smile stiffened, "Muggle dresses are divided into men and women?"

"...Divided. Wizards' robes all look the same so there's no difference, but a lot of Muggle clothing is divided between men and women."

Qihai's mouth twitched.

"...Sorry, I don't know." She untied the bow and stuffed it into her pocket in frustration, loosening the neckline, "I don't have Muggle clothes, so I asked my sister's colleague in the Ministry of Magic to borrow one, and he said Muggles wear this on formal occasions."

"Are you going to attend any formal occasion?" Yu was a little surprised, and Qihai asked even more surprised: "Huh? Aren't I going to your house?"

"Oh..." Yu understood.She doesn't deal with pure-blood wizards that often, so she puts the matter behind her--old pure-blood families usually have a little bit of the same red tape, and her predecessor presumably regarded the initial visit as a kind of routine. It's a big deal.

"It's okay," she pulled Qihai, and said gently, "Senior looks good in this way. I forgot to tell you about it in advance."

"It's because I didn't do enough homework." Qihai smiled reluctantly, and changed the subject: "Speaking of which - you know Mrs. Longbottom very well? It seemed that we had a very happy chat just now."

Hannah Longbottom had already started to greet another pair of guests at this time, and she picked out a bar chair with fewer holes and gave it to Qihai, saying: "My family's bookstore is on this Charing Cross Road, so Professor Longbottom and Madam also visits here occasionally, and we get to know each other well after coming and going. Madam Longbottom is quite fond of reading Muggle novels, and often pulls Li and me to discuss some literary things."

"Ravenclaw's leaf calendar?"

"Yes, she also lives nearby—but she didn't come back after this holiday. It seems that there is a potion being brewed, so she stayed at school."

"So that's it," Qi Hai raised her chin, "I only heard that Classmate Ye is very talented in potions, but I didn't know that she is also quite accomplished in literature."

"Right!" Yuu chuckled, "I would prefer Muggle literature, but she has also studied wizard literature after entering school. She has been writing by herself-I only recently found out, senior, you know La Aaron Shacklebolt, the Winclaw keeper?"

"The male prefect in the fifth grade? I don't know him very well. I only met him on work-related occasions."

"It's him. The last time I went to the tower to look for Li, I saw them holding a seminar. Aaron was crying and sniffling while reading Li's novel. It's unimaginable! He was so vicious when he played..."

Qihai Dengzi held her face and smiled.The girl in front of her was happily telling one anecdote after another, which clearly happened in her own school, but it made her feel quite far away, as if she was listening to a story from another world.

Aware of the other party's silent gaze, Yu suddenly felt a little dry.She stopped talking, picked up the drink on the table and took a sip.Only then did Qihai notice that she had bought a special Easter drink.

"This," Qihai pointed to the colorful drink, "how does it taste?"

You smacked her lips: "It's okay, it's not as bad as it looks! Assorted fruit flavors." Speaking of this, she was a little annoyed and said: "This drink is so expensive because it comes with a lottery for the game. .It said it was a 50% chance, but this is already my second cup..."

The "quota" mentioned by Koito Yu refers to the quota for the Easter game.Seven Seas Lantern only stayed at the Leaky Cauldron for one day and one night, but even so, he had heard about this year’s Easter game—this is an event held jointly by wizarding pubs across the UK, held every weekend, and the winner of the game can be as high as You get a bonus of 1000 Galleons, but the game qualification can only be obtained by purchasing a special Easter drink for a limited time. It can be said to be an ingenious marketing activity.

"How about another drink?" Qihai asked, and was about to wave to Hannah, but Yu hurriedly stopped: "No, it's okay! Today I mainly take my seniors around London, I don't... really want to play, I'm just a little curious! "

Qihai looked at her duplicity in defense with some amusement, and said, "It's not a problem, according to the gameplay of this game, we have to travel to London as well."

At her insistence, Hannah served two more special drinks for the two of them.Yu meant to have a drink for each person, but Qihai just touched the glass and watched her sip, and didn't move herself.

"Did you hit it?" Qihai asked after three or four bites.

"No...not." Yu blinked, "Actually, I don't know how to count..."

It just so happened that Hannah walked by with two bottles of dragon skin wine, and said with a smile: "This one, you will know when you hit it."

"..." For some reason, Yu suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Qihai gently pushed the cup over: "Try this cup of mine."

The girl's first reaction was to refuse, but after meeting Qihai's eyes, she closed her mouth in a mysterious way and did as she wanted.

Qihai Dengzi's expression is really hard to explain in words.She smiled lightly, but it was soothing and soft, as if she had seen something extremely satisfying, filling the gaps in her heart to the brim.

Yoo likes to see her smile like this.She was happy with the lightness and ease behind this smile, as if those things wrapped around the lamps of the seven seas were taken off with the wizard's robes and disappeared into the air.

The sweet and sour drink rolled down his throat, and before the aftertaste dissipated in his mouth, he suddenly felt an itchy head.She grabbed it subconsciously and touched something furry, warm and textured.

She looked up, and Qihai looked at her with her mouth open without any image: "Koito-san, you... on your head..."

"What? What's wrong with my head?" Yu took out his phone and switched to selfie mode——

A pair of bunny ears appeared on the screen.

Orange-red, palm-length, genuine bunny ears; a hole is punched at the base of the right ear, and three fingernail-sized eggs are worn around it.

She slowly took her hands away and put them down, her ears bouncing towards the camera, as if in a show of arrogance to her.

"..."

Yu pursed his lips tightly and stared at the screen solemnly, while Hannah behind the bar called out briskly: "Oh, congratulations, Yu! Come and participate in today's egg game!"

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Koito’s Fujishiro Bookstore is located on an inconspicuous corner of Charing Cross Road, squeezed to the end by a beautifully decorated cafe, and only allocated a facade as large as the double glass doors of the cafe.

Although the bookstore is small, its appearance is simple and solid, exuding a sense of precipitation that is completely out of touch with the fast-paced city.Whether it is a handmade signboard carved with mahogany or a small wooden board with this month's book list, it shows the owner's careful care, so that people can tell at a glance that the books in the store must be cherished to the same extent.

Nanami followed Yu into the bookstore.The crisp sound of wind chimes sounded before Yu's call, and a young woman with a side ponytail poked her head out from behind the bookshelf: "Welcome light—what, it's Yu."

"What's your tone?" Yu turned to Nanami dumbfounded, "This is my sister, Rei Koito."

Koito put aside the dust brush in her hand, wiped it twice on the plain apron, stretched out her hand and said with a smile: "Hello, it's Xiao Qihai, right, welcome!"

After shaking hands, she walked around Qihai and said in admiration, "It's the first time I've seen a girl wear this kind of tuxedo—your suit fits so well, did you change it on purpose?"

"Ah, yes... it was supposed to be bigger, I used a little reduction spell or something..."

Even though she had received many curious looks just now, it was still a bit embarrassing to be looked at so closely by the younger sister.You didn't know if you noticed this, and pulled Lian away: "Okay, don't stare at him, where did you put the clothes you mentioned on the phone just now?"

"It's all taken out and put in your room." Lian broke away from her and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Why are you so disrespectful, and it's not your girlfriend."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yuu choked hard, and quickly turned to look at Qihai; the latter studied the novels on the bookshelf, and didn't pay attention to the conversation here.She lowered her head and breathed a sigh of relief, and the baseball cap on her head slipped down a little.

"Where did you get this hat?" Lian reached out to take it, but was blocked by his own sister.

Koito Yuu took two steps back while pressing the hat, and replied stiffly, "I bought it on the street, what's the matter?"

"Eh...?" Lian raised an eyebrow and looked at her suspiciously.You were so stared at, so he simply walked around her and pulled Qihai's arm: "I, we will go up first, Xiao Lian, if you are free, come and use it as a reference."

Lian blinked, feeling like her sister had lied about the hat; but she still said "yes", and then watched the two of them go upstairs.

The second floor of Fujishiro Bookstore is a completely different scene.Different from the deliberately old-fashioned interior on the first floor, the second floor is full of modern atmosphere: as large as a glass display cabinet with lighting, a large door refrigerator and LCD TV, as small as an automatic dishwasher, microwave oven, electric fan and laptop computer —— Qihai Dengzi was dazzled by these weird things, and began to regret that she didn't take Muggle studies as an elective last year.

Koito Yu's room is the one on the outside on the third floor. There is a little cheetah holding a white board hanging on the door. The owner's name is written on the board in small and cute round characters.Qihai stared at the immobile little cheetah for a few seconds, and felt that it was very similar to the owner of the house in terms of fur.

"It's a bit messy, senior laughed at me." Yu opened the door to let Qihai in, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"No, it's full of life." Qihai stood in the middle of the room and glanced around, her eyes fell on the scattered clothes on the bed, her eyes lit up immediately: "Ah, that..."

"Huh?" Yu picked up the dress at the end of her eyes.

This is a dark blue thin windbreaker, the length is about above the knee.Yubi stroked it, feeling that it was very suitable for Nanami to wear.She grinned and said, "This windbreaker looks like a robe, doesn't it?"

The careful thinking was seen through, and Qihai's ears turned red: "Yeah, I don't have to have this... Xiao, what is the sweater you wear, Koito-san?"

"This?...'cardigan'." Yu thought for a while, and then unbuttoned the light yellow sweater, revealing the gray and white striped long sleeves inside. "This is called 'tween neck shirt'," she continued to point to her legs, "this is 'jeans'."

Next, she introduced the clothes and names on the bed to Qihai one by one. Qihai's eyes alternated between her face and the clothes, and finally landed on the open neckline somehow.The girl's collarbone is three-dimensional and exquisite just like her own, slightly undulating with her breath and movements, as attractive as a bone china sculpture——

"--senior?"

The girl's soft call brought her back to reality.With a puzzled face, Yu looked up at her slightly: "Are you okay? Did I talk too much in one breath?"

"Uh, no." Qihai hurriedly pretended to look at a pure white shirt, and her face started to feel hot again.

--it's wired.she thought.

Actually staring at someone's neckline - how could I do such a faux pas?

Before she had time to think deeply about the question, there was a knock on the door.

"I'm done," Koito Rei said, "How about it, have you chosen?"

"I like this one more at the moment." Yu showed her the windbreaker.

"Try it on?" Lian compared, "I bought this one a little too big, but it should be suitable for you."

She put the windbreaker on Qihai, and handed the tuxedo jacket that the latter took off to Yu, stepped back a few steps, and nodded with satisfaction: "Well, not bad, it matches the color of the eyes very well."

"Thank you." Nanami fiddled with the buttons and belt of the windbreaker, feeling much more at ease.At this time, Yu has already started to lean over to look for inner clothes: "If you wear a windbreaker, you don't need a sweater, and you wear long sleeves underneath? What color do you like, senior? Ah... this one will look more like a school uniform."

Qihai glanced at the plaid shirt, pursed her lips, and pointed to the other one on the bedside with embarrassment: "I...I want to try that one..."

It was a gray-and-white striped long-sleeved dress, which was exactly the same style as the one Yu was wearing, except for one thing: this one had gray patterns on a white background, and the other had white patterns on a gray background.