sleepless night

The empty knife waiting at the end of the empty and silent world has all its teeth pulled out and its blood drained dry.

tears?

That rascal.no tears.

early February.When the story begins.The snow hasn't stopped yet, but the cumulus clouds have been slowly torn apart by external forces, and the sun is hesitating to reveal its figure a little bit.The vain world is still running endlessly like that, fortune, history, and human life have not changed much.No one sees the prosperous and prosperous country, and the corrupt hearts and society in the dark.

People who have abandoned the world.Or have no heart.Or lose the reason to live.Or no desire to live.Or, nothing, even instincts are suppressed and abandoned.

It is such a person.This is the world.It's such a thin, cold air.Those dark purple pupils reflected the golden sunshine without temperature, slowly regaining their proper radiance and color.

She woke up from a long dream of nothingness.The first thing I saw was the shadow left behind in such a noisy world.

【elder sister. ] Empty call.Whose voice is it?So sad and empty.

[... Seven flowers. 】

Dark red and emerald green intertwined, and the pupils of the eyes, which were changing in thousands of colors, were so clear that there were no impurities.The long snow-white hair touched the ground slightly without hesitation, but gently swept the ends of the hair, drawing light golden dust.Wearing a short rabbit fur jacket unique to the Snow Clan, her face was full of childishness. Looking at the street stalls, the girl who wanted to step up to have a look but didn't dare tugged at her companion's sleeves with a look of anticipation.

The black-haired man who stood aside without saying a word looked back at the girl, but didn't make any gestures. Instead, he rubbed the black stubble on his chin back and forth with annoyance, frowning tightly.

The woman in the kimono with her sleeves pulled was expressionless, her delicate face looked gentle and docile, but there was endless emptiness in her deep purple eyes.

"Hey, Nanami, let's go and have a look." The innocent girl finally couldn't bear the silent atmosphere, she pulled the sleeve of the woman in kimono and walked towards the stall with the strength of a strongman.Although it is a question sentence, it is a statement tone.Animal instinct told her that although this scary woman only cared about her kimono, if it was not damaged, her life should not be in danger.

The petite and weak-looking woman in kimono was accidentally pulled staggeringly, but she didn't speak, and even her expression didn't change. She still kept her air pressure low, like a puppet without a soul, who was a head and a half taller than her. The girl pulled carefully, and slowly walked towards the hawker who was yelling across the street.

Behind the peddler in a dark brown linen blouse is a stall selling combs. There are some wooden combs made of sandalwood, yew, and peach wood, some jade combs made of transparent jade, and some textured combs. A cool stone comb.Although the various shapes and styles are not many in number, each one is somewhat eye-catching.

The innocent and lively girl only took one look and her eyes immediately lit up.Sanzu Shrine, who has been living in Izumo, seldom goes down the mountain, and later it was difficult to go out for various reasons. Today, it is a rare opportunity to be allowed to go out for a stroll. Of course, I am so excited to see such a rare and beautiful comb!She grinned happily, showing her white teeth. Although they were shining in the mild sunlight, it was not difficult to see if you looked closely. There was a small defect in her neat and beautiful teeth-the right front tooth had a Small gap.Some are like the marks left by accidentally knocking off teeth shortly after changing teeth when I was a child.

But even if there is a small defect on the front teeth, it does not affect the girl's innocent and lovely image at all, but adds a lively and intimacy that only the little girl next door can have.At this time, the girlish aura inadvertently exuded towards the row of combs made people couldn't help but look sideways.

young girl.Innocent and childish, but simple and honest and cute.

"How much is this?" Stared at by the girl's serious red and green eyes, even the seasoned peddler who had seen countless people couldn't help swallowing, and answered nervously, "Seven, seventy arts."

After hearing this, the girl stared at the peddler more seriously, and her beautiful eyebrows slowly frowned.The peddler immediately waved his hand and explained subconsciously: "You, don't look at me like this, this price is very fair, and you don't know how much it will be raised if you go to other places. I think you seem to seldom come out to buy things. That's why I gave a fair price, which is really not expensive."

The more I talked, the faster the sweat dripped from the hawker's forehead.

"Well, I'm counting it today. How about buying one and getting one free for seventy cents? There's no bigger bleeding than this!"

"..." The girl blinked her colorful eyes, and finally, besides seriousness, there was also some doubts in her expression.She scratched her head in seeming annoyance, then turned to ask the delicate woman in kimono who stood quietly from beginning to end without saying a word, "Which one should I buy?"

The woman in the kimono shook her head, completely ignoring the remorseful peddler who was about to vomit blood and the cute girl with star-like brilliance in her eyes. She raised her eyes to see the sun that had strengthened, and said the first sentence of the day.

"Choose quickly. I'm going back."

The voice was flat and lifeless, as weak and helpless as it looked, as if it was about to fall to the ground when a gust of wind came.

But the girl who was still excited just now froze like an eggplant beaten by frost when she heard this sentence, her small face was wrinkled into a ball, and her face was full of resentment that dared not speak out.The grievance that seemed to be complaining and weeping made the peddlers on the side feel pity, but the person who said this sentence seemed to have lost his soul again, and he seemed to be absent-minded, completely unable to see the girl's request.

"Woo. Qishi is the worst." The girl pouted angrily, picked out two combs at random, and said with an unhappy face, "I didn't bring any money."

The woman in the kimono slowly raised her sleeves, slowly took out copper coins from the sleeves, and slowly handed them to the vendor.no more, no less.Exactly seventy words.

The whole process is too slow, but it is weird and elegant.

The girl who was angry and turned around didn't see the charming but weird smile suddenly evoked by the expressionless woman.

But the peddler who took the money saw it.So with a "shua", all the money fell to the ground.

"I, I will pick it up! Hug, hug, hug, sorry! I'm really sorry!" The peddler suddenly shouted out of his wits, his voice was full of fear and despair, and even his body was shaking rapidly.

"?" The girl gave the peddler a strange look, thinking that she had met a strange person, she just cast a glance, then turned around and happily played with the newly bought comb, ignored him, and hopped away.

But the woman in kimono stayed for a while, facing the peddler who was about to be incontinent with fright, slowly raised her hand, put her index finger to her lips, and made a silent movement.

The peddler nodded violently, as if tears were about to flow out.

The woman's flat and weak voice drifted over, and the peddler's mind went blank. He didn't realize until the girl and the woman's backs were far away. The sentence just now was.

[It takes time to do evil, oh.Good boy. 】

The author has something to say: BUG repair. I have checked the coins in Japan at that time, but I don’t know whether the 70-liter comb is expensive or not.Anyway, the author just likes 70 twists and is afraid of trouble.