[Ya Ji] Babel

After completely evacuating from GHQ's pursuit range, the people of the funeral home quickly gathered at the hiding place established in advance.Everyone was busy counting the number of people, confirming the casualties, and treating them. After Alma got off the boat, he didn't care about Ying Manji any more, leaving him sitting by the pier in a daze.

It was already half an hour later that I got the news that Yingman Chunxia and Sifenyi had been arrested.The news was told by Shinomiya Ayase.Since then, Ji has become more and more silent.His blood-faded face looked very haggard. He sat there with his eyebrows raised, without the slightest vitality that a 17-year-old boy should have.It's like an old man who is about to die and go through all kinds of situations in the world, just quietly waiting for the final ending.

The chestnut-haired girl was sitting in a wheelchair, and she didn't notice this immediately. She lowered her brows and eyes with an uneasy expression, and quietly stopped beside Ying Manji.

From the point of view of the funeral home, this battle was a complete failure.Although Ji was rescued, he lost the military division Sifenyi, the most powerful fighter, and the spring and summer who mastered the technology.

Many people did not criticize Sakura Manji because of the faces of high-level figures such as Tsugumi and Alma, but they looked at him with unfriendly eyes.

It is impossible for a keen young man not to notice the hostility of the people around him.

Shinomiya Ayase obviously knew this very well, she didn't want to make Shu too much feel that she was rejected and resisted, but she didn't know what to say.

At such times, any words seem pale and powerless.

They were speechless for a long time, until the sea breeze brushed against their cheeks and dyed their hair with a lingering fishy smell.Shinomiya Ayase said softly, "Ji, Dr. Chun Xia and the others will be fine."

She originally thought that the news of Chunxia's arrest would make Ji Ji impulsively do some irrational things—just like when Qi Qi was arrested, but the boy accepted the news calmly unexpectedly, which made her brew for a long time. All kinds of words, in the end, can only be said hastily in this form of comfort.

Hearing Shinomiya Ayase's words, Sakura Manji's half-drawn eyelashes facing the ocean trembled, then she withdrew her gaze from staring at the distant horizon, turned her head, and forced a smile at Shinomiya Ayase The expression——it turned out to be not a smile at all, but just a stiff movement of the corners of his mouth.

"set……"

Shinomiya Ayase suddenly took a breath.

It was always like this, this young man was never willing to expose his emotions to the eyes of others, and he was unwilling to open his heart to accept any sympathy or mercy from others.

It builds a high wall that will not fall down, towering over the whole body, rejecting all touches, be it good or bad, with drifting and cowardly restraint.

In order not to let myself have any chance of being hurt.

Shinomiya Ayase felt a little hurt, and some anger welled up in her chest.She has always hated sticky, weak and procrastinating people like Ying Manji. If she hadn't received help from the other party in school and realized that the other party's essence was not as annoying as it appeared in the day and night, she would have Willing to reach out to this boy.

However, now it seems that it is just her own self-indulgence.

Shinomiya Ayase frowned, and Sakura Manji's forced smile became more and more irritating the more she looked at it.

The girl couldn't help cursing in her heart: Obviously, there are so many people who support you.Why are you showing such a stupid look!

Unable to restrain himself from getting closer, the chestnut-haired girl stretched out her hand fiercely, and slapped the boy hard on the face.

The burning pain quickly spread along the surface of the skin to the depths, and a little red oozes from the corner of the stinging mouth.Ying Manji turned his face sideways in a daze, his eyes were fixed on the ground, and something in his pupils seemed to be crushed, and they withered in an uproar.

Shinomiya Ayase's palm did not leave any leeway, it was a blow that contained anger and annoyance.For such a decadent guy who ignores others.

"You're such a—a hopeless idiot!!"

After the girl yelled, she angrily pushed the wheelchair and turned away, leaving Ying Manji, who hadn't reacted yet, standing there in a daze, alone like a wisp of duckweed without support, crumbling.

The red sun in the west has dropped a little.The blood-like evening light sprinkled the sea, and even the buildings beside it were rendered red.

Ying Manji stood for a long time before raising his hand to touch his swollen cheek.The wound in the mouth that was broken by the teeth has healed, but the pain still remains.Ying Manji covered her face, bowed her head and held her breath.

"I'm really... an idiot. Even Ayase said that..." He muttered mockingly, and slowly sat on the pier.

He was still wearing the clothes that Chiku Shinya had changed for him this morning. After experiencing the taint of the gunfire and the ups and downs all the way, the originally clean clothes had long been stained with stains, but even so, the smell very similar to Chikushinya's was still there Stubborn residue remains on the surface of the fabric.

Ying Manji bent down and buried her face in her arms.Take a deep breath.

What filled the nostrils was not only the cold, dark fragrance, but also the rust-like stench that could not be wiped away.

The taste of blood.

It was like a slow-motion movie in front of him, replaying everything he had experienced in just a few hours.

Chou Shenya carefully handed over the hangover medicine with a warm expression, and told him how gentle he was when he went to the hospital for surgery in the afternoon, and the back view when he left was almost exactly the same as in the past... and the phone call in Chunxia, ​​until the touch of Qi left in his vision Wordless smile.

The words of Alma and Ayase rang in his ears like thunder, cursing him for being despicable.

A hopeless idiot.I don't understand anything, but I still openly use my friends...

No, it's not just friends, even Chun Xia and Mo Qi are in danger for themselves.

What is the value of such a self?

It will only add trouble and make others worry.It started when I was a child. Before the age of seven, it was Triiden and my real name. After the age of seven, it was Chunxia. At the age of 17, I went back to the beginning and became Choushinya and Meiqi.

Coming and going, his whole life, when he thought about it carefully, was actually under the protection of these people's wings, so that he could spend it safely.

Ying Manji thought of this gloomyly, maintaining the movement of burying his face in his arms, his shoulders trembling.

Although I was the one who made up my mind at the beginning, and I was the one who wanted to change and shoulder the responsibility with that person, but—as expected, it still couldn't.

Even Qiqi and Chunxia are gone, and I am just a cowardly student without Wang Zhili.If this continues, it will only kill everyone.

In my mind, the sharp and harsh reprimands from Alma and Ayase gradually disappeared.What remains is only the endless loss of desolation and the retreat of escape.

If you can't, just use your friends to fight.Can't do it, let so many people sacrifice.Can't do it... and fight that person mercilessly.

Sakura Manji, can't do this.

Be selfish or humble.He is such a weak human being.Don't want to fight.Don't want to fight.

In a trance, Chunxia’s longing words, Miki’s trusting eyes, his real name’s painful pleading for help... and the overlapping and chaotic gentle afterimages and cold eyes of Chou Shenya, chaotically repeated back and forth in Ying Manji’s consciousness .

It doesn't matter if it's just him, but, bearing the expectations of so many people, can he go on alone and firmly, can he pick up the sword and fight... Yingmanji doesn't know.

The feeling of suffocation in the chest became more and more intense, as if someone had strangled the throat, preventing breathing and being unable to move.

"Who can help me."

His unconscious lament was hoarse and small, like the final whine of a dying beast.

It's almost dying, and I can't bear these heavy responsibilities and crimes that are almost suffocating.

It would be nice if everything could end here.

The ebb and flow of the sea water is like a bewilderment.

The brown-haired boy slowly raised his head, looking at the boundless Chishui sky, his eyes were empty.Then, he stood up, like a doll who had lost his soul, and walked step by step towards the quietly churning sea in front of him.

"set--!!"

It was a cry mixed with several voices, a voice Ying Manji was very familiar with.

The uncontrolled steps under his feet stagnated for a moment, and the messy footsteps produced by human running came from far to near, and soon came behind him.

The first one was a huge irresistible force, which ruthlessly pulled Ji back from the pier and threw him to the side of the inland street.What followed was another punch to the face.

It was stronger than Ayase's palm.It's the strength of boys.

The unhealed mouth immediately burst open again, the smell of iron filled the mouth, and the blood spilled from the corners of the lips along the curve of the chin all the way down, soaking into the scarf.

Enduring the pain, Ying Manji wandered his empty vision, and finally found the appearance of the people in front of him.

It's Samukawa Tanihiro, Soulkan Sota, and Kusama Hanane.During the college days, they could barely be called friends, but after the Tianwang Prefecture blockade incident, they completely parted ways.

"You bastard, are you trying to commit suicide?!!!" It was Tanihiro Suzukawa who spoke, staring at Ji angrily while talking.His right hand was still clenched into a fist and stretched out in front of his chest, presumably he was the one who made the blow just now.

"..." Ying Manji lowered his head silently, unable to answer.

As a girl, Kusama Hanon noticed something more delicately than a boy. She bit her lower lip, walked gently into Yingmanji, and tentatively stretched out her hand to pat Ji's shoulder.However, before they encountered each other, they were conditioned to back off and dodge.

"...Ji. We are here to help you." Kusama Hanano pursed her lips, retracted her hand, and said in a low voice.

Ying Manji still lowered her head without responding.

Soul Hall Sata frowned.In fact, he didn't want to come very much. For Yingmanji, his impression was always fixed on the cruel tyrant during the blockade of Tianwang Prefecture, but because of Gu Xun's insistence, he reluctantly followed.

Originally, he was the most talkative among the three, but it's a pity that the object was Ji, and Sa Tai became the most silent one instead.

"Ji." Han Chuan Guxun tried his best to restrain the urge to wake up the guy in front of him, took a deep breath, and called out the guy's name.

Ying Manji reacted a bit, raised his head, and looked at him in bewilderment.

"You still remember the sacrifice."

The boy's pupils shrank suddenly, and he bent down in convulsive pain.Clearly an expression of extreme grief.It is impossible for him to forget.

Han Chuan Guxun gritted his teeth, and instead of stepping forward to support Ying Manji, he continued, "At that time, you clearly wanted to resist so firmly. Why did you stupidly choose to escape again now?!"

Regardless of whether the direction of resistance was correct or not, everyone has seen the strength of Sakura Manji at that time after facing the departure of the school festival.Han Chuangu couldn't understand why Ji, who had transformed once, returned to the cowardly guy he was when they first met.He squinted at Ji, wanting to see some opportunity for this change from the other party.

To put it differently, it is probably the current episode, which lost its existence like a pillar during the blockade of Tianwang Prefecture... Like an empty box, all the hope that was originally contained in it is gone.

"Ji...what exactly did you encounter?" Han Chuangu couldn't understand, so he could only ask eagerly.

Ying Manji paused, turned his face away, and remained silent.

Kusama Kanon on the side suddenly said, "Is it because Miss Qi and Dr. Yingman were taken away..."

Ying Manji lowered her head, speechless.

Kusama Kanon pushed her glasses, took a few steps, and then said: "There must be part of the reason. But, why didn't you choose to save them, but instead wanted to escape by suicide?"

Kusama Hanane's tone was very low, but every word pierced Ying Manji's heart like a knife.

Yes, he escaped.He could have chosen another path.But for some extremely selfish reason, he gave up on Qi and his responsibilities.It's so easy to give up.

Just for the sake of not wanting to fight.Don't want to fight that person.I don't want to, and in the end, like ten years ago, I was almost crazy eroded by self-blame.

Anyway, Chun Xia has already been arrested, and the Genome is nowhere to be found... All hope is gone.

Ying Manji muttered like self-hypnosis, closed his eyes and wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, and wanted to turn around and leave.

However, Hanchuan Guxun rushed over first, blocking Ji's way.

"Could it be that you are living like this under the sacrifice of others?!" Han Chuan Guxun said very harshly, but for the young man who seemed to be dead, these words did not have much effect.

Gu Xun pursed his lips, paused, stared at Ying Manji's dodging eyes, and asked word by word: "Is it Ya? You don't want to kill Ya! Ji!"

The surrounding air seemed to be completely frozen by invisible ice, Ying Manji stood in the center, his face was pale, his lips trembled violently, and his eyes were covered with a layer of haze.

"Sure enough..." With the expected tone, Han Chuan Guxun sighed, put down his hand holding Ying Manji, took out a note from his pocket, and handed it to the stunned boy. "Look at this. Qi left it for you....She seemed to feel that she couldn't come back from the very beginning."

What was pinched in Han Chuan Guxun's hand was a delicately folded note.Ying Manji stared blankly for a few seconds before accepting the note.

Turn it over and see that the elegant and beautiful handwriting is the handwriting of Qi Qi.

The hand holding the note clenched unconsciously.

Ying Manji unfolded the entire note and started reading from the first line.

"Ji, don't blame yourself."

The dense water mist broke free from the shackles of the eye sockets in an instant and fell down, soaking the thin paper.Ying Manji choked his throat, trying to open his eyes and carefully read the words below.

"I hope that Ji can be happy. If possible, I hope that Ji can stop crying. In the future...whatever happens, if Ji is in pain, don't do it. I have nothing to do with you. Ya and I will work hard to stop this Void can feel that... he is very sad. He doesn't want that kind of future either, so he will definitely stand on Ji's side, and he will join me in stopping the tragedy together."

Most of the words that followed were drenched with tears, and Ying Manji stared hard with wide-open eyes before distinguishing the last sentence.

"In this way, Ji, you can smile properly."

The surging tears became more and more uncontrollable. They were tears of self-blame and tears of sadness.

Mo Qi thought that she relied on Ji to obtain salvation, but the one who really relied on was actually the cowardly and cowardly Ying Manji.

Relying on Chou Shinya, so after the existence of "Chou Shenya" was completely subverted, he lost his longing for ideals.

Relying on 楪祭, so when the existence of "楪祭" was about to disappear, he also lost his courage.

From the very beginning, Ying Manji stood in a passive position to accept other people's feelings.Whether it was at school or at the funeral club—even when he was imprisoned in GHQ, he was so timid that he didn't even dare to tell the other party what he wanted clearly, but he used beating around the bush Concealed, self-serving to announce the loss, self-care.

I dare not reach out because I am afraid of being hurt.

The shadow left by Yingman's real name has lasted for ten years, and finally it has become an indispensable part of Yingmanji's existence, restricting him from opening his heart.

As a result, until now, it has become one of the culprits of all tragedies.

He never thought about the feelings of Chishin Ya, if they could understand each other from the beginning, wouldn't so many irreversible things happen.

Whether it's the confrontation with each other or the tit-for-tat stance, he clearly feels that the other party has the same mood as himself, but he is reluctant to cross the boundary.

Inori's words were like an awl that dug through the originally unbreakable wall of the heart, together with the words of Alma, Ayase, and Tanihiro, they echoed in Sakura Manji's mind over and over again.

At this moment, Ying Manji felt that he got another completely different version of the answer he gave to Chou Shenya that night.

"I... what an idiot."

Ying Manji held the note with a half cry and a smile, wiped away the tears all over his face, raised his head, his brown eyes had regained their brilliance.He looked at the three friends in front of him and whispered, "I'm sorry."

It was an apology, to those who supported her, and to that white-haired boy who was hundreds of miles away.

There will be no more escapes.Friends like Qi Heya, Chun Xia, Ji, and Gu Xun are all enduring the same pain for themselves. This is the sin of Yingmanji, and no one can replace it.

Even if there is no Wang Zhili, there is still this body that can be used, and this left hand can hold the gun.

"It's not for defeating Ya, it's just...to save Huiqi, to prevent the tragedy that is about to happen."

At some point, Shinomiya Ayase, who had left angrily at that time, was standing not far away with Tsugumi, watching silently.Alma, Dayun, and members of many funeral houses.

Although most of them still kept probing and resisting, at least they temporarily obeyed the orders of Ayase and other high-level officials.

Ying Manji looked at these people, remembering all the emotions expressed by those who were older or younger than him.

"Yes, help me?"

His voice was not loud, soft and gentle, but it contained strange magic power.In an instant, Ayase, Tsugumi, Alma and the others even saw the illusory projection of the former Choushin Ya, in this way, alluding to Sakura Manji's body.

He is a person with magical powers, and every word he says makes people surrender involuntarily.

born king.

Involuntarily, Alma shouted out first, and then, one after another, one after another, there were echoes.Like a wave, it swept layer upon layer until it finally spread to the entire funeral home resident.

Among the dragons without a leader, no one knew what to do.They need someone to guide their way forward.

Thrush looked up at Sakura Manji, touched his ears, and whispered, "Really... When will this guy Ji..."

"Like Ya, he possesses this incredible power—the power to infect people's hearts." Ayase continued Tsugumi's words softly.

The two girls looked at each other with bright smiles on their faces.

"It's because they were chasing after each other." Said Tanihiro Samukawa in a low voice, standing a little far away with arms folded, looking at this completely different Sakura with Kusama Hanane and Soul Museum Sota Full set.

Although they didn't know much about Ya, they felt the change of Ji most clearly.

Chou Shenya changed Ying Manji, and Ying Manji inherited what Chou Shenya once had, and turned to find the past.

It's like an unsolvable vicious circle, circling around this chaotic human heart.

But the so-called fate is always so helpless.

Volume [-]: Redemption