【Skeletal Clouds and Early Mist Clouds】Ivory Tower

"It's all... all my fault!!"

The Liudao skeletal club was on the shoemat at the door, dripping like a soaked chicken, clutching his chest and gasping for breath.He summoned up the courage to glance at Hibari Kyouya, who was not much better, standing on the last two steps, leaning on the wall.The phoenix eye suddenly swept over, and he was shocked, and quickly ducked down: "This humble minister deserves death..."

"Bite and kill you!" Yunque shook the water on his schoolbag, staring at the pineapple leaves that had been watered limp on the back of his head, annoyed and a little funny: "Stop talking nonsense!!"

"The Ivory Tower" Part Two

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The rain fell as soon as it was said to fall, and it was completely tricked halfway. Liu Daokui's delusional plan for a walk between the two really turned into a pot of soup.Why didn't anyone remind him when class was over in the afternoon?Did these bastards premeditate...

As soon as the term was approaching, everyone discussed where to go to study at night. Bai Lan volunteered and proposed to go to his house, and listed the advantages one by one: his villa is so big that it can fit the whole class together; free high-end refreshments are provided; wireless Internet access, Stereo Cinema—Wait a minute, didn't you swear that you would vomit blood for review! ! ! !

"Although it's a bit far away, I can call my family's special car to pick you up~" The rich second generation deliberately amplified his voice, and he could hear it clearly even if he was sitting in the back row. Looking over with a frown, Bai Xiaolan has successfully attracted the attention of most of the students. There was a Binbin smile on the face of the public, only Liu Daoku's piercing eyes saw the ulterior motives: "Hey, I have been spying on you for a long time, hurry up and express your opinion." He poked Irie who was next to him one by one Down.

Xiaozheng sighed.

"I wanted to find a quiet place to read..." The interests of the masses are above all else, and the top students are half-pushed and tied up.The red-haired boy closed the book and glanced at the opposite side in silence. Bai Lan seemed to be so energetic that his hair stood on end in an instant.Mukuro didn't look at the two of them, and when he talked about Qingjing, Mukuro immediately thought of another person: Hibari Kyouya was leaning against the rear window of the classroom not far away, frowning like him.Mui thought that Skylark would definitely not agree to gather with the group, he couldn't help but pick up a pie that fell from the sky.

"Nah,"

When passing through the noise, he saw the skylark turning its head back, against the shaded green trees outside the window, its eyes had a unique clear light.Being purely stared at by such eyes, it is easy for most people to be tongue-tied.

"To my house?...I mean, Spade is not here today, if it's the night..."

He felt that his appearance probably also had ulterior motives, not much better than Bai Lan.Essentially he had to admit that they were all alike.

***

Bringing a dry towel to Hibari, Mukuro rubbed the top of his head with the other.Hibari hesitated a little when he entered the door, and Mukuro said: "It's okay, I'll wipe the floor." The boy took off his shoes and walked into the house wet.

Skylark has never been to anyone's house.He suddenly and straightly walked into another completely different family. He felt uncomfortable and a little curious.

The house was not big, and things were neither tidy nor messy, and he wondered if that was pretty good for a home with only two men, he had no standard of reference.The sofa looked soft, with cushions, and a stack of books lay askew on the coffee table.There are a bunch of lush plants that he can't name in the flower pot on the cabinet, and there is a simple small photo frame next to it.The room seemed cramped, as if the owner was trying to fill it up a bit, but something soft and bleak seemed to seep out of the furnishings.

He couldn't think of anything to say, so he just looked around while continuing to wipe the water off his body.

"My room is over here. Huh?" Liu Dao Muku noticed Hibari's gaze, and then looked at the photo frame on the cabinet. "That guy looks younger, doesn't he? He's quite a photographer... oh no..."

He looked down at his sunny face in overalls and a bow.

"This is when I graduated from primary school. When did I change it? It's not this one..." Muttering, he stretched out his finger and tilted it slightly. The photo floating on the surface of the frame slid down and was taken down.Liu Dao Mu didn't care much about Spade's complicated family relationship with his childhood photos in the living room, but many details suddenly became disturbing when they were put in front of outsiders. Embarrassed, he peeked at Hibari's reaction, as if any reaction in this house became judgmental.

Skylark opened his mouth, but held back a sudden sneeze.

It was only then that Mukuro realized that the white shirt on Yunque's body was still wet and sticking to his body at the moment, and his skin color was almost exposed under the thin layer, which must not be comfortable. "Well, why don't you take a shower first, there is hot water in the bathroom...I'll find you clothes!!!"

He, he swears that he didn't mean to use three exclamation points to speak, he swears to God that there is absolutely no ulterior motive.

Skylark looked at Liudao Mukuro, turned around and rushed to the foot of the bedroom, almost stumbling, still holding the photo just now in his hand.Most of the time, his minister of external relations is not stage fright, but he is also extremely stupid when he is stupid, which always makes Hibari Kyouya's thinking unable to understand.He was too lazy to think too much, and made a decision after tugging at the cold clothes on his body, without realizing the danger involved.When he walked out of the living room to go to the bathroom, he vaguely thought about Mukui's appearance when he was a child. Under the grinding machine of this time, he seemed to be able to see how a person gradually became what he is now.He glanced at the frame just now, and now there is another one that was covered before.Through the glass, eight teenagers and girls surrounded a flag, waving and smiling unconsciously to the outside world.

***

Pulling himself out of the closet, Mukuro looked at a T-shirt and trousers in his hand.He put the change of clothes on the door of the bathroom.This road requires great perseverance and courage!Kyoya is taking a bath inside right now!He's definitely not delusional!Kyoya is taking a bath inside right now...

His voice sounded unusual to him as he knocked on the frosted glass door, but he hoped the splashing water inside would cover it up.The blue-haired boy's heart pounded wildly in his chest for a while, and he heard Lark's vague and brief response: "Oh."

He hesitated whether to wait here and not go away, but Liu Daokui was not as thick-skinned as he was later, and his experience was really lacking, and the obscene thoughts were fleeting.He tiptoed and took two steps outside, before he had time to regret it, he suddenly heard a click in the keyhole of the main door.

I have a go! !

He rushed out of the washroom in a hurry, before the guilty expression could be removed from his face in time, Spade's sideways had already leaned in through the front door.

"It's been raining forever... Ouch?"

The young man closed the door, rubbed his shoes on the insole, put away the umbrella and stood it in the bowl behind the door, relaxed. "Are you back? Isn't there an exam tomorrow?"

"I still want to ask you! Aren't you on a business trip!!"

"The plan can't keep up with the changes. Speaking of which, what tone are you talking about—"

Spade stopped talking, and his eyes slowly moved from the two pairs of shoes at the door to Liudao Mukuro's face.Liu Dao Mu saw a terrifying look of epiphany from it.

"Well--?"

His back was stiff, and it happened that the bathroom door opened at this moment, and Liudao Mu heard the sound of footsteps approaching from behind him in horror.

"What's wrong?" said Skylark, draping the towel around his neck.

Spade stood at the door, his own door, looking at the young boy standing stiffly in the foyer in front of him and the other one beside him.Just after taking a bath, Skylark was covered with faint hot and humid steam, his black hair was dripping with water, he was wearing a casual shirt that was obviously Rokukoku, his waist was loose, and his trousers covered his insteps. Everything was self-evident. Spade impression of some kind of hot cooked meal.

It's small, okay.

He nodded slightly, and Liu Dao Mu undoubtedly understood the meaning of this unknown tone, but it was very likely that this was not appreciation.

***

"Isn't this Mr. Skylark?"

In the blink of an eye, Spade was already sunny and amiable, and looked at Skylark with a smile.Liu Dao Mu felt a certain crisis even more from this drastic and rapid transformation, his mouth was parched and he wanted to justify something.

"We... are reviewing." He said dryly.

"Okay, good review." Spade continued to smile. "Go and sit in the back room, I'll make you some tea."

Skylark said nothing.Generally speaking, Hibari doesn't have much to say to people he doesn't know very well, although this person is not only half of Liu Dao Mu's guardian, but also their teacher.The amazing thing is that Hibari Kyouya seems to be born to be indifferent to some bad atmosphere in interpersonal communication... No, it may be that he doesn't notice it at all.

Rokudoku shrunk his shoulders and wanted to follow Hibari into his room, when Spade added sweetly and irrevocably:

"Muku, come and make me some tea."

He had no choice but to turn back again.

"You can do it, you can get people here." Spade leaned on the kitchen sink, scanning Liudaokuo from head to toe, "It's quick enough."

"I don't have one," Muiji raised his eyelids gritting his teeth, "I'm really going to study at night, the dormitory is cut off at night..." He saw Spade standing in front of him with added dignity, and he also had this experience when he was a child I know that whenever Spade puts on airs like this, the severity index of the problem is about three stars, and some embarrassing cross-examinations are inevitable.

"If you have to study at night at the end, why did you go early! I can't see it just because of your little plan?" The blue-haired young man raised his eyebrows, intending to poke his head with his finger. "How have all these years taught you, huh? Don't rush everything!"

"I didn't rush..." Liu Daoku felt a little humiliated, and said angrily, "Kyomi got wet on the way here, so I just asked him to change and wash it! I—"

"Hmph, it's a coincidence to get wet~ so it's an attempted crime?" The sentence can be reduced as appropriate.

"No! We're just...together."

Maybe it was the word "we" or something else that touched Spade, and his brows loosened slightly.Seeing the boy in front of him staring at the ceiling with grievances and grievances, muttering in his mouth why I don't want to go home or something, he crossed his arms and thought to himself, who does he look like with such a stubborn look...

"Have you had dinner yet? You guys."

Mukuo hesitated for a moment, "...have eaten."

Spade didn't continue his lecture. The kitchen was dimly lit. He waved his hand, "You should also take a shower."

***

Liu Dao Mu's room looks very innocent at first glance, and it's hard to smell the conspiracy in it if you are not a fellow.Skylark nestled cross-legged at the other end of the small table, and the two of them sat on the mat, surrounded by a pile of soft cushions.Mukuro spread out his semi-new "Microeconomics" in front of his eyes, and yawned long.

"From the competition and win-win strategy of Coca-Cola and Pepsi...the conclusion is how do they not fit?! Then we don't have to do this kind of question!"

He drew a few rough lines on the book with the tip of a pen, and raised his eyes to the skylark, which has become his most effective refreshing and eye-care exercise.It was almost midnight, and the black-haired boy also started to feel a little dazed. He stretched out his feet, and touched Skylark's knee intentionally or unintentionally, and got a bewildered but sharp glance.

"It's so quiet." He raised his cheeks.Skylark snorted.

"I hate noise."

"But it's too quiet and it's easy to make people drowsy..." Muke wondered if Spade fell asleep first, and the room was still lit when he went to the toilet.Then he thought about the inexplicable letting go today, that guy used to always talk nonsense, but tonight he neither preached nor came to check on himself and Gongmi, he always felt a little strange.Could it be that I said that I didn't want to live at home and hurt that guy's fragile glass heart...

The more Muku thought about it, the more uncertain he became. At this moment, Yunque opened his mouth, thoughtful.

"Is the one in the middle in that photo the president of Pengo Lie Company?"

"Eh?" The blue-haired boy short-circuited for a few seconds, realizing that Skylark had seen the old photo in the picture frame in the living room. "Yes, it's him, the founder of Pengo Lie...I often see it on TV now, right? They produced a lot of celebrities in that class."

Glad to have found a topic, he put down his pen.

"That's a group photo of the backbone of Spade and his club, holding their club flag. About the same age as us now, seven boys and one girl, together created an association larger than AJIC...It was quite Well, if it wasn't for a later accident..."

Liu Daoku paused.

"The girl is dead."

He is sometimes amazed at how indifferent people can be to certain things.Just like now, when talking about the tragedy of another distant life, the feeling is just like a gust of cool wind lifting the gauze curtain and blowing gently on the body.He knew that this was because it was irrelevant, and it is always difficult for us to empathize with irrelevant emotions.

Skylark watched him silently during this process, the lips and the corners of the eyes were in the same light arc as always.Mukuro doesn't know what Hibari will think, if he has seen such a picture...the faces of young people who don't know anything about the disaster and their respective lives, and the anger that is infinitely similar to them today Did the vigorous group of people faintly ring somewhere in the hearts of the two of them, like a bell coming from the bottom of the water?

There are... many kinds of futures.

"I think he has always had a knot in his heart until now, although he never mentions it. But once when he was drunk, he hugged me and cried bitterly..." Muke laughed, thinking about the long-term life of the girls in the class. There are endless speculations about why this young professor who looks suave and suave is still alone. "Did you notice the person on the opposite side of him and the girl in the photo? The one who didn't smile. That was the president of the law student union of our school. After that incident, he went abroad and never came back."

Spade is good, Wu thought, he has been staying at school and never going anywhere, and he is the least ambitious among his peers. "If you want me to say, some people are too brain-dead, or they just love to torture themselves because they have no steps down."

Skylark lowered his head and flipped through two pages of the book, and said without thinking for a long time: "...that's their own business, and they will solve it themselves."

"Yeah, with his poor EQ." Mukuro stretched without hope, and turned his eyes back to Lark, as if looking at an expensive jewelry that is easy to lose. "Hey Kyouya, you said that if our association—"

"If you fail the exam, our association will kick you out." The black-haired boy cut off his words decisively.In fact, Skylark himself doesn't know that the sentence he cut off contains all kinds of possibilities that people don't want to imagine.

***

It was almost two o'clock in the night when Spade pushed the door open quietly and went in.The room was quiet, mixed with the faint and unique smell of someone breathing.He hugged two towels and walked around the low table. The blue-haired boy curled up on the mat and slept on the cushions. It was so carefree and infuriating. Spade had a love-hate expression on his face. , covered him with a strip.

What night is it, sleep well, maybe you will get a few more points in the exam tomorrow.

Turning around and carefully stepping over Rokudao Mukuro's crossed legs, he squatted down beside Hibari Kyouya.The child fell asleep lying on the table, and Spade probed to observe, and smelled the aroma of his family's usual shampoo on the dark hair, and the same aroma as his family finally appeared in another stranger. In the case of the child, this fact made him feel a little subtly moved.The man raised his arms and put the towel over Hibari's back like covering a kitten.

Suddenly, the black-haired boy woke up.

He was taken aback, his hand was still in the air, Hibari Kyouya raised his face a short distance away, and Spade saw the phoenix eyes suddenly opened under the long eyelashes, and the blue-black pupils were as bright as stars Ze stared at him.A torrent rushed quickly through his limbs.

"?"

The young man gradually woke up from his confusion, but there was no special reaction on his face, and he called out in a hoarse voice: Teacher.

Spade felt an inexplicable sourness in his nose. "Hey." He agreed, and some smiles slowly formed on the corners of his mouth.He tugged the blanket over Lark's shoulders. "I wanted to come over for supper, but you both fell asleep."

Perhaps there is no need for much explanation.Skylark didn't feel quite used to it. It was so warm and soft-spoken. His own home was too empty. He was used to that kind of emptiness all by himself since he was a child. At this moment, he felt that many unprecedented experiences were stuffed into his heart.

Spade sat down beside him, "How is the review? I'll test you."

The ready-made examiner came up with a few random questions, and Yunque's answers made him appreciate it, although the questions were always a bit too bold and sharp.At that time, Spade didn't know that the boy who was leaning on his low table now would use an independent consortium to acquire nearly half of Pengo Li's shares in the future. Starting to click on the first point, he should be more concerned about the intertwined fate of the few people in this room, or even far away in the sky.

"It's still early, go to Mukui's empty bed and lie down for a while longer." The young man put down the book, and looked at Liudao Mukui who was still sleeping soundly at his feet, his gaze became a little more serious. "This kid is a bit out of tune at times, but he is a good boy, better than me... You have to worry about it."

This last sentence made Lark a little surprised, but Spade had stood up, staggered away.When he reached the door of the room, the young man looked back again. Yunque was still sitting there, looking at him quietly.Spade smiled like a gust of wind across the water.

"It's okay, wake you up in the morning.... You are really like a person I knew before. He is just like you, he wakes up when touched."

***

Liu Daoku heard the door close.He was particularly reluctant to reveal that he was awake at a time like this, but one of his arms was really numb.In addition, he was very, very unwilling to think carefully about what Spade's solitary sentence was all about.Tell Yunque to take care of him more... Where will he save his face! ! !

When turning over and getting up, Skylark didn't have the slightest intention to worry about him, and walked to the edge of the bed calmly and jumped down.The pineapple boy also rubbed over and was kicked away.The phoenix eyes that had stared at Spade just now were like jets, shining proudly - without hesitation - to Rokudo Mukuro.

Zweig (Austrian writer) once said: Everyone has this kind of gaze when they are young, and the gaze is full of fire. Most people don't realize it at all, while others quickly forget it. It must be old age to know that this is precisely the noblest and deepest thing a man can acquire, the most sacred privilege of youth.

Of course Liu Dao Mu, who was in the blessing, didn't know, he only heard Skylark say:

"Hurry up and read the book. This time, most of the papers for the Weijing are written by him. Memorize the few questions he asked me just now."

END