【Left Travel】LA MORT HEUREUSE

The next morning, Yusaku received a text message from Kusanagi.Kusanagi said that because of the weekend and the good weather, he planned to park the dining car on Stardust Avenue.It is estimated that there will be many tourists.If you are free, you can meet him there.

You Zuo came to the Stardust Avenue scenic spot and found that there were indeed more tourists than usual.

"Morning, Yuzuo."

"Morning, Mr. Kusanagi."

"Here, you probably haven't had breakfast yet." Kusanagi said and handed him a breakfast.

"Thank you."

After breakfast, Yu served as Kusanagi's assistant and helped him prepare meals.When he is busy, he is responsible for packing and cash register, and Kusanagi is responsible for cooking.Because it is summer, the dining car is also specially equipped with an ice cream machine.

From where the dining car was parked, one could overlook the cliff at the end of Stardust Avenue and the research institute on the cliff. There were no traces of people living there during the day, and there were no lights on at night.

"By the way, boss, do you know who lives on the mountain?" A tourist asked, who looked like a college student, and seemed to be traveling with 3 or 4 people behind him.

Kusanagi and Yusaku looked at each other, and then said, "I don't know, it seems to be a scientist."

They each ordered a set meal, and while preparing, they chatted in front of the dining car.

"Hey, the scientists are really rich now. I asked the nearby traffic assistant, and he said that the cliffs there and a piece of coast near the cliffs are private territories. We wanted to go up the mountain to visit, but we were stopped."

"How much does it cost to buy this mountain?" asked one of the fellow college students.

"At least about 10 billion. After all, it is a famous scenic spot, and the land price is scary."

"Maybe it's not privately owned, but a research grant from the government."

"By the way, do you know the strange talk about this institute on the Internet? Some people in the know broke the news that something happened to that institute recently."

"What happened?"

"It's dead."

"Wow, is it a murder case?"

"Sure, who doesn't know that the scientific research institute is the source of terrorist incidents."

"I heard that the scientist was illegally cloning human beings and cloned 6 wives for himself. Whenever the wife found out his cloned identity, the scientist killed his wife. In the end he killed himself and was killed by his cloned wife So, no one lives there now."

"Impossible, is it so absurd? Why does it sound like a movie plot?"

"The version I heard is not like this. I heard that the scientist missed his dead wife and illegally detained a young man. He not only changed his sex, but also made him look like his wife. He was killed in the end."

"This version is more perverted."

"I said it was like this. This scientist cloned dinosaurs by extracting genes from mosquito blood, and built a dinosaur garden. Later, because of poor management, he released the Tyrannosaurus rex, killed many people, and bankrupted himself. People live."

"Come on, Mr. Kota, everyone has seen this movie, so don't use it to fool people."

"Okay, everyone's meals are ready." Kusanagi said, handing them the meals they ordered.

Then, the group of college students left the dining car, and Yuzuo heard them arguing about whether to climb up the back hill to visit the research institute secretly before leaving.

"Well, I can only say that in the modern age of advanced technology, people lack a little respect for natural life." Kusanagi looked at Yuzuo with a wry smile.

Yusaku followed the line of sight of the college students and glanced at the research institute on the cliff.He personally likes the third version, which has a scientist who raises a group of dragons, but they are electronic dragons in the electronic universe.He smiled slightly.

"Oh, Yusaku, you're in a good mood today."

"Yes, because the weather is fine."

"By the way, Yusaku," Kusanagi glanced at him, hesitating to speak.

"what's up?"

"I never asked you, after you dueled with Revolver, did he say anything to you before he left?"

"Before he left, he didn't say anything." Yuzuo looked at Kusanagi, his eyes were as calm as a quiet lake.

"Is that so?" Kusanagi lowered his head and said softly, "The person you've been looking for all this time turned out to be the enemy standing in front of you, what a distorted fate.

"Yusuo, I know I shouldn't say unnecessary words, but he is no longer the person you remember."

"Mr. Kusanagi," Yusaku looked at Kusanagi, Kusanagi was a little surprised to find that there was a slight smile on his face, "I know better than anyone that he is no longer the person I remembered."

"Even though some things have changed, there are still things that remain the same." Yusaku turned his gaze to the sea opposite the dining car, and added after a brief pause.

"I think I can understand this feeling, Yuzuo. Jin hasn't recognized me for ten years. I stood in front of him. Even though his eyes stayed on me, he didn't see me. He realized that I Who is it. He just looked at me blankly and blankly. His heart was closed. But, for me, my feelings for him remained the same. Just think that one day when those eyes see me, they will be able to reveal With a little joy, I feel that I can bear no matter what." When Kusanagi was speaking, he was wiping the operating table with a rag, but suddenly, he stopped, held the rag in his hand, and clenched it tightly.

"Mr. Kusanagi..."

"Sorry, I said unnecessary words."

"No, no."

"Mom, I want an ice cream." A child dragged his mother and pointed to the ice cream sign on the dining car and yelled.

"Mom, mom, I want it too." Another younger child followed suit.

"Jiantai, you just had diarrhea yesterday, so don't eat."

The child named Jiantai suddenly had tears of grievance in his eyes, and watched helplessly as his mother bought one for his brother.

"Let's go," said the mother of two.

"Don't worry," the older child whispered to the younger one when the mother wasn't paying attention, "Let's hide in a place where mother can't see and eat later. Quick, I'll give you a couple of licks first."

"Mr. Kusanagi," Yusaku said suddenly as the two watched the mother and son leave with interest.

"What's the matter, Yuzuo?"

"If you never saw Ren again, but you knew he was happy, would you be happy?"

Kusanagi hesitated for a moment, as if thinking about this question.

"As long as he can achieve happiness, what does it matter if we can't meet again? Knowing that he is living a happy life without seeing him is better than watching him suffer every day and feel heartbroken."

"That's right." You Zuo said, and that strange pain slowly spread from his heart again.

Yuzuo's summer vacation was so uneventful, wandering between apartments, dining cars, supermarkets or pet stores.Before you know it, the holiday is coming to an end.

"I'm sorry, Yuzuo, I have caused you to help me look after the car, and I didn't go anywhere during the holidays."

"It's nothing. I don't have any plans, and I'm not interested in vacation. I'd like to help you look at the car."

"Is your cat okay?" Kusanagi saw several scratches from cat's claws on Yusaku's bare arm.

"I've been a little irritable recently, I don't know what's going on."

"You're not being too strict with it, are you?" Kusanagi looked suspiciously at Yuzuo.

Yusaku couldn't help but reflect on his behavior, he felt that there was nothing excessive about him.

"Maybe my apartment is too small, or I'm not home all the time, and it's boring."

"You can take it out for a walk."

"I'll think about it."

"How big is this cat?"

"About 8 or 9 months."

"Hmm..." Kusanagi suddenly looked at Yusaku thoughtfully.

"Youzuo, have you ever thought that it might be in heat. You probably didn't sterilize it?"

Yusaku immediately put down the lunch clip in his hand without making a sound, untied the apron and hung it on the hook.Said to Kusanagi: "Sorry, I'm going to take a step first."

"What's wrong?" Kusanagi was confused.

"Go and neuter the cat."

"Wait..." Before Kusanagi finished speaking, he saw Yusaku walking away quickly.

Wait, that's just guesswork.

Yusaku felt that this was his negligence, as there were many signs that Mira had entered estrus.Crying and howling in the middle of the night, cranky and aggressive, and worst of all, not going to the toilet where it should be.

As soon as Yusaku returned to the apartment, he saw Mira lying on the ground irritably meowing. He grabbed it and stuffed it into the pet cage, and walked out of the apartment.

There was no one in the pet hospital at 11 am in summer, so Yusaku was received directly.The doctor checked Mira and said, "Yeah, this kid is in heat and needs to find him a girlfriend."

"Can we do sterilization directly?" Yuzuo asked.

"Yes, yes, but this is the first time this child is in estrus, so let's get a girlfriend first and then be sterilized. And it's safer to go into estrus first and then be sterilized." The doctor said kindly.

When Yuzuo was worried about where to find a female cat that was also in heat, the doctor said: "Coincidentally, there is a cat of a customer who is also in heat, and it is in the pet shop now, it happens to be a female cat. My child, I hope to find a boyfriend. I think your cat is very beautiful, why don't you let the two children get along with each other?"

"Okay." Yuzuo sighed, he didn't have a better way, let's get rid of this trouble quickly.

The doctor took him into a small, light-shielded room, which seemed to be reserved for cats, with a cat climbing frame and several cat litters.There is a little white cat lying softly in the cat's litter in the room.Seeing someone coming in, he raised his head weakly and meowed.

"Then let the two children get along for a while," the doctor said. "You can stay here with it. I will deal with other things first. If there is anything, you can call me."

"Okay." You Zuo watched the doctor leave.

He put Mira in his arms on the ground, and Mira looked up at him ignorantly, and meowed a few times, as if asking for something.

"I don't have anything to teach you, you can play freely." Yuzuo said and sat on a chair beside him.

The two cats came together tentatively and sniffed at each other, seeming very satisfied with each other's appearance.Soon they hugged each other and rolled a few times, as if they were about to stage a great harmony of life.

Yusaku soon found out that Mira was an idiot, and he frowned at its bewildered and meowing stupidity.The little white cat didn't know whether it was because of shyness or impatience, but he refused to cooperate with Mira.As soon as Mila got on its back, the little white cat walked forward.Mira tried several times without success, and meowed helplessly, looking at Yusaku, and then at the little white cat, wondering if she should try again.

"Are you an idiot?" Yuzuo whispered.

Mira meowed a few times aggrieved, seemingly unwilling and helpless.Yusaku sighed, stood up from the chair, approached the little white cat with light steps, and then quickly squatted down to hold it down.The little white cat was frightened, meowing and struggling.

Yusaku gestured softly to Mira, "Okay, hurry up."

With the help of foreign aid, Mira won the battle.

Afterwards, the two cats still leaned affectionately together, reluctant to part.The doctor knocked on the door and came in, followed by a strange elderly woman, wearing an elegant kimono, with a friendly and kind face.

Pointing to Yusaku, the doctor introduced: "This is the owner of that child, named Fujiki-kun. Fujiki-kun, this is Mrs. Kurokawa. How do these two children get along? Oh, not bad. It seems to be love at first sight."

When the little white cat saw its owner, it greeted it kindly and gently.

"Thank you very much. This child Dora is in heat for the first time. I don't know what to do. So I asked Dr. Ono to take care of it. I didn't expect that it was just a fate." Mrs. Kurokawa said to Yuzuo explain.

"No, it's on my side." You replied in standard polite language.

"Speaking of which, there is another very coincidental thing," Mrs. Kurokawa paused, and then said slowly, "Dora is the second cat my husband and I have raised. The first cat is the same as yours. That one was exactly the same. A very gentle and dependent child."

Also a dork.You Zuo thought.

"However, the lifespan of a human is much longer than that of a cat, isn't it? My husband and I have no children, so we stay with cats. However, we still watch the cats we raised from childhood go before us. By the way, you want Don't look at that child's photo." Mrs. Kurokawa took out the wallet from the Japanese-style tie bag, opened it and took out a photo, which was a photo of the younger Mrs. Kurokawa holding Chinchilla.

"It's a pretty child," Mrs. Kurokawa said with a smile, with a little sadness in her eyes. "The moment I saw your child, I thought that child came back again."

Yusaku saw that the cat was not exactly the same as his own, but he understood that it was inevitable to feel sad when seeing similar things.

He has seen many stray wild cats, and some of them will pray for kind people to take them in with expectant eyes.However, he only took Mira home.Because it has blue-gray eyes.Has eyes that are exactly the same color as that person.

Yusaku looked at Mira, Mira seemed to still be attached to Dora, and the two cats cuddled together inseparably, as if they were confiding their hearts.

Yusaku said to Mrs. Kurokawa: "I have a rude request..."

Mrs. Kurokawa looked at him in surprise, and then asked with a kind smile, "Please tell me."

"I don't know if you would like to adopt my cat. I can't keep a cat in my apartment, and I'm about to start school. I'm afraid I don't have time to take care of it."

"You are such a gentle child," Mrs. Kurokawa said with a gentle smile, "I hope you didn't give it up because you were considerate of my feelings."

"Not really, I want him to be happy. He can have the company of his kind, which is better than waiting for me to come home alone. And when I'm at home, I rarely play with him. I'm not a Suitable for people with cats."

"Thank you, then I will accept your kindness, and I will try my best to make this child happy."

"thank you very much."

The cat seemed to sense something, and it asked Yuzuo with suspicious eyes.

Yusaku squatted down, smiled at it, stretched out his hand to touch its head, and said to it: "Let's part here, you will have a happier life, and you will forget me soon."

Mira's gaze became sad, she meowed, and circled around Yuzuo, as if she didn't want to say goodbye.

"Goodbye." Yuzuo stood up.

"If you want to visit this child, you can come to my house at any time." Mrs. Kurokawa said and handed her business card to Yuzuo, who took it and put it in his pocket.

"By the way, this child's name is Mira, right? What a coincidence, and Dora is almost like a family."

"Its full name is Mirrorforce." You Zuo said.

"Mirrorforce? It's really special, it really seems like a name that young people would choose."

Yusaku walked towards the gate of the pet hospital, and Mira followed him all the way, meowing.When Yusaku walked to the door, he turned his head and glanced at it, then left the pet hospital and used the door to block Mira who wanted to follow.He let out a long breath and walked towards his apartment with the empty pet cage.

At night the apartment became quiet and empty again.Yusaku didn't turn on the light, dragged the chair to the window, straddled the chair facing the back of the chair, propped his arms on the back of the chair, and looked at the street lights that were lit outside the window.The streets in summer nights are a bit noisy, and the chatter and laughter of pedestrians traveling together spread into the apartment and were swallowed up by the silence in the apartment.

There was no longer a cat in the room. In the transparent night like a black veil, the room seemed to have its own memory, remnants of phantoms from the past.It was a cat passing lightly through the room, its warm body gently touching his feet.It is very quiet, rarely calls, and will be silent with him.

Yusaku vaguely felt something rubbing against him at his feet, he knew he couldn't turn his head to look down, the phantom could only exist in an illusion.He let himself indulge in this hallucination.

I don't know how long it took, the street became silent, only stray cats occasionally passed through the street.

Yusaku stood up from the chair, looked towards a corner of the room, he stretched out his hand, as if touching an invisible shadow.He knew that there was only one thing he was obsessed with.

The last time he saw the man, the man left without saying anything, not even looking at him again.He watched the other party's back leave, knowing clearly that they would see each other again.However, while waiting, time seems to be slack and weak, endlessly long.He was becoming less and less sure that he would ever see the man again.

He can let the AI ​​go, give up a cat, because he doesn't have to have them.If they had a better prospect, a happier life, he wouldn't hesitate to let them go.However, he is obsessed with seeing himself in the eyes of the only person he cares about.Only this person, he is unwilling to let go, no matter whether he has a happier life or not.

Because of this selfishness, he knows that only that person is special.He would not have such selfish thoughts about anyone or anything else.He touched his lips lightly with his fingers.

The kiss that fell on his lips that night was a mystery he hadn't solved yet.

Today was the last day of summer vacation, and Yusaku was taking care of the hot dog truck by himself.Kusanagi went to see his brother in the rehabilitation center.The dining car is parked at the Stardust Avenue Scenic Area.

Today's business is very sluggish, I don't know if it is because of the rain.The sky was gloomy and the sea darkened.Yusaku is very satisfied with this situation, he can spend a lot of time staring at the seascape in a daze.

A somewhat familiar figure stopped in front of the dining car and looked at that person.

"Hello, Fujiki-kun." The man greeted, and at the same time, a familiar meow sounded.

It was the lady who met at the pet shop that day holding Mira.

"Hi." Yuzuo replied.

"I came here to look for you with the idea of ​​giving it a try, but I didn't expect to meet you." Mrs. Kurokawa said, Mira writhed in her arms and wanted to pounce on Yusaku.

"This kid misses you very much."

Yusaku patted Mira's head.

"It's like this," Mrs. Kurokawa said, "my husband and I are going to immigrate abroad, and we will take our two children with us, so..."

Yusaku understood that this might be the last time he saw Mira.

"So, I thought of bringing this child to say goodbye to you, and I think this child will also want to say goodbye to you."

Yuzuo didn't speak, and gently put his hand on Mira's head, but Mira suddenly turned her head away, caught off guard and bit Yuzuo's index finger, bit hard a few times, and bit off a few small fingers. Tooth marks.

"Oh, this child." Mrs. Kurokawa was a little surprised.

"It doesn't matter, it's probably angry that I abandoned it." Although it made a few teeth marks, Mira didn't bite through it with restraint.

"So here we go, feel free to email us if you want to know what's going on with this kid."

"Okay, please take care."

Mira finally meowed at Yusaku a few times, and Yusaku watched Mrs. Kurokawa leave until far away, he could still see Mira looking back constantly, but the voice was no longer heard.

Soon, they had disappeared from his sight.Meera withdrew from the path of his life, leaving only a few small tooth marks on his fingers to remind him that it had been there.

There seemed to be an electric current passing through my mind.Yusaku lowered his head, looked at his index finger, and looked at the tooth marks on it.The heart was beating violently suddenly, and the blood seemed to be rushing in the ears.The world around me seemed to blur.

The reason why Mira wanted to leave tooth marks on him was because it didn't want to forget it.It wants to leave traces that can prove its existence.

That night, a strange uninvited guest came to his room.Because he knew it was a farewell.He wants to leave an indelible mark in his heart, to make that mark so deep that it cannot be erased by time.

Mila is a gentle cat, so she couldn't bear to bite him.

And it's the same with that strange uninvited guest, he couldn't bear to hurt him in the end.

A smile of understanding appeared on Yuzuo's face.No doubt, that person will come back.Because, he is not a person who does things halfway, he should ask for it, and he will definitely come back to ask for it.Until it leaves an indelible mark in his heart.

A ray of sunlight suddenly appeared in the cloudy clouds, shining on the sea surface, and several seagulls danced on the sea surface, yelling.

Youzuo stepped out of the dining car, leaned on the handrail, and looked at the mountains in the distance.

Even if I don't use that method to make me remember you, I've already been so addicted to it that I can't extricate myself.

He spoke silently to the world.

At night, a man on a yacht floating on the sea looked up at the starry sky and outlined Orion with his eyes.He thought that ancient warriors often painted ocher on the forehead of their lovers before going out to battle, hoping to make their lovers immortal.

TBC