Tokyo host

Chapter 173 What is the book?
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A broken home shrouded in layers of dark gray.

The happy group photo in the past also has a trace of blood.

In the cage with a few feathers left, there is no longer the cheerful singing of birds in the past.

The sky outside the window is particularly gloomy——

This is a home from years ago, no, a "home".

The door was pushed open, and a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old slowly walked in. She was in a mess, her hair was cut, burned, and even blood-stained, so that her hair was stuck together.

"I'm back." The voice was mechanical, and she said the same thing every day.

but.

Can't get a response.

She went to the bathroom, and after taking off her tattered school uniform, her body in front of the mirror was covered with bruises, scratches and even redness from beatings.

The girl ignored all this and buried her body in the scalding bath water.

The burning pain caused by her skin reduced the pain in her heart a bit. She raised her head, and her empty and lusterless eyes silently stared at the mirror not far away.

[wanna die. ]
The idea that suddenly sprouted in her heart grew wildly like a vine, entwining every inch of her body, but this was not the first time it had appeared.

Standing up from the bathtub, she went back to her room naked.

This is a warmly furnished bedroom—with an area of ​​tens of square meters, divided into various functional areas...beds, wardrobes, computers, and idle easels. At this time, there was a pair of scissors with blood on the desk. rise.

Quiet eyes didn't seem to have any nostalgia for life. She pierced the sharp part of the scissors into the skin on her wrist, and blood beads slowly emerged, scarlet and eye-catching.

but.

But he didn't have the courage to get in.

"I want to die." The girl repeated without a trace of emotion in her tone, but the other hand holding the scissors still did not move.

There was a crisp metal collision sound, and the scissors fell to the ground.

The girl knelt and sat motionless on the ground, only tears fell drop by drop on the floor.

Her fingers trembled, and the pain curled her heart deeper and deeper.

Finally... She picked up the scissors on the ground and aimed them at her neck.

Close your eyes.

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"Ding--"

The familiar sound of the message made the girl slowly open her eyes, and the phone screen on the desktop lit up.

She picked it up and found it was a notification.

[Your friend Zhai Zhai... invites you to a battle event! 】

The strategy assistant of the official game shows this message.

"Zhai Zhai..." The girl finally spit out a sentence from her chapped lips. She slowly stood up and turned on the monitor, and the game was also being logged in.

Look down.

A knight in armor is standing next to his character, driving a team mic.

"Coco sauce, you are still hanging up online, let's go to the Zombie King together, that thing bites people too painful, I urgently need your milk."

Fingers tapping on the keyboard crisply——

[Coco sauce: Zhai Zhai, I want to die. ]
The knight on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and said, "Hahaha, you won't die if you kill the Zombie King. If you really want to die, let's go kill the Flame Witch."

[Coco sauce: want to die. ]
[Coco sauce: want to die. ]
"Cocoa sauce?" The knight with the otaku otaku ID seemed to have sensed something was wrong, and even the voice in Mai's voice changed slightly:

"Are you okay?"

The girl heard the anxious voice of the other party, she didn't know why there was a trace of grievance in her heart that shouldn't exist, and she kicked the main computer.

"Hey!" With a loud noise, the monitor went black.

Only her lifeless face was reflected on the monitor.The girl lay on the keyboard, crying silently.

Tired, tired.

As usual, he did not fall into a deep sleep on the bed.

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When I woke up again, it was already four o'clock in the morning.

The room was dim and the lights were not turned on. The girl sat quietly, as if she was not afraid of the dark environment...or maybe she was expecting something to happen.

Sit for about half an hour.

She reached out and turned on the computer again, not knowing why she logged into the game again.

[Leave a message to apologize? ]
This idea came to mind, after all, the other party was his only friend, and his attitude just now must have scared him.

No, he might be afraid of his weird behavior, maybe delete friends.

Will definitely hide away.

Opening the friend list, the girl just wanted to confirm whether the other party had deleted her... only to find that not only was he not offline, but he was standing beside her.

Team Maili also heard complaints one after another:
"Damn it, why is it a tauren pretending to be pure love again? Are there not many neon painters who can draw pure love these days?!"

"..." A moment of silence.

"Hey, Coco, are you online yet?!"

"Can you hear me?"

"Are you okay, why did you say that suddenly, did something happen in reality?"

"Don't have such thoughts, can you hear me, Cocoa?!"

The other party's series of words made the girl sit on the chair, this is the first time she saw Zhai Zhai look so anxious.For some reason, apart from the pain caused by the skin, for the first time, she felt less pain in her heart.

Trembling fingers lightly landed on the keyboard.

[Coco sauce: I'm sorry, I'm fine...]
"It's good that you're okay. I don't have your contact information in reality. You made me worry to death just now."

"Are you being bullied? Tell me."

The girl sat on the chair with her knees hugged, listening to Maili's voice, a gleam of light gathered in her empty eyes.

Then asked softly:
"The book... what is it?"

After she noticed that her microphone was not turned on, she asked again in the chat channel.

"Ahem..." There was a violent coughing sound from the other end, and then he began to explain, "It's just a good-looking cartoon. If you can draw, Coco-chan, you should understand it, right?"

Coco Sauce: Do you like this?
"I like it, I like it... It's just that the tastes of those painters' works have become more and more serious in recent years, and I can't stand it." A disappointed answer came from Mai's other end.

However, the other party also seemed to notice that Coco Sauce had calmed down, so he asked tentatively:

"Ke Ke Jiang, if you have any unhappy things, you can tell me, don't worry, I won't gossip around... Well, after all, I don't know you either."

"It's true that I don't know each other, but no idiot would wait until four or five o'clock in the morning..." the girl whispered to the knight on the screen.

She also knew that the other party could not hear what she said.

Cocoa sauce: Are you sleepy, go to sleep.

"I'm not sleepy. I just drank two bottles of Reaper-level energy drinks. I think I can still study hard when I go to school tomorrow."

Cocoa Butter: Stupid...

Coco sauce: (.ω.) Zhai Zhai, I want to be the Zombie King.

"Really, let's go?" A boy's laughter came from the other end of Mai.

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)