Why it never ends

"I'm not taking you to play," Yugali corrected, "You just said you were hungry, so we are going to take you out to find something to eat-"

"So you are taking me to eat delicious food!" Eleven turned around and shouted to the activity room, "Now I am going to eat the most delicious food in the world!"

Only then did Hesta turn around and look at Yugali again, "...who is Eleven talking to?"

Eucalyptus shrugged lightly.

Hesta took out his left hand and pressed it on Eleven's head, "Be quiet."

Eleven laughed and ran a dozen steps away.

……

The three of them came to a nearby fast food restaurant. Eleven's appetite was as good as ever.She ordered several boxes of yellow mustard sauce, and carefully pressed each fries into the sauce, and then ate every fries together with the crumbs on her fingers.

Halfway through eating, Eleven raised his head: "Aren't you going to eat?"

"We came here after eating."

Eleven suddenly understood, and quickly stretched out his hand, moving a box of mashed potatoes placed between Hesta and Yugali closer to him.

"Slow down...no one is going to compete with you."

"You don't know, the food over there is terrible," Eleven muttered. "Every morning, I have to eat an egg. It chokes me to death. I want to eat a few more pieces of meat for lunch and dinner, but I don't give him any. I have to eat some leafy vegetables every meal - I'm not an animal, so why eat grass?"

Eucalyptus: "Children should eat more vegetables——"

"I just don't like eating!"

Hesta and Yugali watched Eleven devouring his food and quickly cleared everything on the plate on the table. When Eleven leaned back in his chair with satisfaction, Hesta finally said, "Do you want to chat?"

"what?"

After a while, Yugali also joined the conversation: "Jane wanted to ask you how you were at school this week."

Eleven's eyes began to wander, "That's it."

"I got this."

Hesta pushed the phone in front of Eleven, and Eleven looked away, "...I can't understand it."

"You don't need to understand, just show it to you," Hestad flipped the screen, "Look, these are the messages I received yesterday, which contain the things you did this week..."

After Yugali finished relaying Hesta's words, Eleven's voice was obviously lowered, "Then don't you all know it... and you still come to ask me."

"This is what they said," Hesta said softly, "What do you say?"

"Does it matter what I say?"

"Of course it is important." Hesta replied, "Are you in any trouble?"

"It's not that I'm in trouble," Eleven immediately emphasized, "it's that some people are in trouble, big trouble!"

"Tell me."

11 folded her hands on her chest, and after taking a few long deep breaths, she opened her arms aggressively and supported the edge of the table.

"Say yes, but none of you are allowed to interfere in my affairs."

Hesta was startled for a moment, then laughed, "Let's talk about it first."

Eleven was lost in thought. He wanted to speak several times, but then pursed his lips and looked away, "Where should I start..."

"Let's start with why you broke a girl's front teeth. What did she do?" Hesta asked.

"I didn't break her front teeth," Eleven's voice immediately rose, "She broke them when she rolled down the stairs - can you blame me?" Yugali frowned, "She rolled down the stairs. ?Why did she roll down the stairs?"

"I pushed."

"...What did she do?"

"She bullies people," Eleven raised her head, "She took advantage of her superiority to force me to pretend to be a cat."

Yugali didn't understand for a moment, "...What does she want you to pretend to be?"

"She wanted me to pretend to be a cat and lick her fingers!"

Yugali's expression changed on the spot, "When did it happen?"

"Just last week." Eleven replied, "She has been responsible for organizing bedtime activities every night. When the teacher is around, we usually sing or read. When the teacher is away, she takes us all to play pretend pets. But only she has the final say as to what to dress up——"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Yugali couldn't sit still. She immediately stood up and sat next to Eleven, "We have gone out together so many times before, why have you never mentioned this to us? Something—"

"What's there to mention?" Eleven looked at her in confusion, "It's never been my turn before."

Yugali paused for a moment, "...it's not your turn?"

"Yes, in the past, other people played the role of pets,"

After being stunned, Yugali finally understood what this sentence meant.

"...So you've been playing this game for more than a month?"

"correct."

Yugali held his forehead, "You...you can't..."

"Can't what?"

Yugali looked serious: "You should have refused to participate in this game from the beginning!"

"But everyone is like this-"

"If everyone is like this, it means it can be done," she interrupted Eleven, "then why aren't you willing when it's your turn?"

"But the girl who gives orders has never pretended to be a pet. She can do it, why can't I?" Seeing that Yugali was speechless for a moment, Eleven continued, "Are other people willing to be cows and horses under my control? But when it’s my turn, I just can’t!”

Yugali didn't say anything more. She relayed everything to Hesta with a complicated expression. Hesta said thoughtfully, "Then what?"

"Then, that girl has several followers. Ever since I refused to pretend to be a cat, they started staring at me. I was a little scared at first, because they are always like this... just like this-"

Eleven said while pressing the joints.

"There is an older one, she seems to be almost 13 years old. Her fingers can click, but others can't."

"Yeah." Hesta nodded while listening to Yugali's story, "What did they do after that?"

"Once, I called the teacher over with a loud voice, but they failed and even scratched their faces. As a result, when I went to the auditorium to listen to the teacher's speech a few days ago, a few of them deliberately sat next to me and stared at me again. Look, laugh again,” Eleven recalled with his head tilted, “They didn’t even do anything, they just did such little tricks that were disgusting - Oh, they also had a follower who was particularly annoying. He saw them bullying me and came over to try to rob me. thing!"

"...You just bit this person's little finger?"

"Oh, I can't beat them, so why can't I beat him?"

Hesta smiled and said, "Then, are these people still causing trouble for you?"

"Look! But every time I go to the infirmary in advance," Eleven patted his shoulder, "My wound here has never been completely healed, so I kept it for disinfection and bandage."