Lost Narrative Poetry

"Just that one time, didn't you pick up a hat for me during spring break? A white beret." Megumi Kato said calmly, explaining to An Yilun why he wanted to thank him.

"Ah~~Did that happen...? Sorry, I don't remember it at all."

An Yilun also seemed a little confused, probably because he couldn't remember such a thing for a while.

"I think so. After all, it was more than a month ago." Kato Megumi thought for a moment, and then nodded in agreement, but his expression remained calm.

Maybe he thinks this kind of thing is normal, just like how most people can't remember what they ate more than a month ago.

An Yilun also didn't care much. He just nodded politely to the female classmate, then looked at Xia Ran with a smile. When he was about to say something, his eyes suddenly widened.

He seemed to be quite surprised. He turned around and stared at the female classmate with his mouth open, and said loudly——

"No, wait a minute!"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Kato Megumi was also a little surprised, as if he was frightened by the other party's reaction. He subconsciously leaned back slightly and distanced himself a little.

"No, no, you are, you are..." An Yilun also seemed very excited, and his words were also incoherent, and then he started gesticulating, probably trying to use sign language to assist communication.

It's a pity that even Xia Ran can't understand what he wants to express, let alone Kato Megumi.

"What's wrong with me?"

"At that time, I was wearing a white... dress! Yes, it was a dress!"

"A white dress? Hey, ah, I seem to remember...it seems there is one?" Megumi Kato muttered, her tone also showing a very uncertain feeling.

"……like……?"

"Because generally speaking, most people will not remember the clothes they wore a month ago." Kato Megumi answered confidently.

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"That's right... Ordinarily speaking." An Yilun seemed as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on his head. His originally excited and excited expression cooled down, and his smile became a little... reluctantly.

The memory of more than a month ago was revived, and the whole scene became vivid and bright in his mind. It was on a certain day in spring that he met his destiny...

The dim sunset came, the slightly cooler wind blew by, and the dust rose on the way home.

And the female classmate standing alone...alone at the top of the ramp.

However, dreams are beautiful, reality is cruel, and memories are often beautified. It's like many things happen simply by chance, but human beings will forcibly attach so-called special meanings to them based on their own thoughts, concepts, and conjectures.

Just like now, An Yilun has always felt that what happened that day more than a month ago was his encounter with destiny.

But the ruthless fact is that the other person is a girl in the same class whose name he knows and who he has met every day for the past month, and he doesn't recognize her at all. Moreover, the other party didn't care too much about what happened that day, and he didn't think it had any special meaning.

——Although I still remember that incident, I have forgotten even what clothes I was wearing at the time, which shows that I don’t think it was a fateful encounter.

And the most important thing is that he seems to have made up his mind to finish "School Days", but now he realizes that it seems too late... The boy lowered his shoulders in frustration and returned to his seat to sit down. .

"Um...did I say something I shouldn't have said?"

Seeing An Yilun like this, Kato Megumi frowned slightly, and turned around to look at the boy at the front table in confusion.

"Don't worry, it'll be okay... After all, there are bound to be a few accidents in life..." Xia Ran thought about it for a while, then said this cheerfully, comforting the girl.

"That's what I say, but I think...it's better not to add accidents to other people's lives casually, right?"

Kato Kei's eyebrows twitched and she said this with a somewhat subtle expression.

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Time flies by.

The huge fireball in the sky unknowingly moved from its position in the middle of the sky to the west, and eventually the afterglow of the setting sun became soft and weak, and the heat contained in it was almost negligible.

Xia Ran sat in the classroom all day today. What made him feel a little relieved was that he was not always treated like a giant panda in the zoo and was watched aggressively.

No matter how new a thing is, after the novelty wears off, it will just be like that. Moreover, many people have their own things to do and are relatively reserved. Even the girls tend not to rush over immediately after class and point in the corridor outside.

This made Xia Ran feel much more relaxed - although there were still many people passing by who would glance into the classroom from outside and look exactly in the direction of his seat, this was much better than at the beginning. .

After 3:30, everyone in the classroom was leaving one after another. If they had not gone home from school, they were participating in club activities. Of course, they might also go to some dating places for couples to have sex. Things to do, make some mating friends...

Occasionally, someone was walking outside on the corridor that was dyed orange by the sunset, and from time to time there was some chatter and laughter.

Xia Ran was still sitting in her seat, slowly flipping through the books in her hands. Because Kato Megumi just went out and won't be back until later. It won't be too late to clean the classroom by then.

As his fingertips caressed the rough and historical pages, lines of text information also flowed into his heart under the invisible tentacles of spiritual power.

After a whole day of reading, he has not even finished reading a book because he has never had such an experience before, and the problem he always encounters in self-study is that he cannot understand certain problems and there is no one around him. Give him some guidance.

Therefore, I can only read it over and over again and try to understand it in context... After reading the book a hundred times, the meaning may not be obvious, but chewing the bones of the text is definitely much better than swallowing the jujube in one gulp.

And it’s not that he has gained nothing at all. After all, this is a book about the basics of illusions, and he is more or less a beginner in this series. Even if it is just the additional enhancement brought by using the skill scroll, it has added some necessary skills to him. knowledge of the illusion system, but this is just the introduction.

Combining his superficial insights and insights during this period, Xia Ran indeed felt that his understanding of illusions had gone a step further, and he had a deeper understanding, which also negated some of his previous misconceptions.

In addition, although it is a discussion of the principles and mechanisms of illusion, the content of the book itself cannot be so strict that it does not involve certain specific spells at all. The author himself explains certain contents and gives examples to demonstrate. Bring a few examples of spells.

It is not a detailed explanation of how to practice that spell, but a relatively brief introduction, only about what kind of effect that spell has and what kind of principle it works on.

This is very valuable, because it pointed out the correct idea to Xia Ran, or a reliable reference direction, and gave him some inspiration.

Although I know that I am not yet qualified to create any self-created skills, if a person does not have a dream, what is the difference between him and a salted fish? Moreover, he does not necessarily need to create complete skills of his own, optimize and adjust existing abilities, and develop some auxiliary tricks. This can still be considered.

"Xia Ran, can we start?"

The sound from behind interrupted his thoughts, causing his fingers to pause slightly.

He turned around and found that Kato Megumi had sat back on the seat behind him at some point.

"How come you don't make any sound when you walk?"

"Eh? Is there any? Could it be that you were too focused on reading, so you didn't hear it?"

She tilted her head slightly and pushed back her hair.

"And speaking of it, you are the one who makes no sound when you walk. Many times you walked past me and I didn't hear a sound..."

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Xia Ran closed the book silently and stood up: "Let's start. Clean the classroom first?"

"Okay." Kato Megumi looked calm, not feeling like she couldn't keep up with the jumping topic at all, and answered concisely.

"Then it's the corridor... By the way, is it enough to just sweep it like this? No need to mop the floor and sprinkle water on it, right?" Xia Ran looked around, estimated the workload, and felt that it seemed completely acceptable.

It won't take too much time. After all, it's just the inside of the classroom and a short corridor outside.

"This..." Kato Megumi wanted to answer.

But just then, a cold voice sounded——

"It turns out you're here. I thought you didn't come to school today."

Xia Ran raised her eyebrows and looked at the door of the classroom. She found a slender beautiful girl appearing in the corridor dyed orange by the sunset. Her black hair was blown by the evening breeze and was slightly affected by the afterglow. Stained orange.

"It's Yukinoshita-san, it's been such a long time!"

The young man immediately showed a hearty smile and raised his hand to wave, as if he was reunited after a long separation.

"The way you say hello is really unflattering? It was one day before and now it's a week. This kind of "long time no see" is too cheap..."

Yukinoshita frowned slightly and pointed out the facts without mercy.

"This? No, no, no, I said this from the bottom of my heart." Xia Ran looked at the girl sincerely, "You can't just look at the appearance of everything. You have to know that there are always things in this world that cannot be explained by common sense. , after you understand me, you won’t say that..."

"This statement is really perfunctory, and forget about understanding you. If I do that kind of thing, I will feel that I have stepped into a realm that is not human." Hearing this, Yukinoshita sighed first , and then replied calmly.

"Do you mean that I have lost my qualifications as a human being?"

"I didn't say that, you said it yourself." The girl smiled, and there didn't seem to be any malice in her smile.

"That...classmate Xia Ran?"

At this time, a voice that was as plain as boiled water came from the side, attracting Xia Ran's attention and making him turn his head.

"Eh? Kato-san, are you still here?"

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"I've always been here." Kato Megumi's expression changed slightly. It was a subtle expression that showed a little bit of loneliness, a little bit of sadness, and then a little bit of resignation.

(PS: There was a sudden notice saying that annual calendar events cannot be held...but the epidemic still cannot stop blind dates. I no longer understand what they are thinking (troubled...)