Lost Narrative Poetry

"Is this so..."

As expected, the girl just nodded in understanding, but did not ask anything, but turned to look at Yukinoshita——

"Then why is Yukinoshita-san coming here? She is not from our class, right? The arrangements should be different, right? The teacher doesn't care..."

"There's no problem with this, because Mr. Hiratsuka has already agreed, and Yukinoshita-san doesn't have many friends, so I think we're all alone anyway, so why don't we all come together..."

Xia Ran nodded and casually found a reason to explain: "Otherwise, if you and I are here, it will always feel a little strange, right?"

"..."

"..."

The girl with long black hair and straight hair looked calm and natural, and did not express any opinions. After all, she did not have many friends now. She didn't even need to quietly fall behind before she would be excluded... What this person said was the truth.

"Is it weird? I don't think so. This isn't a date...is it?" Megumi Kato said calmly, as if she didn't think there would be anything awkward about two people being together.

"Kato-kun, you seem to have a very natural attitude towards this kind of thing..."

Xia Ran sighed. This girl is really strange. She never seems to be angry or sad, nor does she have any other mood swings. She always maintains that regrettable calm look.

"After all, it's not a strange thing, and we're not dating, are we? This is just an activity arranged by the school... I think it's strange because we didn't visit the workplace at all, but just sat here directly. Bar."

Megumi Kato put down the drink casually and said with a natural expression.

Yukinoshita frowned slightly. She carefully looked at this ordinary-looking girl, who was even more inconspicuous than Yuigahama's classmates, and found that she really had a calm expression on her face and her eyes were very calm.

I don't see any problem, and it feels very sincere. It's not that I'm implying anything, but I'm really talking about these topics in a very natural manner, as if it's a casual conversation between friends.

Theoretically speaking, there seems to be nothing worth worrying about, but Yukinoshita is inexplicably confused——

Is the relationship between these two people really so familiar and good? Even these things can be joked about casually?

"Maybe there is such a reason..."

Xia Ran stretched out a finger to scratch her cheek, thought for a moment, but finally shook her head——

"But I just think there is no point in visiting those workplaces. Moreover, they are not the targets of interest that you had planned before, but the arrangements were temporarily changed... Do you still want to visit them under such circumstances?"

This shouldn't be necessary, right?

After all, this event does not require signatures, and Hiratsuka Shizuka also provided great convenience. In addition, students were not required to submit a reflection essay after returning, and the number of words should not be less than 800 words. …

Under such circumstances, why is it necessary to actually go through the process?

"I still want to go and take a look... Otherwise, I always feel like there is no point in coming out today, and I feel like I have wasted my time."

Kato Megumi put her hand to her cheek for a few seconds, showing her thinking behavior. Just a few seconds later, she nodded and confirmed that she really wanted to take a look, even if it was just to go through the process.

There’s no point if you don’t go? But what’s the point of going there? It’s just a matter of following the process.

Xia Ran opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He just nodded and stood up: "Then you and I will go take a look. It won't take much time anyway..." You can't really change the other party's reservation. Plan, now let it go, right?

And he probably understands Kato Megumi's thoughts, because he was more or less like this in the past. Even if he knew that some things were meaningless, he still subconsciously wanted to do something.

It seems that this way it makes sense, and my time is not wasted.

"Hey you……"

Yukinoshita suddenly frowned. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly felt an obvious spiritual power connected to his perception. The next moment, he clearly heard Xia Ran's voice ringing in his mind - —

"Don't worry, there's no problem. I'll go back as soon as possible...and Yuigahama-san and the others are still in the exhibition hall now. We can observe it again and it won't delay the problem."

At the same time, light and shadow images were transmitted directly into her consciousness along the spiritual chain on the connection, as if a lifelike picture was slowly unfolding...

What appeared in the light and shadow was a somewhat empty exhibition hall, in which a man and a woman maintained at least three positions of distance from each other, walking forward in silence...

They seemed to be concentrating on the exhibits on both sides, but they didn't seem to have any interest in talking to each other. That deliberate intention caused an awkward smell to fill the air.

Wait...this is...

"It's the real-time broadcast of the two of them. I have been paying attention to it. There will be no problem."

Xia Ran seemed to notice her surprise and quickly answered the question.

The exchange of ideas only took a moment, and at this time, Kato Megumi had already looked over: "Ah, Yukinoshita-san, do you want to go too? Then let's come together...and this Saber too... …”

"No, no, thank you..."

Yukinoshita Yukino quickly sorted out her thoughts, and then refused coldly. Since Xia Ran had been paying attention, she actually had nothing to say.

And judging from Kato Megumi's calm and peaceful performance, it is true that there is no special secret or scheming. He just wants to see what the workplace is like. There is really no need to pay too much attention.

"I don't need it. You should go and come back early." Saber naturally refused. She received the instructions from her master to guard Irisife responsibly here... Yukinoshita Yukino.

Kato Megumi felt a little regretful, but didn't think too much and waved gently to say goodbye.

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Because the temporary change of the arrangement was originally made up of numbers, Xia Ran didn't choose the company for the internship, and just randomly selected an ordinary company.

Entering it went smoothly, and so did the rest of the visit, but it was a bit too boring... At least Xia Ran found it boring. As for Kato Megumi, I couldn't tell how she felt.

Her expression is always so pale, and her mood itself is really peaceful, which fits the adjective of quiet and inaction, so Xia Ran is not sure how she feels.

But he must not be interested in it, so he should just do it superficially and accompany her to look around and go through the motions.

"It seems a little boring..." About ten minutes later, Kato Megumi walked out of the office building and looked at the boy next to him with some embarrassment. "Sorry, I asked you to come with me."

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"..."

Kato-san seems to always be strict with himself and lenient with others.

"Nothing, let's go back first. The sun is really scorching. You don't want to stand here all the time, do you?" Xia Ran waved his hand.

"Well, how about... I'll treat you to ice cream." The girl still seemed to feel a little guilty. She looked around and saw a cold drink shop at the end of the street, and immediately felt that she had a solution.

Huh?

Xia Ran was about to refuse, but suddenly realized something, raised her eyebrows, and then agreed: "That's okay, I'll wait for you here..."

Although he acted very ungentlemanly, Kato-san didn't think much about it, he responded quickly and walked quickly towards the cold drink shop. Behind her, the callous boy didn't wait for her at all, but turned around and left.

He quickly left the street and entered a dark and secluded alley——

"Yakumo Dai...Purple Sister!"

He just opened his mouth to give the big monster some respect, but before he finished speaking, his keen intuition made him detect some dangerous fluctuations, as if countless eyes were slowly opening behind him at the same time, so he decisively changed his words. .

Just for a moment, the previous sense of crisis seemed like an illusion and disappeared without a trace like the ebb of the sea. Xia Ran was very calm about this, and it was not clear why he was complaining in his heart.

"Why are you here?" He asked curiously, as if he didn't know what happened just now.

"Of course I came here on the way... Didn't I say before that I would come again soon? Didn't you take my words to heart at all?"

The monster girl stood in front of him, unfolding her folding fan to cover the lower half of her face, revealing only her eyebrows and her soft and charming smile.

"Of course not. I just remembered that you said that your activities were in the evening and midnight, so I was a little surprised to see you coming out at noon... Wait, what do you mean by the way?"

"It's what you think, I just came over from Moriya Shrine..." Yakumo Purple looked back and smiled, her tone was gentle and beautiful, as if she was chatting, "So I stopped by to see you...how are you, Are you going to follow me into Fantasyland now?"

"Let's go to Fantasyland now?" Xia Ran reacted and shook his head hurriedly, with a very firm tone, "Not now, I still have things to do..."

"It still doesn't work? Why can't any of you be more straightforward?" The monster girl's smile did not diminish at all, but half of her face seemed to be in shadow. The soft and charming big sister temperament she had just now was really just a pretense. from!

"Because I really have something to do today. If you come here tomorrow, I will definitely have time..."

"That's not okay. Why should I visit the thatched cottage three times for you? You don't have that much respect..." The monster girl shook her head willfully, "And don't you want to experience what the realm is like? Don't you just do it now? Don’t you care anymore?”

"It's not that I don't care, but I'm really not free right now...and if you really want to help me, wouldn't you just show it now?"

Life is not easy, Xia Ran sighed. The timing of this big monster's arrival was so subtle that even if he wanted to agree, there was nothing he could do.

"That's not okay. What if I let you succeed in advance and you don't admit it?"

The monster girl yawned, "Besides, I'm a little sleepy now. It's obviously time to go to bed... I sacrificed my regular schedule to invite you. I didn't expect that not one of you would appreciate it."

What you said...why do you feel like a scumbag?

Xia Ran twitched her lips: "Do you think it's really possible for me to take advantage and run away? If that's the case, wouldn't you have more control?"

"Well, that's true... Let me show it to you now!"

The monster girl pondered for a moment, then she quickly waved her fan, as if she was cutting something in the void——

"Do you feel it? This is the power of the realm."

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"..."

Xia Ran felt nothing, not even an illusion.

"Hey, wait a minute, this doesn't count at all, okay..."

"Hmm? Are you really planning to turn your back on me after taking advantage of it?"

"No, you didn't even give me time to react. How do I know whether you showed it or not? I'm not prepared at all, okay?"

Xia Ran hit her forehead hard. How could she react?

"Hmph, it's really troublesome... Then again, do you know what realm it is?" Yakumo Purple snorted, but this time she asked him to start preparations in advance, "Simply put, it is all the tangible and intangible things. The existence of things is based on the existence of realm..."

"For example, if there is no water surface, lakes cannot exist; without ridges, mountains and the sky cannot exist; if the realm of all things does not exist, the world becomes chaos because there are no boundaries of distinction."

Having said this, she looked at the magician in front of her: "Actually, it's very simple for you to experience the existence of the realm. All you need to do is let you have my experience and perspective. For example... the realm between you and me."

As she finished speaking, she waved down the folding fan in her hand.

At the same time, a layer of ripples spread out in the air like turbulent water.

She was suddenly surprised: "Huh? This is -"

The words stopped abruptly.

The boundary that distinguishes "there" from "this" is blurred, so whether it is the breath of life, energy fluctuations, or the wavelength of the soul, they are all overlapped in complete synchronization under the regulation of some kind of force...

From the dazzling light that continued to overflow, the two figures disappeared, and only the figure of a "person" appeared, as if it was a shadow that existed anywhere but did not exist anywhere.

Her long black hair fell casually, her delicate face had no way of distinguishing gender, and her eyes had a deep and endless ethereal transparency, akin to a god-like temperament.

There is no way to distinguish what TA is, I don’t know if it is “him” or “her”, I don’t know if it is a “human” or a “monster”——

"It's really sdaz boring, why dadrtfsaa there are so many unnecessary hesitations..."

This being said this, and the originally empty eyes seemed to be suddenly endowed with strong humanity, and the light of bad humor burst out.

Moreover, the sound is as beautiful as a beautiful piece of music, covering all emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, but the deepest part hides an expression that is obviously different from human emotions and is extremely dull.

There is also some kind of noise. Whenever the speech is abnormal, the source of the sound will also change its direction...