HISO Chapter 124
by Volare“No, you’re as important as my wife now, so what should I call you? No, you have to be more important than my wife.” Little Yu An seemed to fall into some strange way of thinking, pondering for a long time, and finally came to a divine logic:
“Otherwise, you be my wife’s wife, or, my wife’s wife’s wife? That way, you’ll be the most important in the world.”
A certain well-behaved, soft little dumpling, under the known condition of “wife = important,” extended the thought that wife x2 = more important, wife x3 = super important.
“…” Yu An almost fainted.
If he remembered correctly, equivalent exchange only started after a year, right? Right now, he was suffering from a lack of knowledge and being a little muddlehead!
Sure enough, these words directly confused the little tentacle monster, who corrected him, “There’s no such saying… that would be called husband.”
As soon as the words left his mouth.
He felt something was wrong and wanted to take them back.
But then he heard the soft voice of the well-behaved little dumpling, soft and sweet—
“Okay, then you’ll be my husband from now on!”
Little Yu An knew this word, but his understanding was limited to the words his mother used to call his father in the past.
Their relationship was very close.
So, he instinctively felt that it should be applicable to other close relationships as well.
Little Xie Jinsheng: “…”
The tips of the originally pitch-black tentacles inexplicably flushed with a bit of red, and the already handsome face, though still Idioticand had a few years to it.
He was exceptionally stern, saying, “No way.”
“Ah? What do you want then?” Little Yu An tilted his head in confusion, saying, “You don’t want to be my wife’s husband, do you?”
Little Xie Jinsheng: “…”
Yu An: “…”
Pfft.
The only thing he was grateful for at this moment was—thank goodness Big Xie Jinsheng wasn’t here.
Otherwise, that man would definitely take the opportunity to tease him!
Yu An pulled back his thoughts, suddenly feeling a palpitation as if he had realized something.
Strange, Little Xie Jinsheng wasn’t smiling, but why did he feel for a moment that the tentacle monster in front of him seemed to be smiling?
Little Yu An continued to look forward to the future, saying, “Anyway, we’ll save a lot of money together and buy a super big cruise ship, just for the two of us to live on, and we can see the sea every day when we wake up.”
Wouldn’t that be so bored that we’d get sick?
Yu An imagined that kind of life.
However, if it was really with Xie Jinsheng…
It probably wouldn’t be that boring.
As Yu An thought this, he suddenly felt the little tentacle monster on the other side staring straight at him.
His eyes were as black as ink.
But when he looked at the expression in those eyes, Yu An was stunned.
How strange.
He was the only one who had been drawn into the vortex of memories.
Why did he always feel like there was a soul of Big Xie Jinsheng hidden in the shell of this Little Xie Jinsheng?!
It must be an illusion.
Yu An tried his best to calm himself down.
He was somehow, a little unwilling to let Xie Jinsheng know about these experiences. Because that man cared about him a lot.
If he knew about these things, he would definitely feel bad too.
The peace on the rooftop didn’t last long, and it was suddenly broken.
Hearing a ringing sound, Little Yu An shrank back, “The questions are coming!”
Since coming to this orphanage, he had to go to the clock tower every night to fill out a lot of answer tests.
Once he answered incorrectly.
He would be subjected to the punishment of soul hanging.
Even Yu An felt the pain, let alone himself back then.
Sure enough, Little Yu An shrank even more in the corner.
Little Xie Jinsheng said, “I’ll help you answer.”
Little Yu An subconsciously wanted to stop him, but in the end, he only saw tentacles flash before his eyes, and the little monster had already disappeared in the direction of the clock tower.
Little Yu An couldn’t help but worry and went over together.
Ten minutes later.
Little Xie Jinsheng came out from inside, his face very unsightly, because he had gotten full marks on those tests.
In other words, the person that white mask originally wanted to choose was indeed him, and the boy in front of him was like this because of him…
Little Yu An looked at the little monster who had never cried, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he said to him, “I’m sorry.”
It was all his fault.
He had harmed him.
Little Yu An was slow to understand what he meant, but in his heart, the bad guy was the director, but he couldn’t express it. So, he said in a trembling voice, “Don’t say sorry, you said you’d take me away.”
He couldn’t go back on his word.
Both children were preparing for their escape in the future.
The director hadn’t appeared during this time.
Little Yu An diligently memorized the answers that the little monster gave him.
As for the new questions that came out, he remembered Little Xie Jinsheng’s words: Whichever option he frowned at, choose that one.
And he was so skilled that he could answer with his eyes closed.
When faced with some bloody pictures.
He also forcefully suppressed his feeling of disgust.
Time passed day by day.
Unknowingly, winter arrived. Perhaps in these month or two, he had been too obedient. Sure enough, the time that the robots monitored him became less and less.
At school, Little Yu An had a lot of time without being watched. So, taking advantage of the physical education class this afternoon, he secretly went behind the rockery.
Several children at school who bullied him because his parents were gone also chased after him.
Little Yu An was stunned, and when he saw the familiar black tide, he quickly walked in that direction.
Before long, he heard the children following behind him get frightened, “There’s a monster…” and they ran away quickly.
“I thought you forgot about me.” Little Yu An looked at Little Xie Jinsheng, whom he hadn’t seen for many days, his eyes a little sore.
“I couldn’t find a chance to see you.” He used his tentacles to pick up his schoolbag, patting it clean bit by bit, “Tell me if they bully you again next time, but we probably won’t see each other anymore—”
Little Yu An paused, hearing him say:
“I’ve already found a magic circle that can take us away.”
That day,
Little Yu An sat on the steps with tears in his eyes, obviously very happy.
Little Xie Jinsheng looked at him, and his mood was also very good.
It was the only happy time in all these years, meeting him in another world.
The young little tentacle monster didn’t know what body fragrance was, he only felt that when he got close to Little Yu An, even the wind blowing past him was dyed with a slightly sweet fragrance.
—They could grow up together in the future.
Little Xie Jinsheng inexplicably wanted to touch Little Yu An’s face, but in the end, he didn’t raise his hand.
But when a butterfly landed on the soft hair of the human little boy, he silently and secretly slapped it away with his fingertip, wishing he could strangle the butterfly to death.
Yet in a certain moment.
He also wanted to turn into a butterfly, just like that, lightly and forever, to perch on the shoulder of this well-behaved human little boy.
No matter where he was.
As long as he was by his side, that would be enough.
—Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps.①
This was the first page of the French collection.
It means:
“In a world away from you, I don’t want to stay for a moment.”