[Conan/Through Her] Fairy's Indus

"Are you free tonight?" Ruri asked, her big eyes clearly expressing the expectation of "come out and play with me soon".

Bourbon was sitting in front of the small coffee table taking care of his hand/gun. The disassembled parts were carefully rubbed with gun oil one by one. He laughed and said, "Well, is there anything you want to do?"

"Yes! Let's go mountain climbing!" The little girl became excited, "The autumn air is crisp and clear! The moon is dark and the wind is high! It's a good season for mountain climbing!"

"Hey, how about climbing a mountain? Yes, that's fine..." Bourbon thought for a moment, "But, how about going up a mountain at night?"

"Yeah, what's the problem?"

"No problem. It's just that I thought only cleaners would like to go up the mountain at night..."

The little girl blinked, "Why does the cleaner like to go up the mountain at night?"

Bourbon was stunned, shook his head and smiled, "No, it's nothing."

It's better not to tell her about the fact that gangster cleaners would go into the mountains at night to bury corpses.

Ruri stared at him suspiciously and decided to use her clever little brain to dig out the truth, but Bourbon didn't give her time to think and teased her: "Why are you looking at me like this? Am I so handsome today?"

The little girl immediately jumped three feet high and shouted, "Don't be narcissistic!" and ran back to her room quickly.

The laughter of Bourbon who was chasing behind him sounded particularly happy.

Using flashlights, the two of them followed the dark mountain road and finally climbed to the observation deck at the top of the mountain. It was almost midnight, until Ruri, who was panting from exhaustion but still energetic, excitedly raised his hand and pointed at the night sky and shouted, "Look! Shooting stars!" !" Only then did Bourbon suddenly understand the purpose of their trip.

It turns out that it’s the season where you can see shooting stars. Climbing up a mountain in the middle of the night just to see a shooting star is indeed what a girl of this age would do...

"Tonight is the Taurid meteor shower!" the little girl happily added.

Bourbon sighed in his heart that this youthful behavior was so cute and silly, and raised his head following her direction.

The sky at night was no longer the narrow orange-gray area in his memory. On the mountaintop in the suburbs, far away from the city lights and without any shelter, the dense black sky that caught the eye was like an inverted bowl, with lights in all directions. stars.

In the direction the little girl pointed, you could also see a trail of meteors that was gradually disappearing.

Bourbon opened his eyes slightly, and was a little distracted by the night that enveloped him.

The girl next to me lowered her voice: "Does it look good?"

"It looks good," Bourbon said.

She asked again, "Do you like it?"

Bourbon was startled.

After being quiet for a while, Ruri heard Bourbon say in a soft and smiling voice, "I like it very much, thank you for letting me see all this."

"That's great!" the little girl cheered, "then can you hand in your homework today?"

Only then did Bourbon remember that he had casually agreed to her promise yesterday to start a small task of writing about one thing he liked every day.

For this small task of free self-examination, Bourbon originally planned to write something casually, but at this moment, seeing the seriousness in the girl's eyes, Bourbon suddenly felt that even if he was asked to complete it seriously and without lies, It doesn’t seem like that homework can’t be completed.

Can a person really like a hundred kinds of things?

Bourbon couldn't help but ask her: "Is it easy for you to complete such an assignment?"

Bob thought she would answer decisively, "Of course it's easy," but Ruri was unexpectedly silent.

"You know," the girl raised her head and stared at the starry sky, murmuring softly, "In fact, at the beginning, I felt that everything in this world had nothing to do with me, and I didn't love it.

"At the very beginning, he killed a stranger in front of me. At that time, I was only driven by survival instinct and didn't care about the deceased at all.

"So in the beginning, I definitely didn't love humans or the world. Although I had a good impression of a few people, those good feelings would drive me to do things that were beneficial to those people. On the surface, I looked like a human being. A good person with high morals who would make altruistic actions... But in fact, at that time, how would the society as a whole develop? What was the position of those key figures who might be able to change the fate of the world? Are those people I didn't know alive or dead? I don't really care.

"I learned a long time ago that my heart is small and can only hold a few people I care about. If the first person I met was you, maybe I wouldn't be able to stand firmly on the side of justice."

Another meteor slowly passed across the sky.

Ruri watched in fascination.Bourbon stared at her quietly, slightly surprised.

The girl whispered softly, "Originally, it should be like this."

"But he loves the world - not just him, almost everyone important in my life loves human beings and the world. They will risk their lives to save strangers they don't know. They are all truly noble beings who are willing to die for the sake of the public good...each one of them.

"I used to think that I fell in love with that world because I loved him and them. If I lost them in my world, then I would probably go back to my original self, where it had nothing to do with me. mentality.”

She stretched out her hand upwards, as if she could touch the stars.

"——But, I discovered that this is not the case. When I saw you killing that policeman, I was particularly sad. Even if this is a world where they no longer exist, I still love it."

She seemed to be smiling, but she seemed not to.

She clenched her hands into fists and took them back, tilted her head, glanced at the man next to her, her sapphire blue eyes shining brightly under the starlight, "You are right, for me now, it is necessary to It's easy to complete an assignment like that.

"It's a great thing to have eyes that can see beauty and a heart that can feel the emotions you like...so I hope that I can make you feel all this too."

If you fall in love with this world and human beings, then you won’t do anything to hurt them again.

Bourbon smiled and sighed, "You are really ambitious."

Ruri raised her chin, "Can't you?"

The tail of the meteor also disappeared, and the night returned to silence.

The stars in the sky were still staring at them.

"Even if I say no, you won't give up." Bourbon said softly, "I won't stop you."

The girl smiled brightly.

Belmod once said, "For creatures like us who were born in darkness, if they were really tempted by light and walked into the sunlight, they would be broken into pieces."

So she always just looked at her light from a distance.

However, if it is this child...if it is this child, if you want to drag him into the sun, even if it breaks him into pieces, it doesn't seem to matter.

It's hard to say whether it was because of some unspeakable aura of the protagonist that this happened.

If ordinary people walked on mountain roads at night, they would also encounter a group of gangsters who went up the mountain to bury corpses in the middle of the night. Ruri was not sure.

She was being pulled by the vigilant Bobon to hide behind the bushes. Bobon was watching every move of the group of people intently, while Ruri was rubbing her nose, trying hard to hold back a sneeze.

It's late at night, and the mountains feel chilly.

She tugged on the hem of Bourbon's clothes and asked softly, tremblingly, "Is he one of yours?"

Bourbon looked a little solemn, shook his head slightly, took off his scarf and wrapped it around Ruri.

The body temperature and pleasant smell of bourbon spread through the scarf.

Ruri didn't dare to stop him because he was afraid that his movements would be too big and the gang would notice him. He wrapped two scarves and looked at Bourbon's exposed neck helplessly, feeling cold for him from the bottom of his heart.

She touched the back of Bourbon's hand to see if his body temperature was too low, but was shocked to find that his body temperature was a little higher than hers. At the same time, Bourbon held her hand backhand.

Ruri raised her head in surprise and met Bourbon's gaze. There was a reassuring power in his calm eyes, and he mouthed "It's okay."

The little girl's face suddenly turned red, feeling that there was a big misunderstanding.

Someone in the gang over there seemed to be suspicious and said, "Hey, do you think... there seems to be someone in the shadows over there..."

Someone else answered with a smile: "Noda, are you afraid?"

"I didn't! Yamamoto, don't talk nonsense!" The man called Noda retorted loudly, "Brother, I really feel something is wrong."

The man smoking a cigarette with his hands in his pockets tilted his head, "Then you two go over and take a look."

"yes, Sir!"

The two men walked towards their hiding place, stepping on dead branches and making "squeaking" sounds along the way. Yamamoto also mocked: "Noda, why do you act like a sissy?"

Bourbon sighed, took out the dagger he carried with him, and gave the wide-eyed Ruri next to him a "wait for me here" look.

Then he rushed out like a vigorous cheetah, and screams came one after another from the unsuspecting crowd.

After knowing clearly who the opponent's leader was and calculating mentally and unintentionally, it didn't take too long for Bourbon to cripple the mobility of these dozen people.

As the gangsters clutched their wounds and cried for mercy, Bourbon impatiently told them to shut up, then turned to the direction where Ruri was hiding and shouted: "Little Ruri, you can come here."

There was no response there.

Bourbon frowned, a bad premonition flashed through his heart, and he immediately raised his feet and ran over there.

The moment he pushed aside the bushes, a slender black shadow suddenly shot up from the ground and rushed straight towards Ruri's face.

The girl's frightened shouts broke through the silence of the forest at night.

Bourbon's pupils shrank suddenly, and he moved faster than he realized and raised his hand to block.

The next moment, the snake's fangs pierced the dark skin and buried deeply into Bourbon's palm.

Bourbon quickly grabbed seven inches of the snake, tore its head open and swung it to the ground, quickly ending the snake's life.

Severe pain in his palms and overwhelming dizziness hit him at the same time.