Allen and his little bones [Western Fantasy]

Allen's words were of course purely unintentional. As the active party after the "rejection incident", although he never thought of turning his brother into a lover, he never thought that his sexual orientation would have a second choice. But at least he knew one thing—he didn't want Eli to be strangers to each other, and he didn't want the two of them to be forced to continue acting together just because they still had something to do together.

Ever since he discovered that Eli was hiding from him, Allen didn't know how to deal with it at the beginning, so he just let it be. He has been actively looking for opportunities since then, hoping to break this awkward situation and let the The two get along as much as possible to return to normal.

...It's just that, because of the lack of emotional experience, I just had to simply reject the perfect person in the past. As for whether to keep in touch with the rejected person in the future, it all depends on the other party's wishes-if the rejected person has the heart to do it back Friends, Alan will also treat each other as if nothing happened, and treat each other with the same attitude as in the past; if the person who is rejected feels extremely embarrassed and embarrassed, and does not want to have anything to do with Alan in a short time or in the future, Alan Lun will also consciously keep a distance, and try not to make the other party feel more troubled.

This time the situation was different from the previous ones.

Eli indirectly expressed his heart, and it was Alan who once again dutifully acted as the "emotional fire extinguisher".

Wanting to calm down for a while, it was Eli who felt that he and Alan couldn't get along as usual immediately.

For some reason, I felt a little bit of irritability, always paying attention to Eli from time to time, and it was Alan who was actively looking for "usual" opportunities.

He still couldn't explain why his reaction was different this time. Before Allen could figure it out, he was glad to find that Eli finally took the initiative to come to him again.

That's why the phrase "Of course I'm free at any time" blurted out.

It was only a little bit close, and Eli was about to "listen to the heart" for these words.

Fortunately, before he was about to lose control of his thoughts and think about things, Allen had clearly rejected his own facts and jumped into his mind first. Eli was sobered up by the bucket of invisible cold water. He looked at the black The young man didn't think there was any problem with those words at all, he smiled wryly in his heart, and calmed himself down: "This place is still outside the temple, we will disturb others - can you go over there?"

Allen looked in the direction of Eli's finger, "over there" is a small forest next to the Hall of the Undead Lord.

Hall and Eli had just walked back from the grove.

Of course there was no objection to Eli's choice of location, Allen quickly nodded.

There are still a few steps at the gate of the side hall. He walked down the steps quickly, and the blurred "light and dark line" was like a layer of film at the moment, slowly shedding off Alan's body as he walked, mixing into A long shadow trailed behind him.

When the two officially came together side by side, Eli couldn't help but glance behind Allen.

Knowing that there must be no one behind him, Allen didn't understand what Eli was looking at. He noticed that Eli's gaze was slightly downward, but when he looked over, there were only courtyard floor tiles and carvings on the bricks on the ground.

He found nothing new.

"What are you looking at?" Allen thought to himself.

He should have asked this question directly, but considering that the two of them had been out of order all day today, it was only at this time that they suspected that they had a mode of getting along to restore hope, so he only let it go round in his heart.

The two walked quietly all the way to the grove.

It is strange to say that the Hall of the Undead Master is so gloomy and evil in the legends. It is supposed to be a desolate place with no grass growing around it, but the small forest next to the courtyard is extremely lush and green. The main hall of the dead is not so "dead".

It seems to be full of life.

Allen and Eli walked together in this grove. While waiting for Eli, who wanted to talk, to speak again, he glanced at the trees on both sides at random.

It probably took some time to sort out his thoughts. Eli didn't speak immediately after entering the grove. His eyes fell a little ahead without a specific target. Allen walked slowly with him...until he saw the generous man beside him. Fang ran straight to a devil vine, completely unaware that the plant branches hanging down from the treetops were harmful, and when he was about to reach out to pick it up, Alan raised his hand quickly and took Eli's soon-to-be The claws of "Touch Forbidden" were pressed down.

"Don't touch."

"..."

Eli was stunned by the sudden grab. Before he realized that the vines in front of him were in danger, he felt that his shoulders were also being buckled.

Allen took him back a few big steps quickly.

Almost at the same time when they left the previous place, those vines that were originally hanging softly twisted suddenly. They were like long green snakes that were twisted and intertwined for a while, and they were pieced together. An abstract and distorted face.

"Ugh--"

"Vine" sighed with a trailing sound, and the extra branches below the facial features were like tentacles and beards, extending forward continuously, and the curled ends were poking around in the air.

Eli didn't expect this plant to have autonomous consciousness at all. He stared at the moving vines for a while in astonishment. After seeing those "tentacles" exploring in the air, they gradually focused on his and Alan's. Direction, continue to work hard to reach forward.

Only then did he realize that they were groping him and Alan just now!

If it wasn't for Allen to make a decisive decision and take Eli away from the position where he was standing just now, the moving vines would have probably entangled the two of them.

"...Thank you." Eli calmed down and thanked Allen in a low voice. "I was too careless. I didn't expect the plants here to have problems."

"This is the devil vine." Allen explained to Eli, a little golden-red elemental light gathered at his fingertips, and after a short while, a small fireball flew out from his fingertips, falling with precision to the undeterred On the vine tentacles.

That devil vine is obviously afraid of fire, and the entire row of vines retreated collectively when the tip of its tentacles touched sparks, but a bigger fireball followed closely behind the splashing sparks, and the vines wanted to curl up to resist the sparks. But unfortunately, the entire fireball was involved, and for a while, its voice suddenly became two octaves high.

"Hey--"

The scream of the demon vine was quite harsh, and Eli instinctively raised his hand to block his ears, but Alan still held one of his hands, and he didn't realize it until he pulled it halfway up.

The pause was only for a moment, and in an instant, Eli found that his hand continued to move up.

The ears were quickly covered.

Allen, who manually "raised his hand" for someone else, first patted the back of Eli's hand lightly, signaling that he was going to let go, and waited for Eli to cover his ears after two beats, and then he put his hand away. down.

Eli vaguely heard him say something, but the voice was mixed with the scream of the demon vine, and he couldn't hear it clearly.

He could only look at Allen blankly.

Allen changed his words to do it, pushing Eli's shoulder to tell him where to go.

After a while, they left the growth area of ​​the devil vine and the noise sweeping area.

"Does your ear hurt?"

When Eli finally took his hands off his ears, the first words he heard were those inquiries.

Eli raised his eyes and saw Alan's concerned eyes on his ears: "The scream of the devil vine is very penetrating, it is one of its self-protection skills, no matter whether you feel pain deep in the ear canal, You will have to drink a bottle of recuperating medicine when you go back later."

"..." Eli was silent for a while.

Allen quickly calculated the formula of the ear, nose and throat nursing medicine in his heart. After he had listed two sets of plans, he found that the blond young man in front of him still had no intention of answering.

He paused for a moment, and looked over to Eli, just in time to meet the slightly complicated look in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Allen asked.

"..." Eli stared at him silently for a while, his eyes wandering back and forth on his face.

After a while, as if he had finally given up, the blond young man's shoulders, which had always been straight, relaxed a little.

It is a gesture of helplessness that can be felt just by looking at the body expression without hearing the sigh.

"What's wrong with me?" Allen asked himself again in his heart, still not aware of the problem.

"You don't feel like 'what's wrong', this is the most 'what's wrong'." Eli seemed to be saying a tongue twister, and as soon as he finished speaking, he frowned, "...Sorry, I didn't mean to It's such a mouthful."

"It's okay." Allen could only say, "You don't have to say 'sorry' to me so often."

The original purpose of coming to the grove was to "talk", but this purpose has only now been officially put on the agenda.

Eli stopped and rethought his train of thought interrupted by the devil vine before he spoke again: "Although you may not think it, you just regard them as normal behaviors between friends, but in ...We just showed our cards once, and on the premise that you explicitly rejected me, these actions, at least for me, will give me hope again, and make me unwilling to give up like this. "

The blond young man stumbled a bit when he said this passage, and it was not so smooth. Halfway through the speech, he couldn't help but want to look away again.

But he finally restrained the "can't help" and let himself meet his audience's eyes the whole time.

"...doesn't it sound thick-skinned?" Eli sighed after finally revealing his innermost feelings, "Maybe you just want to continue to be friends with me, let's quickly change back to the previous way of getting along, but I I can't help but have crooked thoughts about your kindness, and I can't control it at all."

Allen didn't know how to answer for a while, but fortunately, the phrase "cheeky" was not really asking for his opinion. He and Eli walked aimlessly together for a while, affirming the middle part of the other party's words.

"I don't want to lose you as a friend." Allen said frankly, "You are trying to keep a distance from me. I can feel this, so I try to be more active. I really want us to return to the way we were before as soon as possible."

After finishing speaking, Alan paused, and finally figured out something wrong: "...I'm sorry, I should be the one apologizing to you. I unilaterally wanted to go back to the past quickly, and didn't consider that you still need time."

"But the me 'before' liked you too." Eli blinked his eyes, and said suddenly, "The me 'before' this morning clearly knew that I liked you, and the me before visiting Val's house had a vague feeling that I might like you , before I came to Calby, I probably had a good impression of you without knowing it. Going back further, when we were still communicating in the academy, there were actually many people worthy of my concern, but there was only one you Let me be willing to run after the whole school, I will probably like you at that time."

Allen: "..."

"Do you still want to go back to 'before'?" Eli raised his head slightly, and he found that the more he said, his heart became strangely calmer.

"Since I met you, every 'before' me now may like you." He said softly.

Allen opened his mouth and found that he was short of rare words.

However, the previous conversation with senior Hall did not know how much strength it gave the blond young man. In short, he is going forward indomitable at the moment, frank and straightforward to the point where his momentum is almost a bit overwhelming.

Facing that unwavering gaze, Allen couldn't give a definite answer of "yes" or "no" for a long time.

He clearly sensed his hesitation and embarrassment.

... Then, when he finally realized clearly that he couldn't avoid someone's advances as neatly as before, and he couldn't just refuse a second time when the other party was persistent.

what does this mean?

Allen didn't answer for a while, and Eli waited for him like the black-haired young man patiently waited for him in the past.

Earlier, when Hall brought Eli to the woods, and told Eli the divination result that he specially asked Elder Phoenix, he actually shared this very inspiring result without coming up.

After arriving at the grove, Hall first asked Eli a question.

He asked if Eli was really going to give up on Allen, and gradually alienate Allen after the event at hand was completed, until the contact between the two was so weak that it was no different from disconnection.

Eli hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

"I don't want to cause trouble for him, and I don't want him to be troubled by the current state." The blond young man whispered, "But I can't control my emotions, words and deeds for the time being, so I consciously avoid contact."

After receiving Eli's negative answer, the senior who claimed to be quite experienced in pursuit laughed. He patted Eli's back carelessly, almost shaking out Eli's internal organs that had just returned to his body. Then, He shared his years of experience and the results of divination with Eli.

Although judging from the results, it seems that Hall's pursuit experience is not very referenceable, but his spirit is very desirable.

After Eli went out that day, Hall also told Eli the content of the conversation between Hall and Allen.

"Is it really impossible to accept the same sex at all, or is it just that I haven't considered this possibility in the past, is it true that I don't have any feeling at all, I can't have any feelings for you beyond the boundaries of 'friends', or is it just fixed Thinking, I can't change it for a while-why not check it out?"

When Hall said this, he blinked at Eli: "Although I often look unreliable, living for so many years seems to be in vain, but in some respects, I still have a little bit of vision .”

Eli almost didn't know whether it was boasting or self-deprecating, he was between laughing and laughing for a moment, and finally thanked the senior for his kindness.

He listened to Hall's words.

When Eli noticed that Alan's eyes were drooping slightly, as if they were falling on his hands, he withdrew his divergent thoughts and realized that the other party might have been looking at him for a while.

No matter how calm his expression was, he didn't take a breath after the series of questions just now, but there was always a little detail that "betrayed" the master, and let people get a glimpse of the tension hidden in the depths.

Eli didn't know when to hold the Sword of Hall tightly, as if he was seeking the support of his former master and giver at the same time.

"...I've been thinking about it for a long time." Allen pulled his gaze from Eli's hand and looked into the eyes of the blond young man, "You have presented your thoughts to me frankly, if I treat you with a secretive response , I can’t pass this test by myself.”

Eli didn't figure out whether the words meant good or bad, so he just said "huh".

He continued to wait for the next article.

"The answer is 'yes,' I would still like to go back," Allen said. Time to think about it."

"Would you like to wait for me for a while?"

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Sometimes, there is an idea of ​​bravely jumping out of the circle between being enlightened and not being enlightened.

Breaking away from the previous fixed thinking mode, many problems will be solved easily =w=