When the Juggernaut Comes To the Second Dimension

Looking at Tina's fingers, Yong Ye couldn't help but lose his voice.

The boy, who was about Tina's age, was holding a balloon in one hand and a cone in the other. Both hands were very busy, but he was still acting like a baby to his mother.

But...Looking at the boy, and then at the girl next to him, Yong Ye immediately sensed a sense of discord and abnormality, because there was a very big difference between the two sides.

The boy who was acting like a spoiled child to his mother was a very normal child, but the child next to him... didn't look like a ten-year-old child at all. To some extent, sixteen or eighteen years old didn't seem so mature.

Always felt...like those...cursed children who experienced the dangers of the world?

"..."

Staring at Tina seriously, and then looking at the little boy who was still licking the cone and acting like a baby, Yong Ye really felt that the difference between the two is so clear, the gap between the two is so big that it is not possible to live together in the same world generally.

Maybe it's because a child as mature as Mibu Asaka has been staying for a long time, or maybe it's because Tina showed a maturity different from that of a ten-year-old girl the first two times, but she always looked drowsy and elusive, so Yong Ye, who has never noticed the abnormality in Tina, has met an ordinary child until now, and immediately realizes that Tina is unusual.

...was it the cursed child? So why do you like to pester yourself?

When he was walking towards the dessert shop to sell the cones, Yong Ye rubbed his chin with one hand, tilted his head slightly and looked behind him without showing any trace, then lowered his head again with a gloomy expression on his face, Tina didn't know what she was thinking .

Unexpectedly, Tina is no longer in a daze today, perhaps because she is a night owl? So it's because it's evening now that you've regained your spirits?

Tina, who was wearing a dark green dress, was unexpectedly tidy today. She seemed to be very clean. Her delicate and lovely appearance matched with the dress was like a porcelain doll. No matter how she looked at it, she didn't look like an ordinary child in the peripheral area.

If it is determined that she is a cursed child, then she must be a policeman's partner, responsible for the initiator of the frontal battle.

Since it was the initiator, then for what purpose did she contact him?

After paying the money, Yong Ye holding the cone kept thinking about Tina's purpose, but since he couldn't feel any hostility from Tina, it was difficult for him to judge what Tina wanted to do.

Since we can't judge Tina's purpose, and Tina is not hostile, why don't we just observe the situation and play it by ear?

Thinking of this, Yong Ye temporarily stopped speculation, and handed the cone into Tina's hands.

"Thanks……"

After politely thanking her, Tina licked the dessert in her hand like a cute little animal, still looking depressed with her head down.

After waiting for a while, the absent-minded Tina finally remembered that she was with Yong Ye, and suddenly raised her head and stretched her hand towards Yong Ye.

"Mr. Yong Ye, can you hold hands? I have a place I want to go to."

"place?"

"amusement park."

"…amusement park?"

"Ah... If you think there is a problem with money, then don't force it, because I don't have much money with me. If I go to the amusement park, I can only rely on you, Mr. Yong Ye, and it will definitely be difficult to pay you back in the future. ...Thinking about it this way, I'm really capricious, sorry...I made a capricious request, please pretend you haven't heard it."

Noticing Yong Ye's hesitation, Tina immediately noticed her self-willedness.

Different from herself, Yong Ye is a normal person, maybe she just treats her like an ordinary child, right? Since it was a child she was not very familiar with, this request was obviously an extremely self-centered, arrogant and unreasonable trouble. After realizing this, she immediately lowered her head and apologized.

"No, you misunderstood... Money is not a problem. I am not short of money recently, but I just feel that going to the amusement park is a waste of time, and I am inexplicably repulsed by places like amusement parks."

"Then...can we change to another place?"

Tina scratched her cheek lightly in trouble, hesitated for a moment, mustered up the courage to grab Yong Ye's hand, and pulled him to the distance.

Twenty minutes later.

Yongye and Tina sat side by side on a bench under the shade of a tree by the small river, each holding a piece of steaming takoyaki in their hands.

Obviously, she had just eaten takoyaki yesterday, but Tina still said she wanted to eat this kind of thing, and this time, it was a little surprising that Tina paid for Yong Ye for the first time.

But in contrast, Yong Ye was asked to give an ordinary, not very valuable silver-white pocket watch.

Yong Ye Club felt very inexplicable. She was treated forcefully and was asked to give a small thing all of a sudden, and it can be seen from Tina's wallet that she doesn't have much money, two ordinary 500 yen The total amount of takoyaki was only 1,000 yen, which basically emptied her wallet.

It should be Tina's promoter, and you don't want to waste too much money on Tina as the initiator, right? Thinking of this, Yong Ye felt a little strange, and put the takoyaki into his mouth.

Looking at the western sky, the slanting light red sunset illuminated the river surface as if it was burning, and the sun should have completely set in less than five minutes.

Looking at the gradually sinking sunset is one of Tina's few hobbies. The beautiful sunset often makes her heart beat. No matter when, the sunset can heal her inner pain a little bit.

However, at this moment, Tina didn't pay attention to the beauty of the sunset, she just stared blankly at the pocket watch, which is not well-made. the second hand.

"...Time, it would be great if it could stay in the present forever."

The voice of the girl muttering to herself was so soft that a gust of wind could blow it away, and it easily dissipated into the air, but Yong Ye heard the words clearly because of her superhuman sense of hearing.

"Although I don't know why you have such an idea, I can't accept it if time stops flowing. After all, there should be infinite possibilities in the future, right?"

"...infinite possibilities? They used to exist, but now they don't."

Tina sighed and put the pocket watch in her pocket, closed her eyes and listened to the sound of the river flowing not far away in order to let go of her thoughts.

At this time, there was a long siren sound from the distant sky. It must be that the ship operating within the scope of the giant stone monument chose to end the day's work and start returning at this moment, when the sky was about to darken.

The girl squinted her eyes and looked at the sunset in the west that had sunk by more than half. After a long silence, what she blurted out was a topic that was completely irrelevant to the previous one, full of jumping topics.

"Mr. Yong Ye, if fate is like the pointer in a pocket watch being damaged and turned to the last turn, when I am no longer me, when I have become something else..."

"No, wait a minute, I don't understand what you mean at all, you are jumping too much on this topic, right?"

The unexpected topic was really too difficult to understand, Yong Ye couldn't help but put a hand on the blonde hair of the girl beside him who had become extremely beautiful under the last rays of the setting sun, trying to interrupt her.

However, the girl was not affected, she just raised her head and looked at him, revealing a smile that was a little silent and a little like crying.

"Even if it's just wishful thinking... I hope that no matter what I look like, you can still look at me with these eyes."

"...I really don't know how to respond to what you said."

Rubbing the girl's soft blond hair, Yong Ye was completely puzzled by the child's series of inexplicable words like a monk Zhang Er.

"Can you feed me again?"

"...you don't seem to be going to explain something?"

"The matter has not been confirmed yet. When it is completely dark, I will explain it properly, so... please wait a little longer, please?"

"...Although I don't know what you are thinking at all, but since you say so, then so be it."

A series of inexplicable things made Yong Ye a little depressed, but when facing the sadness in Tina's eyes, he had no choice but to let go of these depressions temporarily.

In the end, he shook his head and stopped pursuing this perhaps irrelevant question, and was going to wait for Tina to explain herself.

After finishing the food in her hand, when she was about to go back, Tina made a request to send Yong Ye a ride.