Chapter 513, [Brother Christmas...]

(Wait for the last chapter. After reading the comments, it seems that I am too self-righteous again. I will catch up with the progress. I am going to change the last chapter into an abbreviation of three years. Because it is called a running account, I plan to write it in a relaxed and possibly non-running interview mode. It is not finished yet. I will tell you when it is finished. You can read it then.)
The streets are filled with the sound of "Ding-ling ...

This is a well-known Christmas music, but it is not as popular as the neon Christmas hits. The song itself is a pure music version without vocals, and there are only simple bell sounds. Tourists have to spend the whole night listening to such monotonous music.

Ordinarily, this kind of music should be looked down upon by young people, but every Christmas many young people choose to come here to listen to this monotonous style of music.

Because this children's song without words is only played on Christmas Eve, the eve of Christmas, you can feel the uniform echo of "Ding-ling-ling" all the way.

Most of the people who like to come to Akihabara on Christmas Eve are high school students on vacation and young lovers. They embark on such a silent journey with the person they secretly love in the dim streets covered with colorful lights and Christmas trees, watching the gorgeous lines like the starry sky above their heads being left behind one by one. Every girl wants to rest her head on a boy's shoulder.

The chair that Uesugi Eri is sitting on is located on the left side of the door of a coffee shop. It is in a position where people can see it but does not hinder others from entering and exiting.

The coffee shop was almost full of customers.

Having said that, if you really count the number, there are actually no more than 30 people. The seats that were originally meant for four friends to gather together are now mostly occupied by couples. Some boys and girls sit together with their legs touching and their arms touching, while others sit on both sides of the table, pointing excitedly at the scenery outside the window.

Uesugi Eri looked at the street boredly, twitched her nose quietly, and then looked in one direction.

Her sense of smell and hearing were as sharp as that of a wild animal - across the street, a young man and woman who looked like high school students were parked by the wall together. The girl in the beige wool skirt was emitting an unsettling smell, and the boy next to her pushed her against the lamppost in front of the Christmas tree. As the boy approached, his lips touched her earlobe, and the scent of her body odor became stronger.

Uesugi Erie knew what this meant, the girl was in heat - the above was carefully taught by Mr. Utsunomiya Shuo.

This is her third Christmas at "家の澪", and she has been working here for three years.

(There are still three hours before we can go back.)
She counted the time silently in her mind. She certainly wasn't sitting here for fun, nor was she here to run away from home. She was working here, and another three hours would be exactly three years.

Uesugi Erie is 20 years old this year. In three hours, she will be 21 years old. She works as a waitress in a cafe called "Home Mio" and is also studying the "Waiter Training Guide" here. The cafe is located in the shadow of the Akihabara Quartz Building, surrounded by tempting anime base surrounding stores on both sides. There is a sign in front of the transparent glass floor-to-ceiling window of the store saying "Children please enter accompanied by family members".

Eri once saw a daring child walk into a store wrapped in a towel and successfully trick the cashier into going inside, but he would come out soon afterwards, carrying a backpack as if nothing had happened.

That store is "mysterious" and a child without courage cannot walk in with his head held high.

Every Christmas Eve before Christmas, Uesugi Eri would gaze at the scenery over there, hoping that she would have the qualifications to walk in tomorrow.

When Uesugi Eri was a child, she had her own independent room, but when she opened the door, there was always a huge thick glass. People in white coats were looking at him from behind the glass while discussing something intensely.

There was a very painful day every month when she was fixed on a large steel bed and looked up at the sky, but all she saw was an empty white ceiling.

There used to be a pair of birds living outside the small round glass in the room. Eri didn't know their name was swallows at that time, she just called them birds. Later, there were more birds, and she sat on the white bed and named each bird outside the window. However, the next day, the birds with names flew away.

Later, Eri learned their names. It turns out that swallows are birds that are afraid of the cold. They will fly far away when winter is approaching, and will fly back when it is warm in the spring of the following year.

Eri didn't know how to differentiate between spring and winter. The only way she could tell time was when she was tied to that cold bed. Only then did she realize that 'it was that time again'.

However, many 'this time again' passed, and the bird never came back, leaving her still sitting on the plain white bed.

The room was no longer occupied until one day, and she was quickly taken away from the cabin and sent to a new room that she had seen for the first time, and was tied to a larger steel bed that she had seen for the first time.

She met her brother, got a new single dormitory, her own game console and comics, but she still couldn't leave the room. Every time someone brought something in, they would repeatedly check whether the thick door of the dormitory was locked. They said that their illness had not been cured and that if they went out, they would cause trouble to others.

Eri knew the real reason why she lived in a small room, it was because of her bloodline.

She was born with a terrible ability, an ability that could kill anyone at any time. She seemed to remember that someone had tried to talk to her a long time ago, but when she came back to her senses, those people were already dead. She was born with a defect.

Later, Eri gradually understood some things in the anime.

It turns out that I am not disabled, I am a monster.

So this is ah.

Eri never mentioned going out to her brother again.

Every year on her birthday, her brother would come to visit her as a parent. She would bring the latest comics and game discs, and would rush back the next day even if she was very busy.

Eri knew there were many things outside that she didn't know, and sometimes she couldn't help but want to sneak out. But every time she walked to the door, she could hear the sudden violent heartbeats of those outside, and she had to turn back in frustration.

One day, something seemed to happen outside the door. Eri heard the gurgling sound in the wall disappear, and the red warning light that was always on above the iron gate also dimmed.

That was Eri's first time outside, and the first time she realized how big the world outside was.

After being taken home, Eri stood in the shower and drenched her body with the coldest water.

She understood one thing - this was the only room that could accommodate her.

"Is this the puppet that replaced me?"

One night a stranger suddenly came to visit her.

In fact, Eri had heard his breathing a long time ago, but this matter made no difference to her. Strangers often appeared and disappeared beside her room, and Eri didn't intend to pay attention to him.

What she didn't expect was that this man would take the initiative to talk to her. This had never happened before.

Eri looked at him. The man was wearing a white linen suit. He did not walk out quickly with his head down like the people she remembered. Instead, he leaned leisurely against the thick door.

When did the door open?
Eri didn't know.

Just as Eri was about to look for the notebook she used to communicate with her brother, the lights in the room suddenly went out, and the adults behind her, whose heartbeats quickened whenever she approached the door, didn't seem to notice at all.

Eri couldn't figure it out.

In the darkness, Eri looked directly into the other person's golden eyes.

"How can a lowly empty shell like you compare to the favor of God?" Eri heard the man's voice as if it came from a very far distance. His voice made Eri feel familiar and strange, soft, but his anger was clearly transmitted.

They were just meeting for the first time and the man was acting like an angry lion.

Eri subconsciously tried to open her mouth... and then closed it again.

The man's eyes were like ghostly fires in the darkness. These eyes at the top of the food chain did not frighten Eri, but the anger hidden in them seemed to push her to the edge of the cliff.

But very quickly, his face changed from bright red to deep gloom, like a piece of ink-stained paper dipped in water: "Your things, and... Happy Birthday."

The man threw a box of colorful candies in front of her, then stood up and left. The lights came back on, and the guards looked around in panic, and kept stealing glances in her direction, as if they had just woken up. The corridor gradually became noisy, with all kinds of loud noises coming from the elevator, followed by the chaotic sound of footsteps. Eri was stunned for a moment before she remembered what "Happy Birthday" meant.

"Um... Hi!"

She felt like she had done something bad, but she quickly knelt down and covered the candy on the ground with her skirt. She pointed to the thick door with her green onion, indicating that they could close it.

These people were very surprised, but Eri didn't understand why they reacted like this. She thought this would make them happy.

The sound of the gears inside the thick door made her feel uncomfortable, and Eri didn't want others to know that someone had been there, so she sat there without moving.

The men looked even more nervous.

Eri understood why.

Later, on those nights when even the owls were asleep, Eri put the candies into her mouth one by one.

Crackling, crackling, crackling... The first time I was startled by the noise inside my mouth, it took a very great effort to avoid making any sound.

Were these candies the birthday gifts that person gave her? Eri didn't know, but her night was obviously more lively. Every cell in her body seemed to wake up from a deep sleep, and all kinds of sounds and colors seemed to flow in her blood vessels.

Sometimes she would sit there quietly hugging her knees in the middle of the night, looking up at the bright moon outside the iron window. She felt that the man would never come back, just like Yan Zi before. Eri couldn't tell why, it was a very strange feeling. It was like the candy in her mouth that was still trying to jump, sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet, and sometimes so sour that she had to cover her mouth to hold on and not spit it out...

Trying new candies became a nightly bedtime ritual that she looked forward to every night.

What will it taste like tonight?
who's that person?
Will I get a chance to say thank you to her?
Thank you, I like this gift very much. Eri has been very well behaved these days.

A very strange feeling.

The little hand was gently placed on the chest, and a ray of dim moonlight shone in from the iron window and sprinkled on the oil painting on the wall at the end of the bed.

The oil painting shows Susanoo, Amaterasu, and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto stepping on the Yamata-no-Orochi. The moonlight does not illuminate them, but is reflected on their feet.

Is there anyone who knows Eri in a place that Eri doesn't know?

She talked to herself in confusion and panic, her nervous heartbeat seeming to skip a beat.

"Humans... when it's about to rain, they don't want to spend time with strangers."

In front is a criss-cross fence, and behind the fence are many buildings.

When Eri was about to enter the school gate, a bearded uncle stopped her and pointed at her, indicating that outsiders were not allowed to enter the school.

Eri found out that this was the legendary high school school.

So Uesugi Erii waited at the school gate with an expressionless face, like a bicycle thrown on the side of the road.

Mr. Kazama (Eri: He asked Eri to call him that)... Mr. Kazama seemed unwilling to talk to her, but he still brought her to him, so Mr. Kazama was actually a very good person. He just didn't like Eri... Eri thought so.

"I won't show up here and if I don't recognize you, your escape for today will be over."

Mr. Kazama issued the verdict on Eri's first successful escape without any warning.

[I'm sorry, Eri will do it seriously. ]

Eri replied with a quick nod.

Mr. Kazama might have been busy with other things, so he didn't see this passage.

From the raindrops falling on her hair, to someone appearing, to many people appearing, and then to so many people that she couldn't even keep up with them all, Uesugi Eri was obviously in a panic.

Her expression froze, and when she came to her senses, she was already standing under the teaching building, holding an umbrella that someone had brought her.

The little one stood there, nervously and bewilderedly watching the dazzling people walking past her.

Uesugi Eriya then understood what Mr. Kazama meant - she had never seen him before.

The girl froze completely.

But there was no expression on his face.

“Ah—as expected—”

It's a bit like the lackluster villain in anime, the kind of character who is bothered but has to fight against the protagonist.

Eri stared into the man's eyes, watching him walk closer to her, not looking at him like a kitten like she did with the others, but scanning him from head to toe, from hair, to face, to chest, thighs, thighs, to toes.

Eri's senses are very sharp, and she spends the longest time on breasts, thighs, and toes, which is also puzzling.

The man tilted his head to the left.

I do not know what it meant.

Eri also tilted her head to the left.

The man tilted his head to the right.

Eri also tilted her head to the right.

He walked over, and the distance increased from five meters, three meters, two meters...0 meters.

——The neck was hooked.

——was taken away.

Eri silently turned over the written page and tilted her head to look at his profile.

【Brother Christmas.】

(End of this chapter)