Chapter 474: Flowers Bloom
Chapter 474: Flowers Bloom
November 2018, 11, it’s ten o’clock in the evening, and the night is getting deeper.
After coming out of the prison gate, the meeting had already ended.
As for what happened just now, I just said that I was a little nervous before the battle and didn't explain much.
Judging from everyone’s reactions, I guess they didn’t buy it.
But I don't have the energy to explain.
At times like this, it is indeed harder to calm down, and my mind becomes a tangled mess like a tangled hemp rope.
I need to find a place to calm down, and by the way, think about what the "defective products" mentioned by Ryoumen Sukuna mean. If I want to find God, how should I find him?
But even if we find it, what can we do?
What should I say to Him? Ask Him to let them live in another world too?
Even if He agreed, how could the people here be willing to abandon everything and leave?
The Gojo Satoru I know, the Geto Suguru, the Yuji Itadori I know, the Megumi Fushiguro I know, the Nobara Kugisaki, and everyone I know are people who are able to sacrifice themselves for others.
Asking them to give up, retreat, and be afraid of death now would probably be more painful than killing them.
Leaning against the door in a corner beside the corridor of the technical school, I looked at the white flowers blooming faintly.
It is said that this flower grew from the seeds I gave to Gojo Satoru, but I can't tell what kind it is.
It was planted in early spring and has not withered in winter. It has bloomed so big and beautifully. It really seems like a miracle that it has persisted until now.
“It’s really beautiful…”
I don't know when Xia Youjie appeared. He leaned sideways against the pillar of the corridor next to me. Following my line of sight, I saw the white flowers swaying in the wind.
"lily."
"what?"
"I'm not calling you." Xia Youjie smiled and pointed at the flower and said, "Don't you think it looks like a lily?"
"But lilies don't bloom in winter." We started discussing a flower as if we were reminiscing about the past.
"That should be a lily that has a long flowering period and is very tenacious."
"Maybe." I tilted my head to examine it, and said, "Although the species has not been determined yet, it is indeed very tenacious."
“Cough, hahahaha…”
"Jay, what are you laughing at?"
"Sure enough." He smiled until his eyes narrowed, waved his hand and said, "I'm talking about you."
"Eh?"
"Seeing that you were in a bad mood, I couldn't help but want to cheer you up."
I:"........"
Puns will be fined. But fortunately, what he said was more realistic than Gojo Satoru. Thinking of what he said last time to "lively the atmosphere", my eyes really went dark.
"Today is the Winter Solstice, remember?" Xia Youjie pointed to the eaves outside the meeting room. Above it was a bright moon, shimmering like a piece of silk gauze.
"I remember," I said, "that it is not yet twelve o'clock."
On the day of the winter solstice, the sun's direct point is over the Tropic of Capricorn.
On the other side of the Arctic, it is the polar night. The sun cannot be seen in the long darkness, but the aurora lights up the entire sky.
On the other side of the Antarctic, it is polar day. Bright light spreads across the ice and snow, illuminating every corner dazzlingly. If you stare at it for a little too long, you might get snow blindness.
It was on this day that Gojo Satoru and I were at the North Pole, and Geto Suguru was at the South Pole. Between us, there was a distance of 19950 kilometers on the earth's surface.
He said this is the farthest distance humans can reach on Earth.
The farthest distance.
"But this is not actually the farthest distance," he said.
"what is that?"
Xia Youjie did not answer this question, he looked up at the moon.
The moonlight fell straight down, illuminating the side of his face facing me. His brow bone looked melancholy and elegant against the backdrop of his black hair.
The same dark night, the same scene, strangely overlapped with the night before setting out.
I remember that time, he and I made an agreement that we would both come back alive.
"Are you scared?" After standing with me quietly for a while, he looked away and suddenly asked.
"...No." After hesitating for a moment, I shook my head, "I'm not afraid."
"You're lying." Hearing my answer, he smiled helplessly and held a strand of my hair in his palm. "You're still not good at lying."
"How can Jay be so sure that I'm lying?" I blinked.
"Because..." He paused deliberately, stretched out the words, and spoke gently, "Because I'm scared too."
"Is Jay afraid too?" I was startled and looked up at him. I looked into his eyes and saw that he was calm and composed, without showing any sign of retreat. "If you are really afraid, what are you afraid of?"
"I'm still a little scared." He stroked his chin and said frankly, "Let me think about it, what am I afraid of?"
"I'm afraid that I won't be able to protect the people I want to protect with my own abilities. I'm afraid that the people I know will die one after another, that the world will be destroyed because of this, and that the final result will not be what I want—"
"But what I fear most is——"
The second half of his sentence was like ice and snow that suddenly dissipated into the air. He didn't say it for a long time, which made me curious and asked, "What is it?"
"Shh..." He stretched out a finger, pressed it on his lips, bent down and said softly, "It needs to be kept secret."
"If I say it now, I'm afraid it will become a regret."
"One day in the future, when everyone is still alive, I will tell you about it."
"No one will regret what they said." I was dissatisfied with the fact that I didn't get an answer, but my appetite was whetted. "Most people will only regret what they didn't say in the first place."
"Then I'm not like most people." He sighed softly, "I'm Geto Suguru."
He is Geto Summer Oil.
Yes, he is not someone else, he is Geto Suguru.
"Then... apart from this, do you have any other regrets?"
He shook his head and said, "No more."
"Lily." He turned around and looked at me calmly, "What I want to say is that no matter what the final result is, I have no regrets."
“You once asked me if I could still laugh from the bottom of my heart in this world,” he said. “In that alley, I felt that I couldn’t.”
"But now, I feel that it is a blessing to meet you."
"......." I raised the corners of my lips and smiled at him gently, "Me too."
However, only those who are alive can talk about regrets or not.
Dead people don't have a chance...so they have to be alive.
I turned around again, with my back to Geto Suguru, and continued to look at the flower quietly.
This flower is blooming so beautifully.
I really hope that it can keep blooming like this and never wither.
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