Chapter 302: Chapter 190: Bai Zini: What, My Brother is Actually a Superhero (Part 3)_3
Ke Mingye fell silent for a mont, took a few steps to her side, patted the weeds, and sat down.
“What are you doing…? You’re going to get roasted like a pig’s head,” he said.
Bai Zini didn’t respond, just buried her lower face in her slightly bent knees, her gaze lowered.
“Is it my fault then?” Ke Mingye sighed, “You didn’t tell your friend was Magic Girl either, right? I haven’t even got angry yet, so why are you angry?”
Bai Zini still didn’t speak.
“I know you’re worried about , and it’s because I don’t want you to worry that I didn’t want to tell you.”
Ke Mingye looked across the river, talking on and on.
“You are my little sister, rember you said you wanted to be Magic Girl to protect … can’t I be a superhero to protect you? The world is such a ss now, you’ve said before that one of your friends was attacked by a Superhuman and felt terrible…”
At this point, he paused for a while, then continued, “I’ve been thinking, isn’t that friend you ntioned Magic Girl?”
“Dead.”
“What?”
“Both of my friends are dead, they died a long ti ago,” Bai Zini said.
“I’ve seen the news, are they the two Magic Girls killed by Ghosthand Buddha and Abyss Swordsman a few months ago?”
“Yes. So I don’t want you to get into trouble too,” Bai Zini paused, then said, straining to breathe as she repeated the sa word over and over again, “you are very very very very very…” She took a deep breath and lowered her voice, “…important.”
“Got it, idiot.”
While speaking, Ke Mingye picked up a pebble and threw it hard across the surface of the river.
The pebble drew a beautiful parabola in mid-air before falling into the river, causing ripples to spread.
“So… when did it start?” Bai Zini asked.
“About two months ago, my superpower awakened, and then I wondered if I could beco a superhero too,” he said.
Speaking, Ke Mingye plucked a blade of grass from the riverbank, his eyes downcast, “And then, before I knew it, this happened. Joined the Superhero Association, made so friends, went to his place… and then I ran into you.”
“So how long were you planning to keep it from ?”
“Who knows,” Ke Mingye replied softly, “Maybe I would have ended up telling you at so point.”
“Really?”
“Please, don’t think I’m heartless, I worry too,” Ke Mingye said.
“If I hadn’t caught you, you would have kept it a secret forever.”
“I wouldn’t have.”
“I’ll trust you this ti.”
“Are you still mad?”
“It’s okay…”
“So… do you still want to go back to your classmate’s place?” Ke Mingye asked.
Bai Zini shook her head slightly.
“Then let’s not go back, shall we go ho?”
“I don’t want to go ho.”
“So what are you going to do, just sit here and wait to be cooked by the sun?”
Ke Mingye cocked his head, asking with evident annoyance.
Bai Zini rose silently from the grass and walked up to the riverside path, her profile facing the side as she gazed at the slowly spinning Ferris wheel in the distance.
“Let’s ride that,” she pointed to the Ferris wheel.
“Okay…you’re the boss,” he replied.
After speaking, Ke Mingye walked with her to the nearby amusent park, paid for the tickets by scanning with his phone, and under the watchful eyes of the staff, they boarded the carriage of the Ferris wheel.
As ti andered into dusk, with the sun setting in the west, they remained silent, Bai Zini just quietly sitting in the carriage looking out the window. The crisp silhouette of the girl was cast upon the window, blending with the distant mountains, shimring as if in a trance.
From beginning to end, the two didn’t speak a word, simply gazing silently at the city enveloped in the afterglow.
When they finally disembarked from the Ferris wheel, the sky was nearly dark, and they walked wordlessly to the seaside.
Bai Zini kicked off her sandals and walked barefoot towards the sea, leaving footprints of varying depths in the sand.
“Don’t go any further…the tide is coming in,” Ke Mingye stopped on the reddish sand and called out to her receding figure.
Monts later, Bai Zini slowly turned around, her hands clasped behind her back, eyes downcast. Her figure was shrouded in the afterglow, as if covered by a layer of hazy butterfly wings.
“Answer a few questions for ,”
she said softly against the backdrop of the sunset at the horizon.
Ke Mingye stood still, watching her, and shrugged.
“Then ask,” he said.
“Will you lie to again in the future?”
“I won’t,”
Bai Zini took a gentle step backwards. Looking sideward, the setting sun turned the beach into a ruddy splendor, like spilled wine.
“Will you leave like my friends did?” she asked.
“I won’t,”
Bai Zini took another step back, drawing closer to the sea and further from Ke Mingye.
“If I say… I say I’m a Magic Girl, what would you think?”
she asked quietly.
“What’s there to think? Even then, you’d still be my sister,”
“You wouldn’t be angry?”
“I wouldn’t be angry,”
Bai Zini’s hair fluttered in the sea breeze, turned golden by the remnants of the sunset.
She took another slow step back, as night approached and the sky darkened, the increasingly tumultuous tide began to swallow her fair ankles.
“One last question,”
“Ask,”
In the rising sea breeze, Bai Zini’s lips moved slightly, her voice drowned out by the “whooshing” sound of the waves crashing against the shore. The illusory afterglow and splashing water waves undulated with her figure, and seagulls flew in pairs across the dim sky, dropping down white feathers in a flurry.
In those brief two seconds, Ke Mingye couldn’t make out what she was saying, only vaguely discerning from her lip movents that she seed to be asking sothing.
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