When Aplysia was a baby, a growth-deficient mucous membrane tore off his eyes, causing him to be sensitive to light for a while.
When I wake up, my eyes are always red and crying, and I look very pitiful.
At that time, Tang Rou would pull her own blanket and hide under the blanket with him as his head emerged from the water tank, using the darkness to warm him and give him a sense of security.
At this moment, Tang Rou also pulled him and hid beside the bed, covering their heads with the quilt.
It seemed that this created a small space where he felt safe.
The young man looked in a daze and looked at her blankly, unable to believe that this was true.
Tang Rou pressed his wrist and asked softly, "How have you been lately?"
"not good."
He suddenly threw himself into her arms, without exerting any force, and knelt on both sides of her body with his knees bent, as if he was sitting on her.
He arched his back and lowered his head to look at her. He put his head on the quilt and looked at her with wet eyes, "Rou, I'm in pain."
Like a small animal that needs to be coaxed.
Tang Rou pulled him down, touched his soft hair, and forced him to sit side by side with her, "Why did you disappear from the Tower of Babel?"
"...They said you were dead, but I knew you were not dead and came out to look for you."
Tang Rou had a headache when she thought about the illusion she and Alphinaud created in front of the surveillance cameras in order to leave the Tower of Babel, "No, that's fake..."
Sea Rabbit whispered, "I know, Rou, I know."
If he hadn't known that she was still alive, he might not have been able to survive in this world.
He has always been like an immortal flower enclosed in a glass cover, which looks lifelike, but is actually dead and has no vitality at all.
Only by her side is he himself.
The boy whimpered again.
Tang Rou rubbed his hair and sighed.
He still loves to cry, he is the same sea rabbit with red eyes as before.
He couldn't help but press his palm against hers, for fear that the hard-won active contact above his head would disappear.
"Are you using your blood to feed those two sea snake creatures?" Tang Rou's voice was very soft.
She wasn't sure if the creatures were still in the room and could see or hear them.
Snake creatures have no ears or eardrums and rely on their jawbones to sense sound waves. She wrapped herself in a quilt and hid it next to the mattress. She didn't know if it had any isolation effect.
Lucifer came back from his dizzy happiness, "How did Rou know?"
This is the default.
Tang Rou became serious, "Have you ever thought about what to do if one day you run out of blood, or they become more and more greedy, and the amount of blood you provide cannot meet their needs?"
The young man smiled softly.
He leaned against her shoulder with nostalgia and buried his cheek in her pajamas, feeling that he was surrounded by happiness.
"Rou, you are caring about me."
There was no happier moment than now. He purred softly like a kitten and hid under the quilt next to her.
Not forgetting to comfort her, "Rou, don't worry, you know, my body heals very quickly."
"A different rabbit."
Tang Rou squeezed his shoulder, then held his wrist and lifted it up.
"You have lost a lot of weight and look very weak."
Lucifer began to tremble again.
He was almost in tears, like a terminally ill mental patient.
He was deeply aware of his owner's care for him, and the love in his voice made him wish that time had stopped and stopped in this dark and small world under the quilt that only belonged to them.
It smells really good.
He smelled distress and love.
It turns out that being injured can make her treat her gently, so he should be injured more...
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the owner say, "If you continue to be weak, I won't want you anymore."
"no!"
He immediately held Tang Rou's hand, his eyes suddenly turned scarlet red, and he said urgently and panicked, "Don't leave, you can't leave me!"
It seems that these words will irritate him.
Tang Rou asked, "Why not? Isn't it my choice whether to do it or not?"
"...I just can't."
There was a thin blush around the young man's eyes, his chest heaved, and his fingers clenched tighter and tighter.
The fear of imminent loss was about to overwhelm him, causing him to subconsciously say threatening words, "I will not let Rou go, Rou will always be here, she must have me."
Tang Rou was scratched so hard that her bones felt like they were about to be broken, but she didn't struggle and just asked calmly,
"So, are you going to imprison me here?"
His movements stopped.
He hugged her and shook his head desperately, "It's not a prison, Rou. As long as you don't leave me, you can do whatever you want."
Tang Rou ignored it and continued, "So, even if I am no longer happy and even hate you for it, you still want to trap me here?"
The boy looked for her eyes, trying to make eye contact with her, but she didn't even look at him.
Yes.
She can't see.
"Rou, you can't hate me."
The young man looked at Tang Rou dreamingly, with almost crazy paranoia in his eyes, "I can give you anything, do you want my blood? I'll give you more blood, and you can see it."
Tang Rou only felt tired.
She closed her eyes, "If you are trapped here, there is no point in seeing or not being able to see."
With that said, she let go of her hand and pulled down the quilt.
Sea Hare instantly broke away from the dark security provided by the mask and became anxious.
He didn't know whether it was the air in this room, the warm incense of wood, or the breath coming out of every inch that made him feel sad and unable to accept it.
The young man reached out and grabbed her sleeves, trying in vain to pull the quilt back, pressed against her, and rubbed his forehead against her shoulders.
"Rou, we are still like we were just now..."
The quilt was pulled back over his head with force.
Darkness covered them again.
But I no longer have that dizzying feeling of happiness.
All that's left is the fear that I'm about to lose it.
"Rabbit, is this what you want?"
The owner retracted his hands to resist his approach, and his voice no longer contained warmth.
"Deprive me of my freedom, make me suffer, and you suffer too. Is this what you want?"
The young man grabbed her in panic, "No..."
She gently shook him off and frowned, "Let go, it hurts."
The young man lowered his head and saw red marks on Tang Rou's slender wrist. She apologized at a loss, with confusion and regret in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Rou."
Tang Rou turned her hands as if she hadn't heard anything.
"I feel very sad. I will be very nice to Rou. Can Rou be a little happier?"
Lucifer became anxious again.
Difficulty controlling emotions.
When he thought that she no longer smiled at him and no longer cared about him as she did just now, he couldn't help but feel an unquenchable desire to destroy her.
Obviously... only Rou was kind to him, without any purpose, unlike others who coveted his body dirtyly, liked his face, greedily indulged in low-level desires, and had disgusting fantasies about him.
She can't take away that warmth.
"Rou, you have to love me." The fear of being abandoned made him unable to breathe, and he could only fill the fear in his heart by asking, "You don't hate me, right?"
Tang Rou listened and gave him enough time to think.
After a long time, he said softly, "Rabbit, if you didn't go against my wishes at the beginning, I wouldn't want to leave."
"Against your will..."
The young man thought hard and recalled the beginning of everything, "I understand, Rou, don't you want me to kiss you?"
"That's not all I said." Tang Rou did not forget to deny, "I don't want to."
"why not?"
They all want him.
Why doesn't she want to?
Seeing that the topic had gone astray, Tang Rou withdrew in time, "Are you trapping me because you want to stay in this place?"
"No." The lingering moisture in the boy's eyes finally slipped away, and he grabbed her sleeves while crying, "As long as I can be with Rou, I can go anywhere."
"Then why don't you ask me what I mean."
Tang Rou turned around and held his face.
The young man looked at her blankly, tears gathered on his chin, and his hands were wet.
"What if I never intend to abandon you from beginning to end?"
He opened his eyes wide in disbelief.
The slender fingers wiped away the tears at the end of his eyes, and the gentleness made his heart palpitate.
"But you forced me against my will. This is a kind of harm." Tang Rou shook her head, "I don't want to stay with someone who hurts me."
The hands were withdrawn.
The boy subconsciously chased after her, his eyes getting redder and redder. He pressed his cheek against her palm and whispered softly, "Rou, can you hug me."
Tang Rou didn't answer.
He threw himself into her arms and hugged her tightly, tightening his arms tightly for fear of leaving a gap between the two of them.
Tang Rou was even strangled to the point that she couldn't breathe.
His voice was filled with despair, and he said urgently and quickly, "I'm sorry, Rou, I'm sorry, I know I was wrong, please don't abandon me."
One voice after another.
Like a drowning man grabbing the last straw to save his life.
Tang Rou was hugged by him and the feeling was very clear.
He is afraid.
After he calmed down a bit, she held his shoulders, pulled him out of her arms, and said seriously.
"You belong to the sea, you need sea water, this environment is not suitable for you."
Tang Rou told him calmly, "I won't be happy if I stay here. This place doesn't belong to me. You won't be happy either, because imprisonment is not love, Rabbit, you shouldn't understand love like this."