A young girl with long icy blue hair placed a cat mascot pendant on her small palm. The round cat looked at her with a confused expression. Its tail was so long and its fur was so soft.
Touch it and it will feel a little itchy.
The person who gave her the pendant squatted down so that his eyes were as high as hers. He casually touched Tio's head with his big palm for a while. Although her hair became messy, she didn't feel it at all.
Hate.
"You will definitely be happy." These were the last words she heard him say.
Click.
Accompanied by members of the Guerrilla Association, Tio's parents arrived at the guided train station.
As soon as her parents saw Tio, they rushed forward and hugged her tightly. They both burst into tears, happy that their daughter had returned home safely.
But Tio didn't cry. She even felt confused and didn't know how to face her parents.
She hasn't seen her parents for four years. She has been kidnapped by the cult since she can remember, so she doesn't remember much about her parents. No, maybe she did before, but she was exhausted physically and mentally in the Altair stronghold.
, made her forget everything. Therefore, her parents were like strangers to her.
Fortunately, the emotional fluctuations felt by his parents did not reject Tio. At least, they did not regard Tio as a monster at first.
That person said that a bright and dazzling future was waiting for her. But judging from the results, it did not come true.
At first, her parents accepted her with warmth. They were sincere to her and allowed her to attend Sunday school. However, Tio, who was forced to improve her sensory abilities in that facility, was unable to live with ordinary people.
Sounds you shouldn't have heard, things you shouldn't have seen, feelings you shouldn't have felt.
Tio, who is still young, doesn't know how to hide all this, and doesn't know what self-control means.
As a result, the treatment she received in the end was the same as when she was at the sect's facility. People around her regarded her as an alien and terrifying existence.
Only her parents were still gentle and kind to her, but her sensing ability let her know that their feelings were not just family affection, but also mixed with a little uneasiness.
One night, while pretending to be sleeping in bed, she heard her parents' conversation several walls away.
How should we get along with that child in the future?
When she heard these words, she finally knew that this was not her place.
She felt neither angry nor sad, but just didn't know what to do. That person clearly told Tio that as long as she came here, she would be happy, but the fact was exactly the opposite. So, where should she go from now on?
Wanting to get the answer, she slipped out of the house after leaving a farewell letter to her parents, took a guided train and tried to go to Crossbell, where the man was.
However, there is no future for her there either.
When she reported the man's name at the counter of Crossbell Police Station, the policewoman serving at the counter said sadly: "Mr. Guy has passed away."
This thing is true, and Tio can only stand there blankly.
I only remember the noisy voices around me, echoing endlessly in my empty mind.
Crossbell without that person is meaningless to Tio. Therefore, there is no need for her to stay.
Click.
Tio doesn't like to stay in crowded places.
Tio's senses are sharper than those of ordinary people, and her sensitivity is called "sensing ability".
A person with a high degree of sensitivity can sometimes even pick up other people's thoughts. In a place where people come and go, if she could hear everyone's inner thoughts, she would definitely go crazy with discomfort.
In this case, how did the girl who had the same fate as her whom she met at Crossbell Medical University live?
Tio met Sergei and tried to ask him about the girl at that time.
"Ling Astre? It seems to be the name of someone from the Empire. I feel like I've heard it somewhere."
Tio, a famous scholar in Gangdu Luray, confirmed that it was her when he saw the girl's photo from the terminal at Crossbell Police Station.
Starting from Crossbell, we took the train to Luray, an industrial city. After getting off the train, we easily found out the specific location of Luray University of Technology.
Then, the girl who was completely unchanged from her memory appeared in front of her. A huge amount of information that had never been seen in anyone else was overwhelming the girl, trying to rush into Tio's mind crazily.
The girl didn't have any ill intentions, and she probably didn't realize that this information siphoning phenomenon occurred between the two people.
"Tio, are you feeling okay?"
Probably because he was keenly aware of the shaking, Ling came over and gently hugged Tio's body, pressing her forehead against the other's.
In just a moment, and it seemed like a long time passed, Tio saw countless scenes that Ling had seen, and Ling also saw fragments of memory belonging to Tio.
After this mental synchronization, the intelligence siphoning phenomenon in which Tio accepted information unilaterally also stopped, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"So that's what happened. That Mr. Guy is dead."
"Well, I heard that he died in the line of duty a month ago while performing a mission."
"If Tio wants to blame it, just blame me. If I hadn't forgotten the time, this kind of thing could have been avoided."
Tio was a little confused, what was Ling talking about? Guy's incident should have nothing to do with her. In the memory picture of Ling that Tio saw, the only time Ling and Guy met was because Ling went to see her.
relationship, right?
"I don't feel very sad. I'm just a little confused about my future, so I came to see you... Ling won't hate me, right?"
"How could it be? It's not too late to welcome you."
Ling brought Tio into her research room and happily explained to her the topics that she had recently found difficult. However, she stopped after a few minutes, perhaps sensing that what she said was a bit confusing to Tio.
It's too advanced.
Although Tio has taught herself all the Sunday school courses in just one year, and although she has just received a lot of fresh knowledge from Ling, remembering and understanding are not the same thing. What Ling is studying, Tio
I couldn't understand it at all now. So Ling changed the topic.
"Tio, you have grown a lot taller." The violet-haired girl compared the height difference between the two of them with her fingers. In the past, the height difference between the two was half a head, but now it is only about five miles.
"It's Ling, you haven't changed at all. Just the same as you were at the beginning of last year."
According to the year of birth, Tio is ten years old this year, while Ling is nine years old. However, in terms of her disguised identity, Ling is now fifteen years old, although she still looks thirteen years old.
Ling's face showed a slightly troubled expression, "That's just because the body's functions are locked by the principle of the body before reaching perfection. As long as I am willing, I will definitely be able to grow taller in the future."
Well, it would be very bad if you were only 140 miles tall throughout your life, right?
Ling took Tio to the Human Resources Department of the Marquis Mansion, and after applying for Lu Lei's temporary residence permit, Ling began to give Tio extra lessons.
In order to keep up with Ling, Tio humbly asked Ling about mathematics topics. Basically, Tio was asking, and Ling gave her the answers. Both of them have calculation power beyond common sense, and they have previously learned from Ling.
Ling shared her learning experience. Tio's learning efficiency far exceeded that of ordinary students at Luray University of Technology. In just half a day, she completed the study progress equivalent to a week for ordinary people.
That night, Ling took Tio to a restaurant that was small but very cozy inside. The name of the restaurant was Duowensi. Ling seldom cooked by herself. Not only did her cooking skills not improve, but she also regressed a lot. In order to avoid letting her down.
After Tio ate the u-matter dish she cooked, Ling decided to be on the safe side and went to the dining room she used most.
Not long after the two sat down, Tio felt a passionate and unrestrained girl approaching him quickly.
The girl spoke subtle words that Tio could not understand, and was blocked by Ling. Ling was like a small animal protecting its calf, deeply wary of this girl who looked like her sister and had the same hair color.
Angelica Rogna. On the surface, she and Ling are both fifteen years old, but Tio, who knows Ling's true age, still finds the interaction between the two of them quite interesting.
After enjoying a simple but exquisite dinner, Ling rejected Angelica's intention to take Tio for a ride and took Tio directly back to her dormitory.
"Well, there is only a single bed. Are you planning to let me sleep with you?"
"Oh, I forgot. It's not good to sleep in the same bed with others. I'll just sleep on the sofa today."
"You're kidding. It doesn't matter if I don't sleep. I can just seize the time to learn more knowledge."
Yes, Tio Prato is an alien. Thanks to the experiments in the sect's facilities, he is different from ordinary humans and is a monster that does not need sleep. Although he has pretended to need sleep in the eyes of others, that is not the case.
Physiological needs. And in front of Ling who knows the truth, there is no need to maintain the disguise.
After hearing Tio's words, Ling's face showed a sad expression.
"Sleep with me. Just treat it as accompanying me, okay?"
"It's obviously not necessary."
"No, it's very necessary!"
Tio was hugged by Ling again. Because Ling was very strong, Tio felt a slight pain in her body.
"Let go, Ling."
"No, no, no, I won't let go until Tio agrees."
Frustrated by the childishness that the other party would never show in front of others, Tio had no choice but to agree.
"Even if the mind can be strong enough to withstand any difficulties, it is impossible for the heart to be pain-free." After Ling said to Tio, she slowly let go of her.
"Tio, you must be tired after running around all day from Crossbell to Luray. Let's go to bed early today."
It was only dark tomorrow, but since he had already agreed to Ling, Tio still nodded.