Fuso, Kyoto, Nanjia Loft.

A figure rushed to the front of the attic, and the two guards picked up the sticks in their hands: "No access!"

The sky was gloomy, and it was already cloudy with thunderous thunder in the sky.

"Let me in."

The girl stood in front of the attic, staring at the two guards with unhappy eyes: "Awu, Genji, you dare to stop me?"

"Miss Shiori, please don't embarrass us..."

The two Wu family guards looked slightly embarrassed and did not dare to make a move or get out of the way.

"Let! Me! In! Go!"

Nan Shizhi repeated it loudly, her tone anxious and resentful: "My sister has not eaten a grain of rice for more than four days. Do you really want to starve her to death! Even if you make a mistake, you can't do this! If you are afraid of grandpa's blame, you

Just leave the responsibility to me!"

The guard looked helpless: "How can we have the courage...but the owner of the house does not allow passage."

It is well known to everyone in the Nan family that Nan Jihui loves Nan Shizhi. This second lady is destined to become the head of the Nan family in the future. Because she is extremely talented and has inherited the heroic bloodline of the Nan family's ancestors, it is impossible for her to marry outside and must stay.

Inherit the family business in the family.

Therefore, the education methods of the two young ladies of the Nan family are completely different. The eldest daughter receives a rigorous education, but she will serve as a bride and a bond of interests; while Minami Shiori can go out to school and be free, even Nan Jihui cannot.

Putting more restrictions will lead to laissez-faire.

Minami Shiori also knows this, so she often deliberately teases her family members by pretending to be spoiled to give her sister some breathing space.

She has always sympathized with Mahiru and doesn't understand why her family treats her sister who is also a blood relative so harshly.

The guards refused to let go, but Minami Shiori broke into the attic anyway, taking the rice balls she made herself.

Walking all the way to the top of the attic, Minami Shiori saw a haggard-looking Minami Mahiru.

Although the latter was haggard and weak, he still sat upright. Although he sat here without washing for several days, his quiet and dignified sitting posture made the deserted confinement room exude the refreshing fragrance of white plums.

Shiori usually behaves in a deliberately coquettish and domineering manner, but she restrains herself a lot only before Minami Mahiru.

As a half-sister, she sympathized with Mahiru and also envied Mahiru...envious of his calm demeanor and uncompromising pride.

In the eyes of her family, she is just an unreasonable girl, but her sister is the face of the Nan family and the real lady.

Mahiru closed her eyes and obviously heard the noise. She frowned and whispered: "Why did you break in... Genji and Takeru will be punished. I have told you many times that you must consider the consequences of doing things."

, don’t just come here based on your own preferences.”

"Sister, eat something. I brought rice balls. You can eat less to regain your strength..." Shiori skipped the topic and said directly: "I kneaded this myself. Although it doesn't look good, the inside is

It’s stuffed with salmon and plums, and there’s also hot miso soup and egg rolls.”

"Thank you...but I can't eat it."

"Why are you so stubborn? If you continue to be hungry, your body will not be able to bear it!"

"I can't bear it, so I have to continue." Mahiru said softly: "I don't want to be this bride. I don't want to marry someone I don't know. I don't want to have no choice... This is my only ability to resist."

"I don't understand this." Shiori clasped her fingers and retorted loudly: "I just understand that if the struggle is based on harming yourself, it is wrong... If you want to fight, you should choose a smarter and more compromise option.

In addition to torturing yourself, this may not make grandpa change his mind."

Mahiru was not convinced, but was still a little surprised: "Where did you learn these principles...finally have time to read a book instead of wandering around?"

Shiori sighed: "Sister, I have been studying at Meiji High School for more than two years. Don't treat me like a child. Although I am playful, I haven't fallen behind in basic homework. It's just different from you.

I just go to etiquette classes and various spiritual practices...I still like to read books in my spare time."

"High school... it's so good." Mahiru murmured, with a hint of envy and begging in his tone: "It must be very lively there, and there are many people of the same age. We can sit at the table and talk about interesting things together, go to class together, and

After school, go out for a walk together, you must have a good time."

Shizhi didn't know how to answer, and she said with a bit of sourness in her heart: "It's just so-so. In fact, it's not as good as my sister thought."

"Those are also things that I can't touch." Mahiru said: "I can't touch it now, and I won't touch it in the future. These experiences are destined to be absent in my life, so... Shiori, we are different,

Destined to take different paths, you can live as you wish, but it is already very difficult for me just to survive."

As she spoke, her tone suddenly became cold and decisive, indifferent and distant: "We are sisters, but our life experiences are too different. You and I are destined to not understand each other. You don't understand why I resist, and I don't understand either."

I don’t understand why you think fighting is easy..."

"I'm not...!" Shiori was anxious to explain.

Mahiru calmly interrupted: "I'm not blaming you or complaining, because everyone has their own destiny. I have already looked away from some of them. The rest will be left to time."

Shizhi listened half-comprehensively: "Sister, look away, why don't you take a bite?"

Mahiru shook his head: "These are two different things. I can look away, but it doesn't mean I have to do it your way... This is my stubbornness and my only self-esteem. As a sister, I don't want to be beaten by you.

Show compassion and mercy.”

Nan Shizhi stood up angrily: "Why are you so stubborn!"

Mahiru smiled quietly: "Because I can't see."

"To me, nothing is more terrifying and profound than this darkness."

"I walk on the edge of a cliff all the time, and I need to be careful about tripping and getting hurt by all kinds of things. If I didn't have enough courage and stubbornness, would I still be alive today?"

She smiled softly and self-deprecatingly: "I also wonder what the point of living like this is, but I have to have a little hope..."

Minami Shiori listened quietly to Mahiru's words.

She whispered: "I understand the truth, but...why don't you want to eat?"

After Mahiru Minami finished speaking, she turned her cheek slightly and sighed: "I really don't have anything to say to a hot-blooded idiot like you. I told you I won't eat the rice ball you made that looks like SpongeBob SquarePants!

”

"Even for my sister, this statement is too much! This rice ball clearly looks like a ruffian boss!"

……

The clouds are thick, and electric snakes are rolling and twisting in the clouds.

The guard guard in front of the Nan family's gate noticed a man walking staggeringly in the dark sky.

"People in front of you, stop...the front is a private residence, no trespassing is allowed."

The guard scolded.

He noticed that the other party was swaying and approaching, and his movements looked very strange, like a drunken man.

As the other party approached, the guard saw that the other party was holding a knife... The sword is a symbol of the samurai. If you take a knife on the street without a sword order, you will be taken away by the Metropolitan Police for questioning.

However, the other party's clothes don't look like a samurai, more like an executioner holding a sword and a sword.

"I'm going to do it if you don't stop!" the guard growled, holding the iron rod in his hand. The top of the rod was tied with cotton cloth, but it was just to hide the sharp edge on the top of the iron rod, but it was actually opened.

Sharp spear.

Just when he lowered the iron rod in his hand and made a move, he heard an extremely clear roar.

Boom——!

Thunder fell, violent rumbles tore through the quiet and anxious weather, and heavy rain fell.

In the flash of lightning, the guard only saw the strange man's body swaying slightly. He was ten steps away and arrived in front of him in the blink of an eye. He only had time to raise the weapon in his hand for defense, but saw the man wave his arm and use the knife.

With a flick of the light, the weapon in his hand broke and separated from half of his body, falling to the ground, and blood blossomed.

The moment the weapon cuts into the body, the blade seems to be sucked into the body.

The blood smeared on the blade was quickly sucked clean.

"Hee hee, hee hee hee -"

The murderer holding the bloodthirsty demon knife let out a weird laugh. He stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of Nan's house, shook his body, and crossed the threshold.

The shaking humanoid made a dry sound from its mouth. "I'm so thirsty...so thirsty..."

……

In the attic.

Minami Shiori seemed to hear a woman's scream coming from outside: "There seems to be some movement?"

"Is it... a scream?" Mahiru was slightly startled: "What's the matter?"

"I'll go take a look!" Nan Shizhi ran out of the attic in a hurry.

Mahiru waited for half a minute, but Shiori didn't come back.

She heard the scream again, and an ominous premonition came over her.

I was about to get up, but I was too weak to move.

"Although this rice ball is weirdly shaped, as if you ate a Teletubbies alive, it still tastes good... Are you really not going to eat something?"

At this time, suddenly, the familiar voice sounded mixed with the sound of eating.

If she hadn't been so weak, she would have even jumped up in surprise.

In fact, she tried to get up, but her legs were numb and she couldn't stand up at all for a while, as if she was jumping around like a drowning fish.

"Mr. Destiny?"

"Well, it's me... I suggest you eat something and don't waste other people's kindness. After all, you can't fight a war when you're hungry."
Chapter completed!