It was a sweet smell mixed with apples and honey. As a sweet tooth, he quickly recognized what it was. He opened his eyes and jumped out of bed, put on his slippers and ran to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Toru Amuro was taking out a freshly baked apple pie from the oven.
He placed the hot apple pie on the mat that had been prepared, took off his anti-scalding gloves, and turned around to see Jing Baiye running towards him.
An earring was shining brightly on his ear. This was an earring-type bug that Jing Baiye gave him last night after he used it when he was in France.
The bug was not turned on at this time, but was only worn as a decoration.
"The croissants are almost ready. You go and wash up first." Toru Amuro said, "Would you like milk or coffee for a drink?"
"Cow...coffee." Jing Baiye said, "Put more sugar in it for me."
He doesn't like anything bitter, never has.
"knew."
Amuro Toru smiled and turned around to prepare coffee for him.
When Jing Baiye changed clothes and finished personal hygiene and came out, Toru Amuro had already put the sliced apple pie, croissants and coffee on the dining table, and the two of them sat in the same position as the previous two days.
"Is there anywhere you want to go today?" Jing Baiye asked.
"I want to go to your old university to attend lectures." Amuro Toru said with a smile.
"I remember today's open class was about artificial intelligence."
Jing Baiye recalled the course schedule of the open class, and at the same time picked up the apple pie in front of him and put it in his mouth. He chewed it with his cheeks moving, swallowed it, and then took a sip of coffee.
The coffee was not bitter at all. I don’t know how much sugar Amuro Toru added. Jing Baiye happily took another sip.
"Since it's computer-related, you should know the professor who is taking the class?" Toru Amuro asked curiously.
"know."
Jing Baiye nodded. He was actually quite popular in school in the past. Most of his classmates, especially female classmates, were very friendly, and the professor was even more optimistic about him. This professor of artificial intelligence once invited him to stay in the school laboratory after graduation.
After he refused, he felt regretful for several days.
The two of them chatted and ate, and Jing Baiye was the first to finish. He put away the tableware, washed his hands, and walked to Toru Amuro.
"Angstra?" Toru Amuro looked up at him.
"I'll go with you."
Jing Baiye raised his hand, placed it on the blond hair and rubbed it gently.
"The professor's lecture speed is very fast, and the artificial intelligence course uses a lot of unfamiliar professional terms, which is not easy to understand." He smiled, "But don't worry, I will translate and explain it for you. If you have any questions,
If you know anything, you can ask me."
"This class is in the afternoon, and we happened to go to the cemetery first in the morning." Jing Baiye continued, "That neighbor's grandpa has always wanted to see me find many good friends, so I want to take you to see him - let's help together
He cleaned it up."
"good."
Amuro Toru said, he looked at Jing Baiye: "Let's go together."
…
In the morning, they came to the cemetery.
Toru Amuro took a broom and carefully swept away the snow around the tombstone, and placed the second apple pie he had made in front of it.
"Thank you for taking care of Angstra." He bowed to the tombstone.
There were only two of them in the cemetery, the church next door was even more lively, and the singing of the choir could be heard from a distance again.
"Because of your grace, I stand in the Holy of Holies and worship you in your glory..."
"Most precious Lord, who can be compared with you, I leave all things to gain you..."
Jing Baiye took a step forward, and when Amuro Toru raised his head, he took his arm.
"Amuro, were you here the afternoon before yesterday?"
"Yeah." Toru Amuro admitted, "After I left the school after the class, I asked someone for directions. I learned that there was only this cemetery nearby, so I came over to take a look, and I saw you standing here alone..."
I went to the cemetery that morning and waited until the afternoon before entering the church.
The system map kept floating beside him during the process. He saw the blue dot inside the church motionless, and also saw another blue dot leaving the school and approaching the cemetery.
But he didn't come in to look for him, he stayed far away for a long time, and then left alone.
"I have nothing but my life to dedicate to you..."
As if he was making a solemn oath, Toru Amuro whispered the lyrics that he had already memorized after hearing them many times.
The sun fell on him, dragging a long, gradually blurring shadow on the ground.
…
In the afternoon, they went to the MIT campus.
Jing Baiye was very familiar with everything here. He and Amuro Toru walked side by side and introduced everything in the school to him.
When passing the famous McLaren Dome, Jing Baiye stopped.
Last night, he and Amuro Toru went to bed very late. They first cleaned up the messy room together, and then he showed him a lot of things.
——Including the campus photos that did not capture anyone, but were treasured and stored in an encrypted album just because he had been there before. The best one was taken against the big dome.
The photo was taken on the grass in front of the school, where the graduation ceremony was held.
"Angstra?"
Seeing him stop, Toru Amuro turned around to look at him.
"Anuro, after the lecture is over, please wait for me while I borrow a set of academic uniforms from the professor."
Jing Baiye turned to look at Toru Amuro, his tone was very serious.
"Graduation photos were taken with relatives and friends. Unfortunately, Belmode was very busy and couldn't come over at that time. I only took a few photos with Shirley, and now I want to take them again with you."
"I want to turn all those empty landscape photos into group photos we took together."
Toru Amuro looked at him, her eyes sparkling as if they had fallen into the stars.
The two of them walked down the stairs together, and at this moment, something unexpected happened——
Toru Amuro may have accidentally stepped on the icy road, staggered, and fell forward headfirst. Based on his reflexes, he didn't react at all.
"Amuro?!!"
Seeing that he was about to fall, Jing Baiye was startled and quickly stretched out his hand to grab him.
It wasn't until Jing Baiye pulled him that Amuro Toru finally reacted. He turned his head and glanced at him, his wide eyes full of fear.
Jing Baiye asked him to stand up again. His heart was beating wildly. He held on to him and asked carefully: "Amuro, how are you? If you feel uncomfortable, I will take you back to rest."
"Class is about to start, let's go to the classroom together."
His hand covered Jing Baiye's hand, and his voice comforted him calmly, but his hand was trembling slightly.
…
Jie Byakuya completed the mission, but did not return home immediately, nor did he check out the hotel room in Boston. Instead, he and Toru Amuro traveled to other places in the United States.
Some of the scenic spots have been visited by Bai Ye, and some of them he has never been to. No matter where they are, he and Toru Amuro will take photos together. After taking the photos, they will take one photo each and keep it in the photo album of his mobile phone.
As if they were in a life-and-death race, they arranged a very tight schedule.
Amuro Toru has not been in good health these past few days. She often feels depressed during the trip and has to wake up for a long time in the morning. Sometimes she will fall asleep leaning on Jing Baiye's shoulder while sitting in the car.
Jingbai Nightclub waited patiently for him to wake up, and asked him if he wanted to stop and take a rest after he woke up. They would have plenty of time to play together in the future, so there was no need to rush.
But he rejected him.
"Please let me continue walking with you." Toru Amuro said firmly.
So after leaving the Grand Canyon, Jing Baiye took him all the way north.
That was their penultimate destination, Alaska, the northernmost state in the United States.
…
Alaska is the largest state in the United States. Because of its high latitude, winters are extremely cold and the nights are very long.
Jing Baiye chose this place because he wanted to watch the Byakuya phenomenon with Toru Amuro.
The white night phenomenon occurs in areas with latitudes of 48.5° north and south and higher, close to the polar circle but not in the polar circle, and cannot be seen in Japan.
It was already midnight when the plane arrived at Anchorage International Airport. During the flight, Jing Baiye had been taking care of Toru Amuro, who was resting on his shoulder, and didn't pay attention to anything else. It wasn't until the plane landed that he glanced out the window.
At this sight, he was stunned.
It was pitch black outside the window.
Amuro Toru finally woke up at this time. Jing Baiye felt movement and quickly went to see him: "Amuro, how do you feel?"
"fine."
Toru Amuro sat up straight and pressed his temples with very weak movements. When he turned around, he also saw the dark night sky outside the window: "We are in Alaska? What attractions are we going to?"
"No, I won't go to the scenic spots. I want to show you the White Night phenomenon." Jing Baiye said.
That was the origin of his name. He wanted to take him with him to see it.
Toru Amuro was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly: "Angstra... the white night phenomenon occurs in summer, but it's winter here, right? You can never see a white night here now."
All they could see was a dark night sky without any light.
Jing Baiye didn't expect that he even got this wrong. He took Toru Amuro's hand and said, "Then when summer comes, let's come here and watch it together."
Toru Amuro smiled at him, as if he wanted to respond. But he didn't say anything, and his head fell down.
He fell into a deep sleep again.
"…………"
The other people on the plane had already left the plane. When the flight attendant saw that there were still two people who had not gotten off the plane, he walked towards them.
As she approached, she saw someone leaning there motionless, and her original reminder turned into worry: "Is this gentleman feeling unwell?"
When Jing Baiye came to his senses, he took off the blanket for Amuro Toru and helped him up.
"It's okay." He said to the female flight attendant, his voice so calm that it seemed like he was saying something natural. "He's just a little tired and wants to rest for a while."
"I'll wait for him to wake up."
…
The next day, the two left Alaska and headed to their final destination.
When they arrived at the newly booked hotel, Amuro Toru found a bed and lay down to sleep as soon as he arrived. After packing his things, he took out the copy of "The Little Prince" that he had brought specially and hoped that Jing Baiye would read it to him.
Of course Jing Baiye agreed to his request.
He sat on the sofa by the floor-to-ceiling window, and Toru Amuro lay down with her head resting on his lap. Jing Baiye did not push him away, but opened the book and turned to the page with the bookmark.
"Where did you see it?" he asked.
"The fox says 'if you want a friend, tame me' there."
Jing Baiye found that paragraph and started reading from there.
The room was quiet except for the sound of his reciting and Toru Amuro's breathing becoming lighter and lighter.
After he turned the page, Toru Amuro suddenly called him.
"Angstra."
"I am here."
"Angstra."
"I'm here." Jing Baiye said patiently, "I said, I won't leave you behind."
This conversation has been held countless times in the past few days, and Jing Baiye will answer this every time. Over and over again, tirelessly.
He touched Toru Amuro's blond hair and his eyes fell on the illustration page of "The Little Prince".
The little prince sat on the ground, hugging the fox he had tamed in his arms. They cuddled together so closely that nothing could separate them.
Jing Baiye continued to read.
...In this way, the little prince tamed the fox, but he was about to be separated in an instant.
"Ah!" said the fox, "I will definitely cry."
"This is your fault," the little prince said. "I didn't want to bring you any pain, but you asked me to tame you..."
"Yes, that's it." said the fox.
"You are still crying!" said the little prince.
"Of course." said the fox.
After reading this, Jing Baiye suddenly felt the head on his legs move. He put down the book in his hand: "Amuro, what's wrong with you?"
"There's no need to cry, fox." Toru Amuro turned over but didn't get up. He smiled, "There's no need to cry."
"—He should feel happy."
The sun was setting outside, and the last glow of the setting sun passed through the floor-to-ceiling windows and fell on the two people on the sofa.
Jing Baiye noticed that the earring in Amuro Toru's hair was still shining, but when he looked carefully, he found that the shape of the earring was different from when he first gave it to him. The shape of the earring changed into a puppy, which should be the back.
Inlaid.
He couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and even stretched out his hand to touch it, but Toru Amuro stepped aside to avoid it.
"Don't touch it, it's not your fingerprints on it anymore," he said.
"That's..."
"I entered my fingerprint to lock it."
Toru Amuro was lying there on his back. He held one hand tightly against his heart, and held Jing Baiye's hand with the other hand, gently placing it on his head. Then he picked up the phone, with a slight touch on his fingers that was not easy to detect.
The tremor goes to unlock the screen.
Jing Baiye saw a metal pendant hanging on his mobile phone. For the first time, he saw clearly the two connected letters. They turned out to be A&A.
Toru Amuro sent an email. Out of respect for other people's privacy, Jing Baiye didn't peek at what he had sent. He just gently stroked his soft and beautiful blond hair.
"Angstra, when I was in France, I lay down like this, and you touched my hair like this, but you stopped halfway through that time."
"Because only you like it, the other one doesn't like it."
Jing Baiye noticed the personality change at that time, so he immediately stopped what he was doing - it was one thing not to notice it, but now that he was aware of it, he would not continue to do objectionable actions.
"That's true..."
Toru Amuro put down his cell phone and smiled so hard that his eyes were crooked. His expression was extremely satisfied, as if he was the happiest person in the world now.
Jing Baiye looked at the sky outside the window and did not continue to pick up the Japanese version of "The Little Prince". Instead, he picked up the American travel guide that he had read countless times in the past few days and turned to the page about Disneyland.
The two are now in Orlando, Florida. Orlando Disney is the largest Disneyland in the world, with a total of four theme parks.
This time they wanted to have a good time, so they bought two four-day tickets and didn't rush to go again.
"Angstra."
"I am here."
"Angstra."
"I am here, I have always been here. As long as you open your eyes, you can see me."
"Angstra..."
Amuro Toru chuckled. He looked at Jing Baiye and said seriously and firmly:
"As long as you call me, no matter when or where, I will appear."
"——Because I was born for you."
"Well, I know."
Toru Amuro had a smile on his face and lowered his hands.
His tightly clenched hand gradually loosened, and a keychain with dark brown cracks on it slipped from his fingers and fell to the ground.
Jing Baiye turned a deaf ear to the slight sound.
With a smile on his face, he said enthusiastically to the man lying on his lap with his eyes closed: "Anuro, let's go there later. We won't do anything today, just watch the fireworks. Today is theirs
On the anniversary, there will be a special fireworks show, which will definitely be beautiful..."
"We can go see it together and take a lot of photos together..."