"So, which drink do you want to drink first?" The Lord of Greed asked with his chin in his hands and looking at Ahs.
"Luo Bai, I'm too lazy to choose, so I just drink them in order."
"Haha, that's it." The Lord of Greed smiled, and Ahes didn't say anything. He directly picked up the drink called Luo Bai and drank it down in one gulp.
Then, Ahes felt dizzy, and the things in front of him began to disappear.
"Well, I wish you good luck, Aihe... No, it's Hou Shize."
After a period of dizziness, Ahes lowered his head and felt that he was sitting on a bench by the tree. The sunlight was shining for a while and Ahes could not open his eyes.
After adapting to the sunlight, Ahes looked straight ahead.
The sight in front of him left Ahs speechless for a while.
Everything around is modern architecture, not the medieval Western European steampunk style. This is clearly the original world. On the asphalt road, many students are wearing school uniforms and carrying schoolbags, saying goodbye to their parents behind them and heading towards
Walk to school.
The school sign says Yinghe Middle School, which is clearly his previous high school.
"This is an illusion. I created it based on your memory. How about it? It's quite real." A voice suddenly came. Ahes turned around and saw that the Lord of Greed was sitting next to him, but
I just didn't realize it.
"Why are you here..."
"Of course I want to come in and have a look at the memory illusion of a person who is not from this world. After all, this kind of situation is one of the few. I have only seen it once in so many years." The Lord of Greed hung the sheep-faced mask on her side.
The head said, "Don't pay attention to me, just keep reading."
Hearing this, Ahes looked at the asphalt road again, and saw several familiar figures walking towards the school.
That's myself and my parents.
At this time, I did not have the Hand of Ashes, nor did I have the name Ahs Gardner. At this time, I was still called Hou Shize, and I was just an ordinary student.
"Is that you? It's so cute. It's not even a year since it passed. Although the appearance is completely different, from the look and temperament, it looks like they are the same two people." The Lord of Greed said with a smile.
"I'm leaving." Hou Shize stepped forward, waved to his parents, and then entered the school.
Upon seeing this, Ahes immediately wanted to go forward and talk to his parents.
"Don't do that." As soon as he stood up, the Lord of Greed said, "I said, this is just an illusion. They can't see you or hear you."
Seeing his parents standing there and looking at his former back, Ahes clenched his fists and felt mixed feelings in his heart.
There was no choice but to sit on the bench again.
"Hmm, you are not from Yinghedu in this world, right? Why did you come to this city to attend high school?" The Lord of Greed still held his chin with interest and looked at the school gate and said.
"...My grades in junior high school were excellent." After a moment of silence, Ahes said, "We don't have any good local high schools, so my parents spent money to send me here."
"Oh, that's right."
After the Lord of Greed finished speaking, everything around him suddenly began to spin, as if the world was distorted. When he came back to his senses, Ahes found himself standing directly behind the classroom.
At a glance, I saw that I, Hou Shize, was sitting in the back row. Hou Shize lowered his head and didn't know what he was looking at.
"It's an exam paper, eighty-three points? Not bad. The people next to you only got sixty-odd points or even lower." The Lord of Greed walked to Hou Shize and said.
"It does look pretty good, but it can only be considered average in the class." Ahes said, looking at Hou Shize's back.
“Isn’t the average level good?”
"Didn't I say at that time that my grades in junior high school were very good, and I was among the top in the whole city, but when I got to high school, maybe it was because the string in junior high school was too tight. After the high school entrance examination, this string became
After I softened up, I started to be unable to keep up with the high school courses." Ahes also walked to Hou Shize and looked at the test paper and said.
"Why push yourself so hard? There's nothing wrong with relaxing."
"My father, Hou Xiujin, is a top student who graduated from 985 and is now a historian, and my mother, Mi Youyu, is also a doctor who graduated with a bachelor's degree. They are both very good people, so I have had high hopes from people around me since I was born.
, they think I won’t
I have achieved less than our parents, and I will be better than my parents. I have been instilled with this idea since I was a child, thinking that I am smarter than other people. For this reason, I have to work harder and harder to make myself a better person.
People around me can only watch my back and move forward."
As he spoke, Ahes felt his throat felt a little sore.
"But when I got to high school, I realized that I was wrong. I was not as smart as I thought. On the contrary, I was dumber than normal people. It took me longer to understand what normal people can understand in one class.
, and their efforts are no less than mine, no matter where they are
I can't compare to them at all." Ahes said, "Because of this, a gap gradually developed between my parents and I. They simply thought that I just relaxed, and their impression of me was still in junior high school.
At that time, it was the obedient, sensible and excellent-achieving Hou Shize."
"Really? It's really a tragedy." The Lord of Greed smiled, and the surrounding illusion began to change again. After the rotation and twisting stopped, Ahes found himself in the bedroom of his original world.
Hou Shize was sitting in front of the desk, holding the wallpaper knife on his wrist.
"Do you want to commit suicide because of those things?" The Lord of Greed said upon seeing this.
"No, apart from those, I can't make friends in school." Ahes looked at Hou Shize's back and said, "Because I came from out of town, and my eating habits and speaking accent are very different from those in the class.
Big difference. Not only that, I like reading books and watching anime. These hobbies can’t be found in common in the class. In order to
To blend in with them, I could only try my best to correct my accent, make myself look ugly to make them laugh, and while catering to their hobbies, I also learned to smoke, but it was useless. I still didn’t have any friends, and I gained the most.
That is to say, let the class know that there is a person named Hou Shize, so that they will not exclude me."
"That's all."
In front of the desk, Hou Shize scratched his wrist with a wallpaper knife, and a trace of blood flowed out. Then Hou Shize quickly took out a band-aid and covered the wound.
How ridiculous, I don’t have the courage to commit suicide, and I don’t have the courage to live.