episode_0071

Jin, who was chewing hay with a serious expression, slowly began to turn around as if he sensed the presence of me and Shine.

“Ah… .”

His mouth was gaping open, and wet hay fell from his mouth.

The hay fell with a small thud, and the rabbits in the vicinity gathered around and started eating it.

“Hello?”

Jin stood up from his seat and greeted us warmly.

He looked like he was chewing hay until just now, which was unbelievable.

He said, brushing a piece of hay off the corner of his mouth.

“Are you looking for me?”

The sparkling gaze, the greed contained within. Those were clearly the eyes of someone who coveted talent.

I swallowed as I met his gaze.

“Jin.”

“Yeah. I’m Jin.”

“I want to do the same thing as Amy.”

He looked surprised at what I said.

One eyebrow rises skyward, and the corners of the mouth tremble subtly.

“Really…? Really?”

“Yes.”

I nodded.

Shine, who was next to me, grabbed my arm, but I didn’t look back.

“Jeff… .”

“Okay Jeff. I get your point. Does Amy know about this too?”

“No.”

“I thought so, if Amy had thought the same, she wouldn’t have sent you guys to me.”

As Jin spoke, he scattered bales of hay over the rabbits.

As the hay scattered in all directions, the rabbits’ eyes grew as big as bells and they began to rush towards the food.

“Okay. Jeff, you and I are thinking the same thing. Aren’t we?”

“Yes… ?”

“I really want you to work for us, and of course, Shine next to you.”

Jin’s voice, which was heard clearly, begins to become blurry.

As the words reached their end, I could see the back of Shine blocking my path.

“You!”

The moment I heard Shine’s voice, a loud scream, Jin’s voice that had been filling my head disappeared as if it had been washed away.

The sensation in my body returns.

As my hazy mind began to come back to me, I could see Jin and Shine glaring at each other.

Two people started a snowball fight with rabbits between them.

I shook my head and approached them both.

“Jin? Shine?”

There was no answer from either of them.

Shine’s mouth opened when the rabbits had eaten all the hay.

As the rabbits at her feet disappeared, Shine opened her mouth.

“What were you trying to do to Jeff?”

Shine was asking Jin.

But Jin kept his mouth tightly shut and did not answer.

“Say it! What were you going to do to Jeff!”

Shine’s gaze shook violently.

She was genuinely anxious.

Before he could even feel any doubt, Jin suddenly began to tremble.

“Say it!”

Shine’s high-pitched scream shook the small farm.

My brain feels like it’s shaking.

I sat on the floor, holding my head.

It was the same for the rabbits, they lay on the floor like me.

Jin, who had been shaking and trembling all over, suddenly collapsed with a nosebleed.

Eyes turned white and hands trembled.

But even then, Jin’s mouth did not open.

“Jeff… .”

The shadow of Shine falls over my head as I lie on the floor.

I just raised my head and looked up at her.

“It’s too hard… .”

The appearance of Shine, drooping and limp.

It was a miserable sight, but for some reason I felt goosebumps and the hairs on my whole body stood on end.

“If I push it too hard, it might break… .”

“Shine… .”

“Because Jeff is precious… . I always tried to be careful… .”

The shadow begins to shake.

Her figure slowly swaying from side to side.

A broken smile hangs over Shine’s face as it begins to blend in with the shadows.

“I tried to do something weird to my precious Jeff.”

“Shine… !”

A body that cannot move due to an unknown force.

I tried to raise my ability like before, but I couldn’t use it because of the strange flow that was messing with my head.

A blue light flashed at the tip of his finger, but then scattered like dust.

Shine…!

A body that does not move,

Unable to even move my tongue, my voice calling her name was scattered inside my mouth, unfinished.

Shine sank to the floor.

In her hands she held a rabbit that had been lying limply beside her.

“If you push it too hard, it will break… .”

Shine’s small hand rising above the rabbit’s head.

She gently stroked the rabbit’s head.

The rabbit was blinking its small eyes, but the moment Shine’s hand passed by, the rabbit’s eyes slowly began to close.

The appearance of the rabbit lying down is completely different from before.

The small chest that had been rising and falling with breathing no longer showed any movement.

“Jeff… .”

Shine looked at me with a small sigh.

The emotion in her eyes is clearly affection.

Overflowing, terribly large affection moves in a twisted direction.

“I’ll make it a little stronger.”

Shine came towards me, muttering softly.

The hand that slowly reached out covered my face.

A small hand flinches and caresses my cheek.

“Because it was Jeff’s fault.”

Hands moving smoothly.

I close my eyes and surrender myself to her touch.

It feels like all the senses in my body are fading.

The head, lifted slightly, goes up onto Shine’s knees.

A small breeze blows and sweeps my hair away.

I blinked and looked up at Shine.

Shine with a bright smile.

She gently stroked my head without saying a word.

Shine.

Open your mouth.

But the voice doesn’t come out.

I was flustered and tried to reach out, but my body wouldn’t move at all.

“Don’t do anything dangerous.”

Shine’s voice continues, almost like a whisper.

“Do not use your powers in front of me.”

“Don’t reject me.”

“Don’t talk to Jin.”

“Always together.”

The voice sank a little deeper.

“Don’t recall old memories anymore.”

White snow falls over a huge mountain of garbage.

Pure white snow covering the entire memory.

There was no longer a mountain of trash in front of him.

“Jeff. Are you having a hard time?”

I just blinked without answering.

Is it hard?

I?

“Hehehe… !”

Shine burst into a small laugh and began to speak.

“Yes, Jeff. I wish Jeff would rely on me more.”

My head felt cold.

It felt like someone had tapped directly on my brain.

I, who had been feeling a severe headache, raised my hand as my body’s senses returned to me.

“Jeff. I’m your sister. Right?”

My face is distorted from headache.

Through the furrowed eyes, Shine’s smiling face can be seen.

She moved her hand and grabbed mine.

“I’ll make sure Jeff is out of danger.”

Shine, who had been mumbling softly, blinked and nodded.

“That’s right. I have to do that so that Jeff is not in danger. To do that, I have to get a little bit stronger. A little bit stronger, right?”

Shine, who was looking down at me, raised her head.

Her gaze turned to Jin, who was covered in rabbits.

“Jeff. Jeff was right. I have to get stronger to protect my family… Jeff. Jeff thought the same thing as me, right?”

Ahaha!

Shine’s laughter burst out.

She was smiling as if she was genuinely happy.

“Jeff, I really like you!”

Shine lifted me up from my lying position and hugged me.

However, Shine’s weak arms could not support my body, and she fell down with me onto the green lawn.

“Let’s do the same thing as Amy. So we get the suit and support items and become stronger.”

Shine, who hugged my body with all her might.

She nodded as if she had made up her mind about something and got up from her seat.

“I will protect Jeff from anything that could put him in danger. I will do that.”

As she said that, Shine approached Jin, who was lying down helplessly.

Shine squats down and starts hitting Jin’s cheek without mercy while he is lying down.

Slap slap – Every time a small hand brushes Jin’s cheek, Jin’s cheek turns bright red.

“Wake up. Wake up.”

“Ugh… .”

Jin groans in pain.

He still seemed to have not come to his senses.

“Listen carefully, we’re going to do the same thing as Amy.”

“Work…? Amy…? Resistance…?”

“That’s right. Jeff and I will be the resistance.”

Okay. If you do one, two, three, that’s how it happens.

Shine lifted Jin up and placed the rabbit in his arms.

And then she started counting.

one.

two.

three.

match-!

***

“Jeff!”

Blurry vision begins to become clear.

I was sitting there blankly, blinking my eyes and looking around.

The familiar layout of the room, and even the computer screen in front of me.

It was all so familiar.

“Jeff. Are you asleep?”

Just then, a familiar voice was heard from right next to me.

“Ah… Rain?”

Rain’s face with a bright smile.

It seems it was Rain who was calling me.

The bandage wrapped around her right arm catches the eye.

“Discharged…?”

“Yeah! Today is it.”

A little chick flaps its bandaged arm.

Are you not sick?

When I looked at her with concern, she answered with a confident expression.

“I’m okay!”

“Ah… . Yeah.”

I smiled awkwardly and patted Lane’s head.

The softly flowing hair dug between my fingers.

After feeling that pleasant, tingly sensation for a while, I checked the date written at the bottom of the computer screen.

January 20th.

After staring at the blinking clock for a while, I sighed and got down from the chair.

I can’t remember what I was doing just now.

“Where’s Shine?”

“I went out for a bit with Amy.”

A strange sense of unease rises at Rain’s words that Shine is not in this room right now.

I wiggled my fingers and sat down at the table in front of the room with a clear view of the entrance.

“Are you waiting for Shine?”

“Yeah.”

“Jeff, does Shine look really good?”

“Yeah! Wow. The best thing in the world.”

Rain came over and sat down next to me, rubbing his cheek on the table with a jealous look on his face.

“Then me?”

“Rain is the third.”

“The second one?”

“Amy.”

“I think I’ll feel a little disappointed.”

“Sorry, Rain.”

Rain turned his head away with a sour expression at my apology.

That sight made me laugh awkwardly.

Shine.

When will shine come?

Shine.

The little fingers placed on the table move busily.

I picked up a small pen and put it down.

It was repeated several times, making a small noise.

Not long after that, the front door opened and Shine and Amy, who had been waiting for us, appeared.

“Shine! Amy!”

The sound of my heart, which had been pounding anxiously, became a rough sound as it filled with excitement.

Slightly flushed cheeks.

A smile appears on her face, flushed with warmth.

Shine opened the front door and came in, and looked surprised when she saw me.

“Jeff?”

Dadadat-!

As you run towards Shine, the sound of small footsteps echoes several times.

A hand extended with all one’s might.

Shine instinctively opened her arms to see me like that.

“Shine!”

Shine’s soft and fluffy embrace.

A familiar scent wafted deeply.

“It’s fixed!”

Shine, who had been frozen in embarrassment, soon smiled brightly and hugged me.

What do you mean by it being fixed?

As I looked at her with a puzzled look, small, soft lips descended on my cheek.

As soon as I heard a small “Chu-” sound, I jerked back in surprise.

The hand that touched my cheek felt strangely damp.

Shine looking at me with a playful smile.

Embarrassed, I sat down on the floor with my mouth wide open.

The hand that was resting on my cheek was so hot that it was overwhelming.

The pounding heart showed no signs of stopping.

My heart was beating so fast that I was worried it might burst.

It’s a strange feeling.

The very faint feeling I had felt before suddenly grew stronger.