Everyone held their breath and quietly admired the figure on the stage.
The fairy was strolling in her garden, her clothes fluttering in the wind, and the stage seemed to have really turned into a fairyland.
"Who broke into my garden?" she suddenly spoke to the person behind the curtain.
Her clear, transparent voice was still exceptionally beautiful and moving amid the howling wind.
The stage lights suddenly dimmed, leaving only two spotlights.
A beam of light hit the fairy, her white skirt, transparent skin, and even her hair were sparkling.
Another beam of light hit the empty floor in front of the curtain.
All the teachers and students of Shenchuan High School were staring at her intently. In their sight, the girl first slowly poked her head out and looked around curiously in the spotlight, then carefully walked out of the curtain and stepped into the spotlight.
She changed into a white dress.
The style and manner are different from those of fairies, and one can see her "mortal" side - so clever and vivid, like a little deer with clear eyes jumping out of the jungle.
The girl walked towards the fairy, and the spotlight moved forward with her.
During this process, there was not a single line of dialogue, but everyone was fully focused, as if they had really traveled through time and space and witnessed the scene with their own eyes.
The girl stood in front of the fairy, with two spotlight circles closely adjacent to each other.
"Are you a fairy?" the girl asked curiously.
"Yes." The fairy nodded.
"I came from the Kingdom, and I wanted to find the end of the world. I don't know why I changed into a new set of clothes. They are so beautiful. I have been to many places and met all kinds of people, but I have never seen such beautiful clothes."
The girl excitedly talked a lot to herself, and suddenly seemed to remember something and asked the fairy:
"By the way, you are a fairy, do you know where the end of the world is?"
"The end of the world?"
"Well, the end of ."
"I don't know what the end of the world is."
"Even you, a fairy, don't know? What should I do? Is the map incomplete?" The girl felt very disappointed.
"Why do you want to go to the end of the world?" asked the fairy.
"Because that is a place the devil cannot reach." The girl's tone was full of longing.
"Evil cannot reach here either."
"Really?! Could it be that wonderland is the end of the world?" the girl said in surprise.
Then she asked the fairy expectantly, "Can I stay?"
"Since you are here, you have been recognized by the fairyland," the fairy stretched out her hand, "Come on."
The girl looked at the fairy's hand and slowly placed her hand on it.
At the same time, the two spotlights merged into one, forming a large circle, which then slowly spread out until the dim stage was lit up again.
In an instant, flowers bloomed, birds sang, and pleasant music came from afar.
The fairy took the girl to visit the fairyland, and the girl was amazed at the scenery that she was accustomed to.
"I'm so happy!" On a hillside covered with green trees, the girl couldn't help but dance, and her cheerful laughter filled the fairyland.
Infected by her smile, the fairy also laughed.
The sky was bright on the stage, and the audience seemed to be immersed in a fairyland with singing birds and fragrant flowers, forgetting the strong wind and heavy rain.
After spending a happy time with the fairy, the girl remembered her agreement with the witch and said goodbye to the fairy.
"Remember," the fairy warned before leaving, "you must not be discovered by anyone. Once you are discovered, the devil will notice you and follow you to the fairyland."
"Well, don't worry, I've got it in mind!"
"besides……"
"Um?"
"Come back soon."
The girl was stunned for a moment, then she smiled brilliantly: "Yeah!"
As the girl slowly moved away from the fairy, the lights on the stage dimmed, returning to just two spotlights.
When the girl completely disappeared, the fairy was left alone in the fairyland.
She is in the spotlight, looking into the distance.
In the dim fairyland, there are birds singing and pleasant music. The fairy is still as beautiful as ever, but it gives people a sense of desolation.
Like a white wandering soul, floating alone in the boundless wilderness.
Compared with the happiness just now, just looking at this scene, the audience's hearts were inextricably plunged into sadness.
Some sentimental girls have been secretly wiping away their tears and praying secretly for a good ending.
The curtains closed.
"After many hardships, the girl finally found a place that the devil couldn't reach, but she left because of a promise. Can she return to the wonderland again?"
The curtain opened and the witch was sitting on the tree roots reading a book.
Soon, the girl appeared.
After leaving the fairyland, her clothes returned to their original appearance, her hair was disheveled, grass was hanging on her clothes, and she looked dusty.
In order to keep her promise with the fairy, the girl slept in the open air, suffered a lot, and finally arrived at the witch's forest.
"As long as I put the note with instructions on how to get to Fairyland where the witch often reads, I can go back and continue to be with the fairies."
She sat behind a tree, looking forward to her reunion with the fairy and waiting for the witch to leave.
What the girl didn't expect was that the witch was different from the ordinary people she had been avoiding all the way. She possessed magic that ordinary people could hardly imagine and resist.
"Who's there?" The witch closed the book.
As she spoke, the tree where the girl was hiding slowly moved away.
"Ah!" The girl quickly covered her face.
The stage lights suddenly dimmed.
In the two spotlights are the witch and the girl;
Outside the two spotlights, an unclear figure stood there, silently watching the two of them.
"Ah!" the audience exclaimed.
"Run away, the devil is coming." Someone was so engrossed in watching that he kept reminding everyone anxiously.
The girl was in a panic and the witch comforted her.
When the girl calmed down, she told the witch everything about the fairyland.
"Can I still go back to Wonderland?" The girl asked confusedly and fragilely, with her hands on her chest.
This was the first time that the brave and strong girl who had experienced so much, who could tease the devil, showed such an expression.
The witch shook her head.
"How could it be... How could it be..."
"I'm sorry." The witch looked apologetic.
He put away his disappointment in front of the girl and said with a smile: "It's okay, you don't know that I can't be discovered."
After hearing this, some viewers suddenly remembered the previous plot - the witch who could even sympathize with the devil.
"You may be able to go back," the witch continued, looking at the girl's bright eyes, "but the devil has found you, and if you go back, he will take him to the fairyland."
The girl's eyes dimmed again.
The witch left the stage, leaving only the girl and the devil who was always standing on the edge of the spotlight, watching her.
"Fairy." The girl thought.
"It's all my fault. I didn't keep my promise. Goodbye."
"No! I'm not wrong!"
The girl fell into anger and confusion.
"I want to go back!" Finally, she made up her mind, "Even if the devil enters the fairyland, even if the fairy hates me, I want to see the fairy and be with her forever!"
The sound of the wind grew louder and louder, and the audience watched the girl running and disappearing behind the scenes, as if they saw a shrine maiden who cared so much about the gods that she didn't care about the gods' feelings and who made a deal with the devil.
"I understand!" a boy said impatiently, "In the end, the girl will be forgiven just like the female knight!"
"That's great." A girl breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the fairy did not forgive the girl like the kingdom forgave the knight, even though the girl had tried her best and even though it was not an accident that the girl could have avoided.
"No, absolutely not." The fairy looked at the girl coldly.
"Why?" the girl begged.
"Look at yourself."
The girl looked down and saw that the white dress she wore when she first came to Wonderland had now turned black.
The girl lost her strength, fell down on the stage, and cried with her face covered.
The fairy's gaze was cold and her beautiful face expressionless, which made people feel cold in their hearts.
"Why can't you forgive?" a girl said anxiously.
"After all, it's a violation of the rules, there's nothing we can do about it," someone said.
"But didn't the female knight who made a deal with the devil also get everyone's forgiveness and live happily together with everyone?"
"Humans are humans, fairies are fairies, and fairies hate demons more and have less sympathy than humans."
As everyone discussed the plot, the devil finally stepped out of the shadows and stood next to the crying girl.
"You win." The fairy said to the devil without any emotion.
According to the script, the devil should then say politely and with a hint of pride: "No, it took a long time."
The fairy replied: "Time? Does the devil care about that? Stop your taunting. I will take the fairyland away and let this world come to an end."
"Not yet." The devil, no, Toru Watanabe changed the lines.
"I've been waiting for you." said Qingye Rin.
From the moment I got the script.
Kiyono Rin stared at Watanabe Toru quietly. She did not show any surprise and her voice was calm with a hint of coldness.
He has feelings that he wants to convey through the drama, and she will also tell him her determination.
The gymnasium suddenly became quiet; the sounds of music and people's discussions all disappeared.
The thunder and rain outside hit the eardrums even more violently.
"The kingdom can forgive the knight, so why can't you forgive her?" Watanabe Toru's eyes, which were slightly darker than those of ordinary people, looked straight at Kiyono Rin.
"Some people can forgive betrayal, some people can't, they just choose differently."
"She kept her promise to you, but she broke it because of something that ordinary people could never do... So you're going to expel her from the fairyland too?"
Qingye Rin fell silent and lowered his eyes slightly.
Kujo Miki, the Kujo family, and the scene when she was four years old surged in her mind.
Just like a gear, once life turns in the wrong direction, it will always be wrong.
Fighting alone for a long time will either lead to collapse or to possess determination and will that are unimaginable for ordinary people.
Kiyono Rin raised her eyes and her gaze fell on Watanabe Toru's face.
“That’s right,” she said.
The thunder was dull, but the audience turned a deaf ear to it, forgetting that it was a typhoon day and looking at the stage nervously.
"What's going on?" Ikki Aoi was confused and worried.
"Don't worry, leave it to Watanabe." Koizumi Aona looked at Watanabe Toru on the stage. She trusted him more than herself.
Watanabe Toru stared at Kiyono Rin.
Starting at the age of four, one person persisted for thirteen years.
She stood alone in the boundless wilderness. Watanabe was fascinated by her beautiful figure and admired her from the bottom of his heart.
But compared to all this, no matter what she thought or what path she planned to take in the future, Toru Watanabe wanted to see her laughing in the crowd - this was his arrogance and selfish opinion.
"Only by caring for each other and understanding each other can life be happy." This is the life he learned from Kujo Miki and Koizumi Aona, and now he tells it to Kiyono Rin.
"Everyone has his own happiness. If you live according to your own will, you can also be happy."
"It's certainly right to stick to your principles and stick to yourself. I won't say it's wrong either. But I want you to give up and leave Wonderland."
"You betrayed me?" Qingye Rin's voice really turned cold.
The typhoon seemed to have just discovered the stadium and swept in suddenly.
The clouds followed closely behind, furious, and threw lightning fiercely to the ground. The sky was as bright as day, and then there was a loud bang and it exploded violently.
The world is shaking.
"No." Watanabe Toru closed his eyes.
"Let me give up, you are telling the truth." Qingye Rin said slowly, enunciating each word.
"no."
Qingye Rin sneered and stared fiercely at Watanabe Toru who had his eyes closed.
"You love Kiyono too much to look at her objectively and think about everything from her perspective."
"You and Kiyono Rin are so close that you can't think calmly."
"Kujou is responsible for the family and cannot see through lies, but you asked her not to lie, even though she has already stopped lying to you!"
"Meiji has made efforts, but what about you, Qingye? If you want to be friends with someone, do you care about each other at least? Do you just let others cater to you? "
'Love is not one-sided, it is mutual!'
A series of plans, a bunch of principles, and a basket of words that had been thought of long ago supported Toru Watanabe to get here and stand on the stage.
but……
Only by being cold-blooded and ruthless can one remove the private feelings, find a solution, and fulfill his wish - but he still can't do it.
He opened his eyes and looked at Kiyono Rin.
That pretty face, filled with anger of betrayal and an expression as cold as ice.
If this wasn't a stage for a drama performance, she would have already turned and left.
Even though her eyes were as cold as a blade, making people dare not look directly at her; even though she was stubborn, cold and ruthless... Toru Watanabe still liked her hopelessly.
'All the flowers bloom for you, you are so different.'
No matter how many choices he has in life, Toru Watanabe has only one choice: to love Kiyono Rin.
"You better stop it." He said coldly.
At this moment, the typhoon fled in panic and the clouds dared not make even the slightest sound.
Everyone held their breath, and Qingye Rin looked at him in disbelief.
"The world outside is very exciting," said Toru Watanabe. "There are witches who can sympathize with the devil, and shrine maidens who make deals with the devil because they love the gods and don't care about the gods' feelings. There are all kinds of people and all kinds of things. Don't you want to go and see it? Why do you want to stay in this cold wonderland with only flowers?"
"No? Is that wrong?"
"No. It's wrong."
"reason?"
"No reason."
"Are you being unreasonable?" Qingye Rin sneered.
Toru Watanabe thought of Asuka Mai and didn't care about anything, even his wishes, as long as she was with him.
"You are the only one who can make me act so recklessly, worry so much and work so hard," said Toru Watanabe.
"..." Qingye Rin fell silent and turned her face away, avoiding his sight.
"I won't force you to make any choice, but I want you to answer me now: Have you ever regretted it? Have you ever thought about reconciling with her?"
In the script, fairies can't lie.
In reality, Kiyono Rin would not lie.
I don't know when the strong wind stopped, and the silence like the drizzle falling on the eaves was taking place in the gymnasium.
After a long time, Qing Ye Lin spoke calmly:
"……have."
…
"The fairy admits her mistake and the world comes to an end." Watanabe Toru clapped frivolously, as if the confrontation just now had never existed.
Everyone then came to their senses and were amazed.
"What a cunning devil!"
"He pretended to be a good person and took the initiative to persuade the fairy to forgive the girl. I was wondering why, but that's how it is!"
"Could it be that the devil prepared the map from the beginning?"
"Perhaps the witch, miko, female knight, and young girl were all used by the devil. They are the devil's pawns. The devil's target was the fairy from the beginning."
“So this is what the end of the world means.”
The audience was eager to discuss their understanding of the plot, and only came to their senses and applauded vigorously when they saw the curtain slowly fall.
Watching the curtain gradually closing, Toru Watanabe breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's completely different from the plan." Miki Kujo said beside him.
"That's it. That's enough."
At this moment, Qing Ye Lin suddenly walked up to him and whispered, "I have something to tell you later."
"..." When Toru Watanabe saw her sharp eyes, he wailed in his heart.
"Miji..." There came a day when he actually asked Kujo Miji for help.
"Go, dear." Kujo Miki said with a smile.
Backstage, people applauded.
“It’s wonderful!”
"What great acting, I thought they were really arguing!"
"Yeah, I was shocked!"
"We are the Oscar-winning male and female protagonists, this is nothing." Watanabe Toru responded.
After changing their clothes, Toru Watanabe and Rin Kiyono came to the corridor leading to the school building on the second floor of the gymnasium.
The typhoon has stopped and it is drizzling.
Before Qing Ye Lin spoke, Watanabe Toru said like a child: "I'm sorry for being mean to you, but that's because I like you."
"I guessed what you were going to do on stage when I got the script."
"So you were ready to reconcile with Meiji a long time ago?"
"Don't change the subject." Qingye Rin glanced at him.
"You are not one of them either." Thinking this, Watanabe Toru became more and more worried.
There was one thing in this whole thing that he could not justify in any way, and Qingye Rin obviously noticed it.
"In Karuizawa..."
really.
"…Because if you had said it directly, I wouldn't have agreed to perform in a play, so when we were in Karuizawa, you deliberately talked about our first meeting and led me to sing along. It seemed that you decided to perform in a play on the spur of the moment because you liked this way of chatting—did you lie to me?"
"No. I just said it casually."
"Take advantage of my nostalgia for the past..."
"If I step down, will you forgive me?"
Qing Ye Lin looked at Watanabe Toru coldly: "Open the window."
"Do you want me to jump?"
As soon as the window was opened, fresh and comfortable air rushed in immediately. Summer was completely over and Tokyo had completely entered autumn.
Qingye Rin took a deep breath into the cool night air.
"Um, Kiyono-san, R-san?"
"What can I do with you?" Qing Ye Lin turned her head and smiled helplessly, "You like me so much, and I like you so much."
Watanabe Toru was speechless.
Is his mood at this moment the same as when Qingye Rin heard him say on the stage, 'You are the only one who can make me act so recklessly and worry so much and work so hard'?
…
Although the typhoon has stopped, the tram service has not been restored and the school is worried about letting the students go back so late, so they still have to stay in school overnight.
When it was time to sleep, Miki Kujo slept between Toru Watanabe and Rin Kiyono. She didn't want to sleep next to them even if there was a girl.
Qingye Rin lay in the dark, thinking about everything she had experienced on the stage today.
At that time... maybe I was really too cruel to Kujo Miki.
She closed her eyes and questioned her innermost thoughts.
Do you hate Kujo Miki?
Hate.
Do you hate being with Kujo Miki?
I don't hate it, I'm used to it.
What if I continue to be friends with her?
...It's not impossible.
At the age of four , who made more mistakes?
Kujo Miki broke the agreement first, but since she was only four years old at the time, she didn't lie at all, so she was a little more wrong.
Qingye Rin exhaled.
In the darkness, she reached to the right and touched Kujo Miki's slender fingers.
The next moment, Kujo Miki took away her fingers and changed her sleeping position from lying flat to sleeping with her back to her and facing Watanabe Toru.
Kiyono Rin's hand was left between the two of them.
She stared in silence at the dome-like ceiling of the gymnasium.
Once the gears turn wrong, there is no going back.
Qingye Rin closed her eyes, plunging the world into complete darkness.
At this moment, her hand was touched, and the thin and long fingers gently touched her hand.
A warm current surged in his heart, and Qingye Rin, who had never changed her sleeping position, suddenly had the urge to turn over in bed.
At some point, one of the hands that touched each other stretched forward, and at this moment, the other also stretched forward.
In the darkness, it was impossible to tell who changed their posture first. All I knew was that the hands, which were originally just lightly touching, were finally held together.