In the past, behind the Holy Cross Orphanage, deep in the cave.

Fana uncovered the branches and weeds used to cover up the cave, and groped into the bottomless darkness. She held a small flashlight in her hand, and the flashlight pierced the endless darkness like a beam of sharp swords, as if lost in it.

The flashlight found a child with his head buried in his knees in a corner at the bottom of the cave.

Raya Hada raised her head from her knees and raised her hand to block the glare of the flashlight.

"Eat," Fana said.

Raya still had no intention of getting up. She pouted and shook her head.

Fana turned off the flashlight and sat beside her in the dark.

The two girls sat silently in the dark for a while, until Raya broke the silence.

"I don't want to go back," she said lowly. "I hate that place. I hate everyone."

Fana didn't speak, just patted her head lightly.

"I like it here." The irritability in Raya's voice was slightly reduced. "It's very quiet here. There are not so many annoying people."

This was their secret stronghold, and they were the only ones who discovered this place in the entire orphanage. They carefully camouflaged the entrance with twigs and bushes so that no other children would notice.

Of course, even if you don't pretend, the chances of being discovered are not great. There are only half of the normal-sounding children in the whole yard, and there are quite a few children with limited mobility in that half. Among the few remaining children who sneak out from time to time are basically only the two of them, and no one else will find this place.

Raya raised her head and looked towards Fana in the dark: "We will always be friends, right?"

"......Um."

The girl stroked her head lightly, just like treating her own sister.

"Yes."

 …

This moment, now.

"I thought you'd forgotten about this place long ago," Raya said. "I guess, the accident at that store owned by Yoshimura made you contact me, right? When I noticed that you happened to be at the scene of the accident , I thought of this possibility.

But how did you connect me with Yoshimura? "

"Neighbor." Fana said softly, "I see."

"A neighbor saw me? I guess it's Aunt Li who talks a lot?" Laya shrugged, "I only stayed at Yoshimura's house for a few days, and I tried my best not to show my face, but I didn't expect someone to see it ..."

Just earlier today, when investigators from the Ninth Office were investigating near Yoshimura's home, a neighbor mentioned that a little girl was suspected to have entered and left the house two days before the Yoshimura couple disappeared. As far as neighbors know, the couple has no children.

Fana heard about it. In the afternoon, she personally went to the door to ask the neighbors. Seeing the child's appearance, she quickly thought of her former friends in the orphanage.

So she came here, the place where she grew up.

"Look at you, pretty face, exquisite clothes, you are already a princess, right?" Raya said sarcastically, "I guess it must be very difficult for you to come back to this kind of place for a stinky mouse like me." not easy."

"I don't......"

"I bet that old guy Zhai Liangtao must be respectful to you now, if necessary, he would like to kneel down and lick your black silk."

Raya didn't seem to want to listen to her at all.

"Because you look like a human now, you have become a white swan, so naturally you can't be with our group of forgotten ugly ducklings. Do you know? I have seen you, I have seen you outside.

In the most prosperous center of the city, I live in a single-family apartment, with beautiful clothes, and a special car to pick me up. The old guy used to look at us like he was looking at mold, but now he has to confess you.

I bet you feel better about yourself now too, right? "

Fana: "..."

"Ha, if you want to say you've been donating money to make yourself feel better, I know." Raya was unimpressed, "I don't care what the old guy promises about the future of this place. But we all know that It's an illusion."

Raya stared coldly.

"I know it, and deep down you know it yourself. We're all outcasts, from birth.

Our lives are all doomed to be a single straight line. Even if we meet someone occasionally, we can only have the fate of being abandoned again in the end.

Because this is who we really are. Maybe you can use money and status to whitewash yourself, maybe others will cooperate with you hypocritically and tell you that you are important. You can also spend a lot of money to make this accursed place look better.

But no matter how hard you try to immerse yourself in that illusion, you will never, ever be able to fill yourself up. Because we are born that way, we are born with a gap. "

Fana was silent for a short while.

"You were adopted," she said suddenly. "Why..."

"Glad to hear you bring it up." Raya smiled. "Yes, that experience meant a lot to me. I did naively think at one point that the gap could be filled, and I really did. But Soon I found out that I was wrong.

They felt that I owed them the adoption and that I would never be able to meet their demands. I think they may have just been impulsive and it didn't take long to lose their initial enthusiasm ~lightnovelpub.net~ I overheard them seriously discussing sending me back to this place. I knew then that there are certain things we are born with like curses that are impossible to get rid of no matter how much you hate them. "

After a pause, she changed the topic, and a permeable smile appeared on her childish face.

"But it was at that time that I learned a more important lesson." She said with a smile, "God has taken away from us what we were born with, and we have no choice but to learn to take it ourselves." return.

Look, it's like this. "

Fana noticed the figures coming out from the shadow of the flames on both sides.

From the figure, it can be vaguely seen that there are two people, a man and a woman, with distorted bones and bloated bodies, and the protruding eyeballs in the eye sockets are full of bloodshot eyes, which is shocking.

"Meet my parents, the Jordans." Raya smiled brightly. "Look, they love me from the bottom of their hearts now."

Fana glanced at them.

"what have you done?"

Raya did not directly answer the question.

"Do you remember? I have talked to you more than once before... I said why there is so much love in the world, everyone has it, but we are the only ones who don't?

But that doesn't matter anymore. "

The girl grinned, and showed a more weird and permeating smile under the flickering firelight.

At the same time, Fana noticed more eyes lit up in pairs from the shadows on all sides of the cave.

Men and women with distorted bodies, some walking and some crawling, walked out of the darkness into the firelight one after another. Countless shadows were cast by torches on the stone wall and the ground, as if weaving into a dark net to protect Raya in the center.

"Look." The girl's smile became brighter, "Now, I have countless loves."