The bright red juice ran down the corners of Love's mouth, and she swallowed the flesh and vomited the core inside.

Liang Yiluo wiped the corners of her mouth with the hem of her sleeve, and her cherry lips were soaked in the red of the cherry, as if she was wearing light makeup.

"They... belong to you... love..."

One hand grabbed Love's wrist and gently placed the last remaining cherry in her palm, letting her hold it tightly.

Liang Yi took a step backward, raised his head and looked at the top of a high slope.

"Love!! So you are here!!"

A boy who was about the same age as Love ran over with a bruised nose and swollen face. After seeing Love, he yelled happily.

Ai turned her head and looked like that boy, with a slight curl of the corner of her ruddy mouth, as if she showed a very shallow smile.

"Sentaro!"

Ai quietly called his name with her own unique voice. It was Ai's childhood sweetheart and his cousin.

He is the only person in this village who treats her kindly and does not dislike her except his parents.

As if suddenly remembering something, Ai fiercely turned around, the man just now was gone, and only a cluster of cherry blossoms scattered on the creek under the breeze.

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"What's wrong with loving you?"

Seeing what was wrong with the girl in front of him, the boy asked with some doubts.

He raised his head and followed Ai's gaze, there was nothing but the cherry blossoms flying all over the sky.

"Just...Where are the people here?"

"People? Who?"

The young man in torn clothes looked around, but there was nothing around him except the scenery he was accustomed to.

"It was obviously... here just now."

The girl was a little puzzled. She raised her hand to touch the flying cherry blossoms, but the cherry blossoms were like butterflies, bypassing her fingers and flying into the distance.

The boy took a deep breath, and said to love with some seriousness: "Love, you can't do this, otherwise everyone in the village will treat you as a monster!"

He thought Ai had seen something strange again, and was very afraid that her behavior would be seen again by the people in the village.

"I am sorry……"

Ai lowered her head and said a little, but she suddenly felt something in her hand, opened her palm and looked at it, it was a bunch of lovely cherries.

With a move of her eyes, she was slightly happy. With this, it can prove that someone has been here before.

"look……"

Ai lifted the cherry and shook it in front of Sentaro's eyes.

"This was given to me by the person I just met."

As if to prove that he was not lying, the voice of love was extremely firm.

"It's delicious...Sentaro, here it is!"

Ai happily picked a cherry and handed it to Sentaro's mouth.

The boy looked at the bright, **** cherries. He hesitated for a while, who hadn't seen it in this small mountain village, and finally shook his head, "...I love you to eat, I won't eat it."

"is it……"

With some disappointment, he withdrew his hand, Ai lowered his head.

Sentaro looked at Ai, always feeling she was a little strange. When he met someone he couldn't see, he was eating something he hadn't seen before. This strange situation made him a little scared.

‘No, love cannot be a monster. ’

After encouraging himself in this way, Sentaro finally stabilized his mind.

"Love...Before they said, the butterfly was resurrected in your hand..."

Sentaro squatted beside Ai, lowered his head and threw the stones by the creek forward.

"The butterfly is not dead...so..."

Ai turned her head, her cheeks were slightly red, she looked at the cherry in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and ate the picked cherry into her mouth.

"Ah! I believe in love. I believe that love can never be a monster! Love don't care about those guys."

Hearing the words of love, Sendaro suddenly smiled and said, "...that's why I had a fight with them."

Seeing the bruise on the boy's face, Ai slowly raised her little hand, and said with some worry, "Does it hurt?"

Unlike when facing Liangyiluo, when facing her childhood sweetheart, love has changed from a numb doll to a person, and gradually has feelings.

"it does not matter!"

Sentaro avoided Love's hand and said with a smile.

He quickly stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and ran to the side ramp.

After running up the slope, he stood on it, beckoning to Ai and shouting: "I'm going to help the family work, love you don't stay here too long, go back early."

"Yep!"

Love's little face blushed, and she looked at Sentaro nodding vigorously, her pretty face like a doll, and she also showed a beautiful smile.

When Sentaro ran away, Ai turned around and continued to squat by the creek, playing with pebbles.

Suddenly, if feeling a little, Ai fiercely raised her head, and at the waterfall in the upper reaches of the stream, she saw the figure of the young man wearing a royal robe again.

The boy just smiled at her, like a ghost, disappearing after crossing the waterfall.

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Standing in the dense forest on the side of the creek, Liang Yiluo stared at love quietly.

"To take the fate of a little girl's life to accomplish my goals, I am also degenerate.

Even so, there is no guilt or self-deprecating in Liang Yiluo's tone.

"Will you resent me? Would you not resent me? In the end, no one knows... It's just that for You Yuko, I can only sacrifice you... Love..."