Perhaps because she was surprised by this sentence, Yoshino couldn't help tilting her head slightly, but after a brief hesitation, she still chose to believe it.

"Really? ... Then come to see the ability of a temporary hero."

With a wry smile, Yong Ye waved his hand at will and entered the bedroom, closing the door to cut off Yoshino's sight.

When Yoshino thought that Yongye was crossing the space, Yongye just opened the drawer of the bedside table, and took out the rabbit hand puppet that Origami had picked up and given to him after looking at it twice.

The whole process really didn't take more than half a minute, and he pushed the door again and walked out, holding the hand puppet that Yoshino was thinking about.

"Your hero...is this, right?"

"Hey...? Yoshina...!?"

Staring intently at the hand puppet in Yong Ye's hand, Yoshino let out a somewhat startled voice and nodded happily.

"Give it to you."

He didn't deliberately make things difficult or tease, Yong Ye simply handed the puppet to Yoshino, who seemed to be jumping up at any time.

Yoshino hugged the hand puppet called Yoshina, her eyes filled with tears, and she burst into tears on the spot.

"…Ohh Ohh ohh……"

"...Weeping with joy after a long absence? To be honest...I really don't understand the taste of elves more and more."

Looking at the girl with her hand puppet to her chest, Yong Ye didn't have any emotions that resonated with this scene, or was affected by emotions such as sadness and joy, but just held her forehead with one hand and seemed to have a headache.

There's no way this can be done, right? Reuniting with a hand puppet... or crying after returning the lost thing, this behavior is really incomprehensible and difficult for him to resonate with. He can only sigh once again the special taste of elves, which is really incomprehensible to a common man like him.

"…thank you so much."

Touching the tears on her face, Yoshino suddenly raised her head to look at Yong Ye, who was wandering in the sky, and opened her pink lips.

"You... saved Yoshino, and also saved Yoshino and Nana... You are... a hero."

"...Yes, yes, but the temporary heroes should almost retire by now. After all, the real ones are coming, and the temporary and impostor will naturally retire. Let's just call it a so-called retirement, right?"

Not paying too much attention, Yong Ye just put his hand on Yoshino's head, as if leaning on the armrest at will, and thought about what to do later, how to deal with this child.

This question hadn't been considered before, but now that he thought about it, he couldn't help but have a headache.

It's just... Yoshino doesn't seem to think too much about him, just pulls his cuff and asks him to look down. For the first time, he doesn't avoid his gaze, looks into his eyes, and says seriously.

"No, temporary...Mr. Evernight is a real,...all-powerful...hero."

"...Well, do you think so?"

"Yes Yes!"

Yoshino nodded without hesitation.

"Actually, it may be slightly different from what you imagined?"

"...Is that so?"

"No, nothing, if you wish to think so, so be it."

Not intending to break the child's fantasy, Yong Ye didn't say that Po Yoshina was actually in his bedside table, and he didn't really find it in half a minute... No, in the physical sense, it was indeed found in half a minute, It's just a big difference from Yoshino's imagination.

After defending the child's fantasy of heroes, Yong Ye habitually stroked Yoshino's head. Yoshino didn't speak, but seemed to be shy and pulled down his hood to hide his expression, so that his gaze was on the hand puppet in his hand. Constantly wandering between the eternal night.

Yong Ye squatted down, looked at the girl whose mouth was slightly upturned as if showing a smile, and hesitated for a while before giving out warning words.

"Although it's good for you to be happy, but... my existence here is only temporary. I hope you don't forget this."

Chapter 21 My heart and my actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is justice

"...?"

Seemingly not understanding Yong Ye's words, Yoshino secretly raised his head, like a common timid girl, secretly observing Yong Ye's face from the corner of his eye, trying to figure out what this sentence meant.

However, this time she didn't get any new answers, Yong Ye silently cast his eyes out of the window.

The alarm of the space earthquake will be lifted in a short time, because as long as the AST people fully confirm that the spirit has disappeared, the alarm can be lifted almost after returning to the station.

Like Tohka, Yoshino wanted to stay in this realm, and Yong Ye naturally had no reason to refuse, and simply imposed an unreliable seal to stabilize her existence in this realm.

After all, Yoshino is also a human being, but is different from Tokisaki Kurumi who met a girl named Mio Takamiya. Like Kotori Wuhe, she was given spiritual crystals by "phantoms", and the spirits transformed from human beings have been constantly changing in the past. Wandering in the two worlds is just involuntarily, and now I have the opportunity to naturally want to stay.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to stay, Yong Ye will naturally not object, but now in the time before the alarm goes off, he needs to consider how the girl behind him will deal with it.

...

Yoshino got permission and looked around curiously in Yongye's apartment, turning left and right to look, as if he had come to a new world.

Yong Ye looked at the ghost town outside the window, ignoring the girl behind him, thinking hard about where to place her.

Is it fostered on the airship in Wuheqinli, or is it left here? No... Normally, it should be better to release the animals, but where would they be released? It can't be put back into the neighborhood, can it? And now she can't go back unless the seal is lifted, but if the seal is lifted, isn't it all meaningless?

"...Anyway, let's go to the airship first."

Yong Ye, who was puzzled, put his hand on Yoshino's shoulder, looked up at the invisible airship high in the sky, and prepared to throw the problem to Wuhe Qinli to solve it.

It's just... just as he was about to leave, he noticed that Yoshino was wrapped in his shirt, making it inconvenient to appear in front of people, so he took her to the clothing store after a little thought.

In a city that is like a ghost town, no salesperson seems to be saying that you can choose whatever you want. In the clothing store where everyone is free, there are two uninvited guests, a man in a black trench coat and a doll-like cute in a white shirt. girl.

Men's clothes are considered normal for the time being, but the girl's white shirt, which can be used as a skirt, makes people feel a sense of anger.

From the perspective of Yong Ye, it is probably the temptation of prohibition... After all, the target is a child who only has the appearance of thirteen years old. If this is not forbidden, how can it be considered forbidden? After all, treating a child like an adult is definitely prohibited, and will be condemned by the public and even arrested by the police.

"Mr. Yong Ye... Please don't stare at me like this, I will, I'm sorry..."

Yoshino, who was observed by Yongye because of her strange clothes, shyly covered her chest and shrank her body, whispering in a voice that would be ignored as long as she was not paying attention, showing a weak protest and her own shyness meaning.

"...I'm just watching a little bit."

After the short words were finished, Yong Ye added another sentence after thinking for a while in order to avoid misunderstanding.

"Really... so don't think of me as that kind of weirdo with hobbies and hobbies."

"Remembering, loving...weird?"

"...No, as expected, you still think I didn't say it."

"…Ok?"

Although he didn't understand, Yoshino didn't ask any further questions, but hesitantly put on the funny-looking rabbit puppet, Yoshino.