"Just say what you want to say, no one is stopping you."
"You said so."
Orange blew out a smoke ring, his eyes drooped, and his mouth corners turned up, with a malicious expression.
Qingzi's expression froze, and just as she was about to stop him, Chengzi started to reveal the information.
"Then... what about the time when she was five years old and was beaten by her father because she hid her wet quilt in the pile of dead leaves in the backyard and burned it?"
"Or was it about the time she fell asleep in fifth grade and ate the chalk thrown by the teacher?"
"Oh, by the way, let's talk about the time she received a love letter from a gay senior in her second year of middle school."
Qingzi exploded again, but this time it was not only anger, but more embarrassment and shame.
"I don't want to hear it! Don't say anything! Don't say anything!"
"But this is a place for grumbling. Ah, the store manager also allows me to complain."
"What do you think your lovely sister who trusted you and told you everything is? A traitor."
"Hey, I'm the worst sister in the world anyway."
Qingzi, who had nothing to say, started to curse: "You-you can just die from nasopharyngeal cancer, oral cancer, or lung cancer."
Orange said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter. At worst, I can just get a 'new one'. Even if I have cancer all over my body, what can it do to me?"
Their faces got closer and closer, Aoko's saliva sprayed on Orange's face, and Orange's smoke rings smoked Aozi's face.
Despite the abuse, the melody of the soul did not have any darkness, but instead exuded warmth and nostalgia, which made Shinji sigh.
"It's great to have sisters like this."
"Huh?" the sisters asked in unison.
"No matter how close friends are, it takes a process of going from stranger to familiar. Sisters don't need that. They are like close friends born from the beginning."
Shinji smiled as he looked at the Aozaki sisters, who were always in sync even when they were arguing.
"Are you stupid? What's wrong with it?"/"It's just a natural trouble."
"You may come earlier, but that guy will fight for everything you have."/"You are late, but the good things always go to that guy."
"Always self-righteous and bossy."/"Always unreasonable and arbitrary."
"In short, it's better not to have a sister."
The two sisters smiled at the same time as they spoke, reaching an agreement.
"Yes, yes, it's better to kill the elder sister."/"That's right, it's better for the younger sister to die."
Then the smiling face instantly turned into a facial expression and an icy and fiery eye PK, and then they moved away after a few dozen seconds.
Aoko crossed her arms and complained in a disgusted tone.
"That guy just keeps putting on a cool face all day. If he's so great, he shouldn't keep missing out on what he wants."
Chengzi bit her lip hard and her face turned pale, but Qingzi's next words instantly made the paleness fade away.
"I would rather continue to be an ordinary girl who is loved. At that time, I was loved by my parents and taken care of by the people around me. I don't know which idiot's fault was that I ran into this ridiculous world."
"You're still saying this now. My sister is like this. She takes things from others with a clear conscience. A happy and carefree childhood, a dozen years of leisurely days, becoming a magician, the right to inherit the family business, and the original color I wanted... All the good things were taken by that guy. I—"
Before she knew it, the cigarette had burned out and was about to burn her lips, but Chengzi still didn't notice. Qingzi's original posture of hugging her chest and looking up gradually softened and drooped, and finally she was left with only a look of loneliness as she listened to Chengzi's barely perceptible true words that she might never say again in her life.
"—I'm probably... jealous... of her. That hopeless fake, always doing whatever she wants... and getting into trouble somewhere in the blink of an eye... It gives me a headache just thinking about it."
The cigarette butt slipped off.
Red hair turns black.
The small "Complaint Pavilion" fell silent again, but this time the atmosphere was not dull, but softer and more - warm.
Aoko, who had her head buried in her arms, suddenly picked up the suitcase and took a picture of a banknote.
"Are you leaving now?" Shinji asked. "I haven't finished my drink yet."
"How can you drink it when it stinks from the smoke?"
With this final complaint, Qingzi lifted the door curtain and walked out.
"Thank you for your patronage."
Shinji said this with a half-smile, looking at the orange left behind with a half-smile.
Orange was a little embarrassed by being looked at: "What... do you want to do?"
"Nothing, I just think some things are better said out loud."
The amusement on Shinji's face gradually faded, and the warmth in his eyes gradually melted away.
"It takes five hundred glances in the previous life to get a chance to pass by each other in this life. Cherish each moment you have passed by each other."
"Mind your own business." Orange slammed the table and stood up to leave.
After walking two steps with his head down, a figure with long hair blocked the middle of the road. It was Qingzi.
"Come to think of it... it's been many years..."
"... Yeah." Orange stopped and raised his thin eyebrows, "Do you want to end it?"
"Okay, where are we going?"
"There is a bar street not far ahead."
"Come on, I'll make you vomit until you kneel on the road."
Qingzi was beaming with joy and looked very high-spirited, and Chengzi had a similar expression.
"Just you? I'm the big eater of 'The Great Capital of Yakiniku'!"
"I am also a big eater of 'The Great Emperor of Yakiniku'."
"Let's do the Pub Crawl tonight."
"No problem, watch me drink up all the stocks in the bars and pubs on this street!!!"
She is still the cool and confident elder sister, and still the spirited younger sister, as if we have returned to more than ten years ago.
That year, the elder sister was 16 years old and the younger sister was 14 years old.
That year, the elder sister was reading at home while the younger sister was getting into trouble outside.
That year, the two sisters always liked to hide in the study, talking in secret that no one else knew.
The expression at that time was the same as the two people walking side by side now.
Time cannot be reversed, but people’s hearts can remain unchanged.
"Did you see that, Yustisa?"
Inside the Complaint Pavilion, Shinji quietly smoothed out the gaps on the door curtain.
The Winter Saint beside him smiled and nodded: "This is the first time I see Orange without glasses and with such an expression."
"Danzo is a spy that Orange left at the Tono family to monitor all parties. You should follow them quietly to prevent them from getting drunk and falling on the side of the road without anyone paying the bill. They are all big drinkers and big eaters. Even if there is a winner, the winner will probably be unconscious."
"Um."
The pure white spirit particles floated outwards and transformed into shadows to protect the sisters who were no longer young.
"What a beautiful melody of their souls."
"So beautiful, the colors of their souls."
"Who says that primary colors must be the highest? Who says that orange is the 'red of imperfection'? The soul has never been something that can be evaluated with simple colors."
In the empty "Complaint Pavilion", Shinji closed his eyes and let the light of his soul spread outward like a tide.
PS: Pub Crawl is a popular way to visit bars in London. It is a drinking activity that involves drinking in every bar along a designated route or area all night.
PS2: I'd like to report the results of this Empress event. Maybe because I had a cold and a fever and had no energy, I didn't spend any money. I used up all my saved 60 stones and more than 20 summoning talismans, but failed to get anything for free. I'm currently in a stage where my mentality is exploding.