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"After that being said, Lingmeng, where did your ribbon go?" At this time, Lumia turned her head and looked at Lingmeng's head strangely.

Ling Meng was stunned, then tilted her head, stretched out her hand and touched the top of her head blankly, and then groped around her head. It was a pity that the ribbon on Ling Meng's head was gone.

"Ah~" Ling Meng's mouth sagged and she started to cry, which scared Lumia beside her, while Ling Meng shouted with tears in her eyes: "No more, no more ribbons!"

"Ah~ I must have fallen somewhere in the summer festival." Elliko scratched her head helplessly, and her mother stood up and looked at Lingmeng and said, "Okay, stop crying. If you have a ribbon, I'll buy it for you next time."

However, Ling Meng was not comforted by her mother at all, and she cried and said, "No, no! I just want that one, wuwu..."

"Woo woo..." Ling Meng stood on the ground and cried loudly, tears slid down her cheeks uncontrollably. Elliko stood up and said, "I'll go find it."

Before Elliko stood up, her mother grabbed her and said, "I haven't known where I'm going for a long time. Forget it, ahh, it's such a headache."

At this time, Lumiya, who had been watching from the side, sighed, stretched out her hand and pulled it out on her left hair with helpless look on her face, pulled off the red and white ribbon on it, and handed it to Ling Meng. She said, "Come."

"Woo?" Ling Meng opened her eyes and looked at the ribbon handed over by Lumiya. Lumiya squatted in front of Ling Meng with a smile and said, "For you."

"..." Ling Meng stopped crying and looked at Lumiya blankly, her mouth was slightly open. Lumiya was looked at by Ling Meng like this, and her face was slightly red, "That, if I don't mind... I can give it to you... that... don't want it?"

Ling Meng looked at Lumia, and then a warm and healing smile appeared on her face. In the silent eyes of Elliko and her mother, she threw herself into Lumia's arms and said, "I like Lumia the most~"

I don't know if it was Elliko's illusion, but she seemed to hear the "crack" bones coming from Lumia again.

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After a while, Elliko, Lumiya and Grandma sat in the middle with Lumiya. Elliko and Grandma sat on both sides on the steps in front of the shrine gate, and Ling Mengzhang leaned in Lumiya's arms, grew up and hugged her saliva and fell asleep.

"It's really, it's endless trouble. I finally calmed down and then fell asleep." Lumia sighed helplessly. At this time, the grandma, who was sitting on Lumia's right, supported her hands on the ground, looking at Lumia with a smile that even Elliko could tell.

Lumiya, who found this gaze, looked at her mother fidgetingly and said unhappily: "What... what! This gaze is very terrible, hey! It's so oozing!"

"Hmph~ It's nothing, but what to say..." Grandma put her hand in front of her mouth in front of her - by the way. The mask she is wearing now is the mask of Superman - and then looked at Lumia with a teasing meaning and said, "Your expression has changed a lot!"

"Ha?" Lumiya looked at her grandma with a blushing face, and her grandma explained: "It was obvious that she had an ignorant expression before~"

"Here, what are you talking about!" Lumia said in anger, "What does it matter!"

As she said that, her expression changed from anger to anger to anger to a complaining performance, and she said, "After that, don't you let someone see it? Your face."

"..." Grandma was silent for a moment, but did not answer Lumiya's words. Lumiya curled her lips and looked at Grandma with helpless eyes, and said, "I have been caring about it before, always covering her face with a mask!"

Between "always", Lumia specially added accent to emphasize, then scratched her face and said, "How to say it, I don't care, but... Ling Meng, don't you want to see your face?"

"So..." Lumiya was about to say something, but was interrupted by her mother.

"No need to pull it." Grandma held her hands and fingers together and said, "I'll... that's fine."

After this sentence, my mother didn't say anything. The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became cold. Even Elliko, who was "listening around", could feel the awkward atmosphere now.

At this time, my grandma whispered: "Hey, do you know, what do you think of me?"

"Eh?" Elliko and Lumia were stunned and looked at Grandma with unknown eyes. What's the problem?

Grandma lowered her head, and no one could see her expression. No, to be precise, even if she didn't bow her head, no one could see her expression. She said slowly: "Boli's witch, generation after generation rely on solving the problem as a job..."

As she said that, her mother seemed to recall the scene where she defeated a terrifying monster a long time ago when she was the witch of Boli. She still remembers the look of the monster looking at her...

"...Even if you don't want it, even if you don't want it, you will be resentful and hated by monsters..."

No, not just that, the look under the mask of Grandma had a trace of memory confusion. It was when she saw the monster's eyes and turned around to say to the villagers that it was already fine, the villagers looked at themselves...

"...So, in the end, even the same humans, the humans you protected, look at you with fear like a beast, fearing you..."

"It's so hard," said Grandma, raised her hand and tightly grabbed the scarf on her chest.

Elliko and Lumia looked at Grandma with complicated eyes. The current Grandma is not as domineering as before. Her figure makes people feel so weak.

"In the end, I can't stand the stinging sights around me, so I can only wear a mask and escape from reality." Grandma said, turning her head to look at Lingmeng and saying, "Even if Lingmeng doesn't notice the sights around her now, when she grows up, she will notice and suffer the reality, even if she doesn't want to, she will come. In that case, Lingmeng will definitely treat me..."

As she said that, my mother fell silent. I guess what she wanted to say was resentment.

After a while of silence, while Elliko and Lumia lowered their heads, the mother stood up, put her hands on her hips and laughed, "Ah hahaha, really, it turned into a gloomy topic by accident. You two, forget what I said just now!" In silence, Lumia spoke softly, "I said..."

"Eh?" Grandma turned around strangely, looked at Lumiya and said, "What did you say just now?"

At this time, a beautiful firework suddenly bloomed behind my mother. The explosion of the fireworks made Ling Meng wake up from her sleep. My mother turned her head and looked at the fireworks and sighed loudly: "Oh! It's beginning!"

"Wow~~!!" Ling Meng widened her eyes and looked at the fireworks, and said in surprise: "So...so amazing!"

Then, Lingmeng broke free from Lumiya's arms, ran to the shrine, and said to Elliko: "Elliko, Lingmeng also wants to dong~dong~"

Elliko got up helplessly and said, "Ahhh, this is what I bought... OK OK."

At this time, Lumia, who had been clenching her fists tightly and lowering her head in silence, suddenly stood up suddenly and roared: "I'll tell me!"

"Wow!" Grandma was startled and turned around and said, "What, suddenly it's so loud..."

"Lingmeng she..." Lumia lowered her head and said in a trembling voice: "I won't hate you, absolutely not. Lingmeng is not that kind of child."

"Although I know there is no basis, and I don't know how other guys saw you, but...but..." Lumiya said, raising her head, her face, which had been wet with tears, made her mother slightly stunned.

"At least... I am grateful... So, don't say anything so sad..." As he said that, Lumia walked towards Lingmeng and said, "The only thing I want to say is...

‘If I hadn’t been to you, I would not have been redeemed from the endless cannibalism.’

‘If I hadn’t been to you, I wouldn’t have encountered Ling Meng.’

‘If it weren’t for you, I would still be eating people in a daze.’

‘If I hadn’t been to you, I wouldn’t know what I should do now.’

‘It was you who saved me.’

‘It was you who saved me.’

‘It was you who guided me.’

‘So, at least, I am thanking you, please stop being sad.’

"Lumia, it's too slow!" He walked out with Elliko, who had a smile, who seemed to know what was going on outside. Ling Meng, who was holding a firework in her hand, shook her hand and said, "Lumia, it's too slow!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know~" Lumia touched her head helplessly, wiped her eyes dry, and then walked towards Lingmeng.
Chapter completed!