Chapter 66

Extra Case File 66 Back to Back

, Not Embracing

Under the cover of scarlet flames, that man joked about pulling the trigger. The dazzling light was just for his own heart’s pleasure. The warrior who had driven the V-REX mechanical dinosaur half a month ago, known as “TimeFire,” was the same man.

With a content smile, the man extended a hand to me. Only he and I, along with the sunlight coming into the small clinic, made my heart feel joy. The doctor who had appeared half a month prior to save me in Bao Yu city, called “Ash,” was the same man.

Indeed, how could Ash and TimeFire be the same person? It’s just like how Cure Yell can’t possibly be related to Wild Flower, it’s truly…

A whole day apart, Wild Flower still hasn’t understood and hasn’t come out.

After being taken home by the doctor, Wild Flower locked her door shut, drew the curtains tight, blocking out any sunlight, turning the room into darkness. Without lights on, there was nothing but darkness.

Originally fearing the dark, Wild Flower now hides deep inside it, as if this is the only way she feels safe and unwilling to appear.

The stomach, if it could be called that, growled aimlessly for quite some time. Starving for a long time, pain, pain, then turned into a stone-like silence in her belly.

Without eating or drinking, without resting.

How long has it been in this room?

Wild Flower has forgotten.

These past half a month, what did she gain, hope or regret?

Cure Yell wonders too.

Not wanting to see anything, not thinking about anything, the body has been suppressed to an almost no movement state. Breathes slowly, heartbeat weak, even body temperature seems lowered. Basic bodily functions have been forgotten, except for breathing, which stubbornly persists, and the tenacious will to survive forcefully reclaiming control whenever she nearly suffocates.

So Wild Flower still lives, meaninglessly living in this darkness.

The clock used for timing has been stripped of its battery by Wild Flower, rendering it useless. In this darkness, the hands were already invisible anyway.

Time has lost its meaning, future has lost its meaning, then dreams…

Why is she torturing herself like this? Just because she was rejected once, does she need to make such an exaggerated scene?

If someone exists without any purpose, dying becomes the only necessary thought for others.

As Wild Flower in this world, she’s useless, a complete failure. She can’t match the luster of her friends “Yu” and others, and as family, only serves as a hindrance to her parents and little bird.

While Cure Yell was once successful, seen as a savior and beautiful big sister, that was in the past.

Cure Yell has lost her qualifications. Almost running wild, ignoring and destroying cities, no longer helping others and instead wanting to destroy everything. She nearly killed the mother of her best friend “Saya,” and also…

In the darkness, hugging her knees, the “Heart of Light” device and half-blackened “Future Crystal” laid there. As the last straw, they no longer responded to her wishes and were now like child’s toys.

The hero everyone expected, Cure Yell (Cheering Angel), no longer exists. Unable to transform, unable to shine, unable to cheer for anyone anymore.

Talking about uplifting words, thinking about future matters… ultimately, it is all self-deception.

Perhaps this is the world’s “punishment” for her actions that day… however, these things, they don’t matter.

Let it be.

Until losing consciousness, until stopping breathing, until completely dying. Although she feels very sorry to her爸妈妈妈 and Little Bird, to inconvenience them by lifting her decaying corpse, but…

Doctor Ash, you’ll be disappointed in me, right?

Bang!

Ah, is Little Bird coming again to persuade me to go out?

Sorry, sister, a useless girl like me going out would just cause more trouble, wouldn’t it?

“Flower, it’s me, Ash.”

“…”

“I know you don’t want others to know, so now it’s just us two here.”

Bang Bang Bang!

Another knock at the door, Flower closes her eyes, covering her ears with both hands.

“How, not even want to chat with your dear doctor?”

“Not…”

“Not TimeFire, but Doctor Ash.”

“You can leave…”

What’s left to talk about?

Stepping back two steps, Ash estimates and prepares to break the door open with a single hand when an agile palm lightly presses against the door. Sure enough, feeling the weight of Wild Flower, overly thin and barely visible.

Entire body leaning against the door… does she really not want me to enter?

“Alright.”

If this is your resolve.

The sound outside the door quiets down. Just as Flower thought Ash was intending to give up on her, she suddenly feels a surge from behind, sensing a familiar presence approaching from the back.

“If you don’t want to see me, let’s talk this way.”

Through a thin wooden door, Ash and Wild Flower sat back to back.

Holding a rolled cigarette between his lips, Ash’s first puff nearly gave him a fit. He couldn’t understand even after several worlds why old smokers could ease their worries with cigarettes.

Worriedly listening to the coughing sounds, Flower noticed something slimy touching her hand placed over the gap of the door.

“Hey hey, want to eat? Chocolate, delicious, I treat you.”

Listening intently from across the door, hearing a silence followed by increasingly rapid chewing sounds like a little hamster, Ash shook his head and threw the half-burning cigarette into a distant trash bin.

“How, still hate me? Haha, after we were intimate, I thought it balanced us out.”

“…”

“Okay, okay, I apologize.” Ash raised both hands in surrender. “In such a situation, I won’t make bad jokes.”

“Pffft.”

Laughter, this is a good sign.

Ash’s problem now is how to get her to open the door. That door is like her heart; if she opens it even slightly, he has ways to pry it open entirely.

But what is most needed is for her to open that heart, even if it’s just a little.

“Ash Doctor…”

“Do you hate Wild Flower?”

Not Cure Yell, but Wild Flower?

Starting off with such a weighty question?

“No, I don’t.”

“Then do you like me?”

Ash opened his mouth, then slowly closed it.