When the clear singing echoed between the sky and the sea again.

The gate to the Night Food Plain is crumbling.

A girl once said that since a moth that has never seen light in its life will burn the world for light, then a moth that is accustomed to light and warmth will burn itself to protect this warmth.

She said so.

I did this in the end too.

The moment he saw her jump off the plane, Sakurai Akira had already guessed that the girl in front of him had chosen a path that would soon burn him out.

The Night Food Plain is about to open, and they have lost the best weapon to deal with the corpse guards. The only way to stop these monsters is -

Use yourself as bait.

This is the last [Song of the Siren]. She will use her body as bait to lure all the corpse guards into the Night Food Plain!

And in this familiar song, the memory that was so far away that it was covered with thick dust began to fall away, opening an old chapter that had been lost for a long time.

…

…

The sun is dazzlingly white.

In the corner of the school wall covered with barbed wire, a girl with short hair had thick strips of cloth wrapped around her hands. She carefully stepped on the barbed wire and climbed up. Her white and tender skin was cut with blood marks but she remained silent until she climbed to the top.

She sat on the wall and looked at the world outside the wall, and the boy inside the wall looked at her.

The afternoon sun is diffused in the air, and the cicadas are chirping in the mountains and forests.

"What are you looking at? Is the scenery outside beautiful?" The boy raised his head and asked curiously, with some expectation and envy in his eyes.

The short-haired girl turned around, lay on the wall, looked down, waved to the boy, and asked loudly: "Do you want to come up too? I can lend you my gloves!"

The boy seemed a little moved. He took a small step forward, but soon became timid. He looked at the tightly wound barbed wire in front of him and remembered the harsh methods of the "teachers".

He gritted his teeth and shook his head, suddenly turned around and ran away.

The girl tilted her head, looking at the boy running away, muttering that he wouldn't tell the teacher, would he?

…

"Hi! Why did you run away last time?" The girl sat in the corner holding a plastic dinner plate.

The boy opposite was stunned for a moment, then looked around nervously, and then breathed a sigh of relief when he found that no one noticed them.

"The school rules that boys and girls cannot sit together." He urged in a low voice, "You hurry up, or the teacher will find out."

The girl asked curiously: "Why can't boys and girls sit together?"

"Because..." The boy was speechless for a moment and couldn't give a reason, so he had to bite the bullet and said, "Because this is the school's rule, and the teacher said so."

"Teachers are not infallible. Last time we..." the girl said disapprovingly, but the anxious boy covered her mouth.

He looked around nervously, and after realizing that no one heard what the girl just said, he turned back and said seriously: "You can't speak ill of the teacher, or you will be put in solitary confinement."

The girl blinked her eyes, as if to say she understood.

Only then did the boy realize that he was still covering the other person's mouth and quickly withdrew his hand.

"Were you worried about me just now?" The girl's eyes sparkled.

"No!" the boy retorted subconsciously, "I'm just afraid that someone will hear it and report it, and then I will be unlucky with you!"

"Oh." The girl was silent for a long time and then said, "I heard that there is the sea on the other side of the mountain. Have you ever seen the sea?"

The boy was startled and shook his head.

"Then do you want to go and see it with me?" The girl invited him with a bright smile.

Her smile is as dazzling as the sky, and her flamboyant vitality and wantonness seem to penetrate right into her heart, and her colorful inner world can be seen.

The boy grimaced: "If the teacher finds out, he will be put in a solitary room. Why did you invite me?"

"Because you didn't tell the truth last time!" The girl stuck out her tongue, "I think you will be a good partner."

"partner?"

"That's what teammates mean." The girl clenched her fists and said with big eyes, "Come on, come on, let's go see the sea together!"

"...No, I don't want to go into the solitary room anymore." The boy was silent for a long time, but still refused. He picked up the dinner plate and hurriedly left the corner.

…

"Mingjun Mingjun! Come and see!" The girl clenched her hands tightly, as if she was holding something, for fear that it would escape from her hands.

She hurried over, squatted in front of Sakurai Akira, and carefully spread her hands. In her palm lay a small, wrinkled white ball.

"What's this?"

"Ah? Why has it changed like this?" The girl scratched her head and introduced, "This is a dandelion. I just saw it in the courtyard. It seemed to have floated in from the outside. It was beautiful at the time. It was a fluffy white ball.

.”

"Dandelion?" The boy looked confused.

"You haven't even seen a dandelion, have you?" The girl touched his head and said sympathetically, "How pitiful."

The boy opened her hand in shame.

"Hiss-" A low, suppressed moan of pain sounded.

The boy was stunned and quickly grabbed the girl's hand, only to find that the five fingers of her right hand were full of cuts.

The girl said nonchalantly: "I was scratched by the wire when I was climbing the fence."

The boy said silently: "Why do you always climb on the wall? If the teacher finds you, you will be put in solitary confinement."

"I'm training!"

"train?"

"Mingjun, do you want to stay here forever and don't want to see the outside world?" the girl asked, "I will escape from here one day."

The boy was so frightened that he quickly sealed her mouth. Fortunately, this was an unnoticed corner and no one heard the girl's bold remarks.

"Well... I will definitely... um... escape..." The girl struggled hard to show her determination.

The boy said angrily: "Can you stop saying this kind of thing all the time?"

"Mingjun, don't you want to go somewhere?" The girl blinked.

"...No." The boy said angrily.

"How pitiful..."

The girl showed sympathy again.

"Then where do you want to go?" the boy asked shyly.

"Tokyo!" the girl shouted and raised her hands.

"What do you want to do in Tokyo?"

"My home is in Tokyo!"

"Your home is in Tokyo?" The boy was stunned, then shook his head and said, "So what if you are here? Your parents have long since abandoned you. Everyone here is the same."

"No." The girl's little face suddenly became serious, "My father told me that he will come to pick me up sooner or later!"

"What about others?" the boy said unconvinced, "You are also eleven years old this year, right? You have been here for six years."

"Mingjun, why do you deny others so easily?" The girl stared at him with clear black and white eyes, "Maybe he is looking for me all over Japan, but this country is so big, it is very difficult to find here.

It’s difficult, he’s just an ordinary person, it’s very hard to not only find this place but also be prepared to take me out.”

She stood up, opened her hands and raised her head, slowly spinning on the lawn, the sun falling on her beautiful side face.

Her voice seemed to come from far away.

"Maybe Mingjun, your parents are also working hard. How can there be parents in this world who don't love their children?"

The boy stared blankly at that corner of the sky.

Are his parents trying hard to get him out under a certain sky?

"Mingjun!" The girl stretched out her hand to him, her pupils seemed to be shining brightly, "Let's escape together, let's confirm together whether they have given up on us! Even if they give up on us, we can still take the train to go far, far away

A place where there will be cherry blossoms, dandelions, and the sound of the ocean tide... Mingjun, do you like to eat Taiyaki?"

"...Why did you suddenly switch to Taiyaki?"

The boy couldn't understand the girl's thinking, but he couldn't help but swallowed.

This school doesn't prepare taiyaki for them.

"We can try all kinds of delicious food on the way to escape." The girl clenched her fists, her eyes sparkling, "Taiyaki is my favorite!"

"Do you have money?"

"Money?" The girl tilted her head, thought for a while and said, "If it doesn't work out, we can run around while working, but we can't stay in one place for too long."

"Forget it... I don't want to run away." The man lowered his head in frustration.
To be continued...