Chapter 39 Egg

Santaro got tired of studying, so he walked to the inner courtyard to get some air. There is a snow-white cumulus cloud floating in the sky, and the warm sunshine shines on the earth. The village in the outskirts feels as if no one lives in it. A large cluster of cosmos grows in the mud next door. The warm sunlight is reflected in all directions. Suddenly, I saw a white round object the size of a baby's head on the wet black mud under the shade of flowers. "Hey... what is that?" Santaro took a closer look curiously, and it turned out to be a big egg with a white shell that had a marble-like luster.On the side of the ground, I don't know if it was written with bamboo or something, and it was circled with a round curve like an egg.

...To Mr. Santaro...Ruko. When Santaro saw it, he hurriedly stepped on the writing with his clogs, then stepped across the cosmos bushes, and looked up at the second floor next to the other side of the open space. The rain-shielding panels on the second floor and downstairs were closed tightly, and a new half-paper (half-paper, a kind of Japanese paper, used for practicing calligraphy and writing letters.) with the word "rental house" written on it was obliquely attached.It seems that when Santaro fell asleep last night, Luko and her family moved to nowhere. Luzi and Santaro met for the first time in the early spring of this year.That was not long after Luzi's family moved here.At that time, as soon as the paper window on the second floor where the rental paper was pasted was opened, Luko, who leaned on the railing and overlooked the courtyard, happened to meet Santaro, who opened the paper door of the room to study. Their eyes met for a few seconds, and then they parted hesitantly. Pass.Luko lowered her eyes coldly and closed the paper window. Seeing Luko's reaction, Santaro also got up quietly and closed the sliding door.

For several months until yesterday, Luko and Santaro met each other in this way every day.Although they both have a good impression of each other, they deliberately put on a cold attitude... Even if they accidentally meet their eyes, they will turn their faces away in a hurry, and retreat into the room as if escaping from something; so the two gradually get used to each other this attitude.Then we didn't even have a chance to say hello with a smile, so we parted like this. These two are really stupid, aren't they? Why is the attitude so stubborn and reserved? Why didn't they notice that they had a crush on each other?

...Santaro knew the reason. ...Actually, on the night when I saw Luko for the first time, Santaro's soul quietly left his sleeping body, and then came to the black soil where Santaro was standing now, and Luko, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time Meet secretly.After that, Santaro's soul would come here to meet Luzi every night, telling each other, crying and laughing together. At first, Santaro thought that all this was just due to his own fantasy, and felt very ashamed, so he only dared to secretly bury it in his heart.Even if I just saw Luko's back, or caught a glimpse of her figure in a kimono, I would feel apologetic, ashamed, and afraid in my heart...unknowingly, my expression became very stiff.

But at this moment, it can be seen that Luko also has the same feelings as Santaro.When Luzi and Santaro's eyes meet, they will show an indescribable cold and nervous expression, and then the secrets buried in Luzi's heart are intertwined into a story; so Santaro's fantasy is definitely not his individual confusion.There is no doubt that the souls of these two people have quietly left their bodies in this way, indulging in the joy of trysts here every night... In this way, Santaro gradually became aware of this matter.Because two people like this cannot talk about a real relationship, they are satisfied with only soul-to-heart intercourse. It is definitely not that they are afraid of falling in love, but that they are both afraid of the "certain result" that will inevitably occur in real love... At least this This matter was very clear in Santaro's heart.

Although the two of them always had a cold and expressionless attitude when they met their eyes during the day, but in fact, the two of them had the same joy in their hearts as they couldn't wait to have a tryst on the black soil at sunset. In this way, the summer passed, and I don’t know who sowed the seeds on the black soil, and it grew into a lush cosmos bush.Then it came into autumn, and in a blink of an eye, it bloomed into the beauty it is today, and a miracle happened. For a moment, Santaro was in a delicate mood, and he gently picked up the egg.Take a closer look, the blue-yellow translucent eggshell is filled with a viscous, water-like liquid, and it's a bit heavy.The half of the face that was exposed to the sun became warm.

From then on, Santaro went to bed with that egg every night. The eggshell, which was originally cold, became very warm when it touched Santaro's skin, and the sound of hissing sleeping snorts could be faintly heard inside the egg.In order to prove that this is not Santaro's fantasy, shake the egg a little, the snorting will stop abruptly, and then a little bit of sweet fragrance like milk and toilet water will emerge. Santaro likes this egg more and more, and can't wait to hold it carefully and gently to sleep every night, thinking that there is nothing that makes him happier than this.As soon as the day dawned, he immediately put the bedding into the closet, and then gently stuffed the egg into the warm mattress that he slept on.As a loner, it would be nice if he could hold such a cute egg for the rest of his life... Santaro began to think wildly.

At this time, the egg quietly changed.The color of the eggshell changes from yellow to pink...from pink to brown...and then from brown to gray...then the sound like snorting could be heard from the egg, but at night the tone becomes higher, and it turns into that Kind of a groaning sound. Santaro began to feel that something was wrong... It must be that the egg is about to hatch, and the thing inside the egg must be suffering from the inability to break the shell... Santaro thought so... But if it is not allowed to break out of the shell by itself If so, wouldn't it be bad if it came out too early...Santaro had no choice but to hold back his temper and hold it.

As autumn approaches, the eggs gradually change from gray to purple.It's a sickly, corpse-like color, with faint red spots mixed with it.The moaning in the egg was getting louder and louder, it sounded like a beast with fangs or something, making crazy and powerful noises. Santaro often wakes up because of this, and then can't sleep all night.It's really unbearable to go on like this... Santaro couldn't help worrying... So one night, when Santaro held the moaning egg in his arms and fell asleep, he suddenly heard a loud hoarse sound coming from nowhere. "Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad! . . . "

It sounded like the voice of a struggling child.Santaro suddenly woke up completely. The egg was in Santaro's heart, hot like a seriously ill patient, and a disgusting stench like excrement and rotting fish smelled from the egg, which filled the entire bedding. Santaro picked up the egg in a panic, got up and quickly opened the rain-shielding window... Put it back to its original place... Santaro decided to do this, so he stretched out his feet to explore the wooden clogs that had been worn in the courtyard, but maybe because he was too nervous, he couldn't do anything It couldn't reach it, and suddenly it accidentally fell forward. In the darkness, the egg fell with a clanging sound near the stepping stones of the courtyard... Soon there was a crackling sound and a warm smell. A sour, sour smell like piss, Santaro staggered back and turned his face away.

The dark night sky is full of stars. Santaro didn't dare to look any further, and hastily closed the window, feeling as if the hot sweat had been blown dry all over his body, curled up in the quilt, shivering non-stop, was about to fall asleep, and woke up again and again.I kept remembering that I had to tidy it up... tremblingly opened the rain-shielding window and looked, and before I knew it, it was already dawn, and it was a warm and sunny day outside.The white cosmos in the corner of the inner courtyard is still blooming among the black branches. There are no traces left near the stepping stones.Santaro thought, probably because he was licked clean by the dogs and cats nearby last night! Santaro finally breathed a sigh of relief.Then he walked out calmly for a pre-breakfast walk. The house at the other end of the inner courtyard seemed to have new tenants moving in at some point, and the renting paper had been torn clean.