Blue and red eyes.
The hair seemed to be blond.
Hiko thought of the hair color of the two children and wrote down these details.
"What are you thinking about? You look so troubled." Ai, while taking notes from her textbook, caught a glimpse of Hiko furrowing his brows in thought. Curious about what he was writing in his notebook, she leaned over.
She found the words inexplicable and asked, "Are you thinking about manga settings?"
"Yes, I'm thinking about settings."
Hiko replied, going along with her answer.
"What kind of story is it?" Ai was curious what kind of story these words could form.
"A story about revenge." Hiko looked at the girl beside him, unable to find any clues from her.
Wait! Red, blue?!
Ai's eyes were purplish-pink.
Hiko suddenly remembered this, so the other person might have blue pupils?
Blonde hair, blue eyes.
Hiko connected the keywords, and his first impression was of foreigners and mixed-race individuals.
Then he should prioritize searching for foreigners and mixed-race people.
This should narrow down the scope significantly, right?
But he still couldn't directly pinpoint it.
"A revenge story, huh? Sounds so boring." Ai lost interest as soon as she heard it.
"Right, a boring revenge drama. Even I, who thought of it, find it boring."
Hiko felt a stomachache just thinking about the original plot direction. How great would it be if it were a parent-child growth drama.
"A story that even the author finds boring? Now that you say that, I'm actually interested." Ai felt that Hiko was trying to fob her off with that excuse because he was embarrassed to let anyone he knew find out about the story he was writing. She smiled and looked at him, saying, "You're not too embarrassed to tell me, are you?"
Uh... what should he do now?
Hiko was instantly conflicted.
He did want to tell the entire story to Ai without changing a single word, but deep down, he always felt it wasn't right. If he directly told her the future using their names, it would definitely cause trouble!
"Let me organize it first. I've only just thought of a few plot points; I haven't even sorted out the main thread yet."
Hiko prevaricated. He felt that the story he told wouldn't be as impactful as an anime adaptation.
Plus, he still needed to adapt some of the content and character relationships before he could safely tell it.
This further tested his skill.
"Tell me when you've finished. You can tell it to me, or you can write it down for me to read, either is fine." Ai had no idea that she was the murdered victim in that revenge drama.
And it was at the peak of her life, when she was about to reach the pinnacle, that she would fall dramatically.
When Hiko heard Ai say she wanted to hear it, he also very much wanted to tell her the story. So he decided to take some time to adapt the story well and see what she thought after hearing it.
"If I say it badly, you can't mock me. And if you get angry after hearing it, you can't take it out on me." Hiko announced it beforehand.
"Go ahead and tell me. I won't get angry." Ai showed a very tolerant demeanor.
"What if you get angry after hearing it and want to hit me?" Hiko felt that Ai would definitely get angry after hearing it, as he only knew part of that story.
He wasn't clear about the subsequent developments.
"If I really do get angry, then you can ask for one reasonable request afterwards." Although Ai didn't think she would get angry over a story, she still gave a condition: "If you deliberately make things up to provoke me, then it doesn't count."
"This plot has already run through my mind many times, so even if I wanted to change it, it wouldn't be that easy."
Hiko recalled the plot once, then looked at the teacher still lecturing endlessly at the podium, and whispered to Ai, "A long, long time ago, there was a little girl who lost both her parents and lived as a cold and hungry beggar in a small town."
Hiko felt he hadn't adapted it well, so he looked at Ai.
"Continue, I don't mind." Ai listened quietly, resting her chin on her hands.
Hiko nodded and continued, "Suddenly, one day, an old nun in a nun's habit said she wanted to adopt the girl, wanting her to become a nun and save the world together."
"But the little girl said she was just a beggar and wasn't worthy of being a holy nun."
"The old nun, however, said that precisely because she had experienced hardships, she was even more suitable."
"The girl happily agreed, and thereafter she lived with the old nun and practiced together."
"Four years passed in a blink of an eye. The little girl became a young woman and also took over the position of a nun, quickly gaining some fame. But her belly gradually grew larger until loose clothes could no longer hide it. Only then did the old nun learn the fact that the young woman was pregnant."
"The old nun was almost distraught upon learning this and asked the young woman who she was seeing and why she hadn't told her sooner."
"The reason the old nun was almost distraught was because nuns cannot marry, let alone get pregnant while serving as a nun. If such a monumental matter were to be known, there would be very serious consequences."
"But what had happened could not be undone, so the old nun could only hide the young woman deep in the mountains to prevent others from knowing about her pregnancy."
"Six months later, the young woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, each with blue and red pupils respectively. The young woman therefore named the two children Aquamarine and Ruby."
"Because the young woman had no parents, she loved her two children very much and wanted them to be able to study. She also wanted them to receive instruction from better teachers."
"But buying books and hiring teachers all cost money. At this time, having lost her status as a nun, she had no source of income."
"So the young woman sought help from the old nun, wanting to return to being a nun, because she only knew how to be a nun and nothing else. The old nun, seeing her pitiful state, agreed to her request. But the old nun warned the young woman that she must tell people that the two children were found by the old nun in the mountains. The young woman nodded in agreement."
"Because it was said that the old nun had found the children, no one in the town realized that Aquamarine and Ruby were the young woman's children."
"Thus, another four years passed peacefully. After the young woman resumed her role as a nun, she exuded a maternal glow, and when people in the town came to her for confession and repentance, they were all comforted and advised by her loving counsel. As a result, her reputation gradually spread beyond the small town."
"As her fame spread, a larger monastery invited her to preach and teach the masses there. At the same time, the young woman also asked the old nun for help in finding teachers and buying books to teach the children to read."
"The young woman was in a phase of rapid ascent."
"One day, when she returned home, she suddenly heard Aquamarine and Ruby discussing something. She heard them before she even walked in."
"Aquamarine was saying, 'Our mother is a holy nun, but who is our father? Just thinking about this makes me depressed.'"
"Ruby, however, said, 'You're so stupid, getting upset over something like this. Of course, it was a virgin birth; there was no father from the beginning.'"
"Hearing the children's strange conclusion, the young woman felt a bad premonition and thought of contacting the children's biological father."
"She originally wanted to directly tell the children who their father was, believing they would understand their situation."
"But fearing the children wouldn't be able to keep their father's name a secret, the young woman contacted the children's father by letter and also sent their current address, hoping the children could meet their father and know who their biological father truly was."