Mystery Wings

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**January 18th, 2020 - February 13th, 2020**

## Gavin: Lightbath

* Basic
* Evolved

## Event Overview

1. This event lasts for 27 days.
2. Feed pigeon, Pearly, for 12 days in total during the event to get this limited SSR for free.
3. [Feed] or [Tease] Pearly to get Friendship Points. You’ll get other item rewards when your friendship with Pearly reaches certain levels.
4. Each time you feed Pearly, you will get a story after selecting a food from three different choices (the type of food does not matter). There are 12 stories in total, unlockable for each day.
5. Kindly note, you can only feed Pearly once a day and it’s totally free. Attempt resets daily at 05:00.

## Plot Review

*Note: Nickname is used to connotate to the player's name.*

**Nickname**: That's it. Be careful on your mission! Good night.

**Gavin**: Good night.

When I was about to hang up the phone, a weird sound came from the other end.

**???**: Coo coo.

Coo coo?
I was distracted for a while before I realized it.

**Nickname**: Gavin...Is that a bird?

**Gavin**: A pigeon.

**Nickname**: Eh, a pigeon? You got a pigeon?

**Gavin**: I found him with wounded wings. So I brought him back.

**Nickname**: Poor little thing.

If it weren't for Gavin, who could know what would happen to him...
Thinking of it, I couldn't help but sigh. And I realized something else.

**Nickname**: But you just said you're going on a mission tomorrow. Who will take care of him?

**Gavin**: Minor. He'll be here soon.

Minor...The name calls to mind a picture...

Minor stares at the little pigeon with a sneer while the poor thing is cowering and shivering at the corner of the cage.

It's too bad...I shook my head, trying to get this picture out of my head.

**Nickname**: Um...Are you sure this will help him recover?

**Gavin**: There's no more time left. He's the only option.

**Nickname**: Officer Gavin! What about me?!

**Gavin**: You...

**Nickname**: I have no experience, but I'll do my best!

**Gavin**: ...I wanted to ask you, but I didn't want to disturb you.

**Nickname**: No! Not at all! I'll be free these days.

**Gavin**: Okay, I'll take him to you later.

**Nickname**: Good, I'm going to pull an all-nighter to learn how to keep birds!

**Gavin**: I'll stay with you.

**Nickname**: No, you don't have to! Get some rest. You have missions tomorrow.

**Nickname**: Your matter is much more important. Please be safe...

**Gavin**: I will. Don't worry about me.

**Nickname**: Right, does he have a name? It's weird if we keep calling him *the pigeon*...

**Gavin**: I haven't named him yet. Do you have any ideas?

**Nickname**: Me? Uh...But you found him. It's better if you could give him a name.

**Gavin**: I'm not good at this.

**Nickname**: I still think it's better for the *savior* to do it!

**Nickname**: Just think of some simple ones.

**Gavin**: Let me think...How about Pearly?

**Nickname**: Huh, I guess he must be a pure white pigeon!

**Gavin**: You...don't like it?

**Nickname**: No, it's cute! It goes well with Sparky! I love it!

**Gavin**: If you like it, so do I.

**Pearly**: Coo coo!

The chirp made me chuckle. I was nervous but I couldn't wait to see Pearly.

**Nickname**: Uh...I wonder if he will like me...

**Gavin**: Don't worry.

Gavin's sound of breath came from the earphone along with a gentle chuckle as if he was standing before me, eyes filled with tender encouragement.

**Gavin**: He will definitely like you.

## Friendship Rewards

 70 Points
 140 Points
 240 Points
 360 Points
 505 Points
 670 Points
 860 Points
 1080 Points
 x50

## Feeding Diary

### **Gavin's Bracelet**

Before the mission, Gavin left his bracelet to the girl.

Holding it tight in her hand, she smiled back and bid farewell.

He tried to say something, but didn't know want to say, only repeating the same words over and over again.

"Don't worry, I'll be back soon."

After the mission was over, he saw a missed phone call and a text message. The city felt a bit lonely in the early hours of the morning. He started an answer, then deleted and went back at it again and again...Unable to find the proper words like he used to.

As the night wind blew, he followed it and somehow came to the girl's window. The moon cast a hazy shadow. Only the girl's eye corner flashed crysal clear. Frowning, she seemed to have a restless dream.

She was holding his bracelet tight in her hand.

Gavin thought of the phone call and text message. He crouched by the bed, his handing brushing over her tears.

"Sorry...I'm back."

### **Gavin's Stud**

Through the glass, he saw the bruises on the corner of his mouth, and his hair soaked by the rain and stuck to his forehead. His amber-like eyes were covered with a thick layer of gray.

He felt no pain when the stud pierced straight through his ear.

Boxing even felt somehow better. Ignoring the new trinket on his ear, Gavin wiped off the blood on the edge of the stud, mixing it together with dark red on the back of his hand.

The rain pouring outside was getting heavier, beating against the window like meaningless but heroic sacrifices.

Gavin leaned against the wall and gazed at the gloomy sky, silent, assuming the rain would last for long.

### **Library Card**

There were two names on the library card, one was up and another down. It seemed they had known each other for long, and had some kind of secret deal.

*Nickname*

Gavin

### **Metal Ginkgo Leaves**

After leaning about the girl's special identity, Gavin applied for the highest-profile protection work.

In order to ensure her safety, he thought of many ways, until a ginkgo leaf fell before him, which reminded him of the moment when she grabbed him as he fell. Perhaps since then, there was an invisible tie between them.

He decided to make a ginkgo bracelet for the girl, which revealed to be a tough task that required time and handcraft.

The tiny metal ginkgo leaf did trouble him. After failing the first three leaves, that always ended up scratched or fractured, he finally managed to hang it on the bracelet on the fourth try.

The setting sun started to loaf as the moon rose. Under moonlight shadow, the bracelet was filled with dim soft light, a satisfactory smile rippling on his lips.

She would like it, perhaps.

### **Old Bandage**

Gavin sat in the corner, his injured face drove away many peple who had been reading in the library.

Not thinking of anything better to do, he pulled his hair, thinking of the girl he had just met at the door of the library.

The panic in the girl's eyes had sunk deep in his heart.

...Did I scare her again?

After a while, Minor ran in.

"Gavin!" "Bro!!" He was holding a pale pink bandage excitedly. "Use...use it now!!!"

Gavin ignored him.

"It's from her!"

He paused and looked at the bandage. Although the pain at the corner of his lip still constantly tingled his nerves and his fingers were a bit numb, he still held the small bandage carefully, just like the world's most cherished treasure.

That touch of pink always soothed his heart and warmed him in every night of plight.

### **Old School Newspaper**

Few read the school paper carefully. They would use it as a tablecloth for lunch and throw it into the trash once it was smeared with oil. But those texts full of campus stories and commendations were actually pretty well written.

Gavin had little interest in these as well.

On the roof, Minor nibbled bread and picked up one page of the school newspaper. Then he mumbled, "Students of Excellence...Hey, I have a mind for excellence as well. Except for my academic performance, maybe. Hey, could we have Comradery Awards instead!"

Giving no response, Gavin threw a quick glance at the paper and saw the reward photos. A girl stood on the podium, holding the certificate of merit and smiling, though appearing a bit shy.

"Student of Excellence?" He weighed the words in his heart, stood up and walked to the door.

"Bro, are you doing to have a fight? Count me in!"

"I got class."

"What...?"

### **Slam Dunk Poster**

Once, the boys always used to shout, "Coach, I want to play basketball as well!" The girls argued about the choice between Rukawa Kaede and Sendoh Akira.

Gavin suddenly found out that he was very fond of basketball success stories.

He would rush to the basketball court to try hundreds of shots after watching some related success story series. A poster Slam Duck was hung on the wall. Between indifference and repulsion, he wrote "I will beat you" beside Sakuragi Hanamichi.

He couldn't tell what this "you" meant. It might be anything that ran against him or the past that he wouldn't want to talk about. Only after he got injured by hitting his head badly, did he realize that basketball couldn't help him to protect anything he wanted.

It seemed that the only person he had to defeat was just himself.

### **Sparky's Key**

In the silent night, there were twinkling stars in the distance, howling winds, and a heart that beat faster due to the touch on the back, which turned into the only sound ever in this world that sent whirling echoes across the body.

### **The Amber**

The amber stone was filled with wavy curves under the sun, feeling soft yet cold to the touch.

The girl suddenly noticed that it seemed like a pair of familiar pupils.

In her memory, it felt like last autumn, when passing through the corridor of senior classes, she cast a casual glimpse at some classes.

Shoddy window curtain fluttered in the breeze. A student was looking up to the sky from behind the window, a face still very young, and eyes filled with unconcealed indifference.

But his eyes were bright, clear pupils reflecting light like a deep and luring sea.

That twinkling light in his eyes seemed even brighter than the amber.

### **The Disk**

A breeze blew the curtain in the gentle sun. Gavin sat by the desk, scrawling on a piece of paper while holding a guitar. A frown could be seen between his brows from time to time.

The clear sound of the guitar echoed in the room. The intermittent rustling sound merged into steady and gentle notes. He hummed along with lyrics on the wrinkled paper in a clumsy but serious way.

Until the light of sunset faded, he sat still in front of the computer with headsets on. The melody, which had been repeatedly played again and again, was carefully recorded several times. But every time, there would always be some background noise that would never go away. Gavin irritably scratched his hair and looked at the recorder. He selected a relatively good version at least and recorded it in the CD.

But the CD was crammed inside a book, thrown in the corner, and ended up as a forgotten memory.

Perhaps he never thought that this old and simple melody would echo in the girl's home after many years.

### **The Second Button**

We used to have a lot of beliefs at school, that made little sense but made for good romance.

For instance, we believed that a declaration of love would be bound to succeed if only it was made at the corner of the seventh stair of the third floor of the class building. Or that all misunderstandings between two persons would disappear providing they carved their names on the sixth tree in the playground behind the campus. Or that if a boy gave the second button closest to his heart on his school uniform to his favorite girl at the graduation ceremony, they would end up together.

Boys met these hearsays with some surface skepticism, but hope deep down, Gavin, however, did not care for them at all.

At a lunch break, he overhead the girls say, "that second button thing is so romantic, whoever receives one will be so lucky!"

The girl's hopeful face along with her familiar voice caught the eyes of Gavin.

The graduation ceremony, right? He raised his head and began to wish it would come soon.

But the button he tore off without hesitation was never given to the girl.

It was carefully stored in a small box, concealed along with the feelings it contained.