In the middle of summer in July, the weather has reached the hottest time, even before noon, the spicy sun is already hanging over people's heads. Although the climate in Kanagawa is slightly cooler than in Tokyo, it is not immune to the invasion of summer.

Nao and Yanagi walked on the hot and humid asphalt road against the sun, and the strange mist of sunlight refraction rose from the soles of their feet, although the sultry weather was easy to make people feel anxious, but at the moment it did not affect the excitement in their minds at all.

- They had just been led by Chief Inspector Sanada to visit the training ground of the training class, where Nao was going to spend a lot of time studying and training.

Part of the facilities at the training ground are located inside the Kanagawa Police Academy, while the other part is located at the headquarters of the Kanagawa Police Station. What needs to be learned in the police academy are theoretical courses and operational courses, of which the theoretical courses include evidence identification, forensic theory, psychology and analysis of information from past cases, and some miscellaneous studies that may be used in solving cases, while the operational courses are courses that Nao never thought would expose their minors to - the identification and use of firearms.

Nao, who had been practicing bare-handedness, didn't take the firearms course to heart, but Yagyu was very interested in it, if it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't enter the shooting range without documents, otherwise he would definitely go in and shoot twice...... After Nao bluntly said, "Karate is still more useful", and even excitedly refuted her words, and the image of a gentleman who has always been calm collapsed in an instant.

Another part of the courses that need to be taken at the Kanagawa Police Station are martial arts classes and practical classes.

Martial arts classes are mainly training in kendo, judo, and karate, and the instructors are all serving police officers, who use their spare time without attendance to train other officers of the Metropolitan Police Department, as well as teenagers who are willing to train in martial arts, such as Sanada Hongichi, who is also the chief of police, who is one of the kendo instructors at the police station dojo.

As for the practical class, it can be said that Nao is looking forward to the most important course.

As the name suggests, the practical class is to allow the teenagers who have entered the training class to assist the police in the search class or the identification class, similar to the extracurricular practice of the school's social class. However, unlike the practice of social studies in schools, the cases that teenagers need to participate in are all vicious cases such as homicide, robbery, and extortion. The young trainees observe and learn from the police officers in the process of searching and solving crimes, and assist the police officers in solving cases. It is the most dangerous course, but it is also the most rewarding course.

Of course, once you get involved in the evil **, it's not just learning.

However, most of them are dispatched as forensic classes, and there are very few young students who can really obtain the right to assist in solving cases in the search class, and this one-in-a-hundred permission is the first goal of Nao's training path.

"It would be nice to be able to go to the police with the search department," Nao said with one hand on her chin and said with infinite longing, "Not only can you practice your skills in solving crimes, but you can also gather a lot of information." ”

"It seems that except for firearm shooting, everything else can be learned from the police. The tea-haired boy bowed his head at Nao, "However, if your future goal is to be a police officer, it's better to systematically learn theoretical knowledge." ”

"For me, the most important thing is experience. Nao sighed, "There are some things that can be learned in class, but some things still have to rely on one's own exploration and comprehension, if you want to get in touch with deeper and more hidden cases, you can only go to the police with the search division early." ”

"Deeper and more secret," Yanagi repeated Nao's words thoughtfully, "I'm afraid the purpose ......of your training class is not just to be a police officer, but what must you do if you have to get close to the Metropolitan Police Department?"

Or is it something that can only be found by the Search Division, which is responsible for aggravated crimes...... Hidden cases?

"Ah, no, there's no such thing, I just think that just learning theoretical knowledge feels like a bit of a piece of paper. Nao quickly vetoed, and seemed to feel that he had replied too quickly, so he hurriedly pulled a smile, "After all, these theories can be learned more systematically in college, but the experience of solving cases can only be learned on the spot, if you want to be able to take charge of yourself as soon as you graduate, you can only start now." ”

"I see......"

Yanagi spat out a sentence slowly, his slightly scrutinizing gaze seeming through the lens and scanning Nao's face like an X-ray.

Nao didn't underestimate Yanagi's reasoning ability, and had learned his extraordinary observation skills as early as the first time they met, so she could only make a look of unaware in order not to be noticed by him. But strange to say, although her heart was uneasy, under Yanagi's extremely stressed gaze, her heartbeat and breathing involuntarily remained normal, and even her face did not change at all.

Although her natural appearance did not make Yanagi see anything wrong, his intuition told him that the girl sitting in front of him was hiding something unknown. Although as an ordinary friend, it is understandable that Nao has reservations about him, and it is not wrong for her to choose to tell him her secret or not, but there is a hint of unwillingness in his heart.

Is this unwillingness because she deliberately covered it up, or because she realized that she didn't have nothing to say to herself? What was going on with this inexplicable mood, even he didn't know, but what he knew very well was that there was a small loss in his heart.

Although it doesn't make him unhappy, it doesn't make him feel calm.

"Yanagi-kun?"

The slightly puzzled female voice made him suddenly shake his senses, and it was not until he met the golden-green eyes that seemed to be a little deep, that he suddenly realized that he was actually staring at a woman's face in a daze.

"So, it's already a woman," he looked away slightly embarrassed and looked at his watch, "it's already noon, do you want to eat something?"

"That's right. Nao nodded with a smile as if she hadn't noticed his distraction, "On such a hot day, it would be nice to go to a store closer to the sea." ”

"Do you want to go to the beach?" Yanagi said after a moment's thought, "I remember that not far from here there was a sea house that was famous, and although it was cheap, it was surprisingly delicious. ”

"There's actually a house of the sea here?" Nao's green eyes lit up, "Let's go there!

"Then let's go," Liu Sheng looked at her excited expression, as if he was infected, and his mood became lighter, "But you can only walk there, is it okay on such a hot day?"

"Of course!" Nao shook her long hair, nodded firmly, and grinned to show a mouthful of white teeth, "The last thing we Okinawans are afraid of is heat!"

**

A house of the sea is not just a cottage built by the sea. It is also an indispensable element of life for people living by the sea.

In Okinawa, during the sea or summer festivals, people build small houses made of twigs and palm fronds on the seaside, and set up stalls in the houses to sell shaved ice and fried noodles for tourists to eat. For Okinawans who hold festivals every month of the 12 months of the year, the seaside Uminoya is the most indelible memory in their memory, and it is also the most Okinawan-style shop.

Although there are a variety of sea houses on the main island, the atmosphere is far less lively than that of Okinawa, the island of tourism, but for Nao, who was forced to leave her hometown, it is the only place that reminds her of Okinawa. When she was young, she and Zhinian Kuan and Rin Hirakuba liked to run to the sea house to buy something to eat together after training, and then sit on the beach in the evening with the roasted corn they bought, while watching the red sunset falling into the sea level, while gnawing on their faces.

Stepping over the rows of logs tied to the floor outside the house, uncovering the curtain that split in two from the center, and taking off their shoes and stepping onto the floor half a meter above the ground, Nao and Yanagi knelt down at a low table made of wooden sticks. The dazzling sunlight was blocked by the roof, but the surrounding walls did not block the salty cool breeze of the seaside, and the two people who walked to the beach under the scorching sun were instantly calmed by the refreshing sea breeze and the smell of barbecue.

"It's the seaside, it's much cooler than the city. "Yanagi seemed to have suddenly let go of some burden,

Exhaled softly, "It seems that after walking against the sun for so long, there is still a harvest." ”

"You don't matter, right?" Nao looked at his face that seemed to be much paler than when they met, and frowned a little worriedly, "Your face is a little bad, it can't be heat stroke, right?"

"It's okay, it's just a little hypoglycemic. ”

"I don't think it's just low blood sugar, I think I also have a little bit of heat stroke, so I need to replenish some fluids quickly. Nao frowned and looked for a drink on the menu that could cool down, and his speech became a little long-winded, "If you don't feel well, you shouldn't say it early, you should have found a nearby restaurant to eat if you knew it, heat stroke can kill people, and your son, who is a doctor, should also know some common sense, right?"

Nao said as she glanced at Yagyu's expression from under her eyelashes. I saw the young man supporting his chin with his left hand, and gently loosening the neckline with his right hand to breathe, and the modest smile on his face turned into a slightly interesting evil smile at some point, but the moment the smile came into contact with Nao's sight, it disappeared again, and it became Yagyu's unique gentleness, as if it were an illusion.

Nao glanced at Yagyu's impeccable standard smile and curled one lip.

"Boss, give him a glass of coconut milk and more sugar!"

Yanagi's smile froze suddenly.

"Let's drink something sugary, since it's low blood sugar. Nao closed the menu with a snap and narrowed his eyes happily at Yanagi, "The last time I visited Yanagi's clinic, didn't you treat me to milk tea, and I guess I don't hate drinking coconut milk, right?"

"No, it's not annoying," Yanagi's smile seemed to be tinged with bitterness, and he nodded heavily at Nao, "I like to drink it." ”

"That couldn't be better. Nao smiled brightly when she heard this, "If it weren't on the menu, it would be better to drink a cup of hot cocoa." ”

"Poof—ahem, ahem!"

Yanagi, who had taken a large sip of coconut milk under Nao's shining smile, suddenly choked, covering his mouth and choking his cheeks red.

"Really...... Don't drink too fast. Nao looked at him helplessly, frowning lightly and with a slightly disapproving look without a trace of disobedience, "It's not the willful guy who hates sweets in the werewolf, it's just a glass of coconut milk, is it necessary to frown and swallow it like a pill?"

"It's rude, it's rude. ”

Looking at Nao's innocent eyes, Yanagi couldn't say anything, so he had to take out a handkerchief and wipe his mouth, but the corners of his mouth covered by the handkerchief twitched faintly. Nao looked at the empty cup and nodded in satisfaction, the corners of her mouth picking up in pleasure.

I don't know if Yanagi Fangcai's expression is intentional or unintentional.,In short, the current Nao is completely relaxed in such an environment.,The sharpness that has been stuck between the eyebrows has also become soft.。 She turned her head, felt the sea breeze blowing across her face, exhaled a little, and narrowed her eyes comfortably.

The soft and bright red hair flew up, the tips of the sideburns swept the girl's orange lips, her eyes were half-closed, although she couldn't see the focus, but it was more like looking far away, and the golden green under the eyelashes was like flowing water, gently sprinkled on the sea not far away.

The young man on the opposite side looked at her side face and was a little stunned, as if he had never seen her so comfortable at all, and she was sharp in the case search, she was imposing when she was provoked, and she was full of energy after solving the case, and now she completely removed the layers of shell, revealing the soft appearance that a thirteen-year-old girl should have.

In this way, she seemed to look no different from other girls of the same age, except for those unusually bright eyes, but when her gaze converged into a bundle and fell on him, the overly clear gaze always attracted all his attention.

Why did that supple and determined gaze make him care so much?

(I was concerned and did not hesitate to test her in various ways.) ）

The young man's eyes flashed behind the lenses, and the green eyes turned slightly, looking at the girl's gaze a little dim.

(But she seems to ...... ）

"Now, did I mention that my previous wish was to be a detective. ”

The girl stared at the sea and suddenly spoke.

"Detective...... ? ”

"Well, detective. Nao turned her face, her red hair brushing her cheeks, "However, I've changed my mind now." Like my grandmother said, there are some things that you can't do as a detective. 'If the purpose of a detective is to seek the truth, the purpose of a police officer is to protect and be responsible,' and I changed my mind with this sentence. ”

"Protection and responsibility," the boy nodded knowingly, as if remembering Nao's chagrin after his sister was injured, "That's why you want to have the power to protect...... It's for your sister, right?"

"It's not all. Nao stretched out his somewhat thin palm, his eyes flowing through the sinuous lines of his palm, and his lips curled slightly, "I also need to have the right to investigate certain events, as well as the power to confront certain characters." If I'm just a detective, there are so few opportunities to get involved, and even if I can investigate the clues of the incident, I can't get out to protect my family at a critical moment. ”

"If you join the Metropolitan Police Department, you have a solid backing and can do whatever it takes for you to investigate...... The young man's expression fell, "Listen to your tone, what you said about 'certain events' will ...... your family."

"If my guess is correct, this incident must have affected Natsu and my grandmother, and even my friends around me – it is such a secret and dangerous event. Nao slowly shook his outstretched palm and exhaled, "Not to mention whether only people inside the Metropolitan Police Department have access to the case materials, even if there is a glimmer of hope, I will give it a try." Joining the Metropolitan Police Department's incubation section was just my first step toward getting closer to the truth, and my ultimate goal was to join the Kanagawa Police Station's Fourth Division of Search. ”

"Not only family members, but also friends will be implicated...... "The young man's eyes lit up behind the lenses, "Do you have to investigate such a dangerous thing yourself......?"

"Probably not. Nao smiled bitterly and shook his head, "If it was handed over to the police for investigation, it should have been solved more than ten years ago, and even a small child can detect an unreasonable case, they have been hidden for so many years...... Presumably there is another hidden story - a hidden secret that only Kanagawa's search four lessons can get involved in. ”

"Is there only Kanagawa's search four lesson......s?

"I also just found out not long ago," Nao looked up into his eyes, "Kanagawa's Fourth Search Section is another name for the International Organization's Criminal Investigation Headquarters. ”

"International ......" Yanagi's expression was a little complicated, "It doesn't matter if you tell me this?

"Ah, it's a very strict thing...... But," Nao suddenly laughed, "I always feel that only by suing you will I feel at ease." ”

"Really......"

(Only sue sù you?)

The boy smiled self-deprecatingly, and a slight swelling of emotion suddenly welled up in his chest.

(This you, did it turn out to be Yagyu Hirushi...... ）

"Naw. ”

Nao suddenly spoke.

The boy raised his head and looked at her slowly, but instead of the girl's golden-green eyes, a palm covered with small wounds and calluses appeared...... Bigger and bigger in front of your eyes.

He was stunned, just staring blankly at the girl's thin fingers pressing against his lips, the warm and soft fingertips gently rubbing the corners of his lips, and the slightly rough touch slowly slid on his cheeks.

Looking at the smile on the girl's lips, the heart in his chest suddenly contracted, and Fuer beat like a drum, louder than the other.

"Now, I say, don't you have anything to explain to me?" the girl retracted her finger delicately, waved it in front of the boy's eyes, and narrowed her eyes dangerously, "Werewolf さんyo!"

The boy's figure shook suddenly, and he touched the corner of his lips in surprise - a small black mole appeared there.

And on the girl's fingertips, there is an extra layer of ivory foundation.

Looking at Nao's slightly malicious smile, the boy took off his glasses and lifted off his brown wig, revealing a silver-white color like moonlight, but an irrepressible smile overflowed on his lips.

"When did you find out?"

Nao smiled arrogantly, her slender eyes shining with a provocative brilliance.

"Yes, of course, from the moment we meet. ”

The author has something to say: tsk, the computer suddenly crashed, yesterday.

The power supply burned, causing me to run to the Internet café in the middle of the night to code words, but I was so sleepy that I wrote at half past two, and I turned back again......

It's easy to finish today, aggrieved......

I probably can't update it tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow...... I'll try my best to go to the computer city tomorrow to get a new power supply......

PS: It's the first time I've written about this kind of emotional thing, I hope it won't be weird......