The figure gradually blurred, and the dream suddenly sat up - waiting for the sun.

There is a flickering sound, and the remaining breath is gone—the sad wind is desolate.

......

The TV that changed the channel was broadcasting Noh performances, tactful singing, exaggerated makeup, and Noh actors rising and falling on the screen, like flowers and butterflies.

"Do you have any plans for the future when you are underworlds?" Lin Nian lay on the sofa and looked at the traditional Japanese art that he couldn't appreciate, and asked casually.

"Intended?" Ryoyi, who was standing on the edge of the refrigerator with a cold beer in his hand, threw the juice to the sofa: "What can you do, do you mean changing careers?" ”

"We generally refer to reforming the evil and returning to the right, even if the work of the underworld is beautiful, it is a crooked road after all, you should know this, right?" Lin Nian took the juice thrown by Liangyi and iced his hands.

"The underworld is not a job, it's a choice in life... Besides, washing hands in a golden basin is a big taboo in our business, and whoever does this idea may have to die on the streets the next day. Ryoichi leaned against the refrigerator and looked through the window to the telephone pole standing in the dark night, and a few night sparrows fluttered in the bustling sparks in the distance.

"Tattoos can be washed off by photoelectric means." Lin Nian said.

"To be exact, 80 percent of the tattoos can be washed off, but the remaining 20 percent can't." Ryoichi stretched out his hand and pulled the collar to reveal the colorful colors below: "The longer it passes, the more it will precipitate, the heavier the color, and the more difficult it is to get out." ”

"What are you tattooing?" Lin Nian asked.

Liang glanced at the bedroom door that was closed not far away, put the cold beer on the refrigerator and reached out to unbutton a few buttons, Lin Nian on the sofa couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly after seeing the gorgeous and devouring drawings on his chest, and the reflection of the crazy scarlet and eerie colored green in his pupils.

"The red ghost of the day is a plan to punish evil spirits every day." Ryoichi said: "In the year of my coming-of-age ceremony, the leader of Yoshitaka took me to the 'tattoo master' to give me this kind of qualified tattoo in my family, only a specific tattoo master dares to tattoo it, and the team leader gives me a picture, and follows me to the 'tattoo master' who is enshrined in the family, bathing in incense, worshipping ghosts and gods, and then I can get a tattoo on my body, and since then I have escaped into the infernal hell." ”

"Infernal Hell?" Lin Nian chewed on the word and smiled for no reason.

"Some things can't be washed off after they are painted, and forced washing will only leave ugly scars, and on the day of the coming-of-age ceremony, Team Leader Yilong asked me three times if I was ready, and I answered yes." Ryoichi said lightly: "There is no reason for a person like me to refuse a hard-won gift, and after escaping from the orphanage, he wandered the streets of Shinjuku, and his hands and feet were not clean and he stole people's wallets to live. At that time, I was in Ginza one day when a group of gangsters fought for the turf, using knives and guns, the scene was very tragic, and it was the first time I knew that a person could hold so much blood in his body, and the faucet on his neck could not be turned off as soon as it was turned on, and I knew that there were people in this world who were more miserable and ruthless than me in order to survive. ”

"That's when Team Leader Elan came." Ryoichi looked at the incandescent lamp in the living room and recalled: "He got out of a black Honda, without any attendant and without any weapons in his hand, and an old man over half a hundred years old walked alone to the center of the battlefield. They saw that the leader of the group was like seeing a ghost walking in the daytime, and they took the initiative to retreat and go to both sides, the east side was bleeding in the east, and the west side was gasping in the west, and the old man split this tragic scene in two with only one person, and did not even say a word from beginning to end. ”

"So I told myself in my heart from then on that when I grow up, I want to be such a majestic person, wear a suit, drive a car, everyone knows my name, everyone respects me." With that, Ryoichi said calmly and took a long sip of beer into his mouth.

"A very reasonable wish." Lin Nian nodded, and the concept in it was undeniable: "Presumably no matter how dangerous this road is, you will continue to walk in the future, what about your sister?" ”

"Sister?" Liangyi glanced at Lin Nian: "Oh, did you say Chihiro... She and I are people of two worlds, even if I climb the ground no matter how high she is, she doesn't need to get involved in my affairs, for her, it is good to get into a good university, come out and find a good job, and then find a good man to marry. ”

"While praying for a grand and domineering future, do you give your family the most ordinary and warm future?" Lin Nian took a sip of juice: "When she gets married, you probably won't go to see her again, right?" ”

"Not necessarily." Ryoichi raised his eyebrows: "If the boyfriend she's dating is a scumbag, maybe I still have a chance to make a fresh cement pillar for the building in Tokyo." ”

"With an older brother like you, Chihiro's father who will marry in the future will probably only have you to sit on it, right?" Lin Nian smiled and lifted the juice can to Liang Yi next to the refrigerator.

"It's not meaningful to talk about things that are too far away now." Ryoichi also smiled, lowered his head and shook it, and also raised the beer can and touched it in the distance.

What is the future?

Ryoichi drank and remembered the first time he met Chihiro, in a rental house that was not much better than the current one.

I still remember that it seemed to be Monday, he received the task of resettlement orphans from his family and came to visit the orphanage with the procedures of the orphanage, at that time he knocked on the door of the rental house and no one responded, so he could only use a small means to unlock and enter, and found that there was no one in the room, only to remember that it was a weekday when the school had to hold classes, and no matter how early it was, no one would come back until four o'clock in the afternoon.

He simply walked around the rental house, there was nothing very special, the TV series in the living room was covered with a large layer of ash indicating that the owner did not like to watch TV, there were no magazines to relieve boredom, there were no popular game consoles among students on the market, only a boxy cushion next to the low table in the middle of the living room, and there were traces of depression on it.

Ryoichi sat on the cushion and looked up at the place in front of him at the door of the rental house, where the clock was ticking and doing a never-ending circular motion, and for no reason at that time, he suddenly integrated into the role, guessing that the owner of the room sat like this in all his leisure time in the room, listening to the sound of the clock ticking back and forth and feeling the time flowing through his fingers, letting the sun rise and set outside the window, until he fell asleep on the table with sleepiness.

What are the expectations of such a boring and boring daily life? Ryoichi didn't understand.

He sat and thought, that after a while he had really fallen asleep in the afternoon sunset, and slept sleepily on the table until the afternoon, until the sound of the lock cylinder of the door waking him up.

At that time, Ryoichi, who was asleep, didn't react when a girl's clear voice sounded at the door, and she said, "ただいま (I'm back)."

At this moment, Ryoichi also knew what the girl was waiting for sitting here over and over again, in a way the girl was the same kind of person as him, they had all sat behind the door for a long time, muttered, listened to the sound of the rain flowing on the railing outside the window, chewed the cold and slightly damp to evoke the taste of loneliness.

What they are waiting for is a boring future.,It's an impossible 'ただいま' and a 'おかえり' that they can never say.。

Naïve, unrealistic, but with great good intentions.

'おかえり' (Welcome back).

That afternoon, Ryoichi, who has been an orphan since he was a child, also said that unfamiliar and familiar dialogue for the first time.

- How about giving her a good future, as long as you know that there is someone sitting behind the door waiting for you, I am back, and the dialogue of the welcome back will never be boring, because there is always someone who will accompany you to play this unconventional game.

There must be some pillars and reasons to climb to the top of the underworld, so why can't this reason be her?

Liang smiled, drinking a cold beer, his eyes full of tenderness.

On the sofa, Lin Nian, who was drinking juice, suddenly turned his head. The eyes reflected the disparate light and flames.

*

The explosion was deafening, and Ryoichi rolled out and couldn't tell the difference between heaven and earth, only to feel that his ears were ringing and his eyes were full of bloodshot, and the whole world seemed to be spinning, until the back of his head hit the ground and there was a sharp pain, and he stopped rolling.

It was as if there was a fault line in his memory, and the last moment he was still distracted by the dormitory refrigerator, at this moment, the confusion and pain completely filled his brain, and his thoughts were as difficult to sort out as numbness.

A violent cough suddenly sounded beside Ryoichi, and he tried to look sideways while lying on the ground, only to see Lin Nian pressing Mandy and throwing up a large pile of dust on the ground.

Lin Nian's face was gray and his body was covered with blood, his exposed skin was cracked, and a large number of capillaries were ruptured, and after seeing Ryoichi's sight, he spat blood and spit and whispered: "I'm sorry, the situation is too critical, the moment of the fifth order is still not fast enough..."

Liangyi stared at Lin Nian blankly, the light of the fire sprinkled from the sky made his bloodstained face light and dark clearly, he suddenly seemed to notice something expressionless and struggled to get up, looking up, the flames and billowing smoke on the third floor of the apartment building went straight into the sky, and his shadow stretched long and long under the firelight.

Standing alone under the billowing smoke, he was like a solitary owl, and like a poor man sitting by the window listening to the sunset, listening to the sound of the clock and reaching a climax but no one answered, howling hysterically at the closed door that no longer opened.