Ryoichi's house in Shinjuku is a rental house, no different from the place where ordinary working-class office workers live, and when they see the chalk of the four-story old building that is beginning to peel off, Lin Nian and Mandy believe the fact that Ryoichi said that he is a poor dog.

"Didn't you say that you have a monthly salary of two or three hundred thousand yen? Why not rent a better place to live? On the stairwell, Mandy asked after Ryoichi who took out the key.

"What's the use of a good stay? Every day without settling down, sometimes a troublesome task has to be outside for several days, even if you live in a five-star hotel, it is just a waste of money. Ryoichi took a cigarette in his mouth, and the familiar road slapped the hammer on the sensor lamp on the side to light up the corridor.

"This spirit of frugality is very good, and it is better to save money and buy a house later." Lin Nian gave a thumbs up.

"I buy what I want, and I give money when I go to a custom shop to chat with the wine girl, so I don't have a deposit, and the reason why I don't starve to death now is that the convenience of the mission allows me to go to various places to eat overlord meals." Ryoichi said.

Lin Nian silently withdrew his praise.

Walking to the corridor, there is a whole row of residents' doors, black garbage bags are piled up at the door, many garbage bags have been accidentally kicked by passers-by and spilled out, and no one takes care of them, which is enough to see what the condition of this dormitory building is.

Liangyi walked to the door of No. 204 and raised his hand to put out the cigarette on the wall, took out the key to open the door, Lin Nian and Mandy both leaned on the railing behind and looked down at the street, they still lived in a five-star restaurant in the morning, and came to the homestay in the afternoon.

The door was opened, and the interior light shone into the hallway, and the room was already occupied.

Lin Nian, who saw the light behind the door and the running figure on the railing, subconsciously held the handle of the knife in the cuff, but Mandy on the side hugged his arm and shouted: "Senior brother, calm down!" Brother, calm down! Don't be scared to chop off someone's head again. ”

"ただいま (I'm back)."

"おかえり (Welcome back)."

Liangyi walked into the entrance and took off his shoes, a young girl wearing slippers trotted over to help him take off his windbreaker, and Lin Nian, who was holding a knife in his hand outside the door, raised his eyebrows to the hairline, looking at this particularly 'warm' scene.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, this is Chihiro, now live with me for the time being." Liang Yi glanced at Lin Nian, who was stunned, and explained.

"There's a guest today... My name is Chihiro Aoyo, thank you for taking care of Ryoichi, and please advise. The young girl named Chihiro was still wearing an apron, wiped her hands behind her back, and bowed to Lin Nian and the two outside the door.

Lin Nian and Mandy nodded and said hello, and after entering the hallway, the former gave Liang Yi a strange look: "Your girlfriend?" ”

"It's not." Ryoichi changed into slippers and stepped on the wooden floor.

"Your relatives?" Lin Nian thought about it and asked.

"Not really." Ryoichi glanced back at him, "Chihiro was picked up from the street by me and lives with me temporarily. ”

Lin Nian and Mandy's expressions were even more weird, and the word 'pick-up' was too subtle.

"There are no other stories, I met Chihiro at work half a year ago, she has nowhere to live, I just don't go home a lot, and the house is empty, so we just live together." Liangyi found two pairs of disposable slippers from the shoe cabinet and opened them in front of Lin Nian and the others.

"It's really picked up, and now you Japanese are no longer limited to catching Pokémon in the wild?" Mandy was horrified by the rhetoric.

"In recent years, this kind of 'god treats girls' is quite common, right?" Ryoichi led the two of them to the living room: "It's a very common phenomenon in Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, where these girls who have been resigned and can't find a job for the time being, who find that they don't have enough money after the convenience store is completed, and who have quarreled with their families and run away from home, will gather together and wait for someone to take them back for a night, or a long time. ”

"Is Japan so magical now?" Lin Nian felt a little disillusioned, remembering that he had laughed at one of his classmates surnamed Lu, saying that the unfortunate girl he saw in the anime sitting in the corner of a convenience store in the rain and eating expired bread and waiting to be adopted like a stray cat did not exist, but now it looks like he has been slapped in the face.

As a woman, Mandy reacted not small, but she was afraid of being heard by the girl in the kitchen who was humming a song and cooking, so she deliberately lowered her voice: "This is a deliberate abduction, right?" This must be a deliberate abduction, right? ”

"Abduction is based on coaxing, lies and unrealistic promises, and my relationship with her is not that complicated." Ryoichi heard Mandy's whisper and spoke.

"Then does he know that you are from his own family?" Lin Nian asked.

"I don't know, my relationship with him is just that I provide a place to live and she takes care of the housework, and she doesn't need to know so much about my work." Liang said expressionlessly.

"Is it really just a chore?" Lin Nian and Mandy cast questioning glances in unison.

"It's as simple as that, how complicated can it be?" Ryoichi glanced at the two, and the latter scratched his brow in unison, avoiding the righteous gaze.

Eating people with a soft mouth and short hands, living in someone else's house will take care of so many idle things.

"I haven't eaten oden before, have you? Eat more? The living room is connected to the kitchen, and Ryoichi walked to the cupboard and brought two more dishes and chopsticks to the table.

The question turned to eating and drinking, Lin Nian and Mandy gave up the righteous questioning, and honestly ran to wash their hands and faces—both Mandy and Lin Nian suspected that there was still a black place on their faces.

After finishing the preparations, they sat back at the table, and the atmosphere was a little silent for each of the four people.

Chihiro Aoyo, who took off her apron, immediately changed from the position of a housewife to a student of the symbol, Lin Nian and Mandy both observed her with their spare eyes, and the estimated age was no more than 17 years old, college student? No... It's supposed to be a JK (female high school student), picking up a minor and coming back to be a housewife, it's really enviable... The sin is terrible!

"How do you feel like you're looking at me..."Chihiro Qingyo bit her chopsticks and looked at Ryoichi with some embarrassment.

"It's just curiosity, these two are friends at work, foreign friends from abroad, one from China, one from..."

"Spain, but grew up in the United States for as long as I can remember." Mandy smiled, half-raised her hand and greeted Chihiro.

"It looks like Brother Liangyi is working in a big company." Chihiro looked at Ryoichi as if she had discovered something terrible.

"It's just a general business, they didn't book a hotel tonight, so they stayed at my house for one night temporarily." Ryoichi said.

"Really? Then I'll sleep on the sofa with Brother Liangyi tonight! Ayo Chihiro said

"Yes." Liang nodded.

"No, it's okay, it's us who bother, we should sleep in the sand..."Mandy looked back at the sofa in the living room and suddenly stopped, because that thing really didn't look like two people could be squeezed side by side, if she and Lin Nian wanted to sleep there, they would definitely have to hold the other person alone.

"Sleeping on the couch? I don't care. Lin Nian, who was bowing his head to eat, didn't have time to turn around and subconsciously said.

"I think I'm a bit so-called..."Mandy withdrew the preface with a sad face and slept on the sofa, taking advantage of the mission to steal the junior brother, and he will be slaughtered by Lin Xian when he returns to the academy, right?

"Are you still in school at your age?" After a chopstick dish, Lin Nian looked at Qingdai Chihiro and asked casually.

"I'm in my third year of high school, and I'm studying at a nearby women's college." Qingdai Chihiro was also quietly looking at Lin Nian: "What is this guest called?" Why do you feel that the accent is a bit Osaka? ”

"The surname is Lin, and I don't know too much about the accent, but when others taught me, I taught it like this, and it was more authentic to say that it was Japanese."

"Lin Jun, the words of the Osaka dialect are indeed more local characteristics on the Osaka side, but it seems a little strange to say that the Osaka dialect is here in Tokyo." Ayo Chihiro explained with a smile.

"Understood." Lin Nian ate and wrote Fingal in his heart expressionlessly, and Fingal, who was far away from the ocean, sneezed and drew his sword to look around, dazed.

"Lin Jun is really amazing to work in a big company at this age." Ayo Chihiro also began to observe Lin Nian carefully, and found that the boy was actually about the same age as herself, and maybe even younger than herself, but now he appeared at home as a colleague of Ryoichi.

"It's not difficult, just study hard, and when you graduate and go to a good university, you will probably be able to rent a house for yourself." Lin Nian lowered his head and shaved rice.

"Yes, it's embarrassing to be crowded in Brother Liangyi's house all the time, Brother Liangyi often works outside and doesn't come home, and I don't have anything to help, I hope that I can repay Brother Liangyi by earning money after working in the future." Ayo Chihiro said with a chuckle.

Lin Nian has nothing to say now, the girl is willing to take care of the housework and repay you in the future, this is said to be abducted, how advanced abduction skills do you need to abduct to abduct such a treasure home?

"Anyway, I'm alone, and with my brother here, it's like having a family again." Ayo Chihiro said with a smile again.

Lin Nian, who was eating, was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and glanced at Qingdai Chihiro, but he didn't say anything after that.

The meal was finished in a hurry and without a word, Chihiro took the initiative to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Lin Nian couldn't intervene if he wanted to help, but Mandy squeezed in to help with the affinity of the same sex, he could only sit honestly on the sofa in the living room and watch TV.

There was a funny variety show playing on the TV at eight o'clock, and Liangyi also sat aside and picked up the plate with candy on the table and handed it over, Lin Nian grabbed a candy wrapper at random and slowly peeled it and asked, "Is she an orphan?" ”

"Yes." Ryoichi also peeled off a piece of candy and chewed it in his mouth.

"Did you get it from the orphanage?"

"It doesn't count." Ryoichi said, "I'm responsible for her affairs. ”

Lin Nian's action of peeling candy paper paused, and he cast a puzzled look.

"There was a mission before, saying that there were dangerous half-breeds to rob in Shinjuku, and they picked on the big boss who came out of the nightclub, and almost killed people several times, so the team leader of Yilong asked me to go and see what the situation was." Ryoichi opened a bottle of cold beer: "It turned out to be nothing new, I found the half-blood, he attacked me and I shot him in the heart." ”

"What does this have to do with her?" Lin Nian glanced at Chihiro Qingdai, who was busy in the kitchen.

"She's the daughter of that dangerous half-blood." Ryoichi took a sip of wine: "Her mother died in childbirth, and there were no other relatives at home who were still in the first year of high school when the incident happened, and she had nowhere to go back if I killed his father, so I simply picked her up." ”

Lin Nian paused for a moment, then frowned slightly: "You picked up a trouble." ”

"How?" Ryoichi's expression remained unchanged.

"Half-breed offspring... There's a chance it's a half-blood, right? Lin Nian asked.

"She doesn't." Ryoichi said: "I took it to my family to check, even some dragon bloodlines are very thin, and they belong to the kind that have no chance to awaken in their lives." ”

"So all your wages are spent here." Lin Nian smiled.

"It doesn't cost much." Ryoichi couldn't stand the exaggerated laughter of the funny artist on the TV, so he pressed the remote control board and changed the channel.

"Actually, I thought you were in that kind of relationship at first." Lin Nian said embarrassedly.

"What a relationship... You mean flesh-and-skin relationship? Ryoichi said: "If you want to have no breasts, if you want an ass without an ass, why don't I go to prostitution?" ”

This topic is out of line, Lin Nian turned his head sideways and didn't pick up the stubble and changed the topic: "Don't you care about orphans like this?" ”

"There is a high probability that the pension will be sent to the orphanage, you should know that that kind of place should not be for a child." Ryoichi said.

Lin Nian was stunned for a moment, looked at Liang for a while before saying, "You too?" ”

Liang nodded: "People like us have labels on them, and you are no exception. ”

"How many years have you been?"

"Since childhood."

"I'm pretty much the same." Lin Nian felt that the boy who had always been fierce and vicious around him was much kinder for no reason.

"Did you take him in because of guilt?"

"It's my job to deal with dangerous hybrids, and I can't feel guilty, will the half-breed you killed this morning feel guilty about the gunslinger tonight?" Ryoichi asked rhetorically.

"Nope." Lin Nian said: "One is no longer human, and the other wants to deprive people of their lives, why do I feel guilty." ”

"Me too." Ryoichi said.

"Then why do you have to take on this responsibility?" Lin Nian asked: "I came out of the orphanage with my sister, I know that it was not easy for her to take care of me during that time, and you are probably the same." ”

"Is there any reason for this kind of thing?" Ryoichi lay on the sofa and watched TV: "If you can help, you can help." ”

Lin Nian also nodded after a pause: "You are the same as my sister, I asked her why she took care of me so much, and she also said that you are pitiful, and if you want to help, you can help." ”

"You've got a good sister." Liang lifted his beer.

"You're good, too... Brother? ”

Go out and eat the overlord meal in the nightclub and drink free champagne, just because you eat less at home, you can save a penny with less double bowls and chopsticks, and all the wages saved will be paid for tuition and tuition and miscellaneous fees for the girls in the family.

Lin Nian didn't have a reason to think of the scene when they entered the door before, when he used to go home, his sister always cooked a meal and said "back"? They are surprisingly alike.

He smiled gratuitously and stuffed the candy in his mouth.

In the kitchen, Chihiro Aoyo, who was washing dishes, suddenly whispered an "ah", and Mandy next to her subconsciously asked in English: "whats_wrong?" (What's going on)"

"Someone in Brother Liangyi's company sent a metal box saying it was a gift, and I asked him to open the box and transfer the contents to him when he came back, I almost forgot." Ayo Chihiro stuck out her tongue and whispered.

Mandy was stunned for a moment, shrugged her shoulders and turned her head to continue washing the dishes, because of the language barrier, Chihiro could understand her simple English, but she couldn't understand what the girl was muttering in Japanese, so she could only watch the girl trot into the room not far away with a smile.