Chapter 36: The ...... I Have Been Looking Up To
The trance fragments in the dream reenact the memories of those years.
Many, many years ago, when she wanted to braid Gin's long hair while she was asleep, she was startled by Gin's sudden opening of cold eyes, but since then she has continued to die with perseverance and happiness......
Also, the first time she brought the coffee with a cartoon gin, Gin didn't react, but one day, Gin suddenly asked her to make a glass......
Also, when she was mischievously chasing after the 'small array' for months, Gin once seemed to answer softly......
And also......
In the dimly lit basement, the disgusting smell of blood, the slowly drying colors of black and red, the round eyes of corpses, and the slamming doors shut......
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As soon as she turned around, she spat out tears and snot.
She must have been ugly back then, she thought.
And also......
The house was full of rats and cockroaches, and after a while, it turned into snakes of all kinds that were entwined and swamming.
Red...... Black...... Grey......
With a crumbling shout, accompanied by an out-of-control slaughter, a cloud of white light shattered the various distorted blocks of color in the dream.
She looked up and watched the tall figure approach.
His arms are sometimes very warm.
He never took care of the children, but he never disliked her embarrassed appearance.
Just like when he first met, he didn't care about her dirty appearance at all.
"Imp...... Are you Asian?"
"Yes!"
"Borrow a gun? Will you use it?"
"I ......"
"Optimistic about ......"
He picked her up, no matter how dirty she was, and made her hold the gun tightly and aimed it at the terrified-looking supervisor behind her, "Get in!"
His gaze was fierce and murderous.
She was surprisingly relieved.
Yes, peace of mind.
The silencer-mounted gun made no sound, but the man's round eyes and bloody holes in the dark alley still made her heart beat faster and she forgot where she was.
It wasn't the first time she had seen death, but it was the first time someone had died because of her.
"Look at ...... well"
"Kill if you're afraid! Kill ......"
"Kill!"
"Kill ......"
"Remember?"
"Kill him!"
His voice kept echoing in his ears, and then suddenly fell silent.
She heard the crackling sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car.
"GIN, WHY DID YOU CARE ABOUT ME THAT DAY?"
"Yes"
"Because I need to...... What now? Why do you bother me?"
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"Ah, ah, I know, because it takes ......."
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She heard the sound of kettle water boiling in the quiet space.
"Hey, big bunny......
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"Okay, okay, don't be angry"
"Don't give people nicknames"
"That...... A small array?"
His face darkened, and he grabbed her back collar and walked to the door.
"Don't, don't throw me away......
He stopped and put her down.
She secretly looked up at him, and couldn't tell if he was really angry.
He stared at her with a slightly cold, incomprehensible gaze.
Well, well, he should have wanted to throw her out more than once.
For example, the first time she was happy to help him dry his hair, she had the whimsical idea to be found when he was braided at the ends......
Actually...... She just wanted to see, to prove that she wasn't different from him.
Fortunately, he never threw her in, and occasionally reached out to her when she was helpless.
So, no matter if there are bad memories or not, whether he pours cold water on her again and again, no matter how he hears about other women......
She didn't care.
Always...... I kept looking up at the tall figure.
But if that's the case, why......
Why are these memories still shattered into slag?
Even if she is no longer needed, even if he begins to drift away, even if he ......
Hasn't she been holding on to it too?
One-year, three-year, five-year ...... Isn't she a little tired?
I'm tired.
That day......
In the room, there was no blood, nothing she had once feared.
He was the only one entangled with another woman.
It's really different from what I've heard and what I've seen with my own eyes.
In the past, even if she heard that it was Belmode, someone else she knew, she carefully hid her sadness, not wanting to annoy him.
But that day......
On the date he and she met.
It was said many years ago......
"GIN, LET'S GO TO THE ROOFTOP TOGETHER AFTER A BUSY NIGHT TODAY?"
"Why?"
"Because...... Today is July 14th, the date I met you......
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"Okay, I know it's boring, so you can accompany me to be bored, okay?"
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"Okay?"
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"Okay? Good no good? Good ......."
"Good"
"No...... Ay? Then ...... next year."
"Good"
"That...... You'll remember today, right?"
"Good ......"
"You'll remember, right?"
"Long-winded, I see."
That's what he said.
She didn't quite understand whether it was too difficult or a little more disappointed that day.
Maybe a little disgusting?
He told her to get out.
She rolled off, back to the gun room overnight.
She felt ...... There shouldn't be any unrealistic fantasies, she wouldn't have been needed a few years ago, was she?
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Actually, the future is not so bad.
On the day she rolled back, in the gun room, a large man stood quietly behind her, accompanied her for five minutes, and left her a small paper folded boat.
On the twenty-first day of her rollback, the big man stayed with her for another five minutes and asked her if she was okay.
On the third month and two days after she went back, she met a man who walked calmly through the passage at the information office.
She's so bored, bored to ...... In order not to think about Gin, he had a prank mind, hid around the corner, and quietly followed, with the gun against the man's waist.
The man froze, and for a moment had the intention of fighting back, and his right hand was raised to his waist, but he quickly pressed it down, and turned his back to her without saying a word.
She deliberately asked in an indifferent male voice, "You can't let people come here, who are you?"
The man didn't move, and said calmly, "I'm here to confirm the mission's course of action, but I'm lost, I thought the members with code names didn't have so many restrictions here......
Feeling a little bored, she put away her gun and resumed her voice, "You're a newcomer with a code name, huh?" β¦β¦ There's no restriction here, after all, it's just a sub-office, but don't run around......
The man turned to look at her at the sixteen-year-old with surprise and surprise in his eyes.
"Scared silly? I was just kidding you......" She looked up, stunned for a moment.
This man, these eyes......
It wasn't until the gun fell to the ground that she hurriedly bent down to pick it up, pretending to be calm and hiding her fast heartbeat.
Zhu Fu Jingguang, Scotch Whisky, Her ...... Second brother......
"Are you alright?" Zhu Fu Jingguang stepped forward.
"It's okay......" She lowered her eyes and stood up calmly.
It's been more than a decade, and her hair has changed from pure black to silver because of that experiment, he ...... Maybe I forgot about it.
Even if you haven't forgotten it, you won't recognize it......
Someone suddenly grabbed his wrist.
Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at her fixedly, "You...... Half-breed?"
"I ......"
She looked up and smiled, avoiding the question, "I'm Amorret, hello."
Zhu Fu Jingguang was stunned for a moment, and pursed his lips, "Scotch whisky."
"It's time for me to go."
She didn't know how to face it, but when she turned around, Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't let go.
"I...... I'm sorry......"
She looked back in confusion.
Zhu Fu Jingguang's slightly drooping eyes were sad, guilty, and happy...... Too many emotions are intertwined, too complicated, but they stubbornly look straight at her, as if they are afraid that she will disappear as soon as they close their eyes.
He...... Recognized?
It's been more than ten years, and it can still ...... Recognizable it?
Her eyes were a little sour, and she pretended to be relaxed.
"I'm sorry for what?"
Zhu Fu Jingguang tried to restrain his emotions and spoke intermittently, "That year...... I...... Blame me for not going out with you...... Blame me for not protecting you...... You are...... Qing Feng, right?"
"I'm Amorret."
She replied like this, and found that Zhu Fu Jingguang's hand holding her wrist suddenly lost strength, and there was unspeakable loss in her eyes, and she suddenly laughed.
"Sorry ......"
She seems to have learned the bad problem of gin, how can she be so ...... What about hurting people?
"It's okay...... Zhu Fu Jingguang's eyes regained their brightness, "After all, you were only three years old at the time, even if you don't remember......
"yes, I don't remember at all......
She tiptoed and pulled Zhu Fu Jingguang, leaned close to Zhu Fu Jingguang's ear, smiled and whispered, "I remember that my second brother's name is Zhu Fu Jingguang."
"You...... Remember, right? It's wonderful, it's really ......."
yes, that's great.
Every time she looked at her second brother with joy and pity, she remembered that she was also someone else's treasure.
She smiled and reminded softly: "Don't run around, little undercover agent, this is just a sub-office, there is no valuable information, and there are a lot of cameras, I will be very distressed if you expose it."
"How do you know that I ......" Zhu Fu Jingguang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly lost his laughter and pretended to scold, "It's not big or small!"
Just like that year, when she was three years old, she leaned against the tree like a little adult: don't run around, Xiao Jingguang, my clothes are dirty, and I will be very distressed when my mother asks me when I go home.
He almost didn't trip over himself, turned back with a red face, and maintained the dignity of being an older brother: no big or small!
She looked at him and smiled, the smile in her eyes deepened, and she glanced at the time, "Don't worry, only I know your identity, and I won't tell anyone else...... I really have to go, go find me in the gun maintenance room when you have time, even if it's only for five minutes......
From that day on, she began to check the records of the gun room.
Generally, she sends and receives, maintains firearms, she doesn't have to show up, she is in the firearms room, mainly to carry out firearm improvement and agency research, if you don't pay attention to the registration records, it is likely that Zhufu Jingguang will not see her at all.
Keep an eye out for it, pretend to be passing by or encountering it by chance, and you'll be fine......
She was looking forward to it so much, but Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't let her wait too long at all.
Three days later, Zhu Fu Jingguang came, and deliberately broke the gun, and shirked that it was not easy to change the gun, and even helped her find a reason.
That day, Zhu Fu Jingguang seemed to have made up his mind and looked at her seriously.
"Qingfeng, second brother doesn't want you to do anything, get out of here, I'll take you home, okay?"
"Good ......"
The once reckless little ghost seems to have really grown up and has the appearance of an older brother......
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However, the future is not so good.
Two months and one day after she rolled back, she had her first argument with Gin.
She's had enough of putting up with it.
The feeling of giving her fantasies for a while, stabbing her in the heart for a while, treating her far better than others for a while, and being indifferent for a while like everything was her wishful thinking before is really enough.
That year after year, it was repeated over and over again.
Heal her wounds when she is dying, and cut her with another knife, as if she is in an infernal hell, uninterrupted time, inseparable, inseparable, inseparable, inseparable, inseparable!
She gave herself the most painful knife and cut off all reveries, isn't it good for each other?
But for Gin, she seems to be out of control......
On the third month and eleventh day after she rolled back, she saw Gin again, and Gin showed murderous intent to her for the first time.
After that, the cycle of argument seemed to be inevitable.
The two seem to have started a protracted tug-of-war, no matter whether they talk or confront each other, they no longer take into account each other's feelings.
How could it be...... Turned out like this?
The fifth time she met, she wanted to speak calmly.
"GIN, stop arguing......
Gin showed murderous intent towards her for the second time, stronger than the first.
What do you want her to do......
On the sixth month and ninth day of her roll-back, she was lying on the table, too tired to move.
In the eighth month and fourteenth day of her rollback, Zhu Fu Jingguang died......
The two of them only had a few minutes of conversation at a time, and they had only seen each other four times.
She had vaguely reminded him, and she had prepared a mechanism for him......
But he was useless.
Ridiculous, without anything to do with her, Gin wouldn't have suspected her?
She still had a lot to say, many, many things that she didn't have time to say.
She......
didn't even have time to take it seriously and call him 'Brother Jingguang'.
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Morning, 8:33 a.m.
Qing Feng opened his eyes, his cheeks and pillow were cold.
It seems that she has not been able to sleep well like this except for living in the apartment next to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Since the age of sixteen, since the death of Zhufu Jingguang, nightmares have haunted her like evil ghosts, night after night, and never stopped.
Annoyance, guilt, joy, longing, sadness, unwillingness......
No matter how numb she woke up, her dreams would make her truly experience all the emotions at those times, and she would wake up physically and mentally exhausted.
Kusuke always said that he couldn't see her clearly, but in fact, she didn't hate anyone.
She has always found it difficult to hate someone, especially the people she has been with for many years, especially those who have been kind to her.
She's just ...... Tired......
Some people say that if you don't sleep well all the time, coupled with cranky thinking, you can be depressed.
She didn't dare to think nonsense, whether she was sick or not, she didn't know.
But......
How many people in the organization have not been sick?
Even if it's Gray Plains, it's a bit of a victim paranoia, right?
That Akai Shuichi ...... Self-autism?
Qing Feng was amused by his thoughts, rolled on the bed, and reached out to draw a stunned expression on the day Conan was smashed on the head, and his mood improved again.
Get up and open the door.
The air was filled with the faint smell of milk.
Amuro looked out of the kitchen with a smile on his face, "I went to buy some ingredients in the morning, you seem to wake up a little early today, I thought you wouldn't wake up until nine o'clock." β
"Okay, wait a minute."
Qingfeng ran to wash and change clothes, and when she came down, things were already on the table, "That...... Thoko ......"
"Huh?" Amuro looked up.
At home, girls never seem to wear hats and sunglasses or anything like camouflage, their skin is clear and pale, and their eyes are bright.
It's just that before he went to wash his face, he seemed to see the tears on the girl's face.
Delusion?
There was some distance between the second floor and the first floor, and he wasn't sure.
"You don't need to prepare breakfast in the future," Qingfeng took a bite of the sandwich, the soft and glutinous taste made her smile and squint, before she raised her head and continued, "You go back to work at Poirot's Cafe in two days, you should get up very early in the morning, I usually wake up at eight or nine o'clock." β
"Then let's go to Poirot for breakfast," Amuro suggested with a smile, "You wake up and go over, lunch too, and dinner when you come back." β
"Yes, too." Qing Feng nodded.
Anyway, it's just a matter of making it.
"Jingle Bell ββ!" β
The landline phone rings noisily at home.
Amuro seemed to have entered the role of the housekeeper, got up and went to the living room to answer the phone, "Hello, this is Morita's house." β
Qingfeng, who followed up, almost burst out laughing, so speaking, her wish to tie up Toko home and raise her to cook seemed to have really come true.
"Isn't it Mr. Kusuke or Kaede-chan?" The uncle on the other end of the phone was puzzled.
"I'm the new housekeeper......"
"Is Xiao Feng there? I'm Jiroyoshi Suzuki, I have something to tell her! β
Amuro turned his head to look at Qing Feng.
Qingfeng nodded, stepped forward, and took the earpiece from Amuro, "Uncle Jiroyoshi? What's the matter? β
"I'm really sorry about the Suzuki express train two days ago!" Jiro Suzuki.
Two days ago?
Qingfeng took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, okay, the date has gone back again, I'm afraid I can't really pass this year, "It's okay, it's not your fault, no one wants to see the incident when it happens." β
"It's good that you don't care, after all, I invited you over," Jiroji Suzuki laughed, "By the way, did you read today's newspaper?" β
Qingfeng was very sincere, "No, I just woke up......"
Suzuki Jiroyoshi didn't care, and his voice continued to be cheerful, "The gem that was originally intended to be displayed on the Suzuki Limited Express train last time will be exhibited at the Suzuki Museum of Art in Tokyo this time, and I have already sent out a challenge in the newspaper, and the thief has already taken the battle, so you can also come and see how I caught that thief in the urn!" β
"Catching turtles in an urn?" Qingfeng said subconsciously.
"Ahh Jiroyoshi Suzuki smiled, "Then that's it, if you want to come tomorrow, you can come directly to the museum to find me, or call me or the secretary at the door!" It's the number you called last time you sent a gift to express your gratitude on my behalf! β
"Ah, okay......"
Qingfeng hung up the phone, confused.
Did she guess where the gem was? Did she say anything?
No matter what, let's go over tomorrow to see if we can stop Kaito from being beaten, but now I still have breakfast first, and after eating, I have to go to the mall to buy ingredients and daily necessities for Amuro......