Higashinohara's hometown is actually a seaside depression with seaside hills on both sides, and steep slopes and cliffs block the cold wave of the Siakan Ice Fields to the northwest.

In the past, some of the intrusions from the outside world were blocked, and a habitable area was formed, and fishermen from the coast gathered here to create the current town of Koshimizu.

With such terrain, it is difficult to see the beach by the sea.

There are only large craggy reefs scattered along the beach, and the original owner, Higashinohara, stood on the reef and took a photo with Higashino Yukino before leaving for Tokyo.

Today is December 31, the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Gregorian New Year of Wano Country, also known as the "Great Obscurity Day", and at night, that is, "New Year's Eve", people pray to the gods to send away the troubled old year and usher in a beautiful new year, which is called "Hatsuji".

After breakfast early in the morning, Takeshi Higashino took Higashinohara to remove last year's flower garden in front of the door, and put up a door pine festival composed of pine, bamboo, and grass to welcome the gods to show good luck.

For the rest of the day, Koshimizu, a remote fishing village in Hokkaido, was bustling with young people who had gone to study or work in the big cities of Sapporo returning home to visit the city, filling the New Year's festival spirit.

The lunch was unexpectedly hearty, and it wasn't the traditional soba noodles of Wano Province that were served on the table.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, almost every household in the small fishing village prepares rich seafood at noon, and all kinds of large fish, sea cucumbers, oysters, shrimp and shellfish are served in a large pot and steamed.

After steaming, sprinkle the prepared sauce made with red oil, salt, ginger, garlic and other spices, pour it directly and pour it all over, and then bring it out of the pot and the family gathers together to eat.

At the table, Nishimaru Miri looked at the various delicious and fragrant seafood piled up in the large pot in front of her with a little dumbfounded, whether it was when she was poor or later lived with the Tokugawa Kurita, she had never eaten such a Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner, and for a time her little face was stupid and she couldn't start.

However, Xiaodou Ding Higashino Yukino is much wilder, she has not forgotten her mother's instructions, and first greeted Nishimaru Miri to fulfill the friendship of the landlord.

Then she took two chopsticks and was too slow, so she grabbed and ate directly, and her mouth was full of juice, but she didn't care about putting the sauce of her thumb into her red little mouth and sucking it, burying her head and continuing to eat and drink.

At this time, not to mention Nishimaru Miri, even if Higashinohara has a vague memory of the original owner, he was taken aback by the unrestrained eating method of small bean dice, is this the unpretentious Chinese New Year's Eve meal of Hokkaido fishermen?

Behind him, her mother Ryoko Mizue brought a few plates of refreshing vegetables and steamed taro, and her father Takeshi Higashino also brought a bottle of Tusu wine, and the family all sat down at the table.

Children still learn things very quickly, and Nishimaru Miri looked at the little bean Ding Higashino Yukino who was the same age as her eating so deliciously, and soon became a little moved.

She carefully sandwiched a piece of sea cucumber and learned how to eat Higashino Yukino, dipped it in some sauce, and gently touched her lips, feeling that it didn't seem to be as spicy as she imagined, and then put it in her small mouth, and found that the taste was unexpectedly delicious.

Soon I couldn't stop the chopsticks, and my delicate little face was full of happy and satisfied smiles.

Seeing that "Miss Nishimaru" from the big city of Tokyo was eating happily, Takeshi Higashino and Ryoko Mizue were also very happy.

Higashinohara came home last night and told them that "Nishimaru Miri is the daughter of the Tokugawa Kurita", but he didn't expect the Tokugawa Kurifa to be highly evaluated and impressed in the hearts of the people of Hokkaido.

Not only because of his identity as a "son-in-law of Hokkaido", but also because more than ten years ago, when Hokkaido was invaded by Hokkaido pirates, Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger repeatedly suppressed it, so that the Hokkaido pirates once regarded this place as a forbidden place, and the people of Hokkaido love this patron saint of the "important weapon of the country" from the bottom of their hearts.

Now that the daughter of Tokugawa Kurita has actually come to their house as a guest, Takeshi Higashino and Ryoko Mizue are naturally attentive, for fear that they will not be well entertained.

After the reunion dinner at noon, before the afternoon twilight fell, the family began to gather the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner again.

In the evening, however, the table is not as wild and hearty as the seafood at noon, and the house is filled with traditional soba noodles, Otsuji dishes, and simple dishes such as boiled dishes.

The Imperial Festival cuisine is served in exquisite "heavy boxes" ranging from three to five layers, symbolizing the blessings that have been piled up, and the contents are all scarlet fish roe, kelp rolls, dried mackerel, and so on. As for the mixed boiling, it is mainly rice cakes with various toppings.

After eating Chinese New Year's Eve, Higashino originally took Nishimaru Miri and Fart Shodin Higashino Yukino to light a lantern in front of the door and set off fireworks.

Higashino Yukino has been eager to try it next to him, but fortunately, Higashinohara prepared a small firework in his hand and lit one for each of the two little girls.

Higashino Yukino immediately threw the fireworks around like a crazy girl, sparks and lightning all the way, and the somewhat shy Nishimaru Miri raised her head and held the fireworks in her hands, reflecting her pure and delicate cute little face under the starlight.

After the fireworks, I received the New Year's jade (New Year's money) from my parents, and my parents began to prepare for tomorrow's "New Year's Day" morning.

Higashinohara and the two little ones sat in the kotatsu in the living room to watch the regular program of the red and white song battle on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and from time to time the ears echoed the New Year's Eve bell of the temple near the small fishing village - it is said that the New Year's Eve bell will ring 108 times to symbolize the removal of people's troubles, and the last one will fall at 12 o'clock at midnight.

There is no doubt that this is Higashinohara's first Chinese New Year's Eve in this world.

He looked at Nishimaru Miri, who was watching TV intently next to him, and then looked at Higashino Yukino, who was holding the brown koala Higashinohara bought like a flea, and from time to time he turned around and went to the kitchen to go to his parents' to eat something, and occasionally caused a burst of chickens and dogs to jump and run back on his little short legs

The corners of Higashinohara's lips couldn't help but curl slightly.

Although it was not his choice to come to this world and what he was looking for, think carefully about the bits and pieces that happened this year

There is an unknown [Evil Manual] in his mind, and he has completed several tasks to capture and eliminate some evildoers, and he has also improved to the strength of a normal fourth-order superpower with the gain of the [Crime Manual] and his own diligent efforts, which can be regarded as a preliminary foothold in this world.

Thinking of the bullying incident encountered during this school trip, although the 1.5 attribute points and useless [piano] skills are not very good, the focus is on the way to deal with and deal with this incident.

If it had been in the past, Higashinohara would definitely not have had a chance to stop the mayor's son who was about to leave in the information room, so he could only wait for Taitogawa-sensei to figure out a way outside, or wait for Nishimaru Miri to call Tokugawa Kurita to come.

But the strength of the fourth-order superpower allows him to calmly "stay" people under normal circumstances, which is the change that strength brings to himself.

Well, but it's not enough

After seeing those strong people, Higashinohara knew that he had to be faster, higher, and stronger!

Otherwise, if one day his identity is revealed, he really meets someone like Mick. If Joya's kind of person who has no guilt value to deal with himself is to deal with him, then he may be dwarfed by it, and he can only run away.

Higashinohara pondered the gains and losses of the past year.

At the same time, the Nemuro Strait.

Several warships in the port of Shari are also hung with ever-bright lanterns, and the bow to the stern is full of festive colors.

The reason why the crew of the ship is still on duty on the ship on New Year's Eve in the Chinese New Year's Eve is because tomorrow they will carry out an important task to complete the handover of cargo in the offshore area of the Nemuro Strait.

At this time, soft or passionate music is playing on the standing boat.

Some of the bored crew members were playing cards, some were watching movies together in the central film area, and some were drinking coffee and wine together, the atmosphere was quiet and comfortable, but they felt the monotonous and boring New Year's Eve on the ship.

However, thinking that the Tokugawa team leader who came from New Tokyo was also on the ship and spent this Chinese New Year's Eve in the port with them, everyone was not dissatisfied.

That's it.

The last hours of the night passed in the blink of an eye.

In different corners of the two continents of this world, different people used different ways to draw the final end of the year 1121 of the Tianyuan calendar.

Early the next morning.

January 1, 1122 in the Lunar Yuan calendar.

At half past five, Higashinohara woke up under the effect of the biological clock, he got dressed and pushed the door open, his parents had already gotten up, beckoning him to wash up first.

Nishimaru Miri and Higashino Yukino are still sleeping.

After getting along for two days, coupled with Higashino Yukino's very arrogant and self-familiar personality, Nishimaru Miri and her quickly became acquainted.

Last night, the two played in the room for a while after watching NHK's red and white song battle.

Higashino Yukino rummaged through the cabinets in her room, showing Nishimaru Miri the various "treasures" she had collected in the small fishing village since she was a child, and she couldn't be happy in the latter's heartfelt exclamations, and if she played too late, it would be too late to start today.

Life in a small fishing village is slow, but people wake up early in the morning.

Higashinohara went out to complete his daily workout, and met a lot of acquaintances along the way, who had no impression, and kept saying hello, and the intensity was much higher than usual.

When he got home from his workout, Yukino Higashino and Nishimaru Miri also got up, and the two little ones were standing side by side at the washstand to wash, gurgling bubbles in their mouths.

On the first day of the new year, "Zhengri", breakfast is sugar and soba noodles with rice cake soup, and when they eat together, according to tradition, everyone tells each other about the first dream of the new year on Chinese New Year's Eve last night, which is commonly known as the "first dream" of the new year.

If you dream of Mt. Fuji, eagles, and eggplants in your first dream, they are considered auspicious symbols, because Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Wano Country, and eagles are intelligent and strong birds, and the Chinese pronunciation of eggplant is similar to "achievement". These are good signs of good fortune.

When the family was eating, they took turns talking, and his father, Takeshi Higashino, said that he dreamed of a lot of fish, and his mother said that he didn't sleep well last night and didn't seem to have any dreams.

At this time, Xiaodou Ding Higashino Yukino raised her hand impatiently, saying that she dreamed that she had picked up a lot of money on the road, and it was all gone after being woken up this morning. She turned to her father and asked if he could make up for it.

As a result, I was hit on the head door.

At the table, Higashinohara took a sip of rice cake soup, recalled his dream, and his face suddenly became a little strange.

After eating New Year's Eve dinner last night, he has been carrying out last year's "year-end end" in his heart, and when he slept at night, he dreamed that his identity was exposed and he was hunted down by the Celestial World Government.

As a result, the celestial people sent a great good man with perfect morality, the sin value was directly sporadic, and he was still an eighth-order demigod-level powerhouse, and the immortals who were chased and killed in Dongyeyuan had to flee to the sea.

On the way to escape, he encountered a group of pirates who subdued him, and continued to grow and develop in the four seas of the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and saw that he was about to become the king of the pirates.

When the biological clock arrived, he woke up from a dream

Obviously, this kind of dream can't be said, and Higashinohara has to vaguely think that he seems to have dreamed of a bird, like an eagle, and like a seagull.

Mother Ryoko Mizue suddenly showed joy on her face, and said that this is good, and in the future, Higashinohara will definitely get smarter and smarter, and his body will become stronger and stronger.

In the end, everyone's eyes looked at Nishimaru Miri, who put down the bowl a little embarrassed, and said with a slightly red face, "I seem to have dreamed of seagulls too. No, I became a seagull. ”

Although Takeshi Higashino is a fisherman, he has also read books for a few years, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but interject with a smile, "That means that the sky will be high and the birds will fly in the future, and Miss Nishimaru will have a wide field of vision after becoming a seagull." ”

"Uh-huh."

Nishimaru nodded his head and said, "I saw the sea, and there were many people, uh. I also seem to see a big ship, so big, so big, sinking. ”

Is the ship sinking?

This obviously does not bode well.

Ryoko Mizue hurriedly diverted her attention, smiled and said that she would take them to the nearby relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings for breakfast, and there might be a New Year's red envelope at that time.

When Xiaodou Ding Higashino Yukino heard this, he immediately sped up the speed of planing rice.

"I shouldn't be able to go."

Higashinohara shook his head and said helplessly, "Team leader Tokugawa mailed me a New Year's gift from New Tokyo, and I just arrived at Shari Port today, so I just told me to pick it up today."

As soon as his parents heard that it was a gift from Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger, they immediately regarded it as a big deal and told him to hurry up and go over after eating.

Higashinohara smiled and nodded.

However, judging from the description on the phone from the captain of the sixth team, Miyano Juro, it seems that the New Year's gift was handed over to him by someone else at the port, and he may not be able to meet the Tokugawa Kurita at that time.

After eating, Higashinohara said hello to Nishimaru Miri, and asked her to feel at ease to stay with her parents and sister, who nodded obediently and told him to be careful on the road, and he went to the bus stop in the village to wait for the bus.

Higashinohara has to take a bus to Shari first, and there is a shuttle bus to the port when you get to Shari.

While Higashinohara was standing bored waiting for the train under the stop sign, the Neshiki Strait outside the port of Shari, the transport ship surrounded by several warships had completed the handover of the cargo and was now on its way back.

There is no danger in the transaction process, one hand to pay and one hand to deliver, without any waves.

At this time, the mission was completed, but the ship on which the Tokugawa Kurita was riding left the transport ship and the warship team.

Because he had a special official mission, which was to patrol the waters around Hokkaido by boat.

Flying over the warship, a sharp propeller tore through the sea breeze, and an NHK helicopter was filming on the morning news of the first day of the new year.

NHK TV is barely the official station of Wano Country, and this move is intended to send a signal to the people of Wano Country and Hokkaido, and even to the outside world, that those who smuggled into Hokkaido after the dissolution of the Grand Duchy of Shayash will not let it go, so please reassure the people of Hokkaido and let those with bad intentions relent.

The ship on which the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger was.

In the cabin restaurant, Juro Miyano, the captain of the sixth team, walked over to the Tokugawa Kuritoro, who was sitting straight and bowing his head like a mountain for breakfast, with a cup of coffee.

"Team leader, that group of pirates just now seems familiar."

He tilted his head slightly, and said with a smile, "Tsk, the people of the National Procurement Office are really big-hearted, and they can't see through such a simple disguise, and they are actually added to the transaction list, Judge Karl has been chasing and killing Sakamoto's dragon and the gang at sea, if you know, I'm afraid you will be angry." ”

After eating the last sandwich, Tokugawa Kurita glanced up at Miyano Juro, shook his head and said, "Don't worry about what you shouldn't care, just do our own thing." ”

"That's nature." Juro Miyano shrugged his shoulders with a smile, "I'm still thinking about ending this business trip early and going back to Okinawa for a vacation, I don't want to cause trouble for us." ”

After saying that, Juro Miyano lazily took his coffee and left.

Tokugawa Kuritaka's mind couldn't help but think of the group of people who were disguised as the "Adjudication Pirates" during the sea transaction just now, and the young man standing on the deck with half-open and half-closed eyes behind the crowd on the other side, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Subconsciously, he recalled some memories of the young man many years ago when he was studying in Tokyo.

I still remember that at that time, he was very optimistic about the young man who was always lazy and lazy but had outstanding talents, and even had the idea of cultivating the other party as the next leader of the third investigation team.

It's a pity.

The young man's surname was "Sakamoto"

It is not only the version of the dragon of Sakamoto thousands of years ago, but also the young master of the dragon pirate clan of Sakamoto who is now at sea, and can only sigh helplessly in his heart for a joke of fate.

But it's not bad now.

Fate led him to meet Nishimaru Miri.

The two-talented little girl with the same outstanding talents, Tokugawa Kuritaka has every reason to believe that in time, that little girl will definitely bloom no less dazzling than that young man back then.

It's really exciting to think about.

However, just as the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger was riding on a warship that left the team and sailed along the established route, it cooperated with the filming and live broadcast of NHK's helicopter.

The sea area north of the Nemuro Strait.

One after another, the pure black warships silently pierced the morning mist on the sea surface and came to this sea area, like a cold sea ghost, and a cold and murderous aura spread across the sea.

Among these ships was a large warship with a black horn on its bow.

A not very tall but imposing figure stood on the deck of the bow of the ship, looking into the distance, reaching out and gently caressing the cold black horn full of metallic texture in the bow of the warship.

(End of chapter)