Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.

On the 23rd day of the first month of the Tian Yuan calendar,

The annual birthday of Emperor Tokumei.

Ten days after the start of school,For Dongye, it was just a reintegration into the school life,Regular exercise every day to improve his basic attributes little by little,The intensity of exercise is also gradually increasing,At present, it has reached a group of 130。

Higashinohara's plan was to wait for push-ups, sit-ups, and squats to be raised to a group of 200, and when he found that his attribute improvement was slow, he began to shorten the time spent on the workout to achieve the goal of increasing the intensity.

However, in just ten days, as the search and rescue ship of the North Sea Guard expanded the search and rescue range, the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger still had no news... Nishimaru Miri, who moved back to the door next door to Higashinohara, had a delicate and lovely little face, but his face became darker and darker day after day, and his eyes gradually lost their brilliance.

Last night, Nishimaru Miri, wearing the goose-yellow pajamas she had worn and carrying the old doll she had lived in, knocked timidly on the door of Higashinohara's house like the little beast who was often homeless back then.

Under the starry sky, the little girl's crystal tears fell from the trembling eyelashes, more and more, she raised her hand to wipe them, but more tears poured out from between her fingers.

After a while, the little girl tilted her head, biting her thin lip and looking at Higashinohara stubbornly, "Big brother, did Dad really leave this world?" ”

Higashinohara was silent for a moment, did not answer, just rubbed the girl's pale blonde hair.

But after thinking about it all night, when I got up today, Higashinohara still put the sword box wrapped in black cloth and put it in the travel bag - because today there will be student representatives from the Takehara Minami Private School Park who will go to Sakurada Gate to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Tokumei.

Higashinohara is the representative of Class F in the first year.

It's not that he doesn't have to act regardless of it.

I just want to see if there is a suitable opportunity, and if there is, then give an explanation to Nishimaru Miri, who trusts him very much.

At the same time, he also wanted to say goodbye to the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger who had given him a sword, and no longer let the little girl live in boundless waiting.

That was a little too cruel to her...

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The Wano Country Imperial Palace is located in Chiyoda-ku.

It is close to Shin-Tokyo Station.

At the entrance of Shin-Tokyo Station, there is a long-established tea shop called "Tenmorira", which specializes in baking bread and coffee, and is the preferred breakfast choice for many office workers near Shin-Tokyo Station.

In front of the bright floor-to-ceiling windows, long tables are lined up, and at one end of the long table is a handmade booklet made by the clerk, and five or six loose pages the size of a palm have wonderful "life stories" and carefully drawn "bread illustrated books".

However, because today is the Emperor's birthday, the whole country celebrates the public holiday, and the pamphlet there is a number of biographies and interesting anecdotes about the lives of the current Emperor Tokumei and his wife...

At this time, a handsome... No, it should be a handsome young man in a long woolen trench coat, standing bored in front of the cash register.

He pressed his hand on the lid of the cup of hot coffee, and smiled as the girl on the counter in the blue clerk's uniform with slightly flushed cheeks scrambled to pack bread for him.

After paying the money, the girl looked nervously at the handsome man in front of her, who had never seen before, who had been buying breakfast in this store for ten days in a row, and the mellow and fragrant smile between the corners of her lips was as intoxicating as ever.

If you don't try.

Life is missing every day.

She inexplicably remembered this sentence before going to bed last night.

Finally, the girl mustered up the courage and handed over the packaged bread with the contact information she had secretly written on a pink post-it note when she had just hand-ground the coffee beans.

"You... Hello... Here are my contact details, I... I..."

"Thank you."

The crimson-faced girl stammered before the handsome young man took the bread and sticky notes.

He opened the post-it note and glanced at it, then carefully folded it and put it in the pocket of his coat, giving people the feeling of being familiar with the road.

It doesn't seem to be the first time I've encountered it,

This is not the first time this situation has been handled.

The girl behind the cash register buried her head shyly, not daring to look at the young man's gaze, but said in a voice like a mosquito, "What do you need for breakfast tomorrow, I can prepare it for you in advance." ”

"Thank you."

The young man thanked him again and chuckled, "But I want to... I probably won't come here again tomorrow to buy breakfast. ”

The girl behind the cash register suddenly raised her head, the ponytail jumped behind her head, the little freckles on her face glistened in the early morning sun, and she asked very nervously, "Ah! For... Why? Is my abruptness bothering you? I'm really sorry if that's the case, but please be..."

"No, no, no... Not so. ”

The handsome young man interrupted her apology, shook his head, and said gently, "Because my work is almost over today, and I don't have to come here again." ”

"Ahh Ahh That... I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. ”

The girl had a look of loss on her face.

"Thank you."

The man turned around with a smile and walked to the door of the store, carrying coffee and bread.

The girl behind the cash register thought that today was the last time, and that she would never see each other's charming smile again tomorrow, and she even forgot to ask each other's names... His face couldn't help but show an endless look of amazement.

It turns out that it doesn't matter if you try it or not.

Life is still missing out.

However, as soon as she inadvertently looked up, the girl behind the cash register suddenly widened her eyes, covered her mouth suddenly, and stared at the direction of the door.

At the door of the store, there were two middle-aged people wearing hats, who were ordering a cup of coffee, spreading out the newspaper, wearing glasses, and reading the newspaper in the morning light as they had done every day in the past few days.

However, at this moment, the two of them collapsed in a pool of blood on the table at the same time, the newspaper under them was stained red with gurgling blood, the arm that hung down weakly twitched slightly, and the wide eyes were full of horror before death.

What stunned the girl the most was...

The gentle and charming handsome young man was holding bread in one hand, coffee hanging from his slender fingers, and in the other hand he was holding a ninja short knife about fifty centimeters, and blood was dripping down the blade of the knife to the ground.

The handsome man casually wiped the ninja knife on the clothes of a person who collapsed on the table, leaned over slightly and took out a miniature communicator from the collar of the corpse, and said to the other end with a chuckle, "Hello! I'm Wind Demon Ryuyu, so you don't have to stare at me anymore. ”

"Because...

I'll be coming to you soon. ”

After saying that, he lifted the hem of his coat, inserted the ninja knife back into the holster on the inside, turned his head and smiled at the girl behind the cash register who was staring at him with wide eyes and covering her mouth:

"We'll see you soon."

The frightened girl trembled her lips as she tried to answer something, and by the time she could say it, the young man had already strolled away along the side of the street...

......

At the same time.

Chiyoda City Council Building.

The office area of the National Security Committee of Hezhi, after a phone rang, became a mess in a blink of an eye...

At this time, it was in the Imperial Palace, which was far away behind the Sakurada Gate.

The 60th birthday of Emperor Demei, a grand celebration ceremony for the whole country, slowly kicked off with the birthday celebrations of ministers, foreign guests and friends, and non-governmental delegations.

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