Higashinohara took a deep breath.

He's not an optimist, but he doesn't worry about the dangers that aren't yet to come, and if that were the case, Higashinohara wouldn't have taken risks again and again to complete the tasks in the [Guilty Handbook].

He continued up the stairs of the apartment.

It was getting late for three days.

Twilight grew crimson.

Higashinohara climbed to the corner of the corridor on the fifth floor, and a touch of afterglow in the western sky was reflected on his face, but his steps couldn't help but pause slightly.

Not far away, I saw a woman with blond hair lying on the corridor fence.

She held her chin in her hands, staring blankly at the western twilight, the lines of her side face were very soft, and her silk-like blonde hair was dyed into a charming rose gold by the twilight.

Higashinohara was stunned, and then he realized that the other party was his aunt who came to join him in the morning, of course not his aunt.

It's Nishimaru Miri's sister-in-law Kolotia. Stinky Sere.

Don't be busy meeting in the morning, I'm in a hurry to go to school, and Higashinohara hasn't had time to take a closer look.

It is said that the Northland Ice Sheet is rich in beauties, and at this time he realized that the rumors were indeed not groundless.

Even if the silhouette of the woman in the Grand Duchy of Shayash is a bit of the European and American style of the previous life, the Kolotia in front of her is a bit of Princess Anne played by Audrey Hepburn in the Roman holiday when she was young, and the overall is still biased towards the aesthetics of the Oriental in the previous life.

At this moment, under the twilight that is gradually reddening, the side lines of Kolotia's face look extremely soft, the facial features are small and exquisite, and there is an indescribable elegance in the deep temperament.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is her eyes with thick upper eyelashes, which are unconsciously reminiscent of the eyes of a deer running and jumping in a mountain stream, innocent and moving, as if she had fallen into the mortal world.

It was at this time that Higashinohara remembered that although she was Nishimaru Miri's aunt, she was actually much younger than her mother, and now she was just a princess in her twenties who had just learned the taste of sorrow.

Although this scene under the sunset was very beautiful, Higashinohara's gaze didn't stay long, and he quickly said loudly, "Miss Osai, such a coincidence, didn't you continue to rest?" ”

Kolotia was staring at the twilight in a daze, and after hearing Higashinohara's words, she was slightly stunned, and then turned her head to look at the young man with clear eyebrows at the corner of the corridor and was stunned for a moment, and then she reacted.

She hurriedly raised her hand to tidy up the ends of her hair that were a little messy in the evening breeze, and a smile slowly appeared on her face, "It's Higashino-kun, I've already rested, eh?" Didn't Xiao Weili come back together? “

She heard in the morning that Nishimaru Miri had awakened her dual talent ability, and at a young age, she entered the Ability Academy where Higashinohara was studying as a special enrollment, and she was sincerely amazed and surprised.

"Xiao Weili has club activities and will come back later, but it should be about the same."

Higashinohara smiled and pointed to the ingredients he had bought at the nearby farmers' market, and invited, "You haven't eaten dinner yet, we can eat together when I'm ready." “

Kolotia was a little embarrassed when she heard this, and her face under the twilight was frequently flushed with a hint of crimson, she was entrusted by Nishimaru Miri's mother before her death to find relatives and take care of Nishimaru Miri, but she didn't expect the world to be capricious, and now she arrived in Wano Country and was not recognized by the emperor and the diplomatic department, and she didn't even have a place to stay, but she seemed to have specially run to Nishimaru Miri to eat and drink,

But people are iron and steel, and it doesn't seem to be good if she doesn't eat it, so she can only bow her head and say "um".

Higashinohara couldn't help but smile in his heart when he saw this, didn't say anything more, and took the dish back to the room first.

It's the first day and it's a little rusty, and when it's cooked, it's nothing.

He usually eats boxed lunches from the school cafeteria and convenience stores, and there is no stove and kitchenware in the room, but fortunately, Nishimaru Miri used to be the daughter of a poor family, and he would also cook some dishes to eat by himself, but this time he moved back and bought some small and exquisite kitchenware, which he can borrow tonight.

Dongye originally thought that a princess of the principality like Kolotia must be ten fingers that do not touch the spring water, and the clothes come to reach out for food to open her mouth, but he didn't expect that she was also proficient in cooking.

After seeing Higashinohara washing vegetables and side dishes in the rented room, Kolotia quickly came in to help.

Higashinohara excused himself twice, considering that she was a little embarrassed to send people under the fence now, and doing more things would help alleviate the psychological burden, so she would no longer stop her.

The two assigned each other's work, bowed their heads and began to get busy.

So, when it was dark and Nishimaru Miri came back with a small schoolbag.

After opening the door, what she saw was Higashinohara and her aunt busy in a small rented room, and the memory of Jiang Mu who once stood at the door of someone else's house was suddenly touched.

Is this what home feels like?

A smile appeared on her little face.

"I'm back."

"Welcome back."

Today's dinner is very simple, consisting of the common miso soup, rice, fried fish and stir-fried vegetables from Higashinohara, which are quite characteristic of Chinese characteristics in the previous life, mapo tofu and stir-fried pork.

Simple but warm, the three of them sat on the tatami mats, turned on the TV next to them, and began to eat dinner with a "I started".

Colotia helped a lot at dinner, and now she tasted the fruits of her labor, and the apprehension and restraint of being under the fence were much gone.

While eating, the TV next to me was playing Asahi News.

In the midst of several entertainment gossip news, everything on the TV showed an emergency broadcast of a new room, which seemed to be an explosion in an apartment building in Shinjuku City.

The news anchor said that the explosion was only on the top floor of the apartment building, and the fire had been controlled, and the cause of the accident was initially inferred to be the explosion of an old gas pipeline, and the casualties were unknown for the time being. The fire brigade has arrived to carry out emergency rescue, please pay attention to the people nearby to avoid danger,

The three people who were eating saw the news and were all attracted to it for a while.

In the picture on the TV, I saw an apartment building in the burning twilight, black smoke rising towards the distant sky, and many fire trucks and police cars with flashing red and blue flashing lights of the Metropolitan Police Department were parked below.

Since arriving in Wano Country, Kolotia has first experienced the "White Jade Square Incident" in the Imperial Palace yesterday. I saw this scene again at dinner today.

She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile, "I finally understand why they are reluctant to help me, it turns out that the situation in Wano Country is not as optimistic as I imagined..."

Hearing his aunt's words, Nishimaru Miri blinked his eyes wide, looked up at Higashinohara and asked, "Big brother, it was said on the TV just now that it seems to be an old gas pipe explosion, is that so?" “

Higashinohara was silent for a moment, then stared at the embers of the ruined city on the top floor, squinted slightly, and said, "I hope so, but if it is a gas pipeline explosion, I think the range should be difficult to control so precisely..."

At this moment, at this moment,

The scene half an hour after the explosion.

In the twilight, the red and blue storm lights of the police car illuminated the sweeping night.

Metropolitan Police Department personnel have cordoned off the surrounding area and dismissed the building's original tenants, citing a possible safety hazard, and set up temporary tents for them in a nearby park—the country of Ichiwa has been plagued by natural disasters since ancient times, and most people have to sleep in parks twice a year, and tenants are not unacceptable to this.

Bang one!

The orange fire flickered.

On the perimeter of the front of the building, which was surrounded by police cars and fire trucks, someone silently lit a cigarette in the dark.

The captain of the third team of the third reconnaissance team, Nishirin, took a deep breath, then spit out a smoke ring towards the dark night overhead, turned his head to look at the captain of the thirteenth team, Sugida Tsukasa, who was carrying canned coffee next to him, and couldn't help but speak:

"If I'm not mistaken, the thirteenth detachment should be in charge of the case of the murder of two councillors in the nursing home today, how did they have the time to come here?"

Since the last time he failed to accuse acting captain Kimura Shirata of murder, Tsukasa Sugita has become thinner and more silent these days, like a stone under the black tide of the seaside.

Hearing Nishirin's question, Tsukasa Sugita said in a flat voice, "That case was cut off by the new bigwigs of the Adjudication Division as soon as we found out the clues today, and now they are in charge." “

Speaking of this, his eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the residential apartment building that had suffered a tragic explosion, and an indescribable irritability and anger surged in his heart.

"Is it the Seventh Adjudicator?"

Nishirin Chitetsu had obviously heard of this as well.

He looked at Tsukasa Sugita seriously, and asked with some puzzlement, "It stands to reason that even if the other party is the adjudicator who wants to leave your case, your character should not be a person who gives up halfway..."

Before he finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly stopped talking in some astonishment.

Tsukasa Sugita nodded and said in an indifferent tone, "That's right, that's why I'm here." “

That's where the clue ends.

It's just that someone is ahead of them.

The way to solve the problem is also more crude...

Even brutal!

Rin Nishirin Chitetsu turned his head to look at the apartment building with black smoke coming in and out of the firefighters and forensics class not far away, and opened his mouth to say something, but it finally turned into a sigh.

"If only the Tokugawa team leader were still here."

He said suddenly.

The third investigation team was the Tokugawa chestnut tiger decades ago, when everyone was not optimistic, and constantly traveled around to gather people, and only then did they build the shelf step by step.

Until it became a law enforcement agency that can compete with the Metropolitan Police Department in Wano Country, it is also the most powerful official organization of capable people in the hearts of countless capable people.

If the Tokugawa Chestnut Tiger was still there, even if he had already stepped into the Eighth Order, even if he needed to consider the impact of gains and losses in all aspects, that tiger would definitely not let the unscrupulous rulings of the Adjudication Division recklessly trample on their heads and trample on their self-esteem as easily as today.

But at this moment, when Xi Rin Gantie said this, the air fell silent all of a sudden.

Because they all know that it has been more than 20 days since the Tokugawa chestnut tiger fell into the sea in the accident in the northern part of the Nemuro Strait.

From the initial search and rescue in the sea area to the later expansion of the scope to the surrounding islands, and now one after another search and rescue ships have withdrawn in despair under the hopeless search and rescue, only one or two search boats are still adrift at sea for the last insistence.

How long this persistence lasts may only be a matter of time.

It is foreseeable that after the election of the prime minister is over, a new prime minister will come to power.

The third investigation team is directly under the Prime Minister, and the long-vacant position of official team leader will definitely be replaced, and when the time comes, Takuya Kimura, the acting team leader of the fifth team, will most likely become regular.

Thinking of this, Sugita Tsukasa suddenly asked, "I heard that Captain Ieda has been hitting the bottleneck of the seventh order recently, do you have any news?" ”

Tsukada is the captain of the first team, loyal and reliable, and is a sixth-order peak superpower in talent sequence 2 [Remodeling], with terrifying strength, known as the title of "the first person under absolute ability".

If he can successfully advance to the seventh order, then the position of the leader of the third investigation team may not be more than just the choice of "acting team leader turned regular", and Tsukada Masashi will also become a competitive candidate.

Hearing Tsukasa Sugita's words, Rin Chitetsu Nishirin frowned, and he also realized Tsukasa Sugida's thoughts.

Referring to the accusation of the failure in the conference room last time, Rin Nishirin Chitetsu couldn't help frowning slightly and said,

"Captain Ieda's strength is infinitely close to the seventh order, as long as he can improve his realm, he can take a step at any time."

"But then again, you still insist that Captain Kimura has a problem?"

Although Kimura Hakuto was born in a famous family, he is gentle and friendly to people on weekdays, and he is one of the ideal types recognized in the minds of all female police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department, plus his personality is very indifferent, and he has never taken the initiative to seize power since joining the Adjudication Division, and even this time he was pushed to the position of acting team leader, so it is difficult for even a man to have any disgust for him.

Sugita didn't answer Nishirin's question directly, but just glanced up at him and asked in a flat tone, "Do you think Foreign Minister Taku Amuro is innocent?" ”

Hearing his question, Nishirin's face became gloomy when he was dry, and for this guy who betrayed the Tokugawa chestnut tiger, everyone in the third investigation group hated that he didn't cut him down with his own hands at the first time.

Where would he feel innocent?

However, when the Asahi Shimbun published the whistleblower letter, public opinion on the Internet was stirred, and Yuo Shibata, the director of the National Defense Office, successfully cleared Amuro of suspicion by committing suicide, so until now that he is dead, he has not been able to successfully convict him. “

Speaking of this, Tsukasa Sugita paused, stared directly at Nishiyu Gantetsu and asked, "In that case, then why do you still think that Deputy Section Chief Matsuo Ji's suicide and the open letter sent by the group before his death can wash away the suspicion on Kimura Hakutaku?" ”

Hearing Tsukasa Sugida's rhetorical question,

Xirin Chitetsu suddenly fell silent.

It's not that he hasn't thought about this question,

It's just that human beings are creatures, and many times the subconscious always wants to avoid some cruel reality, and would rather believe in the "reality" that is relatively mild even if it is false and superficial.

But when I thought about it, I thought of the acting team leader Kimura Hakutaku who clocked in and out of work every day like a civil servant, and said that he seemed to have taken sick leave in the past few days, and he hadn't been seen for a long time.

The man didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about the acting leader of the third investigation team, or even the position of team leader...

If...

If Tsukasa Sugida's accusations are true.

Such an indifferent man...

What would be his motive for killing?

Just when the captains of the two teams of the third reconnaissance team fell silent, it was night.

In an alley not far from the scene of the explosion.

A charred man dragged his ragged body and struggled to move forward against the wall.

After taking a few steps, he fell to the ground with a "plop",

At this time, the man only felt a faint pain in his right chest, and the two ribs had shown signs of breaking when the explosion hit, and the terrifying shock wave also carried two pieces of metal deep into his muscles, but fortunately did not hurt the periosteum.

And the most terrifying wound is still in the arm.

In the gloomy alley, the right half of the man's right arm had completely disappeared, and the broken shoulder blade was a scorched mess.

In fact, if it weren't for the man's instinct to rely on his years of experience as a scavenger, he launched the [Embrace of the Hellfire] of Talent Sequence 34 and made a subconscious void dodge, I am afraid that at this moment he would have completely turned into a piece of charcoal in the sea of fire set off by the explosion.

However, even so, when a person is extremely conscious, his arm is blown off and burned alive, and the pain experienced in it is probably no less than walking in prison again.

But at this moment, the man's face was full of indifference, as if the feeling of "pain" had been insulated from him... Or maybe after experiencing something 100,000 times more painful than this, this "little pain" can no longer shake his will in the slightest.

Kenjiro Nanami struggled to pull out a crippled flip phone from his pocket, with two pink cartoon stickers on the back of the phone, the screen was covered with spider web-like cracks, and the screensaver seemed to be a photo of three people together.

Fortunately, this is an old-fashioned non-smart machine dingding...

In a burst of keystrokes, Kenjiro Nanami struggled to press the number key with his left thumb and dialed a number that didn't exist in the phone book of the migrant worker's phone.

After a short blind tone, the call was connected.

"Your location is exposed."

As soon as he said his first words, Kenjiro Nanami dropped a depth charge.

Unexpectedly, the other end of the phone did not ask the questions "how was it exposed" and "by whom", but only answered two sentences.

"Okay."

"Where are you?"

After getting Kenjiro Nanami's reply,

The other end hung up the phone.

Kenjiro Nanami threw away his phone, struggled to prop himself up with one hand, leaned against the trash can in the corner of the wall, through the gap at the end of the alley, he stared sideways at the flickering light of the red and blue storm lights and the red soot of the dark sky in the distance, the image of the pool of blood in the kitchen rolling in his mind...

At this moment, his lifeless eyes no longer had the occasional soft ripples of the sparkling surface of the lake, but only a palpitating blue indifference like hellish fire.

And there are only two words left in his heart.

So he can't die.

4

About ten minutes later.

A basement in Sakuragaoka Town, Shibuya Ward was destroyed.

Less than ten minutes later,

In Shinjuku District, in this dark alley, Kenjiro Nanami heard a sound of footsteps in his ears.

A young man of twenty-five or sixteen years of age, unusually handsome, but with a pale feeling of healing from his wounds, appeared beside him.

The young man was followed by a middle-aged office worker who was dressed somewhat similarly to Kenjiro Nanami, but he looked older.

When the Wind Demon Ryuo and Hanagasa of the Night Wandering Revolutionary Army arrived, they looked at the man sitting on the ground leaning against the wall with his forehead lowered, his body charred and black, and his mutilated body looked like a vengeful demon crawling out of hell.

Thinking of the burning apartment building he had just passed by and the tragic situation of the man in front of him, a chill flashed in the handsome eyes of the Wind Demon Ryusheng, and he suddenly couldn't help but let out a sharp cough.

Obviously, the injuries inflicted on him by the Celestial Watch ruling in the White Jade Square were not so easy to heal.

"Is there any smoke?"

At this time, Kenjiro Nanami, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly asked.

Wind Demon Ryusheng didn't have a habit of smoking, but Hanagasa Wen people who followed him did.

Just looking at the shocking injury of Kenjiro Nanami in front of him, Hanagasa Wenren said with no peace of mind,

"Didn't you say that all children in the family are about to quit smoking for several years?"

Halfway through the words,

The sound stopped, apparently, on the way to come, they already knew something, alas...

He sighed silently.

Hanagasa took out a pack of cigarettes, poured out one, crouched down, and handed it to Nanami Kenjiro's lips, then lit it for him in the bleak night breeze.

Kenjiro Nanami, who was leaning against the corner, felt the smell of tobacco, took a deep breath, poured into his lungs, and then puffed out a thick smoke, and then took another deep breath.

A cigarette that has just been lit when the fire is extinguished...

Four clicks and the end is reached.

"I'm sorry, my brother is too stupid, and the next mission can be completed when my injuries are healed." Wind Demon Ryusheng stared at the silent man in front of him and asked:

"What are you going to do next?

"Kill them."

Kenjiro Nanami spat out the cigarette butt and looked up at the small patch of dark night above the alley.

"But the people who came from the adjudication division this time... It's strong and terrifying, and you're no match for them. Wind Demon Ryusheng couldn't help but frown, "Even my brother... None of them are his opponents. ”

"Then I'll die."

The man's flat tone seemed to be saying something for granted.

Wind Demon Ryusheng was silent for a moment, and then spoke, "I won't stop you from taking revenge, but I think you should take care of your body first, and killing the enemy is revenge, otherwise it's just a simple death." ”

After a pause, Wind Demon Ryusheng continued:

"If you really want revenge, someone might be able to help you, and he's the only one I can think of who has the ability, if you can find him... Or get in touch with him. “

"Who?" The man asked, looking up.

"Member of the New Tokyo Discipline Commission...

Or, you can call him Captain Fly. "

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