"What's wrong?"

In the quiet office, looking back at Bai Heqing, who suddenly woke up, and Sharon next to him, who was sorting out the pile of files in the filing cabinet for him, asked.

"I ......"

Also turning his head to look at her, Bai Heqing's brain quickly came back to his senses.

"Sorry, I just had a strange dream......"

[Was it just a dream?] 】

There was a faint pain in his temples, and recalling the strange appearance of Okino Mina in the dream just now, Bai Heqing sighed a little tiredly, raised his hand and pressed it.

"I may have been a little tired in the last few days......"

"Baihe, you should give yourself more time off."

Seeing him like this, Sharon walked over and pinched his shoulder for him, and said worriedly.

"The responsibility is, since there is a problem within my responsibility, then I must solve it......"

Shaking his head slightly, trying not to think about the weirdness in the dream just now, Bai Heqing's eyes looked at the few documents on the desk in front of him, which he was reading before he went to sleep just now.

"Recently, there have been more conflicts between those black underground organizations in Tokyo."

He said suddenly, and behind him, Sharon, who was originally squeezing his shoulder, suddenly paused when his hand heard this.

"Sharon."

Bai Heqing shouted her new name and continued to speak:

"In fact, judging from the data compiled by the Metropolitan Police Department every year, unless there is some relatively large turmoil in society, or something suddenly appears that can drastically affect people's values, under normal circumstances, the crime rate of society as a whole will not change significantly, and even if there is a change, it should be a slow and long-term change......

Silent, Sharon didn't respond, of course she knew what Bai Heqing meant by these words.

"Of course, the overall crime rate in Tokyo has not changed very much this year, it is only a little higher than in previous years, and it is still within the normal range, if it looks like this is true, but it is ......"

Regardless of whether Sharon was listening or not, Bai Heqing sighed and said to himself:

"In the past few days, I and some other criminal police officers have carefully classified all the types of cases that have occurred in Tokyo this year, and compared them with the data of previous years, and found a very interesting point.

This year, compared to last year, the number of cases related to gangster conflicts, business extortion, illegal operations, and all kinds of political conflicts that are not easy to disclose to the public are on the rise, and the same is true last year compared to the year before and the year before the year before.

The crime rate in this area has been rising for several years in a row, which was very rare in the past, especially in today's times of peace.

Sharon, do you think this is something wrong with the overall social climate of this society, or is there someone behind the scenes who has been doing something behind it? ”

"I'm sorry......" Sharon whispered back.

"I'm not saying this to blame you, just to know a few answers."

Feeling Sharon's uneasiness, Bai Heqing raised his hand and gently covered her hand on his shoulder, a little cold.

"The head of the Karasuma family is back, isn't he?"

Although he had made this speculation before, it had never been verified from Sharon's mouth.

"Well, but I don't know where he's hiding......" Sharon nodded and replied truthfully.

"I understand, I think that with our relationship, the head of the Karasuma family will not tell you...... Is he still thinking about the same things as before? ”

"Well, as before, it hasn't changed at all......"

Although they didn't say it explicitly, both of the people present knew what the other was talking about.

A long time ago, the head of the Karasuma family, who no longer knows how old, has been chasing a "whimsical" dream, and always thinks that he will definitely achieve his goal.

In the last years before Keiko's death, she had been trying to stop this, but in the end she had not succeeded.

To be honest, Bai Heqing is not actually interested in these things.

He doesn't have such a high conscience and moral standards, and he doesn't care very much about whether those things happen or not, whether they are prevented or not.

To this day, he just wants to live his life peacefully with his family and friends, and deal with things within his responsibility, and that's it.

As for the so-called eternal life of the head of the Karasuma family? Rejuvenation? Reverse time?

Bai Heqing has never been very able to understand, what is the point of chasing these things?

[I...... I regret it......]

In my mind, for some reason, this sentence that Keiko had said to Sharon in the hospital room suddenly appeared.

[I regret it......]

For a moment, the memory seemed to go back to that day a long time ago, and he hurried to the hospital, only to overhear Keiko's crying to Sharon at the door of the ward.

[It turns out that Keiko has also regretted it......]

Shaking his head, Bai Heqing tried not to think about it.

"Baihe, are you also curious about the things he did?" As if sensing the sudden fluctuating emotions on Bai Heqing's body, Sharon asked tentatively.

"How is it possible, you know, that I have never had the slightest interest in these pursuits." Bai Heqing replied.

And his answer also gave Sharon another answer.

Since it is not from itself, it can only be from external objects, and the person or thing that can make Bai Heqing have such emotional fluctuations in this matter, Sharon does not need to guess to know.

What Bai Heqing didn't know at the moment was that Sharon, like him, also remembered the scene in the ward at the beginning, when Sister Keiko, who was emotionally broken, cried to her.

Sister Keiko is not the perfect saint described in the ancient books, and under the pressure of death, she has regretted her decision in her heart.

She also has desires, and she actually wants to see in her heart the immortality in Karasuma Renya's mouth...... What exactly does it look like?

"If it goes on like this, there will definitely be troubles in the future......"

Still thinking about how to deal with the bloody storm that Karasuma Renya has set off in Tokyo behind her back in the past few years, Shirakawa Qing sighed.

His gaze subconsciously looked at the calendar next to him, and the latest page marked that today was the twenty-one.

In the last few days, he has been busy sorting out today's cases, and Bai Heqing remembers that he has not remembered to tear the pages of this calendar for the past few days, and it was only when Sharon came to visit him today that he helped him update it to the latest date.

[Strange, it turns out that today is already the twenty-one? 】

Keeping looking at the dates on the calendar, Bai Heqing looked at it, and his eyebrows suddenly wrinkled.

He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have neglected something in his busy routine these past few days.

[Wrong...... Why am I surprised at this point in time? 】

[Is it because I think there is something that should have happened but never happened?] 】

Keenly aware of his mood swings, Bai Heqing lowered his head and pondered, and quickly recalled all the people around him in his mind.

What the hell is going on?] 】

Until, his mind stayed on the figure of Mina Okino.

His pupils shrank suddenly, and in an instant he realized something, and Bai Heqing stood up from his seat suddenly.

He finally remembered what he had overlooked!

It's been over time!

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(End of chapter)