Chapter 147 Memories of the Past

Day 11 of the road survival game!

After a few seconds of silence, Morofushi suddenly said to Gin, "Gin, whether you believe it or not, all I want to do right now is stop the future caused by the silver bullet. The future is terrible, so don't worry about me doing anything else unnecessary."

"Hmph! I hope so." Why is this boring guy making promises to me? Is he worried that I'll target him when he's active in the future? Do I have that much free time? Since I already know roughly what will happen in the future.

How could he just sit idly by and wait for someone else to rescue him and change his fate? He was definitely faster to take action himself. He didn't believe that he was prepared and could eliminate all threats before the time came, and still not change his fate.

Thinking this, he didn't expect that what would bring him misfortune wasn't an ordinary crisis, but an incredible, death-like aura effect from a "Death God Elementary School Student." No one could resist it. No matter how powerful a mortal is, sometimes they can only be helpless against the unreasonable and mystical Death God aura and wait for their fate to arrive...

Ignoring Scotland's assurances, Gin, who was completely unaware of this, continued, "I will report your situation to that gentleman after the call ends. What kind of assistance the organization will provide depends on that gentleman's decision."

"Well! For us, as long as the organizations at this stage don't cause trouble when we're in action, that's fine." Matsuda's tone became sincere as he said this, and he complained with great emotion: "I don't know what the principle is?"

Every time we travel to the past, we always end up at scenes where danger is imminent, where people are about to die, or where deaths have already occurred. We also often encounter organized events.

We can usually handle things, but for things like the Shinkansen and Twin Towers incidents, could you please scale it down a bit and not drag us into it...?

"Ha... Are you trying to teach me how to do things?" Hearing Darmo's blunt criticism, the organization's number one assassin, whom everyone respected and even his partner and assistant Vodka had to be wary of, was speechless.

Gin felt a strange sense of familiarity. After thinking for a moment, he remembered that Bourbon was one of the few people in the organization who was not afraid of him and liked to push his boundaries, occasionally making sarcastic remarks.

Remembering what Bourbon had said earlier that he was these two guys' coach, he immediately sneered, "As expected of Bourbon's students, they all love to provoke others!"

"..." It shouldn't be said that Bourbon taught them; it should be said that Bourbon imitated their personalities. Hagiwara's talent for business and driving skills, Matsuda's sharp tongue and bomb disposal skills... Upon hearing this, Morofushi silently added in his mind.

Matsuda, however, was indignant. Remembering what Keidan had said about Furuya liking to imitate their mannerisms, habits, and skills in dealing with the organization's 'work,' he immediately glared at him and complained, "Why do you say he taught me? He clearly learned it from me..."

"Alright! Time is running out. Don't forget we still have a lot to do before we leave." Hagiwara was worried that Jinpei might say something he shouldn't have in the heat of the moment, and that his future brother-in-law might notice something amiss, so he quickly interrupted his complaints.

After all, even when Kojinpei is angry and complaining, he has a sense of proportion. However, when he encounters his future brother-in-law, who is meticulous and suspicious to an extreme degree, there is always the risk of saying the wrong thing and revealing that they and Kofuruya are old acquaintances.

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On the other side, Gin, upon hearing Hagiwara's words, lost interest in continuing the conversation and instead asked Kaze Seishoku, "Fatty, is there anything you need me to change or prepare for at this time?"

"Huh? I..." Feng Xingshou was taken aback by his older brother's question, but then realized that his brother meant to ask if he had encountered any difficulties in his past life so that he could prepare himself at this time.

She was just an ordinary person, and of course, her life over the next ten years was not smooth sailing or everything went her way. She also had many troubles, headaches, and regrets that made her want to change things.

But the thought that even the slightest change could affect her future, which involved being captured by the game and gaining a cheat code, made her forget all about it and instead replied, "No! But you shouldn't interfere with my side of things in the future."

Try to continue treating me the way you usually do. Even if we find the exact time coordinates and change your fate, you'd better stay the same and stop sending me living expenses in April.

I feel that I need to keep things as they are to ensure I gain the ability to travel through time and space, and use that ability to change the existence and occurrence of past events. This will prevent a vicious cycle where my past is altered, but my present and future no longer exist, thus avoiding a return to the starting point.

"Then let's proceed according to your plan!" Upon hearing this, Gin, who was not one to hesitate, readily agreed and promptly hung up the phone.

"Finally hung up!" Matsuda breathed a sigh of relief as soon as the phone call ended: "Brother Feng's aura is too fierce. Even through the phone, he gives people a strong sense of pressure. You have to be on your guard when talking to him."

"It's not that exaggerated, is it?" Feng Xingshou was used to his older brother and didn't feel the pressure they were talking about at all.

"Jinpei isn't exaggerating! On the contrary, he's being very 'modest,' after all, he's a very proud person!" Hagiwara's relaxed and slightly joking voice made it impossible to tell whether he was telling the truth or not.

No one noticed that while he was speaking, he was thinking that Feng Jiang was right. If her past was changed, it was very likely that the fate of him, Kojinpei, Komofushi, the class president, and his future brother-in-law would be repeated.

As a result, his original plan to go back to the past, find her, pursue her again, and wait with her for the game to arrive in 2025 will have to be reconsidered.

After all, the inability to reunite and date her during her youth means that he can only wait for the next 25 years. If he chooses to stay in the next 25 years, he will miss 17 years of time with all his relatives and friends.

No! If you include the time loop of 2015, it's at least twenty years, or even more. I can't let my parents and sister suffer the pain of losing me for so many years just for Feng Jiang.

So the only option is to go back in time, knowing that all it takes to see the person you like is a plane ticket, but you can't go. You have to wait until 2025 to hold her hand like that again.

Over a decade or even two decades, will my feelings for her remain unchanged by then? By 2025, I won't be as young as I am now. Will she still like me after more than a decade has passed and I'm no longer in my prime?

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Indeed, once you miss out on some people and things, it's always difficult to change your mind and make amends. If I had known things would turn out this way, I shouldn't have thought of rejecting her in the first place.

Or rather, I shouldn't have stopped caring about her after she stood me up. If only I had investigated why she broke her promise, and found out why, and given her a different answer...

Perhaps he would choose to study in China for her sake, find a job there, and everything would change. He might even be captured and brought into the game with her, becoming a couple of survivors in the game. As these thoughts arose, past memories surfaced one by one in his mind...

In late July 2005, Hagiwara and Matsuda, who had become fresh-faced juniors in college, were on summer vacation in their hometown. Today was the release date of a model they had been eyeing, so they made a pact to go buy it together. They had already bought it and were on their way home.

On their way home from a famous international school in Kanagawa's wealthy district, the two were chatting about things that happened during their university years when they overheard a girl in a high school uniform complaining to her friend, "Haru-chan, look at that middle schooler over there, she's obviously a glutton, no wonder she's so fat!"

"Wow! Eating on the street, how rude!" The girl in the same uniform next to her seemed quite surprised.

What she overheard made the two people, who always reacted faster than others and loved to observe their surroundings, subconsciously look in the direction they were looking. Then they saw a girl who looked about 14 or 15 years old eating takoyaki like a squirrel on the road.

After chewing a few small balls, she took a big gulp of cola, eating with such relish that it was incredibly appetizing to watch. You could clearly feel the joy of her taste buds being satisfied by the food and the carbonation...

The girl is clearly pretty, with long, narrow eyes and a straight nose. She has a cool, pale complexion like a Westerner, but also delicate, soft cheeks like an Easterner. The way she chews her food makes her look quite cute.

Compared to the Japanese aesthetic of either being too thin or too dead, she was already 1.6 meters tall in high school, and her chubby, cute appearance seemed out of place among Japanese junior high school girls, or even high school girls.

After all, in Japan, both boys and girls only eat until they are slightly full during junior and senior high school, starving themselves to fit into the mainstream Japanese aesthetic. Some women even believe that if they are taller than Japanese men, they will have a hard time getting married.

Even if they successfully get married, they will be disliked by their husbands, so they deliberately starve themselves during their growth period to weaken their growth potential and cause their height to stop at a height that is slightly shorter than the average height of Japanese men.

In addition, eating while walking is considered impolite in Japan, so her behavior of not caring about the opinions of others must seem very rude to some Japanese people who are very particular about etiquette!

Besides, it's quite enviable that a girl like her, taller than most Japanese women, can eat and drink without any restraint. Hagiwara was thinking this when Matsuda chimed in with a sarcastic remark, "Tsk! Eating so heartily, it's really enviable!"