Chapter 35 The Guilty-Hearted Officer Sang

"Then that's settled. According to the time paradox, maybe when I go back tomorrow, after you leave that instance, I'll be able to see you, who returned four years ago!" I hope everything goes well! Matsuda Jinpei was about to say something more.

She inadvertently noticed that not only had rows of vending machines appeared out of nowhere, but also a huge pile of all sorts of items, including gas cylinders. Her eyes widened in disbelief: "Did she empty out the entire amusement park?"

"Ahem... It's necessary to stockpile all sorts of supplies to ensure survival in the game." Kenji Hagiwara coughed as he explained, but he was a little uneasy inside. What if Matsuda found out that he had assaulted a police officer and committed arson to cover up the crime?

The suggestion to Feng Jiang is to stockpile resources in the instance and sell them back on Earth to alleviate unemployment caused by social changes. (Other unrelated actions include arson, theft, trespassing, and entering amusement parks.)

Thinking about how many Japanese laws I've broken these past few days, and as a police officer, committing crimes is an even more serious offense, I wonder if he'd also want to put the silver bracelet on me to uphold the law? -_-||

Seeing his childhood friend's obviously guilty expression, Matsuda Jinpei immediately opened his crescent-shaped eyes and 'interrogated' him: "What else are you hiding?"

"Uh... well!" Realizing it would be difficult to fool Jinpei, Hagiwara Kenji stammered...

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Meanwhile, outside the car, Feng Xingshou finally released all the supplies he had collected at the amusement park that day from his backpack. He wanted to count the supplies in the vending machine, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that the vending machine was locked.

She could only buy goods from the vending machine by inserting coins. Naturally, she didn't have any Japanese yen, so she couldn't get the goods out. Even if she wanted to use the yen in the vending machine to make purchases, she couldn't open the coin slot...

She circled the vending machine several times, but when she couldn't find a solution, she tried to pry it open with a crowbar. However, as soon as the crowbar touched the vending machine, the same prompt from the previous night appeared again, asking if she wanted to disassemble it.

Unsure whether dismantling the vending machine meant dismantling only the machine itself or the contents as well, she simply tried it out on the beer vending machine, which she considered to have the lowest usability.

The result was good; the game's dismantling function only dismantled the vending machine itself, not the goods inside. So she felt relieved and used the crowbar to dismantle all the vending machines.

In addition to receiving a variety of generous items from the vending machine, I also unexpectedly obtained 300 units of black iron, 100 units of glass, and 50 units of plastic, materials that can be used everywhere in the game.

Especially the plastic. Thinking of the storage box stacking plan that Hagiwara had suggested to her, she simply dismantled all the other unnecessary items from the supplies she had obtained today, as well as the plastic storage boxes she had gotten from the repair room, and obtained another 170 units of plastic.

She kept 100 units of these plastics as spares, to avoid a repeat of the last time she upgraded the fuel tank, where she had the blueprints but couldn't upgrade because she didn't have the plastic. She then had the remaining 70 units processed into storage boxes at the factory.

Fortunately, the storage boxes for the game processing plant don't require much material; just one unit is enough to make one, and 70 units of plastic can make 70 10L storage boxes.

There were enough storage boxes for her to store all kinds of supplies, and there was still a lot left over. It was just that it was a bit of a hassle to find things each time. So, after sorting and counting, she categorized the items into different types using each storage box.

She acquired over 50 cartons of cigarettes with various Japanese or English brands that she couldn't understand, over 200 cans of various brands of beer, and various brands of beverages, both canned and bottled, filling seven 10L storage boxes. She was too lazy to count the exact number of bottles and jars.

It's about 300 less!

Besides the cigarettes, alcohol, and beverages, the food items included a dozen or so roasted chicken legs, two boxes of marinated but unroasted chicken legs, several boxes of hamburgers, some roasted corn, and some unroasted, already very flavorful oden.

There were also cooked takoyaki, unused takoyaki batter, lots of fried noodles and bread, rice balls and sushi, oddly shaped cookies, and all sorts of snacks I'd never seen before...

In addition to these, she also collected liquefied gas cylinders and stoves from various food stalls, as well as pots and pans for making various foods and disposable bowls and chopsticks, so that she would not have to work hard burning charcoal to cook for a long time to come.

After tidying up, she happily carried the cooked takoyaki, oden, roasted chicken legs, several bottles of beer and drinks, fried noodles and bread, sushi, and diced roasted corn that she had specially saved, and placed them on the table that she had taken out from her backpack.

Then he walked to the car and was about to invite Hagiwara and Matsuda to lunch when he saw that Hagiwara had silver bracelets on his hands and was looking at Matsuda in the passenger seat with a helpless smile.

Meanwhile, Matsuda, dressed in a black suit, had a cigarette dangling from his lips and arms crossed. His gaze and demeanor made him look nothing like a policeman; rather, he resembled a gangster boss 'executing' Hagiwara.

Kazeki was a little dumbfounded by what she saw. She first glanced at Hagiwara worriedly, but seeing that his expression didn't seem angry or resistant, and that he was waving at her, she said, "Kaze-chan! Now I know what it feels like to wear a silver bracelet!"

"If I knew you'd be so clever, tsk!" After hearing that his best friend had learned how to assault a police officer and set fires in just three or four days, Matsuda Jinpei was speechless. He hadn't expected that while he had verbally threatened to beat up the Superintendent General, Hagi, who had always been an excellent student, had actually gone on a rampage.

Kazesei watched as Matsuda, who resembled a mob boss, spoke impatiently, but his hands honestly took out the keys to unlock Hagiwara's handcuffs. Hagiwara didn't seem worried at all about being handcuffed by an active-duty police officer.

In a daze, I realized that this was their 'friendship', and I let go of my worries. I said to them, "Yenji, Officer Matsuda, come down for lunch! You've had such a good day, you won't have to drive this afternoon or tomorrow."

You can have a few drinks to celebrate your long-awaited reunion, but the snacks are rather simple and not quite to your liking. Please bear with it!

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"Just call me Matsuda, no need to be so polite." Calling me "Officer," she offered me 'stolen' goods! -_-|| Is this junior schoolgirl really 35? Or is she just too naive? Matsuda Jinpei thought to himself.

However, he felt a strong sense of gratitude towards Feng Xingshou for saving his childhood friend and himself. He was not a rigid, inflexible policeman, and he knew that in an emergency, taking some illegal actions was not a crime. Therefore, he did not treat her as a criminal.

Upon hearing this, Kazesei looked at Officer Matsuda's peach blossom eyes with their dark blue hue and his imposing, handsome face. Influenced by her own inferiority complex, she looked at Hagiwara somewhat reservedly, her eyes filled with a questioning and pleading gaze.

After all, she had heard that Japanese people valued a sense of distance, and that Japanese characters in anime were very particular about being addressed by their surnames or given names. Now, she was being told by this handsome guy with a slick face who was even more handsome than the male celebrities she saw on screen that she could address him by his surname.

She couldn't tell if the other person was just being polite or if they genuinely meant it. What if they were just being polite, but she took it seriously and called them that directly? What if she was seen as a greasy middle-aged woman taking advantage of a handsome guy? -_-||

Having just been 'interrogated,' Kenji Hagiwara is in a very good mood right now, with a woman he likes by his side.

She had just saved her dearest friend, and now she saw Feng Jiang's somewhat clueless behavior.

She couldn't help but laugh out loud again: "Heh... Feng-chan, although Jinpei is a bit sharp-tongued, he's not the kind of person who likes to be polite. Since he said it, that's what he really thinks. He's very frank!"

"Ahem! I was just worried that I might have misunderstood because I saw Japanese people in anime having such a strict sense of etiquette when it comes to addressing others." After hearing what Hagiwara said, Kazesei explained to Matsuda with a bit of embarrassment.

Seeing her embarrassed look, Kenji Hagiwara opened the car door and got out, while ruffling her hair: "Just do it your way."

"Stop fooling around!" Feng Xingshou habitually slapped his hand away.

Matsuda Jinpei glanced at the two of them. Despite not having eaten lunch since the bombing, he felt a bit full. He felt like a bright third wheel here. Fortunately, he could go back tomorrow at noon.

He opened the car door, got out, smelled the aroma of oden, and looked at the table full of food. He thought to himself, "Great, I can really feel the junior student's sincerity in admitting her mistake."

Although he didn't think the other person had done anything wrong, he was grateful to her for giving him the opportunity to communicate properly with his best friend and personally confirm that Hagi was safe and sound...

As he pulled a portable ashtray from his pocket, extinguished his cigarette, and stretched, he said, "Perfect timing. I've been busy all morning and haven't had lunch yet."

"Haha... Same here, we haven't eaten either. Looks like we can have a more substantial meal today." Kenji Hagiwara looked at the full table and noticed water droplets on it, which looked like chilled canned beer.

He habitually teased Feng Xingshou, saying, "You even have beer? You wanted to treat me to drinks last time, why are you so eager for me to drink? You're not planning to get me drunk and do something bad to me, are you?"

"Who wanted you to drink! Giving someone some food and wine to apologize is how people from Zhongzhou show sincerity in their apology." Feng Xingshou already knew how much Hagiwara loved to joke, and hearing him tease him again, he wasn't flustered at all by the slightest joke now. o(￣ヘ￣o＃)

"Apologize?" Hagiwara Kenji looked at Fuu-chan's serious expression, somewhat speechless: "You really think you did something wrong? Shouldn't Jinhei be holding a banquet to thank you for saving your life?"

"Tsk! This is the first time I've ever seen someone save a life, apologize to the person, and take all the blame on themselves." Matsuda Jinpei made a sarcastic remark about her.

Feeling that his good intentions had backfired, Feng Xing Shou was somewhat bewildered by their words. But after hearing what they said, he also felt that it seemed unreasonable for him to apologize. He really couldn't figure it out.

She simply changed the subject, saying, "Ahem... then let's not consider it an apology, let's just call it a celebration, to celebrate that we all survived the explosion just now, how about that?"

"That's not bad!" Matsuda Jinpei disagreed.

"Heh... It's definitely worth celebrating." Kenji Hagiwara thought of the pain and despair he felt when he saw those text messages. Now he was able to have a meal with his best friend to celebrate. It was all thanks to Kaze-chan's experience of death. In fact, if you count the time he died, it would be two deaths.

He couldn't help but reach out and gently pat her head, pushing her to the dining table as he casually asked with a smile, "By the way, what does Feng-chan like to eat? I've never heard you mention your food preferences before! Is there anything you like to eat here today?"

Matsuda Jinpei's understanding of his childhood friend allowed him to instantly sense the change in Hagiwara's aura just moments before. He knew that Hagiwara was probably hiding something from him, and it was likely related to his junior schoolmate. It was the kind of emotion that seemed to be one of heartache and reluctance to part.