Chapter 68 Chapter 68 The positions of sinner and victim are reversed...

When Morofushi Kagemitsu, who had just started elementary school, arrived at his first summer vacation, he begged his parents to take him to Tokyo for a trip.

At that time, their father had a student to take with him, and they originally wanted to refuse. However, the usually sensible Morobushi Kagemitsu was so stubborn that time for some reason. He acted like a spoiled child and pretended to cry... In short, he used all kinds of methods to make sure they went to Tokyo.

The parents were soft-hearted towards their well-behaved and adorable little son, but soon gave in. The family of four set off for Tokyo.

Then they met Furuya Rei, who was the same age as Morofuku Keimitsu, at the place Morofuku Keimitsu specified for them to visit.

The two children quickly became friends and within a few days their relationship became so close that they were inseparable. They even gave each other unique nicknames like Zero and Hiro, which were very symmetrical.

The Morobushi couple postponed their return to Nagano for a month to preserve their youngest son's friendships. Morobushi Takaaki had no objection and took the opportunity to broaden his horizons in Tokyo. His parents took him to observe the daily lives of various professions, sparking his desire to become a lawyer.

By the end of summer vacation, both Morofushi Kagemitsu and Furuya Rei were reluctant to part with each other—from Morofushi Takaaki's perspective, it was probably Furuya Rei who was more reluctant to leave his younger brother. The two children agreed to wait until the next long vacation to play together again.

Thus began a life where every vacation, either you would come to Nagano or I would go to Tokyo. During the summer vacation when he was eight years old, it was Rei Furuya who came to Nagano to visit Keimitsu Morofushi - a place that was clearly a better place to escape the summer heat than Tokyo.

The incident happened on an ordinary summer afternoon.

The blond kid excitedly pulled the cat-eyed kid and said that he had found a beautiful sea of ​​flowers. No one had discovered that place yet. He hoped that his most important friend Hiro could share this secret base with him. But Furuya Rei had heard that before Hiro met him, he had a friend named Yamamura So, and they even had a secret base.

Fūya Rei, who is naturally very competitive, felt a sense of crisis when he heard about this for the first time. He was afraid that his best friend would be taken away, so he mentioned to Morobushi Kagemitsu many times that he also wanted to carefully select a secret base exclusively for the two of them.

This sea of ​​flowers was the most suitable place for the young Rei Furuya.

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at his parents and brother inquiringly, because they had just brought back a big watermelon from the cool stream and were preparing to cut it up to share. If they were away for too long, they were worried that everyone in the family would be waiting for them, and the watermelon might not taste as good as when they first took it out.

The Zhufu couple looked at their youngest son and his friends with a smile, saying that a little time was not a big deal. Instead of being so concerned about the secret base that they couldn't enjoy the watermelon properly, they might as well go and take a look. Maybe they could even pick some beautiful flowers and enjoy this cool summer together.

So, Morofushi Kagemitsu and Furuya Rei left hand in hand.

I had originally thought the two children would be back in half an hour, or at most an hour, since Rei Furuya had said the place wasn't far away. But after almost two hours, there was still no sign of the children.

Unable to wait any longer, the Zhufu couple, Zhufu Gaoming and several enthusiastic neighbors began to conduct a carpet search of the nearby forest.

They didn't find Zhufu Jingguang, but they found Jiangu Ling, who fell into the valley, covered in wounds and in critical condition.

After rushing Fūya Rei to the hospital, they called the police, but the police still could not find any trace of Zhufu Jingguang. There was no surveillance near the forest, and the traces on the ground had probably been dealt with, so no suspicious footprints were found.

Originally, the incident was to be classified as the abduction of Morobushi Kagemitsu by human traffickers, but when Fūya Rei was sent to the hospital, he was found to have taken banned psychotropic drugs and had one or two raw flower petals left on his body.

Following this evidence, the police searched near the valley where Jianggu Ling fell, and finally found a vacant lot in a very hidden place where banned plants were suspected to have been planted, but the plants had been removed and the clue ended here.

The only clue left for the investigation was Rei Furuya, but he was seriously injured and was in a coma for nearly a month after being successfully rescued.

When Fūya Rei finally recovered enough to barely receive outsiders, the Zhufu family came to visit him, but found that Fūya Rei did not recognize them, and was suffering from the sequelae of severe headaches and dizziness from time to time.

They were told that the plants had affected Rei Furuya's nervous system, and that the child's brain was not yet fully developed, so it was a blessing that he had only lost some of his memory or had memory disorder.

The Morofushi family was extremely anxious to find clues about the loss of their young son, but after discovering that hearing questions about that day would aggravate Fūya Rei's condition, they could not bear to force such a young child to recall memories that might never be recovered.

In order to better treat Rei Furuya, after his body was able to withstand the bumpy transfer, he was transferred from the hospital in Nagano to the Tokyo hospital with more advanced medical technology.

Until Furuya Rei recovered and was discharged from the hospital, neither the Morofushi family nor the police obtained any clues from him - Furuya Rei had forgotten that day and everything about what happened in Nagano.

He forgot about Zhufu Jingguang.

For many years afterward, the Zhufu family never stopped searching for Zhufu Jingguang. However, they could vaguely guess from the forbidden plant that even if Zhufu Jingguang was still alive, his situation might not be good, and he was most likely being monitored and imprisoned by an illegal organization.

So I didn’t even dare to post a missing person notice.

Besides searching for his brother, Takaaki Morobushi devoted all his time to his studies, graduating earlier and with higher honors than his peers. He chose to become an independent lawyer instead of accepting an offer from one of Japan's leading law firms.

He didn't want to be bound by the firm, but to choose the right cases himself - Zhufu Xi Gaoming wanted to travel all over the country for his work. Japan is not a big country, and maybe one day he could find clues about his brother somewhere.

But Nagano is where Morobushi Kagemitsu was born and spent his childhood, it is his home, so Morobushi Takaaki would return to Nagano from time to time, just in case his younger brother came back on his own and couldn't find his home.

Who knew that instead of waiting for his younger brother, he waited for his younger brother's childhood playmate, Jōtani Rei.

After finishing his narration of this past event, Zhu Fu Gaoming's tone was very restrained and calm throughout, but anyone could feel from his plain words that the unexpected fate of his young son had brought a wound that could not be healed by time to this family that should have been extremely happy.

They might regret it in their dreams at midnight, if only they could have been tougher and let the two children stay where they were and finish the watermelon, or if they could have gone with them...

They are all rational adults, but some emotions always transcend rationality and turn into sentences like "I wish I had known it earlier", even though they have done nothing wrong.

Zhufu Gaoming was not the type to express his emotions. Apart from his two friends who grew up with him, almost no one outside the Zhufu family knew about these things, especially since the neighbors who had helped in the search had almost all left.

Therefore, this was the first time that Zhu Fu Gaoming had fully narrated this incident to others, and he inevitably got lost in this past event while telling the story.

When he came back to reality from his thoughts, he found that Fūya Rei, who had been walking quietly beside him, had become in a very bad state since he didn't know when.

Strictly speaking, there is no physiological abnormality, such as unusual sweating, trembling all over, etc. At first glance, the whole person looks very calm, and even his expression does not change.

But Zhu Fu Gaoming had a feeling that the person in front of him was on the verge of collapse, just like something that remained the same after a fire, but as long as a gust of wind blew, everything would dissipate into the air.

Rei Furuya never expected the truth to be so cruel.

The interrogation of the organization's members has not yet ended. The more senior and powerful the code-name members are, the more difficult it is to pry them open their mouths. It is not necessarily that they are unwilling to speak and still have the illusion that they will be rescued by the remnants of the organization, but they simply want to use this to exchange for their own interests.

Having been lurking in the organization for so long as a codenamed member, although Rei Furuya was anxious to get information about Scotland from them, he also knew that he could not show his anxiety in front of these people. This was a psychological game between the two sides.

Therefore, Furuya Rei still doesn't know when Morofushi Kagemitsu joined the organization. Having lost that memory, he has never associated this incident with himself.

But now, after listening to Zhu Fu Gao Ming's story, combined with the continuous yet vague dreams over the years, there is nothing that Furuya Ling does not understand: in order to protect Furuya Ling, the young Zhu Fu Jingguang used himself as bait to lure away the organization's people, and was eventually captured by the organization, while he survived and was spared from the organization's harm.

He has always been aware of how much emotional harm he has caused to Morifushi Kagemitsu, and he even thinks that the other party's self-destructive tendencies may have their own reasons. Therefore, Furuya Zero works day and night to eliminate the remaining darkness of the organization, which can also be regarded as revenge for Morifushi Kagemitsu who was persecuted by the organization as an experimental subject.

In this way, maybe one day when he meets the young man with cat eyes again, Furuya Rei will be able to muster up the courage to say that he is working hard for Hiro.

With such a secretive and selfish mentality, he now learned from Zhu Fujingguang's relatives that it was him who helped Zhu Fujingguang enter the organization.

The fear of leaving his family at a young age, the pain of being used as an experimental subject, the hopelessness of being trapped in darkness all year round...the source of all the sufferings that Zhufu Jingguang endured was actually Furuya Rei.

Zhu Fushigi Kagemitsu should have grown up in the sun like Furuya Rei.

Despite enduring so much torture, Zhu Fujingguang still maintained his original innocence, doing his utmost to overthrow the organization and leave a way out for those around him. However, the source of his pain, without knowing anything, condescendingly and prejudicially convicted him.

The positions of sinner and victim are reversed.

The person who should have disappeared in the fire should have been Rei Furuya.

"...Jianggu-kun? Jianggu-kun!"

The seemingly vague and distant shouting failed to draw back Rei Furuya's attention, until Morobushi Takaaki had to somewhat rudely stop Rei Furuya's hand from subconsciously reaching for the inside pocket of his shirt - where his HK-P7M8 was placed.

Zhu Fu Gaoming is now a lawyer and cannot claim to be very knowledgeable about guns and the like, but he has two policemen as his childhood friends and is often forced to be involved in various dangerous criminal cases. To a certain extent, except for not being able to shoot, his other skills are not much different from those of an ordinary criminal policeman.

Realizing his actions, Furuya Rei said something unconvincing to Morobushi Takaaki: "Sorry, I'm fine."

Under extreme pain and self-blame, even a tough guy like Rei Kotani could not completely avoid the urge to hurt himself.

But he also knew that as soon as he touched the cold gun, his sense of responsibility would dispel this absurd idea.

It's not only a sense of responsibility as a public security officer, but also a sense of responsibility towards Zhu Fujingguang.

Even Fūya Rei himself has no right to take away the lives that have been saved many times by the cat-eyed young man.