When he thought about his younger "brother" who had higher literary accomplishment than himself, Tsunayoshi Sawada felt subtly sad because he knew that not only did he not look like a five-year-old child, but his soul was not that age either.
He recalled the countless nights when his tutor taught him haiku in a Vongola-style way, which he could not understand at all. The ticking sound of the time bombs would still echo in his ears until he fell asleep.
Even so, when Godfather graduated, he had just reached a qualified standard, and still far from the standard of his tutor... I can only say that the time bomb has not exploded yet, all because the world's number one killer sympathized with Nana's mother for having such a stupid son.
[“You still have to support Nana’s mother in her old age, idiot.”]
——The other party said with an inexplicable smile.
The young Sawada Tsunayoshi raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.
[“Please spare me, Reborn.”] He stretched out the tone, and the boy’s voice was still a little soft, sounding like he was acting coquettishly.
So the tutor snorted and didn't look at this guy who was still acting like a spoiled brat despite his age.
What a childish kid.
But even thinking this, the world's best tutor had a slight smile on his face.
Sawada Tsunayoshi shook his head, pulling himself out of his memories.
He looked at the ochre-haired boy who was looking at him with a hint of worry, thought for a moment, and then asked a soul-searching question as if inadvertently.
"By the way, how old is Chuuya this year?" He paused, but ultimately didn't ask the question he wanted to ask the most: has he ever been to school?
...After all, everyone in Yokohama knows that Leibo Street is almost one of the poorest places in the city.
The children here have problems not only studying but also living.
Thinking of this, Sawada Tsunayoshi felt inexplicably depressed.
Nakahara Chuuya coughed.
Although no one knew why, the brown-haired boy suddenly felt as depressed as a sunflower that had lost its sunlight.
This left him somewhat at a loss.
Feeling that he and this child should probably be able to call each other "friends", Nakahara Chuuya carefully observed the other party, answered with his mouth, but his eyes looked around, trying to find something that could divert the other party's attention.
"Oh, right." An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he rashly invited her, "Would you like to come and take a look at my base?"
——Zhongyuan Zhongye, the King of Sheep, said so.
…
This is why the two people appeared in the "Sheep" base.
Nakahara Chuuya just felt that he was too unstable. How could he bring an outsider back to the base... If the other party was from Leibo Street, it would be good to have a relationship with the bully of Leibo Street, "Yang", but Sawada Tsunayoshi was not from Leibo Street, and it was not sure whether it was good or bad to have a relationship with them.
And here on the sheep's side.
Nakahara Chuuya thought about it. After all, he was still the leader of the "Sheep". He was just taking someone to visit the base.
——This confidence disappeared when Shirase questioned him.
“Chuuya!!” The girl with long pink hair jumped over when she saw him, tilted her head to look at the brown-haired boy following behind him, and asked curiously, “Who is this? Is this your new kid?”
Nakahara Chuuya didn't answer her. He rubbed the head of the girl who bent over as if she were a small animal, and introduced her to Sawada Tsunayoshi: "She is Yuzuko, one of my partners and a member of the Sheep."
After hearing this introduction, Yuuko, who had seemed curious just now, changed her expression, as if she suddenly thought of something, and the cat stealthily shrank behind Nakahara Chuuya.
"Is it someone from outside?" She became alert and her hair stood on end.
Sawada Tsunayoshi looked at the other person curiously.
This is a girl with pink hair. She looks very cute and is about the same age as Chuuya. However, unlike the honest and reliable (un)boy, she has an air of pride.
“So that’s how it is, you are Chuuya’s companion.” He said, showing a trusting smile, and said to Yuzue, “I have been asking you to take care of our Chuuya.”
This sentence made Yuxing's eyes widen.
She looked at Sawada Tsunayoshi in disbelief, then at Nakahara Chuuya, her pretty face filled with disbelief, and finally she jumped up.
"Chuuya!!" The originally pleasant voice became sharp and harsh, "What is this? Are you going to betray us?!"
This speculation made her extremely angry.
Although she knew that this was impossible, she could not afford the cost of Nakahara Chuuya leaving, so the slightest disturbance was enough to make the girl, who was already on edge, excited.
She knew, of course, that they were fighting the port mafia.
The other party once vowed to recruit their leader, Nakahara Chuuya... If she were in their shoes, Yuuko thinks she might have chosen that side, and the others more or less have the same idea as her.
Therefore, they are particularly afraid that the other party will really leave as they guessed.
But Nakahara Chuuya didn't know this.
The ochre-haired boy frowned, looking at Yuxing, who he usually got along well with but now looked like this in front of his friends, and he couldn't help but frown.
"Hey, Yuuki." He frowned, "Don't talk nonsense, Sawada is my friend."
Yukan was originally ordered by the second in command of the Sheep, a boy named Shirase, to see who this child brought back by Chuuya was. At this moment, she thought about her own guess, and the more she thought about it, the more it made sense, and she couldn't help but stand up like a hedgehog that was irritated.
"Friends? Friends of the port mafia?" she said sharply.
Behind Yuxing, the door that was supposed to welcome the leader was closed, and a lot of heads were crowded around the window.
Nakahara Chuuya almost laughed out loud.
He just brought back a friend, but the situation with the port mafia has been a little tense recently, so these guys acted like this.
Nakahara Chuuya felt that he should be angry because the person he regarded as a companion and a family member was so suspicious of him.
However, besides the anger, there seemed to be something low flowing in my chest.
——Is it sadness?
Before Nakahara Chuuya could speak, Sawada Tsunayoshi interrupted the girl named Yuuko.
"I'm sorry, I think you may have misunderstood something." He said so. Although he was just dressed in ordinary clothes, his posture and demeanor looked like he was wearing a gentleman's suit and even holding a gentleman's hat in his hand.
Yuxing shrank back and muttered, "Pretentious."
Sawada Tsunayoshi smiled helplessly, thinking that this was still a child and seemed to be Chuuya's friend, he couldn't help but soften his tone to make himself look less scary.
Calm down, Tsunayoshi Sawada, this is not the person you are negotiating with.
He softened his brows and said gently, "I'm not from the port mafia."
Then the girl's alert expression softened.
Perhaps because she was attracted by the beauty, she asked hesitantly, "Really?"
Sawada Tsunayoshi nodded with a smile.
At this moment, although he looked not much different from Nakahara Chuuya beside him, his figure seemed to have grown a lot taller - for example, 1.8 meters - and was full of the aura of an older brother.
"I am Chuuya's brother." He said slowly, "So, as a brother, I am very grateful for your care for our family."
Yuxing: "Oh, so that's how it is...wait what?!"
Even Nakahara Chuuya stared at Sawada Tsunayoshi with wide eyes. Although he did not scream out "what?", his wide-open pupils also showed his shock.
Sawada Tsunayoshi rubbed Nakahara Chuuya's frightened cat head easily and responded.
"Actually, we have an older brother, but he's working in a foreign country and can't come back for the time being, so he asked me to find Chuuya." Chuuya Nakahara almost believed what he heard and was already searching his mind for the non-existent memory of himself and Sawada Tsunayoshi recognizing each other as relatives.
But things that don't exist just don't exist, memories that don't exist don't exist (huh), Sawada Tsunayoshi rubbed the cat's head as it was lost in thought, and smiled at him.
“Well, I almost forgot to mention this,” he said lightly, “Chuuya and I are half-brothers.”
"ha?"
Finally unable to bear it any longer, the second in command of the Sheep, a young man named Shirase, jumped out.
Yuuko hid behind Shirase like a little bird that had found shelter, and the white-haired boy waved his arms and shouted, "Do you think we are fools?!"
This is a very typical child from Leibo Street.
He looked dirty, but because he was a high-ranking member of the "Sheep" group, which had some influence, what he wore was much better than the ordinary residents of Leibo Street. At least he would not look any different if he walked among the ordinary people.
And the action of Yuzuko running away from Nakahara Chuuya to his side also shows that the pink-haired girl trusts the white-haired boy more than Nakahara Chuuya.
And when Sawada Tsunayoshi looked at the other person, he was a little distracted.
“Really?” He couldn’t help but press his forehead, thinking that he might be getting old (?), and whenever he saw a cat or a dog, he would start to recall the past.
He shook Chuuya's sleeve, which made him look a lot weaker.
"Who is this child?" he asked.
Nakahara Chuuya came back to his senses from the strange "half-brothers" speech just now, and answered Sawada Tsunayoshi with an awkward expression.
"Shirase," he said, "also my companion in the sheep."
At a subtle moment, his introduction has changed.
But Sawada Tsunayoshi seemed unaware.
He nodded, a look of understanding.
"In that case, they are Chuuya's subordinates?" The Godfather, who puts family first, actually doesn't pay much attention to subordinates or anything else. To him, all partners in the family are family members.
But that's what he asked.
Nakahara Chuuya turned his head and touched his nose uncomfortably.
As a leader, he actually doesn't act like a leader.
Rather than being a leader, he is more like a protector.
Shirase handles most of the other affairs of "Sheep" by himself. Occasionally, Nakahara Chuuya would wonder whether he should participate in the operation of the club. At this time, Shirase would say, "Leave this small matter to me," and Yuukan would come over and happily talk about what game hall she had discovered recently.
Therefore, the positioning and actual use of Nakahara Chuuya have always been more or less different.
But at this time, he still responded and nodded.
"I see." Sawada Tsunayoshi smiled, seeming very satisfied with this. He turned his head and asked the other side, "Really? Is Chuuya your leader?"
Shirase clenched his fists.
Of course he was unwilling to admit this. All along, although Nakadashi was the leader of the "Sheep", Shirase always believed that he was the one who gave it up.
Compared to Chuuya who is the protector, he is the one who actually runs the organization and is more like the "leader".
However, in order to keep Chuuya and to obtain Chuuya's protection, they had to place the crown on Chuuya Nakahara's head.
And it has always been like this, so Shirase actually does not reject the idea of acknowledging that Chuuya is the leader.
But today is different, he thought.
In front of this guy who called himself Chuuya's "brother" and seemed to be there to support Chuuya, he would rather bite his back teeth and tremble, but he could not say the fact that Chuuya was the leader.
Will lose.
He wondered for no apparent reason.
If he admits it now, he loses.
"What's wrong?" Sawada Tsunayoshi asked, frowning slightly, "Isn't that the case?"
Shirase, who had been fighting against something mysterious, finally came to his senses.
He lowered his back as he looked at the brown-haired boy who was about the same age as himself and his companions but had an irresistible aura.
He saw it.
"Yes." Shirase admitted through gritted teeth, "Chuya is our leader."
——When he made eye contact with the boy, Shirase saw it.
In the eyes of the young man named "Sawada Tsunayoshi" lies a beast as powerful as that of Nakahara Chuuya.
And Sawada Tsunayoshi finally smiled.
"That's what I told you." He looked very kind, and he pulled Nakahara Chuuya, just like an old man who hadn't seen his grandson for a long time. He pulled Nakahara Chuuya, affectionately, gently, yet sternly.
"It's just a mere sheep," he raised his chin slightly, with a proud arc on his face. His golden-red pupils suddenly turned into majestic and sacred ones, making people unable to look directly at him for a moment.
"It's just a sheep... If you still like it, I'll give you Leibo Street as a gift, how about that?"
Mr. Godfather said this as if he was just talking about having a simple meal together tonight.
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