Chapter 1 The goal is to be a good citizen (?)...
Chapter 1
This year's late autumn in Tokyo is much colder than Hyogo Prefecture. It's only nine o'clock in the evening, but it's hard to see people on the roadside.
Half an hour before closing time at Dorobiegal Park, the lights on the roadside were dim, and the swaying shadows of the trees cast a shadow over the ground. A kingfisher, having chirped all day, flew back to its nest and was about to fall into a deep sleep when a scream from nowhere disturbed its slumber.
The next second, accompanied by the sound of quarreling, someone rushed towards this side.
"What was that just now? A gun? Was he going to kill us?"
"Maybe it's a magic trick?"
"That's not the case no matter how you look at it!"
The one who woke up the kingfisher was a boy wearing the uniform of the Inarizaki volleyball team. Behind him, a girl who had dressed herself up like a small cake was running wildly with him holding her hand. The girl was wearing a pink three-section lace Lolita dress that reached her calf, and a pair of eight-centimeter-high platform shoes. The clothes on her body weighed more than ten pounds, but she still ran leisurely after the boy with steps as if she was wearing stilts.
"It's quite far already. Shouldn't we run anymore?"
Unlike the nervous boy, the girl's expression was calm. She even yawned lazily. "This is downtown. I saw police cars patrolling at Dorobigaar Park just now. I don't think anything will happen."
The girl was troubled by something else—really, couldn't she just let go? If she ran down the street in shoes this high, the paint on her shoes would get scratched, and she wouldn't be able to buy shoes of this style anymore.
The girl's indifference did not affect the other party, but instead made the boy in sportswear - Gong You even more upset.
"So why did you, Kurokawa, provoke such a scary guy?"
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the "girl's" expression froze. But "she" quickly reacted and covered her mouth with her free hand: "You've been calling this name since a while ago. Unfortunately, I'm not..."
"Listen!"
Gong You interrupted "her" words before she could finish. The fear after escaping from the strange man made him lose all his patience. He actually grabbed the "girl's" hand and gave her a wall (tree bang) under the tree.
"I don't care if you're some unknown ugly woman or Kurokawa Kaoru. Just answer my question first... Ouch!"
The "girl" who was shy (not really) just now now had a sullen face. Seeing Gong You covering his beaten eyes and looking at her, the girl... well, it was the boy snorted coldly, patted the non-existent dust on his body, and when he spoke again, it was in a lazy boy's voice.
"My mother once said that when I wear a skirt, I am the most beautiful lady in Japan."
"Then this is the most beautiful lady in Japan."
So, was he punched because he called her ugly? Seeing the androgynous boy looking up at him, Gong You took a deep breath and looked at him helplessly, "Can I go home now?"
"Of course you can..."
"Then I'm leaving!"
Before Kurokawa Kaoru could finish his words, a gust of wind blew past him, even blowing up the strands of hair on his forehead.
Two seconds later, he looked at Gong You, who had attempted to escape, and said helplessly, "The most beautiful lady in Japan hasn't even finished her words yet, how could you just run away like that?"
Gong You's expression was ferocious. He wanted to escape, but he couldn't break free of the other person's hand holding him: "Didn't you say I could go home?"
"I did say..."
"Then I—"
"Young man, don't be so anxious."
With a beautiful face, she said these words, feeling the resentment from Gong You, and Kurokawa Kaoru shook her head, raised her chin and said as if scolding a child: "At least listen to me finish what I have to say."
“…”
"So what exactly do you want to say?"
Seeing that this person would not let him go until he had finished what he wanted to say, Gong You closed his eyes and raised his hands in surrender: "I promise, I won't run away again until you finish what you want to say."
That's right. Kurokawa Kaoru nodded with satisfaction and said his next sentence: "Actually... I ran away from home?"
"So you left home..."
Wait a minute, what does this person mean by saying this to him! He has seen the TV series and knows what the plot is like later! Thinking of this, Gong You looked at Kurokawa Kaoru with some "fear" in his eyes.
"What does this have to do with me?"
"It's not good for other students to see me like this."
Kurokawa Kaoru was still as confident as ever: "Anyway, you already know my secret, and I happen to be homeless now, so please take me in."
“…”
After a long silence, Gong You let out a scream that was even more shrill than before, full of disbelief and ridicule.
The last thing Kurokawa Kaoru remembers is a warm orange light slowly pouring down from the horizon. The sun rises as usual on a new day, and the calm sea begins to stir once again.
It was the fishermen's working hours, and those closer to the port, relying on their experience, flocked to the best fishing spots. However, unlike in the past, the sea, which had always been filled with only seagulls, now had a new stranger—
"Dead, someone is dead!"
Someone exclaimed and the surrounding fishermen quickly gathered over.
"It's a young man!"
"Are you still alive..."
"Idiot, only half of his body is left. No one can save him."
“…”
Am I still alive?
Everything was a blur as his body rapidly cooled. Kurokawa Kaoru could only hear someone shouting loudly. After an unspecified moment, several people who looked like lifeguards paddled kayaks around him, carefully salvaging something.
It was obvious that he had scared these people - after all, it was quite rare to see a corpse with only half of its body left.
Well... although I'm not a corpse yet.
These chaotic things in his mind were intertwined uncontrollably, Kurokawa Kaoru's breathing became weaker and weaker, and the survival instinct that clamored to live also fell silent.
The scene before him turned from blur to black and white. As his world was about to return to darkness, this thought flashed through his mind in his final moments of consciousness.
It turns out that shark teeth structure looks like that...
“…”
“Click—”
The sound of a pistol being loaded was from the Chiappa Rhino.
"I'll ask you one last time, are you really not going to take over the family business?"
“…”
His body was still savoring the feeling of being bitten by the shark. In front of him, his father was holding his well-maintained beloved gun, staring at him expressionlessly: "You should know that our family has been following the Vongola since the last century. There is no reason to cut off the inheritance from your generation."
Vongola? Heritage?
Hearing his father's speech, Kurokawa Kaoru pretended to be stunned for a moment, but a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes.
It turns out that he was reborn.
Despite this near-miraculous event, Kurokawa Kaoru didn't react like a normal person would, even feeling a sense of despair and a sense of offense. But now wasn't the time to dwell on these matters. Watching his father, clearly growing impatient, as he inched his familiar, beloved gun closer to his temple, Kurokawa Kaoru took a deep breath and hurled himself forward, hugging him.
Killing my father in my arms! (No)
"I'm sorry, Father!"
"If you have something to say, please speak."
Kurokawa's father, who had never hugged his partner except for the time when Kurokawa Kaoru was born, had a stiff body and almost pulled the person off his body in a panic.
"Answer my question, why don't you want to take over the family business?"
Knowing that if he didn't give a reasonable explanation, he would be shot in the head by his father, Kurokawa Kaoru covered his face, not knowing what he was thinking. Then he used all his life's skills to force out what he thought was the most shy smile.
"I'm sorry, Father, I prefer wearing a dress and drinking coffee to fighting!"
“…”
Kurokawa's father's expression froze.
TBC.
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