People left one after another, and the room became empty in an instant.

The blond young man who let the children play and childishly defeated Conan in the end, now leaned back on the hospital bed, looking down at the book on his lap.

The loose hospital gown made his wrist bones look even thinner and more fragile. The black and blue blood vessels on his pale skin from being pricked by needles in the past few days were quite shocking.

His slightly long hair fell down, covering most of his expression, and only the gradually straightened curve of his lips could be seen.

All the emotions seemed to be taken away along with everyone's departure, leaving only emptiness.

All of a sudden, Song Jiangxun also bent over and let out a short breath, as if he was trying to endure something. He buried his face in the quilt, and his fingers left a deep mark on the sheet.

He looked miserable.

“……!”

Matsuda Jinpei put his hand on the handle and narrowly avoided pushing the door open again.

He turned his head and took a deep breath.

We are temporarily unable to go in, and Song Jiangxun also asked to take a nap, simply because he didn't want others to see him in such a ferocious state.

But... why is this happening? Do other people know about this?

The one who brought him to the hospital was Rei Furuya.

Matsuda Jinpei frowned, took a last look through the small window in the ward, turned around and quickly went to look for Hagiwara Kenji and Furuya Rei.

*****

It was impossible for Songjiang Shigure to really take a nap. How could he sleep with so many people staring at his vests around him?

——(Fake, he wants to play by himself)

When hearing the fake sandwich conversation between Hagiwara Kenji and Amuro Toru and the real process of stealing horses, Matsue Shigure wrote the word "sad" in capital letters in his heart.

I can’t hide it, I really can’t hide it.

The system laughed at him: "Let your home be stolen."

Matsue Shigure: "Can you blame me? Who knew that Onizuka Hachizo really had no temper at all!"

System: "Anyway, the person who knows about your revenge diary will get another bonus."

Songjiang Shiyu instantly became dispirited: "Ahhh! If you say that again, I will exterminate all nine generations of your clan!"

He really dug his toes out of the Magic Fairy Castle! Why! Why did he have to write such a thing at that time!

A certain golden retriever had just opened a forum when he was so socially frustrated by a remark from the system that he did the ostrich paddling pose on his hospital bed, almost tearing the sheets.

After a while, Songjiang Shiyu buried his head in the quilt and said weakly, "I don't care. You help me keep an eye on the situation."

System: "What about you?"

"I play games!" Matsue Shigure said confidently, "It won't matter if Furuya Rei knows my instructor alias, as long as no one knows my identity as A!"

Compared to the not-so-warm relationship they had as "Instructor", Matsue Shigure felt that "Hacker" was the root cause of his social death.

If Fūya Rei knew how weak he was in Act 2, his authority as an instructor would be completely gone!

But there's no way they could dig this out - Kenji Hagiwara and his team don't even know anything about the organization.

As Songjiang Shigure thought about it, he instantly felt relieved.

As for the diary... everyone on the forum has seen it, so it doesn't matter if there are a few more.

The system looked at Songjiang Shiyu, who was whining about social death one second, and lying down to play Candy Crush the next, and felt that there was no hope, so let's carry him away.jpg

It spoke slowly: "Speaking of which, at Akai Shuichi's place--"

Songjiang Shigure: "Stop, stop, stop! If you say that again, I'll get mad at you!"

He didn't want to listen to any of his own nonsense.

System: “Oh, okay.”

It originally wanted to say that Shuichi Akai might have guessed A's identity through the system's blank period, but since Matsue Shigure himself was too lazy to care, it didn't worry about it.

After all, they couldn't really hurt Matsue Shigure, but instead would encourage this guy who shines brightly with just a little sunshine to become more aggressive.

******

The two went all the way up to the roof of the hospital.

Kenji Hagiwara stood in the shadows, watching his colleague carefully check the rooftop to make sure there were no surveillance or listening devices before standing next to him.

He flicked a cigarette out of the box and took it back under Furiya Rei's surprised gaze: "Sorry, I'm used to it... It seems that you have a very colorful life in that organization."

"You can't survive if you're not careful." Fūya Ling frowned, "You've been addicted to smoking lately."

Hagiwara Kenji curled his lips and said, "It's very stressful."

The two didn't chat for long, but got straight to the point.

Hagiwara Kenji asked him directly: "Why did you suddenly ask us to change our attitude towards Matsue Shunya some time ago?"

"At first I suspected he was part of the organization."

Furiya Rei said bluntly: "Later, I used some methods to test it and found that it was a misunderstanding...Kenji?"

Hagiwara Kenji's face was very ugly. He forced a smile and said, "So after you found out about the misunderstanding, you let us get close to him again?"

Fūya Ling nodded: "Yes, I still suspect that he has a relationship with Instructor Songjiang..."

"He is Instructor Songjiang."

"What did you say?" Furiya Ling's thoughts were suddenly interrupted and he raised his head in disbelief.

Hagiwara Kenji's expression was calm. After suppressing his usual cynicism, he became particularly serious: "He is Instructor Matsue - Matsue Shigure."

Every word was spoken with exceptional clarity, leaving no room for misunderstanding.

The relaxation on Fūya Rei's face disappeared, and he repeated it again, receiving repeated affirmation from Hagiwara Kenji.

"How is that possible!"

The man's purple-gray eyes were full of disbelief.

He found it extremely absurd—all the attempts before had become broken bridges floating in the air, with no way of building a bridge to the other side of the correct answer.

"It happened after I met the squad leader that day."

Hagiwara Kenji raised his head and took a breath, then said in a hoarse voice: "We went to find Instructor Onitsuka together and went to Instructor Matsue's apartment..."

They were anxious and wanted to reach a conclusion, hoping to pay for the guilt that had tormented them for many years after confessing, but they did not expect that it would lead to deeper pain and tragedy.

The greeting cards prepared for them have turned yellow, some of the gifts have passed their expiration date, and there are several blank pages in the diary that no one will ever fill.

Even those who have struggled out of the gap between life and death can never go back to the way they were before.

——Second year graduate student, you will go a long way on this road.

—Officer Hagiwara, I don’t want to come into contact with something as dangerous as a bomb again…

"...In short, Songjiang Xun is Songjiang Shigure, there is no way he can be wrong."

The hoarse voice dissipated in the wind.

Kenji Hagiwara felt like he was carefully putting together a puzzle with missing pieces, but he couldn't solve the cracks and missing pages in the middle of the puzzle.

Fūya Ling's expression was a little distorted. He thought about the possibility that Matsue Xun was also a relative of the instructor, and even planned to take good care of him as much as possible, but he could not imagine that Matsue Xun was the instructor himself.

Obviously, the initial attempts were all...

No! Furiya Rei's breathing quickened for a few seconds. He suddenly remembered the Amnesia he had seen in the psychological counseling room.

At that time, he considered the direction of A and did not study this point in detail. After confirming that Song Jiangxun was also a public security officer, he simply regarded this as false information required for his mission and threw it out of his mind.

Hagiwara Kenji curled his lips and said, "We used his grave to provoke him at that time, and I even acted like I had a good relationship with Instructor Songjiang."

In front of the tomb, Song Jiangxun simply said a few words and left in a hurry.

Some people thought his attitude was strange at the time, and began to associate Song Jiangxun with conspiracy.

It was this bold move that started Fūya Rei's suspicion of Matsue Shunya's identity, and he subsequently made even more extreme attempts.

When Kenji Hagiwara thinks back on it now, he feels only embarrassment and bitterness.

Even if he had lost his memory, it was impossible for Songjiang Shigure to be completely unfamiliar with his own name. He took the man directly to the grave and let him face his past death.

He pointed at the grave and said, "Matsue Shigure... my former instructor, an excellent bomb disposal police officer, may be your relative."

— has been buried six feet under.

Obviously, Songjiang Shigure believed it, and now the only one alive is Songjiang Xunye.

He couldn't remember them at all.

…

In the comics, things that happened in the past are reopened.

*The blond young man pursed his lips, grabbed his sleeves tightly, and turned his back to Kenji Hagiwara.

He did not reveal any emotion, only his confused eyes looked around.

He walked out with a blank expression. Behind him, on the tombstone with the words "Songjiang Shigure" written on it, there was a photo with a face that looked exactly like him. *

[Ahhhhhhh!]

[Help! ! Just show your cards, why are you just going to kill me right away? ! I was still laughing when I saw Ling Ling getting stabbed, but then I turned around and got stabbed]

[The police academy team is awesome. They even took Songjiang to his own grave to test his identity?!]

[Oh my! I am so heartbroken for Songjiang Jiang! The fact that he has lost his memory has been a big deal for Ai and the files.]

In such a situation where it was difficult to determine who he was, the police academy team took him directly to the grave, pointed at his own grave and said, "Look, Matsue Shigure is dead."]

[Oh my god... after all this, no wonder Songjiang still vaguely remembers A and can recognize Ai, but is alienated from the police academy team. He doesn't think that "Matsujiang Shigure" is himself and is still alive!]

[I suddenly remembered when Songjiang first appeared, he and Xiao Ke defuse bombs together... After that, he never showed any skills in this area again, and never mentioned it again. Maybe he forgot it because of this incident.]

[That is to say, now that Xun has the evidence (the grave), he will forget about the police academy.

He could not remember his students or his partner, and could only find traces of Akabane Subaru when he was half asleep or when his body instincts took the lead...]

[I am crying so hard. It seems that Songjiang Yugen has not thought about his partner. Is he still determined to confront the organization?]

[Help... I don't have you in my memory, but my soul and body remember you firmly (nonsense)]

[Cracked!! Furuya Rei you big pig hoof! You said you were testing A's identity, but you used such a cruel method to test the instructor! Now, Songjiangjiang's recovery progress was normal, but now it's all rejected]

[Actually there is no difference, because A is also Shigure (smile)]

[Do you remember the material I saw in the psychological counseling room at the beginning? I remember the first sentence at the beginning was - we must help him climb out of the abyss.

Now I think it is unlikely that Songjiang would see a doctor alone in this state. It should be that the police superiors assigned him a task to try to help him regain his memory...

But they ran into the protagonists again. Not only did the doctor die, but Songjiang also had PTSD and deleted the data. He was tricked by Lingling again. ]

[Tragic #Songjiang #Tragic, although Ling Ling now knows the truth about the instructor, but those seven years he disappeared in between... If he knew that the A he was testing was the instructor, he would be completely freaked out, right?!]

[I seem to see the scene of the earth breaking apart in the future (unconscious) Songjiang please don’t let anything happen to him again, he is really miserable…]

[The child is really into the police academy group, and is already starting to get annoyed]

******

As Furuya Rei listened to what Hagiwara Kenji said, he remained silent, with only his hands at his sides trembling slightly.

He suddenly remembered the time when he first learned about Songjiang Xunye's public security identity.

He touched the other person's face and asked about his relationship with Matsue Shigure.

At that time, Furugaya Rei felt that Matsue Shunya's silence lasted beyond the normal reaction range - he seemed to be very resistant to hearing Matsue Shigure's message.

In the final analysis, it turned out that it was because he designed Song Jiangxun to go to the cemetery, which caused the other party's memory to become more confused.

Furuya Rei is still hiding something from Hagiwara Kenji and the others.

After Matsue Shunya went to the cemetery, Furutani Rei also planned for Matsue Shunya to go to the abandoned factory late at night, wanting to take tough measures directly.

Although by chance, Song Jiangxun also went with him, but——

Furugaya Rei couldn't help but hold down his throbbing eyebrows and slightly bent his waist to reduce the pressure of emotions on his heart.

What did he do?

He noticed in the factory that Song Jiangxun was afraid of the dark, so he brought this up with A. He then directly tested him in the psychological counseling room, forcing Song Jiangxun to hide in the bathroom for half an hour.

At that time, he stood at the door, allowing the people inside to be afraid in the dark environment, but he just made comments - he was really patient.

He could indeed endure it. If Songjiang Shigure could not endure it, he would not have paid for their mistakes seven years ago.

And seven years ago... he betrayed Matsue Shigure's trust.

"Are you going with them, too?"

"Sorry, instructor, I think justice is more important."

At that time, the young police academy student watched Matsue Shigure turn around and leave.

His thin figure was gradually swallowed up by the night, and there was no one around him. 】

***

"… Songjiang is currently a public security official, which is not the same department as mine."

After a while, Fūya Ling spoke in a hoarse voice: "He knew about my attempts to test him, but he let it go with leniency."

Hagiwara Kenji crossed his arms and said calmly, "Because you are still his student, you should have some feeling even if you don't remember it."

——Otherwise, based on what they did, it would be enough for Song Jiangxun to just turn against them and drive them away.

Furiya Rei knew what he meant.

Song Jiangxun was also tested by him in this way. After the misunderstanding was resolved, he just used trivial matters to tease him as usual, which seemed to be telling him that he didn't care.

However, Furiya Rei just thought that he had a cheerful personality and naturally threw away all past temptations.

In fact, it was just Matsue Shigure, whose memory was confused, who was still silently tolerating the mistakes of his students.

——It was him, Furuya Rei, who had always been favored.

"Xiao Zhenping and I haven't found out about the seven years since the instructor disappeared in the explosion and reappeared."

Without hesitation, Furuya Rei agreed: "I'll do it."

Hagiwara Kenji's eyes were heavy: "If it was just an explosion, the instructor's memory wouldn't have become so fragmented. Regarding that USB flash drive..."

He suddenly felt a little panicked, fearing that after Furiya Rei found out the truth, something even more unacceptable would emerge.

Hagiwara Kenji unconsciously changed the subject.

"We found graduation cards written to us by our instructor in the apartment, as well as a diary. There is too much content in the diary, so I think it would be better for you to read it yourself. As for the card..."

Hagiwara Kenji thought about it and smiled: "The instructor asked you to be nicer to yourself."

"Zero, the instructor has always felt that you will go the furthest among us. He believes that you will always pursue your goal of justice."

Fūya Rei lowered his eyes: "I know."

****

During the police academy period, there were Matsuda Jinpei and Hagiwara Kenji, who were quite accomplished in bomb disposal, Date Kou, who was reliable, and Morobushi Kagemitsu, who was mild-tempered and often took the initiative to help with self-reviews...

Fūya Rei is sandwiched between them, and his relationship with Matsue Shigure seems to be the most ordinary.

But in fact, Furutani Rei had been paying attention to Matsue Shigure for a long time.

The young instructor, who had the same striking blond hair as him, took the term "my own way" to its extreme.

The proud Fūya Rei does not allow any gaps in his studies. He often sneaks out of his dormitory in the middle of the night to look up information in the data room, or goes to the cherry blossom forest to practice fighting.

One night, he was practicing in the cherry blossom forest and found Matsue Shigure leaning under a tree.

He didn't know how long the other person looked at him. When those sharp blue eyes swept across Furuya Ling, he felt a long-lost awkwardness.

The instructor's words were full of irritation: "Want to fight?"

Naturally, Furuya Rei agreed: "Okay."

They had a fight under the cherry blossoms.

But unlike the beginning, when Furuya Rei and Matsuda Jinpei were evenly matched, he was severely beaten by Matsue Shigure.

The young instructor pressed him down on the grass until the messy grass debris covered Furiya Ling's hair, then he chuckled and let him go.

"Come again!" Fūya Rei gritted his teeth, "I won't be fooled by your fake moves this time!"

"It's useless." Matsue Shigure returned to his usual indifferent demeanor. He said, "Lack of sleep has slowed down the nerves' reaction speed. Fūya-kun, are you anxious to become stronger?"

Rei Furuya is very strong-willed. He wants to prove himself and also wants to climb to a higher level to find Elena Miyano who suddenly disappeared.

He said seriously: "I have something I need to do. Besides, I am better and can protect this country better, right?"

"It seems you have your own goals."

Matsue Shigure could not deny it: "But Fūya-kun, you should also be nicer to yourself and not be constrained by other people's gazes."

Furutani Rei knew that Matsue Shigure was talking about the fact that he had to undergo extra training in the middle of the night because he did not win first place in the fight.

He looked into the other person's frank eyes. His light blond hair, which was out of place among ordinary people, was tied loosely behind his head and became even more messy due to the intense movement just now.

Furiya Ling couldn't help but ask: "Instructor, has anyone ever talked about your hair color before?"

"Do you think I look like a foreigner?" Songjiang Shigure brushed her hair and said casually, "Yes."

"That……"

"I beat up anyone who said that and made them write me an apology letter."

Furiya Rei was choked by this straightforward approach.

"What's more..." Matsue Shigure suddenly approached him and asked seriously, "Doesn't blonde hair look good?"

The two were so close that it seemed as if their breathing would intertwine in their conversations, and Fūya Rei couldn't help but hold his breath.

The young instructor was not much older than him. A few strands of his hair were wet with sweat and stuck to his forehead. His blue eyes were like a deep lake, with only his figure reflected in them.

Furiya Ling couldn't help but say: "It looks good."

It is indeed beautiful.

"You're not the first one to say it's beautiful, and you won't be the last one." The young instructor made a little joke, "I think so too."

Matsue Shigure, who is known for his strictness and harshness, actually told him: "Relax a little and don't put too much pressure on yourself."

"……good."

Furutani Rei followed his words and vaguely felt that Matsue Shigure was not as cold as he appeared.

Just when he thought the topic was over, the blond instructor spoke again.

"You must be thinking about doing it again next time, right?"

Fūya Zero was stunned.

"I used to have a friend who was very similar to you." Songjiang Shigure leaned against a tree, tilting his head slightly, "They were both stubborn and one-track-minded. They seemed to agree on the surface, but in reality, they would not change their minds once they made up their minds."

"It's just that he is much colder than you. Sometimes he won't even agree on the surface, but just keeps silent and plays dumb."

"There's another one that looks just like me—but they can't beat me."

Fūya Rei pursed his lips: "Not really..."

"I know what you're thinking." Songjiang Shiyu interrupted his cunning defense, "Do you mind telling me what your goal is?"

Furiya Rei could tell Morobushi Kagemitsu and the others directly that he came to the police academy just to find someone.

But seeing the blond instructor looking at him seriously, the reason was suddenly stuck in his throat, and he began to stammer and speak unsmoothly.

So Furuya Rei looked away, and like a high school student who hadn't gotten over his second year of high school, he said softly, "For justice."

"Okay." Songjiang Shiyu didn't doubt him and just patted him on the shoulder, "You will do it."

"What about you, instructor?" Furuya Rei pursed his lips and asked the unsolved mystery of the top ten in the police academy, "Why did you come back to be an instructor?"

"There's no reason." The blond instructor was stunned for a moment, then said casually, "I came when I wanted to."

"I have no desire for justice."

"But your bomb disposal skills are very strong." Furuya Ling said seriously, "Instructor Onizuka said in class that you are the best in the past twenty years."

"Yeah, I think so too." The cold-faced instructor curled his lips slightly, as if mocking, "But sometimes, I can't save everyone."

Furutani Rei thinks that Matsue Shigure is really mysterious and contradictory.

She appears to be very cold and unapproachable, but after a deeper conversation, to use a slightly offensive adjective, she is actually - a bit well-behaved.

Even if he asked some impolite questions, Matsue Shigure would not get angry. Instead, he answered in a very calm and unconventional manner.

It's like a recognition and boasting of his own strength, or we can say bluntly that he doesn't care about justice and doesn't care about his image in the eyes of others.

But the contradiction lies in that, although he said he was not fighting for justice, in the end it was he who stepped into the sea of ​​fire to save people.

However, Furuya Rei believed that he "did not pursue justice" and chose to stand against him when the incident happened.

…

The conversation that night ended with the words "I will watch you walk on the path of justice."

It was as if it was just a dream. After waking up, they resumed their dull and distant relationship between teacher and student. Songjiang Shigure was punished as he should be, without any mercy.

Listening to what Hagiwara Kenji said at this moment, Furuya Rei suddenly realized that night and dug it out from the depths of his memory.

——The one who could pin him down and beat him up is Matsue Shigure, a famous bomb disposal expert in the police force.

——Matsue Xunye, who nearly died from a high fever and was gasping for breath while running.

The two faces overlapped, there was no difference at all, yet they were completely different.

Fūya Ling recalled that when he sent Songjiang Xunye to the hospital yesterday, the young man allowed the nurse to pierce the needle into his skin. He did not show any discomfort from beginning to end, and even smiled and comforted the nurse not to be nervous.

It was not until Furiya Rei came back with the inspection report and stood quietly at the corner that I saw another side of Matsue Shunya.

The blond young man did not sit upright as he usually did. Instead, he rested his elbows on his knees and stared at the ground with his head down.

Only then did Fūya Ling notice that the hair on the side of Songjiang Xun's neck was tightly stuck to her skin. The small braid that was usually loose now hung limply on the side of her ear, wet as if soaked with cold sweat.

He is in pain.

Song Jiangxun was also allergic to most medicines. Even an allergic reaction from a skin test would only make the high fever worse.

But when he saw him, the young man still smiled as if spring had blossomed, waved his hand and called out, "Mr. Amuro!"

Like a happy little chick.

Perhaps in some aspects, such as patience, such as tolerance towards him, Songjiang Shigure has never changed.

***

"I know." Fūya Ling lowered his eyes and repeated, "I have never changed my goal."

Hagiwara Kenji: "You just said that you knew about your test, which means that Songjiang currently knows your identity as a public security officer?"

Furuya Rei nodded: "That's all he knows."

"Don't tell him about your undercover work in the organization, or in other words, don't mention the organization in front of him." Hagiwara Kenji said seriously, "Before the instructor's memory recovers."

"Why?"

Furukaya Rei was stunned for a moment. He still remembered what Akai Shuichi told him, that Matsue Xun was also investigating the organization.

However, he could tell from Shuichi Akai's attitude that this should be a recent thing.

Kenji Hagiwara simply recounted what he saw in the diary.

"The instructor was secretly investigating the organization at that time - he wanted to avenge his partner."

"His character change and the purpose of coming to the police academy are all related to this. It can be said that he will do anything for revenge."

When Kenji Hagiwara is mentioned now, he feels complicated.

He remembered that just now in the ward, Matsue Shigure bit the biscuit he handed over very naturally, and then vaguely reacted and refused.

Subaru Akabane...has he done this before?

He paused and continued, "Now, the instructor has lost his memory and his personality has changed drastically. We still don't know what happened to him during the years he was missing. I'm not sure if the organization's events will stimulate him."

"Furiya, I'm worried that he will misunderstand your undercover identity."

Fūya Ling frowned: "But he knows I'm a police officer."

"The instructor has written many times in his diary that the police cannot be trusted."

Furutani Rei remained silent. Indeed, the organization must have had quite a few undercover agents infiltrated into the public security, otherwise Moroku Kagemitsu would not have been exposed at that time.

Not to mention that a few years ago, the public security department underwent a major reshuffle due to an undercover incident.

Not to mention the fact that he cannot take the initiative to reveal his undercover identity now.

If Matsue Shigure knew that the student he once valued joined the organization he was willing to pay any price to overthrow, and even became a middle- and high-level official in it...

Maybe he is an undercover agent sent by the organization to the public security?

The instructor was probably thinking of killing him, wasn't he? Furuya Rei couldn't even imagine what the consequences would be if such a situation occurred.

Fortunately, Matsue Shigure knew nothing about his identity as "Bourbon".

"Okay." Furuya Rei exhaled slowly, "I won't let him know that I'm a member of the organization until he recovers."

"Come back to the point, the method you came up with to help the instructor restore his memory was for you to pretend to be Subaru Akabane and hang around in front of him?"

He looked at Kenji Hagiwara, who had tied up his long hair and dressed formally for a rare time, with a strange expression on his face.

"This is the most convenient and least irritating way at the moment." Hagiwara Kenji said seriously, "This time it's our turn to protect the instructor, Kouya."

Furuya Rei: "I know, but..."

"I look a lot like him, don't I?"

Hagiwara Kenji brushed his half-long hair and curled his lips: "As for personality... Coincidentally, my sister is a classmate of Instructor Songjiang and his friends."

He will take the initiative to learn about the past.