Chapter 177 Call me brother-in-law more often, I love to hear it

In the church school deep in the mountains of Kobe, the dusk was as dark as ink, dyeing the entire valley.

After a busy day, janitor Sakurai Akira dragged his tired body back to the small single dormitory. The wooden chair creaked slightly in the silence.

He sat down, his eyes subconsciously falling on the iron door that was locked by the guards. The cold metal shone faintly under the dim light.

Sixteen years.

He has spent sixteen years in this cage set up for "ghosts".

There are still nineteen years before the so-called "release from prison".

It was nineteen springs, summers, autumns and winters, nineteen times of wild geese leaving and returning, nineteen years of morning sunshine and evening shade, and two hundred and twenty-eight waxing and waning moons.

During these long years, he had to ensure that every review was safe and green, and he had to always play the role of that poor prisoner who was harmless and at peace with the world.

Until he has been completely reduced to a useless old man with no special skills, until his edges have been smoothed over by the years, until his soul has been corroded by time, only then will this prison academy deep in the mountains open the door to freedom for him.

"Forty years old..."

He murmured softly, his voice sounding particularly lonely in the empty room.

The moonlight poured in through the small window sealed with iron bars, faint and cold, like a ray of light stolen from another world.

He was twenty-one years old and sat there, looking over with deep eyes, all he saw was himself at forty years old.

A middle-aged man forgotten by time, with a hunched back and empty eyes, staggered out of the mountain, but he no longer knew where to go.

The night was deep, and the mountain wind was howling, making a low whimper as it blew through the valley, as if lamenting his fate.

After a brief moment of sadness, Sakurai Akira withdrew his gaze.

"Go to bed early, you have to get up early to work tomorrow."

He said to himself, in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible.

Thinking of his female teacher Nami who would greet him with a smile every morning, the young man's lonely heart felt a little more motivated.

Her smile was like a ray of sunshine on a winter day, brief but warm, enough to get him through another long night.

He got up to get his clothes, preparing to infringe on Nami's portrait rights while she was taking a shower.

It was one of his few daily comforts.

The family kept a very strict watch on ghosts, and even though he had spent sixteen years proving that he was harmless, someone would still come into the room to check every day.

If someone saw the tissue ball covered with genetic genes and spread the news, perhaps Teacher Nami would never greet him again.

But as soon as he turned around, he found that the iron door that was locked every night was open.

Sakurai Akira suddenly froze, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and cold sweat oozed from his palms.

There was no one outside the door, and the tall figure of the guard was nowhere to be seen.

The light from the corridor poured in, as if the most beautiful lady-in-waiting in Yoshiwara during the Edo period was flirting with him, tempting him to take that step.

That step towards freedom.

Sakurai Akira stood at the edge of the light, his eyes moving back and forth between the iron door and the bathroom.

Sixteen years of life in a cage had already made him accustomed to being bound.

But at this moment, the open door was stirring the numb nerve deep in his heart like a high-frequency massager.

The shudder rushed from the coccyx to the top of the head, like an icy snake winding up the spine, bringing a bone-chilling chill.

Was this a test from the family? Or did the guard fail to lock the door properly? Sakurai Akira didn't know.

But he knew that this was the closest he had ever been to freedom.

There is never a shortage of brave children in the school, but in the past sixteen years, only a few students have attempted to escape from this prison deep in the mountains.

Those who dared to challenge fate were caught without exception and put back into the cage like birds with broken wings.

They will not become part of the student body again, but like every student with a red mark in the evaluation results, they will be sent to that seldom-visited laboratory building, never to be seen again.

The only exception was his half-sister, who entered the prison academy a year earlier than him.

Eight years ago, she was suspected to have awakened her bloodline and spirit of words, and successfully escaped from another church academy in Kobe Mountain.

Her defection caused Sakurai Akira, who shared the same blood with her, to become the school's main target of surveillance.

The guards on duty would pass by his door several times every night to make sure he was sleeping well and not thinking about how to escape.

Could it be that his sister came to save him?

Sakurai Akira didn't quite dare to believe it, after all, his relationship with that sister was not very good.

Her mother lost her fertility after giving birth to her and was ruthlessly abandoned by her father, and her mother took the opportunity to successfully take over.

So even though the two lived under the same roof, they were like strangers and they rarely even spoke to each other.

There was no reason for her to take such a big risk to save herself.

No matter how much I think about it, I can't suppress my desire for freedom.

If there is a guard hiding outside the door, say you found the door was not locked and wanted to close it.

If there's no one outside the door, go to the fucking Sheqi Eight Family. I want to embrace freedom.

With determination made up, he picked up his exercise book and strode towards the door.

Before going out, I felt nervous, fearing that a gun would be pointed at my temple in the next second. I heard the guard next to me laughing sinisterly, saying that you are really not honest.

But when I went out, I found the corridor was empty.

The guard disappeared.

His anxiety turned into ecstasy, he closed the door carefully, and then ran quickly and quietly towards the stairs.

He ran all the way to the bottom of the building and no one stopped him. The patrolling guards had all disappeared.

Sakurai Akira suppressed his pounding heart, crouched behind the bushes, and groped his way towards the edge of the school.

There was a thick stone wall with an electrified wire mesh stretched on it, and because of his identity as a janitor, he had already hidden a piece of insulating cloth.

After digging out the insulating cloth from under the tree, Sakurai Akira looked around nervously, afraid that he would be seen.

"Bang!"

“Bang!”

“Bang, bang, bang, bang—”

The moment he turned around, there was a sudden burst of gunfire on the campus.

Sakurai Akira looked back blankly, and saw that the experimental building, which was regarded as a restricted area by all the teachers and students in the school, was emitting thick smoke, flames were raging in the glass windows, gunshots were ringing in the building, and the night sky could be heard faintly, like the roar of a wild beast.

Run! Without any hesitation, Sakurai Akira ran as fast as he could in the opposite direction of the laboratory building! Just as he had rehearsed countless times in his mind, he wrapped the insulating cloth around the wire mesh and climbed over the wall with a swift movement.

I landed safely from the three-meter-high wall. Before I could be surprised that I actually escaped, I looked up and found a man in black standing under the shade of a tree in front of me.

"Not bad, you are the fastest among those chosen."

The man in black spoke, his voice gentle and somewhat feminine, but looking at his figure hiding under the tree, Sakurai Akira felt a chill for no reason.

Because he raised his hand when he spoke, and there was a gun in his hand, with the muzzle pointed at Sakurai Akira.

"Tell me, why did you run?"

The man's figure was thinner than a tree, but the majesty he displayed at this moment far surpassed those arrogant law enforcers.

Sakurai Akira's heart sank. He clenched the exercise book in his hand, mustered up the courage to stand up straight, and his voice seemed to be a hoarse roar:

"I don't want to be trapped here for the rest of my life. I don't want to end my life in a cage!"

"I obviously didn't do anything wrong!"

"It's the world that's wrong, not me!"

"Bang--!!!"

At the sound of a gunshot, Sakurai Akira suddenly opened his eyes wide and subconsciously tried to cover his pounding heart.

But warm liquid dripped on his head, and then a figure with a blooming head fell from above and landed right next to him.

Dressed in black, he is the family's law enforcer.

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"You are free, go."

Ruri Kazama put away her gun, glanced at the exercise book tightly held in Sakurai Akira's hand, and turned and left.

After the lovemaking last night, another person appeared in his dream——

Sakurai Kogure's half-brother Xiao Ming, a die-hard fan of Kazama Kyoshiro, is also a well-known cartoonist. The "Children of Light and Darkness" based on himself and his female teacher is the new mainstay of Shonen Jump.

In the dream, my brother-in-law's comic was about to be adapted into an animation, and I cried and begged him to help compose and sing the theme song. I even went further and wanted him and Sakurai Kogure to dub the male and female protagonists.

After waking up from the dream, he learned from Sakurai Kogure that the other party did have a half-brother, so he decided to give Sakurai Akira a chance when raiding Kobe Mountain, to see if he could seize it.

And now, he has undoubtedly grasped it.

Sakurai Akira looked at Kazama Ruri who turned and walked into the woods, then looked at the law enforcer who died with his eyes open beside him, gritted his teeth and decided to follow.

The man said that he was the chosen one, which meant that there was something in him that was worthy of the other party's attention.

Since I don’t know where the future will go anyway, I might as well just follow the other person.

But it was obvious that Kazama Ruri had no intention of accommodating Sakurai Akira. She moved through the woods like a ghost, and the latter could only try his best to see a little bit of her shadow.

After finally running out of Kobe Mountain, Sakurai Akira was so tired that he almost collapsed to the ground.

But he still managed to hold on and not fall down. He held his knees with both hands and gasped for breath, with the taste of rust in his mouth.

His eyes followed the black figure and saw him walking towards two cars parked on the side of the road. A beautiful woman with a familiar face came forward and welcomed him into the car.

The woman sat in the driver's seat, started the car, and before leaving, she glanced at Sakurai Akira with a somewhat cold look, as if she was dissatisfied with him for wasting Kazama Ruri's time.

After the car drove away, Sakurai Akira stood there stupidly staring at the disappearing taillights.

"Hey, if you don't want to leave, just keep staring blankly."

The driver of another car honked his horn, bringing him back to his senses. He quickly opened the car door and got in.

Sakurai Akira had not interacted with outsiders for many years, so he did not know much about the ways of the world. After the car had been driving for a while, he asked with a little trepidation: "Um, big brother, who were those two just now..."

The two burly men sitting in the front row glanced at him and said coldly, "Don't ask about things you shouldn't ask."

Sakurai Akira: “…”

On the way back to Shinjuku, Sakurai Kogure, driving the Porsche that almost blended into the night, couldn't help but ask:

"Sir, why did you save him?"

After joining Kazama Ruri's team, she had already read the information of Sakurai Akira and Sakurai Kosaburo, so she knew at a glance who the guy who was as tired as a dead dog was.

She didn't think that Kazama Ruri rescued Sakurai Akira because of her. After all, the relationship between the two siblings was not good.

Feng Jianli sat in the spacious back row, changed out of her black combat uniform, revealing a figure that made Sakurai Kogure swallow his saliva, and said lightly: "He runs the fastest, I will give him a chance."

This is a lie!

The fact is that the boy in the dream called him brother-in-law so many times, and he liked to hear it.

Want to hear more.

Sakurai Kogure didn't say anything else. Most of her attention was focused on driving, and the rest was all on looking at the enviable picture of the handsome man with an icy figure in the rearview mirror.

Slurp——

I watch it every night these days, but I just never get tired of it.

Feng Jian Liuli noticed the girl's extremely obscure gaze and raised the corners of her mouth slightly:

"If you want to watch it, you'll have plenty of time to watch it when you get back."

"Once the matter at Takamagahara is settled, I'll let you watch it for a night."

When Sakurai Kogure heard this, her pretty face turned red, but the speed of the car was gradually increasing.

…

At the same time, on the streets of Shinjuku, Minamoto Chisei, who was sitting in a Hummer, hung up the phone with Tachibana Masamune, and his already furrowed brows seemed to be squeezed together.

He lit a cigarette, took a deep puff and the progress bar went straight to halfway through, performing an epic lung-sucking move. He said in a deep voice:

"Go to Kobe Mountain. Something happened there too."

Upon hearing this, Sakura Yabuki turned around and headed towards the outskirts of Tokyo. The long black dragon behind her followed and rushed towards Kobe Mountain.

Yuan Zhisheng felt that he was not an executive director, but a firefighter who had to go wherever he was needed.

I had clearly agreed that I didn't want to get involved in anything other than Eri's for the time being, but when this call came in, I still had to go.

After all, the news from Kobe Mountain was that it was also attacked by Deadpool, so it is possible that it was done by the same group of people.

Even if it's just a matter of luck, you have to go and have a look.

He opened the car window to get some fresh air, and the strong wind made his hair flutter.

His super hybrid bloodline gave him super eyesight, and even in the night he could see smoke rising from the direction of Mount Kobe in the distance.

"boom--"

Suddenly, an engine roared from the opposite lane of the viaduct, and a black Porsche passed by like a phantom.

In a trance, Yuan Zhisheng felt as if someone in the back seat of the Porsche looked at him, and a mysterious feeling emerged in his heart -

There is an acquaintance in the car!

Using the elimination method directly, Sakura and the two idiots were by his side, and Mr. Masamune was still at Genji Heavy Industries, so there was only Eri left! He immediately took out his cell phone and ordered Kaguya to mobilize surveillance to track the Porsche in real time, and arranged for nearby law enforcement officers to quickly intercept it and make sure to seize the Porsche! Eri hadn't been heard from for two days, and he would not let it go even if there was only a slight possibility.

In contrast, Fengjian Liuli, who had just exchanged glances with Yuan Zhisheng through the privacy glass, was a little dazed.

He had imagined the scene of meeting his brother again countless times, but he never expected it to be so sudden, hasty and short.

But it doesn’t matter. Once Uesugi Eri is caught, the two brothers will be able to see each other again.

(End of this chapter)