Chapter 61 Confession
Although Saburo usually seems lively and popular, in my opinion, he is always careless and there seems to be nothing in particular that deserves his attention except for my aunt.
So when I first met Zhiwan, I was a little happy. After all, it was the first time a brother like me had a close friend.
At least that's what I thought until last night.
"I heard your school's tennis club made it to the Kanto tournament. Congratulations."
Zhi Wanjun's voice came from the microphone and sounded a little distorted.
"Thank you." I took advantage of my lunch break to stand on the rooftop and enjoy the breeze. Little Jinghua had asked for leave today for something, perhaps because the detective agency had some new assignment. "Is everything okay?"
"What? Oh, are you talking about Master? It's okay, it's okay. I think he's quite happy today." The boy seemed to laugh on the other end of the phone. "As for Yunmu, she's still working in the basement. She seemed to have come out to get some food this morning. You guys really helped out by buying so much stuff yesterday."
I hooked my fingers on the wire mesh. "What about you, Zhi Wanjun?"
The boy suddenly fell silent.
"That guy Sanlang told me yesterday that you haven't been to school for a few days and you can't cook, so he dragged me along yesterday."
I touched my neck and saw that the place where I was bitten yesterday was already covered with gauze.
"You have to work hard too, Shiman-kun."
"Thank you." His voice became very soft. "By the way, Jiu Jing didn't say anything when he came home yesterday, did he?"
Even through the phone, I still let go of my grip on the wire mesh. "Are you lamenting the fact that your fiancée is from a wealthy family?"
"That's not what I'm talking about!" the boy interrupted me angrily. "Anyway, I'll go to school. Thanks!" Then, as if afraid I'd continue teasing him, he decisively hung up the phone.
I listened to the busy tone on the phone, sighed, and subconsciously touched the rough gauze on my neck.
Although it no longer hurts, the feeling still appears clearly in my mind.
"You're really bad at lying."
...Damn it!
"Oh, Miss Jiu Jing is here." Today, Urahara's shop was just like usual. The profiteer had a calculating smile on his face, and there were few customers in the shop. "Huh? You changed your hairstyle today. Did something good happen to you?"
On the contrary, it's a bad thing.
But I can’t tell anyone else about it, it’s so annoying!
However, at this moment, someone I didn't expect appeared in the store.
"Hey, Homura, did you let your hair down today? It's cute too."
"Ran-Rangiku-sister?!"
The beautiful woman with golden hair, tall figure and a mole on the corner of her mouth stood in the corridor of the store with a smile on her face.
"surprise!"
My first reaction was to turn around and look at Urahara Kisuke. He was well prepared and told me directly that Rangiku-san had a mission to come to the real world for investigation. He also told me that due to some unexpected events, today's special training in Hueco Mundo was cancelled.
"It seems Miss Harribel's men were attacked by Aronillo, who had been hiding, and sustained minor injuries. They are currently tracking him in Hueco Mundo."
"so?"
Rangiku-san clapped her hands, "So, Homura, please accompany me on my mission in the real world today!"
ha? !
Then, I was caught off guard and was dragged directly by the enthusiastic Rangiku to the busiest streets of Shinjuku in Tokyo, and started shopping with her.
No, didn't you say you were coming to the human world to carry out a mission?!
"Wow—as expected of the city center, there are so many people and so many good things. Should we go eat some dim sum together?"
"Well, so..." I looked at the people coming and going around me, and Toshiro's angry expression already appeared in my mind. "What exactly is Rangiku-nee's mission in the human world—?"
"So, let's explore the city center. The strange spirit particle fluctuations that have been appearing in the Broken World recently will eventually end up in this area."
That makes sense, but isn't this usually the job of the 12th or 13th Division?
"And then, I just happened to want to go around Shinjuku, so I applied for this opportunity."
So let’s just go shopping!
Perhaps my expression was too obvious, so she smiled and scratched my nose. "Well, Squad 12 is currently focused on investigating Hueco Mundo and Soul Society itself, and Squad 13 has the task of patrolling the living world and eliminating Hollows. With a shortage of manpower, it's naturally Squad 10's turn." She then frowned and poked me in the forehead with a resentful look. "Oh, you little heartless thing! You don't trust me at all! I'm so sad."
It's not that I don't want to believe it, it's just that Rangiku-san has really touched a lot of fish in the past! She is second only to Captain Isshin in being a master of slacking off!
"Come to think of it, you look pretty good with your hair down today. How about wearing this hairstyle next time you meet the captain?"
At that moment, I didn't know what expression I had on my face. It must have been very unpleasant. Otherwise, Rangiku-san wouldn't have opened her eyes slightly and looked at me with such a dazed expression.
"Homura?"
"No, nothing." I wanted to make up an excuse and subconsciously fiddled with my long hair on my shoulders, but the other party suddenly grabbed my arm!
"What's wrong with your neck?"
It's over.
"Just, touched it."
The blonde frowned. "Bumped? In this place?"
Although she usually looks careless and often takes advantage of the captain's inattention to slack off, she is actually the most observant person in the 10th squad and the one who understands us the best.
"Flame, what happened?"
When I heard this tone, I knew I couldn't hide it anymore.
Saburo's silver eyes, what he said, and the final tingling in his neck all appeared before his eyes.
"Ran...Rangiku-sister..."
I suddenly felt very aggrieved and my nose started to feel sore.
"I don't know what to do..."
Finally, she found a coffee shop with fewer customers and listened carefully to what happened between me and Saburo last night.
"At that time, I felt that the person talking to me was not Sanlang," but some other existence mixed in with him.
I subconsciously pressed my knuckles against my chin, but I couldn't control the emotions that were already boiling.
"I don't know why he said those things. Saburo is my brother. How could I possibly abandon him? And..."
Even if I am slow-witted, I know that when he hugged me and said those words, the feeling was not something that could exist between family members or siblings.
But I don’t understand why it turned out like this?
"Homura."
Sister Rangiku looked at me, as if she wanted to say something, blinked, and finally sighed, picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip.
"So what do you think of him?"
Me? You mean how I see Saburo?
"When I was little, I envied him a little." I pulled the corner of my mouth and continued, "Because I don't have a mother, my aunt is very good to me, but she is still his mother after all. And he is in good health. I can feel that when I was in the hospital, my brother actually didn't want to stay with me in the ward."
At that time, he didn't even care much about me.
"Then I went to Honmaru. How should I put it? I gradually became more sensible, and my relationship with him improved."
Especially with Tatsuya Hongo, my biological father, the affection between my aunt and Saburo and me has grown stronger and stronger.
Just like the swords, grandma, Oborozuki, Captain Isshin, and Sister Rangiku, they are my important family members.
"What about the captain? Does he give you the same feeling as Saburo-kun?"
"How is that possible!" After saying this, I suddenly realized that I seemed a little too excited. My face felt slightly hot, and I could only purse my lips and lower my head. "No, it's different..."
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I know it's different. Completely different.
Ms. Rangiku tilted her head and thought for a moment. "So what are you going to do now? I'm not sure what's going on with the monsters, but the captain and the general manager both believe they won't give up."
It is said that the full moon is when witches are at their weakest, and that is the day when a great battle will inevitably break out between witches and demons.
"...I don't know." I lowered my head and scratched the uneven pattern on the cup. To be honest, I really didn't know what to do. "I probably won't go see him until I calm down."
But Zhiwan is also my friend. Now that the human side's combat power has been weakened, if they encounter trouble, I will also join the battle.
"Maybe, just protect him secretly first."
Rangiku looked at me for a while, then gave me a helpless smile and patted my head: "If you feel tired, just tell us."
"Um."
"Oh, by the way, I won't tell the captain about this, don't worry." She winked at me after saying that. "As much as I want to make that kid jealous, if Homura is so troubled, let's forget it. Let's wait until this is over."
Uh, I hope you don’t tell him when you’re done!
In the name of comforting me, Rangiku dragged me out for a long time in Shinjuku, until it was already dark. If I hadn't pulled out my phone and used a detector app to track the Kabukicho intersection in Shinjuku for a long time, I would have almost mistaken her for just wanting to slack off!
"Why does the fluctuation of the broken world appear here?"
"I don't know." She closed the app on her phone and took a few more photos. "Based on the remaining Reizo, Squad 12 speculates that there is a Hollow capable of independently opening a Dangai, but they can't pinpoint who it is. And there's another strange thing."
"Does this mean that the Mingzhong Sacred Ground is Karakura-cho, but they chose to open the gate in Shinjuku, where there are so many people?"
She glanced at me and said, "Yes. And the attack on Rukongai was a coincidence. Not long after we increased patrols, things happened in Hueco Mundo and the human world. It seems that—"
It was as if someone had deliberately created these accidents to avoid the Shinigami and the Hollows. I suddenly thought of the 90th Espada still on the run, and subconsciously clenched my fists.
"Be careful in the real world, too. Even though there's no direct evidence, I have a feeling something else is interfering with the investigation this time," Rangiku-san warned me earnestly as we headed home. "If you sense anything's amiss, notify anyone of us. Don't be stubborn, okay?"
"……Um……"
"What's wrong? Is there anything else that bothers you?"
Do you want to tell her?
"Um, Rangiku-nee, if, I mean if..."
My heart suddenly started beating very fast and I took two deep breaths. The person in front of me was still waiting patiently for me to continue.
"If one day you knew that someone important to you was still alive, what would you do?"
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Author's Note: This was the first time Homura had encountered something like this, and she was completely stunned. This was mainly because, in her first half of life, with the exception of Haku, the only people of the opposite sex she had a close relationship with were basically family, with a huge age gap between them, including Touma.
She really has pure affection for Sanlang, you can rest assured about this (dog head)
Actually, Zhiwan already felt something was wrong, but let the boys solve the problems between them (laughs). Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated nutrient solution between 2022-04-24 23:57:28 and 2022-04-27 14:06:45~
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