Chapter 10: Harming Your Own Family

You take off your helmet and return to reality.

Leaving the virtual world, you are not used to it: your body becomes bulky, your vision becomes high, your stomach becomes fat, and it keeps growling... You sigh and wonder when games can be eaten as meals? This way, you can play virtual games for 25 hours a day, and you don't have to worry about seeing a murder or becoming a candidate for murder when you go out to eat.

But this helmet... You lifted up the device beside your pillow and sang praises in your heart, saying that it is indeed the latest model developed by Noah. The side effects of previous devices, such as dizziness, tinnitus, and seeing pink elephants and penguins fighting landlords, did not appear. It is really amazing!

You will follow Noah's company for your whole life.

[You have a new acquaintance visiting, please check in time]

The smart system's announcement sounded from the phone.

Then you remember that you quit the game not because you were hungry, but because someone came.

When you come out of the bedroom, you hear the doorbell ringing non-stop. Judging from the frequency, the person waiting outside has run out of patience and seems to be about to break in at any second. With this situation, it is hard not to worry about the safety of your door and your own safety - and what if the neighbors upstairs or downstairs think it is too noisy and decide to kill you? You haven't even finished the game and got the Zu Jian album yet!

You hurried to the door and carefully observed the person through the cat's eyes...

Tsk, two big troubles have come.

You opened the door and greeted him weakly: "Good morning."

"What do you mean early? You were playing games again just now?" The arrogant curly-haired man who had been ringing the doorbell gave you a slap in the face. "Do you know how long we've been waiting?"

The damn curly-haired gorilla, if it were in the game, you would have given him three Slasher Swords at most! But this is reality, and you, a weakling who has never trained, can only yell "It hurts" and shut yourself up with tears in your eyes.

"Well, Jinpei-chan is indeed too violent, but he also cares about you, ○-chan." Hagiwara Kenji walked in front of you with a smile and took a candy from his pocket for you, "Please forgive Jinpei-chan."

"Hey, Hagiwara!" Matsuda Jinpei suddenly raised his voice, then he looked at you and turned his head away, "Does it hurt? Hug..." Halfway through his words, he noticed the takeaway garbage piled up in the living room.

He turned his head again, squinted his eyes, and put on a terrifying evil look: "You order takeout every day again?"

Ah… maybe it’s just that occasionally, seven days a week, when you order three or four takeout meals a day… You feel guilty and look away, and finally your neck stiffens, and you deny it three times in a row: “No, I didn’t, I’m not.”

"Tsk..." Matsuda Jinpei wanted to say something, but in the end he just rubbed his hair helplessly, "Let's go, I'll take you out for dinner."

I really want to refuse, I don't want to go out at all, Mihua is still too dangerous for you, you are not a soldier or a cyborg, what if you encounter a poisoning case again? Besides, you still want to try to clear the first copy tonight, and uninstall this crappy game after you get the reward.

But how do you say no in a tactful yet polite way?

"No... not so good, right?" The CPU burned for a long time before you managed to say, "Sorry for the trouble."

It's too much trouble for me! It also delays people from playing games.

"It's no problem~ And I'm on Jinpei's side this time~" Hagiwara Kenji hooked his arm around Matsuda Jinpei's neck and winked at you with a smile, "You don't want to make your favorite Kenji sad, do you?"

You tried to struggle again, but resistance was futile. The two officers who graduated from the police academy ignored your powerless kicking and pulled you out of the small apartment with the maximum safety value from the left and right.

Ah... this damn life, you can't resist, you can only lie down. You let yourself be like a salted fish, letting the two people drag you away.

"Tsk, I really don't know how you developed this personality. Your mother is..." Matsuda Jinpei paused, with an indescribable expression on his face, "that kind of lively personality."

"Hahaha, the senior is really interesting." Hagiwara Kenji took over the conversation, "When we heard that the senior was already married and even had grown-up children, we were all shocked."

Well, at that time, everyone was talking about which warrior was so awesome, so there’s no need to tell you about that topic.

"But Senior is really amazing. Not only is she a top-notch beauty, but she is also very capable in many areas. Previously, Jinpei and Senior competed in bomb disposal and lost. What a pity, Jinpei. He was just a little bit short."

"It was a draw that time! You guys—stop spreading rumors!"

Two people were wrestling next to you. You sighed, took out your phone skillfully and started playing Candy Crush. Oh, men, oh, childhood influence, oh, you understand.

The restaurant you follow posted a new message on Twitter, and you clicked on it out of curiosity. Café Poirot is having a promotion, where couples can enjoy a second serving at half price, and a limited-time gift of a chocolate parfait. Thinking of Toru Amuro's craftsmanship, and looking at the tempting picture of parfait on the promotional page... Swish, tears of craving for food can't help but slide down from the corners of your mouth.

But there are three of you here, but you can't even find a couple. You huddle in a corner and start thinking about how likely it is that you can get the two people who are still fighting to pretend to be a couple for your Buffy... The conclusion is zero, and you will get beaten if you make this request.

"Oh? Do you want to go to this restaurant for dinner? O-chan."

“No…no…”

You turned off the screen of your phone and shrank your toes awkwardly. Damn it... Damn it... This strange feeling is like being caught reading a novel, even though you just thought of a plan to cheat Chocolate Buffy in your mind... This must be because of the moral halo that the police have!

Kenji Hagiwara didn't say anything, but just looked at you quietly for a while.

He sighed: "○-chan, you don't have to be so distant with us."

"Xiao Zhenping and I just want you to be happier." He said to you seriously, "If you want something, just tell us directly. Even if it's a super meal, Xiao Zhenping will empty his wallet without complaint~"

"Hello!"

Jinpei Matsuda glared at Kenji Hagiwara but still didn't say anything in rebuttal.

"Besides, your mother is my savior." Hagiwara Kenji smiled as if he remembered something, "Sometimes I also feel that the seniors may really be able to foresee the future."

*

Before your parents passed away, you were not familiar with Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara. After all, they were police officers in Tokyo like your mother, and you lived in the countryside with your father who was a salesman in a pharmaceutical company.

In your entire life, you have never seen anyone more outrageous than your parents.

I heard that the reason they got married was: Wow, what a coincidence, you are also an orphan, and I have a good feeling about you, so why don’t we get married and give it a try?

So the try...gave birth to you.

How to describe your family situation... Your father is a salesperson all year round, your mother is a policewoman and often does not come home, you are always forgotten by your unreliable couple, and your home is broken down from time to time in a physical sense.

You can understand your dad occasionally bringing some new drugs to the basement to do research and blow up the house, but why would your dear police mom bring new police weapons home for experimentation?!

Two months ago, this eccentric couple said they wanted to go to Antarctica to catch polar bears, but they were unlucky enough to have a plane crash. It was not until Jinpei Matsuda, your mother's junior, came to inform you that you learned that they had an accident.

But somehow…even after all this time, it still doesn’t feel real to you that they’re dead.

There's always a feeling that they're still alive and well somewhere, doing weird things.

The accident insurance is enough to support you to live a life of eating and drinking to your heart's content until the end of your life. You have stayed in your hometown long enough. Thinking about the outrageous Beihua Town that your mother would complain about every time she came home, you decided to move to Beihua Town to make every day wonderful - you wanted to see how outrageous it is - but you didn't expect it to be so outrageous!

However, after Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara knew that you had no other relatives and had received a huge compensation, they would come to your house every now and then to show you their care and warmth. At first they even found some excuses, such as "care about the children who respect the elders" and "worry that you are too sad and can't get over it", etc. Later, after getting to know you, they realized that you were a gaming otaku and gradually turned into "mom-sans".

So they come to your home more frequently to check whether you are thriving.

But here's a side note. You need to explain why they mistakenly thought you were very sad about your parents' accident. You were sad, but the day Jinpei Matsuda came to your house, you happened to be staying up late playing "Hoshi○Daliya". When you opened the door and saw the light, you couldn't help but tear up.

I didn't expect to be misunderstood until now.

Why didn't you explain? Just kidding, of course you're afraid of getting beaten.

Unlike Jinpei Matsuda, who didn't want to hurt you, so he kept silent about your parents, Kenji Hagiwara really liked to share with you the great deeds your mother had done in the police station, including but not limited to -

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Every time you heard this you didn't dare say anything, but your mother was the type who would say to you when you were playing a puzzle game, "Just start killing. You can always read the save file. When you get the correct answer and then go back to the save file, you'll be able to pass the level perfectly, right?" This made you really worry about the lives of the criminals she caught.

I didn't expect that after all these years of worrying about your mother, nothing happened. Instead, she was promoted all the way and was just a few steps away from the highest position of power. The result...

Kenji Hagiwara would occasionally tell you in secret that some people in the Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the plane crash was not an accident but a man-made one.

"If the seniors really did this because of..." He didn't finish the second half of the sentence, "Xiao Zhenping and I will definitely catch the murderer!"

The reason why you have a better relationship with Kenji Hagiwara is because your mother saved his life. You don’t know the whole story, as it is a confidential project, but the people involved always let it slip intentionally or unintentionally, and you have roughly pieced together what happened:

Two insane bombers tried to realize art in Beihua, and Kenji Hagiwara was sent to dismantle the bomb. Unexpectedly, the bomb had two stages. When the bomb transition phase ended and it was about to explode, it suddenly stalled again - it turned out that your mother caught the two bombers on the spot and "accidentally" destroyed the controller.

When taking the statement, the reason your mother gave was that she ran five miles to buy her poor child some ice cream that he had never eaten before, but she didn't expect that she was knocked away by a suspicious person just after she bought the ice cream.

The moment she saw the ice cream ball covered with sugar beads falling to the ground, she felt murderous, but she remembered that she was a righteous police officer, so she followed the man and tried to find evidence of his crime. Unexpectedly, she really found it. Hehe~

Then she killed and captured the two bombers in this way. One of them tried to escape in the car, and she accidentally hit him a little too hard, but he didn't die, so she won't deduct her salary, right?

So, no one can be more outrageous than your parents...

You stood at the door of the Poirot Café, looking at the busy Toru Amuro, your eyes lit up, and you rushed in, dragging the two people who were arguing again, "Haggi, you are not wearing explosion-proof suits" and "I made a mistake, let go."

But... think about it, your parents can't be so outrageous that they really treat this world online as a game, right?

Ha ha.