Chapter 16 Group of Five

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At this time, in a dormitory of the police academy.

The curtains were closed and it was pitch black, but the owner of the room was not asleep. Instead, he sat quietly at the table, staring at the darkness in front of him with a pair of beautiful blue cat eyes.

His expression was calm, but upon closer inspection, his body was clearly shaking uncontrollably and his eyes were unfocused.

"Zhufu Jingguang!"

I could hear that cold and angry voice again: "If you continue to be a police officer like this, no one can save you, not even me!"

That was... the first time he saw Ling Sheng so angry.

It was also the first time Ling called him by his full name since they met.

If it weren't for Matsuda and a few others blocking him, Ling would have come up and beat him.

Zhu Fu Jingguang lowered his head, tightened his fists a little bit, and his eyes were filled with confusion and pain.

After all, Ling’s disappearance was all because of him.

If Ling gets angry, he comes to his senses and apologizes immediately...

If he didn't think too much and immediately grabbed Ling when she left...

if……

There were so many ifs, so many opportunities, but he just watched things develop to this point.

Zhu Fu Jingguang clenched his fists and buried his head on the table, not moving for a long time. Self-blame and worry were about to swallow him whole.

“Knock, knock.”

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

He regained his composure, cleared his throat, and replied in the same voice: "Zero?"

"It's me." A young voice came: "Hiro, Hagiwara said he wants to talk to us and asked us to go to his dormitory."

Hagiwara?

Zhu Fu Jingguang was a little confused, but he quickly replied, "Okay, I'll go right away."

There was silence outside for a moment, and then Furuya Rei said, "You won't open the door for me, Hiro?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang moved his stiff body, stood up helplessly, turned on the light, adjusted his state under the glaring light, and then went to open the door.

As soon as I opened the door, I was met with the worried look of Fūya Rei.

"I'm fine." Morofushi Jingguang said calmly, "Zero, let's go together."

Furiya Ling had no expression on his face: "You call this nothing?"

"……Um?"

"Hiro, you've never looked at your dark circles in the mirror, have you?"

“…”

"I'll be teased by curly-haired bastards for having darker skin than me."

"...zero." Morofushi Kagemitsu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He closed the door and walked towards Hagiwara Kenji's dormitory with Furuya Rei.

In the empty corridor, there was only moonlight coming in from the window at the end. The two people walked in the dim light, their expressions somewhat unclear.

"Actually, Zero is the one who should be most responsible for Ling's disappearance." Morobushi Jingguang suddenly said.

Furuya Rei asked: "Why do you say that?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang tilted his head to look at him, "After Ling got angry, he said he wanted to be alone for a while... Zero would think that he could have chased after him at that time."

Fūya Rei's breathing seemed to pause for a second.

When the two were almost at their destination, the blond young man whispered, "Yes."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Fu Jingguang's hand, which was about to knock on the door, stopped in mid-air, and he murmured in an inaudible voice: "Zero stayed where he is just to comfort me."

As soon as he finished speaking, his wrist was grabbed tightly!

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked up, and in the unclear light, he met that pair of serious eyes.

"Hiro, you can blame yourself for Ling's disappearance, but you can never force yourself to take responsibility for something that has nothing to do with you!"

Fūya Ling increased his strength: "I didn't chase him because I felt that Ling didn't need comfort and guidance. He wanted to be alone! It has nothing to do with you!"

Zhu Fu Jingguang was stunned for a long while before he replied with a sad expression: "Yes, Zero, you know, you are just worried about me."

"..." Furiya Ling felt anxious, but he had no way to refute what his childhood sweetheart said.

He did not catch up with Ling at that time. On the one hand, he thought Ling wanted to be alone and he should not disturb him at this time. On the other hand... he was indeed worried after having just experienced so many scenes.

That day, Jingguang found the murderer who killed his parents and caused him nightmares for so many years. The murderer wanted to commit suicide, but Jingguang rushed into the sea of ​​fire and saved him...

Having just escaped death, Ling suddenly grabbed Jingguang by the collar and was about to hit him...

When Ling left, Jing Guang was still dazed and hadn't come to his senses at all.

As a friend of both, Furuya Rei knows why Miyagawa Rei is so excited, and he also knows that Jingguang's emotions fluctuate greatly, and...

For him, Jingguang suddenly rushing in to save people was scary enough, and Ling also rushed in without saying a word!!

He was almost scared to death!

Only when the two of them jumped out of the sea of ​​fire did he feel his heart beating again!

So... he was unable to think calmly about what happened next.

Fūya Ling wanted to say something, but he knew that nothing he said would be of any use until Ling returned safely.

The two of them were in a stalemate until a third person's arms rested on their shoulders.

"What are you doing?" the man tightened his strength and asked, "Holding a review meeting? Why not add me in?"

When the two came to their senses, they found that the person who had held them was Date Ko.

Not far away, Kenji Hagiwara, who had gone to call for help, also came back and was standing in the darkness. At first glance, he looked a little scary.

"Squad leader, you are here too?" Fūya Rei felt something was wrong. What was going on that required all of them to come?

and……

"Hagiwara?" Morofushi Kagemitsu's voice also sounded with a hint of doubt.

Hagiwara Kenji, the friend who is most likely to stir up trouble, just saw the two of them standing by the door and arguing, but he didn't say a word to make fun of them?

That's so unlike him.

Even after Ling disappeared, everyone was in a low mood, and Hagiwara was often the one responsible for guiding them, deliberately acting exaggerated and extroverted.

But now...

"Since everyone is here, let's go in." Hagiwara Kenji stepped forward, "Xiao Zhenping has something to show everyone."

For some reason, at this moment, the hearts of the three of them sank.

This indescribable tension and uneasiness reached its peak after entering the house and seeing Matsuda Jinpei's ugly face.

The curly-haired young man was also very different from usual. When he saw them come in, he just glanced at them and said calmly, "Sit down, I have news about Miyakawa."

"What?!" The three of them were shocked at the same time.

But before they could feel happy, Jinpei Matsuda turned on the recording with a stern face.

For a moment, the only sounds in the room were the sound of gunfire and Miyakawa Ling's words filled with a sense of pleasure.

After the show, Matsuda Jinpei threw his phone aside, looked at the three people's confused expressions, and took the initiative to explain: "This afternoon..."

He told about tracking Miyakawa Ryo.

Finally, with a gloomy face, as if ready to kill someone, he added: "You all know what Miyakawa is capable of. When I suspected that I was following him, he had already noticed it, but he didn't even look back, nor did he try to get rid of me."

Kenji Hagihara had heard the recording before, so at this moment, he was much calmer than the three people who had pale faces and short-circuited brains.

He thought, "There are only two possibilities. One is that Komiyagawa knew it was you and deliberately didn't shake you off so that you could see what happened next. The other is that he thought it was normal for someone to follow him, so he acquiesced to your following."

Kenji Hagiwara's voice sounded a little far away.

Furiya Rei just felt his head buzzing. Every word in the recording made him feel a deep and painful feeling of wanting to escape from reality.

In a trance, he returned to the time when he first met Miyagawa Ryo.

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In the winter evening, the wind is not strong, but very cool, and it feels like a knife cutting on the body.

The young boy sat by the river, covered in snow, his hands on his knees, red from the cold.

He wore a dark green scarf and was dressed very lightly, with the only bright color being the gold pocket watch chain on the button.

He breathed very quietly, the white aura condensed and then dissipated.

Furukaya Rei looked at the river next to him, which had been emphasized by the school teachers as having a high suicide rate, then looked at the boy, hesitated for a moment, and ran over.

"Hello."

Hearing the sound, the boy turned around.

The dark green scarf fluttered in the wind, and the boy's black hair was also blown into a mess. Only those gorgeous golden eyes stared at Furuya Rei coldly.

Furuya Rei wanted to ask him what he was doing here, but was frightened by the look and couldn't ask.

He paused for a moment, and was about to speak again when he noticed out of the corner of his eye that a large piece of the river surface covered with thin ice had broken off, and it seemed that something was struggling inside.

"What's going on?" asked Furuya Rei unconsciously.

The boy looked away coldly: "Someone jumped into the river."

"?" Fōtani Ling was stunned for a moment, then he quickly ran over and jumped down to save him.

By the time he finally pulled the man out, he was soaked and lay powerless on the shore.

The strange boy walked up to him at some point and looked down at him: "Do you know that with your physical strength and the depth of the river, you are likely to die in the river? He is just a stranger. If you don't save him, no one will know."

Fūya Rei looked up and saw a cold gaze under the dark sky:

"Why did you save him?"

Furiya Rei shook his head vigorously to shake off the water on his hair: "I won't die! I went down because I knew I could do it!"

"What if there is an accident?" the boy asked.

"You can't just sit there and watch someone die in front of you." Furuya Rei reached out to him, "Give me a hand."

The boy was stunned.

After a moment, he grasped Furiya Rei's hand with his cold and red fingertips.

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The original Ling... was like that.

He could be completely indifferent to people dying in front of him, without any sympathy or guilt for watching others die.

Ling has changed a lot over the years, he even became a policeman.

But……

The voice of Miyagawa Rei seemed to ring again in the recording, and Furuya Rei's fingertips were trembling.

Intellectually, he knew that it was Ling in disguise.

But... But even if it was disguise, forcing Ling back to his original state would be even worse...

That's too much.

That's too bad.

It took Ling seven years to get from the beginning to where he is now.

Why did we force him back in just two weeks?