Symbiosis 25
"hiss..."
Ichinose Saku hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time. He didn't have to curl up under a narrow table with all his joints protesting, nor did he have to be dragged out of bed and beaten while he was sleeping. A man would smash him on the forehead with a wine bottle when he saw that he was not awake, and curse at him. At such times, he usually pretended to be a dead fish, and only when the man cursed his missing mother would he bite him a few times in exchange for a more severe beating... Without having to worry about the above situations, the boy slept soundly and almost went to heaven.
"You're awake." Ichinose Saku felt the warm towel touching his cheek. He couldn't help but blink and cast his eyes towards the strange girl beside the bed. "It's been a day and a night."
"? It's rare to sleep so well." Ichinose Saku moved his limbs slightly, and felt the splint on his left leg and the bandages on his body. He looked around the surrounding environment. The Japanese-style room he had never seen before and the strange girl in a simple kimono guarding his bed reminded him of the beginning of the reality show his biological father watched. "Who are you? Where is this? Who brought me here?"
"Kirigo Nozomi, I've been assigned by your father to take care of you. Don't be polite, just call me by my name." The smile the girl gave him reminded Ichinose Saku of the dolls held by the neighbor's children, whose upward curves were carefully designed. "Welcome to the Gospel House. I hope you and your father can have a good time."
"...Father?" Ichinose Saku repeated the name strangely. He almost threw off the quilt and crawled away with his limping leg. If his brain hadn't told his body in time that he had seen Ichinose Tadahiko drink the spiked wine with his own eyes, he would definitely not have survived. "Are you kidding? How could that guy--"
"I've already said it! I really don't know him—"
The sliding door at the entrance was opened forcefully, and a slightly plump young man with a bitter face stood in front of the door holding a washbasin and a towel. It was obvious that the voice just now was made by him, "I just... I didn't know this child three days ago..." He was still trying to explain, but when he saw the two children, one lying and the other sitting, both pairs of eyes staring at him, he became inexplicably embarrassed and spoke stutteringly, "In that situation... I was afraid that he would tell the police, so I just wanted to take him away first and then put him back..."
"Ah, it's the uncle who brought Mu Cang." Ichinose Saku looked at the young man's face based on the faint memory he had before he fell into a coma, and suddenly realized, "The murderer took the witness hostage and fled the scene."
"Yes! No, no, I didn't kill anyone, he died on his own... But it seems like it's okay to say this..." The young man was shocked by this very general summary, and subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he thought about it, he didn't kill anyone, but he did steal a lot, and now he has also committed robbery and kidnapping, so he silently turned back to the topic, "So, we are not father and son!"
"Mr. Honda, my father has already told you about your relationship," Tongxiang Wang looked at the two of them with her dark eyes. She spoke in the same slow and measured way as her father, "and..." Facing Honda Tsuneichi who was about to refute, she added a few words, "No one would have thought that the escaped prisoner would bring a child with him. He is a burden and the best cover. In fact, Mr. Honda was also seen by the police on the way here, but didn't he avoid questioning by saying that he was taking his child who suddenly fell ill to the hospital?"
"...That makes sense," Honda Tsuneichi's eyes widened. He was speechless for a moment after being rebutted with good reason, but he still felt something was wrong. "No, this kid can't just accept it like that..."
"What do you think?" Kirigo Nozomi turned to Ichinose Saku, who had inexplicably begun to eat melons, "This Ichinose-kun?"
"Call me Saku. I don't want to hear that last name for now. Thank you, Wang." Ichinose Saku's contemplation lasted only a moment. He turned to look at Honda Tsuneichi who was still in a mess and asked seriously, "Are you going to hit me?"
"Ah?" Honda Tsuneichi was stunned, "No... How could I hit a child..."
"dad!"
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