Chapter 56 Naïve, I've decided on you, Pisco!
What should have been a morning interview was delayed by several hours due to a case.
Three policemen wandered the streets hungry, not planning to go home and cook, just wanting to find a restaurant as soon as possible to solve their hunger problem.
Kenji Hagiwara and another person were talking about the latest game consoles, while Ruki Kitagawa had earphones in his ears, listening to something.
As they walked, Kitagawa Ryusei suddenly stopped.
Matsuda Jinpei turned around: "What's wrong?"
Kenji Hagiwara stopped and looked at him with a puzzled expression.
Just moments ago, Kitagawa Ryusei was perfectly fine, but now he had a complicated expression on his face.
If I had to describe it, it would be like being hit on the street by a bag full of banknotes and bricks; you wouldn't see much surprise, but rather bewilderment.
"It's nothing," Kitagawa Ryusei didn't know how to express his feelings. His voice was still trembling, with a sense of unreality: "...I suddenly remembered there's a hornet's nest hanging in front of my house. I'm planning to poke it out sometime."
Matsuda Jinpei raised an eyebrow, looking suspicious. "What hornet's nest? We didn't see it last time we went."
Is it possible to find wasp nests in a Tokyo apartment?
"That must have been a rat's nest, but I can't quite remember."
Kitagawa Ryusei snapped out of his daze, his expression hardening. He put his hands in his pockets, strode past the two people in front of him, and said, "Weren't you going to eat barbecue? Aren't you coming?"
"..."
Matsuda Jinpei turned his head and saw that his childhood friend also looked blank. His temple twitched: "So this guy is just talking nonsense!"
And don't bring up wasps and rats together with barbecue!
Realizing it was probably related to confidential information, Kenji Hagiwara didn't press the matter. Instead, he expertly stroked the young boy's hair and draped his arm over Jinpei Matsuda's shoulder, saying, "Alright, alright, let's have Rukawa treat us then!"
"Let's eat at the same place we went to on our class monitor's last date! Apparently, they offer free refills on their ice cream!"
Matsuda Jinpei successfully diverted the attention: "Eating ice cream in this weather, are you trying to catch a cold so you can dump all your work on me?"
Kenji Hagiwara loudly protested, "Waaaaah, how could Jinpei-chan think of me like that? Ruki, you be the judge!"
Handsome men are not uncommon on the street, but it's not a scene you see every day to see three broad-shouldered, long-legged, handsome men walking together.
In particular, these three men cover almost all the popular male god types currently on the market.
—The gentle and gentlemanly, elegant and handsome first love type; the witty and charming, charismatic playboy type; and the handsome, arrogant, and hot-tempered younger brother type!
The three of them attracted the attention of many young people as they walked, and quite a few were eager to approach them and strike up a conversation.
Startled, Kenji Hagiwara suddenly felt like a piece of roasted meat being targeted, but after looking around, he didn't find anything unusual.
He asked, "Why do I feel a cool sensation on my back?"
Kitagawa Ryusei noticed some stares, but there was no real malice in them, so he didn't take it to heart and replied, "Maybe I'm not dressed warmly enough."
There wasn't any wind just now, Kenji Hagiwara said, raising his hand to touch the back of his neck.
Matsuda Jinpei's sunglasses blocked most of his vision, so he barely felt anything and blurted out, "The ghost of the ice cream ball has haunted you."
"Hahaha, what's wrong with you, little Jinpei, you childish brat!"
Matsuda Jinpei retorted angrily, "You're better than me! You're so old and still obsessed with Magical Boy!"
God knows how much damage his eyes and mind will suffer from the cheesy, hot-blooded shonen manga while living with a childhood friend whose childlike innocence has been resurrected.
"Maybe Superman really does exist. High school students are the ones who save the world, because once they get a little older, all they want to do is destroy the world!"
Kenji Hagiwara looked at Ruki Kitagawa: "You agree, Ruki?"
Kitagawa Ryusei shrugged: "Don't ask me, I don't know either."
He was already working for a ruthless boss when he was in high school, and he thought about destroying the world every day.
So he said frankly, "Let elementary school students handle things like saving the world."
"All the police officers want to do right now is eat barbecue."
After hearing the whole story, the passersby silently looked away: "..."
The eager foot instantly became still.
—Handsome guys can just look at it; it's not worth getting infected with their childishness.
Thanks to the three's naiveté, Kenji Hagiwara never felt that chill again.
From then on, everyone around me maintained a very polite distance, only exchanging friendly smiles when our eyes met unintentionally.
Indeed, as long as no crime occurs, Beika Town is still a very livable place.
"Robbery!!"
Kitagawa Ryusei: "..."
The three of them turned around at the same time.
Before they could see what was happening, a wiry and agile figure, hunched over, shoved past Matsuda Jinpei and ran forward.
"Hello!!"
Matsuda Jinpei was caught off guard and almost stumbled, but was pulled back by Hagiwara and Kitagawa Ryusei, one on each side.
The girl behind him shouted as she chased after him, but her delicate high heels made running a bit difficult. Halfway there, she got a stitch in her side, bent over, and pressed her hand to her abdomen, her body curling up in pain.
Needless to say, they immediately realized what had happened.
Street robbery is considered one of the unique features of Beika Town.
At the moment their eyes met, Kenji Hagiwara glanced at his restrictive suit and Ruki Kitagawa's spacious trench coat, and, fueled by the embers of his burning chuunibyou spirit, he swept his narrow sleeves and shouted:
"It's you I've chosen! Ryusei!"
Kitagawa Ryusei: "..."
If it weren't for the fact that catching people was more important, he would have at least shown Kenji Hagiwara what it meant to have some basic martial arts skills.
He tapped the young man with his fingertip from a distance, then immediately turned and chased after the fleeing robber.
The robber was tall and fast-paced, and he charged around recklessly, completely disregarding the pedestrians around him.
Kitagawa Ryusei turned two corners but always kept a distance from him.
Not to mention that this person was intentionally or unintentionally running towards crowded places, trying to use the crowd to block his figure and Kitagawa Ryusei behind him.
"careful!"
Stepping aside to avoid an innocent passerby who was being pushed towards him, Kitagawa Ryusei reached out and pressed down on the person's shoulder, helping him to stand firmly.
In the blink of an eye, the robbers had taken the opportunity to create several meters of distance between themselves and the robbers.
He clutched the stolen bag to his chest with both hands, running while glancing back at Kitagawa Ryusei with a mocking smile.
The young policeman remained unmoved and continued to speed up his pursuit.
Just as the robber turned around to speed up, he saw a person dressed as a raccoon mascot standing directly in front of him, holding a thick stack of flyers and handing them out one by one.
They looked like college students who came out to work on weekends.
A malice flashed in his eyes. He could have easily avoided it, but instead chose to crash headlong into the bulky mascot costume!
Kitagawa Ryusei noticed this scene from behind.
Just then, his eyes met the two big, innocent-looking eyes of the raccoon on the mascot costume, and a sudden inspiration struck him. He blurted out, "Stop him!"
As if by telepathy, the two-meter-tall raccoon with its tail darts away with incredible agility the moment he spoke, perfectly dodging the oncoming robber.
Then a brown, furry paw with claw marks appeared.
Trip up the fleeing robber!
Caught off guard, the man lunged forward, the force of his initial acceleration making it impossible for him to stop.
The bag in his hand flew out, and his kneecap slammed hard against the ground with a sickening thud.
Bang--!
The crisp sound was clearly audible.
The robber struggled for a moment but couldn't get up.
Kitagawa Ryusei ran forward a distance due to inertia, then gradually slowed down.
He walked up to the robber, first bowing his head and exclaiming, "Wow..."
Then he raised his head and looked at the raccoon who was still holding the flyer steadily: "...Oh."
The raccoon mask was removed, revealing the young man's messy blond head.
He hugged the raccoon headgear like a basketball, his bangs damp with sweat, his eyes sparkling, and he tilted his head at Kitagawa Ryusei:
"Officer, is there a reward for acts of bravery?"
...It's still the same sentence.
As long as no murders occur, Beika Town, where you can occasionally find a boyfriend in a blind box, is still a very suitable place for Kitagawa Ryusei to live.
...
The robber was handcuffed and taken away by the arriving patrol officers. Hagiwara and Matsuda came over after returning the bag to its owner.
Matsuda Jinpei was stunned by the blond youth's appearance.
Rei Furuya was wearing a chubby mascot costume at the moment, and waved at them with his claw-like hands.
"You golden-haired bastard..." For the first time, he felt he should be more tactful: "Is your organization very poor?"
Poverty has driven a perfectly good policeman to this state...
Is this still the proud and unyielding, burdened Rei Furuya he remembers?
Rei Furuya smiled broadly and remained expressionless: "My name is Tooru Amuro. Would the three officers be interested in coming in for a look? Our hot pot restaurant is having a grand opening sale, everything is half price."
Kenji Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda looked up and vaguely saw the shop signs not far away.
Kitagawa Ryusei also said, "Aren't we going to eat? Shall we go for barbecue or hot pot?"
Looking at Rei Furuya's smiling face, Kenji Hagiwara hesitated. In the end, Jinpei Matsuda made the final decision to support Rei's new job.
No matter what, it's still a small achievement.
From policeman to pastry chef to handing out flyers on the street, and occasionally having to do a few missions to gather intelligence, this guy's life is really miserable.
Matsuda Jinpei just hoped he wouldn't run into him at some strange cleaning site next time.
...
Completely unaware of what his coworkers were thinking, Amuro Tooru, with his superb acting skills, seemed genuinely happy to have secured a customer.
He deftly took off the mascot costume and put on the apron for serving dishes.
The three people watching nearby had their mouths and eyes twitching excessively.
"Please give us one... um," Matsuda Jinpei couldn't hold back his words halfway through, faced with this face. Since there was no one else in the private room, he slapped the menu into Furuya Rei's hand: "Just take whichever tastes good!"
...Can you stop laughing, you blond bastard? Don't you find it creepy?
Matsuda Jinpei genuinely felt that this Amuro Tooru was even more terrifying than Furuya Rei challenging him to a fight.
He subconsciously turned his head to look for another guy who could keep this bastard in check, only to find that the other guy was unusually not paying attention to Furuya Rei, but staring at his phone instead.
On the other side of the square wooden table, Kitagawa Ryusei's gaze was incredibly focused when it fell on his phone.
Rei Furuya clearly noticed as well, and his perfect smile lifted a few pixels, making it look less perfect: "Ryusei, what are you looking at? Aren't you going to order?"
Unexpectedly, Kitagawa Ryusei was distracted for once, and when he looked up, he didn't catch up on the conversation: "Um, what were you guys talking about just now?"
Sensing something was wrong, Furuya Rei put down the menu and naturally took the phone from his hand.
Kitagawa Ryusei did not obstruct it.
His phone screen hadn't even gone black yet, still displaying the email interface.
The phone's owner was just reading a newly received email.
Furuya Rei couldn't see the sender's message, but he immediately noticed the email name at the very top.
—【The Pisk Arrest Plan.】
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