Chapter 50 There must be only one truth
The vacant lot that Chao Li Yuyue chose to build the house was at the mouth of a valley, a good place that was easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Golden Mountain began to grow from the backyard of the vacant lot, half of it pushed forward and knocked down the wooden house, and the other half grew into the mountain wall behind it.
After waiting for a long time for it to stop, Chao Li Yuyue continued to raise the bamboo wall along the edge of the mountain.
This artificial triangular area has a very small range of activities. After Suzuki Sonoko planted the golden mountain, his daily life was to jump up and down the mountain - especially sleeping was simply torture. If it rained a little, it would be like begging on a pillow of gold.
Giotto stood at the foot of the golden mountain and found that it was not an illusion. The girl on the high ground really had shining eyes when she saw them.
It was purely out of hunger.
Suzuki Sonoko climbed down the mountain almost in tears.
Because the gold mountain grows rather wildly, the way down is also extremely rugged. Her movements are shaky and she is on the verge of death. It seems that if one of her feet is not firmly planted, she will fall down. It is not that high, but it is so heartbreaking to watch.
After she climbed down, she wiped her face and looked earnestly at Giotto and Gatling before asking, "Are you the friends who lost the fight with Yu Yue?"
G raised his eyebrows and was about to get angry: "How can you talk like that, woman—"
Giotto immediately raised his hand: "G!"
Sonoko, however, seemed oblivious to his anger. Following her instincts, she turned to Giotto with confidence, swiftly grasped his raised hand, and asked sincerely, "Friend, after such a long boat trip, are you hungry?"
Giotto: "Just... okay?"
She patted the back of Giotto's hand gently: "So what do you want to eat?"
G's mouth twitched: So this is how Japan expresses hospitality?
He recalled what he had said to Li Yuyue in Italy and said uncertainly, "Buckwheat noodles?"
Yuanzi was shocked: "Don't you want to eat meat?"
G thought for a moment and replied, "I'm mainly unsure what the meat here tastes like..."
Suzuki Sonoko had actually been waiting for these words from the very beginning. With a wave of her hand, she said cheerfully, "It's okay! I know there's a small town seven miles to the south. There's a main road in between, and there are no bandits or wild animals. If you run fast, it'll only take the whole morning to go there and back!"
G: "Well, then——"
"Giotto."
Asari Ugetsu climbed down from the height carrying half a bamboo. Under Sonoko's distressed gaze, he interrupted G's promise and nodded to the Vongola Generation with a serious face.
So they went to talk aside, leaving only Yuanzi, whose eyes turned green with greed, and stretched out his hand towards G's back.
Chao Li Yu Yue breathed a sigh of relief with a serious expression, and recounted what had happened during this period as objectively as possible.
"I fished the garden out of the river. I can't say exactly what condition it was in. She herself doesn't remember it."
"Amnesia?"
"Almost," the Vongola Rain Guardian reported to the leader with a subtle, weary tone, "This gold was all grown in the garden. Now, an innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. With such a dazzling mountain of gold sitting here, I can neither leave nor stay. Even when I go out hunting, I have to worry about whether she will get hurt if she stays here alone."
The worst thing is that even though he is so worried, Sonoko herself has no sense of crisis and is thinking about going out to eat every day.
Chao Li Yuyue thought for a moment and added, "Actually, it's not like Yuanzi doesn't have a sense of crisis. She just transferred it to me. After paying the money, all she has left is to fool around without worry."
Giotto observed his guardian carefully and noticed that he addressed the young lady as "Sonoko" throughout the whole process, rather than the cold "she" or the completely objective "that girl".
"So," considering the Guardian's emotional inclinations, the Shodaime naturally included this young lady in his acceptable range: "Where on earth did this mountain of gold come from?"
Chao Li Yuyue pursed her lips and said, "She really grew it."
G: "Huh?"
Chao Li Yu Yue pressed down G's arm that was about to point, and nodded to the first generation with a serious expression.
Giotto always believed in him. He turned his head slightly to look over there. The young lady in the garden keenly felt his gaze and waved to him happily for a long time.
When she smiled, that subtle and dazzling feeling struck Giotto's heart again. Besides being too bright, he also subconsciously felt that she smelled like olive oil...
G turned around and heard the second half of his muttering: "Is the first generation hungry too?"
Giotto glanced at his childhood sweetheart speechlessly without saying anything.
The taste of olive oil he mentioned is actually more abstract - in legend, olive oil represents a good harvest, and spilling olive oil sometimes also means spilling out suffering and welcoming good luck.
The girl didn't smell like olive oil so much as she smelled of luck.
Giotto's gaze didn't linger on the garden for long before he made a prompt decision: guarding this mountain of gold would be a burden, so after taking enough gold, let's all move to another place to live in seclusion!
The point now is: Will Ms. Suzuki Sonoko feel sad about throwing away a mountain of gold?
Sonoko was quite surprised to be asked this question, but she wanted the gold in the first place just to have food and clothing as she pleased. There has never been anyone in the Suzuki family who holds on to money!
Giotto was a little surprised that she was so generous. He gently tugged at Li Yuyue's sleeve, pointed at the golden mountain, and made a subtle gesture of number seven.
——Just like that, she still has at least seven more!
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Because Asari Ugetsu seemed to have accepted Sonoko a long time ago, Giotto and G basically didn't treat her as an outsider.
G's original words were - just think of it as picking up a lucky rabbit leg [Rabbit Leg No. 1 Yato kept smiling at this moment].
With enough gold to live on, everyone decided to move somewhere farther away from here.
When they were ready to buy a place, Giotto thought for a moment and said, "Foreigners' appearance still has some influence. Let's find a place that is more secluded."
G sat at the restaurant counter and scratched his forehead. "It's too remote and inconvenient. The mountain roads are difficult to walk on. Where can I buy food and daily necessities?"
Chao Li Yuyue drank a glass of sake quietly and said, "Then let's live in the suburbs."
Suzuki Sonoko, sitting in the middle drinking her soup, raised her hand and suggested, "We could find a small town and buy all the houses near the mansion we like. Except for where we live, the surrounding area would be vacant. Wouldn't that make it both prosperous and quiet?"
The three men paused at the same time, and then continued to discuss the issue of buying suburban areas or buying mountains and forests, as if they had not heard of this "best of both worlds" solution at all.
Finally, they bought a large house that was being pawned by a country gentleman behind a small wood near the town, and also enclosed the small hill behind it and the river that flowed at the foot of the hill.
That part was actually wasteland. The squire took the money with a vicious attitude and warned before leaving: "I told you it's wasteland, but you still want to buy it? If there are bandits, I won't help you!"
G sneered. How could unorganized bandits defeat the mafia?
The mansion is actually quite luxurious. The beams and pillars are all made of good materials. As long as new straw mats are replaced and some daily necessities are prepared, it will really look like a wealthy family.
That night, the four of them held a meeting while eating the braised dishes packed from the restaurant.
"What will we do with our food in the future?"
G asked while chewing on a chicken skewer.
The place where they lived now was no different from the suburbs, and eating out for three meals a day was basically impossible. Giotto drank the tea in the cup and began to think along G's lines.
When the Vongola was still a self-defense group, they ate food prepared by their female companions. After Elena left the family, she took care of the logistics perfectly, and occasionally the cook from Lambo's family would come back to help.
After the Vongola became the largest mafia family, as the boss, he didn't even know where the kitchen was in the base, let alone who was responsible for cooking.
Based on this experience, Giotto subconsciously wanted to see Suzuki Sonoko.
——As a result, the other party had already stared at him with shining eyes.
That look makes the white hairs on the back of one's neck stand up.
Giotto subconsciously asked back: "Is there anything wrong, Miss Sonoko?"
Yuanzi shook his head and said nothing.
While Giotto was thinking, Sonoko was also naturally thinking: Asari Uzuki can only barbecue tastelessly, PASS; she can't even light a fire, PASS; this guy named G looks so fierce, he looks more like a professional fryer than a cook.
——This first generation, who looks so gentle, is the only one who is particularly good at cooking...
However, the first generation who couldn't cook was so intuitive when she stared at him that he kept calling the police, so they decided: Let's hire a cook!
After the cook took over, the daily life of the mansion began to run naturally.
Suzuki Sonoko is actually a bit desolate, but she also knows that she can hardly go back by herself. Now that she has settled down, she might as well let nature take its course for a while.
A woman who lives a life of mediocrity and three retired men, four people with no goals in life, can't just get bored together, right?
Everyone gathered together for the purpose of learning and communicating with each other, and formed a study group to pass the time. Before the first exchange meeting was halfway through, Suzuki Sonoko started showing off her skills after a disagreement, and quickly picked up her pen and wrote a long ink article.
Later, when Giotto had nothing to do, he used her posts to practice calligraphy.
Yuanzi followed him and looked at him for several days, and finally couldn't help it and began to dislike his ugly handwriting.
G gritted his teeth and retorted, "The first generation has just started learning the characters here. How do you expect him to write well? If you want to compare, compare it with his native language!"
Suzuki Sonoko nodded thoughtfully, picked up her pen and began to write another long poem.
It's in Italian, in cursive, and has a rose in the footer.
Miss Suzuki, who had learned many superficial skills, lowered her head in pretentious modesty, shook off the ink on the brush, looked at Giotto's crooked handwriting, and sighed meaningfully.
Giotto: Hello...
G couldn't stand someone's arrogant attitude, so he changed his activity area to the mountains and forests the next day, and wandered around with a bow and arrow when he had nothing to do.
Suzuki Sonoko's group course focused on Onmyojitsu, and her teacher was Asari Ugetsu.
He claimed that although he was a dabbler, he knew the basics. Although Yuanzi was skeptical, she decided to learn it out of curiosity.
At noon that day, Giotto was standing in the house practicing his calligraphy stroke by stroke, while Yuanzi was sitting on the corridor drawing symbols stroke by stroke (in between, he even took the time to complain that Giotto's handwriting was ugly).
Chao Li Yu Yue leaned against a big tree in the courtyard, playing the flute (newly bought) note by note.
G, who was supposed to be chasing rabbits all over the mountain, picked up a child just in time for dinner.
Yuanzi put down his pen and asked him curiously, "Didn't you go hunting rabbits? How did you turn into a fox?"
Giotto walked out of the room and saw the two of them pulling the child's ears, and his mouth twitched immediately.
—Hey, hey, this is clearly a child with fox ears. You two are looking like you're trying to figure out how to skin him and put him in the pot. That's too much...
Not long after the child was carried to the living room and put down, the child's fox ears disappeared with a puff.
Yuanzi was so scared that he didn't dare to move for a long time.
G stood behind her and rolled his eyes: "Don't worry, you didn't pull it off. When I picked up this little thing, it still had a tail behind its butt."
Then the little monster was left behind by a group of carefree people.
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Basara's memory became somewhat fuzzy as he was hunted by the Izumo gods, and the breaking point was when he could no longer hold on and collapsed by the river.
This time when he regained some consciousness it seemed to be the middle of the night. In the dim light, he seemed to see a woman sitting beside him with a serious expression.
...Human?
He felt very slow while half asleep and half awake, as if he was floating on clouds, swaying and uneasy. His mind was hazy and he could only see a rough outline.
The woman took a piece of paper and gently placed it on his forehead, then took it away, repeating this several times.
Bawei didn't know if this was a strange method used by ignorant men and women in the countryside to treat diseases. After all, humans are always so ignorant and gullible. However, the light scent of honey on her fingertips lingered, so fragrant that when he fell asleep again, he actually had a rare dream of his childhood when he was a wild fox, digging honeycombs all over the mountains.
The next morning, everyone gathered for breakfast.
G chewed on a piece of dried meat and complained to Li Yuyue, "Didn't you say that little fox was a monster? I thought monsters were definitely stronger than humans. How come it hasn't woken up in three or four days?"
Giotto paused with his hand holding the snack, looked up at Yuanzi who was digging for rice with his head down across from him, sighed, and said nothing.
Last night, Giotto couldn't sleep and was about to go out to look at the moon when he saw Yuanzi sneaking into the room where the little monster was sleeping like a thief, holding a half-filled book of talismans.
He watched for a long time and found that those spells were the exercises that Yu Yue assigned to her.
Yuanzi squatted in front of the bedding and picked and chose for a long time. Then he picked up a piece that he liked and pasted it on the other person's forehead. Then he rolled and crawled to the corner of the wall to wait for the effect.
After hiding her head for a long time and seeing no response, Suzuki Sonoko sighed in disappointment, crawled back to change another one, and pasted it again.
Giotto didn't know what the spell Chao Li Yuyue taught her was, and he didn't know if the things she drew with her poor craftsmanship would be useful, but he was worried: What if one of them suddenly worked and restored some of the little monster's abilities, and then it suddenly attacked and tried to kill her? What should she do?
As a result, Sonoko tried seven or eight times in a row, but to no avail. Giotto put on a coat and squatted with her outside the corridor until midnight.
Flashing back to the present, Mr. Chaoli Ugetsu, seemingly knowing everything, calmly put down his bowl of soup and commented with a pointed, calm tone, "A talisman without spiritual power has no power to repel demons. The child probably didn't wake up because he was too badly injured."
There is no spiritual power attached...
Suzuki Sonoko choked and grunted.
She didn't mean to doubt Chao Li Yu Yue's teaching level, but she was just itching to try her hand after mastering a new skill.
The talismans she had pasted on the unfortunate kid's head were all harmless spells like [Inspire Demonic Power] and [Make Monsters Fall into Sweet Dreams], purely for testing.
Yuanzi silently covered her face with the pancake, thinking that if she hadn't run fast, she might be caught red-handed by the person who suddenly woke up while she was playing the prank!
Giotto swallowed the food in his mouth and shook his head tiredly: Yes, you were so busy running that I was the one who closed the door of the child's room.
After being hit by Chao Li Yuyue with a meaningful tone, Yuanzi felt a little guilty.
In fact, her basic perception of all intelligent creatures was similar. She treated vampires as human beings, but when she encountered monsters, she felt unusually cold.
After she started to think back, Suzuki Sonoko realized belatedly: from the very beginning when she teamed up with G to pull his ears, in her mind, this little fox was the same as the rabbit that G had hunted down before.
An animal that can be killed at any time.
——He was able to remember to use harmless spells, perhaps because he looked like a child!
Miss Suzuki Sonoko, who has lost her memory of the Twelve Kingdoms, can't find the reason why she subconsciously regards demons as natural disasters and hates them so much.
So she began to reflect: giving a child fake candy as a prank was already too much. Her behavior did not actually treat the child as a creature with demonic power.
After realizing the problem, Yuanzi immediately began to reflect seriously and wanted to make some compensation to the little fox.
Suzuki Sonoko is very self-aware. She can't cook or take care of others. Compared to the humanistic care such as cooking for children or helping them bathe and change their medicine, Miss Suzuki has always been a fan of monetary compensation.
Question: What do foxes like?
The cook lady laughed and said: Of course I like to eat chicken!
When Bawei woke up in a daze for the second time, the woman was still in front of him.
He lifted his heavy eyelids and looked around hard, and found that there were several rows of eggs around his bed, and seven or eight fist-sized chicks were jumping around in the room, shedding their feathers.
The woman was sitting on the edge of the bed, and due to the limited viewing angle, he could only see her knees with a part of her skirt hanging over them as she sat cross-legged.
The woman placed her hands on the ground between her crossed legs and squatted down, a yellow ball of hair also falling out.
Her thumb slowly rubbed the back of the chick's neck, and the ball of fluff also rubbed her palm, looking soft and cute.
Bawei blinked his sore eyes and felt the woman patting his quilt gently while promising: "Take good care of yourself. When you wake up, I'll give you all these to eat..."
Bawei was stunned when he heard this, and when he looked at the cute chick, he felt like laughing, which was rare.
...Stupid chicken.
After a while, the cook called out from outside, "Miss, you asked me to buy so many eggs, but there are none left? Aren't you going to have omelets for lunch?"
The eldest lady Yuanzi held a chick in her hand, opened the door and left.
Bawei lay among baskets of eggs, closed his eyes and continued to sleep.
She has such soft hands—she really is a young lady...
The little monster in the house slept for another two days and still didn't wake up. However, the eggs in his house could not be kept for long.
Early that morning, G came back early not long after going out.
When he stepped into the yard, he saw a simple large stove built at the door. Suzuki Sonoko was squatting in front of the stove with a chicken on her head, watching the cook braise eggs.
Yuanzi, carrying the chicks, also looked up at G.
He was holding a girl in his hands.
In his early years, G specialized in playing with gunpowder. Later, Giotto entrusted him with a bow and arrow, and G's fighting style also became the bow and arrow.
Bows and arrows are very suitable for hunting, but since last time he discovered that in addition to rabbits, there might also be children and goblins in the mountains, he gave up on lethal weapons and used a noose instead.
——It’s that thing that cowboys throw out with an ooh-oh sound in Western movies.
This time the condom was quite big, so he could get a sneaky girl to come back with it.
Kamisama Kiss Momozono Nanami.
With Ruixi's help, she went back to four hundred years ago and drifted down the river to the village where Xuelu's family lived. She was taken in by Xuelu and happened to hear from the cleaning servant that there seemed to be a monster wandering around a few days ago, but it seemed that it was killed by the wealthy family on the other side of the river before it could cause trouble.
Nanase thought about it over and over again, and always felt that judging from the timing, the wandering monster should be Tomoe, and she suddenly became very worried.
She finally climbed over the rugged mountain road and saw a gorgeous eaves from the gap between the trees. The next second, she was trapped by G like a rabbit.
Chao Li Yuyue walked closer with the flute in her arms, touched Nana's wrist seriously, and commented: "She's not injured, just frightened. She'll be fine when she wakes up."
Suzuki Sonoko held a bamboo pen and let the ink splash onto the prepared talisman paper.
Her keen observation skills had just been working unconsciously. In addition to the subconscious analysis of the girl's family background, she also discovered that the crystals on the girl's bracelet were actually artificial plastic.
Man-made plastics
The eyes of the famous detective Miss Sonoko suddenly became deep.
It was the middle of the night again, and the first generation of Vongola, who was suffering from insomnia, put on a coat and wanted to go see the night view. Before stepping into the corridor, he found that at the corner, Suzuki Sonoko had hidden something in her sleeve again, and was sneaking to open the door of the little girl.
Giotto sighed tiredly, "What's wrong with the garden?", picked up a wine jug from the cupboard, and found a place by the window to sit down.
Nanami Momozono actually didn't sleep either. The aunt who delivered dinner mentioned inadvertently that there was a comatose little boy in the house. She also said that the eldest daughter of the family bought a bunch of eggs for the child to coax him, but he couldn't finish them and had to braise them and give them away. If Nanami felt that two were not enough, she would send a few more later.
Nanase pinched the dark brown braised egg and thought that the unconscious child might be Tomoe. She insisted on not sleeping until now just because she wanted to wait until late at night to check it out.
Nanase was pulling the door from inside the house, while Sonoko was pulling the door from outside the corridor. Although both of them were very careful, their movements naturally became bigger due to the combined force. As soon as the door was opened, the two of them bumped into each other.
The cell phone that Yuanzi had hidden in her sleeve flew out with a "ouch" and fell far away with a crackling sound.
Nanami Momozono looked at the phone that fell in front of her, then looked at the young lady who was rubbing her head, and was instantly shocked.
Sonoko wasn't worried about whether the phone was broken or not. She had checked it at the beginning. Although she didn't know how Urahara-sama had modified it, the quality was very good.
When she felt around all over, she found that her cell phone was in a small bag made of some unknown fur. It was not only waterproof and fireproof, but it also seemed to have some space folding function. It looked like the size of a talisman, but when she opened it, she could take out a cell phone.
——It was only after she found this thing that Sonoko was sure that she had lost her memory after traveling through time, rather than her soul traveling back to her past life.
Sonoko put down her hand that was rubbing her head and asked Nanase seriously, "Can you still go back?"
"well?"
Nanase Momozono was stunned for a moment, then nodded subconsciously: "Sure."
Yuanzi was immediately relieved.
She held Nanase's hand tightly and asked, "Can you do me a favor? I'll reward you handsomely!"
Nanase: “Huh?”
Miss Suzuki took out a talisman paper from her bosom, picked up a pen and began to write the address, and attached a long letter. After finishing writing, she searched her whole body, but couldn't find anything that could serve as a token of love, so she simply cut off a strand of her hair.
She pushed the items in front of the girl and said, "Take these and go to Urahara Store at this address. Give them to the manager and he should understand."
Goddess Enmusubi, who wanted to go find her own divine servant, still didn't understand the situation.
Taking her as unmoved, Yuanzi quickly raised the stakes: "Don't worry, this job is worth it. After you find the store manager, use his shop's landline to call this last number and give him the number you want. Within three days, someone will send a check for the same amount to your home."
Nanase was even more confused.
Suzuki Sonoko didn't urge her, just waited for her to think it through.
——She was not worried that the girl would call and ask for money without working. The standard for getting a check was that she had to call another specific number from a specific phone. Only if she called from the landline of Urahara Store would the mobile phone responsible for issuing checks answer the phone.
"But……"
"But what?"
Nanase, who was suddenly caught up in a spy rendezvous, said, "Actually, I just came here to look for Tomoe..."
Suzuki Sonoko: "Who is Tomoe?"
"My messenger of God," Nanase had no idea how to explain the setting of God to ordinary people: "It's a fox demon. It appeared in this area a few days ago..."
"Oh," Sonoko understood: "Looking for the unlucky little guy? Sure, you can take him away anytime!"
That night, Miss Sonoko generously returned Tomoe to Nanami as a reward.
The next morning, the girl holding the child stood at the door of the mansion and felt that the timeline seemed to jump a little too fast.
According to what Nanami Momozono knew about the past, she should not appear in history. After hesitating for a long time, she took the car that the cook was using to buy groceries, and brought Tomoe to Xuelu's house as she remembered.
When the fox demon murmured in the middle of the night and was about to wake up, Nanami quickly hid in the side room and asked a little boy named Fuuta to bring some food to Tomoe.
Ba Wei looked around for a long time and found that the place had changed.
The fox demon, who was a little slow to react, took more time to adapt to his weak body. He took the rice ball handed to him by the boy and ate the first bite of food in half a month with difficulty.
He ate in silence, and Fuuta began to make small talk, starting with how he was an orphan. He did remember Nanami's instructions not to mention her, so the topic turned to other people in the house.
"Miss Xuelu is a very good person! She was the one who took me in before, but the master of the mansion wasn't very nice. During the day, he almost had you sent to sleep in the woodshed. It was only after Miss Xuelu's persistence that the master agreed to let you stay!"
Futa was telling the truth.
The white-haired little boy who was eating rice balls seemed not to hear anything and lay back weakly.
Oh, was her father found out?
Before going to bed, Bawei looked around again: Although it was a little worse than the previous room, he still chose this one because there were no chickens running around.
They really are a father and daughter. One makes people sleep in the chicken coop, and the other makes people sleep in the woodshed.
but……
"So it's called Xuelu?"
Before he could finish his sigh, the fox, lacking in magical power, fell into a deep sleep again.
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On the other side, Giotto had a heart-to-heart talk with Suzuki Sonoko.
"Does Sonoko like chatting with people in the middle of the night?"
Yuanzi tilted her head: I don’t understand what you mean.
Giotto sighed and thought, forget it. There will probably be only one stranger here for ten days or half a month. The remaining three grown men are all better fighters than her. Why is she still afraid of being taken advantage of by a girl like Sonoko?
If she likes to sneak into other people's houses, let her do it.
So I prepared to go back to sleep.
Yuanzi thought for a long time, and then seemed to understand something. She immediately explained, "I just want to go home and ask her for help."
Giotto paused as he left: "Going home?"
Suzuki Sonoko rolled her eyes quickly: "Of course I have a home to go back to. It can't be that just because G said I was a lucky rabbit leg, I really was born from a witch's cauldron, right?"
She wasn't depressed at all when she talked about going home.
The first generation paused as he stood in the corridor. The bell hanging from the end of the eaves reminded him that this was Japan. He had left the family he founded and came to a strange land. When the wind chimes rang, he thought of Spedo, who was almost hysterical before saying goodbye, and suddenly felt a little emotional.
"It's good to be home."
Suzuki Sonoko looked at his suddenly profound back, seemingly puzzled. "What's with that tragic yet profound tone of yours? Isn't this the retirement apartment Chao Li Yuyue prepared for you? Your name is written all over the house. What's with you looking so homeless and homesick?"
"well?"
Giotto's fingers, hidden in his sleeves, trembled almost imperceptibly. He smiled gently and asked, "I thought it was the name of the garden."
Yuanzi immediately snorted, "I'm an illegal resident. How can I buy and sell land?"
She thought about it again and said, "No, this place isn't actually yours. Of the four of us, only Yu Yue has a legal residence. His name should be on the deed."
"But I remember it was written on the doorplate, it was indeed Vongola."
Sonoko originally wanted to write about Suzuki, after all, she was the one who paid for the house and land.
But paying money only means not having to work hard and being protected, so she used the naming rights to exchange with G, the die-hard fan of Vongola, for unlimited right to order food [that is, she can eat whatever she says], the right to be exempt from housework [not to participate in any housework, but to enjoy all the income from the labor], and the occasional privilege of staying in bed.
The next morning, Giotto got up early, which was rare for him, and went to the mountains with G to chase rabbits.
When he came back, he looked carefully and found that there was indeed a string of cursive Italian words hanging on the low wall at the door.
Because they had been standing at the door for a long time, G pushed his shoulder and said, "First Generation, what's wrong?"
Giotto thought of Yuanzi's words, "Why do you miss home when you go home every day?" and for the first time realized the meaning of "stepping through this door is equivalent to returning home." He suddenly chuckled and said, "I just feel that this line of words doesn't really match the house..."
G's expression suddenly became serious.
He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Is that Suzuki woman trying to change the account name again? She's been enjoying the privileges for almost two months. If she wants to change the name now, she'll have to take on all the laundry work for the next three months as compensation!"
Giotto smiled and shook his head. "It has nothing to do with the garden. She would never wash clothes, let alone do it for three months straight."
"I just suddenly realized," the Vongola leader stretched lazily, "that we have moved away from the Vongola, away from our former family and the battles..."
In a very quick moment, the handsome and gentle man looked cold and majestic. The next second, he smiled and said, "It's time for a new beginning."
G was holding two fish (he had never actually caught a rabbit before): "What do you mean?"
Giotto pouted her cheeks playfully and asked her childhood sweetheart with a hint of mischief: "What do you think of giving me a Japanese name?"
G twitched his mouth and walked away with the fish.
While drinking fish soup that night, Giotto officially announced that he would change his name to Sawada Ieyasu.
On the day when the house number was officially changed, the Sawada family held a small party. Giotto was in a state of subtle excitement from beginning to end, but Sonoko always felt unwell.
When dinner was over and everyone started to taste the wine, even Giotto, who was a little drunk and unconscious, felt a palpitation in his heart.
The Vongola's super intuition has always been the best warning signal. G knew there was a problem as soon as he saw his expression. Although he still looked like a starving ghost fighting for snacks with Sonoko, he secretly became cautious and alert.
Not long after, there was a noise coming from the woods in the east.
"East?"
Chao Li Yuyue understood immediately: "The cook said that the squire on the other side of the river is marrying off his daughter today. I remember that girl's name is Xuelu, and she is famous in the village for her beauty."
G rolled his eyes when Yuanzi couldn't see him. Who would make such a fuss when marrying off their daughter?
——I’m afraid that the daughter who was married was too beautiful and attracted bandits.
After a while, all the birds in the woods were startled and someone could be vaguely heard shouting for help.
Giotto frowned and handed the fruit plate in his arms to Sonoko. Seeing that she seemed to be almost asleep, he pulled the haori over and covered her with it.
When they stepped out of the hospital, these three men turned back into the leaders and protectors of Italy's largest mafia family.
To their surprise, the beautiful bride's wedding did not attract bandits who coveted the gentry's wealth and wanted to abduct the village wife, but a demon who wanted to kill everyone but the bride.
G's long arrow was flaming and exploded on the demon's vines with a "boom". He turned around and shouted, "This is trouble..."
——If it was ordinary bandits who intercepted the road, it would be nothing if they came to escort the bride. The mountains are high and the road is long, so they could just consider themselves doing a good deed. But if it was a monster causing trouble now, then the distance from here to Sawada's house would make Yuanzi very likely to be in danger!
When Giotto hurriedly stepped into the house, the courtyard was already empty.
The fruit plate he handed over fell alone on the ground. The pears dotted with water droplets were already covered with dust. The person who was supposed to be dozing off on the corridor with the fruit plate in his arms was left with only a pair of wooden clogs casually thrown on the corridor.
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Suzuki Sonoko fell into a black hole without any preparation. Or rather, a gate.
When she woke up, night had turned into day. She looked around and subconsciously felt that this place with unexpectedly thick air should be the legendary Jingling Courtyard.
As he was about to land, the cell phone hidden in his belt rang. Yuanzi was still a little distracted when he picked up the phone.
Urahara Okami's voice sounded a little tired, but his tone was decisive to the point of being fierce.
"Are you in a clean, large square now?"
Yuanzi subconsciously said "hmm".
Urahara Kisuke breathed a sigh of relief. "This is in front of the Great Saint Wall of the Seireitei East. You had an accident when you passed through the gate last time. Miss Nanase brought back your news. Although I used your hair as a reference to find your coordinates, due to the time difference, I couldn't accurately locate you and bring you back."
Yuanzi thought that she cut her hair just to keep it as a token of trust, but it turned out to be so useful?
Urahara Kisuke continued, "So this time, I used the coordinate data left by Soul Society in Dangai to smuggle you across illegally. I don't know what kind of mess Ichigo and Yato-dono have made of the Seireitei now, so you better find a place to hide!"
These words were so powerful that they were impossible to refute. Sonoko subconsciously stood at attention and replied "yes".
She really wanted to hide, but before she could turn around, two groups of people appeared in the square in front of her.
Because the area in front of the East Great Holy Wall was too empty, Yuanzi couldn't eliminate her presence even if she lay on the ground. Fortunately, the two groups started making trouble before she was discovered.
The one in front was a silver-haired man. Yuanzi couldn't see his face clearly, but he was quite tall. Before he could say anything, a girl with a bun on her hair suddenly jumped out from behind, crying and shouting, and was about to chop him.
Yuanzi watched a big drama for some unknown reason. She felt that it was full of crying, shouting and hacking. It was really too ups and downs. For an audience like her who didn't know the previous story, the interest was greatly reduced!
Finally, when the situation developed to the point where former classmates were turning their swords against each other, a little white-haired boy came out to settle the matter.
Suzuki Sonoko gestured her height from a distance - this person who was in charge of peacemaking was probably only half a head taller than Edogawa Conan.
Ten minutes later, the white-haired boy holding the girl with a bun walked straight to Suzuki Sonoko who had given up struggling.
Hitsugaya Toushirou was startled at first when he saw her, then cautiously took a half step back. Under Miss Suzuki's bewildered gaze, he put on a mature, stomach-wrenching expression with his cute face and asked, "Did your highness also mistakenly enter my Seireitei?"
Yuanzi has been rich for half his life, but no one has ever called him "Your Highness".
besides……
She stared blankly at the two groups of people in front of her who seemed to be still in confrontation, and paused especially at the face of the fox-like man: What did this kid just say?
The next second, Miss Suzuki, realizing she had most likely escaped, nodded with great conviction: "Yes! I walked in by mistake!"
So she was taken away.
The girl with the bun was handed over to someone else, and the short guy was leading the way. Yuanzi followed him around in circles out of boredom, and felt that the word "also" in his question, "Did your highness also stray into my Jingling Court by mistake?", was used very cleverly.
——[Also], does this mean that there was another "His Highness" who had mistakenly entered before?
But his tone wasn't very good when he said this. It seems that His Highness isn't very popular...
The road ended in a spacious lounge. When she entered, she saw her patron saint, acting as arrogant as a 2.58 million person, lying at the top of the lounge, drinking lazily.
Yato, with flushed cheeks, widened his lifeless eyes in shock and threw the wine jug away.
He stumbled off the stage and reached out to pinch her face: "Is it really Yuanzi?"
Miss Suzuki moved her pinched red face with a dead look in her eyes, thinking that the previous "Your Highness" was Yato - since it was Yato, it was quite understandable that Hitsugaya used that tone when talking about other things.
Unable to rub her anymore, Yato began to rub his own eyes: "Is it really Sonoko? But why is Sonoko dressed like this?"
Yuanzi thought to herself that my experience was much more tortuous than yours!
Before she could complain, Yato, whose train of thought was obviously on the same wavelength as hers, started laughing foolishly: "Kuroune's soul only has a black robe, but Sonoko's is particularly fancy. As expected, our Sonoko's soul is particularly beautiful!"
Captain Hitsugaya Toushirou, standing by the door, silently lowered his eyes: No, her soul is particularly bright, even from eight feet away it's as conspicuous as a light bulb...
Hinamori suddenly lost control and almost lost the person he was chasing. He ran over to check it out when he saw a beam of light suddenly appear in front of the Sacred Jade of Todai.
However, the mature captain of the 10th Division didn't want to pursue the matter—they and Takama-ga-hara had always kept their distance—and simply asked politely, "Did you also come with those travelers?"
After such a long time, Yuanzi almost forgot this proper noun and tilted her head subconsciously.
She captured the confused man's sincerity so well that Hitsugaya instantly felt relieved and divided her and Kurosaki Ichigo into two groups.
So he asked again, "Since you are not traveling with Lu Huo, then are you familiar with this prince?"
Sonoko keenly noticed the change in his friendliness and drew a line between herself and her own guardian artifact without any guilt. She turned back to look at Yato and nodded, "Yeah."
Hitsugaya Toushirou nodded and asked her to rest inside.
The fact that Traveling Disaster brought a god to Soul Society was unprecedented and unexpected. If another person came to help, let alone how to negotiate with Takama-ga-hara later, the current emergency measures would probably be too much to handle.
Because the newcomer seemed so carefree, the 1.3-meter-tall captain patiently saluted and explained, "The Jingling Court has been in turmoil lately. Please forgive me if I have been negligent. Once we capture the troublemaker, we will naturally arrange for the appropriate reception staff to apologize to you."
As soon as Yuanzi had drawn a line between himself and his own guardian artifact, he pretended to inquire about it and asked, "Is it something so serious?"
Before Hitsugaya could answer, Yato, who was lying next to her, started yelling, "A captain died yesterday morning! He was said to be a well-known good guy in the Fifth Division..."
At this point, he burped. "Not to mention being stabbed to death, he was also left hanging on the wall, leaving behind only a vague suicide note. Now everyone is panicking."
Yato curled his lips and pointed at Hitsugaya in disgust: "It's obvious that you guys are the ones who found the traitor, but the blame is still on Kurone and the others. I'm afraid they'll bully him to death if you keep fighting..."
As Sonoko helped him to stand, she recalled the bloody drama she had just witnessed in front of the sacred wall of the Great East University, and suddenly realized: "The one who died was the one that the bun-haired girl called Lord Aizen, right?"
Hitsugaya frowned and nodded as an answer, but he still dutifully refuted Yato: "Captain Aizen's cause of death is indeed unknown, and we still cannot rule out the possibility that the Death Brigade was at work..."
Suzuki Sonoko looked at the drunkard in her arms. The fact that Yato was pulled here and treated as a distinguished guest proved that these death gods were indeed concerned about his status as a god, but to make a troublemaker like Yato stay so still and not run around - there must be something in the Seireitei that he was afraid of.
Actually, saying he was afraid might be a bit of an understatement. Sonoko threw the drunkard onto the couch: It was obvious that he had been beaten up so he gave in...
Miss Suzuki sighed, thinking that these people were quite capable.
According to her idea, to rob a prisoner, she would have to sneak into the prison, take the people and run away. No matter how big a commotion she caused before leaving, as far as the infiltration stage was concerned, she would have to be as safe as a chicken!
He even got himself into a murder case, killed the captain, and then hung it on the wall in a show of force...
——When did Kurosaki Ichigo's character design become so cool?!
etc.
Suzuki Sonoko still felt something was wrong.
——It's not normal that the captain died right after they arrived, but Ichigo was only trying to save Rukia Kuchiki from beginning to end. He might fight to save people, or even kill a Shinigami, but it definitely wouldn't include such an insulting act as hanging a corpse on the wall...
With absolute trust in her guardian artifact, Miss Suzuki pondered for a while, and first expressed her grief for the deceased Mr. Aizen in a relaxed and measured manner with ancient etiquette that she had never thought of. Her language was tactful, implicit and very literary, which made the two Shinigami team members guarding the gods behind Hitsugaya subconsciously cry with her.
Then Sonoko's expression changed and she asked Hitsugaya seriously, "What did your Captain Aizen look like when he died?"
Hitsugaya was stunned.
Ms. Suzuki then asked, "Do you have any photos? Videos...films? Have you checked his social connections? Besides the suicide note, do you have any other decent evidence?"
Yato was originally responsible for the infiltration. When Aizen was hung on the wall, he was hiding nearby. When Hinamori Momo shouted, he was the second one to arrive at the scene.
Now that he was sober, he immediately repeated it to her in a loud voice, and magically used some strange Indian method to recreate the scene he saw in Yuanzi's mind.
Suzuki Sonoko sat thoughtfully for a while, and then began to get close to the guard at the door.
Probably because she is a "highness", this person basically answers whatever is asked.
She even got a handwritten copy of Aizen Sosuke's suicide note.
——Bleach has a female association. This photocopied version was leaked from the upper echelons and is specifically for Captain Aizen’s fans to use in memory of their idol.
Suzuki Sonoko took out the various useful and useless information that she had sorted out with her extraordinary observation skills, took out the mobile phone with no change in battery from the amulet on her waist, and with a flick of her finger, she found Edogawa Conan's name in the address book.
"Hey, Xiaodao——"
Halfway through the conversation, Sonoko was stunned for a moment.
Five hundred years ago, she had also called the little vixen that G had brought back "little unlucky guy"...
On the other side of the phone, Kudo Shinichi didn't notice the difference. He looked like he hadn't woken up yet and made a lazy sound of "tut".
"What are you going to do?"
Yuanzi shook her head, throwing those short three months out of her mind, and said in a mysterious and intriguing tone, "There's a case!"
"ha?"
"It's a locked room murder case!"
Sonoko took a small notebook and read to Conan one by one the various pieces of information she had heard - he simplified the Seireitei into a large company, all the Shinigami were employees, and the captain was the director. She had put a lot of effort into fitting this setting.
Finally, Yuanzi added uncertainly, "It's hard to say what the specific circumstances are. Anyway, this is all the information we have right now. The person is dead, but the murderer hasn't been caught yet—"
"Who told you that the person must be dead?"
"well?"
Edogawa Conan sneered. It was clearly a child's voice, but the confidence that came from within was so attractive.
"Remember what I said? Your eyes can deceive you, your ears can deceive you, but reasoning is absolutely rational. As long as all the impossibilities are eliminated, no matter how crazy the remaining result seems, it must be the truth."
Across the phone, the young detective's voice was resounding.
"The deceased left behind a meaningful suicide note, proving it wasn't suicide nor a sudden death. Since no one, including the deceased, had a motive for committing the crime, and no one had the time to commit it, then by analogy, the deceased shouldn't have existed."
Detective Conan snapped his fingers firmly and asserted confidently, "There is only one truth!"
"This man named Aizen Sosuke—he simply faked his death!"
The author has something to say: 6000 words per chapter, including yesterday's update, a total of 13000 words
Bawei, who misremembered his beloved,
Giotto lost his family during a trip.
And there's Aizen Juju, whose conspiracy was exposed by a phone call, who do you feel sorry for?
Sonoko subconsciously hates demons because the demons in the Twelve Kingdoms eat people. When a country has no king, the demons cause great harm and basically everyone hates them.
Finally, as usual, please leave a message. Good night everyone. If there are any typos, please leave a message to tell me. Kisses from everyone!
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