Chapter 58 Who is Chao Li Yu Yue?
Early that morning, Suzuki Sonoko, who had been diligently studying oyster farming, sat at the dinner table, comparing the coastline of Fuyuki City and studying land purchasing strategies.
Although the Fuyuki City Government is like a decoration, at least we can still communicate. What they mean is that if the Suzuki family wants to go to the coast, they must at least afford an extra dock.
Ten minutes later, Chrom, who lived in the corner of the third floor, came downstairs to eat without saying a word, and Miss Suzuki, who was working hard, was shocked to find that: although it was rare for Chrom to appear in a "public place" like a restaurant on his own initiative, he did not turn into Rokudo Mukuro until he finished his breakfast!
Perhaps because Sonoko's eyes were too surprised, Chlom began to feel embarrassed.
The girl, also with long indigo hair, swallowed her food gracefully and explained carefully, "Inu and Chigusa arrived from Italy yesterday. Mukuro-sama specially arranged for them to stay elsewhere, so they're a little tired."
Subtext: Because Lord Mukuro is too tired, I have been the one who appeared all day today.
Yuanzi blinked in astonishment and did not comment on this.
Because of the tragic lesson learned from her predecessor, Asakura Yeou, Sonoko actually wanted to block Rokudo Mukuro out directly, but she didn't know how, so she could only try hard to ignore his existence.
I don’t know if this can be considered psychological hypnosis, but Yuanzi felt a little more secure.
It would be even better if the contract could be cancelled...
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but miss her unreliable teacher, the tone-deaf Mr. Chao Li Yu Yue.
After breakfast, there is a rare period of free time. Today is the day when construction of Tono Hidden Mountain begins. The blasting time chosen by the construction team is an auspicious day that has been carefully calculated.
Although Yuanzi did not go there directly, an assistant at the front line of work provided her with a video broadcast of the entire process. Yuanzi sat in front of the computer happily, holding a bag of snacks, waiting to watch.
Chrom went out yesterday and met a few "companions" at Rokudo Mukuro's request. He seemed to have become more cheerful because of this and did not leave immediately after dinner.
She wandered around the garden for a while, then hesitated for a moment as she passed the main hall. She carefully approached Suzuki Sonoko and asked her, "What are you doing, Sonoko-san?"
Sonoko-san calmed her breath with excitement and pointed at the blurry screen, which was still being debugged. "This is the first step in my career. No matter how you look at it, today is a day worth remembering!"
——In fact, Sonoko originally wanted to go to the scene to see it in person, but Yato kept saying that the mountain was too dangerous, so he finally held Sonoko where she was and went there in her place.
Actually, Chlorum didn't understand what this exclamation without any context meant. She said "Oh" slowly and sat quietly beside Yuanzi to wait with her.
Chlom usually behaved too coldly, so this behavior that could be considered active communication was a milestone in her progress. It was so surprising that Sonoko was distracted and glanced at her in the gap between looking at the dust-covered screen.
Still sitting with her feet turned inward, still subconsciously grabbing the corner of her clothes - Suzuki Sonoko sighed indifferently in her heart: Although it seems that there has been some progress, this girl's behavior is really insecure.
This fleeting scene only stayed in her mind for less than a second. Suzuki Sonoko naturally turned her eyes away and looked at the screen expectantly, waiting for the moment when the dust settled -
--etc.
In less than three seconds, Sonoko moved her eyes back along the same path and accurately locked onto the middle finger of Chrom's right hand.
The indigo-haired girl curled her knuckles awkwardly, feeling that Sonoko's gaze was so frightening that the skin on the back of her hand seemed to be burning.
"Sonoko-san...what's wrong?"
After a pause, Sonoko replied, "Nothing."
She blinked nonchalantly, restraining her exaggerated gaze, and said thoughtfully, "I just think the ring on your hand... looks a little familiar."
"well?"
Are you talking about the Vongola ring?
Chlom subconsciously covered his right hand with his left hand.
——Yesterday, almost the entire day was spent, not only dealing with Inu and Chigusa's affairs, but more importantly, Lord Mukuro obtained this half ring representing the identity of the Guardian of the Mist from Penge's external advisor.
As Chlom rubbed the delicate lines on the metal, he heard the young lady, who was looking at the computer, muttering slowly, as if in distress: "The more I think about it, the more familiar it feels. Where have I seen this before?..."
I thought about it for a long time but couldn’t remember it.
However, Suzuki Sonoko didn't hesitate for long, as most of her attention was soon attracted by the blown-up mountain pass.
The mountain of Tono is not actually very high, but the mountain is continuous and deep, and the trees and bushes are rich in biological species. Looking inside through the blasted mountain pass, the half-open mountain road looks like a black hole that devours people, which makes people shiver inexplicably.
Industrial explosives are not very lethal, and for the sake of stability, the distances between the blasting points are quite scattered. The rocks falling from the mountain wall are not broken into pieces, and they are scattered on the road, which takes some time to clean up.
Seeing this, the climax of the explosion has actually ended.
Next, this mountain will become a large construction site. Although environmental protection must be taken into consideration, the winding mountain road must be built no matter what.
Suzuki Sonoko waited with great anticipation for most of the morning, but in fact, she was only happy for the time it took for the sound to ring.
She sat on the sofa, unable to move forward or backward. She gave a dry, symbolic "yeah" as a cheer and turned off the computer with an expressionless face.
——It was clearly agreed to be the first step in career life, why does she always feel it is such a joke?
Yuanzi shook her head and got rid of the strange feeling: Since it is something worth celebrating, don't hesitate, celebrate it quickly!
Today is a workday. Yato is at the construction site, watching the progress of the Mushroom Mountain (actually, mainly watching the monsters). Kurosaki Ichigo is still not home from school...
Sonoko then turned to look at Chlom.
"How about we go get something nice to celebrate at noon?"
As for what to eat...
"Bamboo sushi, of course!"
Suzuki Sonoko took out her cell phone and checked Namimori's map, and the recommendation text message from Soma Yukihira was still in her inbox.
——We had agreed to try it last time, but we ended up catching Rokudo Mukuro while catching ghosts, so we wasted the whole day and went home covered in dust and hungry.
This time, while she is in a good mood and has more patience, let's go on a food-hunting trip through the streets!
Sonoko clenched her fist with pride and was about to shout "Wait for the delicious food" when Chrom beside her gently tugged at the corner of her clothes.
"Well," the girl said timidly, "Actually, I know where Takesushi is..."
When Sonoko heard this, she was stunned. But then she thought about it and it made sense. Chloe would be hospitalized in Namimori Hospital. Since he was a resident there, he should be familiar with the delicious restaurants in the town!
So the ambitious plan of walking around the streets was immediately abandoned by the owner.
The lazy Miss Sonoko said, "It would be great to have an exact address. Chlorum, you can show us the way and we can just take a bus there!"
Twenty minutes later, the Suzuki family's car drove out of the gate.
There were only two people in the quiet rear compartment. Chrom was not like Yato who could not sit still; nor was she like Ichigo who always crammed for exams and would bang his head against the back of the seat in front of him when he got a word wrong. In other words, riding in a car with her was actually quite boring.
Unfortunately, Namimori Town was quite far away, so Sonoko sat in the car and scrolled through her phone for a long time out of boredom, and her eyes couldn't help but look around the car.
She didn't know how this problem developed during the period of amnesia. Once her brain was empty, she would start to unconsciously collect information, no matter whether it was useful or not. From the time her eyes captured the image to the time her brain analyzed it, the speed in between was astonishingly fast.
However, even though I think this skill is amazing, I can't deny that this kind of thing is really brain-consuming!
Sometimes she was just daydreaming, but she felt more tired than when she was doing homework.
Fortunately, this time there was a research focus in the car that she was somewhat concerned about.
It's not Chlom. She is introverted, fragile, and a little cold, and Sonoko could see it as soon as they met.
What concerned her was the ring on Chrom's hand.
Suzuki Sonoko's eyes carefully swept across the delicate lines of the metal and began to spread along the ring.
She didn't have it the last time I saw her, so this thing must have come into her hands recently.
It seemed that Crome had only gone out once yesterday, and that was when he got it.
But she said that it was Rokudo Mukuro who was online all day yesterday, so strictly speaking, this ring should belong to Rokudo Mukuro.
Sonoko recalled the information she had discovered, intentionally or unintentionally, after being attacked by the Shikigami at night: Rokudo Mukuro claimed to be an illusionist, and had two younger brothers, who were currently in a semi-fugitive state - so at least he came from a circle with a sound class structure and a long history of order, and from her observation, the young man's mother tongue seemed to be Italian.
【Italy】
[A ring that looks familiar to her]
Because she lost a period of memory, Sonoko's memory of some things in the past became a little vague. Even when she looked at Yato, she sometimes felt a sense of strangeness as if she hadn't seen him for a long time.
But at this moment, prompted by these two key words, a strange and disturbing figure suddenly appeared in the corridor of Yuanzi's memory!
As the violent figure gradually became clearer, there seemed to be the crisp sound of tinkling palm trees serving as his background music.
It seemed like he was either smashing things... or hitting people.
After finding this trait, Suzuki Sonoko felt that she would soon remember why this familiar feeling came to her!
Soon you can——
"Sonoko-san."
Very good, not right away.
The girl's soft voice tentatively interrupted her grim recollection pattern.
Kulom squeezed the door handle and whispered, "The car has stopped."
So Sonoko held back her breath again, her cheeks puffed up due to the subtle scratching feeling. Even when she sat in the sushi restaurant she had been longing for, her expression of deep resentment and bitterness did not show any obvious improvement.
She supported her head with both hands, her fingers tangled in her hair, and sighed as she sat in the window seat. Chlom, who was sitting opposite her, was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do.
Seeing that one of the two people was frozen and the other was spontaneously combusting, and something was about to happen in a few minutes, a young man in a waiter's uniform walked out from behind the counter in time.
He is not very old, but he is quite tall. He is obviously of school age, but he looks inexplicably tired.
There were dark circles under the boy's eyes and bruises at the corners of his mouth, but these signs of fatigue were surprisingly unnoticeable.
When people see him, the first impression is still focused on his bright and cheerful smile. Coupled with his tall and straight figure and graceful movements, he looks as fresh as a coconut tree swaying by the sea.
“Welcome to Bamboo Sushi!”
The middle-aged man behind the counter called out enthusiastically to the young man, "Awu, prepare tea for the guests!"
The boy named Awu answered "Yes" loudly, and began to ask Chlom what he wanted to eat, and put two cups of hot tea on the table.
In confusion, Yuanzi lowered her head, her sight filled with her own messy hair. She squinted her eyes and saw the boy's slender hands through the gaps in the brown fur.
There is also a ring on the middle finger of his right hand that looks particularly familiar.
By the way, his ring looks like... why does it look like a pair with Chrom's, no, Rokudo Mukuro's ring?
Sonoko raised her eyebrows: Could this be Rokudo Mukuro's boyfriend?
This is even more wrong!
Miss Suzuki, who realized that her thoughts had gone astray, suddenly sat up straight, patted her cheeks heroically, and took a long breath.
【Italy】
[A ring that looked familiar to her]
[These rings are a set]
After adding the last limiting condition, the feeling became more familiar, and she remembered: there are at least seven of these rings!
The rather irritable figure in Suzuki Sonoko's mind seemed to be pointing arrogantly at a ring that was almost the same as the one on someone else's hand, and said something to her with disdain.
Who said what?
[You still don't believe me? That ring will be mine sooner or later!]
No, Yuanzi shook her head. Compared to the gentle behavior of "saying", the feeling in her memory was more like this person was talking to her!
Once the key point became clear, the feeling of being about to have a flash of inspiration came again. Miss Sonoko frowned nervously, preparing to face the upcoming answer.
However, at the moment when the memory reaches the critical point——
——“This guest?”
The boy's hesitant voice sounded at the perfect moment: "Is something wrong with you?"
very good.
Miss Suzuki, whose train of thought was interrupted, thought calmly: This time the flash of inspiration is completely gone.
Sonoko calmly adjusted to this terrible feeling for a while, then raised her head with a dead heart: Brother, let me tell you, even if you are really the boyfriend of our Shikigami, I will never forgive you after what happened!
In her mind, she was thinking of childish and tasteless ways of revenge, such as [not paying for the sushi] or [picking trouble with him halfway through the meal]. When she came to her senses, Sonoko realized that she had slapped her face a little too hard. Now her cheeks felt a little hot and it hurt when she touched them.
No wonder the little brother asked her what happened...
"If you don't mind," the young man who interrupted Sonoko's flash of inspiration seemed to be amused by her slow movements. He asked generously, "Do you want to use this to relieve the pain?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a cool wet towel was placed close to Yuanzi's face.
——He was so considerate that Sonoko felt a little embarrassed to be a top customer and take revenge on society...
Forget it, Miss Suzuki breathed a sigh of relief. It was just a familiar-looking ring. She raised her hand to take the towel and prepared to say thank you to the young man.
In the blink of an eye, Miss Suzuki, who had kept her head down all the way, finally met the waiter's eyes through a cold white towel.
The moment their eyes met, it seemed as if time stood still, and then suddenly reversed.
A bubble in the teacup on the table burst gently. Although the sound was light, it was like suddenly pressing a switch somewhere.
Light filtered through the gaps in the curtains blown by the wind, and the brilliant light spread unrestrainedly on the boy's face.
At that moment, the backlight was so blinding that only a clear silhouette remained in Yuanzi's sight. The boy's jawline was sharp and familiar, as if she had seen him many days and nights in a row when she was bored and yawning on the golden mountain.
Even though the sushi restaurant was silent at that moment, when Sonoko met the boy's golden-brown eyes, the light and pleasant tune of a bamboo flute suddenly rang in her ears.
Amid the intermittent transitions in the music, there is also the inexplicable sound of a hatchet chopping on a bamboo pole.
It’s just a familiar-looking ring. In a fleeting moment, Suzuki Sonoko thought indifferently: How could it be more important than a familiar-looking person?
So she smiled with satisfaction, suppressing her excitement in her eyes, with a look that was as curious as a cat that saw a familiar ball of yarn.
Yamamoto Takeshi didn't understand why someone gave him a smile, and he subconsciously grinned back.
This customer seemed to have very good skin. She slapped herself twice, leaving two neat red marks. However, her recovery ability was even better. In just a few minutes, the two bright slap marks had almost faded.
Looking at it now, it's just some rouge-like pink, which makes the baby's chubby face look as soft as a glutinous rice dumpling, and it inexplicably tastes delicious.
If only he had such resilience...
——This is what the young boy Yamamoto thought after being beaten by his father countless times during training and being injured to the point of doubting his life.
He was lamenting some unromantic little things in his mind, but just as Yamamoto Takeshi was about to take back the towel, the brown-haired and brown-eyed customer service lady suddenly grabbed his wrist.
The girl's movements were not very agile, nor was her strength great, but her imposing presence was truly intimidating!
If Yamamoto Takeshi had not been sure that he had never seen her before, based on this urgent action, he would probably wonder if this person had been looking for him for a long time and was so anxious as if he was afraid that he would run away!
In such an unclear situation, the confused Yamamoto Takeshi was inexplicably pulled to the spot, and heard the customer lady in a light, soft and somewhat unbelievable voice, gently read out a name.
"...Ugetsu?"
Rather than simple doubt, the voice sounded more like the coquettishness that comes from certainty.
Yamamoto, who had never been spoiled by a girl before, was stunned and reacted a little slowly. He asked innocently under the girl's soft gaze.
"Who is Yu Yue?"
Before Suzuki Sonoko could take her unreliable Onmyoji teacher to reminisce about the past, the phone in her bag started ringing like a ghost.
The person who called was her manager who said he wanted to assist her. His tone was so despairing that after answering the phone and listening to him shouting for a long time, Yuanzi didn't understand why he was so anxious.
"What happened?"
The manager sighed and replied tremblingly, "It seems something happened to the engineering team at Tonoyamaguchi."
The author has something to say: I want to write 3,000 words every day, and write 5,000 words every day...
It's been a few days short, I'll update 10,000 words tomorrow to make up for it. Lu Sheng will appear in the next chapter.
Yuanzi has been in the Twelve Kingdoms for decades. Although the connection points of her memories have not changed, the memories themselves have indeed become blurred, just like a normal person forgetting certain things from childhood.
The person in my memory is the one I mentioned before, the one who taught Sonoko Italian:-D
Finally, as usual, please leave a message. Also, Daonan will add you, but the way he adds you may be a little different from what you imagine.
Good night, everyone.
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