Chapter 113: Wishes, Conflicts, and Promises (asking for monthly tickets)
On the night of July 18, in a pub in front of the Qing Benhua Hotel in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
That evening, Gu Qinye wore a baseball cap, a thin black jacket and casual trousers.
He found a seat at the bar in the izakaya, sat down, opened the text messaging interface on his phone, and sent a message.
【Gu Qiye: Are you sure it's here? 】
[Black Pupa: That’s right, Qingbenhua Hotel, this is where Ms. Ke Qirui and Ms. Ke Zinan live.]
[Black Pupa: Don't go the wrong way. Rumor has it that our Mr. Blue Arc has a poor sense of direction.]
After seeing this message, Gu Qiye raised his eyes from the mobile phone screen, looked through the window of the izakaya, and glanced at the exit of the hotel out of the corner of his eye.
I observed quietly for about half an hour, but didn't see anyone.
Gu Qinye seriously suspected that he had been fooled, so he opened his mobile phone and sent a message to Hei Pupa.
[Gu Qiye: You followed Ke Qirui to the beach villa before? ]
[Black Pupa: Do you want me to follow Mr. Blue Arc? You run too fast, with sparks and lightning all the way. I dare not follow you.]
Gu Qinye turned off his cell phone and sat at the bar in the pub.
He tilted his head, and from under the brim of his cap, his clear eyes stared at the exit of the hotel.
After a moment, he finally spotted the person he was looking for among the hotel guests coming and going: one of them was Ke Qirui, and the other was... Su Zimai who was not wearing a human face mask.
Through the window of the izakaya, Gu Qiye watched from afar the figure following Ke Qirui.
He did not show any shock or surprise, but just lowered his eyes, which dimmed slightly for a moment.
After waiting for a while, he stood up from the bar of the izakaya, opened the sliding door and walked out.
Gu Qiye followed the two of them calmly.
Seeing the two people get into the taxi, he turned into a beam of deep blue lightning and climbed onto the residential house above his head. Maintaining a speed that did not make an explosive sound, he rushed between the rooftops, his eyes always fixed on the taxi that was shuttling among the neon signs.
Under the moonlight, Gu Qiye's whole body was dancing with faint blue arcs, as if surrounding fireflies. His pupils were also filled with the light condensed from the arcs.
Five minutes later, the taxi stopped in front of a Japanese barbecue restaurant, and Ke Qirui and Su Zimai got out of the car. The two walked into the barbecue restaurant.
Seeing this scene, Gu Qinye turned into a beam of lightning and slid down the wall of the tall building like a ninja who could climb walls and finally landed steadily on the ground.
He took off his baseball cap, threw it into the trash, walked out of the alley, and walked towards the Japanese barbecue restaurant step by step.
Amid the rumbling sound, Gu Qinye opened the sliding door and stepped in.
He stopped at the door, hesitated for a moment, and slowly walked towards the table where Ke Qirui and Su Zimai were sitting.
"Xu Sanyan and Lin Zhengquan haven't come yet? These two are really habitual latecomers." Su Zimai frowned.
"It should take another ten minutes. We can order the food first." Ke Qirui said.
Su Zimai caught a glimpse of someone walking towards him out of the corner of his eye, and subconsciously thought that someone was looking for trouble, so he raised his head and looked at Gu Qinye with an unfriendly look.
Then she froze for a moment, her eyes a little dull under the dim light.
After a while, Su Zimai murmured, "...Brother?"
Upon hearing this, Ke Qirui was slightly stunned, put down his pencil, and then looked up from the menu.
She followed Su Zimai's gaze and looked at Gu Qinye, and suddenly remembered that she had met him on the streets of Roppongi that day.
Mai Mai's other brother? She thought.
Gu Qinye looked at Su Zimai, lowered his eyes and then raised them again, with a smile on his lips.
"What a coincidence... Sister, are you here to eat barbecue too?" After saying that, he pulled a chair and sat down opposite the two of them.
"Why are you here?" Su Zimai asked in a low voice. Her ears were a little red and she was so embarrassed that she almost buried her head in the ground.
"Shouldn't I be the one asking you..." Gu Qiye smiled, "Wenyu and I are traveling in Japan. I didn't expect to run into you here."
After that, he turned his head and looked at Ke Qirui, smiling and said, "You should be Miss Ke. We talked on the phone this morning, and you seemed to say... you were in Hong Kong."
At this point, Gu Qiye paused, his tone slightly lowered:
"Maybe Hong Kong and Japan are close, and we can walk from Hong Kong to Japan in two steps, don't you think so... Miss Ke?"
Even Ke Qirui was so choked that he didn't know how to respond for a while.
She raised her bony hand to support her chin, and blinked her eyes under the brim of her hat, as if she was thinking of a solution. Ke Qirui would occasionally meet Su Zimai's eyes, who was sitting next to her.
The atmosphere suddenly became extremely tense. Gu Qinye stared at her motionlessly, waiting for Ke Qirui to speak.
After a long silence, Ke Qirui lowered his eyes and spoke slowly:
"It's my problem... I have to come to Japan for work. Mai Mai was afraid that you would worry, so she asked your brother and I to keep it a secret from you."
She looked up at Gu Qiye and said, "I'm sorry, I should have told you in advance that this behavior is indeed irresponsible."
"You are indeed very irresponsible. I never thought that I would meet someone from Hong Kong in Japan..." Gu Qiye looked directly into Ke Qirui's eyes and said expressionlessly, "Do you know how dangerous this is? If she was your family member, would you allow someone to bring her to a place like this without saying a word?"
What made Gu Qiye even angrier was that Ke Qirui actually let Su Zimai join the action without authorization even though he knew that the White Crow Brigade would appear at the auction...
How could she not know how dangerous this was? They were facing a group of monsters.
When he thought of this, Gu Qiye felt a fire rising in his heart that he couldn't stop.
"I don't have any family, so I may not understand your feelings." Ke Qirui took off the beret on his head. "I was wrong this time... I apologize to you again."
She raised her eyes sincerely and met Gu Qinye's gaze.
Gu Qiye's tone was still very cold: "You are right, because you have no family...so you don't know how anxious and painful it is to worry about your family."
Su Zimai suddenly became restless and said with a frown:
"Didn't she tell me that I was the one who asked them to keep it a secret from you? Why are you so mean to my teacher?"
Gu Qiye glanced at Su Zimai. After a long silence, he said, "Xiaomi, I actually guessed it when Wenyu said it. When I called you, I just wanted to know...whether you are willing to admit it."
"Yes... I lied to you, so what do you want to say?" Su Zimai asked calmly.
"Nothing... Did you have fun in Japan?"
"happy."
"Well...if you've had enough fun, do you want to go home with your brother? We are both in Japan, so we can ask Wenyu to go play with us...If you want, I can also ask Dad, even though I don't have a good relationship with him."
"don't want."
"Why?"
"I feel very tired."
"Very tired?" Gu Qiye laughed at himself, "Then you know I have..."
"I know."
Su Zimai suddenly interrupted him.
She lowered her head and didn't let Gu Qiye continue: "Seeing you shoulder all the responsibilities and things at home by yourself, I feel very tired. You are always like that, it really makes people want to hide from you. It feels like... we are a burden to you."
"You're my sister, how can you be a burden to me?"
"Who likes to see you like that every day?" Su Zimai laughed, "You think you are so great, and you are responsible for all the family affairs. You have never asked me and my second brother what we think."
She paused, "You think we don't know how much you've sacrificed?"
Gu Qiye explained with a pale face: "I never thought about it that way. I am the older brother. Mom is gone, Dad is gone too... I am the only one who can take care of you. In these years, I have never felt that you are a burden."
"Yes, but we feel." Su Zimai said, "I just want you to take a breath. I don't want to be taken care of by you all the time, so I don't want to stay at home."
"But...I'll be worried about you."
"Then don't worry about me." Su Zimai said seriously, "I'm much more capable than you think."
"But you're only sixteen, just a high school student."
"So what did you do in high school?" Su Zimai whispered, "You went out to work alone late at night. Do you think I didn't know? After school every day, I went home to cook, and then went out to work the night shift. I didn't come back until two or three in the middle of the night, then turned on the lights and studied my homework alone in the room."
She paused, raised her head and looked into Gu Qiye's eyes: "Do you really think...my second brother and I don't know?"
Gu Qinye was stunned for a moment. Indeed... He always thought he had done a good job and had never been exposed... But it turned out that his sister had always known that he would go out late at night and come home late at night... The only difference was that his sister thought he had found a job outside and didn't know that he was actually an alien.
You're right. Living under the same roof for so long, how could he hide this from his younger brother and sister?
Gu Qinye was silent for a very long time. He had a lot to say, but he couldn't say anything.
"I won't go back with you... Think about your own affairs and stop worrying about us every day." Su Zimai said, "I am capable of worrying about my own life. I don't need you to keep watching me."
"But you don't know how dangerous what you are doing is..." Having said that, Gu Qinye raised his eyes and looked at Su Zimai.
Facing his sister's stubborn eyes, he was slightly stunned. No one knew Su Zimai better than him. She had been like this since she was a child. Once she made a decision, she would not change her mind.
"I will go home after the summer vacation. Since you are out having fun, don't worry about me... Have fun. I don't like you to be obsessed with us. You are only a teenager, and you should have your own life... We don't like you to sacrifice yourself for us. We will feel guilty and want to escape."
Su Zimai paused, "Mom is gone...it's not your fault."
After saying the last sentence, she stood up and walked out of the barbecue restaurant without looking back.
Gu Qiye didn't stop her, but just stayed there for a while. Ke Qirui didn't rush to leave either, but sat quietly on the other side.
After a moment, he looked up at Ke Qirui and said, "Ms. Ke, I don't blame you for this incident, but please make sure to take good care of her."
Ke Qirui nodded, put on his beret and walked out of the barbecue restaurant, leaving Gu Qiye alone standing there in a daze.
He lowered his head, his hair covering his eyes, making it difficult to see his expression...
I don’t know how long it took, but Gu Qiye opened his mouth slightly and took a breath, just like a goldfish floating up to the surface to breathe.
Then he took out his cell phone from his pocket. He wanted to make a call, but finally clicked on the text message interface.
[Black Pupa: How's the chat going, Mr. Blue Arc?]
[Gu Qiye: Do me a favor. I can't take care of so many people at the auction. Keep an eye on my sister. If there is any danger, take her away immediately.]
[Black Pupa: Of course, I've been waiting for you to say this.]
【Gu Qiye: If anything happens to her, our cooperation will end.】
[Black Pupa: Please trust my ability. I promise you... your sister will survive this auction safely.]
(End of this chapter)
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