Chapter 81 Chapter 81 “I like you, Hiro. …
Since he was released from the hospital at the age of eight, Rei Furuya has never cried again.
He is strong-willed by nature and has much higher self-esteem than most people. Tears, a physiological product that represents "weakness", will not appear on him.
No need to show weakness, and there is no one to show weakness to.
"I thought Zero had eaten all of it and didn't even notice I signed my name on the back of the potato pancakes."
This simple sentence, laced with a friendly joke, at this moment broke down the psychological defenses that Fūya Rei had maintained for the past two months.
He suddenly understood what kind of feelings he had when he and his wife pretended to be a couple in a foreign country, Scotland, and fabricated a story in front of the Kato couple about how Midorikawa Yui and Amuro Toru were together.
The script was prepared by them in advance. They would think about their own parts first, then check with the other party, and make modifications if there were any discrepancies or parts that were not natural enough.
The "potato pancake" part was proposed by Scotland himself and was not modified by Jiang Guling.
At that time, Furiya Rei naturally didn't pay much attention to this fictional script. At most, he mocked the Scottish organization members in his heart for being able to come up with such a youthful plot. He was afraid that they had found some video to copy it.
However, I didn't expect that this seemingly childish and cute action is actually what Zhu Fujingguang himself would do.
He would really do something like "make lunch boxes for the person he likes for a week, write his name on the back of the potato pancake, hoping that the person he likes will notice but also afraid that the person he likes will notice."
This is the first time that Morofushi Kagemitsu has expressed his love for Furuya Rei.
Scotland's genuine feelings were regarded by Bourbon as another false pretense.
...No, Furuya Rei thought, he should have been able to think of it later, or his subconscious mind noticed it, otherwise he would not have had such a dream a month ago.
"Haven't you been ignoring my feelings time and time again... Zero."
Rather than saying that Midorikawa Yui in the dream is blaming Amuro Toru, this sentence is more like Furuya Rei's self-condemnation.
What Scotland said was right. Because he favored me, I had always been fearless. No matter what I had done to Scotland, it seemed that I could be forgiven unconditionally... until I lost him.
But Jiang Gu Ling still didn't shed a single tear.
It seemed as if his tear glands had temporarily lost their function amidst the flames that day, and he became numb even when the pain was at its peak.
Moreover, was Rei Furuya qualified to shed tears for Scotland in flames? The executioner weeps for the victims, only to move himself hypocritically.
But now that Morifushi Jingguang was back alive, even if he resisted his touch, Furuya Ling was clearly aware that this body was alive. Having lost those painful memories, Morifushi Jingguang would talk to him with a smile, would comfort him, and would tell at a glance that he liked celery...
The grape oolong that he thought he would never smell again was now lingering around him.
So Rei Furuya indulged himself very selfishly.
Although he knew that Zhu Fujingguang was resisting his touch, and under the impact of great grief, self-blame, regret and relief, Furuya Ling still impulsively hugged the cat-eyed young man beside him, letting his tears wet Zhu Fujingguang's shoulders.
He needed the exact warmth in his arms to tell himself that, yes, Hiro was back alive, and what he saw was not an illusion, not a daydream fabricated by his body.
When he embraced the body with the aroma of grape oolong, Fūya Ling could feel the other party's resistance for a moment - this was the body's instinctive reaction, one of the scars inflicted by his own hands - but after noticing his own tears, he slowly relaxed his body.
Zhu Fujingguang was trying hard to tolerate him.
After realizing this, tears began to flow more fiercely. Rei Furuya wanted to tighten his embrace, but after the impulse just now, his reason quickly returned: Hiro had already suffered too much pain in the past, and now he couldn't let him suffer anymore.
Thinking of this, even though his whole body was clamoring to be intimate with the person in his arms for even a moment, Furuya Rei slowly loosened his hands: "Sorry, Hiro——"
Then the cat-eyed young man hugged his back.
Fūya Rei opened his eyes silently, and another tear fell as his body shook.
"If you feel uncomfortable and my presence will make Zero feel better," the voice beside my ear was gentle and affectionate, "then hug me again."
Hiro.
Hirohirohirohiro… Like a possessed man, he kept repeating this nickname for Morobushi Kagemitsu uncontrollably in his heart.
Fūya Rei was enjoying the almost unlimited indulgence of Morufushi Kagemitsu towards him at the moment in a despicable and greedy manner, but he was also afraid of the other party's reaction after he fully recovered his memory, and was afraid that he would never be allowed to call him that again.
The blond public security officer, who was always good at talking, lost his ability to speak for a moment due to the complex and intense emotions that blocked his throat. He could only hear the comfort from his beloved in his ears, which continued to come through his chest. "Zero is actually very worried about me, right? I can see it."
This tone, almost like coaxing a child, was the best medicine for 25-year-old Rei Furuya to soothe the mental trauma he had suffered in the past two months.
The man who once regarded Scotland's attempt to bandage him as revenge now wanted to expose all the pain of his wounds to the other party.
After his emotions gradually calmed down, Furuya Rei finally let go of Morobushi Keimitsu reluctantly - but before letting go, he expressed his feelings seriously and directly for the first time, right in front of the other person's ear: "I like you, Hiro."
The white tip of his ear immediately turned red. The cat-eyed young man, who had just been trying to stretch his body and gently comforting Rei Furuya, tensed up again because of this confession.
Slightly increasing the distance between the two, Furuya Rei looked directly at Morobushi Keimitsu and solemnly repeated the words: "I like you, Hiro."
His eyes were still red from the tears he had just shed, but they also looked particularly sentimental because the tears had not yet faded. At this moment, they were fully and completely filled with Zhu Fu Jingguang.
"I know this isn't a good time to confess. To Hiro right now, I've only just met him for less than a day, right? But since I told him so abruptly yesterday that I'm his admirer, I have to make my feelings clear to him. It's not for any other reason, it's simply because I like Hiro."
The person in front of him spoke such affectionate words, and was stared at intently by those purple-gray eyes. Zhu Fujingguang's cheeks soon took on the same color as his ears: "I..."
"Don't rush to answer. Or, if Hiro agrees now, I'll be taking advantage of him," Furuya Rei paused, a flicker of embarrassment flashing across his face. "Although with what I'm doing now... Anyway, Hiro, take your time to think about it and make a decision after your memory returns."
"Yeah." Zhu Fujingguang nodded slightly, agreeing with what Jiang Gu Ling said.
Their eyes met.
Both of them turned into ripe, steaming tomatoes.
The person who just cried bitterly in front of his sweetheart and confessed his love without hesitation now finally realized it and felt embarrassed.
"Anyway, let's eat first." After a long while, Zhu Fu Jingguang spoke up to break the situation that was about to inexplicably turn into the status quo of the "123 Statue" game.
"Uh-huh."
Now that things have come to this, let’s eat first.
The food was not as hot as it was when it was fresh out of the pot, but it was not yet completely cold, which did not reduce its deliciousness.
Because of what just happened, the two of them were now eating in silence.
This also made Fūya Rei divide half of his attention on Zhufu Jingguang beside him, while the other half of his mind was thinking of something that happened a long time ago.
It's also related to the "pretending to be a couple" thing.
At that time, Rei Furuya was still obsessed with finding the whereabouts of the figure from his childhood. Relying only on that vague memory and his own stubborn character, he never gave up over the years. The intelligence channel personnel who contacted him on this matter were also tortured, and even said many times that "it is impossible to find it."
So when a relatively reliable intelligence dealer who had worked with Amuro Toru many times contacted him that day and said that he had found someone who quite matched the person he was looking for, Furutani Rei inadvertently left Scotland, with whom he had just agreed to pretend to be a couple and, at least on the surface, were about to have a sweet meal together, and chose to track down that person's whereabouts.
At that time, Fūya Rei had no idea that the person he had been looking for for so many years was Scotland, whom he now disdained.
He would not even think about how Scotland, who was left behind by him, felt when he left in a hurry with just a casual word "I have something to do", looking at the intact meal for two on the table.
"Zero, why are you so... angry while eating?" Following these words with a smile, Furuya Zero felt his cheek being gently poked by a slightly cool fingertip. "Your cheeks are puffing up. What are you thinking about? Didn't I put enough celery?"
It is undeniable that although the emotional outburst just now made the blond policeman feel a little embarrassed, it also broke down some of the subtle barriers between Morifushi Keimitsu and Fūya Rei caused by Morifushi Keimitsu's amnesia.
Furiya Rei chewed the celery and beef stew in his mouth and swallowed it before speaking: "Hiro put in just the right amount. Any more celery would have covered the aroma of the beef, right?"
"I'm just mad at myself...for finding Hiro too late." Furuya Rei said, using a double entendre, "I still have to settle accounts with Matsuda."
"Zero is taking his anger out on others!"
After the meal, they cleared the tableware. Although neither of them said anything, they were tacitly waiting for the results of the morning's examination and kinship test - before Furuya Rei came back, he told Morobushi Kagemitsu that the report would be out in about three hours.
So the two full people sprawled on the sofa and began to chat about random things, from what dishes Furuya Rei and Morobushi Jingguang would cook next time, to what brand of guitar they should choose, to when they would go to visit Matsuda Jinpei together...
The afternoon sun was fluffy, and the two people's heads with different hair colors seemed to become fluffy as well.
When their topic turned to "If Hiro moved to Tokyo, what kind of area and what type of house would he like to live in", a new email appeared in Furuya Rei's mailbox.
After opening the email, the blond young man seemed to have seen something unbelievable at first. When the cat-eyed young man looked at him nervously, he smiled and said to him.
"Officially welcome back, Zhufu Jingguang."
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