18 | Jinjiang Exclusive · 18
You've really been a long way off for me.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan's left ankle was badly swollen, so she politely declined Morofushi Kagemitsu's offer and insisted on walking on her own. As a result, after hopping seven or eight steps on one foot, she collapsed with a thud.
If Morobuchi Kagemitsu hadn't reacted quickly and caught Raikawa Yomi before she was about to make intimate contact with the ground, she would have almost twisted her other ankle from the ten-centimeter stiletto heels she was wearing.
Zhu Fujingguang frowned and smiled helplessly: "I'll carry you instead."
He took off his coat and gestured for Lai Chuan Huang Quan to tie it around his waist to prevent any accidental exposure, before picking him up in a princess carry.
Morofushi Kagemitsu brought Yorikawa Yomi home.
The once-tranquil skyscrapers stand tall on the edge of the city's main thoroughfare, their scattered lights reflecting the lonely souls beneath.
Room 2013 was a standard one-bedroom apartment. After giving Raikawa Yomi a basic first aid for her wounds, Morofushi Kagemitsu helped her into the bedroom. Standing at the bedroom door, he gave Raikawa Yomi a reassuring smile: "I'll sleep on the sofa tonight. Call me anytime if you need anything."
"good."
The door closed slowly. Lai Chuan Huang Quan edited a text message saying that he had something to do and wouldn't be coming home, and sent it to Hagiwara Kenji. He also set an alarm to go off in two hours, and then wrapped himself in the blanket and lay down to sleep.
However, the phone that Morofushi Kagemitsu picked up for her was already malfunctioning due to the impact, and the text message he had edited spun around a few times before displaying "failed to send".
On the other side of the city, Kenji Hagiwara repeatedly dialed Yomi Yorikawa's number, but the receiver was constantly busy, which annoyed him.
Kenji Hagiwara slammed down the phone in frustration, slumping into the driver's seat like a limp shrimp whose bones had been removed. The streetlights were blinding, so he raised his hand to shield his eyes, plunging half his face into darkness.
His Adam's apple bobbed as he picked up his phone again and dialed Matsuda Jinpei's number: "Jinpei, I need your help... No, not me, it's Soft Bread. I can't reach her, can you help me look for her?"
...
The moment her phone vibrated, Lai Chuan Huang Quan opened her eyes in the darkness. She quietly sat up in bed, her eyes clear and without a trace of confusion.
Morofushi Kagemitsu was clearly a soft, cloud-like person, yet his bedroom was excessively clean and simple, giving off a cold feeling. Either Morofushi Kagemitsu was someone who took minimalism to the extreme, or this was just one of his temporary lodgings.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan stretched and strolled to the wardrobe. Just as he was about to open the wardrobe door to check the situation carefully, he suddenly heard the administrator's voice.
— "Wait a minute, number 1107."
Lai Chuan Huang Quan stopped moving; her hand was already on the wardrobe door, about to push it open in the next second.
"This room has surveillance cameras and listening devices; don't make any rash moves."
Yomi Yomi: !!!
She was careless; seeing that Morofushi Kagemitsu was a policeman, she presumptuously concluded that he wouldn't invite a woman to stay in a place full of surveillance.
With a slight movement of her lips, Raikawa Yomi whispered, "Administrator, is Morofushi Kagemitsu asleep?"
A moment later, the administrator reported: "He's taking a nap on the sofa, but he's not asleep."
"Pretending to be asleep..."
He was indeed testing her.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan turned the doorknob and quietly pushed the door open a crack. In the darkness, Zhu Fu Jing Guang lay on his side on the three-seater sofa, his slender legs dangling over the edge. The living room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop in the dark. Lai Chuan Huang Quan, barefoot, limped slowly to the sofa. She knelt down in front of Zhu Fu Jing Guang, her hands supporting her chin, and stared at him intently.
With a playful intent, she brought her face very close, deliberately letting her warm breath spray onto Morofushi Kagemitsu's face.
With the faint scent and aroma of the opposite sex lingering around his nose, Zhu Fujingguang was so nervous that he slowed his breathing, but he kept his eyes closed and pretended that nothing was wrong, trying to appear calm.
"Midorikawa-kun."
A woman's voice whispered in his ear, like a ghostly whisper tickling his eardrums, sending chills down his spine. His hand, hidden under the pillow, gripped a loaded gun, his index finger on the trigger, ready to fire at any moment.
Because he was pretending to be asleep, Morofushi Kagemitsu couldn't open his eyes and could only rely on his ears to discern and analyze the movements around him. But after waiting and waiting, apart from the slow, leisurely call he had made earlier, Yomi Yorikawa didn't make any other sound.
What exactly is she doing?
Just as Morofushi Kagemitsu was about to burst and was about to open his eyes under the pretense of needing water, Yomi Raikawa moved again. The empty water bottle tapped against his forehead with a slight thud. Yomi Raikawa's movements were extremely slow, barely alerting Morofushi Kagemitsu until the impact occurred. But it was this force, so light it couldn't even crush an ant, that triggered Yomi Raikawa's skill, "Stun."
The change happened too quickly, and Yomi Yorikawa's movement of raising her hand was extremely light and slow. Morofushi Kagemitsu didn't even have time to notice anything unusual before experiencing what it meant to be forced to shut down without taking any damage.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan glanced at the countdown timer flashing on the left mouse button of Morofushi Kagemitsu, then raised his hand and grabbed his face.
"Seriously, a policeman installing surveillance equipment in his bedroom. Where exactly are you infiltrating? You're being overly cautious. And shouldn't staying up late accelerate aging? Why does your face look younger than a high school student's?"
Morofushi Kagemitsu's skin was smoother than a woman's, and Raikawa Yomi grabbed his cheeks with both hands and rubbed them vigorously. Sometimes she pulled them to the sides to lengthen them, sometimes she pinched them into pouty goldfish lips, and after tormenting him for a while, Raikawa Yomi finally stood up, satisfied, by leaning on the sofa. Anyway, while the stun skill was in effect, Morofushi Kagemitsu wouldn't wake up no matter how he was handled.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan pouted, suddenly realizing she understood why she could only reach rank B at best—she wasn't suited for intellectual battles!
With her hands on her hips and a long sigh, Yomi Lai gave up on relying on herself. She really should have teamed up with Kenji Hagiwara; someone who could rise to the rank of captain in the Explosives Division couldn't be too bad-minded.
But the thought had barely formed when Yomi Laichuan suddenly pictured Matsuda Jinpei's fierce face. The image of that guy with sunglasses, a cigarette dangling from his lips, and a defiant look on his face seemed to be right before her eyes.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan: "..."
Well, maybe not everyone who becomes the head of the Explosives Division is smart. At least Matsuda Jinpei doesn't seem very bright; he's not nearly as clever as Hagiwara Kenji.
The room was full of surveillance cameras, and Lai Chuan Huang Quan immediately lost the desire to search through drawers for clues. Carrying her sexy but inconvenient high heels, she limped and hopped away from the building.
A pale moon hung high in the night sky. Even in a metropolis like Tokyo, the only sounds at night were a few barks from dogs and the rattling of passing engines. A few dim yellow streetlights illuminated the long street, and occasionally a taxi would pass by Yomi Yorikawa, but the back seats were always occupied by other passengers.
After walking unsteadily for a while, Lai Chuan Huang Quan sat down with her knees drawn up to her chest in front of the already closed shopping mall. The lights on both sides slanted down, casting her shadow long and crisscrossing, making her look lonely in the open space in front of the mall.
Having walked barefoot, a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the soles of Lai Chuan Huang Quan's feet. Her black stockings, which covered her slender legs, were riddled with large holes, exposing her wounded skin. Lai Chuan Huang Quan buried her head in her arms, her uncomfortable high heels neatly arranged at her feet.
The area of the wound on her leg that was scraped and bled from rolling has shrunk by a quarter—the bureau employees' bodies heal faster than ordinary humans. From the time she fell and rolled out until now, only four hours have passed, and her scraped and bleeding wound has already finished the scabbing period and begun to fall off naturally.
But my ankle still aches slightly and probably won't heal until dawn. Walking back isn't too difficult, but my phone is broken and I can't connect to the internet, leaving Lai Chuan Huang Quan completely lost.
Although the character profile page has a map, it was originally given to her secretly by the administrator. It was a replaced version, and its only function was to record the target location in real time. It didn't even show the location of Yomi Laichuan.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan nestled in her arms, peeking out with only half her face, and tapped the virtual panel. Like a lost puppy, she sat listlessly on the steps, her usually vibrant almond-shaped eyes filled with a pitiful expression.
She scrolled back and forth on the side scroll wheel, muttering, "And the central system claims to be the most advanced civilization in existence? Even location sharing software from 21st-century humans is better than this..."
Lai Chuan Huang Quan rummaged through the information files aimlessly, but didn't read a single word. The virtual panel eventually stopped at the page with Hagiwara Kenji, and she stared blankly at the front and side views of the man provided by the central system.
Kenji Hagiwara is always smiling, reserved and composed, yet his violet eyes subtly gleam with confidence and arrogance, as if nothing in this world could possibly faze him. Just seeing him is like seeing a savior; everything gains hope and a chance for change.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan frowned, his eyes fixed on the face of Hagiwara Kenji, who was floating in the air.
"That idiot," she muttered, "I wonder if he's even asleep."
Looking down, Yomi Laichuan's attention shifted from his static, handsome face to the real-time map below. The flashing red circle was the location of Kenji Hagiwara, who was speeding along the city's main road at speeds far exceeding the city's speed limit.
Yomi Laichuan: "Eh...?"
She blinked, stunned for a moment—this idiot was still awake.
The red dot symbolizing Kenji Hagiwara's location appears in the corner of the map after turning left and going around an intersection. It is marked with "Isetan Department Store" in katakana.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan frowned, staring at the supermarket's name, which seemed strangely familiar. She turned her head to look behind her, and with her superhuman night vision, she clearly read the name of the shopping mall behind her, based on the red sign that had been turned off: "Isetan Department Store".
As Lai Chuan Huang Quan stared blankly at the sign behind her, a black private car sped past her.
"squeak--"
After passing her by three or four meters, the car slammed on the brakes, the tires screeching violently against the pavement. The next instant, the black car shifted into reverse and came to a steady stop on the side of the road, directly opposite Lai Chuan Huang Quan.
The black private car looked very familiar. Lai Chuan and Huang Quan didn't notice the license plate number, but the moment the car stopped in front of her, their hearts started pounding wildly.
The driver's side door was pushed open from the inside, and the man that Lai Chuan Huang Quan had been staring at repeatedly on the virtual panel just seconds before appeared in front of her.
Her sky-blue eyes seemed to ignite countless starlight as Lai Chuan Huang Quan craned her neck to look at the man who appeared before her like a god descending to earth. She sat up straight, and her nonexistent tail began to wag wildly.
However, before Yomi Lai could even feel happy, Kenji Hagiwara slammed the car door shut with a loud bang. The resounding crash of the door hitting the frame was like the drumbeat of soldiers rallying their troops before battle, causing Yomi Lai to instinctively shrink back. Kenji Hagiwara walked towards Yomi Lai with one hand in his pocket, a smile on his face, but an intense, suffocating aura emanating from him.
"Soft bread," Kenji Hagiwara said in a tender voice, each word uttered with force as he called out Yomi's nickname, as if he wanted to chew her up in his mouth: "You really made me search for a long time."
[Author's Note]
I'm going to the hospital tomorrow. If there's no update by 11 PM tomorrow night, then there's a high chance I won't be able to update again; I'll update the day after tomorrow.
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