·80｜Exclusive to Jinjiang·80
Straight men can't fish, but they can catch dogs.
The office air conditioning wasn't on, but light streamed in from the window, and the white gauze curtains rippled like dancing waves when the breeze lifted them.
Wisps of steam rose from the short porcelain cup. Kenji Hagiwara swallowed a mouthful of hot coffee and turned to look at his left hand. Yomi Raikawa was perched on his wrist, its tongue lolling out and its tail wagging incessantly.
Kenji Hagiwara put down his coffee and chubby-cheeked Yomi Laichuan. Perhaps enjoying the pinch, Yomi Laichuan's ears, which had been folded on top of her head, slowly perked up, and her sky-blue eyes, which had initially been bright and round, became half-closed in a state of blissful enjoyment.
Kenji Hagiwara: "Soft bread, come on, left hand."
Lai Chuan Huang Quan wagged its tail and obediently placed its left paw into Hagiwara Kenji's palm.
Kenji Hagiwara: "Great, come on, right hand."
Just as Yomi Laichuan was about to place her right paw into Kenji Hagiwara's palm, she suddenly realized what was happening. She stood up, barked at Kenji Hagiwara a few times, then turned around and sat down with her back to him. Yomi Laichuan raised her head high, her nose almost touching the ceiling, and then let out a childish, cold snort from her nose.
Kenji Hagiwara poked Yomi Laichuan's furry back with his finger; it felt soft and fluffy. Yomi Laichuan whimpered, maintaining her chin-up posture, and shifted her buttocks a little further away.
Kenji Hagiwara poked again, and Yomi Laichuan moved again. Until she was blocked by a stack of manila document folders piled on the table, with nowhere to go.
When Kenji Hagiwara tentatively reached out with his fingertips again, Yomi Laichuan got annoyed. She stood up, hind legs on one side, front legs raised high, making a gesture that resembled surrendering. What should have been a defiant gesture, when performed by the short-limbed little dumpling, was nothing more than cuteness and adorable clumsiness.
She let out a howl and pounced on Kenji Hagiwara's sinful fingers, pressing down on his fingertips and biting and nibbling at them.
Kenji Hagiwara rested his chin on his hand, letting Yomi Rikawa run wild. He stared at her for a while, then mischievously made a "hiss" sound, as if he had been bitten in pain.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan was startled, then quickly spat out her finger. She raised her front paw and gently rubbed Hagiwara Kenji's saliva-covered fingertip with her soft, pink paw pads. Her large, watery eyes were filled with shame and grievance: "Waaah—"
"It's okay, I know the soft bun didn't mean it." Kenji Hagiwara pretended to be considerate, constantly comforting his girlfriend who had turned into a little dumpling, but his fingers gradually moved towards her fluffy ears.
It's soft and easy to squeeze.
And their chubby little round faces are so cute to pinch.
Matsuda Jinpei gripped the pen and signed his name in a flamboyant style on the document submitted by his subordinate, his azure eyes glancing sideways at Raikawa Yomi.
A cell phone ring interrupted the game between Kenji Hagiwara and Yomi Raikawa. It was the Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau calling—they needed Kenji Hagiwara's help to dismantle the mechanical design they had intercepted during the last operation. After hanging up, Kenji Hagiwara ruffled the little dumpling's hair: "Good boy, I'm going to the Public Security Bureau. I'll be back later."
After saying that, he took out a bag of beef jerky from the drawer, tore it open, poured it all out on the table, and then left the office.
After Kenji Hagiwara left, only Jinpei Matsuda remained in the fairly spacious office.
The black carbon pen spun rapidly between his knuckles as Matsuda Jinpei stared intently at the little dumpling on the next table, who was munching on beef jerky, his thoughts churning.
He recalled the intermittent dreams he had had over the past three years, and the pain seeped into every breath. If these were all real events that had occurred in the past, then he could probably understand why he felt a sense of déjà vu when he first met Yomi Laichuan.
"Waaah—"
After turning into a little dumpling, Lai Chuan Huang Quan's tiny baby teeth struggled to bite anything. She lay on her back on the table, hugging a long strip of beef jerky with her four legs in the air, gnawing and gnawing until she finally managed to bite off the top small piece.
Perhaps Matsuda Jinpei was lost in thought, for he made no attempt to conceal his gaze as he stared at Raikawa Yomi. His burning gaze seared Raikawa Yomi's skin. She glanced at Matsuda Jinpei, snorted, and sat up, leaving him with her back turned.
Yomi's back resembled a pear with ears and a tail. Matsuda Jinpei raised his eyebrows and pressed his index finger against the tip of Yomi's tail.
With her tail held down, Raikawa Yomi's small ears sprang up. She glanced back at Matsuda Jinpei, then forcefully pulled her tail out, raising her head with a haughty air.
Seeing this, Matsuda Jinpei immediately perked up and reached out to hold down Yomi's tail again. So the man and the dog played like they were playing whack-a-mole, with Matsuda Jinpei holding down the tail, Yomi pulling it out forcefully, only to be held down again by Matsuda Jinpei.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan was never a patient person to begin with. After being teased several times, she simply stepped on Matsuda Jinpei's fingers and sat on his palm: "Ouch!"
Matsuda Jinpei grinned, grabbed a piece of beef jerky from the table with his other hand, popped it into his mouth, and chewed it twice in front of Raikawa Yomi.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan: ? ?
Matsuda Jinpei: "Hmm, it tastes good."
"Woo-hoo! Awooo!"
Fury surged to his head, and Yomi Yomi was furious. He lunged at Matsuda Jinpei, but even with his short limbs, he could only jump a few centimeters high.
Matsuda Jinpei pinched Raikawa Yomi's mouth, which was whimpering incessantly: "Be quiet if you don't want the officers to find out."
With her mouth held between fingers, Raikawa Yomi was so angry that she shook her head wildly, making her ears slap loudly. After escaping Matsuda Jinpei's clutches, she spun around in anger, then pounced on him, biting his thenar eminence and shaking her head violently.
Yomi Laichuan's eyes were fierce, seemingly a show of defiance towards Jinpei Matsuda, completely unaware that her rounded canine teeth couldn't hurt at all. She lowered her upper body, pushed off the ground with her hind legs, and raised her rump and tail high, making it hard to tell whether she was pouncing on her prey or just being cute.
Matsuda Jinpei rested his chin on his hand, staring intently at the little guy who was biting his hand. That idiot Yomi Raikawa, both in size and personality, is like a puppy; he strangely likes to pounce and bite him.
"Fool."
Matsuda Jinpei chuckled cryptically, then grabbed another piece of beef jerky and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it with relish.
The biting motion stopped, and Raikawa Yomi stared wide-eyed, slowly squeezing out a question mark, completely unable to believe that Matsuda Jinpei was actually trying to steal her food.
Just as Matsuda Jinpei swallowed the beef in his mouth and raised his hand to grab a piece, Raikawa Yomi whimpered and scrambled to protect his precious beef jerky.
But how could someone so small protect a table full of beef jerky? She protected the left side, and Matsuda Jinpei stole the right. She protected the right side, and Matsuda Jinpei reached back to grab the left.
When Kenji Hagiwara returned, he had just opened the door when he saw Jinpei Matsuda holding a piece of beef jerky with one hand supporting his chin. A fluffy white milk ball was hanging from the bottom of the beef jerky.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan held onto the beef jerky tightly, refusing to let go, like a fish that had been pulled ashore. She twisted her body and grumbled as she was angrily pulled into the air.
"Really!" Kenji Hagiwara exclaimed in surprise, and quickly ran forward to hug Yomi Raikawa. "Jinpei, don't bully the softie!"
Lai Chuan Huang Quan nestled in Hagiwara Kenji's arms with its tail between its legs, letting out a soft whimper and crying pitifully. Tears, like tiny pearls from a broken string, rolled down its cheeks and onto Hagiwara Kenji's sleeve.
"Waaah—"
A tiny, palm-sized ball of fluff crying is already incredibly adorable, let alone when that ball of fluff is actually Yomi Laichuan. Kenji Hagiwara quickly wiped away Yomi Laichuan's tears with his thumb, hugged her, and kissed and coaxed her, "Good girl, good girl, I'll buy you even more delicious food tonight."
He couldn't help but glance at Matsuda Jinpei with a subtle expression, a mixture of disappointment and inexplicable relief.
Matsuda Jinpei was also flustered by Raikawa Yomi's aggrieved cries. He gripped the last piece of beef jerky and tried to feed it to Raikawa Yomi, attempting to apologize. But the little dumpling nestled in Hagiwara Kenji's arms, turned its head away in a pitiful manner, ignoring Matsuda Jinpei and refusing to eat.
Kenji Hagiwara sighed: "Jinpei, you..."
Matsuda Jinpei: "What?"
Kenji Hagiwara hesitated, then said, "It's nothing."
"Hagi, when did you become so hesitant and stammering?"
"I just want to say, you'll never find a girlfriend if you keep going like this."
Matsuda Jinpei snorted unhappily, opened the document on the table, and remained silent.
"Girlfriends are such a thing..." He glanced at Lai Chuan Huang Quan, who was still crying, and muttered to himself, swallowing the rest of his sentence.
...
Yomi Laichuan was really angry. After turning into a dog, she had already lost her ability to take care of herself and needed to be fed. Then Matsuda Jinpei even stole her beef jerky.
Until she left work, Raikawa Yomi ignored Matsuda Jinpei completely. No matter what he said, she just snorted and turned her head away, refusing to respond.
"Soft bread, let's go!"
Yomi Lai jumped into Kenji Hagiwara's palm and was put into his pocket and taken away. Before leaving, she even deliberately poked her head out of her pocket and stuck her tongue out at Jinpei Matsuda, making a "pfft" sound.
But Lai Chuan Huang Quan's temper flared up quickly and subsided just as fast. By the time she returned to her apartment, she had completely forgotten the unpleasantness at the office and started climbing into bed, wiggling her little bottom.
Kenji Hagiwara was planning to go downstairs to buy beef bowl, but his phone suddenly rang. It was Mr. Raikawa calling.
Kenji Hagiwara stared at the name on the screen for a moment, already guessing the purpose of the call. He answered the phone: "Hello, Uncle."
Mr. Raikawa got straight to the point: "Hagiwara, I heard my daughter is back."
He used an affirmative sentence, so he must have already received the news from Morofushi Kagemitsu or Furuya Rei.
Kenji Hagiwara smiled and said, "Yes, she just came back a couple of days ago."
Mr. Lai Chuan hummed in agreement and continued, "I happen to be free tomorrow afternoon. Would it be convenient for me to bring Huang Quan back with me?"
Mr. Raikawa's job is unusual, and it would be reasonable for Kenji Hagiwara and the others to accommodate him. But...
Kenji Hagiwara glanced at the little dumpling rolling around on the bed and fell silent.
Kenji Hagiwara was quite certain that if he held up a white, fluffy little girl to Mr. Raikawa and said, "Look, this is your daughter!" Mr. Raikawa would definitely grab the back of his head and beat him up with enough force to shove his face into the concrete.
It's said that high-ranking leaders who sit in their offices for too long will have their skills deteriorate to the point of being unwatchable. But Kenji Hagiwara has no interest in whether the skills of active-duty police chiefs have actually deteriorated.
Thinking of this, Kenji Hagiwara smiled and said, "Yomi was just sent here and may be having some trouble adjusting to the environment. She's been resting these past few days. We'll have to trouble you, Mr. Raikawa, to choose another time so we can definitely pay you a visit."
On the other end of the phone, Raikawa Kenji was silent for a moment before agreeing to Hagiwara's suggestion: "I'm not sure when I'll be free next time, let's contact each other then." After saying that, Mr. Raikawa exchanged a few more pleasantries with Hagiwara Kenji before hanging up the phone.
Kenji Hagiwara didn't know how much Mr. Raikawa had guessed, and he didn't think he could hide too much from him. But more than figuring out how to deal with his future father-in-law, he wanted to have dinner and then take a nice hot bath.
Although May isn't the hottest month yet, the solar water heater has enough water for one person's shower. The starry sky bath salt balls quickly disperse into granules in the hot water, and a strong arm dips into the water and stirs it a couple of times, causing the fine granules to shimmer like gilded gold.
Kenji Hagiwara wrapped a white bath towel around his lower body and held Yomi Laichuan in his arms: "Let's go take a shower."
A small yellow duck floated in a white, square bathtub that was just big enough for an adult. Kenji Hagiwara slowly sat down in the hot water, the shimmering blue water reaching up to his chest. Yomi Raikawa floated on the surface, flapping its claws and swimming energetically after the little duck.
She held her tail high, her head held high, and the downy fur around her mouth was wet.
"Waaah—"
Lai Chuan Huang Quan wasn't used to the feeling of not being able to touch the bottom. She swam around once, then started climbing up by stepping on Hagiwara Kenji's chest.
The soft paw pads and firm muscles were two completely different sensations, and the wet paws tickled as they stepped on him. Kenji Hagiwara sat up, intending to hug Yomi Raikawa, but the little dumpling lost her footing, rolled a few times, and fell into the water with a splash.
The water in the bathtub overflowed because the thing inside suddenly expanded in size. Yomi Laichuan sat up, straddling Kenji Hagiwara: "Kenji, what are you doing! You deliberately put me in the water, I'm going to get angry!"
Suddenly transforming back into human form, Yomi Laichuan was still wearing the same blue dress she wore last time. She glared angrily at Kenji Hagiwara, her hands clenched into fists.
Kenji Hagiwara stared blankly at Yomi Raikawa, his ears ringing.
A few drops of water flowed down Lai Chuan Huang Quan's slender swan neck, crawled over her collarbone, followed the curve of her chest towards the center, and disappeared into the depths of her clothes, out of sight.
The water droplet disappeared, but it rolled straight into Kenji Hagiwara's heart like a drop of oil. The flames in his chest burned even more fiercely, making his mouth dry.
...
"call--"
He exhaled warm, hoarse breaths through his nose, and the hot water from the showerhead soaked Kenji Hagiwara's hair. His long hair clung to his neck, sticky and clinging.
It felt heavy in my palm.
Rippling water, a thin blue gauze skirt, soaked with water, was tossed beside the bathtub.
"Soft bread".
The cloyingly sweet voice was like a honey trap made of syrup.
His hands clenched tightly, muscles bulging in his arms. Sweat mixed with water droplets streamed down his face; the active-duty police officer possessed top-notch endurance and explosive power.
Lai Chuan Huang Quan frowned, his voice becoming unusually soft.
Spider webs entangle their prey, rendering the beautiful butterfly immobile and helpless, allowing it to be manipulated by its predator as white venom is injected into its body by the spider's fangs.
[Author's Note]
Thank you all for your support, love you all! *kiss*
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