·33｜Exclusive to Jinjiang·33 (Bonus Chapter)
I choose to trust her.
"Hey, you golden-haired bastard, you've sunk so low that you're hiring people to grope girls' backs now? I'm arresting you."
Matsuda Jinpei's teasing voice came through the receiver.
"..."
Rei Furuya twitched his lips twice, desperately wanting to hire someone to beat up his former good friend.
He took a deep breath, rubbed his throbbing temples, and slowly said, "Matsuda, that's enough."
"What, did I touch a nerve?"
"Tsk."
Even though they were several kilometers apart, the tension seemed to be palpable even through a cell phone, and there was a crackling sound of electricity behind them.
Matsuda Jinpei chuckled, deliberately smacking his lips loudly: "The top student in the police academy has actually fallen into criminalhood. Has he memorized the police handbook? If the foreigners knew, they'd be crying in their offices."
Rei Furuya gritted his teeth: "Matsuta, Jin, Hira!"
Matsuda Jinpei smirked, a smug smile playing on his lips: "Hmph, perverted Furuya."
His molars clenched so tightly they clicked, and the black aura emanating from Furuya Rei filled the entire room. Kazami Yuya swallowed hard and quietly slipped away along the corner of the wall. If Matsuda Jinpei were standing in front of Furuya Rei right now, he would have pounced on him and broken Matsuda Jinpei's dentures, which had cost tens of thousands of yen to fix, right again.
Matsuda Jinpei raised his eyebrows with a smug look on his face. Even when Raikawa Yomi secretly reached into his bowl with her chopsticks and took the largest piece of pork belly while he was on the phone, he turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it.
"Hey, Yellow Springs."
With Furuya Rei's noisy voice in his ears, Matsuda Jinpei, holding his phone, suddenly called out to Yomi Yorikawa.
The woman whose name was called paused, shrugging her shoulders like a fool caught trying to skip school by the homeroom teacher. Lai Chuan Huang Quan looked at Matsuda Jinpei with innocent eyes, and the next second, she quickly shoved the meat she had stolen from Matsuda's bowl into her own mouth.
Matsuda Jinpei almost laughed out of exasperation at the way Raikawa Yomi looked at him as if she was afraid he would steal the meat from her. But compared to teaching Raikawa Yomi a lesson, Matsuda Jinpei was now more interested in seeing Furuya Rei get the short end of the stick.
He grinned at Lai Chuan Huang Quan and said, "Want to beat up that bastard who let someone touch your back?"
Lai Chuan Huang Quan: "Can I hit you?"
"Don't worry," Matsuda Jinpei stood up, vigorously ruffled Raikawa Yomi's hair twice, making her smooth bangs stick up in a ball: "I'll take you to beat him up in a few days."
After saying that, he and Hagiwara exchanged a glance, then left their seats, still holding their phones.
The unmanned emergency exit was only painted with a layer of white lime, and the empty escalator space echoed when you spoke.
“Speak,” Matsuda Jinpei lit a cigarette and said seriously, “What is it you want to call about this time?”
Rei Furuya slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, rubbing his temples as he said, "I had my men investigate Yomi Yoruichi. She only had contact with the two of you. You must be careful of her, especially Hagiwara. Don't get too close to her."
Rei Furuya responded to the phone call with a long silence. After a long while, Kenji Hagiwara finally spoke up, saying, "It might be a little difficult."
Rei Furuya: "Why?"
But he already had a vague idea of the answer.
Kenji Hagiwara leaned lazily against the escalator, a cigarette between his fingers, and said slowly, "I like Yomi Yorikawa, and I want to be with her."
As the last word fell, a silent solitude descended upon the escalator. Kenji Hagiwara exhaled a puff of smoke and casually flicked the ash into the empty cigarette pack.
After a moment of silence, Furuya Rei spoke up: "Is there still room for maneuver?"
“Probably not,” Kenji Hagiwara lowered his head, the light shining on his long hair, casting a shadow on his delicate features: “This is the first time I’ve ever really wanted to be with a girl.”
As he said this, Matsuda Jinpei glanced at him and then looked away.
"Sigh..." Furuya Rei sighed deeply, his voice tinged with weariness: "I understand."
“But Hagiwara, Yomi Yorikawa may have mastered some strange technology,” he solemnly instructed. “Although it sounds incredible, I hope you will listen carefully to what I am about to say.”
“Yomi Yomi of Raikawa can change the rules of how the world works to some extent, for example…” Furuya Rei took a deep breath before lowering his voice to continue, “She can change the speed at which time passes for other people.”
Matsuda Jinpei had expected Hagiwara and the others to be shocked, but after a long silence on the other end of the phone, he finally spoke up in a lukewarm tone: "Ah, that's it? Hagiwara and I already knew."
Not only did I know, but I also experienced it firsthand.
Kenji Hagiwara added, "It's not just the two of us, the entire Hagiwara squad knows."
They were also hit on the head one by one with newspapers by Lai Chuan Huang Quan.
Rei Furuya's carefully prepared words caught in his throat: "..."
Rei Furuya: "Then why didn't you report this to your superiors!?"
Whenever such a strange incident occurs, as long as Hagiwara and his group report it, the Metropolitan Police Department will definitely notify the National Police Agency, which will then dispatch suitable personnel to investigate and track Yomi Yorikawa. However, so far, apart from Rei Furuya, no one else in the National Police Agency knows anything about Yomi Yorikawa.
Neither Jinpei Matsuda nor Kenji Hagiwara could answer the question about Rei Furuya.
The two top explosives officers in the explosives disposal unit clearly knew they should report the incident, but they both chose to conceal it.
As for the members of Hagiwara's squad who were present at the time, they had long been subdued by the two aces' abilities. They were even willing to follow Hagiwara Kenji's orders, doing the absurd thing of removing his bomb suit for him at the bomb disposal site. Therefore, in the matter of Yomi Raikawa, they naturally chose to follow Captain Hagiwara's arrangements, treating her special ability as a shared secret of the squad.
“Blonde bastard,” Matsuda Jinpei called to Furuya Rei, “you should have met Yomi by now, right? Do you have any strange feelings for her?”
Rei Furuya, completely bewildered, asked, "What does it feel like?"
Kenji Hagiwara said knowingly, "Then there isn't any."
When he and Matsuda Jinpei first met Yomi Raikawa, they were caught up in the incident, their nerves on edge and their attention highly focused, so they temporarily overlooked the strange aura emanating from Yomi Raikawa. But once their tension eased, Yomi Raikawa became like the north and south poles of a magnetic field to them, seemingly worlds apart yet mutually attracted.
It was a feeling that couldn't be described in words, a spiritual satisfaction, a racing heart, and a restless emotion. However, perhaps due to his intuitive nature, Matsuda Jinpei and Hijiri were the first to notice this strange feeling after the bomb threat incident ended.
Matsuda Jinpei remained silent for a long time, a cigarette dangling from his lips, before speaking again: "Hey Zero, are you willing to believe me and Hagi?"
"Huh?" Furuya Rei couldn't help but retort, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Matsuda Jinpei turned to look at Hagiwara Kenji, and in the exchange of glances, they both understood each other's meaning.
Kenji Hagiwara nodded to Jinpei Matsuda, then took the phone and said seriously to Rei Furuya on the other end of the line, "Furuya, I know that Yomi Yorikawa is full of mysteries, and there are strange phenomena behind her that we cannot understand for the time being. But Jinpei and I have discussed it, and we have chosen to believe in Yomi Yorikawa."
Rei Furuya: "...She can stop time. Do you understand that feeling of not being able to control your body?"
"I know, Xiaozhenping and I have been manipulated more than once."
Kenji Hagiwara chuckled and said, "The first time I was temporarily subjected to this, it was quite uncomfortable, like being dominated by a nightmare. But if I let go of my fear and trust the soft bread, I don't think it's a big deal." He's even gotten used to it.
Rei Furuya argued, "She's too special; she must be under the supervision of the National Police Agency."
Kenji Hagiwara disagreed with Rei Furuya's approach, but he simply looked at Jinpei Matsuda, asking for his opinion with his eyes.
Receiving a questioning look from Hagiwara, Matsuda Jinpei stubbed out his cigarette at his feet and yawned nonchalantly: "With that little coward's pathetic skills, I could easily subdue her with one hand. The only trick she has up her sleeve is to steal meat from me. That's all she's good for."
“So, Furuya,” Kenji Hagiwara said earnestly into the phone, “trust me and Jinpei, we’ll handle Yomi. But I hope you and your people won’t bully her again.”
"Hmm..."
The nerves that had been taut to the point of breaking since Raikawa Yomi disappeared finally relaxed, and the feeling of helplessness from the disconnect slowly dissipated. Furuya Rei slumped back into his seat, raising his hand to cover his forehead and eyelids with his broad palm. The emotions that had been stuck in his chest were exhaled with the rhythm of his breathing, and he smiled with downcast eyes: "I understand."
Sure enough, as long as he was with this group of bastards, he would feel at ease even if there were mountains of knives and seas of fire ahead.
It is a bond that can only exist between companions who trust each other and would never betray one another.
only……
Rei Furuya's forehead bulged with a vein: "Hey, Hagiwara! You just said 'again,' didn't you? You definitely did! When did I ever bully Yomi Yorikawa? Don't spout nonsense!"
"oops!?"
Kenji Hagiwara feigned surprise: "Have you already selectively forgotten the fact that you sent someone to grope Soft Bread's body so quickly? You pervert from the National Police Agency."
Jiangu Ling:? ? ?
"Hmph," Matsuda Jinpei scoffed, gleefully telling Hagiwara Kenji, "Let's tell Morofushi about this. Didn't he ask us to meet next Tuesday? Let Morofushi see what kind of mess that blond bastard has become."
Kenji Hagiwara chimed in, "Hiring someone to touch a girl's back is something that would be looked down upon even in the world of perverts."
Matsuda Jinpei raised his eyebrows, a hint of excitement in his eyes, as if he were adding fuel to the fire: "Tell the class president while you're at it, so he can join us in mocking Furuya Rei."
Kenji Hagiwara: "If it were the class president, she would probably be so angry that she would just make a phone call and give Furuya a good scolding."
Matsuda Jinpei sighed, "Then I'd love for the squad leader to know even more."
Kenji Hagiwara: "Let's call now, call the class monitor first."
Matsuda Jinpei: "OK."
Rei Furuya, who has been ignored since just now: ? ? ?
Rei Furuya: "Hey! You two, don't go too far!!"
But Matsuda Jinpei had already dialed Date Wataru's number: "Hey, is this the squad leader? I have something to tell you, that bastard Furuya actually..."
Furuya Rei was so angry he almost flipped the table: "Matsuda Jinpei, you bastard!!!"
This is malicious retaliation! It's settling a personal score!
[Author's Note]
Matsuda broke a tooth in a fight during high school, and then broke it again during a fight with Rei Furuya at police academy. (Meeting at Police Academy + Author Interview)
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Bonus chapters owed: 4
Late arrival x1, Nutrient solution x2, Comment x1, 1 already paid
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