Chapter 71
As early as the first time they met, Kenji Hagiwara saw that Satoshi Kagamino didn't want to go to the hospital for injections. The child first found various excuses to prevaricate, and when he couldn't cope with it, he simply threw a tantrum, pretended to be angry, and then really got angry. In short, he didn't want to go to the hospital.
So this time, when Kenji Hagiwara heard Satoshi Kagano say not to go to the hospital, his first reaction was that the kid was throwing a tantrum again.
At this time, Kagino Satoshi's face was pale, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, his hands were cold, and his body was trembling slightly. It was obvious that the situation was not good.
Is this a shock or some sudden illness? Whatever it is, it's better to let the doctor take a look.
In short, as a reliable adult, Kenji Hagiwara naturally could not allow Satoshi Kagino to continue like this.
So he half coaxed and half forced Kagano Satoshi to go to a nearby hospital, and also helped him adjust the seat so that he could lie down for a while, perhaps to relieve his body.
"Brother Yanji, please trust me and take me to the direction I told you. Someone is in danger there!"
Satoshi Kagino grabbed Kenji Hagiwara's arm, his face anxious and frightened, as if he was suffering from strong anxiety.
Kenji Hagiwara was originally planning to start the car and drive back, but he paused when he saw this.
He has a strong ability of observation and can easily capture the information he needs from other people's movements and expressions.
At this moment, when he saw Kagamino Satoshi's reaction, he was immediately surprised to find that Kagamino Satoshi was not deliberately making excuses this time, but was really very anxious.
Kenji Hagiwara looked suspiciously in the direction that Satoshi Kagino pointed, and could vaguely see what looked like a small village behind a hill.
The more detailed parts were too far away, so even Hagiwara Kenji couldn't see them clearly, and couldn't tell whether anyone was really in danger.
Perhaps he noticed Hagiwara Kenji's hesitation, Kagano Satoshi's mind suddenly became much more flexible at this moment. He suppressed the fear brought by the sudden palpitations, tightly grasped Hagiwara Kenji's arm with one hand, and trembled in his voice to negotiate:
"Look, isn't there a small village in the direction I pointed to? There is a hospital there with very professional doctors, and it's much closer than going back to Beido Town. Let's go there to save people first, and we'll still have time to go to the hospital after we've saved them."
Kenji Hagiwara looked at Satoshi Kagamino in surprise again, and then he no longer hesitated. He turned the steering wheel sharply and sped away in the direction Satoshi Kagamino pointed.
As they got closer to the village, Kagamino Satoshi seemed to be in better condition, and his breathing gradually subsided. After observing his condition, Hagiwara Kenji asked:
"Have you been here before? You even know how many hospitals there are in this small village."
Kagino Tomo hesitated for a moment, then nodded slowly and said:
"There is a children's orphanage on that hill. I used to live there."
Kenji Hagiwara was really surprised this time. He only knew that Kagamino Satoshi had to leave his parents and live alone in order to go to school, but he never thought that he had lived in an orphanage. Doesn't that mean that he was actually adopted by his current parents?
However, this situation is not the time to discuss such private topics. And looking at the state of Kagami Tomoyuki just now, it is indeed very bad. Considering his past experience, could it be that he really found something dangerous nearby?
Kenji Hagiwara couldn't help but pay more attention to the scenery outside the car.
The red Toyota quickly drove into the small village. The buildings and facilities here were very old, and the roads were very narrow. Some streets were not suitable for vehicles at all. Hagiwara Kenji had to slow down the car and try to find a suitable road to drive in.
Kagino Satoshi's expression became more and more anxious. When passing through a narrow alley, he suddenly said:
"Brother Yanji, stop the car quickly. I'm going to take you there through a shortcut. We're running out of time!"
Having said that, he reached out to open the car door before Hagiwara Kenji stopped the car.
"Wait, Xiaozhi, stop messing around!"
Kenji Hagiwara quickly stopped the car to prevent him from falling out in a panic.
However, before we even got to the station, we saw Kagano Satoshi open the door and jump out of the car without even looking at his feet.
He even stumbled and nearly fell because of the physical abnormality just now, but he finally steadied himself and ran quickly into the alley.
Kenji Hagiwara had no choice but to get out of the car and quickly catch up.
The road in the alley was very old and full of potholes. If you were not used to such roads, you would easily fall. In fact, the roads in the whole village were basically like this. However, Kagano Satoshi, who seemed to be not good at sports, did not find it difficult at this time, as if he had already been used to such road conditions.
Hagiwara Kenji hurriedly followed, thinking to himself that his previous guess was correct, Xiaozhi had indeed lived here for quite a long time. Not only was he familiar with the roads here, he was even well adapted to the environment.
They quickly passed through the alley, bypassed a primary school, and stopped outside the wall of an abandoned factory.
Behind the wall there were sounds of kicking, scolding, and the painful screams of a child.
Someone is bullying minors!
Satoshi Kagino leaned against the wall and gasped heavily, but he stopped not because he could not run anymore, but because he felt an invisible force preventing him from getting closer.
He had to turn his head to look at Hagiwara Kenji who was following him, and said anxiously:
"Brother Yanji, go over and help him!"
Kenji Hagiwara naturally noticed what was happening behind the wall. As a policeman, he wanted to rush over to stop it immediately, but he was also worried about Kagamino Satoshi. Now seeing Kagamino Satoshi take the initiative to stop and rest, he felt relieved and rushed out after saying yes.
Behind the wall, the young Xingchuan Heming was violently pushed to the ground by the gangsters. Blood began to seep from his swollen forehead and a loud roar came from his ears. He could vaguely hear the gangsters in front of him waving wooden sticks and threatening him to hand over all his royalties.
He was weak at that time and could not possibly be a match for these hooligans. However, the stubbornness of a child made him unwilling to give in.
The experiences of other children told him that if he gave in once, he would be bullied by these guys. He had to save a lot of money to realize his dream, so how could he be robbed of everything by these guys?
Just as the hooligans raised their sticks to hit him, a tall older brother with semi-long black hair suddenly appeared and knocked the hooligans to the ground with just three punches and two kicks. The violent perpetrators, who were so ferocious just now, were lying on the ground wailing for mercy in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, little Xingchuan and Ming almost thought that they saw Kamen Rider taking off his mask.
Outside the factory, separated by a wall, Satoshi Kagino leaned against the wall, trying to calm his breath after the intense exercise, but his mind was frantically refreshing his worldview.
This must be the comic book's doing, right?
Otherwise, why could I sense that "I" was in danger from a distance and run here to save people?
The most important thing is that the "self" who is in danger is actually himself - another self in the world who is only twelve years old, Hoshikawa Kazuaki!
It was only then that he finally felt vaguely where the bad luck corresponding to the last three frames he had drawn in the comic book copy had gone. Didn't it affect him directly, but instead affected the young Hoshikawa Kazuaki?
If it weren't for their bad luck, Xingchuan and Ming wouldn't have encountered gangsters and got injured today.
And if Hoshikawa and Ming had not encountered this danger, I would not have hurriedly brought Hagiwara Kenji here to rescue them, and naturally I would not have discovered that I would have such a strange feeling when facing "another me in the world".
Kagamino Intelligence clearly felt that for his now activated identity of "Kagamino Satoshi", the existence of the young version of "Hoshikawa Kazuaki" was like another self that had been activated but whose cognition was still unable to truly awaken.
The two activated selves should be consciously connected, but the channel of connection becomes blocked because one of them has not yet awakened.
This strange feeling is completely different from the time when he faced the unactivated hood vest.
At the same time, Kagino Satoshi could also clearly realize that he and Hoshikawa Kazuaki were completely two different people at this time, with two different sets of thinking and emotions.
That's why I was shaking with worry when I realized that Xingchuan and Ming were in danger, why I stopped when I reached the wall, and why I shrank back timidly just before seeing Xingchuan and Ming.
Because this is what the real "Kagino Satoshi" would definitely do.
The time they actually meet should not be now, but seven years after the plot begins.
For Hoshikawa Kazuaki seven years later, his acquaintance with Hagihara Kenji was due to a timely rescue like a hero. Hagihara Kenji descended from the sky like a hero when Hoshikawa Kazuaki was most desperate, drove away the gangsters who extorted royalties, and protected the bullied Hoshikawa Kazuaki.
However, for the current Kagano Satoshi, this was actually just an accidental contact under the transfer of bad luck. When he was approaching the village, he unexpectedly felt that "another self" was in danger due to bad luck, and it was under his guidance that Hagiwara Kenji came here and saved Hoshikawa Kazuaki who was in danger.
This is actually a self-rescue without any knowledge.
So, is the so-called bad luck in comic books really just about bringing bad luck to oneself?
Kagino Satoshi leaned against the wall with his head lowered, and couldn't help laughing.
This is really a strange circle. This is the first time I have encountered such an interesting thing.
Since he needed to follow the character and the plot, he simply took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Kenji Hagiwara, who was sitting across the wall, to tell him that he was not in a position to show up. Then he dragged his tired body back to Kenji Hagiwara's car alone.
When he realized the existence of Hoshikawa Kazuaki, he had already woken up from the childish personality attached to Kagano Satoshi's ID card. Only then did he realize that this dungeon mission had been completed and it was time to consider returning to the main world.
He needed to reorganize the information, get rid of the influence of the identity card on his personality as soon as possible, and think carefully about how he should deal with it after leaving the copy.
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