Chapter 51 The First Player
What surprised Haruto Nishimi a little was that in the manga, after he left the bar, the plot did not shift to him encountering the robber and Kenji Hagiwara in the convenience store, but to Asahina - in addition to him and Vermouth, Asahina was also in the bar that night.
After seeing the figure who looked like "Cointreau" leaving, he thought he was seeing things. After staying in the bar for a while, he left the bar and walked on the street. Not long after, he ran into Kenji Hagihara who was standing next to a police car escorting a prisoner on the road - or to be more precise, Kenji Hagihara saw him.
Seeing his friend from the same class whom he hadn't seen for a long time right in front of him, Kenji Hagiwara didn't care whether he recognized his mistake or not and chased after him. Asahina subconsciously wanted to deny it at first, but Kenji Hagiwara tested her out with a few words.
However, Hagiwara Kenji was quick to notice from his words that Asahina's current situation seemed to be very dangerous, so he didn't ask any more questions. After a brief reunion and greeting and exchanging phone numbers, the two parted again.
[Ahhh! It’s the long-haired handsome policeman Kenji-chan who appeared before!! I didn’t expect that Kenji and Kazuma knew each other! He recognized him just by looking at his back and profile. What kind of magical friendship is this?]
[I remember that Kazuma was also a policeman before. He and Hagiwara knew each other at that time, right? But now one is walking towards the police car, and the other is walking into the darkness... Who will get the knife? The knife will get me. Wuwuwu.]
[Kenji said "all of you are missing", and Kazuma also said "all". I'm wondering if Toruko, Kazuma, Keimitsu, Kenji, and Matsu Tiantian all know each other?]
[It's possible. Maybe these people were all good friends in the past? But now some are living in the light and some are lurking in the dark... It's so abominable. He's a policeman, but now he has to hide from police cars and police friends. Kazuma's back is so lonely. How sad he must be. I can't stop crying. I'm really not a chopping block.]
[Hagiwara and Kazuma have a good relationship... Hagiwara really cares about him, and he is really gentle... But Kazuma can't tell the truth to Hagiwara, and he has to worry about Hagiwara being dragged into the organization... Their concern is mutual, glass candy is still candy, I am so touched 5555]
[Kazuma lied to Hagiwara and said everything was fine... What a lie, when clearly nothing was fine! Hagiwara guessed what was going on from this expression, right? But he still followed Kazuma's words and said, "Then I feel relieved"... Ahhhh, I burst into tears!! ]
...It's a headache. He didn't expect that he would meet Kenji Hagiwara and Asahina in the back. If he had known that, he should have followed Kenji Hagiwara's words and waited with him for a while until the police car "sent" him back. In that case, perhaps he would have discovered the abnormality of "Canada" naturally.
It's a pity that comics only have the function of replaying and no advanced on-demand or time-reversal. Whenever he finds something wrong with the plot or something that can be used in the comics and forums, the matter is basically over.
It was a bit regrettable to watch the opportunity slip away from his hands, and Xi Haiqingdou sighed.
In the manga, the criminals escorted by Kenji Hagiwara are the Mizuo brothers... It seems that the scene where he and Hagiwara were in the convenience store was skipped. Is it because they don't want the audience to know that he and Kenji Hagiwara have any intersection for the time being? Why is that?
Haruto Nishimi opened his cell phone and saw a number lying quietly in the address list. The name on it was "Kenji Hagiwara".
That night, he exchanged phone numbers with Kenji Hagihara before returning home due to the robbery case, and Kenji Hagihara's phone number is now in his cell phone.
Asahina's meeting with Hagiwara also confirmed Asahina's "undercover" identity in the eyes of the public, which was a bit disadvantageous for him. But misfortunes always have blessings, since Hagiwara Kenji and Asahina have restored contact, it seems that this point may also be used as a breakthrough in the future.
Keeping this in mind, Xi Hai Qing Dou continued watching.
After parting with Kenji Hagiwara, Asahina contacted Rei Furuya and Kagemitsu Morofushi, and briefly described the feelings of the other two people, which confirmed the news in the bullet screen that "they all know each other."
Then the next day, Rei Furuya first went to secretly exchange information with the police and solved a case in passing.
Then, he found out from inside the organization that Sherry, an important member of the organization, was about to return to the country, and a little gossip suddenly appeared in the background that would be missed if you didn't look carefully - Gin and Cointreau had some ambiguous and unclear relationship. The last part happened to be heard by Asahina.
Seeing this, Xi Hai Qing Dou's mouth twitched - OK, he finally understood why Gin was so angry. Not only was his sexual orientation suddenly changed, but he was even slandered as the "lower" one... If he were in his place, he would be angry too.
Then the scene changed, and Gin, who they were talking about, appeared in the comic, carrying out his mission with a sniper rifle in his hand.
[Hiss, hiss, my sniper husband is so handsome...his phone suddenly got dirty, so I licked it clean! ]
[Don't be serious, Gin. Now everyone knows that you and Taro are having an affair 23333. Even if the old thief drew it so small, I can still see it with a microscope! ]
[Is this a hint that Yuyuan and Beijie are about to be hunted down by Qin Ye? 23333]
The mission is over, Vodka receives the message, and Gin returns to the organization. In the two parallel grids on the left and right of the comic, on one side, Gin is walking with Vodka in the organization's base with a gloomy face; on the other side, "Cointreau" is walking leisurely in the base with a small figure whose full appearance cannot be seen clearly.
In the next frame, the two sides met, and Gin took out his gun and pointed it at the head of the white-haired young man who still looked relaxed.
The bullet was reflected in the golden pupils. The young man tilted his head slightly. The bullet passed through a few white, spider-like hairs, passed over his side face and shot into the wall behind him. The hair broke on the ground, and the naked eye could see a very thin blood streak on his side face. The girl who looked 13 or 14 years old beside him had dilated pupils and a pale face. Vodka beside Gin looked panicked. Gin's face was obscured by the smoke in front of him, and only the white-haired young man still had an inappropriate and careless smile on his face.
In the last frame, in front of Miyano Shiho's horrified and dilated pupils, Cointreau lowered his head slightly. He was not angry, and he didn't care about the bloodshot on his face. He just held her arm and smiled and said to her, "What's wrong, Shirley? Are you scared?"
[I don’t know if Shirley was frightened, but I was frightened. Shirley must be in psychological distress, right? ? You old thief, are you trying to kill me by staying here? ]
[Oh shit, sorry, although it's a little bit of that, but this Cointreau... let me first say that I'm vulgar and I'm boki (shy)]
[Me too... Is this the first time Cointreau has been injured? Ahhh, I can't stand it, why are you so embarrassed? The head tilt is really killing me! Honey, your face is injured, let me lick it for you! (Take off your pants.jpg)]
[Fuck, Gin, this is not serious, is it? Oh my god, they are both so crazy, have they really done it before? Otherwise, why would they be so crazy! ! ]
[Cointreau, it's really suitable for battle damage, just like the previous match with Akai... It's really suitable for making people feel uncomfortable (lights a cigarette), is this the source of Mei Qiang's popularity?]
[It is reasonable to suspect that Shirley is afraid of Cointreau and Gin because of this scene... Who wouldn't be scared if they saw these two crazy guys? It's so tragic. How old is she to see such an exciting scene... No wonder Xiao Ai broke out in a cold sweat when she heard "Cointreau" later. Have pity on me for a second. Could it be that Cointreau and Gin acted together on purpose? ]
[A 14-year-old girl! So cute and beautiful! But also so miserable... Jundu, please don't scare her on purpose! I suddenly disliked Jundu for two seconds, that's too mean! ! ]
There is only a small easter egg at the end - a Q-print of Haruto Saikai wearing sunglasses and holding a sign at the airport to receive Shiho Miyano's picture.
Ah, this... This is the cartoonist's fault. First of all, his smile was probably not as perceptive as it was drawn in the comics... right?
Xihai Qingdou was a little unsure.
He smiled at the rearview mirror as usual and at Miyano Shiho - gentle and friendly, without any gloom, and he looked very normal.
The smile reflected in Miyano Shiho's pupils in the comics was superimposed with shadows, and even he felt a little creepy when he saw it just now. It's normal for Miyano Shiho to be scared, but he is still very normal at other times? Not to mention that he was not injured at all in reality.
Saikai Haruto subconsciously touched his cheek - it was intact, without a single scratch, completely different from the one in the comics.
Although the content drawn in the comics is basically the same as reality, there will be some artistic processing in some places. Saikai Haruto is aware of this, but it is rare to see "creating something out of nothing" like this time.
Did the cartoonist think he was "not crazy enough" so he manually processed him to make him "even crazier"?
It has to be said that Saikai Haruto's train of thought has been successfully diverted by the barrage.
I don’t know if there will be any more “out of nothing” situations like this one in the future… I just hope it won’t be superfluous in the future.
But these barrages were not completely useless - at least he knew that Miyano Shiho did not hate him, but was "afraid" of him.
Although fear is not much better than disgust, one good thing is that people are more likely to obey a fearful person than a disgusted person.
In other words, if Miyano Shiho is afraid of him, the possibility that she would agree to the "request" he puts forward would be much greater than that of "pretending to obey but actually disobeying".
Saikai Haruto touched his nonexistent conscience and decided to be nicer to Miyano Shiho in the future. After all, he would have to take care of her for who knows how long.
The content of this issue of the comic is very jumpy, with almost everyone appearing in a "plot", but the content before and after each person's appearance is not very consistent - for example, Vermouth and his actions after leaving the bar; Asahina and Hagiwara Kenji's actions before they met; Gin's actions before the end of the mission, etc. A group of people put together to barely form a story, and it seems a bit messy if you want to analyze it.
Selectively filtering out those comments that criticized him as "shivering", Nishimi Haruto rubbed his nose and looked at the forum again - this time, most of the analysis posts revolved around two questions: one was the analysis of his relationship with Vermouth, Miyano Shiho, and Drug A, and the other was the analysis of the relationship between Asahina and Kenji Hagihara, and whether Kenji Hagihara would have the possibility of entering the "main line".
The rest of the posts were some CP posts and sad posts that appeared out of nowhere. Xi Haiqing Dou had never dared to click into them again since he had clicked on them once to take a look - for a straight man to face those posts directly, the shock was still a bit too great.
It took only two or three hours to finish the work at hand. After waiting for Miyano Shiho to come down after six o'clock, and almost dying, Nishimi Haruto couldn't help but call her.
"It's six o'clock now. It's time to come down, right, sister?"
He said in a bored tone, "Don't work too late. We should leave now. How about we continue tomorrow?"
Miyano Shiho rejected the idea without a second thought: "No, there are two more PCR reactions here that will take another 40 minutes to produce results. I can't leave yet."
Xi Haiqingdou sighed: "Besides you, there are other staff members in the laboratory. Can't we let them keep an eye on it? It's time to get off work now, right? We should go."
After thinking for a while, he seemed to feel that his tone was a bit stiff, so he slowed down his tone and discussed with her: "How about this, you behave yourself and go to get off work and get off work at normal times, and I will find time for you to meet up with Miyano-san to catch up. How about that? You haven't seen each other for so long, sister-chan, you must miss your sister, right?"
The main reason is that he is also very hungry now! Suddenly I understand why the boss asked him to lead Miyano Shiho - since he returned to Tokyo, he is the one with the most free time in the organization.
All the small matters were handed over to his subordinates. He would occasionally stop by and mostly just do some fishing. He had just enough free time to correct Miyano Shiho's bad habit of not leaving get off work on time.
“…Okay, I’ll be right down.” Miyano Shiho hung up the phone.
He said that he was indeed a genius at coaxing people! Xi Haiqing Dou raised the corner of his mouth.