Chapter 214 Eight Gachapon

The first time Morobushi Kagemitsu heard the name Akae Nazuki was not long after the police academy started. At that time, he hadn't even memorized the names of his classmates, but he had already associated the person with the name Akae Nazuki.

There was no other reason, it was mainly because his childhood friend would whisper the name of Chijiang in his ear almost every day, and the words between the lines were filled with the desire to practice a few games with the other party and ask for advice on fighting techniques.

This is not surprising. After all, before this, he thought that Furuya Rei's excellent physical fitness and grades would make him the top student. However, in reality, another person won the real top spot in admissions in one fell swoop, but the other party did not choose to go on stage to give a speech, so the representative at the freshman meeting became his childhood friend.

Fūya Rei didn't mind this too much. What he cared about more was the true strength of the chief who was recognized by the instructors for his better grades than him, and he really wanted to communicate and train with him.

"Zero... you know you can go directly to Akae-kun, right?"

After being enthusiastically informed by Furiya Rei during meals for who knows how many times, how long his classmate Akae had been training in the dojo today, Morofushi Jingguang couldn't help but show a helpless expression to Kojinran: "You are not the type who would stop behind my back and discuss Akae with me, is there something special?"

The blond, dark-skinned young man remained silent and nodded with lifeless eyes.

"This is what happened..."

Furuya Rei initially tried to strike up a conversation with the other party during the kendo class, but he found that as long as he had the slightest intention to move towards the other party, the boy, who was basically two years younger than all of them, would predict his movement path in advance and then quickly change the venue.

Since there was only a short amount of free training time in class, Furuya Rei was unable to accurately locate the hiding Akae Nazuki among the twenty or so classmates around him, and as a result, he could only return home with regret every time.

Every time.

He is now almost considering "finding Akae Nazuki in kendo/judo...etc. classes" as a daily must-do task. After all, it can really train his eyesight.

Zhu Fu Jingguang's mouth twitched: "Even if you can't find him during class, it's break time. Cultural classes are all in the classroom. Can't you go find him after class?"

"No." Fūya Rei covered the lower half of his face and shook his head heavily.

Of course he had tried the method Hiro had mentioned, but every time, no matter how fast he ran, or even if he fixed his eyes on the other person a few seconds before the end of class, as soon as the bell rang, the black-haired girl would disappear without a trace like rain water melting into the sea.

"That description sounds like a ninja," Jinpei Matsuda said as he came over with a plate of food, "or an assassin or something. Is he really just an ordinary police academy student?"

"Xiao Zhenping should wake up. He is not ordinary. An ordinary police academy student would not knock down the instructor on the first day of fighting class." Hagiwara Kenji who came along complained.

After a few people talked about it, they found that it had been a month since the start of the school year, and none of them had heard Chijiang talk to anyone except the instructor. Even the instructor spoke in a cold and businesslike tone.

...Could this person really be an assassin? The four elite police academy students thought in unison.

The person who rejected this idea was Ida Kou, their squad leader. When they were chatting enthusiastically, he asked in confusion: "Ah, are you talking about Akae?"

"It's not like he hasn't talked to anyone." Ida Hang said honestly, "He told me this afternoon that the instructor approved his leave. We occasionally talked to each other before."

The four of them looked at Yi Dahang and said in unison: "Captain, why haven't I heard you say this before!?"

"You didn't ask." Yi Dahang laughed, "Is there any need to be so surprised? The reason we were able to talk to him in the beginning was because I picked up the small bottle he carried with him. In fact, I feel that the people of Chijiang are quite good, just a little cold."

He said this while stroking his chin.

"Ask for leave?" Furiya Ling noticed something was wrong. "What are you going to do by asking for leave at this time?"

This mystery was solved that night. The five people who had just captured a group of robbers from a convenience store were originally preparing to return to school, but when they looked up, they saw their classmate Chijiang riding a mountain bike on the road at night with a murderous look on his face.

Zhu Fu Jingguang dared to guarantee that the opponent was absolutely full of murderous aura at that time, and the type of person who would kill anyone who stood in his way.

Out of concern for their classmates and curiosity about the mysterious Akae, the five of them decisively chose to chase after him - and then witnessed an ethical drama confrontation between Akae and the family of the suspected murderer. Afterwards, Akae, who was empty-handed, slapped the other person into the ground before they could come to his rescue.

The five people who jumped out a step late fell into silence.

"really."

Classmate Akajiang turned around and looked at them indifferently: "You are the ones who followed me all the way." To this day, Morofushi Jingguang can no longer remember what happened that night. What he remembers is that when he and the other party separated and returned to school, he suddenly remembered on the way back in the car why he felt that the man who was called classmate Akajiang's uncle looked familiar.

He had met Chijiang's mother, who had died in an accident.

After returning to school, with the instigation of other classmates, Morobushi Kagemitsu successfully found a day to block Akae and told him the conversation he remembered with his mother.

Probably from that day on, Akae, who had been keeping a distance from everyone and trying his best to avoid them, stopped doing that, and they gradually became good friends who experienced many things together without realizing it.

It was not until after graduation that Zhu Fu Jingguang joined the public security force and cut off contact with all his past relatives and friends for undercover training. From that time on, he never heard any news about his classmate Chijiang again.

But according to their conversation after meeting in the accident case two years ago, Akae lost contact with him and Furuya Rei as soon as he graduated. He only saved Hagiwara when his life was in danger and specifically reminded the class leader and others...

[No matter what, don’t come looking for me.] said Chijiang.

This sentence gave Zhu Fu Jingguang a bad sense of déjà vu, but they lost contact because they were going undercover in the Black Organization. Could it be that classmate Chijiang also became an undercover in other organizations?

If you think about it carefully, it is not impossible. After all, Chijiang is really capable. Even if his quirk of strongly requiring them to call him by his last name instead of his first name is confusing, he is actually a very reassuring friend.

The fact that their friend had lost contact with them for no apparent reason made them all very worried.

Morobushi Kagemitsu once thought about investigating the whereabouts of Akae, but was stopped by Officer Kuroda of the Police Department. The officer told him that Zero had also tried to investigate Akae, but was stopped by the officer.

"The child is dead," Commander Kuroda told him.

"He died just six months after you graduated. No one knows how he managed to blow up the organization's bases across the country in one breath before he died... It can be said that the fact that you are now so easy to go undercover is largely due to him."

Morofushi Kagemitsu never thought he would get such an answer.

How could the student Akae, who was stronger than both Zero and him, die like this?

The classmate Akae who had twinkled like a star in the sky over Tokyo died without anyone knowing at the age of 20. In order not to arouse the organization's excessive vigilance against the public security, they could not even make his death public. When Matsuda and others asked him if he knew his whereabouts, he could only smile bitterly and shake his head and said he didn't know.

Are you kidding?

This was truly torturous, but as a public security officer, he could only accept this reality silently. After learning the news, he would go to sweep Akae's grave every year on the anniversary of his classmate's death, along with his childhood friend, Furaya Rei.

...They even bought each other's graves together, because Akae no longer had any relatives in this world, and this group of friends was the last bond between the other and this world before his death.

What was lying in the cemetery was not Chijiang's body, but the police uniform and police badge he wore when he graduated.

Because there was no body left of classmate Chijiang who died in the explosion, not even a speck of ashes.

At this moment, when he saw through the sniper scope the person who looked exactly like the one in the photo on the tombstone, Morofushi Jingguang felt a chill.

Who is that? Is it an enemy of Akae in the past who disguised himself as him to carry out some plan? Or, is that someone sent by the organization to test him and Zero because they suspect him?

Morofu Kagemitsu's fingers moved slightly.

...It has been seven years since Akae passed away. They are all about to turn thirty, but Akae should have celebrated his twenty-seventh birthday this year and become an outstanding police officer in the Metropolitan Police Department or the National Police Department. He should have been loved by everyone, but he has remained in his twenties forever and will never grow up.

To him, the baby-faced classmate Akae could even be called 'that kid'.

Therefore, Morofushi Jingguang could not accept that Akae-san——

Seven years after that death, he could not accept that someone would desecrate that child's death.

[Whatever happens, don't come to me.]

His finger was on the trigger without him noticing.

[If I die? If that day comes, bury me where I can see the sea. ]

He aimed the crosshairs of his gun at the face and saw that the person who looked exactly like Na Yue was smiling and talking to the child who was walking with him.

[…Because I want to die in a place where I can see my parents every day, is this wish childish? Please forgive me, classmate.]

Zhu Fu Jingguang closed his eyes but did not pull the trigger. He leaned against the wall of the roof and slid down to the ground weakly.

Ah, he couldn't kill someone who looked exactly like Na Yue, even though he knew that the other person was most likely a bait targeting them.

I originally thought that they were only together for half a year, but seven years have passed, and he should have gotten over it a long time ago. After all, the death of undercover police officers is a very normal thing... for them.

But, he really couldn't do it. He couldn't get over it at all, ever since he knew that Yue had destroyed most of the organization's bases by himself, which allowed them to uncover many undercover agents within the police force, resulting in him successfully getting through the organization's hurdle even though his identity was almost exposed in an operation two years ago.

Ever since he learned these things, he could no longer come to terms with Chijiang Nayue's death.

Not childish at all, Nayue.

He wanted to tell that person this in person.

"What happened, Scotland, why don't you retreat?" The voice of his partner came from the headset. At that time, Bourbon, Furuya Rei, was looking for President Maruyama's hidden information in the villa.

Morofushi Kagemitsu opened his mouth, not knowing how to tell Furuya Rei.

“…I saw it aka.”

In the end, he just spoke vaguely to Furugaya Rei in the communication channel using the nickname that Akae-san had never let them call him.

Like him, Furugaya Rei, who had known about Akae Natsuki's death long ago, fell into silence.

A few seconds later, Morobushi Kagemitsu heard the voice of Yujinran, who was suppressing his anger and seemed to be gritting his teeth: "Where is he?"

Morofu Jingguang sighed, packed up his sniper rifle and quickly left the rooftop. Before leaving, he assigned the task of "tracking the black-haired young man" to a public security subordinate who was near the restaurant.

This is the last and only thing they can do for Chijiang Nayue.