Chapter 259 Four Villains

In Rei Furuya's impression, Date Kou has always been a representative of straightforwardness and toughness. He seems to never be defeated by external things. His beliefs are so firm that even Rei Furuya, who is always criticized for being too serious, admires him. He is a well-deserved squad leader and a recognized manly man.

Originally, they had only seen Date Kou being a little softer than usual in incidents related to his girlfriend Natalie and his father. This was the first time they had seen him in such a dazed state... Before this, Furuya Rei had never even imagined that their squad leader would be so distraught one day.

After hesitating for a moment, Furuya Rei chose to sit quietly next to Date Kou, considerately giving Date Kou, who was obviously aware of his presence, some time to recover.

The two of them sat quietly on the bench for a few more minutes. When the next evening breeze rustled the treetops, Ida Kou, who had his hand covering his forehead, finally moved. He spoke in a somewhat dry voice: "...Thank you, Furuya."

What he needs right now is silent company.

"Don't thank me for such a small matter." Furiya Rei was a little irritated because he couldn't find the information, but his mood was calmed down after sitting quietly for a few minutes. When he spoke, his tone was full of helplessness and worry, "So what happened, squad leader?"

After hearing this, Yi Dahang subconsciously looked at his palms, then frowned and hesitated for a few seconds: "Nothing special, actually... I just had a nightmare."

Furiya Rei's eyes turned into dotted ones: "......?"

Is this the kind of person the monitor is?

For some reason, after thinking carefully, Rei Furuya suddenly thought of something else, just like this morning when they asked the depressed Hagiwara Kenji what happened, and the other party also said "I had a nightmare."

...Is it a coincidence? However, the contents of these two people's nightmares should be a bit problematic.

But Furuya Rei couldn't figure out what kind of nightmare could have tormented two strong-willed reserve police officers into this state.

Yi Dahang next to him also felt that this sentence sounded strange after explaining it. He rubbed his short hair and added: "Actually, I don't remember what I dreamed about, but it's just... Haha, did you expect that I would be so weak?"

Yesterday was a day off, and Ida Ko did not join in on his friends' social activities because he and his girlfriend were out on a date, so he missed the chance to meet the strange boy. Even though he heard a few words from other friends after a get-together in the evening, he didn't take it to heart and naturally went to bed earlier than everyone else.

But he woke up in bed just a few hours after he fell asleep. If someone saw Hagiwara waking up that morning and Date Kou waking up early this morning, they would probably be surprised to find that their reactions were similar.

Especially the fact that after waking up from a dream, the whole body was covered in cold sweat as if he had been pulled out of the water. As for the rest - Kenji Hagiwara naturally refused to admit that he felt water stains at the corners of his eyes, while Kou Date only felt sore in his eyes and nose for a while, and then he recovered on his own.

Unlike Kenji Hagiwara, even though he didn't remember anything after waking up, there was still a voice in Date Ko's heart frantically urging him to call his girlfriend Natalie, and his chest felt empty and insecure.

Just as he picked up the phone, Yida Hang remembered that it was still early in the morning and Natalie had classes the next day. She would probably be sleeping soundly at this time... So he held back and went out to get some fresh air and cool off.

Furuya Rei understood: It seems that the class monitor had a nightmare related to Miss Natalie, no wonder he reacted like this. After all, he is the first one among them to have a girlfriend, and the lady with similar hair color to him is the class monitor's only weakness.

When it comes to Natalie, Rei Furuya couldn't find any words to comfort her. He opened his mouth and was about to say something when he keenly heard footsteps approaching from afar.

Ida Kou obviously heard it as well, and the next second, a dazzling light was projected from behind Furukaya Rei who was sitting sideways, and it seemed to cast a layer of halo on the slightly messy blond hair.

Perhaps because of the sudden stimulation of the light, Yidahang's pupils shrank and he closed his eyes subconsciously.

"You guys over there, what are you doing outside in the middle of the night?" The teacher on night patrol also saw them and scolded them in dissatisfaction.

Oops!

Furutani Rei quickly grabbed the arm of the squad leader who seemed to be dazed by some emotion again, and the two turned around and ran into the shadow of the small woods. He remembered that there was a back door there that could lead to the dormitory building.

The patrol teacher originally planned to chase them, but the light in the grove was too dim, and if he went in it would take a lot of time to get out, so he weighed the pros and cons, and finally just stood outside and gasped, reluctantly letting the two students who were caught wandering at night go.

Meanwhile, Rei Furuya and Kou Ida finally made it back to the dormitory. They leaned against the stairwell wall to catch their breath, and no one spoke first. The atmosphere was silent again. Rei Furuya was thinking about something else, and the stairwell was dark without the lights on, so he didn't notice that Kou Ida had a blank look on his face.

Just when the flashlight illuminated Furukaya Rei's golden hair, he seemed to recall a scene from his dream.

That feeling is, déjà vu...

[He found himself standing at the entrance of the Metropolitan Police Department at night. Across the street was Natalie, who had a much more mature face and long hair. When she saw him, a gentle and happy expression appeared on her face involuntarily. She protected her belly and rushed towards him impatiently.

He saw his own body running in that direction without knowing it, his heart and eyes filled with only his lover walking quickly towards him. His vague intuition told him that he had not spoken a complete sentence to his fiancée in almost half a month because he had been working overtime due to a serial murder case.

Then he heard the roar of engines approaching from a distance.

Everything happened so fast, so fast that he still had an expectant smile on his face and his arms open towards his fiancée, waiting for her to jump into his arms like she did in the past, but the lights of the sports car illuminated Natalie's golden hair from the side, casting a thin halo around her hair, and then roared away as if nothing had happened.

He was left with the feeling as if he had been punched hard. The curve of his mouth became stiff and his mind went blank. Only his legs reflexively moved his body to rush forward. After being knocked into the air, he fell to the ground like a puppet and squatted down beside the woman.

The humid air brought a strong smell of rust with the evening breeze. His detective instinct and excellent professional qualities reminded him of one thing all the time.

This person is dead. 】

"By the way, tomorrow we are going to try our luck and see if we can meet that A. Do you want to go with us, squad leader?" Ida Ko suddenly heard the voice of Furuya Rei ringing in his ears, and everything in the dream suddenly vanished before his eyes. "Sure enough, only if I know that person's name will it be convenient to ask the instructor later..."

It seemed that Furuya Rei was taking his feelings into consideration, so he casually started a topic that had nothing to do with the current situation.

Date Hang was stunned for a moment.

He remembered that his peers had described A's appearance after they came back. He was a man with black hair, red eyes, and a slightly immature face, who could still be called a teenager. Although he had never seen the other person before, at this moment, Ida Kou seemed to have an illusion.

He seems, probably, possibly... to know A's name?

At that time, in my dream, there was a flash of an investigation report with a photo and a brief name printed on it. The investigation report showed that this was the person who killed Natalie, but -

"Akae Nazuki." Furiya Ling heard the squad leader suddenly say an unfamiliar name, "That boy... maybe his name is [Akae Nazuki]."

Ida Ko's thoughts were extremely confused, but he had already woken up from his dream and an extremely strong intuition in his heart kept reminding him.

——Even if the report said so, he could still firmly believe that the murderer could not be that person.

"Ah, so the squad leader knows him?" Furiya Rei was surprised.

"Well... not really." Ida Kou's voice was deep, "But if you want to go find him tomorrow, take me with you."

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In the police academy cafeteria the next day, the person at the table who looked like he had not slept well changed from Hagiwara Kenji to Date Kou, and the person who looked listless yesterday looked like he had a good dream today. He had a cheerful and expectant smile on his face, and it seemed that there were so many happy people around him that small flowers materialized and floated out.

"It's a bit disgusting." Jinpei Matsuda commented sharply.

"What? That's too harsh, Jinpei!" Hagiwara Kenji propped up his chin, "I just dreamed of something very happy~"

"What's the matter?" Morofushi Jingguang asked with a little curiosity.

"This..."

Kenji Hagiwara couldn't help but smile when he recalled it: "I dreamed of a very interesting friend."

He glanced at Furuya Rei with a meaningful look, and then continued in a serious tone, "But he and little Furuya seem to have a better relationship. They were still outside communicating with each other late at night, just like little Jinpei. I am a little jealous."

The two people who had been communicating (fighting) outside late at night choked at the same time.

Furiya Rei looked over with half-moon eyes. With meat stuffed in his mouth, he couldn't speak. He could only use his eyes to reproach Hagiwara Kenji for inexplicably dreaming of him fighting with others. The latter couldn't help but laugh even more brilliantly when he saw this.

Matsuda Jinpei rolled his eyes and kicked Yu Huanran's calf under the table.

They could all see that Date Kou was not in a good condition. His attitude towards Hagiwara Kenji was different from yesterday. Like Furuya Rei last night, they all knew that it was best to give their squad leader some quiet time to think, so they didn't bring up the topic of Date Kou.

So finally, after lunch, the great monitor took the lead and said, "Let's go and find the boy you talked about yesterday!"

With the addition of Date Kou, the team seemed even more powerful than last night. By the time the five people followed Hagiwara Kenji's instructions and rushed to the territory of the "black cat boss", it was almost noon and the sun had already climbed overhead.

Although it was a bit sunny, they didn't have time to think about that because there were more eye-catching things in front of them.

In that open space, there was a large group of cats gathered together, and in the middle of them was the black-haired boy seen yesterday. He was lying on the ground with his eyes closed. Due to his pale face, he looked like a corpse with cats growing all over his limbs and torso.

As Matsuda Jinpei was watching, he suddenly thought of the news he had seen before, something like 'A cat ate its owner's body after his death'...

Could it be that these cats were treating the boy as a reserve food? His thoughts wandered for no reason.

Before the men could come forward to rescue the boy, the 'corpse' opened its eyes after sensing someone approaching, and slowly sat up and looked in their direction.

"Ah, it's you." The boy yawned, nodded perfunctorily, and took the cat off his shoulder. "I didn't expect to see you again so soon... Are you guys here to sunbathe as well?"

He yawned again, his head nodding as if he was about to fall asleep, and the tone of his voice became inexplicably more casual than yesterday.

I don't know why.

The cat that had just been taken off climbed back onto the boy's shoulder while he was talking. The boy gave up picking the cat and turned around, scanning the five people with his eyes.

"There's one more person than yesterday." He didn't seem to care much about it, still sitting cross-legged on the ground, "Then according to the previous agreement... my name is Chijiang Nayue."

The young man introduced himself to the strangers in front of him with an indifferent expression.

However, one of the five people couldn't help but be stunned - Furuya Rei resisted the urge to look at Date Kou, and was surprised.

It was actually this name! Did the class monitor really know the other person? But if that was the case, why did the class monitor act as if he had no idea this person existed when they first mentioned the boy to him?