Chapter 260 Five Villains
"Chijiang..."
When Furuya Rei heard Koujinran mutter the surname and gave him a questioning look, Morobushi Kagemitsu moved closer to him and whispered, "It just sounds familiar to me."
The person who had met this classmate Akae before was Morobushi Kagemitsu, so when Furuya Rei heard him mention this, he thought it was normal. He guessed that he might have heard it from the instructor on the first day of school and then forgot about it.
Morofushi Kagemitsu did not explain further. He shook his head gently at Furuya Rei, signaling him to turn his attention back to the boy in front of him, while he himself showed a thoughtful look in a place that no one else could see.
No, that's not the case.
He did think the name sounded familiar, but he definitely hadn't heard it on the first day of school. It must have been heard earlier... maybe? For a moment, Morofushi Jingguang couldn't remember when he had heard it. He could only put aside this doubt for the time being and turned his gaze to the people who were talking.
When they came here, they were led by Hagiwara Kenji, so he was standing in the front and had successfully talked to Akae Nazuki. Matsuda Jinpei was standing on Hagiwara's left, and to the right were Morobushi Kagemitsu and Furuya Rei. The largest one, Date Kou, lagged behind his peers as usual.
It was also because of this that after Akae Nazuki introduced herself, only Akae Nazuki and Date Kou, who were facing the direction of the five people, noticed that something was wrong with the latter.
If Hagiwara Kenji looked back, he would naturally find that Date Kou had a similar reaction to the one he had when he met Akae Nazuki yesterday.
The other person was leaning against the wall, looking dejectedly in the direction of their conversation. He didn't even seem to notice that a cat had unknowingly climbed onto his head. Only when the cat was about to slip did he subconsciously reach out to hold it up, proving that he had not completely lost his mind.
Although it was his first meeting with Akae Nazuki, there was always a sense of familiarity in Date Ko's expression, especially when Hagiwara Kenji tentatively sat next to the boy and called him "Natsuki-chan", Date Ko felt an even clearer sense of familiarity from the bottom of his heart.
It was as if he had seen this scene thousands of times.
Yi Dahang touched his chin, exchanged a glance with a few other friends, and calmly sat down. They didn't really care whether the floor would get dirty or not, since they would all get dirty anyway!
After the huge group of people sat down, the only one who felt unwell was Matsuda Jinpei.
Even though he was prepared, he couldn't help but touch his arm to check if he had goose bumps due to the abnormal behavior he had acquired from childhood.
What a joke... How can Hagi be so friendly that he would be so intimate with someone he met for the second time? Where is his childhood friend who has a high emotional intelligence and knows how to maintain social distance? Did he get eaten?
Akae Nazuki can answer this question: Maybe it’s because today’s Hagiwara Kenji has completely remembered what they did at the same time before the restart?
——Since the data did not tell Akae Nazuki any information before the reboot, when Hagihara Kenji and the others recovered their pre-reboot memories through dreams, Akae Nazuki was actually in their dreams, so he certainly knew why Hagihara Kenji was so emotional today.
After all, this guy just immersed himself in six months of exciting police academy life in his dream last night, and there was even a classmate named 'Chijiang Nayue' in his dream.
In order to protect the mental health of her peers in the parallel world, Akae Nazuki gave Hagiwara Kenji a layer of psychological hints after she first got the information in his dream, to ensure that Hagiwara Kenji would not actively think of the bad plot in his dream, and the same was true for Date Kou.
As for the fact that Date Kou later broke through the hints and recalled the content of his dream through similar scenes, it was no longer something he could control.
...Let’s talk about Brother Hang’s dream.
Nayue Chijiang used his superb acting skills to conceal his inner anxiety. He had not felt this kind of emotion for a long time, but now his heart was like a seasoning bottle overturned. Complex thoughts occupied part of his rationality, making him really want to grab the world consciousness of this world and the homologue who had committed suicide and punch them.
Forget about world consciousness, is he a fool in this world? No, don’t doubt it, he is definitely a fool!
The answer that Date Hang was able to come up with based on his subconscious mind was impossible for Akae Nazuki, who was almost equivalent to himself, to have thought of - the person who caused the death of Sister Natalie and her unborn child in a car accident and then fled the scene was certainly not Xiao A.
However, there is no one who framed Akae Nazuki, because everyone tried their best to make everyone think that the murderer was Akae Nazuki's gang...
It is himself in this world.
At this point, no matter how hard he wanted to shake the water out of Xiao A's head, he couldn't do it for the moment. Chi Jiang Na Yue could only bear a grudge secretly and prepare to hint this matter to his classmates in the future and let them educate Xiao A.
Even though Akae Nazuki didn't know what happened before the restart at first, the information revealed in the 'dream' of Hagiwara Kenji and Date Kou was enough for him to deduce. So yes, he almost knew most of the truth of this world, and it was because he knew the truth that he felt that he was an idiot in this world.
Chi Jiang, who claimed to be a mature savior, bit his cheek and mercifully forgave his stupid counterpart in the parallel world.
There's really nothing we can do. Since that idiot Little A is already dead and has no evidence, the other party can't control what kind of script he wants to write.
Chi Jiang Na Yue ruthlessly added some material to the already written script.
[Book] shuddered, secretly regretting that his sympathy could not be conveyed to the person being pitied, and then He calmly scanned the five gorillas in the parallel world outside in the Savior's mind.
…
As the only conscience in this savior team with only one person and one world consciousness, [Book] silently gave more of his compassion to them.
Have a nice journey.
In the Black Cat Boss's territory, the other young men naturally had no idea how many means of "revenge" against Little A someone was thinking at this moment, nor did they know how pitiful they would be if they were implicated in this revenge.
At least in Hagiwara Kenji's eyes, the classmate Akae in his dream, who was their classmate, just sat there quietly listening to their conversation from beginning to end, and occasionally agreed with a few words.
Although today was their second meeting and the squad leader's first time meeting, they were sitting in the sun and chatting in a harmonious atmosphere, like old friends who had known each other for a long time.
Oh, and that idiot over there who looks bored and kidnapped a cat to study its paw pads doesn't count.
Hagiwara Kenji's gaze suddenly fell on Akae Nazuki, and he tried to direct the conversation while secretly observing this boy who spent most of his time tirelessly picking cats off his body one by one.
The cause was that a certain black cat boss was dissatisfied with being a collar on Chijiang's shoulders, and tried to climb to a higher place, and then pulled off a strand of Chijiang's dark and soft hair.
Akae, who had been allowing the cats to use him as a climbing frame, slowly smiled under Hagiwara Kenji's gaze, and suddenly became completely different from his cold appearance during the conversation.
Kenji Hagiwara never dreamed that the first time he saw a smile on this face in real life was because of a cat. He selectively ignored the fact that the next second after the other party smiled, the black cat boss was pulled down and badly beaten.
Damn, I feel like I lost, and I lost to a cat...
As Hagiwara Kenji thought about it, he consoled himself: At least I didn't lose to Xiao Zhenping!
Unlike their peers who had a lot of thoughts in their minds, the only ones who were simply enjoying the leisure atmosphere were probably Matsuda Jinpei and Furuya Rei. They had been sitting cross-legged in the middle of the cat group without knowing when, with a cat stuffed in their arms by their respective kittens, and were concentrating on serving the two cat masters.
Furutani Rei glanced at the curly cat next to him, and stroked the cat's shiny fur as if to show off. He then compared himself to Matsuda Jinpei who almost got slapped in the face for touching someone's paw pads. He clearly didn't say anything, yet it seemed as if he had said everything.
At least Jinpei Matsuda sensed provocation and ridicule from the blond bastard's eyes.
Furutani Rei was not able to feel proud for long, because the cat that he had been holding ruthlessly abandoned his arms and joined the army that was drowning Akae classmate.
Only the two naive police academy students, whose arms were empty in the blink of an eye, were left silent.
"It's a bit conspicuous to sit here all the time, why don't we go sit in a nearby store for a while?" Furiya Rei pretended not to notice the mockery in Matsuda Jinpei's eyes, and calmly made a suggestion when Akae Nayue picked the last cat, "I remember seeing an izakaya when I came here from the outside of this street..."
"I agree." Jinpei Matsuda beside him nodded lazily, resting his chin on his hand.
Morobushi Kagemitsu also seemed to be interested. Ever since he first participated in the social event organized by Kenji Hagihara and had delicious side dishes in those restaurants, he had become interested in exploring the dishes in the izakayas around the school.
Date Kou was free today, so he didn't mind. Hagiwara Kenji blinked and smiled subtly.
"We should ask Xiao Nayue for her opinion on this," he said briskly with a hint of meaning.
The confusion of Furuya Rei and Matsuda Jinpei was answered in the next second.
Akae Nazuki, who they called a boy because of his young face, stood up and patted his pants. He glanced at them calmly and said to Hagiwara Kenji, "It's okay. I will be an adult in March and can drink."
He will only be an adult in March, which means he just turned 20 this year and is only five months past the legal drinking age, an age that perfectly matches that face.
As if he had guessed this, Kenji Hagiwara sincerely asked his peers: "Don't you feel guilty about taking Nazuki to the pub?"
Although you don't have to drink alcohol when you go to an izakaya, Hagiwara is right. This person has nothing to do with the word izakaya.
Ida Hang thought for two seconds and said, "Then let Chijiang choose the location?"
He also very naturally omitted the honorifics and called out Akae-san's last name. The person being called that didn't seem to care much about it. After thinking for a while, he nodded and gladly accepted the task.
Then, Chijiang Nayue naturally took them to the nearest dessert shop with sweet decoration.