Chapter 322 Nine Sweethearts
No matter what kind of people they will become in the future, at least they are still twelve-year-old children now.
But even so, Furuya and the others believe that they cannot hide their childhood selves. According to their understanding of themselves, if they keep hiding it from everyone or make everything a lie, these sensitive children will not be sincere.
Even if you haven't watched it, is it that every time Aka writes a script in a parallel world, does it use real settings to "exchange sincerity for sincerity" with them?
So they decided at the beginning to tell their twelve-year-old selves a more controllable script, in which the ten-year-old Chijiang Nayue was cleverly removed from their script.
"In short, you who gave birth to Guardian Sweetheart not long ago learned from us that this world is wrong." Morobushi Jingguang leaned over to his friend's ear and whispered to Akae Nazuki, who was deliberately avoided by them at the time, "You know that this is a changed past, and we come from the correct timeline and are your future friends."
"It sounds like 'I' won't believe it." Chijiang Nayue touched his face and complained in a low voice.
At the age of ten, he was already a member of the organization. How could he possibly believe the inexplicable words said by the suddenly appearing guardian sweetheart? He might even think that they were his hallucinations, or that Karasuma Renya was using a new method to control him.
"Yeah, 'you' wouldn't believe it." Morobushi Kagemitsu smiled, "Until you actually meet 'Furiya Rei', 'Hagiwara Kenji' and 'Matsuda Jinpei' in the new school you transferred to."
That's why the transfer student is "interested" in these classmates. At this stage, the transfer student just wants to use Xiao Ling and the others to prove the correctness of what Furuya Rei and the others said.
"I didn't leave with Doctor Elena when I was ten." The blonde guardian sweetheart was talking to Xiao Ling, "Because I was not completely alone at that time - I met Hiro when I was seven, and my childhood friend Morobushi Kagemitsu. From then on until now, we have been walking together for 23 years."
Xiao Ling's expression went blank as he continued his narration.
"After parting with the doctors, I lost contact with them, so I decided to join the police and become a police officer, so that I could meet Dr. Elena again one day in the future."
Rei Furuya recalled after a long pause the reasons why he originally joined the police academy, his voice filled with nostalgia for that youthful time: "But when I was in the police academy, I met other people, we became friends, then close friends, and now we're family." With just a few sentences, he painted a happy and beautiful picture in Rei's impoverished emotional imagination, and the latter was almost shaken.
Zero hadn't met his Hiro, wouldn't have decided to join the police, and if the Guardian Sweethearts hadn't shown up, he wouldn't even have ended up attending the police academy and wouldn't have met the others.
Zero's life is now predictable because he joined the organization. As a result, his future seems to be playing a joke on fate and taking a sharp turn. He will no longer be the officer Furuya who walks in the light, but a rodent in the dark, unable to obtain true happiness and even destroying the happiness of others.
He wanted to escape from the organization. When Dr. Elena and Dr. Miyano died in the sea of fire, he had this idea, just as Furuya Zero guessed.
He can't leave.
Mingmei is a few years younger than him, not to mention that there is a newborn Shiho...! He can't leave. If he runs away, who can protect the two children in the organization? Even though Zero himself is a child, he has a firm belief in protection.
But he could have endured the unshakable darkness in his future - if he hadn't learned from Furuya Rei that things in the real world were not supposed to develop like this.
"And now you've told us this." Lingji asked himself to remain calm and composed, looking directly at Furuya Ling who had brought him great pressure. "So, what do you want from us? Or if you want to change this world back to the way it was, what kind of help do you need from us?"
He didn't ask 'why me', because that question was meaningless in the face of what had already happened.
However, the heart of 'Furiya Rei' is aching. The twelve-year-old child has a shallow independent consciousness, and the precocious Rei has a clear understanding of himself, but he cannot control his emotions as perfectly as he, a public security elite.
So he is angry.
If their suffering was forced upon them and should never have existed... Zero would never be able to tolerate such an outcome.
"We don't know, actually." Furuya Ling said calmly. It was hard to tell that he had been calmly evaluating Ling's mental state in his heart. "But we think that no matter what, we should first find a way to find the place where the past was changed and deal with those bad guys and bad sweethearts who shouldn't have appeared. Maybe we can find a way to change everything."
And these things are related to them. The transfer students and this group of future visitors who are strangers to them cannot do it by themselves, so the transfer students need them at the age of twelve.
Xiao Ling stood up from the bench and took a deep breath: "I won't tell anyone about this, but I need to think about it again... I'm going back to the classroom first, sorry."
He said the latter sentence while looking at the transfer student.
The latter raised his head and looked at him, his eyes calm, as if he was not shaken at all by what Furiya Rei and the others said. At this time, Furiya Rei himself was not calm enough, so he did not notice that there was anything wrong with the transfer student's mood.
Just before leaving, Rei hesitated and asked Furuya Rei one last question: "In that future you mentioned...are they happy?"
He remained vigilant and did not reveal the names of the Miyano sisters.
Zero himself didn't know how eagerly his purple-blue eyes wavered when he asked this question.
Furuya Rei couldn't help but recall the night before coming here, how the Miyano sisters went out shopping for clothes with Akae Nazuki who had transformed into a girl, and how Ai tried to sleep with Akae Nazuki who had transformed into a female body, but was taken away by the shocked Matsuda Jinpei...
Furiya Rei remained calm and even gave a convincing smile: "Yes, they have a new family and will live happily in the future."
Zero left, and the only ones left were the two Hagiwara Kenji who were whispering to each other in the next room, Akae Nazuki who had finished her lunch box and was concentrating on drinking the chocolate milk that had appeared in her bag at some point, and a group of guardian sweethearts in the sky.
Kenji Hagiwara was describing to little Kenji how he and Jinpei Matsuda went on adventures when they were children, and how Jinpei Matsuda survived the clutches of Senso after angering his older sister. The sight of the little man dancing in the air made Kenji smile particularly brightly.
"It sounds like that would be a really great childhood friend." Kenji held his little face in his hands, swung his legs, and said with longing, "And a great friend too! Nene, if I go find the twelve-year-old Xiao Zhenping now, will he be my friend? Twelve years old shouldn't be too late to start childhood friendships, right?"
Before she knew it, Kenji started calling Matsuda Jinpei, whom she didn't know, "Jinpei-chan".
Hagiwara Kenji thought for a few seconds. He felt that the twelve-year-old little Jinpei would not refuse, but he would not be as easy to conquer as his little Jinpei was when he was a child...but that little Jinpei would definitely not be able to resist the straight attack of this little Kenji!
So Hagiwara Kenji nodded quickly and said trustingly: "You two can definitely become good friends, and from now on, you can get to know other people, and you can have a few more childhood friends, such as Konazuki and the others!"
Oh no, now that I mentioned this, he actually felt a little moved. Hagiwara Kenji shook his head.
"Great!" Kenji cheered softly, nodded eagerly and agreed on the spot, "It sounds cool that I'll join you and change the world back to its original state."
The two Hagiwara Kenjis clapped their hands happily again.
Only Matsuda Jinpei sat on Akae Nazuki's shoulders with his arms folded, watching their interaction without saying a word.
After a while, he looked at himself and whispered to Akae Nayue: "Actually, Hagi cried secretly at that time."
They both knew that this referred to the time when the Hagiwara family's auto repair shop went bankrupt.
Even though his parents' business had no meaning to Kenji Hagiwara other than quality of life when he was a child, he would still feel sad because of the sudden change in attitude of the people around him, because of his parents' anxiety... because of all these things.
Children are often very sensitive to other people's emotions, especially Kenji Hagiwara, who is good at this.
For Jinpei Matsuda, Kojinran had always played the role of a person of immense spiritual power in front of him. That was the first time he saw little Hagiwara Kenji hiding in the quilt and crying softly. It was also that time that made Jinpei Matsuda realize that no matter how strong Hagiwara Kenji's ability to regulate other people's emotions was, it was difficult for him to comfort himself when encountering bad things.
But Jinpei Matsuda also knew that his childhood sweetheart was very strong and that kind of thing would not defeat Kenji Hagiwara, so he had always pretended that he had not gone to Hagiwara's house to look for his childhood sweetheart that day.
Today, Xiao Yaner's family's auto repair shop has never gone bankrupt, he will grow up smoothly, his family will always be happy, and he no longer needs to be a hard-working bomb disposal police officer who is at risk of dying on the job.
But after listening to their explanation, Xiao Yaner did not hesitate and immediately agreed to accompany them to find a way to restore the world to its original state.
The things that were changed in the past were not bad for Kenji, and were even beautiful. Therefore, as a childhood friend, Jinpei Matsuda was actually very happy to see Kenji, who was more innocent than his own childhood friend when he was twelve years old.
"But that guy will definitely agree. I guessed it from the beginning." Matsuda Jinpei crossed his arms and snorted, "Hagiri is not someone who would indulge in false happiness."
Akae Nayue knew what Matsuda Jinpei hadn't said yet: Moreover, this altered past will also have an impact on Kenji, the very least is... Kenji will not have a unique childhood friend or future ties here.
"Do you really have to show off your childhood friendship in front of me and Brother Hang?" Akae Nayue flicked Matsuda Jinpei's head speechlessly. "Okay, I know you two have a good relationship as children, but how do you know that Kenji didn't decide to change the world with us because of me?"
He raised his eyebrows deliberately and said this.
Matsuda Jinpei covered his forehead with his hands and rolled his eyes at him: "Come on, do you still need to say something like that? When that little brat saw you, his eyes were filled with words!"
After all, in the past, the first person that Xiao Yanji met was not him, Jinpei Matsuda, but this little bastard Aka.
Chijiang Nayue was stunned and looked in the direction of Xiaoyanji. The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and the latter gave him a big smile without hesitation.
Those purple eyes clearly said: [I want to be friends with you.]
Akae Nazuki fell into a brief contemplation, and then he picked up the little Matsuda Jinpei and asked him seriously: "Tell me, if I take Kenji away, will Jinpei here cry?"
Veins throbbed wildly on the forehead of the Guardian Sweetheart version of Matsuda Jinpei: "Who are you calling the crying little bastard?"
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On the other hand, they were actually also talking about Chijiang Nayue.
"As for Little Nazuki, it would be better for you to get to know him and understand him yourself." Hagiwara Kenji smiled, "Although the ten-year-old Little Nazuki seemed much more difficult to get along with than his future self, he has always been a good kid."
"I know." Xiao Yanji said sternly, "After all, only kind people can be the protagonist."
Kenji Hagiwara was still smiling, but his smile was filled with confusion: Wait, what protagonist?
"It's just..." Kenji was very sensitive to other people's emotions. Even though he didn't have as much experience as Hagiwara Kenji in the past, he still noticed something sensitively. So he hesitated for a moment and asked Hagiwara Kenji in a low voice, "Is Nazuki-chan also not in agreement like Kofuku-chan?"
Kenji saw it. When Furuya Rei explained that they came from the future and their purpose was to restore the past of this world to its original state, the transfer student sitting there showed no emotion on his face. All he could see was silence... and indifference.
Kenji Hagiwara certainly knew how to answer this question, but he didn't want to, and it wasn't his place, to uncover his friend's past scars.
So he just shrugged his shoulders and said to Kenji, "Why don't you give it a try? How about becoming friends with him and asking him the question yourself?"
Ask Na Yue Chijiang, who knows that his parents will die in the future, whether he will personally send his parents to their original fate for a group of people who claim to be his future friends.
Hagiwara Kenji sighed inwardly.
They have never discussed this issue with Chijiang Nayue... because it would be too cruel for that person.
This is also one of the reasons why they insisted on removing Chijiang Nayue from the script. At least during this period of time, they hope that Chijiang Nayue can ignore everything and just be a child loved by her parents.