Chapter 327 Fourteen Sweethearts

"Why this time?"

The 1.2-meter-tall boy with the aura of a 2.8-meter-tall man stood at the kitchen door. In front of him was a blonde beauty who was kneeling obediently on a mat. He asked calmly in a tone of habit.

The beautiful lady across from me bit her lip. She knew she was in the wrong and didn't dare to lie. So she said pitifully, "I was just doing a little experiment."

Speaking of this, Akajiang You even stretched out his hand and made a very small gesture.

"Really? So you put the fork and the bowl into the microwave together." The boy understood, but still pretended to be serious, "Mom, I have marked in the sterilizer which ones can be put in the microwave and which ones can't, right?"

Akae Yuu looked away: "...That's why I'm curious why it's not possible."

Akae Nayue sighed, took a step forward and stretched out her hand. Akae Youya skillfully moved her head over. The next second, the child flicked her forehead softly without leaving even a red mark.

"Don't make this an example next time." Chi Jiang Na Yue taught her seriously, "The spare microwave oven is the last one. If it explodes again, Mom won't be able to eat on time when I'm not home this month."

The chef of their family is the ten-year-old Akagi Nayue. The child, who has plenty of time, prepares lunch boxes for the two adults in the family who have irregular lives on most days and reminds them on time for their two meals a day. Otherwise, neither Qingwu nor You will remember to eat unless they are really hungry.

According to Chijiang Nayue, this was entirely because before he came to this house, neither of them knew how to cook, and they had to make do with whatever was available for meals... It took him two years to get them used to a life of having hot and delicious meals for two meals a day.

Akae Nayue didn't feel any trouble at all. He actually liked cooking and the feeling of being needed by his family, especially when this family consisted of a big and a small couple who 'unconditionally loved Yu-chan' and Yu-chan herself.

For things like bento, he usually prepared them directly and put them in an insulated box. Only when he didn't have time would he leave a sticky note for You and Qingwu to heat up fast food for lunch. For this reason, he specially marked the things in the kitchen with taboos on their use.

However, she never expected that a large part of Akae Yu's reputation as a kitchen killer was because she liked to try out the strange ideas in her mind during kitchen activities, such as today's - I really want to see what would happen if I put all those tableware in the microwave together.

When Chijiang came down that moon, she saw You sitting at the dining table with a wry smile on her face, while Qingwu, who didn't dare to let her into the kitchen, was working diligently to clean the kitchen.

Alas...his adoptive mother was gentle and reliable most of the time, but occasionally a little naughty and mischievous. A large part of his personality was influenced by Yu.

Akae Nayue felt that she had been punished and taught a lesson, and Akae You, who was used to it, stood up as if it was normal, hugged her son and gave him a strong kiss on the forehead.

After a scolding, the person being scolded has to give the scolder a kiss, and the matter is considered to be truly over. This is the custom of the Akae family.

After a long time of not experiencing this, Akae Nazuki felt that he could be a little more tolerant of Yu. Only Hagiwara Kenji pulled his friend's hair with a shocked look on his face.

When the 'explosion' just happened, both Hagiwara Kenji and Matsuda Jinpei wanted to get down, but considering that they had to explain the situation to Jinpei, it would be more convincing if Matsuda Jinpei, the future self, stayed, so in the end, only Hagiwara Kenji came down.

"Although I have realized it a long time ago." Hagiwara Kenji sighed, "But you know, Natsuki-chan, if your former subordinates and the criminals you beat up saw this scene, they would all cry and re-understand the word 'lesson'."

Don't say that a 10-year-old guy can smash the cross on the bad sweetheart with his fist. Who would believe that the force of his flick on the forehead is only so soft? And the so-called "lesson", that is, even Hagiwara Kenji himself can't say with a clear conscience that Akae Natsuki was really angry about the kitchen being bombed.

However...

The half-long-haired guardian sweetheart held her face with her hands, showing a happy expression.

Isn't Xiao Nayue, who is like a little adult but still very childish in some ways, very cute?

Akae Nazuki pretended not to hear Hagiwara Kenji's sigh. He struggled to jump down from his comfort zone and headed for the kitchen. "Seigo, the kitchen is unavailable tonight. Let's order the homemade dishes from Mihua. The portions are large... The people above will also stay for dinner."

Akajinazuki really wanted to say that they would not stay, but unfortunately when they came back, Qingwu, who had a loud voice, directly told You that he brought his friend home, and You seemed really happy.

In order to make You happy for a while longer, Chijiang Nayue changed her words.

"Leave it to me. I'll ask someone to buy it later." Seigo made an OK gesture. "Go upstairs and play with your friends first. I'll call you when it's dinner time, aka." While Akae and his son were talking, Hagiwara Kenji knew the situation and didn't say a word, but his eyes kept drifting curiously to Akae Seigo's face.

It was not until they went up the stairs back to the reception room and were alone on the stairs that Hagiwara Kenji curiously asked what he wanted to know most: "Natsuki-chan, Uncle Akae seems to look different from the one in the family photo? I thought he had red hair."

But the man he just saw had black hair and eyes that were the same red as his best friend's. When these two stood together, almost no one would think they were father and son.

However, Kenji Hagiwara clearly remembered that in the family photo in their home, Akae Seigo had red hair and blue eyes, and when the father and son met not long ago, he also took a quick glance at Akae Seigo and indeed saw red hair.

"Oh, that's a wig and colored contact lenses." Akae Nayue held her chin up and answered straightforwardly, "Because Ling and the others came to my house, when in front of my classmates and teachers, Qingwu always appeared in a disguised state with black hair and red eyes."

In order to conceal the fact that Chijiang Nayue was not their biological child from almost everyone, the two would always retouch the details of their appearance while working, subtly making people believe that they really looked like that. The public security authorities had destroyed their photos long ago because of their undercover work, so as long as they reduced the number of times they met with acquaintances, they would not be exposed.

Both knew that their child had a secret, and they really raised him as their own child. Moreover, for an undercover agent, it is a good thing not to be remembered by others about their true appearance, so the two chose to disguise themselves.

...This resulted in the fact that, until their deaths, the photo left for Chijiang Nayue in the newspaper did not show their true appearance.

Of course, fortunately he remembered what they looked like and had already painted countless portraits of them, including countless family portraits, one per year, and the number of people in the portraits even increased every year.

He in the family photo has gradually grown up to be 28 years old, and there are many new family members around him. Only the two of them are forever frozen in that time, standing behind him in the family photo with a smile.

"I remember that Yuu-chan often said that she would take me to see the cherry blossoms after she and Seigo finished their work." Akae Nazuki stood under the family portrait that now hangs in the house, looking up at the ten-year-old boy and his parents who were smiling gently on the left and right. "Seigo also secretly told me that he had contacted Teacher Sharon, and that he would be able to let me get along with Teacher Sharon openly at that time."

His fingertips touched the wall and he stroked it gently, his voice also very soft amidst the rustling sound: "I am really happy and look forward to the day when they come back."

He fell silent, but Akae Natsuki didn't need to say the following words, as Hagiwara Kenji also knew it. For example, the 18-year-old child never waited for his parents to come back, and only two bottles of ashes were brought back.

"I love them and I always will. I even thought about using a time machine to go back to the time of their death and save them from that plane... but I can't do that."

Those who play with time will definitely pay a price. Chi Jiang Na Yue may not care about the price taken from him, but when this price is related to everyone around him, he can no longer not care.

Dazai Osamu warned him: "You can use the time machine to read files and change what has happened, but you cannot go too far into the past. Every change in an event will have an indelible impact on this world, and you cannot control whether that impact is good or bad."

Just like this time, Chijiang Nayue actually guessed that when he and Wells used their superpowers to go back in time at the same time, the special point that was generated took them to the distant past.

But in reality, their first landing should have been eight years from now, which was the time of his parents' death.

——It is true that someone modified the past, but they all know that the only one among the six of them who has this ability is Chijiang Nayue herself.

Chi Jiang Na Yue would indeed not take the initiative to change his parents' death, but if they happened right in front of him, he could not just sit there and do nothing and watch "history unfold", so he probably took action and let Chi Jiang and his wife get out of the plane alive.

Even if these things did not exist in Chijiang Nayue's mind at this time, he could guess what would happen next.

If the Chijiang couple had not died in the murder of Black Label Whiskey, their undercover identities would have been exposed, and they would have tried to escape with him. Perhaps with the secret help of Bermode they would have succeeded. But, what if it was him who died at the age of eighteen instead of his parents?

If the attempt to eliminate the Akae couple fails, Karasuma Renya will destroy this uncontrollable weapon without hesitation, and if he dies, Seigo may return to the Public Security Bureau and wait for an opportunity to launch a crazy revenge on the organization, but Yu will not... She will think that she killed her child.

Akae Nazuki was unwilling to continue to speculate what happened afterwards. Anyway, it was conceivable that if he died at the age of eighteen, a year later when Dazai Osamu finally came to this world and wanted to take him back, he would only get the news of his death.

If he had died at the age of eighteen, this world and the world of Yokohama would never have merged, and nothing that followed would have happened.

Kenji Hagiwara will die at the age of 22, followed by Jinpei Matsuda, Kagemitsu Morofushi, Kou Date, Akemi Miyano, Hiroki Sawada, and all those whose fate he has changed will die.

He saved his parents, but changed the past and future of everyone related to him, including himself.

This won't work, he won't accept it.

Perhaps it was because of the savior's resistance, or perhaps it was because such a future would lead the world to destruction. In any case, after Chijiang Nanyue realized that he could not do that, time flowed backwards again, and they landed at the time when he was ten years old.

He opened his eyes in the academic office and forgot that he had ever tried to change his parents' death.

Of course, all these complicated things are in the past. The only thing that Chijiang Nanyue can tell others is that it was actually him who distorted and changed their past into the current peculiarities.

"I'm sorry." Akae Nazuki was never ashamed to admit his mistakes. He apologized to Hagiwara Kenji very directly, "I have also...thought it through."

He loves You and Qingwu, but he also loves his current family, that city, and that future that may not be perfect but is good enough.

He has too many ties and responsibilities to bear, and he can no longer ignore everything and try to 'resurrect' the two most important people in his life. Those two people will definitely not agree to let him do so.

So he promised: "I will restore the world to its original state and give them back the future that was taken away from them."

Hagiwara Kenji blinked, rubbed his friend's forehead with the side of his face, and said with a smile of self-righteousness: "I knew it a long time ago."

They wanted Chijiang Nayue to spend more time with his parents during this period because they understood him well enough. They knew from the beginning that Chijiang Nayue would only make one choice in the end.

Because maybe the past was indeed painful, so painful that it made people want to change, but Chijiang Nayue would not stay in the painful past, he would always and always need to move forward.

"It's okay. This is what all of us think." Hagiwara Kenji smiled. "No matter what decision you make, we will be by your side and face the consequences with you. After all, we are family, Nayue-chan."

"Okay, okay." Chijiang Nayue's answer was irrelevant. "I love you. Do you want to eat spicy curry with me tonight? That private restaurant makes great dishes."

"I love you too, Nayue, but spicy curry is not okay. Your 'great' is hell to me!"

"Your love is so perfunctory."

"Hey, hey..."