Chapter 328 Fifteen Sweethearts

When Akae Nazuki and Hagiwara Kenji returned to the room, the unconscious people had all woken up. Not only that, judging from the expressions of Jinpei and Kou, the others must have explained the conversation at noon to them again.

When they entered the room, Zhen Ping, who was sitting sideways to the door, glanced over consciously, and then exchanged glances with Chi Jiang Na Yue.

The latter had just spoken to a friend in the corridor, and the depression in his heart had been relieved a lot, so he was in a good mood and did not show any displeasure to the curly-haired kid. He just asked him what he was doing with a calm but slightly confused look in his eyes.

Little Jinping turned his head back as if he was scalded, but this action made him see the "miniature version of my future self" flying to his right and huddling with Kenji happily.

That's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?

Zhen Ping felt a chill down his spine. He didn't want to know at all whether the guy who claimed to be his future self was actually saying bad things about him to the guy who they said he was supposed to have known since childhood! He didn't want to know at all!

So Chijiang Nayue noticed that the little curly-haired boy's eyes moved around the room, and finally fell on his face reluctantly.

He found it a little funny for a moment, and Hagiwara Kenji, who was lying on top of him, couldn't help laughing. The latter took the initiative to speak and joined the topic smoothly: "Hey! Where were you talking about?"

Morobushi Kagemitsu naturally continued, "Hmm? We just explained the current situation, and now we are mainly thinking about how to find which part of the past has been changed."

This is actually quite simple. In the case of Rei's overly radical change, Fūya Rei himself can basically tell at a glance what is wrong, but for the other three people except Rei, it is actually difficult to directly tell which part of the past has been changed.

So they all knew that the best way was to let Zhen Ping and Hang, who didn't know what had happened to them yet, talk about the important nodes in their lives, and then they would make their own judgment in the future.

This would be tantamount to tearing open the scars that might exist in the hearts of the two children, and none of the adults wanted to do that unless it was absolutely necessary.

"Huh? Isn't that simple?" Xiao Zhenping rolled his eyes and said bluntly, "Since you said it's us in the future, then as long as you ask us a question and we can't answer or the answer is different from what you think, isn't it that we have been changed?"

…

What he said was actually not much different from the previous one, but Zhen Ping, who took the initiative to propose this, obviously knew that if he did so, he and Hang would need to say something. Even so, he still looked very indifferent - of course, the smart people from the future could also see that this kid was forcing himself to remain calm.

"Are you sure?" Furiya Ling stopped in mid-air, crossed his arms, and looked serious. "You know that will require you to tell your secret to others, right?"

The black-haired, blue-eyed boy sneered at this statement, seemingly not caring at all: "So what? There's nothing I can't tell anyone. My biggest 'secret' is already known to everyone in school, so is there anything else I can't tell you?"

Hang beside him also touched his chin and nodded: "That's true! Anyway, I don't have any secrets that cannot be known by others, and this will indeed be faster? According to what you said, you should also want to restore everything as soon as possible."

That is true.

"Then let me ask first?" Hagiwara Kenji suddenly flew down from Akae Nazuki's head and climbed on his younger self's head. The younger Kenji subconsciously reached out to help him up, "Oh, thank you, my past self!"

Xiao Yaner shouted happily: "You're welcome, future me!"

These two people can be said to be the fastest to adapt among all the 'Past and Future' groups present, and they get along very well.

"Ask a question~"

Hagiwara Kenji smiled and said, "Is Sharon Wynyard Ko's favorite movie actress right now?"

The two "small formations" in the room froze. The smaller one reflexively turned his head and looked at Chi Jiang Na Yue in horror, while the other one looked at the guardian sweetheart who had spoken.

"So you like Sharon." Chi Jiang Na Yue said thoughtfully, "I can help you get Sharon's autographed photo."

"No need, thank you." Matsuda Jinpei gritted his teeth.

He did like Sharon Wynyard when he was a kid, but wasn't that a preference he developed after Hagi took him to watch many of Sharon's movies? You know, at first he liked -

"No." Xiao Zhenping didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with this, and he quickly recovered from the momentary stiffness. "I prefer Fujimine Yukiko's movies... But I'm not a fan of celebrities."

Matsuda Jinpei slowly closed his eyes: I can’t hide it anymore.

He has known the Kudo family, who live next door to Aka's house, since the police academy and has kept it a secret until now, even threatening Hagi to keep it a secret for him. As for the little devil Aka, he will never reveal anything unless the Kudo family is mentioned.

But now my childhood self has exposed my true colors.

With a fierce look in his eyes, Jinpei Matsuda rushed up and started fighting with Kenji Hagiwara while tumbling in the air.

"Don't mind it." Ida Kou said nonchalantly, "They are always so childish."

"Squad leader!"*2

"Wow, will I still be your class monitor in the future?" Xiao Hang's eyes lit up, "That sounds great."

"Oh." Ida Kou smiled proudly, "You think so too? I think this is great too."

The young Kenji over there looked at Ida Kou who was wearing a police uniform in mid-air, and then looked at the class monitor who he had been with day and night. When these two faces, one big and one small, were put together, a distant memory in his mind was dug out.

"…Class leader, did you live in Tokyo when you were a kid?" Kenji suddenly asked, his expression looking a little strange, "Did you go to a convenience store near Fuji TV Station a few years ago?"

When this was mentioned in the second year of graduate school, Hang's face changed. From being pulled over and inexplicably joining this small group to witnessing the transfer student possessing strange abilities, and even learning that a group of them from the future had returned to this time to "save the world", he always looked very stable and his occasional surprises quickly passed.

Only now, he looked sad enough for anyone to see.

Most of the people present knew about the convenience store robbery that Kenji Hagiwara and Kou Date encountered when they were children. Combining the time mentioned by Kenji and working back to the present, it is not difficult to understand which case Kou was so shocked about, but why?

Based on their understanding of their squad leader, even if Date Kou has not yet resolved the misunderstanding with his father, he should not feel sad when the incident is mentioned. After all, it is still "angry" or "dissatisfied", right? Unless -

"It was four years ago." The buzz-cut boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes whispered, his head lowered and his fists clenched on his knees. "My dad and I went to that convenience store together, and then we encountered a robbery."

His father is a policeman, but he is too thin to confront several robbers. In order to protect all the ordinary citizens behind him and to buy time to wait for his colleagues to rescue him, Officer Ida chose to kneel down to the criminals and do everything they said.

He briefly abandoned his dignity, but saved everyone at the time.

But in Hang's narration, this past began to undergo a landslide-like change from here on.

When the police arrived and prepared to take action with the cooperation of Officer Ida, the criminals who had become inexplicably alert discovered the arrival of the police, and they immediately thought of Officer Ida.

So someone shot at the thin figure in panic, and Hang's father was hit by the bullet in front of him and eventually died.

"Later I found out that my dad was stalling for time. He wanted to protect all the ordinary people in the convenience store. This was the justice that my dad upheld until his death." Hang raised his head, his eyes red, but his eyes were extremely firm. "So from that time on, my goal was to become a great policeman like my dad and implement my dad's justice to the end. I want to protect everyone, and then tell my dad that I will do better than him!"

The seemingly bad changes seemed to bring good development to Hang, but several adults felt that this was wrong... This child was too biased when it came to justice and order.

If things continue like this, he will destroy himself sooner or later.

However, just as Hang finished speaking, Zhen Ping, who had been silent for a while, interrupted him with a disgusted tone: "Police? What a joke, the police are just a bunch of tax thieves!"

"What did you say?!" Hang stood up suddenly, his eyes wide open with anger.

"Am I wrong!" Zhen Ping was not to be outdone. He stood up and glared at Hang fiercely, "If they were more capable, they wouldn't be so late, right? If they were more capable, so many accidents wouldn't have happened, right?! If - if they were more responsible and serious! My dad wouldn't -!"

The stubborn curly-haired kid clenched his teeth, tears already falling to the ground.

"Your dad is a hero." Zhen Ping straightened his back, his frown filled with resentment towards the police, "Does that mean my dad is a bad guy? He deserves to be a scapegoat, and I deserve to be a child without a dad and be called a murderer by others!?"

The room fell silent for a moment. No one spoke. The only sounds could be heard: the two boys' breathing as they tried to calm down, and their curly-haired nasal voices as they pretended no one noticed.

After finally calming down a little, Zhen Ping spoke.

"At that time, my dad was just passing by that place." He has now been able to remain indifferent - at least on the surface, he said, "In the end, he was dragged into the fight between two people. The two people suddenly started killing each other during the fight. One of them took advantage of my dad's unpreparedness when he was trying to stop the fight and stabbed the other person to death."

"Then, he pushed all the blame onto my dad at the police station. He said my dad was the murderer... The evidence was clearly there, and there were fingerprints on the murder weapon. My dad didn't even know them at first, so how could he be the murderer?"

But considering the current situation——

"But the real murderer has the same last name as the then police chief." Zhen Ping sneered, "So everyone started saying that my dad was the murderer. No one listened to his explanation, no one listened to my voice, and the police quickly closed the case, insisting that the fingerprints on the murder weapon were my dad's. Coincidentally, all the surveillance cameras in the area 'malfunctioned' that day. In the end, my dad became a murderer and went to prison, and I became the murderer's child."

Jinpei Matsuda looked in the direction of the boy in disbelief. In those steel-blue eyes that were so similar to his own, he saw deep hatred.

The formation was different from him, and he realized it.

This boy, who has thoroughly seen the bad side of the police, will never become a policeman in the future.