Chapter 200 Tomorrow's Bloom
During the tea time, the sukiyaki pot was boiling hot. After boiling countless beef slices and vegetables, it finally dried up all the water. The bottom of the pot continued to heat up and made a not-so-good sizzling sound. The not-so-loud wailing at the bottom of the pot was drowned out by the noisy conversations. The
remaining vegetable leaves in the pot that no one had taken away were stuck to the bottom of the pot. Before they all turned black, a hesitant hand finally came.
Kasugawa Shugo propped up his head, looked up and down at the sukiyaki pot for a few times, and then reached out and slowly turned off the stove.
He seemed a little drunk.
The chestnut-haired officer held his head up and thought hard with his alcohol-paralyzed brain, and finally came up with this obvious answer.
"I'll go... get some water." He said vaguely, and when he stood up by supporting the floor, he staggered and almost knocked over the cup in the hand of Date Kou beside him. The latter was the only one among the few who was about to get married, and he didn't know how much wine he had just been forced to drink. Now he looked energetic, but he was already drunk.
Kasugawa Shugo shook his head and patted the side of his face, finally sobering himself up a little. He was not used to the feeling of being out of control of his body and brain, and tried hard to pull back his thoughts that were drowned in alcohol. He fumbled for a long time and finally found a bottle of unopened honey in the cabinet of Hagiwara Kenji's house. He poured several spoonfuls of honey into the warm water, then slowly brought the honey water back and poured a glass for the besieged Date Kou.
"Squad leader..." He held the honey water and clinked glasses with the other party. In the warm atmosphere, they firmly formed a health-conscious team. "Happy wedding."
"...Thank you." Ida Hang reacted for a while, as if he didn't expect that among a bunch of friends who wanted to get drunk first, there would be a really kind-hearted health-conscious person. He picked up the glass, washed away the taste of alcohol in his mouth with the slightly sweet honey water, and smiled, "But it's not too late to say this on the wedding day."
"Hehe, if I wish today, I will definitely be the first one to wish you a happy marriage." The man fell back and leaned against the sofa. "There will be so many people wishing you a happy marriage at the wedding. I have to wish you a happy marriage early, otherwise you will forget mine."
The police officer who was going to have a wedding in a few days looked at his righteous and childish look and couldn't help laughing, with even his shoulders trembling. "You made me worry so much, I will forget anyone else's wish but yours."
"It means that other people don't have to remember it." Kasugawa Shugo raised an eyebrow, and after quoting out of context, he immediately shouted to the others next to him, "Did you hear me? The squad leader doesn't care about you at all!"
"Hey, why are you two drinking water?"
His complaint did not arouse others to condemn Date Kou, but instead made Hagiwara Kenji, who sat next to him at some point, discover that there was something in the two glasses that was obviously different from beer.
The man leaned over to take a sip and raised his voice, "It's still sweet! Confiscate it--"
So Kasugawa Shugo watched the health drink that he had obtained just a few minutes ago being poured into the sukiyaki pot.
He glanced to the side subtly, and saw that Hagiwara Kenji looked normal, and there was even no hesitation or hesitation in his movements. He looked very energetic and was not affected by alcohol at all.
......Can a guy who is not affected really do something like pouring honey water into the sukiyaki pot?
"Hey, you are not drunk, are you?" Kasugawa Shugo stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the other person's face. Before he could wave it a few times, he felt a chill in his palm. Hagiwara Kenji directly used this action to stuff the wine glass into his hand.
"Yeah, I'm already drunk, and Shugo is still drinking honey water." The half-long-haired police officer muttered and stuffed the wine glass into his friend's hand, "You don't see us much more than those two guys, and you drink honey water after finally getting together!" It's
even harder to tell whether he is drunk or not.
He opened his mouth, but swallowed the excuse of "I am a victim" that he would definitely be let go if he said it out.
Forget it, we finally get together, so I might as well drink with them.
Kasugawa Shugo smiled, picked up his glass and clinked it with the man opposite him, "What do you mean not much more than them? We've basically seen each other every day in the past few months, right?"
"That's because you've been lying in the ward every day these past few months." Hearing the conversation between the two, Matsuda Jinpei said. He had taken off his semi-permanent sunglasses early and casually hung them on his open collar. He held the glass in one hand and rested his other arm on the edge of the sofa. His appearance made them feel a little jealous, "We barely saw each other in the past seven years." After
saying that, the man took a sip of the wine and added, "It's not much better than those two bastards who disappeared after graduation."
"That's too much. I often... um... I come to have dinner with you guys whenever I'm free." Kasugawa Shugo immediately protested loudly. After saying this, he looked around and sighed with a long tone as if he understood something, "So the main purpose of this sentence is to scold them two."
The two guys who had disappeared for seven years looked up at the sky and the ground respectively, neither of them said a word.
"I remember when we were in the police academy, Jinpei and Furuya had the best relationship, so good that even a childhood friend like me was a little jealous." Hagiwara Kenji came over and teased, "It's a pity that Furuya disappeared after graduation. It must have been lonely for seven years without anyone to fight with you."
"What are you talking about?" The black curly-haired police officer rolled his eyes at the other party without hesitation. He wanted to say something else, but he saw Kasugawa Shugo not far away suddenly laughed because of this sentence. "Come to think of it,
if it weren't for Zero, I guess I wouldn't have said a few words to Jinpei after graduating from the police academy." The man drank the beer in his hand and laughed. He first met Furuya Rei and Morobushi Kagemitsu at the school gate. Later, the former became familiar with Matsuda Jinpei because of a fight, and he naturally got to know the other three people.
"Hey, why?" Hagiwara Kenji paused and remembered how they met before. "Is it because Jinpei looks fierce and hard to approach?"
"If I have to say..." Maybe he had consumed too much alcohol. Kasugawa Shugo thought for a while and finally said what he really thought. He didn't care that the person in question was sitting next to him. "He wasn't as fierce as he is now when he was in the police academy. It's mainly because he looks too childish. He even made an appointment to fight under the tree. It doesn't seem very smart... Wow!!"
"Not very smart?" Matsuda Jinpei narrowed his eyes dangerously, waved the fist that he had just removed from the man's head threateningly, and asked back word by word.
"You were really childish back then..." The threatened police officer immediately lowered his temper, shrank his neck, and
moved closer to Date Kou. Matsuda Jinpei was probably the one who had the biggest difference between his time in the police academy and now. Although he also had a sullen face in the police academy, his face had not fully grown yet, and he always had a band-aid on his face, and his curly hair was also frizzy.
Matsuda Jinpei turned his face away and poured the beer in the glass into his throat. Hagiwara Kenji beside him laughed and patted his shoulder, spilling a lot of beer in his hand.
From this topic, they talked about the police academy period. Kasugawa Shugo propped up his head and listened, his eyes as bright as the wine reflecting the light above his head. Perhaps because he felt guilty for completely forgetting about Morobushi Kagemitsu before, in the end, only Amuro Toru was targeted.
He held the glass, his face was flushed, and it was obvious that he drank a lot.
"......If I must say, the most frightening thing was when I met Furuya, right?" Hagiwara Kenji recalled the scene at that time and felt a little sober. "It was in the ward, and you were being rubbed on the temples by Tsukiyama. It was just like that..." Before
he finished speaking, he felt a weight on his sleeves. Matsuda Jinpei, who was standing next to him, pinched him hard with a dark face, and immediately cut off the man's words.
Kasugawa Shugo raised his head and once again showed a sharp look to the man who was being targeted.
"The first in the police academy that year, fell to become a waiter in a cafe..." Matsuda Jinpei raised an eyebrow.
What do you think of waiters? !
Toru Amuro waved his hands repeatedly. He thought it was time to criticize the waiter who often skipped work when the boss was busy. However, no one continued to talk. Jinpei Matsuda just looked at him, then casually put his arm on his shoulder and spoke in a low voice, "...Thank you for your hard work."
The man was stunned and rarely spoke. Even the smile on his face faded. He lowered his head in a wolfish manner and took a big sip of wine. Kasugawa Shugo looked at him and caught a faint glint in his eyes at that moment.
Toru Amuro did not raise his head at all.
It's strange to say, in the past seven years, I have been investigating and fighting in the organization. From a member of the stratum without any value and code name in the eyes of the previous organization, I have gradually become Bourbon under Rum. In addition to the pain in my body, the most exciting thing is the inner struggle when I do something that goes against my beliefs. All the torture and pain I have experienced were broken and swallowed back into my stomach with blood.
The most difficult period has passed. Although it is the most tense time now, I can see hope, which is much better than before. However, being simply said by a friend who I haven't seen for a long time, I feel a sense of grievance after returning home.
After all, he is a man who is about to turn 30. It is really hard for him to be so
upset by his best friend's words... Morobushi Jingguang put his hand on his childhood friend's shoulder and continued the previous topic about the police academy, letting the other person digest his emotions bit by bit in the undisturbed but gentle atmosphere.
"......I hadn't thought that Jingguang would go back to the Public Security Bureau." Date Kou also changed the subject and said in a very normal tone, "I didn't expect that you two would go together in the end. Hagiwara also went to the explosion site with Matsuda. Are you two childhood friends going to stick together?"
Upon hearing this, Kasugawa Shugo hung himself on the squad leader pitifully, "It's so pitiful. We are the only two who went to other departments alone."
"But the squad leader has a girlfriend... No, you should say he has a wife, right?"
"Damn it." The chestnut-haired guy moved himself off the other person again and lay on the table, "Big failure--"
"Don't you also have Tsukiyama and..." Hagiwara Kenji was stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face faded a little. Although it has been a long time, sometimes he still hesitates to mention this name.
"That's true. I really want to eat the rice cooked by Asari." Kasugawa Shugo changed his posture, pretending that he didn't hear the police officer's pause just now, "Speaking of which, I met Instructor Onizuka when he came to bring me food a few days ago."
"This time, is he here to get the inspection report of this year's police academy students?" Date Kou thought for a while, "It's true that I haven't seen him for a long time. I remember that he always punished us to run laps at the beginning."
"Later, he found that running was useless, so it became a punishment of copying." Morobushi Kagemitsu interrupted, "I climbed over the wall more than a hundred times each time, and I copied it in the zero dormitory all night... That article was quite long, but I still remember the last sentence. I remember it was..."
"All great sacrifices are for fairness and justice."
A voice suddenly came from the side. He looked to the side in a daze, and saw that Amuro Toru, who had his head down just now, finally raised his head. He was still holding a wine glass in his hand. When he said this, he moved the glass forward a little. The light in his eyes was brighter than before, but it was no longer tears. Although he was wearing the inner shirt of a suit and sitting casually on the floor, and there was even some wine on his clothes, he was still in high spirits, overlapping with the first place in the police academy who went up to speak at the graduation ceremony.
"Yes, that's it." Date Kou said with a smile. When they copied it before, they complained that this sentence was a bit too official, but now, after being a police officer for so many years, they fully understood its meaning, "...for fairness and justice."
He pushed the cup forward, level with Amuro Toru's, but they didn't touch.
"...for freedom." Hagiwara Kenji was just looking at it with his head tilted up. He closed his eyes and saw the dust, fire and flying birds. He straightened his waist before speaking, changing his appearance just now.
Matsuda Jinpei looked at him and picked up the half-empty glass of wine in front of him. He finally stopped acting like a gangster boss and said, "For responsibility."
"...For redress." Kasugawa Shugo's eyes were a little hot. He felt something burning in his chest, getting hotter and hotter, even turning into a boiling ball. He laughed, and the last sentence seemed to be shouted out, "For reunion!"
"And..." Morofushi Jingguang looked at them with a smile. He suddenly thought of his brother who was thousands of miles away, or something else, and thought of things that family, friendship or pure love would include, "and love."
"Huh, so corny--" the chestnut-haired police officer immediately shouted beside him, with a smile in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. The alcohol he had inhaled before was finally released because of the fire, burning his brain. He pushed the cup in his hand forward with force, and some of the wine splashed on his hand, but he didn't notice it at all, "- In honor of fairness and justice."
After he finished speaking, when he said the next sentence, everyone echoed loudly.
"To freedom——"
"To responsibility——"
"To reunion——"
"To reunion——"
"To..." Kasugawa Shugo paused for a moment. He couldn't think of any other words, and felt that there was no need to entangle himself. "Forget it, let's toast to ourselves——"
Several people looked at him with amusement, and the wine glasses clinked together, and the mottled light and shadow cast by the chandelier on the glass of the cup wall made a chaotic and crisp sound.
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"The Breakup Book of the Science Scholar" by Zimu Tao, id6270685
Songjiang Shiyu is a game player. Only when he has full experience points can he leave the game and return to reality.
And experience points can only be increased by "just the right death" and "gaining the favor of the world character".
With the plot provided by the system forum, Songjiang Shiyu focuses on getting angry, provoking trouble, and gaining favor. He dances with danger with a DEBUFF and successfully hits the death escape BE line in the first two levels of the game.
[Death Escape Week 1 Instructor]
You are serious, stubborn, and have a serious cleanliness obsession. The nightmares of the past follow you like a shadow. The strong sense of guilt makes you miserable, and you crave sleep.
Please be clean.
Later, you disappeared in a sea of fire in front of the students.
[Death Escape 2: Hacker]
You are a genius, a neurotic, and are best at being weird. You are disabled, and there is only a fine line between genius and madness. You are afraid of darkness.
Please stay bright.
Later, you disappeared in the surging sea of darkness in front of the members of the organization.
[Third Week: Special Correspondent]
You are a public security special correspondent, undercover in the Poirot Cafe, trying to find out the secret of the black workshop where many murders have occurred. You have a very poor physique, you... ding ding... system... system error.
[You found that the game has merged.]
Matsue Shigure found that the game has merged.
A blond-haired, dark-skinned waiter at a certain cafe looked at him with a strange look.
The bassist with brown hair and cat eyes smiled meaningfully and personally served him a glass of Scottish whiskey. The
curly-haired police officer who defuses bombs and his good partner, the reliable detective holding a toothpick in his mouth, the little girl with brown hair and a cold face...
The NPCs who appeared beside Matsue Shigure and were closely related to him all said in their hearts the voice he least wanted to hear -
"Found you."
When playing the last level of the game, the system went wrong, and the repatriation time was postponed for one year. Matsue Shigure's game vests were merged into one.
Every time he switched vests, he could use the skills of different vests, but his behavior must be consistent with the vest's personality.
Facing the NPCs who gradually stripped his vest from clues.
Matsue Shigure silently hugged his three accounts:... Is it too late to say that he is schizophrenic now?
Reading Guide: [Starting with the third week, the first two weeks are inserted in flashback]
1. Favorability is not all about love, it includes family, friendship, and love.
2. All members are group pets, 80% have no CP, and the remaining 20% depends on the direction of the plot (single arrows must also be pure love, which is the rule of Jinjiang)
3. The author guarantees that there will be no social death plots, and the supporting characters will be supplemented
4. The main purpose is to satisfy personal XP, those who like it are welcome, and those who don’t like it don’t hurt me!