"Little Jinpei?!"
Matsuda Jinpei's punch was not soft at all, and he knocked Hagiwara Kenji to the ground. Before the latter could react, he was grabbed by the collar and pulled up from the ground.
"You bastard!" Matsuda Jinpei's voice squeezed out from between his teeth, "Asshole!"
The sunglasses were thrown away somewhere on the way to the curly-haired ace in the treatment class. The anger in his eyes was unprotected, and Hagiwara Kenji was almost burned.
Seeing that his friend's face was full of violent anger, but his eyes were full of unstoppable worry, Hagiwara Kenji sighed, "...Little Jinpei."
What was Little Jinpei thinking when he ran up just now?
If I really die in this place, on that phone call... With Xiao Zhenping's unrestrained and unsociable personality, who will help him deal with the necessary interpersonal relationships in the future? Workplace bullying is common even among the police. If he is... no, he should be the only one bullying everyone else.
I can imagine that scene.
Xiao Zhenping will definitely be upset for a long time because he died from a bomb just after saying that. Why did I make such a joke at this time? It's just a joke!
"I told you not to call me that!"
"Jinpei-chan." Hagiwara Kenji still called out like that. The teasing that he usually had in his words disappeared, and his voice became lower, as if he was being pulled down with it. He closed his eyes and simply leaned his face forward, not caring that his friend's fist could bend his nose. "I was wrong... You can hit me."
Before he finished speaking, Matsuda Jinpei's fist came at his face, cutting through the air. Hagiwara Kenji closed his eyes tightly, but did not feel the pain he had imagined.
The fist stopped less than a centimeter away from his face.
After waiting for a long time, the person pulling his collar still didn't respond. Hagiwara Kenji tried to open his eyes, but the friend who always had a high-spirited face now had a blank expression and a gloomy look.
Hagiwara Kenji was a little dazed.
The high-rise apartment has excellent lighting. There have been only a few sunny days since the beginning of winter. Today, the particularly bright sunlight shone through the glass windows, coating the corners of his friend's eyes and eyebrows with a layer of gold, making his facial contours more tough. His round
facial features that were full of roundness when he was a child have now fully opened up, and his flamboyant personality during the police academy period seems to have changed a little, probably because his childishness that was always complained about by other friends has suddenly stopped.
In a short period of time, his friend seems to have grown up to be able to stand on his own without him noticing.
"Little...Little Jinpei?"
Hagiwara Kenji murmured, following the other's movements and reaching out to hug his childhood friend.
"Asshole!"
Matsuda Jinpei cursed in a low voice with gritted teeth. The hug only lasted for less than a few seconds, like a dragonfly touching the water. There was still a finishing task to be done. He took a few steps back, thinking of the phone call from Date Kou before, and went over to pick up the white-haired child who was silently watching the two of them, "You guys, wait and go back to write a self-criticism!"
"Huh?! Don't--"
Huh? !
Suddenly, his feet were suspended in the air. Asuka Kiri is eleven years old now. Boys develop later than girls. Even if he hasn't started to grow yet, he is about 1.5 meters tall, which is higher than the average of boys of this age. Even if he is thinner than his peers, he is more than 30 kilograms. Matsuda Jinpei actually picked him up directly without any reluctance on his face.
The teenage boy was extremely thin-skinned, and his cheeks instantly turned red because of this action. Before, he had been with Matsuda Jinpei under the pseudonym Kasugawa Shugo. He was not familiar with the way Asuka Kiri interacted with a few friends, but he was suddenly picked up, which gave him a strange sense of déjà vu. How embarrassing
! !
Asuka Kiri struggled instantly, but Matsuda Jinpei, who had been holding him like a three or four-year-old child, did not let go and walked a few steps to the elevator entrance, "Can you walk?"
"Yes!" the child asked anxiously. Although he knew that Matsuda Jinpei wanted to take him to the ambulance downstairs, he was afraid that he had some injuries that would affect his walking, so he planned to carry him down directly. However!
Tsukiyama Asari had already rushed downstairs with Date Kou, and there were a lot of reporters there who wanted to get first-hand information. If he was carried down and was photographed and published in the newspaper, or if it was directly broadcast live by the media and seen by the three friends who were still in school, it would be a huge embarrassment!
Seeing that he was in good spirits and there was no apparent problem, Matsuda Jinpei no longer insisted and let him go. The two of them walked into the elevator together.
Asuka Kiri watched the floor slowly descend, and then glanced at the man next to her who was thinking about something. After thinking for a while, she reached out and held the man's hand. ?
Matsuda Jinpei was still thinking about what had just happened.
The person on the other end of the phone had just finished saying something unpleasant, and the end of the words that usually ended with a smile suddenly stopped, and turned into a hurried shout, followed by the sound of chaotic footsteps. No matter how much she shouted on the phone, she didn't get a single response.
Then there was the explosion... The huge sound had a shocking power. He almost felt his heart tremble along with it, like a bell in a Buddhist temple that couldn't stop shaking after being struck hard.
Fortunately, even the corridor windows were not shattered. The power of the bomb should not be great.
If something really happened...
A slightly cool little hand pulled him out of his thoughts.
Matsuda Jinpei knew that because of the police academy training and his hobby of "taking things apart", his fingertips were worn out with a thick layer of scuffs. Most of his teammates were like this, and no one cared. Now that he was touching the delicate skin of a child, he suddenly felt something was wrong, and shrank back a few times as if he was afraid of hurting the other party.
The white-haired boy looked up at him, secretly exerted force on his fingers, and held his hand stubbornly.
Are children's hands so soft? He thought for no reason.
In fact, Asuka Kiri is thinner, with distinct joints in her fingers, and her hands are more bony than those of other people of the same age. However, she has never worked and has never practiced any musical instruments, so her hands are very soft compared to those of Matsuda Jinpei.
His heart, which had been pounding, seemed to gradually calm down. He lowered his head to meet the child's eyes, and easily touched the tranquil tenderness of the bottom layer like the sea.
Matsuda Jinpei suddenly thought of the content of his conversation with Date Kou.
Generally speaking, in order to facilitate the search, the family of the missing person needs to provide photos to the police. The guardian at that time... seemed to be named Yueshan? When he was looking for the photo, Squad Leader Date was sitting next to him, and he saw the other party's mobile phone screen light up with a photo of three people.
A black-haired student with a gentle smile, a white-haired child with no expression who looked much younger than he is now, and, even if he only caught a glimpse, Date Kou believed that he was not mistaken for his good friend from the police academy.
The chestnut-haired young man stood beside the two and raised a brilliant smile to the camera. Behind the three of them was the azure sky and a Ferris wheel with only a corner showing.
They should be in an amusement park.
Tsukiyama Asari saw the screen saver and a momentary nervous expression appeared on his face. He quickly swiped a few times and changed the screen saver to a picture of a pet that can be seen everywhere.
It seems that he knows Kasugawa Shugo's occupation and knows that group photos should not be seen by others casually. So when he realized that he forgot to change the screen saver, he hurriedly deleted it. In the end, he only found a recent single photo from the album and gave it to Date Kou.
I remembered that when I was in the police academy, I would occasionally see my good friend making a phone call with a gentle look. When I asked him about it, he would just say that he was a friend. It seems that these two people were on the other end of the phone.
In addition to the fax received by the Metropolitan Police Department, Date Kou quickly thought of two possibilities. One is that because of Kasugawa Shugo's career, the two were targeted, and kidnapped Askagiri to avenge Kasugawa Shugo. The second possibility is related to the bombing case. The criminals were afraid that the police would find the bomb, so they evacuated all the residents. They had no hostages in their hands, so they had to kidnap a child to get close to the bomb and kill someone, so that the police would obediently hand over the 1 billion yen.
The point of human trafficking has long been ruled out. If you want a child to disappear silently, you will not choose to do it in the daytime, on the side of the road with surveillance, and you will not choose a child with abnormal hair color and who knows if there is any problem with the body. The first possibility is also very small. Kasugawa Shugo has only been in the General Affairs Office for a few days and is very cautious. It is impossible for him to be targeted.
He doesn't care that it is broad daylight, and he even has the intention of wanting the police to find
him. So it can only be the third possibility. So Date Kou quickly reported the situation to his colleague in charge of the bombing case. After Hagiwara Kenji led the team to the apartment building and confirmed that Asuka Kiri was indeed kidnapped as a hostage, he called his friend Matsuda Jinpei at the bombing site, and drove here with Tsukiyama Asari.
After recalling what Date Kou said on the phone, Matsuda Jinpei looked at the child's clear eyes, went to the door to send him to the ambulance, and saw a black-haired young man followed him in with an anxious look, and then walked to Date Kou's side.
"Is Hagiwara okay?" Date Kou asked.
He shook his head as a response and temporarily handed over the next task. He did not continue to think until he sat in Date Kou's car returning to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Matsuda Jinpei has always been curious about what kind of family environment his friend's personality was cultivated in.
He is lively and loves to make noises and laugh. It seems that he can get along well with anyone. He can act cute and please even the most strict instructors. He always shoots the so-called "honey rays" after annoying his friends, making people feel uncomfortable and noisy.
At first he guessed that he must have been spoiled in a warm and harmonious family, but the result was completely the opposite.
Although it was noisy, they paid special attention to some details, more careful than squad leader Date. If any of the group was in a bad mood, Shugo's guy would be the first to notice. When it was hot in the summer, he was chased and bitten by mosquitoes and couldn't sleep well. When he returned to the dormitory the next night, he was stuffed with herbal mosquito repellent ointment.
He was like a little sun, but when he was close, he didn't feel burning, only warm. If you put aside those brilliant and hot things and look at the things that are deposited in the deepest part, it's exactly the same as what he saw from Asuka Kiri's eyes just now.
Even though their personalities and looks are so different, they are extremely similar inside.
Matsuda Jinpei paused.
It's like the same person.
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This pink cover is the one I drew with my mouse on the day of the article opening. Now I feel it doesn’t look good (head shaking). I asked my childhood friend to draw one. I am drawing
it now. Hehe I don’t know who should be put on the cover. I originally gave her four aliases (there is one more that I will count because I haven’t written the main article yet). I will choose the one she likes the most. In the end, she said she would draw all four. So stay tuned! ! ! ! !