"Next! Furuya!"

"Yes!" Furuya Rei, whose name was called, put on his mask and stood up to get ready.

"Captain Date has won ten games in a row," Kasugawa Shugo changed several postures and looked at Date Kou who was adjusting and resting, "How did he train his muscles?"

"This is going to be interesting," Matsuda Jinpei turned his attention to the court.

Hagiwara Kenji also became interested, "Although Furuya's academic performance is higher, it's hard to say about this."

Hearing this, Matsuda Jinpei opened his hands and put them to his mouth and shouted, "Go on, Zero! Don't lose to the real person!"

"I remember someone just said that he has no interest in girlfriends and the like," Kasugawa Shugo said, why are you so active now, and Hagiwara Kenji also agreed, "You are really concerned about this."

"Hey, Hagi. Do you want to bet?"

"I want to bet too!" Kasugawa Shugo raised his hand, "I bet the class monitor's eleven consecutive wins with the chocolate milk from the canteen!"

"You really like chocolate milk, then I'll bet zero with the fried noodles bread from the canteen!"

"I bet the squad leader with a pineapple bag!"

Hearing that both of them bet on the squad leader, Matsuda Jinpei looked like you guys got fooled, "Actually, the squad leader hurt his knee in the match with me, there's no way Zero didn't notice it."

"Hey, Jinpei, let me tell you," Kasugawa Shugo came over and raised his eyebrows, "Do you like Zero?"

"What did you say?!"

Matsuda Jinpei blushed and was about to retort, but was interrupted by Hagiwara Kenji's cheers.

"I got the fried noodles bread!"

"Oh, and my chocolate milk!" Kasugawa Shugo quickly let go of the topic, but he stopped cheering afterwards.

Hey, what's going on with this atmosphere?

"Zero!?" Morobushi Kagemitsu became nervous. When Furuya Zero fell to the ground, he landed on his face. Although he was wearing a mask, he was still a little worried.

["Although you are required to subdue the opponent without hurting him, the premise is that you can do it," Date Kou took off the mask he was wearing, "I am very disappointed in you, Furuya."

Furuya Zero was stunned.

"Why didn't you attack my knee? Why did you hesitate? If this was a real scene, you would be seriously injured and the suspect would escape. You can't sympathize with the vicious criminal. If he sees your weakness, he will close in step. What awaits you is only the worst ending like my dad."

"If you don't become stronger than anyone else, you can't do justice!!"

Date Kou said, turned to the others, and seemed to be a little puzzled by their silence.

"What? Did I say something wrong?"

Kasugawa Shugo pursed his lips.

Night.

His physical strength was finally improved to the point where he could still spare time to go to the canteen to buy things after the night run. Kasugawa Shugo walked to a corner under the dormitory where few people went, tore open the iced chocolate milk in his hand and poured it into his mouth.

The chocolate flavor spread in his mouth, but his thoughts drifted far away, thinking of Morobushi Kagemitsu's excited expression and Date Kojita's words.

It seemed that his friends all had problems that were difficult to solve.

From the private investigation of Morobushi Kagemitsu, his reaction to tattoos, Date Kou's relationship with his father, Matsuda Jinpei's hatred of the police, and many more, Hagiwara Kenji, Furuya Rei, Kasugawa Shugo can sense many things. Anyway

, the five of them are strong in limbs, but as for brains... although they are not as smart as himself, they are still good idiots. Of course, he would want to help his friend untie the knot. Kasugawa Shugo,

who claims to be a top brain, thought that they were just a group of grown men in a single dormitory, and they would not have any late-night talks. This thing still needs an opportunity. As

he thought about it, he suddenly thought of some memories from a long time ago. To be precise, these memories are not his own, but the background story that he wrote for the character of Kasugawa Shugo.

But since he became Kasugawa Shugo, that background story has become his life, so real that it will suddenly appear in his dreams at midnight, making him sleepless all night.

It seems that it was not so real when he played the role before... This is probably the adjustment made by the system to make the character card become a real person after the task is completed.

So he saw some figures, flashing back and forth, and finally stopped on a man. He had a sturdy figure that could not be blocked by a thick coat. He had a cigarette in his mouth. He didn't have any expression when he looked over, but his eyes were flashing.

That was the look he gave his family.

Kasugawa Shugo smelled the smoke, mixed with gunpowder and rust. Are cigarettes so good to smoke? He thought, and took out the cigarettes he bought casually from his pocket, put them in his mouth, and lit them up like that man.

The moment he inhaled, he coughed and spit out the cigarette, and poured chocolate milk into his mouth.

What is this?

Because it was a bit embarrassing to cough out tears after taking a puff of cigarette, he learned his lesson this time. He took the next puff carefully and finally didn't get choked. However, he didn't taste the good of this flavor, so he simply pinched it out and threw it into the trash can not far away.

"Give me one too."

Kasugawa Shugo was frightened. He almost thought he was caught by the instructor. If he smoked in the police academy, he would have to clean public sanitation for a month.

He turned around and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Date Kou's figure hidden in the darkness. He opened the cigarette box,

took out a cigarette, and handed it over with a lighter. "It's the class monitor. I was scared to death." The light of the lighter rang out, and the flames reflected most of Date Kou's face. He held the cigarette in his mouth, lit it, and took a puff with a skilled movement.

"The class monitor smokes?" Kasugawa Shugo was a little curious.

"I learned it in high school," Date Kou's voice was a little vague because he was holding a cigarette, "Don't boys of that age think smoking is cool?"

I didn't expect that the class monitor also had such a youthful time.

However... Kasugawa Shugo's mandarin orange eyes lost their sweetness in the darkness, and were as clear as glass. "Is the squad leader worried?"

The man whose thoughts were touched made a simple sound, holding a cigarette between his fingers, and gently shook the ash aside.

"The squad leader feels that he said too much to Zero during the day, and is regretting it?" He smiled and patted Ida Kou's shoulder. "In my opinion, Zero is not the kind of person who will be angry because of this."

"But...if he cares."

Kasugawa Shugo saw the man walking towards him with his hands in his pockets. He smiled and held Date Kou's shoulder, turned him over, and pushed him out with both hands, "Just go and talk to him nicely."

"Huh?"

Date Kou stumbled forward a few steps and bumped into Furuya Rei who was about to go to the canteen to buy toothpaste.

"Captain Date?" Furuya Rei's eyes flashed with surprise as he took a step back.

"Shugo that brat..." When Date Kou turned around again, the man who pushed him out had disappeared. He couldn't help but smile, thinking back to what he had just said.

'If you care, just go and talk to him nicely.' '

"Furiya," he walked over and stood side by side with Furiya Rei, saying seriously, "I'm sorry for being at the dojo during the day. I was a little too harsh."

... ...

"Ah! I remember!"

As soon as he stepped into the store, Kasugawa Shugo was startled by a familiar shout and almost tripped on the steps at the door, "Why are you here too?"

"I haven't asked you yet," Matsuda Jinpei said speechlessly, "What are you doing here? I remember that Shugo is not interested in motorcycles."

"I came..." Seeing Morobushi Kagemitsu behind the two of them, he swallowed the rest of his words.

Originally, thinking about Kagemitsu's appearance today, he simply came to the motorcycle shop to ask the tattooed man. After locking the target, it would be convenient for investigation. Who knew that these three people were also here.

Facing Morobushi Kagemitsu, Kasugawa Shugo certainly couldn't tell him that he wanted to help him find someone, but Hagiwara Kenji saw through his embarrassment at a glance, took a few steps forward and hooked his neck, "I know without you saying it, you are here to ask about the tattooed man, right?"

He wanted to refute, but who knew that when he raised his head, he met Morobushi Kagemitsu's eyes. Looking at the other's blue cat eyes, he couldn't refute at all. Kasugawa Shugo turned his head away in a wolfish manner and responded vaguely, "Well... so what, aren't you investigating too?"

"See, Morobushi, I told you that Shugo, this stubborn and arrogant guy, would secretly help in private," Hagiwara Kenji immediately shouted to Morobushi Kagemitsu after getting a satisfactory answer, "This guy just says one thing and means another."

"Okay, okay, what did you just say you remembered?"

Kasugawa Shugo quickly changed the subject. He couldn't help but glance to the side and met the eyes of Morobushi Kagemitsu who had been staring at him. Morobushi Kagemitsu smiled at him.

"Ah..." Hagiwara Kenji recalled, "I was thinking that I seemed to have seen something like this when I was a child. An uncle who looked like the class monitor was beaten by a man who looked like a gangster in a convenience store. That man must be the class monitor's father."

Matsuda Jinpei's expression became serious, "Tell me more about this!"

The four of them walked out of the store. On the way, Hagiwara Kenji recalled and told them in detail what he had seen.

[“Indeed…” The atmosphere was unusually dull. “If something like that had happened, it wouldn’t be surprising that Captain Date would think his father was a coward.”

After listening to what Matsuda Jinpei said, Hagiwara Kenji nodded lightly. “Yes, after all, a serving police officer knelt down to a criminal.”

“I can understand the captain’s feelings. When my father was wrongly arrested on suspicion of arresting someone, people everywhere said that I was the son of a murderer, and I almost hated my father.”]

Kasugawa Shugo looked at Matsuda Jinpei calmly, but there was no negative emotion in the latter’s eyes. Hagiwara Kenji, his childhood friend, did not avoid the topic either.

It seems that this guy... ...

["But at that time, someone in the gym kept encouraging me to believe in my father and wait for him to come back. That's why I didn't become depressed."] I

don't know why, but I imagined a group of muscular men surrounding the little Matsuda Jinpei and patting his head, and Kasugawa Shugo couldn't help but smile.

That's great.

[] There are quotes from the original police academy comic.