Chapter 49

Shuji Tsushima stayed in Aomori for nearly two months before returning to Tokyo.

The time was very long, so long that Sakaguchi Ango almost thought that he had encountered some accident in Aomori, such as being called by the Tsushima family to do something dangerous, or encountering a hostile psychic, such as the Hokkaido mafia. If Tsushima Shuji had not called to report his itinerary, Sakaguchi Ango would have wanted to confess to Amamiya Ruisei that he had not taken good care of him.

"I just want to walk around Aomori more. After all, I've lived in Aomori for so many years that I've barely been to the place where I was born." Tsushima Shuji's tone on the other end of the phone was very calm, and there was also some disgust and helplessness towards Sakaguchi Ango's excessive worry. "If I had any problems, wouldn't Chief Taneda have told you? It's your turn to imagine something happened to me."

Sakaguchi Ango: "Who made you so worrying?"

Moreover, Tsushima Shuji's condition before leaving Tokyo didn't seem normal no matter how you looked at it.

Sakaguchi Ango was worried that Amamiya Keisei had been unconscious for too long. As a result, every time Sakaguchi Ango went to check on him, he would see Tsushima Shuji sitting there quietly doing nothing. His expression was so calm that it made him feel creepy. He always felt that the other party would rush in and exchange one life for another without caring about his own life.

"There's nothing to worry about." Tsushima Shuji seemed to laugh, "I just suddenly remembered that an old man I knew before sent me a wedding invitation, so I'll stay a little longer and come back after I attend the wedding."

"Are you alone?"

Sakaguchi Ango was stunned: "Then... Are you also going to celebrate your birthday in Aomori? After all, it's your first birthday after leaving the Tsushima family. If you want to come back, the travel expenses will definitely be reimbursed for you."

"Birthday..."

Tsushima Shuji paused and asked, "Is the master still not awake?"

"...No, there is no sign of waking up at all, and the body's data is up and down, not very stable." Sakaguchi Ango told the truth, "Now he is completely relying on nutrient solution to maintain his body functions, and he looks a lot thinner."

Sakaguchi Ango explained the recent situation of Amamiya Teishi. Although Tsushima Shuji must have known about these things, he still finished his words in a few words: "So you don't plan to come back and celebrate your birthday with Mr. Amamiya?"

Tsushima Shuji sneered: "Since the master hasn't woken up yet, there's nothing to celebrate. There will be birthdays in the future anyway."

Sakaguchi Ango fell silent.

"Instead of worrying about me, you should urge the people above to find a solution quickly. It's no good for you to keep sleeping like this." Tsushima Shuji said, "Let's do this."

He hung up the phone.

In July, the weather in Tokyo was already very warm. On the day when Tsushima Shuji returned from Aomori, Sakaguchi Ango volunteered to pick him up at the airport.

He looked Tsushima Shuji up and down for a while, and after confirming that he was not missing any limbs, he went up and punched him angrily: "You still remember to come back!"

Tsushima Shuji immediately covered his hammered shoulder with his hands, looking in pain: "Ouch! It hurts!"

"Eh?" Sakaguchi Ango panicked, "You're injured? How did you get injured? Do you want to go to the hospital first..."

"I lied to you."

Shuji Tsushima grinned and looked a bit of a jerk.

Sakaguchi Ango: “…” It’s so evil that I really want to hammer that person into the ground.

Tsushima Shuji moved his shoulders and said nonchalantly, "How could I be injured? I'm not the only one in Aomori. There are also colleagues with me, right?"

"Why do I feel like you deserve a beating even more after coming back from going out?" Sakaguchi Ango pouted and muttered softly.

Tsushima Shuji tilted his head, looked at Sakaguchi Ango with a slightly scrutinizing look, and said, "Ango has become a bit of a corporate slave, which is good. He doesn't miss the you who asked for a beating in the past at all. Why, because you have too much work, so you sneaked out and said you wanted to pick me up to avoid work?"

Sakaguchi Ango instantly became depressed. He hung his head and said sadly, "It's almost the end of the semester, but I don't know why, but I suddenly have a lot more things to do recently. I have to study and handle work at the same time. My brain is about to explode."

As he said this, he glanced at Tsushima Shuji with a melancholy look and said, "You are fine. You have already learned all the knowledge for the second grade by yourself. You don't have to go to school at all. You can just take the exam when the time comes."

"So you're still not going to school after you come back this time?"

"Why not?" Tsushima Shuji said, "I'm only eleven years old. I don't want to spend all my time at work like you do."

Sakaguchi Ango curled his lips: "Humph."

"By the way, how is the master?" On the way back to the Special Powers Department, Tsushima Shuji asked again.

"It's still the same," Sakaguchi Ango muttered, "but the body data is much more stable, and it looks more like sleeping."

"I see."

Sakaguchi Ango looked at Tsushima Shuji who responded calmly, and suddenly remembered what Taneda Santoka had told him, and said, "Oh, by the way... Commander Taneda asked me to tell you that everything is ready, and asked you when you can start."

He hesitated and said, "Shuji, did you agree to something with the farming chief? There won't be any danger, right?"

Tsushima Shuji was silent for a while, then smiled soothingly at Sakaguchi Ango: "How could it be dangerous? Commander Taneda won't harm me, right? Then when I get to the Special Power Division, I'll go meet Commander Taneda first."

He was smiling, and the shadows cast by his already long bangs covered his eyes. His iris-colored eyes disappeared into the darkness, looking particularly dull and dim. Sakaguchi Ango met his eyes, his heart pounding, and he felt that this expression was so similar to the other person's look after he came back from the sea.

The boy said in a hoarse voice: "...Okay."

After only not seeing each other for two months, he actually felt that Tsushima Shuji had become a stranger in front of him.

…

The communication with Chief Taneda went smoothly. After Tsushima Shuji confirmed the process with him and said that it could start in the next few days, he went to see Amamiya Keio who was as sleepy as usual, and went home alone.

No one has lived in this house for two months. Even though the housekeeping comes to clean every few days, it still seems cold and deserted.

Tsushima Shuji put down his luggage, sat down on the sofa, and collapsed with a tired look on his face.

"..." He let out a long breath, with a tired look on his face, "I'm so tired."

After a day of running around since returning from Aomori, he has only eaten a few bites of food. He is really hungry and tired, but Shuji Tsushima is not in the mood to prepare meals now.

He rested on the sofa for a while, picked up his phone to order takeout, then picked up his clothes and went into the bathroom.

Shuji Tsushima came to the mirror, looked at himself in it, slowly raised his hand and pressed the place where Ango Sakaguchi had hammered this morning.

At that time he said that he was not injured, but the bandage tied there was now soaked with blood. He removed the dirty bandage without changing his expression, revealing a wound on the skin below that was almost ten centimeters long. A little blood was oozing out of the wound, staining the clean skin red.

The wound had been treated, and you could see the neat seams on it. However, it was now torn apart again due to Tsushima Shuji's carelessness, and it looked particularly miserable.

Shuji Tsushima looked at the image reflected in the mirror and began to exert force with the fingers pressing on it. He stared intently at the blood flowing out of the wound, sliding down his arm, finally flowing through his wrist, and dripping from his drooping fingertips to the floor.

"It hurts so much, this feeling is so terrible, so disgusting..."

He murmured to himself, "You said so, Mr. Amamiya..."

…

…

This is the third day since Amemiya Leisheng came back. He cannot leave the hospital, let alone find any "books", so he can only anxiously wait for the system to take care of Ma Jia's body and pray that he can go back soon.

The young man was sitting by the window holding a book. The sunlight shone on him. He lowered his head as if reading a book, but his eyes were not focused on the book and it was obvious that he was thinking about something else.

This was the scene that Nurse Mami saw when she came in.

"Although it's a good thing to open the curtains to let the sunlight in, you can't read under the sunlight, Mr. Amamiya." Asami sighed helplessly and walked over to pat Amamiya Reizo on the shoulder.

"I was just daydreaming, Ms. Asami, not reading."

Amamiya Reizo turned his head and whispered, "Is there something wrong?"

"A child said he wanted to find you, but couldn't find the way, so I brought him here. Is this the child you know?" Mami pointed at the person standing at the door.

Yu Gong Lei Sheng was stunned and looked over. The little girl hiding behind the door saw him and hurriedly ran in and came to the young man's side.

"Teacher Amamiya!" The little girl had tears in her eyes, and her eye sockets were still red. "Please go see Brother Song!"

Amemiya Ruisheng looked at the girl for two seconds before he vaguely remembered that the child was hospitalized due to a serious illness and that he had taught her before.

"Brother Song?" Amamiya Leisheng murmured twice, "Is it Zhisong?"

When the girl heard the name, she couldn't hold back her tears. She sobbed and spoke incoherently, "Brother Song is dying. He wants to see you, Mr. Amamiya..."

Memories of the past suddenly flooded back to him, and Amamiya opened his mouth: "—Take me to see him!"