The red-haired man walked home holding the bread and side dishes he bought.

When passing by the bookstore, he looked at the bookstore, which was still brightly lit in the evening, and couldn't help but stop and look at it for a while.

Nights in Yokohama are not safe, and bookstores usually close before it gets dark.However, at dusk just after sunset, it happens to be the time when most people come home from get off work, and the bookstore’s sales depend entirely on this time. The store owner has to be cautious and take the risk to open the store for a while, and then quickly close it before it gets dark. shop.

Every day, when he passes by the bookstore, he always wonders if he should go in and take a look?Even if you don’t buy it this time, just take a look.

But every time, every time he got timid again.

He doesn't have much spare money to buy books.

A group of children at home are crying for food. Survival is more important than life.

He shouldn't have too much free time to read.

No, maybe...maybe, he is just simply timid.

Just like elementary school students who avoid winter vacation homework, when they see a bookstore and think of reading, they can't help but think of their unfinished 'winter vacation homework'.It seems like every book is mocking, 'When are you going to write?' '

Yes, he once read a very good book and wanted to fill in the missing pages, but no matter how he wrote it, he never felt it was good enough.

The tragedy of every fan author is that he is worried that the fan he writes will be a continuation of the story, and instead make people laugh at it, insulting such a great work as the original work.

Besides, he still has so many dishes...

The most important thing is that it is too late. If he goes in to read, it will be difficult for the shop owner to close the door, which will cause trouble to the shop owner.

He sighed and prepared to leave.

As a result, he turned around and found a seven or eight-year-old child not far away standing on the dark street.

The child's face and hands were extremely pale, and the clothes he wore were close-fitting and gray-black. Standing in a dark place, he looked like a ghost with only his hands and face, which was quite scary.

If you look closely, you can see that the child's expression is quite scary, as if he is wearing a Noh drama mask, with an expressionless face.

His eyes are also different from ordinary people. The pupils are large and pure black, like a cat's eyes that spread to the extreme.

If this was someone else, he would have jumped up in fright at the sound of digging. Just now, there was no such person before, and suddenly he suddenly appeared. Could it be a ghost?It also looks like a ghost doll!

But the red-haired young man is the kind of realist who is extremely serious and has no imagination that can make people cry. He just thinks that this child is quite fair and looks straight at the bookstore. He must be very fond of the bookstore. I'm interested, but is it possible that I don't dare to go in alone?

Unlike the previous hesitation about whether to enter the bookstore, the young man simply asked without hesitation: "Do you want to go to the bookstore?"

then……

Then, after the child turned to look at him, he disappeared!

Disappeared so suddenly!

The young man was stunned and walked over. There was indeed nothing there.

He looked around, but there was still nothing.

Is it a hallucination caused by his too much desire to enter the bookstore, or is it a real ghost?

The young man was confused for a moment. Since his passive skill, which was similar to a death warning, did not reflect the danger, he left the matter alone and finally went home with the food.

After all, he still had so many babies at home waiting for him to feed them, and the supernatural events he encountered on the roadside could not stop him from going home to feed them.

After returning home, it was midnight before he remembered what had happened before.

——Ah, maybe, that is a young person with supernatural powers.

Thinking back on it, he himself was shocked by the too weird encounter. Although it was not a shock, even he couldn't help but regard the other person as a supernatural product.

Now that I think about it, isn't that the ability to teleport?

Yes, there are supernatural abilities in this world, also known as special abilities.It's a bit similar but a bit different. In short, superpowers allow people to do things that they normally can't do.Teleportation can only be regarded as the simplest and most innocent-sounding superpower.

The young man felt a little embarrassed that he had made such a stupid mistake. If his friends knew about it, they would definitely laugh at him for being scared by a child.

The young man began to worry about the child again. What made the child stop at the door of the bookstore in the middle of the night?

I hope his parents can take him to the bookstore to check it out.

After the war, everything was renovated. That bookstore was one of the first to open, and it served as spiritual food for people who were rebuilding after the disaster.Not many people actually went to buy books. Everyone felt like they had been baptized by a tsunami and really had no spare money.But the boss insisted on opening the store every day, even if many people just came to browse.

There was once a jealous person who wanted to rob it, but later the man and a few people he knew beat up the gangsters. The boss was grateful and promised that as long as he bought books at a discount, he would not mind if he stood reading in the bookstore.

"You are taking risks and making no money. You should open a food store first, and then open a bookstore in the future."

Even though he likes books, he can't help but suggest this to his boss.

Like it, you like it. In order to be a human being, you must first satisfy yourself to survive.

The boss is a fat middle-aged man who looks very mediocre and probably has no other abilities. He is just an ordinary person.

But the bookstore owner smiled naively and said: "Ah, it doesn't matter, I know. There are many people ordering newspapers from me. Unlike books, newspapers are much cheaper. I just hope that I can let everyone know the situation outside, instead of always being worried. . Maybe it’s just me who thinks this way, but don’t you feel a lot more at ease when you have a bookstore?”

After hearing these words, he was extremely ashamed. He felt that he was extremely despicable and shameless for struggling only for a living and using his children as an excuse to avoid writing. In comparison, his seemingly ordinary boss was so great that it made people cry.

After that, his route to get off work became fixed. He always had to walk in front of the bookstore to make sure that the boss could close the door safely.

He thought about it and finally felt that no matter what the reason was, he should still pay attention.

A child with a special ability always stares at the bookstore, which always makes people worry about whether there will be misunderstandings between the two parties.

He is a low-level member of the Mafia.

In this line of work, I have seen too many examples of conflicts with each other, and both sides suffer in the end. But when we trace the root cause, it is ridiculously trivial, and the conflict could have been avoided.

Misunderstandings often occur. People who have just experienced war are like wounded beasts and are very aggressive. Sometimes it is misunderstandings and misunderstandings that lead to bloody fights, but the lives of both parties are lost.

Maybe he thought too much, but he should still do something.

The man went to work as usual the next day. When it was time to go home, he was asked to work overtime, and he walked there according to his usual route.

He didn't see the boy.

He waited until it got dark and the boss closed the door before leaving.

After several days, his boss finally noticed him.The boss invited him to go in and read a book. He went in sheepishly, took a book and looked at it, paying attention to the window from time to time.

As a result, he really waited for it!When it was about to close, the little ghost stood in his original position and looked towards the bookstore.

The man hurriedly ran out of the bookstore: "Wait, don't leave! I don't mean any harm. I just saw that you wanted to come in and read a book, so I wanted to invite you in. The boss here is familiar with me and doesn't mind if you don't buy the book."

The little ghost did not disappear, but looked at him with some confusion.

"Why?" The child wondered, "Is it because I look cute?"

The red-haired man looked at the ghost doll that would definitely scare the boss, and nodded firmly: "Yes, because you are cute."

The child suddenly understood and nodded with satisfaction. He seemed to think that 'cuteness' was an acceptable reason, and 'cuteness' was his weapon. Because 'cuteness' agreed to let him enter the bookstore, the logic was very smooth.

So the child walked in and looked at the bookstore curiously.

The boss was really shocked when he saw it, but it was okay after he got used to it.So the boss smiled and said: "Sakunosuke, are you inviting a Zashiki boy?"

The man called Sakunosuke smiled and said: "Maybe so. Hello, my name is Oda Sakunosuke, and this is the bookstore owner, Luman Zueno. Do you mind telling us, what is your name?"

The boy picked up a book at random - Oda Sakunosuke read two pages just now and placed the book on the counter, just within his reach.

"My name is Tenzo. Excuse me, what time is this? Have you ever heard of Konoha? Is this still within the Land of Fire?"

Except for time, they really couldn't answer other questions. Oda Sakunosuke could only tell him that he was ignorant and had never heard of it.

The boy asked cautiously: "Do you have a map?"

Maybe he wanted to point out the location of the Fire Nation on the map.

But after the boss showed him the map, he fell silent.

"Ah, crap. I didn't expect this move to be like this... So this is not Flying Thunder God at all. Is he using this method to travel to other worlds..."

Oda Sakunosuke: "Excuse me, do you need help? From what you said, are you from abroad?"

The boy closed the atlas.

"Yes, I come from a very far away place. It's too far away. I haven't figured out how to go back."

Then the boy told the story of a little tadpole looking for his father.Tianzang only recently found out that he was adopted, and his father may be the most famous man in the village.Then he wanted to meet and talk to the man, but there was no chance.Later, he thought that the man had gone somewhere, so he used the same method to track him. Unexpectedly, he went to the wrong place. Now he has not found his father and does not know how to get back.

The shop owner pityed me: "If you don't mind, just stay here. Anyway, the bookstore has such a big space, just build a floor shop."

Oda Sakunosuke was worried: "The weather is still very cold now, and it is impossible to light a fire in the bookstore at night. It is better to come to my house, where I have many family members and will be warm."

The boy looked around and finally chose the bookstore owner.

In his opinion, the red-haired man who was too proactive was more suspicious, but the boss who seemed completely out of shape was more credible.

Oda Sakunosuke, who was dumped by a child for the first time, was a little surprised, but seeing the proud look on his boss's face, he felt a little funny in his heart.

"I have some children's clothes at home. I'll bring them to you later. If you don't mind, wear them first."

The boss nodded: "That's great. I don't have any clothes for my child at home. I'm still thinking about taking him to take a bath later. What should I do with the clothes? If my grandson wants to live, will it be like this..."

The boss didn't say anything further, wiped his eyes, covered it up with a smile, and was busy preparing the bed on the floor of the bookstore.

Even though he looks like a good old man, the boss is also very smart at heart.After the war, many children also robbed in groups like tigers and wolves. Even if this child was brought by Oda Sakunosuke, there was no guarantee that he would be a bad person.So no matter how distressed he was, he was only prepared to let the child live in the bookstore instead of his own home.Even if there is a loss, it will be the book at most, not his own life.

Most homeless children are robbing money and food, and they have no sales channels for other resources.Rather than trading with children, adults prefer to monopolize resources in one fell swoop. r

The three of them were very satisfied with this arrangement. The child solemnly thanked them both and said that he would find a way to find a job and pay back the money. This made the two of them laugh and said that we could settle the matter when you grow up.

Oda Sakunosuke went back and got a lot of drawing books, toys, clothes, snacks, etc. for the children.He felt that it was a bit novel. This kind of child was not raised at home, but in a bookstore. It was quite similar to raising a child outside the house.

However, this secret fun disappeared on the third day when the bookstore owner found a thick pile of money on his desk.

Odasaku's upturned mouth straightened.

"Tianzang, where did you get the money?"

"I've taken on a few missions, but the mission levels here are not high."

Tianzang said with satisfaction.

Oda Sakunosuke finally remembered that this child was not only a child, but also a person with supernatural powers.

"...Tianzang, you are not allowed to do things like murder, arson, human trafficking or theft."

Tianzang had a straight face and looked like a little adult: "What are you talking about? How could I do such a thing? At most, I would catch some criminals to collect the reward."

After hearing this, both he and the bookstore owner breathed a sigh of relief.However, the two still talked and said that they would not accept the money. It was okay for Tianzang to work if he wanted to, but he should not do anything that was too risky.The man warned that if the target of the bounty saw his face, it would be bad if he was retaliated against and the bookstore owner would be implicated, so it was best not to accept the bounty mission.

Tianzang: "It's okay, I can use the transformation technique."

The man and the bookstore owner could only express disapproval. What kind of transformation technique, at most, it only covers the head. Height cannot deceive people.But there is nothing we can do. If we don't let the superpower use his own power to make money, how can we let this child rely on others to support him for the rest of his life?Worry is worry, and it is really difficult to stop it.

Apart from this, Tenzo is very obedient most of the time. He helps look after the store most of the time during the day, and he is also very familiar with the people around him.He has a good personality, even if he does a little prank occasionally, he is not annoying.The only slightly disgusting thing about this child is that he knows that his white face and black eyes are particularly scary, so he often jumps out at night to scare people nearby, leaving the scared people dumbfounded.

In addition, Tianzang spends most of his time reading, and he reads very quickly. He is greedily absorbing all kinds of knowledge, probably because he wants to find a way home through the knowledge in the book.

Oda Sakunosuke is in a good mood, and Tenzo is very sensible and feels like a little adult, which is completely different from raising a child at home.

"Speaking of which, why haven't you seen Dazai?"

At the bar, he couldn't help but ask his friend Ango.

Anwu puffed out, coughing for a long time and still laughing.Finally, I finally managed to smooth my mouth and suppressed my coughing before saying:

"He has done many unjust things. Who told him to always jump into the river and commit suicide? But this time, the kind people who rescued him ashore enthusiastically sent him to the police station. Hahahahaha, Odasaku, you don't know our When people went to pick him up, it was said that he robbed other prisoners of their prison meals, and they only paid for the bail and the money for the meal before he was fished out. Dazai is now simply a legend in the port!"

Odasaku was silent for a moment: "As expected of Dazai."

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