Manhattan Reborn 1978

On the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii.

Honolulu International Airport.

David, Giles and Bloomer stood at the passenger exit and soon saw Lilith coming out of it.

"Hi~ We're here!"

Lilith, who was carrying a small bag and wearing a Hawaiian style straw hat on her head, saw the three Davids waving their arms to her, walked up to them with a smile, and joked.

"I have a hunch!"

"Every time the three of you appear in front of me together, there will be no..."

"Cough! Cough~!"

Seeing that Lilith suddenly "became smarter" today, David quickly coughed a few times, pulled her and laughed.

"You have discovered this~"

"Then our plan needs to be changed..."

"plan?"

"Do we have any plans?" Giles looked at Bloomer in confusion and asked uncertainly.

"Haha~ There's a fart!" Bloomer stretched out his arm and hooked Giles' neck, laughing.

David rolled his eyes angrily, hugged Lilith's waist, and curled his lips: "Have you all forgotten?"

"We made a bet when we were in San Francisco!"

"San Francisco? Bet?" Bloomer blinked quickly, feeling like he couldn't remember.

"Really?" Giles looked at David and Lilith blankly, as if he didn't think of anything.

David tilted his head and whispered something into Lilith's ear, then looked at Giles sideways and said "sinfully".

"I've always disliked this kind of drinking party where people have fake smiles on their faces!"

"Look at them, they may hate the person in front of them very much in their heart, but they have to face each other with politeness and a smile in their hearts, and they still say... It's a great honor~"

"What a hypocritical, boring person!"

"...Hey~? Giles scratched his head with his hand and felt that this sentence sounded familiar."

David didn't give him time to continue thinking, and continued to talk while hugging Lilith away.

"When you were born, you were Morgan!"

"Compared to me, you deserve to be called...lucky boy!"

"Ah...oh~"

"I remembered!" Giles quickly followed the two of them with a strange expression, pointing at David and said.

"Have you ever felt that before we met... you had fewer and fewer friends around you?"

David raised his eyebrows in surprise, turned to wink at Blumer who was standing there stupidly, and continued.

"seems like it!"

Giles seemed to feel that he was very excited at the moment, but also felt a little inexplicably "awkward", and continued.

"It's nothing, I just want you to know... Your surname, your origin, and your family have temporarily limited and imprisoned your thinking, cognition, and social circle."

"Now, if you step out of the walls that were always around you, your family and Pine believe that you can step out on your own."

"I will gradually discover that... this Vanity Fair where everyone wears a mask is just a part of the real world~"

David felt Lilith's body suddenly stiffen in his arms. .

He exerted more force on his arms, slowly stopped, stood in the wide area of ​​the airport hall, and asked Giles with a smile.

"When...when did you start to be my spiritual mentor?"

"Tch, you think so!" Giles said teasingly, but his expression didn't mean he was joking.

He stood one step in front of David, took a few deep breaths, looked at his friend Bloomer who was following him, and whispered.

"You're right.."

"Before I met you, I didn't have any friends except Bloomer~"

"I once asked this question to Pine, my brother Panaris, and my sister Cheryl~"

"The answers they gave were different, but one thing...their answers were the same!"

"They say: As a person ages and his mind becomes more mature, the number of people around him who can talk to him will gradually decrease~"

"Until I can hardly find good friends among my peers who say true words and do heartless things!"

“The older a person is, the more mature his mind, the stronger his ability, and the higher his social status, the fewer real friends he will have around him, until only relatives, family members, brothers and sisters, and two, three, four or five are left. Good friends by my side~”

David looked at Giles, who had clear eyes at the moment, wrapped his arms around Lilith's waist, hugged her whole body, and smiled.

"Yes~"

"This is why many people feel...the older they grow, the more lonely they become!"

"But...you shouldn't be included in this!"

"Are you mentally mature? Are you capable? How old are you?"

"Man, having a good friend Bloomer by your side is the main reason why I say you are a lucky boy, you know?"

"But~ the luckiest thing in your life is that you met me!"

"I am the angel who saves your boring life~"

"Hahaha~ Come on~"

"Give me one...see the expression of gratitude!?"

Giles nodded with an unusually calm smile, put his arm around his friend Bloomer's shoulders, and cursed: "You fucking bastard~ What a bastard!"

"What's wrong? Don't you like me?"

"Come and hit me!! Haha~"

"There are many people looking at you here~"

"Okay... don't be in a hurry!"

"We have plenty of time!"

"Haha! Even my defeated general dares to shout!"

"..." Giles' smile became even more "bright", he hugged Bloomer tightly and didn't answer.

David kissed Lilith hard on the face and pretended to be "extremely happy" and mocked.

"How's it going? When was the last time you were so angry that you bit someone?"

"At that time, you must be glad you didn't know me, right?"

"Yes~ I must have lost my mind to become a good friend with you!"

"Hum~"

"Hey...it's just a joke, you don't mean to be really angry!"

"Huh~ I just gave birth, what happened?"

"Oh?" A smirk appeared at the corner of David's mouth, and he quickly stepped on Giles's toes, preparing to squeeze them hard after stepping firmly on them. .

Last time, at the Hilton Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco, Giles, who had already suffered a "big loss", had long expected that he would be "surprised"~

He hid his feet on both sides and said with a smile: "fxxx!"

"You bastard! Are you trying to trick me again!?"

David quickly let go of Lilith, took two big steps back, his expression turned innocent and he spread his hands and said, "Who? What's wrong? Why do you say that to me?"

"I didn't do anything!"

Giles smiled stupidly and shook his head.

Bloomer seemed to understand this "historical reenactment melodrama" between the two, raised his finger and pointed at "Shameless" David, laughing.

"you.."

"Hehe~"

"How do you feel about being plotted and bullied?" David interrupted Blumer and asked before he could finish his words.

"Uh..." Bloomer was speechless.

David pretended to smile quite proudly, stepped forward and hugged Lilith again, kissed her heavily on the cheek that was half-colored, and said with a smile.

"Colman, you must avenge yourself!"

"Hey!"

"You are really...shameless~"

"Aren't you afraid of retaliation?"

"Hehe~"

"wewillsee!"

"..." Blumer was completely speechless~

Giles grinned easily and said, "I want to go have a drink... Rainbow!"

"Okay~"

David tilted his head and looked at Lilith in his arms, and asked, "Do you remember...the morning light and the sea breeze?"

Lilith's eyes sparkled and she nodded: "Of course!"

"The sea breeze...is mine!"

"Ok!"

"Then I'll let these two idiots taste the power of the morning cocktail?!"

"Ok!"

"Hahaha~" David and Lilith looked at each other and laughed.

(The plot of this dialogue comes from Chapter 3, About Friends, and Chapter 321, Questions and Answers)

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new York.

晚～

About 10:[-] and [-] minutes.

Manhattan, Gold Coin Hotel.

Stick Don Lawrence, the head of the DA Security Company's New Jersey training base, led Edward B. Tryon, who had just returned from Texas, into a room on the fourth floor.

in the room.

Mr. Odis Parker, who was wearing a reddish-brown vest, white shirt and black tie, warmly greeted the two of them to sit down and poured them two glasses of wine respectively.

Old Cui En, who saw Mr. Parker for the first time, took a few glances at the wine glass and smiled.

"Aultmore Scotch whiskey?"

"That's right!" Mr. Parker shook the wine glass in his hand and smiled.

“Aultmore’s hand-made stills are very small, and there is very little backflow of the liquor during distillation~”

“So, I really like its rich sweetness and grassy aroma!”

"Me too!" Old Trin raised his glass to Mr. Parker and took a sip of the drink with a smile.

"Um.."

"The sweetness of vanilla + a little aftertaste of dried fruit..."

“Delicate and sweet!”

“Good wine!!”

"Thank you!" Mr. Parker smiled particularly happily and raised his glass to Lawrence.

Lawrence shrugged, raised the glass, took a sip of the wine, held it in his mouth for two seconds, then swallowed it, felt it carefully for a while, and admitted himself to Mr. Parker. .There is no "B style" of wine tasting like Lao Cui En~

Mr. Parker smiled and shook his head slightly, put down the wine glass in his hand, spread his hands and said.

"Although I have already guessed your purpose..."

"But I still want to hear you say it yourself!"

"Tell me~"

"Which one of you will come first?"

"I'll do it~" Lawrence turned his head and glanced at Old Cui En who looked "comfortable", put down the cup and said.

"David called us and said..." Lawrence said the purpose of his visit in a simple and direct manner.

"Oh?" After hearing this, Mr. Parker looked at Lawrence with a smile and asked.

"I guess...he must know what more you will say when you meet me!"

"...Yes!" Lawrence shrugged very calmly.

"He said... he didn't want to test anyone!"

"Including you and me."

"Hehe~"

Mr. Parker touched his knees with his hand and sighed: "That's because he is too smart!"

"Do you know what...hat! really means?"

"...?" Lawrence waited with questions in his eyes.

Mr. Parker did not continue to beat around the bush and said directly: "The Morgan family's cold treatment of his and Lilith's engagement ceremony... was resolved by him very skillfully~"

"Sr. Malkin took his family to Hawaii for vacation, but came back with only Ludy and Polly, leaving the rest of his family behind."

"He didn't take the initiative or ask too many questions~"

"Because he knows!"

"We will naturally let him know the things he should know~"

"Things he shouldn't know, or things he doesn't want to know."

"If he calls me, I might be tempted to tell him!"

Mr. Parker once again sighed and laughed, leaving both Lawrence and Old Cui En in silence and thinking.

"So he left New York and hid in Hawaii... It must have been a plan that had been made long before the engagement ceremony!"

"Hehe~"

"If he is too serious...it will definitely make some people feel that they care too much about immediate gains and losses!"

"If he is too impulsive... he will definitely make some people feel embarrassed and stay away..."

"If he is too competitive... it will definitely make some people feel that he is too sharp, and he will easily be suppressed and excluded~"

"If he is too arrogant...it will definitely make people feel that this person is narrow-minded and has a limited future!"

"If he is too cowardly... he will definitely disappoint those who have high expectations for him..."

"But he... didn't!"

"He didn't know when, but he understood it perfectly...acting stupid!"

"It's like... bread that has been crawled by flies. As long as no one takes the initiative to tell it, the person who eats it will naturally not have any psychological burden~"

Mr. Parker stood up slowly, opened his arms to Lawrence and Old Trin, showed a smile that would make anyone look like "this is a pervert", and said.

"David, that's the kind of person I've always wanted to find!"

"He even goes as far as the evil behaviors recorded in the Bible that can damage one's spirituality: gluttony, lust, greed, rage, sloth, arrogance, and envy!"

"Almost, nothing at all~"

"And what he showed...loyalty, temperance, generosity, diligence, patience, tolerance and humility, aren't they the most common impression we all have of him?"

Mr. Parker retracted his arms, put his left hand in his pocket, raised an index finger to the two of them with his right hand, and said with a smile.

"Why represents his ability to see through the underlying factors or essence of something."

"What, it means that he understands what most of us want or what we are trying to achieve."

"How means that he knows how to use his own advantages + arrange the right people to complete certain plans that can meet the needs or goals of most of us."

"But he also knows in his heart that these... are not enough!"

"He must find a stronger... psychological driving force for people, so that they can take action immediately and stride forward toward the goal in their hearts!"

"He must always pay attention to a certain plan, make a phased summary of its phased results, and then conduct one or more retrospectives!"

"Because only by reviewing the various unexpected events that keep happening... can he make the plan in his mind proceed smoothly and ensure that it will not deviate from the established track and fall into the abyss!"

. . .

Mr. Parker finished speaking this paragraph "impassionedly" and kept raising his head + looking at the light with empty eyes, seeming to be in some kind of "wonderful" state~

Old Cui En scratched the stubble on his chin with his hand, tilted his head and glanced at Lawrence, who was also in a "strange" state, and had a very deep impression of Mr. Parker in his heart. .

This guy is mentally ill!

have. .Serious illness! !

The kind that cannot be cured in this life! ! !

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On the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii.

Honolulu International Airport.

Not long after David and others left, a flight from New York via San Francisco slowly landed on the runway.

Little secretary Maggie Bianchi, former CIA London branch agent Toby Olga, and David's latest work assistant Kihara Nobunari walked out of the passage with a wave of passengers.

Giovanni, who was dressed "as the Romans do in Rome", waved his brand new straw hat to the three of them and said with a smile: "Hey Maggie!"

"here!"

"Hi~!" Maggie, the little secretary holding an oversized suitcase in her hand, ran up to Giovanni happily and teased.

"Where did you buy this floral shirt?"

"Isn't this too ugly...?!"

Giovanni casually pointed behind him, curled his lips and said with a smile: "Anyway, the streets are full of people wearing flowery shirts like this..."

"Ugly, I'm not the only one!"

"Hahaha~" Maggie turned her head and looked around, covering her mouth and laughing happily.

Tobi Olga, who was walking behind her, raised his hand to take off his big sunglasses, yawned and asked Giovanni.

"Shall we go directly to the hotel?"

"Yes~"

"That is not bad.."

"I was on a plane and I met a super annoying person!"

"He actually took off his shoes and slept all the way with his feet in his arms... and he kept snoring..."

"Hahaha~"

Giovanni gloated, holding his belly and laughing, "Then you came here smelling his feet and listening to his snoring all the way?"

"That's true...no~" Toby Olga turned back a little embarrassed and said to Kihara Nobunari.

"Feel sorry!"

"You have worked hard!"

Kihara Nobunari, who looked exhausted, couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth twice and forced a smile.

"It doesn't matter.."

"Hahahaha~" Giovanni and Maggie laughed again when they saw his "hard-talking" look~

. . .

After a few minutes.

When the four of them walked out of the airport hall and were about to get into the car driven by Giovanni, an [-]%-new old Ford car slowly parked not far behind their car.

The housekeepers Ackleide and Cui Yingying stretched out their hands from the car window and said hello to the four of them ~

Giovanni helped Maggie and the others pack their luggage, and curiously asked Cui Yingying who got out of the car and walked over.

"Who are you..?"

"I'm here to pick someone up too..." Cui Yingying glanced at a few people, paused and said.

"The plane my family is taking will be arriving soon."

"Oh~" Giovanni nodded suddenly and asked again.

"Want us to help?"

"Thank you! No need~" Cui Yingying glanced at Maggie and the others and smiled.

"You must be very tired after flying all the way here~"

"I have prepared a sumptuous dinner for everyone, I hope you can..."

"A dinner party?"

"Wow~" Toby Olga, whose body proportions were so good, approached Cui Yingying with sparkling eyes and exaggeratedly sighed.

"As long as the dishes you cook...are definitely delicious!"

"I can not wait any more!"

"Haha~" Cui Yingying smiled and pulled Toby, nodded and smiled.

"Then you must eat more + drink more tonight!"

"Drink? Drink?"

"But my drinking capacity is... very bad!" Toby muttered with a bitter look on his little face.

"What are you afraid of!"

"How many people who come to Hawaii have never been drunk?" Giovanni said with a "experienced" look.

"I was at a bar next to Waikiki last night and saw a bunch of drunk guys lying on the floor..."

"Even if there is one more of you, it doesn't matter!"

"Hahaha~" When several people heard Giovanni's "careless" words, they couldn't help but look at Toby's "proud" figure and laughed.

However, the smile on the face of the housekeeper Aklade who came to pick up Cui Yingying at the airport was a bit unnatural~

He originally wanted to find an opportunity to explain it to David. .

But David didn't seem to want to hear his explanation. .

----

new York.

Manhattan, fourth floor of Gold Coin Hotel.

Mr. Odis Parker, who had returned to his "normal" state, poured the drinks for Lawrence and Old Trin again, and asked with a smile.

"You all understand... David is in Honolulu, and he actually encounters weird people from cia + cid, right?"

"Yeah!" Old Cui En nodded with a sneer on his lips.

Lawrence frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "It's Ezra Cremo, the head of the CIA's New York branch, among them... Is he up to something?"

"No~" Mr. Parker shook the glass a few times, listening to the crisp sound of ice cubes hitting the wall of the glass, and laughed.

"As far as I know, the female agent named Pamela Randy did take her family to Hawaii for vacation on an impromptu basis."

"Because in the two years since she joined CIA, she has never had a family leave, and she has never seen her family members..."

"So, before she decided to come to New York to report, first..."

"Oh~" Lawrence responded casually when he heard this explanation and stopped talking.

Old Cui En, however, seemed to know very well what Lawrence was thinking at the moment, and spoke to Mr. Parker.

"I know something about what cid is investigating."

"..." Mr. Parker didn't say anything, but just made a gesture of invitation.

Old Cui En took a sip of his drink, glanced at Lawrence who had his attention drawn, and whispered.

"After World War II, the Yokosuka military base located southwest of Tokyo was not only the largest comprehensive operational base of the island nation's navy but also the maritime gateway of Tokyo."

"At the same time, it is also the largest comprehensive naval base and the largest ship maintenance base of the US Navy in the Western Pacific."

"From 1968 to 72, Yokosuka Military Port was expanded again."

"In 73, the USS Midway aircraft carrier group, affiliated with the Navy's Seventh Fleet, officially stationed in Yokosuka Port, making it the only aircraft carrier homeport of the US military overseas."

When Otis Parker heard this, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, he frowned slightly and asked.

"But... what does this have to do with the Army Criminal Investigation Service (cid)?"

"Shouldn't these be within the scope of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (cis)'s oversight?"

"Haha~" The coldness at the corner of Old Cui En's mouth became even stronger.

He raised his neck and drained the whiskey in the glass, exhaled a breath of alcohol, and said.

"Dogs will bite each other crazily because they want to snatch a meat bone..."

"How much less a human being?"

"..." Mr. Parker was speechless.

He stared at the man in front of him. .World War II veteran + former senior officer of the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard, Edward B. Tryon, feels that he may be learning some "interesting" new secrets tonight!