[Master K] The bad one next door

It feels bad to fall from a height and hit the ground.

The pain was unbearable, as if the bones all over the body were crying in pain.Especially the left arm that was in contact with the ground seemed to be fractured, and the throbbing pain made his eyes black for a while.Mami lay on her side on the cold ground, gasping for breath, she was so tired that she could hardly open her eyes, the black hair on her forehead was wet in wisps with cold sweat.

Stomach churn, obviously a side effect of being kicked and rolled on the ground a few times.She clutched her aching abdomen, feeling the urge to smile wryly.

No wonder the child asked her if she couldn't help falling.The answer now appears to be no.

From a certain point of view, she is really useless.

The buzzing sound like tinnitus at first gradually dissipated, followed by a burst of noise-like distance and nearness, both familiar and strange, with a sense of unreality.

It's like an eternity.

Mami braced herself to stand up, resisting the dizziness in her mind, and opened her eyes in a daze.

The first thing that catches the eye is the familiar station floor.Then there are the feet of many.Further up is a group of people with different looks.

Passengers coming and going in the station all stopped, looking at the bruised girl who fell from the roaring tram, all of them were dumbfounded.

The young conductor squatted beside her, as if he wanted to approach her but didn't dare to talk to her. After hesitating for a long time, he carefully supported her: "That...little sister, are you okay?"

Maki opened her mouth, but the words were stuck in her throat.

She looked up in confusion.

Inside the platform, there was a group of stunned people.

Outside the platform, the sky is like washing, white clouds are light, the bustling street is full of traffic, and the shadows of trees on the street are faintly cast in the leisurely afternoon sun.

The contrast between silence and noise clearly told her what a real world this is.

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It has been a week since Yazawa Maya's disappearance.During this period, Misaki Hatta almost searched the entire town of Zhenme from inside to outside, but she didn't find half of her childhood sweetheart.

It seemed that she had disappeared without leaving a trace since that day.If it wasn't for his own clear memory, and the records in the files of the Public Security Bureau, Kamamoto couldn't help but wonder if there is such a person as Yazawa Masaya in the world.

After all, how could such a living person just disappear out of thin air?

He once accidentally told Hatta about this idea, and then he was punched in the stomach by the other party angrily.

"Be careful if you talk nonsense again, I'll beat you up, Scythe Ben!"

——But you've already beaten me, Hatta-san.

Kamamoto actually wanted to complain like this.But he clutched his chubby stomach, looked at Hatta with bloodshot eyes, and silently closed his mouth.

Everyone has been in a bad mood this week.Not only Hatta, but many other people are also anxious about Shinya's disappearance, among which Yazawa's parents and Oida Mayzuki are the first to bear the brunt.

Kamamoto and Maya are not very familiar, but because of Hatta, the two still got in touch with each other more or less.In his impression, Yazawa Maya is a very docile girl, her smile is very comfortable, even if the orange-haired boy complains loudly about her confusion in front of him, he still has no temper.

Easy to get along with - that's Kamamoto's definition of her.

Such a girl disappeared as soon as she said she couldn't see her, or disappeared in that weird way. Anyone who knew her would inevitably feel worried about her.

But even so—

"—Hey, Brother Hatta!"

Kamamoto stopped panting, propped his knees and shouted to the orange-haired boy in front of him: "Brother Hatta, let's take a break! I'm about to starve to death!"

Hearing the sound, Hatta stepped on the end of the skateboard suddenly, and the rollers under his feet rubbed against the asphalt to make a harsh sound, and it took a while for the skateboard to stop at high speed.He turned his head impatiently: "Kammoto, you are always thinking about eating to get so fat!"

"But, Brother Hatta..."

Hatta sighed.

"Well, I see." He scratched his head, his bird's nest-like orange hair was even more messy, "Then you can stay here and rest for a while, and I will look for some clues."

Seeing that he turned around and was about to continue running, Kamamoto finally couldn't help it.

"Brother Hatta hasn't closed his eyes much since that day! If this continues, his body will collapse!"

Hatta paused and didn't speak for a while.After a while, he shrugged, turned his head and smiled: "It's all right."

"But... searching aimlessly like this is not the way to go." Kamamoto was a little embarrassed, really didn't know what to do with the stubborn person in front of him, so he could only rack his brains to find words out of his head Persuasion, "Besides, Yazawa would not like to see you like this, if she knew that it was because of her own reasons that she made you like this... she would definitely blame herself."

Hearing the familiar name, Hatta was stunned and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to refute something, but he couldn't come out with a word.He stared at Kamamoto for a while, then suddenly closed his eyes, picked up the skateboard and sat down on the steps beside him, reluctantly showing a compromise.

"Tch, let's rest for a while."

Kamamoto was overjoyed. After raising his hand to ask for instructions, he happily ran to the nearest convenience store to buy lunch. His huge body disappeared into the crowd after a few strokes.Hatta wiped the sweat that was almost dripping from his chin, put his arms on his thighs, and stared at the flow of people coming and going on the street in a daze.

The sun at one or two o'clock in the noon is scorching hot, and whenever the leaves on the street rustle, there will be a wave of heat blowing towards us.The weather started to get warmer in the past few nights—if I have to say it, it was probably after the day when Miya disappeared.

So it's spring already.

In fact, the temperature is not very high, but the oppressive sultriness carried by the heat of the sun is extremely unbearable.After calming down for a while, he realized that the fabric on the back of his clothes had already been soaked with sweat.

Kamamoto squeezed out from the crowd after buying lunch, and handed him the packaging bag in his hand sweating profusely: "Brother Hatta, there is only bread left after lunch time, let's make do with it."

Hatta didn't reach out to pick it up.He looked at Kamamoto's fleshy face with a simple and honest smile in front of him, and for some reason, a conversation with Maya suddenly appeared in his mind.

——"Kamoto-senpai seems to admire Misaki very much, obviously Kamamoto-senpai is a senior in terms of age."

The black-haired girl sitting on the bench at the edge of the playground stood up, smiled and handed him the hot water cup with the lid unscrewed, "Except for Fushimi-kun, it's rare to see you have such a good friend, so I treat him Have a better attitude."

He took the thermos bottle in her hand, raised his head and took a big sip, feeling the warm flow down his throat.

"Huh? Attitude?"

"Yes." She nodded, her clear eyes were curved, with a look of hard thinking, "Well... For example, after being helped, you should say thank you, and occasionally praise him... something .”

At that time, he thought he was friendly enough, and he didn't understand what she wanted to express at all, and finally just fooled it so sloppily.Until now, I don't know how much I benefited from it.

——"Brother Hatta?"

Seeing the orange-haired boy suddenly start to be in a daze, Kamamoto couldn't help being a little puzzled.Hatta seemed to wake up suddenly, snatched the packing bag from him, and unpacked it without a sound.

After a while, he opened his mouth in a low voice.

"……thanks."

Kamamoto was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to react. He couldn't help laughing, and sat down next to Hatta, scratching his head in embarrassment: "Well, I am determined to be your follower. It's the right thing to do."

As he spoke, he tore open the package carelessly, bit off a large mouthful of bread, and opened his mouth vaguely with the food in his mouth.

"Brother Hatta, don't worry too much. Yazawa-san will definitely be fine. Maybe she will pop out from somewhere by herself in the end. Although Yazawa can be dazed sometimes, she is quite reliable at critical moments. I have never caused any trouble, but I often help us deal with the aftermath. Didn't she hide it from you when you fought with the blue clothes last time, Brother Hatta? Maybe in her eyes, we are the ones who need to be taken care of that……"

A car roared past on the street, the sound of its siren and the loud voices of people almost covered the end of his thoughts, which were gradually getting closer.

From nowhere came a girl's crisp voice: "Really, Ah Jian, if you continue like this, I will leave you alone!"

The boy who was blamed laughed and said haha: "Okay Yumiko, I know I made a mistake, and I won't do it again in the future, so please forgive me..."

"I know, I know...you only say that every time! It's because you are too good-tempered that you are always pestered and bullied, okay? If it weren't for the sake of growing up together, who would have the mood to care about you? Harassment love letter!"

The one who made the sound was a pair of boys and girls walking by in front of them.The boy smiled wryly and patted the angry girl on the head, coaxing: "Let's not mention this, how about treating you to sushi when I go back?"

"—Don't just change the subject for me!"

The childhood sweetheart disappeared into the crowd with a smile and noisiness in a blink of an eye.Kamamoto was staring at the place where the two left and silently lamented that the pair of young tamers beside him were really the opposite of that pair, and then heard the sound of sniffling from beside him.

"...Hey, Kamamoto."

"what happened?"

Kamamoto didn't realize that there was something wrong with Hatta's tone, he turned his head sharply, and saw the orange-haired boy looking down at the ground, his hand holding the packing bag trembling.

"What if I can't find it?"

"……what?"

Hatta suddenly raised his head, gritted his teeth, his eyes were red.

"What if I really can't find Mami again?!" His voice began to choke, "That night...you heard it, right? In that situation, how could she..."

Looking at Hatta who was obviously crying, Kamamoto was speechless for a while.

"That night" - it should refer to the last phone call left by Shinya.After thinking about the situation at that time, although Kamamoto wanted to comfort the orange-haired boy, he couldn't utter a word.

The fluent tongue just now seemed to be invalid in an instant.

Obviously, anyone who can calmly say "Yazawa Maya will be fine" after hearing that call is purely deluding himself.

On the other hand, to be honest, Kamamoto was surprised that Hatta would cry at this time.

He has been with Hatta for three whole years, from being an ordinary bad boy to joining Barbara, he has always been full of energy, even if he is injured, he can grin his teeth exaggeratedly, and he still steps on his skateboard in a hurry Running around—and seeing his red eyes almost tearing up now, he looked like he finally couldn't help his emotional outburst after being worried for a whole week.

As time goes by, even the best hopes will gradually be dashed.At that time, even a tenacious person like Hatta would become extremely fragile.

He sighed silently in his heart.

Sure enough, Yazawa is a very important existence to Hatta-san.

Kamamoto was struggling with how to speak, when a "beep" suddenly sounded beside him.

Hatta rubbed his eyes fiercely, and opened the new message received on the watch almost roughly.After seeing a short e-mail and a video file that popped up in front of him, he couldn't help being taken aback, collected himself, and opened the file.

The video starts playing.From Kamamoto's point of view, the content of the video cannot be seen, and he can only guess that it should be a surveillance through some blurred projections.He raised his head in doubt, and was about to ask a question, but when he saw Hatta's face, he froze in surprise.

The orange-haired boy originally had a distraught expression on his face, but after opening the video file, he was stunned as if he saw something miraculous suddenly, and then his eyes lit up little by little, staring closely at the projection in front of him, In the end, I almost laughed out loud, and I didn't see the helplessness just now.

The video is not long, just 1 minute.As soon as the video ended, Hatta jumped up and shouted angrily, "Kammoto, let's go!"

"Ah?" Kamamoto's face was dull, and he hadn't recovered from the sudden turning point, "Where are you going?"

The orange-haired boy picked up the skateboard, with an excited smile on his face: "Zhenmuzhong Station!"