Wen Hao's coffin can't be held down anymore

"I..." The young man hesitated, his thin and scarred fingertips curled up, and his childish face showed a look of excitement but shrinking, "Can I...?"

"Can... get out of here?"

"Okay." Chu Luye Laixia coaxed him with a smile, "As long as you want, it's fine."

Relying on his height advantage, he reached out and stroked the boy's fluffy white hair. His long sideburns hung down on the boy's cheeks, and his uneven bangs slightly blocked his sight and expression.

The touch of being touched spread all the way from the top of his head, and the boy felt a little illusory warmth.He has never been touched and warmed up, and he has been locked up in a dark basement since he doesn't know when, and he is the child who has been locked up the most in the orphanage—but he obviously did nothing wrong.

The strict dean can always find some faults in him, either his clothes are dirty or he is too noisy. Obviously he is the same as other children, but he is the only one who is punished.

why?

The young man himself was also very confused, he didn't know what he did wrong, why he was the only one who had to be punished like this... But then he gradually felt that he understood.The dean probably just simply doesn't like him?Because I hate it, I feel that no matter what a person does, it is wrong.Because I hated him, I was so cruel to him——

Yes, brutal.

The punishment the dean gave to the boy was not a simple matter of corporal punishment, it was severe abuse enough to stain every corner of the confinement room with blood.Maces, bamboo knives, sticks, he has been "educated" by all kinds of utensils. It is said that "education" is actually just a seemingly high-sounding abuse.

However, the abuse did not only treat the body, the dean even destroyed the teenager's psychology.The long-term verbal insults and contempt gave him psychological hints. Although he didn't agree with it at first, but later, he gradually began to think about a question-am I really a waste?Is it really the dregs of society?I can only benefit society if I lay my dead body on the street...

Although he didn't want to admit it, even the boy himself began to acquiesce to the dean's words. The 16-year-old boy began to gradually collapse under the double torture of mind and body.

"A person like me...can I really do it?" At the end, the boy's voice was trembling with tears, and he trembled violently.

"OK."

Chulu Yelai Xia Ban bent his legs so that he could look at the boy with an equal attitude.He stared at the boy's beautiful amber eyes, his expression was gentle and tolerant, and the words that spewed out from his beautifully shaped lips were the most soothing lullaby.

Just like an angel.

The angel smiled and asked him: "My name is Chulu Yelaixia, how about you?"

"Atsushi..." The boy's expression was in a trance for a moment, and then he came back to answer Chuluye Laishia, "My name is Nakajima Atsushi."

Atsushi Nakajima—When he heard this name, Chu Luye Laixia knew that he must have found the right person.If the previous intuition still made him have some doubts, then the name Atsushi Nakajima directly told him that this was the correct answer.

These writers are all important existences, and it is impossible for a well-known writer like Atsushi Nakajima to be just an unknown existence.Taking a step back, even if Atsushi Nakajima has nothing to do with "books", giving goodwill to a potential stock is an investment that will not lose money.

"Listen up, Dunjun." In order to get closer, Chu Luye Laixia chose a slightly more intimate address, "You are not 'this kind of person', there must be some kind of potential in you."

He gently encourages teenagers who are lost in confusion and self-loathing.

"Atsushi will definitely become better than anyone else in the future." Chuluye Laishia touched Nakajima Atsushi's head lightly with his palm again—actually, this move was somewhat smuggling.For some reason, Atsushi Nakajima's hair feels very comfortable to the touch. It feels like stroking a cat, and the texture of the hair is like animal fur.

Chulu Yelaixia actually likes furry, but he never raises any animals.He may not be able to be responsible for himself, let alone raising other small animals.Besides, whether it's a cat or a dog, life is extremely short compared to human beings. Chu Lu Ye Lai Xia doesn't want to face parting after giving enough affection.

Thinking about it carefully, the pets that live longer than humans and can be kept are probably bastards, but this kind of animal has no hair, which is completely inconsistent with Chulu Yelaixia's aesthetics of "pets".

"Do you want to become better?" Chu Luye Laixia began to bewitch him, "You don't have to be beaten and insulted anymore, you can learn what you want, and do what you like."

"What do you want now?"

"I..." Nakajima Atsushi thought carefully for a while, and finally said timidly under the gaze of Hatsune Laisha, "...chazuke."

"I want to eat chazuke."

This request sounds too simple, not difficult at all, and even a bit useless-but for Atsushi Nakajima, ochazuke may be a rare comfort in this miserable experience.

Chu Lu Ye Lai Xia somewhat understood this feeling.He was also abused by his mother when he was a child, and then he came here from starvation.That feeling was not pleasant at all, hunger was clamoring in his stomach, and the pain seemed to be burning, weak, uncomfortable, painful, that's how his stomach problem came about.

"Ochazuke is delicious, right?"

Chu Luye Laixia didn't laugh at the boy's small and insignificant wish.

"Yeah!" Atsushi Nakajima showed an expectant smile on his face, and he nodded heavily, wanting to show his love for ochazuke in this way, "It's delicious!"

Atsushi Nakajima had a rare moment of peace when secretly eating ochazuke late at night in the kitchen of the orphanage.Although it was an orphanage, it was actually cleaned very clean. The moonlight could fall into the kitchen through the clear glass windows, hiding his face in half-light.

The ochazuke was served cold, but even so, it was a rare delicacy for Atsushi Nakajima in private.He sat under the moonlight for a while, and ate up the big bowl of chazuke rice, so that he would feel that his body was full of courage and strength to face tomorrow.

In terms of deliciousness, ochazuke is far worse than other well-cooked delicacies, it is just the simplest kind of food.But for Atsushi Nakajima, who lived in an orphanage, suffered physical and mental abuse for a long time, and often slept in the cold basement, it was already very luxurious.

"Then let's go eat together? Ochazuke."

Chulu Yelaixia laughed quietly, and held out his hand to Atsushi Nakajima.

The boy's palms are white and delicate, without even the slightest scar or callus, and they look like a pair of very pampered hands.

It's not that he deliberately protects his hands, but every time the death is reset, Chulu Yelaixia's body will become intact, and it looks delicate and soft no matter where it is, without any blemishes.

Atsushi Nakajima lowered his eyes, and after a few seconds, he put his scarred hand into the palm of Chuluye Laishia.From there came the dry warmth, and the frozen hands began to warm up gradually under this warmth.

Sensing the frighteningly cold temperature on Nakajima Atsushi's body, Hatsana No Laisha took off her coat and put it on Nakajima Atsushi's shoulders.

The scent of honeysuckle belonging to Chulu Yelaixia was quickly captured by Atsushi Nakajima's excellent sense of smell, and it completely filled his senses in a few seconds, and he felt that his whole body was wrapped in the smell of honeysuckle.

"...I want to eat chazuke." Atsushi Nakajima said in a low voice.

There is no need for him to stay in this orphanage.Looking back in the future, it is only full of bitter and gloomy memories. Only the ochazuke in the kitchen late at night is the only sweetness among the deep bitterness.

"Okay." Chu Luye Laixia looked at him with lowered eyebrows, and what he said seemed to promise something, "I will take you out of here."

Let go of this painful old dream.

******

Because of being abused for a long time, sleeping in a cold and dark confinement room, and wearing such thin clothes, Atsushi Nakajima naturally developed a fever.

At first, Chu Luye Laixia thought it was because of an extra piece of clothing, so Atsushi Nakajima's body temperature began to rise gradually, and the sleepiness was only regarded as a teenager who needed sleep.It wasn't until later that the redness on his face became deeper and deeper, and his body began to feel hot, and Chulu Yelaixia realized that Atsushi Nakajima had a fever.

And it's a high fever.

Chu Luye Laixia tested the temperature of Atsushi Nakajima's forehead with his hands. Although it was not as accurate as the thermometer's scale, he estimated that the temperature was at least 39 degrees Celsius.

The drowsiness struck violently, and soon completely overwhelmed Atsushi Nakajima's sanity.Perhaps it was because he subconsciously believed that the people around him could be trusted, so Nakajima Atsushi fell asleep without any precautions, but there was still a look of anxiety in his eyes.

In the middle of the night, Chu Luye Laixia of course chose to go back to his home. Although it was not as good as the clinic, there were all kinds of medicines at home, and there were all kinds of antipyretics, even syringes.

But Chulu Yelaixia didn't expect that Akutagawa Ryunosuke was still awake.

Although Chuluye came to Xia early and called to say that he had a commission to do, and he might not be able to go home until very late, but Akutagawa Ryunosuke did not expect it to be so late.

It is now 11:30 in the middle of the night, almost the next morning.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke had no other thoughts, he couldn't fall asleep anyway, so he just sat in the living room with the incandescent lights on and waited for Hatano to come home, so that he could go to sleep with peace of mind.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke waited for a long time, and finally waited for Hatsano Laisha to come home—but Hatsune Laisha did not go home alone.

He also brought others.

It was convenient, so Chu Luye Laixia did not choose to come in from the lobby of the apartment, and then took the elevator to open the door, he chose the shortcut of taking the balcony.

The black ghost flew back with Chu Lu Ye Lai Xia and Nakajima Atsushi, and landed on the balcony.

"You come back—" before the word "le" finished, it was stuck in Akutagawa Ryunosuke's throat, making him unable to utter half a syllable.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was still holding a teacup in his hand. Although he was a young man, he didn't have a hobby of drinking soft drinks, and of course he didn't drink much tea. The teacup contained warm boiled water.

He was so full of joy that he had waited until Chu Luye came back home in the summer, and at this moment, the expression on his face remained the same as before, but this time it darkened visibly to the naked eye.

There is no other reason, it's just because Chu Luye Laixia brought a man back - he was brought back by Chu Luye Laixia in his arms.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's eyesight is very good, he clearly remembers that the clothes worn by the boy in Chu Kano Laixia's arms are the same clothes that Chu Kano Lai Xia wore to the Armed Detective Agency today.And this young man was not only wearing Chu Luye Laixia's clothes, but was also carried home by Chu Luye Laixia——

With a "pop", Akutagawa Ryunosuke crushed the teacup in his hand.The fragments were scattered all over the ground, and the warm water in the teacup wetted the palm of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, slipped into the sleeve along the curve of the arm, and finally swam into a dark trace.

He tried his best to restrain the expression on his face, and it took a lot of effort to calm down Rashomon, who was about to move, and he didn't tear up the boy who was hugged by Chukano Raika on the spot.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's voice was cold: "Who is he?"

It was obviously a cold tone, but Chu Luye Laixia inexplicably heard a feeling of sternness, and there was deep grievance and uneasiness hidden under the ferocious expression.

"Target." Chulu Yelaixia answered briefly, and then planned to carry Atsushi Nakajima to his room.

The sofa in the living room can't sleep anyone, Akutagawa Gin is a girl, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke doesn't seem like someone who can share a room with others, so Nakajima Atsushi can only be temporarily placed in his room.Chu Lu Ye Lai Xia thought so.

But Ryunosuke Akutagawa didn't think so.

Although he knew that the other party was the entrusted target, and it wasn't Chulu Yelaixia who picked up the child he wanted to raise out of sympathy, how could Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who had already made his mind clear, tolerate other men with the person he liked? Shared bed?

Ryunosuke Akutagawa would rather share the room with Atsushi Nakajima than let the other party step into Raika Hatsano's room.

"Go to my room." Akutagawa Ryunosuke said with humiliation, "I can help watch him."

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who had struggled in the slums, could tell at a glance that Atsushi Nakajima was having a high fever at this time.Such children are too common in the slums. Most of them can't survive the high fever for three days. In the end, they either die or their brains are burned out and become a fool.

"Is it really possible?" Chu Lu Ye Lai Xia asked in surprise.

After some intense ideological struggle, Akutagawa Ryunosuke resolutely said: "... yes."

"Then I'll trouble you, Ryunosuke." Hatsune Laixia followed the good example and put Atsushi Nakajima into Akutagawa Ryunosuke's room.

He found the prepared medicine box again, first checked Atsushi Nakajima's current temperature - 39.8°C, then forced Atsushi Nakajima to wake him up, and fed the antipyretic medicine into his mouth.After a brief sobriety, Atsushi Nakajima fell into a deep sleep again under the influence of drugs.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke has a stinky face—although he usually looks similar to a stinky face, but Hatsukano Laisha can tell that Akutagawa Ryunosuke is really in a bad mood right now.

Putting aside his family's standpoint, Chu Luye became much more sensitive when he came to Xia to see things.

Atsushi Nakajima's long breathing behind him fell in his ears. He stared at Ryunosuke Akutagawa's face, and asked with a malicious smile, "Are you jealous?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was silent for two seconds, did not answer yes or no, and finally turned his head and looked at Hatsune Kayaka.

It is undeniable that Akutagawa Ryunosuke was flustered for a moment when he saw Chu Shikano Laixia bring back a child who was about the same age as him.He hopes that he is "unique" in Chu Luye Laixia, so he is extremely resistant to Atsushi Nakajima as an uninvited guest, and worries that his position will be replaced by Atsushi Nakajima.

Isn't it enough to have him?

Akutagawa Ryunosuke stared closely at Chushikano Laisha, it was the look of a ferocious beast staring at the prey that was bound to win, at that moment Chushikano Laishia noticed the vigorous possessive desire of the young man.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke supported the bed with one hand, and leaned forward to approach Hatsune Laixia.Hatsune Laisha was forced to lean back, trying to lengthen the ambiguous distance, but Akutagawa Ryunosuke pushed harder.

In the end, there was no way to retreat, Hatsune Laisha's back and shoulder blades touched the wooden head of the bed, and as Ryunosuke Akutagawa leaned over and got closer, his heartbeat was about to fail.

"Well……"

Atsushi Nakajima's uncomfortable pain sounded in the room in his sleep, and the ambiguous atmosphere disappeared without a trace in an instant. The figures of the two paused, and then they both straightened their movements.

Chu Luye Laixia's mouth was dry, Akutagawa Ryunosuke quickly restrained his aura, as if nothing happened just now, and everything was just an illusion that should not have happened in the middle of the night.

"Then I'll go to bed first." Chuluye Laishia stood up, the roots of his ears covered by soft hair were already red, he hurried away as if fleeing, his voice remained in the gap, "...good night."

After returning to his room, Chu Luye Laixia closed the door, and slowly slid down to the ground with his back against the wooden door.He forced himself not to think about what might have happened just now, otherwise the heartbeat that had finally calmed down would become uncontrollable again.

Be calm, be calm.

Chu Luye Laixia told himself that he was only teased by a boy who was two years younger than him, and there was no need to make a fuss—just keep a normal mind.

On the other hand, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who was left on the other side, completely blackened his entire face the second after Chuluye Laishia left.

He stood by the bed, thinking about the feasibility of using Rashomon to kill the person on the bed tonight, and then finding an excuse to push the blame—in the end he gave up, because Chuluye Laishia is not easy to fool, and killing the other party would be the opposite. He was at a disadvantage.

But no matter what, this nemesis Akutagawa Ryunosuke has already written it down.Instead of going to bed and huddling with Atsushi Nakajima, he sat on the sofa chair in the bedroom with his arms folded and fell asleep in a guarded posture.

******

Early the next morning, Chu Luye Laixia got up from the bed in a daze, and called the Armed Detective Agency to ask for leave.

There is still a half-old child in the family who has to be taken care of, and Akutagawa Gin and Akutagawa Ryunosuke are going to the port mafia. It is unrealistic to expect them, so only Hatsuneka can do it.

It was Doppo Kunikida who answered the phone from the detective agency.

"Ask for leave?" Kunikida Doppo was a little surprised, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"No, isn't this the entrustment from yesterday..." Chu Luye Laixia said, "I picked up a tiger in the middle of the night, and I'm raising it at home now."

Kunikida Doppo paused strangely for two seconds, and then the voice came out from the receiver again: "Tigers are protected animals, and keeping them privately is against the law..."

"No, no," Chu Luye Laixia explained dumbfoundedly, "That's a person with a supernatural power who has the ability of a tiger, and he's not protecting animals. How could I secretly raise a tiger?"

"That's good." Kunikida Doppo heaved a sigh of relief, and then he vaguely heard Dazai Osamu's voice from the voice passing over. The young man was eager to come over to join in the fun, but was completely hung up by Kunikida Doppo Cut off the phone.

In the morning, Chu Luye came to Xia to check Atsushi Nakajima's temperature. As expected, his fever subsided, and his current temperature was already within the normal range.Probably because of the hunger, the boy woke up very quickly.

"Are you awake?" Chu Lu Ye Lai Xia asked him with concern while sitting on the bedside.

"Where is this..." Nakajima Atsushi who just woke up from a high fever and sleep was still a little confused, "Ochazuke..."

The first reaction is ochazuke.

Chu Lu Ye Lai Xia was a little funny: "Are you hungry?"

Without waiting for Atsushi Nakajima to answer, his stomach faithfully made a hungry "grunt" sound.

"Looks like I'm hungry." Chu Luye Laixia put the prepared clothes on the bedside, then got up and walked out of the bedroom, "After you change your clothes, go eat tea and rice."

Inspired by the three words "chazuke rice", Atsushi Nakajima, who was originally weak, changed his clothes immediately, and after a simple wash, he was dragged downstairs by Chulu Yelaixia.

There is a shop that makes ochazuke near the apartment, and the taste is very good.

Ochazuke’s prunes are sprinkled with crushed seaweed and diced chicken. These ingredients are floated in hot water and swallowed together with salty seaweed.

Chuluye Laixia thoroughly experienced how much a person can eat. Atsushi Nakajima killed five bowls of chazuke by himself, and there is a tendency to continue to eat.

While he was waiting for Atsushi Nakajima to eat, an uninvited guest carelessly pulled out a chair and sat beside him.

The black-haired young man looked curiously at the wolf-gobbling young man opposite him: "Is this the child you picked up again?"

"Yeah." Chulu Yelaixia answered Dazai Osamu, "But he doesn't seem to know himself very well..."

"You really like picking up children."

"I didn't, don't talk nonsense! That's not because of the commission!"

The boy who was eating paused, his bulging cheeks moved: "Consignment?"

When Atsushi Nakajima swallowed the last sip of chazuke rice, Osamu Dazai rested his chin with his hand, and looked at him with a curious smile: "Lai Xia received a commission, saying that your orphanage has tigers or something— is this real?"

"Old, tiger..." Atsushi Nakajima couldn't restrain himself for a while, revealing an expression of fear.He swallowed, his tone trembling, "Don't be afraid of what I want to say..."

Chu Luye Laixia comforted him: "We are investigators of the Armed Detective Agency, we will not be afraid."

"Actually," Atsushi Nakajima said stumbled, "I was targeted by a tiger... That tiger has been trying to attack me near the orphanage, sometimes I can hear the tiger's voice in the basement..."

He had an air of genuine terror.

"Is it such a tiger?" Osamu Dazai held up his mobile phone to show Atsushi Nakajima, and what was displayed on the screen was a cat with orange-yellow fur.

Atsushi Nakajima was fooled by Osamu Dazai: "It's not a cat, it's a tiger."

Chu Luye Laixia also held up the phone screen to show him: "Then this one?" This time it was a serious tiger with the word "Wang" on its forehead.

"It's not yellow, it's white." Atsushi Nakajima observed carefully.

"Then this one?"

This time it was a big snow leopard. Although they were all white cats, they were obviously not the same as tigers.

"It's a tiger! A white tiger! Although they are all cats, they are not leopards!" Atsushi Nakajima seemed a little anxious, "Tigers! They are all in the picture albums, they are big, fierce, white tigers !"

"Understood, I understand," Chuluye Laishia and Dazai Osamu agreed together, "Go on."

"That tiger has been looking for me, lingering in the orphanage, and I don't know when it will come to kill me—" Atsushi Nakajima paused anxiously, and then asked in doubt, "Why are you laughing?"

"No, I just remembered something happy." Chu Luye came to Xia Zhengse, "I'm going to have a cat."

Atsushi Nakajima turned to Osamu Dazai with puzzled eyes.

Osamu Dazai said seriously: "That's right, I want to have a cat too."

Atsushi Nakajima hesitated: "You...have the same cat?"