Accidental Death

The next day, the audit by the Imperial Household Agency was held as scheduled.

The notification of the text message sounded, and Fen Daoche, who was still waiting outside, took out his mobile phone.

[Have you arrived at the test site yet? by: Nomi Kazuto]

[Well, there are about 10 minutes left for the exam to start. ]

After Fen Dao Che returned, he glanced at the surrounding candidates who had signed up for the assessment.Some of them seemed to be the ones he had seen in Xiongying, and they were not only from the general department, but also from the hero department.

Besides the students, most of them were adults in suits and leather shoes - there was no age limit for the assessment by the Imperial Household Agency.

These people gathered together in twos and threes, looking excited or nervous.

The message is sent out, and the other side returns almost in seconds.

[It’s so troublesome, everyone tells you not to take this kind of exam, it’s impossible to pass it... Forget it, whatever you want, then take the exam well. by Nomi Kazuto]

Looking at the text message, Fen Daoche could almost imagine his friend's expression now.

He wrote back a line.

[Well, I'll do my best. ]

Seeing that there were no more replies, Fen Daoche turned his head and looked at the towering building in front of him.

This is the headquarters of the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo, which is adjacent to a government agency.

This white square building has a simple design, and the door in the middle is coldly closed, like a dividing line separating the two worlds inside and outside the door.

Bunjima pursed his lips.

As long as I pass the assessment, I can cross this line and prove that I am a person with talent.

When the time for admission was up, two people in uniform pushed open the door to let the examinees enter.

Bunshima Che took a deep breath, clenched his right fist and tried to calm himself down, and then walked into the examination room with the others.

After finishing the procedure and sitting in his seat, the boy finally calmed down.

He glanced at the examiner who was distributing the test questions, and suddenly felt that the assessment of the palace hall was not much different from ordinary examinations.

It's nothing more than an exam and answering questions.

If so, then answer carefully.

He still has some confidence in himself.

Thinking so, the boy took the test paper sent by the examiner.

He was about to start answering the question, but was stunned when he saw the content above.

——The entire test paper was clean, and there was not a word at the beginning of the paper except for the name and the candidate number.

...No exam questions?Then how to answer.

By the way, some people who have taken the test before on the Internet said that they "didn't even know the test questions" and failed.

How should I answer? Is the question somewhere else? ?

A student raised his hand in front of him.

"There are no exam questions on the paper, is it a printing error?"

The examiner glanced at him and replied, "No."

There was another whisper in the examination room.

"Candidates are asked to answer the questions quietly, and the papers will be collected in 10 minutes."

"..."

The noise in my ears gradually faded away.

Fen Daoche looked at the empty test paper, his mind went blank.

.

[Is the exam over? by Nomi Kazuto]

[I read online that the exam time has ended. by Nomi Kazuto]

[Are you there? ?Aunt said you didn't come home.

It’s okay to fail the exam, as I said before, that kind of exam has nothing to do with ordinary people like us.I made an appointment with the previous person to get that medicine tomorrow... You will remember to message me later. by Nomi Kazuto]

The text message notification on the phone rang again, Fen Daoche directly turned off the screen, and put the phone back into his pocket.

The boy sat on a bench in the park, raised his head and stared blankly at the sky for a long time, and finally covered his face and cried silently.

Since a long time ago, the word "talent" has been very far away from him. It is an unattainable star, an existence that he can only look at forever.

In fact, it was expected that he failed the assessment this time. Neither Fen Dao Che nor the people around Fen Dao Che thought he could pass, but when he actually got this result, his mood was lower than he imagined.

Fen Daoche didn't know if he had already acquiesced in his heart to the fact that he was mediocre, but at least when he signed up for the assessment, he definitely had a secret hope in his heart.

——What if, if I really had some talent that I didn't even realize.

Anything goes.I just don't want to be a normal person.

It was an unreachable starlight, but I wanted to hold on to it even more than I could.

"How ridiculous." Fen Daoche twitched the corners of his mouth mockingly, but still couldn't stop crying.

He reached into his pocket to find something to wipe away his tears, but before he could move, a figure suddenly came into view.

The tall young man in brown boots had a coat draped over his shoulders.

"If I remember correctly, Xiongying is in class now." The other party said.

The orange-red light of the setting sun fell on the young man, which was pleasing to the eye.

Bunjima Che was stunned: "...Mr. Ayatsuji, why are you here?"

He subconsciously wiped the tears from his face, and then explained: "Well, I asked the school for leave."

The examination of the Imperial Household Agency will occupy the class time, so Xiongying granted leave to those who took the examination.

He couldn't help but ask again: "Um...that, Mr. Ayatsuji, why are you here..."

Ayatsuji pedestrian did not answer his question, but said: "You participated in the examination of the Imperial Household Agency, but you failed?"

"..."

Fen Daoche's forced smile was shattered, and he said in a low voice, "...Yes."

The detective looked up at the already dark sky: "It's getting late, you should go home as soon as possible."

"Mn," Fen Daoche stood up, then stopped his movements and lowered his head.

After a long silence, he said, "Mr. Ayatsuji, what I told you before may not come true."

He didn't wait for Ayatsuji Xingren to say anything, and then said: "Since I failed the examination of the Imperial Household Agency, then I probably don't have any extraordinary talents. I'm sorry, I'm still so... overconfident and want to target you .I don’t have a personality, and other aspects seem to be very ordinary, maybe I’m really not suitable to be a hero.”

The young man said, as if the pressure he had been accumulating all this time had finally exploded, and he poured out the words that had been hidden in his heart: "But I am really unwilling, very, very unwilling...why did I have to compare myself to you in the first place?" Others are worse. I'm really envious of people with personality who are born to get what I can never have and don't have to suffer like I do."

Throughout the whole process, the detective just looked at him in silence, with peace in his ocher eyes.

After Shimache finished crying, Ayatsuji said: "You are right, life is not equal, and people with personality and personality have their own difficulties. But they are facing different difficulties."

Fen Dao Che was stunned.

"You suffer because you have no personality, but people with personality suffer because of it. After all, most people in this world are without personality. People with personality are alien to most people-they are knives , can harm the enemy as well as endanger the society. The government has implemented laws and regulations prohibiting personalities, and people with personalities must accept personality factor activity tests at any time, and even some professional heroes are monitored by government people.

"They are hostile and feared. As you said yourself, you will never feel their pain without personality."

It is a human instinct to rule out dissidents.

A minority with individuality is always an outlier in a social group.

Bunjima Che: "...fear?"

Do people without personality hate people with personality?

It seems that there are.It's just that he never empathized with this feeling, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Ayatsuji pedestrian said: "There is no need to take personality, or the certification of the Imperial Household Agency as the standard for judging yourself-of course, if you want to become a hero just to prove your talent, I will not say these things."

"No," Fen Daoche was still immersed in what he said just now, but after hearing what he said, he quickly denied, "I want to be a hero because I want to help and protect others."

"Then just help others, even if you don't become a hero, you can do it. Isn't this a very simple truth?"

"...Yes!" Bunjima Che bowed to Ayatsuji, "Thank you."

He raised his head and smiled shyly: "I always thought that Mr. Ayatsuji was a cold and unapproachable person, but it turns out that you are completely different from the one in the online photos. You are really gentle."

Ayatsuji pedestrian: "..."

Fen Daoche was still thinking about what to say, but the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang again.

The boy opened the text message after saying sorry.

[The person who took the medicine said that the time is coming earlier, I will go to see him first tonight, and I will bring your share for you as well. by Nomi Kazuto]

Fentao Che's expression suddenly became flustered.

He had doubts about Nomi Kazuto's proposal from before, not to mention that it was illegal.

His thoughts were in a mess, and he wanted to send a short message to Ye Jianheren to ask him to discuss it tomorrow before making a decision, but his hands froze as soon as they touched the screen.

Mr. Ayatsuji is still in front of him, if he is discovered——

Wait, come to think of it, why is Ayatsuji-sensei here.

When I asked Mr. Ayatsuji why he came here, how did he answer?

The boy looked up, only to find that the detective was looking at him.

He was inexplicably flustered.

The boy tightened his grip on the phone, weighed it over and over again and said, "Well, Mr. Ayatsuji, I actually—"

The detective took his words first: "It was Nomi Kazuto who sent the text message? The text message he sent you at this time should mean that he is going to get the 'medicine'."

Bunjima Che opened his eyes wide, shocked: "Mr. Ayatsuji, why do you know this?"

"The time I met him at the school gate before, he was very strange that day." Ayatsuji pedestrian took out his mobile phone and said while flipping through the address book.

The last time Bunjima Che stopped him at the school gate to ask for his autograph, Nomi Kazuto had a strange expression on his face. It didn't look like a student facing a teacher or a professional hero, but rather worried about something.

Many things can be judged from a person's clothes and demeanor, for example, Nomi Kazuto must not have come home last night, and another example is that he is very dissatisfied with being a personalityless person.

Moreover, the clothes that Kazuto Tianano was wearing were very clean, but there was a faint smell of smoke, and it was an extremely expensive tobacco.

——This is not something that students can touch. What's more, neither Nomi Kazuto nor Bundaoche seem to be non-smokers.

In this way, the people he goes to meet at night are very curious.

Coupled with the rumors inside the school, everything becomes very easy to understand.

"It's seven o'clock in the afternoon... Where is Nomi Kazuto's home address?" As he spoke, Ayatsuji pedestrian asked.

Fen Daoche quickly replied, "No. [-], Liuheng Street."

"Shibuya...but he should have been in another direction that day, Minato-ku?" The detective pondered for two seconds, typed out a line of address, and sent it to the people at the Professional Heroes Association.

Fenjima Che didn't understand, so he asked, "Another direction?"

After clicking send, the detective took back the phone: "The packaging bag in his hand is only available in the port area."

In his memory, only a certain chain store has such bags, and that store has only two in the whole of Tokyo, one of which is in Minato-ku.

On the other side, after receiving the address, the Professional Heroes Association quickly sent people to the scene.