[Net King + Patterns] Ugly Fish

The police who went into the forest to search at dawn brought back the results.

Those sounds came from far and near, and the disturbance finally tore through the tranquility that was whitewashed in the faint morning light; I withdrew my gaze from the window, blinked my sour eyes, and turned my head to look at Abe, who was also sitting withered all night. I.

His face was slightly pale, and he couldn't hide his tiredness between his brows. The next moment, he noticed my gaze, and his figure solidified into a sculpture slowly moved. He turned his face to meet my gaze, gray and purple. Eyes slowly filled with spirit.

For a long time, he twitched his stiff mouth, as if he was trying to smile at me but somehow failed, resulting in a subtle twist of expression, "Go out and have a look...we..." When he spoke, his voice was hoarse and dry, and some words were not expressive.

I stared at him quietly for a few seconds, then nodded, "Let's go—" I stood up on my knees, the outstretched hand of Keigo Atobe in the corner of my eye paused in mid-air, hesitated for a moment, and then landed onto my shoulders.

"Remember, you don't know anything." He said in a commanding tone, staring at me with a little urgency in his eyes, and gradually tightened his five fingers holding the fabric with extraordinary strength, "Whoever asks you , including my grandfather."

"Listen! Sakurako! You don't know anything!" He repeated over and over again, and demanded my assurance, "I'll take care of everyone, just stay quietly behind me, remember!"

"I know, I know." I nodded emphatically, and climbed up to his waist with my outstretched arms, then tightened my arms, and responded to and appeased his nervousness with the most simple and understandable gestures.

I think this kind of tender situation happened because Keigo Atobe clearly expressed his uneasiness about the situation beyond his control in front of me for the first time since the two met. There is a certain level of joy.

His panic, I believe, is mostly because his respected grandfather will be involved in the coming storm, showing another immature side in front of me, does it mean that he is willing to let me see it no matter whether it is good or bad.

Does this kind of frank confrontation mean that he and I... have taken a step forward on the road of mutual understanding?

Maybe it's because my untimely distraction is too obvious?Realizing this, Keigo Atobe's expression suddenly became fierce, and he immediately put away his cautious worry, snorted heavily, and gritted his teeth, "I'm actually worried about you, I really am an idiot."

Throwing down a sentence I don't know if it's embarrassing or not, then turned around and left, and didn't care about my fawning gesture of following him and reaching out to grab the corner of his clothes, leaving me a firm head.

……

When he and I walked out of the room, we found that other people were also gathering in the courtyard at the same time. Everyone must have been waiting for a long time before they made the same move in the shortest possible time.

Keigo Atobe pulled me down the corridor, and quietly mixed into the crowd standing in the open-air courtyard. I silently looked around and counted the number of people present. I was not surprised to see the hostess of this hotel, Aragaki. Madam, beside Keigo Atobe's grandfather, both of them looked solemn.

A little further away are Daoming Sisi and Meizuoling. The two boys stood side by side, looking a bit like small animals keeping warm, with twinkling eyes and faint anxiety mixed with their gazes.

When Daoming Sisi's eyes met mine, his expression paused for a few seconds before struggling to squeeze out a touch of friendliness, and then pretending to be unintentional, he turned his eyes to another direction; However, he is the one who looks calmest on the surface among the people here.

No one opened their mouths to speak. Occasionally, their eyes briefly met and they quickly turned away. Every face was filled with depression, as if the bone-chilling cold of winter had penetrated into the blood, and it was difficult to make a sound. direction, silently waiting for the answer to be revealed.

……

In fact, I already had a result in my heart, and I think other people also knew it; so, when a group of people headed by Beijing Liao appeared, the atmosphere was even a little too calm.

The group of people walked hurriedly in the heavy cold, with some muddy scratches on their bodies or faces. After they stopped in the open area of ​​the courtyard, Beijing Liao came out, and after a while, he raised his hand and waved silently. Signaled, the people standing behind immediately moved away, and the scene of being surrounded in the center was exposed to the skylight.

It was a simple stretcher, covered with a coarse cloth stained with dark stains, and under that...

"We found him..." Beijing Liao's gloomy expression was gloomy and he didn't know where to look. After a short pause, he took a deep breath before continuing, "The vehicle outside is ready and will send him away immediately..." After finishing speaking, he It seemed that he had forgotten the follow-up content and just stood there blankly, looking at each other in blank dismay.

In the silence, someone made a short exclamation, and a figure stumbled forward, it was Mrs. Xin Yuan.

She barely stopped in front of the stretcher, stretched out her arms tremblingly, and retracted the moment her fingertips touched the coarse cloth, and then retracted like an electric shock. Then, she let out a sharp sob from the depths of her throat, curled up and squatted down , smacking his face with his hands, the suppressed mourning began to echo over the courtyard.

Time seems to freeze here.

After a while, Keigo Atobe's grandfather came out from the seemingly still crowd, stood beside the stretcher, sighed heavily, but quietly pulled up Aragaki without saying anything, and handed her over to Ryo Kitai beside him. Someone brought him, and then he turned his face and looked around, the corners of his lips pursed into a straight line.

"Jingwu, come with me." He raised his hand and pointed at Atobe Jingwu, his voice was a little cold, his tone was calm, but his eyes were unexpectedly sharp, "Some things need your explanation." After saying that, he didn't look at anyone else Just get away and leave.

I secretly squinted at Keigo Atobe who was standing beside me, and found that he was obviously exuding a stiff and nervous mood, but he quickly covered up the strangeness.

"Ah--" Keigo Atobe responded in a low voice, while slightly tilting his head and glaring at me from the corner of his eye. There was panic hidden deep in his gray-purple phoenix eyes, but he was meeting my eyes again. The corners of his mouth curled up when he looked at him, which seemed to be a comforting smile, "Don't worry," he said with his eyes.

Quickly glanced at his grandfather who had already walked into the wooden corridor, Keigo Atobe lowered his head to straighten out his appearance, took a deep breath before taking a step forward, walked a few steps and stopped abruptly, turned his head, his fierce gaze It was vaguely a warning, 'Don't you dare to do what I say and try? ', until I raised my eyebrows, he only left me with a tragic back as if he was about to go to the battlefield.

……

Watching an unconscious figure who was haunted by the breath of "meeting the parents makes the mood go up and down" slowly disappear, I twitched my face silently, shifted my gaze for a certain distance, and fell in another direction.

Kitai Ryou's men and horses have almost retreated, including Mrs. Aigaki who was also taken to rest somewhere else, and Misaku Rei's entourage disappeared at some point, and now there are only four people left here.

Looking at the six eyes staring at me silently, I raised my hand to cover the corner of my mouth, and said dryly, "It's so cold—" Not only the weather but also your expressions...

As soon as the words fell, Daoming Sisi immediately rolled his eyes, Meizuoling looked at him and me helplessly, shrugged and smiled hypocritically, Beijing Liao, with a bluish face, was the first to speak after a long silence, "Then we all go into the house Go here, make a record for the three according to the procedure, or... talk about it?"

In the second half of the sentence, Beijing Liao stared at me with slightly nervous eyes while speaking, as if he was going to take some measures if I refused.

So, I took half a step back to give way to the route to my room, and nodded at the same time, "Take notes." After Beijing Liao rushed past me, I signaled the other two to go with me; while walking, I secretly thought about what would happen next Get away, 'talk'?I don't think it's a good time, maybe not at all, because there's nothing to say.

……

Before I could take any effective measures, Beijing Liao was called away in the middle of taking notes. It seemed that something happened by accident, because the brows of the people who came to summon him were full of anxiety.

After listening to the whispers whispered by his subordinates, Beijing Liao turned his head and stared at me with extremely treacherous eyes, then hurried out without even saying a word, and there was no news for a long time after that.

After being left behind, I sat in the room with Daoming Sisi and Meizuoling and looked at each other quietly. Not long after, someone I didn't know broke in and broke the pretense of tranquility. This time it was Meizuoling's business. The police hoped that the manpower he brought would go to support, which made Mei Zuoling, who had cleared her throat and tried to stir up the topic, have to stop temporarily.

Mei Zuoling took Daoming Sisi away with him on the grounds that his body had not yet recovered. As a young Daoming Sisi, shouldn't he carry forward their friendship?

What a majestic excuse, I showed my white teeth coolly at Mei Zuo Ling, who was full of righteous words, without revealing that he was clearly trying to guard against me, and let the two of them leave with a superficial smile.

I sat alone in the room until noon, waiting for the thin sunlight to pass over the eaves and cast it on a small piece of floor in front of the door, and Keigo Atobe, who had disappeared for nearly four hours, was swept in like a gust of wind.

Quietly watched him sit next to me on the side of the low table, then took the teacup I handed to him, and poured five cups of tea in a row. It was like waking up suddenly.

"It's so hot!" He yelled, throwing the teacup in his hand onto the desk in a hurry, his gray and purple phoenix eyes widened, his cheeks flushed, hissing, hissing. He looks like he's been bullied.

Immediately I was in a good mood, put down the teapot, picked up half a cup of tea reserved for myself, brought it to my mouth, took a sip, held it in my mouth for a few seconds before swallowing it, and raised my eyebrows at the same time, squinting at him.

"You—you—" He gritted his teeth, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he drooped his shoulders as if discouraged after a long time, staring at me with a dull expression, and didn't speak for a while.

After waiting for a while, Keigo Atobe pursed his lips as if he had finally adjusted, all the confusion in his eyes settled down, his lowered voice was a bit hollow, but he said something that caught me off guard.

"I'm going to Germany," he said.

……

My thoughts got stuck for a few seconds, I put down the cup in my hand in a daze, and heard my own incomprehensible single voice, "Huh?"

What did you say?

Slowly meeting his eyes, I didn't see any signs of joking in those gray-purple phoenix eyes, and at the same time, I could clearly see my own small, stiff and pale face reflected in them.

He announced calmly, "I'm going to Germany to attend high school."