Luo Shengmeng has no feelings today

In the Yokohama slums, due to various reasons, the houses here are extremely densely distributed, with insufficient spacing and small windows. Most of the buildings have insufficient lighting, and even many places do not see sunlight all year round.

In a dilapidated shack, a seven-year-old boy was leaning against the wall, quietly looking at the dim sky outside the window in a daze, without thinking about anything.

Except for himself, there are four other people staying in the territory, quietly waiting for the other five companions who went out to look for supplies to return.

Suddenly, the boy who was leaning against the wall in a daze shook violently, and his whole body leaned forward. He subconsciously took a step forward to stabilize his center of gravity.

The other four children in the room noticed the movement and immediately turned their heads to look over.

But the boy didn't realize it, he raised his head, his dark eyes flashed a trace of bewilderment, he stared blankly at the unfamiliar yet familiar environment, after a while he moved stiffly, and looked around.

He looked at the four people who were both unfamiliar and familiar, his expressions gradually became strange, as if he realized something, his body began to tremble slightly involuntarily, and his pale face showed a trace of despair.

"elder brother!"

The girl with long black hair sensed that something was wrong, she hurriedly ran over and grabbed the boy's hand, because of physical problems, the perennially cold temperature made the girl tighten a little bit, she looked at him worriedly, and asked aloud: "What's the matter?" Is it? Has something happened?"

"...Silver?" The boy took a long time to call out the other party's name, but his voice was extremely hoarse, and the uncertain tone made the girl even more worried.

"Yes." Silver nodded, "It's me, brother."

"..."

The boy looked at the others again.

The other three children also followed Yin and ran over worriedly. Without exception, they showed nervous and worried expressions and chirped with questions.

"Ryunosuke, what happened?"

"Are you feeling unwell again? Your voice is so hoarse. Do you have a cold? Or a fever? It seems that there is still some medicine we stole back, so I don't know if it can be used." One of the people said so, stepped forward and stretched He reached out and touched the boy's forehead, "Eh? No fever."

"But it doesn't look right, Ryunosuke-san, are you okay?...Wait, Ryunosuke-san, what's wrong with your neck!?"

The vainly high-pitched voice of the last person attracted the attention of others. As the younger sister, Yin stretched out her hand decisively, and slightly tore off the boy's collar. On the slender neck under the fabric was a circle of terrifying and ferocious, pale The bruises under the complexion became more and more shocking.

No wonder the voice is so hoarse.

Silver covered his mouth and sucked in a breath of cold air.

The other children were also taken aback. They immediately tensed up and asked questions in a hurry.

A seven-year-old boy...or the soul is already 17 years old. Akutagawa Ryunosuke who just came back from another world was surrounded by several children in a daze. Their faces were obviously worried and close, and they were also strange about themselves. sad and angry about the injury.

The memories that had been separated for ten years finally joined together slowly.

Ah... it's my sister, and his former companions.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke finally recovered, but he took a step back in disbelief.

His body couldn't help shaking, and for a long while, he rushed out the door without saying a word. Akutagawa Ryunosuke desperately looked around on the street outside the house, his pupils constricted a little bit, and finally he stood slumped. In the same place, with his head bowed and his hands tightly clutching the clothes on his chest, his breathing began to become short of breath.

"Why... are you back now?"

"why?"

Akutagawa gritted his teeth, his eyes began to feel sore, and he muttered to himself in a hoarse, painful voice.

Obviously can't come back now.

Mr. R... The safety of the teacher is still unclear. He watched that figure disappear in the light beam, but he didn't have time to go to the teacher's side.

how is sir nowstill alive?How is he?

do not know.

do not know anything.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's heart, which was originally filled, seemed to be empty again at that moment.

—that man in the iron hat, the checkers-faced bastard!

The biting killing intent overflowed from the young boy, with a ferocious expression on his immature face, and his lower lip was bitten by himself.

The taste of rust immediately filled the whole mouth.

Rashomon, who always followed the little master's side, raised his head worriedly. It turned into a small ball and nestled gently on Akutagawa's shoulder. It was a bit sad because it couldn't speak to comfort it. Drooping, then worriedly parted out a small strand of fabric, and touched the bruise on Akutagawa's neck distressedly.

"elder brother!"

"Brother Ryunosuke!"

"Ryunosuke!"

Because of Akutagawa's sudden rushing out, the four children who were caught off guard hurriedly followed. They called each other's name from a distance, and Yin even rushed over in a hurry, grabbing the corner of his brother's clothes tightly.

"Brother, what's the matter? What happened?" Yin was about to cry, she looked at her brother, her only family member tremblingly, with a look of anxiety on her face: "Don't scare me, brother! "

Akutagawa Ryunosuke paused slightly, he turned around and looked at his younger sister's immature face.

——The kind and immature face that I haven't seen in ten years.

His... sister.

The killing intent disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"silver."

Akutagawa looked at his sister's face, trembling his lips, and murmured in a weak voice.

Then, without waiting for the girl's answer, he stretched out his hand without hesitation, and hugged the young sister tightly in his arms.

"elder brother?"

Gin Akutagawa, who was hugged tightly, opened his eyes slightly.

"That's it... let me give you a hug, Silver."

"Just a moment."

……

Akutagawa Ryunosuke didn't explain anything to his sister and his companions, not even the source of the bruise on his neck.

But since that day, all of them have seen the changes in Akutagawa.

To put it simply...become stronger.

Although the body is still so weak, the use of supernatural powers is in vain, but the familiarity is dozens of times.

Moreover, his personality has also changed a lot. Compared with the empty appearance of a puppet before, he seems to have begun to care about his companions, especially his younger sister Yin.

The action also began to be hidden, lurking in the shadows is very familiar, and, unlike the previous division of labor and cooperation, Akutagawa began to go out alone.

Then a week's worth of supplies for all of them can be brought back in one day.

Shin, the boy in their small group of ten, also had bright eyes, and he leaned over excitedly and asked Akutagawa how he did it.

"...It's just a small trick, but that's not something you can do."

Ryunosuke, who came back with the supplies, was silent for a while, reached out and touched Shinya's head and said.

"I always feel that Ryunosuke has become a lot more mature." Shinya was patted on the head by Akutagawa, but he had no intention of resisting at all. He thought for a while and said with puffed cheeks.

"Well, becoming like an adult... a very reliable feeling."

Sayaka, who was the youngest among all the people present, was only five years old, tugged at the corner of Akutagawa's clothes very intimately, said in a soft voice, and then looked at the only person with supernatural powers among them very trustingly.

"Moreover, we are not allowed to do anything recently. All the supplies were brought back by Ryunosuke alone. Ah, although it is not that there is nothing wrong, but let us do something more or less, right?"

Yuuji scratched his head, showing a somewhat straightforward smile:

"If you let Ryunosuke do it all by himself, I can't stay here with peace of mind at all. I feel like I'm dragging Ryunosuke down like a parasite. Obviously your body itself is not very good."

"That's right, besides, Ryunosuke brother, your health is not very good." Another little girl Rin also said very worriedly: "Although I don't know what happened to you, you guys won't tell us anything, It's really a headache... But it doesn't matter if we go out to find supplies once in a while, we will act carefully, so, Ryunosuke-san, should you take a rest? You are the strongest force among us, and you fell ill It’s not good if it’s gone!”

"..." Akutagawa tilted his head, looking at a group of children with an average age of less than two digits in front of him.

Unlike myself who has matured mentally, they are all genuine children.

Companions are important existences, no one can be invincible alone, this is the truth taught to him by Mr. R.

That's why Akutagawa felt that he had the responsibility to protect his young companions, so he took care of all the work.However, this is only one of the reasons.

The most critical reason is probably...he couldn't stop himself.

Keep going out to find supplies and keep yourself as busy as possible, which can relieve the pain in Ryunosuke Akutagawa's heart.

Otherwise, if he doesn't do anything, he will always see the hallucination of Mr. in a trance.

When eating, when resting, or even when walking.

——Akutagawa always habitually stands one step behind Mr. R, looking at his back.

But now there is nothing.

……

Akutagawa finally accepted the group's request.

It is really unreasonable to ask them to do nothing if they contract all the resources of life by themselves.

That would just make people useless.

"If you want to help me with something...then learn to fight first."

Akutagawa brought back a few knives and daggers the next day, and handed them out one by one.

"I'll give you a daily training schedule until I think you can protect yourself."

"If you don't have the strength, don't mention anything to help me."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke once read a book: It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. This is the truth from neighboring countries.

He is only seven years old now, the age at which no one is willing to hire him except in the inner world. Akutagawa himself doesn't care which side he lives in, be it the dark world or the bright world, anyway, if there is no teacher, it doesn't matter where he is.

However, he wanted to give his sister a normal life no matter what.

You don't need to do your best to survive all the time, but you can let Yin find other joys in life just like Mr. leads him.

Like Akutagawa who likes to read, Gin will find something similar.

Originally, I wanted to wait until everyone grew up to a certain age and could find a job before moving out of the slums.

However, there is a problem that cannot be ignored: if they only rely on their own strength to protect them, these young companions will not be able to survive to grow up smoothly.

After all, this is Yokohama under the shadow of the Mafia, the most bottom-level filthy slum.

Any unforeseen accidents may happen. The sinister nature of human nature and the atmosphere of the jungle are the root causes of young lives.

——And protection is far more difficult than killing.

The author has something to say: the official essay is over.

Protecting is harder than killing.

Even though they were strong, they failed to protect each other. (I don’t mean to be angry, but just to explain the reason why mustard came to this point of view)

Killer + child care + writer, why is the sense of sight so strong (Wangtian)

I don’t write too many things about the slums~ (I really want to write a literary hero, and I’m desperately pushing the plot.jpg)

Jiejia’s companions are all good kids, the kind who care about Jiejia’s physical condition very much, they are different from the guys in the sheep group, ah, I can’t help but feel sorry for me when I mention this (light a cigarette and calm down).

ps: I will go home to teach later, and reunite with Mr. R, so don't worry too much, just watch me operate.