A young girl dreams of a wild god

After a day of alone time, the relationship between Atsushi Nakajima and Kyoka seems to have improved a lot.When he walked into the house, the white-haired boy was holding a large teddy bear doll in his arms, and several shopping bags were hanging on his arms.And Jinghua held the crepe in her hand and walked eagerly.

"The crepes in the red brick warehouse are delicious." Saying that, Jinghua handed the things in her hand to Xuezhi. "Cream with strawberries and blueberries, the ice cream will melt, so I didn't buy it."

Zhongyuan Xuezhi took the crepe and took a bite under Jinghua's gaze.Smooth and sweet cream with fruity strawberries, wrapped in soft pie crust, adding layers of taste.The sweet and sour blueberries that are bitten while chewing are just right.

"...delicious!" Xuezhi puffed her cheeks and said vaguely, "I'll go and give Zhongye a taste."

Jinghua's eyes were shining, and she looked a little happy. She nodded vigorously, and said, "I also bought a lot of snacks..."

Atsushi Nakajima raised his arm cooperatively, and showed Xuezhi the bag hanging on his arm.

"Thank you, Dunjun, you go and put the doll down first."

"Okay, then shall I send these snacks directly to the kitchen, Miss Xuezhi?"

"Hmm, please."

"No, there is no trouble. Then...Xiao Jinghua, shall we go there together?"

"Well, let's go."

This is youth.

As a young girl, Xuezhi went against her age and sighed like this, and then she hurried to the study to find Nakahara Chuya.Because he came to work when he was about to leave work, the cadres had to work overtime at home for a while.

At this moment, Zhong Yuan was also scratching his head, sitting at the table and typing on his laptop irritably.

"...Dun and the others have gone home?" Seeing the crepe in Xuezhi's hand, Nakahara asked.

"Well, I even brought me a souvenir. Come, Zhongya has a taste of this, it's delicious."

For those with a non-sweet tooth, the crepe tastes a bit sweet, but the strong fruity aroma and the slight acidity of the blueberry dispel the sweetness, making Zhongyuanzhong accept it well.

"It tastes really good."

"Right?" Xuezhi said with a smile, "Zhong also likes strawberries?"

"…well enough."

"Then how about I make a low-sugar strawberry cake for you next time? Use a firmer sponge cake bottom and top it with strawberries."

It really sounded very attractive, but Zhongyuan Zhong also thought about it and refused, "Forget it, your hands are inconvenient, and it's too tiring to do it."

"Anyway, Dunjun and Xiao Jinghua are here, so I'll be in charge of the command. Ah... I wonder if Dunjun will be willing to help?"

"That kid... If you ask him for help, he must be willing to do so. I don't know how to cultivate that kind of dedication personality. I feel a headache no matter how I look at it."

"That's true...but Mr. Fox is trying to correct Dun-kun, and it seems to be a little bit effective." Saying that, Xuezhi squeezed Nakahara Chuya's arm, and sat sideways on his side holding a half-eaten crepe on the thigh.

"I still have to work, Xuezhi."

"Oh, I can help you. Although it's off-duty time, the assistant lady has the right to refuse to work overtime... But if the cadres give me overtime pay, I'm happy to do a little favor."

The brown-haired man raised his eyebrows and asked jokingly, "Huh? Then how much overtime pay do you need?"

"At least two kisses and a word of love."

Zhong Yuanzhong also cashed in the overtime pay on the spot.

Then, the cadre who had to work overtime was directly transferred from the social animal hat gentleman and became a crepe holder.He was responsible for holding the crepe and occasionally feeding the girl in his arms.And Xuezhi was typing on the computer, and under Zhongyuan Zhongye's one or two supplementary explanations, he quickly processed these documents.

Before the servant came to ask the two of them to have dinner, Xuezhi finished typing the last letter of the email.

"The recent situation is really not good... The sense of urgency for the 'combination' is about to overflow from the bounty list."

"Anyway, the worst-case scenario is a fight with the people sent by the 'combination'. Do you want to tell Dun a more specific guess and the subsequent arrangements?"

It doesn't matter if you tell Dun, he can't let him be confused about what he will face in the future.

Dun Jun is indeed a little cowardly, but just like how he was able to wave his fists in the face of the terrible gravity around him in the Central Plains, when facing the threat of death, he can always burst out with strong vitality.

[There must be something in Dun Jun, and this thing will help the 'group' achieve their goals. 】My brother said this when he was a guest at a detective agency a few days ago.

My brother is always right.Moreover, I also don't think it's that simple for the "combination" to place a bounty on the "countryside" supernatural beings thousands of miles away.

And the big question is, what exactly does the 'combination' want?

My brother said: [Money?No, according to their leader's ability to collect money, things like money don't require them to spend so much trouble. 】

Mr. Luanbu played with the paper boat in his hand, and replied casually: 【Then you want to talk about rights?Ha, generally speaking, this may be possible.But with enough money and a brain better than a goldfish, it is not difficult to achieve the goal. 】

And in the end, the elder brother who was bathed in the sun smiled and said: 【You also have the same guess as me, Xue. 】

"To be honest, I have an idea." Xuezhi said without beginning or end.

Zhong Yuanzhong has also gotten used to the leap-forward thinking of this group of brain power factions, and he asked back: "What guess?"

"I think the leader of the group, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, doesn't want money, he doesn't want power, he doesn't want anything in shape. What he wants, maybe what I can afford , and things that ordinary people can’t pay for.”

"Can you afford it...? Wait a minute!" Zhong Yuanzhong also realized something, "He doesn't want to make him live forever, talk to the dead, change his fate, etc."

"I think so, but it's just my intuition. Before I get a definite answer, this can only be a guess." Xuezhi hammered his palm, "Well, it's meaningless to rely on guessing now anyway. , I don’t want to! Even if I can really make a deal with Mr. Fitzgerald, it will only be done after the fight.”

Non-winners do not actively seek deals.

Xuezhi adheres to this principle.

After dinner in the evening, Xuezhi dragged the confused Atsushi Nakajima to the courtyard for a walk to digest food.Taking this opportunity, she took apart what was happening now, as well as what she was thinking, and told him in pieces.

The things that the girl uttered brought great shock and fear to Atsushi Nakajima.Although he knew that he was being offered a reward, and that he was responsible for the recent chaos in Yokohama, the boy didn't really feel that much.

The 'adults' in this family are very strong, much stronger than his 'child'.These strong men extended a helping hand to himself who was struggling in the miserable abyss, standing firmly at the forefront, and this somewhat confused his cognition.

Whether he is escaping or naive, Atsushi Nakajima really thinks that as time goes by, the current matter will soon pass.

But now, after bringing him back to this home, Miss Xuezhi, who has been treating him tenderly, told him affirmatively: "Dun-kun, Yokohama will soon become more chaotic, and you will face a greater crisis. You have to persevere." , must also persist. '

And Miss Xuezhi promised that she would never, never lie to Baihu.

"I can't do it..." Atsushi Nakajima's hands were trembling, and the coolness coming from the cracks in his bones made the boy's face pale.

"You can do it, Don."

"but--!"

"You can." Xuezhi looked directly into the boy's eyes with affirmative gaze, "You can definitely, because you are Atsushi, Nakajima Atsushi."

The boy said in a sobbing voice, "I... haven't changed. I'm not strong. I've been protected and taken care of by everyone from the beginning to the end. I'm weak... completely weak!"

"Because you're weak, Don."

Under the moonlight, the snowy branches burning like white fire smiled at the boy.The evening wind blew over the girl's long snow-white hair, and the thick golden hair tail and her honey-gold pupils became the most enthusiastic colors on the girl's body.Under the moonlit night, she is like an ancient tree standing in the rice field, like an eternal rock.

"In my whole life as 'Xuezhi', no, including the years before that, I was also a weak person. I couldn't decide my own life, and even to resist all of this, I had to use the awareness that I would face death in the future. One big gamble after another."

"Although it's just my own thoughts, Dun-jun. But I always feel that being a weak person who is unable to face fate is actually not so terrible. It is because of my weakness that I can risk my life anytime and anywhere, and I must also grasp the tiny things in front of me. light."

Saying that, Xuezhi took a step forward.She rolled up her sleeves and held the rough boy's palm with her fingertips.

"This is your hand, Dun-jun, and it is also your claw. I believe that no matter when, no matter where, young people will desperately wave their tiger claws in order to survive."

In the girl's whisper, Atsushi Nakajima's eyes widened.The wind stung his pupils, causing hot tears to well up in the boy's eyes.They trickled down the boy's cheeks, one by one on the back of Xuezhi's hand.

"After this matter is over, I have a gift for you, Dun Jun."

"…Yes."

"Is the watch okay?"

"Good... good!"

Nakajima Atsushi knelt on the ground, pressed Xuezhi's cool fingertips to his forehead, weeping uncontrollably.He clenched his hands so tightly that the girl felt pain.But compared to the pain in the little tiger's heart, she felt that such a little pain was nothing.

"I didn't say this to make you cry, Dun-jun. Uh-huh, so good, so good."

"...Miss Xuezhi, I'm not a cat." After a while, Atsushi Nakajima protested to her in a very small voice.

"Okay, big cat."

What a lovely, what a pitiful life.

I didn't come to the wrong world, right, I used to be.

The evening breeze is cool, the moonlight is just right, and she can love as she pleases.

Family affection, friendship, love... When these human emotions filled her heart, she was no longer a simple 'Inari God'.

Fierce Aragami, you can understand this feeling, right?

You also got a great love and affection somewhere, and because of it, you became a god walking in the world-that is, human beings themselves.

Right, Chuya.

Then, while waiting for the combination to arrive, a lot of things just flowed down the drain.

Because Nakahara Yukie frequently took Kyoka to the detective agency, Koyo Ozaki, who had never blushed with her before, showed an angry face to the girl for the first time. When Portmafia's Yasha was furious, the huge murderous aura made Xue Zhi, who was facing her appearance for the first time, even stop breathing for a moment.

"I thought you knew my mind, Xuezhi. People in the deep darkness, why should they pursue the light? Jinghua is a person from this world. Even if she runs to a bright place, she will only get burned! Just like you Just as I saw my own shadow in that tiger boy, so does this concubine... I will protect Jinghua, and you will never be allowed to intervene from the side!"

"But I saw light in Kyoka's eyes. When she watched Ranpo-san solve the incident casually, when she solved the commission with the detective agency members, I saw a small light."

"Sister Hongye can think that I am being willful, but I am indeed playing with my temper, relying on your love for me and doing whatever I want. So I will be willful to the end if I am willful!"

In the end, when facing Kyoka who came to hear the news and stood in front of Nakahara Yukie with a face full of horror, Ozaki Koyo could only sigh deeply.

"Why bother, Jinghua... You know what kind of punishment the traitor will face, and what kind of inner torture he will face next. Even if it is painful, do you want to take this step towards the light? "

Quan Jinghua's arms trembled, she seemed to want to draw out her short blade, but the girl persisted.

"The senior of the detective agency told me...he also regretted his murderous past, and he also felt pain for not being able to protect the people he cherished. However, if you kill one person, you can save ten people, and if you kill ten It is also a kind of self-salvation to save a hundred people. I want to believe what he said, and I want to move forward."

"—I want to go back to the light."

This is the current strongest strength of the detective agency - what Oda Sakunosuke said, and it is also what the man is trying to do.Odasaku told Kyoka his thoughts, and the young girl picked up hope from his words.

"...It's up to you." Ozaki Koyo covered her face with her sleeves, hiding her dumb and painful expression under the layers of gorgeous kimonos.

"If... if one day, you feel pain and despair there, come back to my side. There is only you, Jinghua, only you, and I will do my best to protect it."

"Thank you, thank you very much, Officer Ozaki... Momiji-san."

On a sunny afternoon, the flowers that had germinated in the sun and were brought into the darkness left.

She was wearing a bright red kimono, and her long dark hair was tied back in a braid.The girl held tightly the cherry blossom hairpin that Koyo Ozaki gave her, and ran towards the light with much more vigor than before.

Facing the dual pressure of his own cadres and their wives—Ozaki Koye and Nakahara Yuki, although Mori Ogai issued a reward order for traitors, the strength was not strong.He complained to his supernatural power more than once, saying that he might have found the wrong employee, and his subordinates actually sent the talented assassin to his old opponent.

"You can do it, Lin Taro, why are you acting so good when you get a cheap one. Even if you keep the spring mirror flower in your hand, sooner or later, it will break by itself!"

"Well, you're right, it's indeed my lovely Alice! ...Although I lost a knife embryo that will be scrapped sooner or later, what I got was Hongye-kun's more loyal support, as well as Xuezhi-kun—and everyone behind her To my direction." With his chin propped up, Mori Ogai smiled.

The setting sun shone on him, splitting the man's face in two, with one side in light and the other in darkness.This made the smile on the corner of his mouth look a bit treacherous, causing Alice to snort coldly and turn her face away from him.

"The current loss is temporary. I have a hunch, Alice-chan. Soon, Mr. Xuezhi will come to me with greater benefits, and hand it into my hands with a smile."

"Since Lin Taro has already thought about it, why are you still talking to me, you pervert who talks to himself!"

"Oh, because Alice-chan is the one who understands me the most, loves me the most, and hates my existence the most!"

Alice threw away the crayon in her hand, and put the paper with the smiling face of Yukie Nakahara on Mori Ogai's desk. She opened her eyes wide and pointedly said, "Before that moment comes..."

"Yes, before that moment comes, we just need to wait, Alice-chan."

"You don't need to tell me, stupid Rintaro."

During the time when Jinghua left portmafia and slowly learned to change herself under the protection of the Armed Detective Agency.The situation in Yokohama gradually changed, and the tension intensified.

A small organization can't make big waves, but a dozen or twenty together is enough to make waves in the fish pond.

The planned explosion gave them an opportunity to capture Atsushi Nakajima.And because the people protected by portmafia were captured by this group of people, Akutagawa Ryunosuke deeply felt that the dignity of the organization was challenged, and chased after the freighter.However, the two teenagers on the verge of internal strife were desperately resisted by the enemy with supernatural abilities.

Atsushi Nakajima survived because of the white tiger's supernatural powers. He swam back to the shore with the tiger unconsciously, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa lost consciousness due to exhaustion, fell into the sea, was rescued, and sent to the hospital under the name of portmafia.

— On the surface it is like this.

But in fact, Atsushi Nakajima was sent to the consultation room with Yosano Akiko after being rescued.Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who was severely burned all over his body and his lungs were severely damaged, was packed and sent directly to Nakahara's home.

"It's okay, I can read him if I can't save him." In this way, he looks like he is still alive.

"No no, it's better to let Akutagawa-kun live well, Lantang Mama."

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The author has something to say:

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Odasaku: Unknowingly... various children have increased.

Dazai: Is it bad?

Odasaku: Well, it's pretty good.

Xuezhi (running over with a big black dog): Teacher, there is another one!

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