Did I fall off the horse with Touzi today?

Is Toru Amuro still hiding something from Shane?

This question made Toru Amuro fall into silence.

Because to be honest, he actually concealed a lot of things from Xia Nai.

Although the same is true for Shana, Toru Amuro, who has triple identities and even his name is a complete pseudonym...

Still inexplicably a little guilty.

Almost none of the information about him was told to Xia Nai by himself.

The identity of the organization Bourbon was stabbed in the back by Akai Hideichi, the identity of the public security was noticed by Shane himself, but the identity of the detective was said by himself - but that is the same as his job as a coffee shop clerk, it is used to perfect Amuro Through this false identity of existence.

Now that his identity has been picked up layer by layer by Xia Nai, but the most important name...

Still false.

If it were someone else, such a situation would probably be regarded as a typical fraud. In fact, there has never been a shortage of reports on such cases in newspapers or on the Internet.

Just because he was a police officer on duty, he concealed his girlfriend's real name and real occupation, so he got the reputation of "last resort" from deception, which seemed to be too cheap for him.

But cheating is cheating.

As long as he still holds the idea of ​​submitting a marriage certificate with Shane one day, the fact that his real name is Rei Furutani will be revealed.

Xia Nai will know sooner or later that he is her blind date.

...Speaking of which, the blind date information given to him by Scepter4 seems to have been used by Haro to make a doghouse, and his girlfriend from home witnessed it.

If Xia Nai reacted to this matter, he might really be gone.

Although Xia Nai has a good temper most of the time, she will still get angry when things like this happen!

Especially at that time, he also said that the blind date information was introduced by the elders.

Toru Amuro shuddered, only feeling that some words and things were becoming more and more difficult to say.

The boyfriend's unusual silence and reaction made Xia Nai, who was still a little careless, immediately raise his vigilance.

No wonder she reacted so strongly, it was really because her boyfriend had too many "criminal records", and Xia Nai had to look for various flaws and clues in him like a detective.

I have to say, this is really tiring.

but……

"Some things are inconvenient to say here, we can change to another place."

Xia Nai took a sip of tea, looked up at her boyfriend's expression.

His childlike face was still as harmless as when they first met, but the slightly gloomy expression made him no longer look like the early 20s that Xia Nai believed, but more like a mature and sophisticated social person.

In fact, he was originally, but she didn't know it before.

"That……"

In fact, Toru Amuro still wanted to avoid the next topic.

He's not one to run away, it's just that unexpected developments in the last few months have left him wondering how to speak to his girlfriend.

However, since he has decided to have a showdown with Jing Guang later, and the relationship with Shana is still tense and even precarious, Toru Amuro has to face this conversation that will come sooner or later.

Toru Amuro thought for a moment, "How about going to your house?"

"Eh?"

Xia Nai, who didn't expect her boyfriend to be so bold, was shocked, but soon realized that he would choose to have the next conversation with her at her home, maybe he finally had some kind of love...

Perhaps he simply felt that her home was safer.

"Although I'm very happy that Mr. Tou can say that, it's a pity that I can't do it today."

Xia Nai stirred the black tea, and pretended to sigh regretfully, "There are several guests in my house now, and they may be disturbed at any time."

As for interrupting the conversation or something else...

She didn't know it.

Shana's words didn't sound like much at first, but Amuro Toru immediately realized some problems after thinking about it.

For example, the orange hair he found at Xia Nai's house last time.

And those people in her car that I saw when I followed Xia Nai's car...

And Jing Guang who got off Shane's car just now.

Amuro Toru's heart tightened.

Could it be that……

No, probably not, right?

He picked up the cup, wanted to take a sip of coffee, and suppressed all his absurd thoughts by the way, but heard Shane's voice sound again——

"I think we should be more honest, so you don't have to guess, I'll tell you directly."

Seeing her boyfriend's face getting worse and worse, Xia Nai couldn't help but feel a little strange joy in her heart. She grabbed her boyfriend's arm and pulled him down completely, and then showed her cards softly in his ear.

"Just as you thought, Jing Guang is indeed staying at my house now."

Not just Jing Guang, her house has almost become a temporary staff dormitory for her office.

But this point, Xia Nai did not tell Amuro Toru maliciously.

Toru Amuro:  …

Jingguang, you...? ? ?

"But after being mentioned by you, I also thought of where we can go to talk."

Xia Nai smiled, and happily waved her hand in front of her boyfriend, attracting his attention, "Did you drive here today? If so, let's take your car."

……

The place Shane is going to is in the suburbs of Yokohama.

It was a Western-style building with a sense of age on the mountainside. Although it was not as gorgeous as the Extremely Cold Pavilion they had been to before, it could definitely be called a mansion.

Xia Nai asked Amuro Toru to park the car under the ramp, and took his hand and walked slowly up the long stairs.As they climbed to the top little by little, the three-story mansion with red bricks and white roof completely appeared before their eyes.

Western-style houses like this are not common in Japan, but there are quite a few.

Toru Amuro remembered that the Yamanotecho area in Yokohama was famous for its seven old western-style mansions.

But this building is obviously not a tourist attraction, but a private house.

"here it is……"

"My home, to be precise, is the home my parents left me."

Xia Nai seems to be very familiar with this ramp, and she can almost say she jumped up the top few steps, "I used to live here."

In fact, just looking at the antique car Shane drives and the penthouse where she lives, Toru Amuro can already guess that his girlfriend has a good family background, but he never imagined that she actually has a mansion.

The red mansion was in front of them, but it was blocked by a hedge outside. Xia Nai took her boyfriend's hand and walked around several times before finally reaching the main entrance.

There was a nameplate hanging outside the iron gate of the mansion. Toru Amuro took a closer look, but found that it was not Tsushima, but...

"Jin Yun?"

"Well, that's my last name."

Since Xia Nai brought her boyfriend back to her residence, she had already thought of such an incident. Rather, she brought him here just to let Amuro Toru see this.

She took out the key and opened the iron door, as if thinking of something, she turned around and looked at Toru Amuro and pointed at herself, "But Tsushima is also my surname, if you look it up, it is written on the household registration. Shima, you have this authority, right?"

"...Even the police will not go to check the information of ordinary citizens without authorization."

Xia Nai smiled, pulled her boyfriend with an unnatural expression into the courtyard, and led him indoors.

Toru Amuro didn't break free from Shana's hand. On the way she led him indoors, he keenly discovered that it didn't look like no one had lived here for a long time.

The ground is clean, free of fallen leaves and litter.Although it was still winter, the courtyard without flowers showed no signs of decay.

No matter how you look at it, it has been carefully maintained.

"Actually, I've been asking someone to clean up here, but I haven't been back for a long time. If it wasn't for investigating the case, I wouldn't think of coming back."

Seeing Toru Amuro caring about the courtyard, Xia Nai also guessed what he wanted to say.

Without waiting for her boyfriend to speak, she told him everything she could say.

This is also the real purpose of her bringing Amuro Toru here.

"Look at the two sweet-scented osmanthus over there, they were planted when my parents got married."

She reached out to the two sweet-scented osmanthus plants on the left that were still lush in winter, and motioned Amuro to look over there, "There are several hydrangea plants in the backyard, which they planted when I was born."

In the past, Amuro rarely heard Xia Nai mention his own affairs, and he never heard her mention her parents.

Now that Xia Nai is finally willing to say this, he seems to have confirmed something, and can't help but continue, "What about your parents?"

"I died when I was five years old. I was raised by the housekeeper grandpa, and the housekeeper grandpa who raised me also passed away when I was 15 years old."

Toru Amuro:  …

"Don't make such a face."

Xia Nai who walked into the entrance took out his slippers, and after Amuro changed, he took him to the lounge on the first floor, "I was young when my parents passed away, and the housekeeper grandpa died. I didn't experience any pain before I left, just Still worry about us."

"us?"

"Me, Chuya... there should be Dazai?"

Amuro was silent for a moment, and then sighed after a while.

"Your relationship seems to be very good."

"Although it's a little different from what you think, I don't intend to deny it."

The lounge that Xia Nai took Amuro Toru was not very big, it should be a corner of the mansion, one of the walls was changed to glass, and he could see the outside scenery through the glass window cut into lattices.

That should be the backyard Shane was talking about.

Even in the dead of winter, Amuro could imagine how alive the garden would be in other seasons.

"Let me pour you a cup of tea, is black tea okay?"

Shana didn't take a seat, but asked at the door, Toru Amuro shook his head without thinking, "No need."

However, Xia Nai just winked at him, "Don't worry, there will be no tricks in this tea, or can you come to the kitchen with me?"

"……That was not what I meant."

In fact, Toru Amuro almost forgot that he was in the extremely cold mansion and was stunned by Shana. Although he still hasn't figured out how the various organs in the foreign mansion are arranged, he only needs to figure out what happened that time. The incident was an arrest by Scepter4, so he didn't care about the process.

After all, he is not a little detective who is full of curiosity and has to break the casserole to find out when he encounters a problem.

Toru Amuro's answer didn't move Shana, she thought for a while, and went to the kitchen together holding her boyfriend's hand.

As before, Toru Amuro still didn't break free from Shana.

In fact, he already fully understood the purpose of Xia Nai bringing this place here and saying these words to himself——

His girlfriend was going to reveal to herself all the things she hadn't told him in the past, about her past and her thoughts, in full and without reservation.

A frank start as two "liars" who lie to each other about their lovers.

Amuro Toru, who has been struggling with the things he concealed from his girlfriend, actually didn't particularly care about what "lies" Shana told him, or what he had concealed from himself, but he did not resist Shana's behavior.

After all, the more he knows about his girlfriend, the more he will naturally make an appointment.

Moreover, this may also be a sign that Xia Nai really cares about her boyfriend.

With Toru Amuro as a working coffee shop clerk, Shana actually doesn't have much to do. From cleaning the tea set to boiling water and making tea, it is all contracted by Toru Amuro, and the only thing Shana does in the whole process is from the cabinet. Take out the tea box to pick this one up.

"Winter is really suitable for drinking black tea."

Xia Nai took out a snow-blue tea pot from the log cabinet, and handed the tea pot with the words "Earl Winter White" written on it to her boyfriend. How long does the tea need to be brewed.

Their handover behavior was very tacit, without any prior discussion, as if a young couple who had been married for several years could already read each other's thoughts from each other's subtle movements and eyes.

This recognition made Toru Amuro, who was aware of this, feel somewhat happy.

The hot boiling water brewed the tea leaves, and the aroma of bergamot spread in the kitchen. Xia Nai sniffed it, showing a happy expression, "Should I use the cake I just bought on the way for tea?"

She put the matcha roll she bought on the way here just now on the counter, Amuro transparently understood her intentions, took it out and cut it in a good-tempered manner.

Dongbai Earl Gray tea only needs to be brewed for 3 minutes. At this time, Amuro Toru had already cut the matcha roll and put it on a plate. He put the tea set and tableware on the tray, and returned to the lounge with Shane.

"Let me see where we start."

The freshly brewed black tea is still very hot, and Xia Nai has always been a cat's tongue. At this moment, she can only smell the aroma of Earl Gray tea, thinking about where she should start the conversation with her boyfriend.

Both she and Toru Amuro hid too many things from each other.

Birth, job, name, and other odds and ends.

Toru Amuro thought about it for a while, and still said what he was most concerned about at the moment, "Then let's talk about why Jing Guang lives in your house first?"

It never occurred to Xia Nai that what her boyfriend cared most about was not what she was hiding from him, but about Jing Guang. She was stunned for a moment, but finally couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing.

"Pfft, man—"

She covered her mouth and smiled happily.

Thinking about it carefully, Xia Nai hasn't smiled so happily in front of her boyfriend for a long time.

Toru Amuro felt a little embarrassed at first, but now he felt even more embarrassed when he heard Shane laughing so happily. He stared at his girlfriend pretending to be annoyed, and said in a tone that was not at all fierce:

"Stop laughing!"

"Sorry sorry...poof."

Xia Nai wiped the wet corners of her eyes, and unsurprisingly wiped away the tears from the burst of laughter, "I really didn't expect you, Tou-jun, to be so cute, ahem, you care so much about me and Jing Guang, I thought... ..."

I thought that after what happened to the Extreme Cold Pavilion and the HostClub, the two of them really couldn't talk like they used to.

But I don't want the relationship between them to be reversed in this direction.

"Jing Guang's words were saved by me four years ago..."

Xia Nai paused for a moment, wondering if she needed to hide the matter from the police, when she saw her boyfriend's expression suddenly became a little strange, and she stopped worrying about how to confess Jing Guang's identity, and turned to confirm his situation with her boyfriend ,"What's wrong?"

"No, it's just that I didn't expect you to be the one who saved Hiro...Jing Guang."

Thinking about what Jing Guang said to himself that day, he couldn't help but smiled wryly, but soon confessed to Xia Nai who was still struggling with how to explain Jing Guang's identity, "I know that Jing Guang is a matter of the police, but this Was Shuichi Akai involved in this matter?"

"So you know, so it's easy to handle, but are you and Jing Guang in the same system, Mr. Tou?" Xia Nai remembered that her boyfriend belonged to the police department, and Jing Guang should belong to the police department.

It seems that in terms of affiliation, her boyfriend is still Jing Guang's boss.

Is that why we met?

Shana's question went straight to the core, but when Toru Amuro was thinking about whether he should directly say that he and Jing Guang had a petty affair, he heard Shana continue talking.

"Jing Guang's matter is not so much that Mr. Akai was involved, but rather that Mr. Akai entrusted him from the beginning."

She told her boyfriend how she pretended to be Zhu Fu Jingguang and faked her death to deceive the organization, and how she hid Jingguang in Scepter4 in detail. To the extent that I regard myself as a perverted murderer who confesses his crimes in front of the police.

After listening to his girlfriend's self-report, Amuro Toru was silent for a long time before he could say dryly: "...As expected of you."

This guts!This means of handling and efficiency!

If Xia Nai was not his girlfriend but someone else, he would have wanted to poach the police.

If his subordinates could have half of Xia Nai's abilities, he wouldn't be so busy that he wouldn't have time to date his girlfriend.

"That's why Jing Guang and Shibusawa-kun are working in my studio as temporary non-staff personnel of S4," Shana spread his hands, "But because of his special situation, I don't feel at ease letting him live outside alone. Let them and Mr. Gou Lang stay at my house temporarily."

"how about you?"

Xia Nai scrutinized Amuro Toru's expression carefully, her eyes were too hot and serious, and she could see a bit of embarrassment on that cute baby face.

Only then did she stop teasing her boyfriend.

"Originally I wanted to move back here, but it's been so busy these days and it's a long way from the office, so I ended up staying in a nearby hotel, although I still occasionally go back for a change of laundry. "

Toru Amuro heaved a sigh of relief, but he still asked persistently, "Did you arrange them here?"

"Not everyone can come here," let alone Zhong Ye who lived here with her when she was a child, others...

No matter how familiar people are, Xia Nai will not bring them.

Shana's answer made Amuro reveal a somewhat surprised look, Shana chuckled lightly, then stood up suddenly and came in front of him.She bent her knees on the sofa next to his thigh, leaned forward, and reached out to caress her boyfriend's collar.

"Or, Mr. Tou, the only thing you care about is this answer?"

too close!

Toru Amuro didn't expect Shana to be so proactive suddenly. He looked at his girlfriend who was close at hand, and suddenly realized that Shana was absolutely serious today.

"Tou-jun has finished asking about the things he cares about, so it should be my turn next, right?"

What kind of game is this?

The excessively fast development made Toru Amuro spend a few seconds thinking about it.

What does Shana want to ask?

Is it his work that she has already discovered without knowing it?Or his name?Or was it something else he was hiding from her?

Toru Amuro was a little nervous, but also a little excited.

Since Shana is a member of Scepter4 and the blind date introduced by his boss, it doesn't matter to tell her the things that he can't tell outsiders. Rather, he just needs an opportunity to confess to Shana.

Shane, however, sighed.

"Mr. Tou, I just want to know one thing now. It doesn't involve the work that you have to keep secret, so you must answer me truthfully."

Shana's words made Amuro Toru feel vaguely disappointed, but he still nodded.

"Ask, and I will tell you the truth."

Xia Nai took a deep breath, she did not back away, nor did she continue to close the distance between the two.Those mint-colored eyes stared at her boyfriend's eyes, and the scorching gaze did not allow the other party to retreat even the slightest bit.

The next words are the one question she cares about the most during this period of time.

"When you dated me, you should still be in the mission period, right? I know that many undercover missions of the police need to clean up the relationship around them first. Having a relationship partner during the mission period should be a disqualification for the police. ..."

She also confirmed this issue with the high-level police department when she handed over to them a while ago.

That's why she was surprised.

"Then why do you want to date me?"

Why did Toru Amuro want to date her?

And why did she date Amuro Toru?

This is actually something Shana has been thinking about recently.

In fact, part of the reason why she first dated Amuro Toru was that she felt that there would not be too many messy things about a coffee shop clerk.

She won't encounter bad enemies like her friends and acquaintances, and fight them to the death; nor will she encounter too many life-and-death events, and she will die if she is not careful.

She doesn't have to worry about his safety every day, she doesn't have to feel uncomfortable about the life and death that doesn't know when it will come, and she doesn't have to be mentally prepared that she may become a widow at any time.

Shane doesn't have a problem with those who are on the verge of danger every day.

In fact, most of her relatives and friends, even her own job is not safe.

She just doesn't want two people in a family to take on this danger, and worry about whether the other party is safe today when she is wandering in a dangerous place.

Just like her parents.

So when relatives and friends asked about her mate selection criteria, Xia Nai once said in a joking tone that her mate selection criteria are the kind of "general men" that often appear in female stars' marriage statements.

But Xia Nai also knew that the danger she encountered might also affect her relatives.

It is also a sin to implicate ordinary people in these dangers.

So Shana said that she wanted to find an ordinary man as her boyfriend, but in fact she was ready to dedicate the rest of her life to Yokohama from the beginning-just like her relatives and friends.

And at this time, Toru Amuro, who fully met her standards, appeared.

To put it simply, Toru Amuro, who claims to be a coffee shop clerk, fully meets the standards of "average men".

This is the reason she once mentioned to her friends, the reason for her association with Toru Amuro.

——As a result, she was accidentally exposed by all her friends including Chuya, Dazai, Akiko, and Ranpo.

They said that there are not many ordinary men around Xia Nai who meet her standards, but it's not like they didn't lead Xia Nai before, but all of them were rejected by her with various reasons.

"If you can accept anything that ordinary men can accept, you won't have to wait until Toru Amuro appears."

That day, I heard that Akiko, who had never thought of marrying Toru Amuro, was drinking tea and said to her in a tone of hatred.

"When you suddenly told us that you were dating Toru Amuro, we knew it. You dated him not because he happened to meet your "average male" standard, but because..."

It's because she really likes him.

What age, what looks innocent and innocent, what a little milk dog, but it's just because Amuro Toru happens to have these qualities.In her eyes, these qualities were infinitely magnified and became his strengths that she liked.

But what she likes, what she really cares about...

It's still only the original Amuro Toru when he gets along with her.

Meticulous and considerate, he will care about her emotions, although he may be a bit straight sometimes, but he always has a nice smile and the same eye color as the Yokohama sky.

Xia Nai clearly realized that she liked this man.

Even though he hid some things from her, she never thought of breaking up with him.

That's why she wanted to know more about what this person, the person she likes, was thinking.

She can accept the other party's concealment from her because of work, and she can also accept his "white lie" to herself for confidential missions, but she absolutely cannot accept any deception from him in this relationship.

So she brought him here, choosing this place to ask questions that she would only ask this once.

When Toru Amuro was dating Shana, he rarely saw her such a serious expression with a somewhat imperceptible cruelty.

He remembered that even when Xia Nai asked him if he was doing a dangerous job, he always wanted to save him, and he never showed such an expression.

It doesn't need the insight and analytical ability of a detective, just being Shane's boyfriend, Toru Amuro can fully understand the deep meaning of this expression.

Shane cares about this issue.

Pay more attention to your answers.

"Because I'm afraid of losing you."

He stretched out his hand, supported Shana's waist, then slightly closed his arms towards him, and completely brought Shana, who was still some distance away from him, into his arms.

"If I express my heart to you after the mission is over, I'm afraid I will lose you completely. After all, you are beside Shana..." He buried his head in Shana's shoulder, hiding the difficult second half of the sentence.

His girlfriend has no shortage of suitors.

Toru Amuro has always known about this.

So even though he is self-willed, even though he can't use her real name to date her, after realizing that he likes her...

He still couldn't help stretching out his hand to her.

Just like now.

Maybe it will be like every day from now on.

"You really..."

Xia Nai rubbed the honey-blonde hair in front of her eyes, and the other party's answer made the cruelty in her eyes completely fade away, replaced by helpless and sweet warmth.

She smiled and sighed——

"The police are disqualified."