[Death] Acacia inkstone

10.

Kaoru Sakurai leaned against the wall bored, greeting the eighteenth generation of the criminal's ancestors over and over again in his heart.

The window of this small dark room was so high that he handcuffed her to the iron railing, so she couldn't sit down at all.It was simply trying to exhaust her to death.

During the many hours of being locked up, Kaoru Sakurai thought about many things.

Maybe it's because her real life and death are uncertain this time, so many thoughts popped up in her mind in succession.

If you have to talk about the regrets in her life, there are actually two.

One is that she spent ten years but failed to find the source of the weird dreams she had had in the corridor of the Great Spirit Book.For this reason, she even came to the world to study medicine, hoping that she might discover something, but in the end she still had no clue and her efforts were wasted.

The second is that she failed to meet someone who loved her deeply and she loved deeply.

Counting and counting, during the years she lived, the captain was actually the one who accompanied her the most.She couldn't help but miss the days with him.

Counting her fingers, she has been away from Soul Soul Realm for ten years, and she only went back once during that period.

Sakurai Kaoru blinked wearily, and told himself that if she survived this time, then go back.

After all, that is her home, and there are people who can make her feel at home.

There were footsteps outside the door.A few seconds later, the door lock clicked.

Sakurai Kaoru's heart tightened, knowing that it was that person who had returned.

The slender figure stood in the light, holding a pistol in his hanging right hand, his toneless voice resounded faintly in the room, making people shiver like the cold winter wind:

"I decided not to kill her again."

Fear raged in her heart, and Sakurai Kaoru no longer had the strength to tremble. When she opened her mouth, she heard her voice hoarse: "Why?"

"I just escaped from under the nose of the police." He walked towards her a few steps: "Without her help, I'm afraid I would have been in jail by now."

Sakurai Kaoru felt a little unbelievable. She knew that Takigawa Aoba was taking over this case. With his ability, it was impossible to give him a chance to escape.

The man seemed to see the unbelievable expression on her face, and chuckled mockingly: "Although I decided not to kill her, it's only for today."

"Because, I think I should kill you first."

The coolness climbed up his back and spread along his body, Kaoru Sakurai tried his best to keep himself calm: "Why?"

"She saved me today, and in return, I let her enjoy one more day of life. But you are different."

"I said it long ago, I only want you to live one more day."

The corners of his lips raised slightly, and he raised his cock and pointed it straight at her head.

"Okay." Kaoru Sakurai desperately squeezed out a stiff smile, "However, I have a question before I die."

"I don't want to die with this question, I wonder if you can answer me?"

The man was silent for two seconds, put down his gun and said, "Yes. But there is a price."

"What price?"

"I want to give you a more interesting way of dying." There was a deep but crazy light in his eyes, the corners of his lips were raised even more, and the excitement was beyond words.

"Whatever you want." Sakurai Kaoru knew that in order to delay time, she had no room to refuse.This person is obviously mentally abnormal. If she still wants to go on step by step, she might die suddenly.

There is only one way left for her, and that is to gamble.

"It's quite straightforward for you to agree." He pinned the □□ on his waist: "I suggest that you should see clearly the price I prepared for you before making a decision."

Before Sakurai Kaoru could answer, he saw the man's back disappearing behind the gate.

About 10 minutes later, he came in with a plastic bottle.

There was a narrow light in his eyes, and he unscrewed the bottle cap, and suddenly, a pungent smell filled the entire space.

Sakurai Kaoru bit her lip, and a flash of fire flashed in her mind first.But she has no choice:

"I am a very curious person. To die with unanswered questions is undoubtedly the most painful thing in the world for me."

There was a laugh at the end.

The man looked at her with weird eyes, and after a while, he said, "Okay, then you can ask."

Perhaps it was because of being numb from fear for too long, Kaoru Sakurai watched the man spill gasoline on the ground, and spoke again, but his voice was surprisingly smooth:

"The woman you love, how did she help you?"

The man paced back and forth, trying to spread the gasoline evenly, without raising his head, he said: "I asked her to meet at the coffee shop today, originally I wanted to bring her here and kill her with you."

"But when we got out of the coffee shop, she said she wanted to take a taxi. I didn't know until I got in the car that the driver was her friend and she had arranged for it. She told me that the police were in the coffee shop. With the wiretapped, I have been identified as a suspect by them."

"I changed clothes with her friend in the car, and the man got out of the car with her instead of me."

He threw the empty bottle away, staring straight at Kaoru Sakurai, with a deep smile on his face: "That's why I can come back and kill you."

11.

When Dong Shilang arrived, he only heard a bang of a gunshot, and a raging fire in the blink of an eye.

His heart tightened: "Jiyong, you immediately take someone to the back door to arrest him."

Police officer Jiyong also saw the crisis of the situation, he hurriedly responded, and then led his subordinates to outflank the back door as quickly as possible.

The sound of crackling and burning continued to reach Dong Shilang's ears.He rushed into the depths of the alley without hesitation for a moment.

Shiro Dong covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and then kicked the door open.

The flames were dazzling, and thick smoke was blowing in the face.

He avoided the fire that was still spreading on the ground two or three times, and saw the pale Kaoru Sakurai looking up with a pair of surprised eyes.

"Captain..." Her voice was hoarse and weak, with an air of despair.She glanced at him lightly: "I think I may...can't get out."

"What are you talking about." He cut off her words impatiently, and at the same time quickly walked to her side to check her situation.

She just had one hand cuffed to the bar.This kind of problem, he just needs a little more time to solve it.

The arsonist had a bit of a bad taste, and didn't sprinkle a little bit of gasoline on her body, but sporadically sprinkled it one or two meters away from her.Obviously, she hoped that she would watch the fire expand little by little before being suffocated to death by the thick smoke.

What a cruel way to die.

But that's good, at least it gave him time to save her.

He raised his hand intently, and the blue light spots faintly gathered in the palm of his hand, transforming into the shape of Hirinwan in an instant.He frowned slightly, and the crackling flames were immediately frozen.There was only silence in the whole house.

In fact, this method of materializing Zanpakuto by gathering Reiatsu was originally taught by Urahara to Kaoru Sakurai, in case she encountered a crisis in this world.Unexpectedly, her spiritual pressure was not high enough, and after wearing the Yike, which suppressed spiritual pressure, it almost dropped to nothing.

In the end, he was the only one who used it for her.

He skillfully swung the ice ball, and after a crisp sound, the handcuffs connecting her wrist and the iron window were broken in two.And when the sharp blade collided with the handcuff ring, a crack was created without using much force.

With slight strength in his hand, he easily took her slender wrist out of the shackles of the shackles.

Sakurai Kaoru stared at Toshiro with distracted eyes, feeling his slightly cool fingers lightly rubbing the red marks on her wrist.

The distant picture still remains in my mind.

She was still in that deep prison, just like the one she was in now, cold and dark, and despair swallowed her like a vortex.

Death is near.

There is always nothing but biting sarcasm in my ears.Those words were like sharp knives gleaming with cold light, one knife after another fell on her heart, gouging out blood.

No one came to rescue her.Even though she doesn't expect that.

But her heart is always in pain.

She was trapped in this nightmare for hundreds of days and nights, and she couldn't get out no matter what.

When the man's gunshot sounded and the scalding heat wave began to hit her senses, her thoughts were already occupied by this unexpected scene.Tens of thousands of feelings came to her heart in an instant, and she was so overwhelmed that she almost forgot the threat of thick smoke.At that time, she actually felt that death was her best destination.

Therefore, the moment Shiro Dong appeared in her sight, she was already ready to die.She is willing to repeat the same mistakes, just like in that dream, and resolutely give up her life.Anyway, no amount of pain will end at the moment of death.

Her sanity is not very clear.In her blurred vision, she vaguely saw a silver-haired young man walking towards her quickly, breaking the shackles that bound her, and at the same time shattering the nightmare that surrounded her.

The glacier all over the sky flutters and sprinkles, like glass flower cups broken into thousands of pieces.

12.

Toshiro rested on the side of Sakurai Kaoru's bed.

That day he carried her unconscious out of the fire scene, and the condensed flame returned to hissing mournfully the moment he stepped out the door.

Her bare toenails were dyed with red Koudan, which was somewhat shocking under the light of the fire.

The situation on that day could not be exaggerated to say that it was extremely thrilling.

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His subordinates followed for a long time but did not find that Maria had dropped the bag of the person beside him. Fortunately, he always felt that Maria was a bit strange, so he looked at the taxi twice, and inadvertently printed the license plate number into his mind.

When his subordinate called with a trembling voice to report that he had followed the wrong person, he was nervous at first, but soon calmed down, and calmly ordered a thorough search of the cameras at all surrounding intersections.

Fortunately, Takikawa Aoba happened to rush back to the police station at that time, and under his efficient command and arrangement, he finally found out Morikawa's real whereabouts in time.

He had never seen her cry in his memory.But when he came out with Sakurai Kaoru in his arms, he always felt tears glistening in the corners of her eyes.

He thought, that was probably his hallucination.

"I'll take her back to the Soul Realm first." Toshiro just walked out of the alley when he ran into Takikawa Aoba who had rushed over.

Takigawa Aoba nodded in response, but his eyes fell on Sakurai Kaoru who was in his arms: "How can her spiritual pressure be so low?"

Dong Shilang shook his head: "I've always been weird too. But she seems to be born with such a physique."

Takigawa Aoba continued to look at her for a while, there was a little cold sweat on her forehead, her eyes were closed tightly, and the long eyelashes cast a hazy shadow under her eyes.

For some reason, he felt that she was somewhat familiar.

A strange feeling suddenly surged deep in my heart.He has always been indifferent and can't tell what it is.

There was some pain in his temple, he stretched out his hand to press it, it must have been an illusion caused by being too busy recently.There is no need to worry about these things.

"Kazuhiko Morikawa and Maria have been arrested." He gave her a last glance. After Captain Hitsugaya takes her back this time, she probably won't come back to this world again: "I will send someone for the resignation procedures of Sakurai Forensic Doctor." Done for her."

Takigawa Aoba stood quietly on the spot, and waited until the backs of the two had disappeared in the night wind for a long time before moving. His slender fingers slid the screen to dial out the phone. His voice was as emotionless as before:

"Officer Yoshinaga, go and notify the rest of the team as soon as possible, and you can prepare to close the case."

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Sakurai Kaoru woke up and found that he was staying in the fourth team.

The hot summer air floats into the house through the windows, carrying the faint smell of datura flowers.

"Are you awake?" Dong Shilang just took a rest at the side, not a deep sleep, a little noise can wake him up.

"Yeah." Sakurai Kaoru sat up and moved his hands and feet, except for some fatigue, he was fine.

"How long have I been asleep?" She actually hasn't had a rest for a long time. According to the number of TV dramas she watched in this world, the heroine who escaped from the dead usually sleeps for two or three days. Of course, there are some exaggerations to a week.She thought she was not a sleepy person, and the situation should not be so bad.

"Half a day." He frowned.

Sakurai Kaoru actually wanted to ask what happened to the murderer, but she couldn't tell if the captain would settle with her for her unauthorized actions.

If she still asks unscrupulously out of curiosity at this moment, it is simply making trouble for herself.

Kaoru Sakurai got off the bed and glanced at the lifeless hospital gown: "Captain, I'm leaving the hospital..."

"The weather is so good today, if you don't let me go out, I will be suffocated to death."

Dongshiro glanced at her gauze-wrapped wrists lightly. In fact, she had no other injuries other than this one, so it stands to reason that there is no problem at all when going out for a walk.

But she just escaped from death, and now she is alive and kicking like a normal person, what does she take Jinglingting's rules for?

"You should still remember Jinglingting's regulations." He walked to the window, and the fresh air rushed in, and the anesthetic smell of datura flowers was also diluted a lot in this breeze.

"You can't intervene in the affairs of this world at will and interfere with the work of the police station."

"Ah... well..." She laughed dryly, "It's just a beautiful accident..."

She subconsciously put her hands together, and only then did she notice the injury on her wrist from being restrained by handcuffs. She pinched the injury without feeling any pain.

The aroma of datura still made her a little intoxicated, and she finally realized that when datura is used as medicine, it has analgesic and anesthetic effects.

Dong Shilang turned his head when he heard the sound, with serious eyes in his eyes: "Do you know how dangerous the situation yesterday was?"

"It's quite dangerous..." Sakurai Kaoru put away her indecent expression and lowered her head. She knew that the captain couldn't joke at this time: "I promise I won't play with fire again next time."

Anyone who plays with fire must die, everyone understands this truth, and so does she.

Thinking about the despair that filled the sky under the firelight that night, she still feels a lingering fear in her heart.

At that time, she was actually scared to death, but what's the use of being afraid?Fear of this emotion could not save her.On the contrary, if you easily reveal your emotions in front of your opponent, it is likely to kill her.

People often need to learn to hide themselves.

Although Kaoru Sakurai is not good at ghosts and swordsmanship, even his spiritual pressure is surprisingly low.But she learned how to hide herself the best, but it is difficult for anyone to match.

It was rare for Toshiro to see Kaoru Sakurai's serious expression, which he never expected.

But she is such an elusive temperament.

Not far away, the School of the Spiritual Art Academy, which was on vacation, passed by one after another, laughing and laughing in the bright sunshine, all bustling, in stark contrast to the fourth division team that was silent all the year round due to the needs of patients' self-cultivation.

Sighing, he knew that even if he didn't agree with her going out, he couldn't keep her here.

"Let's go."

"Huh?" Sakurai Kaoru apparently hadn't reacted yet.

"Didn't you say you were going to bask in the sun?" He walked to the door, turned sideways and looked at her expressionlessly: "You haven't experienced the summer in the soul world for ten years, right?"

Sakurai Kaoru smiled, knowing that the captain had forgiven her, she hurriedly followed behind him:

"I still like the summer in the soul world a little more, so I won't go back to work in this world."

"Well...and..."

"Captain...Thank you for saving me yesterday."

The trees are thick with shade and the summer is long, and the reflection of the buildings and terraces into the pond.

They still have many more summers like this to spend together, and they still have a long way to go.

This is just the beginning.

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