[Death] Acacia inkstone

The weather in Karakura-cho swept away the haze of the past few days, and finally cleared up.Kaoru Sakurai sat leisurely on the bench on the balcony basking in the sun, while turning over the newspaper in his hand:

"Well, 'The Tragedy on Datura Island—The True Version of No Survivor'," she stared at the bright red headline on the newspaper, frowning: "I don't know which crappy reporter wrote it, It’s clearly not that ‘no one’ survived.”

"You say so, Captain?"

Dong Shilang's hand for pouring milk suddenly froze in the air.

He sighed helplessly, picked up the glass and walked over.

A week ago, he brought Kaoru Sakurai out of the Soul-Leaving Realm, and she and Takikawa Aoba recovered all their memories at that time.As for Huayuan Izumo... due to the shattering of the illusion and the backlash of the forbidden technique, he was never able to leave Datula Island again.

The reason why such serial murders happened on the island was all caused by the Soul Soul Realm.Therefore, Dongshiro and the three decided to return to Soul Soul Realm through the world-transmitting gate on the island, and then return to Karakura Town through another world-transmitting gate.In this way, once the one-week time limit expires, when the boat sent by Island V to pick them up arrives, only a few corpses will be found, and there will be no trace of living people on the island.

Then, with the help of Kisuke Urahara, Toshiro eliminated all information about Kaoru Sakurai’s return to work at the Karakura Police Station. It is not difficult for people to remember her.And Takigawa Aoba originally came to Datula Island because of Aizen's incident, and he walked through the crossing gate, so there is no record of him taking a vacation trip in the current police station.

Therefore, the current police have been busy investigating for more than half a month, but they still don't know what happened on the island, how many murderers there are, and whether the murderers are still alive or buried in the sea.

"After investigation, there are five deceased. According to the time of death, they are Rina Takeuchi, Yasuto Kaga, Makoto Okamoto, Iwata Nishiura, Remi Akiyama..." Toshiro put the cup gently on the wooden tree beside her. On the table, Kaoru Sakurai didn't seem to notice it at all, and continued to read on his own: "The missing persons are Izumo Hanahara and Kazuki Ikeda..."

"Sakurai..." Toshiro frowned slightly and called out to her.It has been 20 days since I came back from Datula Island. Although Kaoru Sakurai has recovered all her memories, she never mentions her past, and her words and deeds are the same as before, as if she is still the ordinary, Like "Sakurai Kaoru" with low spiritual pressure.

"Huh?" Kaoru Sakurai continued to stare at the newspaper without turning her head, "The analysis of this article is quite detailed, but it's a pity..." She suddenly folded the newspaper and threw it aside: "No sentence is correct. .”

Since the tragedy on Datura Island was made public, the police have been unable to find out because of the many suspicious points. Therefore, although it has aroused heated discussions among the public, there are few extremely detailed analysis reports.Kaoru Sakurai has "lost" her job anyway, but Toshiro still has some tasks in this world, and she can't return to the Soul World for a while, so she just stays at home every day, reading newspapers and watching TV. After three weeks, not only have she read it all Daily entertainment news, and also familiar with the eight o'clock TV series on all TV stations.

Fortunately, his affairs in this world have been done. After all, he really doesn't want to listen to Kaoru Sakurai's popular science gossip at the dinner table every day.Dong Shilang sighed silently in his heart, then passed the milk in front of her eyes, sat down beside her, and coughed: "I have something to tell you."

"Captain, you are so considerate sometimes." Kaoru Sakurai stretched out his hand to pick it up, but his arm paused slightly when it touched the cup wall.

Milk was cold.

Dong Shilang actually knew that she didn't like drinking hot milk.

"Captain, thank you." She whispered something, regardless of whether he heard it or not, she quickly changed the topic: "What do you want to tell me?"

Dongshiro glanced at her, with a worried look on his face, and said, "We'll go back to Soul Soul Realm tomorrow."

"Back to Soul Realm?" Sakurai Kaoru was stunned for a moment. Although she seemed to be living leisurely these few weeks, she knew that she still had one thing to do: "Is this so fast?"

There was no time for her to escape again and again.

"My mission in this world is over." Dong Shilang suddenly turned his head to look at her, "If you want to stay in this world, I can go back and help you get transferred."

"Captain, it's not what you think." Sakurai Kaoru involuntarily clenched the glass in his hand: "I'll go back with you."

"It's just... I have to meet someone first."

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Kaoru Sakurai stood at the door with one hand outstretched in the air.

She knew that she was a little restless recently.And one of the culprits that made her uneasy was behind this door.And she couldn't make up her mind whether to go in or not.

She stood there alone and hesitated for a long time before finally making up her mind, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door in front of her.

"Come in." A calm male voice came from the office.

A sense of familiarity swept over my heart, Kaoru Sakurai was startled, and turned the doorknob.

"Sakurai?" Takigawa Aoba pushed away a thick stack of documents on the table, with a little surprise on his face, obviously the person who did not expect to come was Sakurai Kaoru.

"I'm here to say goodbye to you." Sakurai Kaoru nodded slightly, and then walked in.

"Tomorrow, I will go back to the Soul Realm with the captain," she paused, and the silver figure could not help appearing in her mind. When she was upset these days, the captain was always by her side.And she can't live up to his wishes, she has to come and make a complete settlement with the past: "I've been in this world for a long time, and I probably won't come again in the future."

Takikawa sat behind the desk, his face remained expressionless as usual, and he just fixed his eyes on her.Only the eyes are indescribably deep.

"Thank you for what you have done for me." Sakurai Kaoru walked up to him, and lightly placed something on the table with a thud.

It turned out to be a cherry blossom tassel hairpin.

"I remember that I was wearing this hairpin the first and last time I met you in Soul World. I still remember that you said it suits me very well." Kaoru Sakurai lowered his head, his eyes fell on the hairpin On the road, memories lost for thousands of years flooded into my mind.The strange thing is that she didn't feel sad, she just felt that those days were very wonderful, engraved in the memory, and precious.

"The last time you said goodbye to me, we have been together for so long, but I haven't left you anything to think about," Sakurai Kaoru withdrew his hand: "I wanted to give it to you at the time. I just didn't expect you to leave in such a hurry."

"It's been so long now, maybe you don't take these things to heart," she smiled faintly: "I just want to make up for the regrets of the past. If you don't want it, then throw it away."

"Wait—" After finishing the last thing in this world, Sakurai Kaoru turned around and was about to leave, but Takikawa Aoba stood up abruptly, and suddenly reached out to hold her slender arm.

"Sakurai," Takikawa Aoba paused.This time, he finally didn't call her "Qianyin".

He walked around the desk in three steps and walked in front of her. The hand holding her arm still didn't relax at all.After standing still, he was silent for a while, looked down at her, and said slowly:

"I'm sorry, I failed you."

Sakurai Kaoru twisted her arms a few times trying to break free from his restraints, but failed. She sighed and looked up into his eyes: "Takigawa, you don't need to apologize. Let the past matter Let's go."

"I should go." She flipped the clock on the wall: "The captain is still waiting for me."

"Wait a second—" Takigawa Aoba walked straight in front of her, blocking her way: "Sakurai..."

In my memory, Takikawa has always been calm and unhurried, and it is rare to see him flustered like today.Sakurai Kaoru was a little surprised, but still frowned impatiently: "What are you doing?"

"I know I shouldn't do this, I just..." He continued to stare at her intently, his dark eyes were as deep as pools of water, and his voice was low and hoarse: "We all lost our memories after the soul-returning technique took effect. You no longer Remember me, and I failed to recognize you."

"But when I see you again as 'Sakurai Kaoru', there is always a feeling of strangeness and familiarity in my heart." Sakurai Kaoru's expression was a little numb. Hearing these words, the expression on his face did not change. A wave of waves.Takigawa Aoba just felt as if something suddenly fell down in his heart, no matter how he grabbed it, he couldn't hold it anymore.

His slender hand slid down her arm and clasped her slender hand: "Sakurai, I love you."

Sakurai Kaoru suddenly smiled.If these words were heard by the former her, she must be ecstatic.But now she is different: "It's over between us, the best and the worst are over. Don't you understand this truth?"

She used to like him so much, she was sad for him, happy for him, took risks for him, and died for him.But almost no response from him.

Yes, she loves him, step by step, to the point of despair.

Kaoru Sakurai bit her lips, and the memories of the past that she didn't want to recall jumped into her mind, and the depression and grievances that had nowhere to vent in the past came to her heart, and she finally couldn't help but continue: "I was in the prison. Where were you? Where were you when I was on the execution ground? Where were you when I was in danger? When I missed you, when I needed you, you were never there, not even once. I am I gave you love twice, but you didn't cherish the two times. Don't you think it's too late to tell me your heart now?"

At the end, her voice trembled a little, and tears welled up in her eyes, but the tears never flowed down.

Takigawa Aoba took a step forward, wanting to get closer to her, but Sakurai Kaoru took a step back accordingly, and shook off his hand. She sniffed and said seriously:

"I loved you, but not now, and not in the future."

"I've also thought about whether I hate you or not if you treat me like this."

Tears finally came out of my eyes, and Sakurai Kaoru gradually choked up: "But I have forgotten you once, but you can still enter my heart again. So, no matter how you treated me in the past, I actually don't hate you."

Takigawa Aoba stood there in a daze, not knowing what to say.What happened in the past was indeed his fault, but even so, he still had a faint hope that when he found her, she would still be waiting for him where he was.

Although he knew it was almost impossible.

He is too greedy.

Sakurai Kaoru raised one hand to wipe away her tears, and calmed down her emotions. Her gaze returned to him again: "It's not that I haven't waited for you. It's just that it's been too long. You finally came back to find me, but I have already waited for you. Not in place anymore."

"Waiting for a shooting star in the dark night for a long time, I will also miss the most real warmth of the sun in the daytime."

She showed him a gentle but helpless smile:

"I said it. There is no fate between us, only miss."

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