kill a detective

"Here!" Sure enough, she found the Band-Aid, and Keiko Nishikujo smiled as if she had won the game. "Thanks to Zero."

"Let me apply the potion for you."

The two sat down directly on the chairs in Kaoru Nishikujo's room.Toru Amuro helped Keiko Nishikujo clean the wound with a very skilled technique, applied the liquid medicine, and then carefully put on the Band-Aid.

"It's so proficient, doesn't Zero usually get hurt?" Keiko Nishikujo asked naturally. When she raised her eyes and smiled, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were gentle.Seeing Amuro showing a slightly surprised expression, she smiled deeper: "So surprised? Isn't she a policeman? Back then, Kaoru was very excited and shouted to everyone in the family, 'Zero has realized his dream and is going to become a policeman'. Oops, listening to her nagging the same sentence every day in those days is really annoying."

He said he hated it, but the corners of his brows and eyes were filled with indescribable nostalgia.

"Time flies so fast. In a blink of an eye, I am the only one left in this family." Keiko Nishikujo sighed softly as she looked at a photo of her daughter on the table.

Do you know where Xiao Xun has been these past few years? If so, with such an expression, there is no way to ask.

"Did Zero come here today to find Xiaoxun?"

"Has she been here recently?" In the news that Kazama Yuya found, it did not say that Kaoru Nishikujo had come back.

Keiko Nishikujo didn't answer directly, but instead said: "That child is very strong and won't turn around. If there is any conflict between you, I hope you can tolerate her more. I know, she loves you very much."

She looked at Toru Amuro, and there was a kind of mournful sadness in her expression, which made Toru Amuro deeply realize that she was begging him as a mother now.

"Zero, are you doing a very dangerous mission? - Don't rush to deny it, I won't reveal it to anyone, including Kaoru. I believe in your character and feelings for Kaoru, but you can disappear There is no news for so many years, and only this explanation makes sense. Frankly speaking, Zero, if you were my son, I would be proud of you. But you are the person my daughter loves, and I only feel sorry for my daughter. "

"As I said, that child is very strong, and never talks about any difficulties. After you disappeared, she didn't tell my father and me. She went around looking for you by herself. We didn't know until she disappeared. It's such a big deal."

"Don't look at the child who is always cheerful, but she is very sensitive in her heart. I think this may have something to do with her childhood experience of losing her biological parents. This child - there is a hole in her heart, and my father and I can't help her fill it , I thought you would be the one who could help her."

Keiko Nishikujo's voice was soft and slow, resounding in the room sealed by time, like a musical note, awakening the old dream suddenly.

No, recalling the years when he fell in love with her, Toru Amuro thought, she was the one who was helping him fill the void.Even after being separated for so many years, in the most difficult years, as long as he thinks of her gentle smiling face, he can gain more courage to go on.

Between them, it seemed that she was silently encouraging and supporting him all the time.

This made Toru Amuro even more guilty. He had to be careful to cover up and endure so as not to let tears fall from his eyes.He couldn't think clearly, how could he, how could he leave her for so long in a grand manner?

Leaving was meant to bring her safety, but now it seemed more like a cruel and grand absence.

Toru Amuro wanted to find out, where was she and what was she doing during those five blank years?Are you hurt?Are you sad, and why has there been no news?

Keiko Nishikujo was lost in thought through the window on the second floor. The sun moving slowly to the west cast mottled tree shadows on her side face. For a moment, she seemed to have aged many years.At this time, Amuro looked at her, as if he saw the deeply engraved story flowing slowly through her body.

"Sorry, Zero, I don't want to blame you for saying so much." Keiko Nishikujo calmed down and smiled at Amuro again. "I know you have worked very hard. If you are tired, you can come here to rest at any time, just as if you are here to accompany me."

"If you're not bored—"

Comparing his heart to heart, if he and Xiao Kaoru's daughter had a boyfriend like him, Toru Amuro might not be able to resist seeing each other and hitting him again and again.From this point of view, my aunt was very tolerant of him.

"Zero, have you met Kaoru recently?" Keiko Nishikujo suddenly asked.Although it was a question, the tone was very certain.Toru Amuro felt ashamed, so he nodded, and at the same time, a new doubt arose, why didn't Xiao Kaoru come back to see her mother?

After a while of silence, Keiko Nishikujo asked softly, "How is she...how is she doing now?"

how have you been?

Toru Amuro thought carefully about the two times he met her recently—drinking coffee alone in the cafe in the aquarium, pretending to be the young lady of the Shinomiyain family in order to make money, and was almost killed by a serial murderer, and finally killed her, beside her There is also a handsome but perverted teenager (saying to be her boyfriend, but not intimate at all).

...I always feel that life is not very good.

Naturally, he didn't dare to speak directly, and Toru Amuro tried his best to comfort Keiko Nishikujo with good words.When the sun was setting and the two chatted heartily, they declined to stay for dinner. When they were about to leave, Keiko Nishikujo suddenly asked, "Can Zero take me to the cemetery? I left my car at the cemetery due to an unexpected situation yesterday. It’s there, we need to drive back.”

Toru Amuro nodded in response, and she said, "Wait a little longer." She went into the room and came out with a beautifully wrapped gift box after a while.The box, although beautifully packaged, is frayed at the corners and has obviously been sitting for a long time.

Keiko Nishikujo looked nostalgic, and said softly: "This is a gift that Xiao Kaoru prepared for you when you were admitted as a policeman. I gave it to you before I had time to give it to you... Now it is considered to be returned to the original owner—you open it and look at it." look."

Amuro Toru silently removed the packaging and opened the box.There was a pendant in the box. When he picked it up, the pendant was dragged down by gravity, swaying left and right, and the engraved words "Four Seasons Peace" also swayed in his pupils.

May you have peace every year.

"I watched Xiao Xun engrave this with my own hands. As a mother, I will convey her best wishes—I hope that the future will be healthy and safe."

Toru Amuro held the pendant and couldn't say another word.

……

Putting Keiko Nishikujo down at the parking lot gate of the cemetery, a car drove out after a while, rolled down the window, Keiko Nishikujo waved her hand at Toru Amuro, and said loudly with a smile: "Toru, goodbye— —” According to Amuro Toru’s request, she changed her address from zero to Toru.

Toru Amuro also smiled and watched her go away. When the car was far away, he leaned tiredly on the seat and put his hands on the steering wheel.

Talking with Keiko Nishikujo was very relaxing.In front of this wise woman, he doesn't have to hide himself, just like facing his own mother, he can calmly return to Jiang Gu Ling.It's not the omnipotent Jiang Gu Ling among the public security police, but Jiang Gu Ling, who is an ordinary young man, enjoys the quiet time in the ordinary afternoon.

Keiko Nishikujo told him a lot about her daughter, and a more complete Kaoru Nishikujo filled his mind with her words.He realized that she still had so many lovely faces that he hadn't seen before, but all these did not help to solve his doubts, but made him fall further into the mud.

He held the pendant hanging around his neck, and the cold metal feeling was instantly warmed by the palm of his hand.This is the love that Kaoru Nishikujo conveyed to him from the past, and the real Kaoru Nishikujo said to him a few days ago: "Go and do your work and leave me alone."

Rum has been making frequent moves recently, and he feels as if he is being suspected.There may be an uphill battle to be fought soon.She is right.It's no good being near her at this time.

Toru Amuro looked out of the car through the car window, wondering if it was because of the proximity to the cemetery, the style here was cold and gloomy.The setting sun set behind the mountain, and a layer of light red light weighed heavily on the stomach like blood.He tucked the pendant snugly into the collar of his shirt and started the car.

After the tail of the car driving slowly onto the road, a human-faced spider quietly hung down from a tall tree branch.

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Kaoru Nishikujo exchanged his promise that he would definitely practice hard in exchange for leaving the confinement room, kneeling and sitting in front of his instructor U|lquiola Cifa, his whole body seemed to be uprooted.

"Follow me." The teacher said so, and the students had to scramble to get up.

Urquiola kept walking in front, and Kaoru Nishikujo followed behind.Soon after walking out of the range of the Xuye Palace, the vast white desert in the virtual circle lay on his back, and the dry wind blew out waves.Under the gloomy moonlight, the raised white sand looks like dry arms crying to the sky.

This empty desert does not look abnormal, but Kaoru Nishikujo can always detect an indescribable sense of disobedience in this emptiness.She didn't want to look any more, she would rather bow her head and count how many toes she had.

It seemed that she had traveled a long, long way, and when Kaoru Kujo was unable to hold on, Urquiola finally stopped on the sand dune and said to her, "Look up, look there."

He was always pale and expressionless.Kaoru Nishikujo didn't want to show him timidity, so he followed his example and put on a straight face, deliberately asking in an indifferent tone: "What are you looking at?"

It was still the same scenery, no different from when he first left the Xuye Palace.What catches your eyes?

"Wait."

No more words.Kaoru Nishikujo had to wait.

The wind kept blowing, and Kaoru Nishikujo stopped breathing, and the world was left with only the sound of the wind, and the desolation spread a large area of ​​loneliness in her heart, as if the white desert had finally put its tentacles into her surging blood, ready to Swallow her in one gulp.She hastened to breathe heavily.The weird feeling dissipated a bit.

After a while, Kaoru Nishikujo finally knew what U|lquiola was going to show her.

This place is actually a killing field for the Daxus.

I don't know which gust of wind was used as a horn, and countless Killian and Yachukas appeared here.They fought like no one else around, as long as they didn't fall down, their attacks would be like waves.The everlasting cold moon hangs in the sky, just looking down on this feast of killing indifferently.

"Kill all of them. I'll check later." U|lquiola gave the order in a plain tone of "eat dinner".

Kaoru Nishikujo looked at the battlefield where there were at least a thousand heads in shock, then looked at Ulquiola's calm face, picked out his ears, and said with a smile: "My ears seem to be wrong. Listen to—”

U|lkiola glanced faintly.

Well, she heard right.

Who made him a big hit under Lord Aizen? People, no, under the eaves, had to bow their heads.