my brother is scumbag

Time always slips away in the blink of an eye.

Unknowingly, Yokohama has passed through the gentle spring, hot summer, autumn with falling leaves, and then winter.

I stretched, put down the signature pen in my hand, then got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows to look out at Yokohama covered in snow.

He breathed a sigh of relief, because of the temperature difference, a circle of water vapor soon fainted on the transparent glass.

I stared at it unconsciously until it faded away and Yokohama became clear again, then suddenly I came back and realized something.

Speaking of which, it seems that the New Year is coming in a few days, right?

Naturally, I started to recall how I spent New Years in Yokohama in previous years.

In the first year, my brother hadn’t succeeded in taking the position for a long time. He was busy dealing with the mess left by the previous generation, and the internal turmoil caused by the change of the leader. It would be good to remember to spare time to prepare gifts.

In the second year, because the former quasi-cadre Lan Tang tried to find the truth, rumors spread everywhere, and that year was relatively sloppy.

In the third year, with the end of the leading struggle and the replacement of the mafia leader again, I who was buried in the pile of documents completely fell asleep on New Year's Day.

…As for waking up, I left the office without realizing it, and at the same time, I yawned because I closed my eyes, so that I missed the opportunity of the reflection in the elevator to see the truth, and then found that the eyes of the people around me looked at me with subtle fear , It was not until I met Chuya that I found out in his mouth that the pattern of a pink pig was drawn on my bandage, I don’t want to recall it now.

Anyway, Zhongye and I beat up that mackerel together that day.

The new year begins again with slaughtering.

Unexpectedly, it will be a year before I become the leader, time flies really fast.

And this year is not like in previous years, there are always frequent accidents. Now Mafia is developing smoothly, and Yokohama has not had any major troubles.

Thinking about it carefully, I think this year's New Year can't be so sloppy.

After making such a decision, I also conveyed my meaning.

On New Year's Day, except for the necessary defensive personnel who need to stay behind, everyone can end work early and participate in New Year's activities.

So on New Year's Day, the mafia building became much quieter than usual.When I left the office and went all the way to the hall, I only met a few people except the guards.

"Happy New Year, Chief."

They greeted me, but without exception, they all looked behind me first. Although they were restrained, I could still see the doubts on their faces.When they thought they had reached a distance that I couldn't hear and communicated in a low voice, their words also floated to my ears.

"It's so strange... Is there only the leader alone in the New Year? Dazai and Chuya... aren't there?"

I paused, turned around and glanced at them, with question marks popping up in my head.

no……

Is there anything strange about this?

Dazai and Chuya are not pendants on my body, why do they have to be with me during the New Year?

It's not that I hate spending New Years with them, I just think maybe they have plans of their own.Just because I have a good relationship with them doesn't mean we have to be bonded all the time.

even though……

On a special day like the New Year, I really don't want to live alone, but everyone is an independent individual with their own life, and I can't just because of myself and then--

These thoughts end when I step out of the mafia building.

Because I saw the two people standing not far from the door.

The red-haired boy shouted impatiently at the kite-eyed boy with an unscrupulous smile on his face, and when he was about to make a move, both of them noticed me.

"Wow, Yui-chan, protect me~"

Dazai immediately ran behind me, Chuya glared at him, and then his eyes fell on me.

"Happy New Year, Yui. And..."

He pulled his hat a little uncomfortably, and coughed lightly, "Do you want to go together for this year's New Year's worship? And I heard that there are many activities in the shrine."

"Is it now?" I glanced at the time on my phone, "But, if it passes by now, there should be a lot of people waiting in line, right?"

"It's okay." Dazai took the phone from behind me, he said with a smile, "Anyway, I have the power of a little dwarf, and I'll be here soon."

"Shut up, Dazai."

Nakaya glared at him again, but he didn't deny what Dazai said about how it happened. He looked at me, obviously waiting for my answer.

And the answer I will give, of course, can only be that one——

"Okay."

I said with a smile.

Zhong Ye was obviously prepared, because he had already driven his locomotive out.

And I just need to straddle it.

But when Dazai sat up, Chuya was obviously upset, and then I realized that Zhong was standing alone in the mafia building waiting for me to come out, but Dazai appeared out of nowhere, and quickly guessed his name purpose, so I just hang on.

"How could I let the slug be alone with Yuyi sauce? Isn't that a chance for the slug to get involved? Of course, the cadre who is most valued by the slug can only be me."

Dazai who was sitting behind me answered slowly.

"I told you not to use these weird words to the leader, bastard Dazai!!"

Sitting in front of me, Nakaya, who was driving, turned his head and roared.

As for me, who was sitting between the two of them, listening to this elementary school student quarreling pattern, I couldn't help but sighed deeply.

Ah, really.

Don't they get tired of this kind of meaningless and unnutritious elementary school students quarreling?

At the same time, the locomotive went directly to the sky under the exclamation of the crowd on the ground due to the effect of the supernatural ability.

The cold wind blew past our ears, but because I wrapped the red scarf around my neck, I couldn't get in to take away my body temperature, but when I looked down, I felt Dazai close behind me, He inserted his hand into my pocket naturally, with his palm against the back of my hand.

I almost subconsciously took his hand out.

Me: "...don't you have a pocket yourself?"

"No."

Dazai seemed to be really afraid of the cold, he put his chin on my shoulder, and when he spoke, his voice was close to my ear, and his voice could be heard trembling.

And his hand in my pocket also moved, and his cold fingertips seemed to brush against my fingertips.

I glanced at Chuya who was sitting in front of me.

Usually when he was driving a motorcycle, he would wear a black windbreaker over his shoulders, but this time it seemed that because Dazai and I were still sitting, he took off the windbreaker and only wore a black vest.

Because of this, his neck was completely exposed, only wearing the black choker that he started wearing at some point.

He obviously heard Dazai's words, and mocked without turning his head.

"Huh? Who told you not to wear a little more, anyway, mackerel can survive in winter."

"Oh," Dazai seemed generous and careless, but the words he said were very poisonous, "Chuya must not understand, after all, idiots don't get sick, and of course they don't get cold."

When they were about to quarrel again, I calmly said:

"To shut up."

Then quickly wrapped the scarf head and tail around the necks of the two of them.

Thank you for the length of this scarf. Although it is very reluctant, and it is necessary for three people to be close together, it still covers the necks of all three people.

Chuya: "..." I feel a little strangled.

Dazai: "..." I feel a little choked up.

Me: "Huh~"

It's great that the world is finally quiet.

Originally, the distance from the mafia building to the temple took more than an hour to drive even on normal days, not to mention the traffic jam during the New Year.

But because the gravity of Zhongya can make the locomotive go straight forward in an unusual way, and even accelerate to the limit, so when we arrived at the temple, only a few minutes had passed.

As for the driver who looks obviously underage... There are even cases of overloading...

Cough, we are mafia.

There is no need to worry too much about this kind of thing.

There are many people in the temple, almost shoulder to shoulder.It is also very lively, and many small stalls have been set up.

In this atmosphere, people can't help but relax and even smile.

And probably because of the high popularity and fireworks, even the cold was dissipated a lot, so I took the scarves back from their necks, and I didn't forget to take Dazai's hand out of my pocket.

"Okay, so the first stop—"

I squeezed my chin, watched the flow of people, then turned my head, glanced at the two guys beside me, and realized something.

"Go and change into suitable clothes first!"

The three of us are now wearing Mafia's black suits, which look so incompatible with this lively atmosphere.

Fortunately, that kind of clothing store that sells clothes is not far away. Although it is not too big, when you walk in, the space is almost taken up by the hanging clothes, but there is still a changing room.

After we each picked out our clothes and changed, the shop owner enthusiastically offered to braid my hair in a bun.

I touched my hair and didn't refuse her kindness.

Dazai didn't know where he went, only Chuya was still waiting for me in the shop.

When the proprietress was braiding my hair, he was leaning against the cash register, watching me quietly.

"It's boring, isn't it?"

I smiled and said to him.

"No," he shook his head, looking at me intently with cobalt blue eyes, and his tone was more serious than I expected, "I won't be bored."

"what……"

The answer was too serious, I thought, but when the proprietress laughed and teased me, I realized that the corners of my mouth were also bent.

because……

No one would hate this feeling of being valued.

"Your relationship looks fine," she said.

"Ah," Chuya's tone was taken for granted, "That's natural, because he is a very important person."

A partner who can deliver life.

He is a very good friend.

It is the leader who entrusts him with trust and the leader who gives everything.

——Whether you are to me or I am to you, they are all important existences.

When we left the shop, Dazai emerged from the crowd, and as soon as he appeared, he put something on my face.

My vision suddenly went dark, and when I took it off, I realized it was a fox mask, and Dazai was throwing another mask in his hand to Chuya with a smile.

Zhong Ye took it subconsciously, and after seeing the pattern clearly, his veins popped.

"Dazai——!"

The mask he was pinching made an overwhelmed creaking sound.

I looked at it and almost laughed out loud.

Poof...cough cough.

After clearing my throat, I decided to help Chuya, "Dazai, you're a bit too much, although Chuya's height doesn't seem to have improved much this year, it's almost the same as mine, but..."

"...Stop talking," Nakaya trembled slightly as he held the Chihuahua-patterned mask, his voice almost squeezed out between his teeth, "... Yui, stop talking."

In the end, I couldn't help it anymore, and laughed out loud.

Unsurprisingly, Dazai was caught and beaten by Nakaya, probably for the sake of the New Year, but he didn't hit too hard.

As for me, I was glared at by Zhongya, and I emphasized through gritted teeth: "I'm still in the growth stage, and I will definitely, definitely be taller than you!"

That's not necessarily true, I murmured in my heart, but I still didn't say it out loud.

Not far away, I saw a stall selling masks, and I probably guessed that Dazai should have bought it here just now.

I looked around the stalls, then selected one, picked it up, and turned to look at Dazai.

"Since you want to wear it, let's all go together." I said.

This guy only bought two when he bought it, one for me and one for Zhongye, but he didn't buy it for himself.

So, Dazai is really cat-like, capricious.

Usually I always like to provoke Zhongye, and from time to time, Zhongye intends to intervene between me and him, but at this time, he actively excludes himself from the range.

Dazai didn't move, just stood where he was, looking at Chuya and me.

"Hey, Dazai, didn't you hear?" Chuya frowned.

As for me, I was not surprised to take the initiative to walk in front of him with a mask, and said without any rejection: "Low your head."

Dazai looked down at me, his eyelashes fluttered, and complex emotions were revealed in those iris-colored eyes, but they were restrained in an instant, and naturally transitioned into a smile that was so faint that it was almost invisible.

"It's so powerful, Yui-chan."

He whispered, but lowered his head in a rare obedience, and let me put the mask on his face.

"Huh?" I raised my eyebrows, "It's just a mask."

"Well, yes." Dazai responded to my words with a light laugh.

I looked at those iris-colored eyes with a slight smile through the hole in the mask for a while, and then calmly looked away.

Forget it.

Although it was strange, it wasn't the first time Dazai had such an inexplicable situation.

After that, the three of us, all wearing masks, walked along the flow of people, occasionally stopping at some interesting stalls.

Three-color meatballs, takoyaki, oden...

Along the way, we never had any free time in our hands, and our stomachs that hadn't eaten dinner were filled with these snacks.

When the noisy voices reached the front of the temple, it became much quieter in an instant. The three of us walked up the stairs and soon reached the top.

As a result, in the next second, Dazai and Chuya stood aside almost at the same time, and their eyes fell on me.

I:"……"

So the so-called worship is my worship, you see?

Yes.

The logic is really great.

The corner of my mouth twitched, I took out a five-yen coin and threw it in, and clapped my hands in front of my chest according to the ritual.

"Boom-"

The melodious bell echoed behind me.

I opened my eyes, raised my hand and grabbed the hemp rope hanging beside me, pulled it and shook it.

"clang--"

A crisp and pleasant voice hovered between us.

I heard the sound of clogs on the slate behind me.

Not just one person.

When I turned my head, I saw Officer Ozaki in a kimono standing with my brother, looking at me with a smile.

"Happy New Year."

So the threesome turned into a fivesome.

When I walked to the place where the ema was hung, I met Oda who was carrying a child adopted in the Longtou War. He was holding a little girl so that she could hang the ema in her hand to the highest position , and there were a few noisy children beside him, surrounding him.

When he put down the girl, he turned around and saw me, and tilted his head.

"Happy New Year, Yui."

So the five-person group increased again, and the number of people began to break through ten.

My brother told me that he knew that there is a place in the shrine that is very suitable for watching New Year’s fireworks, and that few people know it, so our group walked in the direction he said.

I took off the mask that was originally hanging on the top of my head, put it on my face, and looked at the noisy crowd around me through the eyes of the mask.

When my eyes accidentally fell somewhere, my pupils narrowed and my steps stopped.

... Did you read it wrong?

I looked up at the branches not far away. Except for the slightly shaking, shaking off the white snow to reveal the original brown dead branches, there was no figure in monk's robe that I just saw in a flash.

"Yiyi."

"Yuki-chan~"

Noticing my fall, they also stopped, turned to look at me, and called out my name in different tones.

I pushed the mask back on top of my head and ran toward them in small steps.

When we arrived at the place that my brother said was suitable for viewing fireworks, with the sound of bells and bangs, the looming light lifted into the sky.

Then, gorgeous fireworks bloomed under the night sky.

Layer upon layer, one after another, light up the black night, and let the bright light fall into people's eyes.

I couldn't help but took out my phone, and moved to Chuya's side.Because the background noise of the fireworks was too loud, I had to speak close to his ear so that he could hear it.

"Chuya, do me a favor."

Zhong also took my mobile phone, and when I stepped back, I saw that the tips of Zhong Ye's ears were red.

... Well, it's really easy to get red, his ears are too sensitive.

"Everyone, let's take a picture together." I said with a smile.

The mobile phone is lifted into the air under Zhongye's supernatural power. Without the need for a selfie stick, the camera can be well controlled, and all of us can be included in the lens.

Under Oda's command, the children stood obediently at the front, surrounded the squatting Oda in the middle, I put my hand on Oda's shoulder, and Dazai leaned on me as if he had no bones, But his hand sneaked around behind me, trying to take away the hat that Nakaya was wearing on the other side of me.

The corner of Chuya's mouth was raised with a smile, but the hand next to me was covered by my figure, and firmly grasped Dazai's wrist through several layers of fabric, and I even heard the sound of bones being pinched.

...Well, it won't be broken, will it?

Standing at the back were my brother and Officer Ozaki who were watching our scene.

- Click.

With a soft sound, the camera permanently retained this scene.