The bosses cry and put down the butcher knife

When Oda Miyuki regained consciousness, he found himself lying on an open field.

Above the head is a completely lit sky, the mountains in the morning are full of water vapor, and the nearby clouds are also hazy.She heard a beeping sound coming from her ear, like something burning like wood.

The girl blinked, as if waking up from a big dream—it was probably a nightmare.Even though he had regained consciousness, he still just stared at the sky in a daze.

"you're awake."

After a while, the beeping sound seemed to be a little quieter.Then Fei Jia's still calm voice rang above her head.

"Are they... dead?"

After a brief silence, the girl asked.

This time she waited longer, and then heard a rustling sound in her ear.A few seconds later, the eyes dimmed and then brightened again. The black-haired boy squatted beside her, and his purple eyes cast his gaze down.

Fei Jia stared at Oda Miyuki who was lying on the ground, his expression seemed to be very calm, and it seemed that there was something floating that couldn't be seen clearly.At last he sighed, reached out and touched her forehead:

"Which one are you asking? More than one person died, you...should feel it? Your personality is completely out of control, as long as it is someone who appears in sight..."

"To shut up!"

"..."

So the other party fell silent, and after a few seconds, he turned his head to look at the fire on the wooden frame.The silence in the air lasted for a long time, and finally the two spoke at the same time:

"sorry."

"Sorry, I seem to have been... not very good at saying these things in a roundabout way."

The voices of both sides overlapped and stopped at the same time because of the accent.After a while, Fei Jia took a grilled fish from the wooden rack and handed it to the girl:

"Let's eat first."

Oda Miyuki stared at the fish, staring at it for a while as if dissecting it, then turned to the boy in front of him.

At last she got up from the ground, took the fish but did not put it in her mouth, but said in a low voice:

"You... aren't you afraid?"

She didn't say "not afraid", but she believed that the other party understood what she meant.The boy looked at her for a while, then went to get another grilled fish on the shelf, lowered his head and took a bite:

"You should have guessed it, I am a user with supernatural powers. But I have no combat power. It is similar to the ability of 'not being hurt by others'."

Oda Miyuki's brain turned slowly for a while, and then understood what the other party meant.

So she nodded, lowered her head to the back of the grilled fish, and took a tentative bite.

"Pfft—it's so fishy."

"No way, there is no seasoning here, it's not bad if it can be roasted."

"Is it really not a problem with your craftsmanship?"

"..."

The two said something without saying a word, and slowly returned to the previous natural chatting state.

It was like this in the warehouse before. Although they were not the only ones, the way the two of them got along was almost to the point of "no one else was there".

On the one hand, it was Fei Jia's intentional or unintentional care, on the other hand... from a certain point of view, Oda Miyuki actually had a subtle fledgling plot.

Even if her fighting level is far superior to that of her peers, she may even be able to fight a little better than the weak partner next to her.But in fact, as a little girl who has never left her parents and has not experienced any storms in these years, Oda Miyuki can't talk about her temperament or experience.

She just instinctively imitated her adoptive father, barely pretending to be calm.It's like when Oda Sakunosuke read the story according to the script when he was a child, and then turned Sleeping Beauty into the Little Mermaid.

But... the girl looked at the burning fire in front of her, and suddenly felt a vague heat welling up in her eyes.

She sniffled, suppressed the sour feeling, and bit off the fish's tail hard.The deep-fried browned fish tail tastes crispy, even though no salt is added, it is better than the meat of the fish.

The meal was finished in silence, and Fedya put out the fire.Oda Miyuki looked at the smoke wafting from the scorched wooden shell, and suddenly asked in a low voice:

"...Those people...are they still alive..."

The voice was as soft as a puff of smoke. If Fei Jia hadn't been paying attention to the other party, he would have ignored it.The boy scattered the last bit of charcoal with embers, and finally replied:

"The people in the smuggling group don't know, but I didn't find Mr. Yoshida's body... Maybe he left."

Oda Miyuki raised his head, something seemed to light up faintly in his eyes.Then she thought of something again and lowered her head again.

Even if there are still people alive, does it make any difference?she thinks.

The man named Yoshida was already injured, so it was hard to say how far he could go.Even if he managed to survive, there is no way to deny——

Everyone else died because of her.

Because she's out of control... a personality that was never really confirmed to exist until today.

Oda Miyuki did not doubt Fei Jia's words, but first of all there was no need for that, and there was no evidence; in addition, although she fell into a state of chaos later, the killing intent generated by the desire to survive and manipulate the fate of others The condescending trembling feeling...

She remembers it clearly, no matter how hard it is to forget, it's like digging a complicated root system that goes deep into the blood.

"Do you want to go and have a look?" Fei Jia asked suddenly.

Oda Miyuki looked up at him blankly, the young man gnawed his own fish clean, and threw the snow-white fishbone into the ashes.Then he took out a fruit from his pocket, took a bite himself, and handed the other over:

"It grows on the trees by the river. It has been washed. It's not poisonous, but it's not very sweet."

Oda Miyuki didn't go to pick it up, looking at the very attractive red fruit in the opponent's hand, he suddenly seemed to have decided something: "Go and have a look."

Fei Jia: "Huh?"

The girl closed her eyes, then opened them again: "I'll take a look, and then we'll leave."

The boy chewed the dry fruit and stared at her for a few seconds.

Then he suddenly stretched out his hand, and stuffed the fruit into Oda Miyuki's mouth at a speed that didn't match his slender appearance.

"...Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm," the girl subconsciously took a bite, but still couldn't help frowning, "It's really not sweet at all."

"I've said it before. In order to have the strength to walk in the future, I'd better eat it." The boy said slowly after gnawing on his own.

"Fei Jia, do you have any passive skills, such as 'Although you won't starve to death in the wild, but everything you encounter is terrible...ah, why hit me on the head?"

"What do you think?"

"...Anyway, thank you."

Soon, Oda Miyuki followed behind Fei Jia and walked back to the place where they were confronted before.Just like what the other party said, under the dead wood that was broken everywhere, there was only a mess of corpses left.

The girl stood by the road outside the forest, looked there for a long time, and seemed to be letting go.

In the end, she didn't say anything, and she didn't continue to approach.I don't know what I want to escape, or I really decided to let go completely.

They didn't bury these people, either carelessly or powerlessly.Fei Jia stood by the road sign and watched for a while, then looked down at the girl beside him:

"I went to Yokohama for vacation, and then I was caught here. You should be a native of Yokohama, right?"

"Ah."

The boy nodded and took two steps towards the side of the road.But he didn't hear the people behind him coming up, so he turned his head and looked over.

"...Aren't you following me?"

The girl looked at him in place, her mouth moved, as if she wanted to say something.A few seconds later, she suddenly lowered her head, and rushed over in a posture almost sprinting.

Then he stretched out his hand and grabbed the hem of the opponent's clothes.

The memory of walking with each other after that, even Oda Miyuki many years later, could not restore it completely.

After experiencing the intense stimulation that almost subverted life, plus someone along the way quietly fueled the flames and fanned the flames.Due to the rush between schedules, she had to forcibly pile up countless torn emotions in the deepest place.

Only a ten-year-old girl instinctively escapes, panics and is at a loss, and the mud and traps are all over the front.Self-examination at an age when the Three Views are not yet stable and the easiest to be guided, eventually deteriorated into... a strong sense of guilt.

It's like a tree that was forcibly twisted by an external force and then tried to graft on other seedlings.

Many years later, Oda Miyuki, who has grown into a girl, has only one story left for this memory.A fairy tale called "Swan Lake" from the mouth of a teenager.

The stories she had heard when she was a child, after so many years, only fragments of memory remained.

"Swan Lake, Odette and Odile. Black and white, true and false, like crime and punishment among human beings.

They seem to be in a completely opposite relationship, a life-and-death rival in love, trying their best to get someone's love... But maybe they are one in a place we can't see.

"Because of guilt, or other unwillingness to admit the past, I split myself in two. There are countless similar behaviors in human history. Me and you, as well as those who died, we all think of Ojita's Ogiri Ya."

***

On the fourth day after their escape, a full week after their abduction, they returned to the land of Yokohama.

That night, Fei Jia found a nearby grocery store and bought a new white hat.

His previous one had been well protected, but when he was walking through the jungle, he accidentally lost it.

The grocery store is very close to Oda's house, almost across the street.But compared with a week ago, it is obviously much more chaotic here.

"It seems that people from the 'group' are robbing something." The owner of the grocery store said, it sounded like some slang words, "It was quite noisy, especially in the middle of the night, and gunshots could be heard everywhere on the street. ——Speaking of which, it's so late, why are you two children still outside?"

"I'm going out to buy something, my sister is worried, she must follow me." Fei Jia said with a natural expression, and they pretended to be brother and sister all the way here, "I will go back soon."

"Aren't the parents here? Sigh..." The store manager didn't know what he had imagined, he sighed a long time, and then took out two candies from the jar next to him, "Take it. The business has been sluggish recently, so it's okay to keep it." Sooner or later, it will be thrown away. Now go home early, and I am also ready to close the shop."

"Thank you." Oda Miyuki looked at the candy in his hand and handed one to Fei Jia, "Brother, here it is."

The teenager touched her head, and then led her away from the grocery store.

The two of them walked out onto the street, and the light of the street lamps along the street became farther and closer.Fei Jia glanced at their holding hands calmly, and then turned back to the hurrying passers-by across the way.

It only took 5 minutes to walk through this street, and Oda Miyuki quickly saw the familiar gate of the community.Some kind of anticipation or nervousness gripped her, and she was even a little... unspeakably anxious.

Because of Oda Sakunosuke's work, the place they rented is not far from the Ganghei Building, which is the most affordable small second floor in the community.

Although it is not late at night, there are no pedestrians in the community, and it is quieter than the streets outside.Oda Miyuki turned a corner and saw the familiar rows of buildings ahead, so he subconsciously quickened his pace.

Then, the girl stopped suddenly.

That place was supposed to be the residence of the Oda family, but there was actually quite a group of people gathered around it.There is not only the Oda family there, but there are six or seven families on the left and right.

And now, that group of guys in black suits who don't look like good people have surrounded the whole place.If this is just disturbing, then the place where the original building is located almost makes people doubt their own eyes.

The piece of land surrounded by the black suit, including the residential area where the Oda family lived, seemed to have been completely dug up by something.The light in the distance spread to more than ten meters away, and only the rugged foundation and huge potholes were visible.

Oda Miyuki froze in place, as if he felt like he was dreaming.

The next second, among the group of indistinct black suits, a person who was clearly the leader moved.

——As if aware of the movement here, the man turned his head slightly and looked in the direction where Oda Miyuki and the others were.