Hong Ji

The days have passed for a long time without knowing it, and the two Zanpaku Dao, Hong Ji and Xi Hua, have been pretending to be whole and open restaurants in the third district of Xiliuhun Street. Enriched a lot.

I have to say that the two of them disguised really well. Among the "Yiejinran" guests who have come and gone to them over the years, there is no lack of Grim Reaper, and there are even occasional officials and even captains, but they have never been there. People discovered that the two of them were not ordinary puppet swords but Zanpakuto.

Urahara has also frequently appeared in their restaurant in recent years. Although the frequency of his appearance in recent years has not been as frequent as in the beginning, Hongji can still see him a few times every month.

Those guests who have already gotten to know Urahara have also asked him why, such as why he only comes to Hong Ji's restaurant, and why he doesn't come here often in recent years, but Urahara, who seems to be a little natural, but every time Every time, he just touched his head and smiled perfunctorily, and turned the topic to a thousand miles away, making those people forget their original purpose immediately.

Every time Hong Ji sees this scene, she finds it funny, but she doesn't remind the tea drinkers with a bit of bad intentions, and just lets Urahara take the topic away with a smile on her lips.

——Anyway, as long as the fire doesn't burn on her, it will be fine.

It's just that whenever Hong Ji smiles and looks at Urahara fooling the other guests, she can find that Urahara will inadvertently look at herself, and after a brief eye contact, she immediately shifts her gaze back to other places.

If someone is interested, they will find that the smiles on the lips of Urahara and Hongji are so similar at that moment.

It's a pity that no one has seen that brief moment so far, and Hong Ji and Urahara will not realize it, so no one has ever said anything in front of them.

In fact, Hongji also knows that now that Urahara is getting older, he has already reached the age where he should learn the four basic skills of killing ghosts and walking in vain, and those children of the right age from noble families have even started to look for their chopping skills. Therefore, it is no longer possible for Urahara to haunt Ruhun Street as frequently as before.

That is, the past few years.

She surrendered to Urahara and officially became his Zanpakuto, probably in a few years.

Urahara also seems to have never discovered Hong Ji's true identity, and still calls her "Miss Dongyun", treating her as an ordinary restaurant proprietress.

In fact, this is also very good.

For some reason, Hong Ji would rather that Urahara liked her small restaurant, which is why she came here often, and didn't want the other party to come close to her on purpose and treat her specially because she had guessed something.

She didn't know why she was in such a mood or thinking, but she was very clear that she really did think so, without a trace of confusion.

——Even if such feelings should not be what a Zanpakutō should have.

Hong Ji sometimes feels that she really seems to have grown a lot in Liuhun Street these years—or she has recovered some human emotions, at least she has a lot of similarities with those years when she was first in the place where she was born. Variety.

She didn't know whether such a relationship was a disaster or a blessing for herself.

Yes, she did think about the need for human rationality to assist her in thinking, so as not to let herself become a tool for slaughter. Of course, she still wants to do this until now.

But other than that, other human emotions may seem redundant to her.

She wanted to be restrained, but she didn't want to be bound by more unnecessary feelings, otherwise it would really be worth the candle.

Recently, Pu Yuan went to restaurants less and less frequently, and she didn't even see him once a month. Although Hong Ji was a little concerned, she didn't go to the point where she didn't see him every day. She just thought that maybe she should start letting him Urahara felt her own existence, and if it was because of her that the other party could not get the Zanpakuto and become an official Shinigami earlier, then she would be guilty of a serious crime.

However, what she needs for Urahara to feel is her existence as Zanpakuto. Before Urahara officially becomes her master, she doesn't want him to know that Dong Yun is his future Zanpakuto.

It sounds like a joke, but it's really not that hard to do.

But, is it really as simple as she imagined?

When Hong Ji was thinking about how to give Urahara a trial, something happened one afternoon that almost changed her unfinished plan, and even got out of control.

When Urahara came to her shop with her right eye bruised and swollen, with the same smile as usual, Hongji was indeed taken aback, wishing to immediately ask Urahara who the culprit was, and then take With a knife, the person who injured Urahara was cut into pieces.

Although she was frightened by her own thoughts and immediately stopped such thoughts, even this was enough to prove one thing.

——Her nature as Zanpakuto has not been worn away by living in Ruukon Street for so many years.

It's even worse than when he fought the invincible players in the last three districts of Liuhun Street.

"What's wrong with you...?"

Hong Ji didn't care that this was her own restaurant, her relationship with Urahara was nothing more than an ordinary restaurant proprietress and regular customers, and there were even many other guests in the lobby—many of them were regular customers who knew Urahara.

She just stopped her accounting work in a hurry, shook off the writing brush in her hand, ran out of the counter and came to Urahara.

"Do you want some medicine?"

Even though she asked this question, Honghime immediately remembered that as Urahara, he should not be injured and no one gave him medicine—after all, he was a nobleman who lived in Seireitei—even though he had already started to decline.

And more importantly, she didn't have any medicine here, whether it was applied externally or taken internally.

The boy's height has increased rapidly in recent years, from being a head shorter than her at the beginning to being on the same level as her and even slightly taller than her, Hong Ji looked directly at her future master standing in front of her , the face could not hide the panic and worry, those charming almond eyes had long lost their usual brilliance and expression, while reflecting Urahara's figure, they were more worried.

She reached out her hand to touch the other person's bruised eyes, but she was afraid that her touching would make the other person feel more uncomfortable, so her hand just hung in mid-air, neither up nor down, which seemed rather awkward.

"No, I'm fine."

He said.

"It was injured by the fierce cat."

Urahara stretched out his hand to hold the hand that Hong Ji was about to put down. Although his tone sounded helpless, there was still a smile on his lips and gentle eyes, and he didn't look as powerless as in his tone.

There is even some intimacy.

Hong Ji felt a little inexplicably uncomfortable because of that intimacy, but she couldn't say why.

only……

"Injury? Fierce... cat?"

She looked at Urahara rather puzzled, although the other's palm covering hers made her feel a little strange... It was like the first time she officially met Urahara, the chest without a heart seemed to be Filled with something.

If she had a heart, she would definitely feel that her heart was beating so fast that it was about to reach its limit, maybe even her face would be as red as the color of her hair.

Unfortunately, she has no heart and face.

So even though she thought she should have a faster heartbeat and blushes, on the surface she was nothing ordinary.

It's just that I feel that I have become a little weird, that's all.

Her focus is still on the ferocious cat that Urahara said could hurt people.

"I thought cats usually only scratch people."

Could it be that the cats in this world are different from what she knows?Probably not, after all, most of the things in this soul world are the same as what she knows, except that the life here is a little behind, there are no so-called digital products and other modern things, nothing else is too big different.

If you really want to say it, it is somewhat similar to ancient Japan.

"This one……"

When Urahara was asked such a question by Hong Ji, he immediately looked a little embarrassed. When he scratched his hair and was about to say something, a female voice suddenly sounded at the door, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone present - including Hong Ji and Urahara.

"I'm so fierce, I'm really sorry, Kisuke."

Leaning at the door with arms crossed, is a girl about the same age as Urahara, with short purple hair and amber cat eyes looking at Urahara threateningly, and her honey-colored complexion makes her look even more radiant. Yiyi, it seemed that her complexion was too pale.

"Eh? Ye Yisang? Why are you here?"

Urahara looked a little surprised, as if he didn't expect Yeyi to appear here, he smiled wryly and scratched his hair with the hand that was still holding Hongji before, looking a little guilty after being caught.

"If I don't come, I won't be able to hear what you just said."

The girl whom Urahara called "Yoichi-san" raised her eyebrows while talking. Although there was a bit of threat in her words, but judging from her familiar attitude with Urahara, it was more like a joke.

"Sure enough, you still can't talk about Miss Yeyi behind your back, can you..."

Urahara spread his hands, his expression looks innocent, but more people have the urge to slap him - although Hongji thinks that Urahara didn't put on such an expression on purpose, such a smile is indeed very easy Disgusting, but...

Hong Ji lowered her head and looked at her hand that was loosened by Urahara. It seemed that the temperature of the other's palm still remained on it, but now it gradually began to cool down until it disappeared completely.

It seemed that the voice of Urahara and Yeyi was still ringing in her ears, but that voice was too vague for Hong Ji now, she couldn't hear the content of their conversation at all, and could only vaguely recognize It seemed that Urahara was explaining something to Yoichi.

The throbbing in the heart just now had subsided long ago, replaced by another same feeling, Hong Ji didn't know what was going on with this feeling, but her intuition told her that she didn't need this feeling.

Yes, as Zanpakuto, she doesn't need to feel like this.

Hong Ji lowered her hands, clenched her hands tightly into fists but quickly released them, and when she raised her head again to look at Urahara and the girl whom he called Yoichi, her face had already recovered. The smile looks the same as before, but if you really look carefully, you may still be able to find some subtle differences.

"Is this Urahara-kun's friend?"

She asked with a smile, as if treating an ordinary guest. Although the smile on her face was gentle, it looked more like a formulaic smile, and even the smile didn't reach her eyes at all.

Upon hearing this, Urahara and Yeyi immediately stopped their quarrel, and at the same time turned their heads to look at her, only to find that Hongji was just standing there, standing dignifiedly like a specially trained nobleman, with a gentle smile on her face, looking elegant Calm, nothing at all looks like the proprietress of a small restaurant in Liuhun Street.

Yeyi glanced at Urahara with a strange look, and then immediately looked at Hongji, with a bit of interest in those amber cat eyes.

"You're Yijinran's proprietress Dong Yun that Kisuke has been talking about? This guy has been bothering you all this time, but since he's the one Kisuke recognizes, then just call me Yeichi like him from now on. "

"Miss Yeyi was joking, it should be Dongyun who has been taking care of Urahara-kun all this time."

Although Hong Ji didn't know why the other party said that, she didn't rush to answer anything else. Her smile remained unchanged from the beginning to the end, and her attitude was neither humble nor overbearing when she answered, neither deliberately flattering nor deliberately hostile.

It was like treating Ye Yi as an ordinary guest.

Even if she knew that there were only nobles who could get along so well with Urahara, who was a nobleman.

"Actually, I would know it even if you don't tell me, Kisuke looks like a troublesome guy."

Ye Yi waved his hand, but he didn't have the image of aristocrat that Hong Ji guessed at all.

"You two, please sit down and talk first."

However, Hong Ji didn't settle for Ye Yi's words, she just gently asked them to sit down in a secluded and quiet seat, "I still have some debts to settle, and besides, Miss Ye Yi seems... Do you have something to say to Urahara-kun?"

"... She is really a smart woman, no wonder Xisuke cares about you so much."

Ye Yi murmured something, and after glancing at Pu Yuan, he continued to Hong Ji, "Then I will trouble you."

"How come, that's Dongyun's job."

Although Hongji and Yeyi chatted a lot, Urahara himself, who was the center of the topic, didn't say anything from the beginning to the end.

In fact, when he first saw the smile on Hong Ji's lips and her icy eyes, his eyes changed a little, but he still didn't say anything in the end.

He just listened to her conversation with Yeyi, watched her ask them to find an empty seat to sit down, and finally watched her turn around and walk slowly towards the counter. The red coat and loose red hair swayed from side to side as she walked.

She only left a back for him.

This seems to be the first time.

The author has something to say: In a few more chapters, the store manager will be able to take Hongji home, and then enter the next volume w By the way, let’s guess the volume name of the next volume~ No prizes for correct guesses (Hey ) It is said that the store manager called Ye Yi in the original book Ye Yi-sang, although there is also the translation of "Miss Ye Yi", but I always feel that it is too strange for the relationship between the store manager and Ye Yi, and it seems that calling Ye Yi directly There is also something wrong, I still use transliteration for the last mulberry [cover your face