Hong Ji

Perhaps this is the first time that Urahara has received such cold treatment from the proprietress whose body is a Zanpakuto since he came to this store and met Honghime, whose alias is "Dongyun".

This is something he has never experienced in the past few years.

At that moment, he could feel the unreality of Hongji's smile, and he could also feel the indifference in her eyes, just like the hands he held in his palm just now, her whole body was cold, without a trace temperature.

Not to mention showing the same warm smile as usual.

Although it seems strange to say so, at that moment, Urahara really felt that he had sensed Hong Ji's mood.

Displeasure, loss, and even some sourness.

He was able to be alone with these feelings from Hong Ji's faked smile and those charming almond eyes, but what was amazing was that at that moment, his emotions were as if they were driven by Hong Ji, extremely similar feelings Stuck in his chest, and then exploded after Hong Ji went away.

He couldn't take his eyes off her, even though she hadn't looked at him since just now.

Urahara looked at Hong Ji, who was sitting behind the high stool at the counter doing the calculations as usual, and felt a sudden inexplicable irritability in his heart. Ye Yi, who was sitting opposite him, was still talking, but he didn't listen to anything. do not go in.

He just wanted Hong Ji to look up at him, show her warm smile as usual, and call him Urahara-kun gently—of course, if she could call him by his first name, he thought he would be happier .

But she didn't.

Hong Ji kept her head down from the beginning to the end, and her right hand moved the wooden abacus quickly and skillfully. The beads made a crackling sound under her movement, and Urahara even felt that she was using this vent their emotions.

Her eyes moved back and forth between the abacus and the ledger, and after finishing an account, she turned her gaze back to the ledger on the right, holding a brush in her soft and boneless hand, and wrote down on the ledger. A series of numbers.

Urahara was also fortunate enough to see Yijinran's proprietress' accounts before, and what made him sigh was not the total amount of income, but the proprietress's good handwriting.

In Liuhun Street, many people are worrying about their livelihood.Even the district with the best law and order may not be able to guarantee the culture of the residents—especially the children, let alone the districts behind; and under such circumstances, it seems that Hongji's skills have been practiced for many years The words are even more rare.

It is no wonder that those customers who often come to Yijinran often say that the proprietress of Dongyun has a good abacus and a good handwriting.

Urahara saw that Hong Ji was indeed the same as usual, and when she was busy calculating the income at noon today, she knew that unless she settled all the accounts, she would definitely not have time to raise her head and give him a look.

Such cognition made him somewhat disappointed, but he also knew that this was an unchangeable fact, so he had no choice but to give up.But when he turned his head to look at Ye Yi in front of him, he was taken aback by the suddenly enlarged, familiar face before his eyes.

"Night...wow!"

Urahara screamed, and the teacup that he had been holding in his hand fell to the table because of fright, and the untouched tea was sprinkled on the table, and finally meandered on the table, dripping onto him. body.

Fortunately, he was too busy to drink tea because he was busy looking at Hong Ji, so the tea in the cup was already cold. If it had been hot water that had just been boiled... Even if Urahara didn't get burned today, it would be less Layers of skin, suffered a lot.

It’s just that his exclamation caught the attention of everyone in the lobby—including Hongji. When Hongji frowned and raised her head to look at the source of the sound, she found that the cup in Urahara’s hand had fallen on the table. , all the tea was dug out, and Yoruichi propped his hands on the table, leaning towards Urahara with his whole body.

Looking at Urahara's pale face from being frightened, the guests who didn't notice that Urahara had been looking at Honghime immediately felt as if they had discovered something, and even looked at Urahara and Yoruichi with a gleam in their expressions ambiguous.

That expression seemed to be praising Yeyi's boldness, and also seemed to be praising Urahara's good fortune.

All in all, everyone believed that Urahara and Yeichi were a couple anyway.

And Hong Ji, who raised her head after Urahara's scream, naturally also saw this scene, but from her perspective, she could only see Urahara's pale face, but not Yeichi's expression, she just looked at the expressions of other guests. It also seemed to understand something.

If Urahara knew what Honghime was thinking at this moment, he would definitely say loudly that you misunderstood, and things were not as you imagined.

Too bad he didn't know.

So Hong Ji continued to misunderstand like this.

She glanced back and forth between Urahara and Yeichi, then sighed silently, and called in the direction of the kitchen behind.

"Zhizi, bring a piece of cloth, and by the way, make another pot of hot water and change to a new tea set."

The branch in Hong Ji's mouth is actually a Zanpakuto, but she was born not long ago. I don't want Hongji to live in the birthplace of Zanpakuto for a long time like Xihua.

Before Xihua went back more than half a year, she entrusted Xihua to take her out to have a look. Before Xihua thought of Hongji, she just said, "The restaurant business is getting better and better, and there may be a shortage of staff soon, but I don't want to let ordinary souls, afraid What did they see?" After that, he brought her back to Yijinran.

Hong Ji had a good impression of this Zanpakutō, and after obtaining the other party's wishes, she named her Zhizi, which means yellow.It was only later that I felt that the branch was not good, so I changed it to a branch.

This Zanpakudao, which was aliased as Zhizi, was originally called Bird Bee.

Not only does Hong Ji have a good impression of Que Bee, but the small and cute Que Bee also likes Hong Ji very much, and even calls her "sister" more smoothly than the person who has been called for some years.

When Quefeng came out with the things Hong Ji ordered, she saw that her expression was not very good-looking, and thought of the screams she heard in the kitchen when preparing the ingredients for today's dinner, and then looked at Urahara's table.

Because she cares about Hongji's relationship, Quefeng also knows about Urahara, and with the popular science before Xihua, she knows more about Urahara's situation.

So when she saw the girl sitting across from Urahara, she immediately understood why Hong Ji's expression was so bad.

Although she didn't know Hongji's feelings for Urahara, she also knew that Urahara was special to Hongji. In her eyes, such specialness meant that there should be no other people around Urahara.

Hong Ji has also corrected this perception many times, and told Sparrow Bee that they are all Zanpakuto, even if they only have one special person in their lives, but they cannot be the only one in that person's life.

However, after correcting Quefeng several times but was defeated by her naive rhetorical question, Hong Ji stopped discussing this issue with her, so Quespie's erroneous cognition about Zanpakuto has been maintained until now.

Because of the point of view that "Urahara should belong to sister Hongji alone", the expression of the bird carrying the tray was not much better when she walked to Urahara's table. She first glared at Urahara, but didn't care about it On the first night of the night, he began to wipe the table silently with a rag, replaced the new tea set, filled the kettle with water, and left with the rag and the original tea set.

From the beginning to the end, she didn't give Urahara a good look.

Hong Ji saw it too, but in the end she just shook her head helplessly and smiled, but she didn't say anything, not even a word of scolding, just let Que Feng go back to the kitchen, and then lowered her head to settle the score.

Knowing that he was hated by others, Urahara touched his nose. Of course he knew who this girl named Zhizi was. Although she was one of the clerks of this restaurant, she was also a freshman who was taken in by Hongji and thought of as her younger sister. soul.According to his previous observations, Quefeng and Hongji have a very good relationship, and they call each other sweeter than anyone else, almost even surpassing Xihua.

Now that Quefeng doesn't give him a good look like this, he doesn't know that he is not venting his anger for Hongji.

It's just...he really didn't know where he had angered Hong Ji.

"I said Kisuke, you seem a little restless today."

Starting to drink tea again, Ye Yi looked at Urahara with a bit of teasing and ridicule in his eyes, "I didn't even notice that I called you so many times before, could it be that my vigilance has become worse."

"Ye Yisang, you are joking, I am just..."

Having said that, Urahara had to pause. He didn't know why he was so restless, but he also knew that he couldn't tell the person on the other side because he didn't hear what the other person said, because he was watching before. Hong Ji's relationship.

Otherwise, I don't know how to be ridiculed again.

However, Urahara didn't take the initiative to mention Hong Ji, which doesn't mean that Ye Yi would let him go so easily. Her eyes were a bit ambiguous, "Could it be because of this lady boss named Dong Yun?"

"You think too much."

Urahara's face froze when Ye Yi said the central matter, and then he returned to his previous smile.

"It has nothing to do with Miss Dongyun."

As if deliberately waiting for Urahara's words, he immediately asked after Ye Yi said, "Then why did you keep staring at her before, that expression... tsk tsk, it really doesn't look like the usual you. "

She has been with Urahara's childhood sweetheart for so many years, how could she not know about Urahara's little thoughts?

"If it wasn't for the intensified training in recent years, and you started busy preparing to find the Zanpakuto and then join the fan team, maybe you would still come here several times a month as before?"

Although she hadn't followed her before, she knew all these things.

Anyway, she is also the princess of the Sifeng Courtyard.

Although she believed in Urahara and never asked him about these matters, nor asked the people below to investigate in private, some news would reach her ears without asking.

For example, her childhood sweetheart Urahara Kisuke fell in love with a restaurant proprietress named Dongyun in the West Third District of Ruhun Street.

Although many things can be found through secret maneuvers, emotional matters are not information that can be easily ascertained. Unless the parties have already expressed their views in public, all relevant information is guesswork.

That's why there are rumors.

It's also fortunate that Ye Yiyi learned about this gossip from his subordinates early in the morning, and then suppressed the scandal with one hand, otherwise the ambiguity between the young master of the noble Urahara family and the proprietress of the Ruhun Street restaurant would be the talk of the entire Seireitei after dinner.

"You really can't hide anything from Ye Yisang."

Urahara said this sentence a little helplessly, but judging from his expression, it was not the case at all, at least he himself believed that Ye Yi would not take the initiative to investigate him and the people he came into contact with.

After all, they have been friends for so many years.

"But I have nothing to do with Miss Dongyun..."

He said, with all seriousness.

Just after finishing the calculation, Hong Ji, who was coming over to ask Urahara and Yeyi what they needed, happened to hear what Urahara said, as if she was anxious to get rid of her relationship with her.

This makes Hong Ji, who has almost forgotten what she was when she was a human, suddenly think of a scene she often saw when watching TV series with her mother. Urahara's words are indeed like a man on TV who is sad to herself. Jealous girlfriend, explaining her ambiguous relationship with another woman.

And the next sentence must be...

"Both of us are innocent."

—We are both innocent.

Hearing the exact same lines as she expected, even though Hong Ji was not sure about the relationship between Urahara and Yoruichi before, now she fully understands. She doesn't know why the soreness suddenly gushes out of her heartless chest, but But I also know that such feelings are no longer something that a Zanpakutō that is only for fighting can have.

This is a human emotion.

For Zanpakuto, there is absolutely no need for emotion.

Hong Ji suddenly realized one thing, if she doesn't quickly admit Urahara as her master, then this kind of emotion that doesn't need to exist for Zanpakuto may become more and more in her body, eventually crushing her .

In order for Urahara to get Zanpakuto and become Shinigami; and for herself, she must give Urahara the trial early and recognize him as her master.

But even though her mind was spinning all over the place, Hong Ji couldn't see anything on her face at all. She walked to Urahara's table, and asked with a smile like an ordinary restaurant proprietress.

"May I ask if Urahara-kun and Miss Yeichi need some refreshments?"

Just as Ye Yi was about to answer something, he saw Hong Ji standing by their table with a decent smile on her face, asking them about refreshments as if she hadn't heard anything, so she immediately smiled narrowly. Looking at his childhood sweetheart.

She wanted to know how her childhood sweetheart would end up this time.

Urahara didn't realize when Hong Ji, who was still settling accounts just now, had stood beside him, and then he remembered whether she had heard what he said just now, but he was helpless because he couldn't ask Hong Ji directly. , so a bitter expression with a bit of embarrassment.

However, Hong Ji just looked at him quietly with a smile, but didn't say anything.

"Ye Yisang..."

He looked at his childhood sweetheart, trying to get some help from him, but Ye Yi said...

"It's my first time here, so it's good to help you decide."

This is clearly pushing him into the fire!

But Urahara could only swallow these grievances, so finally he looked at Hong Ji, and answered her question just now with a troubled expression, "It should be the same as usual, Miss Dongyun."

"Okay," Hong Ji nodded to the two, "Please wait a moment, both of you."

Although her natural behavior could hide Yeyi, she couldn't hide it from Puyuan. After a brief struggle, he stopped Hongji who had turned around and was about to leave.

"Miss Dongyun..."

"East Cloud."

The voice that overlapped with Urahara's voice was from a man in fine clothes who happened to enter the house. His clothes didn't look like what people in Ruukon Street could afford, but in the memories of Urahara and Yoruichi, There seems to be no character like him in the nobles of Seireitei.

With a smile on his lips, his expression was gentle, and his eyes looking at Hong Ji were even more gentle and affectionate.Under such an expression, clothing and appearance seemed to be no longer important matters.

Almost everyone was guessing about the relationship between this seemingly noble man and the proprietress Dongyun.

It's just that when Hong Ji saw this man, her usual gentle expression turned a little ugly, it was an obvious disgust - no one present had ever seen Hong Ji like this.

"What are you here for?"

she asked, her tone was unfamiliar to everyone.

At that moment, Urahara knew that this man who appeared suddenly might be very special to Hong Ji.

even above him.

The author has something to say: Although the heroine is the Zanpakuto of the hero, but no matter how you say it, this is also a vulgar little talk, so the bloody scene is necessary (seems like the logic is wrong?) It’s really easy to guess who the man is of