Dice has to give me spoilers for the plot of Ke Xue

As always, it took me some time to deal with the daily affairs and the documents accumulated during the vacation. Because I had prepared in advance, even the transcripts were done quickly.

So Riya, who returned to the office again, soon came to the free time for doing nothing.

Matsuda Jinpei took notes after her, and she probably came back a little later. The boss was usually missing or just late, and she was the only one left in the left and right offices.

...Obviously this was the normal situation in the office before, but suddenly, I felt a little uncomfortable.

Sitting there bored for a while, Riya simply got up and went to the tea room.

Here too, there is only her.

Watching the clear water flow into the cup, when he was absent-minded, he suddenly received a new email on his mobile phone. After picking it up and looking at it, Riya thought for a while and dialed it back.

"...Hey? Riya, isn't it working time now?" The young man's gentle voice sounded very surprised.

Regarding this, Li Ya leisurely raised his hand to turn off the hot water switch, picked up the cup and took a sip, and replied slowly: "Yes, I just have leisure time after work."

Asai Narumi couldn't help but chuckle.

The mood is also good, Riya patiently waited for him to finish laughing, and briskly said: "So brother, do you need me?"

"Last month seemed to be very busy, so I didn't ask any more questions." Slightly restraining his smile, Asai Narumi turned the pen with one hand, trying to relax his emotions, "Riya, I have called several times to hear...uh , the voice of your neighbor."

"My brother didn't mean to interfere with your life, but if I didn't misunderstand, he appeared a little frequently in your house. I mean, did you realize that he might..."

Ah, in fact, the situation is the opposite... Those few phone calls should not be answered at my home.

Blinking his eyes slowly, Riya frowned and thought about the words, and said slowly: "Brother, I wanted to tell you last month, but because I was too busy with work...cough, anyway, it should be in the relationship now." gone."

"..."

After a "click", as if a pen had dropped, the other side fell into sudden silence.

"I'm sorry brother, I thought it would be better to say this in person, but I didn't take care of it when I got busy." Feeling flustered, she hurriedly explained the reason, "I didn't mean to hide it, I just thought it should be done at the right time." It's better to say it."

"Sure enough..." Naruto Asai picked up the ordinary fountain pen, looked at it carefully, and his tone became unpredictable.

"The time I came here in July, I felt that this curly hair was suspicious. If I hadn't interrupted him suddenly, he would have made some inappropriate actions at that time."

"Huh?" Liya couldn't laugh or cry, "I was just standing at the door and talking normally."

As a reliable elder brother, Dr. Asai Narumi held a pen, and couldn't help but want to sigh for his innocent sister.

Silly boy, who would get so close when talking normally - or the kind that grabs your hand and gets closer - he can bet his medical career that if he didn't interrupt at the right time, sister You will definitely be deceived!

Man, such a sinister creature!

Damn it, he should have paid more attention when we went to Nanyang University to attend a conference together.Maybe the evil curly hair gained Riya's trust during the short time when he relaxed a little...

As the elder brother, Asai Chengshi can face the camera and make a speech of condemnation for a day-he must, have to make some expressions, at least he can't just let it go so easily-

"Brother, are you not angry?" Liya asked a little nervously after not hearing a response for a long time.

"……how come."

Taking a deep breath, Asai Chengmi gently put the slightly cracked pen holder back to its original place, and said in a warm tone, "I said that the most important thing is that you are happy, but the news is a bit sudden...I still need a little time."

"By the way, since we are in a relationship," Asai continued to take a deep breath, trying to keep his voice steady, only leaking a slight gnashing of teeth at the end, "is it true that next time I go there, I am going to have dinner together?"

"Let's eat together." Hearing this unexpectedly, Riya also froze for a moment, hesitating subconsciously, "So soon?"

Her hesitation was obvious, and Asai Chengshi couldn't help being confused, thought for a while, and asked cautiously: "...Could it be just one of the choices?"

Riya choked on a big mouthful of water without warning.

"Cough cough cough... No, bro, do you think my character is that bad!" She couldn't stop coughing, completely shocked.

Asai Shigemi covered his face.

He laughed awkwardly a few times: "...Because you have always been serious, Liya, it's unusual to hesitate so suddenly..."

"I just think it's too sudden... Anyway, I should have asked the other party's opinion," Riya tried to explain after finally calming down, "And everyone is busy now, at least we can talk about it after a while."

"Really, that's all, brother, don't make up strange characters for me without authorization."

"Yeah, I see." Asai Chengshi nodded thoughtfully.

But the atmosphere relaxed again, in the peaceful tranquility, recalling the conversation just now, he couldn't help but smile: "Riya, I'm in a good mood recently, I feel more lively than before."

He still remembers the last time he saw Riya before leaving Tokyo.

At that time, although she seemed to be in a peaceful mood and living seriously, her younger sister still carried that unique indifference that seemed to be cut off from the world.

She lives in this world, but that's all. Everything around her is just irrelevant to her, so her attitude is completely indifferent.

This attitude has been around for a long time. Asai Chengshi instinctively sensed something was wrong at the beginning, but he couldn't do anything about it.At that time, he was full of thoughts about the mysterious death of his parents, and what he did was to take care of her life as much as he could.

However, since when did he hear Liya laughing from the bottom of his heart more and more, as if unknowingly stepping out from the barrier with the world and blending into it.

——Until now, you can play jokes with him so easily and casually, almost as laughing and free as any young girl of the same age in the world.

"Lively?" This word seemed to describe some ignorant boy, and Riya couldn't help being speechless for a moment.

"Anyway, there's no need to be so anxious...I'm going back to work, let's talk next time."

After hanging up the phone, she clutched the water glass, unconsciously staring at the half-length mirror in the pantry for arranging her appearance, and smiled wryly to herself: "The future..."

In the transparent task panel and the task list on the far right, there is now one and only one line of pale gold fonts flickering slightly——

[Main task: Fog]

[Task Status: In Progress]

[Mission Location: Tottori Prefecture, Twilight Annex]

[Mission objective: The blood-stained crow's lair hides the original disaster and the truth. Investigator 1541 is requested to go there as soon as possible. 】

[Task reward: none]

"Mr. Nonomiya, you are late again."

Despite the turbulent thoughts in his heart, after returning to the office, Riya has regained his usual calm, and he can even joke about his late boss.

"Thanks to the presence of my two excellent subordinates, the recent work is quite leisurely." Nomiya Saburo didn't care about her jokes, and responded easily.

"Is it leisure, yes, the whole of Tokyo seems to be very peaceful recently." She took it very seriously.

Recalling the recent work, Riya casually tapped on the keyboard, and said casually: "Even the organization whose code name is wine, seems to be very law-abiding recently, no wonder Mr. Furuya was able to find time to lead a team of police officers a few days ago. .”

"That's true," was reminded by her, Saburo Nomiya recalled the recent information and deeply agreed.

"But those lunatics won't really be obedient, so peaceful, it really feels like a storm is coming." Half-jokingly, he sighed like this.

Speaking of which, I felt it faintly a long time ago.

Anyway, the atmosphere was good at the moment, so Riya pretended to be chatting casually and asked in a casual tone: "Mr. Nonomiya, from your tone, I know you well."

"Could it be that you used to have some fashionable wine name?"

Nomiya Police Department, who had opened the file casually, was taken aback when he heard the sound, and raised his eyebrows with a smile: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"Can't you ask?" She met the other party's scrutinizing gaze as if nothing had happened, her eyes were clear and calm, "It's just out of boring curiosity, if you don't want to say it, forget it."

She thought that there was nothing surprising about these words, but it was obvious that her immediate boss's usual calm gaze stayed on her for about ten seconds before retracting.

"It's still so straightforward, Anya," the man smiled with emotion, as if he was missing something, and shook his head helplessly, "So I'm the only one who remembers."

Slightly closing his eyes, the little girl who was less than his waist and was particularly conspicuous among a group of people of various ages seemed to look at him again through time and space, her clear green eyes were as calm and stable as ever.

So, he unconsciously repeated the tone of the past, slowed down his voice, and answered her as before: "It's just an ordinary civil servant."

But the situation now is vastly different from then.

The person in front of him is no longer Aniya who is bound, but the criminal police officer and public security officer Asai Riya.

That emotional smile turned into pure relief, and the Nomiya Police Department no longer hesitated, and answered her question briskly: "Of course, if you really want to know, I do have a wine code name." coming."

"GrainWhiskey...probably one of the Scotch whiskeys."

"what happened?"

"Huh?" Riya blinked slowly, feeling a little dazed.

"I don't look very energetic today," Matsuda Jinping leaned over to help her unbuckle her seat belt after turning off the car, followed by a comforting kiss, and asked softly, "Are you too tired?"

At this moment, she really wanted to thank the strange weather that suddenly changed in the afternoon, which made the light extremely dim today.

This allowed her to calmly find excuses as a cover-up: "It's because the temperature has dropped suddenly, and I'm not used to it."

"Although it's not that cold," she joked lightly, she completely cleared away all the extra emotions and calmed down until now, "but I miss the feeling of soaking in hot springs all of a sudden."

"I don't know when I'll be free next time."

"If you're not in a hurry...do you want to go to Gunma again in December?" Matsuda Jinhei asked for her opinion during the short time when he got off the bus.

I specifically mentioned December, is there any special day... Thinking of this, Riya asked bluntly: "Do you want to go on vacation at Christmas?"

"Why are you the first to mention Christmas?" The curly-haired youth sighed helplessly as he pulled people towards the elevator.

Squeezing her wrist lightly, he casually explained: "When I went to the hospital last time, I saw your medical insurance card. It should be on the 12th of December, right?"

"Or are there other arrangements already?"

"No, that's not true." Although it was not the first time she experienced his power of observation, the feeling of being taken care of details that she didn't even pay attention to still made her a little confused, and she murmured subconsciously, "It's just It seems that I have never thought about such a distant future..."

"Huh?" Matsuda raised his eyebrows slightly, and hummed inexplicably.

Realizing that this sentence seemed a little ambiguous, Riya felt a little headache, raised his eyes and explained to him seriously: "I'm just not used to arranging things after so long..."

Under the suddenly close distance, she subconsciously fell silent.

Satisfied to see her tense up a little bit, her clear eyes unblinking, fully concentrating on reflecting her own figure, Matsuda lowered her voice and prolonged the tone as if joking: "It's too much."

"Riya, you have broken into my future without authorization, don't you intend to take responsibility?"

"..." Don't make yourself sound like a minor who has paid naively and been cheated.

But the warm air flowed across the side of her face, and in the small space where only each other and breath could be heard, inexplicably, she seemed to hear the gradually synchronized heartbeat rhythm.

Active, throbbing with life, never seeming to fear or flinch.

Unconsciously, a bright and bright smile flowed from the corners of the lips and eyes, with the same curvature and tone as the other party.

"Puha, I'm sorry." In the end, Liya couldn't help it first, lowered her head and let her smile show undisguised, "But Jinpei, you are really cute like this."

"Hey, I'm angry..."

So before getting out of the elevator door, I was asked to make a serious apology before it was over.

Finally ending the long good night, Riya leaned against her door and lowered her eyes to calm her breath, feeling the gap again.

Obviously it took the same amount of time, and the experience bar should be the same length, but some people seem to be progressing exceptionally fast... Could it be that there are talented apprentices in this kind of partial course.

"Be careful," the curly-haired youth told her cheerfully while supporting her shoulders, "I'm going to open the door."

In order to balance, she moved slightly to one side within the narrow area she was trapped in to make room for the lock, and then made a sudden movement.

——In the crack of the door, the sole of the shoe seemed to have stepped on something like paper.

Taking advantage of the fact that the other party was taking out the key and didn't notice it, she quickly glanced at it calmly, and through the not-so-bright light in the corridor, she saw clearly what she had stepped on unintentionally—a corner of the envelope.

The heartbeat froze slightly for an instant.

This apartment has always been well-secured. Normal letters should all be delivered to the mailbox downstairs, allowing the residents to take them by themselves... Who would sneak a letter in through the crack of the door?

"Clang" was the sound of the key being taken out, it was very slight, but it brought Riya back to his senses.

In just a moment, almost a million possibilities flashed through her mind, but perhaps influenced by the events of the day, most of them were about an illegal organization she was trying to get rid of.

- The danger is unknown.

Having made a decision in an instant, she suddenly raised her hand and held down the movement of the curly-haired youth who was about to open the lock, while calmly stepping on the exposed corner of the envelope.

"?" Matsuda Jinping looked at her in surprise, "Riya, aren't you going home?"

"Correct."

With her mind running calmly, her tone was beyond doubt: "I don't want to go back to my house today."

The curly-haired youth was slightly startled, and his expression became subtle.

"But, if I understand correctly..."

"You understand correctly." She answered quickly.

Puzzled, or whether he misinterpreted it or not, he lowered his eyes in doubt and looked at her expression carefully: "I said that you don't need to force it, didn't you already feel tired yesterday?"

"...Because I'm very tired, I want to borrow your bathtub today and throw away the responsibility of cleaning."

This statement is too touching, and Matsuda Jinpei couldn't help smiling bitterly: "I'm still angry about what happened yesterday, so is this a test?"

"I don't mean that, you can understand it whatever you want...but if you want to go to bed early, it's better to start draining the water now...I'm going back to get my clothes before going there, is it okay?"

It would be too much to hint at such a point, no matter how incomprehensible the style is.

Watching the curly-haired youth compromise and leave as promised, Riya lightly kicked the envelope into the door, then quickly took out the key to open the door, and after entering, squatted down and picked up the ordinary-looking envelope.

It's very thin and doesn't seem to have any contents.

It was weird taking so long just to get the clothes, and as she walked into the bedroom, she carefully tore open the seal and shook the contents onto the floor.

At the moment of concentrating on seeing clearly, the pupils could not help constricting subconsciously for a second.