After retirement I became a guardian of troubled youth

That night, three children who were not strictly children were crowded together on a bed.

Hikaru Ueno resisted all kinds of persuasion and coquetry from the children, and didn't go up to squeeze with them.

The bed is not too small, and it is more than enough to sleep three people.

But the problem is that these three children are not all well-behaved when they sleep.

Hikaru Ueno sat by the bed, observed in the middle of the night after the three children fell asleep, and changed his words.

It's not that they are not all well-behaved, but "all" are not well-behaved.

In the beginning, they were all facing him uniformly, like three little cabbages lying side by side.

As a result, in the middle of the night, the bed was like a cabbage field after a strong wind passed through.

Zhong also curled up in the innermost part, looking like the most well-behaved one, but in fact, he also tightly pressed Ranbu's arms under his body.

Ranpo has turned sideways, his head resting on Chuya's stomach, his legs are entangled with Dazai Osamu's, almost twisted into a twist.

Osamu Dazai was struggling with his legs, and his arms were also... squeezing Chuya's face with all his might.

The child's soft cheeks were squeezed out of shape by him, and his mouth pouted.

...and a little cute.

Hikari Ueno admired the stable triangle for a while, and stepped forward to try to separate them.

But presumably the triangle is just too solid.

He raised his hand and looked down for a long time, but he didn't know where to start.

It's definitely not impossible to tear it apart, but it will definitely wake up these children.

Especially Osamu Dazai.

Hikari Ueno knew how light this kid was in sleep.

It seems that part of his brain is always in operation, even when he is in deep sleep, that part is doing high-intensity work, paying attention to the surrounding movements at any time.

As long as there is a slight noise in the room, he will quickly open his eyes.

It happened to be late at night when he finished another mission before, and when he stopped by to see Osamu Dazai, he accidentally bumped into the empty cup that was hanging precariously by his bedside.

Although Hikaru Ueno caught the cup before it hit the ground, the child woke up instantly and stared straight at him with sharp, sleepless eyes.

At that moment, Ueno Hikaru even thought he saw himself.

But he was sure it wasn't.

Because in the next second, Osamu Dazai showed a blank look, walked around the room vigilantly, and then lay back down again.

He only stayed for a while longer on the empty cup that was sitting upright on the table.

Later, when Ueno Hikaru came to see him again, he became more careful.

The moonlight shining through the window was suddenly blocked by shadows.

Hikaru Ueno suddenly came back to his senses, and looked up.

1126 was floating outside the window, with his hands raised, his face was tangled, as if hesitating whether to knock on the window or not.

Ueno Hikari made a silence gesture to him, and teleported out of the window.

The second after he disappeared from the room, Osamu Dazai, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly opened his eyes.

After staring at the empty bed for a few moments, the boy's gaze fell steadily on the two people outside the window.

Osamu Dazai had never seen the boy Shinigami opposite his brother before.

But this does not prevent him from judging that this god of death is the one who picked up his brother from what Luan Bu said.

The two people outside the window were very close, as if they were talking about something.

Osamu Dazai withdrew his gaze, and glanced at the other two children who were entangled and sleeping soundly.

Blinked lightly.

In fact, sleep is also quite shallow.

But that doesn't mean he can't secretly add something to their dinner.

Osamu Dazai moved the bodies of the two and switched positions, bringing himself closer to the window.

The sleeping child was very obedient, and he changed his position with a slight push.

He stuck to the window, carefully propped up half of his body, and pushed the window open, revealing a gap.

When he looked up at the two gods of death again, Osamu Dazai's pupils shrank suddenly, and the hand hidden under the window subconsciously touched his side, and then he remembered something and froze.

The boy Reaper who was facing him had noticed him.

Osamu Dazai narrowed his eyes under the gaze of the other party, and slightly raised the corners of his lips.

Showed a frivolous smile.

The young Grim Reaper didn't respond, and looked back indifferently.

It seems to have acquiesced in his "audience".

"I don't know what's going on, but..." The voice of the young Death God floated along the wind.

A little fuzzy, but a little clearer.

"It does show that the task timed out."

"Let you go back and accept punishment."

Dazai's expression turned cold instantly.

He couldn't hear what Hikaru Ueno said, he could only see that he nodded.

It seemed that he accepted the so-called punishment calmly.

Osamu Dazai looked at the young man's tall and thin back under the moonlight, and sneered in a low voice.

"Hmm—" Someone behind turned over and snorted.

The people outside seemed to have noticed something, and turned around halfway.

Osamu Dazai reacted instantly, closed the little gap, lay back before the young man looked over, and raised his hand to press Chuya's face.

……

The three children probably struggled again just now, but now their positions have been reversed again, and it has become Osamu Dazai curled up inside.

Hikaru Ueno retracted his gaze and looked at 1126 in confusion: "What's wrong?"

1126 just looked at the three of them several times, and for a moment his expression became a little unnatural.

1126 froze for a moment, then shook his head again and again.

"No, it's nothing." He scratched his head, "I'm just a little surprised that you are living with the three of them now."

Ueno was expressionless, and said coldly: "I thought the Eye of the Underworld would tell you this together."

1126 was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand with an embarrassed smile: "No, it just lets me pass on information."

Hikaru Ueno glanced at him, but said nothing.

1126 became a little uncomfortable, touched his nose, and said, "That, that..."

Hikaru Ueno: "You can also send a message for me."

1126: "Huh?"

"Help me tell the Eye of the Underworld. I will go back to receive the punishment after the matter here is over."

"Ah..." 1126 put down his hand, hesitated for a while, nodded, and agreed, "Okay."

He hesitated for a moment, and then reminded: "Then, you should hurry up."

Hikaru Ueno nodded: "I know."

He paused: "Thank you."

1126 blushed a little on his cheeks, he waved his hands in a panic and shook his head, said "no", then suddenly fell silent again.

Hikaru Ueno: "?"

"Actually..." 1126 lowered his voice and muttered, "I also think it's too much."

"Obviously there was no time limit mentioned at the beginning..."

Ueno Hikaru bent his eyes slightly and touched 1126's head.

Seemingly unintentionally, he responded casually: "It's not just this."

1126 lowered his head and remained silent.

Hikaru Ueno patted him: "Go back."

1126 squeezed his fists: "Have you ever thought about—"

Hikaru Ueno's index finger suddenly touched his lips, lowered his eyes, and said softly: "Go back."

Mr. Reaper put down his hand and watched the young Reaper's figure disappear into the moonlight little by little.

He looked up at the night sky.

The crescent moon looms between the clouds and the branches.

Then a gust of wind blew away the clouds, and a clear crescent moon hung high in the sky.

like some of his ideas.

Gradually becomes clear in the ink.

Ueno Hikaru looked away and took a step back.

The figure in mid-air flashed, reappeared, and had already returned to the house.

He looked down at the three teenagers on the bed.

Zhongya and Ranpo were anxiously together, as if they were fighting in a dream.

Osamu Dazai was still curled up inside, his hands clenched into fists and hugged in his arms.

Probably picked himself out of the tragic war between the three of them.

……

Early the next morning, the three children woke up one by one, one of them gave Ueno Hikaru a good morning hug in a daze, and then he pushed him to wash up.

Then they were brushing their teeth in the bathroom while arguing about something, so loud that no one could understand what they were arguing about.

As Osamu Dazai predicted, Shirase called while he was still having breakfast.

On the phone, his voice was extremely flustered and somewhat slurred.

He lowered his voice very low, and even cried a little in anxiety: "Zhong, Zhongye, help... The base is surrounded by people from the port Mafia."

Zhong also opened the public release, and everyone heard his cry for help.

Osamu Dazai laughed disdainfully on the spot.

Silenced Shirase over there for a few seconds.

Then he continued to ask for help: "Chuya, you, come here quickly. We..."

Zhong also stared at the phone in silence for a while, then agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Osamu Dazai leaned back on the phone, spreading his hands unsurprisingly.

"Look, I'll say it."

Zhong also grabbed his phone to look at him.

Osamu Dazai looked back in confusion, shrugged his shoulders, and said with a slight sarcasm in his tone: "No way, Chuya, don't you still think that this is just a coincidence, we just finished talking about it yesterday, and people from the port mafia came to the door today? .”

Zhong also frowned, and said in a rough voice: "I don't."

Hikaru Ueno didn't comment on the dispute between the two, he stood up directly, cleaned up the dishes with his ability, and said, "Let's go."

When the group of four arrived near the base, they saw a group of men in suits and black sunglasses surrounding the base.

Each of these people held a gun in his hand, and the black muzzle of the gun was facing the closed warehouse.

The whole atmosphere was dignified and anxious, as if in the next second, all the guns would go off at the same time.

They stood in a position to ensure that the other party would not find them, and Chuya called Shirase to tell them that he was nearby.

Shirase thanked God in a panic, and also had the time to care about his specific location.

Of course, this was expected by Ranpo and Osamu Dazai.

Nakaya truthfully told Shirase his location and hung up the phone.

After a while, half of the men in black around the base suddenly changed their positions in unison, and surrounded them silently towards the current position of the four of them.

"Look." Osamu Dazai drew a circle to include these people, and sneered, "The one named Shirase is quite quick to admit love."

"I just told him yesterday that you were being targeted by the port mafia, and I sold you today."

He sighed worryingly: "Oh, Chuya really doesn't know how to judge people at all."

Zhong Ye: "..."

He didn't make a sound, and pressed his fingers silently.

If it wasn't for Ueno Hikaru, he really wanted to clean up the person next to him before killing those guys.

The constantly moving man in black finally stopped, and the encirclement was completely completed.

The area they surrounded was not very small, including the area Chuya told Shirase.

"Start?" Osamu Dazai tilted his head to look at Ranpo, who was crouching next to Hikari Ueno, who was adding lollipops.

"Hmm..." Luanbu held up the lollipop and thought for a while, "Just wait a little longer."

"That's right." Osamu Dazai laughed, "It's more interesting if there are more people."

"But it's still very troublesome." Luanbu bit the lollipop into pieces.

Osamu Dazai helplessly spread his hands: "After all, he is sick."

The two seemed to be signaling something.

Zhong also was completely familiar with their way of speaking, and looked at Hikaru Ueno, and didn't even bother to ask.

They waited in place for a while, and there was a sound of footsteps coming from far and near.

Even though everyone suppressed their voices, they still looked chaotic and mocking because of the excessive number.

Immediately afterwards, a group of people appeared around the warehouse, together with the remaining half, surrounded the entire base.

Others merged into the encirclement circle around them, without the sound of footsteps, and they were nowhere to be seen.

The four of them were always in the clear.

They boldly stood at the highest point of the entire field, as if they planned to stand here as a living target for others.

The people in Port Mafia have been waiting for the arrival of these companions. It is estimated that they have scruples about them after hearing Shirase talk about Chuya's ability, so they dare not do it.

But now... it should be almost there.

Standing up, he squinted his eyes and looked around.

He seemed to be looking for something, but he seemed to be counting the number of people in his mouth.

He turned around, nodded in satisfaction, and found a small horn out of nowhere.

"Hey, can you hear me?" The boy's clear voice spread throughout the area through the loudspeaker.

Within a few seconds, Zhong also received a call from Shirase, asking him what was going on.

Before Chuya could speak, Osamu Dazai grabbed the phone.

The little liar bent his eyes and showed a cute smile, and said sweetly, "Of course it's to save you~"

The circle of people surrounding them obviously also heard this, and they all showed their heads from their respective ambush places, holding up their guns as if they were ready to shoot at any time.

Luanbu didn't panic, laughed a few times, suddenly put on a straight face, and shouted in a cold voice: "Don't move!"

The people below were stunned, and did not move for a while.

"So cute~" He walked and tilted his head in disorder, and said the second half of the line, "You are already surrounded."

At this time, those who had been standing still surrounding the base also moved.

They fired a shot at the warehouse, and one of them stood up and asked angrily: "You found other people to frame us?!"

A near-collapsed "We don't have it!!!" came from the warehouse

"Uncle, don't be so cruel to them." Osamu Dazai took the horn and shouted over there, "They really didn't."

"If you're worried, go check it out yourself."

Obviously, without Osamu Dazai saying much, they have already done this step.

As soon as Osamu Dazai finished speaking, another man in black ran up to the man and said something in a low voice.

Mr. Reaper's listening ability is far superior to that of ordinary people. In addition, in order to hear his words clearly, he strengthened his listening ability in advance.

So, Hikaru Ueno heard the message that was deliberately lowered.

Mr. Reaper obediently relayed: "He said he didn't notice any surroundings."

His voice was not loud, but Osamu Dazai put the horn over with a smile before Hikari Ueno could speak.

As a result, this sentence was amplified by countless decibels and reached the ears of every port mafia present.

The people below were stunned and looked up in astonishment.

It's like watching a monster.

"Oh, that's right." Luanbu tiptoed to the microphone and added, "It's you, surrounded by the four of us."

"Well, that's not right." Osamu Dazai retorted with a smile.

"You guys are surrounded by Chuya—"

At the same time as he said this, the people below also fired in unison.

Osamu Dazai's voice was lost in the continuous gunshots.

He turned off the horn and sighed regretfully.

The bullet was in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Osamu Dazai seemed completely unaware, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, motionless.

In the next second, the densely packed bullets stopped around the four people with a "swish".

As if hitting some invisible wall, they clanged and fell to the ground.

The people in that circle looked at them more like looking at monsters.

Even if the ability of the "King of Sheep" has been known in advance, the shock of witnessing it with one's own eyes cannot be achieved by imagination alone.

No matter how many bullets they fired, the four at the top stood still.

Nothing seemed to come near them.

When people like Port Mafia were surprised, Hikari Ueno was also surprised.

He remembered that when he left, Xiao Zhong couldn't control his abilities at all, but now it seemed that he could sit down and retract freely.

Although he helped him suppress some of his abilities before he left, being able to achieve such precise control is enough to prove that this young man is extremely talented.

Hikaru Ueno looked down at Nakaya who was standing a few steps in front of him, bent his eyes, and rubbed the boy's orange hair.

The young man looked back blankly, with a bit of arrogance on his face that he hadn't had time to fully retract.

Hikaru Ueno praised: "It's great."

Zhong Ye was stunned for a moment, and looked away embarrassedly, his ears turned red quietly.

"What?" Osamu Dazai pouted and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Obviously I'm great too."

Hikaru Ueno nodded earnestly and said, "You are also great."

"You're all great."

When he didn't notice at all, he grew a lot silently.

When Ueno was boasting, the bullets below were still pouring in persistently, and they were all blocked by Zhongya.

He seemed to have become a little impatient, he stored up some of the bullets he fired, and returned them all.

Central Plains is not very concerned about the life and death of these people.

But he knew Hikari Ueno didn't like it.

Although Mr. Reaper is doing the work of Reaper, he cherishes life very much.

Perhaps it is precisely because he is doing the work of the god of death that he has a respect for life that far exceeds that of human beings.

When sending the bullets back, Zhong Yuanzhong also deliberately controlled them to ensure that the bullets at most knocked these people unconscious, and would not really take their lives.

Osamu Dazai noticed his small movements, glanced at him, and remained silent.

In fact, Ueno Hikaru did not "respect life" as Nakahara Chuya thought.

Mr. Reaper is not much different from the Reaper in human conception.

He doesn't care about life.

Probably just because of some unpleasant experiences in the past, I hate the behavior of "playing with life".

Well, like what he looks like now.

Osamu Dazai smiled, and quietly held the hem of Hikaru Ueno's clothes that was blown up by the wind.

Even if Chuya really killed all these people today, it is absolutely impossible for Hikaru Ueno to hate them because of this.

He has experienced large and small wars in his long life, and has harvested countless souls, and he will never care about this mere hundred.

What my brother cares about is their life and future.

So I don't want them to be exposed to death too much, I don't want them to...

Sinful.

Sensing his small movements, Ueno Hikaru lowered his head and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Osamu Dazai shook his head and said with a smile, "My brother will always be our brother."

Hikaru Ueno was stunned for a moment, then said without hesitation: "Yes."

"Then after you leave this time, you should visit us often."

"Ah."

Zhong Ye turned his head to look over, frowned and asked, "What are you muttering about?"

"Ah, you're saying 'the king of sheep is nothing more than that'." Dazai Osamu looked serious, "I haven't dealt with those annoying guys yet."

He raised his hand and pointed to the other side, and said with a smile: "The sheep will be taken care of by those guys."

Nakaya and Hikaru Ueno looked at the place he pointed at the same time.

The gate of the base has been blasted open at some point, and the entire warehouse looks like it has experienced a war, and it has become more dilapidated than before.

The children hiding in the warehouse have also been arrested, thrown in the middle of the warehouse, and tied together with ropes.

Nakaya looked around from afar, looking at Osamu Dazai and Ranpo.

"Where's pomelo apricot?"

Osamu Dazai thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized: "Ah, that pink-haired girl?"

Ranbu took the words very naturally: "I asked her to help me buy small cakes today."

Zhong Ye: "?"

"Why?" Luanbu wrinkled his nose, "The cakes in that newly opened cake shop are hard to buy."

"Long queues and always sold out."

Zhong Ye: "..."

His mood was a bit complicated, and he was silent for a while, but he didn't say anything after all.

Hikaru Ueno watched those men in black roughly pushing those children, pursed his lips, and asked coldly, "These children?"

"Well, they will take him away and lock him up." Osamu Dazai replied, "As for what will happen afterwards, we don't know."

They had introduced Port Mafia to Ueno Hikari last night, so Ueno Hikari knew what kind of organization it was.

He frowned, didn't speak, and looked up at Chuya who had rushed down to "solve" those men in black.

Ranbu pointed to the tall, dark buildings, and said, "Those five buildings are their territory, as I said yesterday."

Ueno nodded.

He was silent for a while, and said under the watchful eyes of the two children, "I'm going for a trip."

Not surprised, the two nodded at the same time.

Luanbu: "We can get over these people together in the meantime."

Osamu Dazai had already raised the trumpet and shouted: "Chuya! Hurry up~ Brother can't wait!"

Hikaru Ueno: "..."

He looked at the obviously accelerated speed below, and snatched the trumpet from Osamu Dazai.

"Don't worry, take your time."

He paused, and added with some hesitation: "Don't be tired."

The man in black who was still awake felt that he had been humiliated.

These people really don't pay attention to them at all! ! !

Anger gave them new strength, and the men in black dropped their guns and rushed forward.

Then he was also kicked out by Zhongyuan Zhong.

……

The Central Plains was not "fighting", but "cleaning the battlefield".

A completely one-sided war is nothing to look at, and it ends very quickly.

When Zhongyuan Zhongye returned to the high ground, he even adjusted his breath.

The place below was a mess, piled up with fainted port mafias.

When Zhong also cleaned up these people, he also cleaned up the other group by the way.

He first stood in front of the tied "sheep", said something to them, and then returned to Ueno Hikaru and the others.

When leaving, the "King of Sheep" didn't look at his former "subordinates" again.

Soon after the four people left, Youxing ran out from somewhere and cut the ropes that bound these people.

"I won't be with you in the future." The girl held a fruit knife and lowered her head to avoid Shirase's sight.

"Don't bother them any more."

Shirase was stunned: "Youxing, you—"

"I have a new place to go." Yuxing looked up at Shirase, and bowed shortly to him, "Thank you for your care during this time."

"The new place you mentioned..." Shirase asked, "Is it the organization of those people?"

Youxing froze for a moment, smiled and shook her head.

"No, they are not organized."

There was a little longing and loneliness in the girl's eyes: "That's their home. I can't get in."

"...they found me a job."

Shirase wanted to ask something else, but the girl had already avoided his outstretched hand.

"That's it, I wish you all the best in the future."

After Yuxing finished speaking, she turned and left.

……

On the other side, Hikaru Ueno teleported directly and took the three children to the port mafia building.

Five black buildings towered into the sky, carrying an indescribable sense of oppression.

Hikaru Ueno looked up, and just as he walked out of the alley, he turned around and bumped into a certain little girl.

It was a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes wearing a red Xiaoyang dress.

It looks much smaller than Chuya and Dazai.

She was probably hurt by the bump, and she covered her nose with tears in her eyes and looked up, humming, and grabbed Hikari's pants with her other hand.

Luanbu immediately jumped over and pulled her hand away: "Hey! What are you doing?"

The little girl was stunned for a moment, and glared at him angrily.

"He hit me!"

Luanbu was also furious: "It's obvious that you don't look at the road."

"Random steps." Ueno Hikaru patted his younger brother's head and softly stopped him.

Luanbu snorted, grabbed his sleeve and stopped talking.

"Alice-chan, don't run around—" came the man's voice, and at the end, the mellow ending stopped abruptly.

Hikaru Ueno looked up, and met the eyes of the black-haired young man in a white coat across from him.

The hair on the young man's forehead was pulled back, and there was still stubble on his chin.

Both of them seemed to be taken aback for a moment, and then the man across from him pulled the little girl over, touched his head and apologized to Shang Yeguang.

Hikaru Ueno was a little uncomfortable with the man's enthusiasm: "...it's okay."

The man in the white coat chatted with them familiarly: "Where are you going?"

Hikaru Ueno nodded and pointed to the black building not far away.

"Something to find their leader."

"Eh?"

"Hey what, uncle." Luanbu curled his lips and made a face at him, "It's impossible for you not to know."

The man laughed awkwardly, bent down and stretched out his hand, trying to touch Luanbu's head, but was dodged.

He didn't care, and looked at Hikari Ueno with a natural attitude and a smile, and said, "It doesn't seem right to take the children here, right?"

Hikaru Ueno really thought so.

Even though these three children have grown a lot, they also show a maturity that does not match their age.

He still didn't want them to touch it.

but……

The man saw his embarrassment, pointed to an inconspicuous small house next to the building, and said, "I work in the clinic over there, why don't you let them stay with me for a while?"

He did look like a doctor, too.

Hikaru Ueno hesitated for a moment, then looked down at the three children surrounding him.

Osamu Dazai stared at the doctor and smiled: "We can do anything, brother."

Chuya: "...um."

Luanbu hummed, but didn't speak.

"Then I will trouble you." Hikari Ueno bowed slightly to the doctor.

"No trouble, no trouble." The man waved his hand, "I also like children very much."

Hikaru Ueno bent over and rubbed Ranbu's head, and said softly, "I'll be out soon."

Luanbu let him rub for a while, tilted his head and rubbed his palm, and reluctantly agreed: "That's good."

After he agreed, he gave the doctor a fierce look by the way.