After retirement I became a guardian of troubled youth

Three months is actually quite short for Reaper.

After all, the lifespan of a god of death can be said to be almost infinitely long. As long as you don't make any big mistakes and don't forcefully ask to leave your job, the lifespan of an official god of death can be as long as that of the underworld.

And the treatment of the god of death is not generally good.

Reapers who have completed the normal retirement period can own a house of their own, and have the opportunity to travel freely to the world for one month every year.

It's the lifelong dream of many Death Gods.

But not Ueno's.

Hikaru Ueno didn't even think he'd be able to retire normally.

After all, he was about 100 years away from his normal retirement time.

Although he is recognized as the highest-level Shinigami, in fact, Ueno Hikaru has been punished many times.

His latest punishment, for example, was to allow the souls of teenagers trapped in schools after the earthquake to finally be reunited with their parents.

After the mission was over, he was tied up in an ice cave for three months of confinement.

The main reason is his own personality, which probably conflicts with the position of the God of Death....

Especially this god of death who specializes in harvesting children's souls.

Hikaru Ueno held up his sickle, looking down at the child who was trembling quietly and pretending to be calm.

Although he is doing the cruel work of harvesting the souls of children, he still likes children in essence.

The child always has an aura that cannot be felt in the world of hell, like the clean sunshine in the world.

and so……

A former colleague told him not to always be so soft-hearted before leaving the job. In the end, he got a lot of fines on his back. He was obviously the first in business ability, but he always ranked at the bottom in KPI at the end of the year.

Hikaru Ueno thought about it, and felt that he was not soft-hearted when facing this child this time.

They had agreed that he would leave with him when his wish was fulfilled.

And in three months, it probably won't touch the bottom line of the rules of Huangquanjie.

A little punishment is commonplace for him, and it doesn't matter if he gives the child a little more time.

And indeed, as Ranpo himself said, he had a little different emotion towards this kid than before.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to the other party's "wish" from the very beginning.

What's more, he can also use this reason to do fewer missions.

According to this child's words - skipping work.

Escape is shameful, but useful.

The silver sickle turned into star debris and disappeared, Hikaru Ueno nodded and agreed to his request: "Yes, three months."

Ranbu Chick nodded as if pecking at rice, and the original panic disappeared immediately.

He came up and grabbed his clothes and shook them familiarly: "The one just now, can you look at it again?"

Hikaru Ueno: "?"

The kid's mood changes really quickly. One second, he was shrunk to the side in fear, and the next second he can come over and grab his clothes.

Also ask.

Ranbu stretched out his hand and gestured, and said expectantly: "It's the magic that the knife disappears! Look at it!"

Hikaru Ueno realized what he was talking about, confused: "...does it look good?"

He has been watching it for hundreds of years, but he really doesn't think it looks good.

Luanbu nodded: "Yeah!"

"Let me see it again. Other older brothers will agree to my younger brother's request." The child blinked, his face was taken for granted, and there was a little cute cunning hidden in his eyes.

"Aren't we brothers? Of course the elder brother should spoil the younger brother."

Hikaru Ueno pondered for a moment, then nodded.

The handsome silver sickle drew an arc in the air.

It is normal for children to be curious about new things.

Ueno Hikari also didn't know if other elder brothers "loved" his younger brother like this.

In short, this afternoon, he was pestered by an extremely curious kid to perform "Closing the Knife" dozens of times.

The stars of the previous time had not had time to completely disappear, and the next time would follow.

The silvery star debris overlapped and covered the entire room, turning this small room into a galaxy.

Edogawa sat in the Milky Way in disorder, his eyes sparkling.

Hikaru Ueno repeated the movements mechanically, looked at Ranpo, and thought, this might be the cutest child he has ever seen.

Although the word "so far" was used, Hikaru Ueno recalled it.

He has harvested tens of thousands of young and young souls, but he has never been with a certain soul for such a long time like now.

Or even, he had never spent so much time with a grim reaper.

Whether human or fellow Death, they all harbor a kind of fear of him.

But in this child's eyes, the faint fear was almost negligible.

Three months is negligible to me, not to mention the two people spend less than a day together.

but……

Hikaru Ueno put away the knife, and quietly touched the child's cheek with the knuckles of his index finger in the falling galaxy.

Through a thin layer of gloves, the warm and soft feeling is still clearly transmitted.

It's a touch I've never felt before.

This task object called "Edogawa Ranpo" made him feel a little unexpected surprise.

Maybe there are some other emotions.

Hikari Ueno is not very able to tell.

But he thought that after Edogawa Ranpo's soul disappeared, he would try his best to remember the boy for as long as possible.

And these strange feelings he brought to himself.

The sleeping child felt his touch, frowned and hummed, turned around, and curled up on the tatami.

At a certain moment that Ueno Hikaru didn't even notice, his cold eyebrows softened a little.

……

Mr. Death doesn't need to sleep.

Hikaru Ueno sat by the window and waited for dawn, unconsciously twirling his fingertips, thinking a little bit about the small bodies and heads he had left in the cave.

Pinching something, or carving something, is his rare interest.

His works are usually people, or rather, souls.

The soul he once harvested.

Ueno Hikaru has a memory that is different from most Shinigami.

He seems to have a picture album that is updated at any time in his mind.

The album records the souls he has harvested in the past three years.

Excessive memory is a very painful thing for Death.

Death is not a good memory even for the god of death, and there are even many newly appointed gods of death who cannot bear the pressure and pain, causing their souls to be torn apart.

The memory of most of the gods of death is only one day, except for those common people and things, other things will not exist in their brains for more than one day.

Maybe they are just a little bit stronger than fish, if calculated according to the ratio of lifespan...they are not as good as fish.

So being able to remember the souls harvested in three years, I have to say that Hikari Ueno is already very good.

The excellent Mr. Reaper changed his posture.

The sun gradually rose, and Hikari Ueno moved to a place closer to the sun without making a sound.

There is no sunshine in the underworld.

So this moment is especially cherished.

When the sun was high, Luanbu got up sleepily from the tatami, rubbed his eyes and looked towards the window.

He didn't sleep very well, he tossed all night like a war, and his fringed hair looked like it had been bombed.

Ranbu yawned, and opened his arms towards the blurred figure by the window while he was half asleep.

Hikaru Ueno:?

He stared blankly at the child's actions, pondered for a while, then reluctantly moved to the side, moved into the shadows, and gave him the sunlight from the entire window.

Random steps:?

Luanbu was woken up by his movement, staring at him with wide eyes in confusion, pursed his mouth: "What are you doing?"

Hikaru Ueno didn't understand: "What are you going to do?"

Ranbu squinted his eyes and thought for a while, counting with his fingers: "Change clothes, wash up, have breakfast together, and good morning hugs."

He paused and wrinkled his nose: "Forget about the last one, we're not that familiar now."

Then he hugged himself and said energetically, "Good morning!"

Ueno Hikaru thought for a while, and said seriously: "But we have nothing now, and you don't need to change clothes."

Ranbu: "..."

"Ah—that's disgusting."

And lay back on the tatami, buried his face in his arms.

"We need to first..." Hikari Ueno thought for a while, "Own your currency."

He looked at the child in the middle of the room who was rolling himself up, moved back quietly, caught the sunlight, and asked, "Do you know of a faster way?"

The voice of Luanbu came out muffled: "If you want to grab it, it's faster."

Hikaru Ueno searched his knowledge base carefully: "Is it the thief industry? Or □□?"

"I can do anything." He concluded, "but I can't hurt people."

Ranbu: "..."

"What can you do!" He raised his head abruptly, glaring at Hikari Ueno angrily.

"Do you want me to just have a brother... brother will go to the police station!"

Hikaru Ueno: "It seems to be okay."

Luanbu: "???"

"If I just want to be a policeman, my identity is not easy to deal with."

Ranbu: "..."

He dared to assert that he had never met such an unreasonable adult.

There will never be another one! ! !

"Wow, you really don't know anything! What would you do without me?" He jumped up, pushed down the fried hair, straightened the wrinkled clothes, grabbed Ueno Hikaru's arm, and brought People left the room.

"...Sorry." Ueno Hikaru let him drag, and after a while, he said suddenly: "But without you, I wouldn't live in the world."

"So, thanks."

He looked serious.

Ranbu was a little uncomfortable by his sudden thank you, he looked away awkwardly, and dragged him downstairs without saying a word.

After leaving the building and walking a few steps forward, I happened to meet a street lamp with a bunch of papers pasted on it.

Luanbu dragged Hikaru Ueno to stop in front of the street lamp, stood on tiptoe and poked the small advertisement on it.

"This kind of place usually has some recruitment information posted, you can see if you are pleasing to the eye."

Hikaru Ueno nodded obediently, and leaned over to look.

"Short-term boyfriend?"

"no!"

"Home maintenance?"

"Do you know?!"

"……private teacher?"

"To teach children how to send themselves to the Underworld?"

"...late night service?"

"...No! What are you looking at!"

Hikaru Ueno was innocent, so he tore off the advertising paper and showed it to him.

Ranbu: "..."

"This, these are unreliable, let's change the way!"

The kid dragged Ueno Hikaru away from this place of right and wrong as if fleeing.

Hikaru Ueno glanced back at the advertising paper that fell on the ground, and said "oh".

A little disappointed.

He didn't even know what those were, and Luanbu didn't explain them to him.

He clearly said he understood.

But in fact, after all, he is just a child.

"Here, that person, do you see that?" Luan Bu stopped, pointing to a middle-aged man walking on the street.

"Ah."

"Just use him."

Hikaru Ueno: "?"

"make money!"

Luanbu patted him, stepped forward confidently, stopped in front of the man, and raised his head: "Hey, uncle!"

The man was forced to stop, looked down at him impatiently, and said in a low and rough voice, "What are you doing?"

"Your wife is with other men. If you give me money, I will tell you what to do."

The man stared and yelled at him cursingly: "You little brat, what nonsense are you talking about! You can also know about my affairs! Who the hell is this kid running around, don't you know what to do?? ?”

Luanbu curled his lips and snorted: "You don't believe it? I have—"

"You fart!" The man picked him up directly.

Luanbu struggled and shook his legs, shouting, "Let go of me! I have evidence!!"

"You have evidence of fart! Get out of here!" The man roared angrily, and threw him out.

Ranbu closed his eyes, the expected pain did not come, someone held him in his arms.

He froze for a moment, looked up, and saw Hikari Ueno's slightly lowered eyes.

The young man's eyes were deep and calm.

He suddenly felt aggrieved, clutched the clothes on Hikaru Ueno's chest tightly, sniffed, lowered his head, and called out "brother" in a muffled voice.

"Oh, you're his brother, aren't you?" The man nodded casually, looked up and down at Ueno Hikaru contemptuously, and sneered, "Are you sick?"

"That's right, I think you look like a sick person. My brother doesn't know what to do? What the hell are you talking about with me here! Do you deserve a beating?!"

"Ah? Talk, you know you're afraid now? Don't dare to speak out? Where were you when your brother was chattering with me just now? Why didn't you know you were afraid at that time?"

"Open your fucking mouth for me! Show your face! Are you looking for a beating? Let me tell you that I'm in a bad mood today..." The man rolled up his sleeves while cursing.

He looked very strong and well muscled.

Compared with the thin Ueno Hikaru, it is completely two levels.

The man took a step forward full of anger, and without hesitation punched Kakino Hikari in the face.

The forward momentum of the powerful fist came to an abrupt end, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move forward an inch. The man looked up in amazement.

Hikaru Ueno was holding Ranbu with one hand, and the other hand in a black glove was in front of his fist, looking effortless.

The man was stunned, and he used all his strength, let alone hitting the opponent, he couldn't even draw his hand now.

This person looks thin and weak, but in fact he is strong as hell.

He was scared in an instant, and while pulling his hand back, he said, "You, you let me go, I, I won't beat you up, I'm leaving now."

Ueno Hikaru stared at him for two seconds, then looked down at the unresponsive Luanbu, nodded, and let go of him.

The man staggered backwards and fell to the ground.

Hikaru Ueno looked at him with downcast eyes, hugged Luanbu, bowed to the person, and said coldly: "Sorry, my brother just crossed the boundary."

Luanbu snorted, watched the man get up from the ground and run away, grabbed the front of Ueno Hikaru's clothes, and muttered softly: "These adults are really unreasonable."

Hikaru Ueno was silent for a moment, and followed his meaning with a "hmm".

The vehicles passing by blew their horns "beep beep beep" and rolled up the remaining water on the ground.

Hikaru Ueno dodged to the side, put down his random steps, and said, "So, this doesn't work either."

Ranbu: "..."

"I have another method."

Hikaru Ueno: "?"

Luanbu looked at him a few times and said, "You can be someone else's bodyguard, it's very profitable now."

He lowered his head, kicked away a stone on the side of the road, and muttered in a very small voice: "But this way, no one will accompany me."

Hikaru Ueno: "Huh?"

"It's nothing." The child clapped his hands and then his arm, "Let's go, I'll take you to make a lot of money."

Ueno Hikaru did not hesitate, without any doubt: "Okay."

Ranbu brought Yeguang to a well-known local firm, which is in charge of bodyguards and other businesses.

The people from the firm received them politely and took them to the reception room.

The young lady who led the way grabbed a handful of fruit candies for Luanbu, and took Ueno Hikaru to another room.

Sitting in that room was a young man in a suit and leather shoes, with a full aristocratic air in his gestures.

The man was sitting on the sofa, and behind the sofa were ten burly men standing upright.

"Hi, my name is Tsushima." The man nodded slightly and greeted Hikari Ueno.

Hikaru Ueno nodded: "Hello."

"I heard that you are short of money. Of course, my salary here is better than others. But I also have higher requirements for you." The man raised his chin slightly, and hooked his fingers at the person behind him.

"So before I officially hire you, I need to do a small test on you."

The moment the voice fell, the ten strong men behind the sofa rushed towards Hikari Ueno at the same time.

……

Edogawa randomly opened a fruit candy and put it in his mouth, then immediately wrinkled his nose and spit out the candy.

"Don't you like sour food?" A child's soft voice suddenly came from the side.

He froze for a moment, then turned his head to look.

A child in a small and delicate black suit had sat quietly beside him at some point, holding a little plush dog in his arms, staring at him with curiosity in his iris eyes.

Luanbu opened his eyes wide and said, "Of course not! Don't you like it?"

The little boy nodded, grabbed a handful of fruit candy and handed it to him.

"Like it. Do you want to try these?"