After retirement I became a guardian of troubled youth

Hikaru Ueno looked down at the boy in front of him, pursed his lips, and a shadow fell in his eyes.

The chaotically long eyelashes rubbed against his palm, like a cat's tail sweeping across his heart.

Hikaru Ueno's fingertips trembled slightly, and he raised his other hand to catch his fallen body.

Luanbu lay in his arms, unconsciously rubbing against his chest, breathing gradually became longer.

Hikaru Ueno lightly placed him on the tatami and wrapped him in a thin quilt.

The hurricane outside the window did not know when it had stopped, and it was quiet outside now, everything fell silent in the quiet night.

Hikaru Ueno straightened up, stared out of the window for a while, then turned around hastily and left Ranbu as if he came back to his senses.

There are still some things on the table that haven't been cleaned up, the children's clothes hanging outside have not been taken back, and the textbooks for tomorrow's school are still scattered on the desk...

Ueno Hikaru did everything one by one, making everything orderly.In the end, I used a little ability to clean the house quietly.

Ranbu curled up there the whole time and fell asleep, frowning tightly, as if he was having a bad dream.

Hikaru Ueno stood beside him, silent for a moment, then slowly squatted down, stretched out his hand, and hung it above the child's eyebrows.

The fingertips wrapped in the black cloth trembled slightly.

He carefully looked at Luanbu's appearance, then bent down, and carefully smoothed the wrinkles between the boy's brows.

There was a piece of letter paper folded in half on the desk. He didn't look at it or touch it when he just cleaned it up. He just left the letter paper squarely in the center of the desk, reflected under the desk lamp, and cast a shadow on the edge.

Hikaru Ueno stood up and looked towards the room that was used as a study.

Now he suddenly wanted to take a look at that letter and see what was written in it.

Look at what this child who knew his departure had left him in the end.

But he didn't move in the end.

He just silently raised his eyes to look out the window, and took a step forward.

Taking a step forward, he has already reached the window.

Hikaru Ueno turned around and looked at Ranpo through the window.

The frown was already relaxed, and the corner of the child's mouth opened into a faint smile.

The dreams created by Mr. Death are not all nightmares.

He pointed his index finger on the window and carefully drew a symbol.

A layer of dark purple ripples spread out little by little around his index finger, silently enveloping the entire room.

Hikaru Ueno's black hair, which fell behind him, gradually turned white from the ends.

The white finally stopped at the waist, and against the black hair, it showed a bit of transparent whiteness.

A gust of wind rolled up the tail of her hair, and Hikari Ueno turned around and looked at 1126.

The young Grim Reaper looked at him from afar, with a look of sadness in his eyes.

"Are you...are you really going to give up?" 1126 looked at him and asked softly.

Hikaru Ueno nodded slightly and walked towards him step by step.

The branches and leaves of the big trees on both sides suddenly spread out like crazy, leaving him a completely wide space.

The god of death is an existence that everyone fears, let alone a god of death like Hikaru Ueno.

Not just humans, as long as there is a living being, they will be afraid of him.

This is the breath that has settled down during his long years as the god of death, it cannot be dissipated, and it will accompany him for a lifetime.

Only Ranpo was not afraid of him, and even established such a deep relationship with him.

Well, there's that kid named Xiuzhi.

Ueno Hikaru smiled and stood still in front of 1126.

1126 looked at him and was stunned.

Hikaru Ueno said softly, "Let's go."

1126 struggling: "...do you really stop thinking about it?"

Hikaru Ueno looked into his eyes and asked calmly, "Do you need it?"

1126 was suddenly speechless, shook his head silently, and put his hand on Hikari Ueno's shoulder.

The figures of the two gods of death gradually disappeared.

"The Eye of the Underworld said, after you go back...you will be punished first."

"I know."

"To... extract one of the seven souls."

"I know."

"It's still in confinement."

"I know."

"..."

"You, don't you have anything to ask?"

When 1126 said the last sentence, the two of them just set foot on the land of the underworld.

Hikaru Ueno stood by the flowing river, looked up at the blurred scene on the other side of the river, turned his head to look at 1126, and asked:

"Can you tell bedtime stories?"

1126 was stunned: "Huh?"

But Hikari Ueno had already walked out.

"It's nothing." His voice drifted over from the front, hiding a little imperceptible loneliness in the usual indifference.

The extraction of the seven souls must be carried out inside the Eye of the Underworld.

No Reaper is allowed in here unless punished.

So no god of death knows what it's like inside.

Before Ye Guang came back, 1126 looked up a lot of information, trying to give him some comfort, but he couldn't find anything.

It can only be vaguely glimpsed from the past records, it seems that a long time ago, someone entered here because of punishment.

He stood in front of Huang Quan, looking at the figure in front of him worriedly.

"that……"

The person in front did not respond.

1126 took a deep breath and raised the volume a little: "Mr. Ueno."

Mr. Reaper turned his head, and the tail of snow-white hair slid out an arc.

"Before, there was a god of death who went in. He, he was fine, so you must also..."

Hikaru Ueno looked at his tense appearance, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"I know." He paused and said, "Thank you."

Mr. Reaper stepped into the Eye of the Underworld, and his figure gradually disappeared.

1126 heard his last words——

"The one from last time was also me."

Ueno Hikaru and Huang Quanjie are really at odds.

He's not fit to be a god of death.

The last time he came in was because he dragged the task to the last second of the time limit every time.

That time, he was imprisoned for 1 year.

and also……

Hikari Ueno slowly took off the clothes that he had never taken off in front of anyone.

On the back, shallow scars criss-crossed across the entire skin.

Hundreds of years later, these scars have not completely faded.

With a "pop", the translucent yellow space completely darkened.

Will extracting the seven souls be more painful than whipping?

Ueno thought for a second.

Then passed out from the pain.

When he woke up again, Hikaru Ueno found that his limbs had been bound by iron chains and placed in the deepest part of an ice cave.

He stared blankly at the huge ice block on the ground for a long time before recalling what happened.

To put it simply, the Eye of the Underworld took away the "anger" in his seven souls.

Ueno suddenly smiled.

Good luck this time, he thought.

The seven souls are drawn randomly, as for "angry"...he seems to have rarely touched this soul.

The only bad thing is that the pain after being taken away has been continuous.

He narrowed his eyes and unconsciously fell into a coma again.

……

The time of confinement depends on the time of the next mission.

When he was released, 1126 told him the time.

Ueno Hikaru stood at the entrance of the ice cave and thought for a while, and found that he hadn't been locked up for too long this time.

It's about the same as last time, about a year.

"Well, this is your task." 1126 carefully handed over a note.

Hikaru Ueno took the note and said "Thank you" softly.

He didn't go to the human world immediately as usual, but went to the abandoned mail receiving station.

Letters from the world are all piled up here.

Hikaru Ueno stood at the entrance, looking at the "garbage dump" in front of him.

It's even messier here than the last time he was here.

1126 looked at him suspiciously: "This, here?"

Hikaru Ueno raised his hand and waved it out of thin air.

The hill-like pile of letters suddenly began to shake and collapse.

Small envelopes flew out one by one, and were stacked at Hikaru Ueno's feet.

He looked at the pile of letters getting higher and higher, and a rare smile appeared in his eyes.

"My...brother, write me a letter."

1126: "?"

He froze for a moment, and suddenly realized who the "brother" Ueno Hikaru was referring to.

1126: "...Oh."

The envelopes were finally stacked to waist height.

The note in Hikaru Ueno's hand flickered, as if urging him to go to the world to complete the task quickly.

He squeezed the note, turned to look at 1126 with a solemn expression.

1126 was made nervous by his expression, swallowed his saliva involuntarily, and looked at him solemnly.

"What, what's wrong?"

Hikaru Ueno pointed to the letter stacked beside him: "Please help me move these back to where I live."

1126 was taken aback.

Hikaru Ueno: "I want to see it when I come back."

1126's eyes changed, as if he looked at him speechlessly, after a moment of silence, he said, "...Oh, good."

Hikaru Ueno nodded, "Thank you."

Then disappeared in place.

Can't be in a hurry.

As if thinking that he could come back from the world in a second, and read these waist-high letters one by one.

But the task did not go well.

The soul he was going to harvest this time was in the middle of an explosion.

The explosion affected a large area of ​​the city called "Yokohama", leaving it completely in ruins.

Ueno Hikaru walked among the ruins and corpses, and found the soul he was going to harvest this time under a broken wall.

body of.

It was an orange-haired boy who looked smaller than Ranbu and was about the same age as Xiuzhi.

His body was covered in blood and his body was covered in cuts and bruises.

Hikari Ueno is used to leaving a complete body for each harvested soul.

So, he chopped up the wall, took out the boy's body, and tapped him on the forehead and on both shoulders.

The body like a rag doll was instantly intact. This is a good-looking boy.

Ueno Hikaru looked at the boy twice, and frowned at the boy's brow.

The soul left the body, and the boy floated in the air, staring at him for a while in astonishment, and then looked down at his body.

Hikaru Ueno waited for him to see enough, and said, "I am the god of death, and I will take you out of here."

"Am I dead?" the boy asked.

Ueno nodded.

The boy froze for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "That's it, that's great."

He stretched out his arms towards Ueno Hikaru, with anticipation in his eyes: "Then, take me away quickly."

Hikaru Ueno was slightly stunned, and for some unknown reason, he subconsciously asked, "Why?"

The boy blinked, as if he was a little puzzled by his question, but he still explained: "I don't want to be an experiment anymore."

He pursed his mouth and muttered in a low voice: "It's too painful."

"I wanted to die a long time ago, but they never let me go." The boy squatted down, poked his face, and laughed again, "Now I can finally leave."

Ueno Hikaru looked at his childish behavior, was silent for a moment, and nodded.

A sickle appeared beside him, and he reached out to hold it, with the blade facing the boy.

"Shh."

The sickle cut across the boy's soul, and a little dark purple flame lit up.

Then, nothing happened.

Hikaru Ueno was taken aback for a moment, and so was the boy.

"What's wrong? Didn't work?"

Hikaru Ueno frowned and said nothing.

The boy patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, our experiments often fail, just try a few more times."

Hikaru Ueno: "..."

Harvesting souls is probably not the same as experimenting with them.

But he listened to the boy's persuasion and tried a few more times.

Without exception.

The sickle cuts a loneliness.

boy:"……"

Hikaru Ueno: "..."

The boy squatted down in frustration, raised his head and asked him, "What should I do?"

Hikaru Ueno looked at him, pondered for a moment, and said, "Go back to your body first."

The boy opened his eyes wide and shook his head immediately: "I don't want it!"

Ueno Hikaru explained: "You go back first, so I can find out the reason."

"Only by finding the reason can we find a way to take you away."

The boy stared at him for a few seconds, and reluctantly agreed: "Okay."

Of course, there might be no way to take him away.

Hikari Ueno didn't say the second half of the sentence.

He didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble and waste unnecessary time for himself.

The boy tugged at his clothes and asked worriedly, "How long will it take you?"

Hikaru Ueno thought for a while and said, "One month."

"One month?! So long..."

This time Ueno Hikaru didn't explain, just nodded.

The boy poked his body and hesitated for a long time, then nodded: "Okay, one month."

One month is the shortest period required for a comprehensive observation of the soul.

After a month, he will be able to determine the reason for this by observing the boy's soul.

There are only a few possible reasons.

The boy should not have died at this time.

His soul and this body are not original match.

His soul or this body is mixed with other things, which are enough to affect things in the underworld.

Hikaru Ueno put away his sickle, and a bracelet appeared in the palm of his right hand.

The color of the bracelet is exactly the same as the boy's hair color.

"This is?" The boy leaned over and looked at the bracelet curiously.

"It's a prop to confirm the reason." Ueno Hikaru said, "reach out."

The boy let out an "oh" and obediently stretched out his left hand.

Hikaru Ueno put the bracelet on his wrist.

The boy's wrist is very slender, with prominent carpal bones.

Hikaru Ueno took a second look and subconsciously compared it with the other two children.

Seeing him not moving, the boy shook his wrist: "Is it all right?"

Hikaru Ueno regained consciousness, put down his hand, and nodded.

The boy shook the bracelet and seemed to like it.

He pointed to himself, then pointed to his body lying on the ground, and asked, "Then you want to stuff me back now?"

Hikaru Ueno nodded, thought for a while, and said before pushing the person back: "You have to remember to cooperate with me."

There are indeed some people who return from the soul state to the sex state, and they will completely forget what happened in the soul state.

Ueno Hikaru is also ready to explain to others.

However, judging from the child's personality, he should be quite easy to talk about, and it wouldn't take too much effort to explain it again.

The boy nodded: "Okay. We must cooperate!"

"Nakahara Chuya." Hikaru Ueno called out his name, "Go back to your original habitat."

"Snapped."

With a crisp sound, the boy's soul disappeared.

The boy lying on the ground moved his fingers.

Hikaru Ueno looked at him quietly, raised his hand and nodded between his eyebrows.

The boy moved his fingers again, and slowly opened his eyes.

Face to face with Hikaru Ueno.

The next second, Zhong Yuanzhong also suddenly turned over, jumped behind a broken wall, and stared at him vigilantly.

Hikaru Ueno was stunned for a moment, a little unexpected that the other party would have such a reaction.

"Who are you?" Zhong Yuan Zhong also looked at him with a slightly condensed expression.

Hikaru Ueno: "Reaper..."

He had just said a word in the opening remarks that he had prepared, when the boy had already rolled over from behind the broken wall and rushed straight towards him.

The child's speed far exceeded normal levels, and he was in front of Hikaru Ueno in a blink of an eye.

The small figure leaped into the air and kicked him in the face.

Hikaru Ueno was surprised, and subconsciously flashed back.

The boy took the opportunity to pinch his left shoulder, followed by a second foot.

The move was straight at the door, with an attitude of kicking him to death.

The child is already flexible, coupled with his very abnormal speed, the whole set of attacks is dazzling.

But no matter how dazzling this set of moves was, it couldn't do any harm to Hikaru Ueno, at best it just made him frown.

Ueno Hikaru grabbed the boy's gap in adjusting his posture, and reached out to grab his ankle.

However, the moment his fingertips touched his ankle, the boy's body retreated suddenly.

A handful of sand rose up at the right time, covering Hikari Ueno's sight.

When Ueno Hikaru looked again, the entire ruins, as far as the eye could see, had disappeared from the boy.

Hikaru Ueno: "?"

Must cooperate?