After retirement I became a guardian of troubled youth

Hikari Ueno didn't let go, but lightened his strength a bit, looked at Hibari Kyouya and asked, "Where are you going?"

Hibari Kyouya glanced at him, but instead of answering, asked, "What are you doing?"

Hikaru Ueno thought for a while, and said confidently: "Let's go with you."

Hibari Kyouya was stunned for a moment, looked at him a little funny, and asked, "Are you sure?"

Hikaru Ueno: "No?"

Hikari Ueno didn't think there was anything wrong.

Whether Hibari Kyouya is his "companion", or just doing a good deed to save him, it doesn't affect his intention to follow the other party.

He doesn't know anything about this world, if he doesn't follow Hibari Kyouya, then he may not even know where he will go after leaving here.

His lowered hand touched something hard in his trouser pocket.

Ueno Hikaru bent his index finger and lightly touched the thing hidden in his pocket, and looked at Hibari Kyouya expressionlessly.

It was something that Edogawa Ranpo gave him before leaving that room.

A small silver disc, it doesn't look like anything special.

But Edogawa Ranpo said that if he finds what he wants, he will be contacted through this.

From time to time, the small disc emits a faint heat, as if to prove that it is running.

This was something he had never seen in his original world.

Probably some kind of high technology.

"No." Hibari Kyouya's indifferent voice pulled him back from his thoughts, Ueno Hikari came back to his senses, and curled his fingers.

His movements were already very small, and the sky was already getting dark a little bit. The dense branches and leaves above his head blocked the faint sunlight, almost shrouding the place in darkness.

However, Hibari Kyouya still noticed something strange.

The grasped wrist retracted without warning at the same time as the voice fell, Ueno Hikaru staggered a step, subconsciously grasping his wrist.

There was a blur in front of his eyes, duckweed crutches rubbed his forehead hair down, bringing a gust of wind with broken hair.

With a light "ding", the duckweed crutch collided with the small round piece hidden in the pocket through a thin layer of fabric.

Skylark raised his eyebrows respectfully.

Hikaru Ueno was slightly stunned, silently took out the thing under the gesture of the other party's eyes, and spread out his palm.

The silver disc emitted a faint light in the dark, illuminating a small space in his palm.

The moment it was exposed to the air, the heat of the disc rose sharply, and even the silver light became stronger.

Hibari Kyouya frowned, and the tip of the duckweed crutch swept across his palm.

Neutralizes coolness and heat.

The small circle was swept away, rolled twice, and landed on the grass.

The silver light bloomed to the extreme in an instant, and the surrounding grass blades became scorched yellow and then turned into ashes.

Ueno Hikari stared at that thing in astonishment, and then turned his gaze back to Hibari Kyouya after a while.

The completely tarnished little round piece turned into a small pitch-black dot, lying on the bare ground, and let out a long "di—" as if exhausting the last bit of energy to make an alarm.

The duckweed crutch slid through the air in a beautiful arc and then put it away. Hibari Kyouya looked at Hikari Ueno, nodded slightly, and asked, "Who gave it to you?"

Ueno Hikaru replied obediently: "Edogawa Ranpo."

He paused, remembering that this is a parallel world, they may not know each other, so he added: "Do you know each other?"

Hibari Kyouya stared at him for a moment, then chuckled lightly, with a cold tone in his tone: "Why don't you know him?"

Hikaru Ueno was curious: "?"

But Kyouya Hibari obviously didn't want to say more, he glanced at the thing again, changed the subject, and asked displeasedly: "You just keep what others give you?"

Hikari Ueno is innocent.

Why can't he keep what his brother gave him.

Although this younger brother is not the younger brother he knows.

He nodded and explained: "He said it was useful."

"Useful?" Hibari Kyouya snorted softly, "Do you believe what he says?"

Just as Hikaru Ueno was about to explain, Hibari Kyouya's next sentence was already followed: "Are you so sure that he won't lie to you?"

Hikaru Ueno hesitated: "Um..."

The Ranpo he knew would definitely not lie to him.

But the Edogawa Ranpo in this world is certainly not necessarily.

Ueno Hikaru hesitated for a moment, and decided to justify his younger brother in another world to commemorate their friendship in another world: "He doesn't have to..."

"They've been looking for you and your companions." Hibari Kyoumi paused, looked him up and down, and suddenly laughed again, "No wonder they were caught so easily."

Hikaru Ueno didn't understand and looked at him blankly.

Hibari Kyoya: "This thing is useful, it is used to kill you."

Hikaru Ueno froze for a moment.

Hibari Kyouya glanced at him silently, as if he didn't intend to explain further, he turned and prepared to leave.

The night wind blew the young man's slightly long hair, and his slender figure disappeared behind the tree in the blink of an eye.

Ueno Hikaru subconsciously followed him, step by step behind him.

Around the fifth tree, Hibari Kyouya suddenly stopped, turned his head coldly, and met his gaze.

Hikaru Ueno blinked, with a cute face, and asked with concern: "Going the wrong way?"

"No—" Hibari Kyouya stopped immediately after saying a word, and his voice changed abruptly, "Don't follow me."

Hikaru Ueno shook his head without thinking, "No."

Skylark Kyouya stared at him for a few seconds and asked, "Do you really want to come with me?"

Ueno nodded.

Hibari Kyoumi sneered, and the duckweed crouched against his neck in the blink of an eye.

There was a light bloodstain on the white neck, and Hikaru Ueno stood where he was, looking down at the duckweed crutch on his neck.

The weapon was exactly the same as that used by the Kyouya he knew, even the small designs of some textures and functions were exactly the same.

The cold tip touched the artery, and the side spikes penetrated into the skin. It seemed that with just a slight movement, his life would be ruthlessly taken away by this thing.

Hibari Kyouya's cold voice sounded in his ears, with a hint of sarcasm: "I just escaped from there, and now I'm going back again?"

Hikaru Ueno looked up at him in surprise.

If his memory is correct, there wasn't an extra vacant seat for the young man in front of him in the meeting room just now.

Hibari Kyouya was not one of those running that organization.

But to say he was subordinate to one of them...

Leaving aside whether Hibari Kyoya himself would agree, even Hikari Ueno would find it incredible.

It is absolutely impossible for Hibari Kyouya to succumb to anyone.

in any world.

and so……

The only possibility is that Hibari Kyoya belongs to another organization.

Opposed to those "companions" of Hikaru Ueno, and at the same time opposed to the organization that Edogawa Rampo and the others belonged to.

He hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively, "Have I been imprisoned by you before?"

Hibari Kyouya's scrutinizing gaze fell on him.

"Why, don't you remember?"

His intuition told him that he couldn't answer truthfully at this time, so he licked his lower lip and lied: "I only remember a little...fragment."

"Oh? Really?" Hibari Kyouya responded casually, obviously not believing his answer.

Hikaru Ueno looked at him and nodded sincerely.

Kyouya Hibari suddenly asked, "What did they give you to eat?"

Hikaru Ueno: "What?"

Hibari Kyouya sneered, and didn't continue to ask any more questions. He just said "Don't follow if you don't want to be arrested again", then turned around and disappeared behind another tree.

Hikaru Ueno was stunned for a moment, but followed subconsciously.

Suddenly there was a sound of breaking wind in his ears, and the sharp stones rubbed against his face and sank into the tree trunk behind him. As the cold light flickered, the duckweed crutches pressed against his throat again, and Hikaru Ueno stepped back unconsciously, and his whole body leaned against his back .

A faint feeling of sympathy came from the neck, and then expanded rapidly.

The warm current slipped down the duckweed bend and sank into the clothes.

Hikaru Ueno's pupils dilated slightly.

Hibari Kyouya looked up at him, and asked blankly, "Do you really want to be caught again?"

Hikaru Ueno shook his head: "I just want to go out with you."

He himself is not inseparable from this forest.

After all, in this world, the abilities belonging to the "Reaper" are not restricted. If he wants to, he can directly appear in a certain city outside in the next second.

However, it didn't work.

No matter where he went, he, who knew nothing about the world, couldn't find that page by himself.

What's more, his contact with Edogawa Ranpo was also destroyed by Hibari Kyoya.

Apart from following behind him, Hikaru Ueno couldn't find any other way for the time being.

There was a little more impatience in Hibari Kyouya's voice, he frowned and emphasized: "I am only responsible for bringing you out."

The duckweed crutch inadvertently pressed inward again, and the tingling sensation became more acute.

Hikaru Ueno pursed his lips, controlled his hoarse voice, and asked, "Why did you bring me out?"

Hibari Kyouya stared at him for a moment, his hands loosened slightly, "Give me a favor."

"Oh." Hikaru Ueno responded, "My companion's?"

Hibari Kyouya didn't answer, got up and left.

Hikaru Ueno, who was not frightened by the other party's threats at all, wiped the blood on his neck with the back of his hand, and was just about to follow up again when he raised his foot.

This time it wasn't his neck, but his heart.

Hibari Kyoya paused every word: "Don't follow."

Hikaru Ueno thought for a while, and gave a reasonable excuse: "I can't go out without following you."

"Make up your own mind."

Hibari Kyouya dropped the last sentence and disappeared in place.

Hikaru Ueno stood under the tree, staring at the place where he last disappeared, and then raised his hand to wipe away the blood that just flowed out.

This time he didn't follow.

He could tell that Hibari Kyouya probably really didn't want to take him with him.

been despised.

Hikaru Ueno was wronged.

The parallel world represents another "possibility".

Therefore, perhaps in many parallel worlds, the relationship between him and his lovely brothers is so cold and even tit-for-tat.

he does not like.

He could feel that they were neither happy nor happy in this possibility.Even, it may not be possible to achieve "safety".

The moon quietly hangs on the branches.

Ueno Hikari glanced at the moon in this world through the treetops, feeling a bit dull, and sat down silently leaning against the tree, with one leg bent.

Since Hibari Kyouya said that he was trying to repay favors, as long as he waits in this forest, his companions will always come to pick him up.

Although I don't know if the companion is useful, it seems that there is no other way now.

Hikaru Ueno touched the empty trouser pocket, and there seemed to be a burning sensation from that thing in his palm.

He sighed a little helplessly.

It seemed that he could only stay here by himself until the other party came over.

Just like the many, many years in the underworld.

In fact, he is quite used to being alone.

In other words, he should be very used to being alone.

After all, in his long life, he was alone most of the time, and he really had company by his side, but it was only a few years.

Before meeting Ranpo, he had never felt "lonely".

Maybe he got used to the fact that there are always people making noise around him, and he felt a little lonely.

Hikaru Ueno raised his hand and gestured twice towards the moon.

It is not quiet in the forest at night.

The rustling sound of the wind blowing plants was intermittent, and nocturnal animals were also rustling.

But he just felt too quiet.

Because some very important existences are missing.

Death doesn't need sleep.

But it is not impossible for him to sleep when there is nothing to do.

Hands dropped to the ground, Hikari Ueno lowered his head and closed his eyes.

——hope that the person who came to look for him will show up sooner.

It would be even better if it was someone he knew.

For example... Kaito, who he hasn't heard from yet.

—

The next morning.

Ueno Hikaru was woken up by something cold.

The touch of the thing was very familiar, as if he had just touched it not long ago.

He opened his eyes in a daze, with sleepiness still in them.

Hibari Kyouya stood in front of him, tall and straight, with a face as cold as ice.

He put away the duckweed crutches, lowered his head and looked at Hikari Ueno, unable to tell whether it was disgust or sarcasm: "Is it possible to fall asleep in this kind of place?"

Hikaru Ueno was stunned for a moment, subconsciously grasped the young man's wrist, then he got up vigorously, leaned against the tree trunk for a while, and then slowly reacted, and let go of Hibari Kyouya's hand a little slowly.

The next second, he looked up in surprise, and shrank his fingers inward.

"What are you looking at?" Hibari Kyouya took a step back with a cold expression on his face.

"...No." Hikaru Ueno shook his head and looked down at his fingertips.

Just a little surprised, this time, Hibari Kyouya didn't order him to let go.

He turned his head sideways, and his eyes fell on the tips of the young man's ears half covered by his black hair.

There's a little bit of an unusual red there.

So, no matter in that world, his younger brother is a very cute existence.

—— Ueno Hikaru suddenly thought so.

Hibari Kyouya turned sideways to avoid his gaze, still coldly asked, "What are you looking at?"

Hikaru Ueno shook his head and asked him, "Why are you back?"

Hibari Kyouya raised his eyebrows and looked him up and down.

Hikaru Ueno froze for a moment, and looked down at himself with some doubts.

Although he just stayed where he was and didn't do anything, he still spent the night in the forest after all.

He looks somewhat embarrassed now.

His hands and ankles were covered with mud, his clothes were wrinkled, and his cuffs and trousers were wet.

The wound on Kyouya Hibari's neck yesterday hadn't completely healed.

Hasn't faded away yet?

Hikaru Ueno was stunned for a moment, and touched the wound a little unexpectedly.

Logically speaking, his self-healing ability shouldn't be so bad.

This scar should have disappeared shortly after Hibari Kyouya left.

Now it's left until the next morning.

Is it Hibari Kyoya's problem, or his problem?

He glanced at Hibari Kyouya, and Hibari Kyouya cast him a slightly puzzled look.

Hikaru Ueno let out a "huh", squatted down and picked up a stone from the ground, and stroked it lightly on the back of his hand.

"What are you doing?" Hibari Kyouya's voice preceded the blood.

Hikaru Ueno froze for a moment, let go of his hand, and the stone fell gently into the grass.

"Do an experiment." He responded briefly, staring at the back of his hand for a while.

Then I was convinced that it had nothing to do with Hibari Kyouya, but his own problem.

His self-healing ability has been greatly weakened in this world.

If this is the case, then his other abilities should have also been weakened to varying degrees.

However, the degree of weakening of those abilities is definitely not as good as the healing ability.

Otherwise, he will definitely notice it immediately.

"Test what?" Hibari Kyouya asked impatiently.

Hikaru Ueno shook his head, did not explain, but returned to his previous question: "Why are you here?"

Hibari Kyouya was silent for a moment, then said, "If I don't come, how long do you want to stay here by yourself?"

Hikaru Ueno: "Wait until someone comes."

Hibari Kyouya: "..."

He stared at Hikaru Ueno for a moment, then turned around and left again, but this time there were two more words than before.

"Follow."

Light and floating, falling in the moonlight that has not completely faded.

Hikaru Ueno smiled and followed.