"Where are you going?"

The young man stepped out of the darkness and put on his clothes stiffly, before tiptoeing to Atsushi Nakajima at the entrance.

"Hey!? Ryunosuke, you, why are you here?"

The white-haired boy who was caught as soon as his fingers touched the cold metal handle suddenly shrugged his shoulders, turned his head tremblingly, and asked with a smile to Akutagawa Ryunosuke who was approaching with strides.

"I heard a voice below, so I came out to take a look." Akutagawa looked at him with a cold face, which was his usual expression.

Atsushi Nakajima's eyes drifted left and right in embarrassment, "Huh? I thought my voice was soft enough."

"It's light enough for those little ghosts, but when you're down in the slums, you can hear rats sneaking in and eating."

"Ha ah..." This is powerful enough.

Seemingly not seeing a trace of strange admiration from Dun, Akutagawa continued to step forward and said, "So, you haven't answered yet, where are you going?"

"...Isn't it obvious?" Dun smiled wryly, lowered his head, and fiddled with his fingers at a loss, "I woke up once in the middle of a coma, and heard the police reprimanding Miss Oda...I didn't go to register, I was about the tiger."

"Before that, I begged Ms. Oda to kill Tiger so urgently. Ms. Oda must have been very troubled when she found out that I was a Tiger. After I became a Tiger, I even destroyed the dessert shop... Add to Ms. Oda How can I still have the face to continue to stay here after having caused so much trouble and scaring Kosuke and the others.”

Dun's lost whispers, like a child who is lost and can't find his way home.

"So since I'm a tiger, I'd better find a random place and die where Miss Oda can't see... This way I won't cause her any trouble."

Hearing his mournful cry from the heart, Akutagawa stopped in his tracks, his face was a little clouded by the flickering light and shadow on the TV.

Akutagawa stared at Atsushi as if seeing him for the first time: "You guy, don't you understand what it means to cause trouble for others?"

"Hey? What, what do you mean?" Atsushi Nakajima looked up suspiciously.

Akutagawa ignored him, and said without heeding: "And I didn't expect that you are unexpectedly cowardly."

"Ryunosuke!?"

"And still incompetent."

"Has anyone ever told Ryunosuke that you have a vicious tongue!?"

Akutagawa stared at him, and said with a final word.

"I missed my eyes." Akutagawa paused, staring at his distorted face and said again, "I actually missed my eyes."

"Please don't repeat it over and over again, I didn't expect Ryunosuke to be so expressionless!"

Atsushi Nakajima, who finished complaining in a low voice, seemed to use his last strength. He supported the wall without strength: "Ryunosuke, I really have to go. Anyway, I am very happy to meet you."

"Again……"

He turned to continue to open the door, but the cloth stretched from behind him wrapped around his arm, preventing him from moving.

Atsushi Nakajima tugged twice, and the cloth from his forearm to his fingers showed no sign of loosening.

He sighed and turned to look at Akutagawa who was preventing him from opening the door.

"Excuse me... is there anything else?" There was sullenness in his voice, but Atsushi Nakajima's words were still polite.

"Ah."

Akutagawa bent over and coughed in a low voice.

Then he raised his head, his deep black eyes flashing doubts in the dim light.

"You said you were happy to meet me."

"Well, what's the problem?"

"why?"

The light in the living room was half turned on, and the soft white light quietly illuminated the sofa and TV.

The notebook on the table and the TV standing opposite the sofa were both turned on, quietly emitting light, but the woman who used to always sit on the sofa was nowhere to be found, leaving only Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Nakajima Dun confrontation.

"What why?" Dun murmured inexplicably.

Atsushi Nakajima never thought that he would ask this question, and the slight anger that rose up quietly dissipated with Akutagawa's doubts.

He wanted to touch the back of his head like before, but Rashomon, who was manipulated by Akutagawa, bound his wrists as if he was afraid of him escaping.

So he could only stand there and think for a while, and then answered in a low voice after organizing his words.

"Because you and Oda-san are powerful people...it is my honor to know you."

"..."

After hearing his words, Akutagawa didn't speak, just thinking in silence.

Atsushi Nakajima also stopped talking, and looked at Akutagawa who was thinking about something in confusion.

The two sound sources who made the sound shut their mouths tightly at the same time, and the room was completely silent.

"That... Ryunosuke?"

"Human tiger."

The two suddenly spoke at the same time.

Dun subconsciously said, "Yes!"

Dun: "Human tiger...?"

Dun: "What is the name of a human tiger!"

"You said that I am very powerful." Akutagawa seemed to have not heard his complaints, and said on deaf ears, "But you are wrong, the only one who is truly powerful is Oda-san."

Atsushi let out an 'oh', then shook his head like a rattle, and said while shaking: "But in my opinion, Ryunosuke is also very strong."

"Then I would like to thank you for your praise, although it is far from enough."

Akutagawa looked condensed, and said to Atsushi Nakajima with the words 'I don't understand what you're talking about' written all over his face.

"A truly powerful person is one who sticks to his heart no matter where he is, and has a firm goal. Although he doesn't want to admit it, you are the same kind of person as I am."

"We are all 'nothing'." Akutagawa stated his conclusion lightly.

Dun blinked his golden eyes and repeated his words: "No?"

"Well, I'm confused about myself, I don't know what belief is, and it's all egoism."

"egoism……?"

Atsushi Nakajima is trying to keep up with Akutagawa's words. Although he understands what Akutagawa said, he doesn't seem to understand.

"Before I begged Yizhi to help find my sister, my first reaction after seeing her was to vent my aggression, and after Saku Le was kidnapped, I just wanted to kill the kidnapper."

What did he say?

Atsushi Nakajima thought in confusion.

"After you knew the existence of the tiger, you blindly wanted to kill the tiger, and after knowing that you were a tiger, you wanted to commit suicide." Akutagawa loosened the cloth wrapped around his wrist, suppressing the coughing sound in his throat, his pale face with Unhealthy flush.

Atsushi Nakajima gradually understood what he wanted to say, and stared blankly at the solemn-looking young man.

"At the end of the day, we're all puny bastards avoiding what we're supposed to be doing and venting out on our own terms instead of actually dealing with it."

Akutagawa calmed down his breath, his dark eyes enveloped him like a dark night.

"If you still want to escape, I won't stop you. I can't even defeat myself. I'm afraid of myself. After getting the treasure that can defeat myself, I'm still running away... However, I, who is also a weak person I'm not qualified to lecture you."

Akutagawa said, speaking indifferently with a truly emotionless voice.

"You can go if you want, but I will always treat you as a coward."

Atsushi Nakajima instinctively retorted: "Ryunosuke is not weak, I am the only one who is weak, and today Kosuke and the others are protected by you."

"..." This guy's point is wrong.

But upon hearing this sentence, Akutagawa smiled happily, "I'm sorry, what I said just now was biased, but you still have merit."

"?" Dun opened his eyes wide, "Huh?"

"Who do you think I will protect Xingsuke and the others because of?"

"Isn't it because of Miss Oda's words..." Dun murmured softly, trying to read the answer from his face.

"Wrong, it's because of you."

His throat seemed to be grabbed by something, and he couldn't breathe normally.

He asked unusually calmly, "Because of me?"

"Yeah." Akutagawa looked at him, still with the same expression, "How do you understand the so-called protection? Kill the person who harms the protected object, stand in front of the protected object and resist with the body. Roughly these two Is this the case?"

"...Really." Don thought for a while and nodded.

"If the next choice is to kill the person who endangers the protected object, and you are the one who stands in front of the protected object."

Akutagawa said, seeming to be emotional.

"Yizhi, since she adopted her, she has been instilling a concept in her—to protect. Instead of killing, it means becoming a person like you. Before seeing your behavior, including Saku Le was kidnapped, today she was kidnapped by that Surrounded by guys, I still act according to my own ideas and go my own way.

"And I didn't understand Yizhi's intention until I saw you standing in front of them." He stared at Dun, with a faint light flickering in the depths of his eyes, "It is not only killing that can achieve the purpose of protection, there are other ways."

"Of course, I think it's a good way to use killing to achieve once and for all protection." Akutagawa said frankly what he thought.

In the end, do you still want to kill someone! ?

The first half of the sentence moved Dun very much, but in the second half he returned to Akutagawa, who was usually ignorant of emotion, which made Dun dumbfounded.

"You let me see different guardians, and I need to thank you." Akutagawa said frankly, and looked at him again, "Okay, you can leave."

Has anyone started chasing people after thanking them like this? ? ?

Atsushi Nakajima looked at him speechlessly, wanting to say something, but his throat seemed to have lost the meaning of existence, unable to speak normally, and the suffocation still existed.

He opened his mouth foolishly and looked at the frail black-haired boy opposite, until Akutagawa asked, "What are you standing there for?", he felt that feeling of being unable to breathe quietly dissipated.

"But I... still turned into a tiger and hurt that person." He uttered these words hoarsely.

"This level of harm is inevitable." Akutagawa gave him a puzzled look, and then said indifferently, "And you have also noticed another commonality among us by saying that."

"what?"

Atsushi Nakajima is not anxious or flustered now, he is having a heart-to-heart chat with Akutagawa, and the other party counts out his and his flaws one by one, instead he feels joy and peace of mind.

Like himself, Ryunosuke is not a perfect person.

They all had the same problem, and he wasn't alone.

This realization sent his brain sending out signals of pleasure.

"The two of us, the self deep in our hearts are the embodiment of violence, and we can't tell where the line between guarding and killing lies."

Indeed, as Akutagawa said, he can't control the tiger in his heart, and Akutagawa can't control himself to kill all of himself.

"Ryunosuke..."

Dun didn't think before that there would be such a person who understood him. He sniffled and looked at the black-haired boy in front of him with emotion.

"So when are you going to leave?"

Akutagawa interrupted his brewing emotion and looked at him in confusion.

"...Do you want me to leave that much!?"

"Don't you want to leave?"

"I don't want to think about it now!" and returned his touch!

Akutagawa nodded knowingly: "Very good, then lie back on the bed for me obediently, Renhu, don't cause trouble for Yizhi."

"Have you already said what is the name of a human tiger!?" Akutagawa's two icy gazes stared at him, and Atsushi said as if he remembered something while walking towards the bedroom, "By the way, Ryunosuke, I don't know what you said at the beginning. Do you know what it means to cause trouble to others...?"

"It's the behavior you wanted to leave just now. Since Yizhi promised you to kill the tiger for you, she will definitely do it. After you leave without saying a word, she will stubbornly go looking for you, so your behavior like this will only give her Add unnecessary trouble."

Akutagawa narrowed his eyes, "What are you still standing there for, and you haven't gone back to sleep yet."

I have seen Akutagawa coaxing Sakule and the others used this tone, and Atsushi Nakajima also knew that his tone represented normal concern, so he didn't feel scared.

He took two steps towards the bedroom, and asked again.

"Ryunosuke, what you said... I got the treasure that can defeat me...?"

"Hmph, stupid."

"...please speak well!"

After a moment of silence, Akutagawa sighed as if he couldn't stand him: "This is it."

here, where?

Atsushi Nakajima was still thinking in confusion with Akutagawa's seemingly stupid face, and after a while, he suddenly realized that his cat-like eyes radiated golden light.

"Thank you, Ryunosuke." He returned to his previous appearance and was more energetic than before, "Also, good night."

He smiled and said to Akutagawa, tiptoed back to the bedroom, and closed the door.

Akutagawa stared fixedly at his closed door like a statue, making sure that he had walked to the edge of the bed and lay down on it, so he turned to the balcony expressionlessly, and said flatly.

"Yizhi, you can come in."

"When did you find me?" Hearing his voice, the woman gently opened the sliding door of the balcony and stepped in under the moonlight.

There was a trace of moisture on her body, and the hazy moonlight falling from above her head added another softness to her.

Is it foggy outside?Her hair is wet.

While thinking about it, Akutagawa replied: "I said before, when I was in the slums, the sound of rats eating could wake me up from my sleep."

"That's right." Oda smiled as usual, walked up to him and rubbed the top of his head, "Thank you this time, Ryunosuke."

Akutagawa's black hair was messed up by her rubbing, and he looked at Oda Kazue with a strange gaze: "Didn't you arrange it on purpose?"

"It wasn't at first, but in the middle, I felt that only Ryunosuke and Atsushi could communicate with each other."

"You mean, rather than you asking Dun to turn around, why don't you let me do it?"

"Yeah." Oda nodded.

As Akutagawa said, the two of them are very similar.

Both are avoiding something, both can't control their inner selves, and... both yearn for...

"A branch."

When she showed a thoughtful expression, she suddenly heard Akutagawa calling her name.

"What's wrong, Ryunosuke?"

Akutagawa looked strangely at the T-shirt on her body, which was obviously of an incorrect size, "You changed."

Then he looked at the shirt draped over her arm, "Did you change it on the balcony?"

As he spoke, he bent his fingers, pressed his chin and thought, "You went out a few ten minutes ago, why did it take you so long to come back?"

He raised his head again and looked at her hair that was still dripping... The smell on her body had also changed, the shower gel and shampoo were not the ones at home.

"You still take a shower."

"..."

"A branch?"

Akutagawa looked at her with concern with those big black eyes, which made Oda feel guilty.

You can't just go to the next door for a date, right?

Although Akutagawa must understand what this means, but for the normal growth of his emotions and the healthy development of his body and mind, Oda Kazue spoke stiffly and lied.

"……smokes."

"Smoking?" Akutagawa looked at her and muttered.

"I, I smoke outside."

Hearing what she said, Akutagawa looked towards the balcony.After seeing the ashtray full of ashes, he believed Oda's words, and then turned his head to look at her with blazing eyes.

Oda Kazue was stared at by his eyes, bit the bullet and continued to weave.

"You are all asleep." After seeing Akutagawa nodding again, she knew that there was no problem with this sentence.

Oda Kazue looked calm, and his heart was already enough to be described by the word ups and downs.

"Kosuke will be awkward if he smells smoke on me."

"Yes." Akutagawa also believed it.

"So... I borrowed the bathroom from Mr. Aizawa and took a shower."

The black-haired boy nodded again. So far, her words have no flaws.

Just when Oda Kazue thought he was going to get away with it, Akutagawa continued to ask in a wooden and emotional voice: "What about the clothes?"

Oh yes, she was still wearing Mr. Aizawa's clothes next door.

"Clothes..." Oda maintained his composure, feeling like a sparrow in a cage, bumping against the walls of the cage in a daze, "Clothes...clothes..."

Seeing Akutagawa's eyes, she gradually began to show doubts, her mind went blank, and she subconsciously said: "Shirt, buttons..."

Waking up again, she held up the shirt to Akutagawa: "The button is broken, so I temporarily borrowed a T-shirt from Mr. Aizawa."

After uttering the last sentence smoothly, Oda felt that everything was safe, and the suspicion in Akutagawa's eyes disappeared.

The black-haired boy's voice was very soft: "So, if you smoke less cigarettes, Xingsuke will not be unhappy."

"Understood, I will pay attention." After the crisis passed, she breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed the thin boy to sleep, "Ryunosuke, go to sleep too."

The boy nodded obediently: "You go to bed early, too."

"Well, I'll go when I'm done..." Sleep.

Oda Kazue touched the pocket of his suit pants and was stunned.

The phone is not there.

It should have fallen on Aizawa.

Akutagawa, who had already walked to the door, noticed her abnormality, turned around and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

At the same time, a low male voice came from the balcony.

"Miss Oda, you left your phone on the bed."

Aizawa flipped over to her side lightly, holding her mobile phone in his hand, while talking, one foot had already entered the room.

Then he saw Akutagawa standing at the door staring at him with deep eyes, he and Oda both froze.

Akutagawa, who sees through everything, swept them one by one with an indescribably cold gaze, and said clearly.

"……really."

It's not like he hasn't seen this kind of thing before, what are they worried about.

The author has something to say: Jie Jie: Heh, stupid adults, you think I don’t understand.

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