[Bungo Stray Dogs] Animal Three Musketeers

Girls are the most cared for in the world.

The warm winter sun quietly projects into this home belonging to girls and babies from the holes in the cardboard boxes, and the bright spots bring light to the unlit room.The cold wind that was still blowing a few days ago disappeared overnight due to the climate, leaving only the rare warmth after winter.

Sunshine, popularity, and the atmosphere of home that lingers in this space has never dissipated.

It is the first time that Shui Shui has been in such close contact with the smallest and most difficult thing she most wanted to have since she was a child.

In the eyes of many people in Yokohama, it seems very cheap and not worth fighting for.

Shui Shui carefully blew the rice porridge in the bowl in her hand with her mouth, gently picked up a spoonful of rice porridge, the rice porridge barely reached the edge, after she tested the temperature with her mouth, she fed it into her arms with a little trepidation. Eyes smiling baby mouth.

No discomfort.

Shuishui's tense body still did not relax.

This child can't control her supernatural ability very well, a little fright or a change in herself can transform her into an animal.Fortunately, it is narrow and remote here, and the exits on both sides of the building were installed yesterday with iron railings only for her to pass through after the supernatural powers. No one came here, so she could safely put her child in this place without going through it from time to time. Take it with you and take care of it.

In addition, accidents may happen outside at any time, if the child is suddenly a baby on her back, she is familiar with the surrounding residents, so she can only find another place.You know, people can remember all the aliens for a long time. If so, they probably won't be able to live in this place.

After feeding the rice porridge, Shui Shui's eyebrows were finally relaxed. She picked up the bowl and spoon and put them in a bag, planning to return them on the other street. She can return it to them when she's done using it.

Probably thanks to the fact that she still looks like a 16-year-old girl, and the last time she took her children there to drink porridge, those ordinary old people in Yokohama have more to do with these homeless children. Some pity, sympathy, and love.

God knows she will be twenty after her birthday this year.

The street market in the morning was still bustling with people, Shui Shui finally walked to another street, and stood there blankly, looking at the almost watertight rice porridge shop on the corner.

This rice porridge shop has become the most popular place on this street. Obviously there are many other breakfast shops on this street, but this is the most lively place.

Shui Shui mechanically swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Are there too many people? !Grandpa, is this really the situation you said yesterday that the business is deserted and few young people talk to you? !

She is good at running away from crowds.

but--

She was completely helpless against crowding into the store!

Shui Shui glanced at his small body in dismay, then turned his gaze back to the door of the shop where there was no gap to get through, and finally covered his face with his hands and sighed deeply.

She walked slowly around the ellipse formed by the crowd with the store door as the starting point. Everyone was close to each other. Except for the constantly changing space under her feet, there was really nowhere to go quickly. slipped in.

Such a small gap, slipping in without knowing what the consequences will be?

Shui Shui put aside this question, and turned to look hesitantly from the shed above the clothing store on the left side of the shop. She was a little hesitant about the shed that she didn't know whether it could bear her own weight.

If it falls, people from this store will chase and beat you, right?If she is more irritable and richer, maybe she will be met by a group of gangsters tomorrow, and then beaten for several days, and she has to use all kinds of methods to force these people to give up this task.

Dealing with all kinds of troubles.With all kinds of uneasy thoughts in mind, Shui Shui walked back and forth a few steps irritably, listing countless things he had to do today and all kinds of nonsense in conversations caused by not returning Finally, I made up my mind to jump on the roof and sneak into the back kitchen when those people who only see rice porridge can't notice.

Tightening the bowls and chopsticks in the bag, she let out a breath, bent over and stood on her knees, and was about to step on the wall with one foot, when a shrill feline scream made her press her foot on the wall suddenly Twisting to the left, the pain caused by the sprained muscles and bones is quickly transmitted to the nerve center.

Before she had time to react, the gravity of the earth pulled the water that had flown only a few meters back to the ground. It was obviously not a good experience to collide with a hard object. There were tears in her eyes, she couldn't imagine that she was frightened like this by an unknown call.

No one approached to reassure Shui Shui for a while, she endured the buzzing and pain in her head, sat up with her hands propped up, and stared straight at the cat that meowed beside her just now.

It was a rare three-coloured cat, with three-colored and smooth coat, its limbs were paralyzed and trembling on the ground, and the cat's eyes that should have been opened were closed tightly, as if suffering from great pain.

Shui Shui, who forcibly got himself up from the ground, stared at several footprints on the cat that belonged to certain people in the crowd, and his unstable emotions disappeared in the blink of an eye, becoming calm and peaceful.

She glanced around, no one on this busy street was aware of everything that happened in this area.

Shui Shui sneered uncontrollably from his throat.

After the last war, warlords from various countries flowed into this magical capital one after another, vying for the so-called extraterritorial rights, encroaching on this land, and establishing autonomous regions of various countries.Since then, Yokohama has become a lawless area in Japan, and even the war period cannot be compared with the current chaos. [1]

The city's police are useless under these authorities, and Yokohama is now a paradise where criminals are born and play, a gangster organization ruled by warlords, overseas illegal capital, and criminals and killers forging themselves to become stronger and more sinister. It sounds like a chilling furnace.

Even people can't control themselves, let alone these stray animals.

No one cares about creatures other than themselves, even if it is a litter of beautiful newborn kittens in a box on the street, passers-by basically take a quick look at them and plunge into their busy lives.

Shui Shui stepped forward in silence, wrapped his arms around the slightly trembling cat, half closed his eyes, brushed his hands gently over the silky fur, and imitated his mother's movements in memory to calm him quietly. it.

It's memory again.

The hand stroking the cat froze for an instant, and there were only a few people around the street, Shui Shui stopped stiffly, watching the quiet animal in his arms calmly and clearly.

If it wasn't for that person...

It seems that the aroma of grilled fish and vegetables can still be smelled in the nostrils, the fan is spinning above the head, and the beautiful owl on the balcony is hooting. The world is full of bright sunshine, which makes people yearn for it.

The longing and joy in the ups and downs of life are all here.

But it's just a memory after all.

"Memory" not only brought her happiness, but also turned into a sharp knife and inserted it into her heart under the rendering of reason.

Shui Shui gritted his lower lip, his face full of sorrow.

The determination that had persisted for several years collapsed in an instant, and after enduring the pain at the corners of her lips for a long time, she finally couldn't help lowering her head and sobbing silently, tears dripping on the back of her hands, which were so hot that she almost burned her skin.

Finding someone who disappeared ten years ago is a long-distance journey. She has devoted eight years to it. Will she continue?

she does not know.

Put the cat quietly through the railings and put it inside, and Shui Shui also got in.

Losing the goal she had been obsessed with for a long time, she didn't know if she would feel empty because of it, or even a sense of guilt and panic for that person.

The bag on his back was falling off slowly, Shui Shui subconsciously stretched out a hand and grabbed the handle on the bag, only to realize that the thing hadn't been returned yet.

She was silent for a long time, put the injured and unconscious cat and the child together, pulled the quilt for them, and temporarily left this place that could be called "home" again.

She felt that she needed to find a job that she could do.

Leaning against the door and looking at the baby's sleeping face, Shui Shui suddenly had the idea of ​​wanting to provide this child with a beautiful childhood.

If she builds a beautiful home by herself, there will be a child who will smile sweetly at her, and herself who will hold the child and smile silently, behind which is a warm and safe living room.If such a wish is realized, can she get some comfort?

Expectations surged in her heart, she turned her head fiercely, put the door panel on, grabbed the wooden stick on the ground and slipped out.

Time has been moving forward, and no one can know all the future in advance.

The author has something to say: Ah Shui:

It's been a week since the baby was picked up and I haven't named her yet.

Sure enough, it was picked up. [ntm]

So Natsume Soseki who was picked up was completely forgotten by me.

Sure enough, it was picked up. [ntm]

[1] is taken from the original novel "Secret Words for the Establishment of a Detective Agency", with some changes.