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Chapter 51: Murderous Intent Emerges

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"Where are your parents? Why did you run out alone?"

Tiantian pinched the child's face lovingly. The child's big watery eyes made her feel loving.

"..."

The child was pinched by Tiantian, and he was stunned for a moment, a little at a loss and stammering.

"No... my parents are in there... I just came out to get some fresh air..."

Ran's parents rarely had a meal together in there, but they quarreled because of trivial matters.

Conan and Ran couldn't stand this atmosphere, Ran went to the bathroom, and he came out under the pretext of getting some fresh air.

This lady... she was too enthusiastic.

Conan was a mature high school student after all. Facing the intimate actions of a girl of the same age, he still took two steps back a little uncomfortable.

But this lady was so white... and if you look closely, the boy next to her was also very white.

Was it a couple who were on a date?

Thinking of this, Conan didn't want to disturb them from entering the store and block them at the door.

"Brother and sister, I'll go in in a moment. I'm very good and won't run around."

Conan pretended to be cute and raised his little head to look at Tiantian and Toge with a smile. His voice was soft and no woman who liked children could stop him.

"Little boy, go in now. It's the same if you take a breath at the door. There are cars on the road. Be careful that you are taken away by the rearview mirror."

Tiantian patted Conan's head and was a little worried about such a small child outside, so she asked him to stand inside the door for a while.

Conan: "...okay, thank you sister."

The corner of the child's mouth twitched.

Taken away by the rearview mirror... This description always felt so powerful.

Conan watched Tiantian and Toge walk into the store side by side.

When Toge passed by Conan, he slightly turned his face and smiled at him friendly.

"..."

Conan saw Toge's face vaguely exposed under the high collar, and was a little stunned for a moment.

Under the boy's silver-white hair, his purple eyes seemed to be shining, his white face and his straight nose.

Going down, Conan seemed to see two round... patterns on both sides of the boy's mouth?

Was it a tattoo?

It was the first time Conan saw someone with a tattoo on the corner of his mouth, and his attention was drawn to it for a while.

When he wanted to take a closer look, Toge seemed to notice something unusual, his eyes widened slightly, he quickly tightened his high collar, and hurriedly lowered his head.

"..."

Conan looked at the boy's back following the girl, and he didn't react yet.

He always felt... so mysterious, tattooed in that place... was he a punk lover?

He thought uncertainly.

•

When they arrived in the restaurant's private room, after the waiter sorted out the tableware for the two, Tiantian picked up the menu and sat down to Toge's side with a familiar look, intending to look at the menu with him.

"..."

Toge saw Tiantian rushing towards him with a tablet menu, and he took a breath of cold air, he suddenly became nervous.

Even his hands, which were stiff on his legs, clenched into fists unnaturally.

Too close, right?

Was this a normal social distance?

At this time, the heroine's mask and glasses had been taken off.

Toge glanced slightly sideways and saw Tiantian's beautiful face, which was different from the soft and cute Japanese traditional aesthetic, but was slightly sharp and aggressive.

He had to say that Tiantian's long gray hair and dark blue eyes were really well matched, which was simply a visual feast of high-level gray color collision.

Toge: "..."

It's not that he was too timid, but her appearance was really too high.

"Tiantian, do you like children?"

Toge started to make small talk, and he felt that the current situation was a little awkward.

"I like it."

Tiantian replied with a smile, and continued to look at the menu seriously, not noticing Toge's shyness and nervousness.

"..."

The boy felt a little uncomfortable after learning about this situation.

It seemed that he was the only one who felt that this was awkward and inappropriate. But Tiantian didn't take it seriously from beginning to end... could it be that he was too hypocritical?

But now they were very close. Was it that Tiantian, as a girl, also got along with men in this way?

Thinking of this, Toge's brain began to be empty again.

From Tiantian's personal habits, he thought of the humanistic habits of modern China and Japan.

In a moment of daze, when he came to his senses, he found that Tiantian ordered five or six bottles of sake on the tablet.

Toge: "?"

This, this was not okay, right?

"Tiantian... it is illegal to sell alcohol to minors in Japan."

And drinking like this would hurt your body, right?

Five or six bottles, was this drinking water?

Toge was cautious when persuading. He didn't want Tiantian to drink, but he was afraid of causing Tiantian's disgust, so he spoke softly and tried to make his voice sound softer.

"..."

Tiantian felt bored when she heard this. She looked down at the menu and hesitated.

What's the point of eating without drinking?

But when she looked up at Toge's pure and sincere eyes, she felt that she was quite old and it was a bit embarrassing to drink in front of a child.

"If you don't want to drink, then don't drink."

Tiantian crossed out the alcohol.

If Junpei saw this docile look, he would probably be weird.

Where did the arrogant person who said "what's the point of life without smoking and drinking" go?

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"I've already said it! The target for this month must be completed! Are you going against my will?!"

Toge, who was a little happy in her heart, was about to say something when a sharp curse came from outside the door.

"If you can't accept my arrangement, you can go back to the countryside and continue to help your parents harvest crops! You can't stay here!"

"I'm sorry... I may really not be able to hold on."

Under the man's angry curse, a timid and somewhat low and hoarse male voice came through the wooden door.

"You want to resign?!"

The man who was cursing just now changed his tone and became a little sinister and terrifying.

Then the man began to curse at the door of Tiantian's box.

The words he said were as ugly as they could be. Although he didn't curse at all, he said many humiliating words like 'why don't you die, a useless person like you' and 'the trash at the bottom of society'.

And the man who was scolded kept his head down and didn't say a word, just letting the man who seemed to be the boss humiliate him loudly.

"What are you doing? Are you still cursing?"

Tiantian couldn't listen anymore.

Work was something that was mutually agreed upon. If you don't want to do it, just quit. Do you think you were someone's real father just because you were a boss?

"Too much."

The good-tempered Toge was a little annoyed.

Let's not talk about what their relationship was. It's too uncivilized to humiliate someone in public like this.

"Wait here for a while. I'll go out and say a few words to them."

Tiantian frowned and talked to Toge in a low voice.

After she finished speaking, she threw down her bag and walked to the door without waiting for Toge's reaction.

"Wait."

Toge got up quickly and followed Tiantian.

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In the private room next to Tiantian.

A man in a monk's robe with stitches on his head was sipping tea.

'?'

He didn't know what he sensed. The black-haired and narrow-eyed man was slightly stunned. His snow-white fingers held the teacup, but they didn't fall on his red lips for a long time.

"What's wrong? Geto-kun?"

The man sitting next to Geto Suguru spoke Japanese with a strange accent, picked up the teapot on the table unhurriedly, and slowly filled himself with tea.

It was spring in the hot springs, but the man was wearing thick winter clothes and a fluffy cotton hat on his head.

He was pale, his lips were bloodless, and his deep facial features were a little sick. There was also some unhealthy blue-black under his eyes.

"Fyodor, next door, there seems to be an old acquaintance of mine."

Geto ended the pause.

He put the teacup back to his lips, began to drink water slowly, smiled gently, and his voice seemed to be a little emotional.

"Well... I can't say it's my old acquaintance, it should be his old acquaintance..." The man put down the teacup, leaned on the table, his slender hand gently dragged his chin, and looked at the wall behind the Russian with a smile in his eyes.

It seemed that through the wall, he could see the boy with short silver hair behind the wall.

The child of the Inumaki family, the descendant of the curse caster... He hadn't seen him for almost a year, and his hair seemed to have grown a little longer.

He remembered that the last time he saw "Geto Suguru" meet him, the child seemed to still have a fluffy crew cut.

"Don't you want to meet? Since he is an old acquaintance."

Dostoevsky raised his eyes slightly, and looked at Geto in front of him with gloomy purple eyes, and seriously encouraged Geto to go to the next door to give the "old acquaintance" a surprise.

Geto didn't say anything.

His dark eyes stared at the wall in front of him, and not known what he was thinking.

His fingers gently rubbed the quilt between his fingers, and his thoughts flowed, as if he was considering how to "deal with" this "old acquaintance" he hadn't seen for a long time.

"I can see that you are not interested in old acquaintances now."

Dostoevsky poured Geto a cup of tea expressionlessly, and then slowly raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a little joy on his face.

"Why don't you talk to me about how you helped me with the Suribachi City thing?"

Geto nodded slightly, "It's enough, enough to confuse the people in the port for a long time, provided that they don't ask the sorcerers for help."

"But why do you have such great malice towards them?"

Thinking of this, the man was not only a little curious.

"I just want to let these idiots see how disgusting sins exist under the bright and beautiful appearance of Yokohama, which they are proud of."

Dostoevsky's face showed malice.

Don't these port people regard themselves as the masters of the port? They were still speaking nice words with a righteous face, claiming to protect Yokohama?

Just thinking about it made him sick.

He couldn't be the only one who was disgusted. He should still make trouble.

Anyway, there was a saying in his hometown.

A mirror would not shine without polishing, and Japanese people would not shine without beating.

Let's wait and see.

"I'll go out and see. It's too noisy outside."

Dostoevsky glanced at the smiling but silent Geto and stood up.

When he came to the door, he was about to open the door to go out, he heard the sound of the door being pulled from next door.

"Can it be quiet here? It's a bit noisy."

A woman's voice came from outside the door.

"..."

Dostoevsky's pale hand stopped at the door, without any expression.

"What's your business? Woman, go back!"

The person being persuaded was of low quality and ignored the woman at all. Instead, he roared at a very loud volume, and his voice was harsh.

"That's true. He has no upbringing. He's so mean to a girl. She must be scared."

Xia Youjie sat at the table and drank tea with a smile on his face. His words were full of a look of watching a play and teasing.

However, the next second.

They heard the woman outside the door yelling back at a louder volume—

"If you talk too much, sit on your mother's grave and scold her. You can be patient after drinking a little wine, right? Why are you pretending!"

Geto: "..."

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