Akigi Akatsuki felt the slender and soft body in his arms, with a faint fragrance, and his complex and melancholy expression.

His hands had nowhere to put them, and after hesitating for a while, he put them lightly on Rika's shoulders.

I still remember that the two were so close, nearly ten years ago.

Since Rika awakened to being an extrajudicial person, she was admitted to the control area by Yingzhou official, transferred to the official extrajudicial person college in the middle, and then entered the most famous Asakusa University in Yingzhou...

Every step she made seemed to be accompanied by a growing gap with herself.

The distance between them becomes more and more distant with time.

And this increasingly clear sense of distantness made Aoki Akaichi, who was gritting his teeth and struggling to move forward desperately, gradually felt suffocating and despair.

He is not a person who is used to inferiority, just like he never cares about other people's fingers. In his world, what others think of him is not important at all. He has long been used to life with only one or two people.

But Rika is different.

Rika is different from "others".

He once thought he could face any gaze and evaluation from others calmly, but later he found out that he was wrong.

The gap between them, which was gradually expanding with the naked eye, was like a mountain pressing on his head, making it difficult to breathe.

He was very happy that Rika's career was successful, but he was also stabbed by the eyes of the newly appeared "teachers" and "friends" from around Rika.

That moment.

Akiki Akaichi only understood.

He can completely ignore the strange gazes that others cast at Rika because of him.

Just as one of Lixiang's teachers said—

Rika is the woman who wants to become the pillar of Yingzhou. Please don’t be her weakness.

But after all the attempts, it was impossible to get closer to each other, and it was completely invisible to become her reliance, or at least it could not be a burden to the hope...

He finally chose another path.

A road that staggers between each other.

Since the distance cannot be closer, it will be a little farther away, so far that Rika's future enemies will not be able to watch themselves at all

Since I can't stand side by side with her, then stand in the dark corner and send her the most sincere blessings.

But……

That bad fate still makes them gather here.

"Chi Yijun!Chi Yijun!"

With a little nervous call, Aoki Akaichi, who was walking away from consciousness.

He lowered his head and saw the tears flashing at the corners of the woman's eyes in his arms. He subconsciously reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of the woman's eyes.

On the way, his hand suddenly froze, but he barely showed an abnormality, but just quickly retracted his hand.

The last time I had such an intimate action, I hugged Rika in my arms was nearly ten years ago.

Rika Inoue stared at the man in front of her, gently stroked his completely growing eyebrows with her right hand. She always felt that compared to the last time she met, Akaichi-kun seemed to have lost weight a lot again.

She suddenly came to her senses and knew that this was not the time to consider these issues.

"Achii-kun, how did you get here?"

Rika Inoue asked with a serious and cautious look.

She needs to know how Akaichikkun entered this place, whether she had any connections with those people, and then determine what they should do next.

Aoki Ao breathed slightly, and the process of entering this place did not require hiding Rika, but he could not say the relative reasons.

After a while of silence, he spoke:

"I took the line to the boss behind the Elysia Casino. This time his subordinates sent me to complete a task."

Rika Inoue frowned slightly, and her teeth nippled her lower lip with a little confusion in her expression.

Akaichikun's words completely exceeded her expectations.

She originally thought that the most likely was that Achietsuki was brought in by the major families behind Longma Yiping, or accidentally entered this place through some kind of "realm gate".

But why is it the Pure Land Casino?

As a new star in the executive department, Rika Inoue naturally knew the existence of Tokyo Elysia Casino, and even had the idea of ​​clearing out this casino. For this reason, she made some efforts and learned in-depth through the information from the executive department.

But the final result surprised her and finally chose to remain silent.

Secret information shows that behind the Jile Casino is the Yuan family, which is the royal family of the Yingzhou faction.

After learning this secret, Rika Inoue completely gave up the relevant ideas.

She is not the kind of passionate and righteousness until she is desperate, thinking that as long as she sticks to justice, justice will inevitably come, or there should not be any darkness under the light...

She always felt that she was just an ordinary little woman who sometimes "bullying the weak and afraid of the strong".

In her understanding, behind the scenes of Jile Casino is an ancestor of the Hidden Clan of the Yuan Family who has lived for a long time. His strength is unfathomable and he is still above the Musashi Inspector of the Executive Department.

Why……

The ancestor of the Yuan family who has ignored the world for a long time and has not even been exposed for a long time will suddenly be associated with Ai Yijun and send Ai Yijun to [Gaotianyuan] at this point in time?

Just a moment.

Countless speculations surged.

Rika Inoue's expression became more and more serious.

I have always heard of discord within the Yuan family, and there are irreconcilable contradictions between the Hidden Clan, who is in charge of the underworld and the Foreign Clan, who is in charge of the royal power.

Could it be that this [Gaotianyuan] incident involves the Yuan Family?

The more I think about her, the more frightened she feels.

She suddenly thought of something, and her mind was like falling into an ice cave.

Behind Longma Yiping is the Longma family. In addition, several other members of the team include the seven major families in the Yingzhou area.

Believe in the evil god...

Want to use yourself as a container for the evil god...

There is also the intervention of the Hidden Clan of the Yuan Family...

Could it be that this incident almost involved the entire Yingzhou faction?!

What exactly does the person behind the scene want to do?

Rika Inoue reached out and grabbed the corner of Akaichiko's clothes and said with a wry smile:

"Achiichikun, you should not be associated with the people in the Jile Casino, and you should not listen to them, enter here..."

Akigi Akaichi quietly stared at the coquettish woman in front of him who showed a slight complaint.

He won't tell her.

I did everything myself for her.

I have tried my best to keep them away and dilute their relationship over the years, hoping to completely alienate each other's relationship through distance and time, so how can I pull everything back to the starting point at this time?

If it weren't for the extremely mysterious girl who asked her to go to Lixiang's identity, and Li Qiusheng nodded desperately, she would never have appeared in front of Lixiang.

He said calmly: "There is no way, there will always be times when we are worse than ourselves. Sometimes it is not whether we want to or not, but we have to do so."

Rika Inoue was stunned, but there was a bit of sharpness between her eyebrows:

"Did they threaten Akaichikkun to do this?"

Aoki Aku's lips squirmed for a few seconds, and finally shook his head and said:

"That's not, it's just a favor I owe."

Rika Inoue couldn't help but complain: "Which is more important than life? Akatsuki doesn't care about his life at all."

Her eyes swept over Akigi Akaichi, paused on his backpack and asked:

"Is this Akaichi-kun's salute?"

Akiki Aki took the opportunity to take a step back, distanced himself from Rika a little, flipped the backpack he was carrying to the front, opened the zipper and explained:

"This is the supplies they prepared for me, basically compressing food and water."

He took out a bottle of water and a pack of compressed biscuits from his bag and handed it over. He knew that since he separated from the team members, Rika had not eaten or drunk water.

But Rika Inoue gently pushed away, pressing his hand to plug the food and water back into his bag.

She smiled brightly and said, "Jiyijun can use these things yourself. I don't need them here. I just ate them this morning and I won't have to eat or drink water for the next period of time. After all, they are extrajudicials."

Aoki rolled in his throat a few times, and his other hand holding his backpack trembled gently.

He wanted to scold her loudly and still like to show off so much, but in the end he couldn't say anything. He just responded, zipped the backpack again and carried it on his back.

"How many days has Aichikkar entered here?" Inoue Rika took a step forward and narrowed the distance between them again.

"It's three days."
To be continued...