Chapter 364: The Descendants of the Master Craftsman in Kyoto
Chapter 364 Descendants of Kyoto’s Famous Craftsmen
The same person, in the eyes of different people, will naturally have different perceptions.
Someone saw Higashinohara feeling unhappy all over.
When someone looks at him, he feels differently.
Almost at the same time,
Upper Kyoto City Center,
World Bank Headquarters Building,
There is a very spacious and spacious office with the name of CEO of Energy Trading Strategy Department.
Perhaps it's because the World Bank Building, which is over ninety-nine stories tall, is too high up to get cold. It's late spring, so the office in the middle of the eighty-ninth floor is particularly cold both inside and outside.
Looking towards the sky outside through the transparent glass curtain wall of the building, the sun hangs in the sky like a peeled hard-boiled egg yolk, and the light refracts on the human body without any warmth.
When you open the glass skylight and be blown by the high-altitude wind, you can't help but shrink your neck. Even the indoor decorations are cold-resistant potted plants such as "winter plum", "trachelospermia" and "winter beauty", which are cheerful in the empty and cold office.
Growing wantonly.
Behind the black wooden desk in Lion Rock in the southern suburbs, facing the glass wall, the woman turned around and held a photo in her hand from a tan calfskin envelope.
In the background of the photo, there is a drizzling lakeside. A man and a woman are sitting at a white round table. The woman is staring at the young man's profile and eyebrows, and the corners of her lips are slightly raised in an arc unconsciously, making the photo look like something is born out of thin air.
The affection and love between men and women.
The woman who took the elevator and sent this sealed photo in a calfskin envelope upstairs was named Mia. She was in her twenties but extremely talented. She graduated from a prestigious school in Beijing with a double major in finance and energy trade. Such qualifications
Enough to make her proud enough.
However, in front of this soft and dignified-looking middle-aged woman sitting behind the desk, Mia, who bowed her head slightly, showed an extremely respectful posture.
Because this woman is the eldest daughter of the Bart family of Tianhu, a family of nine heavenly beings in Shangjing who live in seclusion in the clouds of this world, and control the world's financial lifeline. She can be called the "eldest princess" of the Bart family, a world-class financial empire.
Aphra Bart.
If she wants to destabilize a country's energy mining market, all she has to do is give it a little nod.
Then tomorrow,
The country's energy and mining market will immediately begin to be saturated and then trampled. In just one night, all those holding energy and mining stock futures will be on the rooftop.
Sitting at such a height, holding such five invisible giant hands that can control the world from another angle, Aphra Bart, looking down at the world, has long been accustomed to the joys and sorrows of the bottom, love and hate, and the various conditions of the world.
It was difficult for anything to cause any waves in her still and peaceful heart.
But from the moment she walked into this office this morning to now, Aphra Butt has not looked at the human world beneath her feet, nor has she looked at the treacherous energy and mining stock market in Beijing.
He just lowered his head and silently stared at the photo in his hand, and at the girl with a slightly raised mouth in the photo.
Yes, that's right, it's a girl.
Dorothy Alita, who is sitting opposite Higashinohara in the photo, may have a formidable identity in the eyes of others, such as the "Third Judge", "Empress", etc.
But in the eyes of Aphra Bart.
That's a girl,
Forever girl.
In memory, it seems that the girl has not smiled for a long time since her father died.
"Is this this young man?" Aphra Bart suddenly asked.
"Yes." Mia nodded, "This is the photo sent by the manor."
While talking, Mia looked at the other person's face from the corner of her eye. She thought the other person would be angry, but she didn't see any anger on the face of the woman in front of her.
But as a conscientious assistant, it has become instinctive to share the employer's worries. She couldn't help but subconsciously asked tentatively:
"Do you need me to investigate?"
Aphra Bart's eyes still stayed on that photo. After hearing the words of the female assistant, she raised her head and glanced at her, smiling for no reason on her soft and dignified face.
"Investigation? Investigation of what?"
The female assistant Mia was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and couldn't help but said, "Aren't you the most concerned about Miss's affairs in daily life? And that young man. It is said that he seems to be a human being."
"What about humans?"
Aphra Bart suddenly interrupted expressionlessly, her light blue slender eyes silently staring at the personal assistant in front of her.
Suddenly, the temperature in the cold and quiet office seemed to drop a few degrees.
The female assistant Mia was suddenly shocked!
A certain rumor about the Tianhu Bart family came to mind, and when he glanced at the woman's face, he suddenly became speechless, not even daring to take a breath.
After a while, Aphra Bart withdrew his gaze, fell back on the face of the young man in the photo in his hand, and slowly said:
"There is no need to investigate, and there is no need to investigate. My daughter's eyes are not below mine."
Speaking of this, Aphra Bart sighed softly, "If she had not left the family and joined the damn Adjudication Division, she would be the one sitting in the office on the top floor of this World Bank building a few years later.
, rather than those short-sighted people."
"Miss is indeed very talented in finance." The female assistant Mia sincerely praised her.
Of course, what she envied even more but could only look up to was his talent in cultivating his natural abilities.
A ninth-order god-level expert who is less than thirty years old,
If placed in any country on the Cross Continent, he would be a stunning talent that could be recorded in history.
But she seemed to have thought of something again, and couldn't help but said cautiously, "But if it is a human being, the head of the family will do it in the future."
After hearing Mia's words, Aphra Bart's face was slightly startled.
That soft and dignified face rarely showed a hint of hatred, but soon returned to normal.
She stared at Higashinohara in the photo, and suddenly said slowly and softly, "I said, my daughter's eyesight is much better than mine."
"If that day comes in the future, I shouldn't need to worry about anyone who can be chosen by my daughter."
After hearing Aphra Bart's words, Mia forcibly resisted the urge to look at the young man's face in the photo, but her heart was filled with confusion and confusion.
Just a human being.
Why does Madam think so highly of her?
However, although she was conscientious in her duties, she also knew what was too much and not enough. She lowered her head slightly when she heard this, took a few steps back and sat back in the assistant's seat near the door.
Aphra Bart turned around, and the warm yellow sunlight fell on her through the glass curtain wall in front of her, but she could not feel any warmth.
Sixteen years ago,
It is at the World Bank Building, a landmark building in the center of Kyoto City.
A human man jumped from the window of the office on the top floor of the building and turned into a puddle of scarlet flesh on the ground in front of the building.
At that time, the suicide case in front of the World Bank Building caused a sensation. After all, the nobles in Beijing knew whose property it was.
But in the end it didn't make any waves.
No one knows why the dead man appeared on the top of the World Bank Tower.
No one knows why the dead man jumped from the windy window on the top floor, and no one even knows the name of the dead man.
But Aphra Bart knows everything.
At this moment, bathed in the temperatureless light and silently looking at the glass curtain wall in front of her, Aphra Bart suddenly thought coldly in her mind:
Perhaps, at some point when that man fell from a height of several hundred meters, he also passed by her in this office.
It's just that she didn't notice it at that time.
Later, she chose to accept the explanation given by the old man in the World Bank Building - that the man couldn't bear the pressure and suffered a nervous breakdown and committed suicide by jumping off the building.
But Dorothy Alita, who was only ten years old at the time, did not accept it.
So she stayed in this building.
The little girl who was only ten years old left this building.
Went to a place even colder than here, that is, the black building of the Beijing Adjudication Department.
Aphra Bart will always remember the cold and lonely look in the girl's eyes when she left the building. There is no longer any trace of a daughter's dependence on her mother.
She said that she wanted to go to a place where "the dead can speak" and that day would not be too late.
After thinking about this, Aphra Bart couldn't help but close her eyes slightly and calm down her thoughts quietly.
When I opened my eyes again,
She suddenly understood the meaning of her daughter's initiative to forward this photo to her today.
On the one hand, it is naturally to prevent her from investigating her situation too much through the maid of the manor, but on the other hand, it seems to indicate some past events that have long passed.
For a moment, his eyes fell on the young man in the photo again.
Looking at the other party's young but calm face, I suddenly sighed quietly in my heart.
If that day comes,
I hope you won't let my daughter down again.
After a night of brewing, the incident at Senator Kenneth’s residence last night was
Because there are so many high-level politicians and legislators involved, even the Adjudication Division cannot completely seal the case.
The incident spread from person to person, and eventually brewed into a storm that swept the whole city.
When Higashinohara got off the car that the maid took him to, and just took the subway back to the Stafford Private Great Sword Academy on the shores of Lake Micheli in the southern suburbs of Meiji Prefecture,
Almost every time the platform stops,
There will be a flood of agents with abilities from the Eagle Bureau, all of them with nervous faces, like hunting dogs, working harder than the people of the black-robed execution team to conduct searches.
No way, no one knows about the guy wearing a pale clown mask who attacked and killed Judge Michus.
Did you get mixed up in the dinner party from the beginning?
Or were they uninvited guests who later entered the mansion like the Dawn Rebels?
After all, for the kind of powerful ability user who can kill Judge Michus.
The security at Senator Kenneth's residence is almost ineffective, and people just come and leave as they say.
In addition, after the death of "Fog Ghost" Charles, the fierce fighting between the remaining Dawn Rebels and the black-robed executioners of the Adjudication Division caused chaos at the scene. Most of the congressmen and politicians who cherished their lives secretly left the scene under the protection of security.
This makes the subsequent investigation of the list of people invited to the dinner tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, forcing us to carry out the current large-scale raids and searches that are almost lockdown-style.
And the reason why the people of the United Targos Eagle Secret Service are working so hard is because
Of course it's because that damn guy last night was wearing a black uniform from the Eagle Bureau.
To be fair, anyone who sees such an obvious frame-up will see it clearly.
The problem is.
The Adjudication Division is never a place for reasoning.
If they search and find no clues, it is difficult to guarantee that the Adjudication Division, which has nowhere to vent its anger, will charge them with the crime of guarding a thief and shouting to catch a thief.
Therefore, the people who are doing the most searching in the city of Meiji Mansion are not the police station or the black-robed enforcement team of the Adjudication Department, but the agents of the Eagle Bureau.
But let’s talk about the most unlucky one.
Naturally, they are the lawless elements in this "Sin City" who are ready to take action.
Before the enthusiasm was ignited, it was cooled by the break-in of the Shenying Bureau. The city's atmosphere was completely cleared, and the daily crime rate dropped to the lowest level in history.
Of course, Higashinohara was also quite unlucky.
The drive, which obviously took more than 40 minutes, took more than two hours. It is estimated that the urban transportation system in Meiji Prefecture has been completely paralyzed today.
When he finally got off the subway and returned to Stafford Private Academy, he left the manor in the morning and happened to be in time for lunch at the academy.
That’s okay too.
Higashinohara had a happy-go-lucky personality, so he walked straight into the academy cafeteria.
I exerted a lot of energy last night, and this morning I couldn't eat in the open-air garden restaurant of Dorothy's house with the lake and sky.
As soon as he entered the restaurant, Higashinohara ordered a delicious pork knuckle rice and went to the corner to devour it.
Comfortable!
Today is still the weekend off, so there were not many people around Higashinohara when he was eating.
But most of the students sitting near him were discussing the city-wide martial law this time, talking about the gossip they got from their own channels.
"Have you heard? The judge who came to our academy two nights ago was killed."
"Hiss! That's a guy who can arm-wrestle with the principal, and he's also a member of the special investigation team that went to Beijing to judge the space. Who is so brave?"
"A friend of my relatives was at the scene, and I heard he was from the Dawn Revolutionary Army."
"Tsk, tsk, the Dawn Revolutionary Army has made such a big fuss, it seems that there will be big moves at the next World Conference in Beijing."
"Damn it, the Revolutionary Army of the Dawn. A relative of my friend was also present. It is said that there was an internal fight in the Adjudication Department, Judge Michus had an affair with the Revolutionary Army, and the Empress took action herself."
"Empress? Is it Lady Alita? Is she here too?"
"What a killing! That judge must not be a good person."
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As soon as the "Empress" was mentioned, the excited students in the restaurant suddenly became excited.
The United States of Tagos is adjacent to the Kyoto metropolitan area, and students from all over the world are no strangers to the Judgment Division, the ghastly executive agency of the world government, and most of them have no good impressions.
But only the empress.
The one who joined the Adjudication Division more than ten years ago,
The level of ability has advanced by leaps and bounds under the eyes of countless people, and has soared steadily.
There are almost no bottlenecks,
Before the age of thirty, he shocked everyone,
A talented woman who has stepped into the realm of ninth-level god-level abilities that countless people cannot hope for or reach.
It can be said that he looks down on men in the world.
People always want to be strong.
Especially when this strong man is growing up right under your nose.
Although he has never shown his true face in public,
Dorothy Alita suddenly became the top of the mountain where countless young girls with abilities worshiped and the empress who was out of reach of boys.
Of course, there is more or less the Adjudication Department's propaganda in this, deliberately trying to restore some of the image and face-saving projects that have fallen to the bottom of ordinary human beings in the past century.
However, Higashinohara, who was sitting next to him, was eating pork knuckle rice. He was listening to the people around him saying "I have a relative and friend" at Senator Kenneth's house last night, and the words in the words of "Empress" Dorothy Alita.
Love and worship.
As a party,
Even he, who was the "culprit", suddenly looked a little weird.
But just as he was holding back his old words, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated twice.
Higashinohara was eating rice and taking it out casually.
Glancing at the screen,
His eyes suddenly narrowed slightly.
The message was sent by Dusk, a partner of the [Dawn of Scarlet] Hunter Organization.
The specific content is only two simple lines of text.
"Descendants of the famous Kyoto craftsman Kamado Tsouji,
I found it for you."
Below the text is a map location,
The location is strikingly located in [Barton County], which is adjacent to the Bama Canal among the "One City and Six Counties" in the Kyoto metropolitan area.
