Chapter 48: The Brightest Rising Star in South Takehara
The Metropolitan Police Department’s video conference continues.
After putting aside the topic of "the strength of the man in the dragonfly mask" that confused everyone, their discussion quickly returned to the right track - that is, the follow-up treatment of this resurgent funeral club.
On the surface, the president, Guigo Snake, has been killed, but what about the mysterious "doctor" secretly? Are there any other members of the Funeral Society who did not participate in last night's operation?
What are their plans on Rising Sun Island?
Coupled with the upcoming execution of pirate cadres on Rising Sun Island next month...the accumulation of these things suddenly made everyone in the third investigation team frown.
I sighed in my heart,
What an eventful year it has been.
...
The conference room was quiet for a while.
In the end, Tokugawa Ritora gave the order.
The funeral club continues to follow up on the matter, trying to dig out the mysterious "doctor" behind it as much as possible, but the most important task for everyone at the moment is the execution of the pirates on Rising Sun Island in seven days.
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but agree.
They all knew that this execution was not that simple.
Captain Sugita Tsukasa of the Thirteenth Squadron frowned. Thinking of the man imprisoned in the prison, a look of sadness suddenly appeared on his face.
He originally thought that Tokugawa Ritora would oppose the deal between Wano's senior officials and Tenjin Councilor Hope, but he didn't expect that in the end he would acquiesce to the execution of the death penalty.
Perhaps in his eyes,
The stability of Wano should be more important than anything else.
However, he didn't have much resentment towards Tokugawa Ritora. The path of life is his own choice, and no one can bear the consequences of other people's choices.
Although Tokugawa Kuritora looks like a fierce tiger on the surface and suppresses everything in the third investigation team, he is actually a soft person on the inside.
For example, that adoption not long ago...
For that little girl who has no mother and just lost her father, being adopted and mentored by a seventh-level absolute ability person may be another kind of luck in an unfortunate life.
...
The next day, November 24th.
On the first day after the Labor Day holiday in Wano, Higashinohara woke up on time at 5:30 under the influence of his body's biological clock.
[Spiritual Healing] The soothing did not let him leave any fatigue and stress until the next day. When he took a shower after his daily exercise, the scars left by the fierce battle at Yeyu intersection last night had not yet healed, and when he touched the water
It stings a little bit.
But it wasn't a big problem. After taking a shower, Higashinohara put on his school uniform and went out.
When I walked to the corridor, I suddenly heard the familiar sound of the door opening.
Higashinohara's heart moved slightly, and when he turned his head, he found that walking out of 505 was Charlie, who was wearing a light blue housecoat and yawning, with short silver hair and long ears.
Yes, that room has long been replaced by this guy.
After Charlie yawned, she muttered, "It's true! There's no signal on the TV in the house, so I've been tinkering all night. The boss is really stingy, and I must give him a hard time today!"
If you want to do something, just say so.
It's like you haven't had a good meal that day.
Higashinohara was speechless, and was about to pretend he didn't hear anything and go downstairs. Charlie's ears twitched slightly, and she turned around and saw Higashinohara, and immediately walked up excitedly.
Her character has two characteristics.
One is petty.
The other one is forgetful.
Before, I was a bit grudge because Higashinohara reported her and "arrested" her at the station. However, after getting along with her for the past two days, I found that Higashinohara has a gentle personality and does not have the look in the eyes of the otaku LSP I met on the street before.
The little pimple disappeared quickly.
"Good morning, Dongye, where did you go last night?"
Charlie stood in front of Higashinohara and showed off excitedly, "By the way, my boss and I went to do something big last night. Guess what it was?"
I do not guess you guess guess?
Higashinohara laughed in his heart, but said, "You guys went to Kubetsu Town again last night?"
"Ah? How do you know?"
Charlie's face was slightly startled, and she said a little embarrassedly, "We didn't find you when we came up last night, so we went first. Don't be angry."
"That's not the case." Higashinohara asked with a smile, "How is it? Did you find anything?"
"The case has been solved."
Charlie immediately became excited again, "As expected, there are problems with those suicide cases. When we arrived at the scene, we found that there was a fight. However, it seemed that the useless people from the Metropolitan Police Department couldn't defeat the bad guys. Later, a mysterious man wearing a dragonfly mask showed up in time.
It was just solved.”
Higashinohara nodded slightly. He didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, guessing where Charlie and the others should be hiding and watching.
After thinking about it, he felt a slight movement in his heart. He glanced at Charlie, who had a silly face, and probed calmly, "Did you feel that...that mysterious person was a bit familiar to you last night?"
He would definitely not ask Aragaki Satoru about this, because that guy was just an old fox, but Charlie could still ask. This mixed-race girl from the Tianhu tribe didn't seem to be a very smart Yazi.
However, Xia Li's reaction shocked Higashinohara.
"how do you know?"
She asked in surprise at first, and then said happily, "Yes, yes! That guy looks like someone I know..."
"Who do you know?"
Higashinohara's face darkened.
"Captain Dragonfly!"
Charlie said crisply.
"..."
The corners of his eyes twitched. Seeing that Charlie looked like this, she must have loved watching TV when she was a child. He shook his head and ignored her, turned around and was about to go downstairs.
At this moment, Charlie remembered the 'business', and twisted her body a little embarrassedly from behind and asked, "Dongye... There is no signal on the TV in my room. Can you lend me your TV?"
Higashinohara was stunned for a moment before reacting. It was probably because there were no new cases in the Aragaki Detective Agency after this case was solved, and she was a little bored staying at home.
But he couldn't do the same thing as a meat bun and beat a dog, so he went back and called her for a maintenance call - it was left by Aragaki Satoru when he installed the TV for the tenant, and it is probably still under warranty.
Charlie didn't take her mobile phone. As soon as Higashinohara reported the number, she bowed gratefully and repeated the number in a murmur, fearing that she had forgotten, and quickly turned around and ran back to the room.
Higashinohara was speechless.
There were only a few TV channels in Wano, and most of them had to be paid. She wasn't even paid a salary, so even if it was repaired for free, she would probably be stunned for a while.
...
I jogged all the way to Ogawacho Tram Station.
Higashinohara took the tram for four stops and arrived at Takehara Minami Private Academy.
As usual, he went to the playground for training on the rubber track first. He still didn't see Shikame Ryoka today. She was seriously injured last night and is probably still receiving treatment in the hospital.
After the daily training, Higashinohara put on indoor shoes and returned to the classroom.
As usual, after the holidays, the girls who went to school were all talking about where they went for Labor Thanksgiving Day yesterday, and the men were whispering to each other about what happened in the past two days.
"Have you heard that the serial suicide case in Mubetsu Town was solved last night?"
"I also saw the news, and it was Captain Dragonfly who helped."
"Who do you think Captain Dragonfly is? Why does he always wear a mask?"
"I guess I don't want to be burdened by fame and fortune, just like Phantom Thieves?"
"Is it possible... that he is too ugly?"
"..."
Higashinohara's footsteps stopped.
He silently glanced at the boy with acne on his face, wishing that he would always have acne.
However, they were chatting quite quickly, and now they turned to the topic of the ongoing live broadcast of the execution of the Sakamoto Dragon Pirates of Asahi Island to the world early next month.
Everyone was vomiting.
Speculating and analyzing the purpose behind the actions of the World Government and Wano's top brass.
Higashinohara returned to the window seat in the second-to-last row. After sitting down, he was about to enter his mind and continue his "intracranial sword practice" before the morning meeting, so as to brush up his proficiency in the two-sword style of Kodachi swordsmanship as soon as possible.
After last night's battle, he felt more and more the importance of swordsmanship and sword shape.
If he had only been able to do the lion strike last night as before, no matter how fast he was, he would have been just a headless fly, and he might have been seriously injured in the battle.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he sat down, Yuuto Aida in the back seat started to stab him again.
"Dongye, have you finished running today? By the way, have you heard..."
Higashinohara didn't want to waste time chatting, so he interrupted angrily, "I heard, I heard... Is it the case of the mysterious suicide in Kurebetsu Town that was solved or the execution of the pirate leader Asahi Island next month?"
Aida Yuuto was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Higashinohara to rush to answer, but he rolled his eyes and shook his head, "No! It's our first-year Class A who has a transfer student today!"
"I heard that she is the daughter of a certain big shot. Her talent is terrifying. She was already named the brightest star of Takehara Minami High School right after she entered school."
