Ryoichi's house in Shinjuku is a rental house, no different from where ordinary working-class office workers live. After seeing the walls of the four-story old building with the chalk peeling off, Lin Nian and Mandy believed Ryoichi's words.
The fact that I am a poor dog.
"Didn't you say your monthly salary is two to three hundred million yen? Why don't you rent a better place to live?" Mandy asked after Ryoichi who was taking out the keys on the stairwell.
"What's the use of living well? You can't stay here every day. Sometimes you have to go out for several days for a troublesome task. Even staying in a five-star hotel is just a waste of money." Ryoichi slapped him aside with a cigarette in his mouth and a familiar face.
The sensor lights lit up the corridor.
"This kind of frugal spirit is very good. It's better to save the money and buy a house later." Lin Nian gave a thumbs up.
"I buy whatever I want when I see it, and I give money when I go to a custom shop and chat with the bartender, so I don't have any savings. The reason why I don't starve to death now is that the convenience of the mission allows me to go to various places to eat king meals.
"Ryoichi said.
Lin Nian silently withdrew his like.
When we walked to the corridor, we saw a whole row of residents' doors. Black garbage bags were placed in piles at the door. Many of the garbage bags were accidentally kicked by passers-by and spilled out without anyone taking care of them. This is enough to show that this dormitory building
What is the condition of the building?
Liang Yi walked to door No. 204 and put out his cigarette on the wall. He took out the key and opened the door. Lin Nian and Mandy both leaned on the railing behind and looked down at the street. They stayed at a five-star restaurant in the morning and came to a B&B in the afternoon.
Is this really considered travel fraud? Can I complain to the company afterwards and ask for mental damages?
The door was opened, the indoor light shone on the corridor, and there were already people in the room.
On the railing, Lin Nian caught a glimpse of the light behind the door and the figure running towards him, and subconsciously held the handle of the knife in his cuff, but Mandy on the side suddenly hugged his arm and shouted: "Junior brother, calm down! Junior brother, calm down! Don't do it again.
I was so scared that I chopped off people’s heads.”
"ただいま(I'm back)."
"おかえり(Welcome back)."
Liang Yi walked into the entrance and took off his shoes. A young girl in slippers ran over to help him take off his windbreaker. Outside the door, Lin Nian, who had his hand on a knife, raised his eyebrows to his hairline as he watched this particularly 'warm' scene.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, this is Qianxun, and she is living with me for the time being." Ryoichi glanced at Lin Nian who was stunned and explained.
"We have guests today... My name is Chihiro Aoshiro. Thank you for taking care of Ryoichi, and please give me your advice." The young girl named Chihiro was still wearing an apron. She wiped her hands behind her back and faced the door cautiously.
Lin Nian and the two outside bowed.
Lin Nian and Mandy nodded to say hello. After walking into the entrance, the former gave Ryoichi a strange look: "Your girlfriend?"
"No." Ryoichi put on his slippers and stepped on the wooden floor.
"Your relative?" Lin Nian thought for a while and asked again.
"No." Ryoichi looked back at him and said, "I picked Qianxun up from the street, and she lives with me temporarily."
Lin Nian and Mandy's expressions became even weirder. The word "pick up" was a bit too subtle.
"There are no other stories. I met Qianxun when I was working half a year ago. She had no place to live. I happened to be away from home often and the house was empty, so we simply lived together." Ryoichi searched from the shoe cabinet.
Two pairs of disposable slippers were disassembled and displayed in front of Lin Nian.
"It was really picked up. Now you Japanese are no longer limited to catching Pokémon in the wild?" Mandy felt horrified by this statement.
"Isn't this kind of 'gods treating girls' quite common in recent years?" Ryoichi led the two of them towards the living room: "It's a very common phenomenon in Ikebukuro, Shinjuku. You are resigned and can't find a job temporarily, and you find that you don't have enough money after finishing the convenience store.
Often, these girls who had quarreled with their families and ran away from home would gather together and wait for someone to take them back to stay for one night or for a long time."
"Has Japan become so magical now?" Lin Nian felt a little disillusioned. He remembered that he had laughed at one of his classmates named Lu, saying that he had seen in anime sitting in the corner of a convenience store in the rain eating expired food.
Bread, the unfortunate girl waiting to be adopted like a stray cat does not exist, but now she looks like she has been slapped hard in the face.
As a woman, Mandy's reaction was not small, but she was afraid of being heard by the girl humming and cooking in the kitchen and deliberately lowered her voice: "Is this a deliberate abduction? This must be a deliberate abduction, right?"
"Abduction needs to be based on coaxing, lies and unrealistic promises. My relationship with her is not that complicated." Ryoichi heard Mandy's whisper and said.
"Then does he know that you are from this family?" Lin Nian asked.
"I don't know. My relationship with him is just that I provide a place to live and she takes care of the housework. She doesn't need to know that much about my work." Liangmi said expressionlessly.
"Is it really just as simple as housework?" Lin Nian and Mandy both looked questioningly.
"It's that simple, how can it be more complicated?" Liang Yi glanced at the two of them, and the latter scratched his eyebrows in unison to avoid this righteous gaze.
If you eat people with soft-spoken words and take advantage of others, you should stop meddling in other people's house.
"Have you not had enough oden before? Want some more?" The living room is connected to the kitchen. Ryoichi walked to the cupboard and took two more sets of bowls and chopsticks and put them on the table.
The question turned to food and drink. Lin Nian and Mandy gave up their righteous questioning and ran to wash their hands and faces - both Mandy and Lin Nian suspected that they still had dark spots on their faces.
After finishing the preparations and sitting back at the dining table, the four of them each took their own side and the atmosphere was somewhat silent.
After taking off her apron, Chihiro Aodai immediately changed her position from a housewife to a student. Lin Nian and Mandy both observed her with their peripheral vision. She was estimated to be no more than 17 years old. A college student? No...should still be
A JK (female high school student) picks up a minor and comes back to be a housewife. It is really enviable... a heinous crime!
"Why do you feel like you are all looking at me..." Chihiro Aoshiro bit her chopsticks and looked at Ryoichi with some embarrassment.
"Just out of curiosity, these two are work friends, foreign friends from abroad. One is from China, the other is from..." Ryoichi looked at Mandy.
"Spain, but I grew up in the United States as far back as I can remember." Mandy smiled and raised her hand to say hello to Qianxun.
"It looks like Ryoichi-nii works for a big company." Chihiro Aoshiro looked at Ryoichi as if he had discovered something extraordinary.
"It's just an ordinary business. They didn't book a hotel tonight, so they stayed at my house for the time being." Ryoichi said.
"Really? Then tonight Ryoichi-san and I will sleep on the sofa together!" Chihiro Aoshiro said.
"Okay." Liang nodded.
"No, it's okay. It's us who are disturbing us. We should sleep on the sofa..." Mandy turned around and looked at the sofa in the living room and suddenly stopped, because that thing really didn't look like it could fit two people side by side.
, if she and Lin Nian wanted to sleep there, one would definitely have to hold the other.
"Sleeping on the sofa? I don't care." Lin Nian, who was eating, didn't have time to turn around and said subconsciously.
"I think I have something to say..." Mandy withdrew her preamble about sleeping on the sofa with a sad face. She took advantage of the mission to eat her junior fellow students. Will she be slaughtered by Lin Xian when she returns to the academy?
"Are you still in school at your age?" Lin Nian looked at Aoshiro Chihiro and asked casually while holding a chopstick of food.
"I'm in my third year of high school, studying at a nearby women's college." Chihiro Aoshiro was also quietly sizing up Lin Nian: "What do you call this guest? Why does his accent sound a bit like Osaka?"
"My surname is Lin, and I'm not too sure about the accent. Others taught me this way when I was taught it. They say that this way of speaking Japanese is more authentic."
"Mr. Lin, the Osaka accent does have more local characteristics in Osaka. It's just that it seems a bit strange to speak in Osaka accent here in Tokyo." Chihiro Aoshiro explained with a smile.
"I understand." Lin Nian made a note of Fingel in his mind without expression as he ate his rice. Fingel, who was far away across the ocean, sneezed, drew his sword and looked around in confusion.
"It's amazing that Lin Nian works in a big company at his age." Chihiro Aoshiro also began to observe Lin Nian carefully and found that this boy was actually about the same age as him, maybe even younger than him, but now he was regarded as Ryoichi's colleague
The identity appeared at home.
"It's not difficult, just study hard. After you graduate and go to a good university, you'll probably be able to rent a house and live on your own." Lin Nian lowered his head to eat.
"Yeah, it's really embarrassing to be crowded in Brother Liangyi's house all the time. Brother Liangyi often works outside and doesn't come home. There's nothing I can do to help. I hope I can repay Brother Liangyi by earning money after working.
"Chihiro Aoshiro said with a soft smile.
Now Lin Nian has nothing to say. The girl is willing to take care of the housework and will repay you in the future. This is called abduction. How advanced abduction skills are needed to abduct such a treasure and bring it home?
"I'm alone anyway. With Ryoichi-nii here, it's like having a family again." Chihiro Aoshiro said with a smile.
Lin Nian, who was eating, was stunned for a moment when he heard this sentence. He glanced at Qianshiro Qianhiro and said nothing after that.
The meal was finished in a hurry and without words. Qianxun took the initiative to clean up the dishes. Lin Nian couldn't help but could not help. However, Mandy squeezed in to help relying on her affinity with the same sex. He could only act honestly.
I sat on the sofa in the living room and watched TV.
The eight o'clock comedy variety show was playing on the TV. Liang Yi also sat aside and picked up the plate with candies on the table and handed it over. Lin Nian randomly grabbed a candy and slowly peeled off the wrapper and asked, "Is she an orphan?"
"Yes." Liang Yi also peeled off a piece of candy and chewed it in his mouth.
"Isn't she some godly girl...taken from an orphanage?"
"It doesn't count." Liang Yi said, "I am responsible for her affairs."
Lin Nian paused in his action of peeling off the candy wrapper and looked puzzled.
"There was a mission before. It was said that dangerous hybrids were carrying out robberies in Shinjuku, and they specifically targeted big bosses from nightclubs. People almost died several times. Team leader Yoshitaka asked me to go and see what was going on." Ryoichi
Opening a bottle of cold beer: "The result is nothing new. I found the hybrid, he attacked me and I shot him in the heart."
"What does this have to do with her?" Lin Nian glanced at Aoshiro Chihiro who was busy in the kitchen.
"She is the daughter of that dangerous hybrid." Ryoichi took a sip of wine and said, "Her mother died in childbirth and there were no other relatives in the family. She was still in the first year of high school when the incident happened. I killed his father and she died.
There was nowhere to go back, so I just picked her up."
Lin Nian paused for a moment and then frowned slightly: "You brought back a problem."
"How do you say that?" Ryoichi's expression remained unchanged.
"There is a chance that a mixed-race descendant might be a mixed-race, right?" Lin Nian asked.
"She is not." Ryoichi said, "I took her to my family for a checkup. Even some dragon bloodlines are very thin, and they are the kind that will never have a chance to awaken in their lifetime."
"So all your salary is spent here." Lin Nian smiled.
"It doesn't cost much." Ryoichi couldn't bear the exaggerated laughter of comedians on the TV and pressed the remote control to change the channel.
"Actually, I thought you had that kind of relationship at first," Lin Nian said sheepishly.
"What kind of relationship...you mean a physical relationship?" Liang Yi said: "I want breasts but not breasts, and I want butt but not butt. Why don't I go to whoring?"
This topic went too far. Lin Nian turned his head and changed the subject: "Does the family not care about orphans like this?"
"Qianxun's grades in school are considered to be the third in the whole grade. She shouldn't be delayed by some mixed race or the bad things of the underworld. The life of a person like her should be smooth sailing. If it is handled according to the rules and regulations of this family, she will most likely
You will be sent to an orphanage and receive multiple pensions. You should know that a child should not stay in that kind of place." Ryoichi said.
Lin Nian was stunned for a moment, looked at Liang Yi for a while and then said, "You too?"
Liang Yi nodded: "People like us all have labels, and you are no exception."
"How old are you?"
"Since childhood."
"I'm about the same." Lin Nian felt that the boy next to him who had always been fierce and fierce seemed to be a lot more friendly for no reason.
"Did you take him in because of guilt?"
"It's my job to deal with dangerous hybrids, so I don't feel guilty. Do you feel guilty about the hybrid you killed this morning and the gunman tonight?" Ryoichi asked rhetorically.
"No." Lin Nian said: "One is no longer a person, and the other wants to take away a person's life. Why do I feel guilty."
"Me too." Ryoichi said.
"Then why do you still have to take on this responsibility?" Lin Nian asked: "I came out of the orphanage with my sister. I know it was not easy for her to take care of me during that time. It is most likely the same for you."
"Is there any reason for this kind of thing?" Liang Yi lay on the sofa and watched TV: "I'll help if I can."
Lin Nian paused for a moment and then nodded: "You are like my sister. When I asked her why she took care of me so much, she said she saw how pitiful you were, so she just helped her if she wanted."
"You have a good sister." Liang raised his beer.
"You are also a good...brother?"
Go out and eat the king's meal in nightclubs and drink free champagne. Just because you eat less at home, you can save money by using less dishes and chopsticks. All the saved wages are used to pay the tuition and tuition fees for the girls at home. Who knows that a gangster is here to start?
How can a cruel boy be so tender-hearted?
Lin Nian had no reason to remember the scene when they entered the house before. When he went home before, his elder sister would always prepare a meal and say "I'm back"? They were surprisingly similar.
He smiled for no reason and stuffed the candy into his mouth.
In the kitchen, Chihiro Aodai, who was washing dishes, suddenly whispered "Ah", and Mandy beside him subconsciously asked in English: "Whats_wrong? (What's going on)"
"Someone from Ryoichi-san's company sent me a metal box as a gift, and asked me to wait for him to open the box and hand over the contents to him when he comes back. I almost forgot." Chihiro Aoshiro stuck out his tongue and whispered.
Mandy was stunned for a moment, shrugged her shoulders and turned around to continue washing the dishes. Due to the language barrier, Qianxun could understand the simple English she spoke, but she couldn't understand the girl's mumblings in Japanese at all.
What to say, I could only watch the girl trotting into the room not far away with a smile on her face.