Furusawa Qiandao smelled the smell of rotten food and the faint pain from his head in his sleep, which prompted him to open his eyes.
What he saw was a gray sky. Looking around, he saw a trash can not far from him. A girl with a slightly cold body temperature was hugging her in a completely hugging position. She looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old. His face was thin and bluish-white due to years of malnutrition.
Furuzawa Qiandao raised his hand, and the slight abnormality in his body made him quickly realize that something was wrong.
——This hand is a little too small, it doesn’t look like the hand of a man in his twenties.
"...No, it can't be..."
Astonished, he got up from the damp paper he was lying on and touched himself up and down. He breathed a sigh of relief and at the same time noticed something was wrong.
His eyes returned to the girl. Even if Furuzawa Qiandao jumped with excitement just now, she showed no signs of waking up. Her blue face gave him a bad feeling, so he stretched out a finger and put it on her After testing it under his nose, he put his other hand on the girl's wrist.
Furuzawa Qiandao frowned and stared at the girl closely with a little hope.
The cold body temperature and breathless body put the answer clearly before his eyes - she was dead. Judging from the current temperature, she died not long ago. Judging from the memory left in her body, it might have been just yesterday. night.
——This girl is "his" sister. Although she is not a blood relative, in Yokohama, where war and chaos are common, she treats "him" well just by chance. She is not someone who intends to sell herself. For the current situation, For Furuzawa Qiandao, who is only eleven years old, he is already as good a person as his parents who were accidentally separated in the chaos and escape in his memory.
The cause of death was high fever caused by an unexpected rainstorm. Both children, both helpless, died together last night.
No wonder I feel that my body temperature is still a little abnormally hot, and that when I stood up just now, my limbs were weak and my head was dizzy.
"Why... forget about time travel, and suddenly you have to face this kind of thing again!" Furuza Qiandao gritted his teeth reluctantly, slowly retracted his hand, and clenched his fists.
He remembered that he was still at home before traveling through time. He had just confirmed that he had taken the public examination and landed ashore a few days ago. After finishing what he had been working hard for for three years after graduation, he put down his tense nerves and took a short nap. He had hardly stayed up in the past. How could something like sudden death happen overnight that triggers time travel? !
Just like watching the iron rice bowl that he just received was an empty dream, if he could describe Furuzawa Qiandao's current mood, it would definitely be a long paragraph of blocking words.
Although this is not the job I really want to do, but I have always followed what others said - it is better, more stable, and has room for improvement, so I gritted my teeth and took the exam for three consecutive years despite the incomprehension and pressure from my family and the outside world. Years, but hasn’t this already been successful?
But who would really give up a peaceful life to survive in a world where war, mafia and supernatural crimes are rampant? ! When I watch the show, my oral pleasure is really just my oral pleasure!
And now he is in Yokohama, having traveled to a world where people with supernatural powers, Bungou Stray Dogs, exist. The only thing he knows about the history of this world is the failure of the Tokogan Island Project, but a supernatural war? what is that? Not to mention there are urban legends about people with supernatural powers, which does not sound scientific and logical.
Just when Furuzawa Qiandao couldn't change his mood quickly due to the empty joy, a series of footsteps came from the notch filled with trash cans, making him look over with caution.
"Brother Qiandao! We got the medicine! We got the medicine that can reduce fever!" Several children shouted happily and rushed over. One of them handed over something he was holding tightly in his hand.
Furuzawa Qiandao looked at them, then at the several wet pills lying on their dirty hands, and took them silently.
"Thank you...but maybe Sister Huima shouldn't use it anymore."
The originally excited expressions of the children quickly dimmed when they saw the girl's body, but their eyes revealed a sense of being accustomed to the dead.
"Ah, is that so? Sister Huima is gone too..." A boy expressed his sadness dryly, but he didn't know what to say at this time. He looked at Furuzawa Qiandao, "Well, Qiandao Brother, do you still want this medicine? If not..."
Before he could finish speaking, Furuzawa Qiandao had already swallowed the suspicious-looking pills, leaving several children who were still uncomfortable with the pills stunned.
If he doesn't take it, the high fever that comes back later will still kill him. If he bets that the medicine they brought will still have a chance of recovery, he can only find a way to survive now, even in this country that was reduced to a concession after the war. Yokohama, he believed there was still a way to survive.
"Water, water... do you have water?" A girl asked blankly. After recovering, she hurriedly turned to look at the companions next to her, "You'll choke if you do this!"
"Ah! That's right! The pills will choke inside!"
"But we were just looking for medicine! We weren't looking for water!"
"What should I do... Is Brother Qiandao going to die too... Wuwuwu... Then we will only have two eldest children, Brother Dong and Sister Yuzi in our organization... Wuwuwu..."
Furuzawa Qiandao had a headache and quickly stood up to comfort them: "I'm not dead. I won't choke to death. I have a big throat, so I won't choke on the medicine... If you don't believe it, just look at it."
He opened his mouth and looked at them, then touched the head of the crying child, "Thank you."
Fortunately, the children had experienced a lot of things. Seeing that there was really nothing serious going on in Furuzawa Qian Island, they quickly felt relieved and talked about the second thing they did here besides delivering medicine.
"By the way, Brother Qiandao, Sister Yuzi and Brother Dong want to ask you something." After the child who handed the medicine calmed down, he still looked somewhat reliable, "Originally, I wanted you to go with Sister Huima. In the past, but..."
Now Huima is dead, and only Furuzawa Qiandao is left.
Furuzawa Qiandao nodded, looked at the cold corpse next to him, and said: "Huima, sister, she has told me before that if one day she dies...how should I make such an assumption."
——The wandering orphans don’t need a mausoleum or loess, they just need to be thrown into the sea gently like other people.
She was lucky that Yokohama was close to the sea, so her body would not wash up on the shore, but would be quickly eaten by fish in the sea.
Furuzawa Qiandao felt Huima's relief from death from his memory - in an environment where everyone wanted to live desperately, this girl had already been calm about death.
The others didn't know what Huima said to Furuzawa Qiandao, so they could only look at each other in shock after he finished speaking.
"Then... Brother Qiandao, after burying Sister Huima, hurry up and gather at the old place. Brother Dong and Sister Yuzi are waiting for you." After they finished their instructions, they left here.
After all, not everyone will pity wandering orphans. After the war, Yokohama has basically been separated from foreign countries. The entire city is still in a period of turmoil. Such sufferings are endless and of all kinds. It is particularly difficult for ordinary people to live well. difficult.
Furuzawa Qiandao waved goodbye to them, then struggled to pick up Huima's body and walked towards the sea.
Fortunately, Fuzawa Qiandao had grown up with the care of his parents. Even after two months of wandering, he was still stronger than the average child. He could barely lift the skinny Huima, but he could still walk all the way from the city to the beach. There is a long distance.
He knew that there was a cliff near the sea in Yokohama. This unforgettable place appeared in Fumino's plot about Dazai Chuuya's fifteen years old. He guessed that it would be closer and safer than walking to the beach himself.
Because of Yokohama's geographical location, the most dangerous place in a port city that has been reduced to a concession is the seaside. Even if a helpless child is just passing there, he will be treated as an enemy with ill intentions and killed by foreigners. danger.
What's more, the current Yokohama Street is not suitable for children to run around. He can only rely on the paths in his memory and find some non-dangerous paths.
That cliff actually became the best choice for Furuzawa Qian Island at this time.
After walking around and finally finding the cliff, Furuzawa Qiandao used his remaining strength to half-drag and half-carry Huima all the way here, tie a big stone to her waist, and let the stone fall with the body to the cliff. nautical miles.
With a faint sound, Furuzawa Qiandao couldn't even see the water splash, and the figure who had been taking care of him for two months in the memory sank into the waves.
"Rest in peace, Huima, and...Furuzawa Qiandao." He clasped his hands in front of him and whispered to the sea, then turned around and rushed to the place where they usually met.
It's said to be a meeting, but it's actually just like their worry meeting. It happens almost every day. It's almost all about worries about the dangers on the streets and food supply issues every day. Occasionally, it's also mixed with some worries and plans about the future situation. ——Although in the current view of Furuzawa Qiandao, it is just some unrealistic fantasies that can support their continued survival.
The location is behind a tree on the northwest side of Yokohama Central Park. When Furuzawa Senjima passed by, there were already two people waiting there. The boy was the one called Brother Dong, who was walking around uneasily in circles, and the girl Tamako While comforting him, he looked over from time to time, and when he saw the figure of Furuzawa Qiandao, he was overjoyed and pulled Dong back.
"Qiandao, you're finally here! Where's Huima?" Yuzi looked around for a while, but didn't see another figure. After asking, he finally realized what he was doing. He closed his mouth and said to Dong as if to change the subject: "Dong, what about you? There should be no problems with Bian recently."
"Well, we have taken in a few new members. Adding up the previous ones, there are a total of seventeen people." Dongya noticed, followed Yuzi's words and spoke, looking at Furuzawa Qiandao, "We don't have enough manpower, even if Coupled with several children who are already sensible, it will be difficult for us to support everyone.”
"The weather is very hot now, and there is very little edible food every day. We don't even leave the trash cans. Except for some very dangerous places, we basically rely on the support of store managers and kind-hearted people, and occasionally we can grab A little official relief food... If this continues, let alone winter, we may not even be able to survive this month." Yuzi said, her voice getting smaller and smaller.
He grabbed the topic and continued: "And there are younger children among us. If there is no way to increase food, we may have to find ways to steal or rob/robber to survive, and the threat to our lives will be greater. , but if we don’t do this, a group like us will be disbanded sooner or later. What do you think, Qiandao?”
Dong does not have the same moral values as Tamako, or in other words, he has wanted to embark on such a path from the beginning.
——Perhaps this is also based on the idea of sacrificing a few people and continuing to maintain the group.
