Kunikida was currently in the men's room, using his fingers to hold his bangs and adjust his hairstyle.
While fixing her look, she sneezed. Unaware of the slander against him by his colleagues, Kunikida, who had taken his temperature before going out this morning and was very familiar with his own health, knew very well that he did not have a cold.
But not only was he sneezing, his body was trembling. This was very abnormal, so abnormal that...even though it was daytime, he felt that the air in the bathroom was eerie.
He swallowed and started talking to himself.
He muttered: "Why do you feel so cold all of a sudden? Is it haunted?"
Then he muttered: "Well, it's normal for Yokohama to be haunted."
Then he muttered: "It doesn't mean it's haunted..."
No, quite so.
Kunikida shivered alone and did not dare to think about ghosts anymore. He looked at his reflection in the mirror, turned to the left, then to the right. After making sure that there were no flaws in his appearance, he then...
He took out a cup and toothbrush from the cabinet next to him, and brushed his teeth carefully three times from the left to the right.
The formed toothpaste foam fills the mouth, and the smell of mint gradually becomes stronger.
His mind wandered to other places.
In the depths of my memory, there was a summer festival that was bustling with people. Amidst the crowds, a little girl in a floral blue kimono was holding a fish-shaped red paper lantern in her hand.
Her long black hair was tied up high with a hairband, and she was not wearing any hair accessories. Her eyes were staring at the lantern in her hand, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and her smile was as bright as a flower.
At that moment, his young self seemed to feel a breeze blowing across his face.
As if she was aware of her gaze, the little girl raised her head, and on her fair and baby-fat face, those sapphire blue eyes seemed to hold the blue sky, and met her gaze.
The clear eyes and the glimmer in his pupils illuminated his chest like the bright moon.
——Amamiya Qianye.
The water glass in his hand tilted, and water dripped along the ceramic basin onto the square tile floor. The sound instantly brought Kunikida, who was looking dreamy and lost in memories, back to reality.
He hurriedly began to deal with the water stains, and was thankful that neither his suit nor his leather shoes got wet.
——Great, I didn’t bring any spare clothes.
It would be rude if your clothes were stained.
He has very important things to do.
He was going to meet a friend today, a little girl he knew when he was a child. Although they only got along for seven days before she went abroad with her family, those seven days were enough to sustain Kunikida's longing for her for fourteen years.
After all, except for the fact that the other party has twenty-two qualities that meet his ideal girlfriend standards...
It's a bit embarrassing to say it, but Amamiya Qianye is his first friend.
And this friend can even be sublimated to the level of a close friend and confidant.
Like him, Qianye Amamiya is a loyal fan of Master Carlyle. They cherish every notebook designed by Master Carlyle. Not only that, the other party is a person with very upright views and never bullies the weak.
Not only was Kunikida not popular among his peers when he was a child, he was actually bullied and ridiculed by his peers because of his personality. He is often alone, like an inconspicuous injured shell abandoned by the sea after a wave and stranded alone on the beach. He can neither return to the sea by his own power nor be picked up by anyone.
It was roasted in place by the scorching sun until it turned into gray, broken gravel that merged with the sand, and became even more neglected.
But Qianye praised him as a talented person, and approved of his persistence and even his obsessive-compulsive disorder in certain aspects. For Kunikida in his childhood, Qianye's appearance was like telling him - —He is not alone.
There are people in this world who understand him.
So even though he later awakened his powers, left that environment, came to Yokohama to work alone, and had a few friends, Amamiya Qianye's status in his mind was still completely different.
This meeting with him was not only to renew the precious friendship that had been interrupted for fourteen years, but also to let Qianye see his growth.
Let the other person know that when faced with the ridicule of his peers, the little devil who used to be incompetent, furious and crying, waiting for Qian Ye to fight for him, has become a mature adult!
The mature Kunikida stepped out of the bathroom with firm steps. When he opened the door to the corridor, he heard Dazai's voice coming from the work area behind him.
"Come on Mr. Kunikida~ I know you can do it!"
Kunikida was inspired. His eyes were firm and he said loudly: "Don't worry! I can do it!"
The door was closed, and what was blocked by the door panel was Yosano's complaint: "I'm really sick..."
If I didn't know you were going to meet a friend, I would have thought you were going on a blind date.
Yosano rolled his eyes, looked at the newspaper and said coolly: "Just thinking about Mr. Kunikida being the next president makes me despair about the future of the detective agency."
If there were more people like Kunikida, Yosano felt that he could stay in the operating room and not come out.
Kunikida walked there. The place where I agreed to meet Qianye was a cafe about eight minutes' walk from Butei Club. I originally wanted to meet at the Whirlpool Cafe, but I thought that my partner was a very troublesome person and might come out to cause trouble and tease him. for fun…
No matter whether Dazai would be so rude or not, Kunikida would not hesitate to use the greatest malice to slander him.
After all, his working life had been in dire straits ever since he had this partner.
If the other person skipped work to drink or commit suicide, it was already a headache. Then he was forced to treat him, and he was tricked into wearing the other person's clothes, but was mistook him for Dazai by a woman on the road and was slapped. While walking, I suddenly fell straight into the women's locker room through a hole in the floor...
Kunikida had already begun to hold his stomach.
He felt that the pain in his abdomen was too strong for him to ignore.
However, why should I think about my bastard partner at this time? Kunikida cleared his mind of all associations with that bastard partner, stood in front of the coffee shop, raised his head and looked at the signboard above.
After knowing that Qian Ye was returning to China today, he booked a seat in advance.
The table is next to the window, but it does not face the sun and will not be exposed to the sun. You can also see the almond trees outside the window and the lush flower beds with butterflies chasing them.
There is a flower stand on the side of the table to block the view. Although they are fake flowers, the clerk took good care of them and there is no dust... He even wiped them off himself when he visited the place yesterday.
All this is done to give today's meeting a perfect start.
Amamiya Qianye...
They had not seen each other for fourteen years. Kunikida Doppo met each other at the Summer Festival when he was eight years old. They were friends for a week, but they broke off because Amamiya Qianye went abroad.
It is actually not correct to say that we have broken off diplomatic relations, otherwise we would not have met today.
Speaking of which, even the reason for meeting today, in the eyes of normal people, is a very strange and difficult to understand reason.
——They did not exchange contact information, deciding whether to meet again or not was an inevitable choice of fate.
They agreed that on January 1st of this year, the year Amamiya Qianye graduates from university, they would send a postcard to the temple closest to the summer festival and write down the details of his planned return to Japan. time and school.
If Kunikida Doppo at that time still remembers and wants to meet again, he can go to the temple to get this postcard and write down his city and receiving address on the postcard.
If Amamiya Chiye, who received the postcard, still wants to meet him again, use a new postcard from the same series as this postcard, write down the place where they met and send it to the address written by Kunikida Doppo. So they could start using postcards for cross-border communication.
And we had made a rule when we were children that each person could only write three lines. There must be no more than twenty characters per line.
During this period, if someone does not comply with the regulations in any step, they can directly and completely sever diplomatic relations with the other party.
As far as the current progress is concerned, both of them have adhered to it very well.
Yes, this is the reunion of two planning freaks!
Kunikida Doppo took a deep breath and cheered himself up in his mind. He felt that his mood at this time was as nervous and cautious as if he was going to meet Master Carlisle.
Because he cherishes Qian Ye as a friend, his first friend in life, this meeting must not fail!
And...actually, he is a little thoughtful.
That... is... if Qian Ye still has the same temperament and hobbies as before when he grows up... he will meet his ideal girlfriend standards.
If the two of them had been in contact for the past fourteen years, Kunikida would not have such thoughts. After all, friends who have been friends for many years are like family members. It is difficult for them to evoke any charming thoughts, and they will feel like a pervert for thinking like that.
But they haven't seen each other for fourteen years, and apart from their childhood impressions, everything else is unfamiliar to them.
Then, Kunikida can't help but think about it.
...Anyway, it's not a crime to think about it. He has fifty-eight criteria for an ideal girlfriend. If he fails to meet one of the criteria, even if he meets the other fifty-seven criteria, he will be passed by Kunikida unceremoniously.
And he feels that his thoughts are one-sided, and he won't say it out...then his conscience won't hurt!
With this thought in mind, he opened the door and walked to the reserved table with extremely firm and confident steps.
Getting closer and closer, when he turned the corner, he saw a beautiful figure on the table with her back to him. He is wearing trousers, a white shirt and a light blue knitted thin jacket. Just looking at it from the back, you can tell that the clothes are in good taste.
It belongs to the kind of clothing taste that looks simple and elegant, but is very sophisticated in details.
I ordered a cup of black tea. The hands holding the cup were wearing white gloves. The fingers looked slender and well-proportioned, and they were bent at just the right angle.
The sitting height does not look low, but it is definitely lower than myself who is 189 cm tall.
The short black hair is trimmed neatly, without any unnecessary hair, revealing the back of the neck, which is as white and graceful as a swan. There are no earrings or even pierced ears.
Very good, obviously a capable person.
Very good, you can PASS directly!
The little thoughts in Kunikida's heart were directly poured out by the cold water of reality.
One of his criteria for an ideal girlfriend is that she must have long hair.
Amamiya Qianye has short hair and is not qualified!
