Early the next morning, Scotland was awakened by the sound of something knocking to the ground.
Because of Kawakami Tsumugi's unusual performance yesterday, Scotland stayed up until five or six in the morning. The phrase "you are full of flaws" has been lingering in Scotland's mind.
"Boom", there was another loud noise.
Scotland jumped out of bed.
This sound must have come from the kitchen. When Scotland rushed over, the kitchen was in a mess. A quarter of the entire floor was occupied by a red, mushy, unknown substance.
If it weren't for Kawakami Masahiro Kawakami squatting in the middle of the unknown red rice-shaped object, holding the pot he used to stew soup, with a clean face, looking at him with a smile; and the unknown red object on the ground exuded the sweetness of strawberries. The smell made Scotland suspect that this guy was vomiting blood again.
"I'll take care of it!" Before Scotland could speak, Kawakamiji explained first.
Very different from yesterday's gloomy appearance, the gray-haired young man looked completely back to normal.
"What are you...what are you going to do?" Scotland asked hesitantly.
"Finish breakfast." Kawakami sighed bitterly, "I just made porridge and added some strawberry jam - I didn't have time to buy the blueberry jam after I finished it.
Uh... I was burned when I took it out, and I accidentally dropped the lid of the pot. Then I was going to save the lid, but accidentally the whole pot fell to the ground. "
Scotland looked at Kawakami with a speechless expression.
"Although it was spilled, there is still half the pot left to eat." Kawakami explained in a low voice.
"You can wake me up." Scotland rubbed his temples. He felt a dull pain in his skull.
"This is not good, and we just had a fight yesterday - ah, no, it's today after midnight." Tsumugi Kawakami muttered in a low voice, "I was not in the right state at that time. It was almost the same as when I dragged you to discuss it after I was injured in country F. The ideals of life are the same——"
"It's nothing." Scotland shook his head, "You go out first. I'll clean up the kitchen. Also, give me the pot."
Kawakami blinked and looked at Scotland with confusion on his face: "Why should I give you the pot?"
"Look down at the ground. Do you think the food you made can be eaten by patients?"
"It's edible..." Tsumugi Kawakami quickly changed his mind under Scotland's eyes, "Uh... maybe it's not edible?"
Then everything returned to normal. After Scotland tidied up the kitchen, he cooked a pot of plain rice porridge for Kawakami, and added a little strawberry jam at the other's constant entreaty.
They made a tacit agreement not to mention anything about yesterday's events.
"By the way, what's that curly guy doing here?" Tsuji Kawakami asked casually at the dinner table. When he returned to the safe house, he happened to see Matsuda Jinpei.
"He said he was your friend and came to chat. I looked for an opportunity to send him away."
Scotland replied, thinking about how to answer if Kawakamiji asked him what the reason was for sending him away.
"I'm not that shabby friend." Kawakami didn't ask Scotland the question he imagined, but looked disgusted. "The hair is as curly as the puppy next door. And I bet that the texture of Curly is definitely better. He is good."
Feel? The idea is a bit dangerous...
But Scotland can guarantee that it actually feels good...
"By the way, I haven't seen Juan Juan for a long time." Scotland took over and did not react to Kawakami's comments, but quietly diverted Kawakami's attention.
"Grandma Idemitsu went to her son's house recently." Kawakami shrugged, "and took the little black teddy away by the way."
"That's it..." Scotland added some more porridge for himself.
He and Kawakamiji ate the same food, without even adding strawberry jam, so it was quite bland.
"Do you have time today? I want to take you to the band to see if it's okay?" Scotland asked again, "You know, I have been playing bass in the band when I am not working."
"Band, yes. I happen to be very busy recently, so I need to relax a bit." Kawakami replied happily.
…………
After that period of losing control, Kawakami was very talkative, obviously intending to repair the relationship between them that was damaged by neurotoxins and warnings.
Although this kind of repair method makes Scotland very helpless.
It has to be said that Kawakami Tsumugi is very good at whitewashing peace. Seeing him acting as if nothing happened, Scotland could not help but be led astray and follow him to act out.
But Scotland can't pretend nothing happened.
That night, under the dim light of the TV, the way Kawakami Tsumugi looked at him condescendingly was still vivid in his mind. The gray-haired young man's warning was thought-provoking:
"...Because I won't have any flaws. But you, Scotland, are full of flaws."
What does "I won't have any flaws" imply? What does "You are full of flaws" imply?
This is more of a reminder than a warning.
As for the content of the reminder... Scotland didn't want to think too much because he had no evidence and any preconceptions would interfere with his judgment.
Inviting Kawakami Tsumugi to join the band was a last-minute idea. Scotland had not even thought about going before. He had been neglecting practice because he was taken away by Gin for interrogation.
Today at noon, a Scottish band will perform for an audience in an abandoned building - for free.
They are not famous, they are not professionals, and their identities are not clean. This venue was obtained by the band leader after repeatedly begging his friends. Because that "friend" was not a serious character, he chose an embarrassing place like an unfinished building.
Counting Scotland, there are five members of the band, all of whom are gang members. They get together because they all love music...well, people always have some hobbies and interests, and this group of people is obviously not satisfied with just singing in bars.
They are all under the jurisdiction of the distillery, covertly or covertly, and can be regarded as the periphery of the distillery - no one even knows that the distillery exists, so no one may know that Scotland is actually a senior member with a code name.
Kawakami doesn't mind coming to the band to support him, but that doesn't mean he's willing to hang out with his friends in Scotland.
So he put on his hood and black mask and quietly blended into the audience. In order to be different from the past, Kawakami's windbreakers this time were all dark blue denim. He had few blue clothes in his entire wardrobe.
Kawakami Tsumugi enters the audience venue.
Most of those in the audience also had gangster characteristics with tattoos, stab wounds and gunshot wounds, and they were obviously relatives and friends within the band. These people looked solemnly at Kawakami Tsumugi, as if they were looking at a sheep that had strayed into a pack of wolves.
Kawakami was silent for a few seconds, took off his glasses, and calmly responded to the gazes of these people. Not long after, those people looked away, and both parties confirmed.
Well, on the same path.
Not long after, the show started.
With a cheering mentality, Kawakami watched carefully.
how to say? Scotland's bass player was pretty good, but the quality of the other players varied, especially the lead singer with a ferocious face and a burly figure, who broke his note twice in one song.
No wonder he specifically found an unfinished building. It seemed that he was very confident about his level. Kawakami complained in his heart. It has to be said that the way gangsters realize their dreams is very hardcore.
Being bored, Kawakami began to judge which gang in Tokyo they belonged to and who they followed based on the audience's reactions. Then Kawakami discovered that most of the people who came were the younger brothers of the lead singer.
I guess the lead singer is also the leader of the band.
After more than five minutes, the performers on the stage had already changed three songs. Kawakamiji suddenly felt his phone vibrate slightly, and he couldn't help but frown.
Someone was contacting him, but it was neither the organization's cell phone nor the cell phone used for external communication, but the cell phone he used to cause trouble, with a mixed list of contacts.
So who could it be?
Kawakami looked around, but no one noticed him, so he calmly took out his phone and unlocked it.
Then Kawakami discovered that it was Barolo who contacted him.
But the other party did not take the initiative to contact him.
Kawakami clicked on the location software on his mobile phone, and the little red dot representing Barolo flashed over and over again.
Kawakamiji had never encountered this situation before. This little red dot was 1.5 kilometers away from him, not too far or too close.
In order to avoid misjudgment, Kawakami quickly sent an email to the inventor of the software and the previous manufacturer of the fireproof bandage. His former colleagues in the research group.
[Why is the anchor point flashing? ——Cachaca]
Five minutes later, the other party responded to him.
[Wow, I didn’t expect you to contact me at this point. You shouldn’t be lying on a warm bed. In fact, I should be lying on a warm bed too. ——Ricard]
[Red dot flashing? That's because the marked person is about to die, or the unlucky guy forcibly took out the built-in locator. ——Ricard]
[Ah, this function is newly added by me, I forgot to tell you. ——Ricard]
Newly added? That is to say, the Scottish version does not have this function, while Barolo and Reina Mizuna have it, but Reina Mizuna's one should have been taken out by the organization.
[It shouldn’t affect anything, it won’t. Dear Cachaca, you know, asking a programmer to write a user manual is a disaster. ——Ricard]
[Let’s talk later. ——Cachaca]
Kawakami Tsumugi directly blocked this guy - Rikar, the hexagon researcher in the organization. If not blocked, he can talk nonsense for two hours. Because it is not through organizational emails, but private communication, this software has a blacklisting function.
The built-in locator is unlikely to be taken out. The place where Barolo was implanted was dangerous, and taking it by force could be life-threatening. There is no hospital within five hundred meters.
So it may be another situation, almost dead.
Whether it was bait or real, Tsumugi Kawakami couldn't accept that his new little brother died before he was put to use, so he decided to go and have a look.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
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