Hidden Assassin: Section 46? Distance

Night in the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, at Yuechi House.

The light from the stars is rippling in the huge old house in the mountains and forests, like water mist, like honey locust. It is not too late. In this quiet old house road, you can see people walking in twos and threes. Wearing a kimono, clogs, and a short sword, dressed as a habitual samurai, in the courtyards lit up with lights everywhere, quiet and ancient Japanese wakas faintly spread.

"...The river beach is clear and clear, and the forest of Catalpa trees is planted. The night is very silent, and the sound of thousands of birds is alarmed... This is the song that describes the scenery of the Yoshino River. This is the song that I like the most. What does Nishida-kun feel?" /

"It is the ancient quatrain itself, coupled with the singer's singing skills and the artistic conception of expression, it is really the most classic one of waka, but personally, I prefer some short songs by Ruoshan Mushui..."

"Wakayama's song, I know that there is a singer in Shinjuku who sings very well. If I have time someday, I would like to listen to Nishida-kun..."

This is the speech of two men walking between the roads. We don't need to understand the specific meaning, as long as we know that they are meeting a prostitute in a more elegant way and not a homosexual. The name of the two speaking persons is Fumataro Sato, who is currently quite optimistic among the younger generation of the Tsukiike family, and the other is called Naoya Nishida, who is an agent who has only joined the Tsukiike family in recent years and has outstanding loyalty. Recently, he has repeatedly made contributions in various tasks. Although he is still a newcomer in terms of time, he has also been highly valued.

Things gather together, and people are divided into groups. They are all relatively outstanding young people. Buntaro has a good relationship with him. A month ago, he teamed up with him on a mission in a field, and he is back today. Reported to the headquarters, only then returned to the old house inside the Yuechi family, and we had a good talk along the way.

The atmosphere in the inner circle of Yuechi’s house is peaceful, with lights from the courtyards, and the roads are beautiful. Although it is summer night, the surrounding trees do not appear to be hot. A few oncoming young people fight with Buntaro. After greeting. Turn a road. Because there is a car passing by. The two stood around the corner for a while, and Buntaro looked towards a courtyard not far away for a while. The courtyard was black hole and without lights. After Yu Shoucang died four years ago, this small courtyard almost became the forbidden area of ​​Yuechi's family.

"I heard that Sato-kun was against Miss Kaoru..."

"...Have you seen her?"

"When I passed by at the beginning of this year. She was sweeping the floor in the yard. I saw it from a distance." Naoya Nishida smiled, "It's really a clear girl like Biyu."

"Yes..." Buntaro sighed, "Let's go."

"Sato-kun and Kaoru grew up together?" After turning the trail, Nishida spoke again, and Buntaro nodded.

"My childhood sweetheart." Nishida sighed, "Can you tell me about her?"

"Interested?"

"Interested." He smiled and nodded, "Anyway. What a beautiful girl."

"In fact, there is not much to say. She has a stronger personality since she was a child. Since the death of her wife, the family owner didn’t care about her very much, so she became cold. Later, she went to China and had some things. After coming back...it became like this..."

"China?"

"Nishida-kun has also heard of it. The person who killed Yushoucang is her teacher."

"Oh?" Naoya Nishida's eyes lit up, "That person is now..."

"It's dead." Buntaro smiled, "Kaoru fell in love with that person, so after coming back, he has been reluctant to contact others. Even the marriage contract with Takatenhara is now only symbolically. That’s it. It’s been four years..."

Speaking of Kaoru with the other party, Buntaro lost his interest for a while. Soon after, the two parted ways at the intersection and went in different directions. All the way back to the small courtyard where he lived, he sat on the corridor, looking at the sky full of stars, his expression was a little sad.

Four years are enough to make a person truly mature from young, and it is also enough for a person to truly see the gap between obsession and reality, the first time to kill, and the first time to steal from a tightly guarded place. Getting what you need is easier than imagined. This is the result of years of hard work, and there have been times of arrogance, but it gradually settled down, and you can see the distance between yourself and others more clearly. . I remember that autumn four years ago, Kaoru returned to Tokyo from China accompanied by Tian Yuzheng. Since then, he has lived in that small courtyard with an almost secluded attitude. He occasionally went out to sweep the floor and exercise, sometimes in the early morning. Before dawn, someone would suddenly see her in the dense forest of Yuechi's family, and suddenly disappear again. Sometimes she would go to the periphery of the monitors and suddenly appear on a certain screen, often It will scare people, like a ghost, which makes up for the dead spots of several monitors.

In the first time, every morning, twilight, and noon, she would go to Yuechi’s dining hall to eat. Sometimes in rain or snow, if she was lucky, when she passed by the courtyard, she would Seeing a girl sitting quietly in the corridor of the room, Buntaro once saw that when the heavy rain fell, she sat in the corridor and ate the rice ball in her hand, chewing slowly, blending perfectly with the surrounding environment. Together. However, this scene of eating with a very careful attitude and not wasting every grain of rice gives people the feeling that they are not so much enjoying lunch, but rather an act of maintaining one's life as much as possible by eating. That's it.

Although weird, almost everyone has this look and feel more or less, such a beautiful and almost perfect girl, every action has a kind and pleasing beauty, and the whole world They are all integrated into one, but every movement of her has been restored to its original meaning. Every grain of rice and every part of the dish enters the mouth just to be broken down, absorbed, and to maintain the body. Keep operating. In this sense, she has almost become a pure animal, although she can feel extremely graceful in her gestures.

She stopped talking. Without talking to anyone, the food was sent to the small yard, and the time to go out became less, only occasionally, and showing up, sitting in the corridor, cleaning in the yard, standing in the woods, I don’t know where to look from the top of the mountain. Just like paper. At first there was some text. Then the text gradually faded into pure white paper, and then even the white paper itself will fade away, becoming increasingly transparent, and even the concept of transparency gradually disappears. As if she occasionally appeared in the process of cleaning fallen leaves in the yard. People around her. All disappeared one by one, and eventually the whole world became quiet, and even she would die.

Gradually, she gave people this kind of feeling.

As a fiance, Tian Yuzheng has been here several times, and gradually became a little helpless, probably helpless. Two years ago. He probably understood about being born in China. Drunk that night, he rushed into the small courtyard. A lot of words were said in front of the silent girl, and then she became bold and bold. She stretched out her hand to hug her. At that time, the girl waved her hand and turned off the lamp next to her.

The first thought that flashed in my mind was that Kaoru was shy. He had trained his instinct for many years and saved him. The next moment, he was beaten out and the walls of the house were completely destroyed. It opened, and the darkness was condensed with the full strength of the girl’s energy and spirit. The blow was like the sea under the night. The first moment was calm and the next moment, the murderous intent of the tsunami surged out. If it weren’t for a hasty frame with both hands, This force will explode directly in the chest, I am afraid it is really dead.

Under the moonlight that night, when he fell in the small courtyard and watched the girl push the door open, put on her shoes, and walked towards him like a quiet death, the silver light that fell on the girl was clear. I told him that the distance between them has really become an impossible gap.

The childhood sweetheart...

Thinking about these things, he got up from the corridor and walked to the room with simple furnishings. For a moment, he pulled out an old small iron box and took out an old yellowed photo from it. Under the dim light of the stars, there are many children in the photo. Because the scene is too big, each of them appears too small and too small, as small as the place washed by time in memory, only in the photo. In one corner, he could find the girl who was not only beautiful, but also had a little smile. The photo was blurred, but he could clearly know that the little girl was indeed smiling.

He has been trained as a ninja since he was a child, and it has always been very boring. There are not many opportunities to take pictures. This is the only picture of Kaoru he has.

The distance between him and Kaoru, he thought, there was indeed a time when it was not that big. When everyone was young, Kaoru’s mother never died, or before Kaoru went to China, the distance between them was not too far. At that time, Kaoru admired and envied him, and he always enjoyed this kind of gaze. His eyes, occasionally want to help the other party, but always give up because of poor results. Kaoru was a little girl with no talent, he thought so at the time.

When I think about it now, I didn’t necessarily have a bad impression of Kaoru at the time, or the child’s self was too proud. If I could have less enjoyment of that kind of gaze at the time, it would really help Kaoru. Face up to this goodwill, everything now will be different. Life is like this. It constantly imprints on you, imprinted and missed. Even if the distance between everyone is closer, there will never be a chance to make up for it in the future...

"Sato, Sato..." In the darkness, someone called out on the road outside. He thought for a while, took the photo in his hand into the iron box, cleaned up his mood, and walked out of the room. The man outside the courtyard He looks about to leave: "Yeah, why didn't you turn on the light? I thought you weren't back."

"Just arrived."

"Everyone is waiting for you, please tell us about this operation, haha..." That person whispered~IndoMTL.com~We have prepared a few bottles of good wine..."

After training since childhood, Buntaro has a good relationship with these people. Now he walks back to the agreed place and listens to the person next to him about the trivial affairs of the recent period: "Kyono and the others can't come over, they are very busy outside. , I heard that Chi Sakura Textiles has some problems with the stock recently, and it hasn’t come back at this time today..."

Walking all the way, I passed the small courtyard where Kaoru lived. Like the previous time, there was a black hole in it, and there was no light. Maybe Kaoru had fallen asleep, thinking about this, he wandered slightly. The person next to him looked at his expression: "You don't know about Kaoru, right?"

"What?"

"Really don't know? I thought you could know something at your level. Kaoru went out yesterday."

"What...what did you say!"

Buntaro raised her voice, and the man repeated: "I've gone out. I heard that I went to Tokyo. It has been four years. But she left here for the first time, and she doesn't know what happened. Want to...How about? Let's go over tomorrow and find her?"

Well, I admit that I went to watch the World of Warcraft, I am guilty, I repent...