I Teach Kendo in Tokyo Chapter 13: Suddenly caught up in the past
This night, on the outskirts of Osaka.
Shi Enzhou covered a shovel of soil and patted the ground with the shovel.
Then he put the shovel on the ground, straightened up, took off his gloves, took the squashed cigarette case from his pocket, and poured out the last cigarette from it.
With a cigarette in his mouth, he carefully folded the cigarette case twice, put it in his pocket, and slowly touched the match on his body.
Not far away, a private car is parked.
The driver of the car is naturally buried in the mound in front of Shi Enzhou.
Shi Enzhou finally touched the match, then lit the smoke, took a deep breath, and exhaled a standard circular smoke ring.
His eyes followed the smoke ring, and after the smoke ring disappeared into the night, he turned to the lights of Wanjia in the distance.
When Shi Enzhou fled from Osaka ten years ago, he once stood on the mountain like this and looked at the lights of Osaka Castle.
At that time, Osaka was a circle smaller than it is now, and the lights were not as dazzling as they are now. At that time, even the stars could be clearly seen in the sky.
But now, the stars on the ground are completely drowning the stars in the sky, and the starry sky is overshadowed by the severe light pollution.
Shi Enzhou was smoking a cigarette silently, looking at the lights of thousands of homes that seemed to be close at hand.
On the highway not far from him, there are cars passing by constantly, but no one notices what is happening on this small fork.
Shi Enzhou doesn't care at all why this place has a fork in the woods, and doesn't care what's at the end of the fork.
In order to prevent wild dogs from coming and digging up the carcass, Shi Enzhou put things nearby that stimulate the wild dogs' sense of smell. The strong and pungent odor for dogs can make them uncomfortable.
Wild dogs will avoid this place.
And if someone walks their dog past here, he will find that his dog suddenly resists and barks.
This kind of place is less likely to have dogs walking. Even if there is, it doesn't matter to Shi Enzhou, it doesn't matter whether the body is found, the important thing is that the body won't speak.
On the way to escape, Shi Enzhou has turned a few people who saw his appearance into "reliable partners" who will never betray.
Shi Enzhou was smoking a cigarette calmly. Every time he finished disposing of a corpse, he always smoked a cigarette like this.
It is widely rumored in the "industry" that Shi Enzhou can be psychic, smoking is his ritual, and he is communicating with the dead.
However, Shi Enzhou knew that he was just smoking.
If there is anything special about it, it is that this is one of the few moments when Shi Enzhou can find peace.
No lingering auditory hallucinations, no frantic thoughts that pop up from time to time.
Shi Enzhou is mentally healthy, all the psychiatrists he's seen say that, and everyone thinks auditory hallucinations and frantic thoughts are the cause of stress.
Shi Enzhou trusts the doctors' judgment because they are professionals.
That is to say, only at this moment can he get rid of the pressure.
He smokes a cigarette and enjoys a rare peace.
Soon, when the cigarette was finished, Shi Enzhou pressed the **** of the remaining cigarette into the palm of his hand, and then carefully put the thing with his fingerprints into his pocket.
The chemicals Shi Enzhou sprinkled around should last for four to five days. When the chemicals are almost dissipated, the smell left by Shi Enzhou will almost naturally dissipate.
Other traces of mess will disappear over time.
The weather forecast says it will rain the day after tomorrow, and rain is good at destroying field sites—though it also speeds up the dissipation of chemicals left by Shi Enzhou.
Shi Enzhou picked up the shovel and turned to leave, but suddenly stopped.
He rubbed his eyes vigorously, staring straight ahead again.
"Tsk, another hallucination." Shi Enzhou whispered.
He was about to leave when he thought of something, turned around and went back to the "grave" without a tombstone and so flat that ordinary people couldn't see it at all, took out a flat wine jug, and poured all the remaining wine into the soil inside.
"It was a pleasure chatting with you."
Shi Enzhou put away the jug, carried the shovel, and walked to the car, completely ignoring the hallucination that appeared in the corner of his field of vision.
Back in the car, just as I was about to start the car, I saw a black cat jumping in from the window and sitting in the passenger seat.
Shi Enzhou stopped and stared at the black cat.
The black cat also looked at him with orange eyes.
Shi Enzhou hesitated for a moment, but still stretched out his hand. His hand touched the black cat's shiny fur.
The black cat made a threatening "呲呲" sound, but he did not hide from Shi Enzhou's hand at all.
Shi Enzhou retracted his hand and glanced at the palm of his hand in confusion. Then he turned around and pulled the backpack on the back seat, took out a bag of biscuits from the bag, tore it open, and dumped it on the passenger seat.
The black cat bowed his head and happily ate the biscuits.
Shi Enzhou stopped looking at the cat and started the car.
The lights came on, penetrating the thick night like some kind of living thing.
Shi Enzhou looked at the empty space and drove the car to the high speed - no one saw the moment when the car came up from the fork.
The expressway in Japan is not like the expressway in China, which is closed all the way.
No charge after all.
Shi Enzhou drove the car and galloped towards Osaka.
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Kiryu and Ma came out of the shower, just in time to see Shigeru Ikeda coming out of his guest room dressed neatly, putting on his shoes at the entrance.
"What are you doing?" He Ma asked suspiciously.
"Go to the convenience store to work the night shift." Shigeru Ikeda turned around and smiled at Kazuma, "Master, go to bed earlier."
"Can't your body handle it?"
"It's okay, this kind of 24-hour convenience store is a new industry. In fact, no one comes at night. You can review and sleep."
"Is that so?" He Ma was very skeptical, "I suggest you don't push yourself too hard like this. If you suffer from any root causes, you will regret it later."
He Ma was talking about his own personal experience in his previous life. Before the age of 30, he casually stayed all night, and the next day he was still full of energy, and he was full of energy when he slept for two or three hours.
When I was 30 years old, all kinds of problems began to come.
When you go to the doctor, people directly say: "You worked overtime when you were young, right?"
He Ma was embarrassed to say that he was playing games all night, so he could only answer the doctor's words.
At that time, Ma and Ma thought that if he could do it, he must have started to pay attention to health preservation from a young age, soaking wolfberry in a thermos.
Now recalling the valuable experience of the previous life, Kazuma decided to stop his apprentice's behavior.
"The shift has already been assigned to you today," He Ma said in a serious tone, "I won't stop you from going there, or it will cause trouble for others. However, you must quit this job, and you will Get at least eight hours of sleep."
"Master..."
"This is an order. You are my entrant disciple now, so you have to obey me. Those who can't rest will not work."
Ikeda Shigeru sighed, "Okay, I see. I'll submit my resignation application before I leave work tomorrow."
"Well, very good. Maybe the store manager or something will say things like 'the young people today are really rootless', leave him alone, let him say it." He Ma added.
"I see, then I'll go." After saying that, Shigeru Ikeda opened the door, and then just held the doorknob in a daze.
He Ma stared at him suspiciously for a few seconds, then stretched his head to look outside.
At this time, Shigeru Ikeda's expression seemed to change back to the original yellow-haired, surly and vicious bad guy.
"Why are you here?" he said in a voice that implied anger.
He Ma stood behind him and looked over his shoulder, only to see a drunk man standing outside the door.
This man's face is somewhat similar to Shigeru Ikeda.
He Ma immediately speculated that this was Shigeru Ikeda's father.
He and Ma held the apprentice's shoulders, pulled Shigeru Ikeda to the side, and took a step forward: "Hello, who are you, what's the matter?"
Seeing Kazuma, the man immediately smiled, raised a finger and pointed at Kazuma, wanting to say something, but he didn't say anything after wandering for a long time.
And the horse grabbed each other's outstretched fingers and folded it hard, and the other side immediately howled like a slaughtering pig.
He Ma asked, "Don't you know it's rude to point your finger at someone?"
The other party begged for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong!"
"Are you sober? Can you talk properly?" Kazuma asked again, continuing to use the force of breaking off each other's fingers.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up! It's about to break! I dare not, I was wrong!"
He Ma then let go: "Tell me, who are you?"
The man covered his hands, looked at Shigeru Ikeda viciously, and said, "I'm Shigeru Ikeda! I'm here to see my son."
He Ma glanced at A Mao, and when he saw A Mao's disgusting expression, he understood: "Then you saw it. Is there anything else?"
The man showed a wretched smile and looked behind Kazuma.
He and Ma turned back and found Chiyoko leaning over curiously.
My little sister is looked at with such nasty eyes, and she doesn't get angry with the horse, but this guy is Ah Mao's father after all, so he just fantasizes...
A crisp sound interrupted Kazuma's thinking, and Ah Mao's father had fallen to the ground.
Amao clenched his fists with both hands and was about to go forward to continue "additional attacks", but he was pulled by Kama: "Amao! If you beat the guardian, you have a bad criminal record and it will be very troublesome!"
The drunk man laughed and stood up: "Yes, your elder brother is right! I am your guardian, even if you become a pole, you can't beat me!"
He Ma pulled Amao behind him, and then slapped the drunkard on the face: "I didn't expect that, you drunkard harassing the house, and I beat you to stop the infringement."
Actually, I'm talking nonsense with Ma. He doesn't even know if there is such a statement in Japanese law.
But at this time, as long as you put on an upright posture, your words will be very credible!
The drunk was beaten to the ground, unable to move for a long time.
Amao took a deep breath and said, "You go, I can support myself and pay for my own tuition. I have nothing to do with you anymore.
"When I'm eighteen, I'll start to fulfill my alimony obligations and give you living expenses. But don't show up to me again!
"When I graduate from college and go to work, I will find my mother and live with my mother.
"I...thank you for bringing me into this world, but right now I just want you to get out."
He Ma looked at Ah Mao next to him, and suddenly felt that this apprentice was really good.
If it weren't for the fact that they were both under the legal age to drink in Japan now, he would definitely go out for a drink with Amao.
The drunk man got up scoldingly, walked away scoldingly, turned his head three times at a step, and looked at A Mao and Kazuma with resentment every time he turned back.
He just disappeared into the night.
Amao: "This is the man who beat up my mother and made a mess of my life.
"I used to take my Kamen Rider belt and hide it in my room every time he beat my mother. The belt was secretly bought by my mother and saved money. I've transformed."
He Ma looked back at his apprentice: "You have the ability to transform into a Kamen Rider, and you just want to beat your alcoholic father? Don't be so unwilling. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, if you can transform into a fake Faced knight, of course, that is to first go and exorcise all the evils in this world."
Ikeda Shigeru thought for a while, then smiled: "That's right."
"By the way, are you okay with going to work? Won't you be late?"
"Fuck!" Shigeru Ikeda exclaimed, "It's not good, I have to go."
He picked up the bicycle that delivered the newspaper, pushed the car and ran for two steps, and then got on the car with a heroic stride.
And the horse watched the apprentice disappear into the night.
He turned around and glanced at Chiyoko who was still standing at the door: "What?"
"I'm thinking, it's true that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read." Chiyoko sighed.
At this time, the chairman came out of the house with a bag on his back: "I'm going home."
“I will send you to ~IndoMTL.com~ and talk to the horse.
During the summer vacation, Kazuma sent the chairman home every night as promised, and he didn't miss a day.
But after the school started, the chairman of the committee stated that the agreement with Hema would only be until the start of the school in September, and he would no longer be allowed to send him.
Today's situation is special, and Kazuma is worried that the drunk just now is ambushing the chairman.
Chiyoko also expressed the same concern: "The uncle just now, I'm afraid he didn't take the rumors from the neighborhood seriously, thinking that we are a stall here. He might be ambushed in the middle of the road."
The chairman said disapprovingly: "Do you think I will lose to that drunk?"
"Of course you won't, but you're not afraid of ten thousand just in case, right?" He Ma said and walked out, "Let's go, I'll take you off."
The chairman smiled: "I can't bear to tell me if I want to send me back. There are so many detours."
"Yes, you should be like this." Kazuma said disapprovingly.
Chairman: "By the way, you can bring your harmonica, so that you can play it to strengthen your courage when you come back."
"What the hell?" He Ma shook his head.
The chairman smiled happily: "Maybe you come across something that makes you suddenly burst of inspiration and makes you want to play two paragraphs?"
"Let's go." Kazuma urged.
The chairman replied: "Okay, let's go."
So the two walked into the night one after the other.
Chiyoko looked at their backs and was speechless: "Jinguji-san, your rank is so high. Nanjo-senpai and Fujii-senpai are so pitiful."
After she finished speaking, she turned back to the house, locked the door, ran to the dojo, and closed and locked the door leading to the yard from the dojo.
Although the surrounding Xiaoxiao have been warned by Jidao that this dojo cannot be visited, Chiyoko still locks all the doors that should be locked every day.