I Teach Kendo in Tokyo Chapter 37: Freshman

While Chiyoko lost her 80,000 tuition fees, Shigeru Ikeda opened her eyes.

The nurse who was observing his condition rushed out of the intensive care unit shouting "doctor" when he opened his eyes.

Soon the attending physician marched into the ward with a team of assistants and nurses.

Professor Caiqian congratulated him, "The recovery is perfect, the resilience is amazing."

After speaking, Professor Caiqian looked back at the door of the ward, and said to Detective Shiratori and Detective Takayama who were already waiting at the door of the ward: "You two, it's alright, he can have a conversation about his situation. However, be careful not to spend too much time. long."

"Understood, we're just asking some specific questions, and we'll be there soon."

Professor Caiqian nodded and said to Shigeru Ikeda: "Then leave it to the detectives. I'll come to see you later."

Professor also smiled at Shigeru Ikeda after speaking about Caiqian.

It looks like the professor really wants to make a good impression on Shigeru Ikeda.

After all, Shigeru Ikeda is Kiryu and Ma's apprentice, and he is the only one.

After Professor Caizen led the people away, Detective Shiratori and Detective Takayama came to Shigeru Ikeda's bed.

"We have a few questions. If you don't think you can answer the question for a long time, let's ask the key questions first." Detective Shiratori stopped and waited for Shigeru Ikeda's answer.

Ikeda Shigeru glanced out the window and asked, "My father... Naoto Ikeda, how is it?"

"Dead. Your master seems to be planning to pay for it himself. It should start when you wake up."

"How can this be done? Master's tuition has not been paid yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, Police Gaoshan said in surprise: "How come, isn't the Nanjo family fully funded tuition fees?"

The white bird criminal warning told the high mountain criminal police not to speak, and then went straight to the theme: "You witnessed the scene of your father's death, right?"

Ikeda Shigeru shook his head gently: "No, I was in a coma at that time, and when I opened my eyes, things had come to make a living."

"It's okay, tell us what you saw when you woke up." The tone of the detective Shiratori was very much like the announcer of the intimate brother of the late-night radio station.

Ikeda Shigeru was silent for a few seconds before he spoke: "I heard someone shouting, 'Amao get up' and 'run away', that shout made me open my eyes, and then I saw..."

The two detectives stared intently at Shigeru Ikeda, waiting for him to speak.

Shiger Ikeda: "I saw a tall figure standing there, against the light. Before I fell, I thought it was Naoto Ikeda, but in retrospect, I'm not sure what I saw.

"That figure is too tall, Naoto Ikeda...my dad shouldn't be so tall, he is a man with a hunched back and shrugging as if he wants to hide himself anytime, anywhere.

"His back is both powerless and annoying. This is the Naoto Ikeda in my impression.

"But, at that moment, the figure in the backlight was so tall, like a Kamen Rider."

Shiroto glanced at Takayama: "You are relatively young, have you seen Kamen Rider?"

"Forgive me, I was in college when Toei was making this film. This is a subsidy."

Ikeda Shigeru ignored the Takayama Detective and continued: "I heard gunshots, but the tall figure didn't fall down immediately, and rushed towards the enemy.

"Sure enough, that's actually a passing Kamen Rider, right?"

"No," Detective Shiratori shook his head, "that's your father, Naoto Ikeda. Your language skills are pretty good, but it doesn't match your Chinese grades as written in the documents."

Ikeda Shigeru glanced at Detective Shiratori: "That's because I've read a lot of books recently, such as Osamu Dazai."

Detective Shiratori shrugged: "So, you don't know what happened to your father? Don't know how he got up in the end? May I ask how you untied the ropes on you?"

"I provoked them and asked them to one-on-one with me." Shigeru Ikeda then recounted everything before he passed out.

About 30 minutes later, Detective Shiratori nodded: "Very well, we have nothing to ask, you have a good rest..."

"Can I be discharged from the hospital?" Shigeru Ikeda said and sat up directly, "I feel like I'm in great shape. If I don't go to the hospital, I can't do anything, right? After all, I may be the only one to hold the portrait. ."

Detective Shiratori and Detective Takayama glanced at each other, then said, "Then you have to ask Professor Caiqian, we are not doctors, and we cannot decide whether you can be discharged from the hospital or not."

**

Two days later, the Ikeda family.

The door of a dilapidated building has been repainted, and the paint sprayed by the debt collectors has been brushed off.

There is a table for guests to sign in at the door of a house, but the list is empty. Apart from the Kiryu family and the disciples of Kiryu and Ma, there are only the names of the two detectives Shiratori and Takayama.

I don't know if the original relatives of the Ikeda family are dead, or they don't want to stick to the bad luck. Anyway, none of them appeared.

Because the Ikeda family has no women who can receive guests, sitting behind the sign-in desk is Chiyoko Kiryu - Shigeru Ikeda is Kazuma's apprentice. take on the role of the hostess.

In order to take on this responsibility, Chiyoko specially borrowed an all-black kimono from the Nanjo family. The Kiryu family did not have such an all-black kimono. Chiyoko only had a wedding kimono handed down from her mother.

But because there were no guests at all, Chiyoko was bored looking at the clouds in the sky.

The voice of the monk chanting sutras is constantly heard from the main entrance of a house.

The Ikeda family is so small that there is not much space left for a coffin in the living room.

A monk in a cassock sat in the middle of the living room, reciting scriptures in Sanskrit that he could not understand.

The Japanese monks recite the scriptures with a unique singing style, like a Noh drama.

Ikeda Shigeru holds the portrait and sits not far behind the monk.

The portrait of Naoto Ikeda is very young. It seems that this guy has not taken serious photos for more than ten years, so he can only take photos of Zhang Gang when he was married not long ago.

Sitting next to Ikeda, Kiryu and Ma felt that Naoto Ikeda looked like a good young man when he was young.

Ikeda Shigeru was silent for a long time after returning from the hospital. He didn't even say a word. The training and study arranged with Ma every day would be boring and he would feel like a boring gourd.

He Ma was a little worried that his apprentice might get sick.

When the ritual was over, I burned Naoto Ikeda—the Japanese tradition is to burn it to ashes and then bury him—and Ma had to figure out a way to restore his apprentice's spirit.

At this time, He Ma heard the two policemen standing at the back talking: "I recognize this monk. Isn't this the great monk Zheng of Tsukiji Hongan Temple? Can Kiryu-kun invite him?"

"Of course, looking at the Nanjo family's face, they gave an amazing discount. What's strange."

He Ma looked back at the two detectives.

Originally, he wanted to complain that the two of them were chatting with such a loud voice on this occasion, but then he thought that it was not the policemen who were loud, but the house was too small, and the distance between the back row and the front row was too close .

And when the funeral will be held later, I have to trouble the two detectives to carry the coffin, otherwise the men will not be enough, I am afraid that Nanjo will have to mobilize his SP to carry the coffin.

Funerals in Japan are very particular, and people who are involved in carrying the coffin must come.

The two detectives who handled the death of Naoto Ikeda were also considered related people.

Finding a few unrelated black people to dance while carrying the coffin doesn't work in Japan.

He Ma withdrew his gaze and glanced at Shigeru Ikeda again, hesitating to say anything.

**

This evening, Shigeru Ikeda returned from the crematorium.

Because he couldn't afford a cemetery, Naoto Ikeda's ashes were brought back by Shigeru Ikeda. Enshrining urns like this in a shrine at home is a common practice among Japanese families who cannot afford a cemetery.

Sometimes, according to the wishes of the deceased, it will be sprinkled into the mountains and seas.

Ikeda Shigeru put the urn in the TV cabinet - the TV set has long been sold by Ikeda Shigeru for money to gamble, and now there is only one cabinet left, which looks like a shrine.

The urn was put away, and Shigeru Ikeda looked at the house again.

In order to hold the ritual, the dispatched personnel of the Nanjo family have already cleaned the house and cleaned up the mountain of household garbage.

Even the breath of life has been cleaned up.

This gives the house a homely feel.

Ikeda Shigeru originally wanted to sell the house to Master to pay for his college tuition, but Master told him to keep it so that he could come back from time to time to check on it, and then use it to exchange for his own tuition.

Ikeda Shigeru stood in a house without life, with mixed feelings in his heart.

He doesn't quite understand how he's feeling at this moment.

It stands to reason that getting rid of this family should give him a sense of liberation, after all, nothing good has happened in this family.

All memories are full of pain and sadness.

However, now Shigeru Ikeda suddenly realizes that he is a little lonely.

In order to relieve the loneliness, he decided to see what else he could take away from home.

He went from the living room to the dining room and found that the tableware had been replaced with brand new ones, probably all the old tableware had been broken by the drunk Naoto Ikeda.

So the Nanjo family changed to new tableware.

He opened the refrigerator, only to find that the still working refrigerator was empty.

Ikeda Shigeru sighed and left the dining room to get into his room.

My room was also cleaned, and then something caught Shigeru Ikeda's attention.

The thing was placed on the desk that had been emptied, and the sunlight from outside fell on it, gentle and bright.

It was the Kamen Rider belt that my mother bought for Shigeru Ikeda. Shigeru Ikeda was wearing this belt back then. He gained courage from the fake transformation sound effect and stood behind Naoto Ikeda with a knife.

And Mom stopped Shigeru Ikeda wearing this belt.

Ikeda Shigeru stepped forward and gently picked up the belt.

He remembered that the belt was broken in his father's beating that day and could no longer produce the sound and light effects of his transformation.

After my mother left, my father said that when he saw the belt, he thought of "that bitch", so he took the belt and threw it away.

It should have been thrown away.

Later, Shigeru Ikeda blackmailed his lower grade classmates and bought a brand new belt with money.

But this belt should be the one thrown away by my father. There is a crack on the back of the belt buckle, which was caused when my father grabbed the belt.

Ikeda Shigeru looked at the belt, and suddenly came up in his mind when Naoto Ikeda sobered up, rummaging through the trash can for the belt like a stray dog.

He sighed and put the belt back on the table, but hesitantly picked it up again and stuffed it into his bag.

Now, Shigeru Ikeda can't wait to get out of this place, where he feels like he'll be overwhelmed by chaotic memories at any moment.

He went back to the living room, looked at the urn, and finally decided to put the urn here.

Although Naoto Ikeda finally became a father, Shigeru Ikeda still wanted to seal him, along with all those memories, in this dilapidated house.

Ikeda Shigeru left the place once called home with his only gain: a worn-out Kamen Rider transformation belt.

He threw his father, his memories, everything from the past here - at least he thought so.

He rode the bicycle that delivered the newspaper and quickly returned to the Kiryu Dojo, and entered the small room next to the entrance for himself.

This is his little world, his current comfort zone, where he can feel the peace of mind he has never had before.

He opened the kettle and started heating the water, took out a box of half-price cup noodles that were about to expire, tore the package, added seasonings, and waited for the water to boil.

Then he took out the old Kamen Rider transformation belt.

He looks at the belt, lost in thought.

The water boiled, the kettle hissed, and he didn't return from his musings.

Then, the door of the guest room opened, and Kiryu and Ma walked in: "Amo! The water is open!"

Ikeda Shigeru woke up suddenly and hurriedly reached out to turn off the stove.

Ikeda Shigeru looked up at Master and asked involuntarily, "My father, is he a good person or a bad person? If my mother didn't leave, but continued to accompany him, would he be different?

"Look, he can obviously protect me like a Kamen Rider at the last moment of my life, so who can say that he won't get better at other times?"

After a series of questions, Shigeru Ikeda looked at Kiryu and Ma with blunt and simple eyes, waiting for Master's guidance.

He Ma looked at his apprentice, and he suddenly realized that this is a key point. In his future life, Shigeru Ikeda will stumble on the back of the shadow of the past, or will he turn all the past into his own motivation and stride forward, just depends This moment.

Kiryu and Ma knew that they ran in to remind their apprentices to turn off the stove, making themselves a switch worker who changed their apprentices' lives.

He Ma glanced at Shigeru Ikeda's head. He had two permanent entries, one of which was a gift from his father.

Tell Ah Mao directly that his father gave him his blessing in the end, is that all right?

He Ma felt that things would not be so simple.

Then his eyes fell on the transformation belt in Shigeru Ikeda's hand.

The old belt looks very old and still has quite obvious cracks on it. This is useless garbage that will make children cry when they are given to children.

But Shigeru Ikeda held it dearly.

Kawama ignored Ikeda's question, looked at the belt and asked, "What is this belt?"

"My mom bought me the transformation belt, I thought my dad threw it away, but it's still there today."

He Ma felt like he had found the key.

He said: "Kamen Rider is really a great work. Beneath the handsome mask is the sadness of transforming people. But even if he bursts into tears, he must fight for justice."

"Yes, I couldn't understand everything when I was young, but when I grew up, I admired it."

Sixteen-year-old Shigeru Ikeda ~IndoMTL.com~ isn't strictly "grown up", but Kazuma didn't correct him.

Kawama: "Would you like to try it without changing?"

"Huh?" Shigeru Ikeda raised his head suspiciously and looked at Kazuma.

And Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider's classic transformation.

He did it very seriously, as if performing some serious ritual.

Ikeda Shigeru is even more puzzled: "Why suddenly?"

"Mood change. Come on, try it out, maybe it works? It just so happens that you have a belt."

Hema encouraged Shigeru Ikeda, so the 16-year-old boy stood up, clumsily buckled the belt around his waist.

Although Shigeru Ikeda is in good shape, the belt designed for the child's size still tightens his waist.

He Ma: "Okay, you are now the unlucky **** who was caught and transformed by Shuka. All the pain, sorrow, and separation you have experienced before are all the suffering that the Shuka organization gave you! Now you want to How?"

Ikeda Shigeru was silent for a few seconds, then raised his hand and posed a starter gesture of transformation.

He moves meticulously, as if he really is the Kamen Rider who has gone through hardships.

All pain and sorrow, with his actions, turned into a heart of strength and justice.

Above his head, the Prodigal Son's entry and the gift left by his father burned, uniting in flames.

Ikeda Shigeru finishes his final transformation.

He stood there, exuding the air of a manly man, like a real Kamen Rider.

On the top of his head, the words tempered and condensed in the firelight are extremely shining.

The knight of the law

No instructions, just burning entries.

He Ma reached out and patted the apprentice on the shoulder: "Very good, congratulations on your new life."