Chapter 148, Zero, I'm hungry.

Outside the forest.

Utsunomiya was sitting on the curb, while Kanda Tomokazu was squatting across the street with a backpack on his back.

The two of them sat opposite each other across the curb.

The place they came out of was very remote, and they hadn't seen any vehicles passing by for a long time. They simply sat on both sides to stop cars, no matter which direction they were going, and left here first.

Tomokazu Kanda was still staring at the woods, cautiously, only occasionally glancing at the two sides to see if there were any oncoming cars. Most of the time he was observing the movements in the woods, as if there were some monsters hiding in there.

I'm scared to death.

After a while, still no car came.

"Zhuo." Kanda said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Utsunomiya Shuo, who was playing with his mobile phone, didn't even raise his head.

"Your face is covered in blood."

"Is that so?" Zhuo touched his face and found that there was blood not only on his face, but also on his arms and palms.

Both elbows were bruised, there were a lot of scratches on the body, and the right wrist was also injured. All in all, it was pretty miserable.

“Don’t you want to tidy it up?” Kanda asked.

"What's wrong."

Utsunomiya Shuo's tone was flat.

"We've been waiting here for a long time," Kanda shrugged as he sat on the curb opposite. "Do you think it's because your appearance scares people that we can't stop a car?"

"Yeah."

"And someone may catch up with us at any time." Kanda looked behind him again and added.

"Yeah."

Utsunomiya Shuo responded calmly, then lowered his head and pulled out the grass on the roadside one by one.

The prerequisite for scaring others is that there must be a car passing by here... Now there are no cars, how can I scare others?

a hu!

"Emmmm... Anyway, thank you, Zhuo."

"What...Oh, no need." It's me who has implicated you.

But it's also your fault that you knew Fengjian Liuli, so it can be considered a secondary responsibility.

Utsunomiya Shuo thought to himself after instantly realizing that Kanda was talking about this incident.

The angle of the sun rises higher and higher.

The edge of the forest was gradually illuminated, and I could vaguely see the sign "Please Cherish Your Life" inserted at the edge of the forest, but it was still quiet inside.

Finally a car came from the south.

"Are you really not going to tidy up? The car is coming."

Because the vehicle was heading towards where Zhuo was sitting, Kanda crossed the road and ran over. "If you feel it's inappropriate, you can also wear a mask."

Masked, and with blood on his hands.

Good for you.

Utsunomiya Shuo stood up and said nothing.

It was a black Honda B-class sedan, driving very slowly and seemed to be a good law-abiding driver.

As the vehicle approached them, it was already slowly slowing down... Before the two could speak, the car stopped not far from them on the side of the road and rolled down the window.

The two of them trotted over.

"Uncle, can I..." Kanda showed his signature sunny smile, which was always successful on campus.

This time the battle was a failure.

"Who is an uncle? I'm still a college student!" There was only a college student in the car wearing a plaid shirt and with the word "eight" clearly written on both sides of his nose. He waved his hands as if to shoo away a fly, "Get out of here, you rude old idiot!"

Kanda's shot went silent instantly. He looked at Zhuo pitifully and took two steps back.

"Stay away. I get annoyed when I see you." The man in the plaid shirt waved his hand impatiently again.

Kanda took several steps back.

"..." Zhuo turned his head to look at him and retreated ten meters away.

Like a little puppy abandoned on the roadside, it was looking at me eagerly, afraid of being left behind.

Some want to laugh.

Zhuo turned his head, looked into the car window, thought for a while, and shouted: "Brother~~"

"Yoshi~ You are a good judge of taste."

When the man in the plaid shirt smiled, the "eight" on his face became more obvious.

"Do you know how to get to the nearest subway station?"

"The subway station. I know..." He leaned out of the window and pointed in a direction, east, west, south, and north, except the west. Then he said, "The nearest one is fifteen kilometers away. Didn't you know that when you came here?"

A look of contempt.

"...Can you give us a ride? We are students from Central High School and we got lost while playing here."

"Why didn't you just say that earlier? Why are you pretending to be nice to me? But let me tell you first, I still have to go to work. Are you guys on the way?!"

Aren’t you a college student?
Utsunomiya Shuo complained in his heart, but said, "Of course, of course, anywhere is fine. When we get to the city, we can take the Shinkansen back."

After a few more polite words, the man in the plaid shirt opened the car door generously.

Utsunomiya Shuo waved to Kanda, who looked nervous, and he immediately ran over here.

Eat ha ha!

After getting into the car, everyone suddenly became quiet.

The man in the plaid shirt seemed to find the atmosphere a bit boring, so he turned on the car music, took out two bags of potato chips from the drawer, and handed them to him with one hand.

Utsunomiya Shuo was sitting in the passenger seat.

If both of you sit in the back seat, you are treating the other person as the driver, which is very impolite.

Zhuo passed a bag to the back and tore open another bag for himself.

The soothing pure music playing on the speakers and the slow-tempo piano gradually soothed Zhuo's tense heartstrings.

The vehicle is traveling from south to north with the sun behind it.

The scenery on both sides rewound rapidly.

He leaned back in his seat, staring ahead in a trance.

The man in the plaid shirt in the driver's seat was concentrating on driving. After two songs, he turned his head to look in Zhuo's direction, then took out his cell phone and handed it to Zhuo abruptly.

"Utsunomiya-kun."

"What."

The sudden address made Zhuo stunned, he didn't remember ever introducing himself.

"Could you please answer the phone? I'll consider it as the taxi fare." The frivolous temperament he had in the plaid shirt was gone, and he became serious and solemn.

Like a soldier.

“……”Zhuo lowered his head and glanced at the iPhone in his hand.

This is the iPhone 1 that will be released this year, but it is not on the market yet.

After hesitating for a moment, he put the phone to his ear.

"Zhuojun, do you remember your friend... Sorry, I have to make a phone call to my friend. Honey, can you buy me a glass of coconut juice? Thank you."

The sound of men's voices coming near and far, women's laughter, and the sound of waves hitting the beach.

"..." Utsunomiya Zhuo was silent for a moment, "Sorry, can you give me some hints?"

"Birthday card my friend, of course Pompey Gattuso is the only one who remembered to send you a birthday card!"

The person on the other end of the phone said.

“…Sorry, I can’t remember clearly.”

Zhuo paused and said.

"You are so cold."

Pompey Gattuso's voice sounded aggrieved, and it seemed as if he was about to cry in the next second.

"How are your studies recently? How is your life? Are you short of money? I'll ask my old man to transfer tens of billions to you." The person on the other end of the phone continued to speak in a wronged tone.

"Fortunately."

Zhuo responded lukewarmly.

"What about your daily life? Have you encountered any troubles?"

"No." Zhuo shook his head, not caring whether he could see it or not since this was a phone call.

"Have the old guys from the Eight Snake Families imposed any unfair terms on you? I can help you make an anti-unfair clause. Don't be polite to me." Pompey said on the phone.

Utsunomiya Shuo ate potato chips, crunched them up, and after swallowing them, he asked, "What is the anti-bullying clause?"

"Let the Snake Hachika be the Utsunomiya family's hereditary German shepherd dog."

The tone on the other end of the phone was relaxed. Just by hearing the voice, one could imagine the other party slumped in a beach chair, disdainful of the final fate of a country's largest underworld force.

Accurate to the breed of dog.

The German Shepherd Dog, also known as the German Shepherd Dog, is a very obedient dog.

"Amazing."

Utsunomiya Shuo nodded politely and continued eating potato chips.

The person on the other end of the phone wasn't angry either.

Hearing Utsunomiya Zhuo's listless tone, there was silence on the phone, and then he said, "Zhuo-kun, have you ever considered taking over Neon?"

The takeover of Neon is definitely not the literal Neon, but the world behind Neon, that is, the world of hybrids.

"No." Zhuo refused without even thinking.

"Why are you so mean to me?"

This time, the tone was mournful. It was vivid and lifelike.

After eating the potato chips, Utsunomiya Shuo was silent for a while. Regardless of whether the other party could see it or not, he stood up in the car with his knees bent, then bowed, indicating that this was his own problem.

"Okay, I forgive you," the person on the other end of the phone said simply, as if he had really seen his actions. "Next is the time for compensation. Whatever compensation Zhuojun wants the Eight Snake Families to pay, the Gattuso Family will help you."

Utsunomiya Shuo remained silent.

Pompey was so enthusiastic that he seemed to want to give him something.

It's hard to resist.

"Well, thanks, but forget it." Zhuo thought about it and still refused.

He didn't want to owe Pompey.

"Um, okay."

"Ah."

This time the topic seemed to have really been discussed. Utsunomiya Zhuo waited for a while, but there was no follow-up from the other party.

After thinking about it, he took the initiative to move the phone away, hung up the call, and handed the phone back to the man in the plaid shirt.

Only then did he take the time to look at the back parking space.

as predicted.

Kanda has fallen asleep.

Then he withdrew his gaze as if nothing had happened and continued to stare at the road ahead in a daze.

When the sun reached noon, they finally entered Shinjuku area as scheduled, and Zhuo woke up Kanda, who was a little dazed in the back seat.

The two got out of the car.

After saying goodbye to the plaid shirt, the plaid shirt waved to Utsunomiya Shuo enthusiastically, and then floated away like a gust of wind.

The black car disappeared from sight.

In their ears was the bustling noise of Tokyo's most prosperous commercial district, and the aroma of delicious food wafting from it... The two of them were like savages emerging from the deep forest, looking dishevelled and in a mess, attracting many people to point and comment.

"How come the uncle came like the wind and left like the wind? I wanted to have a meal with him to thank him." Looking at the disappearing car, Kanda sighed regretfully.

Zhuo glanced at him secretly.

This guy is disdainful of people who are nice to him, but he is reluctant to leave those who are mean to him or ignore him - whether it is Kazama Ruri or the plaid shirt.

How cheap.

"Because he is not important." Utsunomiya Shuo replied.

"How rude," Kanda turned to look at him and asked, "Do you want to go get something to eat?"

Zhuo looked down at the dirt and blood on his body, then raised his hand and turned it over to show Kanda.

"Well, that's not quite appropriate." Kanda was very tactful.

It's easy to be considered a weirdo.

Even call the police.

……

Then, the two took the Shinkansen back to Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, amid the onlookers and astonishment, and bought two candy apples on Kanda Road. The girl selling candy apples saw that they were ragged and thought they were down-and-out homeless people, so she simply gave them a box of octopus balls.

Finally, I asked for Kanda's email address.

Looking at the little sister's sparkling eyes, the two looked at each other and gave the little sister Kiritani Jin's email address.

Same result, but all wrong.

Kanda: Unfortunately, I already have someone I like. Sorry.

Zhuo: It’s a pity that Kanda likes boys, sorry.

then.

"Are you really not hungry? Zhuo, I left you half of the meatballs, they are still hot."

Kanda opened the small box and showed it to him, inside it were three octopus balls covered in sauce.

"Forget it, I'm so tired and want to sleep."

"Then...see you tomorrow?"

"See you tomorrow."

The two waved goodbye.

……

Use the key under the cactus to open the door and return home.

It was noon at the moment. The sunlight shone through the light blue gauze curtains, making the pure white sofa shine.

There is a massage sofa in the corner, clothes are hung on the balcony, the low table is clean, and on one armrest of the sofa is a blanket for covering the legs in winter.

Only at this time did he feel like he had truly returned to the modern era.

The feeling of being alive.

"call--"

He fell on the sofa, took a long breath, lay quietly looking at the ceiling for a while, then took out his cell phone.

dial.

Beep——drop!

The call was answered as soon as I called.

Utsunomiya Shuo put the phone to his ear, still slumped on the sofa, not saying a word, as peaceful as a corpse.

There was no talk on the other end of the line.

Zhuo lay here, and could hear the gentle breathing of people hundreds of kilometers away on his phone, as if they were breathing in his ears. His eyelids slowly drooped...

Suddenly I felt a little sleepy.

so tired.

I really want to take a nap.

Half-bloods and all that, go to hell - don't bother me anymore.

"are you home yet."

Just as he was about to fall asleep, Zero's familiar calm voice came from the phone.

"Ah."

Zhuo replied as if in a dream.

And then there was no more talk.

So the call fell into silence again. I didn't hang up, and the call was still ongoing...

After a while, Ling asked again on the phone.

"…Have you seen Mai?"

Hearing this, Zhuo raised his eyelids slightly: "...No."

"potato chips?"

"nor."

The person on the other end of the phone paused again and asked softly, "Are you being bullied?"

Hearing these words, which sounded like an old hen protecting her chicks, Zhuo almost laughed out loud.

But the tone of Zero on the other end of the phone was a little soft. Maybe it was an illusion, maybe not. It was hard to tell through the artificially synthesized voice on the phone...

So I held back my laughter.

Zhuo opened his eyes and stared at the empty ceiling.

I don’t know what to say, but I’m just very happy.

Zero didn't urge me either.

The phone is still on.

After holding it in for a long time, Zhuo finally said with some resentment: "... Ling, I'm hungry."

"..." There was no sound on the phone for a while. After a while, I heard the sound of the door lock colliding. "Okay, I'll be back soon."

"Hurry up, I'm hungry."

"Ah."

After saying the last few words, Zhuo's hand holding the phone dropped weakly and he fell into a deep sleep.

Like a heavy burden has been lifted off my shoulders.

　Thanks to brother Eat Apple with Vinegar for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brother 20191019123629288 for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to my brother Meng De Lu Zhe for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brother Mo Hao for the monthly ticket.

　　----

　　in conclusion.

　　Actually, in the first few chapters, everyone felt that the protagonist was not doing anything. It might be because my skills were not good enough and I did not write what I should have written.

　　My fault.

　　But putting aside the facts, don’t you have any responsibility at all?? Huh??

　　To make an analogy:

　　Once the genders are changed, Kanda becomes Yurina, and loyalty becomes a hero saving the damsel in distress.

　　Is there anyone who still thinks it is stupid not to call the police and put themselves in danger?
　　Do you still feel it’s not worth it?
　　To put it bluntly, you are all perverts!

　　Value sex over friends!

　　You are lowly! Pah! (Just kidding, don’t take it seriously, and don’t scold me for this)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)