This night, in the outskirts of Osaka.
Shi Enzhou covered it with a shovel of soil, and patted the ground with the shovel.
Then he stuck the shovel into the ground, straightened up, took off his gloves, took out the crushed 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 matches on his body.
Not far away, a private car was parked.
The driver of the car was already buried in the mound in front of Shi Enzhou.
Shi Enzhou finally touched the match, then lit the cigarette, 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 Wanjia lights in the distance.
When Shi Enzhou fled from Osaka ten years ago, he also stood on the mountain like this, looking at the lights of Osaka Castle.
At that time, Osaka was a little smaller than it is now, and the lights were not as dazzling as they are now. At that time, the stars could be clearly seen in the sky.
But now, the stars on the ground completely drown out the stars in the sky, and the serious light pollution makes the starry sky eclipse.
Shi Enzhou smoked quietly, looking at the lights of Wanjia that seemed to be very close at hand.
On the highway not far from him, there were cars passing by constantly, but no one noticed what was happening on this small fork.
Shi Enzhou didn't care at all why there was a fork in this place extending to the woods, and he didn't care what was at the end of the fork.
In order to prevent wild dogs from digging out the corpse, Shi Enzhou placed something nearby that could stimulate the wild dogs' sense of smell. For dogs, the strong and pungent smell would make them feel uncomfortable.
Wild dogs will avoid this place.
And if someone walks his dog past here, he will find that his dog suddenly resists and barks.
It's unlikely that people walk their dogs in this kind of place. Even if there is, Shi Enzhou doesn't care, it doesn't matter whether the body is found or not, the important thing is that the body can't speak.
During the escape, Shi Enzhou has turned several people who saw his face into "reliable partners" who will never betray.
Shi Enzhou calmly smoked a cigarette, he always smoked one like this every time after disposing of the corpse.
It is widely rumored in the "industry" that Shi Enzhou can psychic, smoking is his ritual, and he communicates with the dead.
However, Shi Enzhou knew that he was just smoking.
If there is any special significance, it is that this is one of the few moments when Shi Enzhou can gain peace.
No haunting auditory hallucinations, no wild thoughts that pop up now and then.
Shi Enzhou's spirit is very healthy. All the psychiatrists he saw said so, and everyone believed that auditory hallucinations and frantic thoughts were the cause of excessive stress.
Shi Enzhou believes in the judgment of doctors because they are professionals.
That is to say, only at this moment, he can get rid of the pressure.
He was smoking a cigarette, enjoying the rare peace.
Soon, the cigarette was finished, Shi Enzhou pressed the remaining cigarette butt out of his palm, and then carefully put the thing with his fingerprints into his pocket.
The chemicals that Shi Enzhou sprinkled around should last for four to five days. When the chemicals dissipated, the smell left by Shi Enzhou also disappeared naturally.
Other traces of mess will also disappear over time.
The weather forecast says there will be rain the day after tomorrow, and rain is good at destroying field scenes—although rain will also speed up the dissipation of the chemicals Shi Enzhou left behind.
Shi Enzhou picked up the shovel, turned to leave, but stopped suddenly.
He rubbed his eyes hard, staring straight ahead again.
"Tsk, it's an illusion again." Shi Enzhou whispered.
He was about to leave when he thought of something, turned around and went back to the "tomb" that was so flat that ordinary people couldn't see it without a tombstone, took out the flagon, and poured all the remaining wine into the soil.
"It's been a pleasure chatting with you."
Shi Enzhou put away the jug, carried the shovel, and walked towards the car, completely ignoring the illusion that appeared in the corner of his vision.
Back in the car, just about to start the car, I saw a black cat jumping in through 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 "呵呵" sound, but it didn't hide from Shi Enzhou's hand at all.
Shi Enzhou withdrew his hand, looked at the palm of his hand suspiciously, then 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 lowered its head and ate the biscuits happily.
Shi Enzhou stopped looking at the cat and started the car.
The headlights turned on, piercing through the dense night like some kind of living thing.
Shi Enzhou saw a gap where there was no car, and drove the car on the highway - no one saw the moment the car drove up from the side road.
Japan's high-speed highways are not like China's high-speed highways, which are closed all the way.
After all, there is no charge.
Shi Enzhou drove the car and rushed towards Osaka.
**
Kiryu and Ma came out of the shower, just in time to see Shigeru Ikeda coming out of his guest room neatly dressed and putting on shoes at the entrance.
"What are you doing?" He Ma asked suspiciously.
"Go to the convenience store to work the night shift." Shigeru Ikeda smiled back at Kazuma, "Master, go to bed early."
"Your body can't bear it?"
"It's okay. This kind of 24-hour convenience store is a new industry. In fact, no one comes here at night. You can review and sleep."
"Is that so?" He Ma was skeptical, "I suggest you don't push yourself too hard like this. If you end up with something wrong, you will regret it later."
He Ma is talking about his personal experience in his previous life. Before the age of thirty, he would sleep through the night casually, and he was still full of energy the next day after sleeping for two or three hours.
When I was thirty years old, all kinds of problems began to come.
When I went to see a doctor, people said directly: "Did you work overtime when you were young?"
Hema was embarrassed to say that he was playing games all night, so he could only answer according to the doctor's words.
At that time, He Ma thought that if he could always, he must have paid attention to health preservation from a young age, soaking wolfberry in a thermos cup.
Now recalling the valuable experience of his previous life, Kazuma decided to stop his apprentice's behavior.
"I've assigned you a shift today," He Ma said in a serious tone, "I won't stop you from passing, or you will cause trouble to others. However, you must quit this job, and every day from now on you must at least promise Eight hours of sleep."
"Master..."
"This is an order. You are my apprentice now, so you have to obey me. Those who can't rest can't work." He Ma put on a posture of never giving in.
Shigeru Ikeda sighed: "Okay, I understand. I will submit my resignation application before I get off work tomorrow."
"Well, it's good. Maybe the store manager will say something like 'the young people these days really have no roots', just leave him alone and let him talk it out." He Ma added.
"I see, then I'm leaving." After saying that, Ikeda Shigeru opened the door, and then just stood there holding the doorknob.
Hema stared at him suspiciously for a few seconds, then stretched his head to look outside.
At this time, Ikeda Shigeru's expression seemed to have changed back to the original vicious and vicious villain with yellow hair.
"Why are you here?" he said in a voice that implied anger.
Kazuma 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 Ikeda Shigeru.
Kazuma immediately speculated that this was Ikeda Shigeru's father.
Hema pressed his apprentice's shoulders, pulled Ikeda Shigeru to the side, and took a step forward: "Hello, who are you, what's the matter?"
Seeing He Ma, the man immediately smiled, raised a hand and pointed at He Ma, wanting to say something, but he hesitated for a long time without saying anything.
He Ma grabbed the other's protruding finger, and as soon as he folded it hard, the other side immediately howled like a pig.
Hema asked, "Don't you know it's very impolite to point your finger at others?"
The other party repeatedly begged for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong!"
"Are you sober? Are you able to talk properly?" Hema asked again, continuing to break the opponent's fingers with force.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up! It's about to break! I dare not, I was wrong!"
Only then did He Ma let go of his hand: "Tell me, who are you?"
The man covered his hands, looked at Mao Ikeda viciously, and said, "I am Shigeru Ikeda's father! I'm here to see my son."
Hema glanced at Amao, and understood after seeing Amao's disgusted expression: "Then you saw it. Is there anything else?"
The man showed a wretched smile and looked behind He Ma.
He Ma turned his head and found that Chiyoko was leaning towards him curiously.
My younger sister is looked at with such obscene eyes, and I don't get along with Mau, but this guy is Ah Mao's father after all, so he just slapped her like...
The crisp sound interrupted Hema's thinking, and Amao's father had already fallen to the ground.
Amao clenched his fists and was about to go forward to continue the "additional attack", but he was grabbed by Kazuma: "Amao! If you hit the guardian, you have a bad record and you will be in trouble!"
The drunk laughed and stood up: "That's right, your elder brother is right! I am your guardian, even if you become an extreme Taoist, you can't hit me!"
He Ma pulled Amao behind him, and then slapped the drunk on the face: "I didn't expect that, you drunk harassed the houses, and I beat you to stop the infringement."
In fact, he was talking nonsense with Ma. He didn't even know if there was 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 until he lay on the ground and couldn't move for a long time.
Amao took a deep breath, and then said: "You go, I can support myself and afford my own tuition fees. I have nothing to do with you anymore.
"When I turn eighteen, I will start to fulfill my support obligations and give you living expenses. But you don't want to appear in front of me again!
"When I graduate from university and start working, I will find my mother and live with her.
"I... thank you for bringing me into this world, but right now I just want you to fuck off."
Looking at Amao with Ma, he suddenly felt that this apprentice was really good.
If it weren't for the fact that neither of them had reached the legal age for drinking in Japan, he would definitely go out and have a drink with Amao.
The drunk got up cursing, and walked away cursing, turning his head three times at a step, and every time he looked back, he looked at Amao and Kazuma with resentful eyes.
He just disappeared into the night.
Amao: "It's this man who beat my mother away and messed up my life.
"In the past, every time he hit my mother, I took my Kamen Rider belt and hid it in my room. The belt was bought for me by my mother secretly saving money. I hoped that it could really transform me gone."
Hema turned back and gave his apprentice a blank look: "You have acquired the ability to transform into a Kamen Rider, and you just want to beat up your alcoholic father? Don't be so unambitious. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. If you can transform into a Kamen Rider, Then, of course, we must first exonerate all the evil in this world."
Ikeda Shigeru thought about it and smiled: "That's true."
"By the way, are you okay at work? Won't you be late?"
"Fuck!" Ikeda Shigeru exclaimed, "It's not good, I have to go."
He picked up the bicycle that delivered the newspaper, pushed the bicycle and galloped for two steps, and then straddled the bicycle boldly.
Hema watched his apprentice disappear into the night.
He turned around and glanced at Chiyoko who was still standing at the door: "What?"
"I was thinking, really every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite." Chiyoko sighed.
At this time, the chairman came out of the house with his bag on his back: "I'm going home."
"I'll see you off." Said Hema.
During the summer vacation, he and Ma sent the chairman home every night as agreed, without missing a day.
But after the start of school, the chairman said that the agreement with He Ma would only end in September when school started, and he would no longer let He Ma see him off.
Today's situation is special, and He Ma is worried that the drunk just ambushed the Chairman halfway.
Chiyoko also expressed the same worry: "The uncle just now, I'm afraid he took the rumors from the neighbors seriously, thinking that we are here as a stable. He might lie in ambush halfway."
The chairman said disapprovingly: "Do you think I will lose to that kind of drunk?"
"Of course you won't, but if you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what happens, aren't you?" He Ma said and walked out, "Let's go, I'll see you off."
The chairman smiled: "If I don't want to send me back, just tell me, there are so many detours."
"Yes, you can just treat it like this." He Ma said disapprovingly.
Chairman: "By the way, take your harmonica with you, so that you can play the harmonica to strengthen your courage when you come back."
"What the hell is courage?" He Ma shook his head.
The chairman smiled happily: "Maybe you will encounter something that suddenly inspires you and makes you want to play two paragraphs?"
"Let's go, let's go." He Ma 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: "Student Jinguji, your rank is so high. Nanjo-senpai and Fujii-senpai are so pitiful."
After she finished speaking, she turned and went back to the house, locked the door, ran to the dojo, closed the door leading to the yard from the dojo, and locked it.
Although Xiaoxiao around had been warned by Yakudo not to visit this dojo, Chiyoko still locked all the doors that should be locked every day.