While Chiyoko lost the 80,000 tuition fee, Shigeru Ikeda opened his eyes.
The nurse who was observing his situation saw him open his eyes, and immediately called "doctor" and rushed out of the intensive care unit.
Soon the attending physician led a group of assistants and nurses into the ward.
After Professor Caiqian checked it himself, he congratulated: "The recovery is perfect, and the resilience is amazing."
After finishing talking, 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: "Both, it's okay. His condition allows us to have a conversation. However, be careful not to take too long."
"Understood, we're just asking some detail questions, it'll be over soon."
Professor Caiqian nodded, and said to Shigeru Ikeda: "Then leave it to the detectives, and I will come to see you later."
After speaking, Professor Zaizen smiled at Shigeru Ikeda.
It looks like the professor really wants to impress Shigeru Ikeda.
After all, Shigeru Ikeda is Kiryu and Ma's apprentice, and he is the only one.
After Professor Caiqian led the people away, Detective Shiratori and Detective Takayama came to Shigeru Ikeda's bed.
"We have a few questions. If you feel that you can't answer the question for a long time, then let's ask the key questions first." Detective Shiratori stopped and waited for Shigeru Ikeda's answer.
Shigeru Ikeda glanced out the window, and first asked: "My father... Naoto Ikeda, how is it?"
"Dead. Your master seems to be planning to pay for it himself, and it should start when you wake up."
"How can this work? Master's tuition has not yet been settled."
As soon as the words fell, the Gao Shan criminal police said in surprise: "How come, isn't the Nanjo family fully sponsoring the tuition?"
Detective Shiratori signaled Detective Gao Shan not to speak, and then went straight to the point: "You witnessed your father's death, right?"
Ikeda Shigeru shook his head slightly: "No, I was in a coma at that time, and when I opened my eyes, the matter had come to an end."
"It's okay, tell us, what did you see when you woke up." The tone of Bai Niao detective was very similar to the announcer of a close brother on a late-night radio station.
Shigeru Ikeda was silent for a few seconds before he spoke: "I heard someone yelling, 'Amao get up', 'Run away', that yell made me open my eyes, and then I saw..."
The two detectives stared at Shigeru Ikeda intently, waiting for him to speak.
Shigeru Ikeda: "I saw a tall figure standing there, against the light. Before I fell down, I thought it was Naoto Ikeda, but now that I think about it, I'm not sure what I saw.
"That figure is too tall, Naoto Ikeda...my father should not be so tall, he is a hunchbacked man who shrinks his hands and feet as if trying to hide himself anytime and anywhere.
"His back is both weak 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."
Shiratori glanced at Takayama: "You are relatively young, have you seen Kamen Rider?"
"Forgive me, I was in college when Toei made this film. This is a confession."
Shigeru Ikeda 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," Shiratori Detective shook his head, "That's your father, Naoto Ikeda. Your language skills are pretty good, and it doesn't match your Chinese scores written on the information."
Shigeru Ikeda glanced at Detective Shiratori: "That's because I've read a lot of books recently, such as Osamu Dazai."
The white bird detective shrugged: "So, you don't know what happened to your father? I don't know how he stood up in the end? Can I ask how you untied the rope on your body?"
"I provoked them and let them fight me one-on-one." Shigeru Ikeda then told him everything before he passed out.
About 30 minutes later, Shiratori detective nodded: "Very well, we have nothing to ask, you have a good rest..."
"Can I be discharged from the hospital?" Ikeda Shigeru said and sat up directly, "I feel that I am in a very good condition. If I don't leave the hospital, I can't do anything, right? After all, I may be the only one to hold the portrait."
Detective Shiratori and Detective Gao Shan looked at each other, and then said: "Then you have to ask Professor Caiqian, we are not doctors, so we can't decide whether you can be discharged from the hospital."
**
Two days later, Ikeda's house.
The dilapidated doorway of a building has been repainted, and all the paint sprayed by the debt collectors has been brushed off.
There was a table for guests to sign in at the gate of Yihujian, but the list was empty. Apart from Kiryu's family, Kiryu and Ma's apprentices, there were only the names of two detectives, Shiratori and Takayama.
I don't know if all the original relatives of the Ikeda family died, or they didn't want to stick to the bad luck, anyway, none of them showed up.
Because the Ikeda family no longer has any women who can receive guests, Chiyoko Kiryu sits behind the registration table—Shigeru Ikeda is Kazuma’s apprentice. The responsibility of the master.
In order to take on this responsibility, Chiyoko specially borrowed an all-black Furisode kimono from the Nanjo family. The Kiryu family did not have such an all-black kimono. Chiyoko only had a wedding kimono passed down from her mother.
But because there were no guests at all, Chiyoko was looking at the clouds in the sky bored at this time.
The sound of monks chanting scriptures came continuously from the main entrance of Yihujian.
Ikeda's house is very small, and there is not much room left for a coffin in the living room.
A monk in cassock sits in the middle of the living room, reciting incomprehensible Sanskrit scriptures.
Japanese monks will be accompanied by unique singing voices, just like a Noh play.
Shigeru Ikeda held the portrait and sat not far behind the monk.
The Naoto Ikeda on the portrait is very young, it seems that because this guy has not taken a serious photo in the past ten years, he can only take a photo when he was just married.
Sitting next to Ikeda, Kiryu and Ma felt that Naoto Ikeda looked like a good young man when he was young.
When Shigeru Ikeda came back from the hospital, he was silent for a long time, and he didn't even say much. He would finish the training and study arranged with Ma every day, feeling like a boring gourd.
He Ma was a little worried that his apprentice would get sick.
When the ceremony is over, Ikeda Naoto is burned—the Japanese tradition is to be burned to ashes before being buried—and Ma must find a way to restore the spirit of his apprentice.
At this time, He Ma heard the two criminal policemen standing at the back talking: "This monk, I recognized it. Isn't this the great monk Zheng Zheng of Tsukiji Honganji Temple? Kiryu-kun can afford him?"
"Of course it's because of the Nanjo family's face that they gave a surprising discount. What's so strange about it?"
He Ma looked back at the two detectives.
Originally, he wanted to complain about the two chatting with such a loud voice on this occasion, but after thinking about it, it wasn't that the criminal police had a loud voice, it was because the house was too small and the distance between the back row and the front row was too close.
And when the funeral is going to be held later, two criminal policemen will have to be bothered to carry the coffin, otherwise the men will not be enough, and Nanjo will probably have to mobilize his own SP to carry the coffin.
Funerals in Japan are very particular, and people with connections must come to carry the coffin.
The two criminal policemen handled the death case of Naoto Ikeda, and they were considered related persons.
It doesn't work in Japan to find a few unrelated black people to dance while carrying the coffin.
Kazuma withdrew his gaze, then glanced at Shigeru Ikeda again, hesitant to speak.
**
That evening, Ikeda Shigeru came back from the crematorium.
Because he couldn't afford a cemetery, Ikeda Naoto's ashes were carried back by Ikeda Shigeru. Enshrining urns like this in family shrines is a common practice among Japanese families who cannot afford a cemetery.
Sometimes, it will be sprinkled into the mountains and seas according to the last wishes of the deceased.
Shigeru Ikeda put the urn into the TV cabinet - the TV was sold by Shigeru Ikeda long ago for gambling, and now there is only a cabinet left, which looks like a shrine.
Putting the urn away, Shigeru Ikeda looked at the house again.
In order to hold the ceremonies, the dispatched staff of Nanjo's family had cleaned up the house long ago, clearing away all the piles of household garbage.
Even the breath of life was cleaned up.
This gives the house a barren look.
Shigeru Ikeda originally wanted to sell the house to his master to pay for his university tuition, but his master asked him to keep it, and he could come back to see it from time to time, and if not, he could use it for his own tuition later.
Shigeru Ikeda stood in the lifeless house with mixed feelings in his heart.
He couldn't understand how he was feeling right now.
It stands to reason that getting rid of this family should make him feel liberated, after all, nothing good has happened in this family.
All memories are full of pain and sadness.
However, now Shigeru Ikeda suddenly realized that he was a little lonely.
In order to relieve this loneliness, he decided to see what else he could take away at home.
He came from the living room to the dining room and found that the tableware had been replaced with brand new ones, and probably the old tableware had been smashed by the drunk Naoto Ikeda.
So the Nanjo family replaced the tableware with new ones.
He opened the refrigerator, only to find that the still functioning refrigerator was empty.
Shigeru Ikeda sighed, left the dining room and went into his room.
His own room was also cleaned, and then something caught Shigeru Ikeda's attention.
That thing was placed on the empty desk, and the sunlight from outside fell on it, gentle and bright.
That was the Kamen Rider belt that his mother bought for Shigeru Ikeda. It was Shigeru Ikeda who wore this belt back then. He gained courage from the false transformation sound effect, and stood behind Naoto Ikeda holding a knife.
And Mom stopped Shigeru Ikeda from wearing this belt.
Ikeda Shigeru stepped forward and gently picked up the belt.
He remembered that the belt was broken during his father's beating that day, and it could no longer emit the sound and light effect of transformation.
After my mother left, my father said that when he saw this belt, he would think of "that bitch", so he took the belt away and threw it away.
It should have been thrown away.
Later, Shigeru Ikeda blackmailed his classmates in the lower grades and bought a brand new belt with the money.
But this belt should be the one thrown away by his father. There is a crack on the back of the belt buckle, which was caused by his father grabbing the belt.
Shigeru Ikeda looked at the belt, and suddenly the scene of Naoto Ikeda rummaging through the trash can for the belt after he sobered up suddenly appeared in his mind.
He sighed, put the belt back on the table, but picked it up again after hesitating, and stuffed it into his schoolbag.
Now, Shigeru Ikeda couldn't wait to leave this place, where he felt that he would be overwhelmed by chaotic memories at any time.
He went back to the living room, looked at the urn, and finally decided to put the urn here.
Although Naoto Ikeda became his father in the end, Shigeru Ikeda still wanted to keep him, together with all those memories, in this dilapidated building.
Shigeru Ikeda left this place that was once called home with his only harvest: a worn-out Kamen Rider transformation belt.
He left his father, memories, and the past here—at least he thought so.
He rode the bicycle delivering newspapers, quickly returned to Kiryu Dojo, and entered the small room for himself next to the entrance.
This is his little world, his current comfort zone, and he can feel a sense of peace of mind that he has never had before staying here.
He turned on the kettle and started to heat the boiling water, took out a box of half-price cup noodles that were about to expire, tore open the package, added seasonings, and waited for the water to boil.
Then he took out the old Kamen Rider transformation belt.
He looked at the belt, lost in thought.
The water boiled and the kettle neighed, but he didn't return from his contemplation.
Then, the door of the guest room opened, and Kiryu and Ma walked in: "Amao! The water is boiling!"
Ikeda Shigeru woke up suddenly, and quickly reached out to turn off the stove.
Shigeru Ikeda looked up at Master and asked involuntarily: "My father, is he a good person or a bad person? If my mother doesn't leave but continues to accompany him, will he become different
"Look, he can obviously protect me like a Kamen Rider at the last moment of his 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 straightforward and innocent eyes, waiting for the master's guidance.
Kazuma looked at his apprentice, and he suddenly realized that this is the key point. Whether Ikeda Shigeru's future life will be staggering with the shadow of the past, or turn everything in the past into his own motivation, and stride forward, it depends on this moment up.
Kiryu and Ma knew that the act of running in to remind the apprentice to turn off the stove made him a switchman who changed the apprentice's life.
Kazuma glanced at the top of Shigeru Ikeda's head. He had two permanent entries, one of which was a gift from his father.
Tell Amao directly that his father gave him his blessing in the end, is that enough
He Ma felt that things would not be that simple.
Then his eyes fell on the transformation belt in Shigeru Ikeda's hand.
The old belt looks very old, and there are 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 preciously.
Kazuma ignored Ikeda's question, looked at the belt and asked, "What is this belt?"
"It was a transformation belt my mum bought for me, I thought my dad threw it away, but today it's still there."
He Ma felt that he had found the key point.
He said: "Kamen Rider is really a great work. Under the handsome mask is the sadness of reforming people. But even if I am crying, I still have to fight for justice."
"Yeah, I couldn't understand everything when I was a child, but I admire it when I watch it when I grow up."
Sixteen-year-old Shigeru Ikeda was not technically "grown up," but Kazuma didn't correct him.
He Ma: "Would you like to try without changing your body?"
"Huh?" Shigeru Ikeda raised his head suspiciously, looking at Kazuma.
And the horse posed the classic transformation action of the original Kamen Rider.
He did it very seriously, as if he was performing some serious ceremony.
Shigeru Ikeda was even more puzzled: "Why all of a sudden?"
"Change your mood. Come on, give it a try, maybe it will work? It just so happens that you have a belt."
Kazuma encouraged Ikeda Shigeru, so the sixteen-year-old boy stood up, and clumsily buckled his belt around his waist.
Although Ikeda Shigeru has a good figure, the belt designed for children's size still tightens his waist.
He Ma: "Okay, now you are the unlucky one who was arrested and reformed by Shuka. All the pain, sorrow, and all the partings you experienced before are all sufferings given to you by the Xiuka organization! What are you going to do now? "
Shigeru Ikeda was silent for a few seconds, then raised his hand, and made a gesture of transforming.
He made his movements meticulously, as if he was really the Kamen Rider who had gone through hardships.
All the 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, united in flames.
Shigeru Ikeda finished the final transformation.
Standing there, he exudes a masculine aura, like a real Kamen Rider.
Above his head, the entries tempered and condensed in the firelight were shining extremely brightly.
knight of the law
There is no description, only the entry of burning.
He Ma stretched out his hand and patted his apprentice on the shoulder: "Very good, congratulations on your new life."