Jinpei Matsuda, male, is currently sitting in the car of his good friend Hagiwara.
The two's destination was a nearby business district, where the Little Pond Toy Factory held an offline exhibition of frog twisting cars.
Matsuda has cute black curly hair and a handsome appearance. He has loved to dismantle things since he was a child. When he grew up, he joined the police force and is currently an active police officer in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team of the Mobile Group of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Logically speaking, a young and handsome guy like him with a respectable and stable job should not be interested in children's toys.
But his two good friends were all beeping... It was really hard to find the right words to describe the behavior of those two people.
When seeing Rei Furuya playing the role of Frogman in a tricycle commercial, Jinpei Matsuda was shocked. He really couldn't understand why his good friend from the police academy, who had excellent grades and was assigned to a secret operation right after graduation, would go into the children's commercial.
Since he couldn't contact Rei Furuya, Matsuda could still comfort himself: Maybe they just look too much alike, brothers by blood... A public security policeman who graduated with the highest grade in the police academy would never be reduced to filming such things... The National Police Agency cannot, at least should not...
Until a few weeks ago, Jinpei Matsuda casually turned on "Tokyo Got Talent" while eating.
He originally just wanted to find a light-hearted variety show to enjoy his meal, but as he was watching, a familiar-looking contestant appeared. He descended from the sky on a Frogman-style tricycle, and began to talk about his tragic experience, "My mother told me since I was little that children from poor families...", which made the female judge tearful. He then began to sing, with the tricycle spinning behind him as he sang.
Jinpei Matsuda was stunned, and the tempura he had just picked up fell from between his chopsticks.
Seeing the Frogman in combat uniform and mask, he could deceive himself, it was an illusion; but the contestant in front of him who was only wearing a half-face mask was hard to mistake - he was not Morifushi Kagemitsu, Matsuda wrote his name backwards.
He immediately shared this episode of the talent show with Kenji Hagiwara, who expressed the same shock.
"Hiro, what are you doing!?"
"Singing is fine, but why is the car floating on the stage? Is this a promotional advertisement for the Frog Car? ... Did the toy factory ask him to do this?"
"I think, could it be... another mission from the National Police Agency?"
"This task is really a bit too much to ask..."
In addition to being shocked, Matsuda and Hagiwara watched the talent show clips from the same period over and over again, laughed loudly, and became more and more certain that the actor who played Frogman was Furuya Rei himself.
After laughing tired, the two could not help but become curious about the frog car and wanted to buy one to study its extraordinary features. However, this frog car has been transformed from a children's toy into a trendy item. The spot price has been hyped up to a sky-high level and the price tag is prohibitive. If one wants to buy it at the original price, one must download the software to register for the lottery, or participate in the lottery at an offline event.
Coincidentally, a large shopping district near Songtian Apartment will hold an offline exhibition of twisting cars on Saturday.
He and Hagiwara decided to try their luck, and if they didn't win the lottery, they would just go shopping in the mall to relax.
"There are so many people today." Hagiwara slowly slowed down and drove into the parking lot entrance. "There may be no parking spaces on the ground."
Matsuda: "Then stop underground."
As expected, Hagiwara drove into the parking lot and found a spot to park. He got out of the car and looked at the number on the parking space line.
Matsuda put his hands in his pockets and looked at the black Porsche 356A next to him. He commented: "Such a classic car is actually driven outside."
Hagiwara nodded in agreement and added, "Maybe he's not short of money, right? So he doesn't feel bad about it."
The two chatted and laughed as they took the -2F elevator upstairs, shopping while walking towards the offline exhibition.
The exhibition area was designed like an open-air pop-up store. There were children who came for Frogman and the twisting car, young people who came to watch the fun, and scalpers who wanted to win the lottery and sell the car to make a profit. The exhibition area was bustling with people; and because the color scheme and theme were very eye-catching, many people crowded there to watch the fun.
In the crowd, Jinpei Matsuda locked onto Frogman from a distance.
"Hello
, hagi, look. "
"I saw."
“I think it’s zero.”
"To be honest, I think so too."
The two hit it off and joined the team taking photos with Frogman.
Although there seemed to be a lot of people, the line moved quickly. In less than ten minutes, Matsuda and Hagiwara arrived at the front of the line.
While posing for a photo with the little boy, Rei Furuya was thinking about his chance encounter with his 'first love' Elena.
When he looked up, he suddenly saw two familiar handsome young men.
Matsuda turned on his phone, pointed the camera at Fūya, and started to tease, "Hey, Frogman, smile?"
Jiangu Ling: "????"
Hagiwara suggested pretentiously: "Xiao Zhenping, do you want to take a photo with Frogman?"
"I have to." Matsuda handed the phone to Hagiwara Kenji, walked up to Furuya and put one hand in his pocket, "Take a more handsome picture for me, take more pictures."
Hagiwara smiled and held up two mobile phones to take pictures of them.
"Frogman, can you perform that again?" Matsuda looked at Furuya Rei with an earnest look, as if he was sincere. However, once he showed this expression, he was bound to do something bad. He coughed twice, lowered his voice and imitated the advertising slogan, "'Give me back the princess, Aka Fish!'"
Furuya Rei: “…”
His face was distorted beneath the green mask.
What’s going on? Why are these two people here
"Please, Frogman," Matsuda said, "I've been your fan for ten years, please fulfill my request."
His tone was so nonchalant that Furiya Rei wanted to punch him hard on his clean but definitely slap-worthy face; but the current situation obviously did not allow him to reminisce with Matsuda, as Lei, who played the role of Aka Fish, was right next to them.
Fūya Rei took a deep breath and said in a businesslike tone, "Sir, the photo time is over. There are other guests waiting in line."
Matsuda made a "tsk" sound.
Hagiwara immediately responded, "Yes, I'm still waiting. Xiao Zhenping, are you done? Come over and help me take a photo."
Furuya Rei: “???”
My blood pressure suddenly rose.
So, Matsuda playfully changed positions with Hagiwara and took a photo of Hagiwara and the "Frog Man".
After taking the photo, they walked to the exhibition area behind the photo stage, chatting and laughing loudly, obviously talking to the actor who played Frogman.
Matsuda: "If I buy this twisting car, can I defeat the Aka fish?"
Hagiwara: "Where can we go to save the princess after we buy it?"
Matsuda: "Can the unused Frog Cars be stored in the refrigerator?"
Hagiwara: "Can you recite the entire Frogman dialogue for me?"
Matsuda: "Will buying this car affect my ability to drive a Ferrari in the future?"
The two exchanged glances and words, telling crosstalk as if no one was around, and every word they said stabbed at the shame of Fūya Rei. If there were no outsiders here, Fūya would definitely have thrown away this shameless combat uniform and exchanged feelings with these two people with fists.
Matsuda found it really funny to look at the Frog Man's back, who was pretending to be calm and indifferent.
He lowered his voice and said to Hagiwara, "Come back when the show is almost over and see if there is a suitable opportunity to talk to him alone. Zero must be pissed off."
Hagiwara agreed: "Let's go somewhere else first."
They continued walking forward.
Not long after, Matsuda was attracted by a young man in the rest area on the second floor of Building C of the shopping mall and walked towards him unconsciously.
This location has an excellent view, and the floor-to-ceiling windows are spacious and bright. Standing by the window, you can clearly see the bustling crowd in the small square downstairs, and you can also take in the entire open-air offline venue for the tricycles.
Hojo Natsuki sat in the lounge on the second floor and watched the show.
He originally wanted to go downstairs to watch, and also wanted to take a photo with Frog Man and Aka Fish, but was stopped by Kurosawa Jin, who said that "he would be recognized."
This was a reason that was difficult to refute, because he was currently the mysterious boss of the Frog Organization and should not easily reveal his true identity in front of the traitors, so he reluctantly accepted Top Killer's kindness—he tried to refute, but the other party's eyes were terrifying. Hojo Natsuki was stared at with horror, and his voice became smaller and smaller.
Both sides took a step back.
"…Okay. But I want to eat ice cream." Hojo Natsuki nodded, "That one."
Kurosawa Jin: “Wait.”
Hojo Natsuki breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.
After spending a short entire day together, he had quite mixed feelings about Gin.
Part of it was vigilance. Even if he only saw him from a distance, he was ready to fight back at any time. This feeling was partly due to the visible difference in strength between the two of them. The other person was taller than him, with broader shoulders. His clothes were held up by his powerful body with terrible explosive power. Every move he made revealed his suppressive power. In reality, he was not very willing to meet such an opponent without any protection.
Besides, it's just... weird.
Especially when the other person gets close to him, it feels indescribably weird.
At the same time, Hojo Natsuki firmly believed: "We are very familiar with each other. He will not hurt me."
The other party will also agree to boring requests like buying midnight snacks or ice cream - for example, now, the silver-haired killer in a black windbreaker is at the end of a group of chattering young people, with an extremely impatient expression, and it seems that he wants to kill all the annoying mice in front of him.
When Hojo Natsuki made this request, it was like he was taking a tentative step towards a step. The other party's answer let him know that the step could bear his weight, so he stepped on it with confidence, and all the uneasiness that had been swaying left and right was shaken off, and a temporary sense of security prevailed.
He was sitting by the window, thinking about how to press the issue further, when suddenly someone spoke to him.
"Excuse me," said Jinpei Matsuda, "Have we met before?"
Hojo Natsuki: “Ah?”
His eyes widened, and his immediate thought was simple: What? Was I approached by a man
Then he stared at Matsuda Jinpei for a few seconds and recognized that this person was Matsuda Makima.
Just now on the second floor, Hojo Natsuki witnessed Matsuda and Hagiwara "teasing" the Frog Man, but he couldn't hear the sound, it was like watching a pantomime, so he sat at the scene but still watched the animal version on his mobile phone.
Zero Cat's inner thoughts are hilarious. The little cat who was socially dead in front of its friends was severely broken-down and looked dazed. It suffered terrible torture on the mental level. The system's evaluation was [The Cat Protection Association strongly condemns your inhuman behavior], and gave it a bunch of useful and useless props.
Matsuda Maki and Hagiwara Maji completed their tormenting mission and left.
He didn't expect that he would be approached by their human forms here.
"Probably not." Hojo Natsuki was unsure of his purpose, so he adjusted his sunglasses and spoke slowly.
Hagiwara Kenji caught up with him and put his hand on his shoulder: "Did you meet someone you know?" He turned his gaze to Hojo Natsuki and said thoughtfully, "… Hey. I think I've seen you somewhere."
This scene was very much like a scheming gay trying to ask for contact information from a handsome passerby. However, Hojo Natsuki was confused for a few seconds and suddenly realized: it was his [weak restraint] on Juanjuan and Ma Er that was effective.
— "When you first meet someone, you will automatically gain 60 points of favorability. This character will naturally trust you..."
60 points of favorability is the level of "good friends".
But they are not employees of the Frog Organization, so this weak restraint is of little use, and at most they can use this troublemaker Zero Cat.
"It seems... a little bit." Hojo Natsuki said hesitantly, "but I can't remember it."
Matsuda asked, "Are you alone?"
Natsuki: "No, I'm waiting for my companions."
"I see." Matsuda looked him up and down, his expression a little tangled, as if he had met a friend who was having a hard time.
, worried about the other party, "By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet, my last name is Matsuda."
Hojo Natsuki: "… Just call me Hojo."
He somehow started chatting with the two, and Hagiwara and Matsuda were also a little puzzled as to why they felt like they had known each other for a long time for someone they met at a shopping mall. They chatted for five minutes and even exchanged phone numbers.
Hagiwara and Matsuda said goodbye to him and left together.
A few minutes later, Hojo Natsuki saw Kurosawa Jin holding an ice cream cone.
He asked, "Who are those two?"
"I don't know him, he seems to be here to sell something." Hojo Natsuki said nonsense, took the ice cream he handed over, and then was shocked, "... Why is it strawberry flavored!"
Strawberry-flavored ice cream is to the strawberry family what hot Americano is to the American family. It is a shameful existence and should be expelled from the family tree immediately.
"If you don't eat it, throw it away."
"But you still have to eat." Hojo Natsuki said in a low voice.
He licked the ice cream ball, his eyes fell on the offline exhibition downstairs, his mind began to wander aimlessly, and he chatted with Kurosawa Jin in a random manner - and then was treated perfunctorily.
"What exactly is July 4th?"
Kurosawa still said: "Think for yourself."
"Remember the man I told you not to kill. And don't feed him poison."
"knew."
Xia Shu: "How perfunctory."
Kurosawa paused and asked, "Reason?"
"Reason? Um... because he was fed poison by you, he will destroy our organization out of anger? For the sake of the organization, try not to have any conflicts with him."
Kurosawa obviously took this as nonsense: "Oh."
But he was in a good mood, so he was willing to answer, "So, why not kill?"
"To protect species diversity." Hojo Natsuki said seriously.
Kurosawa Jin: "You are sick."
"Really." He said, "I'm not against killing people, but every time you kill someone, the possibility that this person will bring 'different' to your life is also extinguished. The most torturous thing is the boredom day after day, which is much more terrifying than potential opponents, so keep him. After the established trajectory is changed, no matter what happens, it is worth looking forward to."
Of course, Kurosawa Jin didn't understand this idea. He undoubtedly believed that being kind to the enemy was cruel to himself. Since leaving his mother, Kurosawa has been living in an extreme environment of "either kill or be killed", so he only feels at ease when he holds everything in his hands.
However, he has never been interested in arguing with others about the concept of survival.
Hojo Natsuki was watching Akai Shuichi downstairs. He looked at Akai for a while, then turned to look at Kurosawa.
Akai Yuyu's human form does look a bit like Kurosawa Jin, with green eyes, broad shoulders and long legs, and a cold killer temperament. After putting on a similar black windbreaker, the sense of déjà vu becomes even stronger.
Due to his superior appearance, Shuichi Akai's ridiculous green lips have an inexplicable artistic feel if you look closely, like a model who has cooperated with an artist in putting on exaggerated makeup.
Kurosawa noticed Natsuki's gaze and glanced at him.
Like a silent question.
Hojo Natsuki remembered his "old enemy" relationship with Akai, and with a guilty conscience, he took the initiative to explain: "I don't think Lei looks like you at all. ... You're better looking than him."
The other party's voice sank.
"—you're looking at him?"
Hojo Natsuki: “…”
hiss.
what happened
Hojo Natsuki lowered his head to eat ice cream, pretending to be deaf and dumb, pretending that he said nothing.
The gaze that rested on his skin seemed real, making him feel uneasy, not knowing when the other party would attack him.
There were three scoops of ice cream, and he ate the last one, which was strawberry flavor.
Horrible strawberry flavor.
Hojo Natsuki was reluctant to throw it away, and continued to eat it. But his dislike for strawberry ice cream was ingrained in his bones, just like seeing hot American coffee, he couldn't help frowning just by looking at it, and even more
Don't force me to drink.
No one was forcing him to eat it now, but he just didn't want to throw away the ice cream that Kurosawa had queued up to buy for him.
So he felt particularly tortured.
Take a bite, frown slightly, take a bite, frown slightly...
What is this? Strawberry ice cream? It tastes terrible. What is this? Strawberry ice cream? It tastes terrible…
I kept this repetitive mood and slowly ate half of it.
Hojo Natsuki did not realize how complicated the subtle change in his expression was, but it was very obvious in Kurosawa Jin's eyes.
He said expressionlessly: "If you don't want to eat it, throw it away."
Xia Shu decisively retorted: "No way! You queued up to buy it!"
I was just expressing my thoughts in a logical way, but once I said it, it felt unnatural, as if it had another meaning attached to it.
In order to hide this awkward feeling, Hojo Natsuki looked away as if nothing had happened.
Kurosawa Jin did not answer, but looked away, his expression softening a little.
However, after a few seconds, his newly softened expression disappeared, and he suddenly reached out and pulled the person towards him.
For a moment, Hojo Natsuki could only follow his force, his forehead hitting his shoulder, and the faint smell of tobacco hit his nose.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the bright sun shone into the wind, splashing sparkles everywhere. At this moment, perhaps because the sunlight happened to shine on her eyelashes, Xia Shu even felt a little dizzy that was difficult to suppress.
The other person tilted his head, moved closer, and his breath brushed his face.
“Bourbon is looking here,” he said. “… Don’t look back.”
He spoke in a low voice, with the same cold tone as always, making a rustling sound as it rubbed against the eardrum.
Bourbon
Hojo Natsuki digested the meaning of his words. When he realized that the two of them were almost hugging each other, his whole body stiffened and his mind went blank: "!"
Wait, wait! Why are you so close again
…
Furukaya Rei looked up as if he was aware of something and looked around at the buildings.
His eyes were fixed on the second floor not far away. Through the unclear glass curtain wall, he saw a familiar figure.
The tall figure, the iconic black windbreaker, the silver hair hanging behind him - that's Gin.
Furutani Rei was not surprised that Gin appeared here. After all, Top Killer was the Boss's most loyal sword. It was normal for him to represent that gentleman to inspect the activities held at the toy factory.
However, he saw another person beside Gin.
A slender black-haired boy.
When Furuya Rei looked over, Gin raised his hand and pulled the man into his arms, leaning closer and seeming to kiss him. This scene was shrouded in the hazy sunlight, and it was even somewhat beautiful. The other party's actions even revealed a bit of gentleness and cherishment - for this killer known for his coldness, it was too unusual.
Then, Gin turned his eyes and looked precisely in the direction of Furuya Rei, his gaze was cold and sharp, as if he was silently declaring his sovereignty over him.
Furuya Rei: “…”
Furiya Rei's first reaction was to avoid the other person's line of sight, then he turned his head in a trance and faced Akai Shuichi beside him, with an expression that was hard to describe.
Akai Shuichi glanced at him, then looked up and saw Gin... and his actions.
Akai Shuichi: “…”
Fūya Rei was still in great shock and couldn't speak for a while.
He thought about it, if he remembered correctly, when he first met Boss, the gentleman personally hinted that Gin was his lover.
Does Boss know about this
(End of this chapter)