LOVE CATCH

Come and find him looking down at himself with pity.

"Face it, bro"

Absolutely cannot admit it. ...Maybe that's really the case. I have a little liking for the bald head who is nearly 50 years old. This fact can make me completely collapsed. I absolutely cannot admit it.

"Have you been dumped by your girlfriend? I've heard about it from Asahi, and you still cling to Jean lonely. Are you okay? You always maintain the image of your brother, so you are bored by your girlfriend, right?"

In the morning, Shibuya, who was under the relentless mental attack of his mother, staggered on his bicycle.I regretted breaking up with Horiuchi a bit.When Shibuya also felt a little self-conscious that he was always pestering his younger brothers, this conclusion was branded as the "correct answer".It's painful now.Because in the end, I can only regret it.I can't save anything by myself.

The sky was also gray.It will also rain today.Shibuya sighed involuntarily.Or just go for a walk.This way I don't have to see Horiuchi's face.Ah, but if I do this, today's work, dinner, laundry...

The phone rang.This time is too early.Did something happen at home?A little worried, Shibuya stopped his bicycle and answered the phone.

"Brother, it's not good"

It was Chiya's voice.

"What's wrong, is anyone hurt?"

"It's not the family, it's the president's fault. I saw an article on the Internet saying that the president of the Horiuchi Funeral Center was going to be killed. Brother, it can't be about the dog's body that was chopped up yesterday, right? Write this Is it possible that the person who wrote the article is a prisoner? I always feel that I need to tell you first."

Shibuya hung up the phone and called the office.No one answered.I called Horiuchi, but no one answered, maybe he was driving out to work.Shibuya was very concerned, sent another email to Horiuchi, and then pedaled the bicycle with all his strength.

In the parking lot of the funeral center, apart from the cars of Horiuchi, Osaki, and Kosugi, there was also a black van that had never been seen before.Shibuya entered the funeral center and found Kosugi and Osaki standing in front of the president's office.

"Ah, Shibuya"

Xiao Shan ran over.

"What happened?"

"...I had a premonition that things would turn out like this"

Xiaoshan frowned, as if swallowing Coptis chinensis.

"The husband of the client of the dog that was dismembered by five horses yesterday came. The police went to his house and he was very angry about it... Now talking to the president..."

Shibuya's back began to tremble.

"It's just the two of them, isn't the president very dangerous?"

"That's what I said too. But the other party said to let him and the president stay alone, and the president also said it's okay..."

Shibuya rushed to the president's office and opened the door.It turned out that Horiuchi was picked up by a man as tall as a bear, and his feet had left the ground.

"Stop, stop!"

Can't help but call out.

"What are you doing, are you going to fight!"

The man dropped Horiuchi.Horiuchi's wig, which fell back, flew out.The man's movements stopped, and he stared at Horiuchi's bald head with wide eyes.Then he laughed wildly like a dam bursting: "Hahahaha..."

"I just feel that this hair is so strange. It turned out to be a wig. It's so funny."

The man stomped his fist to perm the wig.Horiuchi's face contorted.

"A dead bald man without a single hair!"

"To shut up!"

Shibuya shouted.

"Don't call me bald! Mr. Horiuchi is not bald. He is bald"

"The result is not bald!"

"It's all said to be bald!"

The man rushed towards him like a wild boar.Shibuya also puts on a boxer look, even though he hasn't boxed once.Looking forward to a miraculous punch, Shibuya was punched in the stomach by the opponent, and then flew out.Shibuya, who bumped into the table in the president's office and landed on his head, saw the ceiling.But in the next instant, Shibuya's sight was completely darkened as if the curtain had come to an end.

When Shibuya woke up again, what he saw was still the ceiling.White ceilings, dazzling white fluorescent lights....

"Brother Shou is awake!"

It was Jean's voice.Then the younger brothers suddenly appeared in the sight around Shibuya.

"Brother Shou, are you still alive?"

Asked by Tadano, Shibuya replied "Probably".Speaking of which, the bear man in the president's office... took the president's wig... Shibuya jumped up all of a sudden.There was a dull pain in the back of his head.

"it hurts"

"Lie down first"

The mother in the nurse's uniform stood majestically in front of her.

"When the strongest child in the family was brought by the ambulance, my heart almost stopped. Although it was a concussion, it shouldn't be a big problem"

His family was crowded around him, and Horiuchi stood in the corner of the room.Always feel different from usual.

"Mr. President, my son is fine, I'm worrying you"

"No, it was my, my, my... fault... If I had called the police sooner..."

Horiuchi, whose face was full of tears, was speechless.Shibuya knew where the sense of disobedience was.Horiuchi didn't wear a wig.

"The man who beat you has been arrested for hurting you. It seems to be on probation now."

If you're in prison, you don't have to worry about it anymore.

"The doctor said that you can go back after you wake up, but I didn't expect that you didn't wake up until the evening, and there was another room available, and I was working night shift, so the doctor arranged for you to be hospitalized. You still have bleeding from the back of your head, I I'm a little worried, you just stay in the hospital for one night."

My mother was out of the ward because of work.Seeing that he woke up and felt relieved, Tomoya said to his younger brothers, "You guys, go back" and led them back.Then Jean ran to Horiuchi's side.

"Mr. President, are you still leaving?"

"Yeah." Horiuchi sniffed.

"Brother Shou is very lonely, don't cry, just talk to him."

"Don't say strange things to the president"

Zhi also dragged Rang back.Horiuchi was still standing in the corner of the ward, not approaching him.Was his slender body shaking? Horiuchi knelt down on the spot when he thought about it.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry"

The man was sobbing, his shoulders twitching.Shibuya looked on pins and needles.

"If you die, I plan to follow you and die with you. It's because I didn't think carefully that this happened to you. I'm really, really sorry"

Following one's own suicide doesn't sound like a joke.

"I'm fine. The bad thing is that bear-like man. I don't think I'd be beaten like this if I had some strength."

"It is not my fault"

"Excuse me~" The nurse who entered the ward was startled when she saw the man kneeling on the ground, and stopped in her tracks.

"Mr. Horiuchi, please raise your head. That... I will be embarrassed"

After saying that, the man finally stood up.The nurse took Shibuya's temperature as if she hadn't seen the crying middle-aged man. "If something happens, please call me right away." After leaving a sentence like this, he fled out of the ward.

"That... I have something to tell you, please come to me"

Horiuchi walked over to Shibuya while sobbing.

"Aren't you hurt?"

The man shook his head tremblingly.

"That's great"

Before Shibuya finished speaking, Horiuchi burst into tears.

"Sit in a chair, please calm down a little bit"

Horiuchi staggered onto the iron chair.His face was full of tears, his eyes were swollen and his nose was red.Such a dirty face was obviously not cute at all, but Shibuya looked at the man without moving.Horiuchi was crying for himself, and he was very happy.

Horiuchi raised his head.

"Because I'm a little uneasy"

Shibuya stretched out his right hand from under the sheet, and Horiuchi held Shibuya's hand tightly as if praying.

"I feel at ease when you hold my hand"

Although this was the reason for wanting to touch Horiuchi, but being touched was so comfortable that Shibuya fell asleep after a while.When he woke up, Horiuchi seemed to have fallen asleep leaning against Shibuya's bed.The hands of the two were still firmly held together.

There were traces of tears streaming down the side of the man's sleeping face.Shibuya quietly wiped away the tears from the man's eyes with his other hand.The back of his hand trembled, and Horiuchi's eyes opened.Shibuya held Horiuchi's hand back.

"Well, can you come closer?"

Horiuchi leaned out and took a look.

"Where does it hurt?"

"Closer"

Shibuya pulled the man's body that was almost covering him close, and put his face close to the man's chest.

"Shibuya, what's wrong with you?"

"...please be quiet"

It smells like Horiuchi.As if he could heal his wounds, Shibuya took a deep breath and pulled Horiuchi closer to him.

"Are you kidding me?"

It was obvious that he was quieter after talking, but the man was still talking.In order not to let Horiuchi see himself, Shibuya leaned his face against his chest and muttered: "I like you"

no respond.But it's okay, thinking about it, Shibuya repeated: "I like you"

"I'm scared"

Horiuchi suddenly said something.

"If you fall in love with a woman, you will abandon me. I will hate myself at that time. So I'm sorry"

Horiuchi muttered.Maybe it still doesn't work.

"Is that really okay? Do you really not care?"

His thin back was trembling.Then the man trembled more and more, and finally covered his face with his hands.

"...Don't say such cruel things. How could you not care?"

Sure enough, this person still likes himself.While letting go, a kind of joy wanders in the body.Is it my feelings for Horiuchi?