king of yokohama

"Change it quickly!"

Ryunosuke Akutagawa hurried back and stood in the bamboo forest not far from the river with his back facing you, using Rashomon to put the clothes he brought from home on a large unwetted rock by the river bank, pretending to be indifferent There was a bit of panting in his voice.

"You can't wear my clothes, and I brought you silver ones. . . . Change back and wear them."

I didn't expect that you just complained casually "the clothes you're wearing are dirty" when the boy inexplicably urged you to put on your clothes when you got into the water, and Ryunosuke really went to bring you clean clothes.In fact, you are not that hypocritical.

You glanced at Ryunosuke's thin and thin back, and felt that you really couldn't wear his men's clothing.When you swim like a dog and come to the shore, you take a look at the well-stacked clothes on the stone, and find that it is a skirt, pure white, small and fresh.Two pieces of close-fitting clothing are wrapped inside the skirt, and when you take the skirt, you almost drop the two small pieces into the water.

And you, who have enjoyed other people's laundry for you since you were a child, don't think there is anything special or embarrassing about it.If you are really a man, you will still struggle with wearing women's clothing. The key is that you are originally a woman.

Release the ability to temporarily heat the river water with flames, and the feeling of a hot current circulating in your dantian disappears, and you have changed back to your original gender, and then "crashed" out of the river.A few small fish rolled their eyes floating on the water.

The flames dried the warm water that was still flowing down from your body surface, and the silver-white hair attached to your slender neck slowly left only the tips of the hair with a little dampness.After quickly putting on the inner and outer clothes, you are a little surprised that the clothes fit well, except that your chest is a little tight.

There is a citrus aroma lingering around. You close your eyes and smell it carefully. The aroma really comes from the skirt of the skirt and the back of the neck. It is the smell of shampoo that Silver often uses because you like it.

Opening your eyes with a smile, you trot over and throw yourself on the boy's back, wrapping your arms around his neck from behind, "Ryunosuke, you are so kind, come play with me~" The sweet and soft fragrance is passed from your body passed.

"What are you playing?" The boy let you mess around, and didn't break away from your hug, but his expression was stiff.For some reason, you always feel that he is unexpectedly patient with you today.If it was usual, Ryunosuke must have greeted Rashomon.

Well, in fact, you are also a little worried about what to play so late.

Frowning and thinking about it, you glanced at the boiled fish floating down the river, and suddenly had an idea.You can't change your temperament that occasionally thinks about it.

"Why don't we catch fish and eat it?"

"Ok?"

The reflection of the moonlight on the water surface allows people to see the swimming of fish under the water surface.

These small fish, which are often caught by hungry humans, are exceptionally agile and nimble. With a flick of their tail, they shattered the stars reflected on the water, and then disappeared.

You used Baishan Jiguang to chop down a bamboo, and went outside the bamboo forest to pick up some dead branches to start a fire.Although you can use the ability directly, it is too much to let Liuhuo turn into a fire bird and lie on the ground for you to grill fish. To cause unnecessary trouble, it is necessary to be cautious.

When you were evading capture in your last life, you were almost captured by researchers because of this, and then you developed the habit of not using supernatural powers to ignite fires every day.

Fortunately, when you were picking up dead branches, you found an orange tree. It looked a little malnourished, but there was still a fruit hanging firmly on the higher branch.You sighed in your heart that even a tree is not easy these days, so you jumped up and picked that orange.

You go back to the place where you prepare the grilled fish, cut the bamboo that has been cut down in advance into sections, fold off the slender branches and put them aside for later use, build the dead branches into a tower shape, and wipe off the night dew on the surface of the bamboo joints. The skin of bamboo is scraped into filaments, which are used as fire starters.Bamboo epidermis contains oil that is particularly flammable, and you can ignite it with a hair-sized flame.

Blow the air to make the fuel/fuel/material burn more vigorously, you throw a small ball of bamboo skin into the dead branch tower, wait for it to burst into flames, get up and go to the river to see how the fish caught by Ryunosuke .

There is a crescent moon hanging in the starry night, and the river bank covered with pebbles is below. The fish are quietly swimming and looking for food under the water surface. I don’t think there will be any natural enemies to catch them at this time.

In the meantime, a boy of thirteen or fourteen was standing on the shore, holding his breath and concentrating, controlling a black beast that turned into sharp thorns, stabbing a fish with all his might with lightning speed.The fish flicked its tail and quickly slipped away.

Seeing this scene, your expression is a little strange.It's not because Ryunosuke didn't catch that cunning fish, but because when Mori Ogai arranged for you to study Huaguo literature, you happened to have studied an article called "Runtu Shixian", written by a certain Huaguo. An article published in a newspaper secretly by a famous supernatural person.

The scene of Akutagawa catching fish in front of him is too similar to the plot of Runtu stabbing Xuan in the article.

After it seems that under your stimulation, a young man who practiced martial arts well stabbed the fish for the second time without any mistakes, your weird expression of wanting to laugh but holding back the smile returned to normal, and you took the initiative to help you untie the string. The two fish on the Rashomon cleaned the Hakuyama Yoshimitsu that you used to peel the bamboo skin just now, and then squatted on the bank of the river to simply handle the internal organs of the fish.

As for being reluctant to use supernatural powers to ignite fire, but willing to use Baishan Yoshimitsu, who is essentially the same weapon as Liuhuo, to chop bamboo and kill fish... you can only say that a sword is a sword after all.So what about the Excalibur, if you use Baishan Jiguang to kill a pig, can it turn into a human and jump up and hit your knee?

When you are skillful enough to grill the disembowelled fish with two bamboo sticks, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who is sitting on a big rock opposite you, will look at you in the wrong way, probably similar to "" He actually knows how to grill fish, I believe he was pretended to be by someone." This kind of thing.

You puff your cheeks so cutely, you are underestimating someone.I didn't intentionally burn the fish.If you were here a few years ago, you would definitely do such a vengeful thing.

You lowered your head and focused back on the fish on the fire. You added a larger dead branch to make the fire burn more vigorously, and the orange flames dancing up and down were reflected in your eyes.

You were so lucky if you didn’t win. You met a companion who was willing to take him in when you came out of the laboratory. At that time, you had nothing and just wanted to live on. After finally getting stronger, he finally became the overlord of Kawasaki, and...

Bamboo shadows swayed, and insects sang endlessly.

In the clearing in the forest, you, full of thoughts, turn over the grilled fish that has gradually turned into a burnt yellow color. The charcoal fire slowly emits smoke, and the almost grilled fish penetrates into the smoky smell of firewood and bamboo.

When the first drop of fish oil fell, you raised your head and handed the grilled fish to Ryunosuke, and your eyes unexpectedly met his shiny black eyes.

Been... watching?

You startled slightly.Before he had time to ask, the boy lowered his head and staggered his gaze from yours, took a bite of the grilled fish in your hand, and his expression remained unchanged.

This means whether it is delicious or not.Depressedly, you took a big bite of the slightly mushy grilled fish left in your hand. As expected, the spines of the grilled fish are very crispy, and you don't need to spit out the rest except for the big bone.That's pretty good for a fish that doesn't have any seasoning.

During the time when you were hunted and fled in your previous life, you naturally didn’t run to the bustling city, you ran to all kinds of forests, and your wild survival skills were fully used during this period, including grilled fish.Although you don’t need to eat when you are an owl, you still have appetite, and eating will make you feel closer to human beings.

Just like you hate chocolate, but you don't hate Black Forest cake, and you can't explain why, it may be the same as some foods that like strawberries but hate strawberry flavor.

"Will Ryunosuke come to join the port mafia next year?" Sitting opposite each other around the fire, you bit the crispy fish skin, thinking that it would be nice if there was a little salt, and asked vaguely.

"I..." The young man who had been restrained a lot in recent years showed a bit of hesitation.

You know what he is hesitating about, it's just that he can't let go of his current companion, but because of the kindness he once had, he feels that he shouldn't reject you.

"If you haven't figured it out, give me an answer next year." You are not that aggressive, and harvesting cabbage is not something that can be done in a short while. You are short of people, but you don't have to.

You really like that child, Gin, not a personal freedom deal with Ryunosuke.What's more, you feel that at this moment, he lives in this cruel and dark city, and his whole body is full of confusion and anxiety, as well as fatigue and burnout of life.

"Maybe you think your future is in my hands, but now, it's in your own hands." You reached out and handed him the orange you picked on the tree before, with a smile on your face.

"Prove it to me, your worth." Your white fingertips are dyed with the warm color of flames, and a round orange lies quietly in your soft palm.The cold night is neither sunny nor rainy, only the occasional ray of breeze and the dim stars in the sky make this golden orange seem to be shining, "to win a better future for myself."

The boy looked at you as if he was looking at another person. After a long time, the orange he just took gave a soft "hmm".

"Peel it and taste it?" You suggested, a little suspicious that if you didn't say this, the other party might put the orange away until it rotted and wouldn't eat it.

He lowered his eyes, his slender fingers were thin but flexible, peeling the orange peel like a blooming flower, revealing the full flesh inside.You are amazed that the dying tree has produced such plump fruit in such a harsh environment, and you didn't expect much from its taste.

Until under your watchful eyes, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who tested the poison first, broke off a piece of orange and put it in his mouth. After a moment of silence, a pure and lovely smile floated on his lips.

"Try the letter too?" I don't know if it's your illusion, but his voice seems to be a little trembling.Nervous or something else?

It looks delicious.Still holding the grilled fish in your hand, you blinked, not paying attention to the abnormality of the other party, nodded bluntly, and opened your mouth to wait for the feeding.

The boy picked a big petal and fed it to you.

The moment you ate that slice of orange into your mouth like a little hamster, your expression of joy froze.

"Ryunosuke!!"