[Master K] The bad one next door

Yazawa Maya has been fond of Misaki Hatta since she was a child.

Her "like" is not the kind of "like" that adults think, but a pure feeling without any impurities.Ryoko Yazawa once jokingly asked her young daughter which one she liked better between the orange-haired boy and the glutinous rice balls. The black-haired girl hesitated for a while and replied that it was Misaki.

"why?"

Maki's answer was simple and straightforward: "Because there can be many glutinous rice dumplings, but Misaki only has one."

Although it is dumbfounding that the childhood sweetheart next door is only equal to the glutinous rice dumpling, the comparison with the beloved thing just represents the most direct heart of a child.It can be seen from the usual activities-the orange-haired boy always has a small tail behind him, and his ignorant eyes are incompatible with the group of troublemakers, but no matter how she is teased by others, she just smiles with a good temper, He got up from the ground and wiped off the ashes on his face, still stubbornly being Misaki Hatta's little follower.

As for the boy Hatta, he actually resisted the approach of a girl at first.But with more and more frequent contacts, his resistance has gradually subtly transformed into a habit and acquiescence, which is why when he found out that Yazawa Maya was being bullied, his expression was particularly funny.

While staring angrily and protecting the girl behind her, blushing and shouting, "This guy is the only one I can bully, who are you?" Yazawa Ryoko looked extremely cute in his eyes.

Of course, what left the deepest impression on her was an incident when Maki was just in elementary school.

Misaki Hatta didn't come home after school that day, and it happened to be a thunderstorm, and Mommy Hatta was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.She was busy comforting Hatta's mother, when she turned her head, she found that Mami who was still holding the corner of her clothes just now was gone.I thought that my daughter had also mysteriously disappeared, but after more than half an hour, the wet girl and the orange-haired boy who was covered in injuries appeared at the door of the house.

When I was drying Mami's hair, I asked her how she found him, and the girl buried her soft face in a big towel with a childish smile: "I knew where Misaki was from the very beginning."

"Oh?"

The black-haired girl said in a waxy voice: "I can feel Misaki's position." As she spoke, she remembered something, and lowered her head in frustration, "Mom, when I found Misaki, he seemed to be crying very sadly. This is what's up?"

——Aside from the fights between boys, what else is going to hurt?

In the end, Yazawa Ryoko still didn't answer her daughter's question, but only had a preliminary idea of ​​the special tacit understanding between Maya and Hatta.So when she received Hatta's call, she didn't feel a little surprised.

"Did you find her? Thank you so much these days...Can you look after her for me?...Um, ok, thank you..."

In the coffee shop, Ryoko Yazawa hung up the phone, her tense expression finally relaxed.She pursed her lips, raised her head, and looked at the man across the table calmly.

"Okay, my daughter is back, we should also talk about divorce."

<<<<<

Hatta's living room.

The orange-haired boy put down the phone and turned to look at the black-haired girl on the sofa: "Auntie said she will come pick you up later."

Shinya was staring at the TV in a daze, when Hatta, who had been strangely silent since returning from the hospital, spoke suddenly, she couldn't help being taken aback, and turned her head with a blank expression: "Huh?"

"...meaning that you can see your mother later!" Seeing her dumbfounded look, Hatta was short of breath, "You are always being abducted by others when you are not in the state, do you understand?" !"

"But I wasn't kidnapped..."

The words that were about to come out instantly stuck in his throat.Being easily refuted by the girl's soft voice, but the other party still had an innocent expression when doing this kind of thing, Hatta felt inexplicably unable to breathe.

He stared at the pure-faced Miya, held on for a while, then lowered his eyes in frustration a few seconds later and gave up struggling.

"Hey, whatever you want." Hatta pulled up a chair and sat down, scratching his head irritably, "Since you said you were not abducted, then why did you go these days? Why didn't you go home on purpose?" He looked at the gauze on the girl's hands and face, his eyes turned cold, "It's impossible to make it look like this."

Mami was stunned, met Hatta's sharp gaze with some unease, bit his lower lip, and said softly after a while: "After you know... what do you want to do?"

"Nonsense!" Hatta gritted his teeth, "Of course it's to catch the guy who bullies you and beat him up!"

"Puchi-"

Before the words fell, Maki couldn't help laughing.

"Hey! What's so funny! I'm serious!"

"Yes, I know." She quickly stopped laughing, looked at Hatta with a serious face, and coughed softly, "It's just this matter, um, it's not easy to explain. It's a little bit..."

"This kind of thing doesn't matter!" The orange-haired boy immediately interrupted her, rolled up his sleeves, and had a heroic expression of "I'll go out and play with you" on his face.

Maki wanted to laugh again.But this time she quickly held back.

"This story..." She looked down at the water glass in her hand, with complex emotions in her eyes, "It should be the most memorable experience in my life for me."

……

As she said, her case was really hard to explain.At least after she finished her pick and choose, Hatta Misaki was completely stunned.

"Wait, wait..." The orange-haired boy hugged his head in a dazed state, "You said you arrived at Kisaragi Station after sleeping? Are you telling a ghost story?"

Maya showed a very troubled expression: "Well, this kind of thing is really unbelievable..."

"I believe."

"It doesn't matter if Misaki doesn't believe it... huh?" She froze for a moment, then opened her eyes suddenly, "Wait, wait, you just said—"

"Ah yes, it's obviously a very unbelievable thing, but I'm damned to think it's true." Hatta looked depressed, "Besides, you've been tossing around like this, so it's impossible to lie."

He picked up the iced Coke on the table, pulled off the aluminum lid, and took a sip into his mouth: "You said it was a child who saved you in the end?"

It is very unscientific for a child to appear in that kind of place. Coupled with the previous letter from the Public Security Bureau, he has every reason to suspect that this child is the one who dragged Mami into this accident. He may not be sure at a deeper level. The entire Kisaragi Station was fabricated by him.What he didn't expect was that the young girl's expression softened immediately when the brat was mentioned.

"Well, he is a very cute boy."

...What's the matter with the sudden and subtle upset (〝▼皮▼).

Maya didn't seem to be aware of his subtle mood changes, and smiled and recalled the situation when he saw the orange-haired boy before: "Speaking of which, the boy really looks like you, if it weren't for some small differences, I would almost think He is Misaki when he was a child. The most coincidental thing is that he also uses fire, and the flames directly burning on his fists are simply a replica of you—"

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly realized something, quickly covered her mouth, and looked carefully at Hatta.

"Flame? But I remember that Barbara didn't have a child who looks like me."

The orange-haired boy took another sip of his drink, frowning and thinking.Suddenly, he froze for a moment, then suddenly raised his head, his face turned livid.

In the next second, a mouthful of Coke was sprayed out.

Hatta choked violently, stood up abruptly, coughed continuously, and yelled at the stunned black-haired girl, "Wait, wait! Why do you know!"

The Coke can on the coffee table swayed under the impact, fell down and scattered all over the floor.

In a panic, Mami randomly took a few tissues from the paper box on the table and handed them to him: "You, take a breath first..."

Hatta grabbed the tissues from her roughly, and wiped the carbonated drink on his face indiscriminately: "But I was obviously not in front of you—could it be the guy in blue made a mistake? But even so, you shouldn't have seen-"

The boy in front of him was actually more panicked than she was, but Maki calmed down first.

"Actually, I have seen it."

"what?"

She took a deep breath, raised her head and looked at the shocked boy calmly: "I saw it on Zhenmu Commercial Street that day."

Soaring flames.Blue long sword.A mournful cry.Charred corpses.

"The five people with strange powers, the red and blue organizations... I have seen them all."

After the first sentence is spoken, the flow becomes more and more fluent.

"I was there when you showed up, so it shouldn't be a big surprise if I know you can use the flame ability."

It was probably because Maki's tone was too calm, Hatta opened his mouth, and suddenly he didn't know how to speak.

"I……"

"It's okay, I won't say it." Mami raised her head, looking at her with fixed eyes, "So Misaki, can you tell me what's going on?"

Hatta stared at her blankly for a while, pursed his lips, and sat back on his seat, with his head hanging down as if a little depressed.

"……I see."

He muttered something and scratched his head irritably.

"Well, probably in the second year of junior high school, Yuan Bigu and I skipped class, and then we met Brother Zun."

In this way, Misaki has indeed been missing from time to time since the second year of junior high school.

Mami listened quietly, and secretly wrote down the person's name.

"Brother Zun is our leader, he is very strong, so we joined the Barbara to follow him." As soon as the man named "Zun" was mentioned, Hatta's eyes began to light up, "The ability of the flame is given by him , as long as anyone who joins the Red Clan will gain such power and become a supernatural being—ah, the Red Clan is the clan of the third king—the king is... um, this kind of thing is really not a big deal Clear."

After talking upside down, he seemed to realize that his ability to generalize was too bad, so he stopped in embarrassment, scratched his cheek, and looked embarrassed.

"—To sum up, the Chizhi clan you mentioned is the Barbara, Brother Zun is the leader of the Barbara, that is, the third king, and the king is the person who leads an entire organization of supernatural beings, and you are this Members of the clan." Zhenya thought subconsciously, "Then... If Brother Zun is the third king, there should be other kings? Their subordinates also have abilities?"

Thinking about it like that, I was terrified.

"Ah, yes, that's right..."

"Then the person in the blue uniform on Zhenmu Commercial Street that day is also a certain king's clan?"

Hatta nodded blankly, as if she hadn't recovered from her quick acceptance.Seeing that Mami's face changed slightly after he nodded, he was agitated all over, and suddenly became anxious: "I, I, I didn't mean not to tell you!"

In fact, Mami didn't think of this level, but was a little dazed, and suddenly heard his shout, and was taken aback for a moment, only to think of this problem that had troubled him for many days before.She couldn't help casting a puzzled look at Hatta.

"I didn't tell you this before because I didn't believe you...it's just..." He choked, staring at her with sweat profusely, his face flushed with anxiety, "It's too, too dangerous! Often there will be some It's a very troublesome thing, you, a girl, will suffer if you get involved, what's wrong with you, with my current strength, I can't protect you at all—"

He lowered his head in frustration, and his orange hair drooped lazily.

"Actually, I wanted to confess again in the future, and I was prepared to be severely scolded. I didn't expect you to know it a long time ago."

Mami didn't answer for a long time.Hatta was about to cautiously raise his eyes to look at her, when he suddenly heard her chuckle.

"What, it makes you feel aggrieved."

"……what?"

Mami leaned down and looked at him with a gentle smile: "Speaking of which, it's rare to see Misaki looking so honest. It used to be a rush, but now it looks so novel."

Misaki Hatta, who finally managed to hold back the truth, was ridiculed just like that.He immediately exploded:

"Hey! Can you be more serious about your attitude!"

"Huh?" The girl seemed a little dazed, "Then how do you want me to answer?"

"I hope……"

He paused, and hesitated for a long time: "At least, it must be taken seriously..."

Seeing his anxious expression, Mami gradually understood.

Having said so much, he actually wanted her to agree with his decision.

Bada's decision to join Barbara seems to have no complaints or regrets, but in fact, a considerable part of it is the result of a feverish head. After calming down, he will feel a little guilty about concealing his parents and friends.Confessing everything to her now, on the one hand, because she is the best one among those who are concealed, and on the other hand, it is probably out of trust in her.After all, no matter how many unimaginable things experienced by ordinary people, Misaki Hatta is just a middle school student after all.

She brewed for a while.

"Is Misaki happy in Barbara?"

"Happy." This time he answered without thinking, "Although everyone looks fierce, they are very loyal."

"That's right." Zhenya couldn't help laughing when he remembered the tense behavior of a group of people in the ward that day, "They are indeed very good people."

She sincerely looked into the eyes of the orange-haired boy, word by word, as if swearing: "Misaki can do whatever she wants, and I will always support you."

She has been following the orange-haired boy since she was very young, witnessing his growth from a milky child to what he is now. In her eyes, he has always been a character who seems to be omnipotent.Perhaps there was an element of blind trust in it, but until now, she would still say: If this is Misaki's intention, then please feel free to do it.

It seemed that things were supposed to be like this—he worked hard at the front, and she took care of the aftermath at the back. This combination has been a tacit understanding since childhood.

After hearing her answer, Hatta froze for a moment.He stared blankly at her for a while, as if he didn't expect it to go so smoothly. After recovering from the disbelief, he blushed a little bit.

"Misaki? What's wrong with you?"

"—Don't look at me with that kind of eyes! It's embarrassing, okay! Turn your head away!"

"—huh? Ah, yes! I'm going to..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the orange-haired boy standing up while covering his hot cheeks, pushing away the chair and running towards the kitchen as if fleeing.

"I'm going to cut some fruit!"

Ping-ping-pong-pong knocked over a bunch of things along the way.He staggered into the kitchen, and a few seconds later, there was the crackling sound of plates breaking, mixed with screams,

Maki: "..."

She obviously didn't do anything (_;)

The misophobia is really pathetic.