[Bungo Stray Dogs BG] Blue Hitomi

The news that her companion was caught and tried by Hong Kong gangsters once went to question Qingtong in anger and disappointment.

Qingtong was still as indifferent as usual, and frankly admitted her lynching trial in an irrelevant tone, but no matter what, she didn't reveal more.

The too-familiar posture made Chuya forget to pay attention to other details for a while. It was not until the moment when he learned the truth that he discovered the clues of the sense of disobedience from the fragments of memories.

The Qingtong I saw that day sat by the window with a pale face and a weak figure.And under her thin shawl, a bandaged left wrist was faintly exposed.

Under those bandages, the truth that Qingtong was desperately trying to hide was probably the nine hideous gunshot wounds.

It turned out that this was what I should have noticed long ago, the whole truth that I had misunderstood for a long time.

Episode 25.

Even if he closed his eyes, those bright red bloodstains that snaked away until they disappeared at the end of the corridor on the right still occupied all of Zhong Ye's thoughts, and he couldn't get rid of them no matter what.

Unconsciously, he repeatedly thought of the segment of Qingtong that was deeply imprinted in his memory——

At the meeting of the Council, Shirase stabbed her in the arm, and the blood splashed all over her blue eyes...

In the stronghold next to the factory road, Qing Tong, who suffered all kinds of humiliation and was tortured to the point of being scarred...

In the small black room in the sheep stronghold, the green pupils who had their eyes gouged out and were waiting to die with bloody fatal wounds...

In the courtroom of Gang Hei, Qingtong shot himself nine times cruelly and wounded his left hand with holes...

And in the enemy's stronghold in the decisive battle, the maple leaves scattered and scattered all over the place were affected by the power of his tyranny, and the green pupils lost their vitality and died in loneliness and despair...

It turns out that my deepest memories about Qingtong are all so tragic and heavy, dripping with blood.

He clenched his fists tightly unconsciously, but the slight stabbing pain suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

He looked down at his palms.That pair of hands possessing terrifying power, had been holding a pendant in the shape of a blue maple leaf for some time.

Chuya's previously tense expression finally gradually relaxed.

The cold ice of severe winter finally melts in the first ray of sunlight leaking from the sky in early spring, and melts in the first trickle gushing from the depths of the hot crust.

The office, wrecked by his gravity, had still not been cleaned, as he had ordered.

Zhong also stood up from the screen, looked up and searched, and finally found the tin box covered in smoke from the messy ruins.

His eyes fell on the blue wristband.After these years, which are not a long time, the color of the wristband is no longer as bright as it used to be.The Roman abbreviation of Zhongye’s name was carefully engraved on the outside of the wristband. Now, when you touch it, you can still trace the level of fineness of the engraving, but due to neglect over the years, some blood stains soaked in the engraving traces have disappeared again. It cannot be cleared either.

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"Hey, Chuya, this is for you..." The voice of the former partner seemed to be still in my ears, and it was still the childish voice of a boy.

"This is?" the young Chuya stared blankly at the blue wristband stuffed into his hand by his companion, and asked in a daze.

"This is the proof of the companion!" The companion patted him on the back vigorously and said in the tone of a senior.

Zhong also turned over to look at the things in his hand, pointed to the words engraved on the surface of the wristband, and said slightly surprised, "It's still engraved with my name, is this custom made?"

"Are you kidding, we don't have the money to customize this kind of thing..." The partner smiled heartily, and said seriously, "This one in your hand, and these wristbands on all of us—these are all carved by Qingtong himself. , how? It’s amazing! Cherish it, Chuya, if we find out that you have lost or broken it, some people will come to trouble you, haha..."

Chuya's eyes wandered to the tracker next to him.This tracker is an old model that is no longer sold on the market today, but it is one of the few high-tech products that the sheep were rarely able to get their hands on.Its chrome-plated shell is now mottled, and no information can be displayed on the pitch-black dot-matrix screen, as if its soul has gone with the long time.

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"...The above is the battle plan for this time. Do you have any questions?" Qingtong explained the plan to rescue the kidnapped companions in the most concise words.

The crowd was silent, and even held their breath tremblingly.

Qingtong didn't say anything more, just nodded slightly to Shirase who was the leader, and said softly: "Then I will set off."

Then he pushed open the door of the council meeting room and walked outside.

When going downstairs, she was not surprised to see Chuya hiding in the shadow of the stairs.

"Mr. Zhongye." Qingtong uttered unprecedentedly, and took the initiative to call out the boy's name.

Zhong was also startled, and looked up at Qingtong who was slowly going down the stairs.

Qingtong didn't say much, but entrusted the tracker to Zhongye with great care, and in Zhongye's slightly shocked eyes, he said slowly and solemnly: "I will leave everything to you after that, you can ?"

Chuya didn't realize what Qingtong said for a while, but just looked at her blue pupils in a daze.

And Qingtong just chuckled, as if she wasn't expecting any kind of answer, just like that, she left behind the astonished eyes of the yet-to-be-famous King of Sheep.

Zhong also reached out and flipped the tracker in the box, and the tracker shell collided with the candy box on the side, making a crisp sound.

This empty candy box does not belong to any of the brands commonly found on the market, and there is no product information marked on the box.But even after so many years, the sweet and greasy smell still lingers in the surrounding air.Nakaya, who remembered the past, knew that it was a solid concentrated syrup, a cheap wholesale product that circulated in the slums.

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"It's really a big profit this time, enough for us to be happy for a long time!" The excited voice of the former partner is still heard.

"I almost vomited from eating cup noodles for a month, and I can finally get rid of this unpleasant life!"

"I've been fancying that silk scarf on the shopping street for a long time, tomorrow! I'll buy it tomorrow!" The girl said with excitement in her eyes.

A friend caught a glimpse of Qingtong sitting in the corner, and asked casually, "Qingtong, you have contributed the most this time. With the money you got, what do you want to buy for yourself?"

"Looks like I need to add some candies." Qing Tong said calmly with no expression on her face.

"Is it still the same as before?" The companion showed an indescribable look, and said with difficulty, "Although we are indeed not rich enough to buy decent candy, the one you eat is for industrial redemption, right? Really Fortunately, you can eat it..."

"Is there any problem?" Qingtong took out the candy box without any labels or words from her pocket, shook it, poured out the last one from it, stuffed it into her mouth, and said in a vague voice.

"No, no..." The companion turned around, stopped talking to Qingtong, and muttered to himself in a low voice, "Supernatural beings are really not ordinary people..."

And now lying quietly beside the candy box is a small hand towel that was not returned to the original owner in time.

The hand towel is a common style seen in small stalls everywhere, but the pattern on it is not difficult for people to guess its owner.The light blue background has been slightly whitish after several washings, and the rough embroidery in the corner has embroidered a few blue maple leaves.Perhaps it was Chuya's illusion at this time, he always felt that there was still a faint smell of blood on the current towel.

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Chuya, who became famous in the Battle of Factory Avenue, finally got a good night's sleep after experiencing the hangover from the celebration banquet.

When he woke up, he looked around in a daze, and what he saw was a coat on the table beside him—the one he wore in the rescue battle that night.

The memory finally came back gradually, and he thought of Qingtong's shocking injury and his embarrassing body that night.

He couldn't bear to raise his hand to hold his forehead, and he took off the coat he threw on her body. Now it has been carefully cleaned and folded neatly by his side.

Chuya didn't even think about it, he reached out and picked up his coat and put it on.When the cloth was unfolded, a plain towel fell out of it and slid to the ground.

The hand towel that came into view inevitably made Ling Zhong stunned for a moment—was this the one that the guy forgot in his clothes?

He scratched his hair in some annoyance, picked up the handkerchief and put it in his pocket, thinking about returning it to Qingtong when he met Qingtong one day...

...Unfortunately, until today, there has never been a good time to return it.

After taking out the towel from the tin box, what was revealed was a card pressed underneath.

Although it is not a very expensive material, nor is it a famous brand, but it can be seen that it is a card that has been carefully designed and has a personal style.This is a business card for a store.The name of the store and the store logo in the shape of a rabbit are printed on the card in cute fonts.On the back is a detailed list of various signature desserts in the store—of course, a lot of space is occupied by apple candy, which can be called the treasure of the store.

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The blind Qingtong sat silently in the corner of the sofa eating apple candy, while listening to Dazai and Chuya at the desk arguing with childish words.

The two had just returned from a mission, and it sounded like Chuu was slightly injured, but Dazai, who was unscathed, yelled the loudest.

Zhong is also angry, and he takes office