brothers fight back

In the foggy and misty streets of London, the wheels of the carriage rolled over the stone slabs, bringing up water stains mixed with muddy soil, and a pair of pure blue eyes were being dyed dark gray by the crazily rotating scenery in front of them.

"Brother, look at the ground over there. There is a child about our age lying there."

"Ah la...you are very neatly dressed. Why did you choose to lie here?"

The crisp, breeze-like voice is slowly infiltrating into the ears.The boy who was lying on the ground unable to move heard the voice, rolled his eyes, and his eyes slowly fell on the person who was talking about him—it was a blond boy who was still decent even though he was wearing old clothes, and behaved like an aristocrat. .

Noticing the line of sight from the ground, William, who caught his line of sight and understood the inner emotions, was slightly taken aback, but immediately, with a warm smile, he asked softly, "Do you need my help?"

Suddenly, the rain and fog in front of me became thicker, covering the road ahead and people around me.Standing alone in the empty, pure white space where only he exists, the warm smile on the young William's face is gradually disappearing.

『Moriarty, I have always believed that you are a person who can continue to maintain reason no matter what situation you face.Now Jiuji chooses to abandon Honmaru, obviously to escape and not want to go back to Chaldea. 』

"As long as we continue to stay here, he will never come again! 』

"Go and report the situation to Roman, can't we all find a way to bring him?" 』

"Why do you have to rush at this moment? 』

"I'm worried..." William murmured expressionlessly after hearing the voice that went deep into the heroic spirit's memory: "He's lost again where I can't see him."

"Mr. William...sounds more like a father than a 'brother'."

"Huh?" Jiuji paused while cutting fruit.

"Mr. Seimei pushes you to become stronger, Mr. Xiayou tries his best to protect you, and Mr. Akutagawa teaches by example." Natsume watched Jiuji's movements carefully, and his eyes fell on the clock beside him, suddenly recalling that he and Jiuji came to this parallel space for four years.

Today is his first day in middle school. In order to celebrate his success in becoming a middle school student, when Jiuji asked what reward he needed, he asked to know about the interesting past between Jiuji and Xia Youjie, Abe Seimei and William.

He has always been curious why those people insist on taking Jiusi away.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke is the elder brother whom he "acquainted" with Kuji by accident in a different time and space. When he recognized Kuji as his blood brother at first sight, Natsume still remembers how shocked he was at that time.

It is undeniable that when Akutagawa was an elder brother, he tried his best to take on the responsibility of "big patriarch" to the family members and took good care of the family.But if you want to take care of him carefully, what you remember more is the figure of Jiuji who is busy and planning for everyone...

Maybe it's my own preconceived ideas, looking at Akutagawa who is not much different from my own age, I always feel that he is more suitable for the role of younger brother than elder brother.

"They all have their own distinct personalities." Jiuji handed the fruit platter to Natsume.

Looking at Natsume Takashi who is growing up, he has not used his strength for a long time, allowing his body to change with time, and now Hisuji has grown into a very strong adult.

I went out with Natsume, and scouts asked him if he would consider entering the industry.Fortunately, even though he is an adult, no one regards him as Natsume's father yet.

Hisashi Kirikiri: "They are also brothers who have given me different feelings about 'life'."

"Even if they all stubbornly want to completely control the direction of your life?"

"Ah."

"Well, this is also the expected answer." Natsume sighed with a smile, "But... Maybe Kuji didn't realize it, right? If I call Kuji his elder brother, certain behaviors in Kuji's life will be reflected by Mr. William and others shadow."

Hisashi Kirikiri, who realized that he had unknowingly controlled Natsume's life: "..."

"It's not the same." Hisashi Kirikiri guiltily turned his gaze away, "You have been "hidden by the gods". "

Natsume took out the Yizhi borrowed in the library from his schoolbag, "But the two kinds of "sacred hidden" described above, no matter which type they are, are completely different from what I have experienced. "

"Cough——" Jiuji coughed lightly, then abruptly changed the subject, "Would you like beef stew tonight?"

"...Oh." Natsume has lived in human society for another four years, and now he feels Jiuji's "intention" more clearly than ever before. Seeing that Jiuji abruptly changed the topic at this time, he had no choice but to end the topic.

Since this is the "best choice" Jiuji made in order to conceal himself, then he pretends not to know.Until...the day of parting comes.

"There is no beef at home, do you want to go out to buy it together?" Natsume quickly adjusted his mood and asked Jiuji gently.

"I'll just go out and buy it. Kishi, you can do your homework at home." Jiuji suddenly remembered something, frowned and murmured: "Try hard not to let your math scores in the first year of middle school be the bottom."

Hearing this, Natsume Takashi's expression instantly became extremely complicated, "I...do my best."

"Come on." Kuji smiled.

Natsume silently turned around and went to the living room to get the wallet and coat for Kuji, watched him close the door and leave, and then started to do homework in his own room.

He has walked the street in front of him for four years, and he can point out the location of the street proficiently with his eyes closed.Living here for such a long time, he never once told Natsume that this so-called "parallel time and space" is the real time and space to which his destiny belongs.

Here, he will encounter important fetters of life.

Because he couldn't bear to turn a blind eye to what happened to the young Natsume, he "hidden" the young Natsume, making him disappear from the human society where he felt sad, sad, and hopeless.

In order to avoid harm, he made a complete intervention in his life... Did he do something wrong from the beginning?

Because he noticed the increasingly obvious restraint and control of his brothers, he chose to escape after copying and absorbing the overflowing power of the world.He still has the ability to break free from control, but what about Natsume?

"What do you want today, Mr. Wukiri?"

Kuji's thoughts were interrupted by the questioning words—it turned out that the "body" had already walked to the familiar store door without knowing it.He raised his hand and pressed the center of his eyebrows, adjusted his mood, and responded with a smile, "Please give me a box of 500g beef."

"Ok?"

Passing by the main entrance of a large shopping mall, Zhang Jingsi paused and uttered a doubt.

"Did you notice something strange?" Nanase, who was following him, also stopped, and the smiling eyes under the glasses were looking at Jingji Chang intently.

"Ah." Dechang Jingsi looked away, with an inexplicable smile on his lips, "It feels like the hourglass of time that is still is starting to flow again."

"Huh?" Nanase was really puzzled now, thinking of Jingji Chang's character that would not explain her inexplicable remarks, she quietly released Shikigami to find out the truth.

Seeing Nanase's actions, Shizuka just laughed and didn't say anything.

"If I am late for tonight's banquet, will the demon masters from various families have any other high-profile talks?"

"To think they've been talking about the same thing all these years makes one unmotivated."

Hearing that Chang Jingsi intended not to attend tonight's banquet, Nanase immediately stopped him: "Now you are the patriarch of a big family, and you can no longer do things as you used to."

After a moment of silence, Dechang Jingsi said without any emotional ups and downs: "Well...that's exactly what you said."

No matter how much his strength increases and becomes stronger, he is just a "sinner" carrying his family forward.

"Strange, how to solve this problem?"

Looking at the math problem that he knew all the words in the pen but didn't know at all when grouped together, Natsume rubbed his hair with a headache, and finally gave up putting down the pen, and began to look through the books and cabinets to find the exercises he had done before.

Some of the things in this room were added only when he came here, and some of them were brought with him in a small suitcase when he left with Kuji when he was very young.

Looking at the small suitcase that hadn't been opened since it was packed, Natsume put down the book in his hand and pulled the suitcase, "I remember the password is..."

"Crack——."

As Natsume turned the lock number, the suitcase made a crisp unlocking sound.

Natsume stared blankly at the chain buckle that jumped out of the lock, "Is it right once?"

Natsume, who had forgotten what was in the suitcase, opened the suitcase, and the curiosity that had just surfaced in his heart suddenly faded away.

Having experienced so many unimaginable things with Hisuji, he now has a keen intuition for things of spiritual power. He can clearly feel the pulsating spiritual power inside the unopened suitcase with his hands.

...is there something in it?

"Why don't you continue to open it?"

"Whoa whoa whoa-!!!"

Kuji's voice came from the door unexpectedly, startling Natsume who was in deep thought.

"I knocked on the door several times, but I didn't hear your answer, and the door was unlocked, so I just walked in." Hisashi was almost taken aback by Natsume's overreaction.

"Sorry." Natsume didn't hear the knock on the door at all, and didn't notice that Kuji had returned, all his attention was focused on the box just now.

"Why don't you continue to open it?" Seeing that Natsume's mood gradually calmed down, Jiuji repeated the question just now.

"I always feel that it's not appropriate." Natsume couldn't describe the specific feeling, like... "All the cells in my body are resisting opening the suitcase."

"Hahaha——." After listening to Natsume's explanation, Jiuji laughed loudly, with some tears in his eyes, "How do you describe it?"

Natsume seldom saw Jiuji smile like this, for some reason, he didn't feel that Jiuji's smile just now was because of happiness.

"Open it." Kuji put away his smile, and encouraged Natsume to move forward with a gentle voice.

"Once I open this box, is Kuji going to leave?"

I have to admit that Natsume's intuition is terrifyingly sharp.

Hisuji tilted his head, and looked at Natsume with pure and sincere eyes: "Could it be that this suitcase is a little-known movable space? Then wait a minute, I will go out and extinguish the fire of the stew before coming back."

"How is it possible..." Faced with Jiuji's continuous rhetorical questions, Natsume retorted subconsciously. When he realized it, he had already been caught in the trap of Jiuji's words, "Forget it."

He turned his head sullenly, and silently opened the suitcase, which was full of childhood clothes, a few books he cherished very much, and an old booklet with a green cover.

"Hmm... Xiao Takashi's treasure chest." Hisashi sat down by the door, quietly watching Natsume tidy up the contents one by one.

"Just now I felt something full of aura, it seems to be it." Natsume picked up the booklet with "Book of Friends" written on the cover and handed it to Kuji.

"Yeah." Hisashi nodded, but didn't reach out to take the booklet in Natsume's hand.

"Spiritual power, if Jiuji accepts it, maybe it can quickly restore your own strength?" Xia Mu saw that Jiuji didn't pick it up, so he pushed the booklet forward again.

"I can't take it." Jiuji raised his hand and tapped Natsume's forehead lightly, the light halo sank into Natsume's forehead, and Jiuji's words came into his mind lightly and slowly——

"Takashi, it's an important thing your grandmother left you to connect you with the world. 』

"Go among the humans, the world there belongs to you." 』

As the halo completely submerged Natsume's forehead, Jiuji stood up, and the originally clear figure in the room became dim.

"I can't have dinner with you anymore, sorry."

Hisuji raised his hand to take away the memories related to himself from the sleeping Natsume. Looking at the thin figure of the young man, he raised his hand and cast a magic spell to extinguish the fire of the stew in the kitchen, and the aroma of dinner began to permeate the room.

"They will come to pick you up soon... to the human world where you belong."

"Goodbye, Kishi."