I paid too much for Feiwuluo

"...Ikebukuro..."

Zhenme Town is more than half an hour's drive from Ikebukuro, at least a dozen kilometers.

Zhou Fangzun looked at the positioning display on the screen in front of him, and couldn't understand how Alice, who had been brought with her and had undergone what is said to be the ten-beam navigation following training, went astray to such a place.

"Are you going to pick her up? It's a shame you can let her go out alone now."

He glanced sideways at Kusanagi Izumo who was sitting on another sofa, and the other party was also staring at the blue dot on the screen that was constantly beating like an undulating heart, and his fingertips were constantly turning cigarettes to let him know clearly, Kusanagi's mind is not entirely on the positioning in front of him.

His friend fell into that long silence and worry again.

Just when Zhou Fangzun thought that Kusanagi would continue to keep silent, he suddenly said: "I must let her go out..."

People have to grow up.

And growing up means that Alice may no longer cling to herself, may not get lost so easily, and may find that her every move is always captured by surveillance video and then uploaded to his mobile phone... In short, As she grows older, she will need more and more space of her own, and will inevitably become more and more resistant to the care of her elders...

So when Anna conveyed the message left by "Izumo Kusanagi ten years later", "Izumo Kusanagi ten years ago" was furious on the spot: "Riddler get out of the earth!!!"

What is the specific time not to go, the self ten years later did not say.

What is the specific reason for not going, the self ten years later did not say.

If I go there, what kind of consequences will be caused, I still haven't said anything about myself ten years later.

——Seeing a cannon barrel falling straight from the sky, Kusanagi Izumo's first reaction was of course to hold Alice in his arms to prevent her from being hit.

But after a loud "Boom!", which was seven to eight times like the sound of a pressure cooker exploding, Kusanagi Izumo found himself in a...

A place that is not unfamiliar at all.

his apartment.

I gritted my teeth and took out a 30-year loan to buy a one-bedroom apartment with a loft.

The apartment where Alice has been brought back to every day since she fell ill.

——The door decoration in front of him was bought from Italy on purpose, and he would never admit his mistake.

The original location was a bit far from the Barbara, because the Barbara back then was not the Barbara now.

It was purely a poorly run bar that Kusanagi Izumo had taken over from his uncle, and for him, it was a place full of unfinished work.

Work and life need to be separated.So he chose to buy the apartment in a place close to the city with more convenient transportation.

Although Alice had already adapted to the long-distance movement from the apartment to the school, Kusanagi Izumo had already started to consider whether to rent out the apartment and buy a new house next to Bingsheng Primary School.

That way Alice wouldn't have to get up early every day and yawn all the way to school.

Kusanagi was in a trance for a moment, and the next second, he was startled by a sour smell and came back to his senses.

what the hell? !

Kusanagi turned his head, and naturally there would be nothing on the side where Alice's plus-size crib was placed, and describing the terrible scene on the other side as a mess, it seemed like an insult to the word "a mess."

The source of the sour smell was a sticky puddle of vomit.And among the vomit, there were still ash, cigarette butts, wine bottles scattered all over the place...

Looking at the number of bottles, no less than three Russians can get drunk.

... Is there anyone else in the house?

Kusanagi, who seldom drank himself to the point of intoxication, held his nose and carefully avoided the mess of vomit. However, he searched the entire apartment and found no second suspicious person or trace of illegal intrusion.

Fortunately, apart from the bedroom, the rest of the apartment is completely tidy.

At first, Kusanagi didn't feel that there was any major problem, but wondered why the TV, which was usually only used to play games and watch cartoons for Alice, was turned on.

He made a judgment that he was probably hit by some kind of prop that could move instantly and was teleported to his apartment.

But soon he discovered that this judgment was wrong.

Because the news started on TV.And news broadcasts are always inseparable from the time and date.

Seeing the date, Kusanagi's first reaction was that this is a prank show.

He tuned two other entertainment channels and news channels, and even the date on the earthquake broadcast that jumped out later tried to prove to him: You really came to today, ten years later.

Kusanagi Izumo: "..."

This is really a prank show.

That bastard Shishu helped him sign up? ? ?

Avoiding the puddle of vomit again (they had spread to the door of the room), Kusanagi walked to the bookcase and took out a book from the pile of hardcover books on it.

It looks like a hardcover book, but it's actually a photo album.

Kusanagi hid it here simply because he didn't want Alice to find out that her dark childhood history had been completely preserved.

If this is a whole-person program, then the program team probably wouldn't think that they still have this kind of thing hidden.

And if it is really ten years later, then at least the photos in it will also increase.

Kusanagi turned over the first few pages of the photo album and jumped directly to the middle.

And in the middle is a blank space.There are no photos in it.

Kusanagi frowned, and began to turn forward in confusion.

When I turned to the last one in the album, the date was still "conservatively" two years later—for him, two years later.

In the photo, Alice and Anna were wearing clothes that Kusanagi had never seen before. Both of them were not very tall, but Alice's hair had grown a lot, but the possibility of wigs could not be ruled out.

All in all, Kusanagi Izumo still did not accept the setting that he came to "ten years later".

——It’s better to say, who would accept it as an ordinary person? !

Kusanagi raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table, and decided to find a housekeeper to clean up this horrible room first.

Unlocking went smoothly, it was his phone.

But after unlocking, the LINE interface that catches the eyes makes Kusanagi Izumo feel as if he has fallen into an ice cave.

[Senyuan Funeral]: Mr. Kusanagi.Tombstones have been carved.Is it to send you directly to the cemetery?

[Kusanagi]: Let me go and take a look first.

[Senyuan Funeral]: Okay.

He squeezed the phone silently, and flipped up again.

There are also discussions such as tombstone renderings and materials in the chat history...

He set three tombstones in one go.

The names of the three tombstones are Zhou Fangzun, Shishu Tara, and Zhou Fang Alice.

Kusanagi Izumo: "..."

If this is a prank show, then Kusanagi Izumo can guarantee that when he finds out the director team, he will definitely destroy the screenwriter and director first, and then burn the person who signed up for this show to coal.

But if it's really a prank show... Then why not replace the most conspicuous fence bed in this room?

and this wine...

If it is really ten years later... Could it be that he drank it? ? ?

He also vomited the vomit in that place? ? ?

The jumping temples almost made Kusanagi give up thinking.

Then, there was another loud explosion of the pressure cooker...

The scenery in front of him flickered, and after the pink smoke dissipated, he saw Alice standing in front of him again.

The little guy was looking at him with big eyes blinking, and after a few seconds—her eyes seemed to Kusanagi to confirm something—she rushed over.

"I love Izumo too!!!"

Kusanagi Izumo: "..."

What's the situation?Why "also"?

He felt that his brain was almost turned into slime by the shock of great fear and surprise...

Before he could respond to his daughter's passionate confession, the little Douding chick held his face and kissed him like a pecking at rice.

Ok……

In any case, I still like more for the time being...

But soon Kusanagi couldn't be happy again.

Not only because the atmosphere in Oda's house suddenly became too dignified, but also because Anna quietly approached him and told him what happened just now.

Facts have proved that his brain is really easy to use, and all his guesses are correct.

The album is not because it has not been updated, but because it cannot be updated.

As for wine...

Alice said that she didn't smell alcohol on him, and that he was standing at the door, could it mean that ten years later, he had finished washing and was about to go out to see that...tombstone? ? ?

Takato and Tatara, and Alice...is dead...?

What a joke.

Enduring the headache and heart palpitations, Kusanagi could only beg Oda Sakunosuke to let him use the cannon barrel that caused everything again.

This time he appeared in his apartment again.

Kusanagi quickly turned on the TV to check the time, and it was still ten years later.

His phone was still on the bedside table, but there was no vomit on the floor, nor Alice's queen-size crib next to the bed.

He picked up his phone and unlocked it. After unlocking, the interface was still the chat software LINE that took his breath away.

But this time the name on the dialogue window——

It's [Litz].

Kusanagi couldn't express his feelings. While calming down, he checked the chat records between himself and Alice.

9:00

[Kusanagi]: Liz, is there any class in the afternoon?Do I want to pick you up?

9:40

[Kusanagi]: Liz?

[Kusanagi]: Are you coming back by car in the afternoon?

10:50

【Kusanagi】: Liz.

15:15

[Kusanagi]: Zhou Fang Alice!Are you with that bastard again!

15:12

[Liz]: I'm catching up with the essay

[Liz]: [the puppy cries]

[Liz]: The teacher is so fierce, and Izumo is so fierce!Ignore you!

15:14

[Kusanagi]: Sorry... I didn't know you were writing a thesis.

15:20

【Kusanagi】: Are you hungry?I'll go to school to see you later, do you want a small cake?

【Kusanagi】: Liz.

15:30

[Kusanagi]: Machérie. Father?

Chat history ends here.

Kusanagi Izumo: "..."

At this moment, he began to believe in the existence of parallel worlds caused by countless different choices.

But how to avoid the death of Zun, Alice and Duo Liang is still a problem.

And since the person who was exchanged this time did not lose anything, wouldn't that mean... another exchange?

Kusanagi Izumo didn't know what kind of impact that strange cannon barrel would have on the body, allowing people to exchange with themselves ten years later.

But what he does know is that in several exchanges, he has seen the photo album of Alice growing up to the age of 16 in good health.

But six-year-old Alice suddenly burst into tears.

"You are not my Izumo! You are not my Izumo! Ignore you!"

The little girl, who hadn't changed her anger ten years ago or ten years later, was crying and pushing him away.

Seeing that she couldn't push it completely, she ran to Oda Make, hugging the other's leg: "Oda Zuoo ... I want my dad ... I want my Taro ... Woohoo ..."

Kusanagi blankly asked the other people around him what happened.

Anna frowned and looked at him and said, except for the Izumo from the beginning, every other Izumo who came over saw Alice and grabbed Alice and told her, "Dad can have a baby without getting married in the future." It doesn't matter if Alice understands the words like "you" and "all men except father are bad".

"Izumo scared Liz." Anna muttered in a low voice, dissatisfied.

Kusanagi: "..."

So the replacement work that day was put on hold.

And until today, half a month later, Kusanagi Izumo has never seen the self who is said to be "crying like the sky is falling".

"... I really was brain soaked in alcohol at the time, right?"

Kusanagi irritatedly crumpled up the cigarette in his hand and threw it out.

The little cigarette puff failed to knock anything out of the way.

Seeing this, the Scarlet King coughed lightly: "You, do you want to calm down first?"

A year ago, Zhou Fangzun couldn't even imagine that one day he would say "Calm down" to the most calm and tactful person in the whole barbarian village.

To be honest, he felt that Kusanagi was too nervous.

Every Kusanagi who was exchanged is different, and 90.00% of them showed a look of "seeing a fool" after they asked the question "Is everyone still alive?"

"Otherwise?" Kusanagi Izumo asked ten years later, "Not alive...do you still want to die?"

Zhou Fangzun is quite optimistic. He thinks that Kusanagi Izumo who told "Don't let Tara and Alice get close to the Hirasaka Building in the West Management District" seems to be an exception among the exceptions.

Shi Shu has always been a fool who looks down on life and death. If you ask him if he is worried, he will only answer you, of course he is worried—but there is nothing you can do about it.

Kusanagi was so angry that he wanted to punch him twice.

"But it's okay to be so nervous all the time." Ten beams patted Kusanagi on the shoulder, "If you keep in this state, maybe before Liz grows up, Brother Kusanagi, you yourself will fall down because of too much worry. "

What he said was not unreasonable, Kusanagi could only stare at him.

"Anxin, Anxin, there will always be a way." Shi Shu smiled heartlessly at him, like a big golden retriever.

"Besides, didn't Anna say that too?"

The blue dot on the screen flashed again.

Alice, who ran to Ikebukuro by herself, finally left Ikebukuro Station and started moving.

"She didn't see Liz's fate of 'death' at all."

The social practice homework assigned by Mr. Kunikida this week helps parents run errands.

Alice always felt that she had done similar tasks before, and she racked her brains to remember that she had a small frame that often posted tasks to her.

However, that small box has rarely jumped out.

Looking at the release time of the latest side mission, it also stopped before the summer vacation.

This feeling of suddenly discovering that an unimportant thing has stopped updating is like seeing a shop that has been open on the side of the road and the business is very deserted suddenly close, and posted "Wangpu sublet, please contact xxx-xxxxx" leaflet.

Alice quite casually closed the window floating in front of her eyes.

To be honest, she has never felt that this small frame that sent her tasks is useful, let alone feel that there is any sense of accomplishment after completing the tasks-after all, the rewards it gives are too stingy!

Like the map that won’t open until you unlock the places you haven’t walked, the quill that can only be drawn on the map, the promise from Uncle Munakata Reiji that you can freely enter and exit Scepter4... These are for Alice. It's useless!

Even if the task was stopped and no longer updated, it did not cause any inconvenience to her daily life.

She is just a primary school student who works between school and Barbara every day.Occasionally add an apartment in Izumo, that's only three points and one line.

It’s quite refreshing to look at the map once or twice, and it’s still interesting to draw the map once or twice—but it’s not good in the long run.

Although the homework in the first grade of elementary school is not difficult, many manual homework, painting homework, and biological observation homework are time-consuming.

Being a primary school student is also difficult!

And she just knew that, in today's highly developed human civilization, there are actually unscrupulous but barely usable navigation apps like Wicked Maps in this world.

Compared with the small map that must be updated manually, it is much more convenient anyway.

So goodbye maps and quills!

Goodbye, Uncle Munakata for now!

Free and easy to say goodbye to the shabby and unusable system rewards, Alice, who accidentally turned off the missing map, seriously entered [スーパー] into the app again.

Supermarket.

Congratulations, this little Douding has not forgotten that he went out this time for shopping.

Today, Kusanagi held the red ribbon and grabbed two fluffy balls on both sides of her head.

When checking his masterpiece today, Kusanagi picked up his daughter and pecked her cheek several times in satisfaction.

He now fully understands the psychology of parents who like to post photos of their children on various social platforms all day long—the whole world should know how cute his daughter is.

Afterwards, the Chizhi clan that passed by, from Zhou Fangzun to Eric, who was the most junior, couldn't resist pinching the two dumplings.

Anna was so angry that she stomped on the wooden floor of the Barbara with the heels of her small foreign shoes.

She had to stay by Alice's side, not allowing them to approach like a thief: "No! You can't touch Liz's buds!"

"I'll touch it if I touch it!"

Shohei Akagi, who came late, stretched out his hand in defiance of the world.

Seeing this, Anna silently and quickly raised the rubber hammer that had been prepared.

"Crack!" There was a sound.

"Aw!" again.

"Are you really relentless, Anna?!" Akagi Shohei exaggeratedly cried out the pain while clutching the back of his hand.

In short, Kusanagi Izumo's masterpiece, which can be called a super-level performance, undoubtedly has a magical power that makes people want to rub their brains.

In order to determine the direction of travel, Alice followed the small arrows displayed on the child's mobile phone to adjust the direction, and the curly hair ends and ribbons dangled leisurely behind her.

Like a puppy chasing its own tail in circles.

But the essence is still human.

Fickle, ignorant, weak, incompetent, simple, lovely, soft, worthy of being loved——

"Kids. Good afternoon~"

A horizontal face with cheeks parallel to the ground suddenly appeared in front of Alice.

The visitor bent sideways, the bangs on his forehead and the hat with a fur collar on his back were hanging down to the ground along with gravity.

The pair of red eyes, which were slightly darker in color than Anna's, were staring at Alice bright and energetic.

His clear and pleasant voice made Alice's tense little body relax a little.

——This brother looks so good...

Alice stared at his face without saying a word.

"Are you lost?" He asked, squatting in front of Alice while adjusting his posture.

After he lowered his gaze a little lower than Alice, a gentle and friendly smile appeared on the young man's face, "Do you need help?"

【Liz, don't trust strangers easily outside. 】

Thinking of Izumo's advice, Alice remained vigilantly silent.

But she does need a little help.

The location of the supermarket seemed to be only a little away from her, and Alice had been walking around here for almost 15 minutes.

This is much more tiring than walking yourself.

After all, walking by yourself can be aimless, and you won't feel frustrated with "why you can't find a place" just because you get lost.

And the feeling of frustration is not common for a child like Alice who is soaked in a honey pot.If Kusanagi Izumo could have appeared here immediately, Alice would have run over to hug his leg and act like a spoiled child, saying that she wanted to go home.

【I want to go home……】

Alice pursed her lips.

This point was easily captured by the young man with a gentle and amiable smile with an expression of grievance and sadness—oh, no.Capture is not yet a word for her. "Capturing" requires a little observation, but if the object is only a child who looks only in the first grade of kindergarten or the first grade of elementary school, then "anyone who has eyes and is not blind" can see her mind.

For the evil elements who are used to intrigue, the child in front of them is as innocent as the "11=?" The prelude to the Star Concerto is so simple and lovely.

If you want to make an analogy, it's like someone who is used to watching brain-burning reasoning movies, and sometimes wants to watch easy-to-understand popcorn movies.

"How about this, how about I call the police uncle for you and ask them to help you?" The young man suggested to her patiently, "Since you don't believe me, you should trust the police uncle."

After all, he shrugged.

Although there is still a smile on his face, it is not difficult to see the loneliness after being rejected for kindness.

His sad appearance made Alice wonder if she had gone too far...

This brother seems to really just want to help her... and he also offered to call the police uncle for her.

Alice grabbed the hem of her clothes and rubbed it.

A logical equation gradually formed in her mind:

Bad guys are very afraid of police uncles—that is, it is impossible for bad guys to take the initiative to call the police uncle—but this brother said that he is willing to call—that is, this brother is not afraid of the police—so this brother is not a bad person.

People who are not bad people are regarded as bad people by her, of course they will be sad.And if it was Alice herself, when she wanted to help others but was inexplicably regarded as a bad person, she would feel sad when she thought about it.

"I, I don't believe you..."

After straightening out the logic, Alice hurriedly explained to him.

The young man glanced at the little girl and grabbed his little hand with a dimple on the corner of his clothes, and then showed her a bleak smile again: "It's okay, your parents must have taught you not to talk to strangers outside. I was a kid too, and I know that."

His explanation made Alice even more anxious.

She felt that the kind and kind brother in front of her was really hurt by herself, so she shook the corner of the clothes in her hand in a hurry: "I believe in you, I believe in you!"

"I want to go to the supermarket!" Alice looked at him sincerely, "Can my brother take me there?"

Orihara Rin could hardly help laughing.

"of course can!"

He replied briskly.