The other side of the perfect world

#27 Playground

when!

The bullets hit the corroded and rusted metal, making a piercing scream.

Kou and Makishima, who were riding on a motorcycle, watched helplessly as Hasegawa escaped into an abandoned parking lot.

Needless to say, they also chased after it.

The motorcycle galloped all the way, driving at full speed into the bottomless underground.

stab-

"How is this going?"

Forced to stop the car, Qiao Yao looked around, frowning tightly, indicating that the surrounding scenery was not as beautiful as the evening sunset.

After analyzing the terrain here through the mobile terminal, Makishima smiled with a little appreciation in his smile.

"It seems that Hasegawa is very good at escaping. This is the most suitable place to play cat and mouse."

"What do you mean?"

While getting out of the car, Makishima handed the mobile terminal to Kou, and replied: "This parking lot has been abandoned for a long time, and an indoor playground was built after that, and of course it was eventually abandoned, so..."

He raised his chin towards the front, and a pair of golden pupils showed a playful look.

"I see... no wonder it looks so weird here."

The weirdness mentioned by the cunning refers to the large blackness in front of him, which is very similar to the set of a horror movie shooting scene——

Playground——

These scrap metals that have been sleeping in the long river of history are being awakened by the bloody smell of hunting.

"With so many recreational facilities, it seems impossible to ride a motorcycle."

Saying this, Qiao Nian parked the motorcycle against the wall, quickly loaded the pistol, and held the gun tightly in his right hand.

And Makishima next to him also took out the razor that he had snatched when he left the safe house.

"Makishima you!"

"It's just for self-defense, you don't have to be so nervous."

Makishima was seriously considering whether to leave an IOU in the bathroom the next time he borrowed a razor, using an understatement to deal with the glaring cunning with a smile.

The gloomy underground, lack of light worship, looks like a huge cemetery where countless steel insects are buried.Every amusement facility is gradually distorted, deformed, and degraded in a long neglected state, and finally can only enter people's field of vision again in such a terrifying form.

Taking a deep breath, just as Koujima and Makishima were about to step into a place named "Playground" but actually a "Haunted House", suddenly, the mobile terminal rang.

On the screen that popped up, Remakishima smiled knowingly as the ID photo was familiar.

"It seems that the two of us have been regarded as one body!"

Ignoring Makishima's joke, Kougi snatched the mobile terminal.

"Yino!"

"Sure enough! Kouchi, are you with Makishima, right? We just rushed to Hasegawawa's villa, don't tell me that the tragic situation inside is all your masterpiece."

Ginoza's dissatisfied voice came from the mobile terminal.

Dire situation?

Koujiu glanced at Makishima suspiciously, but all he got was an expression of "they deserve it".

This guy...is too dangerous...

His attention quickly returned to the phone call with Ginoza, he asked half-jokingly: "Gino, are you accusing or thanking you?"

"Neither! I'm warning you, don't forget you're not a cop now!"

"Yes Yes!"

While moving forward cautiously with Makishima, Kouchi kept talking with Ginoza.

"Where are you now? Don't act without authorization!"

"Obviously he's no longer a surveillance officer, but his attitude is still so condescending!"

Makishima suddenly approached the mobile terminal and teased casually.

"You... Makishima..."

Guessing how embarrassed Ginoza on the other side of the mobile terminal would be because of this sentence, Makishima couldn't help feeling better.

"Aren't you reconciled if you don't bully the people in the Public Security Bureau?"

Sneaky words came from beside him. Although his face was expressionless, his voice sounded like a reprimand.Realizing that he was alone and weak, Makishima sighed resentfully.

"Sure enough, you still prefer your former colleagues!"

"I'm just talking about things."

"Enough is enough for you two!"

A roar cut off the flirting between Qiao Yao and Makishima.

"I don't have time to listen to your bickering, so tell me where you are now? Is Hasegawa Wataru there?"

Inadvertently, he exchanged a glance with Makishima, nodded, and told Ginoza the detailed route and address.

"Okay, I understand, we're going there now, don't act rashly until then! Especially you, cunning!"

Being repeatedly urged by Ginoza, Qiao Nie scratched his hair irritably.

"Ah, I know, how many times do you have to say it!"

"It seems that in the eyes of the Public Security Bureau, you worry them more than I do!"

Makishima couldn't help but make a joke, and immediately received a sly look.After the call was over and the mobile terminal was turned off, the two of them continued to walk towards the dark depths with their teeth and claws waving.

"Speaking of which, Hasegawa Shepherd didn't seem to hesitate at all when he ran here!"

"What do you want to say?"

"You know."

With a flat mouth and a long breath, the cunning couldn't help but tighten the fingers holding the gun tightly.Makishima's words seemed to confirm his worries, and it seemed that he was not the only one who had this beastly intuition.

"If nothing else, this is a trap!"

"I feel the same way! That's why it's more interesting, isn't it?"

Makishima smiled, and a moment of enjoyment flashed in the golden pupils.He has always been a bystander, playing the role of the game planner, but he did not expect to become a player of the game with the man who hunted each other.

Going around the merry-go-round horse with its severed head, Cunning quickly turned sideways, and there was nothing under the protruding muzzle of the gun.

"This is too inefficient, do you want to split up?"

Makishima suggested as he fiddled with the razor in boredom.

"do not want!"

Cunning's attitude was so decisive that he didn't even need to think for half a second, and almost rejected the proposal at the same time Makishima's voice fell.

"Could it be that... you can't trust me?"

"What I can't believe is Hasegawa's trap."

"I see……"

Hearing what Kouchi said, the gold in Makishima's eyes lit up.

This man is worried about him.

Just thinking like this, suddenly, the hand was grabbed by Qiao Niu.

"Ok?"

"Don't get away from me!"

The side face that came into view was like a chiseled face, resolute and serious, as cold as a sculpture without blood and flesh, but that hand was incredibly warm.

This warmth reaches the bottom of Makishima's heart.

"I, have a bad feeling..."

The bad premonition in Cunning Chow's mouth also infected Makishima. There was obviously no wind blowing in the Cunning Underground Playground, but every single hair was obviously tightly wrapped by a dangerous air current.

The hands that were clasped together were clenched.

"Yihahahahahahahaha!"

The whole body was trembling, and the electronic sound suddenly sounded like a ghost floating in an abandoned playground, and Koujima and Makishima immediately turned their heads to follow the sound.at this time--

Boom!

"Danger!"

thump--

He hugged Makishima and rolled on the ground, followed by a click, and the carousel was smashed to pieces by the excessive impact force.This attack came from the opposite direction of the electronic sound, so it can be seen that the sound just now was a trick to induce them to divert their attention.

Quickly got up, Qiao Nian raised the gun and pointed it straight ahead, but did not pull the trigger.

"what is this……"

Pupils dilated!The huge monster with two light beams lit up brightly and darkly, it is a bit too flattering to say that it is a robot, if I insist on describing it, it is more like it was remade from the broken copper and iron and scrapped electronic products here——

monster!

That's right, it's a monster, a weird giant weapon covered in steel armor.

"hahahahahahahahahaha……"

A loud laugh came from the top of the monster, so loud that it seemed to wake up countless wraiths sleeping underground.

"Heh... It seems that Dominator still has advantages."

Even in a dangerous situation, Makishima still did not change his usual teasing tone.

Nodding his head, Kouchi quite agrees with this conclusion.

If it is a Dominator, there will be no worries about bullets not being able to penetrate armor.

Obviously, originally he and Makishima entered here as hunters, but at this moment they became prey.

"Hahaha, you idiots! Anyone who dares to stop my revenge will die!"

Hasegawa Tsubasa's raging roar tore the eardrums of Koujima and Makishima, and at the same time, a huge claw slapped down from top to bottom.

thump—

A big hole was dug out of the ground!

"cut!"

Chewing his tongue cunningly, his sharp eyes like a falcon were looking for weaknesses in the monster with its fangs and claws.

"If this machine was also invented by that 'teacher'..."

Hiding behind the abandoned ferris wheel with Kouya hugging his shoulders, Makishima murmured softly.

"Well, can you think of anything?"

"not yet……"

Shaking his head, Makishima gave Kou a regretful answer.

"How do you get the motivation to manipulate such a big guy?"

"That's right... Speaking of which, if this machine is really invented by the 'teacher', maybe we also have the possibility of winning."

"You mean to say..."

Snake lowered his voice, and looked at Makishima with a certain spying meaning.

"Just think of him as me, maybe it's the same situation as Izumi Gongji Toyohisa this time."

"How come... is that guy planning to test me like you?"

"No, I just... think that guy is very similar to me..."

"Not at all!"

Noticing the rare gloomy look on Makishima's face, Kouchi frowned, and the hand around Makishima's shoulder not only did not loosen but tightened.

"Heh... I don't need your protection."

Putting on a smiling mask again, although Makishima said so, he didn't reject this kind of protection in his heart.

"It's not protection, it's caring."

Unwavering eyes and voice—Makishima thought, he must have been shattered by such cunning to break the barrier of his soul!

"You care, I did receive it!"

As soon as the words fell, the monster machine suddenly raised its arms, and the sharp laser chainsaw cut the huge body of the ferris wheel in half horizontally.

squeak - when -

With the loud noise of the collapse, Kou and Makishima lost their hiding place again, and the two quickly fled to the abandoned bumper car site like street mice.

In the face of indestructible machinery, no matter how strong your physical skills are, it will not help.

Kou and Makishima experienced this reality deeply once.

"Hahaha, kittens, don't hide, come out and play with brother! Hahahaha..."

Driving the huge monster machine, Hasegawa Tsubasa's voice was full of arrogance.

Soon, the bumper car field was also turned upside down by the giant steel claws, and Kou and Makishima were forced to continue playing peek-a-boo.During this period, Qiao Yao did not shoot, because even if he did shoot, it would be a waste of bullets. Knowing this, he chose to preserve his strength.

"It's so strange..."

After a short run, Sniper jumped into the maze, talking to himself while hiding behind the towering walls.

"Since there is such a powerful machine, why choose such an inconvenient place to move?"

"Perhaps for the enjoyment of hunting?"

"wrong!"

He categorically denied Makishima's conjecture, and Kou always felt that he had missed something.

"It's not you Hasegawa, he has been pushed to the limit, for his brother's revenge, he must want to kill us as soon as possible, that's why he lured you out, and sent a guy disguised as you to approach me to delay time .”

"What? Have you met 'teacher'?"

"Huh? What 'teacher'?"

After reacting for half a second, Qiao Niu's eyes suddenly widened.

"You mean...the guy who looks exactly like you is 'teacher'?"

"I'm afraid... yes..."

Makishima replied softly, mixed with a hint of helpless sigh.

"it turns out……"

Fists clenched!

If Kouya knew that "Makishima Saint Guardian" was the culprit of the recent series of incidents - "teacher", he would have shot him dead without hesitation.

Too careless!

At that time, he only wanted to find out the whereabouts of Makishima as soon as possible, but he didn't expect to let go of the most terrible culprit.

"Now is not the time to blame yourself, cunning."

Makishima's voice pulled him out of the invisible abyss, Kougi took a deep breath and then exhaled, his shaken mind finally calmed down.

"Makishima, assuming you are that 'teacher', why would you let Hasegawa hunt in such a place?"

"I should have already said that it is for the enjoyment of hunting...and..."

After slightly lowering his head and thinking for a moment, he continued, "To hide something...something that is very important to this hunt."

"I feel the same way!"

After finishing speaking, Qiao Nian stood up and quickly looked around the abandoned playground that looked like an execution ground.

"The setting of this place is not only for the convenience of us to avoid, but also for the convenience of the 'lucky object' needed by Hasegawa's hidden strategy game."

"so……"

"So... the power device that drives that monster machine is probably hidden in this playground."

Hearing this, Makishima's thin lips turned up, and he smiled happily, as if praising Sly's analytical ability.At the same time as he stood up, the machine monster driving towards this side suddenly broke into the field of vision.

"I'll lure it away, and you go find the power unit."

"but……"

"Unlike you don't trust my strength, I really recognize your strength!"

The moment the voice and the smile disappeared, Makishima climbed up to the wall with both hands, and turned over sensitively.

Watching the back of Makishima gradually going away, Kouchi's heart was pounding with anxiety, and the blood in his whole body was boiling in the struggle between life and death.

Think, think fast, in this huge playground, the place where the "lucky thing" is hidden is...

"Hahaha, go to hell, go to hell!"

Not far away, Hasegawa's roar through the loudspeaker shook his brain.Memories like the rapid rewinding of a film suddenly get stuck on a certain frame.

"Could it be that……"

At the moment of reaching the conclusion, the cunning acted.

Here, Makishima, who is fighting alone, is only one step away from the ghost gate.

"Makishima Shrine! I'm going to grind you into meat paste!"

Makishima couldn't help but smile wryly upon hearing Hasegawa's swearing declaration.He felt that he was like an overwhelmed little ant fighting an elephant to the death, and it was strange that his appearance was not funny in the eyes of bystanders.

However, he knew that in this fight, he must be the one who won.

Because, he has a good partner!

"Are you still in a daze? Go to hell!"

Hearing that, when Makishima raised his head, a metal plate was suddenly reflected in his golden pupils. The plate was huge and heavy, and his head might be blown away if he took a picture of it——

There is no escape!

At this moment when death was so close to him, Makishima realized belatedly that he still had something to say to Kou.

However, it was too late!

The shadow of death reigns over the head.

Snapped--

The light went out, and without the two beams of bright and dark light, the abandoned playground suddenly returned to a quiet ruin.Sometimes, hideousness is not caused by darkness, but light, which forcibly illuminates them.

The breath of death is cold and cold, lingering in the air, frostbitten the tip of the nose, but the trajectory of life has not been cut off because of this——

The bond is still there.

"Makishima, are you alright?"

At a speed close to flying, Kou ran to Makishima's side, holding Makishima's shoulder with one hand, and holding Makishima's hand with the other.

"fine……"

The hands in the palms were cold, and he knew that Makishima was lying.

At the moment when his head is about to be shot off, even if he is as calm as Makishima, it is impossible to be "all right".

Unable to restrain himself, he hugged this somewhat stiff body into his arms.

Recovery, at this very moment.

The frozen blood began to melt, the body temperature relieved the tense alarm of the whole body, and the softened heart finally, thump, thump, resumed beating.

Makishima felt as if he had been saved by the cunning, and even, he never wanted to let go of the body that clings to him.

The breath of death dissipated, replaced by the baptism of life.

"What's going on? What's going on?! Move, move quickly! Move for me!"

Shaking the joystick wildly, most of Hasegawawawa's arrogance was extinguished at once.

"It's over, Hasegawa Wataru!"

The cunning shout passed through the cockpit made of resin material and pierced Hasegawa's ears.

"This guy's power unit has been destroyed by me."

As he said that, Sly raised his finger and pointed to the distance——

A mottled object with peeling paint looks like a dead body lying on the ground. This object is a rocking car that can be seen everywhere before, and at the same time, it is also the thing that first attracted the attention of Sly and Makishima with a sinister laugh——

The only thing with power in this abandoned playground is the robot monsters.

Fortunately, he discovered this at a critical moment, otherwise he might never see Makishima intact again.

"No matter how indestructible the machine is, it is still no match for the human mind..."

Makishima said something with emotion.And at the same moment, in a house far away from this abandoned playground, a man sitting on a fabric sofa also expressed the same emotion.

It's a pity that the two people who are far apart don't know that the other party and themselves have such a tacit understanding.

Finally, without the big guys in the way, the pistol and the razor once again ushered in the opportunity to show their talents.

Jumping onto the paralyzed machine monster, Kou smashed the glass of the cockpit with a gun, and among the snow-like falling debris, Hasegawa Shibushiqing's face was like a posthumous portrait, extraordinarily vivid.

"Surrender!"

What came before his eyes was the black muzzle of the gun, and the blade with silvery metallic luster—one black and one white, which dazzled Hasegawa Shepherd's eyes.

Sly Shinya, Makishima Shōgo... These two people are indeed Gods of Death who sent him to execute him...

It's over, it's all over!

His revenge, his mission, his love...

The trembling eyelids were closed, and the bleeding lips were bitten by angry and unwilling teeth, and tremblingly squeezed out a word, which was soaked in tears, bitter and astringent——

"elder brother……"

The electrocardiograph makes rhythmic sounds - beep, beep, beep...

With the opaque curtains drawn, the room is the same as usual, under such accompaniment, it is full of harmony and tranquility, and the smell of disinfectant is everywhere.

A certain man lying on the bed has a calm expression. In a day or two, he would be thought to be asleep, but in a month or two, he would undoubtedly be dead.

Vegetative people are actually a kind of death.

The clock hanging on the wall seems to be crawling slowly, but in fact, a lot of time has been left behind.

abruptly—

The man lying on the bed opened his eyes.

Haru Hasegawa, wake up!