[Three Days, One Issue] Little Date's Flower

The calabash slope where the old man Kinoshita is located is a steep slope.

Such a steep slope is not common at the seaside of Osaka.The field of vision is particularly wide, so art lovers who are sketching from life can often be seen on the top of the slope.

The sea is the scenery of the day.At night, the scenery turns into the lights of the lodges at both ends of the slope.The girls' listless calls, echoes, and occasionally one or two sanxian sounds are all hidden in the misty light and shadow of the lanterns, like sunset flowers blooming in the dark, beautifully silently. , in full bloom, quietly containing Ying, quietly falling.

Whenever this time, I will have an illusion.What I walk under my feet is not the gourd slope, which is considered inferior in the flower street, but the steps of the temple, which take me to the flowers of heaven step by step.

The flower of heaven naturally refers to the old man Kinoshita.

I have been here for two or three days, and it is said to be taking care of, but in fact it is just taking the time to supervise whether the servants are doing their duty, and whether there are suspicious people coming and going nearby.

Mr. Phase [-] is very busy these two days.The identity of Fujiwara's adopted son has caused him to be secretly investigated a lot, and he seems to be living with Mikazuki-kun for this reason-every day when he goes to and from school, he can always see them walking in the same direction.

No wonder, if the police hadn't concluded that all the people on the island were killed in the fire, I would even suspect that the person in Kinoshita's family was Mr. Fujiwara, and he was the culprit.

The door panel under the wood was still covered by a large piece of gourd vines, and within a few days, it was covered with white sunset again, making it difficult for outsiders to see clearly.

I opened the door and went in, and Amin, who had prepared the meal, greeted me with a warm smile.

Ah Min is a decent hotel girl on the slope, over forty years old, not beautiful, but neat and clean.It seems that Mr. Yiqi saves money every month just to hire her. The salary of eight yuan is extremely generous for the people here, so Amin is very tolerant to me.

Well, maybe with a little flattery for the supervisor.

My family strictly forbids talking during the meal, but Ah Min thinks that is wrong, and always likes to find various topics to amuse me—it is because of her cheerful personality that she was chosen to take care of the patients, I don’t hate it.

On this day, she began to chatter about the neighbors again.

"It's not safe here recently—Master, you have to bring some self-defense items when you come here in the future. I heard that the proprietress of the River Valley House has gone crazy. When she sees the painter, she will use a knife to chop it up. You mustn't be wrong. She said that she is a student of the Academy of Fine Arts..."

Look, they are all such concerned words, exactly the same as the old maid in my family.I'm very interested in the boss lady she said who cuts anyone at sight.

However, even if I am interested, I will not do something that is against etiquette like talking at a meal.Ah Min talked to himself for a while, but seeing that I was silent, he changed the subject.

"By the way, Mr. Kinoshita seemed to wake up for a while this evening."

I was startled.Amin seemed to be inspired, so he continued to speak in a joyful tone.

"It was the time when the gourd flowers were just blooming, and it was still bright, so I went to pick vegetables in the yard. But when I came back, I saw, oh, Mr. Kinoshita was sitting by the window and engraving letters! He looked very serious and had a good temper. It's quite big, and I'm a woman who asked me where I came from."

This matter is very important, so I stopped my chopsticks.

"Thank you for the hospitality—can you show me the handwriting you said?"

"Oh! It's on this table, you see."

It is a few lines of shallow traces.The handwriting is messy, it should be written hastily in fear of losing consciousness again.The content is as follows:

I hate, and I'm guilty.

I also became a ghost.

catch me.

quick!quick!

Inexplicable confession.Do criminals usually say things like this? ——Maybe there are some crazy killers.But those guys often deliberately emphasize how many people they have killed, how brutal and clever their crimes are, how can they talk about their guilt without giving examples.

Besides, Mr. One said he was not guilty—well, he didn't.But at least, this old man is not that kind of vicious person, why would he suddenly repent?

Somehow, I left my pen and picture book there.

After bidding farewell to Amin and walking towards the rented house next to the school, looking at the swaying lanterns, I suddenly thought of a hypothesis.

Even if you feel that you should not do it later, you will still do some things.Just as I followed Mr. in the previous issue on impulse, agreeing to take care of his flowers was on impulse.Did old man Kinoshita ever act impulsively?

It is because of impulsiveness that I made a mistake, so I repent.The extremely strong self-blame was suppressed in my heart, so I couldn't think of anything else for a while, but confessed my sins, hoping that I would be punished quickly and be relieved.

But, thinking about it this way, what Mr. Yi Qi did was not helping the old man, but torturing him.

Will Mr. Gentle First Phase be like this?

I don't understand, I don't understand.Sure enough, I only had crooked thoughts, and all I saw were conspiracy theories, so my family banned me from going to the police academy, fearing that I would become a social cancer.

——Let’s ask the parties directly.