Hidden Assassin

Tsukikiki Family, Tokyo, Japan, 29 July 2000.

Buntarō's mood has recently been somewhat depressed.

Kaoru completed her three-year education in China and returned to Japan this month.

For Wentaro, Kaoru is back. This was a good thing. Of course, why is it good? He is always reluctant to think about it. The reason in the middle is complicated. There are feelings of green plums and horses, there are competing wins, maybe pity, love, whatever. Anyway, everyone knows that Kaoru's engagement with Rain Regularity is just a formality. Kaoru's emotions are always cold. Rain Regularity also has an official girlfriend. His emotions are good. His thoughts don't matter.

Of course, although you've all grown up since childhood, the most important thing in Wentaro's mind at this time is not about love. Three years ago Kaoru was engaged to a symbolic engagement with Rain, then went to Jianghai, the reason was to learn Chinese martial arts from an unknown master, but nobody really took this reason seriously, however, only a year later, in the battle in front of the throne of China, the original power ranked among peers was not an enemy, defeating him with the most powerful Cherry Cherry Fantasy, almost became a big shock to the whole Moon Pool family.

As a leader of his peers from his childhood until his age, he would not have easily lost. The power of lavender was certainly over him at the time of his defeat, but in terms of the gap, at least he believed that he was too light an enemy at the time, otherwise he would not have lost so simply. Out of the humiliation of that losing battle, he worked hard for two years, leaving others far behind, the idea of comparing again with Kaoru in his heart, but for so long, he never found a chance.

For two consecutive years, everyone wanted to see Kaoru do it again to see if her strength had really gotten so strong. Wentaro had that idea, and his peers had it, and maybe the elders, the owners, and so on. However, it seems to be deliberately avoiding this kind of thing, three cold summer vacations, Kaoru is either looking for an excuse to stay in China or take advantage of the relationship between the rain and rain, even if he comes back, he will never be involved in these things at home, even if he simply can't find anyone. Although this is already a modern society, and does not treat engaged girls as completely different family members, the marriage contract to Kaoru Rain is itself a chip for Moon's family to come close to Heaven Plains. When the Rain side presses down something as fiancé, it is not easy to do too much here.

So, after two years, Kaoru's university journey has not yet been decided. Since he graduated from high school, this time coming back from Jianghai, in a sense, it should also be regarded as really getting rid of China and going home. This feeling is naturally different from what she felt when she came back from her cold summer vacation, but the problem is that the smell of it seems different.

Growing up as a child, Wentaro understood this young girl as if she were his own sister. However, since the death of her mother, Kaoru's heart has been in a cold and autistic state, cold and faint to others, to herself, to everything. Sometimes looking at that perfect face like a porcelain doll, his heart will inevitably have pity, but at that time everyone was small, he was also unimaginable, he could only practice hard, until one day, he could help her with something and change something.

As the daughter of the head of the family, Kaoru has not received any preferential treatment since childhood, and her qualifications are not very good. She stayed until her mother died and her heart closed, practicing and practicing every day. This practice, which is harder than anyone else's, has not yielded tangible results, and in many cases even scales himself and is reprimanded by the ninja master. As the strongest of his peers, Wentaro sometimes wants to help him, but the practice of arousal is not wrong, the degree of hardship is no less than that of anyone, as also believing in an effort to make a harvest of Wentaro, where can make better suggestions, can only think that arousal is not talented, but in any case, he is a model of this group of trainers, occasionally winning the contest, perceiving that the cold, slightly aspirational gaze of arousal thrown at him can bring him great satisfaction. She envies him and perhaps worships him, which is best.

Whether such an idea was objective or not could not be confirmed, but from the moment Kaoru defeated him two years ago, this fantasy collapsed and he could not tolerate the feeling, so he painstakingly trained to regain his reputation. However, when Kaoru returned this time, he realized that even the cold feeling of autism seemed to have changed somewhat.

Still, she had a calm and indifferent look, still maintained a slight and alienated attitude with everyone, worked out every morning and ate with everyone, but she was no longer the young girl who worked so hard to get hurt every day and ignored herself at all. When she came home, in her leisure time, she made some minor changes to the small courtyard where she lived, perhaps the most surprising thing.

As the daughter of the head of the household, Kaoru is the only place different from everyone else, perhaps because she alone owns a separate small courtyard, where she used to live with her mother, and after her mother died, there was only one teenage girl left. Moon pool politics does not come here, servants come every day to do simple cleaning. The yard was not quite big, when both mothers and daughters were in the past, it was quite elegant to clean up. After the death of the woman who was the mother, she gradually did not make too much decoration. There was only two houses for one person to live in. The living room and her bedroom were simple to use. It was better than nothing. The two trees in the yard had not been taken care of in a long time. The fish in the small pond had also died out, but it had not turned into a stinking water pit. There was some garbage in the corner of the yard for a long time. It was something that was previously used for training. She had not dealt with it since she went to China. The rest of the room was almost locked and dust sealed.

However, this time back, the next day, she cleaned up the garbage in the yard without a sound, she couldn't find the keys she had left behind, and the third day, she broke down the door that had been locked in the yard, and then when people walked past the small yard, they could see the young girl knocking and punching inside and putting the lock back on.

As a regular fiancée of the rains, the current lavender is naturally already a privileged person, but when someone comes to ask her what she wants to do, if she needs the help of a worker, what she gets is a slight shake of her head, and obviously she doesn't want anyone else to get involved in what she's doing right now. In the following days, the girl alone moved all kinds of furniture from the room to the yard, even empty the original mother's bedroom. Once, Wentaro saw a young girl in a white top and a blue dress dragging a large cabinet out of the room. The empty cabinet looked big, but it was not heavy. The young girl moved it into the yard and put it away. Looking back at the room, Wentaro suddenly had a feeling that the beautiful face still had no expression, but seemed to contain some indescribable longing. The longing appeared to be the same as when she looked at him as a child. However, at that time, the eyes were still cold. At this time, there was no slight negative emotion in it. He suddenly lost something.

Perhaps she grew up and began to face her own life. He told himself that.

After the item was emptied, it was cleaned and repaired for several consecutive days. The girl wore a headscarf, put on a mask, cleaned the dust and spider web all over the room, and replaced the old damp tatami with a new piece of land. She was not in a hurry to rush to work. After doing it every day for a while, she sat down in the corridor for a cup of tea. It didn't feel like a tired job that any girl would do, but just a kind of leisure and pastime, relaxing and enjoyable.

Nearly all the interior and exterior of the house were renovated and then the furniture was moved in one piece. These things were new and old, the old nature was carefully cleaned and repaired. Half a month later, the entire yard seemed to have been renovated. As when the mother and daughter lived here together, the weeds in the corner of the yard were also pulled out, the garbage in the pond was caught, the water was changed, and it was clear. After one trip out, two more strains of Lotus were moved from the outside, and the atmosphere was elegant.

During this period, many people were concerned about this side of the small courtyard. They secretly guessed that they had been ablating China for about three years. Haven't they worked as a handyman for three years? Yuechi has also come to see it. It is estimated that his daughter began to talk about quality of life and nothing was said. Anyway, it will be a rainy family in the future. As long as the rains are normal, there are no opinions, it is all good. Kaoru also went out a few times, bought some things back in the room, small appliances, even TV, but also some comic books, trained every day, but not for long, played some flat Chinese boxing, running and so on in the yard, more often, just sitting in the yard thinking about things, quietly, not knowing what to expect.

Today, Wentaro finally knows what she has been carefully cleaning up and cleaning up for more than half a month, that kind of vision and anticipation is probably...

A Chinese teenager of the same age as Kaoru arrived at the Yuechi family with his simple luggage and stayed in a well-appointed room. That's the largest bedroom in the small courtyard, where she lived many years ago, and was Kaoru's deceased mother... (to be continued, please go to www.qidian.com for more chapters, support the author, and support authentic reading!)